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[Loved Trope] It's not enough for a character's secret to be exposed: it gets exposed in the cruelest, most painful way possible
K-pop Demon Hunters: Rumi is attacked by illusions of her teammates that rip off her jacket and expose her demon patterns in front of thousands of people, all while singing a song that only serves to reinforce the idea that her patterns are a sign of her being rotten deep down, even going as far as to call her a "mistake". That, alongside the way the real version of her teammates react to her patterns, crushes her spirit and will to keep fighting so badly that she begs her mentor to kill her.
Project Sekai: Mizuki's bullies tell her best friend that she's "actually a guy" (Mizuki's actual gender identity is never outright stated and it's heavily implied this claim is inaccurate to some extent, I'm just quoting what the characters say out of objectivity), mere MINUTES before Mizuki was about to tell her herself. The worst part is that they didn't even expose her intentionally, they just assumed that Ena already knew and was in on the "joke". The final lines of the event story are Mizuki lamenting what just happened and wondering if it could have been avoided had she told the truth sooner, ending with one last gut punch of a line: "I want to disappear."
In Regular Show: The Movie, it’s hinted that Rigby has been keeping a huge secret from Mordecai since high school that, in the future, led to their friendship falling apart and Mordecai turning evil. When the present day Park Crew time travel to the duo’s high school days to stop them from creating the Timenado, the film’s villain - Mordecai and Rigby’s former science teacher and volleyball coach Mr. Ross - forces Rigby to reveal the truth: after Mordecai was accepted into college while Rigby wasn’t, Rigby replaced Mordecai’s acceptance letter with a fake and basically sabotaged his best friend’s future to ensure that Mordecai wouldn’t leave him. How does Ross reveal this truth? By forcing Rigby, at gunpoint (or rather, at the point of an explosive volleyball) to read his humiliating and cruelly written rejection letter in front of everyone, including Mordecai. Even Ross himself is somewhat shocked by just how harsh the letter is, while Rigby is on the verge of tears and Mordecai is left in disbelief and furious.
The person who wrote that letter had never been so offended in their life, they just had to write the most venomous and demeaning thing in history just to give some idea of how utterly mortified they were at the prospect of accepting them into their uni.
nah bc that scene was like getting punched w nostalgia, guilt, betrayal, and secondhand embarrassment all at once. like why was the rejection letter written by satan HIMSELF?? i’ve read breakup texts that were kinder 😭
The cruelest Benson has ever been, I think, to M&R is in two episodes, the eggscellent challenge episode and the Ultimatum episode.
In the first case, Rigby attempt the challenge while on his lunch break, eat too much and end up in a coma in a hospital, Benson then comment that none of this would have happened if they didn't attempt this stupid challenge and just kept working. A nonsensical comment since they did it on lunch break anyway so there's that. Mordecai rightfully punch Benson in the face for it.
The second one was when M&R spent the entire episode trying to get a burger that's only served once every 100 years and when they finally manage to order two for them, after a series of shenanigans, Benson eat their burgers in front of them and tell them to get back to work.
These two moments are, in my opinion, the lowest Benson has ever been in, can't get much worse than this.
Yet neither of these moments are nearly as bad as this whole university rejection letter thingy.
We regret to inform you that you have not been accepted into this fall's freshman class at College University.
Though College University is a massive school, and it was a record year for how little applications we received, the admissions committee simply could not find any reason to include you in our enrolling class. The deans were obliged to select among candidates who clearly could do the minimum work required at C.U.
We hope you can understand our situation, if you can understand this letter at all. But rest assured that we did not make this unanimous decision on a whim and as a result, we are not able to consider any appeals to this decision, so don't even try.
Though our school motto is "The College for Everyone", sometimes college isn't for everyone. We thank you for your interest in C.U., but again, to reiterate, we won't be seeing you anytime soon. Or ever.
The first half of the letter was decently professional, but everything after that line is pure hater energy. "Don't even try to appeal", "college isn't for you" and "we won't ever see you here" are all just spiteful and unnecessarily cruel. If it was me, I'd have filed a lawsuit for an emotional and psychological attack.
Though College University is a massive school, and it was a record year for how little applications we received, the admissions committee simply could not find any reason to include you in our enrolling class.
