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Roblox getmetatable acts like a bit of a detective tool when you're deep in the weeds of Luau scripting, trying to figure out exactly how a specific table is behaving. If you've spent any time at all looking at professional-level modules or complex game frameworks, you've probably seen metatables mentioned. They are the "secret sauce" that allows tables to do things they normally shouldn't be able to do, like adding two tables together or calling a table as if it were a function. But once those behaviors are set, how do you actually see what's going on under the hood? That's where getmetatable comes into play. ...