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* [[Angels 2200]] has a few.

** Hammer's apparent death while trying to escape the Ellie Arroway, as well as the revelation of an apparently devastating plan by the colonial rebels

** In the last battle of the first part, Loser being accidentally killed by Whiskey, Corona Squad being all but annihilated in seconds, Hammer being revealed as alive, Bubblegum leaving the ship with Toat, and the Icebreaker squad being disbanded.

* ''[[Castlevania RPG]]'' has had two, one played for comedy, the other for grimness.

** The comedic one: {{spoiler|Blacula escapes his prison and turns Succubus against Team Dracula, then takes over Castlevania. The comedy comes with the general shenenigans of the cast still applying in what is otherwise a ''kinda'' serious scene.}}

** The dead-serious one; {{spoiler|1=While exploring some ruins while in a parallel world, the team accidentally releases an Elder God, which is just as pleasant as it sounds. In the space of only a few comics, the God brutally murders Alec and Katrina's magic chooses the absolute ''worst'' moment to go completely haywire, causing her to accidentally kill Princess. This leads to her [[Catgirl]] curse turning her fully cat, and Angel specifically states that there's literally nothing ''anyone'' could do for her now. And to top things off, the Elder God possesses Angel. The chapter ends with Elder God=/=Angel grimly telling Darkmoon that there's nothing he can do to stop it, [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|that everything he and the party did was ultimately pointless and ineffectual]], and then calmly obliterating him. Thankfully, Darkmoon turns out to be [[Not Quite Dead]], and manages to save the day through [[Playing Chess With Death]] and [[Time Travel]].}}

* ''[[Cheap Thrills]]'' - Chapter 3: Jeordie is goes on a [[Mushroom Samba]] after taking spiked mushrooms. It looks like a round of "Jeordie's stupidity earns him another hard life lesson" and Jeordie's mom Elizabeth goes on the errand Jeordie was now incapable of, sharing a bonding moment with younger son Faris in the process. but that gets turned on its head when {{spoiler|Elisabeth and Faris are killed when a semi drifts into their lane and hits them head-on.}}

** You missed the motivation for that event. Satan was taking advantage of the deal Mike made during his short stay in hell. Mike agreed to give Satan 15 minutes in his body to protect Marsha.

*** Not only that, but some of the 2009 strips imply that Mike is actually the Archangel Michael, sent to protect the earth.

* [[DMFA]]: {{spoiler|[http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol_1214.php Dan and his mother are literally the only Clan Cyra cubi left in all existence...]}}

** And all three of them paling beside the revelation that Sarda is actually the Onion Kid, out for revenge against them for Black Mage [[Mind Rape|mind raping]] him and killing his foster parents. Repeatedly.

** You have to admit that the fourth one was really whammy because Black Mage actually killed Fighter. Granted, he's been threatening to do that for years, but he actually ''succeeded'' in doing it this time.

*** Ya, for all of a minute.

** Also, the defeat of the Big Bad in Episode 1221; which was lampshaded in Episode 7; a wham with a set-up spanning the entire series.

** [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-05-31 May 31, 2010.]

* ''[[Erfworld]]'': Depending on how far you took the "world with game-like qualities" thing, when we find out that people literally pop into existence, fully formed in cities, you might be hit as hard as Parson was.

** ''Erfworld'' is liberally sprinkled with these, which makes it incredibly hard to predict where the story is going.

** Page 124, where [[Technical Pacifist]] Sizemore kills [[Mauve Shirt|Mauve Shirts]] Webinar and Dora. Particularly jarring because of what Webinar was trying to do when Sizemore performed the coup de grâce. [[Mood Whiplash|And then Parson starts laughing about how he can say "hosed"]].

* ''[[Everyday Heroes]]'' has this literally when Jane Mighty (in her old life as "Iron Jane") [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/eddurd/everydayheroes/series.php?view=single&ID=139947 discovered the truth] about her team leader, Wrecking Paul: he was a serial killer who murdered her best friend right in front of her.