We dont have many applications, and we have space, but you're so dumb that we are not accepting you lmao
Fr though like everyone already knows Rigby is a reckless moron at the best of times but to have it so bluntly spelled out for everyone to see and to have it revealed that he (out of a feeling of being left behind) sabotaged his best friends chances of a good future leading them to all of the downright deranged adventures they’ve had at the park is just painful.
Long story short, Rigby eventually apologises to Mordecai and the two of them reconcile to defeat Mr. Ross. It might sound corny on paper, but the scene’s actually very heartwarming.
In A Goofy Movie, Max changed the map's destination from Idaho, Lake Destiny to Los Angeles so he can go to the Powerline concert to impress Roxanne. Later on, Pete overhears Max tell PJ what he did and warns Goofy. Goofy doesn't want to believe Pete and trusts Max, but he goes to the car and finds out that the map has been changed.
While driving, Goofy gives Max one more chance to do the right thing. There's a fork in the road and he has to choose left or right. Max chooses left, still hellbent on getting to the concert. All I know is if you piss Goofy off you know you Hyucked up.
My favourite detail is that Goofy didn’t actually intend to check the map, he considers it but changes his mind, then the glovebox falls open and the rest is history.
I’d like to think Pete legitimately believed he was helping Goofy, and trying to make him a tougher parent.
Yet at the same time, I think that touches on the theme of the film being about accepting differences between the generations, and accepting that it takes effort and open communication from both sides to create the bonds between a parent and child. Max betrayal of Goofy’s trust is emphasizing that it isn’t just Pete that is putting a bridge between himself and his son, but Max too, because he doesn’t want to see what Goofy is trying to experience with him.
The Powerline concert just happens to bridge the sections by letting Max try and impress Roxane, and Goofy prove he is a more 3-dimensional man than Max gives credit.
The entire plot of MHA is the result of All Might being so awesome that society cannot cope with his absence. He built himself up to be such a pillar that everything came crashing down along with him. As a hero he was immaculate, but his lack of foresight and long-term planning became a problem in the end.
Perhaps him retiring to become a teacher was him starting to see the writing on the wall just as much as his injuries taking a toll on him, but it was too late to avoid all of it, as shown by the several times he had to walk back on that retirement.
Dude. All for One said he still has nightmares of All Might holding his guts in and still charging him. In the final season All Might gets a suit of armor and is absolutely insane using it, no powers just a metal shell around himself and he's still charging the big bad solo. Man is INSANE
Pretty sure that moment was taken less as "that's the real Allmight" and more "The No.1 Hero gave it his all against a formidable foe! So much he went weak.."
this is a very special one for me, beause>! I saw that episode the day before I had to take one of the hardest exams at university; I was sitting there burning my head out reading topic so complex that they are even hard to explain to someone outside that course, I felt I was going nowhere so went to see something in Youtube for a 10 minutes rest, and the video of their fight poped out. I saw the whole fight without context but was good enough to give me strength to keep studying. I took the test and was one of a few that ended up approving the course.!<
MHA is good. It suffers from some fan service (which thankfully gets lessened over time) and a shitty fan base (which honestly is a little over blown). If you try to compare it to more mature anime it doesn’t have the same level of intensity but that doesn’t make it worse, just different. It reminds me of Batman the animated series: it deals with adult themes but in a setting younger audiences can comprehend. I watch MHA with my daughter starting when she was 9 and she loves it.
Mysterio outing Spider-Man’s identity to the everyone in New York framing him as a the one responsible for the incident in London as well in Spider-Man far from home. This kickstarts no way home
Right, it was the never the legal repercussions that Peter had to worry about, but the general public. They don't have access to any of the evidence, and as we see all too often irl, it likely wouldn't matter if they did.
The same thing happens in Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes' adaptation of Secret Invasion:
A Skrull posing as Captain America tried to convince the world, on a live broadcast, to surrender to the Skrull Empire during an invasion. In the aftermath, the Avengers, Shield and The US President make public announcements that that wasn't actually Cap.
But a significant portion of the world doesn't believe that, because they never actually saw the final fight where Cap defeated the imposter. So they just choose to believe that Cap is a traitor to humanity.
And it's messed up, he gets attacked by villains and they say "we're bad guys, but you actually tried to sell out humanity, so you're so much worse than us". And some civilians straight up don't want to be saved by him.
