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--> '''Helga:''' The "Outer Church" you fear and serve and the "Invisible College" you want to destroy...? Same adress, Sir Miles
--> '''Helga:''' The "Outer Church" you fear and serve and the "Invisible College" you want to destroy...? Same adress, Sir Miles
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* ''ComicBook/Elsewhere2017'': At the end of Issue #1, when Amelia walks into the cell she expects Fred to be in, the person in the cell states their name:
--> '''D. B. Cooper:''' Name’s Dan Cooper. But you can call me DB.
--> '''D. B. Cooper:''' Name’s Dan Cooper. But you can call me DB.
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* ''Creator/ECComics'': The infamous story "The Orphan" is about a girl named Lucy whose father is an abusive drunk and whose mother admits to never wanting her and not caring about her. When her dad is fatally shot and her mom and her lover are executed for the crime, she ends the story by telling the audience this:
-->--'''Lucy:''' I live in a nice house now, with nice furniture. I have all the toys I want and all the love I need. You see, the court sent me to live with Aunt Kate... which is just the way I'd hoped it would work out when [[TheDogBitesBack I shot Daddy from the front bedroom window with the gun I knew was in the night table and went downstairs and put the gun in Mommy's hand and started the crying act]]...
-->--'''Lucy:''' I live in a nice house now, with nice furniture. I have all the toys I want and all the love I need. You see, the court sent me to live with Aunt Kate... which is just the way I'd hoped it would work out when [[TheDogBitesBack I shot Daddy from the front bedroom window with the gun I knew was in the night table and went downstairs and put the gun in Mommy's hand and started the crying act]]...
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** ''ComicBook/TheCallOfCRusso'': What at first appeared to be a story about Donald Duck winning a singing contest with the help of a magic voice changing spray turns into a CosmicHorrorStory as revealed by D'Mmingo's songbook.
-->''In the city of '''Sp'too,''' deep under the '''sea,'''[==]''\\
''Dread '''Pf'legmwad''' lies '''dreaming...''' of you and of '''me!'''[==]''\\
''His dream is of '''our earth,''' you see...''\\
''But when he '''wakes,''' our world will '''cease to be!'''''
-->''In the city of '''Sp'too,''' deep under the '''sea,'''[==]''\\
''Dread '''Pf'legmwad''' lies '''dreaming...''' of you and of '''me!'''[==]''\\
''His dream is of '''our earth,''' you see...''\\
''But when he '''wakes,''' our world will '''cease to be!'''''
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--> '''Hudorra''': You know he's lying, don't you, Jennir?
--> '''Dass''': Yes. I've known for some time. But I also know his reputation with a lightsaber. I knew I couldn't take him myself.
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--> '''Hudorra''': You know he's lying, don't you, Jennir?
-->Jennir?\\
'''Dass''': Yes. I've known for some time. But I also know his reputation with a lightsaber. I knew I couldn't take him myself.
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* A prequel comic to ''Film/MissionImpossible1996'' has the IMF team in Russia only to find themselves competing with a group who seem to use the exact same tricks the IMF does. In a battle on a train, Ethan Hunt confronts the head of this group on how they learned about the IMF.
--->'''Russian''': Really, Mr. Hunt. In all those years, did it never occur to you that the Soviet Union had an Impossible Missions Force of its own?
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* From the ads for the final issue of ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'', a direct TakeThat to those who thought DC wouldn't violate StatusQuoIsGod: "Robin is dead, murdered by the Joker."
* ''[[ComicBook/{{Huntress}} Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood]]'': "Isn't it obvious? Your mother and I were conceiving you, Helena Rosa. Now put that crossbow down before you accidentally murder your father."
** To explain, Helena Rosa Bertinelli became the murderous vigilante Huntress to answer the cry for blood of her murdered family. Suddenly she, and we, are discovering that she is not a Bertinelli at all, but a Cassamento, and that her father is very much alive. We then go on to learn that her father is the one who arranged the murder of her family, with the intent of sparing her mother, ''not'' her. [[LukeIAmYourFather The very man she has spent her adult life trying to identify and kill is her father]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'':
** The [[ItWasHisSled final line]] of chapter 11. Nite Owl and Rorschach have confronted Ozymandias and are prepared to stop his evil plan, only to find out, the hard way, that Ozymandias was prepared first:
--->'''Veidt:''' "Do it?" Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Did you seriously think I'd explain my masterstroke if there was the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? [[YouAreTooLate I did it thirty-five minutes ago.]]
** Also while Nite Owl and Rorschach are looking through Ozymandias' office for clues about who might be targeting heroes, having been unable to speak with Ozymandias themselves.
--->'''Nite Owl''': Rorschach, I think we're in '''bad''' trouble. The person behind this, the person we're up against... I think it's Adrian.
** And:
--->'''Comedian:''' "Jesus Christ Sally, can't a guy talk to his, y'know, his old friend's daughter?"
*** The wham comes when the listener realizes the reason for the stutter is because he didn't intend to say "old friend" at all.
