- 8-Bit Theater: Sarda was Onion Kid!!!
- At the climax of an earlier plotline of The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, it's revealed that every detail of the plotline was all part of an elaborate publicity stunt orchestrated by FOX News, or an attempt by a disgruntled weatherman attempting to keep his own report from being upstaged.
- All Roses Have Thorns: After 400 years of being presumed dead, Mirna, Faylin's daughter, is revealed to have been alive all this time. At Eanwulf's castle.
- There are several big ones related to the backstory in Avalon:
- At the beginning of the second year, Ceilidh finds out from Ryan that Joe, Alan, and Phoebe were all friends until Helène arrived and took Alan away from Joe, then Phoebe started dating an abusive douche named Todd, who eventually dumped her and started spreading rumours that she was a lesbian, pushing her to the breaking point and causing her to beat him up. In the end, Joe never spoke to Phoebe again and while Alan came back to him after having had enough of Helène, their friendship was already damaged.
- Later in the same year, Joe eventually reveals that it was actually Alan who took Helène away from him, as Joe immediately fell in love with her but was too timid to ask her out, and Alan took advantage of that to make a conquest of her, reeling back when she wanted an actual relationship. He also reveals that it was him who caused Todd's injuries, pushing him down a set of stairs out of frustration and anger at hurting Phoebe, who he was also originally in love with. Afterwards, he simply never had the courage to go up to Phoebe and start their friendship up again.
- Even later, Phoebe tells Ryan that Joe actually asked her out, but she got scared and broke his heart, then got together with Todd because Joe going after Helène made her feel like he was lying to her before. She knew what he was like all along, he even physically abused her, but she couldn't bear to admit that she was wrong, and the whole experience just convinced her that nobody could care about her. This eventually lead to her lashing out at Ryan at the start of the actual comic, when he tried to help her.
- Bittersweet Candy Bowl revealed why Jessica and Rachel held so much animosity towards Tess.
Lucy's confession to Mike is an in-universe example. - Cirque Royale: Will and Fred Mills, Quinn's youngest siblings, were born Conjoined Twins. Every image of them from their young childhood shows them only from the waist up and side by side, obscuring this.
- Ctrl+Alt+Del had a Running Gag involving Ethan trying to get into Scott's bedroom to see what was such a big secret that he spent most of his time there & refused to explain what he was doing, yet failing every time. And then, when he finally got inside by tricking Scott into leaving, he was stunned to find... a perfectly normal room, and got bitched at by Scott for the invasion of privacy, before Ethan accidentally knocked a lamp which opened a hidden panel in the wall hiding several computer monitors, with Scott's pet penguin, Ted, sat at them. Scott then explains they're going to release a virus that destroys all Microsoft software, because they experimented on Ted & Scott rescued him from the lab. Oh, and that made Ted super smart, and he developed a way to give himself telepathic control over Scott, with Ted being the dominant one of the two.
- Even better though — Microsoft probably wasn't responsible for the experiments. The only reason Ted thinks they are is because he saw the Windows logo on a nearby computer screen — and HOW many people use Windows OS?
- Daughter of the Lilies has several:
- Whom Thistle really works for: the One Who Is Three. Might also be an Internal Reveal, since Thistle claims not to have any idea what the One is.
- When Thistle is seen without her hood, she's revealed to be a cave elf.
- Whom Thistle really works for
- In El Goonish Shive, after much suspense about what happened to the hammer artifact to make it stop working including such red herrings as it supposedly falling off its pedestal due to an earthquake or other means and jokes about it being eaten it is finally revealed to be the work of an Immortal. Specifically, it is part of said Immortal's preparation for his reset.
- Guilded Age: Following the Bolivian Army Cliffhanger at the end of Chapter 8, Chapter 9 begins with a shift of focus to Payet, summoned to a new quest. Then the perspective zooms out to reveal a man watching him on a computer monitor. The watcher turns out to be the CEO of a MMORPG company.
- Gunnerkrigg Court: Antimony and Renard's first real argument quickly devolved into them throwing extremely painful revelations at each other. Specifically Surma never loved him, and Antimony was the cause of Surma's illness.
