Whamise this line. A Game.

That's...not quite what I thought...but oh well. How do you turn THAT into a Wham Line, btw? I'll try, though. Let's see here...

The one who said it is a priest of a church and the robe is a major symbol of the religion. The who stained the robe is a person who everyone thought as the biggest supporter of the religion, who pours his wine at the robe when the priest told him that they should rejoice because soon there will be no heretics.

"I know you. I understand you. I love you. I will forgive you, my brother, my son!"

edited 24th Apr '11 8:31:29 AM by dRoy

See? That's the challenge of it! Let me try. Also, always make sure to post a line for somebody else to whamize, too.

"You stained my robe."

A Ridiculously Human Robot who was thought to be nothing more than an Extreme Doormat incapable of making decisions or reacting to external stimuli has a Not So Stoic moment in the climax. She happens to be wearing white robes, and somebody stained them. Cue Unstoppable Rage and the near-death of everybody present, hero or villain.

"You should never be allowed around children."

Huh, that's very creative. Btw, again, I don't know if you can turn THAT into a Wham Line; I mean, if it was in a past tense...but oh well. Also, not sure if this is WL or just a plain Tear Jerker.

A man become infected with a deadly disease that can be treated only by being close to a little girl who apparently has power to mitigate the pain. They become friends, being both outcasts and homeless, and they spend years together on the street. Then one day, the girl becomes kidnapped by human traffickers but somehow becomes framed as a child molester.

"You came alone."

"I know you. I understand you. I love you. I will forgive you, my brother,my son!"

Spoken by the affable evil villain who has pulled off a Batman Gambit that entailed the hero perform a Zero-Approval Gambit, revealing what kind of monster he is.

EDIT: I hate it when someone comes with an answer faster than me, posting it before I've finished my bit Oh well....

"You came alone."

The girl of the protagonists dreams, who's been as deeply in love with him as he was with her, reveals her true colors. Vis, she was faking it.

.... Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

edited 24th Apr '11 8:58:53 AM by JWHarding

It's an RPG. Prince Jaroslav, third in line for throne if his brothers don't have children, has been fighting an evil wizard/vampire dude on behalf of his people because it's been prophesied that he would do so and win. With him on his journey is his mousy, timid childhood friend Ludmilla, the daughter of the Chief Chef of the Imperial Cooking Staff, who's always wanted to go adventuring. She's pretty obviously got a crush on him, but he's oblivious.

It's a couple hours into the game, after fighting the minions of the wizard for a while, when the man himself shows up to mock you and Millie. Thus begins a desperate fight, which surprisingly you win; Jaroslav finishes him off with a throat-slit, and all the blood in his jugular spills down the front of his white robes like a waterfall. The great man falls...

... aaaaand then he gets right back up again. Oops. Looks like those rumours of immortality weren't exaggerated after all. Chastened, Jaroslav and Ludmilla flee for now.

After doing some research, they quickly realize that he must have acquired his immortality through a ritual he performed about ten years before the prince's birth. So Jaroslav decides to go to the Priory of St. Vassily, where dwell an order of monks said to be able to time travel, and ask them to send the pair into the past so they can stop the ritual before it happens. They eventually agree to help, though they look rather grim about it, and soon the two teenagers are tumbling through time.

When they arrive a quarter-century in the monastery's past, the wizard is waiting for them.

*grabs Jaroslav by the throat* "I remember you... you stained my robe." *casually drains his blood and tosses him aside*

Thus it comes out; the wizard has extremely erratic visions of the future. Now Ludmilla has to figure out a way to defeat someone who's stronger, more experienced, and who can see her coming.

... or can he?

Fuck! Fucking ninjas with their inattention to detail letting them post faster! >_<

"What on earth are you doing?"

edited 24th Apr '11 8:54:03 AM by FurikoMaru

Realized I didn't post a line last time.

"I'm going to need to borrow your wedding ring."

"I'm going to need to borrow your wedding ring."

A conspiracy theorist-cum-occultist breaks off an affair with a married woman, yet something else nags him: A symbol he recognised, seen out of the corner of his eye, somewhere...

Again, he finds himself standing at her door in the middle of the night, this time under very different circumstances.

Here's a line: "I bled for meaning and wholeness, without meaning, never whole."

A soldier fights for a country that is completely devoted to its religion and the religion states that the only way to obtain happiness and get into heaven is to die in the service of the church, so you can either become a priest or a nun and wait until you die or become a soldier and die in one of the many wars. The line is said as the soldier is dyeing and he realize that its all a lie.

"Hello, your Roger Prebbe right. Hi I've been sent to kill you"

Exactly What It Says on the Tin—but the person in question who says it is the Prince Roger Prebbe's betrothed, whom he's meeting for the first time in years.

"I don't think that's an octopus."

edited 24th Apr '11 7:29:24 PM by FreezairForALimitedTime

"I don't think that's an octopus."

The villain, called thatsanoctopus, has created a gas that kills people when they think. The hero, who has trained his mind to operate in such a way that he can look beyond the complexities of life and see things in terms of yes or no, doesn't think in a conventional sense. Ass whoopin' ensues.

"What do you want to be when you grow up?"

