20 Movie Reveals Nobody Noticed
These reveals went right over everyone's heads.
It's always great fun to revisit a movie and realise that the filmmakers were a lot sneakier than you thought, hiding some sly secrets, canny Easter eggs, and ingenious reveals in plain sight.
These "gotcha!" moments can hugely enhance the rewatch value of a given film, though if we're honest, how many of us actually spotted these on our own?
It usually comes down to somebody on social media pointing it out - perhaps the fine folk at r/MovieDetails, whose findings inspired much of this post.
With that in mind, these 20 movies all dropped a big reveal right in our laps without most of us realising.
From crucial reveals that quite literally change everything we thought we knew to minor-but-fascinating slivers of character context, these reveals all flew over just about everyone's heads.
In an era where it's tougher than ever to convince audiences to put their phones away and engage fully with a movie, it's nice to know that filmmakers are still trying to test the bounds of viewers' attentiveness.
And so if you caught any of these reveals yourself, well bloody done...
20. Boo's Name Is Mary - Monsters Inc.
In Pixar's stone cold classic Monsters, Inc., the pint-sized human protagonist Boo (Mary Bibbs) is never actually referred to by her real name, only the nickname bestowed upon her by her newfound pal Sulley (John Goodman).
And honestly that's just fine, but the curiosity about her actual given name endures regardless.
Yet for those paying ultra-close attention to the adorable scene where Boo goes to sleep in Sulley's bed, you might notice that the various drawings she's scrawled are all signed with one single name - "Mary."
And so, it's reasonable to assume that this is her name, and that it was hiding right in front of our faces the entire time.
But if you somehow still weren't convinced, the official novelisation of Monsters, Inc. indeed confirms Boo to be named Mary.
The name was seemingly lifted directly from Boo's voice actress Mary Gibbs, who is herself the daughter of one of the movie's story artists, Rob Gibbs, who sadly passed away in 2020.