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== Comic Books ==

* In ''[[52]]'', there's a beautiful example of this. Lex Luthor has been provoking Steel for ~~months -- at~~ the moment, Steel's niece is his ~~hostage -- and~~ has often crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] for reasons related to his "Everyman" project, which has culminated in Luthor gaining [[Flying Brick|Superman's powers]]. Steel's armor has been destroyed, which leads to several pages of [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]] ~~-- and~~ Steel still gets back up, every single time. Fortunately, Natasha (The niece) [[Flaw Exploitation|uses Luthor's paranoia]] and her own ingenuity against him, ultimately shutting down Luthor's powers. Luthor has an [[Oh Crap]] moment, and then the next panel is a wide shot of the building, and the sounds of smackdown ''echoing'' across Metropolis. It is ''unspeakably'' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|satisfying]]. The creator commentary included in the trade paperback reveals that, originally, we were ''supposed'' to actually see the end of the fight, but the writers realised that nothing they could draw could possibly look as amazing as what the readers own minds would fill in.

* In ''[[52]]'', there's a beautiful example of this. Lex Luthor has been provoking Steel for months—at the moment, Steel's niece is his hostage—and has often crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] for reasons related to his "Everyman" project, which has culminated in Luthor gaining [[Flying Brick|Superman's powers]]. Steel's armor has been destroyed, which leads to several pages of [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]—and Steel still gets back up, every single time. Fortunately, Natasha (The niece) [[Flaw Exploitation|uses Luthor's paranoia]] and her own ingenuity against him, ultimately shutting down Luthor's powers. Luthor has an [[Oh Crap]] moment, and then the next panel is a wide shot of the building, and the sounds of smackdown ''echoing'' across Metropolis. It is ''unspeakably'' [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|satisfying]]. The creator commentary included in the trade paperback reveals that, originally, we were ''supposed'' to actually see the end of the fight, but the writers realised that nothing they could draw could possibly look as amazing as what the readers own minds would fill in.

* In the "Grand Theft America" arc of ' 'the Ultimates' ', Hawkeye has been captured and tortured in order to provide defensive codes allowing the Masters to attack New York City. After hours of torture he tears off his own fingernails and kills several guards by flicking them into their throats before threatening a scientist to let him go. After he's released a battallion charges in with him about to pick up an assault rifle. We cut to guards watching the carnage on security cameras before cutting back to reveal Hawkeye standing over a dozen dead soldiers holding two smoking rifles. His response to the security cameras? "Run."

* In ''[[Street Fighter (comics)|Street Fighter]]'', one issue ends with Ryu accepting a challenge from "the greatest Kushti wrestler in all of India." We don't see the fight, but one can only imagine how it ended.

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** This this later becomes justified with a little bit of [[Fridge Brilliance]] (Or [[Fridge Horror|Horror]]) from Meet the Medic. {{spoiler|Meet the Sandvich was from perspective of the [[Oracular Head|Oracular Spy Head]] in the fridge}}

* In ''[[Mega Man X]]'', right before the rematch with Vile, Zero goes in first, and the player merely hears battle noises for a few moments before they regain control of X.

* ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' starts off with a bang using one of these. After the two-minute intro cutscene, the first level begins with you vigorously shaking the Wiimote to make DK pound on Kalimba, which is shown from outside the (very bouncy) hut. <ref>[[Catharsis Factor|You can even do it again by entering the level over and over.]]</ref>

* ''[[Donkey Kong Country Returns]]'' starts off with a bang using one of these. After the two-minute intro cutscene, the first level begins with you vigorously shaking the Wiimote to make DK pound on Kalimba, which is shown from outside the (very bouncy) hut.<ref>[[Catharsis Factor|You can even do it again by entering the level over and over.]]</ref>

* Used a couple times in the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' series; once in the governor's mansion in ''[[The Secret of Monkey Island]]'' and then in Club 41 in the first episode of ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]''. The latter is one of those "creators didn't have the resources" versions; in a game commentary they explain that showing the inside of Club 41 would have put them over the Wii's file size limit.

== Webcomics ==

* ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' loves this trope. For every battle that's shown on panel, there are at least two whose effects are only observed by the other characters or implied via speech bubbles, sound effects, or [[Gory Discretion Shot|rivers of blood]] from offpanel. The crowning moment, however, is in the [[Final Battle]] with Chaos where this is used ~~twice -- first~~ when it actually happens and again, in a [[Double Subversion]], in [[Flash Back]]. The latter also counts as an intentional [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]].

* ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' loves this trope. For every battle that's shown on panel, there are at least two whose effects are only observed by the other characters or implied via speech bubbles, sound effects, or [[Gory Discretion Shot|rivers of blood]] from offpanel. The crowning moment, however, is in the [[Final Battle]] with Chaos where this is used twice—first when it actually happens and again, in a [[Double Subversion]], in [[Flash Back]]. The latter also counts as an intentional [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]].

* In ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'', Doc [[It Makes Sense in Context|is retrieving a missile from a robot alligator submarine]] when a park warden catches him. The next page of the comic simply contains the words: HE IS A NINJA and then cuts to Doc driving the warden's car to his destination.

* In ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', [[Technical Pacifist|Grace plays a fighting game]] during her birthday party while Ellen watches. [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2005-06-02 At one point], Ellen is actually shocked by what she sees even though its stated to be only cartoon violence.