** A bit less dramatic, but there is a part in ''Under The Hood'' where Hollis is talking about reading ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' as a kid, and mentions Franchise/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/LoisLane and ComicBook/JimmyOlsen. He then says "Of course, all of these old characters are gone and forgotten now."
* ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'':
** Clark Kent telling Lois Lane he's been having nightmares...and he never ''had'' nightmares.
** Mime and Marionette deciding to find out who this Joker person is.
** Lex Luthor in response to Lois questioning him about the Supermen Theory:
--->'''Lex:''' You see, I've learned the person who's created these metahumans for the government is themself a metahuman. I don't know their name, but I do know one thing about them. At some point in time...They were a member of the Justice League.
** Batman to Dr. Manhattan in issue #7: "I know who you are."
** Doctor Manhattan reacts to a statement by Rorschach, "Cancer? [looks over at Ozymandias, looks back] Adrian does not have cancer."
** "Everything ends." Cue Franchise/TheDCU being reset.
* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'':
** ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'': "Thaal Sinestro of Korugar. Destiny awaits".
** ''War of the Green Lanterns'': "Thaal Sinestro of Korugar. You have the ability to overcome great fear. You have been chosen. Welcome to the Green Lantern Corps."
** ''Green Lantern #12'': "Hal Jordan will become the greatest Black Lantern."
** "KEEP IT AWAY FROM ME!!!". Not for the words themselves, but who says them; [[spoiler:Larfleeze after his ring is briefly pulled off, only to fly back to him]].
* ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'': At the end of issue 1 the identity of the shadowy figures watching over the DCU is revealed:
-->'''Earth-Two Superman:''' "Now this...This looks like a job for Superman!"
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'': From the ''Seasons of Mist'' arc: when Morpheus enters hell to free Nada from imprisonment, he sends warning to Lucifer - Lucifer being the one whom Morpheus utterly humiliated in a previous arc, and has sworn vengeance on him. Upon hearing this news, Lucifer gathers the hordes of hell and the souls of the damned and makes what appears to be a This Means War!! declaration, promising that it will be a day that Morpheus and everybody else will never forget. When Dream eventually arrives, Hell is totally empty, besides Lucifer himself. Dream demands that Lucifer explain what's going on.
-->'''Lucifer:''' Isn't it obvious, dream king? I've quit.
* ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'': "Frank Rock died in 1945."
** This one's especially painful. It was supposed to kick off a new story arc, but the series was [[CutShort cancelled prematurely]], which caused it to be the ''last'' line in the series.
* ''ComicBook/SecretSix'': "It's Aramaic. It translates to: Get Out Of Hell Free."
* ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'': "In a fit of rage, seeking revenge, Aquaman killed [[BigBad Black Manta's father]]."
* ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'':
** "What did ''I'' do? Oh, Barry. My ''idol''. My ''inspiration''. That's the ''beauty'' of all this ''madness''. I didn't do ''anything''. Not a ''thing''. You see, it turns out... ''You're the villain today.''"
** "You're Thomas Wayne."
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}} ComicBook/TheLongHalloween'': "I am Holiday."
** Also, "You both know, don't you? There were two Holiday Killers."
* ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkVictory'': "What if the message isn't None Of You are Safe? What if it's '''Nine''' of you are safe?"
* ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain'':
-->'''Batman:''' ''[to the New Joker]'' So... it's you. I changed the abort code the night I fired you... ''Dick Grayson''.
* ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batman and Robin #12]]'': "They're all jokes."
* ''ComicBook/GothamAcademy'' Second Semester #7:
--->'''Kyle''': Olive, none of us have even ''met'' Amy yet. We couldn't even tell you what she looked like.
* ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'' #6:
-->'''Zatanna''': NAMTAB POTS!
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'':
--->'''Norman:''' He had not turned his back at us. He stands in the sky... faith rewarded. (vision of [[BewareTheSuperman screaming Superman, which changes Norman's mood and reaction)]] ... [[OhCrap dear God]]. The threat of Armageddon hasn't ended. [[FromBadToWorse It's just begun...]]
** ''ComicBook/KryptonNoMore'':
--->''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': I thought we'd come to this someday! Well, now that we have, I've got to tell you, Superman — '''There is NO planet Krypton!''' Moreover, Clark — There never '''WAS!'''
** In ''ComicBook/WhoIsSuperwoman'', Reactron fires a Gold-Kryptonite blast at Superwoman, who shrugs it off completely. Then she utters the first hint to her real identity:
--->'''Reactron:''' H-How? Gold Kryptonite shuts off Kryptonian powers.\\
'''Superwoman:''' Why, Reactron-- Whoever said I was Kryptonian?
** ''ComicBook/TheFinalDaysOfSuperman'' opens with this line:
--->'''Superman:''' I'm dying.
** At the second-to-last issue of ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga'', the identity of the Master of Darkness is at last revealed:
--->"Go... for your master... '''for Darkseid!"'''
** ''ComicBook/NewSuperMan''
---> '''[[spoiler:Ching Lung]]''': Without me, Super-Man Zero, there would be no you. Without me, there would be no superheroes. [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks For I am the very beginning]].
