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* ''ChildsPlay 1'' didn't really have a WhamLine per se, but the first words to ever come out of Chucky's mouth shocked many audience members the first time.
---> You stupid BITCH!!! You filthy slut, I'll teach you to FUCK WITH ME!!!
* ''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."
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** [[ItWasHisSled The most famous]] WhamLine of all: [[Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack "No,]] [[LukeIAmYourFather I am your father!"]]
*** Unfortunately, [[ItWasHisSled the fact the line is so well known]] tends to reduce the effect.
** To a lesser extent, ''"No, {{there is another}}"''.
** Also to a lesser extent, ''"Everything that has transpired has done so according to [[TheChessmaster my]] [[OhCrap design]]!"''
* ''Film/ThePrincessBride'': "...when I hired Vizzini to have her murdered..."
* ''Film/TheMatrix'': "What good is a phone call... if [[WipeThatSmileOffYourFace you are unable to speak]]?"
** ''TheMatrixReloaded'': "This will be the 6th time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it".
* ''Film/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. Film/SoylentGreen [[ImAHumanitarian is made out of people]]."
* ''{{Rebecca}}'': "[[spoiler:I ''hated'' her!]]"
* ''HotelRwanda'': "Cut the tall trees! Cut the tall trees now!"
** Also doubles as a RealLife wham line since it also marked the beginning of the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the deaths of over ''one million'' civilians.
* ''Film/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.
* ''Film/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."
* ''Film/WhatEverHappenedToBabyJane''
-->'''Blanche:''' I watched you get out of the car and...I wanted to run you down. Crush you.
* ''Film/TheSixthSense'': "ISeeDeadPeople."
** "Why did you leave me?"
* ''Film/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?
* ''Film/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: [[spoiler: "He's been poisoning your medicine!"]]
*** Actually, right before that was [[spoiler: "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]]."
* ''Film/{{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."
* ''Film/{{Memento}}'': "Sammy didn't have a wife."
** There's also this exchange:
-->'''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!''"
* ''{{Hostel}}'': "Pay me? I pay THEM!"
* ''Film/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.
** ''"Hello, Mr. Hindle"''.
* ''Film/{{Orphan}}'': "Tell him the little girl in that picture [[spoiler: 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: "[[TheKillerInMe There never was an Aaron, Counselor]]."
* ''Film/CharliesAngels''
-->'''Dylan:''' [spelling with Scrabble letters] Enemy.
-->'''Knox:''' [kisses her] I know.
* ''Film/{{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.
* ''Film/BladeRunner'' provides an interesting example of how one line can affect a whole scene. When Roy Batty finally meets his maker, 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.
* From the movie ''Explorers'': "Ehhhh, what's up, Doc?"
* ''Film/RedEye'': "Just keeping the focus on you and your father."
* ''Film/MysteryTeam'': "Let's all just take a chill pill."
* For laughs: Creator/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 Music/TheBeatles movie ''Film/{{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."
* ''Film/TheHouseOfTheDevil'': "You're not the babysitter?"
* The line from ''{{Film/Iron Man|1}}'' that founded the entire Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and changed 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. [I'm] NickFury, Director of SHIELD. I'm here to talk to you about the [[Film/TheAvengers Avenger Initiative]].
** And before that: "I am ''ComicBook/IronMan''." It's not the line itself, but the fact that Tony Stark delivered it ''in front of a live audience''.
** Throughout the film, PhilCoulson struggles with introducing his department as the [[OverlyLongName Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division]]. At the end of the film, he shortens it with: "Just call us {{SHIELD}}."
** In ''Film/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!"
** ''Film/TheAvengers''
--> '''Steve Rogers:''' Doctor Banner, now might be a really good time for you to get angry.
--> '''Bruce Banner:''' That's my secret, Captain. [[spoiler:[[TranquilFury I'm always angry]]]].
** There's also a small funny one near the beginning, not so much for the audience as for that poor mobster...
--> '''Black Widow''': I'm in the middle of an interrogation, this moron is giving me everything.
*** And later, in the same vein: "So that's your play?"
** "''Phase 2'' is SHIELD uses the Tesseract to build weapons!"
* ''Film/GIJoeTheRiseOfCobra'':
-->'''Rex''': ''The time has come for [[TitleDrop the Cobra to rise]]. You will call me... '''Commander'''.''
* ''Film/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.
* ''Film/RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes'': "[[BigNo No!]]" [[spoiler: Caesar the chimpanzee's first spoken word.]]
* And what is ''TheMiracleOfMorgansCreek'' that's got the whole state in such a tizzy? "Six! All boys!"
* ''StageDoor'': [[spoiler: "It's Kay. She jumped before I could stop her."]]
* ''Film/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."]]
** "''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.]]
* ''Witness for the Prosecution'' has two: "You didn't do it alone," followed shortly by [[spoiler: "I knew he was guilty!"]]
