History TomatoSurprise / Film

* The female lead in ''Arrival'' repeatedly experiences what we're led to believe are flashbacks of her deceased daughter. They turn out to be flash-''forwards'' - the daughter hasn't been born yet.

* ''Film/{{Identity}}'', starring John Cusack. The main characters are all the selves of a man with multiple personalities, one of whom is a SerialKiller and most of the movie takes place within his mind/a hallucination. The legal men are trying to determine the insane Malcolm Rivers' case.

* ''Film/LastTrainToFreo'''s drama is drawn from the fact that not all the characters are strangers to each other and it's no coincidence that they're all in the same train car. There are two major Tomato Surprises. First, Simon and Lisa are not strangers, but are in fact a couple. They boarded the train separately in order to set up and kill The Tall Thug, who attacked Simon's brother and caused him brain damage. Second, The Tall Thug and Simon's brother were closeted lovers. The Tall Thug attacked Simon's brother during an argument; The Tall Thug wanted to come out, but his lover didn't. The Tall Thug got a short prison term after concocting a completely different story which Simon didn't contradict in court out of shame over his brother's sexual orientation.

* ''Film/{{Hidden}}'': In the aftermath of an outbreak, a family is hiding in an underground bunker from menacing "Breathers" with glowing yellow eyes. It's heavily implied that the Breathers are infected by the horrific virus everyone was running away from. But in the end it's revealed that the Breathers are regular soldiers wearing nightvision goggles and gas masks, and it's the ''family'' who are infected with the monster-virus.

* The female lead in ''Film/Arrival'' repeatedly experiences what we're led to believe are flashbacks of her deceased daughter. They turn out to be flash-''forwards'' - the daughter hasn't been born yet.

* The ending of ''Film/{{EXistenZ}}'' reveals that the entire plot was simply part of a different virtual reality game, with all of the perceived tension simply being the protagonists playing along with the premise. The final scene leaves it open whether or not this is also part of a game.

* ''Film/{{Hidden}}'': In the aftermath of an outbreak, a family is hiding in an underground bunker for menacing "Breathers" with glowing yellow eyes. It's heavily implied that the Breathers are infected by the horrific virus everyone was running away from. But in the end it's revealed that the Breathers are regular soldiers wearing nightvision goggles and gas masks, and it's the ''family'' who are infected with the monster-virus.

* ''Film/{{Triangle}}'' starts with the protagonist having a crappy morning with her disabled son, and then in the next shot she is standing near a dock on the marina where she meets her friends while acting all confused. It seems like these 2 scenes happen within several minutes with nothing important happening in between, but the truth is that it's been more than a whole day between those 2 scenes, at least for the protagonist. Previously, she had been with her friends on a haunted ship where she ended up killing them, then traveled back in time to that morning, killed the past version of herself to replace her, but then her son got killed in a car accident so she went to the marina in order to return to the haunted ship where she hoped she would be able to travel back in time to save her son from dying. It's very likely that she's been stuck in an infinite series of TimeTravel-induced CloseEnoughTimeline loops in which she keeps killing her friends and her past-self in order to be reunited with her son, but then the inevitably recurring deaths of her son make her travel back in time again and again in futile attempts to save her son the next time, thus making her appearance on the marina a result of a convoluted StableTimeLoop.

* In ''Film/BenX'', [[spoiler:Ben's online girlfriend Scarlite actually left the train station without recognizing him; the version of her that kept him from killing himself and helped him develop his plan was a hallucination.]]

