History OffscreenMomentOfAwesome / AnimeAndManga

** During Battle City, Tristan, Duke, and Serenity are ambushed by three [[{{Mooks}} Rare Hunters]], [[YouShallNotPass and Tristan decides to take them on himself so that Duke and Serenity can escape]]. Their escape is well shown; by the time the episode gets back to Tristan, [[CurbStompBattle all three Rare Hunters are lying on the ground at his feet]].
** Earlier, Tristan got an offscreen awesome moment in Duelist Kingdom. After punching Yami Bakura out and throwing away the Ring, he carried the unconscious Mokuba ''and'' Bakura back to the dueling platform without getting caught by guards. While going through a maze with looping flights of stairs and doors to nowhere that even had Yami Bakura confused.

** At the end of Battle City, Joey challenges Yugi to a duel with the Red-Eyes Black Dragon at stake to determine how far he's grown. The episode then ends and the outcome is not revealed, but considering Joey got the Red-Eyes Black Dragon back, it can be presumed that he won.

** One episode has the captain of a submarine offer the series' main character [[WeCanRuleTogether the chance to work with him and travel the world.]] When our hero refuses despite the ''very'' generous pay, the captain forces the matter by saying that if he doesn't win their duel, he'll have to come with him. Jaden soundly defeats him, and thus has no actual obligation to take up his offer, but the captain persists and tricks Jaden's friends into leaving him behind, then the submarine dives with Jaden trapped on it. The episode immediately cuts to several weeks later, with Jaden's best friend brooding over the fact that he left. Jaden then comes in, battered and bruised, after having fought his way to freedom. Needless to say, his friends are overjoyed.
** In the [[Manga/YuGiOhGX manga]], Jaden also defeats Crowler as part of his entrance exam, but it's never shown, despite being referred to a few times.
** The end of Season 3 has Jaden fusing his soul with Yubel's and the two disappearing. They reappear in Season 4, some weeks later, without saying what they were doing. Judging by the dialogue at the end of Episode 155, however, they were off ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kicking the ass]]'' of ''[[EldritchAbomination the Light of Destruction]]'' at its source. While it makes sense that such a fight wasn't shown (since it's very unlikely they dueled it), it's still disappointing to miss.
** During an arc where Chazz became Aster's assistant, Chazz is shocked to witness Aster dueling someone for practice, only Aster insists his opponent start with 10,000 Life Points while he starts with 100 Life Points. Due to the rigorous activities Aster had to do all day, his hands are damaged and he can barely even hold his cards. Chazz is forced to leave. It later cuts to Aster standing over his defeated opponent and complaining about having to face weaklings.

** The anime's ending with the duel of Yugi and Jaden. After Yugi turns into Yami Yugi, he proceeds to summon Slifer and Jaden proceeds to attack him and the screen [[FadeToBlack fades to white]] and then skips ahead to a unspecific time afterwards. The end of the duel is left ambiguous as to who won and also leaves out how the hell Jaden got back to his own time, not to mention how he ended up in the desert.

** Several of the duels in the Fortune Cup are offscreen.
** The Enforcer's victories are also off screen, in spite of how awesome the concept of vigilante justice delivered by the main characters is.
** In the World Cup, Sherry and her butler form a team of two people (in spite of everyone trying to get at least three members due to the format) and she manages to beat a whole bunch of other teams all by herself. The protagonists are astonished when she tells them this.
** Right at the end of the series, Jack sets off to fight a whole bunch of powerful opponents -- including Kalin who he had never been able to beat -- as part of his personal training, and beats them all. Those duels are never shown.

** The Egghead arc has the Straw Hats and [=CP0=] trapped within the Frontier Dome of the Labophase and they're attacked by the four Seraphim who were ordered by a mysterious traitor to kill them and the Satellites. The vanished Stella of Vegapunk is revealed to have been captured by the treacherous mastermind who is also responsible for the disappearances of numerous Cipher Pol agents. Right when the mastermind and traitor is revealed to be [[spoiler:York, the Satellite who embodies Vegapunk's greed]], the story cuts away for several chapters to show the numerous events that happen at the same time (namely [[spoiler:the Red-Hair Pirates vs the Kid Pirates]], the outcome of the [[spoiler:Blackbeard Pirates vs the Heart Pirates]] (which itself has been mostly skipped), SWORDS' rescue of [[spoiler:Koby]], as well as [[spoiler:Sabo]] telling Dragon and Iva the true events that happened at the Reverie). By the time we are back to Egghead at the present time, [[spoiler:York has been captured by the Straw Hats who are temporarily allied with [=CP0=], the Stella of Vegapunk has been rescued, the four Seraphim have been subdued, and Bonnie has given up on killing Vegapunk, presumably because of Kuma's memories she saw]]. The story progresses without flashbacks of that event and instead focuses on moving forward.

