This Index Happened Offscreen

Did a character die between episodes, and the only reason you know is because someone tells you? Did Godzilla just make some city burn down, only to have it rebuilt by the time the next movie comes around?

Here is a list of tropes where the writers decided to keep certain details offscreen.


 * Age Cut - Its amazing how fast characters can age with movie magic.
 * Answer Cut
 * Behind the Black - Sometimes it's just less work to keep those characters out of sight.
 * Bottomless Bladder - Anyone ever notice that Jack Bauer never spends one minute in a bathroom? Even to wash his hands?!
 * Bus Crash - That character the writers Put On a Bus? Think he's going to show up again in later episodes? Think again, cause the writers decided to say that he died.
 * Cataclysm Backstory
 * Charge Into Combat Cut
 * Did They or Didn't They?
 * Discretion Shot and most of its subtropes:
 * Battle Discretion Shot
 * Dead Hat Shot
 * Gory Discretion Shot
 * Kissing Discretion Shot
 * Rape Discretion Shot
 * Sexy Discretion Shot
 * Scream Discretion Shot
 * Shadow Discretion Shot
 * Sound Only Death
 * Vomit Discretion Shot
 * Villainy Discretion Shot
 * Distracted From Death - A character dies off screen in the few seconds or minutes that another character is distracted
 * Exposition Cut
 * Great Offscreen War
 * Hooked Up Afterwards
 * Implied Love Interest
 * Inferred Holocaust
 * Infinite Supplies
 * Offscreen Villain Dark Matter
 * Informed Ability - When a character is stated to have an ability they never demonstrate.
 * Instant Expert - Because why spend time learning when you can just assume you did?
 * It's a Long Story - A great way to avoid boring your audience.
 * Jump Cut
 * Light Flicker Teleportation - When a character has moved after the lights flicker.
 * Nobody Poops - Because no one wants to see that.
 * Noodle Incident
 * Nothing Is Scarier
 * Off Screen Breakup
 * Offscreen Moment of Awesome - Did no one see your Crowning Moment of Awesome?
 * Offscreen Reality Warp
 * Offscreen Rebuilding
 * Offscreen Start Bonus
 * Offscreen Teleportation
 * Offstage Villainy
 * Oh Mr. Grant
 * Relax-O-Vision
 * Respawning Enemies - Enemies you defeated are somehow alive again when you return.
 * Sequel Non Entity - I hope the character who disappeared wasn't your favorite.
 * Smash Cut
 * Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome - Similar to Age Cut.
 * Take Our Word for It - Because sometimes, you're better off not knowing.
 * That Poor Cat - It seems to bear the brunt of objects that were on-screen but were/are thrown/crashing/falling offscreen. At least we're spared having to see the effects on the cat.
 * Time Skip - It Makes Sense in Context.