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• And Shine Heaven Now got a Wham Episode in when it's revealed that Jeeves is working with Millennium.
  • Then later subverted when it turns out it's an I-Jin of Jeeves.
• Angels 2200 has a few:
  • Hammer's apparent death while trying to escape the Ellie Arroway, as well as the revelation of an apparently devastating plan by the colonial rebels
  • In the last battle of the first part, Loser being accidentally killed by Whiskey, Corona Squad being all but annihilated in seconds, Hammer being revealed as alive, Bubblegum leaving the ship with Toat, and the Icebreaker squad being disbanded.
• In Arthur, King of Time and Space, there was a Wham Episode before the first Time Skip, with Merlin's death in the MASH and Contemporary arcs. Before the second Time Skip, there was a Wham week. Mark kills Tristram and Isolde in the baseline arc! And the space arc! And the Western arc! And then in the contemporary arc, where there hadn't been any violence previously! And then the heavily foreshadowed Karmic Death of the semi-evil False Guenevere is mirrored with the Unkarmic Death of her not-at-all-evil contemporary counterpart Fasha.
  • After the second Time Skip, we open with a Wham Episode, although in this case a positive one. You thought Arthur's role as CEO of Excalicorp was the equivalent of being High King? Nope, he's standing for President.
• Aurora: Chapter 7 has not only the reveal that the entity possessing Erin is what killed the Primordials, it created all of humanity for the sole purpose of giving it pawns to free it.
• Ava's Demon: The end of chapter two, wherein Ava dies.
• Bastard: Chapters 54 and 55 when Jin flips out and takes down Faye Kim, the other murderer, and Chapter 83 when Dongsoo kills Manny and Mandeuk.
• Bittersweet Candy Bowl: Chapter 51, where Lucy finally works up the courage to tell Mike she loves him... only for him to reject her on account of him already having a girlfriend. Possibly WORSE is Chapter 69, where Mike finally gets sick of Lucy's awful behavior towards him and completely destroys their friendship, leaving her nearly broken inside. Keep in mind that nearly the entire comic had been built upon Mike's friendship with Lucy, and his willingness to look past her attitude to see who she really was. Yeah. WHAM.
  • Chapter 75 ends with Lucy, one of the main characters, leaving to another school.
  • Chapters 95 and 96 are a double whammy where Lucy returns to the school, reveals why she left in the first place, and declares that she wants nothing to do with Mike anymore. And if that's not enough, Abbey breaks up with Daisy, and Rachel breaks up with Paulo.
• Brawl in the Family: Strip 580 is where we find out the comic will soon end much to Kirby's chagrin.
  • The last page of the Cocoon Academy arc reveals that Pinky turned out to be Meta Knight, who narrated the whole story.
• Castlevania RPG has had two, one played for comedy, the other for grimness.
  • The comedic one: Blacula escapes his prison and turns Succubus against Team Dracula, then takes over Castlevania. The comedy comes with the general shenanigans of the cast still applying in what is otherwise a kinda serious scene.
  • The dead-serious one; While exploring some ruins while in a parallel world, the team accidentally releases an Elder God, which is just as pleasant as it sounds. In the space of only a few comics, the God brutally murders Alec and Katrina's magic chooses the absolute worst moment to go completely haywire, causing her to accidentally kill Princess. This leads to her Cat Girl curse turning her fully cat, and Angel specifically states that there's literally nothing anyone could do for her now. And to top things off, the Elder God possesses Angel. The chapter ends with Elder God=/=Angel grimly telling Darkmoon that there's nothing he can do to stop it, that everything he and the party did was ultimately pointless and ineffectual, and then calmly obliterating him. Thankfully, Darkmoon turns out to be Not Quite Dead, and manages to save the day through Playing Chess With Death and Time Travel.
• Cheap Thrills - Chapter 3: Jeordie goes on a Mushroom Samba after taking spiked mushrooms. At first, it looks like another round of "Jeordie's stupidity earns him another hard life lesson" and Jeordie's mom Elizabeth goes on the errand Jeordie was now incapable of, sharing a bonding moment with younger son Faris in the process. but that gets turned on its head when Elizabeth and Faris are killed when a semi drifts into their lane and hits them head-on.