** Sanji kicks the piss out of [[spoiler: his abusive asshole brother Yonji]] offscreen. It's so bad that [[spoiler: Yonji needs a ''press machine'' to get his head back in shape.]]
** One the most egregious recent examples happens during the Reverie, which the Revolutionaries have infiltrated and of which the reader has been following for several chapters. ''Then'' Oda cuts away to heroes' adventure in Wano which is arguably more important. However rather than cutting back to the Reverie later when the [[ActBreak first act of Wano is done]] Oda instead has Blackbeard casually read a newspaper about how Luffy's brother Sabo and Revolutionaries ''fought Admirals Fujitora and Ryokugyu'' '''offscreen'''. Oda is a bigger [[TheTease tease]] than Nami. [[spoiler:We get a glimpse of this fight as a flashback in the Egghead arc, but it’s skipped over pretty fast to talk about the other things that went down at the Reverie.]]
** Buggy’s entire existence post timeskip can be described as one. Despite never directly interacting with the Straw Hats after Impel Down, [[spoiler:he’s amassed enough of a power base to become a Warlord, and when Crocodile and Mihawk take over his organisation, it’s enough to make him an ''offscreen Emperor.'']]

* ''Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries'': in the final episode, Dante finally pulls out his Devil Trigger SuperMode...Offscreen. He's grappling with the BigBad, the camera zooms in on his face, he starts glowing, his eyes widen and his voice deepens. The camera cuts back to show an explosion on the roof they are fighting on. When it comes back to them, the fight's already over (though this also holds the implication that he may have used devil trigger explosion and killed the demon instantly with that).

** Buggy’s entire existence post timeskip can be described as one. Despite never directly interacting with the Straw Hats after Impel Down, [[spoiler:he’s amassed enough of a power base to become a Warlord, and when Crocodile and Mihawk take over his organisation, it’s enough to make him an ''offscreen'']]
* It's not rare with Saitama in ''Manga/OnePunchMan''. A major example: toward the end of the Tournament arc Gouketsu is introduced, a giant Dragon-level monster who gets ''a lot'' of build-up and seems a future ArcVillain. [[spoiler: Saitama effortlessly obliterates him off-screen, just like nearly every opponent he faces; only his head is left.]]

* ''Manga/HisAndHerCircumstances''' abrupt TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised ending, especially since we were getting all hyped up about the play Yukino had been preparing for the past few episodes. This is made even more unforgivable by the fact that, after religiously following the manga virtually to the ''panel'' for almost its entire length, Gainax diverted from the story to add an ''original filler episode'' just before the end, when only one more episode would have allowed them to portray the play in its entirety.

* In the series finale of ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', Saito somehow [[spoiler: stole a fighter jet from a Japanese military base]] and used it to fly back and save everyone.

* ''LightNovel/{{Katanagatari}}'' Episode 4 had an intentional example, and spent a large part of the end of the episode rubbing it in viewers' faces. [[spoiler:Shichika barely manages to defeat the mysterious white-haired badass the show had been building up for the past three episodes, thanks to Togame drafting him a brilliant strategy]]. Or so we hear, at length, from the two afterwards. The audience spends the majority of the episode with his sister, on an island miles away. The preview at the end of Episode 3 involves parting the sea, slicing up rocks, exploding ''a whole island'', and fighting a giant shark. That's all that was shown, in very brief clips.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'':

** One the most egregious recent examples happens during the Reverie, which the Revolutionaries have infiltrated and of which the reader has been following for several chapters. ''Then'' Oda cuts away to heroes' adventure in Wano which is arguably more important. However rather than cutting back to the Reverie later when the [[ActBreak first act of Wano is done]] Oda instead has Blackbeard casually read a newspaper about how Luffy's brother Sabo and Revolutionaries ''fought Admirals Fujitora and Ryokugyu'' '''offscreen'''. Oda is a bigger [[TheTease tease]] than Nami.

