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* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury]]''{{'}}s sixth episode opens with confirmation that the main character is ''not'' the girl seen in the ''Prologue'' bonus episode, implies Aerial{{verify|reason=Is there really a chatracter named after an antenna? Or should this be Ariel, like in Shakespeare?}} is [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|has had that little girl stuffed inside of her]], changes the nature of Elan's character and kills off the one that has been seen in the previous episodes, implies Aerial's bits are all sapient, ''each'' of them have their own little girl stuffed inside of them, that Aerial's pilot Suletta is on some level aware the bits are individuals, and has the rival disowned and thrown out his father's House <!-- part of organization name --> for being a [[Jobber]].
* ''[[G Gundam]]'' episode 6 is when you learn Domon and Kyoji's backstory and he activates supermode for the first time.
== ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' ==
* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' has not one, not two, not ''five'', but '''''seven''''' Wham Episodes. Not bad for a [[Twelve-Episode Anime]].▼
** Episode 3: {{spoiler|Mami, the cool mentor, dies suddenly and horribly.}}▼
** Episode 6: {{spoiler|It turns out magical girls are, basically, [[Our Liches Are Different|liches]]. }}▼
** Episode 8: {{spoiler|Homura is a time traveller. Sayaka turns into a Witch, which will also happen to all magical girls who don't die beforehand.}}▼
** Episode 9: {{spoiler|Kyubey is a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] harvesting emotional energy to delay the end of the universe. And Kyouko kills witch-Sayaka in a suicide attack.}}▼
** Episode 10: {{spoiler|Homura's backstory and why she acted a certain way throughout the series is revealed; it is also discovered she is attempting to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]], but has failed rather miserably a number of times. Also her former self in the first few timelines is [[Meganekko|spectacu]][[Moe|larly dif]][[Shrinking Violet|ferent]] from her current self.}}▼
** Episode 11 sees {{spoiler|Kyubey point out that all the time traveling has inadvertently given Madoka all the magical power of ''all'' her previous incarnations, which due to Homura's [[Groundhog Day Loop]], are legion, meaning she's destined to be the most powerful witch ever, and every time Homura tries to fix it, she makes it ''worse.'' Speaking of Madoka, she shows up at the very end, causing divergence from the foreshadowing of episode one, and announces her intent to make a wish.}}▼
** And in Episode 12, we see {{spoiler|what she wishes for -- and it's big enough to [[Reality Warper|completely rewrite the laws of physics]]. [[Apocalypse How|Even]] [[Oh Crap|Kyubey]] [[Villainous Breakdown|freaks out.]]}}▼
== Other works A-F ==
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** In Chapter 334...Hey guys, ever wondered what happened to {{spoiler|Nagi Springfield}}? Well, guess who got {{spoiler|possessed by the Lifemaker}}...
** Chapter 352: {{spoiler|Asuna wakes up from her hundred-year sleep to find that she overslept for thirty years and Negi ''died'' somewhere in the intervening timespan, despite supposedly being immortal now.}}
* The episode of ''[[Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto:
* The ''[[My-HiME]]'' [[Media Franchise]] has had several moments:
** The first "wham" comes at the end of episode 8 of the ''[[My-HiME]]'' anime, when Akane goes into an [[Heroic BSOD]] and has to be put into hiding after watching her boyfriend Kazuya die {{spoiler|when Miyu destroys her CHILD}}, showing her (and the viewers) the true cost of protecting the ones you love. This one was immediately followed by a breather [[Beach Episode]], which still managed to sneak in a little plot and [[Character Development]] unexpectedly.
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* The anime version of ''[[Prétear]]'' has a WHAM episode in Episode 10 when [[White-Haired Pretty Boy|Sasame]]—the [[The Chick|sweet, sensitive]] member of the group—suddenly reveals he's in love with the [[Dark Magical Girl]] and pulls a [[Face Heel Turn]].
* Case 20 of ''[[Princess Principal]]'' took some clues from earlier episodes about a relationship between two characters and removed all the [[Les Yay]], sending the plot in a completely different direction.
▲* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'' has not one, not two, not ''five'', but '''''seven''''' Wham Episodes. Not bad for a [[Twelve-Episode Anime]].
