Expected and Unknown

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Expected adjective - Being in accordance with the prescribed, normal, or logical course of events.

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Unknown and expected are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Unknown" instead an adjective "Expected".

Unknown adjective - Happening or existing without one's knowledge.

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Expected and unknown are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Expected" instead an adjective "Unknown".

Nearby Words: unknowable, unknowing

With so many characters on the Tatsunoko side unknown to most Western audiences, hardly anyone expected it to leave Japan.

Source: Hilarious In Hindsight / Video Games
Unknown Armies has a lot of this character type, to the point where it's practically expected of Cosmic level PCs to be this trope.

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His collaborator Charlie Puth, who was almost completely unknown prior to the song, also got hit with this trope, although not as hard as expected.

Source: Tough Act to Follow

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