History WhamLine / Film

--->'''Darth Vader:'''"No.[[LukeIAmYourFather I am your father.]]"

* ''Remember'': Creator/ChristopherPlummer plays Zev Guttman, an elderly Jewish man suffering from dementia. He spends the entire film attempting to locate Otto Wallisch, a Nazi war criminal living under the alias Rudy Kurlander. When he finally finds Kurlander, the Nazi says his name is actually Kunibert Sturm and tells Zev, "You are Otto Wallisch!". It turns out the two men had escaped Germany by pretending to be Jews and Wallisch's dementia had prevented him from remembering his true identity.

-->'''Rose:''' [[BitchInSheepsClothing You know I can't let you have the keys, babe.]]

** The most famous WhamLine of all: [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack "No. I am]] [[LukeIAmYourFather your father."]]
*** Earlier than that, ''"No, [[ThereIsAnother there is another]]"''.
** In ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'': ''"Everything that has transpired has done so according to [[TheChessmaster my design]]!"''
*** From the same movie: "Now witness the firepower of this ''fully armed and operational battle station''!"
** In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' we have a wordless one: when the sympathetic clonetroopers form up for review before Palpatine and a group of senators before embarking to fight for the Republic, the Imperial March plays.
** ''Film/RogueOne'' had "[[NightmareFuel Lord Vader]] [[MookHorrorShow will handle]] [[CurbStompBattle the fleet.]]"
** From ''Film/TheForceAwakens'':
--->'''Supreme Leader Snoke:''' ''(to Kylo Ren)'' The droid we seek is aboard the Millennium Falcon, in the hands of your father: Han... Solo...
** ''Film/TheLastJedi'' has a bunch, most notably "It's time for the Jedi to end," which functioned as such in the trailer as well. Also "see you around, kid," and "they were no one".

* ''Film/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'': Not for us, but for Judge Turpin: "BENJAMIN BARKER!!!"

-->'''Volstagg:''' It would not be wise to have two infinity stones so close together.
-->'''The Collector:''' One down, five to go.

--->'''Captain America:''' Arnim Zola was a German scientist who worked for the Red Skull. He's been dead for years.
--->'''Voice from nearby computer:''' [[BrainUploading First correction: I am Swiss]].

--->'''Arnim Zola''': ''(as a newspaper headline detailing Howard and Maria Stark's car crash appears)'' Accidents... will happen.
--->'''Senator Howard Stern''': ''[whispering]'' Hail Hydra.

-->'''Rocket:''' I didn't ask to get made!

--> '''The Collector:''' Oh, my new friends. Before creation itself, there were six singularities. And when the universe exploded into existence, the remnants of these systems were forged into concentrated ingots. The Infinity Stones.

--> '''Kraglin''': Yeah, Quill turned out okay. Probably good we didn't deliver him to his dad like we were hired to.
--> '''Yondu''': That guy was a ''jackass!'' [[note]][[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 He wasn't kidding.]][[/note]]

--> '''Bucky:''' He wanted to know about Siberia. Where I was kept. He wanted to know exactly where.\\

'''Bucky:''' ...because [[ThereIsAnother I'm not the only Winter Soldier]].

--> '''Tony:''' I know that road.

--> '''Wong''': In time, you will learn its secrets. But until then, it's best to leave it here. It's not wise to walk down the street carrying [[ArcWelding an Infinity Stone]].

-->'''Ayesha:''' I think I shall call him... [[ComicBook/AdamWarlock Adam.]]

-->''"My friends call me [[Comicbook/MaryJaneWatson M]][[CompositeCharacter J.]]"''

-->'''Thanos:''' You should have aimed for the head. [[note]]Thanos's PreMortemOneLiner before he [[BadassFingersnap snaps away]] [[ApocalypseHow half the]] [[DownerEnding universe]].[[/note]]

--> '''Peter:''' Mister Stark? I don't feel so good...

-->'''John Harrison''': "John Harrison" was a fiction invented the moment I was awoken by your Admiral Marcus to help him advance his cause. A smokescreen to conceal my true identity. My name... is... ''Khan''.

---> '''Scotty:''' [[ContinuityNod Commander Spock... I think you better get down here. You better hurry.]]

-->'''Paco:''' [[OhCrap Close the door]].
-->'''Lucy:''' [[EvilVersusEvil ...I thought it was the OTHER side]] [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized who dropped bombs]].

-->'''Austin:''' Dr. Evil's not your son! I am!
-->'''Nigel:''' No. [[LongLostRelative You both are]].

