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Dramatic Curtain Toss
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There is something hidden under a large, white sheet. You don't know what it is, the characters don't know what it is, but sooner or later, you will. It is inevitable. Equally inevitable is that when whatever it is behind the curtain is revealed, there will be a great deal of pomp behind removing it. It will be shot in slow motion from four different angles. There will be a collective gasp. This is an important moment. This is the Dramatic Curtain Toss. All this will never take into account the actions an average human being would be most likely to take upon stumbling across something hidden under a big white sheet. Most people would first lift a part of said sheet so that if it turns out not to be of any particular interest, everything can be put back in order smoothly, rather than, you know, wasting four hours trying to get the damn thing back up. Not to mention the fact that tossing the curtain in a dramatic fashion might easily get you covered in a two-inch thick layer of dust as well as have all those precious but long forgotten pots, that were posted on top of the wardrobe years ago, smashed into pieces. (This doesn't apply, of course, if the curtain has been set up specifically for a Dramatic Curtain Toss, possibly at a press conference.) A relative to the Dramatic Unmask and subtrope of The Reveal. This can come at any time in a story. Curtain Camouflage is especially prone to it. Any number of reactions may follow. |
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Dream Theater opened many of their 2009 shows with "A Nightmare to Remember," often starting with a black curtain and pulling it down when the guitar enters. It's quite dramatic. | |
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Megamind has at least two— one during the unveiling of a giant statue (which makes you wonder who makes the giant cloth to cover it up), and one on a picture in Megamind's lair. | |
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Parodied (what isn't?) on Clone High, where Joan is hidden under a tarp in anticipation for the reveal of her makeover. | |
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In Raising Steam, there's a scene where railway magnate Harry King has his bodyguard pull away a tarpaulin to reveal the latest locomotive that's been designed and built for the railway. | |
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Girls und Panzer. Becomes a Failed Attempt at Drama when Anchovy tries to unveil their Secret Weapon, only for her audience to rush off when the school lunch bell sounds. | |
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Shrek the Third: Shrek and Fiona are being introduced at the royal court in confining finery, and Shrek can't reach the itch on his butt. He gets a servant to scratch it for him, and that's when the curtains open... | |
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The Simpsons: Marge's painting of a nude Mr. Burns. | |
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In Thomas & Friends, the removal of his workshop dust sheet is how we are first introduced to Percy. note In the corresponding book, the engines in the workshop were not under dust sheets, but the sheets were necessary here to disguise the fact that the regular engines were standing in for the other workshop engines. | |
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Happens to Isaac Mendez's paintings in Heroes. | |
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Hamlet pulls back the hanging curtain after he stabs what's behind it, revealing to both him and the audience that the person he stabbed, who he thought was the king, is actually Polonius. | |
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A Pink Panther game had this, on a pair of gigantic teeth. | |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Occurs when Judge Doom pulls aside the curtains concealing his giant Dip spraying machine. | |
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The Order of the Stick: I guess they really appreciate a good pull. | |
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Subverted in Undertale, where the player can find a covered-up machine in Sans's Workshop. Upon inspection, the protagonist simply states that the machine is broken but does not remove the cover. The player never gets to see what is underneath. | |
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Love of the S*n: Michael dramatically reveals the written form of the name of the S*n by throwing aside a white sheet laying over a blackboard. | |
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That Mitchell and Webb Look: Done by Professor Death to unveil the Giant Death Ray and Giant Armoured Scorpion of Death. | |
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Parodying this on Phineas and Ferb has almost become a running gag. If Phineas has a sheet in a particularly distinctive shape, you can be sure when he pulls it away it'll reveal something shaped completely differently. | |
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Dramatic Dust Cover Removal: The 69 Charger in The Dukes of Hazzard movie gets one. | |
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The Wizard of Oz: "PAY NO ATTENTION TO The Man Behind the Curtain!" | |
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Little Inferno has a dramatic gate opening in the end section of the game, which suddenly has become a point-and-click adventure. | |
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Done exactly four times in the film of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, when Draco removes the dustsheet on the Vanishing Cabinet as he attempts to fix it. | |
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Robin Hood: Vaizey does a dramatic speech while pacing around the room. He finally drops the large curtain in the middle of the room, revealing Robin, dangling from the ceiling. Happened when a large cage intended to hold all the tax money is placed in the middle of the keep. |
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It's unclear if it happens in the original The Picture of Dorian Gray, but it did happen in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen... | |
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In The Winter's Tale, when in the very last act, Pauline reveals the statue of Hermione that she has prepared. | |
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There is at least one Archie Comics story where Archie accidentally knocks off the head on a statue of a local businessman; he has it repaired in time for the official unveiling of the statue, but when the curtain comes off, we find out the repairman screwed up and put the head of a pig on instead. Oops. | |
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Equally parodied in the Futurama episode "Roswell that Ends Well," as the page quote implies. | |
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Played with in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, where the mayor manages to get an entire theme park underneath a tarp, which is unveiled at a televised ceremony. | |
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City Lights opens with the unveiling of a large statue. When the cover is removed, the Little Tramp is sleeping on it. | |
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Blackadder: In "The Black Seal" in the first series, the robotic torture device is revealed from behind a curtain. In "Blackadder: Back and Forth", the same happens with the time machine. |
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Forever: In "Hitler On the Half-Shell" a sheet is pulled off to reveal an original Monet "Water Lilies" painting, returned to its rightful owner by the son of a Nazi art thief. | |
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In Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Mr Wonka reveals the massive contract which the guests have to sign by winching up a curtain. | |
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Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed: A curtain is often used to obscure the action while the "magic" takes place, and the result of the trick revealed with the curtain being dropped or swept aside. Sometimes a curtain is also used simply for a dramatic reveal, such as the daggers of death. | |
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In a John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme Storyteller sketch, a Reluctant Mad Scientist has asked him to witness her greatest invention and pulls a baize cloth off a complicated machine. The Storyteller says he studied it carefully, but it didn't seem much different from any other baize cloth. | |
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Parodied in How I Met Your Mother, when Robin goes on a bender and wakes up in an unfamiliar hotel room. Barney reveals how badly she got out of control by whipping open the curtains, dramatically revealing an entirely un-amazing view of the building next door. | |
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During Hiveswap Act 1, Joey Claire removes the drape covering a mysterious object in the manor's attic to dramatically reveal a Portal Door to another universe. This is almost certainly a Shout-Out to the Narnia example pictured above. | |
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Ella Enchanted has a statue of Prince Charmant unveiled at a medieval mall. | |
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Another Dramatic Dust Cover Removal on a car, a Charger in Burn Notice. | |
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