History WhamShot / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/DontHugMeImScared'' episode "[[Recap/DontHugMeImScaredElectricity Electricity]]" when when of the three main puppets opens a door in the attic, revealing [[spoiler: the first ''live-action'' character in the show, an old woman playing piano named Lesley, who's speculated to be the new GreaterScopeVillain of the series.]]

* ''Series/TheSopranos'':
** The season six premiere has the dementia-ridden Uncle Junior thinking that his old rival, Pussy Malanga, is still alive. At the end of the episode, Uncle Junior, thinking that Tony is Malanga, is pointing a gun at Tony while shouting "Cazzata Malanga", meaning "Stupid move, Malanga!", and proceeds to shoot him.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
** The famous shot in "The Best of Both Worlds Part 1" where the rescue crew aboard the Borg Ship finally locates the captive Picard. And then he turns to face them, revealing the Borg implants on his face...
** Part 2 of this episode has the scene where the ''Enterprise'' reaches Wolf 359, where Starfleet made their stand against the cube. Riker orders the viewscreen turned on--and everyone sees the shattered hulls of what used to be the Starfleet armada, showing just how unstoppable the Borg are.
* In the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "In Purgatory's Shadow," Worf and Garak are captured by the Dominion and taken to an internment camp where they're locked up with General Martok and several others. At one point, Martok learns that a friend of his is being released from solitary confinement...and that friend is revealed to be Doctor Bashir, revealing that the one aboard [=DS9=] is a Changeling.

** In the "Unimatrix Zero" two-part episode, several Borg Drones have created a mental world where they can live as individuals free from the Collective's control. At one point one of the children is playing in the woods with his friend, and he crawls through some bushes...until he looks up and sees the Borg Queen standing in front of him.
** "Relativity" opens with a flashback to just before the events of the pilot episode "Caretaker", with Janeway inspecting ''Voyager'''s bridge. As Past!Janeway waves aside an ensign bent over a console, the ensign turns to the camera and we see it's Seven of Nine, ''sans'' her Borg implants, having traveled back in time.
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': In "The Andorian Incident," Shran, and fellow members of the Imperial Guard of Andoria, have been holding Vulcans hostage at a Vulcan monastery, plus Archer, Trip & T'Pol who had the bad luck of showing up for a visit. The Andorians, who dole out threats to the Vulcans and take their time roughing up Archer, believe that the Vulcans in question have been using a long-range sensor array to spy on Andoria, a violation of their peace treaty. The Vulcans, generally known as a more peaceful people, brush off such outlandish accusations, as does Archer and company, and they eventually get the upper hand, sparking a big shootout in the catacombs of the monastery. A few shots dislodge a curtain covering a large metal door, and Archer, realizing something's up, calls for a cease fire long enough to open it...which reveals a '''long-range sensor array.''' At no point did Archer or any of his crew, especially T'Pol, who'd always been loyal to her people, consider that ''the Andorians were right.'' The ramifications of this discovery gradually played out over the rest of the series.

** The Season 1 finale, "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS1E8ChapterEightTheUpsideDown The Upside-Down]]" has Will coughing up a slug-like creature, followed by the bathroom breifly turning into its Upside-Down appearance.
** The Season 2 premiere, "MADMAX" has three of these:

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In the final scene of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E51TheInvaders The Invaders]]", after the woman destroys the seemingly tiny aliens' spacecraft, the camera pans to reveal the words "U.S. Air Force Space Probe No. 1" on the opposite side, indicating that the invaders were humans and the woman is a giant alien.
* On ''Series/TwinPeaks'', one of these shows us that Bob is possessing Leland Palmer. Actually, pretty any time we see Bob comes off as one of these, as he's so strange looking and was used so sparingly.

