Wham Line / Animated Films

aka: Animated Film

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• The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad: In the Wind in the Willows segment, Cyril gives his testimony and reveals that Toad had traded his valuable estate for a motorcar.
  Now, the gove'nor's not a bit stingy
  He never does anything small
  The weasels gave him the red motorcar
  And he gave the weasels Toad Hall
  • Directly after, Toad brings forth Mr. Winky the barkeep as a witness to testify to the court that he bought a motorcar off of him, but Winky double-crosses Toad with a lie that Toad sold him the car, which gets him sent to jail.
    Winky: Well, guv'nuh, you tried to sell me a stolen motorcar.
• Aladdin: Aladdin goads Jafar into turning himself into a genie, knowing the sorcerer hungers for more power. Jafar takes the bait and wishes to become an all-powerful genie. It looks things have only gotten worse, and everyone else asks Aladdin how he could make such a mistake, except genies are slaves. Jafar is now all-powerful, but is trapped in a lamp to obey a master.
  Aladdin: Not so fast, Jafar! Aren't you forgetting something? You wanted to be a genie, you got it! And everything that comes with it! Phenomenal cosmic power... itty bitty living space.
• Aladdin: The Return of Jafar: Aladdin is blamed for killing the Sultan. Even Jasmine (really Jafar in disguise) brings evidence of the "murder" to him.
  Aladdin: It's the truth! Why don't you believe me?
  Jasmine: Because we know you're lying!
• The Twist Ending, combined with Wham Shot, of Alice in Wonderland is revealed when Alice is being chased by the Queen through a tunnel of smoke and is stopped by the same talking door from earlier in the film.
  Door: Oh, still locked you know.
  Alice: But the Queen! I simply must get out!
  Door: But you are outside.
  Alice: What?
  Door: See for yourself.
  Alice: Why that's me. I'm asleep!
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire: Rourke and the expedition crew revealing themselves to be mercenaries trying to steal the Heart of Atlantis crystal.
  Rourke: You had a nice swim?
• The Bad Guys (2022): Right after the gang gets arrested for a theft they didn't commit, Marmalade visits them in the prison transport. He tries to reassure them, but one phrase makes Mr. Wolf realize everything was a set-up.
  Mr. Wolf: Y-you have to help us! Tell 'em! Tell 'em we didn't do it!
  Marmalade: There, there. Of course you didn't do it, how could you? After all... [holds Wolf's hands suspiciously similar to the old lady earlier in the film] You're such a good boy.
• Bambi: When Bambi learns that his mother has been killed.
  Bambi's Father: Your mother can't be with you anymore.
• Barbie films:
  • Barbie as the Island Princess:
    • Queen Marissa reveals she's Ro's mother:
      Ro: Call me Rosella. My real name is Rosella.
      Queen Marissa: Your name is Rosella?
      Ro: Uh...yes.
      Queen Marissa: I... I had a daughter named Rosella.
    • And later, Tika discovers her true background:
      Tika: Ro found her mother.
      Sagi: And her mother is a queen, which means Ro is...
      Tika: [gasps] A princess!
  • Barbie: Princess Charm School:
    • Hadley and Isla discover the baby Sophia of the royal family of Gardania is in fact Blair:
      Hadley: I'm thinking maybe baby Sophia didn't die in that crash. Maybe she was found and left on someone's doorstep! [...] Look at the portrait, you look exactly like Queen Isabella! You could be baby Sophia! If it's true, and Dame Devin and Delancy know it, that would explain why they're so awful to you! Because you're the rightful heir to the throne, and not Delancy!
    • Dame Devin reveals she killed- sorry, eliminated the royal family of Gardania:
      Dame Devin: You useless child! Do you have any idea what you've done?! I eliminated Queen Isabella so you could be princess one day!!
• Bartok the Magnificent:
  Ludmilla: And none of you will ever leave this room alive.
  • The revelation that Baba Yaga never kidnapped Ivan, and that Ivan never even left the tower.
    Bartok: Whoa, whoa. The tower... Uh, you never took him, did ya?
    Baba Yaga: I never said I did.
• In Batman: Under the Red Hood after Batman and Red Hood fight, the latter escapes and says something that Bruce doesn't catch at first. But when he reviews a recording, he hears six little words:
  Red Hood: You haven't lost your touch, Bruce!
• Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker:
  • The Joker invades the Batcave and gasses Bruce Wayne.
    The Joker: Don't get up, Bruce. It's just an old friend come to say "hello". Hello... Batman. (Evil Laugh)
  • Preceding this was The Joker taunting Batman with his "home movies" of Robin's torture into J.J., culminating in this.
    The Joker: The dear boy began to share such secrets with me. Secrets that are mine alone to know... Bruce.
• Beauty and the Beast:
  • Belle and the Beast discover through the magic mirror that Maurice is sick and possibly dying while traveling the woods to rescue Belle. After looking at the rose, the Beast makes a decision that even shocks Belle.
    Beast: Then, you must go to him.
  • After Belle leaves to find her father, the Beast drops the ball to Cogsworth.
    Beast: I let her go.
    Cogsworth: Of course you— What?!!? How could you do that?!
    Beast: I had to.
    Cogsworth: But...why?
    Beast: Because I love her.
  • When Gaston sees that Belle loves the Beast despite rebuffing himself throughout the story, he doesn't take it well at all.