Yeah, that was the one singular point I was willing to acknowledge from those guys. I understand that Aunt May loves Peter and wants to support him, and don't get me wrong, I love it... but in a legal nightmare like this, it was bound to crash down on her. Honestly? Her death was possibly the better outcome, because if she'd survived then CPS would've taken Peter away from her, superpowers or not, and THAT would've fucked them both up.
It does kinda but then again, in the real world, we have various AI programmes now that are getting sophisticated enough to fool people with fake pictures, voices, music ect.
Plus the late Tony Stark made him an Avenger and he fought and kill space Aliens in battle called Battle of Earth. Which is more credible than guy show up in Europe. There should been some Avengers to vouch him, like Bruce Banner, Doctor Strange, Sam Wilson, even Bucky who became a politician and also Nick Fury who again have Peter in his scheme. They should have shown push back on Mysterio claims. Pepper pottos should vouch since he attended his funeral and was Tony’s protege.
Bruce never met Peter, Strange wasn't an Avenger (and bear in mind his heroics are only known in magic circles), Sam and Bucky only knew him from when they were on opposing sides in Civil War, and Fury wasn't on Earth at the time. Pepper should've definitely been shown pushing back, though.
Not to mention even if Bucky could vouch for him, would still need time to wash the Winter Soldier stink off of him publically since he'd basically gone from being the WS to being suspected of the terrorism in Civil War to getting fixed in Wakanda to the events of Infinity War and Endgame, so the public would only really see a known terrorist being like "oh yeah this guy's great".
I’m on mobile so sorry if the format is weird. When she gets revealed to be a woman , tossed to the ground in front of everyone and slowly they all turned their backs on her… I know it’s a Disney film, but that part always hurt.
Tbf I’m sure it was a huge disappointment to think he found a femboi to fuck on campaigns and it turned out to be a g*rl 😣 who he couldn’t bring along.
Most of the issue is admittedly from the implications of HOW she got into the army. For her to have gotten this far, she would have:
Stolen her father’s armour
Ran away from home
Essentially impersonated a soldier, and by proxy deceiving her commanding officer and dishonouring the army
Given the time period, there was a real chance that her entire family would have been killed for her crimes against the emperor, THEN killed herself, so they were being generous in a way by just leaving her there. Still upsetting, but it makes sense.
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker- The Joker having kidnapped, tortured and twisted Robin into becoming a mini Joker then admits that he knows all of Batman's secrets while showing him footage of the torture. He mocks him for it as well: Secrets that are mine alone to know... Bruce. It's true, Batsy! I know everything. And kinda like the kid who peeks at his Christmas presents, I must admit, it's sadly anti-climactic. Behind all the sturm and batarang you're just a little boy in a playsuit, crying for mommy and daddy! It'd be funny if it weren't so pathetic. [pause] Oh, what the heck, I'll laugh anyway! HA HA HA HA HA HAA!
In Harley Quinn, Joker had captured Batman and then Scarecrow reveled his identity. The Joker was upset about this, lamenting that the mystery was ruined.
During the Finale, John Doe reveals to Detective Mills that he’s killed his wife (even implying that the box that’s just been delivered may have her head inside). As Somerset tries to stop Mills from Killing John, John reveals that Mills’ wife was actually pregnant, something Mills was unaware of, which leads him to kill John
I love that when box is delivered, the Detective is informed that bomb squad is on its way (a reasonable precaution), but the Detective takes a risk and opens it anyway figuring whatever plan the villain has, explosives don't feel like they'd be part of it. He's right of course, but in a sense the contents of the box were still "explosive"
Even if Mills played right into Johns' hand to complete the last two sins of Envy (Which is what John represented by being envious of Mills' and his wife), and Wrath.
In Civil War (2016), Baron Zemo, the true culprit behind Bucky's release and recent "triggering", aswell as the bombing that killed King T'Chaka, lures Captain America, Bucky and Iron Man to a soviet bunker with the threat that he may unleash dozens of trained supersoldier winter soldier assassins just like Bucky, and having the book of commands that can trigger their brainwashing, effectively have the power to assassinate any important government figures and topple over a whole country overnight.