*** Which ''also'' got an AdaptationExpansion in ''Ultimate Ninja Storm Three'', the actual battle? ''Beyond words''.

** In the [[Manga/YuGiOhGX manga]], Jaden/Judai also defeats Crowler/Chronos as part of his entrance exam, but it's never shown, despite being referred to a few times.
** The end of Season 3 has Judai. Judging by the dialogue at the end of Episode 155 is implied that he''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kicking the ass]]'' of ''[[EldritchAbomination the Light of Ruin]]'' and its source. While it makes sense that such a fight wasn't shown (since it's very unlikely he dueled it), it's still disappointing to miss.
** During an arc where Manjoume became Edo's assistant, Manjoume is shocked to witness Edo dueling someone for practice, only Edo insists his opponent start with 10,000 Life Points while he starts with 100 Life Points. Due to the rigorous activities Edo had to do all day, his hands are damaged and he can barely even hold his cards. Manjoume is forced to leave. It later cuts to Edo standing over his defeated opponent and complaining about having to face weaklings.

** The anime's ending with the duel of Yugi and Judai. After Yugi turns into Yami, he proceeds to summon Slifer and Judai proceeds to attack him and the screen [[FadeToBlack fades to white]] and then skips ahead to a unspecific time afterwards. The end of the duel is left ambiguous as to who won and also leaves out how the hell Judai got back to his own time, not to mention how he ended up in the desert.

** The Enforcer's/Team Satisfaction's victories are also off screen, in spite of how awesome the concept of vigilante justice delivered by the main characters is.

** Right at the end of the series, Jack sets off to fight a whole bunch of powerful opponents -- including Kiryu who he had never been able to beat -- as part of his personal training, and beats them all. Those duels are never shown.

** The end of Season 3 has Judai fusing his soul with Yubel's and the two disappearing. They reappear in Season 4, some weeks later, without saying what they were doing. Judging by the dialogue at the end of Episode 155, however, they were off ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kicking the ass]]'' of ''[[EldritchAbomination the Light of Ruin]]'' at its source. While it makes sense that such a fight wasn't shown (since it's very unlikely they dueled it), it's still disappointing to miss.

*** 5 (arguably 6 counting Leon) of the top 8 trainers for the worldwide tournament show up almost out of nowhere without even knowing they were participants at all. The Top 8 are basically and literally [[spoiler:all Champions from Kanto to Galar [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg (and Alain)]].]]

%%** By the time of ''Journeys'', Iris has gone from an arrogant trainer that was RaisedByWolves to a true Dragon Master [[spoiler:and Unova League Champion]]. The same applies to her Axew ([[spoiler:or rather, Haxorus]]).

* ''LightNovel/{{Katanagatari}}'' Episode 4 had an intentional example, and spent a large part of the end of the episode rubbing it in viewers' faces: [[spoiler: Shichika barely manages to defeat the mysterious white-haired badass the show had been building up for the past three episodes, thanks to Togame drafting him a brilliant strategy]]. Or so we hear, at length, from the two afterwards. The audience spends the majority of the episode with his sister, on an island miles away. The preview at the end of Episode 3 involves parting the sea, slicing up rocks, exploding ''a whole island'', and fighting a giant shark. That's all that was shown, in very brief clips.

* ''Manga/{{Touch}}'': We never actually see the Koshien match in the manga or the anime, and only Tatsuya's trophy in the manga.

* In ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'', the [[EldritchAbomination Eleventh Angel]] was defeated in the TimeSkip between the second and third films, and is never shown to the audience.

* In ''Yellow Dragon ga Arawareta'', the main heroine (the titular yellow dragon, an uber powerful being) is {{BrainwashedAndCrazy}}. Her friends decide to rescue her from a group of kidnappers (who are technologicaly advanced kingdom that want to use her as a weapon), no matter what it takes. We see a castle she was held in exploding, and we then learn that she never got under their control. She was just playing along to see what her friends will do, but didn't want to wait any longer, so she freed herself. Offscreen.

** One episode had the captain of a submarine offer the series' main character [[WeCanRuleTogether the chance to work with him and travel the world.]] When our hero refuses despite the ''very'' generous pay, the captain forces the matter by saying that if he doesn't win their duel, he'll have to come with him. Jaden soundly defeats him, and thus has no actual obligation to take up his offer, but the captain persists and tricks Jaden's friends into leaving him behind, then the submarine dives with Jaden trapped on it. The episode immediately cuts to several weeks later, with Jaden's best friend brooding over the fact that he left. Jaden then comes in, battered and bruised, after having fought his way to freedom. Needless to say, his friends are overjoyed.

** In the World Cup, Sherry and her butler form a team of two people (in spite of everyone trying to get at least three members due to the format) and manages to beat a whole bunch of other teams all by herself. The others are astonished when she tells them this.

