History WhamShot / VideoGames

*** After taking Fort Merceus on the Verdant Wind and Silver Snow routes...it gets blasted with what appears to be some form of magical ballistic missile or orbital strike.

*** After doing enough damage to the [[FinalBoss Access Ark]], its exterior plating shatters, revealing the face of [[VideoGame/KirbySuperStar Galactic Nova]], another AI with wish-granting and [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] powers. Doubly shocking as, up until now, explicit connections to previous games' plots had been constrained to {{Cryptic Background Reference}}s and extra modes (which were stated by WordOfGod to be AlternateContinuities), rather than being front and center as a major plot point in the main game's story.

** ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach'' joins in the fun when, after Gregory and Glamrock Freddy head underground for answers about what's really going on, they find a building with a very familiar sign: ''Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria''. And if that didn't clue people in, the shot of Springtrap emerging from a charging station should.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': In "[[WhamEpisode the Second Dream]]," when you activate the console, one of the strange pods opens and a child falls out. Your warframe collapses, the screen goes black...and when you regain control, [[TomatoInTheMirror you are the child]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':

* ''{{VideoGame/Bloodborne}}'' gives us a two-fer:

* So, you completed ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soulcalibur IV]]'' as [[FieryRedhead Yun-seong]] and have claimed [[ArtifactOfDoom Soul Edge]] for your own. He gets questioned about it by [[SexyMentor Seong Mi-na]], which he responds to with platitudes about saving his homeland and loved ones. Cut to reveal that he's so coked up on Soul Edge's influence that ''he has his hand on Mi-na's throat''. And then [[CradlingYourKill she goes limp in his arms]]. [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone He does not take it well]]. Of course, everything eventually ends fine and dandy with the fact that she was playing dead all along, ''but still''.

** In ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'', the moment when Red finally comes into view of the mysterious Viridian City Gym Leader, who has been absent the entire game...and it is none other than [[TheDon Giovanni]], the leader of Team Rocket, whom you have been clashing with over the course of the game.

* ''VideoGame/BlairWitch'': As if all the various signs of the Witch's presense and power weren't already there, near the end of the game, Ellis, caught in a storm, finds a tape appropriately titled "The Reveal", showing Carver taking Peter into a house. Ellis then looks up from his camera and sees the Rustin Parr House, ''which wasn't there before'', suddenly silhouetted in the rain and lightning.

** In the epilogue of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'', the Foretellers emerge in the Keyblade Graveyard to find themselves greeted by a figure in a black hood carrying the No Name Keyblade and waiting next to the mysterious black box. Upon being identified as Luxu, the figure acknowledges that he hasn't gone by that name in a long time and removes their hood...to reveal the face of '''[[TheManInFrontOfTheMan Xigbar]]'''.

** Within the game itself, there's Kratos' return to his home, which has two moments: first, while riding a boat to speed up the journey, Kratos is briefly confronted by a specter of ''Athena''. Second, when he actually gets inside his home, Kratos opens the room he had forbidden Atreus from entering, takes out a bundle he hidden in there, and unravels it.....revealing '''''the Blades of Chaos'''''.

** The spinoff game ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator'' somehow manages to top even that. At first, the game seems like the sort of 8-bit troll game that [[TrollingCreator Scott Cawthon]] has become famous for, with simplistic gameplay and cheerful music. Then on level 4, the game begins to glitch badly, with the screen eventually going black...only to fade back in on a realistically rendered shot of [[TheBusCameBack Baby]], now in a horribly damaged form, apparently deactivated and sitting across from the player at a desk. Ladies and gentlemen, ''Five Nights At Freddy's 6'' has arrived.

** During the final minutes of ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', Samus has to return to her ship after defeating SA-X and starting the self-destruct sequence. When she does, however, the music suddendly stops...and the ship is '''nowhere'''. At its place, a giant empty Metroid shell. And seconds after an '''Omega Metroid''' appears!

** In ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' (and their rereleases), the player smashes their way through the Elite Four and climbs the final set of stairs to face the Champion. You get into view of the platform, and sitting in the Champion's chair...is nobody. This time, ''you'' are the inaugural Champion.

* ''[[VideoGame/OneNightAtFlumptys One Night At Flumpty's 3]]'': You've done it. You've managed to survive all the way to 6 AM on [[HarderThanHard Hard Boiled Mode]]. The clock is literally changing from 5 to 6...and then it [[ResetButton suddenly resets back to 12]]. Flumpty's not done with you yet.

* ''VideoGame/BlairWitch'': As if all the various signs of the Witch's presense and power weren't already there, near the end of the game, Ellis finds a tape appropriately titled "The Reveal", showing Carver taking Peter into a house. Ellis then looks up the hill and sees the Rustin Parr House, ''which wasn't there before'', suddenly silhouetted in the rain and lightning.

* ''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 SamusIsAGirl.

* In ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter Generations Ultimate'', normally when you complete a quest, including ones that increase your Hunter Rank, you spawn at the entrance to the gathering hall or town that you took the quest in. However, after completing the Urgent Quest to rank up to G3 (a Lao-Shan Lung), that doesn't happen. Instead, you're face to face with the Pub Manager while tense music plays, while she informs you of a new monster that has started terrorizing the surrounding regions (the Ahtal-ka).
* ''[[VideoGame/MonsterHunterRise Monster Hunter Rise: Sunbreak]]'' has a chilling, non-cutscene example in the penultimate Urgent Quest before [[FinalBoss Gaismagorm]]. The quest is, strangely, to hunt a Lunagaron, a monster that'd already been the target of a previous Urgent Quest. Then you get to the Citadel and find that not only is the area being swarmed by Quiro, but ''every other living creature on the map except your target is dead'', showing the Quiro have become an even ''bigger'' threat without [[DiscOneFinalBoss Malzeno]] to keep them in check.

*** Any time a solid green box blinks up displaying the words **OFFLINE** to replace a pilot's portrait where it would usually be on the HUD. It means the pilot's plane is destroyed, and said pilot is probably dead. Bonus points when it comes up just after a character's transmission [[KilledMidSentence cuts short.]]
---->'''High Roller:''' Goddamnit, I'm hit! I'm still at the table!\\
'''Tabloid:''' High Roller, missile! Another one!\\
'''High Roller:''' I've got a bet on me getting out of this-\\
[OFFLINE]

*** Any time a solid green box blinks up displaying the words **NO DATA** replaces a pilot's portrait where it would usually be on the HUD. It means the pilot's plane is destroyed, and said pilot is dead. ''Usually.'' Bonus points when it comes up just after a character's transmission [[KilledMidSentence cuts short.]]

** Chapter 5 ends with Henry killing Ink Bendy by playing the last reel and then seemingly being teleported to Joey's apartment, which is [[ArtShift decipted in full color and has a semi-realistic art style]] despite the game visually resembling a black-and-white cartoon up until that point... and then at the end of the final cutscene he's ushered through Joey's back door and somehow [[StableTimeLoop ends up back in the studio,restarting Chapter 1]].