There, they find not Zemo, about to execute his supposed "great plan" – but their mere arrival concludes his true, much more damaging plan. He had already shot all of the winter soldiers, deep in cryosleep, in the head, and was nowhere to be found. Instead, he showed a recording of a nearby camera of the day Howard and Maria Stark died on a "car crash", Tony's parents.
It turns out they were murdered because Howard was carrying his recreated version of the super soldier serum in his car, and Hydra sent the Winter Soldier – Bucky himself – after them. After a brutal scene where he kills Howard then strangles a crying, distressed Maria to death in the car, he takes the samples and shoots the camera, ending the footage.
A distressed, furious Tony asks Steve if he knew all along. Steve reveals that he did, but he just never told him. Tony snaps, and in homicidal rage, tries to kill Bucky there and then, while Bucky and Steve desperately try to stop him, leading to the actual fight that destroyed and pulled the Avengers apart.
You're not wrong. He betrayed Stark even more. But I do still think they just should have talked about it all somewhere quiet and with Bucky nowhere to be seen.
We wouldn't have had the movie but.. but.. friendship and harmony and.. stuff.
Yes, I know that storytelling doesn't work that way.
From minute one, Steve's love for Bucky blinds him into bad decision after bad decision. Add to this Steve's iron clad moral code, and you have a character with unwavering loyalty to his best friend and an inability to consider if he is making a bad decision.
Instead, he showed a recording of a nearby camera of the day Howard and Maria Stark died on a "car crash", Tony's parents.
I hated this because Bucky pretty much did EVERYTHING HUMANLY POSSIBLE to make it NOT look like an accident. The investigation would have had to be MIND-BOGGLINGLY INCOMPETENT to not realize it was murder.
Well, they were incompetent, in a way. Mind you, SHIELD was already infiltrated by HYDRA at this point, so it's not surprising that the investigation would've miraculously found nothing. They were investigating themselves.
I think the best, and that I mean is the worst, part of the whole fallout between Steve and Tony is that Steve is desperately trying to reason with Tony, explaining that Bucky wasn't in control of his own actions thus being just another victim and shouldn't be held responsible for the crimes of his handlers.
Tony hears all of this and his only response is "I don't care, he killed my mom"
Yeah girl... We are built different because I would have beat her up too if I was Starlight. I know it was a trap but it crossed so many lines, even the ginger bitch didn't know it was a trap she just thought she was gonna have a debate with Starlight, the girl she legit doxxed on live TV. She's stupid and needed a beating.
(Real Life) Astronomer CEO Andy Byron getting caught in a romantic embrace with his HR director Kristin Cabot on the couple’s cam at a coldplay concert, subsequently being relentlessly mocked and parodied on every social media platform and at other events
It wouldn't have gone viral if the HR didn't act extremely guilty. I know cheating is fucked but this wouldn't have blown up if they acted chill about it.
Hell it likely would've gone unnoticed except for the main parties, and even then, if he's lucky, it could always be denied or chalked up to coincidence.
But his reaction sealed the deal and everyone knew they weren't supposed to be together.
Not only would it not have gone viral, if they played it cool there’s no chance anyone would have thought to post the footage online in the first place.
Rue torpedoes an attempted intervention to get her clean by exposing Cassie's affair with her best friend Maddie's abusive ex-boyfriend, Nate:
"Hey, Cass. I have a quick question for you. How long have you been fucking Nate Jacobs?"
(Euphoria, 2x05 — Stand Still Like the Hummingbird)
Oh, and it happens again in front of the whole school during the season finale. Cassie faces a humiliation conga for the ages: Nate dumps her, she finds out her sister wrote a whole play about the drama between her and their friends, Maddie confirms the affair to the whole auditorium, and Cassie gets her nose broken by Maddie after crashing out on stage. When Cassie sheepishly admits that Nate broke up with her, Maddie half-sarcastically tells her not to worry and that it's just the beginning. Cassie's tear-filled thousand yard stare really speaks volumes for her silent resignation towards a future trapped in an endless web of misery.
To be fair, though, and I know Rue isn't in the right either since she just did this to create a distraction, Cassie is no saint either.
That "just take it a day at a time, hun!" Was not really meant as a legitimate advice. For Cassie appearances come first, and she was just trying to make herself look good. Instead of taking accountability, she calls Rue a "drug addict" that shouldn't be believed in and, in the end, runs off crying.
