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* From ''{{Phantasm}}: Oblivion'':''PhantasmOblivion'':
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* ''BladeRunner'' provides an interesting example of how one line can affect a whole scene. When Roy Batty finally meets his maker, Tyrol, he wants more life. There are several cuts of the film floating around. In one cut, he says "I want more life, fucker". In the other, "I want more life, father". The entire nature of the scene is completely different between the two cuts from just that one change.
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* ''BladeRunner'' provides an interesting example of how one line can affect a whole scene. When Roy Batty finally meets his maker, Tyrol, Tyrell, he wants more life. There are several cuts of the film floating around. In one cut, he says "I want more life, fucker". In the other, "I want more life, father". The entire nature of the scene is completely different between the two cuts from just that one change.
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* ''Film/TheWave:'' "Here is your leader!" (shows a recording of none other than AdolfHitler)
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* And what is ''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'' that's got the whole state in such a tizzy? "Six! All boys!"
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* And what is ''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'' ''TheMiracleOfMorgansCreek'' that's got the whole state in such a tizzy? "Six! All boys!"
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* ''{{Downfall}}'': ''Film/{{Downfall}}'': "Steiner couldn't raise enough men."
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*** Actually, right before that was [[spoiler: "May I introduce you to the man who made you sick!"''
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*** Actually, right before that was [[spoiler: "May I introduce you to the man who made you sick!"''sick!"'']]
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** Even bigger example: "He's been poisoning your medicine!"
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** Even bigger example: [[spoiler: "He's been poisoning your medicine!"
medicine!"]]
*** Actually, right before that was [[spoiler: "May I introduce you to the man who made yousick!"sick!"''
*** Actually, right before that was [[spoiler: "May I introduce you to the man who made you
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** Unfortunately, the fact the line is so well known tends to reduce the effect.
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** "''My'' [[spoiler: Ruby Slippers.]] They just... fell out of the sky one day- you were so anxious to get home. They're ''very'' powerful: they made it possible for me to conquer [[spoiler: the Emerald City]]! [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame Thank you.]]
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* ''Film/TheAvengers''
--> '''Steve Rogers:''' Doc, I think now is the perfect time for you to get angry.
--> '''Bruce Banner:''' That's my secret, Captain. [[spoiler:[[TranquilFury I'm always angry]]]].
--> '''Steve Rogers:''' Doc, I think now is the perfect time for you to get angry.
--> '''Bruce Banner:''' That's my secret, Captain. [[spoiler:[[TranquilFury I'm always angry]]]].
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** Following the revelation that the Beatles made a big mistake getting help from Foot, he saw what the ring Ringo wore could do: "Fantastic! With a ring like that I could--dare I say it--rule the world."
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** Following the revelation that the Beatles made a big mistake getting help from Foot, he saw what the ring Ringo wore could do: "Fantastic! With a ring like that I could--dare I say it--rule the world."
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* ''Film/TheHouseOfTheDevil'': "You're not the babysitter?"
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*''{{Tootsie}}'': "I'm ''Edward'' Kimberly"!
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* Delivered by [[spoiler: [[SixthRangerTraitor Sentinel Prime]]]] in ''TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''.
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* In the third and final [[ShowWithinAShow story-within-a-story]] from '''[[TalesFromTheDarkside Tales from the Darkside: The Movie]]'', "Lover's Vow":
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* In the third and final [[ShowWithinAShow story-within-a-story]] from '''[[TalesFromTheDarkside '''[[Series/TalesFromTheDarkside Tales from the Darkside: The Movie]]'', "Lover's Vow":
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**And to a lesser extent, ''"No, there is another"''.
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* ''[[Film/{{Fight Club}} Fight Club]]'' plays with this with the repeated line, "It's called a changeover. The movie goes on, and nobody in the audience has any idea." While this line appears earlier in the movie in reference to a projectionist inserting subliminal porn into movies, it's repeated by the narrator later in a fourth-wall breaking manner at a critical moment that the protagonist (and we, the audience) [[spoiler: are starting to realise that certain things we'd taken for granted have actually all been delusions suffered by our protagonist and that we therefore]] have to go back and re-interpret the film so-far.
