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* ''WesternAnimation/Bionicle2LegendsOfMetruNui'': Vakama finishes melding the Great Discs into the Mask of Time while the Toa escape the city, but it's not shown on-screen.
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* ''Film/TwiceRoundTheDaffodils'': When Mrs. Rhodes comes to visit, John tells his wife of the time he did a striptease to get a laugh out of the other patients, and how Matron walked in on him.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansTheJudasContract'': [[spoiler:Raven and Terra's]] unseen battle left the room they were in utterly trashed. While we don't see how it got that way and it's clear that Terra eventually won, those two girls threw down a ''major'' battle.
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* ''Film/LittleMonsters2019:'' [[MamaBear Audrey]] has to fight her way through several zombies to retrieve the backpack with Felix's life-saving [=EpiPen=]. When she turns around, she sees a huge crowd of zombies have arrived. She raises her [[ShovenStrike shovel]], at which point we cut back to the gift shop where everyone's hiding, and she arrives covered in "strawberry jam."
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* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** In ''Film/IronMan2'' we never see how Vanko escapes (and kills) the Hammer goons sent to watch him, but according to the scene after, it was ''damn'' bloody.
** A key scene in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' where Steve has to make an impossible leap from one platform onto another as the HYDRA base explodes and crumbles in flames around him. While we do see him attempt to jump, the scene cuts away to the Allied camp, and the implication that Steve had perished in the base. [[spoiler: However, we then see Steve returning with all 400 [=POWs=], indicating that he did make the jump.]]
** While this is more of a offscreen moment of hilarity, we have ''Film/TheConsultant''. The World Security Council wants to put [[EvilCounterpart Emil]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Blonsky]] on ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. Knowing that this is a recipe for disaster but unable to deal with it directly, SHIELD sends the most obnoxious person they know to handle negotiations with General Ross for Blonsky's release: [[Film/IronMan1 Tony Stark.]] While we do get to see the first minute of Tony's meeting with Ross in a bar, the rest is left up to the viewer's imagination. The end result is that negotiations go up in flames (exactly what SHIELD wanted), Ross tried to get Tony thrown out of the bar, and [[EscalatingWar Tony responded by buying the bar and having it demolished.]]
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Steve and Natasha are told that the last remaining Falcon suit is in a heavily guarded vault in Fort Meade. In the next scene, Falcon is wearing the suit while he helps them interrogate an enemy agent. The details of how they stole the suit are never mentioned.
** ''Film/AntMan'': Scott needs to steal a MacGuffin from one of Stark's old warehouses. Except it turns out that this particular warehouse had been converted into ''Avengers' HQ!'' There's an onscreen Moment of Awesome where he ends up fighting Falcon, then it cuts to Scott returning to Pym's house... with the MacGuffin in his pocket.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'':
*** When the film begins, Thanos already has the Power Stone. It was mentioned later by Thor that Thanos' forces had decimated half of Xandar to get it.
*** In the opening scene, both Thor and Loki are covered in soot and the ship looks like a hurricane went through it, so even though we don’t get to see the what happened in the battle between the remnants of Asgard and Thanos’ minions, it’s implied that [[spoiler: the Asgardians put up one hell of a fight before they were defeated.]]
*** Whatever Nebula did in her assassination attempt, Thanos admits she nearly succeeded at killing him, no small feat given how hard it is to even draw blood from Thanos.
*** How Gamora found the Soul Stone's location is never clarified, but it's impressive considering almost nobody in the universe knows where it is.
*** Perhaps the most galling is [[spoiler: Thor first wielding the Stormbreaker repairing his body and getting a new outfit all while Rocket and Groot look on awed to bone, of course that scene was in the trailer but cut from the actual film.]]

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* Creator/KevinSmith uses this quite often in his films. One In ''Film/ClerksII'', the characters [[ReactionShot react]] to a "Donkey Show" bestiality scene, but (for obvious reasons) [[DiscretionShot this occurs offscreen]]. This could also count as HeadTiltinglyKinky, but in this case, one character (drunk) is impressed, while the others are mostly disgusted.



* The climax of horror movie ''{{Creature}}'' , with the main character fighting the creature, is done off-screen. To make it worse, there is NoEnding.

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* The climax of horror movie ''{{Creature}}'' ''Film/{{Creature}}'' , with the main character fighting the creature, is done off-screen. To make it worse, there is NoEnding.



* In ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'' the first battle between Godzilla and the [=MUTO=] (save for some shaky news footage later) happens entirely off-screen. In fact, nearly all of Godzilla's scenes ''period'' happen off-screen (He's actually only in around 8 minutes of the film), instead focusing only on the [=MUTOs=] and the human characters.



* Creator/KevinSmith uses this quite often in his films. One In ''Film/ClerksII'', the characters [[ReactionShot react]] to a "Donkey Show" bestiality scene, but (for obvious reasons) [[DiscretionShot this occurs offscreen]]. This could also count as HeadTiltinglyKinky, but in this case, one character (drunk) is impressed, while the others are mostly disgusted.
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* In ''Film/TheMuppets'', what is referred to as an expensive-looking explosion happens behind the camera. Fozzie comments on how it must have [[NoFourthWall eaten up the budget.]]

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* In ''Film/TheMuppets'', ''Film/TheMuppets2011'', what is referred to as an expensive-looking explosion happens behind the camera. Fozzie comments on how it must have [[NoFourthWall eaten up the budget.]]
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'', after Mei proves that she can keep her emotions under control, she seeks to ask Ming's permission to go to the 4*Town concert. Quick cut to a close-up Ming giving her a firm no, followed by a wide-shot of Mei having concluded an elaborate multimedia presentation about why she should see the concert, flaming sparklers still in hand.
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'': The fight between Fergus and Mor'du became a legend, yet the scene cuts away at the beginning of this epic event. Mor'du's jaw has clearly been broken at some point!
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* ''Film/TheTimeTravelersWife'' starts with the protagonist as a young boy being involved in a car accident which kills his mother and causes him to time travel (basically just to teleport out off the car) for the first time in his life. This is filmed beautifully, many fans fully expected to see what was regarded as one of the most cinematic moments of the book: how the scenery is full of dozens of later-day Henrys who couldn't help but travel back to this pivotal point in their life (time travel is not under the character's control). Unable to prevent the tragedy, only able to assist their younger self. That was apparently too much of a challenge, the situation is only mentioned later in the movie during an argument.