** ''ComicBook/TheOzEffect''
---> '''Mr. Oz''': I am [[spoiler:Jor-El]]
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** In the ''ComicBook/New52'' version of ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': [[ComicBook/NewGods BOOM]].
** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'': Diana wraps her own Lasso of Truth around her wrist and asks herself a question; trying to figure out why the Amazons and Olympians don't seem to remember things:
--->''You are many to many. Peace-maker and war-fighter. Supplicant, aspirant, penitent. The true friend and the boon companion, the trusted soul and the truth-speaker...\\
...And you have been '''deceived'''.''
* ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League #50]]'' (ComicBook/{{New 52}}):
-->'''Batman''': It said there were three.
-->'''Green Lantern''': Three? Three [[spoiler:''[[ComicBook/TheJoker Jokers]]?'']]
* ''{{ComicBook/DC Rebirth}}'':
--> '''Wally West''': [[{{ComicBook/Watchmen}} We're being watched]].
* From the pages of ''ComicBook/SwampThing'':
** After several years of fighting to become human again, Swampy's been shot in the head, and dissected by another plant-based super, the Floronic Man, who puzzles over how all Swamp's internal organs are too crude to work. Eventually, he figures out the secret of how botanist Alec Holland became Swamp Thing:
--->'''The Floronic Man''': "He isn't Alec Holland. He never will be Alec Holland. [[TomatoInTheMirror He never was Alec Holland.]]"
** From the same story:
--->'''The Floronic Man:''' "He should have let me finish. He should have listened. Then I'd have been able to explain the most important thing of all to him. I'd have been able to explain that [[{{Not Quite Dead}} you can't kill a vegetable by shooting it through the head]]."
* ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack'' has these pages in the final panels.
--> '''Athena:''' Hmm, perhaps you're right. Perhaps "Justice" isn't the right word. But you have to admit... [[ComicBook/NewGods GOODNESS]] has certainly triumphed!
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* ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'': The end of the first issue. At the end of the first issue, our heroes reveal [[EvilAllAlong their true identities]].
--> "Instead, I shall wear a different mask...a mask with darker intentions...the mask of ''Helmut, 13th Baron Zemo'' and the leader of the ''Masters of Evil!''"
* ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' has two during its [[ComicBook/TheIlluminati Illuminati]] tie-ins, first when Black Bolt suddenly starts talking without destroying anything [[spoiler: because he's a Skrull]], and then in ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' #44 when ComicBook/DoctorStrange, sweating bullets after realizing he can't use his magics, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion asks how the Illuminati escaped from the Skrull Empire]].
--> '''[[ComicBook/FantasticFour Mister Fantastic]]:''' We-- Um-- \\
'''Strange:''' I-- [[TomatoInTheMirror I think we're still]]-- ''[[LotusEaterMachine I think we're still there]]''.
* ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' #7:
-->'''Scarlet Witch''': [[ComicBook/{{Magneto}} Daddy]]... No more mutants.
* ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'': "No more Phoenix."
* As the run that pretty much reshaped the ''ComicBook/XMen''[='=]s canon, Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' naturally has a few.
** Issue #115:
--> '''Wolverine:''' "[[OhCrap Where did she]] [[TheBadGuyWins send those Sentinels]]?"
** Issue #129:
--> '''Fantomex:''' "And it's Weapon '''Ten''', not X."
** Issue #146:
--> ''' Xorn:''' "[[EvilAllAlong X-Men emergency indeed, Charles... the dream is over]]."
** Issue #152:
--> ''' Beast:''' "...call me SUBLIME."
* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' Vol. 2 issue #75: "SCHLUNK!" The sound of ''bone claws'' tearing through Wolverine's skin.
* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' in ''X-Men 138'': The Hellfire Club defeats the X-men, and Wolverine gets mass-increased until he crashes through the floor and winds up deep underground. He rises from the sewer, livid, and utters the line that changes him from secondary character into cult figure...
-->'''Wolverine:''' [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/uncanny-x-men-132-pic1-wolverine.jpg Okay, suckers-- you've taken yer best shot! NOW IT'S MY TURN!]]
* ComicBook/XMen's Messiah Complex is practically built on this.
-->'''Lady Deathstrike:''' "Come to me, children. Come to Deathstrike."
-->'''Wolverine:''' "Negative. The Marauders don't have the baby. One of our side has her. An X-Man took her from Cooperstown."
-->'''Cyclops:''' "Charles, you trained me, Let me do my job."
--> Also from Cyclops: "Assemble X-Force."
-->'''Future Mutant:''' "Yeah. You'll live. Leastways... until something else kills you." Full page showing Cable shot and Bishop aiming at the mutant baby.
-->'''Mystique:''' "I've always been good with children."
-->'''Rockslide:''' "We deserve a piece of the ac--...tion? I take it back."
* ''ComicBook/XMen'' #300
-->'''Fabian Cortez:''' "How could I possibly lose the points for [[ComicBook/{{Magneto}} Magnus]]'s death, unless…?" ([[OhCrap eyes widen]]) "[[BigNo NOOO!]]"
