History Main / FightUnscene

* Most of the fight scenes in ''Film/BatmanBegins'' are shot in a very disorienting way.

Compare BattleDiscretionShot, RelaxOVision, OffscreenMomentOfAwesome, CoconutSuperpowers, HitFlash, and InactionSequence. See also BolivianArmyEnding, ChargeIntoCombatCut, FightSceneFailure, and TakeOurWordForIt. When a scene is skipped entirely and only described afterwards, it is SecondHandStorytelling instead.

* ''Manga/FairyTail'' actually as a minor case of this ''in print form'': when [[spoiler:Laxus]] sets up hundreds of objects that will destroy a populated town, a full chapter is spent setting up having all of the guild members come together to destroy them all first, but then ''we see none of these attacks being launched'' as the very next page just skips to the explosion(s) made from the objects being wrecked [[ImplausibleSynchrony all at once]]. This was fixed in the anime. The part where [[spoiler: Erza fights and defeats a hundred monsters]] is also done in just one page in the manga. This was also fixed in the anime.

* ''Film/TheLostBladesman'' usually averts this trope, with Guan Yu fighting his way through hordes and hordes of mooks in multiple large-scale action sequences where he puts his trusty halberd to good use slicing in dicing. But played straight in the scene when he confronts a traitorous general in the latter's mansion - suddenly, forty armed mooks appears from out of nowhere, the general picks up his EpicFlail as Guan Yu unsheathes his halberd, and the courtyard doors swings shut, conveniently obscuring every bit of action. The morning star part of the general's flail then bursts through said door, which opens finally... to reveal Guan Yu standing alone surrounded by dead bodies, said general included.

* Early in ''Manga/DragonBall'', young Krillin fights Master Roshi (in disguise) during a tournament and the fight is over in a blink of an eye. When the audience complains, Master Roshi and Krillin enlist the aid of the announcer and cameraman and re-enact the most improbable fight ever in slow motion. This trope is played painfully straight throughout the entire length of ''Anime/DragonBallZ''.

* ''Fanfic/CheckmateAnlaShok'':
Mags sleeps through the end of the 10th Hunger Games (which are OutdatedByCanon and thus do not feature Lucy Gray Baird) and another mentor, Vicuña, wakes her up to tell her that sociopathic District 2 tribtue Mordred (who terrifies Mags) won. Vicuña starts to describe how he he won, but Mags sadly says that all that matters is he did and she doesn't want to know what happened to his last two opponents (LittleMissBadass Skye and StealthExpert Cally).

In animation, [[RuleOfCool cool fight scenes]] draw an audience -- but are expensive to create.

-->'''Earthworm Jim''': ''(runs headlong into danger all guns blazing)'' [[CatchPhrase Eat dirt]], gigantic undefeatable army! Ah-hahahahahaha!\\

* ''Series/MoonKnight'': Used frequently when Marc [[spoiler: (or Jake in the last episode)]] takes control and Steven blacks out.

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* Avoided in the ''Anime/GhostInTheShell'' movie, which looks as if it's going to lead into one of these, with Kusanagi being invisible during a fight sequence. What transpires is a thing of absolute beauty, with her presence only being displayed by splashes in puddles and the brutal beatdown her victim receives. And the occasional InvisibilityFlicker.

* ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools deliberately uses this as a stylistic choice]] when Araragi faces down the rainy demon. Most of the sequence focuses on his face, brief glimpses of a blow or another, and cuts to [[UsefulNotes/{{Fonts}} typography designs]]. It's a highly stylized series as it is to begin with.
* ''LightNovel/{{Katanagatari}}'' uses it for comedic effect in the case of Hakuhei Sabi. Said person is hyped as a MasterSwordsman without peer. Said person is beaten completely offscreen with the characters describing just how awesome/epic the fight was.

* The Dutch film ''De Griezelbus'' did this with the final fight, only showing the shadows and people's reactions (actually, the evil monster involved in this is never shown at any point in the film).