Wham Line / Pokémon

• Pokémon Red and Blue has one after you defeat Lance. It Was His Sled is in effect now, but it still counts given that at the time, the player expects Lance to be the Final Boss.
  Lance: I still can't believe my dragons lost to you, Player! You're now the Pokémon League champion! ...Or, you would have been, but you have one more challenge ahead. You have to face another trainer! His name is... Your Rival! He beat the Elite Four before you. He is the real Pokémon League champion!
• From Pokémon Gold and Silver and the remakes as you talk to the mysterious trainer at the top of Mt. Silver:
  Trainer: ..............
  PKMN Trainer Red would like to battle!
• Pokémon Black and White 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 Pokémon X and Y:
  "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 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 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. He was given a tiny box.
  • Before the final battle against Team Flare's leader.
    I, too, shall use the Mega Ring and Mega Stone that you researched during your travels.
• 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.
• Pokémon Sun and Moon:
  • This line during the Wham Episode 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 Final Boss as a Call-Back to Gen 1:
    Professor Kukui: Oh yeah, Now you're the Pokémon League Champion! [shakes his head] Wouldn't it be nice if it were that simple?
• Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon:
  • When you get to Megalo Tower:
    "Necrozma's aura flared to life! 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 a mechanic otherwise completely unseen in the Generation VII campaigns:
    "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:
    "The opposing Mewtwo's Mewtonite X/Y is reacting to the Key Stone!"
• Pokémon Legends: Arceus:
  • 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 that [player's name] fell from the sky, did it not?
  • Sandwiched between the double Wham Shot 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, once and for all.
  • Toward the end of the post-game quest “Seeking The Remaining Plates”, resident Intrepid Merchant 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 I originally sought out Giratina and had it tear open that rift in space and time...
  • When battling with Giratina and Volo, this line after you finally beat them accompanies a Victory Fakeout Wham Shot, proving that you're not out of the woods yet...
    "Giratina unleashed its true strength!"
• Pokémon Scarlet and Violet:
  • 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.
    "Deactivating sleep mode."
  • The Teal Mask: Early on in the story, you hear the folk tale of a villainous ogre who was defeated by a trio of heroic Pokémon. However, when you later encounter the ogre with Carmine, it doesn't do anything except run away, leaving its mask behind. When you bring the mask to Carmine's grandfather the next day, he drops a line that reveals there's far more to the story than what's on the surface.
    "This mask—it belongs to that poor ogre! Where did you find this?!"
• Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time and Darkness:
  • This line after you finally capture the apparent Big Bad Grovyle:
    Dusknoir: This is goodbye...or is it?
  • The exchange between the Player Character, 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. 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 Hello, [Insert Name Here]. My best friend...
    Player Character: (What?!)
    Partner: Wh-what?! Grovyle! Did you say Hello, [Insert Name Here]?! Well, this is Hello, [Insert Name Here] right here!
    Grovyle: What?! You're...Hello, [Insert Name Here]? ...No...it can't be. It isn't. The Hello, [Insert Name Here] I know isn't a Pokémon. The Hello, [Insert Name Here] that I know...is a human.
    Partner: What?!
    Dusknoir: Hoo-hoo-ha! Precisely! My good fellow! Grovyle, that is unmistakably your friend Hello, [Insert Name Here]!
    Grovyle: What?!
    Dusknoir: That Pokémon you see 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]

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