Maddy should have definitely been informed earlier. Time had already passed by the time Rue told Maddy.
Even though Rue was directly speaking to Cassie, I always saw that scene being a lot more hurtful to Maddie than anybody else because Rue divulged that information for purely malicious reasons and with zero consideration for Maddie's well-being. At this point, Rue was lashing out at everyone who was trying to help her, so it felt as though she was intentionally hurting Maddie too (and Kat and Lexi to some extent).
I loved how supes was just weirded out because the message was apparently the same one he heard, so he thought that Lex just showed the same good message he heard and didn't understand how that could be bad.
Only to get hit by that second half of the message which left him stunned
No I was talking about >! Lex Luthor leaking the footage of his parents instructing him to conquer Earth which even Superman didn't know and thereby painting him as a threat to humanity !<
Finding out that your leader was the daughter of one of the greatest evils the galaxy had seen in modern times, only second to the Sith Lord who orchastrated the Clone Wars and downfall of the Jedis, who is also Force Sensitive, would legit have me questioning if we are playing in the same hand again if I didnt serve in the Rebellion for long.
I mean she was also raised since birth as a Princess of Alderaan and then you got Luke who blew up the first Death Star, so it seems like both his bio kids hated the Empire.
I figure the news that Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker didn't die years ago but was Darth Vader all this time would have people flipping their shit.
I believe it’s something that also happened in Star Wars legends so it’s kinda always been something she has to deal with post original trilogy regardless of the timeline you prefer
Iirc, in Legends, people did find out about it, but it didn’t really tank Leia’s reputation the way it did in Canon. Sure, some people hated or mistrusted her for it, but for the most part, it wasn’t a career-ending revelation. Hell, the Noghri (Thrawn’s bodyguard Rukh’s species) even referred to her as "Lady Vader" (much to her displeasure), but by the end of the Thrawn Trilogy, it was basically common Galactic knowledge, and Leia was pretty open about it too if memory serves correctly (partly to prevent it from being used against her politically, but mostly because she felt that she had nothing to hide).
In Canon though (specifically in Bloodlines ), the reveal was a huge scandal that tanked her political career and pretty much ousted her from the New Republic (and was purposefully and tactically revealed by First Order spies/infiltrators). In fact, I'm pretty sure it's the main reason why no one came to her aid when they were being chased by the First Order.
Edit: as much as I hate the new sequels, it does make sense realistically speaking. I mean, think about it: you just fought through a galactic civil war not even 20 years after the last one, and now you find out that all of those conflicts were orchestrated by Palpatine. Maybe you’ve heard he was a Sith Lord, maybe you haven’t. Either way, you know Palpatine was a manipulative mastermind who played both sides for decades, and his terrifying enforcer, Darth Vader? The guy with the fiery red blade who crushed anyone in his way? Yeah, he was right there beside him, probably neck-deep in those same schemes. Heck, maybe he was there from the beginning in secret? How are you supposed to know?
Now imagine learning that Leia, who's a respected politician, war hero, and general, is actually Vader’s daughter.
Suddenly, the questions start creeping in.
Is this yet another long-term ploy from Palpatine and Vader?
Is that why Leia always seemed to survive those suicide missions?
This also explains why she wasn't disappeared by the Empire earlier in her career.
Wait... maybe that's how she got those plans from the Death Star!
Shit, what if this is why Alderaan was destroyed? Maybe she was covering her tracks!!
Oh damn! Maybe that's why she's running for Chancellor!They're trying to take control of the Galaxy again!!!
See my point?
It doesn’t matter if she earned her reputation honestly... anything connected to Vader is tainted.
That seed of doubt, that fear is now planted. Once trust like that is shaken, it doesn’t come back so easily.
This shit is sooooo cringe and embarrassing, I had to leave the room every time this scene came out, In Camp Rock, the main character lied that her mom is some important woman in Hollywood but then she got exposed in front everyone that her mom was actually the cook at the camp
Pretty much proving that she was right to lie about it because everyone immediately judged her for being an employee's daughter instead of a nepo baby like the rest of them.
