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* ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'' {{spoiler|Episode 12. The little girl and the village Asura was protecting is completely destroyed by Olga of the deities and all the inhabitants are dead. Asura goes even more apeshit then usual and completely annilhates Olga's fleet.}}
* At the very end of the normal ending of ''[[Aquaria (
{{quote| "You've reached an end, but it is not all I have to share. You've become lost along the way, concerned only with the immediate facts. Return to the waters, and follow the trails hidden in my memories...the story of my childhood. Find me...before the world is lost...my son..."}}
* ''Arc the Lad 2'''s first scene shows the slaughter of Elc's (the game's hero) people. Then the game's makers apparently decided to beat the record of Wham Moments done in a single video game, by repeatedly [[Player Punch|punching the player]].
* Before [[It Was His Sled]], [[Spell My Name
** It didn't stop. {{spoiler|1=Add in the first scene at North Crater where Cloud [[Heroic BSOD|loses his sanity]], gives Sephiroth the Black Materia which lets him cast Meteor, causes the WEAPONs to be unleashed, and wrapped in the candy coating that is Sephiroth has actually been dead this whole time and the one who you've been chasing around the world was actually ''Jenova'' (Who, admittedly, was under the control of [[Puppet Master]] Sephiroth)}}.
** Speaking of ''[[Final Fantasy]]'', there's ''[[
** Half of ''[[
** There's also the scene in ''[[
*** Let's not forget the part where you find out that {{spoiler|Tidus is simply part of a dream of the fayth, who will wake up if you complete the game.}} You then move forward realizing that {{spoiler|finishing the game will essentially mean [[Downer Ending|the "death" of Tidus.]]}}
** Chapter 8 of ''[[
** Chapter 9, {{spoiler|The Primarch is a fal'Cie, one of you must become Ragnarok.}}
** In ''[[
** ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'' might challenge ''IX'' for the most Wham-tastic game in the series.
*** At the end of Chapter 1, Delita and Ramza's lives get changed in a major way.
*** About three storyline battles later, you learn that Gafgarion is not what he seems.
*** Then, in the last battle of Chapter 2, you learn what the Church is really hiding. Those are just selections. There's Wham candidates after just about every battle.
* ''[[
* ''[[Dawn of War]]'' is has a great many of these.
** Firstly, the revelation that Azariah Kyras has been a heretic since the original game. Yeah, that's right, the leader of the Blood Ravens who has thus far directed every last one of their engagements has been a servant of Chaos. Only gets more poignant when you realize also that this means that the slaughter of the 1st Kronus Liberators by Davian Thule, an act which haunted him for a great time, was ordered by an enemy of the Emperor.
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** And then there was ''Origins''. Pretty much the entirety of the Heart-to-Heart scene qualifies as solid wham all over. See it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoj8hgsd7gY here], if you don't mind the enormous spoilers. The magnitude of the wham in question can be summarized by one simple observation: the revelation that {{spoiler|the hero's main love interest is actually a spy for (and the daughter of) the [[Big Bad]]}} is most likely the '''least''' shocking plot twist.
** Another one is {{spoiler|the scene after the defeat of Baelheit, where Verus reveals himself. It puts about two-thirds of the plot in a completely different light}}.
* ''[[
** ''[[
* The last level of ''[[
* ''[[Call of Duty]] 4: [[Modern Warfare]]'' - "Shock and Awe". Also one helluva [[Player Punch]].
** Not to mention the end of the game, when the big baddie and friends kill two and maybe three of your partners.
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*** Can the last level surpass even the ending of CoD4? At least it comes very close. In "Endgame" you shot down Shepherd's chopper but fall down a very high waterfall just seconds later. Stumbling after Shepherd who escaped from the wreckage, you finally thrust down your knife to end it all, you find yourself on the ground seconds later with a knife in your own chest. As Price and Shepherd try to beat each other to death with their bare hands, you pull the knife from your chest to [[Eye Scream|throw it into Shepherd's eye]]!
*** Modern Warfare 3...Blood Brothers... {{spoiler|Soap is dead. No player could believe it.}}
* ''[[
** When you get to the Ocean Palace, the music and atmosphere heavily imply that you are near the end of the game. You've been to all the other time periods and know the truth about Lavos, and are ready to confront him, right? Too bad, because he incapacitates your entire party with one attack (unless playing a New Game + or if you are severely over-leveled), kills Crono, and delivers a sneak preview of what is yet to come in 1999. If you remembered what Spekkio said much earlier in the game, or the mere fact that in the year 600+ there are no floating continents...you were doomed to fail from the start. And not long after this, [[It Got Worse|your party is captured and the Epoch stolen]]. It does get better in time, but at that point you have the feeling that everything you've done was for naught.
* ''[[
** Warlic eventually gets better, in no small part due to Nythera biting off a lot more than she can chew and having to resurrect him in order to take out some really nasty monsters that she can't defeat with her magic.
* ''[[
* ''[[Eversion]]'''s World 4 takes this to [[Nightmare Fuel|horrifying levels]]. The stage starts off innocently enough as World 4-1, but after hitting the first block [[But Thou Must!|(which you are required to do)]], the stage suddenly everts to World 4-5 -- the backgrounds get a lot less colorful, the music becomes ''much'' creepier, and blocks now have freaked-out eyeless faces. And as if all that's not unsettling enough, now you have '''[[Wall Master|giant demonic hands]]''' grabbing at you from water pits.
** How could you possibly forget what happens when you first hit that block in 4-1? {{spoiler|'''[[Eye Scream|OH GOD ITS EYES FLEW OUT]]!'''}}
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* The introduction of the Dji Cantos in ''[[Albion]]'' counts. Shortly after that, we find out that the company owning the ship knew that the planet they are trying to destroy had intelligent life on it, and is willing to destroy it regardless. It turns out the ship's on board computer has also been programmed to use any means necessary to keep the truth about the world a secret from the crew, killing everyone if necessary.
* ''[[Command and Conquer|Tiberian Sun: Firestorm]]'': The fifth Nod mission, when CABAL turns against you. The briefing cutscene is fairly standard C&C backstabbery, but it doesn't hit home until the mission begins...when instead of the old "Establishing battlefield control, standby" message, the computer hits you with "[[Large Ham|I HAVE YOU NOW! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!]]".
* ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]'' has Alice's final trip into the burning house to discover who or what caused the fire that killed her family ten years ago: her current therapist, Dr. Bumby, who was attempting to cover up the rape of Alice's sister.
** Later, the encounter with the Dollmaker, the Wonderland representation of Dr. Bumby. Turns out his memory alteration experiments were to make sure his patients (all of them children) didn't remember being used as prostitutes.
* ''[[
* ''[[Fallout 3]]''. After trekking the wasteland searching for your father, discovering his role in Project Purity and eventually saving him from a virtual world run by a ''very'' creepy old man, you help him get Project Purity back online via a handful of small fetchquests. Then the Enclave show up and try to force your father to give them control over the entire operation. When the dust settles, your father is dead via [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and the Enclave have not only taken control over Jefferson Memorial, but have started pouring out into the Wasteland in their attempt to conquer it. Suddenly, the stakes are higher than ever.
** Oh, and the guy your dad tried to stop by overloading the project, killing himself in the process? Oh he's fine, radioactive-proof jacket and all, and he gets to return the favor later.
* ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'' Lonesome Road: The courier that refused the Platinum Chip job when he saw your name? He shows up as your equal and opposite, working for the Legion and having gone before you in Dead Money and Old World Blues.
** Your character has a past that you don't know about: You {{spoiler|built up a community called the Divide}} and then {{spoiler|brought it down by bringing a damaged ED-E there,}} which detonated nuclear warheads in their silos.
** You never learn your character's motivations, and the dialogue choices imply that your character still remembers most of what happened {{spoiler|except for the nuclear warheads being detonated underground,}} since that happened while you were carrying the Platinum Chip.
** Ulysses is a walking, talking WHAM moment. He's heavily foreshadowed, the first time you directly talk to him he berate you for {{spoiler|destroying the Divide}} and his last action is to give you a [[Hannibal Lecture|disturbingly spot-on speech]] about how individual men can shape the destiny of nations {{spoiler|right before nuking the NCR.}}
** You can opt to {{spoiler|nuke}} the NCR, Legion, both, or neither (in which case the second ED-E makes a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to {{spoiler|disable all of the rockets}}).
* ''[[Fate/stay
** Surely the biggest one in HF is the middle part of day 9. Inside several hours of gameplay, you discover that Sakura (the love interest) is Rin's sister and the true master of Rider, and that she's ''also'' been the victim of eleven years of horrific abuse. Then, you find out that, unless you [[Shoot the Dog|kill her]], she's likely to eventually go insane and kill many innocent people, and Rin decides that she will be forced to go through with it, and thus Shirou will have to fight her ''too''.
** Don't forget the biggest Wham Episode of Unlimited Blade Works, Day 14. Archer all but outright states that his true identity is none other than {{spoiler|a [[Future Badass|future version of]] Shirou Emiya and his goal is to kill his past self}}. And then the next day, he ''does'' state it outright.
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* ''[[Ace Attorney]]: Justice For All'', case four. Not only is the true murderer [[Complete Monster|one of the most vile people in the series]], with a totally unexpected [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|personality revelation]], but he's also {{spoiler|''your client''}}, which also serves as a Wham Episode to Phoenix himself. The case also brings back {{spoiler|Miles Edgeworth,}} previously thought to be dead.
** And the fifth case of ''Trials and Tribulations''. The first part of the final trial reveals that Iris {{spoiler|was indeed in two places at once. One of them was her channeled dead sister Dahlia.}}
* An early example of this: In the bad ending of ''[[Castlevania II:
* ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'' has the Battle of Ostagar. Beforehand, it seemed like a fairly normal high fantasy story where the armies of Ferelden were going to triumph over the evil Darkspawn. Then, Loghain betrays the king and plunges Ferelden into hopeless civil war, leaving it helpless against the Darkspawn.
** The Joining was a Wham too, for a few reasons - The nature of the Joining itself, the temporary player characters (who you've been with long enough to have developed a care for how they fare) develop a bad case of dead, one courtesy of the Joining and the other courtesy of Duncan [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb-stomping him]].
*** Same thing in ''Awakening'', where one of the companions you start the initial quest with dies in the Joining.
** [[The Reveal]] that a Grey Warden must sacrifice his/her life and ''soul'' to permanently end a Blight, and the deal Morrigan offers as a loophole. This is when it becomes painfully clear that a truly happy ending isn't going to happen -- victory ''will'' have a price.
*** Unless you managed to turn Loghain - though in that case, you'd have gotten an early bit of Wham from Alistair leaving your group, [[So Long and Thanks For All
* ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' has a few of these, but really, what else can you say but {{spoiler|Anders plants a bomb in the Chantry and murders all the priestesses and probably lots of bystanders to remove the only thing that kept the conflict between the mages and the templars from turning violent. As the status quo is unacceptable, he thinks its better for the mages to die trying to destroy the templars, then to slowly be killed or made tranquil by the templars one by one.}}
** To a lesser degree Isabellas quests at the end of Act 2. {{spoiler|The Qunari have been in the city for all these years because Isabella stole a sacred relic from them and they know the thief is still somewhere in the city. When they find out that the thief is a companion of the inoffical representative the city has send to negotiate with them, relations turn sour quickly and the Arishok decides the time for a descrete search is over and he has to take control of the city himself.}}
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** ''[[Breath of Fire III]]'': Garr revealing his true identity and intentions at Angel Tower.
** ''[[Breath of Fire IV]]'': Again, toward the end, when you learn that {{spoiler|Elina is still alive...if you could call it that.}}
* ''[[
* In ''[[Arc Rise Fantasia]]'', things kind of go downhill when Adelle gets [[Distressed Damsel|kidnapped]] and taken to the Olquina Skywalk. You storm into the shrine to rescue her, but when you reach her, a number of things rapidly become clear. First of all, {{spoiler|Adelle is a Diva, has chosen to follow ''Real's'' Law (in direct opposition to the one L'arc "chose"), and she is completely ''[[Yandere|batshit]]'' for L'arc}}. Secondly, {{spoiler|The Empire you're following has just attacked Olquina ''without formally declaring war, using your mission as an opening}}. Thirdly, {{spoiler|[[Lovable Rogue|Serge]] has been lying about his origins the whole time, and is on the Olquinians' side, and Leslie isn't exactly on your side either}}. Finally (and this one is a shocker to ''everyone'' present, including your enemies), {{spoiler|L'arc's friend, Prince Alf, is a ''second'' [[MacGuffin Girl|Child of Eesa]], and quickly defects to Real's side to fight the Empire he is a prince of}}. In short, {{spoiler|half your party is now against you, and your two oldest friends want you dead}}.
