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** In "Hush", we see Tara knocking on one of the dorm room's doors, and Willow waking up from the noise. The door is opened by one of The Gentlemen holding a bloody heart. This was actually hinted, since Tara had previously found Willow's room number (which isn't the number on the door).
** In "Teacher's Pet" a demon posing as a HotTeacher has lured Xander to her house. Buffy tracks down her address...only to find the woman whose identity the demon has stolen in order to pose as a teacher.

The CutApart is a subversion of the ContinuityEditing that the audience is used to seeing. We're led to believe we're seeing the same event from two perspectives, then the RevealShot shows that it's two separate events that may be miles apart. In most cases, this is used to get our hopes up (Alice finding Bob would be great) only to destroy them (Chris finding Bob is horrible), but occasionally it's the reverse, and Chris being there is a moment of triumph.

* At the beginning of an episode of ''Series/TheFugitive2000'', Kimble is seen breaking into a boat and ransacking it for food before taking a nap. At the same time, we see [[InspectorJavert Gerard]] and his wife and daughter walking down a dock, preparing for a day out. The door to the boat's cabin flies open, startling Kimble. . . and it turns out Gerard and his family are hundreds of miles away, while Kimble has just been discovered by two completely different cops. He pretends to be a random drifter, but has to flee when they realize who he really is.

* At the beginning of an episode of ''Series/TheFugitive'' (the 2000 revival, Kimble is seen breaking into a boat and ransacking it for food before taking a nap. At the same time, we see Gerard and his wife and daughter walking down a dock, preparing for a day out. The door to the boat's cabin flies open, startling Kimble. . . and it turns out Gerard and his family are hundreds of miles away, while Kimble has just been discovered by two completely different cops. (He pretends to be a random drifter, but has to flee when they realize who he really is)[[/folder]]

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** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0803.html "Saved By The Belt"]], Blackwing is flying high into the air with Roy's Belt of Giant Strength while he is in a life or death struggle with Thog. Blackwing then drops the belt, which lands on...Mr. Scruffy, who is cornered by a huge dog, the belt giving him the strength to send it flying through a wall. [[spoiler:Ironically, [[NiceJobBreakinItHero this ends up making things worse for Roy as he was started to get the upper hand against Thog, only for the sight of the injured dog to making Thog angrier and overpower Roy again]]]].

** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0803.html "Saved By The Belt"]], Blackwing is flying high into the air with Roy's Belt of Giant Strength while he is in a life or death struggle with Thog. Blackwing then drops the belt, which lands on...Mr. Scruffy, who is cornered by a huge dog, the belt giving him the strength send it flying through a wall. [[spoiler:Ironically, [[NiceJobBreakinItHero this ends up making things worse for Roy as he was started to get the upper hand against Thog, only for the sight of the injured dog to making Thog angrier and overpower Roy again]]]].

* Not exactly "far apart", but the strip [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0402.html "Speaking from the Heart"]] from ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' plays with people's expectations.

* Famously used to set up the AloneWithThePsycho climax in ''Film/TheSilenceOfTheLambs''.

* In ''[[Franchise/{{Species}} Species 2]]'', infected astronaut Patrick Ross is about to have sex with his girlfriend as the government officers are heading to his house. However, it turns out that Patrick's house is empty and he and his girlfriend were in a cabin in the woods.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'': It initially looks like Junior got the baby safely to her new family despite sabotage from Hunter, but the home he's visiting turns out to be [[spoiler: a trap set by Hunter,]] and the family is actually getting a visit from a very stiff-capped inspector about their recent "home renovations" needing to be taken down.

* At the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow TheMovie'', Mordecai and Rigby are racing to the park for work while it cuts to Benson rounding up the other employees for the morning meeting. Mordecai and Rigby then arrive and see everyone at the porch, believing they made it on time, [[YankTheDogsChain but then Benson reveals that the meeting was already over]] and the scenes with him and the others had occurred ''ten minutes ago''.

** Happens in a much earlier episode too, with the [[FanNickname Gaang]] in a Fire Nation-controlled village, worried about getting caught. Fire Nation troops walk around menacingly as they sleep, the troops then knock on a door... which is opened by Haru, a friendly kid they met earlier in the episode.

** In "Teacher's Pet" a demon posing as a HotTeacher has lured Xander to her house. Buffy tracks down her address...which is opened by the woman whose identity she has stolen in order to pose as a teacher.

* ''Film/ManOfTaiChi'' opens with Inspector Sun closing in on Donaka's location with a SWAT team, busting his [[FightClubbing illegal fighting ring]] after a great deal of work. However, as she enters the room, turns out Donaka wasn't there (and he leaves her [[CallingCard a flower pot]].

