— A clue that leads in the wrong direction. A red herring is a good red herring when it interweaves itself into the story's events. For example, the murder victim may have been a philanderer.

His wife has no alibi. It was the wife! The wife's lack of an alibi is a red herring. It turns out the wife was somebody else at the time and to provide that. However, the deceased husband's philandering is what got him killed, as it turns out, by his girlfriend's jealous husband.

Philandering as a motive is introduced for good cause, not just to set up suspicions about the wife's lack of an alibi. The supertrope to, and. This trope is often coupled with, where the obvious suspect is used as a red herring, and the real culprit turns out to be someone unexpected. Compare:, where the same result is caused by a mix-up instead of intentional misdirection., when an object that is fictional (such as a prop) is mistaken for being real. Is when a plot twist is confused for a Red Herring because it's too obvious, but turns out to have been genuine all along.

See also, when a red herring is used to baffle your opponents, and, when an event does not. If a major star is used to sucker the audience rather than the actual characters, you've just been served, or at least an aversion of. Also compare. Subject to being: if they've just found a plausible suspect, but there's 180 more pages to go, well. Warning: Due to the nature of this trope, unmarked spoilers ahead!

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•: Early chapters point to Touma being in love with his sister-in-law and former teacher Akiko. Chapter 5 however, reveals that this was a lie that he created to hide the fact he. • In the first volume of, Kuroyukihime reveals that a Burst Linker known as Cyan Pile is trying to hunt her down to collect the point bounty on her, and she knows very little about the person controlling this duel avatar except for the fact that this person goes to her school (based on the fact that Cyan Pile can challenge her while she's logged into the school intranet).

Kuroyukihime initially assumes that it's Haru's Chiyu, given the hostility between them in their first meeting (although Kuroyukihime intentionally eggs Chiyu on to gauge her reactions) and that Chiyu is one of a handful of possible Burst Linkers besides Kuroyukihime and Haru. Haru refuses to believe it, since the Chiyu he knows is no good at video games or keeping secrets, and insists on convincing Kuroyukihime. It turns out that Chiyu's Neurolinker was infected with a backdoor program, enabling the true culprit, her boyfriend Taku, to challenge Kuroyukihime remotely (even though he doesn't even go to her school).

•: the first chapter shows your typical split-screen shot of the main characters, which seems to set up a. The first one of the five that we see is even given a name, but when the time comes, he decides not to join up with the other four. In fact, he almost gets them killed by cutting the rope one of the heroes is going down. He gets his soon enough. •: • Ulquiorra appears from the start to be Aizen's right-hand man among the Espada, and the ultimate target everyone needs to reach to save Orihime.

When Ulquiorra realises Ichigo thinks he's the top Espada, he reveals he's only the fourth Espada. • Barragan takes command in Aizen's absence, making it seem to characters that he's the top Espada until it's revealed that he's only the second Espada.

It's an unsuccessful example as Kyouraku admits to his opponent (the real number one) he'd suspected all along that Barragan was number two, but had been hoping otherwise. • In, Cornelia and Schneizel are set up as two possible suspects for killing Lelouch's mother Marianne. Neither one of them did it; V.V. Tried to kill her, but she managed to transfer her soul into Anya's body before she died.

Then again, given the significant changes that the plot of season 2 allegedly went through due to the, it's possible that this could be less of a Red Herring and more of an. It was, however, made clear at the end of season 1 that Cornelia had nothing to do with Marianne's death, contrary to earlier implications. • Up until vol. 9 of, it's heavily implied that ' was that Izaya stabbed and nearly killed Shinra. This is exactly what Izaya wants people to think. • Since Mika Harima has the same face as and has a scar that goes all around her neck, everyone is led to believe that Mika is a corpse that has had Celty's missing head grafted on to it to give it life.

It later turns out that Namie manipulated Mika into undergoing plastic surgery that would make her resemble Celty, and subsequently gave her memory-altering drugs to hide the truth. • Red Herrings are a staple of, but a big one happens in the recurring Black Organization meta-arc when Vermouth finally shows herself and it's not who you think it is at all. She's been impersonating Dr. Lsi Modem Driver Windows 7. The suspicious-looking foreign English teacher? She's the FBI agent on Vermouth's trail. •: • During the Grand Magic Games arc, it at first seems that only one person had come back from the future to give warnings about what will soon happen, but that that person had given Princess Hisui and Captain Arcadios conflicting information for some reason. During the two's conversation late in the arc, Arcadios calls this informant a woman, causing Hisui to tell him that her informant was a man.

