History Main / ChairReveal

* It's not the first time the ''audience'' sees him, but when Luke is brought before the Emperor in ''{{Return of the Jedi}}'', the Emperor is facing out of the observation window before turning his chair to face him.

* The remake of ''TheParentTrap'' had the mother and one twin arrive home to find the other twin sitting at the grandfather's desk. In this version, though, her face was covered by a newspaper--which really ought to be a trope in itself.

* Done by [[spoiler:The Soda Poppers]] in the second season finale of Telltale's ''SamAndMax'' games. On the DVD are loads and loads of fake alternate endings with different characters revealed to be in the chair, including [[spoiler:Future Sam, a bottle of Banang (which gets a round of applause and an "encore"), HomestarRunner, Sybil and Abe (on an old black-and-white film backed with NightmareFuel), the C.O.P.S, a "Will Return" clock, Mr. Featherly and Hugh Bliss]].

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* ''SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'' (2004). Totenkopf is revealed [[spoiler:to be dead]] in this manner.

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!!Variation:

A variation of the "Chair Reveal" is the "Chair Entrance", when the visual device of a slowly-revolving chair is employed simply to make an actor's first appearance more dramatic. An example is the low-budget science-fiction film "The Bamboo Saucer" which starred B-list movie actor Dan Duryea (in his last role) at the top of a cast list of obscure actors. Duryea makes his entrance when another character enters an office and sees the chair behind the desk turned away from him. The chair revolves slowly to reveal Duryea. This is not a straightforward Chair Reveal because it's used solely to introduce the actor, not to produce a surprise or a plot twist.




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* Janitor does it in the middle of a crowded corridor, petting an "invisible" half-kitten, half-monkey in ''{{Scrubs}}'', while revealing his plan to [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome spoil the outcome of a baseball match]] to Dr. Cox.

* OswaldTheLuckyRabbit does this in the 2010 Game EpicMickey, when the titular character meets the Rabbit for the first time.

* In {{Canaan}} woman [[spoiler:that can hurt and kill just by speaking]] talks all way to chair, only to see completely different person tied to it...

* The Helmet of Fate was revealed this way in DCComics' ''52'', except that no turning was involved - the detectives approach the person sitting in the chair and he suddenly collapses, revealing himself to be dead.

** The villain and the chair are, of course, parodied in AustinPowers.
* The remake of ''The Parent Trap'' had the mother and one twin arrive home to find the other twin sitting at the grandfather's desk. In this version, though, her face was covered by a newspaper--which really ought to be a trope in itself.
* The ''House on Haunted Hill'' remake had the dead body version.
* Brutally parodied in ''Employee of the Month''.

* Rachel's ex(?) at the end of ''The Ring''.

* The end of ''The Adventures of Pluto Nash'' reveals that the villain has in fact been [[spoiler: clone of the hero]] in this fashion.

* Lampshaded in BlackDynamite as the BigBad, [[spoiler:Richard Nixon,]] reveals himself this way... in less of a dramatic fashion than intended, as it takes a few pushes of his chair in order to finish it.

* Janitor does it in the middle of a crowded corridor, petting an "invisible" half-kitten, half-monkey in ''{{Scrubs}}'', while revealing his plan to [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome spoil the outcome of a baseball match]] to dr. Cox.

* ''Farscape'' did this in Revenging Angel. D'argo thinks he's going to turn the chair around to find Crichton but instead finds a dummy stuffed with dynamite.

** And in "Superstar" when the gang goes for help from Sunnydale's greatest hero. The chair spins and it's.... Jonathan.

* In ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', [[spoiler:Elle]] discovers [[spoiler: Bob ]] has been murdered by [[spoiler:Sylar ]] this way.

* In the final episode ''PoliceSquad'', the "chair reveal" [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment reveals...another chair]].

* Done twice in ''MaxSteel'' -- once in the first episode of the first seasons to show the BigBad, the other in the eight episode to show [[DisneyDeath L'Etranger]]

* [[OswaldTheLuckyRabbit]] does this in the 2010 Game EpicMickey, when the titular character meets the Rabbit for the first time.

* Literary example: Voldemort did this in ''HarryPotter and the Goblet of Fire'', shortly before killing Frank Bryce.