History WhamShot / Film

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** And later still, when Ellie is ambushed by a raptor after turning the park's power back on, she's seemingly found by the chief engineer, Ray Arnold...only to discover that it's actually ''[[AnArmAndALeg his severed arm]]'', signalling that the raptors killed him.
** And perhaps most famously of all, from the climax: The heroes are cornered by raptors and miles away from any help...a raptor prepares to lunge at them and finish them off, all seems lost...and then the ''freaking TyrannosaurusRex comes back and kills the Big One and her minion''.

** The little girl from the opening meeting a ''[[KillerRabbit Compsognathus]]''--the first sign that something here isn't right...

** The ''Spinosaurus'' [[HeroKiller snapping a T. rex's neck]]--bear in mind, the ''T. rexes'' are the most infamously powerful dinosaurs in the franchise. The fact that the ''Spinosaurus'' can kill one with little effort shows that it's a truly formidable enemy.

** When Owen and his Raptor Squad finally catch up to the ''Indominus rex'', she suddenly starts communicating with the raptors...leading all four of said raptors to give their former alpha a DeathGlare.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', when Woody asks his Roundup friends to come back to Andy’s house with him and the other toys, he turns around Stinky Pete’s box to find him gone—and screwing shut the grate on the air vent. That’s when we find out that Pete is EvilAllAlong rather than a gentleman, going to any lengths to keep Woody with them en route to Japan, which he’d been trying to do since Woody told him, Jessie and Bullseye that he still belonged to Andy. It starts when Pete wakes up Al by turning up "Woody's Roundup" while Woody tries to retrieve his detached arm.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'', such a shot reveals that Carl's house is now in the middle of a construction area.
* In ''WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph''
** When Ralph sees Vanellope's picture on the side of ''Sugar Rush'''s gaming console, meaning that she's ''not'' a GlitchEntity as he has been lead to believe, but a legitimate character who was unfairly cut out of the game.
** In the climactic race, Vanellope (who's trying to win) is fighting with King Candy. She starts glitching out while she's grabbing on to his arm, which causes his appearance to destabilize and reveals him for who he really is: Turbo, one-time main character of an old racing game who got both his and another game disabled through being an AttentionWhore.
* The shot in ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman'' that reveals that the witch is just a scared little girl, who looks uncannily like Norman.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongebobSquarepantsMovie'', [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick are drying out in a gift shop on the surface and they believe that they didn't reach Shell City and failed their mission...until Patrick notices a sign above them reading "Shell City: Marine Gifts and Sundries". Yep, they ''did'' make it.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'': Hans stopping just inches away from Anna's lips to kiss her and revive her of her frozen heart, then giving a rather scary grin, which not only alerts Anna, but also the whole audience, that something is not right.
* ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII'':
** Agnarr and Iduna's shipwreck being found on the coast of the Northuldra's forest, and NOT the Southern Seas as Anna and Elsa had been led to believe for 6 years.
** Elsa's hands starting to freeze once she reaches the deepest part of Ahtohallan. It isn't long before the rest of her body starts freezing.
* ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'': At an event celebrating Elastigirl capturing the Screenslaver, Elastigirl looks at one of the screens showing her fight with the villain and sees a the action being played on a screen in the background. By realizing that the Screenslaver somehow accessed her suit's camera, Elastigirl has a EurekaMoment that gets her one step closer to finding the person responsible. This is then followed by Evelyn, who's been "helping" her the entire time, [[JumpScare slapping a hypno-mask on her]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Moana}}'' has two back-to-back.
** When Moana finally makes it to Te Fiti's resting place, she finds that the island itself has vanished entirely. This leads directly to the second Wham Shot.
** Moana sees the symbol of Te Fiti on Te Ka's torso, revealing that Te Ka ''is'' Te Fiti.

* ''Film/AbsolutePower'': Alan Richmond being the President of the United States is revealed like this. Initially, the audience isn't aware who he is when Luther witnesses his affair with and murder of Christy Sullivan; the presence of his security staff hints that he's a high-placed person, but he's not formally introduced until a White House press conference when the camera pans up to reveal that the President is the same man who is responsibe for the death of a young woman that night.

