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Wham Line: Web Original

  • Bronyism:
    Nightmare Nyx: Trollvorlord is no more.
  • Ruby Quest:
    • "Today is October 31st."
    • Weaver: "Yes, it would have killed Tom."
    • "Isn't it obvious? You're dead."
  • "He's coming for you, Linkara..." At that point, you realize that Mechakara wasn't just a Shout Out to Terminator.
    • Dr. Linksano got a rather good one at the end of the first Tandy Computer Whiz Kids review:
    "There are forces in The Multiverse far beyond anything you've ever dealt with. Ancient, mindless evils that fill in the cracks and eat dimensions just for a snack. Monstrous deities and empires spanning Universe after Universe have risen and fallen in the span of forever! But there is still one individual, one being that they are all horrified of! When I saw him coming near my universe, I fled. Muhahahhahahha. Weep for your Universe, Linkara! Weep for all Universes! For Lord Vyce is coming! Hihihi. And all that he sees, he conquers! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
    • From the Silent Hill Dead/Alive #1 and 2 review - Pollo: "Linkara, you've been alone in here all day." (note this said after Linkara complains that people have been interrupting his review).
      • This may be a stretch, but I recommend this happy gem from Silent Hill Dead/Alive #3 and 4: Mechakara: "Go on, kill [Pollo], just like you killed her!"
    • And one that you have to think about for in Action Comics #593's previously on sequence
    Linkara-Prime: I wonder if I should have told my past self about the gun? Oh well, its only his sanity.
    • From Spider-Man: Planet of the Symbiotes, The Reveal of The Entity's true identity.
    "A piece of the world is missing. It doesn't mean that it's gone... it's your name!"
    • From the end of Youngblood #4:
    Linkara: Okay, Mechakara. Surrender and you won't get hurt.
    Lord Vyce: That... is not my name.
    • At the end of the stinger of his "Catwoman: Guardian of Gotham #1" review:
    "You. Are turning. EVIL."
  • From Spoony's Final Fantasy X review: "Tidus of Spira, RISE!" and "Soon that pile of cloned rat-filth will finally learn: This is my story!"
  • From Everyman HYBRID, episode "One Step Forward, Two Steps Back":
    Alex: It's back.
    • At the end of "Intermission"
    Vinny: Alex isn't okay.
    • A comedic example in "Damsel"
    Steph: I'd be fucking stoked if they weren't releasing me today!
  • Marble Hornets has one early on that does a good job at setting the mood: "Burn them."
    • For the first dozen or so videos, J was strictly a narrator and viewpoint character. After a while, he started to get a bit more involved, visiting locations and interviewing witnesses to try and piece together the mystery. Then, in 19, things happened. "I have been recording myself for a month now..."
    • "Season 2", like the first part, opens with Entry 27's Wham Line. "The past 7 months are completely missing from my memory."
    • "There is something bothering me. I don't remember any of this happening".
    • Entry #49: "I told you not to follow me!"
    • Entry #64: It's been over a year since Alex has made his presence known, some presumed him dead. When Jay and Tim go explore the tunnel in Rosswood, Jay's phone rings.
    Phone: Leave. Now.
    Jay: That was Alex!
  • Vampire Quest: "When I was a child...I...was kidnapped...by Lilicore as retribution."
  • During v4 of Survival of the Fittest, in reaction to the WHAM Episode that was Faraday's Cages:
    Achyls: "Blow the collar! I said BLOW THE FUCKING COLLAR!"
    Sparky: "It-it...it won't work, Sir!"
    • The final line of V3 is a massive example.
    B58 - Johnathan Rizzolo - Deceased
    • "An attempt was made by a military organization to rescue some of the contestants in this season of Survival of the Fittest. The lives of many students were lost as a result of the actions of your governments. Any future attempts will be met with an immediate and total detonation of all collars."
      • This later turns out to be a rare subversion in the form of a Red Herring; it turns out that all the v4 escapees are alive and well.
  • Suburban Knights: "It’s Malachite. Malachite sent that chain letter. He was waiting for someone to go after Malachite's Hand."
    • And not ten minutes later: "Critic?" "Suede?"
  • In Perfect Kirby 3, Kirby tells Roy he knows about the Hippin' Jippin' Gene.
    Roy: (Dramatic Gun Cock) Then you know too much!