• College Roomies from Hell!!!: Mike (possessed by Satan) finally gives in to April's advances, then brutally rejects her afterwards. April responds to this Marsha playing "pretend I'm going to slit April's throat" by running Mike through with a large knife, killing him. Arguably marks the point where CRFH hits full-on Cerebus Syndrome territory.
• Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures: Dan and his mother are literally the only Clan Cyra cubi left in all existence...
• Dead of Summer: The ending of Book 1 and the introduction of The Protomen in Book 2.
• Demon Candy: Parallel just gave a huge one as of 15.5, where Jonathan has been possessed by Citoria, who uses the poor kid's body as his vessel to attack and apparently kill Victoria in a bid to take over the underworld.
• DICE: The Cube That Changes Everything: The last parts of the War Quest. The heroes lose because teacher Kim Youngsuk manages to attack teacher Chun Sobong. Dawn have survived the previous PVP and is hunting Taebin, who has Laser-Guided Amnesia regarding him and Mooyoung Sharing a Body, willingly. Eunju finally rolls her Dice and goes on a murderous rampage, killing two people and injuring Taebin in the process.
• Digger manages a fair few. The first that the Cold Servants are Hyenas came as no surprise to most as the nature of the dead god had been so heavily foreshadowed if they turned out to be anything else people would have objected. However Ed being Grim-Eye's father although foreshadowed was foreshadowed so subtly it came out of fricking no-where as far as most readers were concerned, but makes so much sense in hindsight and is such a heartbreaking revelation it jumps right off the HSQ metre.
• Dominic Deegan, towards the end of the War In Hell story arc. Dominic, who had gained a reputation as a master strategist, seen bloody, bleeding, and crying out in vain for help was pretty jarring.
  • And just a little earlier, when he gets a vision of all the disgusting things Sigfried's father did to the Orcs, hesitates in helping Sigfried, and then gets his face smashed in. Observe.
  • Almost the entirety of the Shadow of Siegfried arc, but ''this'' one in particular, showing why Siegfried wound up in hell.
• Dragon Ball Multiverse:
  • Chapter 19 IN SPADES. King Cold transforms into his never-seen third form, and a few pages later into his fourth form. U9 Videl is seen using the Kaioken. Her sword broke, setting free the U9 Old Kai. The mysterious shadow in U3 that had appeared several chapters earlier is revealed as Dr. Raichi... Only for yet another unknown shadow to immediately appear in U3... And a few pages later, it's revealed that there's ''even another'' unseen new character at U3, U3 Bardock, who can even turn Super Saiyan. And, when everyone thought the chapter had long reached its top, Bardock has a vision of a Not Himself Vegetto attacking Gohan and Piccolo screaming that all universes are now in danger, which is then followed up on the next page with Buu in a much less solid state yelling out "This Masquerade ends now!", Frieza revealing that Ginyu might have an important part to play, Goku allying with a Cell Jr. and the Super Namek speaking! HOLY SHIT. The chapter title could not be so accurate.
  • In a much smaller degree, the U7 Special has an in-universe example, when Krillin, Bulma, and Gohan arrive on Namek... their very first encounter with a Namekian is... this.
  • Chapter 33. Vegetto finally squares off against XXI ... which ends in an epic anticlimax. This angers Vegetto enough that he nearly disqualifies himself. It angers Buu enough that he reveals he's been manipulating everyone the entire time and then he TRIES TO ABSORB EVERYONE IN THE STADIUM.
• Dumbing of Age:
  • Book 1, Chapter 6. Joyce is drugged and nearly raped by Ryan until Sarah saves the day. Unfortunately, Ryan manages to escape, and this incident has haunted Joyce ever since.
  • Book 2, Chapter 4. Sarah didn't call the cops on her roommate Dana, she called her Dad to pull her out of school out of concern for her well-being.
  • Book 4, Chapter 1. Amber beats the shit out of her father Blaine, who just kidnapped Danny to draw her out.
  • Book 5, Chapter 2. Becky got kicked out of college after being revealed as a lesbian, and ran away to Joyce's to avoid her bigoted father.