* ''Film/{{Psycho}}'': Lila enters the basement to find Mother sitting in a wheelchair. Lila taps her on the shoulder, and the wheelchair spins [[DeadAllAlong to reveal her decomposing skeleton]]. Not long after, Norman runs in, dressed in his mother's clothes and holding a butcher knife.
* In ''Film/{{Vertigo}}'' when Judy flashes back to pretending to be Madeleine to help fake her suicide.
* The manufacturer's label on the cork board, and later the bottom of the smashed coffee cup, in ''Film/TheUsualSuspects''.
* ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes1968'': The shot of the buried Statue of Liberty, showing that the astronauts were on EarthAllAlong.

*** 2014!Thanos prepares to kill Thor with his own axe, only to be hit off-balance by Mjolnir. The enchanted hammer then to flies into the hand of its [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield wielder]] - not Thor himself, but Captain America.

* The end of ''Film/RememberMe'': after the main character waits in his father's office, a teacher writes the date on the board: September 11, 2001. Then - to show just how relevant that date is - it zooms out of the office, which is revealed to be in the Twin Towers.

* In ''Film/BigGame'', Moore and Oskari turning in surprise and the camera moving to reveal dead fish, dead bodies and finally, the tail of Air Force One, which turns out to be submerged in the lake the duo has fallen into.
%%* In ''Film/TheThirdMan'', when the light goes on in the doorway, revealing Harry Lime.
* ''Film/{{Oblivion 2013}}'': When Jack and Julia crash-land in a supposedly radioactive area, they spy a second plane land on the ground and watch as the pilot gets out from a distance. It's another Jack.
* ''Film/FinalDestination5'': The ending has this for a wham shot. After they're convinced that they're off Death's list, Molly and Sam head off on an airplane to France, where everything is pretty normal...until Sam looks over and sees two people getting thrown off the plane. Didn't get that? Turns out the people getting thrown out were Alex Browning and Carter Horton, the duo who are some of the survivors to the Flight 180 Disaster, the very same disaster seen in ''the first movie''. Yeah, this just became a prequel.
* In the film version of ''Literature/GoneGirl'' we get the shot of Amy driving a car with a determined look on her face. That in it of itself might not seem like much, but the caption reveals that this takes place ''on the day of Amy's disappearance.'' And then it hits you: Amy staged her disappearance.

* ''Film/TheDarkKnight'': Batman arrives at the address Joker gave him to save Rachel. He bursts through the door to find not Rachel, but Harvey.
* After Tommy drops Jason into the tractor harrows in ''Film/FridayThe13thPartVANewBeginning'', a closeup on the corpse reveals that the killer wasn't Jason after all, but [[JackTheRipoff someone else]].
* The ending of ''Film/BasicInstinct'': Catherine is seen reaching under the bed during the final scene with Nick, but when she brings up her hand, it's empty. The final shot pans down to show an icepick under the bed, implying Catherine is the real killer.