-->'''Dylan:''' ''[spelling with Scrabble letters]'' Enemy.
-->'''Knox:''' ''[kisses her]'' [[EvilAllAlong I know]].

---> You stupid BITCH!!! You filthy slut, I'll teach you to FUCK WITH ME!!!

--> '''Horace''': Me and Fauntroy... we kin!

--> '''Kritzinger:''' Purge the Jews, yes. But to annihilate them - that we have undertaken to systematically annihilate all the Jews of Europe - that possibility has been [[PlausibleDeniability denied to me]] by [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler the Fuhrer]]!"
--> '''Heydrich:''' And it will continue to be.

--->'''Prisoner''': The child of Ra's al Ghul.

--->'''Talia''': But he's not the child. And though I'm not ordinary, I'm a ''citizen''.

--->'''Clerk''': You should use your full name. I like that name: Robin.

--> "Goodbye boys. I'll miss you. Love, [[EvilAllAlong Janet]], [[ChekhovsGunman the Jackal]]."

--> '''Deckard Shaw:''' Dominic Toretto? You don't know me. But you're about to.

** [-'''Kaffee:''' Did you order the code red?-]\\
[-'''Jessup:''' I did the job I--]\\
[-'''Kaffee:''' ''DID YOU ORDER THE CODE RED?!''-]\\
[-'''Jessup:''' ''YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I DID!''-]

--> '''Rose:''' [[BitchInSheepsClothing You know I can't let you have the keys, babe.]]

--> '''Patty:''' ''[listening to EVP recording]'' ...[[SequelHook what's]] [[CanonWelding Zuul]]?

-->"'Subject's Responses: Exquisite mimicry of observed behaviors, question-mark'. Do you still believe that, Doctor Caldwell?"
-->"Melanie, I--"\\
"Do you?"\\
"...No."\\
"We're alive?"\\
"Yes. You're alive."\\
[[TheDogBitesBack "Then why should it be us who die for you?"]]
* In ''Film/TheGodfather'', Part I: "It was Barzini all along".
** In ''Part II'' "It wasn't a miscarriage. It was an abortion."

-->'''[[GenderFlip Kaa:]]''' Trussssst...''in me''.

-->'''Luthor''': To put it plainly...shouldn't we have a League of our own?

--> '''Fletcher:''' ''[angry]'' Now you listen to me - I'm a bad father! I... I mean... ''[horrified]'' I'm a bad father...

-->"Sammy didn't have a wife."
::: and
-->'''Leonard''': When it's done, I'll know! It'll be different!\\
'''Teddy''': I thought so too! I was sure you'd remember. But you ''didn't!''

* This is how the true BigBad of the [[Main/BollywoodMovies Bollywood]] film ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohra Mohra]]'' is revealed:
-->'''Vishal Agnihotri''': ''[After tossing a paperweight at Mr. Jindal, who simply dodges it by sheer luck]'' A blind man cannot defend himself so fast, Mr. Jindal.

-->'''Mike''' So when's he coming back?\\
'''Jody''' Jebediah Morningside [[CameBackWrong never does come back]]...

--> '''Elizabeth:''' (''To [[AntiHero Jack Sparrow]]'') It's you it wants, don't you see?

-->'''Mr. Orange:''' [[TheMole I'm a cop.]]
-->'''Marvin:''' [[SecretKeeper Yeah, I know!]]

--> '''Mercenary Captain:''' "Name's Johns."

-->'''Billy''' We all go a little mad sometimes.

-->'''Stu''' (with the Ghostface voicebox): Surprise, Sidney!

-->'''Wash:''' [[EurekaMoment Reavers...]] [[OhCrap They made them!]]

-->'''Rev. Russell''': A lefty. Just like me.

--> '''Gwen:''' And to mark this occasion, we've planned a special tribute to the most powerful super-being ever to walk the halls of Sky High. [[EvilAllAlong Me]].

-->'''Supreme Leader Snoke:''' ''(To Kylo Ren)'' The droid we seek is aboard the Millennium Falcon, in the hands of your father: Han... Solo...

-->'''David:''' (''to Mrs. Johnson''): Mommy!

-->'''T-800''': No. There's one more chip. And it must be destroyed also.

-->'''T-800''': [[GoodAllAlong Get down]]. ''(shoots T-1000)''

-->'''John:''' There doesn't have to be a war! We can stop it.
-->'''T-850:''' There is insufficient time. The first launch sequences will be initiated at 6:18 p.m.