  • The SCP Foundation has several of these. Often an entry will lead the reader in a certain direction by deliberately not revealing all of the object's qualities; the Wham Line will then drastically change the tone of the piece. Particularly good ones are for SCP-1025, SCP-804, SCP-089, and SCP-093's associated entries.
    • SCP-089: "For each locution event, SCP-089-A is a healthy, unblemished human infant or child between eight months and six years of age, and SCP-089-B is that child’s natural mother."
    • Andrew Swann's SCP-001 proposal: "And it’s a bunch of horror writers."
    • SCP-804: They simply wanted to do it.
    • SCP-093: there was no war it was him him him him him IT. IT. it came from between the folds of time and space and worlds and light and dark something that is but should not be slipped in and called out to them as their god and they believed it and they tasted it and touched it and layed with it and became its property and did its will and IT IS STILL HERE
  • In Minecraft Shadow of Israphel, episode 35:
    Knight Peculier: I made the most cowardly decision I had ever made. To end my wretched life.
    "Knight_Peculier tried to swim in lava."
  • Kara:
    • "I'm merchandise?"
    • "I'M SCARED!"
  • Kickassia manages to work in a fairly creepy one in Part 4:
    Snob: "There's even a rumor going around that you bought twenty tons of dynamite for yourself."
    The Nostalgia Critic: "Nooo, that part was true."
  • In Freeman's Mind, at the end of episode 28, Gordon finds an elevator that goes up and isn't booby trapped...only to find the way blocked by numerous crates full of powerful explosives...
    Gordon: You know, I'm beginning to think this isn't a rescue operation..."
  • Retsupurae's The Marios brings us an unscripted (and funny as hell) example:
    LuwiigiMaster: *laughter* I'm sorry, people, its just that I keep thinking about all these other Lets Players that, like, got made fun of by Retsupurae, or something.
    slowbeef: Aww, shit!
  • From Rooster Teeth's hilarious Minecraft Let's Play
  • We Are Our Avatars:
    -In it...is everything. So many aspects of what just happened in this entire fiasco of a "competition". The Meteor. The device to stop it. The things found in Big Mt. The state of the wasteland itself. The hiring of individuals from other worlds to eliminate political enemies on this one. All cobbled together from sections of a very ancient and much bigger plan by a "Courier Six"...to eliminate anyone who would oppose his rule of New Vegas-
  • Doom House:
    "You stubborn mule, now you know the secret—I am a terrorist, and this house was built over our terrorist burial camp!"
  • To Boldly Flee:
    Nostalgia Critic (from Part 1): Ma-Ti...?
    • Also from Part 1, when The Nostalgia Critic is conversing with someone claiming to be Ma-Ti on the computer. ( It is.):
    Nostalgia Critic (typing on the computer) Ma-Ti, huh? Back from the dead?
    "Ma-Ti": (also typed) Ask Spoony, he'd remember.
    • From Part 7
    Film Brain: If you go in there, you may never return!
    • Also From Part 7
    Spoony: It's a trap, you know. Going in the hole won't solve anything.
    • Also from Part 8 (although it's actually Wham Text):
    Critic: (picks up a laptop) Well, I might as well check my email. (the look on his face turns to shock)
    (on the computer is this:)
    "TO BOLDLY FLEE"
    By Doug and Rob Walker
    • Along with this bit afterwards, which makes it a Wham Moment.
    (Critic gets up when he suddenly hears footsteps coming his way and looks in shock as he sees a person he never expected looking right at him.)
    Doug Walker: (Toothbrush in mouth, equally surprised) Oh my god...
  • Exactly what gives these stories their title
    Bunny: Madgie, what did you do?
  • In Cracked's Revisiting Old-School Text Adventures as a Jaded Modern Gamer:
  • Episode three of Demo Reel:
    Tacoma: "Donnie DuPre... does not exist. No birth certificate. No records."
  • At the end of Chapter 14.8 of Worm, Bonesaw, who is impersonating Tattletale, drops an Out Of Character Alert line that Skitter doesn't recognize because of the prosopagnosia fog.
  • Red vs. Blue, near the end of season 6.
    Agent Washington: Church...there's no such thing as ghosts. You're one of them. You're an AI. You...are the Alpha.
  • Board James: Near the climax of the Dream Phone review.
    James Rolfe: I"M IN THE CLOSET! HOW CAN YOU SEE ME?!
    The Dream Phone: Well, you sure got a hold on me!

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