History WhamLine / VideoGames

'''Noel:''' Who... are you...? I... I... I...\\

'''Sam:''' Nathan--\\

* ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd'': Nate and his brother Sam find themselves cornered and held at gunpoint by rival treasure hunter Rafe and his mercenaries. With no other option, Nate tries to buy time by offering to help Rafe find the treasure they're all searching for in exchange for their lives, plus a small cut to "buy [Sam] his freedom". When an incredulous Rafe questions that last part, Nate briefly explains the story that Sam had told him, and by proxy, and the audience, earlier (even providing the basis for a entire level [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent from Sam's perspective]]), only for Rafe to interject and turn everything Sam had claimed on its head:

* ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd'': Nate and his brother Sam find themselves cornered and held at gunpoint by rival treasure hunter Rafe and his mercenaries. With no other option, Nate tries to buy time by offering to help Rafe find the treasure they're all searching for in exchange for their lives, plus a small cut to settle Sam's debt. When an incredulous Rafe questions that last part, Nate briefly explains the story that Sam had told him (and the player, providing the basis for a whole level [[AndNowForSomeoneCompletelyDifferent from Sam's perspective]]) earlier: that he'd been busted out of prison by a drug lord named Hector Alcázar, who now wants a cut of the treasure in repayment, only for Rafe to interject and turn everything Sam had claimed on its head:
-->'''Rafe:''' Whoa, what the hell are you talking about, Nate? Hector Alcázar died in a shootout in Argentina like six months ago. ''I'm'' the one that got Samuel out.

* ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd'': Nate and his brother Sam find themselves cornered and held at gunpoint by Rafe, a rival treasure hunter, and his mercenaries. Out of options, Nate tries to negotiate for time by offering to help Rafe find the treasure they're all searching for in exchange for their lives, plus a small cut to settle Sam's debt. When an incredulous Rafe questions that last part, Nate tries to explain Sam's situation (Sam claimed he'd been busted out of prison by a drug lord named Hector Alcázar, who now wants a cut of the treasure in repayment), only for Rafe to interject and turn everything about that story on its head:

* The ''Franchise/MetalGear'' series has quite a few:

** Shortly after that, Eifer reveal

-->'''Admiral Harkov:''' ''"Enough of this charade; [[PlayerCharacter Gamma 1 is the Emperor's stool pigeon! Gamma 2 and 3 destroy Gamma 1 now!"'']]
-->''Admiral Zaarin's forces are attacking Imperial Star Destroyer Garrett! The treachery is worse than we imagined; the Emperor is in danger."''

%%* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'':
-->'''Bonechill:''' "I speak of the Pure Heart... And I speak of you, Luvbi... IT IS YOU!"
-->'''Floro Sapien:''' "WATER, man! I'm talking about WATER! The Cragnons were polluting our water!"
-->'''Nastasia:''' Yeah, I'm on board with what you're saying...but there must be a way. There must... Lord Blumiere!

* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate''. The E3 2018 reveal trailer.

** And for long-time fans, an even bigger one near the end of the trailer.

* ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', The seventh chapter of the storybook

* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'',

--->'''John:''' I ''know'' you can fight better than that. [[SecretSecretKeeper Or do you need your Batsuit to really get you in the mood]]? (You're) always hiding behind some kind of mask. [[MillionairePlayboy Playboy]], [[HonestCorporateExecutive businesman]], [[TheMole criminal]]. ''Bat''.

