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{{trope}}
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A [[Hard Cut|cut]] or [[Dissolve]] that matches an object in the first shot with an object in the second shot. The objects must be similar in size and position within the shot. Can be used to add harmony and continuity to a sudden shift in time or place.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* The opening credits for ''[[
** ''[[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''.
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== Film - Live Action ==
* The most recognizable [[Match Cut]] might be from the opening of ''[[
** Parodied in ''[[Startopia]]'', where the bone and the satellite are replaced by a...donut and a donut-shaped space station. Where does a hominid get a donut, you ask me? Why, from a massive, black, featureless, monolithic [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|donut dispenser]]. Duh.
** Parodied in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]'', where the satellite changes right back into a bone and hits the caveman on the head.
* Another well-known one is the [[Logo Joke|dissolve from the Paramount logo to the mountain]] in all of the ''[[
** ''[[The Busy World of Richard Scarry]]'' (an animated series by [[Cinar]] that Paramount co-produced) also did this during the title sequence.
** Lots of other Paramount movies used it, too, including ''[[Coming to America]]'' and ''[[South Park]]: Bigger, Longer & Uncut''.
*** As with the studio logos (such as [[Twentieth Century Fox]] and [[Universal]]) at the very beginning of some movies.
* This concept was pioneered by ''[[
* In ''[[Lawrence of Arabia]]'', the titular hero blows out a [[Match Cut|match, and we cut]] to the sun rising over the desert.
* The first ''[[Spider-Man (
* ''[[Max Payne (
* ''[[The Fall (
* 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.
* ''[[Final Destination]] 3'' uses this to cut from Ashley & Ashlyn's burning tanning beds at their death scene to their coffins at their funeral.
* This happens in the first live action ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (
* Just about every other scene in ''[[The Lovely Bones]]''.
* Special effects in ''[[Brotherhood of the Wolf]]'' are used to match a naked woman's upper torso with a hill-line. [[Scenery Porn]] indeed.
* In ''[[Bram
* The first scene of ''[[Aliens]]'' cuts from Ripley's face to a beautiful view of Earth.
* [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Psycho]]'': in the shower scene, the bathtub drain and Marion's eye.
** Hitchcock's 1935 version of ''[[The Thirty
* [[Subverted]] in ''[[Idiocracy]]'' as it was a pile of garbage the whole time, but at first, when the sun is behind it, it looks like a mountain. This trope applies because the "mountain" is in tune with the world as we know it, while the revelation that it's actually garbage is there to show us just how bad the world gets.
* Creepy example in ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection]]''. Picard is wrestling with his conscience over what to do as the Federation has teamed up with some unpleasant aliens who are stealing some innocents' special planet that will let them live forever--at the moment they try to keep themselves going with [[Body Horror]] operations. The [[Match Cut]] is between Picard taking off his rank pips and putting them on his desk--and one of the aliens having their teeth operated on.
* Frequently used in the first half of the 1967 film version of Truman Capote's ''In Cold Blood'' as we cut back and forth between the killers and their pursuers.
* ''[[Layer Cake]]'' uses frequent match cuts, but most notably to [[Book Ends|book end]] the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=1PrkPicfqTA assassination sequence] with a [[Kubrick Stare]].
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* [[Treasure Planet]]'s scene "I'm Still Here" has this with Jim looking to the ship's skyline into the Benbow Inn's windows, and then [[Time Skip]] from his flashback to present. Another part was after Jim looked at Silver as his longboat descended, the sun below the galleon matches the morning sun before his dad left.
* ''[[Shrek]]'' has a number of match dissolves combined with a moving POV, which are obviously easier to achieve in CGI than in live action.
* In the transition between the songs "Heaven's Light" and "Hellfire" in ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'', a bell clapper dissolves into a swinging incensor.
* Done a couple of times in ''[[The Emperor's New Groove
* In ''[[A Goofy Movie]]'', Goofy suffers a [[Heroic BSOD]] and has him lying on the water bead with a depressed look on his face. It then dissolves to him driving the next day with that same depressed look.
* Towards the start of ''[[Atlantis:
** Another one happens at the end of the film: when Whitmore receives a crystal necklace from Milo after his teammates have returned from their journey, the scene cuts to the crystal necklace worn by {{spoiler|Kida, newly made}} the [[The High Queen|Queen]] as she takes it off and blows on it to make a stone face representing {{spoiler|her late father, [[Leonard Nimoy|Kashekhim Nedakh]]}}, causing it fly away into the sky.
* In ''[[How to Train Your Dragon (
* When the Beast transforms back into a human at the end of ''[[Beauty and
* At the end of ''[[Peter Pan (Disney film)|Peter Pan]]'', after Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, the Darling children, and the Lost Boys return to London from Neverland by making Captain Hook's ship fly away into the sky, we see a full moon turn into the Big Ben clock tower, which turns into a grandfather clock inside the Darling family residence.
* 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 ''[[
* 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.
* Near the end of the song "Colors of the Wind" from ''[[
* Happens several times in the song "Worthless" near the end of ''[[The Brave Little Toaster]]'', when they cut from the junkyard to the Master's house. At one point, the Car Crusher's blades turn into the TV, and another point a crushed cube turns into the TV again.
== Live Action TV ==
* 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 ''[[
* 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.
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== Tabletop Games ==
* The "flip" and newer "transform" cards from ''[[Magic:
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== Video Games ==
* In the introduction of ''[[Space Quest|Space Quest VI]]'', a jockstrap thrown up into the air in a parody of ''2001'' transitions to a jockstrap-shaped spaceship.
* The first scene of ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* In the new employee training episode of ''[[Harvey Birdman, Attorney
* The ''[[Futurama]]'' episode "Luck of the Fryish" did this in-between the current time period (the future) and [[Flash Back]] sequences. A particularly funny example is when they arrive at the dilapidated ruins of Fry's childhood home (with Bender commenting on how "Father Time sure took a bat to this place"), which is revealed to be in the exact same state of disrepair in the flashback.
** And they did it again in both "Jurassic Bark" and "Bender's Big Score".
* The opening of ''[[Batman:
* The third-season opening to ''[[Transformers Generation 1]]'' has several of these.
* ''[[Megas XLR]]'' "Battle Royale" cuts between Kiva battling brutes in station and Coop using similar moves to fight opponents in the ring.
* Occurs in ''[[101 Dalmatians
* At the end of [[Pixar Shorts|''Tokyo Mater'']] when Kabuto finds out that he had lost the race to [[Tokyo Tower]] to [[Cars|Mater]], the scene immediately cuts to Kabuto having all of his modifications being pulled off his body and being laughed at by the other cars.
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[
* Interestingly done with a still-image [[Web Comic]] on [[Deviant ART]]: [http://jediannsolo.deviantart.com/art/AGENCY-DAY-2-pg25-155686588\] A door in a dark menacing facility is drawn at the same angle as a hospital door in the panel above it.
* [http://egscomics.com/?date=2011-04-28 This] strip of ''[[
* In [http://yuumei.deviantart.com/art/Knite-Chapter-2-167389351 this] chapter of the [[Deviant ART]] flash comic Knite, this is used once or twice while Sen is recounting the past to his friends.
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