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* ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'' has the shot of Franchise/{{Batman}}, Franchise/{{Superman}}, and Franchise/WonderWoman, lined up and ready to take on a threat together for the first time in live action.
** Wonder Woman [[spoiler: blocking Doomsday's eye-blast with her bracers and sending him a shockwave with them in return]].

* ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog22022'': Knuckles catching Sonic mid-spin and saying "Do I look like I need ''your'' power?".

-->-- '''Kevin Murphy''', ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}

* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse

* ''Film/SonicTheHedgehog2'': Knuckles catching Sonic mid-spin and saying "Do I look like I need ''your'' power?".

** ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' has Team Cap and Team Iron Man running at each other to battle. And let's not forget [[Franchise/{{Spiderman}} everyone's favorite web head]] swiping Cap's shield at the end of the second trailer.

* Quite unusually, the Money Shot in ''Film/Armageddon1998'' isn't the destruction of the asteroid... it's the PowerWalk just before the drillers go into space.

* ''Independence Day'' director Creator/RolandEmmerich would later have a more literal case of this trope with ''Film/{{Moonfall}}'', as one shot of the Moon coming up from behind the Earth, made by the effects people of previous project ''Film/{{Midway}}'', was crucial to the sell the film to investors in Cannes and raise over $100 million.

* Quite unusually, the Money Shot in ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' isn't the destruction of the asteroid... it's the PowerWalk just before the drillers go into space.

** ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'': Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman standing together as a team.

** ''Film/ZackSnydersJusticeLeague'': The first glimpses of Darkseid and the redesigned Steppenwolf, as well as the titular League standing shoulder to shoulder.
** ''Film/{{Aquaman|2018}}'': Aquaman emergin from a waterfall in his IconicOutfit with the Trident of Atlan.

** Also happens once in the show. After Maude Flanders dies, Homer is secretly filming Ned to submit him to a video dating service. He says the line when Ned takes off his shirt to reveal his [[StupidSexyFlanders manly physique]].

** ''[[Film/BlackPanther2018 Black Panther]]'' has the shot of T'Challa backflipping from an airborne SUV and landing on the car in front of him. This shot was featured ''prominently'' in several promo materials, to put it lightly.

*** Finn brandishing his lightsaber as an unmasked [[DarthVaderClone Kylo Ren]] goes in for the strike.

* ''Film/DrStrangelove'' has one of the earliest examples Slim Pickens [[RidingTheBomb riding an atom bomb]] until it detonated all over the Soviet Union's face.

->''"Keep running, men! This shot is ''for the trailer!!''"''

* In each of the ''Film/FinalDestination'' films, it's the set-piece disasters that the protagonists witness in premonitions and then save their friends from. ([[Film/FinalDestination1 The first film]] had a plane crash, [[Film/FinalDestination2 the second]] had a highway pileup, [[Film/FinalDestination3 the third]] had a rollercoaster accident, [[Film/FinalDestination4 the fourth]] had a wreck at a race track, and [[Film/FinalDestination5 the fifth]] had a bridge collapse.) Creator/TonyTodd has [[https://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/3540245/tony-todd-thinks-therell-never-final-destination-6-heres-exclusive/ stated]] that he thinks that this is why they won't make a sixth movie: these scenes bump up the budget considerably compared to other horror movies, which means narrower profit margins, especially given that these films are [[{{Gorn}} very R-rated]].

* Referenced in a scene in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'' trailer where Lovejoy says "And here's the money shot". [[MissingTrailerScene This line was not in the film, however.]]

->"Keep running, men! This shot is ''for the trailer!!''"
-->--'''Kevin Murphy''', ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}

** ''[[Film/BlackPanther2018 Black Panther]]'' has the shot of T'Challa backflipping from a airborne SUV and landing on the car in front of him. This shot was featured ''prominently'' in several promo materials, to put it lightly.

-->--Kevin Murphy, ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' Podcast/{{Rifftrax}}

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[[folder:Animated Film]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'' had two scenes that are consistently featured in most of the film's advertisements, usually at the very beginning or very end.
** First is Ariel as a mermaid, sitting on rock looking at a beach with a [[TheDeterminator determined expression]], singing the finale of the [[IWantSong Part of Your World Reprise]] [[SceneryPorn as the wind blows her hair, waves crash behind her, and Scuttle flies past her]]
** Second is a human Ariel suddenly emerging from the middle of the ocean in an explosion of water droplets gasping for breath, backlit by the distant sunrise in a way that [[FullMoonSilhouette makes her look like a silhouette]] [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles and the water droplets look like a dazzling lightshow]]. In fact, in the original trailer, this is actually the first shot of Ariel that was ever shown, giving the first [[RebelliousPrincess mo]][[ActionGirl dern]] Franchise/DisneyPrincess quite the first impression.
* ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' has the ballroom dance during the song of the same name, with the 'camera' sweeping upwards to the chandelier.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' - Rafiki holding the baby Simba up into the air as the sun hits Pride Rock.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Pocahontas}}'' - Pocahontas's introduction at the top of the cliff, with the DramaticWind blowing through her hair.
* ''{{WesternAnimation/Frozen|2013}}'' has the end of the "Let It Go" sequence - where Elsa [[ShakingHerHairLoose takes her hair out of its bun]] and [[GorgeousGarmentGeneration turns her dress into a sexier one made of ice]] to signal that she's finally cutting loose from her repressed persona.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* The Legend War in ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'' and its counterpart scene in ''Series/PowerRangersMegaforce'', featuring ''every Ranger ever to that point'' in a BigBadassBattleSequence.
** Gokaiger's first movie had the audience dropping their jaws at the trailer showing all the HumongousMecha in the franchise's 35 year history.

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* ''VideoGame/HitmanBloodMoney'' had a scene in most promotional material that featured 47 in Vegas. All right, so Vegas is there for two levels, but the first is a hotel/casino and the second's a highrise.
* The trailers for ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty: Black Ops'' featured a helicopter crashing in a city, the camera riding the wing of an Blackbird spy plane and a close-up of a Soyuz rocket launch, among other things.

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* Done in ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'' when the teams walk up a small hillside before separating on their respective missions. As with most things in the movie, [[LampshadeHanging a lampshade]] was promptly hung on it.
-->'''[[WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic Link!Nostalgia Critic]]''': [[BreakingTheFourthWall The trailer]]! We're doing it for the trailer!
-->'''Everyone''': Ooooh.
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* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' had two scenes that are consistently featured in most of the film's advertisements, usually at the very beginning or very end.

* ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' has the ballroom dance during the song of the same name, with the 'camera' sweeping upwards to the chandelier.
* ''Disney/TheLionKing'' - Rafiki holding the baby Simba up into the air as the sun hits Pride Rock.
* ''{{Disney/Pocahontas}}'' - Pocahontas's introduction at the top of the cliff, with the DramaticWind blowing through her hair.
* ''{{Disney/Frozen}}'' has the end of the "Let It Go" sequence - where Elsa [[ShakingHerHairLoose takes her hair out of its bun]] and [[GorgeousGarmentGeneration turns her dress into a sexier one made of ice]] to signal that she's finally cutting loose from her repressed persona.