* ''[[Ace Combat]] Zero'' has a mission like this about halfway through. Belka becomes desperate enough that they want to end the war by [[Nuke'Em|dropping nuclear weapons]] on their own cities to stave off the advancing allied forces. Your squadron shoots down the bombers carrying the nukes, suddenly the music stops, the sky lights up, the radio dies, the HUD becomes distorted and your [[Wing Man]] starts trying to shoot you down.
** Even before that mission. Mission 9-10 are both awesome missions taking down superweapons and an ace squadron as well as participating in a massive dogfight. Immediately after that, mission 11 is dark. The only light is provided by a city that's BURNING TO THE GROUND. The music is oppressive and the radio chatter just screams to say how desperate Belka is. Plus one transmission at the end has the army being ordered to ignore the civilians...yeesh.
* [[Telltale Games]] manages a few more in their recent ''[[Back to
** That last one is a trifecta. You get the Wham Episode element, and {{spoiler|1986!Doc}}'s speech counts as both a [[Player Punch]] and a [[What the Hell, Hero?|"what the hell, hero?"]].
* Each game in the ''[[
** ''[[Assassin's Creed
** ''[[
** ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
** ''[[
* ''[[Dead Rising]]'' somehow manages to have ''three'' in rapid succession, late in the game near the end of 72 Hour Mode. First, {{spoiler|the military isn't coming to rescue anyone in the mall, but are instead deployed to clean up any evidence of an outbreak}}. Then, {{spoiler|Frank's rescue helicopter is taken out}}. ''Then'', {{spoiler|Frank learns that he's been infected}}.
** [[Dead Rising 2|The sequel]] has one near the end. {{spoiler|Raymond Sullivan is revealed to be an employee for Phenotrans and planned the firebombing to destroy the evidence}}.
*** ''Off the Record'' has the same thing except {{spoiler|Stacey Forsythe is the agent for Phenotrans}}.
* ''[[Avalon Code]]'' begins with a very schizophrenic tone--you're told straight up that the world is going to be destroyed for its wickedness, but you mostly encounter its most beautiful elements (which you're in charge of magically preserving.) Occasional hints of ''why'' the world is doomed are left in the background. Then, after the most light-hearted and most plot-irrelevant chapter, everything goes straight to hell as the [[No-Gear Level]] begins. A trusted ally betrays you for reasons that make perfect sense in hindsight, and the character he betrays you to {{spoiler|turns out to have been manipulating you from the start}}. Another character gets killed off (and this varies depending on {{spoiler|who you're dating}}.) You're jailed for the destruction, and every character you didn't complete a personal sidequest for comes to your cell to tell you how much they hate you. When you're busted out, the character who rescues you lists off all the weapons you've used throughout the game, and asks you if you're able to wield ''any'' of them without magical assistance, while you just shake your head in acknowledgment of your own uselessness . . . and then he teaches you unarmed combat, and the game firmly establishes [[Earn Your Happy Ending|its tone]].
* ''[[Call of Duty: Black Ops
** "Rebirth" reveals {{spoiler|Mason killing Steiner while yelling he is Viktor Reznov and what else is that Reznov himself isn't present}}.
** The level after that "Revelations" has many revelations. {{spoiler|Hudson and Weaver are the interrogators, Reznov has been dead all along during the escape from Vorkuta, Dragovich's plan of brainwashing Mason into killing John F. Kennedy, but Reznov sabotaged him into killing Dragovich, Kravchenko, and Steiner instead}}.
*** {{spoiler|Finally, a live-action sequence after the last level reveals that Mason most likely succeeded in assassinating JFK.}}
* ''[[Devil May Cry]]'': The end of chapter 19 not only reveals Nelo Angelo is {{spoiler|Vergil}} but also reveals Trish is working for Mundus. [[Tear Jerker|Dante is not really happy about it in the next chapter]].
* ''[[Fahrenheit (2005 video game)]]'' has three chapters that have revelations:
** "Agatha" reveals prior to being possessed to murder John Winston in a diner, Lucas has met the Oracle, who is responsible for the murder. This is what gives him the power to see what the other can see.
** "The Pact" has it when Lucas is back from the dead as an undead being and forms an alliance with Carla, one of the two cops who are after him.
** "Where is Jade?" reveals Lucas didn't survive from the roller coaster fall. His body has been found and resuscitated; in order words, he ''is'' dead. The one who resuscitated him isn't Agatha, but it's an AI impersonating her after her death in her apartment.
* ''[[Amnesia:
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* ''[[Grandia II]]'' is packed to the ''gills'' with them. The evil god-fragment possessing the main character's brother? Moves to possess the main character instead. The evil god separated into fragments and sealed away? Never died and the "seals" are actually devices to infect people with the fragments. The god of light who defeated the god of darkness before retiring to rest? LOST the war in the heavens. The kindly Pope who directs your party on your quest to save the world? Actually the [[Big Bad]] who wants to resurrect and then [[A God Am I|become the god of darkness]]. Well done, everyone!
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'':
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358 Days Over 2
** The biggest [[Wham! Episode]] in ''Kingdom Hearts'' history, and one that will [[That Came Out Wrong|''actually'' impact the storyline of the entire series]] is most definitely the "[[Fridge Brilliance|Reconnect]][[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|.]] [[Gambit Pileup|Kingdom Hearts]]" [[Sequel Hook|Secret Ending]]. After watching it for the first time, and with the general [[Doomed
** The Hollow Bastion chapter of the first ''[[Kingdom Hearts (
** Floor 12 of Castle Oblivion in ''Chain of Memories''. It's revealed that Namine is manipulating Sora's memories and the Riku Sora's been fighting is a replica, while he's been playing into the Organization's hands all along.
** With the release of ''Birth by Sleep Final Mix'' comes a new Secret Ending...{{spoiler|and with that, the revelation that worlds consumed by darkness aren't destroyed...}}
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]:Recoded'''s secret ending is one as well. {{spoiler|Xehanort is ''alive''.}}
** Wait until after the credits of ''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D]]''. {{spoiler|''Ventus is waking up.''}}
* The end of ''[[
** "Dooctor Freeeman..." The G-man not only rescued Alyx from Black Mesa but he is seen implanting information into her mind apparently without her realising. The very deliberate use of the phrase "Unforeseen Consequences" also gives some strange meta implications as to the g-man's involvement into the very chapter names of the games you are playing. Oh, yeah, and did I mention that [[Paranoia Fuel|the g-man seems to have a way of influencing Alyx's mind without her realising.]]
* ''[[Halo]]'' has a couple of these. The Flood introduction from ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved|Halo 1]]'' definitely fits, and even comes with a [[Genre Shift]]. The conversation with the Gravemind probably counts from ''[[Halo 2]]''. The entire last half of the level "The Covenant" from ''[[Halo 3]]'' is another good one. This level (well, most of it) and the one after it arguably epitomize [[Scenery Porn]] and [[Scenery Gorn]], respectively, more so than anything else in the entire game.
** Then there's ''[[Halo: Reach]]''. [[Tear Jerker|Oh]] [[Nightmare Fuel|boy.]] Probably epitomized during the fifth mission, pretty much the exact midpoint of the game anyway, when you get to {{spoiler|watch the planet Reach's surface be burned in large chunks while the level is still going on and long before it actually ends}}.
** The level "Exodus": you enter a large city and the first thing you notice is the many dead civilian bodies scattered about. Worse, if you look around, you find a small teddy bear backpack. And even [[It Got Worse|more worse]]: this level is populated by [[I'm a Humanitarian|Brutes]].
* ''[[Jade Empire]]''. When Master Li KILLS you after you've defeated the [[Big Bad]], as you were an expendable part of Sun Li's [[Xanatos Gambit]]. And the way he does this is particularly nasty, as he exploits the flaws that he [[Sabotutor|deliberately built into your fighting style]]. You can see the obvious clues during additional playthroughs where a lot of the things he does and says have additional subtext and weight.
** Before that, the dooming of the [[Doomed Hometown]] is pretty extreme, even if you saw it coming. ([[
* In ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising]]'', Chapter 18. The previous 3 chapters were a series of [[BLAM Episode|BLAM Episodes]] where [[Enemy Mine|your two enemies join forces with you]] to fight off an alien invasion. Then you start Chapter 18... and itnstead of the standard opening, you get Pit stranded in blackness wondering where he is. You then start a somewhat strange sequence where you control a little girl, and then a dog, running towards a town under attack. But the [[Tear Jerker]] music and bleak atmosphere should clue you in that something is very wrong. You see centurions patrolling the streets, and Pit is relieved that they at least have the situation under control. But the Wham really hits once you meet up with {{spoiler|Magnus}} and he reveals {{spoiler|THREE YEARS have passed since the last chapter, and during that time everything has gone to hell. The centurions are actually the ''invaders'' which means, yes, the forces of [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven|Skyworld]] have turned evil, and the benevolent goddess of light Palutena, your upbeat, joking [[Mission Control]] throughout the whole game, has become disillusioned and gone the [[Kill All Humans]] route. At the end of the chapter, you're shown what Skyworld looks like now: a bleak, crumbing ruin of what it once was.}} Given that the game pretty much ''defined'' [[Denser and Wackier]] up until now, this change in tone comes as a huge shock.
* The ending to ''[[Killzone]] 2''. Fan favorite Garza is dead, the ISA invasion has fallen apart, the Visari is dead (no more [[Large Ham|epic speeches]]), your favorite characters from the first game are dead and the Helghans are very pissed off at the death of their leader.
* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (
** Averted in the sequel after the final battle when Kreia chastises the player for expecting a huge twist even though there isn't one. Unless you count 'Kreia is evil' but she makes that pretty obvious throughout the story.
* The ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'' series has quite a few of these. Among them are Kain's realization at the end of ''Blood Omen'' that he is the Balance Guardian and must kill himself if he wants to save the world, Raziel's discovery in ''Soul Reaver'' that he and all his brothers were Sarafan before Kain turned them all into vampires, and Raziel sacrificing himself to create the Balance Reaver for Kain at the end of ''Defiance''.
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** For that matter in ''Defiance'', how about the fact that the heart of Janos Audron that Raziel was searching for to revive the ancient vampire (Who incidentally he himself killed as a human) was actually -inside- Kain the whole time keeping him alive? {{spoiler|The fact that Kain doesn't ''need'' that heart to survive was pretty whammy too}}.
* ''[[Live a Live]]'', at the climax of Oersted's chapter.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
*** Link finally catches up to Zelda, and instead of simply saving her/seeing her get captured, he's ''reprimanded'' by Impa for being too late and not being strong enough to watch over Zelda, as well as having to watch his childhood friend disappear, ''yet again''. Ouch.
*** When Link catches up to Zelda once again, this time after proving he has enough strength to help Zelda, you'd expect a happy reunion, but what does he get? A stab in the back when Zelda confesses she manipulated Link with his feelings for her, as well as the awfulness of having to watch Zelda seal herself in a crystal for goodness knows how long. The look on Link's face says it all.
* ''[[Hellgate London]]'' attempts to end on one -- YMMV, as some players played the character in question less attention than [[Diablo|Deckard]] [[Play the Game Skip
* ''[[
** The entire "Tales of Ash" [[Arc|saga]] was one long string of WHAM: [[Complete Monster|Rugal]] has ''children'', Ash Crimson [[Brought Down to Normal|steals]] Chizuru and Iori's powers, [[Standard Evil Organization Squad|Those from the Past]] [[Brainwashed and Crazy|manipulate]] Chizuru into breaking [[Sealed Evil in
*** The reason why ''XIII'' is a huge WHAM is because {{spoiler|it's the first time a main character is [[Killed Off for Real]] (read: "''not'' a villain"). The next time we see Ash Crimson, it will be in a [[Dream Match Game]]}}.
* ''[[
* ''[[Ghost Trick]]'''s final chapter drops a lot of bombs. {{spoiler|The guy you thought was you? He already "died" ten years ago and you were just the cat that followed him around until the first shot from the manipulated Lynne killed you. The lamp that explained your powers to you? The [[Too Dumb to Live]] dog that travelled back ten years just so he can protect Lynne and Kamila.}}
** Chapter 15 is pretty wham. 14 ends with you questioning what you knew about your own identity. 15 starts with you arriving at the superintendent's office and {{spoiler|seeing ''yourself'' giving the villain monologue to Cabanela.}}
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** ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV the Ballad of Gay Tony|The Ballad of Gay Tony]]'' has the second to the last mission. In it, Rocco has ordered Luis to kill Tony. This results in him leaving Luis after saving his life.