* During the big duel at the funhouse in ''Film/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'', Scaramanga goes near the statue of Bond where he finished off the last person out to get him. Then there's a shot from behind the statue, and its fingers that he shot off before have [[NobodyHereButUsStatues somehow come back]]....
* During the climax of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', we see Judge Doom get run over by a steamroller...and ''survive'', revealing himself to be a Toon.
* ''Film/GhostShip'': The close-up of the mysterious instigator of the ''Antonia Graza'' massacre after he kills Francesca, revealing the demon to be the supposedly meek and heroic Ferriman, who originally led the protagonists to the ship.
* The person who will help Will and Elizabeth retrieve Jack from Davy Jones' Locker in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadMansChest'' is the resurrected Barbossa.
* In ''Film/TheMonsterSquad'', after bonding with [[MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold Scary German Guy]], one of the kids remarks upon leaving that he knows a lot about monsters. Scary German Guy agrees and shuts the door after them, revealing [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust numbers tattooed onto his arm]]. Especially jarring considering this was a kid's film!
* In ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'', when the scene of Dave and Frank discussing HAL's possible unreliability shifts to closeups of their mouths intercut with HAL's fisheye lens, indicating that HAL is [[ReadingLips reading their lips]].
* In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'' there's the closeup of Arthur's neck, revealing a scar across it that indicates he's had a chip implanted just like all the other politicians in the film. This reveals that Arthur has joined forces with Valentine and the Kingsmen have been compromised.
* ''Film/VantagePoint''. [[TurnCoat Agent Taylor]] is seen on camera dressed as a cop.
%%* [[AllThereIsToKnowAboutTheCryingGame Dil's penis]] on ''Film/TheCryingGame''.
* ''Film/JurassicPark'':
** The ''Brachiosaurus'', the very first dinosaur we see in all her glory in the park and the moment that drives home the fact that this film is about ''freaking dinosaurs'' being brought back to life.
** Later, the escape of the ''TyrannosaurusRex'', which is where things finally get real.
** And later still, when Ellie is ambushed by a raptor after turning the park's power back on, she's seemingly found by the chief engineer, Ray Arnold...only to discover that it's actually ''[[AnArmAndALeg his severed arm]]'', signalling that the raptors killed him.
** And perhaps most famously of all, from the climax: The heroes are cornered by raptors and miles away from any help...a raptor prepares to lunge at them and finish them off, all seems lost...and then the ''freaking TyrannosaurusRex comes back and kills the Big One and her minion''.
* ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'':
** The little girl from the opening meeting a ''[[KillerRabbit Compsognathus]]''--the first sign that something here isn't right...
* ''Film/JurassicParkIII'':
** The ''Spinosaurus'' [[HeroKiller snapping a T. rex's neck]]--bear in mind, the ''T. rexes'' are the most infamously powerful dinosaurs in the franchise. The fact that the ''Spinosaurus'' can kill one with little effort shows that it's a truly formidable enemy.
** Grant getting a better look at the interior of the seemingly abandoned animal enclosure the group sought refuge in--it's a giant aviary. Which can only mean that not only can whatever is in there fly, but it must be absolutely ''massive''. This is quickly followed by another Wham Shot of a ''Pteranodon'' approaching [[TagAlongKid Eric Kirby]] [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man-style]] from the fog in the Aviary, before snatching him up for lunch.
* ''Film/JurassicWorld'':
** When Owen and his Raptor Squad finally catch up to the ''Indominus rex'', she suddenly starts communicating with the raptors...leading all four of said raptors to give their former alpha a DeathGlare.
** After Claire convinces Lowery to help her open one of the paddocks at the climax, we get the ominous yet triumphant return of the original ''TyrannosaurusRex''.
* In ''Film/TheTerminator'': Sarah Connor is talking to her mother over the phone. As she's telling her the number for the place she's at, we cut to the other end of the line...and it's ''the Terminator'', mimicking her mother's voice.
* In ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'': John Connor is shot dead by "Pops", who even bleeds...But then the blood turns to {{Nanomachines}}, revealing he's now a robot.
* ''Film/TerminatorDarkFate'': Right in the opening scene. During the flashback prologue set in 1998 Guatemala, Sarah Connor is seen sitting down, watching John order a drink in peace. Right behind her, another T-800 slowly walks up as a Dark Reprise of the previous one's Leitmotif from ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay'' playing... as he goes to point a gun at John.
%%* ''[[Film/TheFastAndTheFurious Fast & Furious 6]]'':
%%-->Shaw: Coming, babe?
%%--''[*Camera cuts to Letty, then Gisele, then Letty again before focusing on Riley]''