* In the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' series:
** ''VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue'' has one after you defeat Lance. ItWasHisSled is in effect now, but it still counts given that at the time, the player expects Lance to be the FinalBoss.
--->'''Lance:''' I still can't believe my dragons lost to you, [[HelloInsertNameHere Player]]! You're now the [[ToBeAMaster Pokémon League champion]]! [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle ...Or, you would have been]], but you have one more challenge ahead. You have to face another trainer! His name is... [[HelloInsertNameHere Your]] [[TheRival Rival]]! He beat the Elite Four before you. He is [[FinalBoss the real Pokémon League champion!]]
** From ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' and the remakes as you talk to the mysterious trainer at the top of Mt. Silver:
--->'''Trainer:''' [[HeroicMime ..............]]\\
''PKMN Trainer Red would like to battle!''
** ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'' has one about halfway through the game, with the wham furthered by how it's implied to be casually delivered:
--->'''N:''' First, I must tell you...I am the king of Team Plasma.
** From ''VideoGame/PokemonXAndY'':
---> "In reality, those stones that line Route 10 are the graves of Pokémon."
*** A fairly minor one shows up earlier and might let you know that Team Flare [[BewareTheSillyOnes isn't as silly as it seems]]:
---->Allow me to spell it out for you! It's so Team Flare - and only Team Flare - can survive!
*** A huge one comes from Lysandre via the Holo Caster that [[EvilAllAlong reveals him as the boss of Team Flare]] after you defeat the seventh Gym Leader, Olympia:
---->'''Lysandre:''' Pokémon Trainers. I come to you by the Holo Caster to make an important announcement. Listen well. Team Flare will revive the ultimate weapon, eliminate everyone who isn't in our group, and return the world to a beautiful, natural state. Unproductive fools are consuming our future... If nothing changes, the world will become ugly and conflicts will raze the land from end to end. I repeat. We will use the ultimate weapon and wipe the slate clean. I'm sorry, those of you who are not members of Team Flare, but this is adieu to you all.
*** And then from AZ's story.
---->There was a man and a Pokémon. He loved that Pokémon very much. A war began. The man's beloved Pokémon took part in the war. Several years passed. [[NeverSayDie He was given a tiny box.]]
*** Before the final battle against Team Flare's leader.
---->I, too, shall use [[SuperMode the Mega Ring and Mega Stone]] that you researched during your travels.
** ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRubyAndSapphire Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire]]'' does one on a meta-level implying the existence of the multiverse.
--->'''Zinnia:''' My people know it. From generation to generation, we pass along the lore about the distortions in the world born by the Mega Evolution mechanism. And about the existence of another world, which we have long observed to be just like this one and yet not the same... That's right. A Hoenn region that's almost exactly like this one we live in. Filled with Pokémon and people like us. A world where maybe the evolution of Pokémon took a slightly different path, where Mega Evolution is unknown... A world where that war 3,000 years ago...never happened. A world where the ultimate weapon was never even built. And in that Hoenn of that world... What would happen if one day, out of the blue, a meteoroid appeared? What would happen to the people of that world, without the technology to destroy the meteoroid or the power to warp it away? ... Looks like it's beyond the power of your imagination.
** ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'':
*** This line during the WhamEpisode not only gives you some insight into Gladion and Lillie's backstory, it's also the first indication into Lusamine's true colors.
---->'''Gladion:''' I was like an ornament to my mother. Wearing whatever she told me to wear, acting however she wanted me to act...
*** The truth about Lillie and her mother, Lusamine, comes out:
---->'''Lillie:''' I don't need your approval, mother!
*** And the other half of that:
---->'''Lusamine:''' The daughter who stole my Cosmog from me, and the son who took my Type: Null!
*** And naturally, the reveal of the FinalBoss as a CallBack to [[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Gen 1]]:
---->'''Professor Kukui:''' Oh yeah, Now you're the Pokémon League Champion! ''[shakes his head]'' [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle Wouldn't it be nice if it were that simple]]?
** ''VideoGame/PokemonUltraSunAndUltraMoon'':
*** When you get to Megalo Tower:
---->''"[[ClimaxBoss Necrozma's]] aura flared to life. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Its stats rose.]]"''
*** You're plowing down Team Rainbow Rocket, when suddenly:
---->(if playing with Shift battle style) ''"[Team Rainbow Rocket boss member] is about to send in [Legendary Pokémon]. Will you switch your Pokémon?"''\\
(if playing with Set battle style) ''"[Team Rainbow Rocket boss member] sent out [Legendary Pokémon]!"''