--> '''John:''' This isn't Skynet... This is a fallout shelter for [=VIPs=]. Only they never got the warning. There's nothing here! Why didn't he tell us? Why did he lead us down here?
--> '''Kate:''' To live. That was his mission.

-->'''Agent''': I was there. So was she. She worked there. Her name is Lilly, two "L's". Matt Lowe was never married.

--> '''Sentinel Prime:''' Indeed I am. What you must realize, my Autobot brothers, is we were never going to ''win'' the war... [[KnightTemplar For the sake of our planet's survival]], [[DealWithTheDevil a deal had to be made...]] [[FaceHeelTurn with]] ''[[FaceHeelTurn Megatron]]''.

-->'''Optimus Prime:''' You have no soul.
-->'''Galvatron:''' That is why I have no fear!

-->'''Judge Doom''': Remember me, Eddie? When I killed your brother, I talked... ''(voice gets high and squeaky)'' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis JUST...LIKE...THIIIIIIIIIS!]]

-->'''R.K. Maroon:''' I've been around Toons all my life! I didn't want to see them get destroyed!

-->'''Black Phillip''': What dost thou want?

-->'''Wolverine''': What do you want from me?\\
'''Magneto''': You? My dear boy, whoever said I wanted you? ''[Wolverine turns to look at Rogue]''

--->"[[MagnificentBastard I don't believe in the no-win scenario]]."

** Actually, the ''true'' Wham Line comes a bit earlier, is more subtle and relies on a FridgeBrilliance by both the viewer and the protagonist.

'''Stanley Yelnats III:''' You what?\\

* ''Film/{{Holes}} has a rare positive example, revealing that Stanley's father has finally made a breakthrough in finding a cure for foot odor. Made even better by the fact that the speaker of said Wham Line doesn't immediately realize what she's just said.

-->'''Katniss:''' Gale? Where's Prim?\\

-->'''President Snow:''' Don't you think I know your friends are in the Tribute Center? ''[To his crew]'' Cut them off.

-->'''Goldfinger''': Whoever mentioned anything about ''removing'' it?

-->'''Franz Oberhauser:''' [[ThatManIsDead Franz Oberhauser died twenty years ago]], James, in an avalanche alongside his father. The man you're talking to now, the man inside your head, is [[HijackedByGanon Ernst Stavro Blofeld]].
-->'''James Bond:''' Catchy name.

-->'''Scott:''' So much for our last family breakfast.

-->'''Owen:''' I know why they wouldn't tell us what it's made of...''that thing's part-raptor.''\\

-->'''Claire:''' I need you to [[SummonBiggerFish open]] [[TyrannosaurusRex paddock 9!]]

* The very last line in Kill Bill 1:
--->'''Bill:''' Is she aware that her daughter is still alive?
* ''{{Film/Manborg}}'' has one at the very end, while Manborg is dying from his wounds. He sees a vision of his brother, which turns out pretty formulaic at first:
--->'''Manborg's Brother:''' Hey, bro, it's me, your brother. Remember? [[{{BreakingTheFourthWall}} I died at the beginning.]] I just wanted to let you know that I think you did great out there.\\

-->'''Maverick:''' My old pappy always used to say, "there is no more deeply satisfying religious experience... than cheatin' on a cheater."
-->'''Sheriff Cooper:''' I never said that ''once!'' You've been misquoting me ''all your life!''

-->'''Leonard''': '''When it's done, I'll know! It'll be different!"
-->'''Teddy''': "I thought so too! I was sure you'd remember. But you ''didn't!''"

-->'''Neil:''' Oh my God. You were his mother.

-->'''Nancy:''' Never sleep again.

-->'''John Doe:''' I know why you let me go.\\

-->'''Mike''' So when's he coming back?
-->'''Jody''' Jebediah Morningside [[CameBackWrong never does come back]]...

-->[Confused, and slightly worried] "...Botany Bay?" *[[OhCrap Realization hits.]]* "Botany Bay! Oh no...!" *full blown panic* "We've got to get out of here now!"

-->'''Khan''': "''Admiral'' Kirk... sent seventy of us into exile on this barren sand heap with only the contents of these cargo bays to sustain us."
-->'''Chekhov''': "You lie! On Ceti Alpha V, there was life! A fighting chance-"
-->'''Khan''': "''[[SuddenlyShouting THIS]]'' [[TheReveal IS CETI ALPHA V!]] (long pause) [[ApocalypseHow ...Ceti Alpha VI... exploded six months after we were left here. The shock shifted the orbit of this planet, and everything was laid waste.]]"
** After further explaining the situation to them, however, Khan suddenly raises a hand, and his expression changes from on of confusion, to epiphany, to elation, as he says
--> "[[EurekaMoment ...You didn't expect to find me; you thought this was... Ceti Alpha VI]]. Ah! Why are you here?" *grabs the collar of Chekhov's suit, and lifts him into the air one handed* "''Why''?"

