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* In ''Tears of the Black Tiger'', after the hero kills someone using his ImprobableAimingSkills, a text screen comes up: ''"Did you follow that? No? Okay, we'll show it again!"'' Then the action sequence is repeated, in more detail this time.

* ''{{FLCL}}'' deserves a mention here for using just about every camera technique there is possible in the span of six episodes.

* The beginning of ''FutariWaPrettyCure'' shows three different shots from different angles when Honoka and Nagisa first pass each other in the first episode.

* ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' hammers this trope into the ground.

* Played straight and subverted in ''DragonballZ'', as scenes like Vegeta's first transformation to Super Saiyan get this treatment... but so do some unspectacular punches or kicks (these often get just the same frame/animation repeated rather than a different angle shown).
* ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann''. The creation of the titular mecha.
** ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' hammers this trope so far into the ground it shows up in China.

* ''{{Naruto}}'' has used this at times. One that stands out was during the Naruto vs. Haku fight, when a Fox-Demon-Possessed Naruto delivered a massive blow to Haku's head that sent him flying/rolling over 100 feet.

** This Trope is {{Played For Laughs}} during one of the movies, when Naruto stepps in dog poo and it is shown from three different angles.

* Occasionally used in ''OnePiece''. Most notable, perhaps, is a scene in which Robin's using her powers to perform a GroinAttack on Franky, which gets a ''quintuple'' take! I defy any man to watch that scene [[ShareTheMalePain and not cringe]].

* Occasionally used in ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha''. See Nanoha firing Divine Buster for the first time and the first on-screen usage of the [[LockAndLoadMontage Cartridge System]] by Vita.

May be used in conjunction with DizzyCam or JitterCam, but these are techniques of shooting, whereas RepeatCut is a technique of editing. [[RuleOfThree Three]] cuts seems to be the favorite, but it's also not uncommon to see the technique [[ParodySatirePastiche parodied]] by doing a [[OverlyLongGag ridiculously large]] number of cuts, often with a [[LampshadeHanging running commentary]] from the cast. For [[RuleOfFunny super extra hilarity]], the characters may even [[MediumAwareness interact with the cuts]]. When something completely ordinary gets a Repeat Cut, it's MundaneMadeAwesome.

* ''{{Nichijou}}'' takes the cake - one scene involves Takasaki-sensei lightly hitting Yukko on the head with a binder, which is followed by a RepeatCut sequence of that action consisting of ''over 50 hits in 25 seconds''.

* The RepeatCut was pretty much invented by the great Soviet director Creator/SergeiEisenstein, who made constant use of it.

** It turned up, as a stylistic parody, in the Documentary episode (named ''The Documentary'', oddly enough). Their crimescene videographer's documentary uses the effect, and the characters (watching it) mock it as an amateurish editing mistake.

* The RepeatCut was pretty much invented by the great Soviet director Creator/SergeiEisenstein, who made constant use of it. One famous instance is in ''Film/BattleshipPotemkin'' when a sailor smashes his supper dish in disgust. What would usually be done in one or two shots is done in nine, with the plate smashing twice. Thus, this is the TropeMaker as well as the UrExample.

* The animation project ''BigBuckBunny'' has a scene where the flying squirrel unfurls his "wings" before jumping out of a tree; the unfurling is repeated several times from different angles for greater effect, in a parody of this type of scene in action movies.

->''[[CameraScrew The camera is all screwed up.]] [[JamesBond He]] [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou jumps!]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment He jumps again, from a different angle!]] [[GoshDangItToHeck What the heck?!]] [[CriticalResearchFailure Is this some new funky directing style, or what?]]''[[note]]The game in question came out '''72 years''' after ''The Battleship Potemkin''[[/note]]

* Used in WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} when Ren is killing the black head of the King Taijitu with the view angle shifting between each one.

* The climax of Brian [=DePalma=]'s ''Film/TheFury'' features John Cassavetes [[spoiler:exploding]] 13—count 'em—''13 times'' from various angles. And then the credits roll.

* ''TheLongestDay'' about the Normandy landings, has a scene where a glider crash lands in France. The shot alternates four times between the glider running along the ground and the men inside shaking about. The shot of the glider skipping on the ground is the same exact shot each time.
* Used quite blatantly in early Jean-Claude Van Damme movies. The end of his fights could pretty much be summed up as him doing a split when striking, and then showing the strike from twenty different angles.
* Used a few times on Tom Cruise's character in ''TheLastSamurai''. In particular, one fight scene that was completely repeated in its entirety, albeit in black and white.