  • The entirety of Book 6. Ross kidnaps Becky at gunpoint, completely shattering Joyce's old worldview. Then Joyce is broken even further once she realizes almost half of her family are defending Ross's actions. Meanwhile, Danny and Amber are having a major falling-out over whether or not Amazi-Girl is still an ok thing for the latter to be doing. Billie and Ruth's relationship is outed to the dorm by Carla when she tries to get Ruth help for her actively worsening depression, and Ruth gets hospitalized as a suicide risk. Lastly, Amazi-Girl confronts Sal at a re-election rally for Robin DeSanto, and when the crowd begins cheering her on by insisting that Sal is a thug who must have done something wrong, she tries to de-escalate the conflict... which is sidelined when she catches a glimpse of Ryan in the crowd.
  • Book 10 goes bonkers. It starts with the Wham Shot mentioned below, where Walky finds himself (and several others) kidnapped by Blaine and Ross, who are trying to pull an "I Have Your Wife" on Amazi-Girl and blackmail her into kidnapping Becky on their behalf. To underline the threat, Blaine points out how Mike fell off a building fighting with him the other night. Unfortunately, Blaine is so convinced of Amber's worthlessness that he refuses to acknowledge his daughter is Amazi-Girl. Even after she admits it to his face. Ross, however, lets her go, since he wants his daughter back. Becky, instead of fleeing as Amazi-Amber has urged her to, turns herself in... but by now there's an Enemy Civil War as Blaine turns on Ross for letting Amber go. Blaine murders Ross. The remaining abductees escape and fight their way free with the help of a freshly arrived Amazi-Girl. Becky says her farewells to her father. Upstairs, Blaine has recovered. He takes Joyce hostage and races off in an unmarked white van... with Amazi-Girl in pursuit with the help of The Cavalry, Sal, and her motorcycle. Blaine is imprisoned in the hospital, then shot and killed by a Dirty Cop on Asher's orders. Mike is revealed to be in a coma. Oh, and, Robin resigns from her congressional race.
  • Book 11, Chapter 1 (which also serves as a soft reboot/the start of the second semester): Mike is confirmed to be dead, Walky is introduced to his new roommate Booster, Ruth and Billie have broken up and Billie (who demands to be called Jennifer now) is dating Asher, and Joyce is now an atheist.
  • Book 12, Chapter 1: Six story arcs and over a year in real time since his last appearance, Ethan is reintroduced to the story...and it's very clear he's not taking Mike's death well at all.
• Four in a goddamned row in 8-Bit Theater. The third one is, arguably, the whammiest because Fighter, for the first time in the comics 1,000+, seven-year run, has actually shown anything but admiration and love towards Black Mage; and Black Mage, for the second or third time, has shown genuine affection for White Mage.
  • And all three of them paling beside the revelation that Sarda is actually the Onion Kid, out for revenge against them for Black Mage mind raping him and killing his foster parents. Repeatedly.
  • You have to admit that the fourth one was really whammy because Black Mage actually killed Fighter. Granted, he's been threatening to do that for years, but he actually succeeded in doing it this time.
    • Ya, for all of a minute.
  • Also, the defeat of the Big Bad in Episode 1221; which was lampshaded in Episode 7; a wham with a set-up spanning the entire series.
  • Much earlier, Episode 383.
  Fighter: Black Mage? Get up and yell at me. Black Mage, GET UP. Please.
• In El Goonish Shive, "Painted Black."
  • May 31, 2010.
    Word of God: I have frequently seen Susan described as having a "bored" look on her face. For a long time now, I have seen it as something else.
  • October 12, 2016. Pandora Raven makes a Immortal vow.
• The Electric Wonderland comic "Into Thin Aerynn" brings Trawn's Conflicting Loyalty between Aerynn and Natasha to the forefront, and also casts a dark light on the difficulty of maintaining a relationship in Cyberspace compared to when people spent their lives in the real world.
• Erfworld: Depending on how far you took the "world with game-like qualities" thing, when we find out that people literally pop into existence, fully formed in cities, you might be hit as hard as Parson was.
  • Erfworld is liberally sprinkled with these, which makes it incredibly hard to predict where the story is going.
  • Page 124, where Technical Pacifist Sizemore kills Mauve Shirts Webinar and Dora. Particularly jarring because of what Webinar was trying to do when Sizemore performed the coup de grâce. And then Parson starts laughing about how he can say "hosed".
