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Disgusted by the Big Bad's squirrel-stealing antics, Steven Ulysses Perhero finally corners the dastardly villain in the Abandoned Warehouse, where the following dialog takes place: What a shocking twist! The hero... and naturally we the audience... assumed the villain was up to something. And we were correct. He was. Unfortunately, the hero... and naturally we the audience... were utterly incorrect about precisely what the villain was up to. This happens a lot when your hero is either too eager... or simply an idiot. This is an Ending Trope, so expect UNMARKED SPOILERS.

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  • Disgusted by the Big Bad's squirrel-stealing antics, Steven Ulysses Perhero finally corners the dastardly villain in the Abandoned Warehouse, where the following dialog takes place: What a shocking twist! The hero... and naturally we the audience... assumed the villain was up to something. And we were correct. He was. Unfortunately, the hero... and naturally we the audience... were utterly incorrect about precisely what the villain was up to. This happens a lot when your hero is either too eager... or simply an idiot. This is an Ending Trope, so expect UNMARKED SPOILERS.
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  • Disgusted by the Big Bad's squirrel-stealing antics, Steven Ulysses Perhero finally corners the dastardly villain in the Abandoned Warehouse, where the following dialog takes place: What a shocking twist! The hero... and naturally we the audience... assumed the villain was up to something. And we were correct. He was. Unfortunately, the hero... and naturally we the audience... were utterly incorrect about precisely what the villain was up to. This happens a lot when your hero is either too eager... or simply an idiot. Basically, this trope is when a character comes to an erroneous conclusion about a villain's motives based on his actions. While the Big Bad is certainly still a horrible person, how he truly intends to go about it or why he's going about it in the first place turns out to be something we were way off the mark for. And sometimes, the evil scheme isn't actually an evil scheme at all. In either case, the Big Bad didn't try to fool the hero, or leave a false trail, or otherwise trick him in any way. No, with this trope, the hero was fooling himself all along. Sometimes the result of paying attention to the Red Herring. Compare Hidden Agenda Villain. Contrast Evil Plan for a more obvious motive though this trope sitll might occur. See also Not Me This Time. This is an Ending Trope, so expect UNMARKED SPOILERS. Examples of Motive Misidentification include:
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