History Main / WhamShot

** Thor shows Durkon and Mirrah that the gods erected a gravestone on the astral plane for the previous world that the Snarl destroyed. And then shows them a second gravestone. And then a third. And then ''[[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1139.html countless others]]''.

** After Nale angrily rebuff's his father's, final offer at reconciliation, Tarquin sighs, reluctantly accepting Nale's decision, with his hand extended forward. The next panel then shows that [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0913.html Tarquin has fatally stabbed Nale]].
** Thor shows that the gods have erected a gravestone on the astral plane for each world the Snarl has destroyed. After showing Durkon and Mirrah the first, Thor shows them a second, then a third. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1139.html The last panel of the strip shows many, many world graves, showing that countless worlds have been destroyed in the past]].
** After Thor explains how vitally important the colors of gods' divine auras are and that no creation of the three surviving pantheons (each with their own distinct color) can ever be strong enough to permanently imprison [[GreaterScopeVillain the Snarl]], which was created by ''four'' pantheons and thus four aura colors, [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1141.html he points out that the Dark One has his own unique aura color]].

* ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'' provides another written one when Harry reaches the chamber where the Mirror of Erised is kept.
--> "There was already someone there--but it wasn't Snape. It wasn't even Voldemort.\\
[chapter break]\\
It was Quirrell."

* ''Fanfic/MastermindRiseOfAnarchy'': "Rematch" opens with Katsuki sneaking out of U.A. to go [[VigilanteMan patrolling as King]]... while Principal Nedzu watches through his office window, revealing that he's fully aware of Bakugou's activities and intends to [[UnwittingPawn use him as a stepping stone]] to boost Uraraka's growing reputation by setting her against her wayward classmate.

** Chapter 10: [[spoiler:the Plain Doll is seen in the Hunter's Dream cleaning Cyril's grave, after an unknown amount of time has passed since the battle between Cyril and Gehrman.]]

* ''[[Fanfic/RedSadie The Eye of the Storm]]'': Sadie digs through Clancy's dropped wallet in an attempt to learn more about him, and instead stumbles upon an old picture of him and Barb discovering a crashed Roaming Eye, revealing they both have more stake in the Gems then she thought.

* ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'': Like with the original series above, the purple 'Immortal Object' popup (which usually indicates scenery and other things players aren't supposed to destroy) is this, twice. First, the popup appears over Yui when she easily defeats a powerful monster, and the second time it appears over Heathcliff when Kirito attacks him after connecting his [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]] to Kayaba's.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-I3PmP3AY This]] PSA for the organization Child Cry initially looks like a sexy scene, with BowChickaWowWow music, mood lighting, and clothes strewn all over the floor on the way up the stairs. But the last shot completely recontextualizes everything...it's a ''child's'' sneakers and panties. It's 'now 'far'' from a sexy scene, as it's an anti-pedophilia PSA.

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* [[WebVideo/NintendoDirect Nintendo Directs]] usually revolve around this. The E3 2021 Direct, in particular, was fantastic for many watchers. However, when Nintendo announced that they were working on Metroid Prime 4, but didn't give out any other information, many players surely felt disappointed, especially Metroid fans...which surely turned into shock when they announced ''another'' Metroid game, which would be the previously scrapped ''Metroid Dread''. ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' would finally get a sequel after ''nineteen years''.
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* At the end of the Christmas 2013 episode, ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' finds a good Spider-man game...that has [[BigBad LJN]]'s logo on it.

* ''Theatre/{{Falsettos}}'': Coredlia and Charlotte sing a brief song [[{{Foreshadowing}} about the slow rise of AIDS]]. Immediately afterwards, [[spoiler:the scene goes straight to Whizzer playing tennis with Marvin and collapsing.]]

** At the start of the fourth case of the first game, you see someone apparently being shot dead[[note]]it's later revealed that the actual murder took place elsewhere[[/note]], at which point Edgeworth is the one shown holding the gun. No, he isn't the killer, but this shot goes to show that this case is far more personal and has higher stakes than the previous one.
** Near the end of the last case in ''Justice for All'', there is one where your client, Matt Engarde, suddenly reveals his status as a BitchInSheepsClothing by uncovering the vicious scars over his eye. The result is far from pretty.