    Gaston: If I didn't know any better, I'd think you'd have feelings for this monster.
    Belle: (enraged) He's no monster, Gaston! YOU ARE!!
    (Gaston promptly has a breakdown)
• Beowulf: Hrothgar reveals that Grendel's mother seduced him to produce the monster Grendel, just as she has done again with Beowulf.
  King Hrothgar: But she's no hag, Beowulf. We both know that.
• Big Hero 6:
  • When Hiro finds out that Professor Callahan was responsible for the fire that killed Tadashi and hears him callously dismiss it as his own mistake, he gets so sick of Baymax's Thou Shalt Not Kill rule that he rips out his healthcare chip to turn him into a killing machine.
    Hiro: Baymax, destroy.
  • When the team shows Hiro security footage of Callaghan to discover his motivation, and sees him hugging a woman who was testing Krei's transporter before it malfunctioned and was presumably lost forever.
    Hiro: The pilot was Callahan's daughter.
  • And when the portal is collapsing during the climax, Baymax makes an important discovery.
    Baymax: My sensors are indicating human life.
• BIONICLE: Mask of Light has the heroes Takua and Jaller being sent on a quest to find the Toa of Light, and they finally reach their destination only for him to be nowhere in sight. One Rahkshi attack and Heroic Sacrifice later, Jaller says this to Takua.
  Jaller: You know... who you are...
• The Black Cauldron: The Horned King gains control of the Cauldron, revealing his plan for what to do with it.
  The Horned King: Now I call on my Army of the Dead; the Cauldron-born! Arise, my messengers of death! Our time has arrived!
• Brother Bear:
  • A human is turned into a bear by the spirits to replace the one he killed. Making the journey back with a cub named Koda, he eventually listens to Koda's story that the cub has been hyping for past several miles. Once Koda gets to this line, Kenai realizes the bear he killed was Koda's mother.
    Koda: ...And then from out of the trees, comes the hunter! And then there's nowhere my mama could go. The hunter had her pinned up against this giant glacier. The monster attacks. Pop! But mama was too quick for him, and before he could do it again, she stands up real big and yells "go away!".
  • Then when Kenai breaks the bad news to Koda:
    Kenai: Your mother's not coming.
  • An alternate version of the scene lets us hear Kenai's story in full, without the Phil Collins song drowning it out. When the time comes to confess, you can tell he's about to regret it.
    Kenai: Koda... I did something very wrong.
    Koda: What'd you do, Kenai?
    Kenai: (Breaking down) I... I killed a bear.
    Koda: (He puts two and two together) I...
    Kenai: Koda...
    Koda: (He starts to back away with horror and disbelief) I don't like this story...
    Kenai: Koda, your mother's not coming.
  • After spending a majority of the film thinking that bears are monsters, Kenai sees some cave paintings of some humans hunting animals, then Koda says something that causes him to realize that humans are worse than bears.
  Koda: Those monsters are scary... especially with those sticks.
• Cars:
  • Doc manages to deliver one to Lightning in the form of an Armor-Piercing Question, leading him to undergo his Jerkass Realization over what he has become.
    Doc: When is the last time you cared about something except yourself, hot rod? You name me one time, and I will take it all back.
  • Sally gives one to Doc when it's revealed he phoned the press to get Lightning out of town for the tiebreaker race.
    Sally: You called them?
    Doc: It's best for everyone, Sally.
    Sally: Best for everyone? Or best for you?
  • And later, Lightning pulls a major move on himself during the tiebreaker race when he willingly lets Chick cross the finish line after he makes The King crash:
    Lightning: I think The King should finish his last race.
• Cars 2:
  • When Professor Zundapp has Rod Redline tortured and brings out the device the Professor had in the opening.
    Professor Z: This "camera" is actually an electro magnetic pulse emitter.
  • Later after the Italy race.
    Professor Z: Allinol must be finished for good. McQueen cannot win the last race! Lightning McQueen must be KILLED!'
  • When Mater tries to warn McQueen's crew about the bomb the lemons planted in their pit—only for a radio call from Finn to reveal it's actually located somewhere even worse.
    Finn McMissile: Mater, listen to me! The bomb is on YOU! They knew you'd try to help McQueen! When we were knocked out, they planted it in your air filter!
• Cars 3:
  • After Lightning lashes out at Cruz for showing him up at Thunder Hollow, she reveals a hidden depth about herself:
    Cruz: I wanted to become a racer forever...because of you!
  • After Lightning returns to the pits following the next-gen crash and saying he needed Cruz back:
    Lightning: No, no, no! Not me! Her!
  • Sometime after this:
    Cruz: You said it yourself, this might be your last chance!
    Lightning: Which makes it my last chance...to give you your first chance, Cruz.
  • And near the end, when it seems like Lightning will have to retire after all, Smokey stops him and we happen to get this particular line that'll make every fan screaming with excitement:
    Lightning: What? Why is my name up there?
• In Charlotte's Web, just like the book it's adapted from, as the fair is winding down and Wilbur talks about returning to the farm with his medal, Charlotte tells Wilbur this...
  Charlotte: I will not be going back to the barn. [...] I'm done for, Wilbur. In a while, I'll be dead.
• Cinderella:
  • When Cinderella shocks her stepfamily with her dress for the ball, Lady Tremaine hatches a scheme to prevent her from going by subtly provoking her daughters into ruining it.
