History WhamShot / VideoGames

** In ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia]]'', you can battle your way through a post-game BonusDungeon called the Thabes Labyrinth. When you reach the bottom and make for the door to the BonusBoss, it is marked with the brand of Grima, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening''. The Thabes Labyrinth chronicles his ''origin story''.

* ''VideoGame/Metroid1'' let players assume that Samus Aran was a badass, armor-clad ''male'' bounty hunter. Then they tried to beat the game quickly enough to see him take his helmet, and they found out that Samus was a girl.

** The end of Stage 1 of ''Time Crisis 4'' shows the dog tag of the defeated Marcus Black, who is revealed to be a ''U.S. military officer''...and so are the rest of the terrorists that Rush, Giorgio, and Evan have been fighting. Needless to say, [[PatrioticFervor Rush]] is ''[[BerserkButton pissed off]]''.

** General Shepherd's WhamLine: "Good, there's one less loose end." It doesn't make any particular sense until his literal next action is to shoot Roach and kill Ghost.

** After activating the Ink Machine, Henry rounds the corner to find it boarded off — before a deformed monster resembling Bendy, better known as Ink Bendy, Inked Bendy, or the Ink Demon, appears right before his eyes.
** After Henry escapes from Inked Bendy in Chapter 2, he walks down a hall and finds none other than Boris. Alive and well.
** In Chapter 3, Henry and Boris come across an entire room full of Borises and Butcher Gang members having been killed in a similar manner as the Boris in Chapter 1. A moment later, and there's another: Alice torturing a Butcher Gang member, revealing that she's the one responsible.

*** The 4.0 update manages to [[UpToEleven one-up]] even that. At the end of [[TrueFinalBoss Void Termina]]'s boss fight in Soul Melter EX, when the core appears, three things stand out: 1. The core now has a [[ResemblanceReveal white and red color scheme]] with rainbow veins, 2. The core is now known simply as [[MyHeroZero Void]] and 3. the pattern for the BossSubtitles card is '''[[VideoGame/KirbysDreamLand3 the Boss Butch version of the Hyper Zone]]'''. All of these (and a few others seen during the battles) heavily imply that Zero, Dark Matter's boss, is related to this thing in some fashion and this is on top of all the other allusions to Kirby himself, both old and new.

* ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'': After arriving at the lair of the Night Sentinels, the Slayer has a flashback to the first time he arrived, being dragged by two guards before the Priests. One of the guards explains that they found the Slayer outside the castle and then hands one of the Priests something he was wearing. It's the original Doomguy helmet, revealing that he and the Slayer are one and the same.

* ''VideoGame/{{Killer7}}'' gets one at the end of the Alter-Ego chapter. The first two chapters have set up Kun Lan and the mystery of the Heaven's Smiles as very important, but then for the next three chapters they kind of take a back-seat as the Smiths deal with stuff like a crazy cult leader, another assassin, and team of super-sentai parodies. The very last shot at the end of the chapter is Kun Lan over a red screen, reaching for the camera, to remind you he's still around, and warn you that the next chapter is all about him and the Smiles again.

* ''VideoGame/TheTuringTest'': The game drops increasingly obvious hints, and later outright exposition, that the main character Ava is being unknowingly controlled by the ArtificialIntelligence MissionControl TOM, and indeed the player's control of Ava is progressively taken away during a key sequence. Upon Ava entering the Faraday cage, the player's point of view unexpectedly switches away from Ava to a nearby camera -- revealing that the player character ''was never Ava at all'', but rather ''TOM'', who has been controlling Ava through an implant all along. The player's loss of control was Ava acting ''against'' TOM's influence, not under it.

* Chapter 1 of ''VideoGame/Mother3'' ends with the defeat of the Mecha-Drago. Then, as Flint wonders what happened to his son, the camera pans slightly, so the parallax shows Claus's body on the ground.

*** After Volo reveals himself to be EvilAllAlong and challenges you to a battle, he summons [[SatanicArchetype Giratina]] to kill you. This isn't the Wham Shot (as Volo already explained prior that he was colluding with Giratina the whole time). No, the Wham Shot comes after you ''defeat'' Giratina in battle--you've fought hard and at least half your team has likely already fainted, but you did it and you watch with satisfaction as Giratina stumbles back in a daze. Then, [[VictoryFakeout its eyes flash]] and it stands right up again. Enter ''[[OneWingedAngel Origin Forme Giratina]]''. And to top it all off? Its health bar is fully refilled. [[OhCrap Yours isn't.]]

*** Seeing Beni, the seemingly potato mochi chef standing in the cave before you face Commander Kamado, which is then followed by the reveal that he's both a ninja ''and'' possibly [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Wally's]] ancestor.

** Seeing Beni, the seemingly potato mochi chef standing in the cave before you face Commander Kamado, which is then followed by the reveal that he's both a ninja ''and'' possibly [[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Wally's]] ancestor.
** After Volo reveals himself to be EvilAllAlong and challenges you to a battle, he summons [[SatanicArchetype Giratina]] to kill you. This isn't the Wham Shot (as Volo already explained prior that he was colluding with Giratina the whole time). No, the Wham Shot comes after you ''defeat'' Giratina in battle--you've fought hard and at least half your team has likely already fainted, but you did it and you watch with satisfaction as Giratina stumbles back in a daze. Then, [[VictoryFakeout its eyes flash]] and it stands right up again. Enter ''[[OneWingedAngel Origin Forme Giratina]]''. And to top it all off? Its health bar is fully refilled. [[OhCrap Yours isn't.]]

** In ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'', after Volo reveals himself to be EvilAllAlong and challenges you to a battle, he summons [[SatanicArchetype Giratina]] to kill you. This isn't the Wham Shot (as Volo already explained prior that he was colluding with Giratina the whole time). No, the Wham Shot comes after you ''defeat'' Giratina in battle--you've fought hard and at least half your team has likely already fainted, but you did it and you watch with satisfaction as Giratina stumbles back in a daze. Then, [[VictoryFakeout its eyes flash]] and it stands right up again. Enter ''[[OneWingedAngel Origin Forme Giratina]]''. And to top it all off? Its health bar is fully refilled. [[OhCrap Yours isn't.]]