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{{trope}}
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When a character asks a question, and the movie cuts, pans, or otherwise shifts to an image of the implied answer. A variant of this will have the character make a significant remark (''e.g.'', "Some people just naturally make fools of themselves"), and the camera cuts to a character doing exactly that sort of thing. A still further variant is to have another character, completely uninvolved with the first conversation, answer the question with a line identifying the answer ("What kind of loser takes a job at [[Burger Fool]]?" "Hey, did your brother tell you he got a new job?").
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Compare to [[Gilligan Cut]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'': Who screamed at the cockroach first? Who suggested that everyone's stuffed animals be brought and put on display? The answer to both questions appears to be Sakaki, though we have only the editing as proof.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* As seen from the page image, [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in [[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Archie Sonic issue #124.]] The context is that Robotnik was complaining about being attacked by some alien invader, though the king didn't believe him [[Crying Wolf|because of his past treachery]]. When Sonic asks, as in the page image, who would be responsible if it were true, said alien invaders send out a telepathic message not only about what they're doing but also about why they're doing it. {{spoiler|They say that a while ago, they sent an emissary to offer an alliance with the human species, but, instead, [[Humans Are
* In the first [[Clerks]] comic book, Randall is seen leaving Steve-Dave and Walt's comic shop after having pissed them off. Walt asks, "What kind of place would hire a guy like that anyway?" Next page: an establishing shot of Quick Stop and RST Video.
* Fused with [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]] in one X-Men comic as Iceman and Angel find themselves taking on a massive alien. Iceman demands to know where the Avengers, Fantastic Four, and military are. Cut to the Avengers being held in force bubbles by Kang the Conqueror, the Fantastic Four being trapped by Annihilus, and the military...well...
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== [[Fan
* ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'''s [[In Medias Res|prologue]] includes, among other things, Kyon being attacked by Asakura Ryouko, having possession of a lot of supernatural tools [[Haruhi Suzumiya|his canon counterpart]] doesn't have, and Haruhi not batting much of an eye to Kyon's admission Asakura is an humanoid interface like Yuki. At some point after that, Kyon asks himself, "It started off such a nice day, too. How had it come to this, anyway...?". Cue scene change to the first non-prologue scene.
== [[Film]] ==
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* The movie ''[[Airport]]'', where the Customs agent is curious about the flight his niece will be taking and turns to the Airline Passenger Supervisor, Mrs. Livingston. "Oh, with all this snow, do you think it will take off on time?" The film then cuts to a reservation agent who says, "Flight Two, ''The Golden Argosy'', will depart on schedule", and then cuts back to the man on the phone who had called her, who says, "Thank You." ''Very'' slickly done.
* A variant of this happens in ''[[Superman Returns]]'', when Jimmy shows Lois and Perry a photograph of sky with a red dot:
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'''Perry White:''' It's a plane.
'''Jimmy Olsen:''' No, look, it's...
''Cut to Clark entering the office.''
'''Clark Kent:''' Were you looking for me? }}
* The trailer for the 2009 ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]'' shows someone beating up Edward Blake, and {{spoiler|immediately cuts to Ozymandias. Twice.}} A unique example in that you would only notice it if you already knew the answer beforehand.
* ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy 1999]]'':
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** This is, of course, immediately before we cut to Evelyn explaining exactly what she knows about the situation.
* ''[[The X-Files]]'' movie (the first one) had one of the Consortium say, in reference to Mulder, "Then you must take away what he holds most valuable, that with which he can't live without." Immediate cut to Scully. And Chris Carter claims he's not a [[Shipping|shipper]].
* At the beginning of ''[[Shrek]] 2'', Prince Charming asks who Princess Fiona is on honeymoon with. The scene immediately cuts to Shrek's face.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings (film)|The Lord of the Rings]]'': During a conversation at the Hall of Meduseld in The Two Towers, Gandalf asks Theoden, "And what is the King's decision?". An offscreen voice over starts to say "By order of the King, the city must empty! We make for the refuge of Helm's Deep", cutting to a shot of Rohan refuges preparing to leave.
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* [[Fritz Lang]] does this a lot in his German films. Particularly in ''[[Dr. Mabuse the Gambler|The Testament of Dr. Mabuse]]'', almost every scene cut 'responds' in some way to the preceding scene, sometimes subtly and sometimes not.
* [[Fritz Lang]] also did this in ''Metropolis''. After rescuing the children from the flooded worker's city, she asks, "Why are all the lights out?" Cut to the workers dancing around the destroyed machines that caused it.
* In ''[[Dracula's Daughter]]'', Dr Garth asks "What could have made [[Our Vampires Are Different|those two small puncture marks]] on the neck?", and, immediately, a maid announces, "[[Inadvertent Entrance Cue|Countess Zalenska]]!"
