Wham Shot / Western Animation

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• The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin: In "Octopede Sailors", there is a scene where we learn that Grubby was in a shipwreck as a kid. Halfway through the scene, Grubby saves his father from drowning, and after being praised, Grubby gets swept away by a wave himself.
• Adventure Time:
  • In "Too Old", Lemongrab walks on screen, now morbidly obese. Next to him, we see Lemongrab 2, whose legs have been destroyed so badly that he needs a machine to move around. He is also missing half of his head and looking severely emaciated.
  • At the end of "Lemonhope", the titular character is seen Walking the Earth in what is implied to be 1000 years in the future...through the futuristic ruins of the Candy Kingdom, implying that it will destroy itself just like the human world.
  • The end of "Evergreen" has two: Gunther's eyes changing from Black Bead Eyes to Evergreen's slit-pupilled ones, and a view outside Ice King's house showing a Comet of Doom heading towards Ooo.
• The Amazing World of Gumball: In "The Oracle", Gumball, Darwin, and Anais discover that Banana Joe's mom's paintings can apparently predict the future... such as one showing Gumball naked in the mall surrounded by angry citizens. Okay, but the episode ends with Banana Barbara painting this last picture, showing the Watterson family running through a crumbling Elmore (or maybe the Void) with a dark shadow looming overhead, implying...well, something highly dramatic (a Drama Bomb Season Finale, perhaps...?) will likely happen later in the season at least.
• Amphibia: At the end of True Colors, as Marcy, Anne, and the Plantars attempt to escape from King Andrias, Marcy briefly hesitates to follow the others through the portal, declaring that there is something she needs to- before a look of shock manifests on her face as an orange glow appears behind her. Cue her eyes and the camera shifting down... revealing that she has been stabbed through the heart by Andrias' Laser Blade.
• Avatar: The Last Airbender: "The Cave of Two Lovers": The episode ends with the characters finally reaching Omashu, only to discover that the city has fallen to the Fire Nation.
• The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes: "Who Do You Trust?" ends with the Skrull counterpart of Captain America telling his queen that he successfully planted paranoia and mistrust into some of the most powerful members. The Skrull queen comes out of the shadows, and reveals she has taken on the human identity of Mockingbird.
• Batman: The Animated Series: "Read My Lips" ends with the doctors at Arkham Asylum thinking the Ventriloquist is making progress in his recovery, but the audience sees he's making a new Scarface puppet, also revealing that the Ventriloquist does not suffer a case of Gollum Made Me Do It, but a case of Literal Split Personality.
• Big Hero 6: The Series: The ending of "Lie Detector." After pulling off yet another successful phase of her ultimate plan, Liv Amara addresses whoever is in a suspension tank in the basement, wiping off the condensation to reveal the occupant as...Liv herself!
  "Liv" Amara: I promised you I'd do whatever it takes...Liv.
• BoJack Horseman:
  • Played for Laughs in "Free Churro". At the end of BoJack's eulogy to his mother, he concludes by going to her casket to give her the open-casket funeral she requested. The viewer doesn't see what's in the casket, but BoJack's shocked expression and pulling out a slip of paper leads to the camera finally changing angles, showing that the mourners in the room were all lizards, and BoJack had been in the wrong funeral parlor the entire episode.
    BoJack: Is this Funeral Parlor B?
  • In "A Little Uneven, Is All," Diane gets a six-month advance for her book of personal essays. She claims the writing is going well and it feels refreshing to write about herself for once. Then we get a glimpse of what she's actually written: the words "I am terrible" repeated across the page.
  • BoJack's relationship with Charlotte ends with her threatening to kill him if he ever contacts her or her family again. In "Intermediate Scene Study w/ BoJack Horseman", BoJack seems to have settled into a life where he can forget about his worst mistakes. Then he gets a phone call and is shocked to see who it's from. She calls him.
  • "The View from Halfway Down" takes place within BoJack's dream, from which he assumes he will wake up, but for some reason can't. Midway through the episode, he realizes why: he sees his own dead body lying in the pool.
