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Tomato Surprise
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The resolution of a plot (usually, but not always, for a Speculative Fiction story) with the sudden revelation of some important detail which has been deliberately hidden from the viewer. Unlike most twists, however, this detail is (usually) known to all, or most, characters and is often something that they would consider an obvious and mundane detail. Often, had this detail been made known at the beginning of the story, much of the dramatic tension would have been missing. Withholding important details from the audience is not, in itself, anything special: think of all the murder mysteries that don't immediately reveal the very important detail of who did the murder, or all the surprising twists and turns where characters learn shocking truths about themselves and their world. The Tomato Surprise, however, is only a surprise due to the narration withholding important information that the reader might reasonably have expected to have been told up-front, like "the story is not, as you probably assumed, set on Earth" or "the protagonist is not, as you probably assumed, a human being". The Reveal in a Tomato Surprise tends to be different from other types of twist. Since it is revealing to the audience something the characters already know, it is not tied to any dramatic development in the story, and simply consists of the camera showing us something that was previously obscured, or the narrator "casually" naming a character or setting that was previously not identified. The trope is a bit harder to pull off in visual media since savvy viewers will have their suspicions the more they notice that characters' faces are being deliberately hidden. However, it can still be done depending on the medium- for example, Dating Sim and Raising Sim visual novels typically lack a sprite or face for the protagonist so that the player can project themselves onto said protagonist, and this accepted genre convention can be used to disguise the fact that the protagonist is not who the player assumes they are. If done well, a Tomato Surprise can make for a stunning ending with a powerful impact. Unfortunately, if done poorly, it will almost always come off as a cheat or an Ass Pull. While this trope is often used for dramatic effect, it can also be used — especially in Science Fiction — to illustrate a moral or ethical situation in such a way as to invoke a different set of prejudices. Once the viewer has fully understood the dilemma as it applies in their assumed environment, the author reveals that the assumption is false and that the circumstances are different, leaving the viewer to reconcile new conclusions with old prejudices. For example, a story might describe the protagonist's difficulties in society before finally revealing that the character belongs to a marginalised ethnic minority, thus hopefully forcing a bigot who sympathized with the character to reconsider their position. Another popular tactic in this vein, focused on gender rather than ethnicity, is to reveal that Samus Is a Girl after telling a story of seemingly masculine exploits from Samus's own perspective — as was the case with that trope's namer Samus Aran in the first Metroid game. The trope name comes from a set of writer's guidelines distributed circa 1980 by Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, written by its then-editor, George Scithers. The guidelines named the trope and gave as one of the examples hiding the fact that the hero is, in fact, a tomato. This trope can be considered a form of Unreliable Narrator, though generally, the narration doesn't actually lie, merely strategically omits key details. See Earth All Along, The All-Concealing "I", Narrator All Along, and The Ending Changes Everything. Related to Karmic Twist Ending and Cruel Twist Ending. The opposite of this trope is Dramatic Irony when the audience knows something that the characters don't. Also contrast with Internal Reveal, when something only the audience and one or a few character(s) already know is revealed to another character(s) in-universe. If the twist comes as a surprise to any characters, it is not an example of this trope. Contrast with Tomato in the Mirror, in which the protagonist (rather than just the audience) learns a surprising fact that causes everything that came before to be reevaluated. If the twist comes as a surprise to the protagonists, it is probably a Tomato in the Mirror rather than a Tomato Surprise. This is a Plot Twist trope, and as such will contain major unmarked spoilers. From the viewer's point of view, of course. |
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Zero Time Dilemma continues this trend by hiding an entire character just out of sight from the audience that is completely known in-universe and just very rarely referenced. All of the characters know that "Q" is really an old man in a wheelchair and that the Q players know is really named Sean, but the player never learns this until near the end of the game. | |
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: The ending of the first chapter/murder case, in which it's revealed that the killer is Kaede Akamatsu, the Player Character. Since Monokuma was going to kill everyone if a murder was not committed within the time limit, Kaede decided to try to kill the mastermind of the killing game, but when her trap seemingly resulted in the death of Rantaro instead, she decided not to take Monokuma up on his offer (which allowed the first person to commit a murder to get off scot-free and leave without a trial) so she could try to catch the mastermind during the trial. Sadly, it fails, and the player switches to controlling Kaede's best friend Shuichi Saihara as the new Player Character once it becomes clear that she must be convicted. Notably, while quite a bit of her inner monologue and dialogue with other characters will stand out on a second playthrough (like how she goes on and on about catching the mastermind, but never about figuring out the killer), the way it's worded is vague enough to successfully hide it from the player on the first go-round. Chapter 6 then turns that reveal on its head when it turns out she didn't do it; she was framed by the mastermind, who managed to successfully trick Kaede into thinking the aforementioned trap worked; in reality, Rantaro died a different way to a similar murder weapon. | |