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* ''[[Film/{{Fight Club}} Fight Club]]'' plays with this with the repeated line, "It's called a changeover. The movie goes on, and nobody in the audience has any idea." While this line appears earlier in the movie in reference to a projectionist inserting subliminal porn into movies, it's repeated by the narrator later in a fourth-wall breaking manner at a critical moment that the protagonist (and we, the audience) [[spoiler: are starting to realise that certain things we'd taken for granted have actually all been delusions suffered by our protagonist and that we therefore]] have to go back and re-interpret the film so-far.so-far.
*''{{Saw}}'': ''"Hello, Mr. Hindle"''.
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*''{{Saw}}'': ''"Hello, Mr. Hindle"''.
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* ''WhateverHappenedToBabyJane''''Film/WhatEverHappenedToBabyJane''
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* DenOsynlige (but clumsily ruined in its ForeignRemake, TheInvisible): "I'm [[spoiler: alive]]!"
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* Delivered by [[spoiler: Sentinel Prime]] in ''TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''.
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* Delivered by [[spoiler: [[SixthRangerTraitor Sentinel Prime]] Prime]]]] in ''TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''.
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--> [[spoiler: '''Sentinel''': What you must realize, my Autobot brothers, is we were never going to ''win'' the war... For the sake of our planet's survival, a deal had to be made... with ''Megatron''.]]
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--> [[spoiler: '''Sentinel''': What you must realize, my Autobot brothers, is we were never going to ''win'' the war... For the sake of our planet's survival, a deal had to be made... with ''Megatron''.]]]]
* ''[[Film/{{Fight Club}} Fight Club]]'' plays with this with the repeated line, "It's called a changeover. The movie goes on, and nobody in the audience has any idea." While this line appears earlier in the movie in reference to a projectionist inserting subliminal porn into movies, it's repeated by the narrator later in a fourth-wall breaking manner at a critical moment that the protagonist (and we, the audience) [[spoiler: are starting to realise that certain things we'd taken for granted have actually all been delusions suffered by our protagonist and that we therefore]] have to go back and re-interpret the film so-far.
* ''[[Film/{{Fight Club}} Fight Club]]'' plays with this with the repeated line, "It's called a changeover. The movie goes on, and nobody in the audience has any idea." While this line appears earlier in the movie in reference to a projectionist inserting subliminal porn into movies, it's repeated by the narrator later in a fourth-wall breaking manner at a critical moment that the protagonist (and we, the audience) [[spoiler: are starting to realise that certain things we'd taken for granted have actually all been delusions suffered by our protagonist and that we therefore]] have to go back and re-interpret the film so-far.
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* And what is ''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'' that's got the whole state in such a tizzy? "Six of them, all boys!"
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* And what is ''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'' that's got the whole state in such a tizzy? "Six of them, all "Six! All boys!"
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-->'''HAL 9000:''' [[AC:I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.]]
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-->'''HAL 9000:''' [[AC:I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.]]
* Delivered by [[spoiler: Sentinel Prime]] in ''TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''.
--> [[spoiler: '''Sentinel''': What you must realize, my Autobot brothers, is we were never going to ''win'' the war... For the sake of our planet's survival, a deal had to be made... with ''Megatron''.]]
* Delivered by [[spoiler: Sentinel Prime]] in ''TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''.
--> [[spoiler: '''Sentinel''': What you must realize, my Autobot brothers, is we were never going to ''win'' the war... For the sake of our planet's survival, a deal had to be made... with ''Megatron''.]]
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* Algernon, assistant to the scientist Foot, from TheBeatles movie ''{{Help}}!'': "It's more than my job's worth to stop him when he's out like this. He's out to rule the world, if he can get a government grant."
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* Algernon, assistant to the scientist Foot, from TheBeatles movie ''{{Help}}!'': ''{{Help}}'': "It's more than my job's worth to stop him when he's out like this. He's out to rule the world, if he can get a government grant."
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* ''TheConversation'' by FrancisFordCoppola has an interesting variant on this: a WhamLine that turns on which word a character stresses in the sentence "He'd kill us if he had the chance."
* [[ItWasHisSled The most famous]] WhamLine of all: [[TheEmpireStrikesBack "No,]] [[LukeIAmYourFather I am your father!"]]
* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'': "...when I hired Vizzini to have her murdered..."
* ''TheMatrixReloaded'': "Interesting...That was quicker than the others."