** ''[[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansXMen Powers of X]]'' #3 ended with a narration box that recontextualizes [[BadFuture the X² era]] we've been seeing until now:
--->"So ended the [[spoiler:'''ninth life''' of '''[[BornAgainReincarnation Moira X]]''']]."
* ''The Amazing Franchise/SpiderMan'' #248, "The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man." [[TearJerker "You see, Tim has leukemia and the doctors give him only a few weeks to live."]]
** Another Spider-Man example with a huge impact on the entire mythos and which comes as a revelation not just to the readers, but to the protagonist as well, from ''The Amazing Franchise/SpiderMan'' #257:
--->'''Mary Jane:''' You don't have to make up another one of your phony excuses, Peter! Not now--! I know the truth! The ''real'' truth!
--->'''Peter:''' What are you talking about?
--->'''Mary Jane:''' I've known your secret for years! Up until now, I've always thought I could cope with it if I ever had to experience it firsthand -- but I can't! I can't! [[SecretSecretKeeper I just can't cope with the fact that Peter Parker is secretly Spider-Man]]!
** And then, of course, there's the two words that, if avoided, could have saved a storyline: [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay "Do it."]].
** From ''The Amazing Franchise/SpiderMan'' #698: "No... ''I'm'' Peter Parker."
** From ''Comicbook/SuperiorSpiderMan'' #19: ''"Gentlemen, I give you [[ComicBook/Marvel2099 Alchemax]]. [[BadFuture Long may she stand.]]"''
** The Jackal drops one in ''ComicBook/DeadNoMoreTheCloneConspiracy'' #3: "Please, Peter. This is '''darker''' than red. It's more of a... '''[[ComicBook/ScarletSpider scarlet]]'''."
** Quite possibly the biggest one in all of Spider-Man and quite possibly all of comics wasn't so much a line, but a sound effect: [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied SNAP!]]
** From the ending of ''Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man'' #1, mixed with a WhamShot to show where Aunt May is writing at: ''A few weeks ago, [[spoiler: [[TheTopicOfCancer I found a lump]].]]''
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMen''
-->'''Mysterio:''' [[AC:MYSTERIO AVATAR ACTIVATED.]]\\
'''Ultimate Mysterio:''' Mysterio avatar activated.
* ''ComicBook/KingInBlack:'' ArcVillain Knull, god of darkness and creator of the symbiotes, has just staged his attack on Earth. He demands that "Brock", the greatest threat to him, be brought to him and executed, and then he can kill the planet quickly instead of dragging things out. Venom/Eddie Brock seals away his son, Dylan, in a bunker for safety, and heads to meet Knull...who realises there's been a misunderstanding.
-->'''Knull:''' I suppose I should have specified ''which'' Brock.
* In a classic 19768 tale, [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] is on a rampage in New York, battling the Thing. Suddenly, a woman mostly in shadow and calling herself "Mrs. Prentiss" steps out. Her appearance shocks Namor to stop his battle although the woman says "what do we have to say to each other..now?" At home alone, Mrs. Prentiss writes in her journal as she reveals to the reader she was once a very special person in Namor's past.
-->'''Mrs. Prentiss''': No one could have stopped him except a widow named Mrs. Prentiss...who the eternally young Sub-Mariner once knew as....[[LoveInterest Betty Dean]].
* ''Comicbook/ThePunisher''
** ''ComicBook/ThePunisherBorn'': "YES."
** [[Comicbook/ThePunisherMAX Punisher Max]]: "I want a divorce."
* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}''
-->'''Kirsten [=McDuffie=]:''' Will you state your name for the record?\\
'''Matt Murdock:''' Absolutely. [[InternalReveal My name is]] ''[[InternalReveal Daredevil]].''
** During #25 of Mark Waid's run, Matt fights with Bullseye's new enforcer, Ikari, who was splashed with the same chemical that blinded him and gave him his radar sense. Matt attempts to use his experience to his advantage. That officially ends with this:
-->'''Ikari:''' [[ObfuscatingDisability Try the red one]].
* Young Avengers/Runaways Civil War: [[TearJerker I want you to die.]]
* Oh god, Comicbook/{{Runaways}}.
-->'''Alex:''' "I just have to do one thing first."
-->'''Karolina:''' "What's that?"
-->'''Alex:''' "Tell you how sorry I am. Really."
-->'''Xavin:''' "Chase... ran away. I believe he had a disagreement with Nico about what to do with Gert's body."
-->'''Ultron:''' "Astounding. I anticipated your defeat of Doom, yet I was 99% certain you would be unable to damage him badly enough to uncover that he was merely one of my androids. [[LukeIAmYourFather Truly, you are my greatest creation."]]
* ''ComicBook/Marvel2099'': "Thor is dead. I know. I was there."
* In the Everything Burns crossover between ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' and ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery'':
-->'''Surtur's Herald:''' Leah of Hel knows his (Loki's) character better than her own.
* ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk #600'': "The Good Doctor is out. The Bad Doctor is in."
** ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk #16'': "I ain't Bruce." [[spoiler: [[CloseOnTitle It's Joe]]]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Secret Avengers}}'' has one by the end of the fifth issue.
