History Main / RevealShot

** The film first reveals the full size of the submarine this way. [[TruthInTelevision The "Typhoons" really are big submarines -- biggest ever built]]. Combined with glorious SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic, this scene ranks as one of the best moments in the film.

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' had one episode where Charlie and Mac got a mail room gig to qualify for the company's health benefits. Mac dumps all the responsibilties on Charlie, who then does... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nTpsv9PNqo this]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'': In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E7ChumBucketListBigBabyPatrick Chum Bucket List]]", when Patrick wants to "see one last beautiful sunset", we see SpongeBob and Patrick sitting in chairs in front of a sunset. Then it zooms out to show it's a billboard in the middle of a toxic waste dump.

* ''Series/BreakingBad''.
** In the season 4 finale ”Face Off” we first see Hector Salamanca repeatedly ring his call bell while angrily staring at his old rival Gustavo Fring. At first Gus is confused, but as the camera goes lower we see that the bell is connected to [[spoiler:a pipe bomb which then proceeds to blow up both Hector and Gus. However after the explosion, Gus calmly walks out of the room seemingly unscathed. But as the camera pans closer to him, it's revealed that half of his face got blown off.]]

-->'''Dave''': Apparently he was also a devoted member of the Ku Klux Klan. A fact I learned only moments ago. Sure wish someone had mentioned it.

* ''Franchise/{{Tintin}}'': In ''The Broken Ear'', Tintin and General Alcazar are apparently having an in-depth political discussion in his office. Tintin remarks seriously, "It's a difficult position," and there are several close-up panels of the two of them deep in thought. Then the panel pans out, and the General exclaims, "Checkmate!"

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* On an episode of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', after a scene transition, a shot of the main characters' house is shown. Then the camera zooms out to reveal that the shot was just a ''framed picture'' of the characters' house. A definite RewatchBonus.
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratoryEgoTrip'': When Number Twelve is summoned by his boss, the camera makes a point to not show his face as he's getting dressed, until he steps out of the shadows to show it's Mandark. The build up, however, is ruined by Mandark's voice being recognizable.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In "Quack Pack", Huey asks his family if they've ever had a proper look at the [[FourthWallPsych fourth wall]], whereupon he, Louie, Della, and Scrooge all look at the camera. Then a Reveal Shot shows they're staring at an in-universe studio audience and camera crew.

** When Bender's worried that a bureaucrat he insulted is standing behind him. Cue the Reveal Shot and that bureaucrat saying that she is in fact, [[BehindTheBlack in front of him, less than a foot away]].
** In "Less Than Hero", Leela flushes a letter down to her parents in the sewer, and the camera pans to Fry and Bender behind her.

** In "Bender's Big Score", when in the middle of a conversation, Mr. Panucci mentions a seafaring relative. The angle widens to show said relative had been standing behind him the whole time.
* Works for villains as well as heroes: The 1980s cartoon ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' did this. Eric is about to tell the small crowd that he has that "The Misfits" are the winners of the first annual Starlight "Battle of the Bands" -- but before he can, new music is heard -- and the crowd goes off in that direction. The camera pans out to show "Jem and the Holograms" performing for the first time.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' Similar to the ''Tintin'' example, two heroes are in conversation:

''[pull back to show they're playing ''Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots'']''\\

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "A Tattler's Tale", Lincoln is snooping around the twins' room trying to find a secret about Lola, then he hears Lola coming and becomes alarmed. Lola enters and shouts, "BUSTED!", then a zoom-out reveals she was actually directing her attention at her teddy bear sitting at the tea table.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In "Dragonshy", there's a scene where Fluttershy (whose wings have locked in fright) makes a big deal about not daring to jump over a chasm after the others. From all the shots so far, it looks like the chasm is pretty wide, though the other ponies clear it easily. When Fluttershy finally gets enough courage to try, Twilight Sparkle says a DontLookDown right in the middle, which [[GravityIsAHarshMistress somehow]] seemingly causes Fluttershy's jump to terminate in the middle because she gets frightened. She falls -- and the camera pans out to show both sides of the chasm at once for the first time, showing that the chasm is narrow enough that she's just left with with her back hooves on one edge of it and front hooves on the other. It's still not a short jump to make, she has to stretch her legs to do that, but the perspective earlier made it seem much longer.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': At the end of "Shanghaied", the group is supposedly sent home from the grasp of the Flying Dutchman after [=SpongeBob=] wishes he was a vegetarian. The camera pans out from [=SpongeBob=]'s pineapple house only to reveal that it's a ''real'' pineapple, and they've all been turned into fruit and stuck inside a giant blender.