** In the [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} main series]], May's final battle in the Kanto Grand Festival. It's a staple of the anime in the later sagas to have two rivals in the tournament arcs -- one for the protagonist to beat, and one to beat them. After May's epic battle with Drew -- which started at the tail end of one episode and carried on into the bulk of the next -- we only see the last two minutes or so of her battle with Solidad.

* Happens a lot in the anime ''[[Franchise/DotHack .hack//Roots]]''. Fights are left offscreen apparently due to low budget. For example in episode 6 only bit of action we see is a funny angle in which Enders repeatedly kicks Haseo. Episode 23 has Haseo fighting against one hundred players in one episode and viewer sees almost nothing since it focuses on Haseo's teammates. Other disappointing fights include Ovan vs. Tri-Edge and Haseo vs. Tri-Edge whose climaxes are omitted.

* The first season of ''Anime/CodeGeass'' ended on a massive cliffhanger with several characters' fates hanging in the balance. But ExecutiveMeddling forced the second season to start with a TimeSkip and a reboot, after which part of the season was spent on a retread of season one's plot. To their credit, the writers tied up most of the dangling plot threads eventually via flashbacks, but the end result was rather anticlimactic.

** Also between episode 5 and 6, the three girls have their first battle against a major villain (Circulas) and it just started in the [[{{Cliffhanger}} end of episode 5]]. The battle was completely skipped in the following episode, and both sides were fine and didn't have any significant looses.

* ''LightNovel/{{Katanagatari}}'' episode four had an intentional example, and spent a large part of the end of the episode rubbing it in viewers' faces: [[spoiler: Shichika barely manages to defeat the mysterious white-haired badass the show had been building up for the past three episodes, thanks to Togame drafting him a brilliant strategy]]. Or so we hear, at length, from the two afterwards. The audience spends the majority of the episode with his sister, on an island miles away. The preview at the end of episode 3 involves parting the sea, slicing up rocks, exploding ''a whole island'', and fighting a giant shark. That's all that was shown, in very brief clips.

*** Fortunately, the anime team was well aware of Kishimoto's choice to omit the battle and gives us a generous AdaptationExpansion, showing a full and proper fight. As we all know, it was probably because a.) fans would've pissed on the animation studio doorstep if they tried to skate around showing the battles too, and b.) to provide some padding so that the anime wouldn't lap the manga - one filler marathon run was bad enough.

** The most JustForFun/{{egregious}} example of all may just be [[SatelliteCharacter Tenten]] [[spoiler: fighting ''Kakuzu'' with the Bashosen - a war fan that drains an immense level of chakra, but in return, can create a vast amount of a specific element.]] Being a weapons specialist, and getting some slight screen time (which compares normally to how she gets less panels than a landmark, the Hokage mountain) you'd expect a full out fight for the ages coming up, right? Wrong! [[spoiler:Instead we see Tenten passed out, face down in the dirt as a medic tells her to never touch the fan again while the panel just before showed two of the three masks broken (Asuma destroyed the other one).]] Kishimoto teases us again later, implying she's planning something with Team 10 but that'll never be revealed either.
*** That aforementioned wrong becomes a "right" in the anime. [[spoiler:We get to watch Tenten destroy both masks - one right after she obtains the Bashosen, and then again after several episodes when sunset is approaching and she's heavily tuckered out from hours in battle.]] Yay, AdaptationExpansion!

** In the [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} main series]], May's final battle in the Kanto Grand Festival. It's a staple of the anime in the later sagas to have two rivals in the tournament arcs - one for the protagonist to beat, and one to beat them. After May's epic battle with Drew - which started at the tail end of one episode and carried on into the bulk of the next - we only see the last two minutes or so of her battle with Solidad.

* In ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'', Cho Hakkai's youkai form isn't shown to the audience until well into the series. Consequently, his first two battles in that form--one where he took out a basement full of gangsters and one where he killed a huge monster--take place entirely off-screen. Given that the monster fight freaked out even the combat-loving Goku, this probably overlaps with GoryDiscretionShot.

** The end of Season 3 has Judai fusing his soul with Yubel's and the two disappearing. They reappear in Season 4, some weeks later, without saying what they were doing. Judging by the dialogue at the end of episode 155, however, they were off ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kicking the ass]]'' of ''[[EldritchAbomination the Light of Ruin]]'' at its source. While it makes sense that such a fight wasn't shown (since it's very unlikely they dueled it), it's still disappointing to miss.

