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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''[[Lampshade Hanging|DID YOU SEE THOSE TWO BEAT PANELS]]''
''THEY WERE *CRUCIAL* TO THE JOKE''|'''Yelling Bird''', ''[[Questionable Content]]''}}
A silent panel in sequential art. Usually the next-to-last panel in a serialized comic strip, since it approximates the comedic pause before a punchline.
Particularly efficient comic artists may [[Identical Panel Gag|copy and paste adjacent panels]], since the point of the
Compare [[Silent Scenery Panel]]. A [[Beat]] is the (un)spoken version.
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* The manga of ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' uses these a ''lot'', often at the end of the comic when the gag is a lack of action. These usually translate to (often hilarious) stretches of awkward silence in the anime. One of the more memorable ones:
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Panel 2: '''Sakaki:''' It's okay... I'll wait outside... with [[Big Friendly Dog|Mr. Tadakichi]]...
Panels 3 and 4: ''(The same image of Sakaki, perfectly content, sitting under a tree with Mr. Tadakichi)'' }}
* [[Hentai]] manga ''[[Manga/Witchcraft|Witchcraft]]'' uses this to great comedic effect. Kagami is trying to get Kaoru to relax so she can effectively hypnotize him (Mildly [[NSFW]] text):
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{{spoiler|'''Kaoru:''' Right...}}
{{spoiler|(
{{spoiler|'''Kaoru:''' ... ... Ejaculate?}}
{{spoiler|'''Kagami:''' Yes.}}
{{spoiler|'''Kaoru:''' You mean where it ... squirts out?}}
{{spoiler|'''Kagami:''' That's right. Now hurry up.}} }}
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' gives you what might be the [http://www.7manga.com/online_manga/1260-14.html?t=1000&n=25 cutest example] [http://www.7manga.com/online_manga/1260-14.html?t=1000&n=26 ever]{{Dead link}}.
* Happens in ''[[Corsair]]'' manga, where the princess of a powerful pirate group finally announces to her family that she intends to wed their [[Mysterious Past]] and [[Dude Looks Like a Lady|very pretty]] [[The Strategist|strategist]], [[Spell My Name with an "S"|Kanale (or Canale...
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**
* There's one early on in the ''[[Battle Royale]]'' manga
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Christopher Priest]] might well be the [[Trope Codifier]]. ''[[Quantum and Woody]]'', ''[[Black Panther]]'', and pretty much everything else he wrote were rife with beat panels. The impressive thing was that as often as he used them, they never got stale or overdone; he knew exactly when and where to use them.
* The Keith Giffen/J. M. DeMatteis comedy incarnation of ''[[Justice League of America]]'' used this all the time, sometimes featuring entire Beat ''Pages''.
** J.M. DeMatteis's run on ''Spectacular [[Spider-Man]]'' featured a beat page - but it wasn't funny, rather it was one of the creepiest pages ever seen in a comic book.
* Used excessively in ''[[Invincible]]'', then [[Lampshaded]] when the main character gets his comics signed by an artist who comments on his use of copying and pasting panels.
* In the comic ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'', after Beast Boy asked Raven to go with him on a "[[Not a Date|not-a-date]]", there was a beat panel before Raven said "Let's go".
* In an ''[[Iron Man
* One of the traditions of a super team crossover is having a few B-List (
* [[Peter David]] enjoys regular use of these. The ''Madrox'' mini-series contained a number of examples.
* In ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'', Scott asks Wallace what the website for Amazon.ca is. Wallace gets his beat panel with a dumbfounded look and a series of ellipses and responds ".... Amazon.ca".
* ''[[Life in Hell]]'' occasionally uses these to an extreme. Matt Groening refers to these as "all those Akbar and Jeff strips where they stare at each other." Keep in mind there were often dozens of panels to a page.
* During the [[Joss Whedon]] run on ''[[Astonishing X Men]]'', the morning after Peter Rasputin and Kitty Pryde [[They Do|finally make love]], they meet with Wolverine in the kitchen. Two beat panels follow; one where Wolverine looks at Peter, and one where he looks at Kitty. He then returns to his breakfast, muttering, "'Bout time."
== Newspaper Comics ==
* Pretty much every comic has used this at some point. It's been around since the early days of comics, but it really took off in the 60's and 70's, when a new generation of cartoonists raised on films and television sought to make their comics more cinematic. ''[[Doonesbury]]'' is often credited with popularizing the beat, and it remains one of the most frequent users of this trope.
** A comic strip by [[David Lynch]] was almost entirely made up of beat panels. The [[Cut and Paste Comic|same ones]]. For ten years.
* Interestingly, ''[[The Far Side]]'' occasionally pulled this off in a one-panel strip. The visual was some awkward situation, while the punchline came in the caption.