** Issue #5
-->'''Forson''': I never thought I'd live to see the day.
** Issue #13
--> : Mockingbird's dead. And so are you.
* From ''[[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Hunger]]''
-->'''Galactus/Gah Lak Tus fusion:''': '''Galactus... HUNGERS!'''
* In Issue 3 of ''[[ComicBook/TheUltimates Ultimates 3]]'':
-->'''[[ComicBook/IronMan Iron Man Android]]''': [[RoboticReveal Who said anything about me being Tony]]?
* First issue of ''ComicBook/CaptainAmericaSteveRogers'' ends with one:
-->'''Captain America:''' [[EvilAllAlong Hail HYDRA.]]
* ''Captain America and the ComicBook/MightyAvengers'' Issue #5 ends with one accompanying a WhamShot that brings the last thing ''anyone'' was expecting to the Marvel Universe:
-->'''Jason Quantrell:''' Welcome to the '''[[ComicBook/{{Nextwave}} Beyond Corporation]]'''.
* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Pym remarks that Rogers would despise Jan if he knew "what she really was". When she got angered about that remark, he said "Oh, let's see... Asian? Five foot three? A molecular freakin' biologist? A '''[[ComicBook/UltimateXMen mutant]]''', you idiot".
* From the ads for the final issue of ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'', a direct TakeThat to those who thought DC wouldn't violate StatusQuoIsGod: "Robin is dead, murdered by the Joker."
* ''[[ComicBook/{{Huntress}} Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood]]'': "Isn't it obvious? Your mother and I were conceiving you, Helena Rosa. Now put that crossbow down before you accidentally murder your father."
** To explain, Helena Rosa Bertinelli became the murderous vigilante Huntress to answer the cry for blood of her murdered family. Suddenly she, and we, are discovering that she is not a Bertinelli at all, but a Cassamento, and that her father is very much alive. We then go on to learn that her father is the one who arranged the murder of her family, with the intent of sparing her mother, ''not'' her. [[LukeIAmYourFather The very man she has spent her adult life trying to identify and kill is her father]].
* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'':
** The [[ItWasHisSled final line]] of chapter 11. Nite Owl and Rorschach have confronted Ozymandias and are prepared to stop his evil plan, only to find out, the hard way, that Ozymandias was prepared first:
--->'''Veidt:''' "Do it?" Dan, I'm not a Republic serial villain. Did you seriously think I'd explain my masterstroke if there was the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? [[YouAreTooLate I did it thirty-five minutes ago.]]
** Also while Nite Owl and Rorschach are looking through Ozymandias' office for clues about who might be targeting heroes, having been unable to speak with Ozymandias themselves.
--->'''Nite Owl''': Rorschach, I think we're in '''bad''' trouble. The person behind this, the person we're up against... I think it's Adrian.
** And:
--->'''Comedian:''' "Jesus Christ Sally, can't a guy talk to his, y'know, his old friend's daughter?"
*** The wham comes when the listener realizes the reason for the stutter is because he didn't intend to say "old friend" at all.
** A bit less dramatic, but there is a part in ''Under The Hood'' where Hollis is talking about reading ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' as a kid, and mentions Franchise/{{Superman}}, ComicBook/LoisLane and ComicBook/JimmyOlsen. He then says "Of course, all of these old characters are gone and forgotten now."
* ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'':
** Clark Kent telling Lois Lane he's been having nightmares...and he never ''had'' nightmares.
** Mime and Marionette deciding to find out who this Joker person is.
** Lex Luthor in response to Lois questioning him about the Supermen Theory:
--->'''Lex:''' You see, I've learned the person who's created these metahumans for the government is themself a metahuman. I don't know their name, but I do know one thing about them. At some point in time...They were a member of the Justice League.
** Batman to Dr. Manhattan in issue #7: "I know who you are."
** Doctor Manhattan reacts to a statement by Rorschach, "Cancer? [looks over at Ozymandias, looks back] Adrian does not have cancer."
** "Everything ends." Cue Franchise/TheDCU being reset.
* ''Franchise/GreenLantern'':
** ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'': "Thaal Sinestro of Korugar. Destiny awaits".
** ''War of the Green Lanterns'': "Thaal Sinestro of Korugar. You have the ability to overcome great fear. You have been chosen. Welcome to the Green Lantern Corps."
** ''Green Lantern #12'': "Hal Jordan will become the greatest Black Lantern."
** "KEEP IT AWAY FROM ME!!!". Not for the words themselves, but who says them; [[spoiler:Larfleeze after his ring is briefly pulled off, only to fly back to him]].
* ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'': At the end of issue 1 the identity of the shadowy figures watching over the DCU is revealed:
-->'''Earth-Two Superman:''' "Now this...This looks like a job for Superman!"
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'': From the ''Seasons of Mist'' arc: when Morpheus enters hell to free Nada from imprisonment, he sends warning to Lucifer - Lucifer being the one whom Morpheus utterly humiliated in a previous arc, and has sworn vengeance on him. Upon hearing this news, Lucifer gathers the hordes of hell and the souls of the damned and makes what appears to be a This Means War!! declaration, promising that it will be a day that Morpheus and everybody else will never forget. When Dream eventually arrives, Hell is totally empty, besides Lucifer himself. Dream demands that Lucifer explain what's going on.