• DuckTales (2017):
  • At the end of the first episode, Dewey takes another look at the painting of Scrooge and Donald in their adventuring heyday and notices a loose tear covering part of it. He lifts it to reveal a third duck in the scene: Della Duck, Donald's sister and the boys' mother (who, at this point, had barely ever been mentioned in the cartoons). As wonderful Book Ends, the end of the season finale pans up to the Moon, where we find out that Della Duck's been living there since she disappeared years ago.
  • A double whammy in "The Duck Knight Returns":
    • Launchpad convinces the actor that was meant to play Darkwing Duck in a Darker and Edgier reboot before Scrooge cancelled it to be the real Darkwing Duck. The actor decides to do so, and when Launchpad holds out a poster for him to sign, we finally find out the name of that actor: Drake Mallard.
    • Just before the credits, we see a trail of purple leading down to the sewers under the film studio. The camera pans down there and we see Jim Starling, ranting about how Drake is to blame for everything that's happened and vowing to become "grim and gritty" for the audience, all while the purple coloring bleeds out of his costume, creating a very familiar blend of red, black and yellow. Ladies and gentlemen, we've just witnessed the birth of Negaduck. Sadly, he was never seen again for the rest of the series.
  • At the end of "Moonvasion!", the day is saved, the Ducks are happily reunited, everything is normal... until a voice breaks the cheering and the video stops as we see that it's F.O.W.L. High Command talking with various old foes as part of the inner circle, including Mickey Mouse's old nemesis the Phantom Blot! And the High Command members? Scrooge's own Board of Directors.
  • In "Double-O-Duck in You Only Crash Twice!", Black Heron shows Steelbeak a video demonstrating the effects of the intelli-ray, which shows her using the ray on an ordinary lab mouse. In the next clip, said mouse is now wearing a purple jumpsuit and goggles, and got herself a wrench, nuts, bolts, and a rope for a machine she is building. Say hello to Gadget Hackwrench.
• In Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show, Edd is scolding Eddy's brother for beating up Eddy when we see from Edd's POV, an extreme close-up of Eddy's brother giving him an extremely terrifying Slasher Smile, revealing him as a sadistic sociopath and that there's no stopping him.
• Futurama:
  • In the episode "Leela's Homeworld", Leela looks into the sky knowing her lost alien parents are out in space somewhere. The camera pans up towards the heavens, then quickly pans down into the sewer gutter to reveal Leela's parents, who are really mutants.
  • Bender's Big Score has one. After Lars's Heroic Sacrifice, Fry and Leela look at his corpse to reveal Fry's Bender tattoo, meaning he's Fry's time paradox duplicate.
  • "Fry and the Slurm Factory" shows the secret ingredient of Slurm: it comes from the ass of a giant worm queen.
    Fry: That's the secret ingredient of Slurm!?
    Leela: That's the only ingredient of Slurm!
  • "The Problem with Popplers" is this: if you leave these tasty snacks lying around too long, they wake up, smiling. They're larval Omicronians.
  • In "Lethal Inspection", Bender and Hermes look all over the place for Inspector #5, the inspector that approved Bender despite him being defective. They find no trace of him, until Hermes throws a file into the fire after everyone else has left, revealing that Inspector #5 was Hermes himself.
• Gravity Falls has quite a few. Here are some of the ones that affect the entire series:
  • At the end of "The Hand That Rocks the Mabel", Gideon looks at a book with a page describing the magic amulet he'd used earlier in the episode, then closes it...revealing that it's a journal just like Dipper's, only the number on the hand is 2.
  • At the end of "Gideon Rises", Grunkle Stan goes into his secret room behind the Mystery Shack's vending machine. After reaching a desk surrounded by complicated machinery he pulls out a the number 1 journal. Showing that Stan knew all along about the supernatural elements of Gravity Falls, and was only pretending to be oblivious.
  • At the third act of "Scary-Oke", when trying to find a way to stop the zombies, Dipper, Mabel and Stan discover that The Author wrote more information down with invisible ink, which includes not just the way to save the town from the zombies....but a secret bunker as well.
  • At the end of "Northwest Manner Mystery", McGucket's repaired laptop shows a timer counting down to the apocalypse. With less than 24 hours remaining.