    Lady Tremaine: Those beads, they give it just the right touch. Don't you think so, Drizella?
    Drizella: No, they don't! I think she's...(catches on) Why, you little thief!
  • The glass slipper that belongs to the Prince's true love has just broken, so it can't be proved that Cinderella's foot fits it. Except...
    Cinderella: But you see, I have the other slipper.
• Coco:
  • Héctor reveals that Ernesto de La Cruz is a fraud and all the songs he claimed were his own.
    Héctor: Those were MY songs you took, MY songs that made YOU famous!
  • Followed shortly thereafter by Ernesto's malevolence being confirmed outright by the following exchange.
    Miguel: Papa Ernesto? My blessing?
    Beat
    Ernesto: Security? Take care of Miguel, he'll be... extending his stay...
  • Miguel realizes that Héctor, not Ernesto, is his true mysterious ancestor when he mentions Miguel's hometown and great-grandmother's name.
    Héctor: I never should have left Santa Cecilia. I wish I could apologize. I wish I could tell her that her papa was trying to come home. That he loved her so much. My Coco...
• Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show: Near the end of the movie, the Eds as well as the kids of the cul-de-sac and the Kanker Sisters have found Eddy's Brother, and at first it seems that Eddy's Brother will provide him and his friends shelter from the wrath of the other kids, when suddenly:
  Eddy's Brother: Just for old time's sake, let's play: Uncle.
  • Once Eddy's Brother has been defeated, Eddy reveals the truth about him.
    Eddy: I made it all up, Double D! Everything about my brother was a lie!
• The Fox and the Hound: The titular characters were best friends as children but can't be as adults. Summed up in this line:
  Copper: Todd, those days are over. I'm a hunting dog now.
• Frozen:
  • When Anna needs a kiss from her true love to heal her frozen heart, she asks her fiance Hans to kiss her. Hans is about to... then reveals he never really did love her, and only said it so he can marry into the throne.
    Hans: Oh, Anna... If only there was someone out there who loved you.
  • And earlier, when Anna announces to Elsa that she and Hans are engaged, Elsa's reaction to this news becomes this, especially to die-hard Disney fans, as real-life advice kicks in.
    Elsa: You can't marry a man you just met.
• The Great Mouse Detective: Basil reveals he's still alive, and has a trump card against Ratigan.
  Basil: On the contrary, the game's not over yet!
• How to Train Your Dragon 2: Valka tells Drago Bludvist he can't win against her dragons as she has the Alpha Bewilderbeast on her side. His response?
  Drago: Then it's a good thing I brought a challenger. [Cue his own Alpha Belwilderbeast bursting out from the sea]
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
  • Frollo reveals he killed Quasimodo's mother.
    Frollo: I should have known you would risk your life to save that Gypsy witch, just as your own mother died trying to save you.
  • Frollo announces his presence and reveals that he tricked Quasimodo into showing him to the Court of Miracles.
    Frollo: Nor would I.
  • Frollo puts the miller and his wife under house arrest for aiding a gypsy, before giving the following order regarding the building with its residents still inside.
    Frollo: Burn it.
  • In the "Hellfire" sequence:
    Guard: Minister Frollo, the gypsy has escaped. She's nowhere in the cathedral. She's gone...
• Ice Age: Continental Drift: Manny and the gang finally arrive back at the continent, but the land bridge is destroyed with no sign of Ellie and Peaches.
  Manny: ELLIE! PEACHES! I'M HERE! (no response) Please! She's gotta be here! (Sid, Diego and Granny slump sadly; Manny closes his eyes in despair)
  Peaches: (in distance) Dad!
  Manny: Wait! Did you hear that?
  Diego: Manny, I think—
  Manny: No, I heard something! I heard it!
  (As they draw closer, a shadow is shown in the fog)
  Diego: Is that—?
  Manny: Peaches? THERE SHE IS!
  Peaches: Dad!
  Manny: We're coming, sweetie! Don't move!
  Peaches: Daddy!
  Manny: Peaches!
  (Suddenly, Captain Gutt emerges out of the fog and grabs Peaches, holding a dagger near her neck!)
  Gutt: Welcome home, Daddy!
  Peaches: LET GO OF ME!
• The Incredibles:
  • Syndrome turns out to be Mr. Incredible's old fanboy who wanted to be his sidekick.
    Syndrome: Sure, it was difficult, but you are worth it. I mean, after all... I am your biggest fan.
  • Helen explains to her children that the guards on the island they're trapped on are not the harmless kind they see in kiddy cartoons.
    Helen: They will kill you if they get the chance. Do not give them that chance.
  • After the Omnidroid is destroyed, Helen checks her voicemail to find that Kari has left a few panicky messages, but the last one is her thanking Helen for sending a replacement sitter.
    Helen: Replacement?! I didn't call a replacement!
• In Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie, Jonah wants Ninevah to be destroyed. After Khalil explains that God gave the city a second chance, Jonah wishes he were back inside the belly of the whale, resulting in this:
  Khalil: You are pathetic. You know, patience runs very deep in my family. But not that deep. I'm out of here!
• From Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox:
  Professor Zoom: Oh, Barry. That's the beauty of all this: I didn't do any of it. You did.
