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* Done deliberately in ''[[Too Much Coffee Man (Comic Book)|Too Much Coffee Man]].'' After studiously avoiding any even vaguely superheroic content in a superhero comic, we finally get an alien coming to Earth and begging the hero for help. The two of them make small talk as they get ready for the adventure ... then the story jumps ahead to show them coming home, since the small talk was the [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?|real point]].
* [[Squirrel Girl]] does this all the time.
** Most recently, in [[New Avengers (Comic Book)|New Avengers]], she took down a Nazi mech. She then runs into three more. She charges them as they open fire. We next see her at Avengers Mansion, battered and bleeding.
* In an [[Elf Quest|ElfQuest]] miniseries, ''Rebels'', "The worst pile up in many years" during a futuristic race happens mostly off panel. We just see the aftermath.
* ''[[Funky Winkerbean]]'' set up a meeting between Les and a formerly homeless woman who somehow became a big publisher thanks to Les' manuscript, which she found and possibly plagiarized. You'd think that Les would look up the woman and what books she's written/published, discover she became rich off his stolen book and angrily confront her over plagiarism charges, but nothing happens. They meet, decide to do business, the manuscript isn't brought up, and that's it. The next week's plot is new, and it hasn't been brought up again.
* In [[Blue Beetle]], Guy Gardner started a "really cool bar fight." We see what caused the fight, we are told that it was really cool, but the fight itself happens off panel.
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* In ''[[Transformers]]'' Spotlight: Cliffjumper. When the Decepticons killed a humanoid female he befriended, he picks up his guns and kills all seven of them. It wasn't shown how he did it, but Cliff was hammering his friends tombstone with one of the Cons heads.
* A beautifully understated one from ''[[The Sandman]]'', in which Lucien, Dream's mild-mannered, polite and determinedly non-threatening librarian, mentions that Dream's prisoners -- all the dark monsters ''too horrific or dangerous to serve as nightmares'' -- have escaped, then adds:
{{quote| "A couple of them took refuge in the library. I... dealt with them."}}
* The [[Wolverine]]/Lobo fight in ''[[Marvel Vs DC]]'' took place entirely behind a bar. Most likely because there was no plausible way the writers could think of to have Wolverine (who, at the time, had been stripped of his adamantium skeleton and claws) beat a [[Superman]]-class powerhouse like Lobo.
** It was later revealed that Lobo had been bribed by Professor X to throw the fight. [[Money, Dear Boy| One of the easiest ways to defeat Lobo is to pay him off.]]
* In ''[[Don Rosa|Life and Times]]'' series volume VIII Slick gave Scrooge [[Your Mom|the lamest insult ever.]] There was no battle; [[Curb Stomp Battle|Scrooge was so full of pure wrath that it couldn't be called a fight.]] Shame that we saw only what the people outside the casino saw.
* ''[[Peanuts]]'':
 
** Woodstock somehow managing to win a fight with the mean cat next door and rescuing Linus' blanket. How he managed to do so was a mystery, leaving Snoopy asking [[How Is That Even Possible?]].
** Also, in one series of strips, Peppermint Patty challenged Charlie Brown to a football game, not knowing he didn't have a team. Snoopy came instead with Woodstock and his other bird friends. The game was never shown, but according to Patty, "they clobbered us but good!"
* In terms of pure power, one of the strongest foes Spider-Man has ever defeated was [[Cosmic Entity|Firelord]], a former Herald of [[Galactus]] with powers on par with those of the [[Silver Surfer]]. Just ''how'' did Spidey do this? Well... with no witnesses to the fight until the Avengers showed up to pull him off the defeated Firelord, kinda hard to say.
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