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* ''Film/MySoulToTake'': An eagle-eyed viewer will probably realize thatBug is the son of Abel Plenkov as soon as Plenkov’s sister-in-law May appears in the present scenes, [[spoiler:raising Bug. However, when AlphaBitch Fang comes down from her room to interrupt a conversation between May and Bug, TheReveal that Fang is Bug’s sister and Plenkov’s daughter Leah, is much more abrupt and startling.
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* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022 The Bad Guys]]'':
** In the prison scene, after the Crimson Paw -- a legendary thief that disappeared years ago -- swoops in and takes down the entire police force inside the prison, she walks up to the Bad Guys and takes off her mask, revealing herself to be Governor Diane Foxington.
** Following the highway chase, Professor Marmalade had managed to steal the meteorite back from the Bad Guys, and in the aftermath, he's interviewed by Tiffany Fluffit on live television to save face. He takes a moment to applaud himself... and the lights of the meteorite turn on and off with the claps, revealing it to be a decoy made from a lamp.


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* ''WesternAnimation/PussInBootsTheLastWish'': Puss's fight with the bounty hunter Wolf in the bar, after losing his eighth of nine lives, ends with the wolf's sickle slashing Puss's forehead. The shot of Puss's wide, panicking eyes staring at the Wolf as he begins to hyperventilate, while [[FirstBlood blood drips between his eyes]], firmly establishes the film's DarkerAndEdgier tone and the threat the Wolf presents.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', the shot of Ming walking toward the [=SkyDome=] as a Kaiju sized red panda.
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* ''Film/MariaFullOfGrace'': Maria enters the hotel room bathroom and freaks out at the sight of the blood-splattered bathtub. It means her fellow drug-mule has been cut open for the drug pellets inside her stomach.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'': Dante taking on the technicolor palette of Pepita, revealing he was an alebrije all along.
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* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddysBigPictureShow'': The first shot of the alley that was destroyed in the Eds' latest scam that went awry, especially since it came off the heels of nearly two minutes of tranquil silence.
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* ''Film/BillyClub2013'': When Alison takes of Billy's mask, she sees Bobby Spooner's face, revealing that Billy has been pretending to be Bobby after killing him and taking his I.D..
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* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' Jasper and Horace have entered the Radcliffes' house to make off with something. Nanny, whom Jasper had temporarily trapped before he and Horace escape, initially believes they took the good silver, but to her shock and horror, what they have actually stolen were the 15 Dalmatian puppies that Perdita had given birth to a couple months ago.

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* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' Jasper and Horace have entered the Radcliffes' house to make off with something. Nanny, whom Jasper had temporarily trapped before he and Horace escape, initially believes they took the good silver, but to her shock and horror, what they have actually stolen were the 15 Dalmatian puppies that Perdita had given birth to a couple months ago.puppies.
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* ''Film/ScoobyDoo2002'': Fred removes what he thinks is a mask of Mondavarious' face, revealing not a human face, but a robotic face.
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** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooOnZombieIsland'': The gang has incapacitated a zombie, and Fred decides to pull the mask off to find out who it is. However, he eventually ends up pulling the [[OffWithHisHead whole head off]], revealing that the zombie is not just a man in a costume, but a very real zombie.
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* ''Film/TopGun'': Goose and Maverick manage to eject from their falling fighter, only for Goose to crash head-first into the ejected canopy, [[NeckSnap snapping his neck]] and killing him instantly.
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* At one point in ''Film/TheInvitation'', Will witnesses David lighting and hanging a red lantern outside. At the end of the film, after The Invitation is revealed to be a death cult and everyone except Will, Kira and Tommy is dead, Will and Kira look out and see several other houses in the Hollywood Hills area hanging the same red lantern, as sirens and gunshots ring out in the Hills.

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* At one point in ''Film/TheInvitation'', ''Film/TheInvitation2015'', Will witnesses David lighting and hanging a red lantern outside. At the end of the film, after The Invitation is revealed to be a death cult and everyone except Will, Kira and Tommy is dead, Will and Kira look out and see several other houses in the Hollywood Hills area hanging the same red lantern, as sirens and gunshots ring out in the Hills.
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* ''Film/SaferAtHome'': [[spoiler: the seemingly dead Jen recovering consciousness]] just as Evan starts bleeding out after being shot by the police.
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* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory 3'', the toys manage to escape from the shredder and Rex sees what he thinks is daylight at the end of the shaft. However, when Woody goes to look, he realizes that they aren't looking at daylight. The camera then zooms ahead to reveal that the toys are heading towards the flames of the incinerator.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory 3'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', the toys manage to escape from the shredder and Rex sees what he thinks is daylight at the end of the shaft. However, when Woody goes to look, he realizes that they aren't looking at daylight. The camera then zooms ahead to reveal that the toys are heading towards the flames of the incinerator.

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* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' Jasper and Horace have entered the Radcliffes's house to make off with something. The nanny, whom Jasper had temporarily trapped before he and Horace escape, initially believes they took the good silver, but to her shock and horror, what they have actually stolen were the 15 Dalmatian puppies that Perdita had given birth to a couple months ago.