• Kim Possible A Stitch In Time:
  Kim: But... We captured the Supreme One. See? (Gestures to Dr. Drakken and his cohorts)
  Rufus 3000: (confused) Where? I don't see her!
  Kim: Her?
• Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama:
  • The identity of the genius scientist who finally cracked the mystery behind cybertronic technology, and Drakken's next target.
    Big Daddy Brotherson: Ah, cybertronics. Some of the most brilliant minds on the planet struggle with its challenges.
    Drakken: Well surely someone has cracked it!
    Big Daddy Brotherson: Indeed, one genius has done just that. Dr. James Timothy Possible.
  • The Reveal of the new Bueno Nacho CEO.
    Drakken: Hola, Bueno Nacho. El Presidente speaking.
  • The biggest most dramatic wham line occurs when Kim is who the new wave Eric actually is.
    Kim: Eric. (she hugs him)
    Eric: Actually, here, I'm known as Synthodrone Number 901.
  • After three seasons full of Ship Tease and Unresolved Sexual Tension with ZERO resolution throughout, and Kim in full Heroic BSoD mode, Ron drops this gem when Kim asks if he really thinks there's a guy out there for her.
    Ron: Out there... in here.
  • Cue Heroic Second Wind and successive Crowning Moments of Awesome.
• Kubo and the Two Strings: During the fight between Monkey and one of Kubo's aunts, the aunt starts on about how Kubo's mother betrayed them:
  Sister: [My sister] was so strong, and love made her weak!
  Monkey: No! It made me stronger!
  • Similar to the above line, this one, directed at Beetle, reveals Kubo's other parent. To drive the point home, the Sister magically contorts the "Hanzo" figure until it turns into a beetle.
    Sister: And then there's you, the thieving insect who stole my sister's soul. [...] (chuckles) Oh, this is precious. You've been together all this time and you haven't even realized? You took her from us. It was only fitting that we took something from you. How swiftly those memories spilled from your head, wiping out all recollection of your obscene union, Hanzo.
• Kung Fu Panda 2: Po spends most of the film wondering what happened to his biological parents until he eventually finds out that he's the Last of His Kind. At the end of the film though, we cut away to an unknown location and...
  Po's father: My son is alive.
• Kung Fu Panda 3: Po attempts to use the Wuxi Finger Hold to send Kai back to the spirit realm, but it doesn't work on him. Then Kai does this...
  Kai: Hold on, wait. It's working! No. No! [Chuckles] No, it's not. Did Oogway teach you that little trick? Too bad. It only works on mortals. And I am a spirit warrior.
• The Land Before Time X: The Great Longneck Migration: Shortly after meeting Bron, Littlefoot receives a major shock when he learns that Bron is much more important to him than he initially realized:
  Grandpa Longneck: Bron?!
  Bron: [happily] Papa Longneck!
  Grandpa Longneck: Littlefoot, this is your father!
  [Cue Littlefoot running away in tears]
• The LEGO Movie:
  • Emmet watches video testimonies from his neighbors and coworkers and realizes none of them know or care who he is.
    Worker: We all have something that makes us something, and Emmet is... nothing.
  • The Dragon with a split personality, Bad Cop/Good Cop, is forced to have his good side literally erased, turning him into a permanently ruthless policeman who's even willing to Krazy-Glue-freeze his own parents.
    Bad Cop: Sorry, Dad. I have a job to do.
  • After being mortally wounded, the Blind Seer Vitruvius makes a confession to Emmet, who he claimed to be The Chosen One.
    Vitruvius: The prophecy... I made it up. It's not true.
    Emmet: But that means... I'm just an ordinary guy?
  • The third act reveal, that the whole LEGO universe has really been a metaphorical story being imagined by a kid with a frosty relationship with his father.
    The Man Upstairs: This is Dad's stuff. Everything that you see here is your father's. And everything is thought out. [...] Finn, we're going to play a game. It's called: "let's put everything back the way it was." So I can make things the way they're supposed to be, permanently.
• The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: After it's revealed that the Systarians were Good All Along and that Rex was the real Big Bad of the story all along, we get another revelation: there is a reason why Emmet and Rex look and sound so similar...
  Rex: Look a little closer, we're not so different?
  Emmet: What, you and I?
  Rex: We and us.
  Emmet: Huh?
  Rex: Emmet, I am you.
  Emmet: But I am me.
  Rex: I am you, from the future, all grown up.
• The Lion King:
  • Scar chides the hyenas for failing to kill Simba and Nala after he gives them a piece of zebra to feast upon.
    Shenzi: Well, you know, it wasn't exactly like they were alone, Scar.
    Banzai: Yeah. What are we supposed to do? Kill Mufasa?
    Scar: Precisely...
• The Little Mermaid:
  • King Triton, furious that Ariel is in love with a human, reaches his breaking point and is about to lay waste to her secret grotto.
    Triton: So help me, Ariel, I am going to get through to you. And if this is the only way... so be it.
  • A much more positive one comes near the end of the film, when Triton comes around and decides to let Ariel live on the land with Eric.
    Triton: Then I guess there's just one problem left.
    Sebastian: And what's that, your Majesty?
    Triton: How much I'm going to miss her...
• Luca: When Luca tells Alberto that he wants to go to school with Giulia come the end of the summer, a jealous Alberto tries to out themselves as sea monsters in front of her to prove that she wouldn't be a true friend to him. When he gets himself wet and shows his true form, a frightened Luca betrays him by playing dumb and pretending he hadn't known it all along.
