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* ''WebAnimation/HelluvaBoss'', season 2 episode 2, where it's actually a character just being reasonable:
--> '''Moxxie''': "Sir, I don't think we really have a choice."
--> '''Blitzo''': "You want me to just call him up and be like, Hey Stolas"
--> [cut him to doing it on the phone]
--> "So, your daughter came by, took your book and teleported off to who the fuck knows where, we have no way of getting either of them back. Okay? Okay. Good talk, byee."
** Season 2 Episode 6, Fizz promises to be discreet when going out in public. Cue him pulling up to the bank in a gigantic limo with self-laying-out purple carpet, penis-shaped confetti cannons, and "JIZZLORD" licence plates, still in his performing outfit, with five tiny dogs pulling him along on rocket skates.

* A State Farm insurance commercial (seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YufxHtZHaSE here]]) featured a man with his buddies saying "I'm never getting married." Cut to him buying an engagement ring. While on a plane watching rambunctious children running around, he tells his wife "We're never having kids." Cut to the wife in labor. In their apartment, he tells his wife and son "We're never moving to the suburbs." Cut to them moving to the suburbs where he looks offscreen and says "I'm never buying one of those." Cut to him washing down a minivan. As he cleans up a drawing left by his son, he says "I'm never having another kid." His wife immediately says "I'm pregnant." Finally, he watches television with his family and says "I'm never letting go." Here, the commercial ends.

#'''The Order Cut''': Somebody is ''ordered'' to do something unpleasant by somebody else. There is no discussion or refusal involved, simply the cut to them being shown doing it — but in a way much more unpleasant than we had imagined. For example, they are ordered to 'safely' dispose of a bomb, and then there is an abrupt cut to them having to do so by hand.

* Subverted in a ''Webcomic/TimesLikeThis'' [[http://www.timeslikethis.com/index.php?id=275 strip]]:

** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Jan and Franchise/CaptainAmerica discuss about the crime in Cap's residential area, and Jan tells him that she hopes that at least he bought a good door lock with the Ultimates' money. Then they get home, and the door has been forced.

* As shown above, a running gag in Creator/CarlBarks's (and, later, other authors') [[ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge]] comics.
* Also a running gag in ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', where somebody will say, "Those rat creatures [[WhoWouldBeStupidEnough would have to be pretty stupid]] to [fill in the blank]!" In the next frame, we see the rat creatures have done just that, and the same person will say, "Stupid, stupid rat creatures!"

* Appears in the second issue of ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. Mina Murray, Captain Nemo and Allan Quartermain are investigating a school under the guise of a married couple and their manservant. They are given two rooms for the night, one with a couple's bed and another with a shabby servant's bed.

* Used in the Swedish comic-strip ''ComicBook/{{Rocky}}'' when the title-character freaks out when he runs into Martin, the man who stole his ex-girlfriend, only to learn that she in turn had left Martin.

* A dark variant appears in ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis'' when Sue's murderer is revealed and argues "You can't just throw me in some cell and toss the key!" Cut to [[BedlamHouse Arkham Asylum]].
* A further horrific example takes place in the ''455AD'' special of ''ComicBook/TheWickedAndTheDivine''. One page ends with Lucifer vowing that he'll be a good emperor who'll return the Roman Empire to its lost glory and rule wisely and justly. The next panel has a caption "Two weeks later", and the following two pages show him doing things like playing musical instruments made from dismembered human body parts, and pyrokinetically setting buildings on fire for fun.
* Several times in ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyMicroSeries'' Issue #3, typically Rarity commenting on how the next day can't be any worse before she goes to bed and finding out the next panel it is much worse.
* In the first issue of ''ComicBook/TheOrder2007'', the fledgling team defeats a villain who was causing a huge wildfire in Los Angeles, and are so happy they decide to have a night on the town. Avona isn't so sure, but Maul doesn't see any harm in it: "What are they gonna do, ''fire'' us tomorrow?" The next day, everyone who went out that night is fired -- turns out they violated the morality clause in their contracts.

* ComicBook/UltimateMarvel:

* In one issue of ''Franchise/ArchieComics'', Archie speaks of his presentation with witch doctors and shamans that will beat Reggie's show about domesticated pigeons. Jughead laugh it off, saying where in Riverdale is Archie going to find a witch doctor... Only to have Jughead suddenly gets very upset and angry. He then made it clear that he will ''not'' become Archie's witch doctor. Next scene has Jughead dressed as one.

--> '''Moxxie''': "Sir, I don't think we really ave a choice."

* ''Fanfic/UnderTheNorthernLights'': In chapter thirty-one, after Twilight and Spike hurry away after performing for which Saga insisted that the participants paint and dress themselves up like stereotypical necromancers, Eira comments that they should have washed themselves off first. The scene then cuts to Twilight and Spike, with the latter saying that they should really have washed themselves before leaving while Twilight fends off a crowd of counterculture teens who think that she's actually a wicked sorceress after the rest of the locals ran off in panic.
-->"Crazy foreigners and their crazy hurry..." Eira muttered dourly.\\
"What is it, Grandma? " said Saga.\\
"They oughta have had a bath before they left!" she said. "Let's get us into the bathtub, at least!"\\
[break]\\
"I think we oughta have had a bath before we left," said Spike, worried. \\
"You're right, you're right, you were right the first five times," Twilight mumbled between gritted teeth before going back to her audience.

** In ''Atop the Fourth Wall: The Movie'', Linkara is forced into a deal with a government agent about his spaceship. Afterward, the agent makes some gestures of goodwill to try and gain his trust, to which Linkara responds that he appreciates, but that they're definitely never going to be friends nonetheless. Cut to a drunken Linkara slurring "You are the best friend ever!" A caption show this is four years later.