* At the beginning of ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow TheMovie'', Mordecai and Rigby are racing to the park for work while it cuts to Benson rounding up the other employees for the morning meeting. Mordecai and Rigby then arrive and see everyone at the porch, believing they made it on time, but then Benson reveals that the meeting was already over and the scenes with him and the others had occurred ''ten minutes'' ago.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/ShaunTheSheep'' movie, when Shaun and Bitzer get caught by Animal Control and end up in the pound, the other sheep work to break them out. A montage shows them wrapping a chain around the bars of a window which they then use to pull the wall down as Shaun and Bitzer hear them working. When the wall comes down, the sheep see...an empty room. [[EpicFail They had pulled down the wall of building]] ''[[EpicFail next]]'' [[EpicFail to the pound]]. Cue Shaun doing a FacePalm.

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/CampLazlo'', Lumpus, trying to get proof that Lazlo, Raj and Clam were behind pranks pulled on him, convinced Lazlo to prank 'the big moose' while he was asleep. A sequence then showed Lumpus sleeping while the Jelly Scouts were sneaking into a room, ending with Lazlo spraying an obscured figure with antlers with shaving cream. It then {{Smash Cut}}s to a scene where Lumpus's face is obscured and all the campers are freaking over how disgusting it looks. Then in a hilarious RevealShot, it's shown that his face is still the same (meaning that all the campers find him [[TheGrotesque naturally hideous]]). Turns out that Lazlo thought Lumpus meant [[LiteralMinded the big moose head in the cafeteria]], and he and the others 'pranked' it [[CleansUpNicely by giving it a shave and haircut]].

* The scene mentioned above in the ''Naruto'' example was directly homaged in the fanfic ''FanFic/{{RED}}'' when you're led to believe [[spoiler:Naruto is bringing Sasuke to shelter at Kakashi's house]] only for it to reveal that [[spoiler:Naruto has brought him to ''Shikamaru's'' house and the Red at Kakashi's door begging for help is Itachi come to ask Kakashi to look out for Sasuke]].

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* In ''Manga/PrisonSchool'', Kiyoshi accidentally urinates on Hana, the next scene cuts to Meiko drinking water from a tap.

* Used in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': Sasuke learns that [[AloofBigBrother Itachi]] and Kisame are searching for Naruto in a nearby town, so he dashes off to warn him. He knows that he is traveling with Jiraiya, so he asks every hotel owner he comes across whether they have seen a blonde kid with a tall white-haired man until he finally gets a positive response. He goes up to the room and knocks on the door. The scene cuts to Naruto inside his room hearing the knock while meditating. The scene switches back and forth a couple more times, with Sasuke knocking with increasing urgency until Naruto gets fed up and stands to answer the door. Finally, the door opens for Sasuke revealing . . . a completely unrelated blonde child and white-haired old man. Immediately after, Naruto opens the door to reveal Itachi.
** This scene was directly homaged in the ''Naruto'' fanfic ''FanFic/{{RED}}'' when you're led to believe [[spoiler:Naruto is bringing Sasuke to shelter at Kakashi's house]] only for it to reveal that [[spoiler:Naruto has brought him to ''Shikamaru's'' house and the Red at Kakashi's door begging for help is Itachi come to ask Kakashi to look out for Sasuke]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'': It initially looks like Junior got the baby safely to her new family despite sabotage from Hunter, but the home he's visiting turns out to be [[spoiler: a trap set by Hunter,]] and the family is actually getting a visit from a very stiff-capped inspector about their recent "home renovations" needing to be taken down.
* ''WesternAnimation/DougsFirstMovie'' uses this when government agents are sent to capture Herman, the Lucky Duck Lake Monster, who is hiding out at Doug's house as Doug and his friend Skeeter are returning to said house. Adding to this, Porkchop and Herman hear someone at the door. However, it turns out that it was Doug and Skeeter at the door; the agents are actually at the wrong house and come across the nerd group Roger had hired to build a robot. Part of the humor of this bit is that one shot features the agents leaping out of a black truck, then cuts to Skeeter commenting on an unusual truck parked in front of Doug's home that has no other importance to the plot for a perfect effect.

* ''Film/NeverSayNeverAgain''. [[TheDragon Fatima Blush]] watches as Film/JamesBond takes a GirlOfTheWeek up to his hotel room. There's a shot of a remote-controlled bomb under the bed, Bond and the girl smooching on the bed, Fatima pressing the button...and the lovers looking up in shock as a room on the other side of the hotel courtyard explodes.
-->'''Bond:''' Well, it proves we made the right decision.
-->'''Girl:''' About what, darling?
-->'''Bond:''' Your place or mine.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''

* The fifth season finale to ''{{Series/CSI}}'' uses this trope to deal a YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle moment to a rescue operation.

* Occurs in ''Series/{{The 100}}'' where we're led to believe that Clarke (having just escaped the Grounders) is about to run into the search party that's out looking for her. However, she ends up getting caught in a snare, and the moving bush that the search party has spotted contains someone else entirely.

