The Reveal / Web Original

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• A Day With Bowser Jr: Bowser Jr. didn't inherit the throne despite being Bowser's youngest son — he inherited it because he's Bowser's only son. The koopalings are actually the children of Bowser's deceased brother, Morton Koopa. This information was hid from them to prevent them from feeling excluded, but this ends up making Ludwig feel Junior stole his title from him.
• Starting in Volume III, the ongoing audio drama The Adventures of Captain Strong -- Scourge of the High Seas is often built on a series of dramatic revelations. Although some of them are so telegraphed they may qualify as Captain Obvious Reveal
  • Episode 14 — Gordon Ambler, the mysterious stranger who knows more than he says, is really the missing Prince Geoffrey!
  • Episode 15 — Queen Amanda is actually an imposter!
  • Episode 16 — Rhoda, the cleaning girl, is actually the real Princess Amanda, in disguise!
  • Episode 20 — The leader of the pirates who are attacking Captain Strong's ship is the previously-thought-to-be-dead Duncan the Fierce!
  • Episode 23 — The mysterious prisoner is really the previously-thought-to-be-dead First Mate Lavender!
  • Episode 25 — The crew is suddenly attacked by a huge-aggressive ape-like creature! (Also, Captain Strong's pet Rusty is actually a cat)
  • Episode 26 — First Mate Lavender is really a madness-driven villain intent on vengeance against Captain Strong!
  • Episode 28 — Crewman Stickelbrain is engaged to Greta the Chambermaid!
  • Episode 30 — Greta the Chambermaid was previously married, and has a child that she gave up for adoption!
  • Also, in Episode 30 — Rudolph the messenger from Flurdland is really an assassin! The guys she beat up is the real Rudolph!
  • Episode 33 — The feeble old lady is really Veronica Rhubarb in disguise!
  • Episode 39 — Dogwood the pirate is actually Greta's first husband, and the father of her child!
  • Episode 43 — Commodore Bold, Captain Strong's hero, is really out to destroy the Northern Tribes!
  • Episode 45 — The cow that's been following Randy the Cabin Boy around is really Veronica Rhubarb in disguise!
  • Episode 46 & 47 — Marlin, the amnesiac bartender, is really Percy Aquavelvit, who is not as dead as everyone had thought!
  • Episode 50 — King Guber's spy, who had infiltrated Captain Strong's crew, turns out to be Yeoman Dawgins!
• The Adventure Zone: Balance has quite a few from the end of The Eleventh Hour onwards:
  • The epilogue of Eleventh Hour reveals that Magnus, presumably along with the rest of the THB, created the Grand Relics.
  • In the next episode, Lunar Interlude IV, Magnus discovers that the Voidfish has a child in the employ of the Director.
  • It is revealed in the final episode of The Suffering Game that the Red Robe that's been tailing the party for months is actually Barry Bluejeans, a seemingly irrelevant mercenary from the first arc who was presumed dead in the destruction of Phandalin.
  • Lunar Interlude V: Reunion Tour features a series of reveals that completely change the context of the entire series. "Lup" is the name of Taako's twin sister, the spirit of whom is trapped in the Umbra Staff. Taako, Magnus, Merle, Barry, Lup, Davenport, and Director Lucretia were all once Red Robes. The Red Robes weren't mad sorcerers, they were astronauts — originally from another universe, they were tasked with exploring other planes of existence using a powerful energy source known as the Light of Creation, but were pursued by the Hunger, a malevolent force bent on using the Light to consume the multiverse. The Grand Relics are actually fragments of the Light of Creation, split up by the Red Robes to keep the Hunger from locating their current world. The reason that the THB don't remember any of this is that Lucretia, not agreeing with this plan, used the second Voidfish to make them forget about their mission (and anything related to it, such as Barry and Lup) so that she could reclaim the Relics, reform the Light, and use it to destroy the Hunger once and for all.
• Played for Laughs in Boys Night Out. Young Limburg is babysat by his stepfather while his mother goes to bible study. His stepdad takes him to a strip club and warns him not to tell his mother because she wouldn't understand. At the end of the video Limburg spots his mother among the dancers and she asks him not to tell his stepfather because he wouldn't understand.
• Broken Saints has quite a few, but the most memorable comes in at the end of the penultimate chapter. Palmer is found dead, and in a storm of Mind Rape the face of the real Big Bad is shown. The hobo Raimi encountered by the alley, AKA, Lear Dunham.
• A recent arc on Cerberus Daily News involved a strange quarian signing up on the boards, causing everyone to suspect that she is actually one of the many psychopaths that used to frequent the website before the Reaper Invasion. But it's actually a volus trying to lure that quarian out.
• In Doom House, Officer Cop, who was initially thought to be a kind civil servant who is regarding Reginald's safety and well being as a top priority, reveals himself to be a terrorist who was only pretending to be a cop to try to get Reginald to leave the house so he could take it back from him.
• In the second part of the last episode of Eddsworld , fittingly titled "The end", Tord is revealed to have had a secret bunker in his room where he kept a giant robot, which he proceeds to use in an attempt to kill his friends and take over the world. Not only that, but he's indirectly responsible for the events of both "The Snogre" and "Fun Dead". Kudos to the creators for putting in clues to both.