* In ''Film/{{Cypher}}'', the protagonist Morgan Sullivan [[spoiler:is in fact the legendary spy Sebastian Rooks, which Rita Foster knew all along because she helped him plan the whole thing.]]
* ''Film/{{Identity}}'', starring John Cusack. [[spoiler:The main characters are all the selves of a man with multiple personalities, one of whom is a SerialKiller and most of the movie takes place within his mind/a hallucination. The legal men are trying to determine the insane Malcolm Rivers' case.]]
* At the end of ''Film/JohnDoeVigilante'', the titular VillainProtagonist abruptly concludes his HowWeGotHere-style interrogation by [[spoiler:killing the HeroAntagonist detective who's been interviewing him through the whole film. It then turns out that said detective was actually the DirtyCop responsible for a ChekhovsGun crime shown in one of the flashbacks -- a surefire way to wind up on Doe's ''Series/{{Dexter}}''-esque hit list.]]
* ''Film/LastTrainToFreo'''s drama is drawn from the fact that not all the characters are strangers to each other and it's no coincidence that they're all in the same train car. There are two major Tomato Surprises. First, [[spoiler:Simon and Lisa are not strangers, but are in fact a couple. They boarded the train separately in order to set up and kill The Tall Thug, who attacked Simon's brother and caused him brain damage.]] Second, [[spoiler:The Tall Thug and Simon's brother were closeted lovers. The Tall Thug attacked Simon's brother during an argument; The Tall Thug wanted to come out, but his lover didn't. The Tall Thug got a short prison term after concocting a completely different story which Simon didn't contradict in court out of shame over his brother's sexual orientation.]]
* At the end of ''Film/{{Maverick}}'' the showdown between Brett and [[spoiler:Cooper is resolved when the two stop pretending to not know each other and act as father and son]].
* ''Film/{{Triangle}}'' starts with the protagonist having a crappy morning with her disabled son, and then in the next shot she is standing near a dock on the marina where she meets her friends while acting all confused. It seems like these 2 scenes happen within several minutes with nothing important happening in between, but the truth is that [[spoiler:it's been more than a whole day between those 2 scenes, at least for the protagonist. Previously, she had been with her friends on a haunted ship where she ended up killing them, then traveled back in time to that morning, killed the past version of herself to replace her, but then her son got killed in a car accident so she went to the marina in order to return to the haunted ship where she hoped she would be able to travel back in time to save her son from dying. It's very likely that she's been stuck in an infinite series of TimeTravel-induced CloseEnoughTimeline loops in which she keeps killing her friends and her past-self in order to be reunited with her son, but then the inevitably recurring deaths of her son make her travel back in time again and again in futile attempts to save her son the next time, thus making her appearance on the marina a result of a convoluted StableTimeLoop.]]
* ''Film/{{Valentine}}'': By the halfway point of the film, Kate, Dorothy, and Paige figure out that Jeremy Melton, the boy the latter two framed for sexual assault in the prologue, sent the creepy Valentines and is probably responsible for Shelley's death. The problem is that they haven't seen him for years and therefore have no way to finger him as a suspect. Melton [[ParanoiaFuel could be anyone they've had contact with over the years]] and given [[{{Jerkass}} their attitudes]] (except for [[NiceGirl Kate]]), any guy they know or they've pissed off over the years could have a murderous grudge against them. Specifically, [[spoiler:Jeremy is revealed to be Kate's boyfriend Adam; the biggest clue for this revelation is the murder of a guy who Kate believed was stalking her]].

* In ''Ben X'', [[spoiler:Ben's online girlfriend Scarlite actually left the train station without recognizing him; the version of her that kept him from killing himself and helped him develop his plan was a hallucination.]]

* At the end of ''John Doe: Vigilante'', the titular VillainProtagonist abruptly concludes his HowWeGotHere-style interrogation by [[spoiler:killing the HeroAntagonist detective who's been interviewing him through the whole film. It then turns out that said detective was actually the DirtyCop responsible for a ChekhovsGun crime shown in one of the flashbacks -- a surefire way to wind up on Doe's ''Series/{{Dexter}}''-esque hit list.]]
* ''Last Train to Freo'''s drama is drawn from the fact that not all the characters are strangers to each other and it's no coincidence that they're all in the same train car. There are two major Tomato Surprises. First, [[spoiler:Simon and Lisa are not strangers, but are in fact a couple. They boarded the train separately in order to set up and kill The Tall Thug, who attacked Simon's brother and caused him brain damage.]] Second, [[spoiler:The Tall Thug and Simon's brother were closeted lovers. The Tall Thug attacked Simon's brother during an argument; The Tall Thug wanted to come out, but his lover didn't. The Tall Thug got a short prison term after concocting a completely different story which Simon didn't contradict in court out of shame over his brother's sexual orientation.]]