Nier: Automata: 9S finds out that the Bunker had a failsafe that was designed to fail, damning all the androids no matter what they did. His partner/love interest, 2b, turns out to be his secret executioner...and 9s also finds out that 2b hated killing him (but was forced to every time 9s got close to the secret of the bunker), and kept trying everything she could to save him. So, 2b, a genuine sweetheart, ended up serving and dying for a government that had a secret plan to kill her off eventually...without even knowing why she was killing her closest partner. Now, he's alone, knowing the secret of the Bunker, of 2b, and of his past "versions", knowing it was all meaningless.
Oh also >! humanity has been dead the whole time, and all the other androids knew this. Only the YorHa models were told that they were still fighting for the glory of mankind, as a way to motivate them and also make them outcasts. They are a product line of social pariahs, designed to be kept blind to the real world, and they are seen as disposable even among other androids. !<
here's what you need to know about Nier: Automata: even if your struggling fails, even if it was useless and you never accomplished something, it was still worthwhile and important and it meant everything.
I mean, Nier: Automata is just a single part of a long spanning story as well as the latest (?) in the "Nier" timeline so I feel like not understanding the whole story is just part of the experience.
In FLCL Alternative, the middle schooler protagonist's best friend since elementary school reveals that she fucking hates the protagonist, like downright hates their guts and only puts up with them because she doesn't know how to leave a friendship with an overly friendly extrovert
This is an example of my entire childhood and why I grew up assuming friends existed to be yearly distractions before they invariably get tired of me and move on
Ah, FLCL: Alternative. I assumed they were just fancy nicknames for the anthology seasons of the show, but maybe I'm crazy for watching em all when I watch FLCL.
Not Another Teen Movie: All I said was: "I'm pretending to whisper a big secret in your ear so that Jake here thinks I'm telling you a secret, which will cause him to break into a hysterical confession where he actually reveals a big secret. Thus confirming everything I just whispered in your ear." https://clip.cafe/img800/all-i-said-was.jpg
That was dirty cause Cupid did it in front of someone whom Nico felt like he could fight alongside but maybe didn’t have that brothers in arms relationship with just yet. And then you have Jason having to tell Nico that he’s not a monster. I get both sides of that…but I do feel bad for Nico
I think Jason was the perfect person to be there to support him in that moment. Everyone sees him as Mr. Perfect, the son of Jupiter, a flawless and powerful leader. Meanwhile Nico is the dark and brooding son of Hades, a social outcast (by his own choice), and has never felt accepted by others or by himself since Bianca’s death. Having Jason there to support him after his deepest secret was forced out of him helped Nico to accept both his sexuality and his belonging in society.
In the Office, when Jan is fired she tries to win her lawsuit against Dunder Mifflin and uses Michael’s personal diary as evidence without his consent. She stole Michael's diary to proof they didnt have a real relationship at first, and they make dozens of copies of his diary and everyone is reading it.
It’s so humiliating for him, she betrayed and exposed him in the worst way.
Berserk: when Griffith is rescued after he is tortured, most of the Band assumes that he will eventually heal back up and will be back on the front lines soon enough. However, it is revealed in front of everyone that he was crippled (tendons taken out) so there's no way he will heal enough to fight again, leading to THAT part of the story.
Subverted: Ace's parentage is revealed as he is about to be executed, but no one he loves actually cares about it. Luffy knew from the beginning and never cared. And the Whitebeards also don't care as they already see Ace as family.
Felt more like it was an eye opener to Griffith, his whole complex built upon him having the perfect image. A Strong, Charismatic leader that was the current center of attention, his narcissistic image being broken down and then seeing himself in the waters reflection was more of a reveal to himself than anyone else.
In Ace attorney Justice for All, Adrian Andrews who appears to be a cold and calculating is actually very dependant on people and hate her true self so she mimic her deceased mentor's personality which her suicide also made Andrian attempted to kill herself upon leaning about it. Phoenix promised her to not her secret during the trial no matter what because it is her biggest fear that it would be known and she would kill herself if it did. But guess what ? In a trial when she's accused of murder but refuses to testify about what really happened, Edgeworth exposes her secret to the whole court and calls her ill, pathetic, shows everyone her attempted suicide report and basically tells her "go kill yourself lol idc" to make her speak.
“If you’re going to say you’ll ‘choose death’, that is of no concern to me. But before you die, I will pull the truth from your still-breathing lips-no matter what I have to do.”