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* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' Jasper and Horace have entered the Radcliffes's Radcliffes' house to make off with something. The nanny, Nanny, whom Jasper had temporarily trapped before he and Horace escape, initially believes they took the good silver, but to her shock and horror, what they have actually stolen were the 15 Dalmatian puppies that Perdita had given birth to a couple months ago.


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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Lightyear}}'': After Buzz is captured by Zurg, his body opens up to reveal his true identity: an old man who looks a great deal like himself. A confused Buzz asks if he's his father, but the man replies "Guess again" and shows him his dog tag -- [[FutureMeScaresMe it's]] ''[[FutureMeScaresMe his own]]'' [[FutureMeScaresMe tag]].
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* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory 3'', the toys manage to escape from the shredder and Rex sees what he thinks is daylight at the end of the shaft. However, when Woody goes to look, he realizes that they aren't looking at daylight. The camera then zooms ahead to reveal that the toys are heading towards the flames of the incinerator.
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* ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries'':
** ''Film/MissionImpossible1996'':
*** After Ethan has made a call to Kittridge in London with the motive of allowing his conversation to be deliberately traced there, the guy standing to the left of Ethan turns around to reveal himself as none other than Jim, who was supposedly murdered at the start of the film. It's even more significant because this shot occurred immediately after Ethan has hung up.
*** Ethan mentally putting together what happened to his team, showing how Jim faked his own death and murdered the others while framing Ethan as the mole.
** ''Film/MissionImpossibleFallout'': [[spoiler:Walker]] hands Sloane a brand new phone, claiming it was the one they took off of "Lark" when the phone Ethan actually picked up was damaged, revealing that Ethan is being framed.
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* ''Film/TheHunter'':
** When the loggers harass the environmentalists gathered at the Armstrong home, there's a shot of their family friend Jack Mindy in the back of one of their trucks, keeping his head down.
** When Martin finds Jarrah's body in the mountains, he finds one of Bike's sketches in Jarrah's jacket and then sees the logo of the Red Leaf Corporation on it, revealing they've been after the tiger longer than previously implied and that Jarrah worked for them before becoming an environmentalist.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', when Woody asks his Roundup friends to come back to Andy’s house with him and the other toys, he turns around Stinky Pete’s box to find him gone—and screwing shut the grate on the air vent. That’s when we find out that Pete is EvilAllAlong rather than a gentleman, going to any lengths to keep Woody with them en route to Japan, which he’d been trying to do since Woody told him, Jessie and Bullseye that he still belonged to Andy. It starts when Pete wakes up Al by turning up "Woody's Roundup" while Woody tries to retrieve his detached arm.
** Much earlier in the film, "YARD SALE".
** The man who Al had called to repair Woody ends up painting over Andy's name on Woody's boot.

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* In ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', when ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'':
** "YARD SALE".
** The man who Al had called to repair Woody ends up painting over Andy's name on Woody's boot. The DVDCommentary notes that at several screenings, audience members audibly gasped at this scene.
** When
Woody asks his Roundup friends to come back to Andy’s house with him and the other toys, he turns around Stinky Pete’s box to find him gone—and screwing shut the grate on the air vent. That’s when we find out that Pete is EvilAllAlong rather than a gentleman, going to any lengths to keep Woody with them en route to Japan, which he’d been trying to do since Woody told him, Jessie and Bullseye that he still belonged to Andy. It starts when Pete wakes up Al by turning up "Woody's Roundup" while Woody tries to retrieve his detached arm.
** Much earlier in the film, "YARD SALE".
** The man who Al had called to repair Woody ends up painting over Andy's name on Woody's boot.
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** Much earlier in the film, "YARD SALE".
** The man who Al had called to repair Woody ends up painting over Andy's name on Woody's boot.
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* ''Film/SomeGuyWhoKillsPeople'': When the Sheriff goes to get one last beer from the fridge after he and Ruth are about to break up because he had to arrest her son, he sees a mural made from newspaper clippings that Amy made on the refrigerator. He realizes that's why there were cut-up papers like the ones the killer used for his CutAndPasteNote, and that the signs that have been making him and the audience think Ken is guilty are misleading.
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* The end of ''Film/RogueOne'' has a HopeSpot as the Rebels escape with the Death Star plans. Then the lights cut out, and moments later, the VaderBreath starts up and [[MassOhCrap an ominous red light illumines the corridor.]] Cue MookHorrorShow.

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* ** The end of ''Film/RogueOne'' has a HopeSpot as the Rebels escape with the Death Star plans. Then the lights cut out, and moments later, the VaderBreath starts up and [[MassOhCrap an ominous red light illumines the corridor.]] Cue MookHorrorShow.

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* The end of ''Film/RogueOne'' has a HopeSpot as the Rebels escape with the Death Star plans. Then the lights cut out, and moments later, the VaderBreath starts up and [[MassOhCrap an ominous red light illumines the corridor.]] Cue MookHorrorShow.