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* ''Film/TheTimeTravelersWife'' ''Film/TheTimeTravelersWife2009'' starts with the protagonist as a young boy being involved in a car accident which kills his mother and causes him to time travel (basically just to teleport out off the car) for the first time in his life. This is filmed beautifully, many fans fully expected to see what was regarded as one of the most cinematic moments of the book: how the scenery is full of dozens of later-day Henrys who couldn't help but travel back to this pivotal point in their life (time travel is not under the character's control). Unable to prevent the tragedy, only able to assist their younger self. That was apparently too much of a challenge, the situation is only mentioned later in the movie during an argument.
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** ''Film/AntMan'': Scott needs to steal a MacGuffin from one of Stark's old warehouses. Except it turns out that this particular warehouse had been converted into ''Avengers' HQ!'' There's an onscreen Moment of Awesome where he ends up fighting Falcon, then it cuts to Scott returning to Pym's house... with the MacGuffin in his pocket.
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* Creator/StevenSpielberg's adaptation of ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' had a scene where Creator/TomCruise's son climbs towards the crest of a hill, behind which is what is most likely the final stand of the armed forces in an all-out battle against the Martian Tripods. Just as he (and the audience, due to the camera angle) are just about to glimpse this spectacle... Tom Cruise tackles him. The majority of the rest of the film involves looking at the ankles of tripods from a dingy basement.

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* Creator/StevenSpielberg's adaptation of ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' ''Film/WarOfTheWorlds2005'' had a scene where Creator/TomCruise's son climbs towards the crest of a hill, behind which is what is most likely the final stand of the armed forces in an all-out battle against the Martian Tripods. Just as he (and the audience, due to the camera angle) are just about to glimpse this spectacle... Tom Cruise tackles him. The majority of the rest of the film involves looking at the ankles of tripods from a dingy basement.
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*** Perhaps the most galling is [[spoiler: Thor first wielding the Strombringer repairing his body and getting a new outfit all while Rocket and Groot look on awed to bone, of course that scene was in the trailer but cut from the actual film.]]

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*** Perhaps the most galling is [[spoiler: Thor first wielding the Strombringer Stormbreaker repairing his body and getting a new outfit all while Rocket and Groot look on awed to bone, of course that scene was in the trailer but cut from the actual film.]]
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Except we _do_ get to see the battle. We just miss the beginning because we've been sent to chase comets in the Neutral Zone. Oh, fascinating.


* In ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'': Here, we finally have a big budget movie with proper big budget movie effects. We have the most awesome bad guys the series had come up with in years in a massive throwdown with the Federation fleet... and we get to listen to it over the radio while the Enterprise bridge crew stand around and look concerned? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?

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* ZigZagged in the Icelandic film ''Astrópía'', when the DeepImmersionGaming fantasy setting from the main characters' roleplaying game comes back for the duration of the climatic ''real-life'' fight scene.
* In ''Film/AttackTheBlock'', an alien enters an elevator that the gangster Hi-Hatz entered just as the doors close. We hear screaming and fighting noises. The elevator comes to another floor and opens. Hi-Hatz steps out, covered in blood but fine, with the alien dead.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Bionicle}}'' movie ''The Legend Reborn'', a gigantic army comprised of fighters, villagers and battle chariots appears to challenge the combined army of the Skrall and Bone Hunters. We never see any of them fight, only the five main characters. After the battle's done, Vastus and Tarix, both legendary fighters, arrive to the scene, claiming that it's a miracle they survived the fight which viewers didn't get to see. The DVD revealed that a lot of the battle got cut, although even the planned scenes wouldn't have shown much more.
* ''Film/{{Coneheads}}'': Only a glimpse of the start of Beldar's homemade firework is seen; the rest shows the audience's astonished reaction.
* In ''Film/CrankHighVoltage'', we see Chelios enter a run-down building occupied by prostitutes and criminals. Immediately after he enters, hookers start running out screaming, and thugs go flying out the windows, doors, and walls. Presumably Chelios is kicking ass like it's nobody's business inside, but we don't get to see the actual fighting.
* The climax of horror movie ''{{Creature}}'' , with the main character fighting the creature, is done off-screen. To make it worse, there is NoEnding.
* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'': ''Furious 7'' opens with Deckard Shaw in his brother's hospital room, [[AvengingTheVillain vowing revenge]] on the team who put him there. Then he calmly makes his exit -- through the absolutely ''wrecked'' hospital, casually stepping over the dozens of policemen he killed en route.
* In ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'' the first battle between Godzilla and the [=MUTO=] (save for some shaky news footage later) happens entirely off-screen. In fact, nearly all of Godzilla's scenes ''period'' happen off-screen (He's actually only in around 8 minutes of the film), instead focusing only on the [=MUTOs=] and the human characters.
* In ''Film/GoodFellas'', the execution of the Air France and Lufthansa [[TheCaper huge heists]] is not explicitly shown. There's some planning and location shots, but most of the information is given via {{exposition}}. (This is probably because both of these heists could easily take up an entire movie by themselves, and there's a lot of other material ''this'' movie has to cover beside the heists.)
* ''Film/TheGrey'' builds up to an epic, climactic fight between the hero and the alpha wolf of the pack that has been hunting him the whole movie. He tapes airplane liquor bottles to one hand for a makeshift knuckleduster, tapes a knife to the other hand, and runs at the alpha. [[spoiler:[[BolivianArmyEnding Then the movie ends]]. TheStinger has Ottway and the wolf lying in a heap, both breathing their last.]]
* Done intentionally in ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', in the Creator/RobertRodriguez directed ''Planet Terror'': Cherry & Wrey are just getting into a fiery sex scene... when the film suddenly cuts, and the screen says "Missing Reel." When it returns a few seconds later, the restaurant has caught fire, the zombies have broken through their defenses, and the formerly asshole sheriff does an abrupt face-turn to Rey, apologizing to him after he did something apparently awesome in the time gap. Bonus points because the sheriff is also lying on a table bleeding to death because one of his own men accidentally shot him during the missing reel.
* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', the Quidditch World Cup is hyped as a major event throughout the opening scenes, but we only see the beginning and aftermath, in a rather abrupt scene cut.
* The big bike race between feuding gangs or whatever (it's hard to tell) in ''Film/TheHellcats'' is completely unseen between the point where the guys ride off and their approach to the finish line. We are treated to the onlookers' faces for an absurdly long time instead.
* Alyson Reed, who plays Ms. Darbus in ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'', was a former Broadway actress, even playing Cassie in ''A Chorus Line''. She didn't sing a note. Apparently, a song that featured duet between Ms. Darbus and Coach Bolton fighting was written for the first movie, but it was cut before it was even recorded and didn't even make it on the soundtrack as a bonus track.
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': Just like the novel, you never really get to see Thresh in action. Pretty weird too, considering he was hyped as one of the stronger competitors. [[spoiler:Onscreen, however, he kills Clove in just one move, and she's ''absolutely terrified'' of him.]]
* There's a lengthy stretch near the end of ''Film/InvasionOfAstroMonster'' where King Ghidorah, the BigBad of the Franchise/{{Godzilla}} series and arguably its most dangerous monster, ''attacks America'' instead of just sticking to Japan like usual. However, we just hear about it rather than seeing it, presumably because the construction of another miniature city wasn't in the budget.



