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Shhh... Don't tell anyone you found this place. This index is a secret. It's here that we index all the darkest secrets stored on All The Tropes. If you're looking for secret personalities look over at More Than Meets the Eye. If it's there, don't look for it here. For more mysteries see Mystery Tropes. And remember, be careful The Index Is Watching You.

Secret Tropes[]

• Ancient Conspiracy: A secret group is behind everything.
• Big Secret: Hiding a secret causes a person to be suspected of a crime.
• Bookcase Passage: A bookcase hides a secret passage.
• Cannot Keep a Secret: Someone who cannot keep a secret to save their lives.
• The Confidant: The direct opposite of Cannot Keep a Secret. Someone who keeps a friend's secrets.
• Dark Secret: A horrible secret that a character is terrified to reveal.
  • Town with a Dark Secret: A town hides a secret from outsiders.
  • Empire with a Dark Secret: A whole civilization is built on a horrible secret.
• Easter Egg: The programmers hid a secret in the game.
• Good Running Evil: Good controls evil
• Government Conspiracy: The government is hiding a secret from everybody.
• The Hidden Hour: A secret time that only a few people know exists.
• Hidden Track: A secret song on a CD or record.
• I'll Never Tell You What I'm Telling You: Blurting out a secret while simultaneously claiming you won't do just that.
• Information Wants to Be Free: A secret must be made public. The bad guys want to prevent that.
• Infraction Distraction: By feigning a minor offense, the big one can be kept secret.
• The Inner Reveal: Trusting the secret to a few trusted associates.
• Keeping Secrets Sucks: Sometimes you need to lie or kill to keep a secret.
• The Man Behind the Man: The Big Bad is secretly controlled by an even Bigger Bad.
• Masquerade: People hide a secret world in the real one.
  • The Masquerade Will Kill Your Dating Life: Upholding the masquerade or keeping a Secret Identity makes dating difficult.
  • Masquerade Maintenance: Keeping up the lies that protect the secret world.
• Multilayer Facade: Keeping secrets under secrets.
• Mutual Masquerade
• My Secret Pregnancy: A woman hides her pregnancy.
• Mysterious Past: A character has a secret past.
• The Not-Secret: Everyone actually knows your deep dark secret, but they're too polite to tell you.
• Open Secret: Something is declared secret, but everyone actually knows anyway.
• Ostentatious Secret: Someone openly advertises that they have A Secret.
• Playing Nice for Now: Don't let anyone know we are at each other's throats.
• Plot-Driving Secret: If he knew the truth, we wouldn't have a plot.
• Secret Art: A technique or magical ability known only to a few.
• Secret Character: A playable character that is a secret until they're unlocked.
• Secret-Chaser: A character insistent on finding out another character's secret.
• Secret Diary: A diary that is kept in secret.
• Secret Handshake: The secret means of identifying people who are keeping a secret together.
• Secret Identity: An identity that is used to hide a secret double life.
• Secret Keeper: The person you trust with your secrets.
  • Secret Secret Keeper: The person who is keeping your secrets that you don't even know about.
• Secret Level: A level of a game that is hidden and not needed to beat the game.
• Secret Other Family: A character has more than one family and hides them from one another.
• Secret Path: A hidden path that bypasses obstacles by taking a route not many know.
• Secret Police: A police force that hides the fact that they exist.
• Secret Relationship: Two characters keep their relationships a secret from everyone else.
• Secret Stab Wound: A character hides an injury.
• Secret Test of Character: The actual test is a secret to prove what's in their heart.
• Secretly Wealthy: A character hides the fact that they're fabulously wealthy.
• Secret Weapon: A hidden weapon typically revealed during or near the climax of a work.
• Shared Mass Hallucination
• They're Called Personal Issues for a Reason
• Water Source Tampering: They don't want you to know what you're really drinking.
• We Have Been Researching Phlebotinum for Years: Turns out these folks knew about the weird stuff all along.