History OffscreenMomentOfAwesome / AnimeAndManga

* One episode of Anime/YuGiOhGX 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 refuse 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 forces the ,after by tricking Jaden's friends into leaving him behind. The episode immidieately 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 were overjoyed.

* ''BananaNoNana''. We see Hoshi Budou kick Nana's butt pretty badly. Then suddenly Nana has somehow won. Fare very curious how a [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway Banana Manipulator]] could defeat a FragileSpeedster NinjaMaid.

* ''BananaNoNana''. We see Hoshi Budou kick Nana's butt pretty badly. Then suddenly Nana has somehow won. This crosses with MissedMomentOfAwesome since fans are very curious how a [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway Banana Manipulator]] could defeat a FragileSpeedster NinjaMaid.

* In ''{{FairyTail}}'' during the Phantom Lord Arc Mystogan visits Porlyusica and reveals that [[spoiler:he defeated every subdivision of Phantom Lord by himself and proves this by scattering all the subdivisions' flags across her yard.]] He also reports that [[spoiler:he was the one responsible for regathering Makarov's magic power, which was drained from his body by Aria, giving him the strength to defeat Jose Porla.]]

* In the ''YuYuHakusho'' manga, the Demon World Unification tournament sets up some potentially epic battles (Kurama vs. Shigure, Hiei vs. Mukuro, Yusuke vs. Yomi), but only shows a little of Yusuke vs. Yomi before suddenly cutting to after the tournament.

* In the ''OnePiece'' Marineford arc. Several times throughout the arc, two fighters meet and start to exchange blows in a page or so. Then the scene changes, and when we see the two fighters again, the fight has stopped without any further explanation. Sort of Justified, though, in that you don't really have the time to fight a one-on-one battle in a massive war with all the opponents to be concerned about.

** Subverted in the first episode. Where Vash gets up and without fear points his gun at the criminals and one hears a gun going off. It isn't until sometime later during said episode, where it is revealed Vash [[OhCrap forgot to put bullets in his gun]] and runs off while getting shot at.

** The finale of the entire series did this with [[spoiler:the MythArc of the series, which had apparently been resolved off-screen, with the Lifemaker apparently having been beaten and Nagi apparently having been saved in an apparently epic battle that apparently showed how powerful Negi and his entire class were when they were all united]].

** A recent example is the Setsuna/Tsukuyomi fight in the current arc. Here we have Setsuna getting a rematch against an opponent that not only defeated her earlier but also implied that she'd rape Setsuna, or something to that nature. This time Setsuna is armed with a renewed self-confidence and [[spoiler: a new pactio forged by her fandom-pleasing make-out session with Konoka]] while Tsukuyomi [[spoiler: uses some kind of demonic power up of her own]]. The fight starts, it's good and then [[spoiler: it just kind of jumps to the end. We're told that they fought for over half an hour, but we're only shown like a third of that.]] Good build-up that lead to a rather hollow climax because we didn't get to see the stuff that lead up to it.

** 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 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.
** Ash's Quilava's battle against Nando's Armaldo in the Sinnoh League tournament. The second that Ash sends out his Quilava to battle, the scene shifts over to Team Rocket trying to make sales with their merchandise. By the time that it gets back to the fight, both Pokémon are on the ropes and do one final attack on one another only to double-KO each other.

* The special ''Anime/PokemonMewtwoReturns'': Team Rocket, led by the rarely used Giovanni, have captured the Pokemon clones and their babies. Mewtwo is horribly injured, and Ash must free the Pokemon and help Mewtwo. When Giovanni and a small army of TR grunts shows up to fight, Misty and Brock step up to fight, letting out their Pokemon. ''Then it cuts away to a different scene''. When it cuts back, the battle's over, thereby skipping one of the few battles against the Team Rocket organization as a whole (not just individual members like Jessie and James) in the show's entire 11-plus season history.

** Ash's Quilava's battle against Nando's Amraldo in the Sinnoh League. The second that Ash sends out his Quilava to battle, the scene shifts over to Team Rocket trying to make sales with their merchandise. By the time that it gets back to the fight, both pokemon are on the ropes and do one final attack on one another only to double-KO each other.

* 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.]]

** 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 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.

* ''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.

* Midway through ''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.

** So Rukia, Renji, and Chad are confronting [[spoiler: Yammy.]] They're thinking they can take him, since all three of them have fought [[spoiler: stronger Espada than him]] and lived to tell about it. Then [[spoiler: he releases his sword, turns into a giant dinosaur-man who towers over them, and reveals that he isn't the 10th Espada, he's the ''0th'' Espada, the ''strongest'' of the bunch. Oh, man, whether you think that's a good plot twist or not, it just ''has'' to lead to an epic fight, right? Then, just as this fight begins... the viewpoint cuts away to other battles. For several months. And when it comes back to them, Yammy has [[CurbstompBattle already won]]. Easily. Off-screen.]]

** In the Zanpakutou Tales Filler Arc, Kenpachi is facing down Tengen, Komamura's Zanpakutou, whose Bankai is basically just him transforming into a 60 foot giant. Giant!Tengen smacks Kenpachi around, Kenny declares he's going to get ''really'' serious, then... nothing. Tengen later appears, fully tamed at Komamura's disposal, at the arc's climax. A similar issue happens with Yoruichi's fight with Haineko and Tobiume, though more of that fight was shown overall.

** Also, 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 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 the corresponding ''Trigun Maximum'' chapter (the very first one), the large fight is also skipped, but Vash confronts the imposter holding Lina against her will and defeats him.

* 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.]]

* The special ''[=~Pokémon: Mewtwo Returns~=]'': Team Rocket, led by the rarely used Giovanni, have captured the Pokemon clones and their babies. Mewtwo is horribly injured, and Ash must free the Pokemon and help Mewtwo. When Giovanni and a small army of TR grunts shows up to fight, Misty and Brock step up to fight, letting out their Pokemon. ''Then it cuts away to a different scene''. When it cuts back, the battle's over, thereby skipping one of the few battles against the Team Rocket organization as a whole (not just individual members like Jessie and James) in the show's entire 11-plus season history.

** The most {{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 weapon's 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! Instead we see Tenten passed out, face down in the dirt as a medic tells her never to touch the fan again. Kishimoto basically teases us again, implying she's planning something with Team 10 but that'll never be revealed either.]]