Sometimes an author will spend a lot of time blatantly Foreshadowing something, only to play with the audience's heads. When The Reveal comes, the promised (implied, really) development never occurs. Which, by the way, is Irony. May be the result of an Aborted Arc. If what was foreshadowed seems to the audience to have been a lot more interesting than what ended up happening, They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot. See also The Untwist, Bait and Switch, Red Herring. Examples of Fauxshadow include: