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Winglerfish Electric Boogaloo Pt. 2 from somewhere. Since: Nov, 2010
Electric Boogaloo Pt. 2
#226: Jul 30th 2011 at 1:43:37 PM

The speaker is The Messiah acting as a figurehead for La Résistance after one too many Break the Cutie / Break The Stoic moments and losing too many friends to pretend that The End Justifies the Means any longer. So when the rebel leaders present their newest fail-safe plan, he shakes his head and leaves, leaving them to their fates.

"Fighting fate? Were it not for fate, the lowliest ant could tear the stars from the sky."

edited 30th Jul '11 1:43:58 PM by Winglerfish

In this episode, Michael attempts to construct a time machine to escape debt and dinner party obligations.
Zennistrad from The Multiverse Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: I don't mind being locked in this eternal maze!
#227: Aug 2nd 2011 at 12:37:36 AM

A hero is trying to Screw Destiny by defying a villain who, according to a prophecy, will rule the world.

What the hero doesn't know, however, is that his actions have done nothing but further the villain's plans.

"Aliens? Do you honestly really think they're not from Earth?"

USAF713 I changed accounts. from the United States Since: Sep, 2010
I changed accounts.
#228: Aug 2nd 2011 at 12:47:33 AM

The "aliens" aren't from Earth: they're Eldritch Abomination Demonic Invaders, and they're much higher on the Sliding Scale of Villain Threat.

"How far do you think it really goes?"

edited 2nd Aug '11 12:47:55 AM by USAF713

I am now known as Flyboy.
TheHeroHartmut Nerds nearly need needy nerdy nerds from a cave, according to my father (Ancient one) Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
Nerds nearly need needy nerdy nerds
#229: Aug 4th 2011 at 5:46:52 AM

The protagonist has his eyes opened to corruption within the ranks of the supposedly lawful/benevolent organisation he recently became a part of. The line is dropped to him by a more cynical friend of his who ranks higher up in that organisation, implying that it runs much deeper than even the protagonist could imagine.

"Okay, good... That means it's working."

Switch FC code: SW-4420-1809-1805
OriDoodle Mom Lady from East of West Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#230: Aug 4th 2011 at 10:21:01 AM

The nutty professor's machine just caught on fire. To the hero's dismay, it being on fire means it's working. The nutty professor is not as ambivalent as he seemed.

"You are what you eat, you know. Especially here."

Doodles
FreezairForALimitedTime Responsible adult from Planet Claire Since: Jan, 2001
Responsible adult
#231: Aug 5th 2011 at 11:54:24 PM

The line-sayer is a humanitarian. In fact, they're a wendigo. And thanks to what the character just got tricked into eating, sooh s/he will be, too...

Turn it over. I can't stand sad songs.

"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#232: Aug 6th 2011 at 1:50:25 AM

A guy is at the bar and begs someone to switch to another song. What no one knows is that he wrote the one that he didn't want to hear. Someone else stole it from him after he wrote it in a fugue state.

"I always preferred her, anyway."

Do not obey in advance.
Eventua from The Thirty One Worlds Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
#233: Aug 6th 2011 at 4:49:24 AM

The Villain, up till now portrayed as sympathetic and redeemable because of The Power of Love discovers that the girl he'd loved is already married to someone else, and for various reasons the two of them are incompatable.

And then someone much more sinister comes along to comfort him...

"Don't you see?! Mankind is broken! I'm just trying to make things right...!"

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#234: Aug 6th 2011 at 11:11:27 AM

WWE wrestler Mick Foley, once know as Mankind(evil grin) has been badly injured due to pulling another one of his crazy stunts. The Doctor taking care of him is stating this to the People inquiring if he will wrestle again, since he feels guilty for letting Mick go back out into the ring, knowing what he would do.

He's already awake again isn't he?

One Strip! One Strip!
Icarael is All Elite from The Taguig Sprawl Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
is All Elite
#235: Aug 13th 2011 at 6:33:00 AM

One of the protagonists, heavily sedated and strapped to his bed, hears the conversations of the nurses in the adjacent room, discussing how, after months of slowly going mad, he had snapped a month before he woke up.