  • Back-to-back whams: Bogroll kills Ansom and then dies and Parson has Sizemore and Wanda ''uncroak the extinct volcano that Gobwin Knob is on top of wiping out most of Ansom's forces
  • Fuck... You!! That is all.
• Everyday Heroes has this literally when Jane Mighty (in her old life as "Iron Jane") discovered the truth about her team leader, Wrecking Paul: he was a serial killer who murdered her best friend right in front of her.
• The first chapter of Gaia. The world and the cast are just been introduced to the audience, the plot revolves around the main characters trying to get their fighter and wizard degrees at the local academy. There are no threats nor good reasons to put them on adventure. And then, during the academy's prom night, some masked men teleport themselves right into the prom and start a killing spree among the students and the teachers.
• Girly: It was all a lie.
• Some readers of Goblins theorized that Kore was a Fallen Paladin due to his willingness to kill harmless characters in cold blood if he perceived them as evil and because he never displayed any Paladin powers in his early appearances. So when he finally demonstrated that he is, indeed, a paladin, a lot of fan theories got jossed.
• Guilded Age:
  • Chapter 8 ends in a Total Party Kill.
  • And just four pages into Chapter 9, we learn it's all a MMORPG...Or is it?
  • Chapter 25 has one of HR's employees accidentally find his way into HR's secret lab, people jars and all. HR, who up to this point had mostly been struggling to make any real progress toward his plots, murders him in cold blood, cuts off the man's arm, and in a later chapter uses it to fuel a dark ritual that puts a copy of himself inside Arkerra.
  • Chapters 35 and 36. Rachel is erased by the corrupter beast, and Byron is captured and "killed" in a way that reawakens his Berserker Madness worse than ever before. He attacks a nearby cultist village, which the Adventurer's Guild was investigating, and spreads the Madness around. The ensuing carnage ends with the death toll in the dozens, including at the minimum Rabbit, a number of the Kickstarter characters, and Byron himself. Damn.
  • Chapter 38, page 4. HR Daedalus, the "creator" of World of Arkerra enters the plane of Arkerra with all of his godlike powers, as the end result of his massive nihilism.
  • Chapter 39: Over in the real world, Scipio's player Kaye is murdered by HR's thug.
• Harbourmaster: And Earthly Things Be Done. Gilou's a Secret-Keeper for a group of renegade Yogzarthu under the Sons of Tiamat—and it turns out their leader is responsible for her birth parent's death.
• Harry Potter Comics: A nuke is launched at London, and magic is exposed when all the wizards of London cast Protego Maxima in order to contain it.
• Hooky: The witches’ invasion of the king’s ball. The king is a frog, Damian is the king of witches and now the country, and Alex is dead.
  • The chapters after the battle in the desert can feel like wham shots after wham shots. Dani and Dorian’s dad is killed in battle, their mom kills Monica’s parents in revenge, and then their mom kidnaps Dani. Finally, the arc wraps up with probably the most heartbreaking moment yet: Dani’s mental breakdown after she believes Dorian was killed, leading her to becoming the Queen of Witches.
• Housepets! has had five of them, each of them changing the comic forever, as more and more of the plot is revealed:
  • The first is very early, setting up the possibility for romance between Grape and Peanut, the two original protagonists of the comic. That entire arc sets up Peanut's "cat lover" status, as well as displaying the prejudices of the pet world.
  • The second is A Sinister Shadow, the first real darkness in the comic, where the status of pets as people is first seriously questioned, as well as showing the first human face in the form of Joel. While not obvious at the time, this arc kicked off the second major conflict of the comic, the status of pets in the human world.
  • The third became evident with this comic from Oops I Arced. A dream that had occurred earlier in the comic had Grape meeting a gryphon named Pete, and when she woke up, she had a gigantic feather from it despite it being (supposedly) a dream sequence. This was later followed up by the appearance of Tarot, who confirmed that magic existed in-universe, but the girl seemed a bit crazy. However, the existence of Pete was confirmed by the aforementioned comic from Oops I Arced, setting off another central conflict to the comic as Pete is unleashed, and then turns Joel (from the A Sinister Shadow arc) into a dog and gives him the name of King. Rather than being an odd one-off event, King becomes the third major protagonist of the comic, with many arcs following his struggle of fitting into the world of pets as an ex-human.