  • At the end of "Not What He Seems", after an entire episode questioning the motives behind Grunkle Stan's actions, and even his very identity as Stan Pines, the real Stanford Pines, Grunkle Stan's twin brother and author of the journals, exits the portal.
  • At the end of "Dipper and Mabel vs. The Future", a despondent Mabel gives Blendin Blandin the interdimensional rift, which Ford put in a containment orb because it risked enabling chaos to spill into the real world, so that summer can last forever by way of a time bubble and she and Dipper can stay in Gravity Falls. His response? He drops the orb, shattering it and releasing the rift, before he maniacally starts laughing in a way that begins to produce echoes eerily similar to a malicious triangle, and removes his goggles, revealing yellow eyes indicating that he is being possessed by Bill Cipher. The rift then produces an X-shaped tear in the sky as Bill exits Blendin's body and rises to heavens, laughing maniacally as Ford and Dipper run out of the shack as Bill proceeds to unleash Weirdmaggeddon upon the world.
  • In the Grand Finale, "Weirdmaggeddon 3: Take Back The Falls", after shaking hands with Ford and entering his mind to find the secret to escaping Gravity Falls, Bill opens a door revealing not Ford or any of his secrets, but STAN. Cue Ford firing the mind eraser on his brother, destroying Stan's mind, and with it, Bill.
• Green Lantern: The Animated Series Grand Finale. Hal Jordan, on a hunch, goes over all the known uninhabited star systems and the systems that Aya destroyed. They overlay exactly.
• Infinity Train:
  • "The Past Car": Watching the memory tape of the Conductor's memories, starring a British couple named Alrick and Amelia, in the final one, Tulip, One-One and the Cat see the grief-stricken Conductor picked up by the Infinity Train on the roof of a building. As this happens, the hood of the coat they've been wearing blows off to reveal that the Conductor is not Alrick, as they assumed, but his wife Amelia, who they assumed to have been the one who died earlier.
  • "The Engine":
    • Amelia pulls off her cloak to show that her number, measuring her emotional trauma, has gotten so high that it stretches off her hand up to her neck.
    • In the epilogue, Tulip passes by a hallway mirror as she leaves her house...revealing she has no reflection.
  • "The Mall Car": While he and MT are running from the Mirror Police, Jesse's number reaches 0 and a door opens for him, but as he steps through, he finds that he can't take MT with him.
  • "The Number Car": When One-One is going through a list of train passengers to show MT that Jesse isn't coming back, the words "In Process" are shown under his photo, revealing that he has ended up on the train a second time.
  • "The Color Clock Car":
    • When titular car is being disconnected from the train and Tuba is left hanging with only Simon to rescue her, he instead lets her drop and get crushed by the wheels below.
    • When Simon tells Hazel that he killed Tuba, she runs off crying, then suddenly turns into a human-turtle hybrid.
• Invader Zim: In "Tak The Hideous New Girl," when Tak follows Zim home and Zim "breaks up" with her, Tak starts laughing maniacally... and her hologram fizzles out, revealing herself to be an Irken girl in disguise, coming to Earth solely to get revenge on Zim.
• Invincible (2021): The first episode ends with the Guardians being recalled to HQ, only to suddenly be attacked by Omni-Man who manages to grab Red Rush's skull and crush it into a bloody mess with his bare hands, revealing to the audience that this is not a family friendly superhero show.
• Jackie Chan Adventures first episode "The Dark Hand". Throughout the episode, Jackie gets a shield from Bavaria and is pursued by the Enforcers, Captain Black, Tohru, and the Shadowkhan to get it. In the end, the protagonists lose and Tohru brings the shield back to the Dark Hand. All seems lost until Jade pulls out the Rooster Talisman^note what the antagonists really wanted from her pocket and shows it to Captain Black, Uncle, and Jackie, who are shocked.
  Jade: *smirking* "Admit it. I'm getting wise."
• Justice League Unlimited episode "The Return". Seemingly about the return of the AMAZO android, but the ending sees the reappearance of Hawkgirl, last seen leaving the League after "Starcrossed".
  • The Reveal of Cadmus' members is a Continuity Cavalcade of the DC Animated Universe, but the fact that Professor Emil Hamilton, one of Superman's strongest allies, is a member is a shock.
  • During the attempted and seemingly successful revival of Brainiac in the penultimate episode, it seems it's all gone as planned, the smoke is clearing...and instead of Brainiac, both Lex and the audience see a familiar, grey-skinned and red-eyed visage: Darkseid came back instead.
• King of the Hill: In the episode "Megalo-Dale", Dale is hired by Hank to deal with what appears to be a rat problem at the Megalo-Mart. Dale instead believes that Chuck Mangione is trespassing in the store. But two things prove Dale right: one is Boomhauer seeing Chuck while spinning on a gyroscope, and other is when they see the exits to the Megalo-Mart blocked off by vending machines, revealing there is someone in the store.
• "The Last Stand", the Grand Finale of The Legend of Korra, manages this in its final shot, with previously "merely" Heterosexual Life-Partners Korra and Asami turning to each other, Holding Hands and sharing a soft Held Gaze as they teleport off to a spirit world vacation, also retroactively coloring much of the previous two books as flat-out Homoerotic Subtext.
• The Legend of Vox Machina:
  • When Vox Machina enter Whitestone, they pass by the Sun Tree, and find that several people have been hung from the branches. It's only when they get close enough that they realize that the people are dressed up to look like them. The Briarwoods knew they'd be coming, and tortured and killed seven innocent people just to set an example, including two children to represent gnomish party members Pike and Scanlan.
  • The end of season 1. In the middle of Uriel's speech, Vex suddenly doubles over as her sixth sense for dragons goes off with a vengeance. The party looks back... and sees a gigantic flying silhouette in front of the sun. This would be bad enough in and of itself... but then the silhouette splits into four. Four ancient dragons, heading directly for Emon.
• Looney Tunes: Duck Amuck has the final shot, after Daffy demands the animator should show himself. The animator closes a door on Daffy, the camera zooms out, and...
  Bugs Bunny: Heh heh heh...ain't I a stinker?
• Miraculous Ladybug:
  • "The Collector" has two:
    • Hawk Moth is about to send out one of his akumas like usual...but the akuma stops before leaving his lair, indicating that he plans to evilize himself.
    • A few seconds later, Hawk Moth detransforms into his true identity, Gabriel Agreste.
  • "Gorizilla" ends with a shot of a strange, mausoleum-looking room beneath the Agreste mansion. Furthermore, the framing of the shot implies that Gabriel's missing wife Emilie is inside the casket.
• My Adventures with Superman:
  • At the end of "Kiss Kiss Fall in Portal", Lois manages to open File X, which shows her a video of an alternate universe Superman... only for him to suddenly start using his Heat Vision to lay waste to the surrounding city and its populace. This, alongside the following scenes of violent Supermen also in the file, causes Lois to realize that not all Supermen are good.
  • In "Hearts of the Fathers", Clark goes to open the door to greet Lois' father, who has just arrived for Thanksgiving. He opens the door... and is met face to face with the General.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • In the Season 2 Christmas Episode, we have the first appearance of the Windigos; they come right out of nowhere and are the first sign that there's more to the ponies' strife than just some bad weather.
  • In Part 2 of the Season 2 finale "A Canterlot Wedding", Twilight blasts at a wall which breaks down and reveals the real Cadance behind it.
  • In the Season 3 finale "Magical Mystery Cure", Twilight emerges back in Ponyville after having a spell cast on her. She emerges with a pair of wings, marking her as an alicorn princess.◊
  • Part 2 of "Princess Twilight Sparkle": Twilight, after seeing what she thought was Luna turning back into Nightmare Moon, witnesses Celestia summoning a pedestal containing the Elements of Harmony... shaped like rupee gems instead of in the shapes of hers and her friends' cutie marks. This is what causes Twilight to realize she's seeing a flashback to when Celestia banished Nightmare Moon a thousand years ago.
    Twilight: Are those the Elements of Harmony? But that's how they looked in... the past.
  • In the Season 4 finale "Twilight's Kingdom" when Pinkie tosses Boneless onto one of the locks on the crystal chest, it gets caught in a rainbow tractor beam from the lock, and transforms into a key.