  Giulia: Help! Don't hurt us!
  Alberto: See?! I knew this would ha—!
  Luca: SEA MONSTER!
• In The Man Called Flintstone Fred has been taken prisoner at the hideout of criminal mastermind the Green Goose. He manages to escape his prison cell and much to his relief happens to run into Triple X, an agent who is working with the organization that hired Fred. Unfortunately for Fred, he happens to discover a secret of Triple X's in the process:
  Fred: Hey, that's funny Triple X. The Green Goose was wearing a mask like this!
  Triple X: He was? What a very clever disguise, don't you think? Now may I have it back, please?
  Fred: You mean... this is your mask?!
  Triple X: Hahahahaha... yes. Exactly!
• Meet the Robinsons: Lewis discovers that Bowler Hat Guy is his roommate at the orphanage, now grown up.
  Lewis: My old room!
  Bowler Hat Guy: I think you mean our old room.
  Lewis: What?!
  Bowler Hat Guy: YES! YES, IT IS I: MIKE YAGOOBIAN!
• Megamind: After Tighten defeats Megamind during their first "battle", he makes it clear to the latter he wants to kill him rather than send him back to jail.
  Megamind: Well done! I thought that battle went really, really well! I mean, I have a few notes.
  Tighten: Notes?
  Megamind: But they can wait. You can take me to jail now.
  Tighten: Oh, no, no, no. I was thinking more like the morgue. You're DEAD!
  Megamind: Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! This isn't how you play the game!
  Tighten: Game over.
• Monsters, Inc.:
  • This line clues Mike and the audience in to the fact that there's a lot more going on at the company than Randall trying to cheat the system.
    Randall: (Evil Laugh) You still think this is about that stupid scare record?
    Mike: Well... I did, right up until... you chuckled like that, and now I'm thinking I should just get out of here.
  • Sulley is under the impression that the human child Boo is about to be returned home, only for her to be kidnapped instead and he and Mike banished. For bonus points, it is accompanied by a Wham Shot of Randall materializing next to the door with a Slasher Smile on his face.
    Mike: Uh, sir? That's not her door.
    Waternoose: I know, I know. It's yours.
  • From closer to the end, we have the head of the CDA (aka, Roz, whose reveal is more of a Wham Shot than line) stating this when Sulley tells her that he intends to bring Boo home.
    Sulley: I just want to send her home.
    Roz: Very good. (contacts someone on a communication watch) Bring me a door shredder.
• My Little Pony: The Movie (2017): After being banished from the Seaponies' kingdom, Twilight loses her temper with her friends (and immediately regrets it):
  Twilight Sparkle: I'm the one Tempest wants! I'm the last princess!
  Pinkie Pie: You're also the only one who doesn't trust her friends!
  Twilight Sparkle: Well, maybe I would have been better off without FRIENDS LIKE YOU!
• NIMONA (2023): Near the tail end of Nimona's flashback, one word said to the girl she tried to befriend completely recontextualizes the entire scene:
  Nimona: Gloreth...!?
• 101 Dalmatians: Sergeant Tibbs the cat goes to Cruella De Vil's old mansion to investigate the case of the 15 stolen Dalmatian puppies, and as he meets one puppy:
  Tibbs: Are you one of the fifteen stolen puppies?
  Dalmatian Puppy: Oh, no, we're not stolen. We're bought and paid for. There's 99 of us all together.
  Tibbs: (rubs his eyes and stares in shock) Ninety-nine?!
  (cue the Wham Shot of all these puppies, clearly more than fifteen, in the same room together)
  • Then later, we learn what Cruella plans to do with all these puppies.
    Cruella: The job has to be done tonight!
    Horace: But they ain't big enough.
    Jasper: You couldn't get half a dozen coats out of the whole caboodle.
    Tibbs: (spying, appalled) Coats?! Dog-skin coats?!
• ParaNorman:
  • Two in quick succession, during a flashback to the witch's trial. The first being the "witch" crying like a little girl. Then, we get the reveal of what her "crime" actually was:
  Agatha: I-I was only playing…
  Judge Hopkins: Aye, with fire! You were speaking to the dead!
  • Played for Laughs:
    Courtney: So I was thinking maybe we could... catch a movie some time. Nothing scary.
    Mitch: That sounds great, Kathy. You know, you're gonna love my boyfriend. He's, like, a total chick-flick nut!
• Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
  Doofenshmirtz-2: Platyborg... Do that same thing to those two boys over there.
  Doofenshmirtz-1: What?
• Pinocchio: The Coachman who runs the lawless carnival Pinocchio is tempted into entering, reveals his true intentions for luring in children: turning them into donkeys to become his slaves.
  Coachman: They never come back... ...as BOYS!!!
• Puss in Boots: The Last Wish: The Wolf has finally caught up with Puss, just before he can reach the Wishing Star, and reveals exactly who he is and why he’s hunting Puss down:
  The Wolf: Sorry to crash the party with your past lives— or, your past deaths, as I like to call them.
  *raises his sickle, revealing a Kill Tally of Puss' deaths*
  The Wolf: I was there to witness all of them. Each. Frivolous. End. But you didn't even notice me, because "Puss in Boots laughs in the face of death”… right? But you're not laughing now.