  • King's arc gained special significance a few arcs later, with dog days of summer revealing that Tarot is actually the avatar of a higher order being, a Dragon who is Pete's counterpart. She seems much more benevolent than Pete, but, along with the Great Kitsune, ultimately it is revealed that all three of the higher order beings - the gryphon, the dragon, and the kitsune - are ultimately playing games with the lives of mortals, and not only is King caught in the middle of it, but Tarot is shown to be not just a silly creature, but actually the avatar of a being of immense power. King rejects his role as a mere piece in a game run by bored demigods, and as such is set off on his own, stuck as a dog until the game is over, but given the promise of a reward at the end of the game, as all avatars receive. It is also implied that the dragon has an interest in Peanut beyond Tarot's interest, with the demigod herself wanting to be his girlfriend.
  • The next lies in Imaginate, Too!, when Grape reveals that she knew that Peanut had a crush on her all along, and the pair are forced to attempt to articulate what their relationship means to each of them. When Peanut eventually fesses up to the fact that he wants to be her boyfriend, Grape challenges him as to what more he could want - and declares that he is her best friend in the world, before kissing him. This adds a great deal of ambiguity to their relationship, as from there on the pair are seen snuggling periodically, calling into question both of their extant relationships as well as the exclusivity of it. While it is obvious that Grape and Peanut are taking their boyfriend and girlfriend considerably more casually than humans do, other relationships in the comic range from being of similar seriousness (Bino and Sasha) to being much more serious (Fido and Sabrina), and it is not really clear that Maxwell understands the depth of their relationship - though Tarot said from the very beginning that Grape could take him if she was willing to reject Maxwell, something she didn't want to do.
  • More than twenty arcs later, the Trial in Heaven reveals that not all is what it seems with the game of the gods. While Pete had been shown time and again to be a jerk, self-concerned, conceited, and ultimately appearing to care little for mortals, this is all turned on its ear as it is revealed that not only does Pete care, or at least has cared about mortals in the past, but it is revealed that the Dragon is not the kind-hearted creature that she seems - it is heavily implied that not only has she been meddling in the affairs of mortals, but in their love lives, with two of her followers dating two creatures that Pete was interested in, and the ex-boyfriend of one of said followers dating a third - all conveniently ruining Pete's own plans, but implying that all of their relationships may be, to some extent, a sham set up by the Dragon to prevent Pete from winning. Worse still, it is implied that the goal of the game that Pete and the Dragon had disagreed upon hinged upon the equivalence of humans and the other animals which inhabit the world - and Pete, not the Dragon, was on the side of the equivocation of human and animalkind, with the Dragon opposed to it. Thus, rather than the black and white conflict as it had appeared before, both sides were painted in gray - Pete is a jerk, but the comic is meant to lead the readers to sympathize with the pets, and King's arc in particular shows the difficulty of the transition between human to animal - as well as the fundamental difference between the mindset of many animals and many humans, though the wolves had also worked to blur that line in the other direction by living as people, and far more responsible people than the ferrets, their benefactors, do. It also sets up for Pete having some sort of backup plan, but because of the Unspoken Plan Guarantee, we still don't know whether it has come to fruition.
  • Who can forget about Jungle Fever? This Arc focuses on Fido who finally confess his love of the cat name Sabrina in front of everyone in Babylon Gardens. Some are shocked while some already knew that.
  • And now, as of April 2014, King has finally figured out that Pete still has an ace up his sleeve, which in a condensed form means that Pete is not forfeiting the cosmic game he's playing. Furthermore, he doesn't actually need him to fight as his avatar. However, it doesn't stop Pete from continuing on with his contract to King, just to torture him some more. Except, in a completely unexpected twist, Bailey takes the fall for King and signs Pete's contract, becoming his avatar. Now she has been whisked away to who-knows-where to duel against Spirit Dragon, where it is expected that she will be gone for a very long time from reality's point of view.
  • For the Hundredth Story arc in Housepets, Keene Milton is implied to be dead, as he has ended up in Heaven. For what exact purpose is unknown as of yet.
  • Temple Crashers 2 takes a dark turn when the characters accidentally unleash hell.
• This Irregular Webcomic! strip.
• It's Walky! (back when it was still Roomies!) had Ruth die saving a drunk Danny from getting smashed by a semi. Prior to this, the strip was pure drama-free Sitcom. The shift in tone may have been 100% intentional since the storyline immediately following that shifted the strip fully to Its Walky.
  • During It's Walky, the arc where Dina dies.
• The "Sever The Hunger" arc in Jack. Where to Start?
• Every hundredth or so comic of The Last Days of FOXHOUND is for the purpose of inducing WHAM, ranging from revelations of a Retroactive Conspiracy that controls the entire team, to Liquid unleashing his Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Made of Iron powers, inflicting several literal whams on an unsuspecting Cyborg Ninja.
  • Perhaps special note goes to strip 394 where Liquid has to murder a likable hacker attached to his team in order to keep a secret. As the author himself posted on the news page when the comic first came out "Shit just got real".
• Last Res0rt, Episode 3: during the assault on the White Diamond Crisis — after being lured deep enough into the ship that Gabriel is able to Tone the majority of the players into stupefied submission, it's up to the remaining unaffected players to save the day. Jigsaw and Daisy manage to recover most of the others, but Daisy's 'snapbacks' backfire, first on Cypress (who dives into a pool full of aggressive nanotech), and then after that problem gets solved, it happens again on Jason, who mortally wounds her! After all of this, GEISHA figures out a way to save them... but Gabriel's forces arrive just in time to capture the remaining vulnerable players before they can be ferried back. OUCH.
• In Magellan the fourth chapter drops the bomb that not only are the two antagonists Miasma and Dragonklaw future versions of current timeline cadets but that their arrival and plans have significantly changed the timeline, meaning the entire story as presented is actually an alternate timeline split off from the original. This has had ramifications throughout subsequent chapters.
• In Max Overacts, during Klaus' birthday party at the zoo, Curio gets trampled on when he accidental falls in an elephant pit and after the party Max finds out the Janet got a role on a tv show and her family just left for Vancouver.
• MegaTokyo:
  • Erika asks Largo "If I sleep with you, will you go away?", (not noticing that Largo was being genuinely friendly with her) which lead to him becoming an incoherent, drunken mess for the rest of the chapter.
  • Strip 942. After countless theories and ridiculous guesses, we finally get an explanation for what Miho, one of the greatest mysteries of the comic, is. After calling Yuki a Magical Girl, Yuki angrily follows her (not really paying attention to where they're going), and demands Miho stop and explain herself.
    Miho: Stop? Are you sure you want to stop here?
    (Yuki looks down, realizes where they are)
    Miho: I find balancing on power lines a little disquieting.
  • The second-to-last comic of Chapter 9, where Ed uses an army of Killballs to Combination Attack Miho, apparently killing her. The entire thing needed the first two-page comic to be shown.
  • And then, in the next chapter, Yuki succeeds in finding her.
• After 1,000 pages of generally good progress on a resolution in Misfile it's finally revealed how long it will take Rumisiel to get back into heaven and fix things in this strip. Seventy-two years.
  • And then - someone left the door unlocked.
  • To say nothing of the revelation that the titular filing accident is literally the only reason Emily is still alive.
• Foyle catches up to her missing lover in Missing Monday just in time to crash Monday's engagement party.
• Mob Ties: Once you reach Issue 7, Revelations, be ready for a Wham Episode every Issue, because once it's revealed that Mika was the victim of a violent rape so traumatic that it has left her severely traumatized to the point that she cannot remember it and passes out when anyone mentions it to her, the plot kicks into high gear.
  • And the Whams become even bigger when Issue 14 rolls around, and the Big Bad Bengal appears.
  • Issue 15-16: Mika Cries, Kyoko Dies.

N to Z

• This Niels comic.
• Paradigm Shift, Act 1, Part III: Kate McAllister and the werewolf who looks like her are the same person.
• Paranatural:
  • Chapter three, towards the middle/end of it, is full of wham. Johnny sees Isaac use his weather powers, and Max is revealed to be possessed by something bad.
  Max: I'd laugh... but I didn't end up with the sense of humor.
  • Chapter four has several more Wham Pages. We find out there's a barrier around Mayview that will complicate Max's plans to find his mom. Isabel loses her tool and dear friend Eightfold. There are three Bait and Switch moments where Max nearly dies. We find out Spender is possessed by a great evil, and it nearly escapes. Johnny and his gang see the Activity Club floating in mid-air. Johnny is possessed by Forge. And then the ghost train dies, making it impossible to pass the barrier.