-->'''Lucifer:''' Isn't it obvious, dream king? I've quit.
* ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'': "Frank Rock died in 1945."
** This one's especially painful. It was supposed to kick off a new story arc, but the series was [[CutShort cancelled prematurely]], which caused it to be the ''last'' line in the series.
* ''ComicBook/SecretSix'': "It's Aramaic. It translates to: Get Out Of Hell Free."
* ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'': "In a fit of rage, seeking revenge, Aquaman killed [[BigBad Black Manta's father]]."
* ''ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}}'':
** "What did ''I'' do? Oh, Barry. My ''idol''. My ''inspiration''. That's the ''beauty'' of all this ''madness''. I didn't do ''anything''. Not a ''thing''. You see, it turns out... ''You're the villain today.''"
** "You're Thomas Wayne."
* ''Franchise/{{Batman}} ComicBook/TheLongHalloween'': "I am Holiday."
** Also, "You both know, don't you? There were two Holiday Killers."
* ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkVictory'': "What if the message isn't None Of You are Safe? What if it's '''Nine''' of you are safe?"
* ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain'':
-->'''Batman:''' ''[to the New Joker]'' So... it's you. I changed the abort code the night I fired you... ''Dick Grayson''.
* ''[[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batman and Robin #12]]'': "They're all jokes."
* ''ComicBook/GothamAcademy'' Second Semester #7:
--->'''Kyle''': Olive, none of us have even ''met'' Amy yet. We couldn't even tell you what she looked like.
* ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'' #6:
-->'''Zatanna''': NAMTAB POTS!
* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** ''ComicBook/KingdomCome'':
--->'''Norman:''' He had not turned his back at us. He stands in the sky... faith rewarded. (vision of [[BewareTheSuperman screaming Superman, which changes Norman's mood and reaction)]] ... [[OhCrap dear God]]. The threat of Armageddon hasn't ended. [[FromBadToWorse It's just begun...]]
** ''ComicBook/KryptonNoMore'':
--->''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': I thought we'd come to this someday! Well, now that we have, I've got to tell you, Superman — '''There is NO planet Krypton!''' Moreover, Clark — There never '''WAS!'''
** In ''ComicBook/WhoIsSuperwoman'', Reactron fires a Gold-Kryptonite blast at Superwoman, who shrugs it off completely. Then she utters the first hint to her real identity:
--->'''Reactron:''' H-How? Gold Kryptonite shuts off Kryptonian powers.\\
'''Superwoman:''' Why, Reactron-- Whoever said I was Kryptonian?
** ''ComicBook/TheFinalDaysOfSuperman'' opens with this line:
--->'''Superman:''' I'm dying.
** At the second-to-last issue of ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' storyline ''ComicBook/TheGreatDarknessSaga'', the identity of the Master of Darkness is at last revealed:
--->"Go... for your master... '''for Darkseid!"'''
** ''ComicBook/NewSuperMan''
---> '''[[spoiler:Ching Lung]]''': Without me, Super-Man Zero, there would be no you. Without me, there would be no superheroes. [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks For I am the very beginning]].
** ''ComicBook/TheOzEffect''
---> '''Mr. Oz''': I am [[spoiler:Jor-El]]
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':
** In the ''ComicBook/New52'' version of ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': [[ComicBook/NewGods BOOM]].
** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanRebirth'': Diana wraps her own Lasso of Truth around her wrist and asks herself a question; trying to figure out why the Amazons and Olympians don't seem to remember things:
--->''You are many to many. Peace-maker and war-fighter. Supplicant, aspirant, penitent. The true friend and the boon companion, the trusted soul and the truth-speaker...\\
...And you have been '''deceived'''.''
* ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League #50]]'' (ComicBook/{{New 52}}):
-->'''Batman''': It said there were three.
-->'''Green Lantern''': Three? Three [[spoiler:''[[ComicBook/TheJoker Jokers]]?'']]
* ''{{ComicBook/DC Rebirth}}'':
--> '''Wally West''': [[{{ComicBook/Watchmen}} We're being watched]].
* From the pages of ''ComicBook/SwampThing'':
** After several years of fighting to become human again, Swampy's been shot in the head, and dissected by another plant-based super, the Floronic Man, who puzzles over how all Swamp's internal organs are too crude to work. Eventually, he figures out the secret of how botanist Alec Holland became Swamp Thing:
--->'''The Floronic Man''': "He isn't Alec Holland. He never will be Alec Holland. [[TomatoInTheMirror He never was Alec Holland.]]"
** From the same story:
--->'''The Floronic Man:''' "He should have let me finish. He should have listened. Then I'd have been able to explain the most important thing of all to him. I'd have been able to explain that [[{{Not Quite Dead}} you can't kill a vegetable by shooting it through the head]]."
* ''ComicBook/AmazonsAttack'' has these pages in the final panels.