  • Season 5 has one in Part 2 of "The Cutie Map", when Fluttershy witnesses Starlight get wet and when she wipes her haunch, the equal sign cutie mark has disappeared, revealing another — her real cutie mark — right underneath.
  • One in "Crusaders of the Lost Mark", when all three of the Cutie Mark Crusaders begin a Transformation Sequence due to them finally getting their Cutie Marks.
  • Three in the Season 6 premiere; first, baby Flurry Heart's massive wings, revealing that she's the first known naturally born alicorn ever. Second, her managing to blast a massive hole in several floors of the Crystal Palace just by sneezing. And lastly (and possibly the most shocking in the entire show), her crying so loud that she completely shatters the Crystal Heart, a powerful magic relic that protects the Crystal Empire.
  • Two in a row in part one of the Season 9 premiere. First, King Sombra's essence materializes over the Tree of Harmony, revealing he's Not Quite Dead. Secondly, his crystals come out of nowhere and destroy the Tree, and the Elements fall from it and break on the ground.
  • The hugest in Part 1 of the Grand Finale: Grogar's shape changing into Discord as his power is drained, revealing Discord was Grogar the whole time.
• The Owl House:
  • "Enchanting Grom Fright" has two of these. The first is when the paper Amity has been carrying around the whole episode is shown to be a note to ask out Luz to the school dance (confirming her as the first major lesbian in the history of Disney Animation). The second is when we get a shot of Luz's mother's night stand and discover that someone has been sending her letters to make her think that Luz is actually at summer camp like she's supposed to be.
  • At the very end of "Keeping Up A-Fear-ances", Luz is worried her mother misses her now that summer camp has ended; on Earth, Mrs. Noceda is watching a nature documentary with a figure with Luz's voice and appearance; said figure is revealed to be an imposter of Luz, with its face obscured by the shadows. This was later explored in "Yesterday's Lie".
  • "Elsewhere and Elsewhen" ends with Philip, a human who came to the Demon Realm centuries ago, doing the very familiar act of breaking a Palisman and consuming its energy, strongly hinting that he is the past version of Emperor Belos.
  • The very end of "King's Tide" has one. Earlier in the episode, Belos was seemingly killed by the Collector, his body having splattered into goo, and a piece of it was seen landing on Hunter as he went into the Human Realm; the end credits show the inside of the house that the portal connects to, with an open door... which is then slammed shut by that same piece of goo, indicating that Belos isn't completely gone...
• Razzberry Jazzberry Jam: In “The Voice Of Change”, the Jazzberries are being forced to move out of the House Of Jam by Angie (the building's owner). They assume she’s selling the building to some new occupants… until they walk out, arms laden with boxes of packed personal items, and see parked in front of the House a wrecking ball crane.
• Rick and Morty: In "Close Rick-Counters of the Rick Kind", we see Evil Rick's Morty remove the eyepatch containing the transmitter controlling evil Rick.
• The Secret Saturdays: The penultimate episode, "And Your Enemies Closer", reveals that the incident that separated Drew and Doyle wasn't a storm, but rather an attack by the legendary yeti. After finding its cave, Drew and Doyle discover a rock with a perfect outline of V.V. Argost's face carved into it.
• The Secret Show: In "Imposting the Impostors", after Victor laments that Professor Professor's plan to infiltrate the Impostors while disguised as the enemy has gotten him and Anita captured, Professor Professor steps out of the shadows with a full beard and a spider-web hanging off of him.
• South Park:
  • After a season of him being Killed Off for Real, "Red Sleigh Down" has Kenny suddenly walking up to the other three boys. Though, as is South Park tradition, none of them seem to think much of it.
  • An episode about Stan's depression ends with him preparing to go out to play with his friends, then returning to his room, producing a hidden bottle of liquor from his drawer, and taking a shot before heading outside.
• SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • In "Arrgh!", SpongeBob and Patrick get a look at the treasure map...which turns out to be their board game taped to a piece of paper.
  • In "Have You Seen This Snail?", Gary tries to get out of Gramma's house when he opens a closet full of empty snail shells, revealing Gramma is only feeding him so he can fatten up and die before she eats him alive like her other snails.
