Due to the nature of this trope, expect spoilers.
Daydream Surprises in Webcomics.
- 8-Bit Theater:
- Black Mage removing his hat
. - One of the fake endings has a bizarre version where the whole comic appears to have been All Just a Dream, but then that turns out to be a daydream of Fighter's.
- Black Mage removing his hat
- In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Dr. McNinja had one involving Ben Franklin, being stalked by the Headless Horseman's horse (long story) as he as McNinja are boarding a plane. Franklin needs hair to stave off the horse but the airport security won't let him through with it. So Ben starts to go on a rampage cutting people's hair much to McNinja's embarrassment. However we find that is all in Ben's imagination considering what to do and he politely carries on without it.
- In the strip Battleship: The Games Continue from The Chapel Chronicles, Chapel imagines herself in a submarine being sunk by a patrol boat when in reality, her submarine has been sunk in the game.
- In Drowtales, it appears that the captain of the empress's guard killed the fake Diva'ratrika starting here, enraged by the double's distinctly un-Val-like behavior.
- El Goonish Shive:
- It had Grace imagine her first day at school. The last row of panels has her admitting that it probably won't be as awesome as she imagines, but she hopes it comes close. It came as such a surprise to some readers that the author devoted an entire filler strip to pointing out the hints in each panel that indicated it was all a dream.
- Sarah has apprehensions about Grace!Tedd's experiments.
- The "Superhero Science" sidestory appears to show a kiss between Elliot and Tedd before revealing that it was all imagined. Unusually, the kiss was imagined by both characters simultaneously.
- It had Grace imagine her first day at school. The last row of panels has her admitting that it probably won't be as awesome as she imagines, but she hopes it comes close. It came as such a surprise to some readers that the author devoted an entire filler strip
- Guilded Age has Frigg fantasize about killing two particularly smug architects here after negotiations go south, but she resists ... mostly.
- Homestuck has a variation here - instead of a dream, the perspective switches to a prophetic vision of an alternate timeline.
- Misfile does it here: During her date with what's-his-name, Emily briefly sees Ash in his place.
- Dave confessing his feelings to Helen in Narbonic.
- Played with in The Order of the Stick, where the Order is walking down a corridor and end up encountering Xykon, where, after a quick but tense battle, Roy finally destroys him. However, the audience soon discovers that the Order is actually trapped in a Lotus-Eater Machine spell courtesy of the corridor's Runic Magic. It takes them a couple of strips to snap out of it.
- Sunstone has these thanks to characters fantasizing about outlandish BDSM scenarios. Interestingly the daydreams so far have been reuses of the pin ups the comic consisted of before gaining a continuity, meaning for avid fans these are Daydream Surprises that took two years to pay off.
- Think Before You Think does it here.
- A sequence in Wapsi Square, starting here had Shelly imagine that her boyfriend Justin surprised her in the shower. The sequence includes a few spoilers including the reason why this would be a bad thing.
- Weak Hero:
- When Gray comes face to face with Teddy he loses his temper, rushes up the stairs towards him, and ends up getting kicked back down... or that's how it plays out in his imagination. Gray realises that he has to contain his temper, and leaves Teddy alone until he has a better opportunity to fight back.
- During their fight in a parking lot, Wolf slams Jimmy into one of the pillars. Jimmy retaliates, only to be permanently put down by a chokeslam. Or so it seems; Jimmy temporarily blacked out when he hit the pillar and imagined the dire end to the fight. Realising that he couldn't win, Jimmy called off the fight there.
- What's Shakin':
- Coffinshaker daydreams at times where his fantasies blend into the story layout without notice.
- Coffin mourns the death of his butterfly friend in a funeral scene completely inside his head.
- Coffin has a bit of a 300 fantasy after driving off a horde of villains from the edge of a castle.
- Pai has a bit of a blended fantasy moment when she first meets Coffin.
- Yosh! has such a sequence for a monster trapped in an illusion where it's winning the fight... bloodily.