* From ''PhantasmOblivion'':
--> '''Mike'''"So when's he coming back?"
--> '''Jody''' "Jebediah Morningside [[CameBackWrong never does come back]]..."
* ''TheParentTrap'', from the 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 '''Film/TalesFromTheDarksideTheMovie'', "Lover's Vow":
-->'''Carola/[[spoiler: The Gargoyle]]:''' YOU PROMISED NEVER TO TELL!
* ''[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey]]'':
-->'''HAL 9000:''' [[foldercontrol]]

[[folder: I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that. ]]

* Delivered by [[spoiler: [[SixthRangerTraitor Sentinel Prime]]]] in ''Film/TransformersDarkOfTheMoon''.
--> [[spoiler: '''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]]''.
* ''Den Osynlige'' (but clumsily ruined in its ForeignRemake, TheInvisible): "I'm [[spoiler: alive]]!"
* ''Film/FightClub'' 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.
** ''"Is that a pretty accurate description of our relationship, Tyler?"''
* ''Film/{{Downfall}}'': "Steiner couldn't raise enough men."
* ''{{Tootsie}}'': "I'm ''Edward'' Kimberly"!
* ''BridgeToTerabithia:'' [[spoiler: "Your friend Leslie's dead."]]
* ''Film/TheWave:'' "Here is your leader!" (shows a recording of none other than AdolfHitler)
* Not apparent to the audience at first, but in Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/{{Batman}}'', the Joker's favorite PreMortemOneLiner serves as this to Bruce. [[spoiler: They were the same words the mugger said to young Bruce after murdering his parents.]]
-->'''Joker:''' Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?
-->'''Bruce:''' ''...What... ?''
* From ''InBruges'', revealing the cause for the events in the film:
--> '''Priest''': [[spoiler: The little boy...]]
** Another, although it's not so much the line itself as the way it's phrased. [[spoiler: For clarification, Harry is using the past tense to refer to Ray, subtly ordering Ken to kill him.]]
---> '''Harry''': [[spoiler: 'Cause he wasn't a bad kid, was he?]]
* ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' features several:
** When Bane first comes face-to-face with Batman:
--->'''Bane:''' Let's not stand on ceremony here... Mister Wayne.
** Soon after:
--->'''Bane:''' I will show you where I have made my home, then I will break you. ''[hits a detonator, causing a Tumbler to fall through the ceiling]'' Your precious armory! Gratefully accepted! We will need it. ''[Mercenaries raid Applied Sciences]''
** And later in the film,
--->'''Prisoner''': [[spoiler:The child of Ra's al Ghul.]]
** And soon after,
--->[[spoiler:'''Ra's al Ghul''': Did you not think I would return, Bruce? I told you I was immortal.]]
** Before the climax:
--->'''Batman:''' [''about the Pit''] You think you're the only one who could learn the strength to escape it? Where's the trigger?
--->'''Bane:''' [[spoiler:But I never escaped.]]
** In the climax:
--->[[spoiler:'''Talia''']]: But he's not the child. And though I'm not ordinary, I'm a ''citizen''.
** Plus a truly awesome one in the denouement, to Detective John Blake:
--->'''Clerk''': You should use your full name. I like that name: [[spoiler:Robin.]]
* From ''[[BabyGeniuses Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2]]''
-->'''Bill Biscane:''' What? Did you think I went though all this trouble just because Dad liked you best?
* ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'': "Come now. You really think you're the only one who can play this game?" This serves as the audience's warning that [[spoiler:Holmes' ability to plan his strategy before the fight won't help him this time.]]
* ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade'':
--> '''Henry Jones, Sr.''': Well, I didn't trust her. Why did you?
--> [[spoiler: '''Walter Donovan''': [[BigBadFriend Because he didn't take my advice.]]]]
* ''Film/ABeautifulMind'': [[spoiler: John lived alone in college.]]
* ''[[Franchise/{{Terminator}} Terminator 2: Judgement Day]]'': it's near the end, but damn, is it a Viewer Punch.
--> '''T-850''': There is another chip. And it also must be destroyed.
** Another one early on. The villain of the first film appears in front of young John Connor and points a shotgun at him, before yelling "Get down!" and firing at the cop approaching from behind. Turns out he's the good guy this time.
* ''Film/{{Prometheus}}'': "It's not exactly a traditional fetus."
* ''Film/{{Goldfinger}}'': [[spoiler: "Who mentioned anything about removing it?"]]
* Film/{{Skyfall}}: "Well, my name is Eve. Eve [[spoiler:[[AdaptationalBadass Moneypenny]]]]."
* ''Film/{{Saw}}'': After the whole situation is resolved, Leigh Wanell's character finds a tape recorder, [[spoiler: left by Zepp]], and plays it. [[spoiler: "Hello Zepp", says Jigsaw, revealing Zepp was just another pawn in the killer's game]]. One of the few wham lines ever to be featured as a track title on a soundtrack.