* [[Discussed Trope|Discussed]] as well as demonstrated in this ''[[Barney
== [[New Media]] ==
* There's [http://penultimate-panel.blogspot.com/ a blog] devoted to watching for the silent penultimate panel.
* Another final panel beat example from [
* [http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=garfield_sucks A vicious parody of beat panels,] courtesy of Maddox. This in spite of how, as is noted elsewhere on this page, ''[[Garfield]]'' [[Shallow Parody|rarely ever uses beat panels]].
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[The World Ends With You]]
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'''Uzuki:''' .....
'''Kariya:''' .....
'''Neku:''' ..... }}
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[A Moment of Peace]]'' there are three entire pages of "Awkward Pause" following Ito's [https://web.archive.org/web/20130607145853/http://www.amomentofpeace.net/index.php?num=135 declaration of love].
* ''[[Project 0]]'' interestingly enough on [https://web.archive.org/web/20101120135825/http://www.centralcitytower.com/2010/02/new-installment.html page 8] of part 1.1 and [https://web.archive.org/web/20140407003820/http://www.centralcitytower.com/2010/02/continuing-where-we-left-off-we-present.html page 8] of part 1.2.
* Refined into an art by ''[[Achewood]]'' except that it usually happens in the final panel to highlight an awkward silence or just something bizarre getting a bewildered reaction. [http://achewood.com/index.php?date=05232006 Here is a good example for you to enjoy].
** Parodied by ''[[
** Taken to comedic extremes [http://achewood.com/index.php?date=02142005 here].
* ''[[Adorable Desolation]]'' uses the
* Lampshaded in [http://ansemretort.org/ansemretort/index.html?comic=574 this] ''[[Ansem Retort]]'' strip.
* ''[[Bob and George]]'' is famous for the third panel pause.
** Especially [http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/index.php?date=011201 this strip], which had a three-panel pause.
* [http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=927 This] ''[[Brawl in the Family]]'' comic.
* ''[[Cyanide
** [http://www.explosm.net/comics/2030/ This strip] is the most consecutive beat panels in a comic found so far. (If you can't figure it out: {{spoiler|Use the horizontal scrollbar.}})
* ''[[Darths and Droids]]'': Click here for [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0249.html possibly the best beat panel, ever.]
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** [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0317.html And then, the Ultimate Beat Panel]
** [http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0318.html Followed by an onslaught of beat panels.]
* ''[[Death to the Extremist]]'' uses this ''constantly.'' Often taken [[Up to Eleven]] with comics like [https://web.archive.org/web/20130914024458/http://dtecomic.com/?n=3 this].
* ''[[Dystopia (video game)|Dystopia]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130603173150/http://www.dystopia-game.com/wiki/index.php?title=Avv%27s_Comics_-_Miswired demonstrates Medium's new reflex upgrades].
* Happens rather frequently in ''[[8-Bit Theater
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' uses this when Grace explains [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-07-08 the plan] to cure Elliot of his [[Gender Bender|problem]].
** Also, Tedd [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-05-27 and the spilled barrel of exposition], Nanase [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2003-07-24 talking about Ellen with Susan]. Grace [http://egscomics.com/?date=2005-02-14 realizing she had to break her "morphing moratorium"], Ellen [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-01-19 coming back to Earth] and [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-09-03 informed] of the Elliot's [[Gender Bender|upcoming powers]] and "Man Engulfs Food" [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2010-05-12 looking at dining Grace].
** Once [http://egscomics.com/?date=2002-04-03 turned into gag in its own right].
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** Gary: "Oh, I'm terribly sorry! I didn't mean to be rude, it's just I used to think you didn't want to go on a second date with me because I was too geeky." 'beat panel' Nanase: "Yes, it was entirely because I was a lesbian" Gary:"Phew! Well, ain't that a boost for my fragile ego!"
* ''[http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com Flying Man and Friends]'' alternates between having the beat panel at [https://web.archive.org/web/20110822203033/http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=171 the end of the strip] and having it [https://web.archive.org/web/20110827131127/http://www.flyingmanandfriends.com/?p=240 somewhere in the middle].
* ''[[Folly and Innovation]]'' does this [https://web.archive.org/web/20121215114728/http://follyandinnovation.com/2010/04/o-holy-night-batman/ on occasion]
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20200313130906/http://www.agameoffools.com/ A Game of Fools]'' uses them quite a bit.
* Likewise, ''[[Garfield Minus Garfield]]'' seems to thrive on the beat panel.
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' manages [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070709 two in a row with different responses]. Another one, [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030910 courtesy of Sleipnir O'Hara].
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** [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080801 Here] and [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20091009 here] it's a punchline.
** When Gil and Captain Vole discuss the false Heterodyne heir.
{{quote|
'''Gil''': No, neither would my father.