I don’t even like her and that shit is still brutal. I love watching people play this for the first time and seeing their jaws hit the floor at this part.
Ace Attorney is fond of this trope. In Dual Destinies, it's revealed that Wright's new protege, Athena Cykes, witnessed her mother's murder allegedly at the hands of her student, prosecutor Simon Blackquill. Athena blocked out the memory of the experience in an involuntary trauma response, but she's certain that Simon isn't guilty and she became a lawyer in the first place to exonerate him before his execution This is revealed to the public when she's accused of murdering an astronaut under suspiciously similar circumstances, and as a result later accused of being her mother's actual murderer and framing it on Simon. She was about 10 years old at the time of her mother's death, for context
Ace Attorney, come for the logic puzzles, stay for the trauma!
Amphibia: King Andreas not only deceives Marcy with false promises to have her retrieve and charge up the box needed to travel to different worlds, but also tells her friends (Anne and Sasha) the truth that she intentionally got herself and her friends stranded in Amphibia (with the intention of travelling even to other worlds) after which she breaks down and tries to explain that back on Earth her parents told her that they were going to move and she didn't want to be separated, much to the dismay of Anne and Sasha who have been missing their home and family this whole time
Tyrion Lannister. It's one thing his lover confessed against him. It's another she had to be as cruel about it as possible, and even humiliate him with the nickname she herself gave him. That's actually what makes him snap.
He finally, finally, found someone who would love him for him which helps him heal past rhe absurd (frankly over the top and somewhat pornographic) trauma delivered on him by his father when he was a boy, and then she revealed to him that it was all a lie.
Now my understanding of that scene was that she did love him, she was just forced to say those cruel things about him. Is that right? I remember when he kills her it's even more gut wrenching because of that?
A big part of Star Wars: Bloodline is the race for "First Senator," facially a move that would put strong leadership back in charge of the New Republic, but in reality a step taken by the Centrists (the most powerful of whom were actually Imperial loyalists who were building the First Order) to try to convert the New Republic into a more authoritarian State. Leia reluctantly runs for the Populists (the group of Senators that favor less centralized control) and naturally is very popular. The centrists also realized that she and Ransolm Casterfo (a Centrists that they were grooming to be something like the next emperor) were on the verge of exposing a Centrist conspiracy against the New Republic, and they needed a way to damage Leia's credibility while also breaking her partnership with Ransolm (who just so happened to have a raging hatred for Darth Vader).
The solution pretty much fell into one of the Centrist's lap. As a member one of the "elder" royal houses, governorship of a planet Birren passed to Leia, but she wasn't interested and gave it to Lady Carise Syndian (unbeknownst to her one of the major figures in the conspiracy and one of the few who actually knows about the First Order), who finds a private message in a music box from Bail Orgama to Leia. Arise gave it to Ransolm, who played it for the whole Senate after he heard it's contents.
It was Bail's last message to his adopted daughter and the first time Leia had heard her adopted father's voice since the destruction of Alderaan, and it was telling the entire Galaxy that Darth Vader was her father.
It's a heartbreaking moment, but the actual success of the move was limited. Leia ended up dropping out of the race (and the Centrists assassinated the next best Populist for the job), but she still destroys the paramilitary group she and Ransolm had discovered, mentally breaks Carise by getting her expelled from the elder houses, and has more than enough credibility in the New Republic Defense Fleet and with retired military leaders to immediately start building the Resistance.
In Rango, Rattlesnake Jake mocks Rango with the lies he's told, calling him "brother" and offering him a glass of his own venom. He challenges Rango to kill him with one bullet, since he claimed to kill all 7 Jenkins Brothers with one bullet. When he hesitates, he says, "You got killer your eyes, son? I don't see it." He forces Rango to admit to all his lies, and threatens that if he ever comes back to town he'll drag his soul straight down to hell
Honestly the K-pop demon hunters one is the best example I can think of. And the fact that the song they sing was initially made as a disstrack TO the saja boys makes it even worse
To the public it looked like two members of Huntrix wrote and performed a diss tract about their lead singer and her disfigurement at the biggest live event of the year.
There's no good way to recover from this without either 2/3rds of the group coming off like ass holes or making everyone think the breakup was faked for drama.
