History Main / RevealShot

CloseupOnHead, BedmateReveal and OnASoundstageAllAlong are specific types of Reveal Shot, as is any MortalWoundReveal found in {{Film}} or LiveActionTV. Not to be confused with a [[PantyShot revealing shot]].

* ''TheIncredibles'': Bob Parr/Mr. Incredible has tossed his boss through a wall. Camera pans to the hole, revealing that he had thrown his boss through ''four'' walls.

* Used in ''ILoveYouPhillipMorris''. Early in the movie it is suggested that Steven (the protagonist) is heterosexual and happily married. In a scene he is shown passionately kissing his wife, and the camera cuts into a scene of Steven having sex, his sexual partner being off-screen. One can't help but to assume he is having sex with his wife, until the camera pans out revealing his sexual partner to be a ''man''... To top this off Steven narrates: "Oh, did I forget to mention I'm gay?".

* In Tremors 2: Aftershocks, when Earl calls up the beloved Burt Gummer, the camera pulls back from Burt to comedically reveal a graboid head mounted on his basement wall.

* Works for villains as well as heroes: The 1980s cartoon, ''{{Jem}}'' did this. Eric is about to tell the small crowd that he has that "The Misfits" are the winners of the first annual Starlight "Battle of the Bands"--but before he can--new music is heard--and the crowd goes off in that direction. The camera pans out to show "Jem and the Holograms" performing for the first time.
* ''TheSimpsons'': Homer crashes his car in snowy conditions. He gets out to inspect the damage and says "well, at least I got him as well as he got me". Cue pan-out, revealing that he'd made it to his driveway and the car he hit was in fact his other car.

* Likewise, {{Futurama}} used this when Bender's worried that a bureaucrat he insulted is standing behind him. Cue the RevealShot and that bureaucrat saying that she is in fact, [[BehindTheBlack in front of him, less than a foot away]].

* On an episode of {{SpongeBob Squarepants}}, the group is supposedly sent home from the grasp of the Flying Dutchman. The camera pans out from SpongeBob's pineapple house only to reveal that it's a ''real'' pineapple, and they're all inside a giant blender.

Sometimes preceded by a ReactionShot to build suspense. Other times, there's no warning, usually because the characters are [[NoPeripheralVision seeing it the same time as the viewers are]].

CloseupOnHead, BedmateReveal and OnASoundstageAllAlong are specific types of RevealShot, as is any MortalWoundReveal found in {{Film}} or LiveActionTV. Not to be confused with a [[PantyShot revealing shot]].

CloseupOnHead and BedmateReveal are specific types of RevealShot, as is any MortalWoundReveal found in {{Film}} or LiveActionTV. Not to be confused with a [[PantyShot revealing shot]].

* The anime ''SerialExperimentsLain'' did this a lot, with Lain or her friends having a ReactionShot followed by the RevealShot of whatever horror they just saw.

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Sometimes preceded by a ReactionShot to build suspense. Other times, there's no warning, usually because the characters are seeing it the same time as the viewers are.

* ''StargateAtlantis'' does such a shot when Shepard has to climb a few stories to shut down a self-destruct because of a malfunctioning quarantine system, revealing it's a ''long way down''.

** Of course, it's also used for drama, such as the end of "The Economist," where a pan reveals Sayid's associate to be Ben.

* It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia had one episode where Charlie and Mac got a mail room gig to qualify for the company's health benefits. Mac dumps all the responsibilties on Charlie, who then does... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz7onPvj7fE this]]

* ''6Teen'': After Jonesy says that things might actually work out after all (by which he means that he can cope with Nikki's departure), the last scene in the finale zooms out to show the other characters going about their business; what this, of course, means is that her leaving only really affects the five main characters.

* ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'': The first panel shows a close-up of someone asking Beetle whether [[SexySecretary Miss Buxley]] had walked past in a bikini. The next panel shows the larger scene with Beetle having stepped in his can of paint and a general mayhem around them with soldiers still staring transfixed and having crashed their cars and whatnot. [[DistractedByTheSexy Yes, she had.]]

* ''ComicsStrip/BeetleBailey'': The first panel shows a close-up of someone asking Beetle whether [[SexySecretary Miss Buxley]] had walked past in a bikini. The next panel shows the larger scene with Beetle having stepped in his can of paint and a general mayhem around them with soldiers still staring transfixed and having crashed their cars and whatnot. [[DistractedByTheSexy Yes, she had.]]

* The finale of ''MysticPizza'' does this with a woman and her fiance, who were at odds throughout the movie. [[spoiler:The camera pans out to reveal her wearing a wedding dress, showing that she decided to go through with the wedding despite everything.]]

* The ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Fellowship of the Ring]]'' movie -- we open with a shot of a dark menacing tower in Mordor, apparently Barad-Dûr, home of Sauron. Then the camera pulls back... and back... and back... until we are able to get a full view of the ''ungodly immense, dozens of times larger and infinitely more menacing'' tower that is the ''true'' Barad-Dûr, revealing the initial tower we saw as one of the hundreds of (relatively) tiny lookout towers spaced around Barad-Dur's outer wall.