*** The Lysandre battle also contains a unique example, since it reintroduces [[VideoGame/PokemonXAndY a mechanic]] otherwise completely unseen in the Generation VII campaigns:
---->''"[[OneWingedAngel The opposing Gyarados's Gyaradosite is reacting to the Key Stone!]]"''
*** When you battle Giovanni. If him sending out Mewtwo wasn't surprising enough, what goes next probably will be:
---->''"[[OhCrap The opposing Mewtwo's Mewtonite X/Y is reacting to the Key Stone!]]"''
** ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'':
*** The day after you defeat Lord Avalugg, the space-time rift above Hisui inexplicably becomes worse. You go to talk to Kamado about it...and what he says indicates that things are about to get ''much'' worse for you in particular.
---->'''Kamado:''' The first strike of that strange lightning, the one that drove Kleavor into a frenzy... It struck the night [[TheScapegoat that [player's name] fell from the sky]], did it not?
*** Sandwiched between the double WhamShot of Beni being both Kamado's right hand ''and'' a ninja, we get this line:
---->'''Beni:''' While handling that, I suppose I'll handle you as well. Time we got rid of you, [[ImpliedDeathThreat once and for all.]]
*** Toward the end of the post-game quest “Seeking The Remaining Plates”, resident IntrepidMerchant Volo drops this little bombshell on you…
---->'''Volo:''' Ever since I became convinced that Arceus really does exist, there has been one question that consumed my thoughts... How can I meet such a being myself? It was in an attempt to answer this question that [[EvilAllAlong I originally sought out Giratina and had it tear open that rift in space and time...]]
*** When battling with [[SatanicArchetype Giratina]] and [[BigBad Volo]], this line after you finally beat them accompanies a VictoryFakeout WhamShot, proving that you're not out of the woods yet...
---->''"Giratina unleashed its true strength!"''
** ''VideoGame/PokemonScarletAndViolet'':
*** A minor one occurs during the Elite Four battle, which reveals that -- for the first time in the franchise's history -- a Gym Leader is also holding a spot on the Elite Four in the same game.
---->'''Poppy:''' It's your turn, Mr. Larry!
*** While there were hints beforehand, when the player finally meets the game's Professor during the Area Zero expedition, they utter a line that turns all their previous appearances on their head.
---->''[[RoboticReveal "Deactivating sleep mode."]]''
** ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers of Time and Darkness'':
*** This line after you finally capture the apparent BigBad Grovyle:
----> '''Dusknoir:''' This is goodbye...[[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle or is it]]?
*** The exchange between the PlayerCharacter, the partner, Grovyle & Dusknoir at the Passage of Time, as they (the player, partner & Grovyle) are heading back to the past, so that Grovyle can finish what he had started doing to save the world, has this.
---->'''Grovyle:''' But... hope is still alive. Celebi, you remember... That last time...when I traveled back in time to prevent the planet's paralysis... I wasn't alone. [[ThereIsAnother There was another]].\\
'''Partner:''' What?! Grovyle, you didn't come to our world alone?!\\
'''Grovyle:''' That's right. I had a partner. We headed to the past together. But when we were going through the Passage of Time, we had trouble... We became separated. My partner should still be back in the world of the past. Even if I am eliminated... My partner will see our mission through to the end. My partner will prevent the planet's paralysis.\\
'''Dusknoir:''' ..................... Ha! Ha-ha-ha! Hoo-hoo-ha!\\
'''Grovyle:''' What's... What's so funny?\\
'''Dusknoir:''' Ha! So you claim someone went to the past with you... Incidentally, what's the name of your partner? Go on. Say the name.\\
'''Grovyle:''' Why ask such a thing?\\
'''Dusknoir:''' Can't tell me?\\
'''Grovyle:''' No, that's not true. My Partner's name is HelloInsertNameHere. My best friend...\\
'''PlayerCharacter:''' (What?!)\\
'''Partner:''' Wh-what?! Grovyle! Did you say HelloInsertNameHere?! Well, this is HelloInsertNameHere right here!\\
'''Grovyle:''' What?! You're...HelloInsertNameHere? ...No...[[ThisCannotBe it can't be]]. It isn't. The HelloInsertNameHere I know isn't a Pokémon. The HelloInsertNameHere that I know...is a human.\\
'''Partner:''' What?!\\
'''Dusknoir:''' Hoo-hoo-ha! Precisely! My good fellow! Grovyle, that is unmistakably your friend HelloInsertNameHere!\\
'''Grovyle:''' What?!\\
'''Dusknoir:''' That Pokémon you see [[WasOnceAMan was once a human]]!\\
'''Grovyle:''' Wh-what?!
*** Also, this line heard at the end of the game:
---->'''Darkrai:''' Naturally. That very accident was caused by...none other than myself...
*** And in the special episode "In the Future of Darkness" in Sky:
---->'''Dusknoir:''' In the end, you have lost! You've lost because...you trusted me!\\
'''Grovyle:''' No...I don't believe that...''(Dusknoir gets suspicious)'' I...I wasn't wrong...I...I still...trust you...\\
'''Dusknoir:''' Do my ears deceive me?!
*** This line at the end of the main game credits
---->'''Dialga:''' This is my gift. Please accept it! ''[cue the revival of the player's Pokémon]''