It turns out that wasn't the only one who came back through the Eclipse Gate. Future counterpart had also managed to find his way to the past, but for a much more sinister purpose. • Invoked with Silver, Gray's father, as well.

Silver pretends to actually be the spirit of, the demon responsible for Gray's childhood trauma, inhabiting the corpse of his father. In actuality, Silver was brought back to life as his own self by the necromancer Keyes, and was a good person who wanted Gray to put him out of his misery. • A slightly more minor example in the form of Weisslogia and Skiadrum not being dead despite Sting and Rogue remembering having killed them. Apparently dragons can alter the memories of humans somehow. (They then both proceed to die a few minutes later, making everything a bit of a moot point.) •: • The manga drops a bunch of hints that Ed and Al's father Van Hohenheim and the and leader of the,, are one and the same. While they do have an important connection, they're definitely separate people. When Alphonse reunites with Hohenheim, he explains the situation to his father.

Hohenheim then asks him if he's sure he wants to tell him, given that the leader of the Homunculi looks just like him. Alphonse is silent for a moment, refusing to back down, and Hohenheim says • When Edward is about to go fight Gluttony, Riza Hawkeye gives him a pistol, telling him it may just end up saving his life. Much later, when his alchemy is switched off by villainous, he realizes he still has the gun and pulls it out, but is never able to shoot anyone with it.

• When they first meet, Barry the Chopper drops a potential bombshell that Al may have never really existed as a human; that Ed created all of his memories and personality and stuck them onto a suit of armor. It's eventually revealed that this was just Barry screwing with Al's head. • In the episode 'LOST HERITAGE,' the members of Section 9 try to stop an assassin named Yu from killing a Chinese politician. After discovering that Yu has carefully imported a sniper rifle from overseas, they spend the bulk of the episode under the assumption that he plans to shoot the politician from a distance.

Then, just before the killing is scheduled to occur, Togusa finds a teenage boy in a bathroom stall, with his school uniform having been stolen. It turns out that the sniper rifle was a clever misdirect, and Yu's real plan was to disguise himself as a high school student so that he could get close enough to the politician to stab him to death. • Early on in, a government official is murdered, and Victorique is able to deduce that the killer is a blonde girl with an injured hand. Around this time, Kazuya becomes friends with Avril, a blond-haired from England.

He soon notices that Avril's right hand is bandaged, and she becomes very tense when questioned about it. This is actually for a completely different crime. It turns out that 'Avril' is actually a named Kuiaran the Second, who kidnapped the real Avril and assumed her identity so she could infiltrate the school. Kuiaran's hand wound came from being bitten by the real Avril while she was tying her up. •: • In the beginning of 'Remote Island Syndrome Part 1' in, we see an adult woman ripping apart papers and letting them fly from the balcony.

Does this have anything to do with the following plot? In fact, the 'murder mystery' that follows is one great big red herring; it's just a game set up to prevent Haruhi from getting bored, which could have inadvertently caused a real murder mystery to take place. • The 'Where Did The Cat Go?'

Mystery from the novels centers on a red herring: the cat's location seems to rule out certain suspects, until the brigade-eers realize there are two cats. • Similarly,, as a fellow mystery manga, makes use of the red herring. Perhaps two of the best were in 'No Noose is Good Noose,' indicating two different innocent suspects as the killer. The fact that Utako Mori's name is an anagram for 'komori uta,' the killer's trademark phrase? The presence of Takashi Senke in the background of one of the photos of suicided students, indicating a possible motive?

Both mere coincidence, with no purpose other than to draw smug readers away from the real clues. Although the second served a doubly sneaky purpose. Those who remember that red herring may be more inclined to dismiss Senke as a suspect in 'The Forest of Cerberus,' only this time, he is the killer! • Deliberately planted by the antagonist in of.

After spending a good portion of the plot hunting down the instigator of the latest incident, the eventually learn from that Toredia Graze, their prime suspect, has been dead for four years. The real culprit, TSAB Enforcer Runessa Magnus, impersonated Toredia while contacting his associates. • An earlier example- in, Chrono's deceased father is brought up a few times. Meanwhile, a mysterious masked person whose hair color happens to match Chrono's appears to occasionally help out the villains. Turns out that there's actually two of them, and they're the familiars of Chrono's mentor, sent to make sure the villains succeeded in their plan, then absorb them so that the Book of Darkness can be sealed away along with Hayate.