  Puss: You are no bounty hunter. You are…!
  The Wolf: DEATH.
• Recess: School's Out:
  • When TJ gets locked up in a closet with Principal Prickly, before the two can escape, Philliam Benedict arrives, and he and Prickly casually reveal that they know each other.
    Benedict: Hello, Petey, remember me?
    Prickly: Well, well, if it isn't Philliam Benedict. I should have known you were behind this.
  • In the Flashback that follows as Prickly is telling TJ that Benedict used to be the principal of Third Street School, Benedict drops a bombshell on Prickly on what he plans on doing as principal:
    Benedict: As my first official act as principal, I have decided… to get rid of recess.
  • When TJ and Prickly break into the principal's office and find TJ's confiscated walkie-talkie, TJ contacts his friends and reveals what Benedict's plan is:
    TJ: He's trying to get rid of Summer Vacation!
• The Rescuers Down Under: McLeach blackmails Cody to reveal where Marahute the eagle's nest is.
  McLeach: You see, I already got the father.
• Robin Hood (1973): In the climax, Friar Tuck and Little John have successfully managed to load the escaped villagers onto a wagon, and it seems to be smooth sailing after Robin opens the gates, but then Mother Rabbit cries out, "STOP! My baby!" and we then see Tagalong rushing from a great distance behind the wagon and calling for her mother while loads of arrows are being fired at her. Robin manages to return to rescue Tagalong, but the Crocodile guard traps him in the castle, forcing him to slip her through the bars and spend the rest of the night avoiding the guards and the Sheriff.
• Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken: During the film, Ruby befriends Chelsea, a mermaid in disguise, who convinces her to get the Trident of Oceanus, which she claims her mother Queen Narissa died trying to find, so they can end the war between krakens and mermaids. When Agatha finds out, she confronts her estranged mother, telling her that her granddaughter is now in league with their enemy's daughter.
  Grandmamah: "Daughter"? Narissa never had a daughter!
  Agatha: (gasps with realization) Ruby...!
• Scooby-Doo Direct-to-Video Film Series:
  • From Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island:
    Daphne: You won't get away with this!
    Simone Lenoir: I've been getting away with it for TWO HUNDRED YEARS!
    • Before, that moment, Velma made an interesting observation.
      Velma: But why don't we just ask...Lena? Her story about Simone getting dragged by zombies wasn't true. I saw the footprints of Simone's heels. She wasn't dragged, she walked down that tunnel!
    • Fred encounters a zombie, and attempts to remove its mask.
      Fred: It's the gardener!
      Daphne: No!
      Fred: It's the fisherman!
      Shaggy: No!
      Fred: It's the ferryman!
      Scooby: No!
      Fred : Maybe it's... (pulls the zombie's head off) real?
  • From Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost:
    Velma: Ben, that doesn't seem to be a journal at all.
    Ben Ravencroft: Because it isn't, Velma — it's a spell book. (Velma gasps) You see, Sarah wasn't a Wiccan. She was indeed a witch! And since Sarah's blood runs in my veins, I guess that makes me... a warlock!
  • From Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase:
    Eric: All I'm getting is that the virus had a thing for... baseball!
  • From Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost, one many fans thought would never get revealed:
    Vincent Van Ghoul: I've found the thirteenth ghost!
• Shrek: This is used to end a Third-Act Misunderstanding: Shrek overhears Fiona (in her ogre form) telling Donkey how anyone could love someone so ugly, which is why she can't be with Shrek and has to marry Lord Farquaad. Shrek believes that she was talking about him (in reality, she was talking about herself, but swears Donkey to secrecy) and reacts coldly toward Fiona and Donkey when they see him again and he refuses to listen to them. It takes Donkey's unwanted return after the fact to set things straight, even though Shrek, still wounded by what he had heard, tries to hide from him.
  Donkey: All she ever did was like you, maybe even love you!
  Shrek: (hiding in the outhouse) Love me?! She said I was ugly, a hideous creature! I heard the two of you talking!
  Donkey: She wasn't talking about you, okay? She was talking about... (hesitates slightly) someone else.
• The Simpsons Movie:
  • Russ Cargill manipulates the President into picking Option 4 when the prisoners try to break the dome. As he takes the folder away, he opens it to reveal what it is: "OPTION 4 - BLOW UP SPRINGFIELD".
  • Homer watches the tape that Marge left him after she and the kids decide to return to Springfield.
    Marge: Lately, what's keeping us together is my ability to overlook everything you do. And I overlook these things because...
    Homer: Because?
    Marge: Well, that's the thing. I-I just don't know how to finish that sentence anymore. So I'm leaving with the kids to help Springfield, and we're never coming back. And to prove to myself that this is the end... I taped this over our wedding video. Goodbye, Homie.
• Smallfoot has a mid-song one, during "Let It Lie", where it's revealed the Stonekeeper has been gaslighting the yetis for years to keep them separated from the human savages that attacked them, and the seemingly meaningless tasks the yetis do every day are what keeps the machine that generates the barrier between the two running.
  Migo: Wait, we're below the clouds.
  Stonekeeper: Or so it would seem. But look closer...
  Migo: ...Those aren't clouds, it's steam!
• Snoopy, Come Home:
  • Linus runs a background check on Snoopy and discovers...