▲** Episode 3: {{spoiler|Mami, the cool mentor, dies suddenly and horribly.}}
▲** Episode 6: {{spoiler|It turns out magical girls are, basically, [[Our Liches Are Different|liches]]. }}
▲** Episode 8: {{spoiler|Homura is a time traveller. Sayaka turns into a Witch, which will also happen to all magical girls who don't die beforehand.}}
▲** Episode 9: {{spoiler|Kyubey is a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] harvesting emotional energy to delay the end of the universe. And Kyouko kills witch-Sayaka in a suicide attack.}}
▲** Episode 10: {{spoiler|Homura's backstory and why she acted a certain way throughout the series is revealed; it is also discovered she is attempting to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]], but has failed rather miserably a number of times. Also her former self in the first few timelines is [[Meganekko|spectacu]][[Moe|larly dif]][[Shrinking Violet|ferent]] from her current self.}}
▲** Episode 11 sees {{spoiler|Kyubey point out that all the time traveling has inadvertently given Madoka all the magical power of ''all'' her previous incarnations, which due to Homura's [[Groundhog Day Loop]], are legion, meaning she's destined to be the most powerful witch ever, and every time Homura tries to fix it, she makes it ''worse.'' Speaking of Madoka, she shows up at the very end, causing divergence from the foreshadowing of episode one, and announces her intent to make a wish.}}
▲** And in Episode 12, we see {{spoiler|what she wishes for -- and it's big enough to [[Reality Warper|completely rewrite the laws of physics]]. [[Apocalypse How|Even]] [[Oh Crap|Kyubey]] [[Villainous Breakdown|freaks out.]]}}
▲** ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|Madoka Magica]]'''s [[Spin-Off]], ''[[Kazumi Magica]]'', also has Wham Episodes. To date:
▲*** Chapter 4: {{spoiler|Kyubey makes [[The Cameo|a small but significant cameo.]] The [[Mysterious Watcher]] from the previous chapter is revealed as Juubey, a fairy that can ''purify [[The Corruption]] from Soul Gems''. The strange witches fought in the first two chapters were actually pseudo-witches created by Yuuri - the antagonistic magical girl from previous chapters - using imitation Grief Seeds. She then promptly takes the role of [[Knight of Cerebus]], bloodily incapacitates the other magical girls, and shoves one of her imitation Grief Seeds in Kazumi's forehead.}}
▲*** Chapter 5: {{spoiler|Yuuri becomes a witch, and furthermore it's confirmed that everyone but Kazumi knew that magical girls become witches. We then get an extended [[Flash Back]] sequence of Yuuri's past, which reveals that she's not Yuuri at all but her friend Airi. The real Yuuri wished to heal [[Ill Girl|Airi's life-threatening illness]]. [[Healing Hands|She then overused her magic to heal people]], [[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished|turned into a witch]], and was subsequently destroyed by the other magical girls in Kazumi's team. When Airi learns this, she goes [[Ax Crazy|off the deep end]] and wishes to become Yuuri, taking on her appearance. She then goes after [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|the magical girls who killed her friend]], kicking off ''[[Kazumi Magica]]'s'' entire plot. And just to put the icing on the cake, ''[[Hijacked by Ganon|Kyubey was behind the whole thing]]''}}.
▲*** Chapter 8: Fairly minor but {{spoiler|the new antagonists pull out Evil Nuts, suggesting they either avert [[No Ontological Inertia]] or they were created by someone else. Then Nico suddenly becomes a witch. Or does she?}}
▲*** Chapters 10-12: Oh boy, these 3 chapters were so full of Whamness that this troper has to put it this way.
▲*** Chapter 13: [[Up to Eleven|Oh boy!]] {{spoiler|And we get to know that Kazumi is a [[Cloning Blues|clone]] of the original Kazumi, Kazusa Michiru.}}
▲** The [[Serial Escalation|other]] [[Spin-Off]] of ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica|Madoka Magica]]'', ''[[Puella Magi Oriko Magica]]'', also has this. It starts with that fact that [[I Am Not Shazam|Oriko is not the girl on the first volume's cover.]]
▲*** Chapter 2: {{spoiler|The series has an [[Antagonist Title]]; Oriko is the [[Big Bad]].}}
▲*** Chapter 5: {{spoiler|The witch Oriko saw is [[Dark Messiah|Krimehild Gretchen]]; she's trying to kill [[Apocalypse Maiden|Madoka]].}}
▲*** Chapter 6: {{spoiler|Everything Oriko did was just to [[Gambit Roulette|distract Kyubey from Madoka and put her in a position where she would be killed.]] And the first part doesn't work.}}
▲*** Chapter 7: Okay, everything is going [[Darker and Edgier|darker and darker]] until eventually everybody ([[Time Traveler|Homura]], [[Lady of War|Mami]], [[Blade on a Stick|Kyouko]] and [[Combat Medic|Yuma]]) defeats the [[Big Bad]] and her [[The Dragon|friend]] {{spoiler|who became a witch}}. And then {{spoiler|the [[Big Bad]] delivers a [[Diabolus Ex Machina]] onto the scene, killing Homura's best friend Madoka with her two other friends [[Heroic Bystander|Sayaka]] and [[Innocent Bystander|Hitomi]] mourning by her side and so... [[Here We Go Again|Oh boy! Here we go again!]]}}
* ''[[Rideback]]'': Though the show is clear that it's a dark take on things, Rin's friend, Suzuri, is the one keeping the show as light as it is. She's showing off having fun when the government decides that Rin is to be considered a terrorist and needs to be stopped. They decide that the one showing off is the terrorist. It doesn't help that the preview for the next episode focuses on Suzuri acting like herself.
* Episode 28 of ''[[Rurouni Kenshin]]'' introduced Saitou Hajime with a bang and officially kicked off one of the series' pivotal arcs. This is more obvious in the manga, which changed from small arcs barely connected to each other to large arcs that follow one another closely; the "Wham" aspect, however, is more pronounced in the anime, as it had just come off a string of lackluster [[Filler]] episodes, making the coming episode a real shocker (which was even reflected in the previous episode's more ominous [[Post Episode Trailer]]).
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