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* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Volume 3 ends with the camera panning up a carved rock staircase to focus on the back of the Female Narrator as she completes the conversation she and [[BigGood Ozpin]] have in the pilot episode. It shows off a symbol on her back, her white hair, and white arms covered in TaintedVeins as she gazes across a strange, mystically dark and foreboding landscape. At the end of her speech, she turns around to face the camera, revealing a Grimm-white face with the black sclera and glowing red eyes of the Grimm.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'', Shrek at one point actually has a nightmare about being smothered by [[WaveOfBabies thousands of baby ogres]], and as soon as he wakes up from the nightmare, he tells Donkey and Puss-in-Boots all about his dream, only to find out that they too have baby ogre faces, therefore causing the ogre to wake up from his dream for real.
-->'''Donkey:''' (with a baby ogre face, and speaking in a demonic-sounding voice) [[NightmareFace Da-da!!!]]
* ''WesternAnimation/DeadSpaceDownfall''. A handsome man is lying with his head resting against a bulkhead. Then his head falls sideways to reveal he's a corpse with half his skull chewed off.

Not to be confused with anything related to FaceHeelTurn or HeelFaceTurn.

* An excellent example is in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. Not a zombie ([[spoiler: still a corpse though a lifeless, immobile one as they should be]]), but definitely a 'Face Revealing Turn.' A similar technique is seen in the [[ScreamerTrailer magnificently confusing trailer]] for the horror film ''Film/Suspiria1977''.

** Entry 31 does it again when Jay keeps spotting a guy in a hoodie on the same nature trail as him. He eventually just walks right up to the guy, who turns around to reveal [[spoiler: an ordinary guy we've never seen before who couldn't hear Jay because of his headphones.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' has the episode "Our Founding Losers", in which the duo imagines being in the United States during important points in its' history. In one instance, Butt-Head imagines going into a town building, and sees what appears to be UsefulNotes/BetsyRoss sewing the American flag. Butt-Head approaches her while her face is turned away, and does his usual flirtatious "Hey, baby!" pickup line. But then [[spoiler: "she" turns her head to reveal that it's actually Beavis, who responds with his own usual pickup line: "Hey, How's it going?"]] Freaked out, a horrified Butt-Head immediately stops flirting, [[CatapultNightmare and wakes up in shock]].

* When Reenie of ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'' fame snoops around [[BigBad Papa]] [[HumanoidAbomination Lazarou's]] lair she hears a faint cry and sees the figure of apparently a little girl that for some reason is facing the wall and crying. Instead of finding it the least bit unsettling or suspicious that a kid is there, she chooses to go all the way to following horror cliches and starts to approach the kid all the while speaking gently and protectively. The figure then turns, and she has to suffer not only the shocking displeasure of seeing the leering, ugly face of one of Lazarou's [[DepravedDwarf midget minions]] but also the indignity of hearing his gloating who greatly lampshades her cluelessness by sneering:

* When Reenie from the ''TheLeagueOfGentlemen'' fame snoops around [[BigBad Papa]] [[HumanoidAbomination Lazarou's]] lair she hears a faint cry and sees the figure of apparently a little girl that for some reason is facing the wall and crying. Instead of finding it the least bit unsettling or suspicious that a kid is there, she chooses to go all the way to following horror cliches and starts to approach the kid all the while speaking gently and protectively. The figure then turns and she has to suffer not only the shocking displeasure of seeing the leering, ugly face of one of Lazarou's [[DepravedDwarf midget minions]] but also the indignity of hearing his gloating who greatly lampshades her cluelessness by sneering
-->''I can't believe that you fell for that.''
* This was lampshaded in an episode of ''Series/{{Monk}}'' in a sequence that was a homage to ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. Entering a suspected killer's creepy old house and finding it empty, Monk goes upstairs and finds the killer's mother sitting in a rocking chair with her back to him. Even Monk, who doesn't watch TV, instantly knows what happens next. ''"Oh my God, you're dead aren't you."''

* On ''Series/TheStrainTVSeries'', Zack is keeping watch over Nora's mother while the others are fighting the Strigoi. Mrs. Martinez sends Zack to the store to get her some cigarettes. After a harrowing series of encounters, he returns to her with the cigarettes and finds her turned away from him. She then turns around...[[SubvertedTrope and is perfectly fine.]]
* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': In the episode "Heart", Dean confronts a werewolf, only for her to turn around and not only reveal her werewolf face but the fact that she's Madison, Sam's LoveInterest for the week.

* ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'' features one for the introduction of the Princess of Greenhorne. Of course, because [[HelloInsertNameHere literally every character in the game is a Mii that can be customized at will]], this trope can be PlayedForLaughs at the player's discretion, especially if they choose a face that is [[ButterFace extremely ugly]] and/or [[LadyLooksLikeADude disproportionally masculine]]. For example, the beautiful princess turns out to be...[[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/284/260/f40.gif Hank]] [[WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill Hill]]?!

* ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButtHead'' has the episode "Our Founding Losers", in which the duo imagines being in the United States during important points in its' history. In one instance, Butt-Head imagines going into a town building, and sees what appears to be UsefulNotes/BetsyRoss sewing the American flag. Butt-Head approaches her while her face is turned away, and does his usual flirtatious "Hey, baby!" pickup line. But then [[spoiler: "she" turns her head to reveal that it's actually Beavis, who responds with his own usual pickup line: "Hey, How's it going?"]] Freaked out, Butt-Head immediately stops flirting is horrified, [[CatapultNightmare and wakes up in shock]].

* In the premiere of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', our hero John Crichton is pulled onto a vast alien spacecraft whose droids bring him to TheBridge where a man and a woman are crouching over consoles and loudly in an incomprehensible alien language. Then the two aliens turn to face him--one a HumanoidAlien with tentacles for hair, the other a [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue Skinned Space Babe]]--and it really sinks in that he's not in Kansas anymore.

* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' has an early episode in which Courage is opening doors in an apartment building and seeing scary things, only for one door to reveal a young girl facing the opposite wall while playing violin. And then [[NightmareFace she turns around to scream]].

* ''Webcomic/YuGiOhCardGameGustoFanComic'': Done by Esper Girl in [[http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=manga&illust_id=28983678 #40]], as an homage to Irisu Syndrome.

* At the beginning of the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "The Conscience of the King", we are introduced to a scientist who is acquainted with Kirk. We only see the right side of his face for five minutes, until he talks about surviving a massacre by Kodos the Executioner and "the bloody thing he did", at which point he turns and we see that the left side of his face is covered by a patch, presumably a result of something that happened during the incident that earned Kodos his moniker.
* In ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', Captain Picard does one of these in "The Best of Both Worlds" to reveal that [[OhCrap he's been assimilated by the Borg]]. Picard finds himself on the receiving end in ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' with an assimilated Lieutenant Hawk.

** An InvertedTrope in "Unity". Chakotay is rescued by an apparently human woman, but he sneaks out of his room to see his rescuers have Borg implants. A bald woman with implants on the back of her head then turns around to reveal the face of his rescuer. She's a RogueDrone who was [[PleaseKeepYourHatOn hiding her implants under a wig]].
** In "The Killing Game", the crew have been brainwashed to believe they are characters in a holodeck program set in World War 2. We see the flowing blonde hair of TheChanteuse singing a sultry torch song, before she turns her head to reveal Seven of Nine, an IceQueen whose hair is normally done up in a tight pleat.

** PlayedForDrama rather than horror when Bran witnesses Jaime having doggy-sex with an unknown blonde, who then lifts her head to reveal [[VillainousIncest Jamie's sister]], Queen Cersei.

** In Season 3, Stannis' daughter is introduced lying on her side in bed singing to herself. It's only after she runs up and hugs her father that the audience sees that the other side of her face is disfigured by greyscale.

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': In "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS1E24And25TwoFutures Two Futures]]", a non-monster example occurs; Wheeler keeps himself from joining the team to avoid an early death. Gaia coerces MAL into showing him what this change did to the world. As Wheeler emerges from the time stream in Ma-Ti's neighborhood, he initially fails to see a beggar with his back turned. When the beggar turns around, he sees that it's Ma-Ti, thirty years older and much sadder after his people's lives were destroyed along with the rainforest.

* In the premiere of ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', our hero John Crichton is pulled onto a vast alien spacecraft whose droids bring him to TheBridge where a man and a woman are crouching over consoles and shouting loudly in an incomprehensible alien language. Then the two aliens turn to face him--one a HumanoidAlien with tentacles for hair, the other a [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Blue Skinned Space Babe]]--and it really sinks in that he's not in Kansas anymore.

* ''VideoGame/SweetHome'' has several enemies that use this: they appear human from behind, but then turn their heads to reveal their horribly shredded faces. [[spoiler: One also appears in the best ending...]]

** In [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory1 the first film]], Woody hears something in the dark while in Sid's room and and points the flashlight at a baby doll's head. Said doll looks fine initially, but then it turns to reveal its missing eye and spider-like Erector Set body.

* Used perhaps most famously in the music video for Music/{{Thriller}}.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory'', Woody hears something in the dark while in Sid's room and and points the flashlight at a baby doll's head. Said doll looks fine initially, but then it turns to reveal its missing eye and spider-like Erector Set body.
** In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', the gang disposes of Stinky Pete by strapping him to a little girl's backpack next to a Barbie. The Barbie chirpily tells him that they'll have so much fun when they get back to her little girl, and turns her head, revealing that half her hair is missing and half her face has been scribbled on. To that toy, who was pretty much obsessed with staying in mint condition so he could be preserved in a museum, this counted as a FateWorseThanDeath.