- Homestuck:
- The narration states that the most important character in Homestuck is... Gamzee Makara, the stoner juggalo? This reveal and its general absurdity become a Running Gag, as it turns out Gamzee has been involved in some ridiculously plot significant events... that all happened off-screen. Even when he does do something significant on-screen, it's all undercut by his strange vernacular, religious devotion to Insane Clown Posse and tendency to be drawn incredibly poorly.
- Also, the purpose of Sburb, the reality-warping video game which kicks off the plot, is only revealed after four and a half Acts. Completing the game allows the players to create a universe. And the internet trolls who heckled the protagonists created ours.
- Halfway through Act 5, a mysterious demon appears and forces the trolls to hide while he destroys everything they've built. The demon's identity is implied, but it's not until the flash animation "Jade: Enter" that it the demon appears on-screen and his identity is made explicit. It turns out to be Jack Noir, an antagonist who lived a universe away from the trolls, who managed to gain omnipotence through a fluke in Sburb's mechanics.
- The End of Act 5 Animation shows the character's attempt to destroy the Green Sun, the source of the villains' power, using a giant bomb known as the Tumor. Everything more or less goes according to plan until the characters actually arrive at the site of the Green Sun, where the whole scheme gets turned on its head by one thing. The Sun's not there. And as the Tumor explodes, the Green Sun forms out of it. Meaning, the characters got tricked into creating the very thing they meant to destroy, unwittingly helping create their enemies.
- Intermission 2, which lies between Acts 5 and Act 6, shows the true form of the elusive Lord English and establishes his relationships with important characters like Doc Scratch, Lil Cal and Gamzee Makara.
- The 06/17/12 update reveals the true nature of the mysterious character who was only known by their screen name, UranianUmbra. UU's real name is Calliope. She will fall asleep and her brother will wake up if she hears her brother's name, and vice-versa. She is a Cherub, a species of sociopathic loners by nature, to the point that UU pretends to be a Troll because she finds them preferable to her own species in every way possible. And finally, her face is shown. She looks like a young female version of Lord English.
- Reveals happen pretty often in Homestuck, to the point where the author has a tendency to unveil them pretty anticlimactically whenever a twist was guessed by too many in advance. For example:But the fact that he's a slob was never exactly breaking news to anyone.Neither is the fact that you both share a body.
- In Impure Blood, Dara drops her knowledge on Caspian.
- morphE starts with two people in a cavern escaping from a madwoman with a knife and a second person. 115 pages later the reader sees a dream sequence which shows the cavern and one of the two escapees. Dead. The camera pans up and reveals Tyler, holding a bloody knife.
- Mortifer, being more or less a Wham Series in later chapters, has plenty of these. The most notable, however, is Chapter 18. William Aussek, Sam's Ensemble Dark Horse new CO, is actually Joey Von Krause in disguise. And Joey is actually a demon, with flame powers. And his eyepatch hides a gaping wound with a small light deep inside instead of an eye. And then he kills Sam, who's a viewpoint character. There are several other examples, such as the reveal that Vlademyre Hynner, Joey's old boss who was introduced in the first chapter, then forgotten, is the new leader of the southern black market, or the reveal that Badass Preacher Zebidiah is actually a demon under Vlad's control, or the reveal that Joey's hallucinations are actually Rashnu trying to get him to redeem himself, or the reveal that Joey's plan thee whole time has been to use his William Aussek identity to eliminate Sintec and the black market for good — more or less the opposite of what the audience thought he was planning, etc. etc. And what's better, all of them manage to make perfect sense in retrospect — well, except for the whole Zebidiah = demon bit.
- Most of the Reveals in Skin Horse have to do with Anasigma or its numerous subsidiaries, and most are played for laughs. However, the two big reveals, that Skin Horse is not to be trusted, and that Ira is Mr. Green, are much more serious. As a fun point, though, the first reveal accompanied a major Art Shift, when Pancha Diaz started putting the comic in Technicolor!
- The Phoenix Requiem: The spirits are the bad guys.
- Yehuda Moon & the Kickstand Cyclery: Why is Yehuda Moon hated so much by Sister Sprocket? How did he get involved in the Kickstand in the first place? It's because he's a Soapbox Sadie, right? Actually, his work on a housing development inadvertently destroyed the forest, taking with it the Shakers' way of life with it. Selling their bikes is his way of paying penance.
- YU+ME: dream — when the reader finds out that everything in Part 1 has been a dream.
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