• In, Sheryl Nome is well. Publicity for the series included judicious use of her full name, with the surname shared by Mao and Sara from, Mayan High Priestesses with a unique blood type that gave them some fairly unique powers bordering on ESP if taken a face value (though how much of that was actually done by the Bird-Human is anyone's guess). Many fans assumed that this was a big hint for the plot of the show and that Sheryl would turn out to be something like Mao's granddaughter. The latter part turned out to be true, but did this really affect the plot at all? It truly never comes up, and becomes simply another to one of the previous shows ( Frontier was laced with these). • When ghosts escape from prison because of the door wards failing - in the Arcanum arc of - Biko, an artificer who makes wards, is implied to be the culprit after an envelope with seal turns up in her house. The real culprit is her teacher Rio.

•: • Itachi at one point claims that he let Sasuke live so that he could take his eyes as an adult. It is later revealed he was lying and let Sasuke live because he could not bring himself to kill him. Not just that. Everything the reader was ever told about Itachi is a lie or a coverup. The truth about him has only started coming out in recent chapters. Its so dramatic that for most of the series he appeared to be the unquestionable of Sasuke's storyline, when in fact he's apparently the.

And who turned out to be Sasuke's personal? Loveable, goofy Tobi. • Tobi himself. He claimed to be Uchiha Madara, but during the Fourth Great Shinobi World War it was revealed, via the Edo Tensei, that the actual Uchiha Madara was.

Then it turns out that the real Madara is the mastermind behind the entire plot, as he used Tobi to act out his plans, and is arguably the real. Tobi, was later on revealed to be who fans speculated him to be all along: Obito. And then Obito hijacked Madara's master plan, promoting himself to the role of. But after the defeat Obito, Madara right back resumed being the. • that he deliberately added in hints towards Naruto/Sakura, such as Naruto's mother saying he should, as Red Herrings. He has also repeatedly stated that was entirely his own idea and that Naruto/Hinata had been planned since the early stages of the manga; that Sakura was never intended to be Naruto's main love interest to begin with while always was; and, according to the voice actors of Team 7, had been planned since the start of the anime because Kishimoto told them. •: • One Piece uses a Red Herring to take advantage of a recent reveal while hiding another one.

When Garp visits Ace in prison and expresses his desire that he had wanted Ace and Luffy to grow up to be Marines, Ace response by reminding Garp this is impossible because 'Luffy and I both have the blood of an international criminal mastermind running in our veins.' At first glance, this appears to follow the revelation by Garp that Luffy's father is Dragon the Revolutionary. In fact, it does so while simultaneously hiding the later reveal that Ace's father is the Pirate King Gold Roger. • Once upon a time, it was widely believed that Shanks was Luffy's long-lost father, and for good reason.

There were too many seemingly genuine clues to this for it not to be intentional on Oda's part, which makes of Luffy's father more shocking. This was certainly helped by the fact that.

Don't lie: you would've laughed at anyone who would have theorized this, if only because Shanks seemed like the more rational choice. Oda probably loves this trope considering how unpredictable One Piece is. • This is used as a red herring in regards to Ace, as well. Soon after this reveal, we see a scene Ace says that he despises his father, rejects him so thoroughly that he uses his mother's name instead. The obvious implication is that Ace is talking about our friend Dragon, but in fact it's revealed that Luffy and Ace are not blood related. • The identities of future crew members have sometimes been hidden this way. At the end of Alabasta, both Vivi and Bon Kurei look like they're about to join, only for Nico Robin to do so instead.

Water 7 started with the crew looking for a shipwright and finding a company of six, several of whom getting along fairly well with the crew. Then • Duval's identity was done like this. He started out having a personal beef with the Straw Hat Pirates, but especially Sanji, leading to some speculation that he might be Don Krieg. The real answer was far more hilarious: He'd never actually met the Straw Hats before, but he looked exactly • In the episode 'Final Countdown', a terrorist group uses a red herring to its fullest extent. They set up an elaborate plan to crash an advertising ship rigged with a bomb into Heifong with its independence as the ransom. As it turns out, this was just a plan to evacuate the city so that the 'terrorist group' (which is more like a group of petty, if clever, thieves) can loot the empty city without fear of being caught.