Thing is, he can't remember a thing of the moment he snapped. Through the haze of the drugs, he vaguely remembers the details leading up to it... sigils painted in red on his walls, a black book, the voices... but what happened?


"Do you see it, Michael? The wheels that turn this world?"

edited 13th Aug '11 9:48:04 AM by Icarael

"Stealing is a crime and drugs is a crime too BUT if you steal drugs the two crimes cancel out and it’s like basically doing a good."
PrimoVictoria Since: Dec, 1969
#236: Aug 13th 2011 at 6:57:57 AM

Michael is an assistant of Mad Scientist who claims to know the secret of the Universe. When Michael starts questioning his boss motives and trust, annoyed sciencist opens some doors and show him something that makes him scream and go insane. Then Eldritch Abomination reaches from the portal and grabs Michael as doctor ask that question.

Rats who dares to stand before us, feel our guns go live!

edited 13th Aug '11 7:01:00 AM by PrimoVictoria

SoberIrishman Since: Oct, 2010
#237: Aug 29th 2011 at 6:07:44 PM

A group of housecats have formed a Thrash Metal band. Their lyricist does not like rats, and they have acquired firearms. Hilarity ensues.

"Well, Burlybeef Mc Manlyton, you certainly have travelled far. Your persistence is to be admired, however futile it may be. Ah-ah-ah! Not too close! One more step and I'll pull this!"

BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#238: Aug 31st 2011 at 6:22:37 PM

His finger. Unfortunately, he's a bioweapon with DNA altered to kill within 100 meters if he "perfumes".

"Why won't they accept me?"

Do not obey in advance.
nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Not war
#239: Aug 31st 2011 at 6:34:56 PM

I'm not quite sure you people really understand what a Wham Line is...

OriDoodle Mom Lady from East of West Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#240: Sep 2nd 2011 at 12:24:11 AM

^ the point is not to write wham lines, it is to write the wham moment behind said line.

edited 2nd Sep '11 12:25:14 AM by OriDoodle

Doodles
Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
Pronounced YAK-you-luss
#241: Sep 2nd 2011 at 4:17:43 AM

[up]Correction - the idea is to create the prior circumstances that could make a statement a Wham Line. Basically, create a scenario that could be radically altered by someone saying that line.

edited 2nd Sep '11 4:18:27 AM by Iaculus

What's precedent ever done for us?
alethiophile Shadowed Philosopher from Ëa Since: Nov, 2009
Shadowed Philosopher
#242: Sep 2nd 2011 at 9:14:30 AM

Hence why the last response didn't fit—it was an interesting explanation for the line, but it wasn't a situation that would be radically changed by it.

The speaker is a sympathetic very popular character in a high school or college setting. The line doesn't seem to make sense until you realize he's a Half-Human Hybrid trying to live both in our world and behind The Masquerade at the same time. The 'they' who will not accept him are the full-blooded versions of his other half playing Fantastic Racism.

"He opened the door to find that the noise was in fact coming from above."

Shinigan (Naruto fanfic)
HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#243: Sep 2nd 2011 at 3:30:12 PM

"A Police Officer has been hunting a killer (who unbeknowst to him, was Supernatural in orgin) and entered a room where he knew said killer Character Tic said murderer posseses. The tendency to click his tongue. He kicks the door down thinking he has the advantage, only to see an empty room.

He can still hear the clicking though, and that's when he realizes the truth.

We were too late. I sorry Sarge....... she's dead.

One Strip! One Strip!
OriDoodle Mom Lady from East of West Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#244: Sep 2nd 2011 at 5:55:16 PM

Takes place in a book where two soldiers were going behind enemy lines to rescue the president. the soldier speaking is the dimmer one, and the "She's dead" is the WHAM. "She" means it wasn't the president they were trying to rescue.