* Discovering the ruins of {{spoiler|Sandover Village}} in ''[[Jak II Renegade]]''.
** Damas asking Jak to find his son in ''[[Jak 3
* ''[[
** Let's just put it this way: The game's primary concept is a dating sim where everyone but your character ''is a bird.'' The various routes include, amongst other things, a snobbish aristocrat, a narcoleptic teacher, a bookworm, and a dove with a ''severe'' craving for pudding. This route completely ''shatters'' any sense of silliness the others had. {{spoiler|For example, the very first thing that happens in it is that ''your character is murdered.''}}
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* ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]: Hordes of the Underdark'' has a pretty nasty one at the finale of the second chapter.
* In ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'' when you discover the primary enemy is not behind the Luskans and Githyanki who have been chasing you the entire adventure. And when you discover the secret of the Spirit-eater curse in Mask of the Betrayer.
* ''[[
** And the end of Chapter 8, though there are more which are not as shocking. As for the prequels, even though not that dark and sad, bosses in the endgames tend to be whammy.
* ''[[
** Let's not forget the whole conceit of the game's plot: All sentient life is being subtly controlled and groomed for regular once-every-50,000-years extinction by a race of genocidal god-machines.
* ''[[
** In short, the whole Mass Effect series is more like a series of Wham episodes in rapid succession.
** Also, in ''[[
** Mordin's loyalty mission, full stop. At first, Mordin is shown to be a morally gray but genuinely affable person and has moments and one-liners where he comes off as the game's designated comic relief. When you approach {{spoiler|a tarp containing a dead female krogan who willingly gave her life in experiments to cure the genophage}} in said mission, the wham moment hits and the normally talkative Mordin has a [[Heroic BSOD]]. He moves on and is back to his old self after the mission's conclusion, though.
** Not to mention [[And Now for Someone Completely Different|Joker's mini-level]] just after the Reaper IFF is installed: Collectors invade the ''Normandy'' and abduct your ''entire crew''. Joker also has a disease that makes his bones brittle, so you can only move at a painful walk, in addition to having no weapons and being forced to watch helplessly as the crew gets dragged away. He pretty much said it best...
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** Aaaand then comes [[The Stinger]] at the end of ''[[
* In ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'', every time the storyline swings back to the Citadel, things go awry. The first time, you learn of the galaxy-wide scope of the Reaper invasion and how no other species is capable of sending help to Earth. The second time, Councilor Udina {{spoiler|is a mole for Cerberus and has helped them launch a coup against the Council}}. The [[Rule of Three|third time]], you're sent to {{spoiler|Thessia where Shepard suffers his/her first real [[The Bad Guy Wins|defeat]] complete with an extra serving of [[Gut Punch]]}}. [[Four Is Death|The fourth time]] the Citadel is once again {{spoiler|the [[Very Definitely Final Dungeon]], the Catalyst, and you discover who created the Reapers -- and [[Turned Against Their Masters|why]]}}.
* In ''[[
** Oh, there's so many more whammy stuff in the games than that, practically one in each game:
** ''MK1'': Reptile.
** ''MK3'': Shao Kahn slips into Earthrealm and slaughters almost the entire population of the planet.
** ''MK4/MK Gold'': Raiden's ascension to Elder God Status, Quan Chi's reveal that he slaughtered Scorpion's clan and family and has the true amulet of Shinnok's, and Kitana's peace treaty between the Shokan and Centaurs.
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** ''[[Mortal Kombat 9
*** And that [[Blatant Lies|minor detail]] is just ''[[Beyond the Impossible|the tip of the iceberg]]''. About halfway through the story, the game kicks WHAM into overdrive and never looks back. {{spoiler|1=Raiden's knowledge of the future and his actions to change it ''still'' do nothing to stop the events of ''MKA'', arguably making them ''[[It Got Worse|worse]]''. The younger Sub-Zero, instead of Smoke, is captured by the Lin Kuei and [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|automated into a cybernetic warrior]] (fortunately, he quickly regains his humanity thanks to the efforts of Kabal and Jax). Later on, as Liu Kang rescues Kitana, Kung Lao (who has just defeated Shang Tsung, Quan Chi, and Kintaro) has his [[Neck Snap|neck snapped]] by Shao Kahn. And unlike ''MK3'', he's not [[Faking the Dead]]. He's '''[[Killed Off for Real|dead]]''' dead. Liu Kang is driven into a furious [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] and ultimately kills Shao Kahn...or so it would seem. Then, Raiden and Liu Kang go to speak to the Elder Gods to request their aid; the Elder Gods turn a dejected Raiden down. While that's going on, the automated Lin Kuei warriors attack the heroes' stronghold, and then Sindel comes to play cleanup, enacting a [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] ''[[Kill'Em All|that leaves most of them dead]]''. Nightwolf manages to narrowly defeat Sindel, but only by [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrificing himself]] in a [[Taking You
* The death of Wheely Engberg in ''[[Myst]] Online'' certainly qualifies: trapped underground for a few days, kept alive by a beast who the players weren't sure was helping her or just keeping her alive, then brutally slaughtered moments before rescue. Yeeeah.
* ''[[No More Heroes]]'' has the conclusion of the rank 6 battle: When Travis Touchdown [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl|can't bring himself to finish off Holly Summers]], she commits suicide via a grenade in her mouth. Afterwards, he respectfully gives her a proper burial. This is the first sign that Travis might not be such a [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|unsympathetic jerk]] [[Jerk
* ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' contains quite a few of these lovely little moments, usually when some plot-critical detail gets broken to you. The encounter with Ravel Puzzlewell is probably the best of the considerable lot.
** Doubly applies here because after this point, the game setting, pace and style changes so completely that, on returning the Sigil, it doesn't seem the same.