Unfortunately for them, the main characters catch on to this ruse and show them what for. • Certain series of have characters who are red herrings for the identity of the Cure. Started the trend with the Cure's dancing mentor Miyuki; even the characters speculated she could be the fourth Pretty Cure of the series. (She wasn't, of course). Had the heroes' classmates Waon and Seika - and the production staff even created that implied they would become Cures. Topped the others with Regina, who shockingly did not join the heroes as a Cure - in fact, the series's was a character that had never appeared before. When Romio is talking about how she has selected a third magical girl, she shows a picture featuring Konoha prominently in the foreground and Eimi just casually strolling by in the background.

Take a wild guess who the third magical girl is. • has two major examples: The witch in the prologue has some marked design similarities to Sayaka's outfit. Turns out that Sayaka's actual witch form has considerably fewer design similarities.

In a more meta example, concept art shows Madoka and Homura both with bows, leading to speculation about Homura being future Madoka. And then Homura is revealed not only to be her own person, but to have a completely different weapon. (As it turns out, the art's still meaningful - Homura can use Madoka's bow, and in the timeline where the latter ascended ends up inheriting it, wielding it in favor of her own weapon to signify a 'lighter' aspect of magical girl-ness.) • To cite a very early example, the English dub had a one-off character named Red Herring for completely no reason. However it is also a subversion because the actual character did have a sizable portion in the episode.

• A somewhat complicated example occurs during the 'Phantom Bullet Arc' of. At the beginning of the Bullet of Bullets Tournament there are three suspects in the tournament who might be the murderous 'Death Gun': Pale Rider, Jushi X, and Sterben. All Kirito and Sinon know about them is their names, so that's all they have in the way of clues. (In the anime, the audience has an extra clue if they were paying attention to Kyoji ) The problem is that each of the three separate suspects' names can be read as a reference to death in respectively. • In universe, this means that given a choice between going after 'Sterben' or 'Jushi X', the two Japanese teenagers opt for 'Jushi X' because that can be read as the Japanese for 'Death Gun' backwards, with the X representing a cross.

It is only once 'Sterben' is confirmed as 'Death Gun' via process of elimination that the Japanese nurse reveals (to the non-German speaking members of the audience) that 'sterben' is German for 'to die' and is a loanword particularly used in Japanese hospitals. • However at the outset, Anglophone members of the audience would tend to be more suspicious about the English name 'Pale Rider' since that is a Biblical reference to Death as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. • sets up some to hide the true identity of the local. (That it doesn't fully work in the anime version because of his voice is another story.) The has blond hair and blue eyes, and there's another character in the cast possessing these traits (). The manga, in addition to pointing out those similarities, briefly uses another character (Keiichiro) to make a red herring via a subversion of the trope.

The real identity of the looks nothing like his transformed form, but the abovementioned voice link in the anime version, coupled with healthy amount of Genre Savviness from the audience, renders the whole point moot. His surname 'Aoyama' contains the word for 'Blue' in Japanese, which gives some hint as to his identity. •: The principal of the school, Chihiro, is set up to be the main threat as throughout the series she spies on Maya and disapproves of her snooping around.

Then the hits and it turns out that a seemingly sweet and innocent girl named Mikaze, that Fumiaki was dating, was the true villain all along. What's more Chihiro is actually an ally that was looking after Maya at the behest of her father. • - The first episode was misleading people into thinking the adaptation of the game would be a literal adaptation, since the Producer's lines weren't voiced, only subtitled, as in the game. • In the Duelist Kingdom arc of, Tristan/Honda gets suspicious of Pegasus and suspects that he doesn't really have the power to read minds. Upon inspecting the arena, he, Tea/Anzu, and Bakura find a hole in the wall, and a tower outside.

Tristan theorizes that a mook hides in the tower and uses a telescope to look through the hole and spy on players' cards, then relay the info to Pegasus via a receiver. The hole is just a coincidence, and Pegasus really does read minds. • Funnily enough, in the Battle City arc, the Esper Roba uses exactly this trick with the help of his younger siblings. • It first happened with Pegasus in his duel by videotape with Yugi in the manga version. Yugi accuses Pegasus of not really using magic powers to predict his moves, instead claiming that Pegasus used subliminal messages to get Yugi to build his deck and play the cards that he wanted.