** In the opening of Case 3-3 of [[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney the original trilogy]] has the judge apparently at the end of a trial, about to have the defendant found guilty. The prosecutor, Winston Payne, gloats about his victory...and then the camera cuts to the defense's bench, revealing ''Phoenix himself'' standing there. It quickly turns out to be an imposter, but still, that's one way to keep the player on their toes.

* ''VisualNovel/FamicomDetectiveClub: The Missing Heir'' has a two-in-one example. When the Ayashiro Family's tomb is finally opened with Genshin's permission, [[spoiler:Akira Ayashiro is found to have been stuffed inside, with Kiku's corpse nowhere to be found]]. Examining this causes the protagonist to finally remember how he fell off Unakami Cliff and lost his memory in the first place: [[spoiler:Akira attacked and threw him off the cliff]].

** When Gillian discovers four decomposed skeletons in the morgue of a Snatcher-controlled hospital, Metal Gear runs virtual facial reconstructions on them. The first two are the aforementioned Freddy and Lisa Nielsen. The third, Chin Shu Oh, confirms their suspicions of him being a Snatcher. The fourth? [[spoiler:Benson Cunningham.]]

* In ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'', the game hits you hard when you find [[spoiler:Sayori having committed suicide in her room]]. Then it gives you a twofer when you return to the main menu and find that [[spoiler:both her character portrait and the new game option are heavily corrupted, both foreshadowing the events to come and that the player had not reached a bad ending]].
* ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' has the ending of [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight Anghel's route]]: [[spoiler:an InterfaceScrew revealing that the game has temporarily become a ''fantasy JRPG''. It's often cited as one of the coolest parts of the game.]]
* In ''VisualNovel/SpiritHunterNG'', Akira uses his [[{{Psychometry}} Bloodmetry]] on his aunt's blood, to figure out how she was attacked by Kakuya. The scene shifts to Natsumi's perspective, with her getting a single glimpse of the culprit before she falls into a coma. [[spoiler:It's cute little Ami, her daughter, and the protagonist's cousin.]]

** After the camera zooms into a painting Mystery notices, showing events before the video, the one driving the van is a heretofore unseen member of the group, [[spoiler: a human Lewis]].

** In "Freaking Out," there's a shot of Arthur's computer showing different locations (including his uncle's auto shop). There are multiple pictures of Lewis; some of them are crossed out, while one picture (along with one of Ghost Lewis) has question marks next to it. [[spoiler: This seems to indicate that not only did Arthur not recognize Lewis as a ghost, ''he doesn't even know Lewis is dead''.]]

* In ''Webcomic/BeyondBloom'' the story seems to be grounded in a realistic Earth setting (aside from one detail). While mid-conversation, [[http://beyondbloom.webcomic.ws/comics/19 this]] happens. [[spoiler: A dragon interrupts the scene, leaving protagonists to wonder what the creature even was, and completely changing the course of the story.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'': the last panel of "Professor Madblood and the Everlasting Ices of the North", where Dave [[spoiler: reads a quote from "Alice in Wonderland", and his glasses clear because he has just GoneMadFromTheRevelation that he is really a mad scientist and Helen has been experimenting on him for the entire run of the comic]].

* In ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'', [[http://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-2-page-28 Chapter 2 Page 28]] has Tessa arrive on the scene of a battle to find [[spoiler:Sally, Gwen, and Sylvia dead and Undine hanging on by a thread]].
* ''Webcomic/WeAreTheWyrecats'' reveals through some surveillance footage that [[spoiler: Lamar, one of the former members of the Wyre Cat team, is responsible for stealing military-grade enhancements and the mooks K.A. has been dealing with have been part of his forces]].

** While the King of Worms is probing through Linkara's soul, he sees flashes of Linkara's previous encounters with villains. However, these flashes soon settle on a shot of [[WebVideo/ToBoldlyFlee the Plot Hole]], which then transitions to [[spoiler: Lewis in his apartment, filming a scene. Then he starts [[EvilLaugh laughing]]...]]
** From ''Ultimate Power'' #4: Linkara with [[spoiler: The Entity's pixel eyes.]]
** From ''Mr. T and the T-Force'' #4, [[spoiler:TheStinger, which sees the tenth anniversary storyline kicked off by Linkara and Linksano seeing someone who resembles Linkara in a tattered version of his original outfit.]]