  • In "For Here or to Go", Plankton guesses 500,301 bun seeds and Mr. Krabs is forced to count them all up as proof; he comes up one seed short. But then SpongeBob examines closer and finds a lone seed stuck to the inside of the jar lid, revealing Plankton's guess was correct.
• Star vs. the Forces of Evil:
  • The last bit of "Storm the Castle" has three in a row. First, there's Star's wand turning grey and decaying when she uses the Whispering Spell. Second, the wand comes back in a new form, but with one half of the central star missing. The very final shot shows the other half of the wand star somewhere on the outskirts of Mewni.
  • The end of the episode "Ludo in the Wild" has two back-to-back ones: the first where Ludo chases a hallucination of Star and finds a Magic Wand buried in the snow with the missing piece of Star's wand embedded in it and the second immediately after where he discovers that he's been on Mewni all along. And the shaft of this wand is made from a skeletal hand with a severed middle finger.
  • "Crystal Clear" shows the many people Rhombulus has trapped in his Crystal Prison. While most of them are just random unnamed villains from the past (or people he thought were villains), off to the side is a crystal containing Eclipsa the Queen of Darkness. And a closer look shows that her right hand has been removed from her still-frozen glove, indicating that she's no longer completely frozen and is in the process of escaping.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars:
  • At the end of "Witches of the Mist", Mother Talzin tells Savage Opress of his long lost brother, whom Savage must now seek out. In Talzin's crystal ball, we see an image of said brother's face: It's Darth Maul.
  • "Carnage of Krell": During a firefight against an enemy force apparently composed of Umbarans disguised as clone troopers, Captain Rex notices a dead enemy combatant whose helmet has partially come off, revealing a chin that doesn't look like it belongs to a pale-skinned Umbaran...and when he goes over and removes the helmet entirely, the corpse is that of another clone trooper.
• Star Wars Rebels:
  • The first season finale, "Fire Across the Galaxy", has two in very quick succession. First comes the reveal of Ahsoka Tano as the enigmatic Fulcrum (though this may be YMMV depending on how much credence you gave to fans who were able to ferret out the twist after Fulcrum's first vocal appearance). The second, and definitive Wham Shot comes when Grand Moff Tarkin reveals the "alternatives" to the now-deceased Inquisitor. Cue Agent Kallus having a quiet Oh, Crap! moment as a very familiar black helmet comes into view...
  • The season 3 trailer has a long, slow reveal of a blue-skinned admiral directing the Imperial forces.
    Hera: Grand Admiral Thrawn.
• Star Wars Resistance:
  • "Secrets and Holograms": Trespassing in Captain Doza's office, Kaz is forced to hide in a closet, where he finds an old Imperial uniform.
  • "No Escape, Part I": After helping Kaz escape some scuba troopers, Neeku is excitedly wondering what else can be controlled from the Colossus control room he, Eila and Kel are in. Eila wordlessly points up at the ceiling, where Neeku and Kel look to see...a hyperdrive.
• Star Wars: The Bad Batch
  • In "Reunion," Hunter and Omega return to the ship to find the clone troopers guarding it dead. Stepping out of the ship's doorway is a character fans haven't seen in a decade: Bad-ass bounty hunter Cad Bane.
• Steven Universe:
  • "Jail Break": Two new characters, Ruby and Sapphire, meet and fuse into...Garnet?!?
  • "We Need to Talk": Steven clutching his gem at the end and saying "Human beings...", implying he is beginning to doubt his own humanity.
  • "Catch and Release" opens with a cute scene of Steven getting ready for bed and saying good night to his stuffed animals. One of them is Peridot, who proceeds to kidnap him.
  • "Off Colours":
    • Lars gets caught in the center of an explosion. He slams against a wall with an audible crack, his eyes closed and his body limp, before falling thirty feet to the ground. When Steven rolls him on his back and listens for his heartbeat, he begins to cry as there is none.
    • As Steven cries over Lars' body, a tear falls on Lars's face. At first, nothing happens. But then the spot where the tear fell begins to glow pink. The glow spreads over Lars's entire body, turning his hair and skin pink. Then his hand balls into a fist, his face contorts, and he slowly sits back up.