While Pegasus did use subliminal messages, Pegasus proceeds to actually use magic from that point on. • In the 'Turnabout Showtime' case of the manga, the defendant, Julie Henson, is suspected of killing her ex-boyfriend Flip Chambers because he left her for another girl. She's innocent, and this piece of information is never brought up again. • In (particularly in the light novel), a nameless woman in fatigues secretly making her way across the train is heavily implied to either be the, expert assassin Claire Stanfield, or both. Turns out both of those roles were taken by the supposedly murdered redheaded conductor. • In, Kid tries to check out an old manuscript of in the DWMA's secure library but finds it was checked out and never returned. The name it was checked out under was simply 'M', and Kid notices that the date is the same day abandoned her cover as the school's nurse.

Turns out Maka checked it out by borrowing her father's security ID. • Early in the second novel, a random punk tries to hit on Rikka while Yuuta is getting something, and manages to get her name and school before Yuuta steps in. Near the end, Rikka gets kidnapped outside of the school and the kidnapper contacts Yuuta by phone and talks about taking Rikka for himself if Yuuta can't find her in time, with the voice distorted to the point that Yuuta wasn't able to recognize it at all.

It turns out to be Satone, however, who actually wanted to break them up so that she could take Yuuta for herself. • In episode 4 of, it appeared that Anko had a crush on a hyperactive classmate, but in the end it turned out it was on the sweet boy he was walking with. • At one point in Part 3 of, Joseph uses his stand powers to divine that Kakyoin is. Turns out it's actually the next enemy stand user, Rubber Soul, using his stand powers to masquerade as Kakyokin. • introduces the Abiru by having Nozomu investigate a.

After following Abiru's father around as he goes shopping (his paranoia making him think that every single thing he tries to buy is going to be used to abuse his daughter,) he eventually finds out that Abiru's injuries actually come from her obsession with pulling animal tails. • In, the Elder Turtle is often wary of Kanon and is convinced she will fall into darkness if not watched. • Izumi from is introduced as Koyuki's childhood friend. He clearly has a crush on her and its implied she has feelings for him too, but Izumi isn't a major character and she even leaves the story for a while after the first few episodes. Koyuki ends up meeting Ryusuke's sister Maho at a concert and though the two don't get off to a good start, they meet again and form a bond with each other that develops. • Invoked/Parodied in ': when Rocky Roccoco is pulling items out of his brown paper bag and showing them to Nick, one of them is 'nothing but a tin of red herrings in heavy oil!' • In the story 'Jubilee', we discover that the humans are keeping a Dalek locked up in a tower and are torturing it, but also that it pales in horror compared to the other prisoner.

The other characters gossip about the other prisoner being horrible, completely mad, in a wheelchair, and that he created the Daleks - all of which would cue the listener into thinking the prisoner is Davros. He turns out to be this timeline's version of the Doctor, who has been imprisoned solitary in a tower for a hundred years and has gone mad. • An odd example in: During the book's opening scene, all we get to see of the Comedian's attacker are his arms.

It's probably not the first thing you'd notice, but he's wearing a brown woolen sweater. Much later on in the comic, Hollis Mason is shown between scenes preparing Halloween candy and talking to his dog (the dog being the only clue that it's Hollis talking at all), and all we see are his arms - wearing that exact same brown sweater. If the reader notices this at all, the most likely moment of recognition comes just before a small number of flashback scenes which portray Hollis from a somewhat more negative perspective than most of the rest of the comic does. In short, all these things put together make this particular character extremely suspicious until the real killer is revealed. But only an extremely small number of readers would even notice it on the first read, essentially making it an Red Herring. • One of the stories in #900 has a involving a chicken in a murder investigation. 'You're still paying attention to the chicken, aren't you?

• In the, is the. The question is, who is the one manipulating Luthor?

The JLA heroes believe at first that it's Starro, but it turns out that Starro is just a mutated, and the real is. • A reboot storyline involves Element Lad trying to deduce who is behind a series of thefts of ancient Earth objet d'art. Early on, he describes the thief as a 'vandal', while we see a shadowy figure in old-fashioned Earth clothes gloating.

It is eventually revealed that the mastermind is. Some random alien businessman. • In there's a subplot regarding the identity of the backer who's secretly funding the League's headquarters and equipment.

