History WhamShot / Film

* ''[[WesternAnimation/TheBadGuys2022 The Bad Guys]]'':

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'':

* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', we have this moment accompanying [[BigBad Waternoose's]] WhamLine.
-->'''Mike:''' Um, sir...that's not her door.\\

*** When you see the bloody remains of the man Jack killed for his passport.
*** Adrian is watching the footage of the militants. Then then the camera shifts and reveals [[InternalReveal Jack watching Adrian.]]

** 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.

** An InUniverse example occurs in ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' after the ''Reliant'' has launched a sneak attack that has crippled the ''Enterprise''. Kirk is hailed by the commander of the ''Reliant'' to discuss surrender--and it's Kirk's former enemy, Khan Noonien Singh. Kirk is so shocked he can barely speak.
*** Prior to that, Chekov and Captain Terrell are baffled by the discovery of inhabited cargo containers on Ceti Alpha VI, which is supposed to be a deserted planet. Then, Chekov discovers a belt buckle with "Botany Bay" written on it, and he realizes they're really on Ceti Alpha '''V''', where Khan was exiled years earlier. Sure enough, before they can go anywhere, Khan and his followers have returned, taking them prisoner.

*** The sight of the ''Enterprise's'' severed warp nacelles floating away from the ship, their glow dying as power fades. At this point, it is clear that our heroes are ''screwed''.

!!Films -- Animated:

!!Films -- Live-Action:

* In ''Film/{{Center Stage|2000}}'', during Jonathan's ballet being performed, the camera focuses on Sergei walking through the corps ballet dancers like in all the practices. He reaches his hand out to the dancer waiting in the wings--and [[spoiler:it's ''Eva'', not Maureen, who reaches out to and dances with him, shocking everyone especially Maureen's StageMom Nancy, who marches out and finds Maureen in the lobby ready to confess she's quitting.]]

* In ''Film/{{Center Stage|2000}}'', during Jonathan's ballet being performed, the camera focuses on Sergei walking through the corps ballet dancers like in all the practices. He reaches his hand out to the dancer waiting in the wings--and [[spoiler:it's ''Eva'', not Maureen, who reaches out to and dances with him.]]

* In the ColdWar drama ''Film/SpecialBulletin'', a nuclear bomb is detonated in the harbor in Charleston, South Carolina. One unfortunate reporter, broken and traumatised by what she has witnessed, broadcasts what she is seeing to the station. [[SceneryGorn The entire skyline is on fire]].

* ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2'': The ending of the film shows that not did [[TheDragon Agent Stone]] survive and is plotting revenge, but also reveals a top secret government project. The project's name? Project ''Shadow''.

** Miles ends up captured by the still-living Earth-42 version of his Uncle Aaron. After giving him a YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre speech that falls flat, telling Aaron he doesn't have to be the Prowler, Aaron reveals... he's not. At which point the Prowler of Earth-42 emerges, and unmasks himself to reveal that he is the Miles Morales of that world.

* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', we have this moment accompanying [[BigGood Waternoose's]] WhamLine.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperMarioBrosMovie'': Mario gets sent back to Brooklyn as the Mushroom Kingdom's warp pipe vacuums in at an alarming rate. Spike is just about to yell at him for getting in his way when, with no warning whatsoever, '''Bowser's airship''' bursts out of the ground, bringing the final battle to Brooklyn which only a few incarnations of ''Mario'' in the past have done.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'': At the end of the film,, there are a few thta show that when Miles ended up in the wrong universe.

* ''WesternAnimation/Incredibles2'': At an event celebrating Elastigirl capturing the Screenslaver, Elastigirl looks at one of the screens showing her fight with the villain and sees a the action being played on a screen in the background. By realizing that the Screenslaver somehow accessed her suit's camera, Elastigirl has a EurekaMoment that gets her one step closer to finding the person responsible. This is then followed by Evelyn, who's been "helping" her the entire time, [[JumpScare slapping a hypno-mask on her]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'': At the end of the film, when Miles ends up in the wrong universe toward the end of the film, he ends up captured by the still-living Earth-42 version of his Uncle Aaron. After giving him a YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre speech that falls flat, telling Aaron he doesn't have to be the Prowler, Aaron reveals... he's not. At which point the Prowler of Earth-42 emerges, and unmasks himself to reveal that he is the Miles Morales of that world.

* In ''Film/TalesFromTheDarksideTheMovie'' the segment "Cat From Hell", it's already clear the ProfessionalKiller isn't going to take out the cat he's hired to kill. But just what this cat can do is made clear when there is a POVCam lunging at the hitman's face, and the next shot shows the cat [[OrificeInvasion had leaped right into the hitman's mouth]].