** ''TheMatrixReloaded'': "This will be the 6th time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it".
** Before either of those: "You know, your predecessors showed more respect..."
* ''TheRing'': "Why did you help her? You weren't supposed to help her!"
* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': "These are just a few of the images we recorded and you can see... it isn't what we thought."
* "It's people. SoylentGreen [[ItWasHisSled is made out of people]]."
* ''{{Rebecca}}'': "[[spoiler:I ''hated'' her!]]"
* ''KillBill'': "Is she aware...that her daughter is still alive?"
* ''OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'': Mac passes a piece of chewing gum to deaf/mute inmate Chief and Chief says "Thank you." This is the reverse of what happens in the book, as the reader knows this secret from the beginning and, we find out, so does Mac. See Literature for the corresponding WhamLine.
* ''AmericanBeauty'': "This is my first time."
* Arguable, the best example of the final words of a movie being a Wham line: [[SomeLikeItHot "Well, nobody's perfect!"]]
* ''HardCandy'': "Aaron told me you did it before he killed himself."
* ''WhateverHappenedToBabyJane''
-->'''Blanche:''' I watched you get out of the car and...I wanted to run you down. Crush you.
* ''TheSixthSense'': "{{I see dead people}}."
** "Why did you leave me?"
* ''TheShining'': "You've always been the caretaker."
* ''AmericanPie:'' "And this one time, at band camp, I stuck a flute in my pussy."
* ''Film/TheOthers'': Is that how she killed you?
* ''RepoTheGeneticOpera'': "You have your mother's eyes, her hair. I was told you died with her." Classic WhamLine example: you don't expect it, it's a major reveal (Nathan's been dressing up his daughter like her dead mom, wig and all, and told his friend she's ''dead''), and it comes in the middle of a song where it's practically glossed over in favor of a much less shocking reveal ("I'm your...godmom").
** Even bigger example: "He's been poisoning your medicine!"
*** Actually, right before that was "May I introduce you to the man who made you sick!"
* Chillingly inverted in the CrapsackWorld of ''Visioneers'', in that it's read on the back of a business card after what first appears to be the WhamLine. "[[KilltheOnesYouLove Kill the thing you love]]."
* ''{{Wanted}}'': "You're my son."
* ''Film/{{Inception}}'': "The reason I knew inception was possible was because I did it to her first. I did it to my own wife."
* ''{{Hostel}}'': "Pay me? I pay THEM!"
* ''DragMeToHell'': "I've found your button."
* Expect the final monologues from every ''{{Saw}}'' movie to be a big chunk of this and a little bit of [[DidntSeeThatComing "you should have seen that coming"]]. GameOver.
* ''{{Film/Orphan}}'': "Tell him the little girl in that picture is not really a little girl. She's a grown woman."
* ''{{Derailed}}'': "Laroche, I chose this prison." Made even better in that it comes shortly after a wham moment when the viewer finds out that Charles unluckily got "placed" in the same prison as Laroche.
* ''ErinBrockovich'': "Would it be important if, [[ChekhovsGunman when I worked at the plant, I destroyed documents?"]]
* ''Film/PrimalFear'' ends with one ''hell'' of a wham: "No, Marty. [[TheKillerInMe There was no Aaron]]."
* ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'': "...right up until Flint pulled out my memory circuits so that I couldn't tell anyone about his BOOBY TRAP!"
* ''CharliesAngels''
-->'''Dylan:''' [spelling with Scrabble letters] Enemy.
-->'''Knox:''' [kisses her] I know.
* ''{{Chinatown}}'': "She's my sister AND my daughter! [[ParentalIncest My father and I]]... do you understand?"
* ''TheConspirator'': "There should only be three," referring to the number of nooses on the gallows.
* ''BladeRunner'' provides an interesting example of how one line can affect a whole scene. When Roy Batty finally meets his maker, Tyrol, he wants more life. There are several cuts of the film floating around. In one cut, he says "I want more life, fucker". In the other, "I want more life, father". The entire nature of the scene is completely different between the two cuts from just that one change.
* From the movie ''Explorers'': "Ehhhh, what's up, Doc?"
* ''Film/RedEye'': "Just keeping the focus on you and your father."
* ''MysteryTeam'': "Let's all just take a chill pill."
* For laughs: MelBrooks' 1976 ''Film/SilentMovie'' was just that, with all dialogue on title cards which gets hilariously subverted in the scene where they ask mime Marcel Marceau if he would appear in their film. In the only audible dialogue in the whole movie, we ''hear'' Marcel--whose work is exclusively silent--say "Non!"
