Whamise this line. A Game.

Very nice.

Since there's no line for me to whamise, I'll post my own line.

"The car's gas tank is full."

I can't think of a specific, plausible situation, but I would imagine that would be a Wham Line if someone was shooting at the car the protagonists are in, trying to hit the gas tank and explode the car. One tells the others not to worry because he didn't fill the tank up with gas for a while. That line is one of the other friends correcting him, having considerately filled her up at some point without telling anybody. Maybe he assumed they could tell. Cue an Oh Shit moment.

Am I doing it right?

Guess so. Another alternative would be if someone found an abandoned shack with an old, beaten-down car beside it. They try to get the vehicle started, but it won't go (not least because of the gaping rent in the underside of the tank), and so they elect to stay the night. One of them, due to the nice, padded seats and the lack of other sleeping space, decides to kip in the car. Early the next morning, he runs in, face pale as a sheet, and the others ask him what the matter is.

OK, another line as fodder:

"I don't get seasick."

Ah, I got this one. That line precedes a Gilligan Cut to the character who said it being violently sea sick. The lead-up to the line is that of many of his friends objecting to go on this voyage for whatever reason, the last objection being voiced being the one about sea-sickness. Does that work?

"Buddy, I've found a reason to fight!"

No, the idea is to create the events leading up to that line which would make the line an 'oh shit' moment. What happens next is left to the imagination. Read the trope page if you're still puzzled.

For example, you would just type your line, with no context, and I type something like this: The villain is Affably Evil, and incredibly powerful, but an Actual Pacifist. When he shows up on the battlefield, he says this to his Friendly Enemy. Cue No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.

Now I give my line, again with no context: "I thought Steven said it would run out of power after an hour." Now you give the context, something that makes the audience go, "Oh, crap." or completely changes the situation.

I... guess I'll just post a new line, then?

"You're the only one here who's just like everybody else."

Our heroes are facing a rampaging mechanical monster seekinjg to rend them limb from limb with its hundreds of bladed tentacles. They're running for their lives through their collapsing appartment building, the armoured behemoth snapping at their heels... when their neighbour pops his head out of the door, a sex-toy catalogue in his hand, and glances at the hideous machine.

"All forces, retreat." Alternatively, use Freezair's line.

edited 23rd Apr '11 10:22:52 AM by Iaculus

Said by the Big Brother type villain to the protagonist who rebelled against him and everything the people ruled by the villain stood for... only to use the exactly same methods. Hard to explain, really. Something like the leaders of the French revolutions ending up guillotined. Ninja'd, dammit.
Attacking the hideout of a cornered villain, the army led by the heroes discovers that a piece of Applied Phlebotinum can turn their giant army against themselves. But seriously, I have no idea.

"Nobody's a hero until he dies."

edited 23rd Apr '11 10:26:21 AM by NotSoBadassLongcoat

More like the heroes receive the signal at the brink of victory, because someone's discovered the Phlebotinum.

"Nobody's a hero until he dies." — the hero vanquished the Evil Overlord, and now a triumph parade is getting prepared in the capital city of The Kingdom, as he is being thanked by the king. Who just turns out to be a Magnificent Bastard REAL Big Bad, right about to remove his Xanatos Sucker, the last danger to uncontested reign.

"Lord Randomname greets you in Randomland, and demands that you leave."

edited 23rd Apr '11 11:07:48 AM by lordGacek

Our heroes have been Trapped In Video Game Land and are fighting through hoards of enemies so as not to die. Thankfully, one of their members is a big fan of TAS-es, and has been using what he knows of luck manipulation to ensure they don't get royally screwed. But they stumble into a Minus World ruled by the one thing that might stop them for good: True randomness.

"...I think I broke a heel."

The plan was so simple...they'd taunt the monster, make him leave his lair and lure him into their trap. No problems, easy, easy. And there were them, failure due to a horror movie cliche.

"So, who's your favorite character?"

One of the protagonist has just told the big bad his favorite fictional character and the villain has used his power to bring that character to life and kill him. He then deliveries this line to the remaining protagonist.

"I can't believe you haven't figured it out yet, they're already dead"

Doesn't work - the twist happened when the first fictional character came to life and killed his friend. Everything afterwards pans out naturally from there.

As for the line...

A kidnapping has taken place, and the culprit has left a bizarre, cryptic chain of clues leading to the missing family. The police desperately try to unravel them, one by one, as the minutes turn into hours, until finally, they reach the last step on the path laid out for them.