• The breakup most of a year into Punch an' Pie.
• PvP, "Upstairs Downstairs": The butler did it!
• Romantically Apocalyptic: Pages 104 and 105 reveal that Captain doesn't actually exist. Captain is merely part of Snippy's split personality.
• Roommates's Dark!Jareth arc... Who thought that that mostly harmless Trickster is capable of attempting to murder his best friend and his love interest and with forced Character Rerailment make the other characters repeat the same villainous acts that destroyed them. And all because he tried to become the hero but the story didn't let him and suffered a backlash.
  • Also Kings War, which revealed: who the Scribble Person is The Story, what the source of the vine border is The Shadow Child aka Disbelief and what happens when an OC dies they move out of the comic.
• Sabrina Online: Strip #642◊.
• Scary Go Round has a Wham Episode during the second Super Crisis Quests storyline when we learn that the character previously thought have been to be the Devil was just a character actor named Old Nobby, and the Devil was revealed to actually be crazy old Ralph after Nobby's death.
• Scurry: Pict, through misadventure, makes it to the city, where it's assumed by many in the mouse colony that that's where all the humans went. They assume that if they can make it to the city, they'll be able to live as they once did when the humans were still around. The city Pict finds is an empty, flooded ruin.
• Shades, Chapter 10: the bad guys get parliament suspended and put a puppet in charge of the UK.
• A seemingly-filler arc in Sequential Art turns into something much darker on this page.
• Siren's Lament: Episode 84-85 is full of shocking events. The Poseidon is confirmed to be real. Ian became completely human. Shon kissed Lyra and took the siren curse upon himself, completely forgetting his entire life. Pele was picked by the Poseidon for an unknown purpose.
• Sleepless Domain:
  • Chapter 2: While Tessa is away, her whole team excepting Undine is killed, and Tessa uses up the entirety of her magic to keep Undine alive.
  • Chapter 12: The Purple One has some sort of interest in Tessa.
  • Chapter 15: The Purple One kills Cassidy and Undine and Kokoro have The Big Damn Kiss.
  • Chapter 16: Undine finally tells the rest of the magical girl training club about The Purple one and Tessa has responded to said Purple One.
  • Chapter 18: The Purple One's plan was to merge with Tessa. While Tessa was initially unwilling, something changed her mind and she willingly merged with the Purple One to become a magical girl again.
• Something*Positive gave us a wham in the "Just Today" story, where Fred and Faye spend a day together, and Fred struggles on how to tell her he has Alzheimer's. He decides to wait until tomorrow, which is where the wham comes in: Faye dies in her sleep overnight.
• Issue 10 of the infamous Sonichu, in which several of the main characters brutally murder a handful of people whom the author believes have wronged him in life. The childish aspect of the artwork could make it even more disturbing to some people.
  • Issues 4 and 11 could be considered this, albeit to a lesser extent than 10.
    • Issue 4 is when the comic's titular character took a back seat to the character who would end up the true (and honest) protagonist of the comic from then on out, Christian Weston Chandler, as well as the plot of the comic being his Life Embellished. There were shades of this in Issue 2, but it really came to a head, and came to stay, in Issue 4.
    • Issue 11 took place over years of Development Hell, during which Christian had become Christine and as a result, so did the character by the same name. While this in itself may not seem like a major change, a lot had occurred in Chris's real life between Issue 10's completion (and subsequent retconning), and Issue 11's completion. "CWC" reminder that real life writes the plot of Sonichu.
  • Issue 13 was this in spades. This was the issue where the Idea Guys took over much of the writing and effectively brainwashed various beliefs into Christine that have persisted ever since, even after the Idea Guys were revealed to be trolls. There's a reason it's called The Idea Guy Corruptions. While many of the events have been undone using the Reality Stone, things like the Dimensional Merge and Christine's polyamorous marriage to two of her original characters, one made up by the Idea Guys, and Mewtwo are not only still canon, but also things Christine actually believes to be real.
• Sonic the Comic – Online! has the Kane arc which has Sonic's fall from grace and "exile" from Mobius in which he was disgraced in the eyes of every Mobian even Amy (par Tails) after a malicious smear campaign by the Kane Broadcasting Company leading to Sonic being a fugitive and being accused of being a terrorist.