* The Ingmar Bergman film ''Persona'' does this with an entire ''scene'': first, we see a monologue with the camera looking at the speaker, and then we see the exact same monologue again, this time with the camera focusing on who the speaker is talking to. Bonus points: this isn't a simple shot-reverse shot, this is an entire sequence, with each shot being a perfect mirror of the opposite angle for each corresponding shot.

* Used rather effectively towards the end of ''JoyRide''.
* In ''NaturalBornKillers'', one character mentions that "Repetition works!" [[LampshadeHanging We then see it again from another angle]].

* In ''Terminator2JudgmentDay'', when the Cyberdyne building blows up, the camera cuts between four angles of the same row of windows exploding outward.
* The climatic car jump in the original ''Gone In Sixty Seconds''.

* QuentinTarantino's ''DeathProof'' shows the same collision multiple times, each time focusing on exactly how a different victim was mangled to death.

* GagSeries ''+tic Nee-san'', with a serving of MundaneMadeAwesome: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGKgBssiPyA this clip]] demonstrates what happens when one destroys [[TranquilFury Okamoto]]'s plastic ship model [[BerserkButton without admitting it]].

* GagSeries ''+tic Nee-san'': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGKgBssiPyA this clip]] demonstrates what happens when one destroys [[TranquilFury Okamoto]]'s plastic ship model without immediately admitting it.

* Tanya's neck snap [=fatality=] in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'' is replayed from three angles. A few other [=fatalities=] also do this.

* Tanya's neck snap {{fatality}} in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat4'' is replayed from three angles. A few other fatalities also do this.

-->-- '''[[GamingInTheClintonYears George Wood]]''' on the bungee jumping scene from ''[[VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 GoldenEye 64]]''

->''[[CameraScrew The camera is all screwed up.]] [[JamesBond He]] [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou jumps!]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment He jumps again, from a different angle!]] [[GoshDangItToHeck What the heck?!]] [[CriticalResearchFailure Is this some new funky directing style, or what?]]''[[hottip:*:The game in question came out '''72 years''' after ''The Battleship Potemkin'']]

For example, you might see a close-up of a character's face as he delivers a line, then a close-up of a different character's reaction as the same line is delivered off-screen, then a wide shot including both characters to see how their body language plays. Or, in an action scene, you might see the same sequence repeated several times from different angles or perspectives. This is particularly popular with fight scenes and explosions, as the director tries to deliver the maximum visceral payoff to the audience -- or save money on special effects and choreography. This technique was used most often in the late [[TheEighties Eighties]] and early [[TheNineties Nineties]], when it seemed like everything exploded three times if it exploded at all. [[DiscreditedTrope Now it tends to be used in parodies rather than serious works.]]

For example, you might see a close-up of a character's face as he delivers a line, then a close-up of a different character's reaction as the same line is delivered off-screen, then a wide shot including both characters to see how their body language plays. Or, in an action scene, you might see the same sequence repeated several times from different angles or perspectives. This is particularly popular with fight scenes and explosions, as the director tries to deliver the maximum visceral payoff to the audience -- or save money on special effects and choreography. This technique was used most often in the late {{TheEighties Eighties]] and early [[TheNineties Nineties]], when it seemed like everything exploded three times if it exploded at all. [[DiscreditedTrope Now it tends to be used in parodies rather than serious works.]]

For example, you might see a close-up of a character's face as he delivers a line, then a close-up of a different character's reaction as the same line is delivered off-screen, then a wide shot including both characters to see how their body language plays. Or, in an action scene, you might see the same sequence repeated several times from different angles or perspectives. This is particularly popular with fight scenes and explosions, as the director tries to deliver the maximum visceral payoff to the audience -- or save money on special effects and choreography.

* In ''SuperRobotWars Original Generations'', the SRX's [[CombinationAttack [=HTB=] Cannon/Tenjou Tenga Ichigeki Hissatsu Hou]] is shown this way.

* Happens in ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' when [[spoiler: Asura does his [[Awesome/AsurasWrath Second to]] [[Bosses/AsurasWrath last punch]] to [[TrueFinalBoss Chakra]][[{{God}} var]][[GodIsEvil tin's]] face, 4 times!]]

-->-- '''[[GamingInTheClintonYears George Wood]]''' on the bungee jumping scene from [[VideoGame/GoldenEye1997 GoldenEye 64]]