A safe-deposit box, with a short message scrawled on the piece of paper inside.

My line:

"Oh. Oh god. That's it, isn't it? He lied to us all, Elsa. E equals m c cubed."

edited 23rd Apr '11 5:43:26 PM by Iaculus

There never was an Albert Einstein. In reality, he was several men: Thorsten Steiner, Albert von Stahlstadt, Gustav Edelheim and Einer Scharfenberg. All German physicists who emigrated to the US fairly early on in their careers. They created and perpetuated the E=MC 2 myth under the pseudonym "Albert Einstein" to "zee just haow meny ov diese Dummkopfs ve cen fack mit, ja?" What they didn't know that Steiner's grandson, Elifas Warner, would eventually discover the tomb of Elsa Lowenthal, and her terrible, terrible secret.

Line: "Just how deep do you think this goes? You always were one for over-analysing. Don't you see...? I was behind the whole thing! There were no conspiracies; no dark and terrible secrets to uncover! It was me the entire time!"

edited 23rd Apr '11 6:50:55 PM by SoberIrishman

Bethany is looking for her teddy bear, Mr. Snuggles, but can't find him anywhere. After hour upon hour of increasing panic, she asks her older brother if he knows who took him.

"This one has chocolate on it."

The main villain, who owns all remaining chocolate in the country and has learned to weaponize it in a Paper Master-like manner, was thought to've been dead. The heroes have just learned that that is not the case.

"There are no oranges left for you."

Two researchers, both wearing white coats, on of them holding a stack of papers on the hands full of handful of statistics were walking in the middle of two rows containing horrible experiments inside glasses. The least thing they wanted in the given situation was chocolate, not that they held any particular grudge against it, but something like that wasn't supposed to be inside the underground facility — that meant someone unauthorized broke into.

A group of seamen found themselves victims of scurvy, their last hope were the oranges.

"Don't you find them cute?"

edited 23rd Apr '11 7:05:52 PM by Fancolors

While trapped inside an ancient temple, a man finds a room filled with the remains of human sacrifices. The person who took him there, and the only other one in the temple, finds him in the room and says the line, revealing himself to be completely insane.

"This letter has no return address."

The hero has supposedly ended the story by killing the villain, who's weapon of choice are a seemingly ordinary letter with no return address that contain a very powerful bomb. His wife has just walk in holding the mail.

"It's gone. They've taken it. WE'RE SCREWED"

edited 23rd Apr '11 7:39:46 PM by Xaz

The local munchkin kids have just stolen the wedding cake before it arrived to the ceremony. Now the bride is going to be angry as hell.

"You know, adventures like these usually end in one of three ways. Us finding what we're looking for, us getting hopelessly lost and having to crawl back to civilization empty-handed or all of us getting killed with nobody around to know about it."

edited 24th Apr '11 6:35:52 AM by MajorTom

The story follows a bunch of treasure hunters, who scourer the globe looking for well treasure. They have been receiving cryptic clues about a very ancient treasure worth a lot of money. The clues lead them to an abandon shack where a trusted member of the team delivers this line and raises a gun to the other members on the last line, reveling himself to work for some shadowy bad guy.

"You see every person who has ever show kindness to you, who you thought was your friend, ALL of them have been working for us"

ALL of them? Sounds a bit too hard, and harsh for the character...let's see...

The Hero is trapped in a purgatory-ish world and he meets up some of his friends from his past life. They explore the world, and fight this one guy who claims to be the one who operates the place and wants to send protagonists to hell. In the way, The Hero reveals more and more about his life and secrets.

Then the Big Bad reveals that this whole world is just a simulation jacked to his brain and the friends are just image taken out of the vague memories from his mind, with the Big Bad's minion/partners as actors controlling the said images.

I hope this makes sense, or not too similar to Inception.

"You were never injected."

In a World… where designer babies and in-vitro fertilization have been made affordable, the children who were created through sexual intercourse are ridiculed and discriminated as products of primal lust rather than modern science. 'Injected' has become a layman's term for one of these genetically modified test-tube babies, and they are given the best education and numerous concessions, courtesy of the government.

The protagonist is a young man who has graduated from high school at the top of his class, and his parents have just told him that he is not the product of superior genetic selection. And that's just the beginning.

"You stained my robe."

edited 24th Apr '11 8:17:03 AM by CrystalGlacia