History Main / OffscreenMomentOfAwesome

* In ''Literature/StellarRangerDarkStar Series One'', the [[MagicalGirlIdol Shining Stars]] apparently defeated a Starborn Horror- a powerful monster usually only beatable by full-fledged rangers- just before the concert, and did it easily.

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* There's a Sunday strip in which ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes are about to go sledding down a hill, but Hobbes jumps off at the last moment. Then the view remains centred on him and we only get to see a hint of how spectacularly Calvin's ride goes (and fails) by the look of Hobbes's reactions.

* In the ''Podcast/WoodenOvercoats'' episode "Flip Flap Flop," the normally [[MellowFellow chill]] Georgie utterly ''[[BerserkButton loses her shit]]'' when the visiting undertakers disrespect Rudyard and Antigone, resulting in her beating them all up single-handed. Sadly, we only get to hear the moments preceding the smackdown, before it cuts to twenty minutes later, when [[{{Narrator}} Madeleine]] informs us that twenty-five undertakers are now in the hospital, Georgie was dragged off to the town jail, and Rudyard and Antigone have gone to bail her out.

* Was standard for Ancient Greek theatre that everything that actually happened was offstage and characters only appeared to talk about it--it doesn't seem to have been until quite recently that it occurred to dramatists that people might like to actually see this stuff happen
* Was therefore also done like this in the early days of {{Opera}}, as the whole genre was initially heavily influenced by Greek theatre

* 2010, July, a hot summer afternoon. England's first match in Usefulnotes/TheWorldCup. Expectations are high. All around the country fans gather in pubs, homes and at parties. Three minutes of tense action goes by. The crowd are on the edge of their seats, England has the ball and are soaring upfield as if unopposed. Sky TV cuts out. Two minutes later it cuts back in to the action. The score? 1-0.

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** The ''{{Disney/Frozen}}'' campaign starts off with the king, queen, and other player characters apparently dying in an epic battle against pirates and sea monsters.

* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'', being an abridged series, will sometimes leave action-packed scenes on the cutting room floor because of the time limit, or for the sake of changing the plot from the original. So, in "Ponynet Fight!" the characters run into a vicious hydra, but their escape is replaced with a "14 hours later..." transition card. And "How to Control Freaks" shows Twilight Sparkle breaking Discord's mind control over most of her friends, but skips over Rainbow Dash. There's even a LampshadeHanging via subtitle: "Rainbow Dash normalized off-screen."

* The death of the title character in ''Theatre/Macbeth''. He and Macduff leave the stage fighting, and then Macduff returns holding Macbeth's head.

** In Das Bo Schitt's Computer Quest [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_npkWGwYJpU]] (a side-action Gmod animation explaining why ''The Gmod Idiot Box'' episode 10 hadn't been released yet), Metrocop #1 and Chuck Norris fight for the final piece of Bo Schitt's brand-new computer: the motherboard. Too bad the scene went missing just as they were going to come to terms, coupled with Peter Griffin's laugh. Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.

* WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick,

* Happens in ''Webcomic/{{Niels}}'' when the titular character succeeds in pushing Agent 300's BerserkButton.

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** In the Epilogue, virtually everything eventful in the Candy timeline happens off-camera, with the actual story being solely about how those events affect the characters' relationships.

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* Played straigth in ''Webcomic/{{M9Girls}}'': We see anti-heroine Golden being overpowered by a small army of cyborgs, before cutting to action somewhere else. When we are back to the scene, Golden is shown in a victorious pose among the fallen cyborgs. Probably done on purpose since both the characters and the readers don't really know the full extent of Golden's powers.

* Played straing in ''Webcomic/{{M9Girls}}'': We see anti-heroine Golden being overpowered by a small army of cyborgs, before cutting to action somewhere else. When we are back to the scene, Golden is shown in a victorious pose among the fallen cyborgs. Probably done on purpose since both the characters and the readers don't really know the full extent of Golden's powers.

** In Das Bo Schitt's Computer Quest [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_npkWGwYJpU]] (a side-action Gmod animation explaining why ''The Gmod Idiot Box'' episode 10 hadn't been released yet), Metrocop #1 and Chuck Norris fight for the final piece of Bo Schitt's brand-new computer: the motherboard. Too bad the scene went missing just as they were going to come to terms, coupled with Peter Griffin's laugh. Doubles as a CrowningMomentofFunny.

* In the final episode of ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'''s first campaign, [[spoiler:Grog draws the Void card from the Deck of Many Things, causing him to lose his soul]]. Since the whole party is Level 19 or 20 by this point, [[spoiler:the resulting venture into Pandemonium]] is treated (especially by the DM) as nothing more than an annoying side jaunt, and the session cuts to two weeks later [[with Grog's soul being restored]].