** This exchange is actually a reference to the original Dracula film.
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'''Maid:''' ''[Announcing the arrival of their guest]'' Count Dracula. }}
** And in ''[[Dracula: Dead and Loving It]]'', this is picked up once more. One character asks, rhetorically, who in England could ''possibly'' be a vampire. Immediately, the maid announces "Count Dracula." The character who asks concedes, "All right, maybe him."
* In ''[[Bride of Frankenstein]]'', Elizabeth describes a vision of an evil apparition which will entangle Henry, and says she sees it drawing nearer — nearer — and the camera cuts to the [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|evil Dr]]. [[Inadvertent Entrance Cue|Pretorius knocking at the door]].
* In ''[[Sinbad the Sailor (film)|Sinbad the Sailor]]'', when Sinbad informs the look-out Yusuf that all ships have to fly colors, as it is "the law of the sea", Yusuf contemptuously asks, "What law is stronger than Strength?" Immediately, the evil Emir's [[Pirate Parrot|Pirate myna-bird]] swoops into shot, shrieking, "[[The Faceless|Jamal! Jamal!]]"
* In the 1939 version of ''[[Sherlock Holmes|The Hound of the Baskervilles]]'', Dr. Mortimer's wife, conducting a seance, asks the spirit of the victim, "Tell us, Sir Charles! Who was it that killed you?"
* Played with in ''[[Fantastic Mr. Fox]]''. Having successfully trapped the animals underground, a character asks his fellows, "How long can a fox go without food or water?" Cut to Kylie saying to the camera "Well, I can only answer as an opossum, but I don't think I can last more than another couple of hours before I get completely dehydrated and starve to death." After that, we cut further back and he doesn't appear to be talking to anyone in particular.
* Used in ''[[The Sixth Sense]]'' when Cole says to Malcom, {{spoiler|"I see dead people", it not only cuts to Malcolm, who is dead, but slowly zooms in on him.}} At first, the filmmakers didn't even want to include this shot, fearing it might give away the ending.
* ''[[The
* At the end of the [[Opening Narration]] for ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', the narrator asks "Who could love a beast?" We then fade into Belle walking to town.
* "[[Shark Tale|How long must this reef live under siege? Is there no hero among us? Who can stop this shark menace?]]" Cut to Oscar.
== [[Literature]] ==
** A stealth
▲** Lampshaded in ''[[Discworld/Mort|Mort]]'':
** Lampshaded in ''[[Mort]]'':
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'''Death:''' {{
'''Narrator:''' That was a cinematic trick adapted for print. Death was actually in his study, talking to Mort. But it was quite effective, wasn't it? It's probably called a fast dissolve, or a crosscut/zoom. Or something. An industry where a senior technician is called a Best Boy might call it anything. }}
* Used at least once a book by David Weber.{{context}}
* ''The Boscombe Valley Mystery'': As [[Sherlock Holmes]] is about to reveal the identity of the murderer, a servant announces his entry.
* In the TV adaptation of ''[[
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
▲* In the TV adaptation of ''[[Discworld/The Colour of Magic|The Colour of Magic]]'', again at the beginning, [[Who Would Be Stupid Enough...?|the classic question]] is answered by a cut to Twoflower.
* The ''[[Friends]]'' season 7 finale. Chandler asks Monica, "If you're not pregnant, who is?" Then the camera settles on Rachel.
* The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Big Bang" plays with this. After {{spoiler|Rory accidentally shoots Amy,}} he's holding her, wishing for a "ridiculous miracle." Right as he finishes the sentence, in pops the Doctor, [[Crazy Awesome|wearing a fez and holding a mop.]]
** In what might be the filthiest joke to ever pass the censors, in [[Doctor Who/Recap/S32
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'''Vastra:''' Rather attractive...
'''Jenny:''' You do realize he is a man, don't you, Vastra?
'''Vastra:''' Mammals. They all look alike.
'''Jenny:''' [looks offended] Thank you...
'''Vastra:''' Was I being insensitive again? I don't know why you put up with me.
[Vastra notices one of their prisoners trying to escape and knocks him out from across the room with her ''prehensile tongue'']
'''Jenny:''' [Smirks] }}
* ''[[Lost]]'', "The Other Woman": Goodwin asks Juliet, "What could Ben do?" about their affair. Cut to the plane crashing, and Ben sending Goodwin off to infiltrate the tail section.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'':
*
** Parodied in a later episode, where Giles asks Buffy how she plans to fight the incorporeal manifestation of evil itself. Buffy responds that she has "the best plan ever". Cut to her googling the word "evil."