--> '''Athena:''' Hmm, perhaps you're right. Perhaps "Justice" isn't the right word. But you have to admit... [[ComicBook/NewGods GOODNESS]] has certainly triumphed!
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* ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'': The end of the first issue. At the end of the first issue, our heroes reveal [[EvilAllAlong their true identities]].
--> "Instead, I shall wear a different mask...a mask with darker intentions...the mask of ''Helmut, 13th Baron Zemo'' and the leader of the ''Masters of Evil!''"
* ''ComicBook/SecretInvasion'' has two during its [[ComicBook/TheIlluminati Illuminati]] tie-ins, first when Black Bolt suddenly starts talking without destroying anything [[spoiler: because he's a Skrull]], and then in ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'' #44 when ComicBook/DoctorStrange, sweating bullets after realizing he can't use his magics, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion asks how the Illuminati escaped from the Skrull Empire]].
--> '''[[ComicBook/FantasticFour Mister Fantastic]]:''' We-- Um-- \\
'''Strange:''' I-- [[TomatoInTheMirror I think we're still]]-- ''[[LotusEaterMachine I think we're still there]]''.
* ''ComicBook/HouseOfM'' #7:
-->'''Scarlet Witch''': [[ComicBook/{{Magneto}} Daddy]]... No more mutants.
* ''ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen'': "No more Phoenix."
* As the run that pretty much reshaped the ''ComicBook/XMen''[='=]s canon, Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/NewXMen'' naturally has a few.
** Issue #115:
--> '''Wolverine:''' "[[OhCrap Where did she]] [[TheBadGuyWins send those Sentinels]]?"
** Issue #129:
--> '''Fantomex:''' "And it's Weapon '''Ten''', not X."
** Issue #146:
--> ''' Xorn:''' "[[EvilAllAlong X-Men emergency indeed, Charles... the dream is over]]."
** Issue #152:
--> ''' Beast:''' "...call me SUBLIME."
* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' Vol. 2 issue #75: "SCHLUNK!" The sound of ''bone claws'' tearing through Wolverine's skin.
* ''ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'' in ''X-Men 138'': The Hellfire Club defeats the X-men, and Wolverine gets mass-increased until he crashes through the floor and winds up deep underground. He rises from the sewer, livid, and utters the line that changes him from secondary character into cult figure...
-->'''Wolverine:''' [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/uncanny-x-men-132-pic1-wolverine.jpg Okay, suckers-- you've taken yer best shot! NOW IT'S MY TURN!]]
* ComicBook/XMen's Messiah Complex is practically built on this.
-->'''Lady Deathstrike:''' "Come to me, children. Come to Deathstrike."
-->'''Wolverine:''' "Negative. The Marauders don't have the baby. One of our side has her. An X-Man took her from Cooperstown."
-->'''Cyclops:''' "Charles, you trained me, Let me do my job."
--> Also from Cyclops: "Assemble X-Force."
-->'''Future Mutant:''' "Yeah. You'll live. Leastways... until something else kills you." Full page showing Cable shot and Bishop aiming at the mutant baby.
-->'''Mystique:''' "I've always been good with children."
-->'''Rockslide:''' "We deserve a piece of the ac--...tion? I take it back."
* ''ComicBook/XMen'' #300
-->'''Fabian Cortez:''' "How could I possibly lose the points for [[ComicBook/{{Magneto}} Magnus]]'s death, unless…?" ([[OhCrap eyes widen]]) "[[BigNo NOOO!]]"
** ''[[ComicBook/JonathanHickmansXMen Powers of X]]'' #3 ended with a narration box that recontextualizes [[BadFuture the X² era]] we've been seeing until now:
--->"So ended the [[spoiler:'''ninth life''' of '''[[BornAgainReincarnation Moira X]]''']]."
* ''The Amazing Franchise/SpiderMan'' #248, "The Kid Who Collects Spider-Man." [[TearJerker "You see, Tim has leukemia and the doctors give him only a few weeks to live."]]
** Another Spider-Man example with a huge impact on the entire mythos and which comes as a revelation not just to the readers, but to the protagonist as well, from ''The Amazing Franchise/SpiderMan'' #257:
--->'''Mary Jane:''' You don't have to make up another one of your phony excuses, Peter! Not now--! I know the truth! The ''real'' truth!
--->'''Peter:''' What are you talking about?
--->'''Mary Jane:''' I've known your secret for years! Up until now, I've always thought I could cope with it if I ever had to experience it firsthand -- but I can't! I can't! [[SecretSecretKeeper I just can't cope with the fact that Peter Parker is secretly Spider-Man]]!
** And then, of course, there's the two words that, if avoided, could have saved a storyline: [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay "Do it."]].
** From ''The Amazing Franchise/SpiderMan'' #698: "No... ''I'm'' Peter Parker."
** From ''Comicbook/SuperiorSpiderMan'' #19: ''"Gentlemen, I give you [[ComicBook/Marvel2099 Alchemax]]. [[BadFuture Long may she stand.]]"''