* In ''Film/TheMuppets'', what is referred to as an expensive-looking explosion happens behind the camera. Fozzie comments on how it must have [[NoFourthWall eaten up the budget.]]

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* In ''Film/TheMuppets'', what is referred to as an expensive-looking explosion happens behind ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'', the camera. Fozzie comments on how it must have [[NoFourthWall eaten up audiences sees the budget.]]preparations for the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hattin Battle of Hattin]], before the film cuts away to another location. Once it returns to the Horns, the battle is already over and all we see is its bloody aftermath. Instead, the Siege of Jerusalem serves as the [[FinalBattle Climactic Battle]].
* In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', Roxy's almost entire career pretty much, despite being the most capable candidate. Her only moments in the limelight were stressing about her fear of heights and being consoled by Eggsy... Until she gets over it and then some by [[spoiler:[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome shooting off a satellite while floating in the stratosphere]]]]. Taken literally when [[spoiler:we're informed that she just passed the speeding train test before Eggsy even had his. And again when she passes the ShootTheDog test offscreen, but you hear her pull the trigger in the next room]].



** ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'': Happens twice with Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli immediately prior to the Battle of the Pellenor Fields.
* ''Film/TheTimeTravelersWife'' starts with the protagonist as a young boy being involved in a car accident which kills his mother and causes him to time travel (basically just to teleport out off the car) for the first time in his life. This is filmed beautifully, many fans fully expected to see what was regarded as one of the most cinematic moments of the book: how the scenery is full of dozens of later-day Henrys who couldn't help but travel back to this pivotal point in their life (time travel is not under the character's control). Unable to prevent the tragedy, only able to assist their younger self. That was apparently too much of a challenge, the situation is only mentioned later in the movie during an argument.

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** ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'': Happens twice with Aragorn, Legolas Legolas, and Gimli immediately prior to the Battle of the Pellenor Fields.
* ''Film/TheTimeTravelersWife'' starts with At one point in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', the protagonist as a young boy War Rig is being involved randomly threatened by a group led by The Bullet Farmer firing blind -- literally, thanks to Furiosa's sniper shot -- in the dark. Max walks off into the fog with only a car accident which kills knife and a gas can. After a few minutes of the Wives, Nux, and Furiosa working to fix the rig, there's an explosion. Another minute later, Max walks back up to the War Rig covered in blood. ''It's not his mother blood''.
* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** In ''Film/IronMan2'' we never see how Vanko escapes (and kills) the Hammer goons sent to watch him, but according to the scene after, it was ''damn'' bloody.
** A key scene in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' where Steve has to make an impossible leap from one platform onto another as the HYDRA base explodes
and causes crumbles in flames around him. While we do see him attempt to time travel (basically just to teleport out off jump, the car) scene cuts away to the Allied camp, and the implication that Steve had perished in the base. [[spoiler: However, we then see Steve returning with all 400 [=POWs=], indicating that he did make the jump.]]
** While this is more of a offscreen moment of hilarity, we have ''Film/TheConsultant''. The World Security Council wants to put [[EvilCounterpart Emil]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Blonsky]] on ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. Knowing that this is a recipe
for disaster but unable to deal with it directly, SHIELD sends the most obnoxious person they know to handle negotiations with General Ross for Blonsky's release: [[Film/IronMan1 Tony Stark.]] While we do get to see the first time minute of Tony's meeting with Ross in his life. This a bar, the rest is filmed beautifully, many fans fully expected left up to see the viewer's imagination. The end result is that negotiations go up in flames (exactly what was regarded as one SHIELD wanted), Ross tried to get Tony thrown out of the most cinematic moments of bar, and [[EscalatingWar Tony responded by buying the book: bar and having it demolished.]]
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Steve and Natasha are told that the last remaining Falcon suit is in a heavily guarded vault in Fort Meade. In the next scene, Falcon is wearing the suit while he helps them interrogate an enemy agent. The details of
how they stole the scenery is full of dozens of later-day Henrys who couldn't help but travel back to this pivotal point in their life (time travel is not under suit are never mentioned.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'':
*** When
the character's control). Unable to prevent film begins, Thanos already has the tragedy, only able to assist their younger self. That Power Stone. It was apparently too much of a challenge, the situation is only mentioned later by Thor that Thanos' forces had decimated half of Xandar to get it.
*** In the opening scene, both Thor and Loki are covered in soot and the ship looks like a hurricane went through it, so even though we don’t get to see the what happened
in the movie during battle between the remnants of Asgard and Thanos’ minions, it’s implied that [[spoiler: the Asgardians put up one hell of a fight before they were defeated.]]
*** Whatever Nebula did in her assassination attempt, Thanos admits she nearly succeeded at killing him, no small feat given how hard it is to even draw blood from Thanos.
*** How Gamora found the Soul Stone's location is never clarified, but it's impressive considering almost nobody in the universe knows where it is.
*** Perhaps the most galling is [[spoiler: Thor first wielding the Strombringer repairing his body and getting a new outfit all while Rocket and Groot look on awed to bone, of course that scene was in the trailer but cut from the actual film.]]
* In ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' we are told that a large number of hovercraft are assembling to fight a pitched battle against a large number of Sentinels. The battle itself gets two lines of dialogue in the last two minutes of the film.
* One of just two scenes still missing from the restored ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' is Joh Fredersen fighting Rotwang and kicking his butt.
* In ''Film/{{Mirage 1965}}'', Creator/GregoryPeck's character is held hostage in his own apartment by a hired killer, who makes himself at home by watching ProfessionalWrestling. When the two men fight, the camera shows the TV screen—then turns to Peck (who presumably took tips from the wrestlers) standing over the defeated assassin.
* In ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'', Ethan's theft of the [[MacGuffin Rabbit's Foot]] is never shown, though part of the infiltration is seen. Instead, we are given
an argument.ActionFilmQuietDramaScene over the theft.
* In ''Film/TheMuppets'', what is referred to as an expensive-looking explosion happens behind the camera. Fozzie comments on how it must have [[NoFourthWall eaten up the budget.]]
* ''Film/OceansEleven'' does this with the theft of the "pinch", for comedic purposes.
* In ''Film/PacificRim'', Coyote Tango's battle against Onibaba is ''heard'' entirely from [[spoiler: Mako's]] perspective as she hides in an alleyway. In a flashback, no less.



* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', the Quidditch World Cup is hyped as a major event throughout the opening scenes, but we only see the beginning and aftermath, in a rather abrupt scene cut.



* Creator/StevenSpielberg's adaptation of ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' had a scene where Creator/TomCruise's son climbs towards the crest of a hill, behind which is what is most likely the final stand of the armed forces in an all-out battle against the Martian Tripods. Just as he (and the audience, due to the camera angle) are just about to glimpse this spectacle... Tom Cruise tackles him. The majority of the rest of the film involves looking at the ankles of tripods from a dingy basement.
* In ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'': Here, we finally have a big budget movie with proper big budget movie effects. We have the most awesome bad guys the series had come up with in years in a massive throwdown with the Federation fleet. . . and we get to listen to it over the radio while the Enterprise bridge crew stand around and look concerned? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?
%%* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Film/ThePuppetMasters'' -- [[http://www.wordplayer.com/columns/wp15.Building.the.Bomb.html See here for why.]]

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* Creator/StevenSpielberg's adaptation of ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' had ''Film/PulpFiction'': Butch's boxing match. He's accepted money to take a scene where Creator/TomCruise's son climbs towards dive, but bets everything (including his life) on winning and skipping town with the crest of a hill, behind which is what is most likely proceeds. He not only wins the final stand bout, but ''kills'' his opponent. We only see him immediately before and afterward.
* This is the point of ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' -- in a movie about a heist, we never see the heist, or even any
of the armed forces in an all-out battle against planning of it. All we see are immediately before and after, as well as a bit of {{backstory}} on a couple of the Martian Tripods. Just as he (and characters.
* In ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife'', when
the audience, due to group escapes the prison through the sewers, Luther West is grabbed by the zombies and dragged into the darkness. Everybody sadly concludes that he's dead and moves on. Near the end of the movie, Luther emerges from the sewers, alive and well, and kills the last of the zombies chasing him.
* Invoked for the climax of ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' despite the viewpoint characters being right in the middle of it;
the camera angle) are just about is focusing mainly on the eponymous ship as they attempt to glimpse dodge through and around the massive Alliance Navy vs Reavers throwdown engineered by Mal. We only see the occasional explosion or chunk of debris hurtling across the screen, and [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools it actually works really well.]]
* Creator/KevinSmith uses
this spectacle... Tom Cruise tackles him. quite often in his films. One In ''Film/ClerksII'', the characters [[ReactionShot react]] to a "Donkey Show" bestiality scene, but (for obvious reasons) [[DiscretionShot this occurs offscreen]]. This could also count as HeadTiltinglyKinky, but in this case, one character (drunk) is impressed, while the others are mostly disgusted.
* Done to near-perfection at the end of Film/{{Starman}}. We don't see [[spoiler:Starman leaving Earth]]; we only see [[spoiler:Jenny's face as she watches him go.]]
The majority sight of the rest of the film involves [[spoiler:Karen Allen looking directly at the ankles of tripods from a dingy basement.
camera... as the camera slowly rises]] is ''far'' more powerful than any special effects shot could be.
* In ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'': Here, we finally have a big budget movie with proper big budget movie effects. We have the most awesome bad guys the series had come up with in years in a massive throwdown with the Federation fleet. . . fleet... and we get to listen to it over the radio while the Enterprise bridge crew stand around and look concerned? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?
%%* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Film/ThePuppetMasters'' -- [[http://www.wordplayer.com/columns/wp15.Building.the.Bomb.html See here for why.]]
Foxtrot?!?



* In ''Film/GoodFellas'', the execution of the Air France and Lufthansa [[TheCaper huge heists]] is not explicitly shown. There's some planning and location shots, but most of the information is given via {{exposition}}. (This is probably because both of these heists could easily take up an entire movie by themselves, and there's a lot of other material ''this'' movie has to cover beside the heists.)
* Done intentionally in ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', in the Creator/RobertRodriguez directed ''Planet Terror'': Cherry & Wrey are just getting into a fiery sex scene... when the film suddenly cuts, and the screen says "Missing Reel." When it returns a few seconds later, the restaurant has caught fire, the zombies have broken through their defenses, and the formerly asshole sheriff does an abrupt face-turn to Rey, apologizing to him after he did something apparently awesome in the time gap. Bonus points because the sheriff is also lying on a table bleeding to death because one of his own men accidentally shot him during the missing reel.
* In ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' we are told that a large number of hovercraft are assembling to fight a pitched battle against a large number of Sentinels. The battle itself gets two lines of dialogue in the last two minutes of the film.
* This is the point of ''Film/ReservoirDogs'' -- in a movie about a heist, we never see the heist, or even any of the planning of it. All we see are immediately before and after, as well as a bit of {{backstory}} on a couple of the characters.
* Alyson Reed, who plays Ms. Darbus in ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'', was a former Broadway actress, even playing Cassie in ''A Chorus Line''. She didn't sing a note. Apparently, a song that featured duet between Ms. Darbus and Coach Bolton fighting was written for the first movie, but it was cut before it was even recorded and didn't even make it on the soundtrack as a bonus track.
* Intentionally done in ''Film/WetHotAmericanSummer'', where one of the camp counselors goes to rescue the rafting campers, the camera cuts to a reaction shot of the other counselor exclaiming "Wow! You're doing it! You're really doing it! This is incredible!"
* In the direct-to-video [[{{Kaiju}} giant monster]] movie ''ZarkorrTheInvader'', there is an intense battle between the Air Force and the eponymous beast. Fighter jets attack Zarkorr with napalm, engulfing the entire valley he is in in flames. Once the flames begin to die down, it is revealed that Zarkorr is completely unharmed, and he returns fire with [[EyeBeams energy beams from his eyes]], blowing the jets out of the sky one-by-one. It's a shame this entire conflict takes place ''as a radio report the main characters listen to in their car''.
* One of just two scenes still missing from the restored ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'' is Joh Fredersen fighting Rotwang and kicking his butt.
* Tsukue Ryunosuke, the VillainProtagonist of Okamoto Kihachi's ''Film/TheSwordOfDoom'', is forced to go on the run after killing another samurai in a fencing match. The samurai's younger brother, Hyoma, has spent years tracking down his brother's killer, only to find him by accident. He issues a challenge to Ryunosuke to face him in an duel, a challenge that Ryunosuke accepts...but then backs out on. Even after several scenes of Hyoma training to defeat his rival, even after tracking him down yet again--a year later, and by another lucky accident--the movie ends without the climactic face-off.



* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** In ''Film/IronMan2'' we never see how Vanko escapes (and kills) the Hammer goons sent to watch him, but according to the scene after, it was ''damn'' bloody.
** A key scene in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' where Steve has to make an impossible leap from one platform onto another as the HYDRA base explodes and crumbles in flames around him. While we do see him attempt to jump, the scene cuts away to the Allied camp, and the implication that Steve had perished in the base. [[spoiler: However, we then see Steve returning with all 400 [=POWs=], indicating that he did make the jump.]]
** While this is more of a offscreen moment of hilarity, we have ''Film/TheConsultant''. The World Security Council wants to put [[EvilCounterpart Emil]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Blonsky]] on ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. Knowing that this is a recipe for disaster but unable to deal with it directly, SHIELD sends the most obnoxious person they know to handle negotiations with General Ross for Blonsky's release: [[Film/IronMan1 Tony Stark.]] While we do get to see the first minute of Tony's meeting with Ross in a bar, the rest is left up to the viewer's imagination. The end result is that negotiations go up in flames (exactly what SHIELD wanted), Ross tried to get Tony thrown out of the bar, and [[EscalatingWar Tony responded by buying the bar and having it demolished.]]
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Steve and Natasha are told that the last remaining Falcon suit is in a heavily guarded vault in Fort Meade. In the next scene, Falcon is wearing the suit while he helps them interrogate an enemy agent. The details of how they stole the suit are never mentioned.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'':
*** When the film begins, Thanos already has the Power Stone. It was mentioned later by Thor that Thanos' forces had decimated half of Xandar to get it.
*** In the opening scene, both Thor and Loki are covered in soot and the ship looks like a hurricane went through it, so even though we don’t get to see the what happened in the battle between the remnants of Asgard and Thanos’ minions, it’s implied that [[spoiler: the Asgardians put up one hell of a fight before they were defeated.]]
*** Whatever Nebula did in her assassination attempt, Thanos admits she nearly succeeded at killing him, no small feat given how hard it is to even draw blood from Thanos.
*** How Gamora found the Soul Stone's location is never clarified, but it's impressive considering almost nobody in the universe knows where it is.
*** Perhaps the most galling is [[spoiler: Thor first wielding the Strombringer repairing his body and getting a new outfit all while Rocket and Groot look on awed to bone, of course that scene was in the trailer but cut from the actual film.]]

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* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** In ''Film/IronMan2'' we never see how Vanko escapes (and kills)
Tsukue Ryunosuke, the Hammer goons sent VillainProtagonist of Okamoto Kihachi's ''Film/TheSwordOfDoom'', is forced to watch him, but according to go on the scene after, it was ''damn'' bloody.
** A key scene in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' where Steve has to make an impossible leap from one platform onto
run after killing another as the HYDRA base explodes and crumbles samurai in flames around him. While we do see a fencing match. The samurai's younger brother, Hyoma, has spent years tracking down his brother's killer, only to find him attempt by accident. He issues a challenge to jump, the scene cuts away Ryunosuke to the Allied camp, and the implication face him in an duel, a challenge that Steve had perished in the base. [[spoiler: However, we Ryunosuke accepts...but then see Steve returning backs out on. Even after several scenes of Hyoma training to defeat his rival, even after tracking him down yet again -- a year later, and by another lucky accident -- the movie ends without the climactic face-off.
* Subject of a gag in ''[[Film/TheThreeStooges The Three Stooges Meet Hercules]]'': When it comes time to battle the dreaded nine-headed hydra, the designated hero announces this fact, charges off-screen, there's some sound effects, and back he comes, that takes care of the hydra!
* ''Film/TheTimeTravelersWife'' starts
with all 400 [=POWs=], indicating that he did make the jump.]]
** While this is more of
protagonist as a offscreen moment of hilarity, we have ''Film/TheConsultant''. The World Security Council wants young boy being involved in a car accident which kills his mother and causes him to put [[EvilCounterpart Emil]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Blonsky]] on ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. Knowing that this is a recipe time travel (basically just to teleport out off the car) for disaster but unable to deal with it directly, SHIELD sends the most obnoxious person they know to handle negotiations with General Ross for Blonsky's release: [[Film/IronMan1 Tony Stark.]] While we do get to see the first minute of Tony's meeting with Ross time in a bar, the rest his life. This is left up filmed beautifully, many fans fully expected to the viewer's imagination. The end result is that negotiations go up in flames (exactly see what SHIELD wanted), Ross tried to get Tony thrown out was regarded as one of the bar, and [[EscalatingWar Tony responded by buying most cinematic moments of the bar and having it demolished.]]
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Steve and Natasha are told that
book: how the last remaining Falcon suit scenery is full of dozens of later-day Henrys who couldn't help but travel back to this pivotal point in a heavily guarded vault in Fort Meade. In their life (time travel is not under the next scene, Falcon is wearing character's control). Unable to prevent the suit while he helps them interrogate an enemy agent. The details tragedy, only able to assist their younger self. That was apparently too much of how they stole a challenge, the suit are never mentioned.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'':
*** When the film begins, Thanos already has the Power Stone. It was
situation is only mentioned later by Thor that Thanos' forces had decimated half of Xandar to get it.
*** In the opening scene, both Thor and Loki are covered in soot and the ship looks like a hurricane went through it, so even though we don’t get to see the what happened
in the battle between the remnants of Asgard and Thanos’ minions, it’s implied that [[spoiler: the Asgardians put movie during an argument.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'', there's a scene with resident WrenchWench Akima waking
up one hell of a fight before they were defeated.]]
*** Whatever Nebula did
in her assassination attempt, Thanos admits she nearly succeeded at killing him, no small feat given how hard it is to even draw blood from Thanos.
*** How Gamora found the Soul Stone's location is never clarified, but it's impressive considering almost nobody
a Drej escape pod, in the universe knows where it is.
*** Perhaps the
middle of a cell full of soon-to-be-auctioned slaves -- most galling is [[spoiler: Thor first wielding the Strombringer repairing his body of whom are much larger than her and getting a new outfit all while Rocket and Groot look on awed to bone, ''all'' of course that whom are looking down at her with obviously predatory intent. One short scene was in later, the trailer but cut from rest of the actual film.]] crew arrives to rescue her, and finds her sitting on top of a pile of unconscious prisoners, grinning and greeting them with "What took you?"



* In ''Film/KingdomOfHeaven'', the audiences sees the preparations for the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hattin Battle of Hattin]], before the film cuts away to another location. Once it returns to the Horns, the battle is already over and all we see is its bloody aftermath. Instead, the Siege of Jerusalem serves as the [[FinalBattle Climactic Battle]].
* ZigZagged in the Icelandic film ''Astrópía'', when the DeepImmersionGaming fantasy setting from the main characters' roleplaying game comes back for the duration of the climatic ''real-life'' fight scene.
* Creator/KevinSmith uses this quite often in his films. One In ''Film/ClerksII'', the characters [[ReactionShot react]] to a "Donkey Show" bestiality scene, but (for obvious reasons) [[DiscretionShot this occurs offscreen]]. This could also count as HeadTiltinglyKinky, but in this case, one character (drunk) is impressed, while the others are mostly disgusted.
* ''Film/OceansEleven'' does this with the theft of the "pinch", for comedic purposes.
* ''Film/TheGrey'' builds up to an epic, climactic fight between the hero and the alpha wolf of the pack that has been hunting him the whole movie. He tapes airplane liquor bottles to one hand for a makeshift knuckleduster, tapes a knife to the other hand, and runs at the alpha. [[spoiler:[[BolivianArmyEnding Then the movie ends]]. TheStinger has Ottway and the wolf lying in a heap, both breathing their last.]]
* In ''Film/CrankHighVoltage'', we see Chelios enter a run-down building occupied by prostitutes and criminals. Immediately after he enters, hookers start running out screaming, and thugs go flying out the windows, doors, and walls. Presumably Chelios is kicking ass like it's nobody's business inside, but we don't get to see the actual fighting.
* The climax of horror movie ''{{Creature}}'' , with the main character fighting the creature, is done off-screen. To make it worse, there is NoEnding.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'', there's a scene with resident WrenchWench Akima waking up in a Drej escape pod, in the middle of a cell full of soon-to-be-auctioned slaves - most of whom are much larger than her and ''all'' of whom are looking down at her with obviously predatory intent. One short scene later, the rest of the crew arrives to rescue her, and finds her sitting on top of a pile of unconscious prisoners, grinning and greeting them with "What took you?"
* In ''Film/PacificRim'', Coyote Tango's battle against Onibaba is ''heard'' entirely from [[spoiler: Mako's]] perspective as she hides in an alleyway. In a flashback, no less.
* Invoked for the climax of ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' despite the viewpoint characters being right in the middle of it; the camera is focusing mainly on the eponymous ship as they attempt to dodge through and around the massive Alliance Navy vs Reavers throwdown engineered by Mal. We only see the occasional explosion or chunk of debris hurtling across the screen, and [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools it actually works really well.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Bionicle}}'' movie ''The Legend Reborn'', a gigantic army comprised of fighters, villagers and battle chariots appears to challenge the combined army of the Skrall and Bone Hunters. We never see any of them fight, only the five main characters. After the battle's done, Vastus and Tarix, both legendary fighters, arrive to the scene, claiming that it's a miracle they survived the fight which viewers didn't get to see. The DVD revealed that a lot of the battle got cut, although even the planned scenes wouldn't have shown much more.
* In ''Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife'', when the group escapes the prison through the sewers, Luther West is grabbed by the zombies and dragged into the darkness. Everybody sadly concludes that he's dead and moves on. Near the end of the movie, Luther emerges from the sewers, alive and well, and kills the last of the zombies chasing him.
* In ''Film/AttackTheBlock'', an alien enters an elevator that the gangster Hi-Hatz entered just as the doors close. We hear screaming and fighting noises. The elevator comes to another floor and opens. Hi-Hatz steps out, covered in blood but fine, with the alien dead.
* In ''Film/KingsmanTheSecretService'', Roxy's almost entire career pretty much, despite being the most capable candidate. Her only moments in the limelight were stressing about her fear of heights and being consoled by Eggsy... Until she gets over it and then some by [[spoiler:[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome shooting off a satellite while floating in the stratosphere]]]]. Taken literally when [[spoiler:we're informed that she just passed the speeding train test before Eggsy even had his. And again when she passes the ShootTheDog test offscreen, but you hear her pull the trigger in the next room]].
* At one point in ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'', the War Rig is being randomly threatened by a group led by The Bullet Farmer firing blind - literally, thanks to Furiosa's sniper shot - in the dark. Max walks off into the fog with only a knife and a gas can. After a few minutes of the Wives, Nux and Furiosa working to fix the rig, there's an explosion. Another minute later, Max walks back up to the War Rig covered in blood. ''It's not his blood''.
* The big bike race between feuding gangs or whatever (it's hard to tell) in ''Film/TheHellcats'' is completely unseen between the point where the guys ride off and their approach to the finish line. We are treated to the onlookers' faces for an absurdly long time instead.
* There's a lengthy stretch near the end of ''Film/InvasionOfAstroMonster'' where King Ghidorah, the BigBad of the Franchise/{{Godzilla}} series and arguably its most dangerous monster, ''attacks America'' instead of just sticking to Japan like usual. However, we just hear about it rather than seeing it, presumably because the construction of another miniature city wasn't in the budget.
* In ''Film/{{Mirage 1965}}'', Creator/GregoryPeck's character is held hostage in his own apartment by a hired killer, who makes himself at home by watching ProfessionalWrestling. When the two men fight, the camera shows the TV screen—then turns to Peck (who presumably took tips from the wrestlers) standing over the defeated assassin.
* ''Film/TheHungerGames'': Just like the novel, you never really get to see Thresh in action. Pretty weird too, considering he was hyped as one of the stronger competitors. [[spoiler:Onscreen, however, he kills Clove in just one move, and she's ''absolutely terrified'' of him.]]
* ''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious'': ''Furious 7'' opens with Deckard Shaw in his brother's hospital room, [[AvengingTheVillain vowing revenge]] on the team who put him there. Then he calmly makes his exit - through the absolutely ''wrecked'' hospital, casually stepping over the dozens of policemen he killed en route.
* ''Film/{{Coneheads}}'': Only a glimpse of the start of Beldar's homemade firework is seen; the rest shows the audience's astonished reaction.
* ''Film/PulpFiction'': Butch's boxing match. He's accepted money to take a dive, but bets everything (including his life) on winning and skipping town with the proceeds. He not only wins the bout, but ''kills'' his opponent. We only see him immediately before and afterward.
* In ''Film/MissionImpossibleIII'', Ethan's theft of the [[MacGuffin Rabbit's Foot]] is never shown, though part of the infiltration is seen. Instead, we are given an ActionFilmQuietDramaScene over the theft.
* In ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'' the first battle between Godzilla and the [=MUTO=] (save for some shaky news footage later) happens entirely off-screen. In fact, nearly all of Godzilla's scenes ''period'' happen off-screen (He's actually only in around 8 minutes of the film), instead focusing only on the [=MUTOs=] and the human characters.



* Done to near-perfection at the end of Film/{{Starman}}. We don't see [[spoiler:Starman leaving Earth]]; we only see [[spoiler:Jenny's face as she watches him go.]] The sight of [[spoiler:Karen Allen looking directly at the camera... as the camera slowly rises]] is ''far'' more powerful than any special effects shot could be.
* Subject of a gag in ''[[Film/TheThreeStooges The Three Stooges Meet Hercules]]'': When it comes time to battle the dreaded nine-headed hydra, the designated hero announces this fact, charges off-screen, there's some sound effects, and back he comes, that takes care of the hydra!

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* Done to near-perfection at Creator/StevenSpielberg's adaptation of ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds'' had a scene where Creator/TomCruise's son climbs towards the end crest of Film/{{Starman}}. We don't see [[spoiler:Starman leaving Earth]]; we only see [[spoiler:Jenny's face as she watches him go.]] The sight of [[spoiler:Karen Allen looking directly at a hill, behind which is what is most likely the camera... final stand of the armed forces in an all-out battle against the Martian Tripods. Just as he (and the audience, due to the camera slowly rises]] is ''far'' more powerful than any special effects angle) are just about to glimpse this spectacle... Tom Cruise tackles him. The majority of the rest of the film involves looking at the ankles of tripods from a dingy basement.
* Intentionally done in ''Film/WetHotAmericanSummer'', where one of the camp counselors goes to rescue the rafting campers, the camera cuts to a reaction
shot could be.
* Subject
of a gag in ''[[Film/TheThreeStooges The Three Stooges Meet Hercules]]'': When it comes time to the other counselor exclaiming "Wow! You're doing it! You're really doing it! This is incredible!"
* In the direct-to-video [[{{Kaiju}} giant monster]] movie ''ZarkorrTheInvader'', there is an intense
battle between the dreaded nine-headed hydra, Air Force and the designated hero announces this fact, charges off-screen, there's some sound effects, and back eponymous beast. Fighter jets attack Zarkorr with napalm, engulfing the entire valley he comes, is in in flames. Once the flames begin to die down, it is revealed that takes care Zarkorr is completely unharmed, and he returns fire with [[EyeBeams energy beams from his eyes]], blowing the jets out of the hydra!sky one-by-one. It's a shame this entire conflict takes place ''as a radio report the main characters listen to in their car''.
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* ''Film/TheMonumentsMen'' was based on a true story, and they touched on the part where a couple of the Monuments Men accidentally stumbled upon Germany's gold reserves while searching for stolen art, but in the film it's treated as just something that happened and that was kinda cool, wasn't it? In RealLife, though, this accidental discovery did more to end the war than almost any soldiering on the part of any of the Allies: the world was still on the gold standard, and when word got out that there was nothing backing the deutchemark, the Third Reich had no way to continue to fund their war effort, and the ''Wehrmacht'' fell apart very quickly after that.
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** To be fair, even said crew get fed up with this and head into the battle.
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* Done intentionally in ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', in the Creator/RobertRodriguez directed ''Planet Terror'': Cherry & Wrey are just getting into a '''fiery''' sex scene... when the film suddenly cuts, and the screen says "Missing Reel." When it returns a few seconds later, the restaurant has caught '''fire''', the zombies have broken through their defenses, and the formerly asshole sheriff does an abrupt face-turn to Rey, apologizing to him after he did something apparently awesome in the time gap. Bonus points because the sheriff is also lying on a table bleeding to death because one of his own men accidentally '''shot him''' during the missing reel.

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* Done intentionally in ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', in the Creator/RobertRodriguez directed ''Planet Terror'': Cherry & Wrey are just getting into a '''fiery''' fiery sex scene... when the film suddenly cuts, and the screen says "Missing Reel." When it returns a few seconds later, the restaurant has caught '''fire''', fire, the zombies have broken through their defenses, and the formerly asshole sheriff does an abrupt face-turn to Rey, apologizing to him after he did something apparently awesome in the time gap. Bonus points because the sheriff is also lying on a table bleeding to death because one of his own men accidentally '''shot him''' shot him during the missing reel.
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* Subject of a gag in ''[[Film/TheThreeStooges The Three Stooges Meet Hercules]]'': When it comes time to battle the dreaded nine-headed hydra, the designated hero announces this fact, charges off-screen, there's some sound effects, and back he comes, that takes of the hydra!