* ''[[Portal (
** Similarly, [[Portal 2
*** "The Courtesy Call": GLaDOS wakes up. {{spoiler|Wheatley}} dies, and Chell's thrown back in the [[Death Course]].
*** "The Escape:" More running around behind the scenes, which ends with Chell {{spoiler|1=deposing GLaDOS by hitting the Stalemate Button and sticking the (now-recovered) Wheatley in charge. [[Not So Fast Bucko|He then]] [[Face Heel Turn|goes mad]], turns GLaDOS into a [[Baleful Polymorph|potato-battery]] and punches you both into a pit after one too many whacks to the [[Berserk Button]].}}
*** "The Reunion:" {{spoiler|1=We wander through the history of Aperture and discover [[Brain Uploading|GLaDOS used to be human.]]}}
*** "[[This Is the Part Where|The Part Where]] {{spoiler|He Kills You}}: The final-boss fight. {{spoiler|1=After Chell beats him and goes to put GLaDOS back in charge, it's revealed Wheatley [[Crazy Prepared|booby-trapped the Stalemate Button.]] Chell [[Determinator|survives,]] and beats him once and for all by ''shooting a portal on the moon and'' ''[[Crowning Moment of Awesome|sending him to space.]]'' GLaDOS saves your life, then deletes her [[Character Development]]...[[Subverted Trope|lets you]] [[Murder Is the Best Solution|go anyways.]]}} ''Phew.''
* The ''[[
** In the first game, Sniper Wolf has not just one but two, and she appears in only three scenes. In the first one, she shots Meryl in the middle of a conversation and keeps shoting at her arms and legs to draw Snake out from cover, while at the same time Meryl tells him to leave her and run. Which you have to do. A few hours later, you get back on her by fatally shoting her with your own new sniper rifle. Her death scene lasts almost 8 minutes and despite what she did to Meryl is still a contender for the biggest [[Tear Jerker]] of the series.
** Later there is the fight with the Metal Gear, which isn't so remarkable for being the games boss fight, but for the death of the Cyborg Ninja in the preceding cutscene. {{spoiler|He was revealed to be Snakes only true friend, whom he thought he killed, but had been brainwashed and turned into a cyborg. In his last attempt to resists his controllers, he saves Snakes life, but in turn is crushed under Metal Gear's foot. And he also revealed that his adopted sister is actually the daughter of two farmers he murdered.}}
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*** Third Sun also delivers a nice, solid Wham {{spoiler|when Liquid Ocelot kills Snake's parents, gets Otacon's love interest back through the [[Heel Face Revolving Door]], [[Curb Stomp Battle|ruthlessly butchers a U.S. Task Force]] and then sails off into the night victorious.}}
** Then you get to the final showdown in which the [[Big Bad]] Ocelot has taken control of all the worlds military except for a single world war 2 battleshipp manned by recruits, and only minutes away from taking over the entire world. While Snakes crawls through a corridor filled with radiation to get at the main computer of Ocelots ship and take it out before it's too late, the game switches to split screen to show his friends on the battleship getting swarmed by enemies.
* ''[[Prototype (
** The reveal that Alex Mercer {{spoiler|not only released Blacklight, but also really ''did'' die. You're just the virus animating his corpse and using his memories}}.
* ''[[Phantasy Star II]]'': There are several, some of which have become pretty common in [[RPG|RPGs]] since, but one stands out. Midway through the game, you completely fail to stop the Big Bad and a [[Colony Drop]] utterly destroys the setting's primary homeworld, ''killing 90% of humanity.''
* In ''[[Okami]]'', there's a series of "Wham" moments after the Water Dragon dies. First you learn that the dragon was actually the King of the Dragonians. Then Otohime has a vision of Rao being attacked by a monster. You run off to save her, discovering a tunnel leading to the queen's palace from Rao's temple. When you reach the throne room, you discover that Himiko has been murdered, ''then'' that the Rao you've known all along is actually the Demon Lord Ninetails, who killed the original and replaced her, and you played straight into his hands by retrieving and ''giving him'' the Fox Rods. Finally, after a boss fight with him, he declares that [[The Battle Didn't Count]], and escapes to Oni Island, which is now inaccessible because the Water Dragon, who could break the barrier around the island, and Himiko, who could determine where Oni Island is, are both dead. [[Unwitting Pawn|Well,]] [[Oh Crap|crap]].
* ''[[Mega Man X|Mega Man X4]]'' is the [[Wham! Episode]] of the series. [[Narm|Most of it anyway.]] Mavericks that have more to do with a political standpoint instead of [[The Virus]], making the aforementioned Mavericks in this game even more tragic, [[I Let Gwen Stacy Die|Iris' death]] where it was the first time [[Heroic BSOD|Zero ever felt grief]], and [[Foreshadowing|X wondering if he can keep doing the same thing over and over]] (although the last one [[Fauxshadow|was subverted]]). The whole thing even ''started off'' with a WHAM: A [[Nightmare Sequence]] where ''Dr. Wily'' appears for the first time in the ''X'' series, and to his "masterpiece" Zero, no less!
* ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
** Not to mention the three lakes arc. "Oh, that organization with the silly dress code is up to no good? No worries, just point me in the direction of their secret base and I'll go take care of them after this next gym--wait, what was that tremor just now? Sweet mother of mercy, did they just ''blow up Lake Valor?''" At that point, the game proceeds to [[Player Punch|repeatedly sock you in the gut]] as you try and fail to protect the Lake Trio. ''Then'' [[It Got Worse|you learn why Cyrus went after them in the first place.]] Compared to these guys, Team Rocket was a bunch of [[Rule-Abiding Rebel|Rule Abiding Rebels]].
** ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver
*** And how do you figure that out? You travel back in time and fight him, after which he may or may not have committed suicide.
** And in ''[[
** Also back in the first generation, though this is now standard knowledge amongst even the most casual of fans, the fact that there is a final boss ''beyond'' the Elite Four, and that it's ''your [[The Rival|Rival]]'', likely caused some jaws to drop.
** Remember how the Elite Four and championship run usually goes in these games? Well it doesn't go so smoothly in ''[[
* ''[[
* In ''[[Opoona]]'' for most of the game Landroll seems to be a pretty nice place, besides little signs of corruption and bureaucracy. Once you reach four-star rank your finally able to go to Sanctuary where your parents are recovering, and meet with the planet's leader. At which point he suddenly blasts you both with an energy ball and turns you into [[Stepford Smiler|Stepford Smilers]], requiring your missing sister to come to the rescue. Not to mention finding out, at the same time, that the entire upper government is literally under [[The Corruption]], and people are being [[Released to Elsewhere]] to empower a sentient [[Artifact of Doom]].