* Algernon, assistant to the scientist Foot, from TheBeatles movie ''{{Help}}!'': "It's more than my job's worth to stop him when he's out like this. He's out to rule the world, if he can get a government grant."
** Following the revelation that the Beatles made a big mistake getting help from Foot, he saw what the ring Ringo wore could do: "Fantastic! With a ring like that I could--dare I say it--rule the world."
* "I am ''Film/IronMan''." It's not the line itself, but the fact that Tony Stark delivered it ''in front of a live audience''.
** And again in TheStinger, to end the film:
-->'''NickFury''': I'm here to talk to you about the [[Film/TheAvengers Avenger Initiative]].
** And before that, setting up the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe and perhaps changing comic book movies forever, "You think you're the only superhero in the world? Mr. Stark, you've become part of a bigger universe. You just don't know it yet."
* ''[=~GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra~=]'':
-->'''Rex''': ''The time has come for [[TitleDrop the Cobra to rise]]. You will call me...'''Commander'''.''
* ''BattleLosAngeles'' has one for the Marines while they are getting briefed on the "meteor shower."
-->"These objects are not falling at terminal velocity. ''They are slowing down.''"
* ''{{Primer}}'': On the second iteration of the bench scene, "I hope you're not implying that any day is unimportant at Cortex Semi." The words themselves aren't important; what's important is that Aaron says that line even though Abe, exhausted, had failed to say the line it had been a reply to on the first iteration, revealing that Aaron had used a fail-safe and was repeating lines from memory, too.
* From ''Lion King II'': "YOU WILL NEVER ''BE'' MUFASA!" ''
** The look on Simba's face is what makes it a Wham Line.
* ''RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'': "[[BigNo No!]]" [[spoiler: Caesar the chimpanzee's first spoken word.]]
* And what is ''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'' that's got the whole state in such a tizzy? "Six of them, all boys!"
* In ''CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', Schmidt is explaining to the SS officers [[StupidJetpackHitler his developments for a powerful weapon]] when one officer notices the map of locations Schmidt intends to destroy.
--> '''SS officer''': "Berlin is on this map!"
* ''StageDoor'': [[spoiler: "It's Kay. She jumped before I could stop her."]]
* ''ReturnToOz'': "You will be rather attractive, one day, not at all beautiful, you understand, but you have a certain prettiness, [[spoiler: different than my other heads...I believe I'll lock you in the tower for a few years, until your head is ready. And then I'll take it."]]
* In ''BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' after Batman and Red Hood fought for a while, Red Hood escaped and said:
--> '''Red Hood''': "You haven't lost your touch, [[SecretIdentity Bruce]]."
* ''Witness for the Prosecution'' has two: "You didn't do it alone," followed shortly by [[spoiler: "I knew he was guilty!"]]
* [[{{Disney/Pinocchio}} "They'll]] ''[[{{Disney/Pinocchio}} never]]'' [[{{Disney/Pinocchio}} come back...]][[NightmareFace ...as BOYS!!!"]]
* ''MonstersInc'':
-->'''Mike:''' Uh, sir? That's not her door.
-->'''[[spoiler: Waternoose]]''': I know, I know. It's ''yours''.
* From ''{{Phantasm}}: Oblivion'':
--> '''Mike'''"So when's he coming back?"
--> '''Jody''' "Jebediah Morningside never does come back..."
* ''TheParentTrap'', from Lindsay Lohan version:
--> '''Annie, disguised as Hallie:''' Maybe it's because [[BrokenMasquerade he thinks I'm Annie.]]
* In the third and final [[ShowWithinAShow story-within-a-story]] from '''[[TalesFromTheDarkside Tales from the Darkside: The Movie]]'', "Lover's Vow":
-->'''Carola/[[spoiler: The Gargoyle]]:''' YOU PROMISED NEVER TO TELL!
* ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey]]'':
-->'''HAL 9000:''' [[AC:I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.]]
* [[ItWasHisSled The most famous]] WhamLine of all: [[TheEmpireStrikesBack "No,]] [[LukeIAmYourFather I am your father!"]]
* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'': "...when I hired Vizzini to have her murdered..."
* ''TheMatrixReloaded'': "Interesting...That was quicker than the others."