** Right at the end of the series, Jack sets off to fight a whole bunch of powerful opponents - including Kiryu who he had never been able to beat - as part of his personal training, and beats them all. Those duels are never shown.

** The anime's ending with the duel of Yugi and Judai. After Yugi turns into Yami, he proceeds to summon Slifer and Judai proceeds to attack him and the screen [[FadeToBlack fades to white]] and then skips ahead to a unspecific time afterwards. The end of the duel is left ambiguous as to who won and also leaves out how the hell Judai get back to his own time, not to mention how he ended up in the desert.

* Midway through ''Anime/BloodPlus'', Saya confronts Diva face to face after Diva has [[spoiler: rampaged through the good guy's base of operations, killing dozens of mooks and raping then killing Saya's younger brother Riku in the process.]] The episode ends with Saya and Diva sizing each other up in preparation for a no-holds-barred beatdown. The next episode ...starts with a one-year TimeSkip and follows the supporting cast as they struggle against Chiropterans in the U.K. Saya shows up by the episode's end of course, but the big fight is never mentioned again, not even when the two characters fight for real later on. Also in the same episode [[spoiler: Riku is killed on the verge of [[TookALevelInBadass Taking a Level in Badass]]]], though this is much more defensible dramatically and indeed becomes crucial later on.

* ''Manga/HisAndHerCircumstances'' abrupt TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised ending, especially since we were getting all hyped up about the play Yukino had been preparing for the past few episodes. This is made even more unforgivable by the fact that, after religiously following the manga virtually to the ''panel'' for almost its entire length, Gainax diverted from the story to add an ''original filler episode'' just before the end, when only one more episode would have allowed them to portray the play in its entirety.

* ''Manga/BlackCat'' is very strange with this trope, and way too fond of it. They'll have occasions where they show just the beginning and end of fights, beginning and middle of fights, the middle of interrupted fights, and the beginning, middle, and end of a fight but without actually showing how the victor won. Basically, whenever opposing groups of badasses congregate in one place, you're not going to get to see much of the action. And since the badassness performed on-screen is damned near off the charts, it really makes you feel like you missed something. [[spoiler: It reaches its peak in the Train vs Creed fight, where after a long and brutal battle Train fires his ultimate attack, misses, and somehow wins anyway. No explanation is given except for a flashback of the ultimate attack sailing past Creed. And still completely missing. Maybe more of an Unexplained Moment of Awesome, but it is still disappointing.]]
** That last example is only in the anime. The manga's a bit better about this trope.

** When Yuki and Shino begin their stint as Karakura Town's guardian Shinigami, they immediately run afoul of a gang of very powerful Hollows. Cue the arrival of Ichigo, Uryuu, Sado and Orihime. When Yuki comes around later, he recalls Orihime talking about his injuries and Ichigo and Uryuu engaging in SnarkToSnarkCombat while fighting. He's awed by the gang's ability to fight Hollows, but that is awe is all that's really revealed.
** Zaraki's greatest ever fight is finally revealed in flashbacks, his epic battle with the [[MasterSwordsman greatest of all swordsmen]] very first Kenpachi, Yachiru. The story only deals with the assessment by [[BloodKnight Zaraki]] and [[AxCrazy Yachiru]] of how astonishing and extraordinary a battle it truly was as the focus is on the fall-out, not the battle itself. [[spoiler:Yachiru is the original name of [[TheAtoner Captain Unohana]].]]
* Midway through ''Anime/BloodPlus'', Saya confronts Diva face to face after Diva has [[spoiler: rampaged through the good guy's base of operations, killing dozens of mooks and raping and killing Saya's younger brother Riku in the process.]] The episode ends with Saya and Diva sizing each other up in preparation for a no-holds-barred beatdown. The next episode...starts with a one-year TimeSkip and follows the supporting cast as they struggle against Chiropterans in the U.K.. Saya show up by episode's end, of course, but the big fight is never mentioned again, not even when the two characters fight for real later on. Also in the same episode [[spoiler: Riku was killed on the verge of [[TookALevelInBadass Taking a Level in Badass]]]], though this is much more defensible dramatically and indeed becomes crucial later on.

** In the very first episode, Rally (a kid) manages to steal a hyper-advanced chip straight from the factory, while having a tracker on his person. It's never shown how he accompliced that.

* In ''Manga/ShamanKing'' Sati and co [[spoiler: Defeat the 4 kings of hell to get the remaining four of the five grand elemental spirits, the most we see of this is Cado apparently having lost his arm against Mephistopheles. They all eventually win]]