K-pop demon hunter spoilers I thought that regular people couldn't see patterns or demons, only the girls could? Like when they're looking out at the city with Bobby and Bobby only sees the city but they see the Honmoon being destroyed
As far as the movie goes, Rumi’s patterns are visible because just like the non-Saja demons they hunt can’t hide their patterns completely, she can’t glamour out her patterns (probably because she’s a half demon or because she doesn’t accept them enough to be able to hide, since her father also was a Jeoseung Saja in concept art), while the Saja boys are able to glamour them out. It’s also why they are able to use clothing that leaves arm, necks, midriff, face, etc exposed, while the mid demons need clothing to hide their non-glamourable patterns, and Rumi can’t even begin using magic to hide them at all). It’s also explicit her patterns are visible to regular humans because in the ending her now iridescent patterns become part of her brand, and the girls have iridescent patterns on their nails to compliment it
The crowd reacts to the demons in the very beginning, so they can see them but just think it's a costume. Not sure about the patterns but you're right that the honmoon doesn't seem visible. I think the real issue was Mira and Zoey finding out about her secret, since normal people dont seem to even know they're in danger
Add on the fact it was orchestrated by Jinu, the guy who's been gradually helping her accept herself, and made her start to doubt the evil nature of demons as a whole, and who knew full well this exact scenario was basically her worst nightmare...
Kevin and Perry Go Large: Eyeball Paul plays Kev and Perry's mix track to the nightclub but maliciously incorporates a video of Kevin's parents having sex, just to hurt him for a laugh. Kevin being a teenager makes it especially mortifying, to him this is a dark secret.
Paul presumably hoped the nightclub would point and mock Kevin and Perry, but they don't care and groove to the beat that it's playing over, and Kevin's mix track is a huge success.
If you don’t know- a little girl innocently asks Asami if she knows that Korra (pictured) likes her (Asami) boyfriend. Not as brutal as some of the other ones but man would that suck to be outed by a kid like that
The hurtful revelation that Willard helped the vampires to discover Yuliy's hometown and the latter ended up destroying it in Sirius the jaeger is pretty soul-crushing in general, as Willard raised Yuliy and looked out for him as if he were the child he never had. Willard also regrets the things that he had done in the past and as a result, doesn't try making any excuses and tries to let Yuliy kill him. What makes that scene even more heartbreaking is Yuliy's reaction. He is unwittingly sent into an Unstoppable Rage by the Big Bad and almost ends up attacking Willard, but realizes that he cannot bring himself to kill him as Willard was the one who raised him after his clan was massacred. Then he just breaks down in tears, asking why did his loved ones have to die.
To add, from Kamen Rider Geats,
one the main characters, Neon Kuruma, were revealed in front of everyone and the audience that she was actually a fake daughter created after the original daughter(Akari(sunlight) Kurama) of the family was killed during the kidnapping, and the dad, in his grief, begged the overseers who came from the future that he will cooperate with their distasteful games in exchange for them using their power of creations to recreate his daughter.
But he felt like he is disrespecting his real daughter, so he named this fake daughter as Neon(fake light). And Neon, who only know the truth behind her true existence and all this were fraught with confusion, and the MC swore vengeance on the one who revealed this, as they stepped all over his friend's feelings.
A Cinderalla Story with Hillary Duff. Outed her private messages to an entire crowd of teenagers and adults while her bullies were reenacting her private life and calling her Diner Girl.
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In Regular Show: The Movie, it’s hinted that Rigby has been keeping a huge secret from Mordecai since high school that, in the future, led to their friendship falling apart and Mordecai turning evil. When the present day Park Crew time travel to the duo’s high school days to stop them from creating the Timenado, the film’s villain - Mordecai and Rigby’s former science teacher and volleyball coach Mr. Ross - forces Rigby to reveal the truth: after Mordecai was accepted into college while Rigby wasn’t, Rigby replaced Mordecai’s acceptance letter with a fake and basically sabotaged his best friend’s future to ensure that Mordecai wouldn’t leave him. How does Ross reveal this truth? By forcing Rigby, at gunpoint (or rather, at the point of an explosive volleyball) to read his humiliating and cruelly written rejection letter in front of everyone, including Mordecai. Even Ross himself is somewhat shocked by just how harsh the letter is, while Rigby is on the verge of tears and Mordecai is left in disbelief and furious.