The offer is made shortly after Batman observes the new League in action and decides he doesn't want them operating in Gotham, and reference is made to the financier being 'a bit of a crusader'. The mystery backer turns out to be Bruce Wayne's fellow millionaire-turned-crimefighter, Oliver Queen AKA. • A crimefighter calling herself Jackpot was introduced concurrently with providing a case where a character turned out to be Red Herring. She wore a mask but bore a strong resemblance to, like her she liked to call people 'Tiger', and her code-name echoed MJ's line at her first meeting with Peter Parker, 'Face it, Tiger, you just hit the Jackpot!' The aim apparently was to encourage MJ-friendly readers to keep reading the series after Mephisto erased the Parker marriage by leading them to suspect that she had now become a superheroine (because otherwise she was absent from Amazing Spider-Man to make way for new romantic entanglements for Peter). Later it was revealed that it was just one incredible coincidence after another, Jackpot actually was a fan of Mary Jane's soap-opera acting who just so happened to bear a strong facial resemblance and put on a red wig.

Plus they added a that Mary Jane had used the 'Face it, Tiger' line in her soap opera role and made it popular enough to make someone call herself 'Jackpot' (in the previous decades it had been treated as a private thing between her and Peter). To make matters even more complicated, it also turned out there were actually two women who fought crime as Jackpot; the one who appeared in the early Brand New Day issues and who, to make the resemblance to Mary Jane even greater, was shown to have a crush on Spider-Man, eventually got herself killed, transforming from a Red Herring to a Dead one. • In, wakes up in a horrible alternate timeline where doesn't exist, and are villains, etc. Zoom reveals he remembers the original timeline and continually taunts Barry about what has happened. Barry assumes Zoom went back in time and changed something to create this timeline (a reasonable assumption given Zoom can travel through time).

It turns out, Zoom didn't do anything; Barry accidentally caused a when he went back in time to save his mother from being killed. • In the storyline Kara suspects that her old friend Thara Ak-Var is the evil Superwoman who aided and abetted her father's murderer because Thara was Kandor's security head. It turned out that Superwoman is Lucy Lane, the younger sister of. • At the start of, false hints were dropped that and his arch-enemy Stryfe might be the same person (they use a bunch of the same catchphrases, and Stryfe removes his helmet for the first time showing readers that he has the same face as Cable), playing X-Force and the Mutant Liberation Front against each other for some reason. It's later shown that there's. • Not to mention Kyle Baker's run on, which featured a villain named Red Herring deliberately complicating Plastic Man's attempts at investigation.

• In the lead up to, Marvel kept the character's identity tightly under wraps. However, a 'leaked' script excerpt mentioned, leading many to believe that he was the new Spider-Man (which was supported by the fact that like Miguel, the new Spidey had razor sharp talons). While Miguel did eventually appear in the series, the Superior Spider-Man turned out to be. • In 2014, DC launched a called Robin Rises, which was rumored to end with Batman taking on a new. Around this time, Batman began palling around with several young people who each seemed to be a possible candidate: A highly intelligent young student named Duke Thomas, an orphaned daredevil named Annie Aguila, and Carrie Kelly, a best known for being Robin in. In the end, this all turned out to be an elaborate misdirect, and the Robin who 'rose' was a resurrected Damian Wayne (the previous Robin). • Adding to that, Duke appeared in as the new Robin.

While Duke did eventually join the Batfamily and became one of Bruce's partners, he was never an official Robin. • Ultimate Wolverine vs. Hulk introduced the version of in a after having earlier introduced Jen Walters (She-Hulk's alter ego in the mainstream ) in a brief supporting role. This turned out to be as misdirect, as the Ultimate She-Hulk was later revealed to be Betty Ross. • There were various hints (including the ) that the of Beyond!

Was the Beyonder from. In the end, it actually turned out that the Stranger was the mastermind behind the events of the series. • All of the promotional material for 'The Secret Origin Of Tony Stark' seemed to be indicating that Marvel was 's origin so that rather than simply being a genius with a suit of, he was actually some sort of cosmic space messiah who was genetically engineered (with help from some aliens) to save the world. The fans took the bait and many were outraged, but the end of the story revealed that the child in question was actually Tony's older brother, not him.

The actual was that Tony was adopted by the Stark family. • Early on in 3, there's an ominous close-up of while he's talking about how something needs to be done about and before the media can find out about their. This was obviously meant to imply that Scarlet Witch's killer was Hawkeye instead of. • During the time when.