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{{trope}}
A [[Smash Cut]] cut occurs without warning in the middle of a scene and transitions abruptly to another, and is often intended to startle the audience. Very often, it goes something like this:
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'''Bob''': ...[[Gosh Dang It to Heck|Dagnabbit]]. }}
Can also be combined with [[Gilligan Cut]], or [[Ironic Echo]], though a Smash Cut is defined by the lack of warning that it is coming and the fact that it usually cuts someone off mid-sentence. This is also a popular technique for going to credits, or for when someone wakes up from a Nightmare, so it often overlaps with [[Catapult Nightmare]].
Not to be confused with the
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v10/c083/11.html Chapter 83], we follow Yue briefly after she sees Negi and Nodoka off on their date. In the last two panels of the page she bumps into someone and apologises. The scene then abruptly cuts back to Negi and Nodoka, and it's not until [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v10/c087/5.html four chapters later] that we return to this scene and find out that she bumped into {{spoiler|[[Stable Time Loop|Negi himself]]}}.
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== [[Film]] ==
* Employed in many horror movies, especially in [[Screamer Trailer
* The movie ''War'' had these just about every second to the point where you say "This is ridiculous!" ten minutes into the movie.
* ''[[A Serious Man]]'': When the truth is found to be lies, and all the joy within you dies... <!-- If someone familiar with the source could edit this line to make it more clear, that would be appreciated. -->
* The ending to ''[[Inception]]'': {{spoiler|Cobb's totem starts to wobble as the scene smash cuts to black and the credits begin to roll}}
* Used any time Jason puts together a costume in ''[[Mystery Team]]''.
* Used comically in [[John Carter (
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* An ''[[Angel]]'' episode had Wesley happily declare "We're winning!" during a battle.
** In fact, something like this happens in almost every episode of ''[[Angel]]''.
** [[Joss Whedon]] does another one in ''[[Firefly|Serenity]]'', when we cut from River being told to "lie down" to her having a needle shoved into her forehead in a lab. Joss admits on the commentary track that much of the camera work in the first few minutes, which includes several Smash Cuts and [[Hard Cut
** Yeah, [[Joss Whedon]] loves these. A particularly heart wrenching example is in the ''[[Buffy]]'' episode "Selfless" which goes from Anya singing an upbeat song (during the [[Musical Episode]]) about how much she loves Xander to {{spoiler|her with a sword through her chest after Buffy impaled her, she gets better quickly but the audience doesn't for a while}}
*** Several more appear in "The Body", cutting from {{spoiler|imagined scenes of Joyce's recovery to her dead body}}.
*** A more light-hearted version from the [[Musical Episode]] is cutting from the midst of Tara's highly-suggestive love song ("You make me--" (complete)) to Xander hinting Tara and Willow have slipped away for some nookie.
* The ''[[
* A ''[[
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'''Eli (in the control room):''' All right, this is ridiculous. Jumping back and forth without any warning is completely--
'''Eli (back in his hotel on Earth):''' --unacceptable! [looks around] Seriously? }}
* Lampshaded in 30 Rock episode "Smash cut to".
* Happens at the end of the ''[[
* In an episode of ''[[The George Lopez Show]]'', Benny vows do something horrible to George for rigging a productivity contest. George thinks she's bluffing. Cut to George crying over his broken golf clubs.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In the ''[[Strong
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'''Renaldo''': That's the dumbest— {Jump cut} Dangeresque, you're a genius! }}
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* Happens fairly often in the ''[[
== [[Web Original]] ==
* Another [[Joss Whedon]] example in [[
* A scene from [[G Mod Idiot Box]] uses one of these, when Coach suffers from a volatile form of gonorrhea.
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'''Coach''': Aaaaaaaggghhh!!
[Coach blasts a hole through the wall with flames shooting from his groin, frying Nick into a charred husk.]
'''Nick''': Coach...you do that again, and I will bury you alive.
'''Coach''': AAH--!
[Coach is barely holding it in.]
'''Nick''': Coach...!
'''Coach''': Eeyaaaaagghh--!!
[The entire building explodes, and we smash cut to Coach's hand sticking out of the ground, giving the middle finger.] }}
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* Every episode of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' ends with a smash cut into the ending credits.
* In ''[[Futurama]]'', we have the producer's favorite smash cut ever from the episode "Put Your Head on My Shoulders":
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[Smash Cut to courtroom and judge banging his gavel]
'''Judge:''' [[Night Court|$500 and time served.]]
'''Bender:''' Stupid anti-pimping laws! }}
** Another example happens right at the end of "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", when [[The Chew Toy|Zoidberg]] starts to sing his song and it smash cuts to the credits. We then hear Zoidberg sigh.
** Most of "Time Keeps On Slipping" is held together entirely by
** From ''Bender's Big Score''
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'''Zoidberg''': We're not unemplo-
(''Cut to the crew being kicked out of the office''). }}
** In "Proposition Infinity", Amy and Bender have a torrid and illegal romance. They spearhead a campaign to make robot/human relationsihps legal, and actually win. Amy says now they can openly have a serious, monogomous relationship.
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(''Cut to Bender on a beach somewhere with two fembots.'') }}
* ''[[Batman:
* From ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
* Happens a lot to Helga and Arnold on ''[[Hey Arnold!]]!''.
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[''Cut to Helga and the gang in the subway station.'']
'''Helga:''' "...I can't believe I am taking the subway." }}
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