* ''[[The Neverhood]]'''s "Battle of Robot Bil" cutscene probably counts as this. The game is a [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
* The ending of the cargo ship level in ''[[
* The final act of [[Nie R]] is a nonstop string of whams. {{spoiler|Nier, his friends and ''every human left'' are actually Replicants! The Shades are the ''real'' humans! The Twins were [[Evil All Along]]! The Shadowlord is the ''real'' Nier!}}
* ''[[Manhunt]] 2'': "Origins" reveals {{spoiler|Leo is a serial killer split personality implanted to Danny}}.
** The levels where you play as Leo really counts: {{spoiler|having killed Michael, Danny's best friend, destroying his records, and killing Danny's wife}}.
* The ending of ''[[Might and Magic]] V'' made very clear that the [[Big Bad|Sheltem]]/[[Big Good|Corak]] story that the first five games of the series had centred around was over by having Corak [[Taking You
* ''[[Warriors Orochi|Musou Orochi 2]]''. So let's say that the game begins with the description that Da Ji came back with a 9-headed gigantic dragon that [[Everybody's Dead, Dave|killed everybody from WO originals, all characters from DW2-7XL, all characters from SW1-3XL]]. With just Ma Chao, Sima Zhao and Takenaka Hanbei being sent to the past by Kaguya to prevent the onslaught. At that point, the "[[Excuse Plot]] of uniting DW and SW together in one game" evolves into a much more serious story.
* ''[[
** The first (and therefore, most prominent) is "To Ascend", the final quest of chapter 3. Up until that point, the story reads like a fairly typical [[Heroic Fantasy]] adventure story, with a few hints of a greater, overarching plot and only a few very serious moments. You'll probably think that it'll maintain the fairly carefree, happy-go-lucky vibe the heroes have going on. Well, at least, until {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lamb|Metzino]] ''[[Mood Whiplash|gets thrown off the Faithall Tower]]'', you fight your first boss fight with a human character (who dies bloodily), and the entire mess ends in a giant [[Downer Ending]] revealing that the characters were [[Unwitting Pawn|Unwitting Pawns]] the whole chapter and their efforts were meaningless}}. It's also immediately followed by interlude 3, which is filled to the brim with [[Tear Jerker]].
** The second is interlude 4, the resolution of Dehl's backstory that delivers on tons of foreshadowing dropped throughout the game. It starts off innocuously enough, with peaceful humans arriving on Dehl's island, and Dehl then going off to find his father. {{spoiler|In the process, he discovers his father's secret 'laboratory', which is ''swathed in blood and has bloody Sikohlon corpses chained to the walls''. Dehl's father rambles about how he killed everyone to try and isolate a cure for the Blue Plague, and Dehl is just barely able to come out alive through the manifestation of his pseudo-magic powers -- which causes his father to be graphically impaled by a sword and die. Then Dehl makes it to the mainland and accidentally infects Skint with the Blue Plague, who then causes an outbreak when he is stabbed [[In the Back]], since the Plague is spread by bloodshed.}}
** Finally, there is chapter 6, wherein {{spoiler|the entire plot goes [[Off the Rails]] as the Watchers are murdered, ten years pass in the blink of an eye for the characters, and [[The End of the World
* How about ''[[Resident Evil 5]]''? The end of chapter 4-1 reveals Wesker is alive and acting as the [[Big Bad]] of the game. Oh, and chapter 5-3 reveals that the black cloak figure is {{spoiler|a [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] Jill}}.
== S-Z ==
* What happens after you defeat Rouge or lose to him in ''[[
** If you lost to Rouge it becomes a Triple [[Wham! Episode]].
* Seriously? No mention at all of Silent Hill 2? {{spoiler|The fact that James had killed Mary all along and the letter was just a hallucination?}} Dang.
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* ''[[Starcraft]]'': Infested Kerrigan.
** And the Zerg invasion on Aiur. And Tassadar's sacrifice. And the UED's arrival. And Raynor rescuing Mengsk from them. And the alliance with Kerrigan. And Kerrigan's betrayal. Not to ''speak'' of "Dark Origins".
** After all the 'Romance that cannot be' between Raynor and Kerrigan, Raynor (after Kerrigan kills his closest friend Fenix) telling Kerrigan with deadly seriousness that he is going to kill her. Unfortunately they seemed to have Retconned this in ''[[
* ''StarCraft II'' has many:
** The secret mission "Piercing the Shroud" in which we see that {{spoiler|Megnsk is creating protoss/zergs hybrids, although it's implied thta he had external help}}.
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* ''[[System Shock]] 2'' has the three most [[Punny Name|shocking]] words ever spoken in a video game: {{spoiler|"I am SHODAN"}}. It's pretty much the verbal equivalent of being kicked in the testicles. Repeatedly. With a spiked shoe. {{spoiler|''The Polito form is dead, insect!''}}
** You know, for the people who somehow never noticed [[Covers Always Spoil|the box art]].
* '' [[True Crime: New York City]]'' at the end Terry is revealed to be alive and the mole.
* The ''[[Tales
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* After clearing Day 7 of ''[[
** Is that all? What, you thought the game was going to be only one week and all those other characters we had been shown would have just been forgotten? A much bigger wham is Day 4's ending, where, with no lead-up at all, Rhyme DIES, Beat's forced to leave to survive, and Neku and Shiki are, once again, alone.
*** The ending of Day 5 qualifies as well, when you find out that [[Dead to Begin With|everyone playing the Game is dead, including the protagonists]].
*** The end of the game, where you find out the villain is actually very sympathetic, "succeed" in pulling an epic [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]], discover that a certain character is neither dead nor anything like you thought he was, ''and'' that Neku has only convinced him that Shibuya needs to be erased. There's also the end of Week 2, where you partner (apparently) dies and Neku's third entry fee turns out to be ''every other Player''.
** Joshua's {{spoiler|assumed}} death at the end of Week 2. To make it worse, he was finally starting to develop [[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|his powers]].
* The climax of Chapter 3 of ''[[
* ''[[Tenchu]] 2''. Tatsumaru's amnesia induced [[Face Heel Turn]].
* ''[[TIE Fighter]]'': The minesweeping mission where your entire wing turns against you. Including the Star Destroyer. Most of the rest of the game is taken up by dealing with the treacherous Imperials. It is the only mission in the entire series where the only primary objective is to survive.
* ''[[
** And if that's not bad enough, right after you finish ''that'' chapter, one of the members of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] pops in and ''kills your entire party'' with a snap of his fingers in a ''brutal'' subversion of [[No Sneak Attacks]]. You all get better, but still, ''damn.''