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* The end of ''Film/RogueOne'' has a HopeSpot as the Rebels escape with the Death Star plans. Then the lights cut out, and moments later, the VaderBreath starts up and [[MassOhCrap an ominous red light illumines the corridor.]] Cue MookHorrorShow.
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* ''Film/Exit0'': After Billy and Lisa check out of the Doctor's Inn, the innkeeper finds they left a photo behind. The photo is of a kid with his parents, and it's dated 1986[[spoiler:... the year the murder seen in the videotape happened]].

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* At the end of ''Film/{{Solo}}'', we get to see who Dryden Vos has been answering to and the true mastermind of the Crimson Dawn Syndicate, the former Sith Lord, Maul. It is even more shocking to those who didn't watch the TV series.


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* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' has the most famous example of the original trilogy; after Luke [[IncorruptiblePurePureness refuses to submit]] to the Emperor and declares that he is a Jedi "like my father before me", the Emperor tells Luke he will die, and '''shoots [[ShockAndAwe lightning]] out of his hands'''.
** At the end of ''Film/{{Solo}}'', we get to see who Dryden Vos has been answering to and the true mastermind of the Crimson Dawn Syndicate, the former Sith Lord, Maul. It is even more shocking to those who didn't watch the TV series.

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*** In the film's theatrical cut, this moment is changed to an additional shot exclusive to this version, in which Hoffman is seen untying the chair's fake restraints.




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* ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'' Jasper and Horace have entered the Radcliffes's house to make off with something. The nanny, whom Jasper had temporally trapped before he and Horace escape, initially believes they took the good silver, but to her shock and horror, what they have actually stolen were the 15 Dalmatian puppies that Perdita had given birth too months ago.

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** In ''Film/SawIV'', Rigg's recklessness ends up killing everyone in his final test, supposedly including Hoffman, who was strapped to an electrified chair that would electrocute him with the water from the melting ice block that Eric was on top off before his death. Immediately after Rigg plays Art's tape, Hoffman is seen standing up and walking from the background behind Rigg, without any signs of having been actually electrocuted.

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** The twist ending of ''Film/SawI'' provides one of the most iconic Wham Shots in modern horror. As Adam plays Jigsaw's tape for Zep, whom he (and the audience) thought was Jigsaw, the supposedly dead man in the middle of the bathroom slowly gets up and rips the fake wound off his head, revealing that ''he'' is the real Jigsaw all along.
** In the climax of ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'', Logan and Halloran stand facing each other in a room with both of them wearing a laser collar trap around their necks. The collar will activate and cut them clean if they don't confess their sins, the order of who plays it being decided by a button for each person on a control panel in the middle of the two. Halloran tricks Logan into going first, and after he fails the test, Halloran is dragged back and forced to take it himself. As the lasers activate and burn the ceiling over him, he manages to confess and stop the lasers just in time. The Wham Shot comes in after he sits staring at the burned ceiling above him, before [[OhCrap glancing at the ceiling above Logan's body and realising that there are no burn marks above him.]] Soon enough, Logan himself gets up, revealing his own game wasn't real, and that Halloran is helpless to do anything.

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** The twist ending of ''Film/SawI'' [[Film/SawI first film]] provides one of the most iconic Wham Shots examples of this trope in modern horror. As Adam plays Jigsaw's tape final tape, recorded for Zep, whom he (and the audience) thought was Jigsaw, we see the supposedly dead man in the middle of the bathroom slowly gets up and rips rise in the background, rip the fake wound off his head, revealing that ''he'' is the real Jigsaw all along.
and reveal himself as Jigsaw.
** In ''Film/SawII'', when they finally find the Nerve Gas House, the SWAT team enters a room with several monitors and [=DVRs=], one of which says "PLAY." When they press pause, both the footage in the house and at Jigsaw's workshop freezes.
** ''Film/SawVI'' doubles this with a WhamLine (via voiceover) during one of the reveals, as we finally see what exactly was written in the letter in ''Film/SawIII'' that caused Amanda's VillainousBreakdown; it was a blackmail note, written by Hoffman.
** In ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'':
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the climax of ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'', Logan the film, Anna and Halloran stand facing each other Ryan are chained up in a room with both of them wearing a laser collar trap around their necks. The collar will activate Jigsaw, dressed in his iconic red hood. He eventually removes it to reveal that he's John, alive and cut them clean if they don't confess their sins, well... at that particular moment.
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the order of who plays it being decided by a button for each person on a control panel in the middle of the two. Laser Collars scene with Logan and Halloran, Logan goes first and is apparently killed. Halloran tricks Logan into going first, goes next, and after he fails the test, Halloran is dragged back and forced to take it himself. As watches the lasers activate shooting upwards and burn burning into the ceiling over him, until his confessions make them stop. In his relief, he manages to confess and stop the lasers just in time. The Wham Shot comes in after he sits staring stares up at the burned ceiling above him, before [[OhCrap glancing at ceiling... then to the ceiling above Logan's body and realising that there are Logan, with no burn marks above him.]] Soon enough, marks. A couple shots later, Logan himself gets up, revealing his own game wasn't real, and that Halloran is helpless to do anything.up.

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