** The Jackal drops one in ''ComicBook/DeadNoMoreTheCloneConspiracy'' #3: "Please, Peter. This is '''darker''' than red. It's more of a... '''[[ComicBook/ScarletSpider scarlet]]'''."
** Quite possibly the biggest one in all of Spider-Man and quite possibly all of comics wasn't so much a line, but a sound effect: [[ComicBook/TheNightGwenStacyDied SNAP!]]
** From the ending of ''Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man'' #1, mixed with a WhamShot to show where Aunt May is writing at: ''A few weeks ago, [[spoiler: [[TheTopicOfCancer I found a lump]].]]''
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMen''
-->'''Mysterio:''' [[AC:MYSTERIO AVATAR ACTIVATED.]]\\
'''Ultimate Mysterio:''' Mysterio avatar activated.
* ''ComicBook/KingInBlack:'' ArcVillain Knull, god of darkness and creator of the symbiotes, has just staged his attack on Earth. He demands that "Brock", the greatest threat to him, be brought to him and executed, and then he can kill the planet quickly instead of dragging things out. Venom/Eddie Brock seals away his son, Dylan, in a bunker for safety, and heads to meet Knull...who realises there's been a misunderstanding.
-->'''Knull:''' I suppose I should have specified ''which'' Brock.
* In a classic 19768 tale, [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] is on a rampage in New York, battling the Thing. Suddenly, a woman mostly in shadow and calling herself "Mrs. Prentiss" steps out. Her appearance shocks Namor to stop his battle although the woman says "what do we have to say to each other..now?" At home alone, Mrs. Prentiss writes in her journal as she reveals to the reader she was once a very special person in Namor's past.
-->'''Mrs. Prentiss''': No one could have stopped him except a widow named Mrs. Prentiss...who the eternally young Sub-Mariner once knew as....[[LoveInterest Betty Dean]].
* ''Comicbook/ThePunisher''
** ''ComicBook/ThePunisherBorn'': "YES."
** [[Comicbook/ThePunisherMAX Punisher Max]]: "I want a divorce."
* ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}''
-->'''Kirsten [=McDuffie=]:''' Will you state your name for the record?\\
'''Matt Murdock:''' Absolutely. [[InternalReveal My name is]] ''[[InternalReveal Daredevil]].''
** During #25 of Mark Waid's run, Matt fights with Bullseye's new enforcer, Ikari, who was splashed with the same chemical that blinded him and gave him his radar sense. Matt attempts to use his experience to his advantage. That officially ends with this:
-->'''Ikari:''' [[ObfuscatingDisability Try the red one]].
* Young Avengers/Runaways Civil War: [[TearJerker I want you to die.]]
* Oh god, Comicbook/{{Runaways}}.
-->'''Alex:''' "I just have to do one thing first."
-->'''Karolina:''' "What's that?"
-->'''Alex:''' "Tell you how sorry I am. Really."
-->'''Xavin:''' "Chase... ran away. I believe he had a disagreement with Nico about what to do with Gert's body."
-->'''Ultron:''' "Astounding. I anticipated your defeat of Doom, yet I was 99% certain you would be unable to damage him badly enough to uncover that he was merely one of my androids. [[LukeIAmYourFather Truly, you are my greatest creation."]]
* ''ComicBook/Marvel2099'': "Thor is dead. I know. I was there."
* In the Everything Burns crossover between ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' and ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery'':
-->'''Surtur's Herald:''' Leah of Hel knows his (Loki's) character better than her own.
* ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk #600'': "The Good Doctor is out. The Bad Doctor is in."
** ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk #16'': "I ain't Bruce." [[spoiler: [[CloseOnTitle It's Joe]]]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Secret Avengers}}'' has one by the end of the fifth issue.
** Issue #5
-->'''Forson''': I never thought I'd live to see the day.
** Issue #13
--> : Mockingbird's dead. And so are you.
* From ''[[ComicBook/UltimateMarvel Hunger]]''
-->'''Galactus/Gah Lak Tus fusion:''': '''Galactus... HUNGERS!'''
* In Issue 3 of ''[[ComicBook/TheUltimates Ultimates 3]]'':
-->'''[[ComicBook/IronMan Iron Man Android]]''': [[RoboticReveal Who said anything about me being Tony]]?
* First issue of ''ComicBook/CaptainAmericaSteveRogers'' ends with one:
-->'''Captain America:''' [[EvilAllAlong Hail HYDRA.]]
* ''Captain America and the ComicBook/MightyAvengers'' Issue #5 ends with one accompanying a WhamShot that brings the last thing ''anyone'' was expecting to the Marvel Universe:
-->'''Jason Quantrell:''' Welcome to the '''[[ComicBook/{{Nextwave}} Beyond Corporation]]'''.
* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Pym remarks that Rogers would despise Jan if he knew "what she really was". When she got angered about that remark, he said "Oh, let's see... Asian? Five foot three? A molecular freakin' biologist? A '''[[ComicBook/UltimateXMen mutant]]''', you idiot".
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-->'''Mrs. Prentiss''': No one could have stopped him except a widow named Mrs. Prentiss...who the eternally young Sub-Mariner once knew as....[[LoveInterest Betty Dean]].
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