* While it is not a camera trick, this is the entire story told by the song "Silhouettes", where the guy is complaining how he can see his girlfriend in silhouette through the shade in her living room, dancing with another man, until he gets so disgusted he bangs on the door, only to discover two different people open the door, and he's ''on the wrong block''!
** This is an aversion of an idea previously (and later) used by other songs called "Two Silhouettes" in which the other silhouette ''is'' another man.

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* Not exactly "far apart", [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0402.html but this]] ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' strip plays with people's expectations.
* This is a frequent source of comedy in ''Webcomic/DorkTower''. One story begins with Gilly and Matt each preparing for a blind date. We then see them at a table talking, and seeing how they share lots of common interests and hobbies. The final panel shows that they are actually sitting at two different tables, each talking to someone else who think their hobbies are weird.

** Happened in a much earlier episode too, with the [[FanNickname Gaang]] in a Fire Nation controlled village, worried about getting caught. Fire Nation troops walk around menacingly as they sleep, the troops then knock on a door... which is opened by Haru, a friendly kid they met earlier in the episode.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Storks}}'': It initially looks like Junior got the baby safely to her new family despite sabotage from Hunter, but the home he's visiting turns out to be [[spoiler: a trap set by Hunter,]] and the family is actually getting a visit from a very stiff-capped inspector about their recent "home renovations" needing to be taken down.
* ''WesternAnimation/DougsFirstMovie'' uses this when government agents are sent to capture Herman, the Lucky Duck Lake Monster, who is hiding out at Doug's house as Doug and his friend Skeeter are returning to said house. Adding to this, Porkchop and Herman hear someone at the door. However, it turns out that it was Doug and Skeeter at the door; the agents are actually at the wrong house and come across the nerd group Roger had hired to build a robot. Part of the humor of this bit is that one shot features the agents leaping out of a black truck, then cuts to Skeeter commenting on an unusual truck parked in front of Doug's home that has no other importance to the plot for a perfect effect.
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* ''Film/TheFugitive''. After Kimball goes home with the waitress, there's a scene of SWAT team storming the house. (Well, ''a'' house at any rate.)

* Also PlayedForLaughs in ''Film/WaynesWorld2''. Wayne is told that love interest Cassandra is set to be wed at the First Presbyterian Church. In a scene [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZbW3GgZvf0#t=3m06s straight out of]] ''TheGraduate'', Wayne speeds to the church where he bangs on the glass, interrupting [[spoiler:the wrong wedding. He goes outside to find that he is actually at the Second Presbyterian Church, directly across the street from the First Presbyterian Church.]]

* The video for LadyAntebellum's "Need You Now" uses this to good effect. Male singer sits outside hotel room door, female singer inside hotel room. He reluctantly leaves, and is sitting in a coffee shop, she's in a cab going by a coffee shop. Cab pulls away, he leaves shop and is running down the sidewalk in the same apparent direction. He runs through a door and bursts into a party, scans the crowd looking for someone, then she runs through the same door and bursts into the same party, scans the same crowd. He spot his goal, his eyes light up, and we see...a completely different girl. Female singer similarly spots the completely different guy she was searching for.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', "Lake Laogai": Team Avatar opens the door to where they think Appa is, Appa looks up at the opening door to see... Zuko. Team Avatar meanwhile encounters Long Feng and the Dai Li agents. A mild [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] follows as Zuko snarks, "Expecting someone else?"

* ''WesternAnimation/DougsFirstMovie'' uses this when government agents are sent to Doug Funnie's house to grab Herman, the Lucky Duck lake monster that they have been hiding there as Doug and his friend Skeeter are returning to said house. Adding to this, Porkchop and Herman hear someone at the door. However, it turns out that it was Doug and Skeeter at the door; the agents are actually at the wrong house and come across the nerd group Roger had hired to build a robot. Part of the humor of this bit is that one shot features the agents leaping out of a black truck, then cuts to Skeeter commenting on an unusual truck parked in front of Doug's home that has no other importance to the plot for a perfect effect.

* ''Anime/EdenOfTheEast'' has a very drawn out one: Osugi is drunk and wandering around the street just as [[SerialKiller Kuroha]] is walking down the same street and the episode ends. Next episode we see Osugi with a bondage mask on his face tied to a chair and being threatened by Kuroha, and his friends are unable to contact him but eventually judge an online poster to be him by the pictures of his stuff lying around the room. [[spoiler:A couple episodes later it turns out the two never met on the street: the man in the mask was actually a serial rapist that stole Osugi's stuff before getting kidnapped and Osugi had his phone taken away while his new co-workers were making him drink a lot as a sort of intiation.]]

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': Mikasa and her parents are expecting a visit from Dr. Jaeger and Eren, and they hear a knock on the door. Cut to Dr. Jaeger knocking on the door. We're led to believe that these scenes occur at the same time...until Dr. Jaeger opens the door to find Mikasa's parents dead and Mikasa herself missing; the people knocking the first time were [[SexSlave sex]] [[MadeASlave slavers]].