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Umineko: When They Cry: One possible interpretation of the story is that the majority of the events might just be written fiction revolving around the actual tragedy of Rokkenjima. Of course, this wouldn't explain the blatantly supernatural stuff that happened after The Reveal. | |
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The Lyrical Nanoha fanfic Another Way (an Alternate Universe Spin-Off of Game Theory) ends with the reveal that the Takamachi and Testarossa in the story are actually Momoko and Alicia. The prologue of Power Games appears to be Hayate awakening to the first manifestation of the Wolkenritter. Except that it's actually from Ixpellia's perspective. | |
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In The Tomb of Dracula #25, we first meet private investigator Hannibal King. King is hired to investigate a murder which he asserts is the work of a vampire and asks his doubting client to trust him. Sure enough, the case involves an appearance by Dracula. And King holds his own quite well against Dracula and his vampire flunkies. We are not told until the end that Hannibal King is also a vampire. | |
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Guilded Age: The beginning of chapter 9 let us know that none of the adventures are "real"—it's an extremely advanced experiment in virtual simulation for the online Game "Kingdoms of Arkerra", with the main adventuring party having forgotten their original identities entirely. HR's comments pose a philosophical question of "what is real?" when he implies Arkerra is indeed a real place, one that he 'found' through the game. He likened it to a sculptor, revealing a statue that was always in the block of marble. It turns out Arkerra is a copy of another, pre-existing world, altered by HR through magic until that world fit what he'd need both to open Kingdoms of Arkerra and access the Realm of Being, which would make him as powerful as a god. | |
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In Ever17, Takeshi's real face isn't shown during the first playthrough (except for one scene, where it's just barely onscreen that a sharp-eyed person can realize they're being misguided before the reveal), to conceal the fact that the two Takeshis presented are different persons. This turns out to be a big part of a plan by one of the characters to save his father and friend from a deadly virus. This varies based on the order one plays the routes in. If one approaches the final route from Kid's perspective, he also gets tomatoed in the same manner. | |
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In the True End of Virtue's Last Reward, several facts obvious to much of the cast are revealed to the player, such as the fact that most of the game has taken place on the moon, 45 years after the player thought it was. Not all of the characters knew this, however. There are also some interesting revelations about the protagonist. | |
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In Homestuck, Jane and Jake live in Maple Valley, Washington and a small island in the Pacific respectively, just like John and Jade. Roxy and Dirk live in Rainbow Falls, New York and Houston, Texas. However, what was kept hidden from readers was that Dirk and Roxy live in the future where the Troll Empress has taken charge of Earth and flooded it. Roxy's house is part of a chessboard-esque hub and Dirk's apartment is the only thing remaining above water. | |
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In Long Time No See, set fifteen years after the canon events, Shinji and Asuka meet each other in a Nerv's reunion party. As catching up with each other, Shinji mentions he is married, and Asuka might know his wife. Asuka also mentions her husband has gone to his old company's party. Eventually it is revealed that their mysterious spouses are each other. Asuka was joking when she said it had been a while, and Shinji decided to play along with her. | |
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Monstrous Compendium Online: Of the twenty thousand players trapped in SAO, two thousand are youkai from Eberron. Their avatars were human on Opening Day, and then they transformed back into youkai at the first opportunity. | |
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In the first Druuna album, Morbus Gravis, Druuna seems to be living in some sort of post-apocalyptic city, but at the end, this is revealed to be a massive spaceship that left Earth centuries ago. | |
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In Enigma, a story about a superhuman who patterns his life after a comic book superhero in an attempt to give his life meaning, the hilarious yet bitterly sardonic narrator is revealed in the end to be a lizard whom Enigma grants sentience to, trying to explain the whole story to a bunch of ordinary lizards. Enigma was making a point about how he felt, living as a superhuman in a world of ordinary humans. | |
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During a previous storyline of Axe Cop, Sockarang completes a mad rampage where he assaults and kidnaps his supposed allies. Once they're all safely under lock and key, he removes his mask...to reveal that he's actually Dr. Stinky Head, who had disguised himself as Sockarang to trick Axe Cop and his friends. Just then, Dr. Stinky Head shows up and divests himself of his own mask, to reveal that he's actually Sockarang, who had the exact same idea as Dr. Stinky Head. | |
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The 70-Seas side story, Lost and Found, when a man in a stolen Toby Terrier convinces the Toby Town security guards that have surrounded him that he was a lost child who grew up in the park's lost and found, only to reveal that it was actually the park guards who had been raised in the lost and found and suppressed their memories of it. | |