%%-->Riley: Of course. I wouldn't miss it for the world.
* In ''Film/TalesFromTheDarksideTheMovie'' the segment "Cat From Hell", it's already clear the ProfessionalKiller isn't going to take out the cat he's hired to kill. But just what this cat can do is made clear when there is a POVCam lunging at the hitman's face, and the next shot shows the cat [[OrificeInvasion had leaped right into the hitman's mouth]].
* In ''Film/{{Alien}}'', Ripley is getting attacked by Ash. So, Parker hits him in the head using his makeshift flamethrower, and it tears off, revealing that Ash is actually an android.
* In ''Film/Creepshow2'', right after the BlobMonster eats Randy, the camera watches as it slowly moves back into the water. Then the camera pans over to a sign half-hidden by foliage. It reads: NO SWIMMING.
* An InUniverse example in ''Film/TheTerminal''. Viktor Navorski, then unable to grasp his situation due to not speaking any English, reacts strongly when he sees the political violence engulfing his country on TV.
* An InUniverse example occurs in ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' after the ''Reliant'' has launched a sneak attack that has crippled the ''Enterprise''. Kirk is hailed by the commander of the ''Reliant'' to discuss surrender--and it's Kirk's former enemy, Khan Noonien Singh. Kirk is so shocked he can barely speak.
** Prior to that, Chekov and Captain Terrell are baffled by the discovery of inhabited cargo containers on Ceti Alpha VI, which is supposed to be a deserted planet. Then, Chekov discovers a belt buckle with "Botany Bay" written on it, and he realizes they're really on Ceti Alpha '''V''', where Khan was exiled years earlier. Sure enough, before they can go anywhere, Khan and his followers have returned, taking them prisoner.
* A positive example occurs at the end of ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome''. After saving the world, Kirk and his officers are shuttled to their new ship. It looks like it's going to be the new ''Excelsior'', but they fly right past her--to a ''Constitution''-class ship named ''Enterprise''. NCC-1701-A.
--> '''Kirk:''' My friends...we've come home.
* In ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'', the ''Enterprise'' is escorting Chancellor Gorkon's flagship to a PeaceConference on Earth. Half the bridge officers (including Kirk) are hung over from too much Romulan ale at dinner...and a photon torpedo suddenly hits Gorkon's battlecruiser.
--> '''Kirk:''' What's happened?\\
'''Spock:''' We have fired on the chancellor's ship!
* In ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'', Kirk and Spock are interrogating the rogue Commander Harrison, whom they've just captured on Qo'noS, when Sulu reports a ship approaching at warp -- and it's not Klingon. Within seconds, the downwarp reveals...a bigass Federation starship, looking like a bigger, ''meaner'' cousin of the ''Enterprise''.
* ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'':
** The sight of the ''Enterprise's'' severed warp nacelles floating away from the ship, their glow dying as power fades. At this point, it is clear that our heroes are ''screwed''.
** After Scotty meets Jaylah on the planet Altamid, she takes him to her "house", which is actually a crashed ship. Scotty is then stunned when he sees the name of said ship: USS ''Franklin''. It's a ''Starfleet'' ship.
* At one point in ''Film/TheInvitation'', Will witnesses David lighting and hanging a red lantern outside. At the end of the film, after The Invitation is revealed to be a death cult and everyone except Will, Kira and Tommy is dead, Will and Kira look out and see several other houses in the Hollywood Hills area hanging the same red lantern, as sirens and gunshots ring out in the Hills.
* ''Film/ApartmentZero'' is full of them.
** When Adrian walks into the apartment and sees Claudia's body.
*** When you see the bloody remains of the man Jack killed for his passport.
*** Adrian is watching the footage of the militants. Then then the camera shifts and reveals [[InternalReveal Jack watching Adrian.]]
* The ending of Film/SleepawayCamp reveals not only Angela is the killer, she is actually Peter. The real Angela was killed alongside their father years ago while Peter was raised as a girl by his mentally impaired aunt.
* ''Film/{{Barbarella}}'': After the Excessive Machine scene, the camera focuses on Barbarella's Durand Durand-detector on the floor. The concierge accidentally steps on it, turning it on and it starts flashing and beeping, revealing that the concierge is Durand Durand.
* In the climax of ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'', Logan and Halloran stand facing each other in a room with both of them wearing a laser collar trap around their necks. The collar will activate and cut them clean if they don't confess their sins, the order of who plays it being decided by a button for each person on a control panel in the middle of the two. Halloran tricks Logan into going first, and after he fails the test, Halloran is dragged back and forced to take it himself. As the lasers activate and burn the ceiling over him, he manages to confess and stop the lasers just in time. The Wham Shot comes in after he sits staring at the burned ceiling above him, before [[OhCrap glancing at the ceiling above Logan's body and realising that there are no burn marks above him.]] Soon enough, Logan himself gets up, revealing his own game wasn't real, and that Halloran is helpless to do anything.