--> '''Uhura:''' "Admiral, Commander Reliant is signaling. He wishes to discuss terms of our surrender."

-->"[[MagnificentBastard I don't believe in the no-win scenario]]."

-->'''Kirk''': "Engine room, well done, Scotty."
-->'''Bones''': "[[TearJerker Jim... I think you'd better get down here]]."
-->'''Kirk''': "Bones?"
-->(''the screen flashes to Spock's chair, which is empty'')
--> '''Bones''': "...Better hurry."

-->'''Kirk''': "My friends.....we've come home."

--> '''Kirk:''' "What's happened?!"
--> '''Spock:''' [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness "We have fired on the Chancellor's ship!!"]]

-->'''Picard:''' Didn't you know, Admiral? The Son'a and the Ba'ku are the same race.

--> '''Scotty:''' [[ContinuityNod Commander Spock... I think you better get down here. You better hurry.]]

** Peter Parker's survival seemed to be a ForegoneConclusion, as [[SavedByCanon two more Spider-Man movies had already been announced]]. But then...

* ''Film/TheCiderHouseRules'': "[[ParentalIncest He is the father! He's her baby's father!]]"

* ''Film/DirtyRottenScoundrels'': "Goodbye boys. I'll miss you. Love, [[EvilAllAlong Janet]], [[ChekhovsGunman the Jackal]]."

** "Tony, who do you think locked you out? I was the one who filed the injunction against you."

** And another:

-->'''Thanos:''' You should have aimed for the head.

--> '''Peter:''' Mister Stark...? I don't feel so good...

* ''Film/{{Thor}}'':
** When Hela has Thor pinned to the balcony; unarmed, wounded and overpowered, Thor has a vision of Odin with the revelation that defines his powers. "What are you, Thor? God of hammers?"

** A second from Ego is when Peter and him are talking about [[spoiler:Peter's mom]].

** During one of the post credit sequences, it's revealed that Ayesha [[spoiler:is carrying a sinister looking cocoon-like pod on her ship that has a person slowly being formed inside]].
-->'''Ayesha:''' I think I shall call him...[[ComicBook/AdamWarlock Adam.]]

** At one point, when [[spoiler:Peter rapidly tries to hold a ferry split in half together by running weblines between structural strongpoints, Karen says "Well done, Peter. You were 98% successful." Turns out he missed one last one, and the ferry falls apart anyway.]]

* ''Film/AmericanGraffiti'': After the drag race, John tells Toad, [[spoiler: "I was losing, man. He had me!"]]
** And the [[WhereAreTheyNow epilogue]] has one hell of a WhamLine: [[spoiler: John Milner was killed by a drunk driver in December 1964.]]

* ''Film/BabyDriver'': "That's not the cops!" Marks the point where Baby realizes that [[spoiler:Buddy]] is still alive and is coming after him.

-->'''Marcy:''' We're all gonna get [the disease]. We're all gonna get sick.
-->'''Paul:''' No. Bert's gonna get help. Karen will be fine, I promise.
-->'''Marcy:''' It's like being on a plane when you know it's gonna crash. Everyone around you is yelling and screaming: ''"We're going down! We're going down!"'' '''And all you really want to do is grab the person next to you and [[OutWithABang fuck the shit out of them, 'cause you know you're gonna be dead soon anyway.]]'''
--> - CoitusEnsues.

* ''CloudAtlas'': [[spoiler: "They feed us to ourselves."]]

--->'''Bill:''' [[spoiler:Is she aware that her daughter is still alive?]]

-->'''Vishal Agnihotri''': ''[after tossing a paperweight at Mr. Jindal, who simply dodges it by sheer luck]'' A blind man cannot defend himself so fast, Mr. Jindal.

* ''Film/NoWayOut'': "So were we" near the very end of the film. Not whammy in itself as much as it is for the fact that [[spoiler:Farrell says it in ''Russian'', which then prompts his interrogators to switch to that language as well and reveal that not only does "Yuri" exist, Farrell ''is'' Yuri]].