** ''TheMatrixReloaded'': "This will be the 6th time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it".
** Before either of those: "You know, your predecessors showed more respect..."
* ''TheRing'': "Why did you help her? You weren't supposed to help her!"
* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': "These are just a few of the images we recorded and you can see... it isn't what we thought."
* "It's people. SoylentGreen [[ItWasHisSled is made out of people]]."
* ''{{Rebecca}}'': "[[spoiler:I ''hated'' her!]]"
* ''KillBill'': "Is she aware...that her daughter is still alive?"
* ''OneFlewOverTheCuckoosNest'': Mac passes a piece of chewing gum to deaf/mute inmate Chief and Chief says "Thank you." This is the reverse of what happens in the book, as the reader knows this secret from the beginning and, we find out, so does Mac. See Literature for the corresponding WhamLine.
* ''AmericanBeauty'': "This is my first time."
* Arguable, the best example of the final words of a movie being a Wham line: [[SomeLikeItHot "Well, nobody's perfect!"]]
* ''HardCandy'': "Aaron told me you did it before he killed himself."
* ''WhateverHappenedToBabyJane''
-->'''Blanche:''' I watched you get out of the car and...I wanted to run you down. Crush you.
* ''TheSixthSense'': "{{I see dead people}}."
** "Why did you leave me?"
* ''TheShining'': "You've always been the caretaker."
* ''AmericanPie:'' "And this one time, at band camp, I stuck a flute in my pussy."
* ''Film/TheOthers'': Is that how she killed you?
* ''RepoTheGeneticOpera'': "You have your mother's eyes, her hair. I was told you died with her." Classic WhamLine example: you don't expect it, it's a major reveal (Nathan's been dressing up his daughter like her dead mom, wig and all, and told his friend she's ''dead''), and it comes in the middle of a song where it's practically glossed over in favor of a much less shocking reveal ("I'm your...godmom").
** Even bigger example: "He's been poisoning your medicine!"
*** Actually, right before that was "May I introduce you to the man who made you sick!"
* Chillingly inverted in the CrapsackWorld of ''Visioneers'', in that it's read on the back of a business card after what first appears to be the WhamLine. "[[KilltheOnesYouLove Kill the thing you love]]."
* ''{{Wanted}}'': "You're my son."
* ''Film/{{Inception}}'': "The reason I knew inception was possible was because I did it to her first. I did it to my own wife."
* ''{{Hostel}}'': "Pay me? I pay THEM!"
* ''DragMeToHell'': "I've found your button."
* Expect the final monologues from every ''{{Saw}}'' movie to be a big chunk of this and a little bit of [[DidntSeeThatComing "you should have seen that coming"]]. GameOver.
* ''{{Film/Orphan}}'': "Tell him the little girl in that picture is not really a little girl. She's a grown woman."
* ''{{Derailed}}'': "Laroche, I chose this prison." Made even better in that it comes shortly after a wham moment when the viewer finds out that Charles unluckily got "placed" in the same prison as Laroche.
* ''ErinBrockovich'': "Would it be important if, [[ChekhovsGunman when I worked at the plant, I destroyed documents?"]]
* ''Film/PrimalFear'' ends with one ''hell'' of a wham: "No, Marty. [[TheKillerInMe There was no Aaron]]."
* ''Disney/TreasurePlanet'': "...right up until Flint pulled out my memory circuits so that I couldn't tell anyone about his BOOBY TRAP!"
* ''CharliesAngels''
-->'''Dylan:''' [spelling with Scrabble letters] Enemy.
-->'''Knox:''' [kisses her] I know.
* ''{{Chinatown}}'': "She's my sister AND my daughter! [[ParentalIncest My father and I]]... do you understand?"
* ''TheConspirator'': "There should only be three," referring to the number of nooses on the gallows.
* ''BladeRunner'' provides an interesting example of how one line can affect a whole scene. When Roy Batty finally meets his maker, Tyrol, he wants more life. There are several cuts of the film floating around. In one cut, he says "I want more life, fucker". In the other, "I want more life, father". The entire nature of the scene is completely different between the two cuts from just that one change.
* From the movie ''Explorers'': "Ehhhh, what's up, Doc?"
* ''Film/RedEye'': "Just keeping the focus on you and your father."
* ''MysteryTeam'': "Let's all just take a chill pill."