* In ''Kahaani'', a thriller, the terrorist Milan kicks the heavily pregnant protagonist Vidya in the stomach...and then she pulls her belly off, revealing it to be fake, and stabs him in the foot.
* The end of ''Film/RogueOne'' has a HopeSpot as the Rebels escape with the Death Star plans. Then the lights cut out, and moments later, the VaderBreath starts up and [[MassOhCrap an ominous red light illumines the corridor.]] Cue MookHorrorShow.
* At the end of ''Film/TheWailing'', shaman Il-gwang drops a box full of pictures of the victims, just like those the Japanese hermit had in his shack, meaning that the two worked together the whole time.
* At the end of ''Film/{{Solo}}'', we get to see who Dryden Vos has been answering to and the true mastermind of the Crimson Dawn Syndicate, the former Sith Lord, Maul. It is even more shocking to those who didn't watch the TV series.
* In ''Film/{{Searching}}'', the mystery plot has been seemingly wrapped up with a murder confession from the culprit and a grieving David uploads pics and videos to a memorial website in preparation for his daughter's funeral... and then notices that the redheaded girl in the "Thank You" stock image looks exactly the same as the profile pic of the "fish_n_chips" user who befriended his daughter on [=YouCast=].
* ''Film/LayerCake'': At the end, it's revealed that the ecstacy pills stolen by the Duke and his gang was only a fraction of the output produced by the Serbian operation, as their warehouse houses a full-scale industrial production room behind another door.
* ''Film/TheHobbitTheDesolationOfSmaug'': Gandalf confronts the Necromancer at Dol Guldur. At first a mass of shadowy magic assaults Gandalf, but then the Necromancer appears to reveal his true identity: [[spoiler:the shadow of an armored figure, surrounded by fire that forms the iconic image of a massive flaming eye. The Necromancer wasn't one of Sauron's pawns, as the audience might've expected, but ''Sauron himself'']].
* ''Film/It2017'' has a meta example for those who aren't familiar with the book, or with the exact nature of the adaptation: at the end of the film, the title "IT" appears on the dark background, the shot [[{{Beat}} lingers for just a moment too long]]...and then the words "[[SequelHook Chapter]] [[ToBeContinued One]]" appear beneath it. Turns out Pennywise isn't quite as dead as the Losers might have hoped...
* ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'': The only evidence Jason has to who he is was a SwissBankAccount number. So, at the Swiss Bank, Jason learns his true identity from his US passport in his safety deposit box. He thinks he's starting to figure out everything... until he takes the top layer off and discovers a pistol and passports from several foreign nations all featuring his photo and different aliases.
* ''Film/Joker2019'':
** The entire sequence where we flash back to Arthur and Sophie together, which reveals that she was never with him in the first place.
** For people familiar with Batman lore, the Waynes come out of a theater showing ''Zorro, the Gay Blade''. This ends up segueing into [[DeathByOriginStory Bruce's tragic origin story]].
* ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'':
** In the first [[TheStinger stinger]], Robotnik is seemingly helpless with no way back home. Then he pulls up a tube containing one of Sonic's quills, suggesting he'll be back sooner than later.
** A big one for the fans. In the mid-credits scene, a new ring portal opens up somewhere in the forest. Who's the first person we see leap out of it? None other than Miles "Tails" Prower.
** Another one for the fans closer to the beginning of the movie: when we see Sonic as a child, his power makes him a target to plenty who want to use it for nefarious ends. The ones that attempt to abduct Sonic are none other than the Echidna Tribe, the [[PosthumousCharacter previously extinct tribe]] of which another classic character, Knuckles, is the LastOfHisKind.
* ''Film/JojoRabbit'': Jojo chases a butterfly through the town square, keeping his head down, and when he stands up after it flies away, we see his mother's feet dangling next to him, having been [[KilledOffscreen hanged by the Gestapo]] for being a member of the resistance.
* In ''Film/CriesFromTheHeart'', Michael types three letters on the keyboard. There's a shot of Terry gasping in shock, and then a close-up of the computer screen with the letters "[[RapeAsDrama SEX]]."
* ''Film/GoliathAwaits'': The divers are pretty surprised when they reach a ship that sunk over forty years ago and see a live woman staring at them out of a porthole.
* ''Film/{{Knowing}}'': John finally tracks down the final piece of Lucinda's prediction, namely who is going to die in a just a few days: [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Everyone Else]].
* ''Film/LakeMungo'': The video recovered from Alice's cell phone from her class trip to Lake Mungo that throws everything about the film and what her family has gone through on its head. To clarify, the video is of [[YourDaysAreNumbered a figure that appears to be Alice's own corpse coming at her.]]