* Some readers of [[Goblins]] theorized that Kore was a Fallen Paladin due to [[Complete Monster|his willingness to murder harmless characters in cold blood]] [[Knight Templar|if he perceived them as evil]], and because he never displayed any Paladin powers in his early appearances. So when he finally demonstrated that [http://www.goblinscomic.com/11162010-2/ he is, indeed, a paladin,] a lot of fan theories got jossed.

* [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2166.html This] ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' strip.

* Every hundredth or so comic of ''[[The Last Days of Foxhound]]'' is for the purpose of inducing WHAM, ranging from revelations of a [[Retcon|Retroactive Conspiracy]] that controls the entire team, to Liquid unleashing his [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] [[Made of Iron]] powers, inflicting several ''literal'' whams on an unsuspecting Cyborg Ninja.

** Perhaps special note goes to [http://gigaville.com/comic.php?id=394 strip 394] where Liquid has to murder a likable hacker attached to his team in order to keep a secret. As the author himself posted on the news page when the comic first came out "Shit just got real".

* The 2nd to last comic of Chapter 9 in ''[[Megatokyo]]'' where Ed uses an army of Killballs to [[Combination Attack]] Miho, apparently killing her. The entire thing needed the 1st 2-page comic to be shown.

** And before that, when Erika asks if sleeping with Largo will make him go away, (not noticing that Largo was becoming friendly with her) which lead to [[Drowning My Sorrows|him becoming an incoherent, drunken mess for the rest of the chapter.]]

** And [http://www.misfile.com/?page=1358 then] - someone left the door unlocked.

** To say nothing of the revelation that the titular filing accident is literally the ''only'' reason Emily is still alive.

** And the Whams become even bigger when Issue 14 rolls around, and the [[Big Bad]] Bengal appears.

** Issue 15-16: Mika Cries, Kyoko Dies.

* ''[[Moon Over June]]'' [http://moonoverjune.com/go/125&comments=on#comments #125].

 

* ''[[Paradigm Shift]]'', Act 1, Part III: {{spoiler|1=Kate McAllister and the werewolf who looks like her are the same person}}.

* The breakup most of a year into ''Punch an' Pie''.

* Issue Ten of the infamous [[Sonichu]], in which {{spoiler|several of the main characters brutally murder a handful of people whom the author believes have wronged him in life.}} The childish aspect of the artwork could make it even more disturbing to some people.

* [[The Super Fogeys]] first is when Dr. Rocket is revealed to be Herman, a shapeshifter the real Dr. Rocket used to try to ruin Captain Spectacular's reputation. Herman had reformed and was forced to become Dr. Rocket (the explanation how isn't so good), but after a blow on the head, this process broke down and more and more of Herman gradually begins to show. The reader's clue is when Dr. Rocket acquires a stutter, which Herman is shown to have in a flashback before the reveal.

* ''[[Tales of the Questor]]: Old Secrets'' story arc: Quentyn's town learns to its horror that an old forgotten debt incurred by Quentyn's predecessor has grown until most of the town will be literally repossessed. Quentyn, up till now struggling as an underappreciated hero most of his town sneers at, volunteers to renew the original quest to cancel the debt and the series becomes an extended adventure of [[The Quest]] that makes him a hero of great honor in his community and beyond.

* ''[[Terinu]]'': Leeza confronts her father after discovering that Humanity knew about the Dominion using the Ferin as power sources and committed genocide against them to disable the Dominion. Then her father throws her in jail to keep her quiet.

* ''[[What Birds Know]]'': [http://fribergthorelli.com/wbk/index.php/page-431/ Page 431], which abruptly turns the story from a lighthearted fantasy romp through an [[Alternate Universe]] with a dark undercurrent into something really, ''really'' bad.

* ''Yu+ Me: Dream'' does this in Issue 9, which was kinda unexpected (despite, you know, the title) due to the readers' emotional investment.