      Lars: [slightly slurring] Ugh... whoa. What happened?
  • "A Single Pale Rose" carries enough Wham to put the entire series in a completely new light. Steven views Pearl's memories of Rose Quartz shattering Pink Diamond, providing two of these within a few minutes. First, after the shattering itself, he sees that the "Rose Quartz" responsible has Pearl's eyes and gem. Then, rewinding a few minutes to their preparation for the attack, Pearl transforms into Rose, and Rose transforms into her true form, Pink Diamond.
  • "Change Your Mind" has White Diamond successfully attempting to remove Steven's gem. After that, the gem begins to take form, showing the past forms of Pink Diamond and Rose Quartz...before becoming the shape of Steven himself. And while this is happening, we see the perspectives of both of them in a Split Screen.
  • "Fragments": Steven rushes through his front door into his bathroom, ignoring the Gems as to why he's doing so. The next thing he does is dump the Diamond essences into the bathtub for... Jasper's shattered Gem.
  • At the end of "Everything's Fine", after Steven has a breakdown after his powers go of control and cause destruction when trying to help out, he reveals the bad things he's done in the last few episodes and declares himself a monster, and then spikes start erupting from his back, followed by a Smash to Black.
• The Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters episode "The Fall of Jonathan Rook" has a scene near the end where it looks like Malcolm Kane is about to rescue Rook and save the day from the invading Tech Men...only for him to put on a Tech Men helmet with a blank expression in his face, while the other Tech Men welcome him back as Number One, their leader.
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) episode "Return to New York Part 3" ends with the decapitated Shredder getting up and walking away, carrying his own head.
• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) Season 2 finale kicks off with April bringing Irma to the Lair after being chased by Foot-bots. She sees the turtles and begins to twitch. Her twitching quickly gains a mechanical quality. Then, her head rises up on a mechanical pole, her eyes start to glow red, and the rest of her body unfolds, revealing an oversized Kraang droid inside.
• In the Teen Titans episode "Birthmark", Beast Boy wonders why the next day is so important to Raven. Cut to Slade rising from the ground saying the day has begun.
• Tiny Toon Adventures: The episode "Citizen Max", as a parody of Citizen Kane, features an extremely similar wham shot ("Acme" is the bike he and Buster rode as homeless kids, implying he wished he could take it all back). However, this is both averted and lampshaded when it's revealed that he said "Acne" and THAT was the reason for his despair upon looking into a mirror.
• The Venture Bros.: The season four episode "Pinstripes and Poltergeists" has Dr. Venture show Billy and Pete to a compound that they can move into...only to find that the members of SPHINX, including Brock, have taken residence in it.
• There’s two in the Season 2 finale in Wakfu that reveals one of Yugo’s biggest secrets. As he stands up to face Qilby, we see something fall to the ground beside him. He takes a few steps forwards and then begins to float in the air. The camera pans up and we see that Yugo took his hat off, revealing a pair of wings made of Wakfu energy. Shortly after, the other Eliatrope children in the area all take their hats off too to aid their young king in battle, showing that this is a species-wide trait.
• Two in the Wander over Yonder second season opener "The Greater Hater". First, there's Lord Dominator's ship appearing over the planet the main characters are on, revealing Lord Hater isn't really the greatest in the galaxy as he thought. Second, there's the end scene where Dominator is revealed to be a girl in a mech suit, with her voice disguised. The first of these is what marks the point where the series transitions to a slightly darker tone.
• We Bare Bears: At the end of "Icy Nights II", Ice Bear picks up a locket dropped by his friend Yana, which she apparently got from her father. The locket opens up, revealing...Yuri's photo of his family from "Yuri and the Bear", revealing that Yana is the daughter of Ice Bear's old father-figure.
• What's New, Scooby-Doo?: In the pilot episode "There's No Creature Like Snow Creature", the fact that this incarnation of the franchise has moved beyond bad guys in rubber suits is sprung on viewers, as Shaggy is shown to be visible right through the transparent body of the ice-monster he's standing behind. Granted, this and all the other episodes turn out to be the same "Scooby-Doo" Hoax plots we’ve seen before, but at least this time the culprits are going to try harder to stop you from figuring out who they are.

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