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A famous fight over censorship erupted around Judgment Day, a story in EC's Weird Science title. In the story, an astronaut from Earth visits an alien planet populated by robots to judge whether it was ready to be accepted into the wonders and greatness of Earth. He rejects this the world when he realizes that the orange robots live in a place of comfort and superiority, while blue robots live in inferior conditions, are basically kept as slave labor, and have no rights, though they supposedly 'are equal'. The astronaut promises to return when the robots learn to abolish this method. In the final panel, the astronaut removes his helmet for the first time, with the shocking reveal that he was black. | |
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Hatoful Boyfriend has the player romance birds and only birds, and we never see any humans in the game. Why? An avian disease wipes almost everyone out of course! It becomes rather obvious in hindsight when you realize one of cgs seen is a ruined city... | |
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Medicated has a chapter where Wartwood is flooded with "poisonous" water. It's built up as something extremely dangerous, but eventually it turns out it's actually salt, which is toxic to frogs, but not humans. This fact is kept from the audience to make it as much a surprise to them as it is to the characters that Anne is immune in her human form. | |
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A Sonic the Hedgehog fanfic, Blast to the Past makes this interesting. Taken as a reference from the Fleetway comics, Sonic and Eggman were once friends. But then a terrible accident happens to one of then-benevolent Eggman's machines. Sonic tried to stop it but clumsily pulled out the plug by tripping, and things got worse from there. The good doctor tried to see if his young ward was alright, but trips on his foot and crashes into the machine, causing a devastating explosion. When the flames subsided, the now evil Mad Scientist we all love to hate was born and immediately blamed Sonic for his transformation. Sonic also blames himself for his friend's Face–Heel Turn, say that it was his fault that Eggman is trying to rule the world. But as the story progressed, it turns out that the real culprit was Princess Elise, along with Silver and Blaze, who had gone back in time to turn Eggman evil on purpose. It's Not What It Looks Like, though... | |
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Zero Escape: In the True End of Virtue's Last Reward, several facts obvious to much of the cast are revealed to the player, such as the fact that most of the game has taken place on the moon, 45 years after the player thought it was. Not all of the characters knew this, however. There are also some interesting revelations about the protagonist. Zero Time Dilemma continues this trend by hiding an entire character just out of sight from the audience that is completely known in-universe and just very rarely referenced. All of the characters know that "Q" is really an old man in a wheelchair and that the Q players know is really named Sean, but the player never learns this until near the end of the game. |
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The Warhammer 40,000 comic Damnation Crusade tells the story of three different Black Templar Space Marines: A neophyte, a battle brother, and a Dreadnought. In the very end, it is revealed that all three were in fact the same person, during different stages of his life. | |
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In Romantically Apocalyptic, the Moon Arc heavily implies Zee Captain is some form of ANNET, the A.I. who (inadvertently) helped cause the apocalypse and served as the Big Bad for a large chunk of the comic's run. | |
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Brawl in the Family pulled this off when they did the Cocoon Academy arc, about Dedede and "Pinky"'s days in school. Pinky is a very familiar-looking pink puffball with good sucking abilities. It turns out that he's actually Meta Knight, who got corrupted into a blue color while defending the academy, whereas soon after he got his mask. Kirby was likely not even born at the time of the arc. In addition, "Headmaster Hand" is actually Crazy Hand, only he isn't. | |
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Sundae Comics: In a comic from October 2022, trick-or-treaters are revealed to be children living in a post-apocalyptic wasteland that have never experienced Halloween. | |
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One Internet meme (inspired by South Park) involves telling a very long story in which, at the end, one of the characters turns out to be the Loch Ness Monster and asks for "tree fiddy" (three dollars and fifty cents). A similar meme reveals at the end that the whole story was how the narrator ended up living with his aunty and uncle in Bel-Air. | |
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The Calvin & Hobbes: The Series episode "Lightning Man" has one concerning the titular villain, though Calvin and company play Audience Surrogate - the titular villain is related to the Brainstorm family. | |
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The Touhou fan comic "The End of the Maiden's Illusion" concerns Reimu's death (of old age) and then segues into a reflective, long and sad conversation between her and Komachi. But scroll down the last strip and BAM! Turns out the entire thing was an Oscar Bait screenplay by Nitori. | |
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After finishing up Natsumi's route in Sharin no Kuni, there's a brief kinda-actiony sequence followed by Isono finally admitting he knew who Kenichi was the whole time. What was much more subtly built up was when he started talking to Kenichi's sister Ririko, who has been standing right behind him the whole time, forbidden from interacting with anyone else or being recognized. Apparently specifically so it doesn't look like an asspull, the story immediately starts a flashback sequence where this reveal had been hinted at. It's a lot more obvious in hindsight, especially when considering the Maximum Penalty badge that had shown up on the title page since the beginning, yet no one in the story bore it. | |
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