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⌈ Secret Post #5020 ⌋

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[Pokemon]

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[jessica kellgren-fozard (youtuber)]

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[Avatar: The Last Airbender]

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[Raised by Wolves]

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[Xenoblade Chronicles 2]

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[Princess Weiyoung]

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[Hades]

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[Cookie Run]

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[Kristen Bell and Dax Shepherd]

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Unreliable narrator when it's revealed part way through.

The thing the main character is against/trying to fight is the thing that they are (closest I can come to explaining this is the message in I Am Legend - the book, not the stupid film ending.)

Gone Girl was so good for that. I could not believe it when the reveal happened.

Ooh yes that's a good one! Something that people say "oh it's so obvious" now but I feel like that comment is coming from people who already know a lot of the time.

I read The Girl on the Train, which is considered in a similar ballpark and feel like that one just didn't achieve the sucker punch in the same way.

Pandora Hearts was AMAZING for the "unreliable narrator" bit. No one I knew saw it coming and it was such a great revelation when it finally came out.

The best part was that, going back and rereading it after I knew the twist, I realized that the foreshadowing was actually there all along. I just hadn't paid it any heed because there was no reason to up until that point.

I *love* that anon - reading something a second time looking for clues. When the twist of unreliable narration is done well, it's totally worth revisiting to look for clues. I'm not really familiar with the work you mention but from what you say I can completely understand why you enjoyed it.

It's a Victorian/steampunk-esque manga loosely inspired by Alice in Wonderland! The plot twist comes about two-thirds of the way through and completely changes EVERYTHING you thought you knew about the story up until that point, which IMO made it about a hundred times more interesting than it would have been if it had just played things straight.

oh man I LOVE that first one. I'm kind of a slut for unreliable narrators in general so whenever it happens that there's a sudden reveal that they've been unreliable all along I always have to go back and look at what's happened so far so i can find all the parts where they're being unreliable

Imo it's SO hard to get it totally right, but when people do it's one of the best plot twists. I especially love it when the narrator or POV character still refuses to accept they're telling it from a false perspective and continues to try and convince the reader otherwise, even though other parts of the story tell us not to trust them. This also works for me in reverse where the POV character is the most truthful but everything else in the narrative is directing them toward questioning their reality. The conflict is the hook for me.

I'm not sure which I like better: unreliable narrator when it's revealed part way through, or unreliable narrator where it's never explicitly revealed

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