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* A teleportation special effect.
* The bookend of an [[Imagine Spot]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Occurs quite often in Mecha anime where a witnesses viewing a digital screen witness a mecha perform a powerful attack or explode. The digital screen becomes a blinding white.
* ''[[Code Geass]]'' with {{spoiler|Nunnally during the Freya explosion in Tokyo. Assumed dead for a couple of episodes, she returns when it is discovered that although she was close enough to ground zero for a
* The end of ''[[Lucky Star]]''.
* Happened at the conclusion of a number of episodes of ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', though it was just to say "the episode's over, cue the credits."
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* The much-reviled ''[[Star Trek V: The Final Frontier|Star Trek V the Final Frontier]]'' began with a fade from a white screen. At the end of that scene there was a fade to white, which cut to the credits.
* Pretty sure the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' movies do this a couple of times with the scenes in the lab and hospital. Not 100% however.
* Used in ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' when Frodo first sees Arwen and later Elrond, when he's dying from the Morgul blade. One of the ending fake-outs in the Return of the King movie faded to white instead of black, just for variety's sake. As did the actual ending.
* Used in the Hillary Duff movie ''[[Raise Your Voice]]'' when her brother dies.
* ''[[Cube]]''.
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* Anything on ''[[Lost]]'' involving "flashes," such as Desmond turning the key in season 2, or the time skips in season 5.
** Also the {{spoiler|H-bomb explosion}} in the season 5 finale.
* Used to disconcerting effect at the end of the ''[[The West Wing|West Wing]]'' episode "Commencement"
* ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' ended season 4 this way, the white light from {{spoiler|Lucifer rising from his prison}} growing more and more intense until it took over the whole screen.
* Used in ''[[Torchwood]]'' to portray the {{spoiler|the nuclear meltdown that killed Owen (again, for good - probably...)}}
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** As does ''[[The World Ends With You]]''. Before big boss battles, the fade effect takes longer.
* ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' Episode 1 ends this way when {{spoiler|the citadel finally explodes just moments after you have boarded the train out of City 17.}}
* Emulating ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' Episode 1, ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' ends with a fade to white {{spoiler|upon defeating [[
* Happens frequently in Eternal Darkness. After any "insanity effect [[Cutscene]]" where the character hallucinates something bizarre and twisted, the screen goes white and fades back to normal. Characters usually then state "this...can't...be happening!"
* Occurs in "[[Trauma Center]]: Under the Knife" during the bomb level. Any mistakes cause a zoom-out followed by a fade to white and the usual Operation Failed message.
* One of the endings in ''[[A Tale of Two Kingdoms]]'' has the screen slowly fade to white, and when it finishes you stay in the fairy realm forever.
* At the end of ''[[Bit.Trip]] FLUX'', in the epilogue level, the screen slowly fades to white.
* After defeating [[Super Smash Bros.|Master Hand]] or Crazy Hand, the screen fades to white, and then it fades to black.
* In [[
* Not death, per se, nor the entire screen, but defeating any of the [[The Dragon|Star]] [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Wolf]] members in [[Star Fox (series)|Star
== [[Web Original]] ==
* After [[The Reveal]] at the end of ''[[Broken Saints]]'' Chapter 21, Act 3.
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