History Main / ChairReveal

* In ''TheSpectacularSpiderMan,'' Tombstone, previously TheVoice and TheFaceless, is first fully revealed this way, while speaking to Spider-Man in his office. Later, Green Goblin reveals himself to Tombstone in the same chair, to gloat that he's kidnapped Tombstone's [[TheDragon dragon]], Hammerhead.

* Used in the James Bond section of the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony to show that that really was HM the Queen alongside Daniel Craig as Bond, not an actress!

* In the ''StarWars'' [[Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse EU]] book ''[[XWingSeries Solo Command]]'', the pilots are sitting in their lounge on the flagship discussing the failings of their higher-ups and the moves they would make if they were in charge. A heretofore-ignored chair spins away from a computer terminal to reveal General Han Solo, leader of the entire task force. Being Han, though, after an initial OhCrap moment, he congratulates their insight and takes their suggestions to heart.
** In ''[[TheThrawnTrilogy The Last Command]]'', Mara and Luke go to Wayland, and cut through the Emperor's throne room there. Turns out Joruus C'baoth is sitting in it.

* In an episode of ''StarWarsTheCloneWars'', Kit Fisto is tracking down Nute Gunray. He finds a room filled with droids standing around a chair from where Nute Gunray's voice can be heard. After defeating the droids, the Jedi find that it is just a hologram.

* OswaldTheLuckyRabbit does this in the 2010 Game ''EpicMickey'', when the titular character meets the Rabbit for the first time.
-->'''''Gus''''': Well that was an exhibition. All it needed was a gift shop.
-->'''''Mickey''''': It's a little disturbing. I mean, I get that he resents me...
-->'''''Oswald''''': Ya think? *Chair Reveal*

* The ''VideoGame/NancyDrew'' game ''Danger on Deception Island'' has an interesting subversion: after seeing incriminating evidence suggesting [[spoiler:her friend Katie]] is behind the crimes, Nancy finds her sitting in chair in the culprit's headquarters. [[spoiler:Turning the chair reveals that Katie has been tied up by the actual criminal.]]

* ''DangerGirl and the [[Franchise/EvilDead Army of Darkness]]'' #4: Agent Zero shoots what he thinks is his target through the back of a chair. He then walks round to the front of the chair and instead finds a dummy rigged to a bomb with three seconds left on the timer.

* Queen Elizabeth II (not an actress) in the ''Film/JamesBond'' segment of the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.

** In fact this movie has two invocations of this trope: earlier on Sybok communicated by viewscreen with the "captain of the ''Enterprise''." The captain's chair on screen swivels to reveal ... Chekov. It's a ruse to hide the fact that the real captain, Kirk, is down on the planet executing a sneak attack, but it comes across as a joke at Chekov's expsense (the movie seems to be saying "Ha ha, it's Chekov in the captain's chair, as if.")

* Death does it in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel "Mort".

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* If you haven't tried doing this upon finding a revolving chair big enough to conceal you, then you definitely know someone who has.

* How Karabraxos is introduced in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode ''Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist'', [[spoiler:(the reveal being that she looks exactly like Ms. Delphox).]]

* ''YesPrecure5'' did it with a member of the QuirkyMinibossSquad instead of the school headmaster. Justified (not that this trope is as much in need of justification as some others) in that the girls had never actually met the headmaster before, so they didn't realize she wasn't the real thing until they realized who she ''was''.

* ''WeissKreuz'' uses the dead body version when Ken goes to assassinate Koga Kenji only to find him already dead.

* Played with in Film/TheAvengers. During the mid-credits sequence that reveals [[spoiler:Thanos]] as the BigBad, rather than turning around in a spinning chair, he gets up and looks over his shoulder.

* In the ''Literature/{{Relativity}}'' comic (most of the stories are literature) "20 Minutes", Zephyra is looking for a bad guy, and sees a figure sitting in a chair facing the wall. She thinks it's a dummy, set up to fool her. [[DoubleSubversion She's wrong.]]

* In ''Series/{{The Big Bang Theory}}'''s "The Cooper Extraction" episode, the cast imagines their lives if they had never met Sheldon. The Chair Reveal from Psycho is referenced when Howard envisions that if he had not gotten married, (He met his wife through Sheldon) his mother's body would have desiccated and he would have assumed her personality, much like Norman Bates.