*** Shane and Randall reanimating without getting bitten or scratched by other walkers in the same episode.

* The early ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E04Conduit Conduit]]" contains one of the greatest Wham Shots in that series's run. A teenage girl is missing, possibly [[AlienAbduction abducted by aliens]]. Her younger brother is spending an awful lot of time [[RoomFullOfCrazy writing lots and lots of ones and zeros on ordinary writing paper]]. Mulder and Scully come for a check-up on the family and find the house empty and the papers of ones and zeros laid out in a square on the living room floor. Scully climbs the open staircase to check the second floor... then happens to look back down at the first floor. She calls Mulder to come up and stand beside her, and they both look down [[spoiler:at a huge square of papers covered with ones and zeros that form a portrait of the boy's missing sister.]]

--> '''Beverly Hofstader:''' [[WhamLine Leonard, dear, you should be in bed]].

* In ''Series/Supergirl2015''[='s=] part of ''Series/{{Elseworlds}}'', things seem to be winding down. As Barry and Ollie go to share a drink, Ollie gets a call from Batwoman - it seems that the BigBad of the event, Dr. John Deegan, has made a friend in Arkham Asylum. We then visit the Asylum where we hear a man talking to him. As we get to his cell, he tells him that "Worlds will live. Worlds will die. And the universe will never be the same." before turning around and revealing himself to be the ''Psycho Pirate''. Cue "Coming Fall 2019: ''Series/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''".

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E17E18TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]": Once Gallifrey and the Time lords have been sent back into the Time War, the Doctor is relieved to have saved the day without having to regenerate, but then his laugh is cut short when he hears Wilfred [[YouCantFightFate knocking four on the glass door behind him...]]

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E1718TheEndOfTime The End of Time]]": Once Gallifrey and the Time lords have been sent back into the Time War, the Doctor is relieved to have saved the day without having to regenerate, but then his laugh is cut short when he hears Wilfred [[YouCantFightFate knocking four on the glass door behind him...]]

* ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In the sixth episode, the final shot of Daniel Molloy's memory of how he first met Louis de Pointe du Lac in 1973 at Polynesian Mary's is Rashid, who hasn't aged in 49 years, declining Louis' invitation to join him and Daniel at Louis' San Francisco apartment. In 2022, Daniel jolts awake, alarmed with "WTF?!" written all over his face because he realizes that Rashid is ''not'' a normal human being.

* ''Series/TheWalkingDead'':

** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E6Earthshock Earthshock]]": The first episode ends with the androids' creators being revealed: The Cybermen. While nowadays, it's not that big of a surprise, on the episode's initial broadcast, viewers had no idea that the Cybermen were returning due to the BBC doing everything they could to hide this fact, including not listing them in the Radio Times.

* The last scene of the pilot episode of ''Series/{{Perception}}'' reveals that Natalie is another of Daniel's hallucinations.

** Later, we see the T-Rex again, except this time it's on the news, meaning that the anomalies are becoming a lot harder to cover up.

** In the series finale, the Galactica has jumped into an unknown solar system when Starbuck puts in coordinates from a song she heard from her childhood. When Roslin asks where has she taken them, the scene switches to outside the Galactica, and the camera pans ups showing...Earth...Not Colonial Earth, ''our'' '''UsefulNotes/{{Earth}}'''.

*** In the {{cliffhanger}} of part 1, O pulls a matchbox out of his pocket to reveal the body of the ''real'' O, having been shrunk with a [[ShrinkRay Tissue Compression Eliminator]], otherwise known as ''{{the Master}}'s'' WeaponOfChoice in the classic series...

** From "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E10VincentAndTheDoctor Vincent and the Doctor]]" comes a particularly harrowing one: after meeting Vincent van Gogh and facing down the nightmarish monster haunting his final days, showing him the TARDIS, and revealing his future legacy, the Doctor and Amy excitedly return to a present-day art exhibit they saw at the start of the episode. They're horrified to see that not a single new piece of art has appeared. For all their efforts, Vincent still killed himself.

** The Season 4 finale, "[[Recap/StrangerThingsS4E9ChapterNineThePiggyback The Piggyback]]" has three of these: