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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 ''[[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.

 

* Part of the climax for ''[[Let the Right One In]]'': {{spoiler|Oskar is about to be drowned by the brother of the bully he beat up, his head held underwater. We only see it from under the pool, so we don't know what's happening at first, but it becomes apparent soon enough that Eli is killing the bullies when a ''severed head'' falls into the pool, followed swiftly by an arm.}}

* ''[[Fahrenheit 9/11]]'' didn't show any footage of the September 11th attacks, but instead showed a blank black screen while audio clips of the events were played, followed by reactions of people who saw it happen caught on (muted) video.

* ''[[Transformers Rescue Bots]]'' features one of these when the titular Bots finally manage to confront the [[Evil Counterpart|MorBot]] in combat at the end of "The Reign of Morocco". It may double as a robotic form of [[Gory Discretion Shot]], as the resulting rain of robot parts implies that what they did was rather brutal.

{{quote|'''Chase:''' MorBot ''decommissioned''.}}

* Happens a lot in ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'', especially when only one of the heroes beats up several adult enemies, something that is hard to show realistically. One good example is [[The Stinger]] which occurs right after the end of "Operation: F.L.U.S.H.", right after the team closes in on the Toilenator; the viewers see an outdoor view of the Treehouse and hear a violent fight from within, until finally, there's a loud flushing noise and the badly bruised villain is dumped out a drainpipe.

{{quote|'''Mac:''' Wow, Frankie, I can't believe you gave him a nosebleed!

'''Bloo:''' And that was the most ''atomic'' atomic wedgie I have ''ever'' seen!

'''Frankie:''' I know, can't believe he wore briefs. What a loser.}}

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