  • Issue 262 Has the fact that Bob Beaky is Sonic revealed to all of Mobius blowing Sonic's Bob Beaky disguise and in Silver's future Sonic has been Un-Personed and replaced in the history books by Tails.
• In Stand Still, Stay Silent, A few days after being bitten by a troll, Tuuri contracts the Rash infection and commits suicide in reponse.
• The Super Fogeys first is when Dr. Rocket is revealed to be Herman, a shapeshifter the real Dr. Rocket used to try to ruin Captain Spectacular's reputation. Herman had reformed and was forced to become Dr. Rocket (the explanation how isn't so good), but after a blow on the head, this process broke down and more and more of Herman gradually begins to show. The reader's clue is when Dr. Rocket acquires a stutter, which Herman is shown to have in a flashback before the reveal.
  • This pales in comparison to the fact that the mysterious Dr. Klein and the Third Man are actually Jerry, Captain Spectacular's sidekick. The comic archives are FULL of subtle hints and clues — from the fact that Jerry is never seen in the same panel as Dr. Klein, to Klein's affection for Jerry and Spy Gal (Jerry is in love with the latter), to Jerry not having any powers yet was able to 'survive being thrown into a volcano' (the Third Man can appear to use a dimensional gate or can teleport), to similarities between designs, and the list goes on. Best of all, it is clear that this was planned from the very beginning.
• Swageon and Glacigeon has the comic someone dies. It's Glaceon (the second main protagonist) who dies in the comic.
• Tales of the Questor: Old Secrets story arc: Quentyn's town learns to its horror that an old forgotten debt incurred by Quentyn's predecessor has grown until most of the town will be literally repossessed. Quentyn, up till now struggling as an underappreciated hero most of his town sneers at, volunteers to renew the original quest to cancel the debt and the series becomes an extended adventure of The Quest that makes him a hero of great honor in his community and beyond.
  • The dragonslayer chapter. It's one long deconstruction of dragonslaying: high risks, high casualties, power vacuums, etc.
  Quentyn: Once a dragon smells the blood of another dragon, it charcoals the corpse, and then goes into a frenzied rage across the countryside.
• Terinu: Leeza confronts her father after discovering that Humanity knew about the Dominion using the Ferin as power sources and committed genocide against them to disable the Dominion. Then her father throws her in jail to keep her quiet.
• This Is the Worst Idea You've Ever Had! has the introduction of Jeremy's room-mate, Miguel...who happens to have the same character design as the villain from Cuanta Vida, Rojo. To some fans, this itself was a WHAM Episode. To others, the Wham episode would be the page after that, where Miguel reveals that he was the guy who committed the murder that had taken place earlier in the chapter, before starting to choke Jeremy.
• VG Cats parodies this with a Lost Episode of Tom and Jerry, which is a deconstruction of the slapstick violence and Amusing Injuries the title duo suffer. Jerry is charged with aggravated assault, given a lengthy jail sentence, while Tom suffers irreparable brain damage and spends the rest of his life as an invalid. The Downer Ending is interrupted by a Reaction Shot of Leo and Aeris, left in a state of Stunned Silence after they'd previously expected a lighthearted comedy.
• What Birds Know: Page 431, which abruptly turns the story from a lighthearted fantasy romp through an Alternate Universe with a dark undercurrent into something really, really bad.
• "The Big Kiss" story in The Whiteboard. Doc's bad luck with women had been a recurring gag for 14 years. Then Howie tells him there's another polar bear in town — just to distract him. Then she proves real, then they kiss and, most importantly, she doesn't mind being set on fire. Since then, Doc is often referred to as "Morty" and has someone to actively try to impress.
• YU+ME: dream does this in Issue 9, which was kinda unexpected (despite, you know, the title) due to the readers' emotional investment.
  • Part 2: Issue 11 reveals that Lia was once a real person. In her dreams, she befriended Sadoko but in real life she fell for a man. Her boyfriend died in WW2, Sadoko impersonated her boyfriend and made her believe she was in heaven. Eventually Lia learned the truth, her consciousness was kidnapped, and she became an Eldritch Abomination. Several other chapters are this, including the final two, where we learn Sadoko was a living person and we learn who Clandy truly is.

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