** In "Lover's Walk" Buffy scores high on her SATs, prompting Cordelia to congratulate her and say that now [[Freudian Slip|she can leave and never come back.]] When she realizes [[That Came Out Wrong]], she tries to rephrase it in a positive way, saying "only a moron" would want to come back to Sunnydale. Cut to a scene at night, where a car crashes into the “Welcome to Sunnydale” sight [[Running Gag|(again!)]] and the moron in question - Spike - staggering out and collapsing in a drunken stupor. "Home sweet home,” he says before he passes out.
* ''[[Dollhouse]]'': "Omega", the finale of Season 1 as originally aired. Ballard asks where Caroline's original imprint is. Cut to a shot of Wendy waking up in a chair with Caroline in her head. ▼
** "First Date". The First Evil is trying to tempt and manipulate Andrew into turning against the potentials. While Andrew at first seems willing to do so, the First notices that he's asking a ''lot'' of odd questions, and then asks if he's wearing a wire. Cut to the basement of Buffy's house where Willow, Dawn, Anya, and Kennedy are listening via a recording device (yes, Andrew is indeed wired) and shocked that they have been found out.
* In the ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined|Battlestar Galactica]]'' episode "No Exit," Boomer and {{spoiler|Ellen Tigh}} are talking about [[The Power of Love]] on the Cylon baseship. Boomer says, "Who would I want to love?" Cut to Chief Tyrol.▼
▲* ''[[Dollhouse]]'': "Omega", the finale of Season 1 as originally aired. Ballard asks where Caroline's original imprint is. Cut to a shot of Wendy waking up in a chair with Caroline in her head.
▲* In the ''[[Battlestar Galactica
* Used numerous times throughout the seasons of ''[[Top Gear]]''.
** Usually a response to "[[What Could Possibly Go Wrong?]]"?
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* ''[[Desperate Housewives]]'' uses this when Katherine taunts Susan, who is working trash detail, by throwing a cup out of her car window. When the supervisor wishes he had seen her license plate, Susan asks, "What could you do with her home address?" Cut to Katherine also picking up trash.
* Done repeatedly to hilarious effect in ''[[Laverne and Shirley]]'' when, in a typical example, someone would ask, "[[Who Would Be Stupid Enough...?|Who could be stupid enough]] to do something like that?", resulting in Lenny and Squiggy's iconic "HEEEEELLLOOOOO!"
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* ''[[Bloom County]]'': When Steve Dallas, as lead singer and spokesman of the metal band Deathtöngue, negotiates a deal with CBS Records, he quotes the lyrics of their next song which goes "Let's run over Lionel Ritchie with a tank". Cut to the CBS CEO sitting in front of a huge portrait of Lionel Ritchie.
== [[Radio]] ==
* ''[[I'm Sorry, I'll
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''(gentle piano music in background)''
'''David Hatch:''' ''(drunkenly)'' Where...where did it all go, Sam?! }}
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* [[Kingdom Hearts|Xemnas]] asks Roxas what his true name is...and before Roxas answers, it immediately cuts to a flashback of Sora, complete with Kairi saying "Sora?" almost immediately after the cut.
* From ''[[Age of Mythology]]'':
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''(behind him, one of them gently sinks into the sea)''
'''Ajax:''' No. }}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Hilariously done in [https://web.archive.org/web/20090901201331/http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=6&issue=13 this] strip of ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''.▼
▲* Hilariously done in [http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=6&issue=13 this] strip of ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''.
* Hannelore's [http://questionablecontent.net./view.php?comic=1141 dream man] in ''[[Questionable Content]]''.
* Used often in connection [http://www.stationv3.com/d/20091124.html with the Rumormongers] in the webcomic ''[[Station V3]]''.
* A nice, kind of subtle one in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'':
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'''Zoë''': ''(comes in with a plate, offers the contents)'' "Toast?" }}
* Lampshaded in [http://www.aorange.com/?p=351 this] ''[[Femmegasm]]'' strip:
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* Even if [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2012-03-30 this page] of [[El Goonish Shive]] is not foreshadowing... Susan spends the first four panels contemplating her not being attracted to anybody in part because she is uncomfortable with men being attracted to her, then wonders just what kind of guy would be her "type"... and then is interrupted by Elliot, who is by far the least pervy (straight) guy that she knows and is comfortable around.
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' occasionally does this. Like when Tarvek is [https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051021 about to make a guess] as to what Lucrezia would say. Or when Dimo [https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20190118 asks why] he is the one sent to do something important other than fighting monsters and hears the nonsense the other two Jägers babble.
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''I'm A Marvel, I'm A DC'' - In Happy Hour, Joker tells Harly to "Name one (hero) who could possibly stop me." Cut to {{spoiler|Spidey serving drinks at Stan's Place. Considered a crowning moment of funny.}}
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[South Park]]'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] it while explaining the problems with over
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'''Garrison:''' "What-- [[Medium Awareness|why did you pan to me just now]]? What the hell is that supposed to mean?" }}
*
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