** In the 2 Hunters video, Dream is [[spoiler: falling off the edge of the End and into the void. George then kills Sapnap]]. And then we see [[spoiler: a few Ender Pearls drop right into Dream's hotbar]].
** Among others, in the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', during the SMP war, Wilbur defies Dream's ultimatum and declares that he'd rather die than betray his own cause, being unfazed by a block of TNT. As Dream detonates the block of TNT, the L'Manburgians then see [[spoiler: [[StuffBlowingUp hundreds of blocks of TNT under the cracked surface of L'Manburg]], a few of them primed to explode from the initial blast]].

* ''WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow'' has this near the last part of the 300th episode. The words: "Okay, I've done 300 episodes of this show. Let them go." [[spoiler:Cue a nice surprise for fans the channel's movie reviews.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'': in the last comic of the arc "Professor Madblood and the Everlasting Ices of the North", Dave looks at a holographic projection of a quote from "Alice in Wonderland", and his glasses clear because he has just GoneMadFromTheRevelation that he is really a mad scientist and Helen has been experimenting on him for the entire run of the comic.

* ''Roleplay/RubyQuest'''s SpiritualSuccessor ''Roleplay/NanQuest'' is no slouch in this regard either.
** In the Anasazi Lounge, [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/src/141620044923.gif this image]] suddenly reveals that the Pilgrim is attacking again. Also doubles as a JumpScare.
** Henry donning the Pilgrim costume.
--->'''Henry''': I just wanted my family back. To know that they're all right. To see my daughter again. To hold my wife. [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/res/603095.html#608073 I'd kill for that.]]
** Lorenzo revealing themselves in the burned shrine, after multiple panels of the figure being obscured and unrecognizable. [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/src/141869819506.gif The panel is even in different dimensions from the rest of the quest to really emphasize it.]]
** Pablo fatally stabbing Lorenzo, which constitutes a HeroicSacrifice. Also doubles as a WhamLine.
--->"Nan, you've done so much for us. Ever since we've been here. You've done more than any of us. It's not fair of me to treat you like this, after everything. Because I asked you to pick between us, you already had to make [[SadisticChoice one hard decision]]. You shouldn't have to make another. [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/res/636485.html#645915 So I'm making the choice for you.]]"
** At the very end of the adventure, [[http://tgchan.org/kusaba/questarch/src/143351197006.gif we see the full version of entry 466,]] providing some additional context.
---> "Nan, I won't let you leave. [[DeathSeeker Not until you have taken my life.]] I hope that one day you will under-- my convictions. But believe me wh-- that it must be you. I pray to God-- will be able to do what must be-- and I can only beg your forgiveness."

** The long-awaited 50th episode begins with the news, as usual. Except the newscaster is someone we've never seen before (later revealed to be [[Series/TheXFiles Dana Scully]]). Then it cuts to the islanders' thoughts, and the first one up is Fox Mulder, who had ''also never been seen before. Following him is Wario, who was [[AssimilationPlot assimilated]] and assumed dead in the previous episode.

* [[WebVideo/NintendoDirect Nintendo Directs]] usually revolve around this. The E3 2021 Direct, in particular, was fantastic for many watchers. However, when Nintendo announced that they were working on Metroid Prime 4, but didn't give out any other information, many players surely felt disappointed, especially ''Franchise/Metroid'' fans...which surely turned into shock when they announced ''another'' Metroid game, which would be the previously scrapped ''Metroid Dread''. ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'' would finally get a sequel after ''nineteen years''.

*** And later, him [[AndShowItToYou tearing his core out of his chest]] [[HeroicSacrifice blowing himself up as well as destroying the fleet]].

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“God of War Legend” has a couple:

* In the ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' ask blog, "Ask Slave John", humans are depicted as being enslaved by Trolls, John being one of them. We get three Wham Shots when someone asks if he's met any other humans:

* Webcomic/FiveYearsLater:
** Chapter three has one in revealing a new player in the ongoing crososver plot of ''Franchise/Ben10'' and ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'': GIR and the rest of the cast from ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''.
** Chapter seven reveals Technus's contribution to the villain's plan; mind controlling a group of alternate Ben's with nanites from the ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' universe and making them into E.V.O aliens.

* ''Music/EvilliousChronicles'': The music video of "Moonlit Bear" reveals that the apples that Eve is carrying the entire time are crying babies, which she's stolen from their mother.