* For laughs: MelBrooks' 1976 ''Film/SilentMovie'' was just that, with all dialogue on title cards which gets hilariously subverted in the scene where they ask mime Marcel Marceau if he would appear in their film. In the only audible dialogue in the whole movie, we ''hear'' Marcel--whose work is exclusively silent--say "Non!"
* Algernon, assistant to the scientist Foot, from TheBeatles movie ''{{Help}}!'': "It's more than my job's worth to stop him when he's out like this. He's out to rule the world, if he can get a government grant."
** Following the revelation that the Beatles made a big mistake getting help from Foot, he saw what the ring Ringo wore could do: "Fantastic! With a ring like that I could--dare I say it--rule the world."
* "I am ''Film/IronMan''." It's not the line itself, but the fact that Tony Stark delivered it ''in front of a live audience''.
** And again in TheStinger, to end the film:
-->'''NickFury''': I'm here to talk to you about the [[Film/TheAvengers Avenger Initiative]].
** And before that, setting up the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe and perhaps changing comic book movies forever, "You think you're the only superhero in the world? Mr. Stark, you've become part of a bigger universe. You just don't know it yet."
* ''[=~GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra~=]'':
-->'''Rex''': ''The time has come for [[TitleDrop the Cobra to rise]]. You will call me...'''Commander'''.''
* ''BattleLosAngeles'' has one for the Marines while they are getting briefed on the "meteor shower."
-->"These objects are not falling at terminal velocity. ''They are slowing down.''"
* ''{{Primer}}'': On the second iteration of the bench scene, "I hope you're not implying that any day is unimportant at Cortex Semi." The words themselves aren't important; what's important is that Aaron says that line even though Abe, exhausted, had failed to say the line it had been a reply to on the first iteration, revealing that Aaron had used a fail-safe and was repeating lines from memory, too.
* From ''Lion King II'': "YOU WILL NEVER ''BE'' MUFASA!" ''
** The look on Simba's face is what makes it a Wham Line.
* ''RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'': "[[BigNo No!]]" [[spoiler: Caesar the chimpanzee's first spoken word.]]
* And what is ''The Miracle of Morgan's Creek'' that's got the whole state in such a tizzy? "Six of them, all boys!"
* In ''CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'', Schmidt is explaining to the SS officers [[StupidJetpackHitler his developments for a powerful weapon]] when one officer notices the map of locations Schmidt intends to destroy.
--> '''SS officer''': "Berlin is on this map!"
* ''StageDoor'': [[spoiler: "It's Kay. She jumped before I could stop her."]]
* ''ReturnToOz'': "You will be rather attractive, one day, not at all beautiful, you understand, but you have a certain prettiness, [[spoiler: different than my other heads...I believe I'll lock you in the tower for a few years, until your head is ready. And then I'll take it."]]
* In ''BatmanUnderTheRedHood'' after Batman and Red Hood fought for a while, Red Hood escaped and said:
--> '''Red Hood''': "You haven't lost your touch, [[SecretIdentity Bruce]]."
* ''Witness for the Prosecution'' has two: "You didn't do it alone," followed shortly by [[spoiler: "I knew he was guilty!"]]
* [[{{Disney/Pinocchio}} "They'll]] ''[[{{Disney/Pinocchio}} never]]'' [[{{Disney/Pinocchio}} come back...]][[NightmareFace ...as BOYS!!!"]]
* ''MonstersInc'':
-->'''Mike:''' Uh, sir? That's not her door.
-->'''[[spoiler: Waternoose]]''': I know, I know. It's ''yours''.
* From ''{{Phantasm}}: Oblivion'':
--> '''Mike'''"So when's he coming back?"
--> '''Jody''' "Jebediah Morningside never does come back..."
* ''TheParentTrap'', from Lindsay Lohan version:
--> '''Annie, disguised as Hallie:''' Maybe it's because [[BrokenMasquerade he thinks I'm Annie.]]
* In the third and final [[ShowWithinAShow story-within-a-story]] from '''[[TalesFromTheDarkside Tales from the Darkside: The Movie]]'', "Lover's Vow":
-->'''Carola/[[spoiler: The Gargoyle]]:''' YOU PROMISED NEVER TO TELL!
* ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey]]'':
-->'''HAL 9000:''' [[AC:I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.]]
