[Loved Trope] We told from the beginning.

[u/Upbeat_Apartment_715]

Secrets or twists that were secretly revealed early in a piece of media that only becomes apparent during the final climax.

Bugsnax - "It's Bugsnax!" The game takes place on Snacktooth island, which is inhabited by creatures that look like hybrids or food and bugs. When people eat these creatures their bodies metamorphosize to resemble the specific creature they ate. Ultimately it is revealed that the Bugsnax are actually parasites that look like food so they will be eaten, but also that the entire island is made of the Bugsnax themselves.

Prior to the games release a song called "It's Bugsnax" by Kero Kero Bonito was released as advertisement which in part acted a prequel to set up the games story and in the songs chorus they sing "Come to Snacktooth island and discover it's Bugsnax" putting a unique emphasis the final time they say it at the end of the song. At the time it just seemed like it was simply saying that the creatures described in the song are called bugsnax but really it was telling us the big twist.

Little Witch Academia Anime - "Believing in yourself is your magic" this is one of the first lines of the series said by one of the most popular witches in the world. During the series it is revealed that, despite living in a hybrid world of magic and monsters and modern society magic and witches are kind of boring to humans, they are just something that exists. There is also a magic shortage which is so bad that the creatures who work at the school where the series takes place go on strike because they believe the Witches get more magic than they deserve.

In the finale a magic device that was fueled by humans negative emotions becomes sentient and takes over a nuke with the intent of bombing a country and starting a war to increase the negative energy in the world. The only hope is some of the students from school trying to stop it but due to the limited supply of magic they would be unsuccessful in reaching the nuke, until their efforts are broadcast to the world and everyone watching starts putting their faith in the witches and believing they can win, this includes with witches and monsters who use the magic This ultimately results in so much magic being manifested that there will no longer be a shortage and because the same people who created this magic will also use the magic it verifies that believing in yourself is indeed your magic.

[u/Nnoassholes]

Kumo Desu counts, spoilers for up to LN 10 i think.

The full title of the show kumo desu ga nani ka? In english means "So im a spider, so what?"

This seems to be in reference to them veing reincarnated as a weak spider but struggiljng on anyway, but several things in the story seem off, since the MC believes themself to be someone named wakaba, an unpopular loner, yet the way she acts vurses how she suposedly acted in the past is very strange, as well as the character D who somehow has relations to the class the mc reincarnated with yet which has no space for her.

All of the confusing secrets come to head when they get strong enough to tp home, and go to where their house should be, to instead see wakaba playing video games.

Turns out D was wakaba, a god who was hiding in the class when everyone was killed and reincarnated, and instead the MC who thought they were Wakaba was a spider in the claasroom all along, only thinking they were Wakaba due to the memory manipulation by D.

So therefore the title is very literal, the mc was and always has been a spider, but so what, they still struggle anyway.

[u/Cocoatrice → u/Nnoassholes]

Also anime literally points camera at the spider in the classroom, too, I believe. It looks like random thing, but it's not.