* ''Film/{{Split}}'' spends two hours and change being a thriller about a man with [[SplitPersonality split personalities]] and the three teenage girls he took prisoner. Then the final scene has this exchange, revealing that the film is [[spoiler: a StealthSequel to ''Film/{{Unbreakable}}'' and the possible beginning of [[TheVerse a Shamyalan cinematic universe.]]]]:
-->'''Bar patron:''' It's just like that man [[spoiler: in the wheelchair]] that they locked up fifteen years ago. They gave him a funny name too. What was it?\\

-->[[spoiler: '''Black Phillip''']]: What dost thou want?

*** Laura's "De nada." PlayedForLaughs, as [[spoiler:Logan is very annoyed that she didn't say anything before]].

* A funny example from ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'': after it's revealed that Frau Blucher has been riling up the Monster, [[spoiler:this reveals that she was Frankenstein, Sr's girlfriend]]:

* ''Film/{{Zodiac}}'' has this happen twice. The first is when Graysmith is talking with a sister of one of the Zodiac's victims and trying to get the name of a man who might be the killer. Just as he is about to leave, she tells him [[spoiler: "It was Leigh"]] The second occurs when he is talking to a man who is a friend of another suspect. After telling the man, Robert Vaughn, that the reason he believes this man's friend, Rick Marshall, is the Zodiac is due to some handwriting on a movie poster, Vaughn replies with: "Rick didn't draw any of the posters. That's my handwriting".

* ''Film/TheCiderHouseRules'': "He is the father! He's her baby's father!"

* ''Film/TheCiderHouseRules'': Mister Rose is the father.

** This scene, imported verbatim from ''ComicBook/CaptainAmericaWinterSoldier'':

--->'''Ego:''' I returned to Earth to see her three times, and I knew if I returned a fourth, I...I'd never leave. The expansion...the reason for me existence would be over so I did what I had to do. But...it broke my heart to put that tumor in her head.

--->'''Ego:''' Broke my heart to put that tumor in her head.

** "Tony, [[spoiler: who do you think locked you out? I was the one who filed the injunction against you.]]"

--> '''Tony:''' [[spoiler: I know that road.]]

--->'''Ego:''' [[spoiler:Broke my heart to put that tumor in her head.]]

-->'''Ayesha:''' I think I shall call him... [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/AdamWarlock Adam.]]]]

-->''"My friends call me [[spoiler:[[Comicbook/MaryJaneWatson M]][[CompositeCharacter J.]]]]"''

-->'''Nigel:''' No. [[spoiler: [[LongLostRelative You both are]].]]

'''Gale:''' After the Games, [[spoiler:they sent in hovercrafts. And they started dropping firebombs]].\\
'''Katniss:''' [[spoiler:They're not in 12]]?\\
'''Gale:''' [[spoiler:[[YouCantGoHomeAgain There is no District 12. It's all gone.]]]]

-->'''Franz Oberhauser:''' [[ThatManIsDead Franz Oberhauser died twenty years ago]], James, in an avalanche alongside his father. The man you're talking to now, the man inside your head, [[spoiler: is [[HijackedByGanon Ernst Stavro Blofeld]].]]

'''[[spoiler: David Dunn]]:''' [[spoiler: Mr. Glass.]]

** ''Film/TheLastJedi'' has a bunch, most notably "It's time for the Jedi to end," which functioned as such in the trailer as well. Also [[spoiler: "see you around, kid," and "they were no one".]]

-->'''Quintessa:''' The planet you know as Earth once had another name: [[spoiler:[[GodOfEvil Unicron]]]].

*** [[spoiler:Laura's "De nada."]] PlayedForLaughs, as [[spoiler:Logan is very annoyed that she didn't say anything before]].

*** In a more serious sense [[spoiler:Xavier realizing that he killed some of the X-Men]] is also one as we only got a hint of this earlier and it changes the aspect of Xavier being a funny old man into quite the TragicHero.

-->'''Frau Blucher:''' [[note]] ''[[RunningGag Neeeiiiiggghhh!]]'' [[/note]] ''YES!'' ''[[LargeHam SAY IT! SAY IT!]]'' '''''[[spoiler:[[PunctuatedForEmphasis HE! WAS! MY! BOYFRIEEEND!]]]]'''''
* ''Film/{{Zodiac}}'' has this happen twice. The first is when Graysmith is talking with a sister of one of the Zodiac's victims and trying to get the name of a man who might be the killer. Just as he is about to leave, she tells him [[spoiler: "It was Leigh"]] The second occurs when he is talking to a man who is a friend of another suspect. After telling the man, Robert Vaughn, that the reason he believes this man's friend, Rick Marshall, is the Zodiac is due to some handwriting on a movie poster, Vaughn replies with: [[spoiler: "Rick didn't draw any of the posters. That's my handwriting".]]