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* In the [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock]] film ''Film/{{Spellbound}}'', [[spoiler: a character commits suicide. Filmed from his point-of-view, the gun is pointed at the camera, and a bright red flash is seen in the otherwise black & white film. Some copies don't bother preserving this...]]

** In one WesternAnimation/BugsBunny short, Bugs hits a dog over the head with a club. You see Bugs raise the club, then a flash, and then the dog has a [[CranialEruption huge bump on his head]], while Bugs is holding a broken club. The swing of the club is never seen, ironically making the action appear all the more violent.
** In ''Bugs Bunny Rides Again'': Chased by Yosemite Sam, Bugs goes through a tunnel and then covers the exit with a brick wall. As Sam enters the tunnel, the screen goes dark - and suddenly we see him silhouetted against the wall for a brief instant.

* Occurs twice in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'': First when Po crashes into the exhibition/ceremony, and later when the Furious Five battle [[BigBad Tai Lung]] on the bridge.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' uses this quite a lot, considering the amount of violence in the battles, though a large number of hits are still shown. Mostly they're just flashes, but like the ''Digimon Savers'' episode above, ''A Johto Photo Finish'' used a very cartoonish hit flash just to disguise Charizard getting punched in the face by Harrison's Blaziken. While the aftermath is still shown (Charizard's cheek has a sort of dent in it from the blow), the attack itself isn't all that violent. Episodes like ''Pasta La Vista'' and ''A Shroomish Skirmish'' pretty much disregarded the hit flash entirely during their climactic fights.

* The first two seasons of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', when it was dubbed, was one of the worst offenders of this. Creator/SabanEntertainment took special care to delete every frame where a hit connected and replace it with a sloppily-drawn star on a black background. (And in a show where the main draw are the big fights, it's not hard to understand why this was so horrible.)

* The first two seasons of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', when it was dubbed, was one of the worst offenders of this. Creator/{{Saban}} took special care to delete every frame where a hit connected and replace it with a sloppily-drawn star on a black background. (And in a show where the main draw are the big fights, it's not hard to understand why this was so horrible.)

* When Creator/{{Funimation}} premiered their dub of ''Anime/OnePiece'' in 2007, black and white flashes were used to cover up strong kicks and punches on the Toonami broadcast version. All streaming and DVD releases are uncensored.

* The Christian-themed, possibly-fake, and terminally-Canadian movie ''Film/TheRev'' had a habit of slowing the scene to a freeze, fading to black, and jumping to the next action with no fade-in. It's as if they sat around and asked "What is the most noticeable way we can think of to avoid showing violence?"

** Mike takes control over his body in "[[Recap/TotalDramaGrandChefAuto Grand Chef Auto]]" by beating up his other personalities. The violence is implied through a black screen that sequentially displays a forwards HitSpark, a swiping Hit Spark, and another forwards Hit Spark that fades into stars.

* In every ''StreetFighter'' game where you can play as Akuma, when you do the Shun Goku Satsu and it connects, the screen flashes with these before cutting back to the famous "Shoushi!" pose.

* Often subverted in ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', which has exaggerated, SlowMotion impact shots, with green goo and teeth flying everywhere.

* In ''Film/Terminator2JudgementDay'', a brief flash of white is seen when Sarah Conner attacks a hospital orderly during her escape attempt.

* In ''Film/{{Terminator 2}}'' this is used in a few scenes for example when Sarah Connor give a hit to a man in his face

** In the original Japanese version sometimes a white-black flash is used to emphasize the impact of a physical attack example:when Android 19 delivers a kick to the face of Vegeta in his super saiyan form.

* Used in ''WesternAnimation/Alpha Teens on Machines'' whenever a character gets a hit in the face.

* Used in ''WesternAnimation/Alpha Teens On Machines'' whenever a character gets a hit in the face.