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== Anime and Manga ==
* The opening credits for ''[[Baccano!]]'' did this for (in order) a wad of bills, some bottles, a thrown dart (matched with a knife), an explosion (matched with exploding flash powder), and a playing card.
** ''[[Durarara!!]]'', by the same studio and author, does much the same, only with more modern objects such as a cellphone, vending machine, and soda can.
*** The second opening has some rather creative ones such as a ladle to a street mirror, and [[Scary Shiny Glasses]] to the ''moon''.
* ''[[Fushigi Yuugi]]'' does a rather nice one too. Miaka briefly imagines a benign, smiling Tamahome; the image then fades into [[Brainwashed and Crazy|evil]] Tamahome, whose facial expression makes him look very different as he finishes up shredding his letter to Miaka.
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* The first ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]'' movie Match Cuts from the Green Goblin blowing a building up with his glider to high school graduation (by way of debris to mortarboards, okay?).
* ''[[Max Payne (film)|Max Payne]]'' uses this particular technique with the main character: a scene ends showing a flashback three years in the past, and as the camera revolves around Max, the scene slowly changes to the much darker present time, until we've gone from looking over his shoulder, around him to his face, and back over his shoulder again.
* ''[[The Fall (film)|The Fall]]'' has some particularly beautiful examples, including a butterfly fading into a reef and island, and a priest's face and collar fading into a desert landscape.
* In ''[[National Treasure]]: Book of Secrets'', there is a dissolve from the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in London to the Capitol Dome in Washington D.C. The west towers of St. Paul's are also matched by a similar-looking pair of towers in Washington, though it's not clear if they were added in CGI.
* The opening scene of ''[[Jurassic Park|The Lost World: Jurassic Park]]'' cuts from a woman on a tropical island shrieking to Jeff Goldblum yawning in front of a picture of a tropical island.
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* During the song "A Girl Worth Fighting For" from ''[[Mulan]]'', part of a dream sequence seen about halfway through the song actually turns into a Mount Rushmoresque-rock sculpture seen in the background.
* At the end of ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'', when Ariel and Eric kiss after former has been turned back into a human, Ariel's [[Magic Pants|sparkly dress]] and Eric's sailor suit actually turn into [[Giant Poofy Sleeves|a wedding dress]] and a royal admiral suit when we see their wedding, respectively.
* A dream sequence in ''[[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella II]]'' has the figurines on [[Heel Face Turn|Anastasia's]] music box morph into Anastasia and the baker.
* At the very beginning of ''[[Finding Nemo]]'', just right after Marlin finds out that his son Nemo's egg is the only egg that had survived the barracuda attack (though with a large crack in the eggshell), the scene immediately cuts from the egg to the sun reflected in the water, leading to the film's opening credits (and Nemo himself already hatched from the egg).
* There's at least one in ''[[Cars]]'', when Lightning McQueen agrees to accompany Mater on some unspecified trip, then cutting to Lighting at night in the field, as the tractor-tipping scene begins.
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* The end of the ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "Take Me Out To The Holosuite" has an instance, probably parodying the ''2001'' example, with a thrown baseball matching the station.
* This is very common in ''[[Ugly Betty]]'', which gets away with it because of the slightly bizarre (i.e. stylish) design of the sets - weird objects intruding into frame to become odd shapes in the next shot don't seem at all out of place when all the windows in the office are circular.
* The intro to ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' has a scene in which the head of a Wraith is cut to a view of the main Tower of the City of Atlantis ... which has the same size as the head, the same general direction of movement and, to top it all, two lightened windows where the eyes of the Wraith were.
* The opening credits in ''[[The Wire]]'' utilise this technique.
* In the ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'' [[Pilot Episode]] "Truth Be Told", Sydney is tied to a chair, watching a door that is about to open and reveal her torturer. Cut to another door opening and her literature professor walking into a classroom, months before the previous scene.
* Used in season 5 of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. ''Vampires of Venice'' has a [[Cold Open]] where a screaming girl is about to be attacked by a vampire, then cuts to a screaming Rory at his stag party shouting into the phone.
* Done more than a few times in ''[[Spaced]]'', including a reference to the famous ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'' Match Cut - a rolled-up newspaper thrown into the air becomes a model of a spaceship in the comics shop.
* In one episode of ''[[The George Lopez Show]]'' during a flashback George [[Uncanny Valley|as a child]] gets jealous of Benny's boyfriend and has a smuggish look on his face. It then goes to the present and George has that same smuggish look.
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* On [[The Beatles]]' ''Sgt Pepper'' album, the sound of a cock crowing at the end of "Good Morning, Good Morning" cuts to a similar-sounding guitar chord at the start of "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Reprise".
** The stereo mix cuts the two sounds together seamlessly. On the mono version (only released on CD in 2009) there's a split-second pause.
* In the [[David Bowie]] video "As the World Falls Down" (from the film [[Labyrinth]]), the female protagonist is staring at a photograph of Bowie. The camera zooms in on her left eye. A blink, and now it's Bowie's left eye (with its permanently dilated pupil) the viewer sees as the camera pulls back.
* In the amazing black-and-white [[Touhou Project|Bad Apple!]] music video, nearly every transition is a match cut. Pens turning into wings, flames turning into distant sunlight, girl running turning into girl diving, etc. It's probably the best part of the video. Most other videos will attempt to emulate this changing. (For example, the infamous printed-out screenshots homage video uses match cuts to, say, jump from room to room.)
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