• In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, the first episode of second season reveals that Kitten is actually the Captain-General, leader of the entire Adeptus Custodes. Played with in that it doesn't affect his status in the second season.
• Andria was really Magnum of Encyclopedia Dramatica the whole time.
• Marble Hornets Entry #35 reveals that the Masked Man who has been stalking Jay is Tim, one of the actors from Alex's film Marble Hornets.
• ''Red vs. Blue
• It's become a Running Gag that there's almost always a major plot reveal in a season's 10th episode:
  • Season 7: C.T.'s team plans are revealed in the tenth episode. C.T.'s team is revealed to have killed the actual dig team that was sent to search the area, and that he plans to do the same for the Reds and Blues.
  • Season 10: Tex and Carolina fight C.T. and the Insurrectionist Leader, resulting in C.T.'s death and the reveal that the Insurrectionist Leader was the C.T. the Reds and Blues met in the desert.
  • Season 12: The Reds and Blues find out the truth about the Chorus Civil War. Felix is revealed to have been Evil All Along, him and Locus are working for a third party manipulating the events of the Chorus Civil War, and Epsilon and Carolina make their long awaited return.
  • Season 13: Doyle's true role in the plotline is revealed. He took the Great Key of Chorus and therefore is the person standing between the villains and their goal.
  • Carolina and Wash find out why Freelancers have been disappearing. Temple is revealed to be kidnapping and murdering the remaining Freelancers, and attempts to do the same to Wash and Carolina.
  • Season 16: The Big Bad and their minions are introduced. Donut and Doc are revealed to be working for Chrovos, who is revealed to be the true Big Bad of the season, rather than the Cosmic Powers.
• Other reveals include:
  • Season 8: Tex is destined to fail at everything she tries, no matter what she does, because that's what her existence is based on.
  • Season 9, Episode 20, "Hate to Say Goodbye" reveals what's been going on with the earthquakes. The Reds and Blues have been staging a rescue of Church from the memory unit with the help of the not-so-dead Agent Carolina; Church decides to move on from Tex, choosing to forget her so that she is Killed Off for Real.
  • Season 10
    • The AI Sigma used to belong to Carolina, and it was her decision to give him to Maine that set off the entire Recollection trilogy.
    • Episode 22, "Don't Say It" reveals the fate of the Director. A man so broken by grief that he commits suicide after Carolina —revealed to be his daughter — spares him. Butch Flowers is revealed to have been Freelancer Agent Florida.
  • Season 12 reveals the identity third party working against Chorus. It's Malcolm Hargrove, the UNSC Oversight Sub-Committee Chairman who had been opposing the Director in previous seasons.
• Ruby Quest has several moments that would qualify, but one of the biggest is the following, which is important because it shows that Ruby and Tom's attempts to escape have been going on far longer than they thought:
  Bella: Today is October 31st.
  • For sheer Wham Shot-iness, there's also the second-to-last-panel reveal that the 'extremely dangerous' Subject #6 was not Tom Nook, the prisoner in Upper Lab B, like the players thought he was. Tom Nook was really Subject #5. The real Subject #6? The other Tom, the cat who'd been Ruby's companion since almost the beginning.
• The finale of RWBY Volume 1 had a pretty big one, with Blake Belladonna accidentally blurting out her Dark Secret that she's a Faunas and a former terrorist, and her team-mates, most notably Weiss, trying to cope with the startling new revelation. They're able to resolve things in the end, by vowing to keep her identity a secret and making Weiss bury the hatchet. Worth pointing out that it got a lot of Foreshadowing and the fans (correctly, as it turns out) speculated it for a while.
• In Strange Aeons, Nick and Arron have been friends for at least a decade.
• In TOME, Zetto is really Kirbopher, and the leader of the hackers (alongside Kizuna). This would make Kirb the Big Bad were it not for the double reveal that the hackers are not evil.
• The Vampire Diaries: A Darker Truth: The final episode reveals that it was Damon and not Stefan who killed Jason's sister, Joanne.
• In the Whateley Universe, "Christmas Elves" has Fey and Generator in a trap, and they then find out that Don Sebastiano did not make Cavalier and Skybolt into his mind-slaves with his psychic powers but instead, Hekate did it with black magic.
• In Worm, Chapter 19.7 reveals that for the first sixteen entire story arcs, the main motivation for Tattletale's actions was to save Taylor from committing suicide.
  • A much bigger one occurs in the Interlude to Chapter 26, where it is revealed that Scion is an alien, the source of parahuman powers, and the cause of The End of the World as We Know It.
• In Wormtooth Nation, it's revealed that wormtooth gas, an invisible, odorless gas that causes permanent Easy Amnesia and has caused numerous problems for the protagonists, actually causes people to live forever in small doses. The entire population of the City moved down to the subterranean world in order to gain immortality, but after an unknown but presumably very long period of time everyone had been "nixed" so often that no one remembers this fact, nor the way back to the surface.
• You Know Whats Bullshit: The Bullshit Man spends the first twelve episodes as a disembodied voice before ending the thirteenth episode by revealing his face to the viewers. What does it look like? An actual, literal mound of bull shit.

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