'''Vole''':...not unless she danced nekked through de ruins vile trying to shoot down de moon, turned all de tourists into monsters--and den built a very dangerous fountain out of sausages.
''<beat>''
'''Gil''': [[Refuge in Audacity|Well... yes, that goes without saying.]] }}
* ''[[Goblins]]'' does this sometimes. The best example is probably Minmax [http://www.goblinscomic.com/03032010/ here].
* ''[[Head Trip]]'' doubles up on the beat panels in [http://headtripcomics.comicgenesis.com/d/20080915.html this strip] because, well, as that particular chapter of ''[[Twilight (novel)|Breaking Dawn]]'' put it, "There Are No Words For This".
** Also, [http://headtripcomics.comicgenesis.com/d/20081006.html this]:
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** And [http://headtripcomics.comicgenesis.com/d/20100414.html this].
** [http://headtripcomics.comicgenesis.com/d/20070723.html Another] double beat panel when Mal "[[Troll|cheers up]]" a chat room full of [[Fan Dumb]].
** Mal is ''[http://headtrip.keenspot.com/d/20110221.html good]'' at causing this.
* Used in full by [[Hello Earthling]], and regularly too. Perhaps the most abusive example on this trope is [https://web.archive.org/web/20140806165322/http://www.helloearthling.co.uk/?strip_id=26 here].
* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' does this [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1763.html very often].
** [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1840.html A recent strip] has a [[News Post]] in which Morgan-Mar explains that he tried to avoid it (putting the silent panel earlier), but it just wasn't funny.
** [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1926.html Another one does three]- and a [[Lampshade Hanging]]. [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1934.html The "Shakespeare" strip after that] is entirely Beat Panels, possibly going for [[Overly Long Gag]].
** Inverted [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1950.html here], with the
** Dare I suggest that [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2168.html here], he's going for an entire beat
* [[Matt Groening]]'s ''[[Life in Hell]]'' uses these quite a lot, especially in the strips featuring Akbar and Jeff. [https://web.archive.org/web/20151018182353/http://yourfaceisanadvert.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/jeff-and-akbar11.jpg Here] is a typical example.
* [http://www.mezzacotta.net/owls/?comic=188 Beet Panel.]
* [http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=535 Here] is a [[Heroic BSOD]] version from ''[[Megatokyo]]''.
** You don't have to go far to see this version: the [http://www.megatokyo.com/index.php?strip_id=1 very first strip] also has a Beat Panel.
* ''[[My Middle Name's Adventure]]'' has been employing this since the [http://www.doublepuma.com/adventure/comic/0001 first]{{Dead link}} strip.
** But most notably in strips with Amed. [http://www.doublepuma.com/adventure/comic/0009/\]{{Dead link}}
* The readers of ''[[Narbonic]]'' refer to this as the "Silent Penultimate Panel". [http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic_plus/series.php?view=archive&chapter=29025 Here's] a double example (fourth strip down).
** this is specifically when the next-to-last panel is the one that is the
* Used often in ''[[The Optimist]]'',as seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20130531162053/http://the-opt.com/?p=25 here], [http://the-opt.com/?p=24 here], [http://the-opt.com/?p=14 here], [http://the-opt.com/?p=12 here], [http://the-opt.com/?p=7 here], [http://the-opt.com/?p=5 here], [http://the-opt.com/?p=942 here], [http://the-opt.com/?p=718 here], [http://the-opt.com/?p=421 here], and a double dose [http://the-opt.com/?p=30 here] and [http://the-opt.com/?p=1314 here].
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'':
**
** [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0303.html It seems unlikely].
* There is an absolutely ''epic'' final panel beat in [http://www.partiallyclips.com/pclipslite.php?id=1391&c=1# strip this] ''[[Partially Clips]]'' strip.▼
** Also, "[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0781.html How cute!]"
** [[Discussed]] in "[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1248.html More Basic Than Cantrips]":
{{quote|'''Vaarsuvius''': I will have you know there is no skill more foundational to the practice of wizardry through the ages than that of the ominous pause.}}
▲* There is an absolutely ''epic'' final panel beat in [https://web.archive.org/web/20090321175842/http://www.partiallyclips.com/pclipslite.php?id=1391&c=1
* [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/4/18/ Nice little parody] in ''[[Penny Arcade]]''.
* [http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1375 This] Yelling Bird strip from ''[[Questionable Content]]''. ([http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1364 It makes more sense if you read this first])
** Also, [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1280 this one] has two of them, and [[Lampshade Hanging]].
*** And [http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1557 this strip], which is a textbook example of how the
* ''[[Realfield]]'' frequently subverts this by removing the punchline altogether. [http://juannavarro.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/realfield-like-lasagna-too/ Trust me, it's funny.]