    Linus: You are not Snoopy's original owner.
  • Which is immediately followed by another one when Linus tells Charlie Brown that Snoopy's original owner couldn't keep him and had to return him to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm from whence he came...
    Linus: You got a used dog, Charlie Brown.
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse: Peter B. encounters Fisk's nerdy head-scientist during their mission to Alchemax. After strapping Peter B. to a chair and describing in detail the painful effects of his potential eventual atomisation with a creepy sense of anticipation, he becomes understandably very concerned and asks for her name. That's when she gives a very familiar last name...
  Head Scientist: If you stay in this dimension too long, your body’s going to disintegrate. Do you know how painful that would be, Peter Parker?
  Peter B: Uh, I don’t know.
  Head Scientist: You can’t imagine. And I, for one, can’t wait to watch.
  Peter B: (long beat) What did you say your name was?
  Head Scientist: Doctor Olivia Octavius.
• Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse:
  • Spot reveals that he is far more than a Monster of the Week, and talks about how he's directly responsible for the previous movie:
    The Spot: I worked at Alchemax. I ran a test on this collider that brought a spider here from another dimension. It escaped, and it bit you. My spider made you Spider-Man.
  • During their climatic scuffle, Miguel hits his Rage Breaking Point from Miles' stubborn refusal to quit and reveals to him the reason why he's excluded from the Spider-Society.
    Miguel: You don't get it! You're an Anomaly!
    Miles: Not if you let me go home!
    Miguel: Everywhere you go, you're an Anomaly! You're the original Anomaly!
  • The above line is swiftly followed by a line from Peter B. that has Miles realize that his old friends were aware of him being "the original anomaly", and agreed not to visit him because of it.
    Peter B: This isn't what we talked about!
    Miles: [shocked] You talked about this!? You knew?... you...you all knew!?
  • This is then followed by an exchange between Miles and Miguel that reveals that the whole chase wasn't an Indy Ploy, but in fact all part of Miles' plan.
    Miles: I'm not a kid, Gwen!
    Miguel: That's exactly what you are! You're just a kid, who has NO! IDEA! WHAT HE'S DOING!
    Miles: Yeah, well, I did lure hundreds of Spider-People away from your little clubhouse.
  • After escaping from Earth-2099 to return to his own dimension, Miles goes to his mother and solemnly reveals to her that he's Spider-Man... only for her response to clue him in that he didn't travel to his dimension (Earth-1610), but Earth-42, where the radioactive spider that bit him came from – and where there is no spider-person to fight crime.
    Rio: ...Who's Spider-Man?
  • When Miles is captured and at Aaron's mercy, he tries to give him a You Are Better Than You Think You Are speech that falls flat for one reason:
    Miles: I know you don't want to be The Prowler.
    Earth-42 Aaron: ... I'm not.
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie:
  • When Squidward intends to tell King Neptune of Plankton's heinous actions, Karen exclaims this line when Plankton gives the go-ahead to an extension of Plan Z, one that marks the movie's Cerebus Syndrome and Plankton's Not-So-Harmless Villain role.
    Karen: Now activating helmet brain control devices.
  • Towards the end of the film, when SpongeBob and Patrick realize how close they are to their goal.
    Patrick: No! Look at the sign! Shell City, Marine Gifts and Sundries!
  • When SpongeBob and Patrick finally return with the crown and save Mr. Krabs, Plankton is not worried at all. Instead he reveals his backup plan.
    Plankton: (claps mockingly) Oh, yes, well done, SpongeBoob!
    SpongeBob: Sorry to rain on your parade, Plankton!
    Plankton: Oh, don't worry about me. My parade shall be quite dry, under my UMBRELLA!! (reaches up and pulls an overhead cord)
    SpongeBob, Patrick & Mindy: Umbrella?...
    (Turn to Neptune, who is still kissing his crown. The door on the ceiling that says, King Size, opens up and a helmet falls out and lands on his head)
    Mindy: Daddy, NO!
    Plankton: Daddy, YES! (presses a remote and an antenna rises from Neptune's helmet, placing him under Plankton's control.)
    Neptune: (droning) All hail Plankton.
• Tarzan: When Clayton reveals he wanted to find the gorillas so he can hunt and capture them.
  Tarzan: Clayton!
  Clayton: Have we met?
• Teen Titans Go! To the Movies, the post-credits scene.
  2003!Robin: (standing alongside the 2003 incarnation of the Teen Titans) This is the Teen Titans. Can anyone hear us? We think we found a way back.
• Tinker Bell:
  Tink: Have you ever helped anyone besides yourself?
  Vidia: Well, I tried to help you! Maybe I should've told you to capture the hawk instead of the thistles!
• Tom and Jerry: The Movie:
  Puggsy: The name is Puggsy. What's yours?
  Tom: I'm Tom!
  Jerry: I'm Jerry!
• Toy Story: Woody coming to life in front of Sid in order to save Buzz from being killed.
  Sid: It's busted.
  Woody: (From his voice box) Who are you calling "busted", buster?
  Sid: (Looks at Woody)
  Woody: (From his voice box) That's right. (Sid spins him around to reveal that his pull-string isn't moving) I'm talking to you, Sid Philips.
• Toy Story 2:
  • When Woody and Jessie are having fun on a record player.
    Jessie: Look at us! We're a complete set!
