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I don't see how it could be both. If it doesn't make sense and makes you think it is a joke then it wasn't a wham line because it doesn't give you the "this changes everything" moment. It could count as foreshadowing if later knowledge made that line more important. On the other hand if it is a wham line then the impact is right then and it isn't a hint anymore it is a specific statement of what is going on.
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Wham Line and Foreshadowing do seem mutually exclusive.
I woudn't think so: Wham Lines are lines that, by their very nature, change how the story is interpreted on the spot.
You look back on foreshadowing and realize the Fridge Brilliance of it. A wham line is more what you actually find in the fridge just by opening it.
"I don't see how it could be both. If it doesn't make sense and makes you think it is a joke then it wasn't a wham line because it doesn't give you the "this changes everything" moment."
This is correct. And if the example given is accurate, it would fall under foreshadowing but not Wham Line.
The Wham Line is what the Foreshadowing can lead to, but a Wham Line can not be foreshadowing in itself.
Foreshadowing cannot lead to a Wham Line, because (per the trope description) a Wham Line must be completely unexpected, and foreshadowing would negate that.
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The article I'm asking this is for the DDLC, where there is a Wham Line (obviously a Spoiler) mentioned in the middle of the game. Now this line doesn't make sense at first and leaves the player guessing and treating it as a joke, until the endgame where, upon remembering the line, it all makes sense, and is actually a fact. Due to the gap between the two points of the game being long enough, can we say that it is indeed a foreshadowing?