* Film/LakeMungo: The video recovered from Alice's cell phone from her class trip to Lake Mungo that throws everything about the film and what her family has gone through on its head. To clarify, the video is of [[YourDaysAreNumbered a figure that appears to be Alice's own corpse coming at her.]]

** When Ralph sees Vanellope's picture on the side of ''Sugar Rush'''s gaming console, meaning that she's ''not'' TheMissingno as he has been lead to believe, but a legitimate character who was unfairly cut out of the game.

%%* The manufacturer's label on the cork board, and later the bottom of the smashed coffee cup, in ''Film/TheUsualSuspects''.

** Earlier, the shot where Ant-Man turns to giant size at the airport (especially since there had been no foreshadowing that he could do this up to this point).

** Earlier, when Thanos and Gamora search for the Soul Stone on another world, its hooded guardian steps forward to reveal himself as the Red Skull.

* In the trailer of ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'', the first half is narrated by Creator/ScarlettJohansson, leaving many viewers confused, until...
-->'''[=ScarJo=]:''' Let go of your fear now...\\
''(shot of Mowgli standing before a truly massive snake)''\\
'''[[GenderFlip Kaa]]:''' And trusssssst...in me.

* The trailer for ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' shows a brief scene depicting [[spoiler:''Burning Godzilla''.]]

* The 1968 cowboy western ''Shalako'' opens a scene with a bunch of cowboys loudly and raucously whooping and making noises at a cougar to scare and drive it off, then cuts to, of all people, '''Creator/BrigitteBardot'''!! dressed in fancy, European hunting clothes and a silk top-hat and wielding a rifle, which she fires and kills the cougar.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHI6Hl7FUqA Jesus Christ, it's Henry Fonda!]]

* The trailer for ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' shows a brief scene depicting [[spoiler:Burning Godzilla.]]

* The [[TheStinger mid-credits scene]] from ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'' has a MASSIVE one for the fans: we cut to a remote cliffside overlooking the town of Green Hills, where wind begins to swirl ominously. A ring portal opens... and none other than ''Miles "Tails" Prower'' steps out of it, [[SequelHook holding a device that he's using to search for Sonic]].

* The [[TheStinger mid-credits scene]] from ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2020'' has a MASSIVE one for the fans: we cut to a remote cliffside overlooking the town of Green Hills, where wind begins to swirl ominously. A ring portal opens... and none other than ''Miles "Tails" Prower'' steps out of it, [[SequelHook holding a device that he's using to search for Sonic]].

%%* The shot of [[DeadAllAlong Mother]] in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''.

%%* The manufacturer's label on the corkboard, and later the bottom of the smashed coffee cup, in ''Film/TheUsualSuspects''.

** For people familiar with Batman lore, the Waynes come out of a theater showing ''Zorro, the Gay Blade''. This ends up segueing into [[DeathByOriginStory Bruce's tragic origin story]].

* In ''Disney/WreckItRalph''

* ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'s'' musical number "A Girl Worth Fighting For" abruptly ends mid-lyrics when the soldiers arrive at a village razed by the Huns. And then that gets one-upped when they see the battlefield where General Li's entire army was massacred.
* ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'': Hans stopping just inches away from Anna's lips to kiss her and revive her of her frozen heart, then giving a rather scary grin, which not only alerts Anna, but also the whole audience, that something is not right.
* ''Disney/FrozenII'':

* ''Disney/{{Moana}}'' has two back-to-back.

** For people familiar with Batman lore, the Waynes come out of a theater showing ''Zorro, the Gay Blade''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHI6Hl7FUqA Jesus Christ, it's Henry Fonda!]]

* In ''Film/TheTerminator'', Sarah Connor is talking to her mother over the phone. As she's telling her the number for the place she's at, we cut to the other end of the line...and it's ''the Terminator'', mimicking her mother's voice.
* In ''Film/TerminatorGenisys'', John Connor is shot dead by "Pops", who even bleeds...But then the blood turns to {{Nanomachines}}, revealing he's now a robot.

* ''Film/TheBourneIdentity'': The only evidence Jason has to who he is was a SwissBankAccount number. So, at the Swiss Bank, Jason learns his true identity from his US passport in his safety deposit box. He thinks he's starting to figure out everything... until he takes the top layer off and discovers a pistol and passports from several foreign nations all featuring his photo and different aliases.

* ''Film/It2017'' has a meta example for those who aren't familiar with the book, or with the exact nature of the adaptation: at the end of the film, the title "IT" appears on the dark background, the shot [[{{Beat}} lingers for just a moment too long]]...and then the words "[[SequelHook Chapter]] [[ToBeContinued One]]" appear beneath it. Turns out Pennywise isn't quite as dead as the Losers might have hoped...

* ''Film/It2017'' has a meta example for those who aren't familiar with the books, or with the exact nature of the adaptation: at the end of the film, the title "IT" appears on the dark background, the shot [[{{Beat}} lingers for just a moment too long]]...and then the words "[[SequelHook Chapter]] [[ToBeContinued One]]" appear beneath it. [[Film/ItChapterTwo Turns out Pennywise isn't quite as dead as the Losers might have hoped...]]