A note by way of explanation, a Wham Line might, based on context, make you go Oh, Crap!, but not necessarily. It more likely makes you go 'Whoa. What? Wait...'

I also issue a challenge for anyone to posit a context that would entail a positive change as the result of the wham line.

edited 25th Apr '11 3:44:20 AM by OmarTheBruce

The above line is said at the end of a totally not (voluntarily-taken)drug induced Mind Screw in which the protagonist imagines that s/he has grown old and is dying. That line, said by a parent, is what helps them snap out of it. They're still just a kid, and have their whole life ahead of them.

For the "Wham factor", this mind screw has lasted the better part of a mini-arc, and has been specifically tailored to make the viewer question whether or not it was in fact real.

"Never thought I'd see the day."

edited 25th Apr '11 4:57:29 AM by Archereon

A new virus has been slowly spreading across the planet and our protagonist has been trying to stop it the entire story. The protagonist has a crazy conspiracy theorist as a side kick and comic relief. Throughout the entire story the conspiracy theorist guy has been saying that alines that live on pluto are going to land on Washington monument and save the world, with every one laughing at him every time he mentions it. The line is said by the conspiracy guy just after the protagonist last ditch effort to cure the virus fails and aliens land on Washington monument.

"Turn back. Why would we turn back. We've won"

Spoken to the hero by the Big Bad when presented with an ultimatum. Immediately after this line is spoken, a good third of the hero's forces turn on the rest and slaughter them in a surprise attack. The hero enters a Heroic BSoD, and starts crying on The Lancer's shoulder. The Lancer then stabs the hero through the throat, revealing himself as The Mole and The Dragon.

"We don't harm civilians."

edited 26th Apr '11 8:47:35 PM by KyleJacobs

This would of course be the revelation that the protagonist is a high-ranking military officer who chose to have his memories erased.

"That was pretty much what I was hoping for, yeah."

That was the line spoken by Fingers McStealy after his best friend pulls a gun on the local mob boss after a crack deal goes bad revealing that Fingers had no intention of selling the mob crack, only taking them down the 'hood way.

"You know, for a second there, I really did."

edited 26th Apr '11 8:55:22 PM by MajorTom

This is said after the hero tells his partner he is relived because the villain told him that his partner was a mole and that he had just killed all his other friends. The line is said in a mocking tone.

"You see newbie what you don't understand is gods don't die"

edited 27th Apr '11 2:54:07 AM by Xaz

After a very difficult Boss Battle with a lesser god who's gone dangerously insane, his wounds are likely to cause permanent disability (he hit his back very hard and now he can't feel his toes), but at least he's won and saved the world. Then the Shell-Shocked Veteran says the above line.

"You're not a broken version of a regular person, you're something else entirely."

"You're not a broken version of a regular person, you're something else entirely."

The main villain, about to be killed by the hero, begs the hero to let him repent, claiming they aren't so different. He explains his Freudian Excuse, and says that he's simply a broken person.

The hero claims that this isn't the case and people as evil as he is can't exist, and then kills him.

"The foundation has finally collapsed, and I am alone."

edited 27th Apr '11 11:34:15 AM by gentlemanorcus

The line is said by the former Big Bad, who everyone thought was being mind controlled by the foundation until he revealed that the foundation was no more and he and all the other evil people can now freely wreak havoc on the world.

"He's the biggest threat to us since Hitler"

"He's the biggest threat to us since Hitler"

A group of superheroes find out that the child they've been "babysitting" is an Enfante Terrible during a briefing and will most likely become their Big Bad.

“It’s my key.”

“It’s my key.”

Answer of mage character to question from non-mage character wondering why the former just splattered half a liter of blood on a pentagram.

"Ladies and gentlemen - Rock'n Roll"

The protagonist thinks that he's been transported far into the past, but when a guitarist says that line, he realizes that he's in the 20th century, not the 18th.

"But there were candles in the cabin..."

Our heros are being chased by evil sorcerers who like to summon demonic creatures. But they need three things to do this blood, chalk and candles. They have just managed to lock one of the sorcerers in a cabin and they think he's helpless because he doesn't have any candelas with him, but then one of the characters reveals that there are candelas already in the house.

"The core has already gone super critical, it's over"

The protagonist is a time traveler attempting to stop an experiment from causing an Earth-Shattering Kaboom. He encounters another time traveler, a saboteur who caused the disaster in the first place. He stops the saboteur and fixes the damage he did to the core. He then returns to the command center, expecting to find that the core is fixed and the future is saved. Instead, everyone's evacuating. The supervisor drops the line on his way out. The saboteur was actually on the exact same mission, and instead of fixing the core, he's undone a vital repair and doomed the world.

"You brought the stick?"

Situation: While playing fetch with her dog, Amelia gets called inside and runs home, expecting her dog to be just behind her, when just before reaching the door she is snatched up by a harpy and taken to a mystical place where two enchanters are arguing over who stole a certain magic wand. Amelia is interrogated for a long time. After yet another insistence of innocence, the enchanters are about to do something "if it isn't returned this instant!" when Amelia's dog arrives with the stick that was used in their game of fetch, and drops it in front of her.

New Line: "I don't care how much you hate him. I'm not going to stand by and watch you kill someone."