* ''Film/JurassicPark1993'':
** The ''Brachiosaurus'', the very first dinosaur we see in all her glory in the park and the moment that drives home the fact that this film is about ''freaking dinosaurs'' being brought back to life.
** Later, the escape of the ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', which is where things finally get real.
** And later still, when Ellie is ambushed by a raptor after turning the park's power back on, she's seemingly found by the chief engineer, Ray Arnold... only to discover that it's actually ''[[AnArmAndALeg his severed arm]]'', signaling that the raptors killed him.
** And perhaps most famously of all, from the climax: The heroes are cornered by raptors and miles away from any help... a raptor prepares to lunge at them and finish them off, all seems lost... and then the ''freaking'' Tyrannosaurus rex ''comes back and kills the Big One and her minion''.
* ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'': The little girl from the opening meeting a ''[[KillerRabbit Compsognathus]]'' -- the first sign that something here isn't right...
* ''Film/JurassicParkIII'':
** The ''Spinosaurus'' [[HeroKiller snapping a T. rex's neck]] -- bear in mind, the ''T. rexes'' are the most infamously powerful dinosaurs in the franchise. The fact that the ''Spinosaurus'' can kill one with little effort shows that it's a truly formidable enemy.
** Grant getting a better look at the interior of the seemingly abandoned animal enclosure the group sought refuge in -- it's a giant aviary. Which can only mean that not only can whatever is in there fly, but it must be absolutely ''massive''. This is quickly followed by another Wham Shot of a ''Pteranodon'' approaching [[TagAlongKid Eric Kirby]] [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man-style]] from the fog in the Aviary, before snatching him up for lunch.
* ''Film/JurassicWorld'':
** When Owen and his Raptor Squad finally catch up to the ''Indominus rex'', she suddenly starts communicating with the raptors...leading all four of said raptors to give their former alpha a DeathGlare.
** After Claire convinces Lowery to help her open one of the paddocks at the climax, we get the ominous yet triumphant return of the original ''Tyrannosaurus rex''.

* WhamShot/MarvelCinematicUniverse

* ''Film/TheLostWorldJurassicPark'':
** The little girl from the opening meeting a ''[[KillerRabbit Compsognathus]]'' -- the first sign that something here isn't right...

!!Films -- Live-action:

* ''Film/JurassicPark'':

** And later still, when Ellie is ambushed by a raptor after turning the park's power back on, she's seemingly found by the chief engineer, Ray Arnold...only to discover that it's actually ''[[AnArmAndALeg his severed arm]]'', signalling that the raptors killed him.
** And perhaps most famously of all, from the climax: The heroes are cornered by raptors and miles away from any help...a raptor prepares to lunge at them and finish them off, all seems lost...and then the ''freaking'' Tyrannosaurus rex ''comes back and kills the Big One and her minion''.

* ''Film/AbsolutePower'': Alan Richmond being the President of the United States is revealed like this. Initially, the audience isn't aware who he is when Luther witnesses his affair with and murder of Christy Sullivan; the presence of his security staff hints that he's a high-placed person, but he's not formally introduced until a White House press conference when the camera pans up to reveal that the President is the same man who is responsible for the death of a young woman that night.

* ''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.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars}}'': Lightning stopping just inches before the finish line to let Chick win, before proceeding to help The King cross the line, showing his change of heart has fully taken effect.

* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers'': The reveal of the Uruk-Hai army. Until now the warfare was limited to skirmishes between our band of heroes (with some Red Shirts thrown in here and there) and, at most, a couple dozen orcs or a few {{EliteMook}}s. And then, all at once, we are treated to the sight of ''ten thousand troops'', all heavily armed and armored and standing in perfect attendance, so unlike the shaby, rag-tag rowdy bunches or orcs we were used to. This also works as a WhamShot in-universe, for [[TheQuisling Grima]], who is visibly shocked from seeing the sheer scope of the terrible force he'd got himself tied up with.

* ''Film/LordofTheRingsTheTwoTowers'': The reveal of the Uruk-Hai army. Until now the warfare was limited to skirmishes between our band of heroes (with some Red Shirts thrown in here and there) and, at most, a couple dozen orcs or a few {{EliteMook}}s. And then, all at once, we are treated to the sight of ''ten thousand troops'', all heavily armed and armored and standing in perfect attendance, so unlike the shaby, rag-tag rowdy bunches or orcs we were used to. This also works as a WhamShot in-universe, for [[TheQuisling Grima]], who is visibly shocked from seeing the sheer scope of the terrible force he'd got himself tied up with.