The war is not the problem. This was never about the war.

edited 2nd Sep '11 5:56:13 PM by OriDoodle

Doodles
tropetown Since: Mar, 2011
#245: Sep 4th 2011 at 2:57:54 PM

A high-ranking, decorated general of The Kingdom has just been asked by The Hero why, when he had The Empire's greatest tactician captured and locked up, he didn't simply have him executed. The general's answer is simply that, the war itself was never a priority; all of the missions that the general had sent The Hero on were actually meant to bring the tactician and the general far enough behind enemy lines to finally dispose of their greedy, incompetent sovereigns and divide the land between them.

Don't forget, my friend... everyone wins one.

edited 4th Sep '11 2:58:42 PM by tropetown

KiriAme Thom Raiwhat? Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
Thom Raiwhat?
#246: Sep 4th 2011 at 6:17:10 PM

A previously weak rival-type character who has always been defeated by the heroes finally snaps. Once before, the hero had defeated him in a sparring match, but consoled him by stating that "everyone wins one." Years later, after a falling-out, after both the hero and rival do a lot of unforgivable things and destroy any friendship they might have once had, the rival joins the villain and pulls a Xanatos Gambit to ensure that he can enact his revenge on the hero without the villain getting in the way. While the hero is lying on the ground, broken, defeated and on the verge of death, that line is said.

"I was there all along."

Anyway here's Blackwall
EndarkCuli (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: A cockroach, nothing can kill it.
#247: Sep 6th 2011 at 12:08:10 AM

The protagonist and his love interest, who works at an orphanage, are trapped by the villain. As victory appears to be guarenteed, he decides that this is the perfect time to reveal everything about his previously unknown backstory. Apparently, the event that first led him onto the path of evil was being bullied on a daily basis at the orphanage. He whines that he probably wouldn't have turned out the way he is now if the lady caretaker had been more assertive with the bullies, and admits that the main reason he targeted the hero was because his girlfriend looks like that caretaker. That's when the love interest apologizes for everything, and when both the hero and the villain ask what she's talking about, she utters the above line and reveals that she's been the caretaker at that orphanage since the day it was built, more than a century ago.

"Dying with dignity sure sounds nice, but I think that living with dignity will be a whole lot better."

edited 6th Sep '11 12:09:04 AM by EndarkCuli

ConnorBible Southern Style Scribe from Port Royal, SC Since: Sep, 2011
Southern Style Scribe
#248: Sep 6th 2011 at 3:38:32 AM

"Horatio, Bruce Willis had an erection at the time of death." "Looks like he...cooldied hard." YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!

fillerdude Since: Jul, 2010
#249: Sep 6th 2011 at 3:47:41 AM

[up][up]A stealthy villain has managed to whittle down a five-man band of adventurers to two people, and both of the remaining adventurers are at his mercy. He gives them a sadistic choice: whoever pledges his loyalty to the villain first will be spared while the other one will automatically be killed.

After several minutes of silence, both shout "Never!" at the same time. The villain cackles and remarks that at least they would die beautifully with their dignity intact.

It's then revealed that one of the adventurers that the villain thought he killed had actually managed to survive and pinpoint his location. He says the line above as he stabs the villain.

—> Dammit, I ran out of knives. <—

edited 6th Sep '11 3:48:10 AM by fillerdude

Vree Since: Jan, 2001
#250: Sep 6th 2011 at 7:52:44 AM

The hero is facing the villain and his various minions, and then the Big Bad tells him something nthat shakes his whole world. As he's standing there, mouth open, The Cavalry arrives! The short, dirty-fighting but lovable scoundrel of the Party has brought them, and he does his all to enjoy the moment to its fullest, although he does little to contribute to the victory as their opponents are dragons and golems and his measly weapons break the moment he tries to use them (though he is saved by another member of the massive heroic army a moment later every time). As the Cavalry is chasing the survivors into the hills he walks up to the still shocked hero and speaks the above line.

"But if you are her, and she is him, then who am I?"


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