* The moment in ''[[
* ''[[The Witcher]]'' ends each chapter with a Wham, but the end of chapter four, when hostilities between sects reach flashpoint indicates just how significantly everything will change. It accelerates from there through the crumbling, blazing city.
* ''[[The Adventures of Sam
** Second season also does it well, revealing that an antagonist so vile they serve as upper management to Satan himself is someone who's been around since Season 1 Episode 1. Or rather, a group of three: The Soda Poppers.
** Every episode ending in season 3. The skeleton, Sam discovering Max brainless. Suddenly a certain futurevision at Mama Boscos lab makes sense.
* ''Ultima VII: Part 2'': You finally catch up to Batlin, in order to stop him from performing the ritual to summon the Guardian. You fail, he fails, and your companions become avatars of unbalanced Chaos, bringing about near-Armageddon for the world.
* The end of ''[[Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge]]'' and beginning of ''[[Monkey Island 3]]''. You learn that {{spoiler|1=you are a child and that LeChuck is actually your brother Chucky, with whom you got into a weird "ride" in an amusement park. Everything was either fantasy or magic. But Chucky's eyes glow up strangely once... At the beginning of part three you're adult again and somewhere on the sea in a bumper car. Obviously you were tricked by LeChuck's magic.}}
* Episode 4 of ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'', featuring Morgan Le Flay's death, the revelation that the Voodoo Lady has apparently been behind everything in the entire series ever, the Marquis De Singe's death, LeChuck revealing he never had a [[Heel Face Turn]] after all by killing Guybrush...and on top of that, Demon LeChuck is once again voiced by Earl Boen, who had been replaced with two other actors!
** Especially well played considering they managed to name the episode ''[[Exactly What It Says
* While we're on Type-Moon Visual Novels, ''[[Tsukihime]]''. Hisui's route, True End. Kohaku did it. She did EVERYTHING.
* The [[Twist Ending|Trick Twist]] in ''[[Silent Hill: Shattered Memories]]'' definitely qualifies. Not only do you get the [[Wham! Episode|Wham Moment]] of having been ''Cheryl'' in the psychiatrist's office, but that's coupled with the fact that you then realize that everything you encountered on the way there was something ''she actually experienced''! Climax Studios earned its name with that one.
* Throughout the game, ''[[Tin Star]]'' manages to set a formula. Every day, Tin Star goes around town resolving crimes committed by [[Big Bad|Black Bart]] and his gang, and ends each day with a [[Showdown At High Noon]] against someone. Saturday eventually comes and--wait, hang on...a [[Showdown At High Noon]] ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bAWJ6jD0B0 already]''? And it's a [[Hopeless Boss Fight]]? And what's this? '''Black Bart'' is made sheriff in place of you?! Now you're being [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rq-XjPscroM run out of town]! No choice but to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXwSp2Pw2bk survive out in the desert], with [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]. The day concludes with you sleeping somewhere out there alone, rather than in your nice, cozy house in town.
* ''[[Super Robot Wars W]]'' has Chapter 27, "[[Gundam Seed|And then, to the endless tomorrow]]", which follows the events of the ''[[
* ''[[STALKER]]: Shadow of Chernobyl'' has the meeting with Doctor in the [[Nightmare Fuel|Agroprom Underground]], where the player learns {{spoiler|that [[Tomato in
* Chapter 9 of ''[[Zettai Hero Project]]'' turns the story's ''main selling point'' on its head. The generic, nameless, "weakest protagonist ever" is actually an [[Iron Woobie]] and one hell of a [[Determinator]] who deserved to inherit the mantle of Unlosing Ranger from the start. That [[Hopeless Boss Fight]] that you have to retry at the end of every chapter? {{spoiler|No different from that time he saved his sister from a cannibal by letting himself get beaten up repeatedly.}} All those people, including his two main supporters, calling him weak? {{spoiler|They're probably constantly reminding him of his home, where his family has been falling apart for the past eight years because they thought he was too weak during that incident.}} And he still fights against impossible odds for all of these people. Appropriately, this revelation is immediately followed by a [[Shonen Upgrade]] that replaces the protagonist's pathetic-looking portrait, and marks the first time you're able to win the formerly-[[Hopeless Boss Fight]].
* Early in ''[[Suikoden V]]'', the night after he becomes engaged to Princess Lymsleia, Gizel Godwin sends Nether Gate to assassinate King Ferid and Queen Arshtat. The Prince, Lyon, Georg, and Sialeeds escape, and Gizel claims that Georg killed Ferid and Arshtat and kidnapped the Prince.
** Then comes the reveal that Georg really ''did'' kill Queen Arshtat, to stop her from using the Sun Rune to burn Falena.
** {{spoiler|Lady Sialeeds's}} [[Face Heel Turn]], complete with Dolph stabbing {{spoiler|Lyon}} in the back, critically injuring her and hospitalizing her a large portion of the game.
* ''[[
* ''[[Strange Journey]]'': In the [[Very Definitely Final Dungeon]], Gore, having been reborn as an Ubergestalt, reunites with the Red Sprite, where the most alignment-important scene in the game takes place. If you are devoutly Law or Chaos, or answer Gore's questions in a non-Neutral manner, Gore deems you irredeemable and [[Climax Boss|fights you to the death]]. Following his death, the Command Room is shown to be in shambles, and Arthur suffers a terminal error in his personality matrix that [[Driven to Suicide|forces him to self-terminate]]. And then, whichever sidekick you're aligned with invades the Red Sprite and brainwashes everyone into worshippers of God or beastly-minded savages; this would be [[It Got Worse|even worse news]]...but given your [[Point of No Return|now-permanent]] alignment at this point, this ''is'' what you wanted...right?
* ''[[Trauma Center]]: Under the Knife'' and its remake ''Second Opinion''. Up until the end of Chapter 2, everything seems like something out of typical emergency room scenarios: removing shards of glass from skin, fixing up aneurysms, lasering tumors, etc. Even the operation where you yank glass out of someone's ''heart'' sounds like something you'd see in a serious medical drama. So you're operating on an [[Emo Teen]] for the second time, you take care of some lacerations easy peasy, and...suddenly ''a laceration pops up by itself'' and the music changes. Congratulations, you just discovered your first strain of GUILT, which you'll be mainly dealing with for the remainder of the game.
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