    Stinky Pete: Now it's on to the museum!
  • Stinky Pete reveals himself to want himself to go to the museum at all costs and last forever.
    Stinky Pete: I tried reasoning with you, Woody, but you keep forcing me to take extreme measures.
• Toy Story 3:
  • Buzz turns down Lotso's offer to join their elite club if his friends are left out.
    Lotso: A family man, huh? I understand. Put him back in the time-out chair.
  • A bit later: Woody is about to explain to Bonnie's toys how he escaped before wondering why they asked him and if they're trying to warn him of something.
    Woody: What do you mean escape?
  • The toys manage to avoid the shredder, then Rex sees what he thinks is daylight, then Woody goes to have a look.
    Woody: I don't think that's daylight...
  • Lotso betrays the toys to die in the furnace even though they saved his life.
    Lotso: Where's your kid now, sheriff!?
• Toy Story 4: Near the end, when Woody is ready to go home but is hesitant at leaving Bo again, Buzz helps him decide:
  Buzz: She'll be okay... Bonnie will be okay.
• Treasure Planet: The robot B.E.N. is the last remaining member of the infamous pirate Captain Flint, but can't say much about where the treasure is due to having had his primary memory chip removed. Just after the treasure is discovered, Jim finds and returns B.E.N.'s memory chip, causing him to remember why Flint stole it.
  B.E.N.: ...right up until Flint pulled out my memory circuits so that I couldn't tell anyone about his BOOBY TRAP! (explosion) Speaking of which...
• Turning Red: When Mei's parents discover that she has transformed into an 8-foot panda, they're shocked... but not for the reasons Mei was expecting.
  Jin: It's happened already?
• In one of the most memorable scenes of Turtles Forever, what started off as a simple crossover movie escalates into a Crisis Crossover with this:
  2003 Shredder: BEHOLD! A MULTIVERSE of accursed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
• UglyDolls: Lou's true nature is revealed after he loses the Gauntlet despite being the only one to cross the finish line.
  Lydia: You failed?
  Tuesday: How could you fail?
  Lou: You still don't get it? Of course I failed. I'll always fail! I'm a prototype!
• Up: During Carl's 10-Minute Retirement as he looks through Ellie's adventure book, he happens to get this line on the last page which motivates him:
  Thanks for the adventure — now go have a new one!
• WALL•E: Shortly after discovering about Directive A113, Captain McCrea becomes suspicious and asks the computer when the directive was sent out.
  McCrea: Computer, when was that message sent out to the Axiom?
  Computer: Message received in the year 2110.
  McCrea: That's, uh—that's nearly seven hundred years ago!
• Watership Down: Being a film about talking rabbits, this serves as a jarring signal of the film's true nature.
  Fiver: The field... the field... It's covered with blood!
• Wreck-It Ralph:
  • Ralph is told that his friend Vanellope must be kept from racing because she's a glitch who could cause the game to be disconnected. Ralph reluctantly agrees, until he sees Van featured on the art of the arcade machine, proof that she's not actually a glitch.
    Ralph: If Vanellope was never supposed to exist, then why is her picture on the side of the game console?
  • The line that finalizes The Reveal. King Candy of Sugar Rush turns out to be Turbo, an assumed dead racer who caused the shutdown of two games (Roadblasters and his own) in a bid for glory.
    Turbo: I'm Turbo, the greatest racer ever!
  • When Felix and Ralph see King Candy having glitch spasms and see that he's really Turbo.
    Felix: Is that...?
    Ralph: No way.
• Zootopia:
  • During the scene with Mr. Big, Judy talks with him about Mr. Otterton's disappearance. Then we get this exchange...
    Mr. Big: Mr. Otterton had something important he wanted to discuss. That's why I sent that car to pick him up. But he never arrived.
    Judy: Because he was attacked.
    Mr. Big: No. He attacked.
  • This line from Nick's attempt at joining the scouts in his childhood sums up his Cynicism Catalyst, and also foreshadows the film's villain by showing prey animals can be just as brutal as predators.
    Nick: I - Nicholas Wilde - promise to be brave, loyal, helpful, and trustworthy!
    Scout: Even though you're a fox?
  • After the case is seemingly solved, all the missing mammals were found, locked away in a hospital having "gone savage" and all are predators. Judy is a hero, and in her press conference when asked about why the animals were going savage, says the worst thing possible.
    Judy: It may have something to do with biology ... predators survived through their aggressive hunting instincts ... they seem to be reverting back to their primitive, savage ways.
  • This line back in Bunnyburrow gives Judy her "Eureka!" Moment about what Night Howlers really are.
    Gideon: [Regarding the flower just identified as Midnicampum holicithias] Well, now there's a four-dollar word, Mr. H. My family always just called them Night Howlers.
  • After Judy and Nick have the evidence needed to take down the conspiracy to divide Zootopia, they are dashing through the closed Natural History Museum and discover Bellwether waiting to help them. But then Judy comes to a realization that casts Bellwether in a new light.
    Judy: How did you know where to find us?
  • The Big Bad has Nick and Judy cornered and shoots Nick with the Night Howler serum, intending for him to go savage and kill Judy. He has Judy cornered and bites her neck as she gives a blood-curdling scream and... delivers this line, revealing it was all an elaborate ruse.
    Judy: Blood, blood, blood! Aaaaaaand.... death!

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