Basic Trope: A plot twist occurs with no foreshadowing or anything. * Straight: Alice discovers that Alex is her long lost brother despite any foreshadowing or that being informed that she even had a brother to begin with. * Exaggerated: Alice discovers that Alex is her long lost brother AND and a descended from royalty, AND an alien, AND a clone, AND the Big Bad AND that she was Dead All Along. * Justified: No one bothered to tell Alice because they thought that it would not be of use. * Alternatively, Alice never heard about a twin because she doesn't have one; Alex is mistaken. * Inverted: Incredible amounts of foreshadowing are displayed throughout the course of the story only to not be revealed at all. * Aborted Arc, Missing Secret, and some types of Red Herrin