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* Subject of a gag in ''[[Film/TheThreeStooges The Three Stooges Meet Hercules]]'': When it comes time to battle the dreaded nine-headed hydra, the designated hero announces this fact, charges off-screen, there's some sound effects, and back he comes, that takes care of the hydra!

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* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'': Happens twice with Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli immediately prior to the Battle of the Pellenor Fields.

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** ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'': Galadriel gives Gimli three strands of her hair when the Fellowship leaves Lothlorien. This is a significant act of friendship between the historically-hostile Elves and Dwarves, but in the film adaptation it's recounted after the fact by Gimli instead of being shown on screen[[note]]Creator/JohnRhysDavies said that this was because it would have been awkward for him to take the hair and somehow store it while wearing full armor and gloves[[/note]].
** ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'':
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* While this is more of a offscreen moment of hilarity, we have ''Film/TheConsultant'', a short film set in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse. The World Security Council wants to put [[EvilCounterpart Emil]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Blonsky]] on ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. Knowing that this is a recipe for disaster but unable to deal with it directly, SHIELD sends the most obnoxious person they know to handle negotiations with General Ross for Blonsky's release: [[Film/IronMan1 Tony Stark.]] While we do get to see the first minute of Tony's meeting with Ross in a bar, the rest is left up to the viewer's imagination. The end result is that negotiations go up in flames (exactly what SHIELD wanted), Ross tried to get Tony thrown out of the bar, and [[EscalatingWar Tony responded by buying the bar and having it demolished.]]
* A key scene in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' where Steve has to make an impossible leap from one platform onto another as the HYDRA base explodes and crumbles in flames around him. While we do see him attempt to jump, the scene cuts away to the Allied camp, and the implication that Steve had perished in the base. [[spoiler: However, we then see Steve returning with all 400 [=POWs=], indicating that he did make the jump.]]
* In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Steve and Natasha are told that the last remaining Falcon suit is in a heavily guarded vault in Fort Meade. In the next scene, Falcon is wearing the suit while he helps them interrogate an enemy agent. The details of how they stole the suit are never mentioned.

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* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
** In ''Film/IronMan2'' we never see how Vanko escapes (and kills) the Hammer goons sent to watch him, but according to the scene after, it was ''damn'' bloody.
** A key scene in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' where Steve has to make an impossible leap from one platform onto another as the HYDRA base explodes and crumbles in flames around him. While we do see him attempt to jump, the scene cuts away to the Allied camp, and the implication that Steve had perished in the base. [[spoiler: However, we then see Steve returning with all 400 [=POWs=], indicating that he did make the jump.]]
**
While this is more of a offscreen moment of hilarity, we have ''Film/TheConsultant'', a short film set in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.''Film/TheConsultant''. The World Security Council wants to put [[EvilCounterpart Emil]] [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Blonsky]] on ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''. Knowing that this is a recipe for disaster but unable to deal with it directly, SHIELD sends the most obnoxious person they know to handle negotiations with General Ross for Blonsky's release: [[Film/IronMan1 Tony Stark.]] While we do get to see the first minute of Tony's meeting with Ross in a bar, the rest is left up to the viewer's imagination. The end result is that negotiations go up in flames (exactly what SHIELD wanted), Ross tried to get Tony thrown out of the bar, and [[EscalatingWar Tony responded by buying the bar and having it demolished.]]
* A key scene in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' where Steve has to make an impossible leap from one platform onto another as the HYDRA base explodes and crumbles in flames around him. While we do see him attempt to jump, the scene cuts away to the Allied camp, and the implication that Steve had perished in the base. [[spoiler: However, we then see Steve returning with all 400 [=POWs=], indicating that he did make the jump.]]
*
** In ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'', Steve and Natasha are told that the last remaining Falcon suit is in a heavily guarded vault in Fort Meade. In the next scene, Falcon is wearing the suit while he helps them interrogate an enemy agent. The details of how they stole the suit are never mentioned.mentioned.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'':
*** When the film begins, Thanos already has the Power Stone. It was mentioned later by Thor that Thanos' forces had decimated half of Xandar to get it.
*** In the opening scene, both Thor and Loki are covered in soot and the ship looks like a hurricane went through it, so even though we don’t get to see the what happened in the battle between the remnants of Asgard and Thanos’ minions, it’s implied that [[spoiler: the Asgardians put up one hell of a fight before they were defeated.]]
*** Whatever Nebula did in her assassination attempt, Thanos admits she nearly succeeded at killing him, no small feat given how hard it is to even draw blood from Thanos.
*** How Gamora found the Soul Stone's location is never clarified, but it's impressive considering almost nobody in the universe knows where it is.
*** Perhaps the most galling is [[spoiler: Thor first wielding the Strombringer repairing his body and getting a new outfit all while Rocket and Groot look on awed to bone, of course that scene was in the trailer but cut from the actual film.]]



* In ''Film/IronMan2'' we never see how Vanko escapes (and kills) the Hammer goons sent to watch him, but according to the scene after, it was ''damn'' bloody.



* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'':
** When the film begins, Thanos already has the Power Stone. It was mentioned later by Thor that Thanos' forces had decimated half of Xandar to get it.
** In the opening scene, both Thor and Loki are covered in soot and the ship looks like a hurricane went through it, so even though we don’t get to see the what happened in the battle between the remnants of Asgard and Thanos’ minions, it’s implied that [[spoiler: the Asgardians put up one hell of a fight before they were defeated.]]
** Whatever Nebula did in her assassination attempt, Thanos admits she nearly succeeded at killing him, no small feat given how hard it is to even draw blood from Thanos.
** How Gamora found the Soul Stone's location is never clarified, but it's impressive considering almost nobody in the universe knows where it is.
** Perhaps the most galling is [[spoiler: Thor first wielding the Strombringer repairing his body and getting a new outfit all while Rocket and Groot look on awed to bone, of course that scene was in the trailer but cut from the actual film.]]

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