History WhamLine / LiveActionFilms

* In ''Film/DominickAndEugene'', Nicky has brain damage and a learning disability from an incident where he fell down the stairs when he was a child. Later, when Eugene confronts him after Nicky kidnapped Joey to protect him from Martin after witnessing the man accidently kill Mikey, Nicky drops this which reveals that he realized the truth behind the cause of his brain damage which his brother had been hiding from him.
-->'''Nicky:''' You've been lying to me, Eugene. I never fell in no accident. Our dad was hurting me.

* In Film/DominickAndEugene, Nicky has brain damage and a learning disability from an incident where he fell down the stairs when he was a child. Later, when Eugene confronts him after Nicky kidnapped Joey to protect him from Martin after witnessing the man accidently kill Mikey, Nicky drops this which reveals that he realized the truth behind the cause of his brain damage which his brother had been hiding from him.

* In ''Film/DominickAndEugene, Nicky has brain damage and a learning disability from an incident where he fell down the stairs when he was a child. Later, when Eugene confronts him after Nicky kidnapped Joey to protect him from Martin after witnessing the man accidently kill Mikey, Nicky drops this which reveals that he realized the truth behind the cause of his brain damage which his brother had been hiding from him.

* ''Film/LastChristmas'': When Kate enters Tom's apartment to reconcile with him, she is instead greeted by an estate agent, who tells her the apartment's been empty for months. During their ensuing conversation, she realizes that Tom [[DeadAllAlong had actually been killed in an accident last Christmas Eve]], and that she can see his ghost because she recieved his heart during an emergency transplant that same night.

--->'''Western Union Man''': ''Excuse Me! Excuse Me! I have a telegram for one of you ladies from the War Department.''
--->''The Peaches' good spirits plummet.''
--->'''Western Union Man''': ''Let's see here... boy, I hate these, these are the worst! The least the Army could do is send someone personally, [[DeathNotification to tell you your husband is dead]]''.
** Due to the Western Union Man's incompetence, he didn't get the recipient's name, forcing Jimmy to step in and deliver it himself.
--->'''Jimmy'': '''I'm sorry, Betty.''

--->'''Olive:''' Mom? Dad?
--->'''Richard:''' What is it, hon?
--->'''Olive:''' [[PleaseWakeUp Grandpa won't wake up]].
** Olive's brother, Dwayne, has taken a vow of silence until he can become an Air Force pilot, communicating with his family by writing on a notepad. Shortly after Edwin's death, Olive is helping him with vision tests, but when they check for colorblindness, he can't see the letter in a circle.

* ''Film/{{Brightburn}}'': We spent the entire film watching the protagonist [[ProtagonistJourneyToVillain slowly becoming evil]], [[KillEmAll eventually leading to the murders of his family,]] [[DownerEnding and untold millions of people as he finally makes his villainy known to the world.]] But then, scenes of [[Creator/MichaelRooker a bald public figure]] are interspersed throughout the credits, letting everyone know that [[SuperheroPrevalenceStages this universe may get a little bigger...]]

* ''Film/{{Rebecca}}'': In a one-two punch of wham lines, when the body of Maxim de Winter's seemingly perfect late first wife, the titular Rebecca, is discovered, after the second Mrs. de Winter spends the entirety of her marriage up to that point thinking Maxim was still and will always be madly in love with Rebecca, she both learns that he covered up her death and discovers what he really thought of her.
-->'''Maxim:''' I knew where Rebecca's body was, lying on that cabin floor on the bottom of the sea.\\

--> "You will be rather attractive, one day, not at all beautiful, you understand, but you have a certain prettiness, 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."

--> "''My'' 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 the Emerald City! [[YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame Thank you.]]"

* ''Film/RobinHoodPrinceOfThieves'':
** Will Scarlet reveals to Robin why [[TheResenter he hates him]]:

* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': "These are just a few of the images we recorded and you can see... it isn't what we thought."

** The denouement contains several truly magnificent ones, for instance, to Detective John Blake:

** Plus a truly awesome one in the denouement, to Detective John Blake:

** When Owen is searching for the Indoraptor, Vivian manages to locate her...

** "The wind's with us". Said twice, by opposing leaders. Cue the Maelstrom.

* ''Film/TradingPlaces'': [[BathroomStallOfOverheadInsults While hiding in the Duke & Duke washroom]], Billy Ray Valentine overhears the Duke brothers talking about their bet affecting Valentine and Louis Winthorpe, with two major lines:

* ''Film/NoWayOut'': "So did I" near the very end of the film. Not whammy in itself as much as it is for the fact that 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/{{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 "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".

--> '''Daniel:''' Goodbye, ''Casey-Rose''.

** The second is when Reese finds his role reversed as Sarah Conner saves ''him''.

** The Peaches prepare for a game in good spirits when a Western Union man comes with [[BearerOfBadNews news that none of them were waiting for.]]:

--->'''The Peaches' good spirits plummet.''

-->'''Fireball'': No. Last year's ''losers''.