* ''Film/{{Clue}}'': "I shot her." --[[spoiler:Wadsworth]].
** From early on in the film: "[Mr. Boddy's] secret? Oh, haven't you guessed? He's the one who's blackmailing you."
* Two after the climax of ''Film/KarateWarriors'', both from Chico (Creator/ShinichiChiba). The first, after catching the kid he'd protected for much of the film tossing expensive heroin in the ocean (under the mistaken assumption that they were the ashes of his deceased father), is "You stupid kid, these weren't his ashes!" Then, just over one minute later, Chico proceeds to confess to him, "The way your father died... I want you to know the truth: ''I killed him.''"
* ''Film/SleepawayCamp'': Angela. Such a lovely name. Why I believe it means 'angel'! Why, yes, I'm ''sure'' it does! [[spoiler: I know you're going to like that name, [[UnsettlingGenderReveal won't you Peter?]]]]
* ''Film/TheCiderHouseRules'' : [[spoiler: Mister Rose is the father.]]
* ''Film/{{Maverick}}'': In the final scene; reveals who the real [[TheChessMaster chessmasters]] [[XanatosGambit are:]]
--->'''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!''
* ''{{Apollo 13}}'': "Houston, we are venting something out into space."
* ''WhenAStrangerCalls'': "Jill, this is sergeant Sacker. Listen to me. We've traced the call... it's coming from inside the house."
* ''PiratesOfTheCaribbean: At World's End'': During the meeting of the Brethren Court, the pirate captains vote for who should be the Pirate King. As usual, each captain votes for himself (or herself, in the case of Elizabeth and Mistress Ching). Then Captain Jack Sparrow casually says "Elizabeth Swann", giving Elizabeth two votes, where everyone else has only one, [[SheIsTheKing making her the new Pirate King]].
* In ''MortalThoughts'', Demi Moore is being interrogated by police about the murder of her best friend's husband. She is asked about the time of an event, and says "when they found my husband's body," revealing for the first time that ''two'' people are dead.
* ''ThePrestige'' has two: [[spoiler:"A brother? [[AlwaysIdenticalTwins A twin?"]]]] and the following exchange, though, like the ''Advent Children'' example above, the Wham factor is due to who says the line.
--> '''Borden''': ''You must be -''
--> '''[[spoiler:Angier]]''': ''Lord Caldlow. Yes, I am. I always have been.''
* From ''Film/{{Psycho}}'':
--> '''Sheriff Al Chambers:''' [[spoiler: Norman Bates's mother]] has been dead and buried in Greenlawn Cenetery for the past ten years.
* In ''Film/{{Oldboy}}'', Oh Dae-Su confronts the man who imprisoned him for 15 years which leads to this:
--> '''Lee Woo-Jin:''' You keep asking me why I locked you up. You should be asking "Why did I let you out?"
* ''Film/TheTallMan'':
--> [[spoiler:'''David, to Mrs. Johnson''']]: "Mommy!"
* ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'' goes from a usual heist film to something else altogether when Kobayashi walks in and says "I work for Keyser Soze."
* ''Film/{{Sunshine}}'' :
--> Icarus: [[spoiler:'''Fire in the oxygen garden.''']]
* ''The Franchise/EvilDead'', 2013 Remake.
-->[[spoiler:'''Ash'''- Groovy. (Turns and looks at camera)]]
* ''Franchise/JurassicPark''
--> '''Alan Grant:''' You breed raptors?
* ''Film/{{Oblivion 2013}}'' :
** [[spoiler:"I'm your wife."]]
** "No. We are not an effective team."
* ''Film/{{Airplane}}''
-->'''Dr. Rumack''': "Every passenger on this plane who had fish for dinner will become violently ill in the next half hour"
* In StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan, there are three, relatively close to one another.
** The first is when Chekhov and his team are examining a ship's wreckage on the planet under consideration as a test site for the Genesis Device, and he comes across a belt buckle with the name "Botany Bay" written on it
--> *confused, and slightly worried* "...Botany Bay?" *a look of horrified realization comes across his face* "Botany Bay! Oh no!" *full blown panic* "We've got to get out of here now!"
** This is followed shortly, by Khan confronting Chekhov, and explaining the dire situation he and his men face, and features two by Khan himself:
-->'''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!]] [[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''?"
** Also, who can forget this gem from Kirk:
--> "[[MagnificentBastard I don't believe in the no-win scenario]]."
** And lastly, while the audience already knows about [[spoiler:Spock's sacrifice]], it certainly counts as one to Kirk:
--> '''Kirk''': "Engine room, well done, Scotty."
--> '''Bones''': "[[TearJerker Jim... I think you'd better get down here]]."
--> '''Kirk''': "Bones?"
--> *the screen flashes to [[spoiler:Spock's chair, which is empty]]*
--> '''Bones''': "...Better hurry."

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