*** After Link defeats the monster inside the Great Deku Tree in an attempt to save the Deku Tree's life, this line from the Deku Tree reveals that Link was never going to succeed at the latter.

* ''VideoGame/CassetteBeasts'': The ''Pier of the Unknown'' DLC has one when you talk to Gwen after defeating all three Infernal Engines, revealing that [[spoiler:Gwen is not only an Archangel, but also one who knows Morgante]], complete with a SuddenSoundtrackStop and a surprised reaction from your partner:
-->'''Gwen:''' [[spoiler:Morgante always said that our lot can't really make things - that's for you humans.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}: Door to Phantomile'': Huepow makes a sudden statement in the ending that reveals something important about a major character, recontextualizing significant segments of the game immediately. [[spoiler:It's that Klonoa is not actually from Phantomile, [[TomatoInTheMirror he's a warrior from another dimension who was summoned and given]] FakeMemories ''[[ManipulativeBastard by Huepow]]'' to save a world he was never even a part of. Moreover, when Lephise sings her Song of Rebirth and removes everything that doesn't belong in Phantomile, Klonoa will be among them. [[TheWoobie The poor kid]] [[TearJerker does not take the news well]].]]
-->'''Huepow''': [[spoiler:You're actually... you're really... You don't really exist in this world! I called you from your world... so we could restore the balance of dreams! It's true! This world is not your reality!]]

*** The even better Wham came shortly before that one: "With all other foes exhausted, the conjoined blades turned themselves on me, and I realised... finally... why I had sensed nothing when Janos had offered me the blade. The Reaver was never forged to be a soul-stealing weapon. The ravenous, soul-devouring entity trapped in the blade was... [[StableTimeLoop and always had been...]] [[TomatoInTheMirror me...]]"

** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'': When Skull Kid seems to have been defeated, the following line is heard from the ''mask'' worn by him: "Certainly, he had far too many weaknesses to use ''my'' power."

*** After Link defeats the monster inside the Great Deku Tree in an attempt to recover the Kokiri's Spiritual Stone and save the Deku Tree's life, this line from the Deku Tree reveals that Link only succeeded at the former task.

*** At the end, Samus is about to be arrested by the Galactic Federation and unfortunately, everyone from Adam's team has died. Then, the man who came to escort Samus says something familiar. And it turns out this person is Anthony, the man whom people thought had fallen into lava.

--->'''Geth:''' Shepard-Commander.

--->'''Shepard:''' "Sovereign isn't just some Reaper ship Saren found. It's an actual Reaper!"

--> '''Queen Phoebee:''' Well, I had best be off. Yooka, Laylee, thank you for everything you've done... If my brother [[BigBad [Capital B.]]] ever tries anything like this again, let me know and I'll report him to my [[GreaterScopeVillain V.I.L.E. colleagues...]]\\

-->'''Dr. Weil:''' "Hehehehehe! Excellent, Zero! Your power is extraordinary, ''[[CloningBlues for a fake]]''."

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'' Has one at the beginning of Chapter 6, revealing M's body is now inhabited by the Mio we know.

* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar2'' has this line which explains Zeus's actions throughout this game.

** ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'' has this revelation between Kratos and Atreus after scattering Faye's ashes:
--->'''Atreus:''' My name on the wall. The giants called me...'Loki?"