Offscreen Moment of Awesome/Fan Works

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • In the "Destroy the Arkbird" chapter of The Ultimate Ace, three Su-37s, specifically Yellow Squadron birds arrive to fight with Wardog and Mobius Squadron. Blaze charges forward to take them on singlehandedly while getting the other pilots to focus on their primary target... Which he somehow does, but exactly how he does it is not clearly described. Lampshade Hung in-story when the other pilots also are confused about how he pulled it off and Blaze simply says "classified" when asked.
  • The first story in Peter Chimaera book of historical faFfiction is entitled Hitler: Extreme Nazi. Too bad the only thing extreme about it is its short length; it barely takes up one page, which is short even for Chimaera.
    • Also comes in Digimon 2:Return of Digimon, where Digimon fights Evil Digimon. The first time Digimon one shoot kills him with his robot suit, only for it be reveal that "In Chapter 2, the evil Digimon is not really dead -- IT WAS A TRICK!" Then, the second time, after "punching through the ceiling and fighting IN SPACE," the story in its entirety goes, "They fought for a long time until they were tired from the fight, and Digimon killed him with a lethal blow. "Impossible … I can not be stopped!" Then an explosion."
  • The Doorstop, a Hate Fic/Deconstruction of The Open Door has an especially notable one shortly after a major Wham! Episode when New!Chaos launches simultaneous commando raids against the TSAB, the New Republic, and the Spiral Nation that nearly beheads all three nations in one fell swoop. Five chapters of brutal fighting, multiple Crowning Moments Of Awesome, and several character deaths later, Nanoha learns that an attack force similar in size to the one that her entire team barely managed to fight off accidentally attacked St. Hilda Elementary School... and was single-handedly curbstomped by Vivio in full Saint King mode. Naturally, this all happens completely off-screen.
  • An Eye of the Fox scene which depicts Kira calmly walking out of the Autobot's cave and proceeded to take out an entire forest it is still cool to imagine.
  • In Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami, Dark Yagami becomes King of the Shinigami, acquires a notebook that can do anything, and takes over the world. He then gets attacked by his sister Sayu, of all people, who manages to become Queen of the Shinigami. They're about to fight at the end of the chapter, but at the start of the next, the author decides that a fight between two Shinigami would be stupid, and has her merely defeat Dark and hand him over to L. This is averted several chapters later, when the fight between the two actually takes place.
  • Many of the fights in Christian Humber Reloaded are only described as far as Vash performing the killing move on the enemies, notably when Vash fight his corrupted self again in "Darkness Never Dies No Matter How Many Times You Kill It."
  • The original version of Pokémon Revolution had been building up to a high-octane final battle in Kanto. The story ends at Chapter 38, just when the Johto forces start heading to Kanto.
  • The final (extremely short) battle in the warehouse at the end of With Strings Attached is all sound effects and aftermath. That's partially because of how one-sided the fight was—the real battle was John and Ringo's attempt to get into the warehouse—and partially because the author hates writing fight scenes.
    • A written-out version of this fight, about a page long, does exist.
  • Fight scenes Re-Take mostly occur off-screen. This includes Shinji, having knowledge of the future, disables Unit-03 without killing the pilot, and is stated to have broken all of its limbs. In the story's climax, Shinji's fight with the Mass Production Evas, most notably after Ghost Asuka finally decides to help him and they take the Lance of Longious. We get an Oh Crap reaction from SELEE saying they're finished and the Unit-01 is going to kill their Evas and we get seen afterwards indicating that Shinji and Asuka took them down easily, but we don't get to see the fight.
  • In The Last Spartan, when Tali is explaining the quarian Pilgrimage to Master Chief, she mentions a time when Kal'Reegar, himself on a pilgrmage at the time, returned to the fleet to give the Rayya's Captain a Brute Gravity Hammer as a return gift. Tali described Reegar as being victim of multiple suit breaches and other injuries, but when Chief asks her exactly how he got it, Tali only says "It wasn't easy."
  • From Gods of This New World when Mello goes to kidnap Sayu he fails miserably because she was waiting for him with a gun and she had L at her back.
  • Inner Demons has Rarity's fight with Trixie. The narration cuts away just before they go at each other; later scenes imply that Trixie needed Queen!Twilight's help to win. This is impressive given that Rarity is just a fashionista, compared to Trixie, who's trained in combat magic. The Element of Generosity changing into a suit of mystic armor probably helped.
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