In The Book Thief, Liesel steals several books. However, she is one of the only kids her age who does not know how to read.

In Romeo and Juliet, the audience knows that Juliet takes a sleeping potion, but the other characters think she is dead.

In Mean Girls, Caty gives Regina bars meant to help people gain weight, but she tells Regina that they are "low-calorie." Regina eats them and starts gaining weight without knowing why.

A woman is paranoid about bugs in her apartment and thinks they will harm her. She buys hundreds of dollars of products and chemical sprays to keep the bugs away, but the chemicals eventually poison her, and she dies.

Othello tells the story of a man who manipulates the relationship of two of his friends. Iago makes Desdemona think Othello cheated on her, when the audience knows that Othello really didn't.

Students watch as thunder crashes and rain pours down outside on the day of their field trip to the metro park. "Look, the weather is perfect!" says the teacher.

In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the computer HAL 9000 was designed to help the explorers with their mission, but eventually he will not listen to the commands of the people and tries to destroy them.

In the Harry Potter series, one of the people Harry hated the most was actually trying to help protect him all along.

In Beauty and the Beast, Belle tells Gaston, the unpleasant man who is trying to win her love, "I just don't deserve you!"

When the audience knows something that the characters in the story do not know.

In Matilda, Matilda performs tricks like putting a parrot inside the chimney. We know she is the one responsible, but her parents think the house is haunted.

In Holes, Mr. Sir continually tells the children that "This ain't a Girl Scout camp" to warn them that it will not be fun. At the end of the story, we learn that the camp is going to be transformed into a Girl Scout camp.

The slogan from The Hunger Games, "May the odds be ever in your favor," is repeated throughout the book, when in reality, the chances are that all but one of the players will die.

In the movie Frozen, Olaf is being chased by a scary monster, and he calls the monster "Marshmallow" even though the monster is not anything like a marshmallow.

"The Gift of the Magi" depicts a married couple who buy each other Christmas gifts while having little money. The wife cuts off and sells her hair to buy her husband a watch chain. The husband sells his watch to buy her a comb.

After falling off of her bike and breaking her leg, Sandra has to wear a large cast. Fed up with people asking her if the accident hurt, she starts telling them, "No, it felt great!"

Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of Montag, a firefighter. His job as a firefighter actually requires him to start fires.

Bill Gates, who created the Microsoft company, uses an Apple computer.

In the movie Annie, the orphans continuously say, "We love you, Ms. Hannigan." Ms. Hannigan is the orphanage director who is very cruel and mean to the children.

In A Wrinkle in TIme, the characters meet creatures with strange tentacles and no faces. The characters are frightened of these creatures, but the creatures turn out to be very sophisticated and caring.

In Beauty and the Beast, the audience knows from the beginning of the movie that the Beast is actually a prince. Beauty does not find out until the very end.

Cameron picks up a dime he finds on the playground and exclains, "I'm rich!"

Rosalind in As You Like It disguises herself as a man to escape from her uncle. The audience knows she is a woman, but other characters are fooled.

In The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Junior is embarrassed that he has to wear his dad's old suit to the dance and thinks he'll be teased. When he gets to the dance, the other kids think that his suit is cool and retro.