* ''[[Sequential Art (webcomic)|Sequential Art]]'' has its share of beat panels. Like with [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=334 Kat looking at Art's art] and [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=335 the next comic], [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=465 this] or [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=584 Iron-Pip], [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=593 Art and colleague] or [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=653 this], with poor Kat... And now [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=681 Art and Pip].
** Also, [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=515 used as a punchline].
** Or, one of squirrel girls [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=701 notices] [http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=699 Martian Trash Cans] hunting for Art --
{{quote|
(squirrel girls look at each other)
'''([[Hive Mind|all four]])''': ♥ ♥ '''''[[Mad Scientist|Field test!]]''''' ♥ ♥ }}
* In [http://www.shortpacked.com/2005/comic/book-2-pulls-the-drama-tag/05-faztivus/gordon/ this] ''[[Shortpacked]]'' strip, when [[Batman]] is left without an opportunity to complete his [[Stealth Hi Bye]], he gets two panels to come up with an alternate solution.
* A fancomic called ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090322032610/http://www.drunkduck.com/Sonic_College/index.php?p=454381 Sonic College]'' did this with three.
* ''[[Mezzacotta|Square Root of Minus Garfield]]'' does this [http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=10 here] with reference to this page, and comment that ''[[Garfield]]'' might not use it enough.
* ''[[Stickman and Cube]]'' does this often, usually when one of the characters does or says something incredibly bone-headed.
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*** Also, the last panel [[Shout-Out|seems to be]] a reference to the end of the seventies remake of [[Invasion of the Body Snatchers]].
* Used in [http://xninjared.deviantart.com/art/What-a-Man-would-do-for-a-Girl-162055287 this comic] after the girl had a bit of a [[Fridge Logic]].
* Appears a few times in [[Harkovast]] during the more light hearted moments, especially on this [http://www.drunkduck.com/Harkovast/index.php?p=735366 page]{{Dead link}} where it actually happens twice in succession.
* [http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF026-Butterflies.jpg Butterflies] in ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]''.
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' has [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=62 this]. Then a [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=478 double beat panel]. And [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=856 two more] with highly unimpressed Kat. And a ''[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=862 triple]'' beat panel (the scene in question justifies this much).
* [http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2007/12/telephone-call/ Here], thanks to the ''[[Amazing Super Powers]]'' of a [[Split-Screen Phone Call]].
* Lampshaded through the fourth wall in [
* ''[[Rusty and Co.|Rusty and Co]]'', in the [http://rustyandco.com/comic/39/ re-acquaintance] of The Princess and White Knight.
* ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'' has a [http://yafgc.net/?id=471 good one] when [[Monster Adventurers]] [[X Meets Y|meet]] "[[Here There Be Dragons]]".
** [http://yafgc.net/?id=561 King Eric's "OTHER epiphany"] combines it with [[Face Palm|another kind]] of "[[Dope Slap|beat]]" in the same panel.
* ''[[The KAMics]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120607081932/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/4771258/ Has] [https://web.archive.org/web/20120607081957/http://www.drunkduck.com/The_KAMics/4772298/ done] [
* ''[[Exterminatus Now]]'' has... uh... [http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2006-10-06/comic/bukawk-eee/oh-thank-gods/ this] (see the previous page for explanation). And a [http://exterminatusnow.co.uk/2008-05-31/comic/mort-to-it-than-zombies/discerning-the-wicked-from-the-pure-of-heart/ beat panel with punchline silent panel].
* ''[[The Extremely Post Modern Adventures of Flint and Hinawa]]'' revolves around having two or even three beat panels between the setup and the usually oddball punchline. This is used to the extreme in [http://local-static1.forum-files.fobby.net/forum_attachments/0023/2741/flintandhinawa6.gif Comic #6], where {{spoiler|the beat just continues right to the end without a punchline.}}
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** The comic seems fond of the traditional use of this trope as well. It occurs most often when [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/whereitcamefrom/ Monica suddenly realizes something], but [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/all-my-life/ other] [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/whowhatwhere/ characters] [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/sainthood/ aren't] [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/ohigetit/ immune].
* ''[[Miscellaneous Error]]'' uses a beat panel in an early comic.
* ''[[Fans]]''
* ''[[Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff]]'' does this all the time [[Stylistic Suck|in a highly exaggerated manner]].
* This webcomic [https://web.archive.org/web/20121203021635/http://mind-numbinglyboringwebcomic.smackjeeves.com/comics/1403290/prologue/
* A [http://www.sexdrugsandjunecleaver.com/2010/01/18/anni/ Sex, Drugs, and June Cleaver]{{Dead link}} strip uses two consecutive beat panels ''as the punchline''.
* A single Beat Panel in [[media:Jack and jill.png|this]] ''[[xkcd]]'' strip turns a legitimate question into [[Fridge Logic]].
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