History OffscreenMomentOfAwesome / Literature

** Another one in the seventh book, Death Eaters went after Augusta Longbottom to get her grandson, Neville, under control. As Neville himself said, "Dawlish is still in Saint Mungo's and [[NeverMessWithGranny Gran's on the run]]."

** In the fourth book, soon after Voldemort returns, [[spoiler: Snape goes out to meet Voldemort. He persuades Voldemort that he is willing to serve as a loyal Death Eater, when his real motivation is to serve as a ReverseMole for Dumbledore.]] Bear in mind that Voldemort can nearly always tell if someone is lying. Bear in mind that [[spoiler: Snape had hindered Quirrell and Voldemort's attempts to steal the Philosopher's Stone]] three books earlier. He continues to deceive Voldemort in meetings like this one over the next few books. No wonder Harry called him "probably the bravest man I ever knew".

* In ''[[TheWarGods Oath of Swords]]'', while the narrator is watching Bahzell busy fighting [[spoiler:Harnak]] as [[spoiler:champion of Tomanak to Harnak's champion of Sharna]], Brandark is caught in a melee against four hradani simultaneously -- and kills three of the four before going down.

* In ''TheHorseAndHisBoy'' chapter 13 is entitled “The Fight at Anvard”. Shasta, who has been our POV character for most of the book so far, is involved in the battle. But the narrative voice says, “But it is no use trying to describe the battle from Shasta’s point of view: he understood so little of the fight in general and even of his own part in it. The best way I can tell you what really happened is to take you several miles away to where the Hermit of the Southern March sat gazing into the smooth pool beneath the spreading tree, with Bree and Hwin and Aravis beside him.” The Hermit then describes the battle, as he sees it in his magic pool, to the others.

** It's not merely the [[spoiler:the destruction of Arrakis]] that the fans miss out on; it's the epicness of the battle [[spoiler:Bashar Miles Teg]] must have fought in order to provoke it. This is especially galling given that Herbert put a lot of effort into driving home to the reader just how much of a cranked-up-to-eleven {{Badass}} [[spoiler:Teg]] is. We finally get to see that at the end of the next book, but even then the gritty details of the combat are glossed over and only the broad scope is covered. One is led to suspect that writing scenes like these was not Herbert's strong point and he was doing his best to move past them as quickly as possible.

* ''[[Literature/AsianSaga Shogun]]'' ends just before the decisive, climactic battle that the whole book was building up to. A battle between hundreds of thousands of samurais that historically decided the fate of Japan.

*** This was a deliberate decision on J. K. Rowling's part - in real life, battles are messy, unpredictable affairs, and the "good bits" don't wait until plot-relevant characters are there to watch them.

* ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'' alludes to a duel between Yoda and a rogue Jedi on Dagobah. And to anyone who's seen Yoda get dangerous, it couldn't be anything but awesome.

** This was one of the reasons why ''The Last Colony'' eventually received a POVSequel, in the form of ''Zoe's Tale''.

** This was one of the reasons why Scalzi ended up writing ''Zoe's Tale'', a POVSequel to ''The Last Colony''.

** This was one of the reasons why ''The Last Colony'' ended up receiving a POVSequel, ''Zoe's Tale''.

** This was one of the reasons why Scalzi ended up writing ''Zoe's Tale'', a POVSequel that retells the events of ''The Last Colony'' from the perspective of the main character's adopted daughter.

* In ''The Last Colony'', the third book in John Scalzi's ''Literature/OldMansWar'' series, an item that just so happens to be exactly what [[spoiler: the Roanoke colonists need to secure their victory over the attacking Conclave forces]] is attained offscreen. While the events that led to its attainment were quite exciting, they are only discussed briefly, after-the-fact.

** This was one of the reasons why Scalzi ended up writing ''Zoe's Tale'', a [[POVSequel retelling]] of ''The Last Colony's'' story from the perspective of the main character's adopted daughter.

** This was one of the reasons why Scalzi ended up writing ''Zoe's Tale'', a [[POVSequel retelling]] of ''The Last Colony's'' events from the perspective of the main character's adopted daughter.

* In ''The Last Colony'', the third book in John Scalzi's ''Literature/OldMansWar'' series, an item that just so happens to be exactly what [[spoiler: the Roanoke colonists need to secure their victory over the attacking Conclave forces]] is attained offscreen. While the events that led to the weapon's attainment were quite dramatic, they are only discussed momentarily, after-the-fact.

* In ''The Last Colony'', the third book in John Scalzi's ''Literature/OldMansWar'' series, an item that just so happens to be exactly what [[spoiler: the Roanoke colonists need to secure their victory over the attacking Conclave forces]] is attained offscreen, through a series of dramatic events that are not discussed in much depth. This was one of several factors that led Scalzi to write ''Zoe's Tale'', a [[POVSequel retelling]] of ''The Last Colony's'' events from the perspective of the main character's adopted daughter ([[spoiler: who also happens to be the one that attained the item]]).

* In ''TheHorseAndHisBoy'' chapter 13 is entitled “The Fight at Anvard”. Shasta, who has been our POV character for most of the book so far, is involved in the battle. But the narrative voice says, “But it is no use trying to describe the battle from Shasta’s point of view: he understood so little of the fight in general and even of his own part in it. the best way I can tell you what really happened is to take you several miles away to where the Hermit of the Southern March sat gazing into the smooth pool beneath the spreading tree, with Bree and Hwin and Aravis beside him.” The Hermit then describes the battle, as he sees it in his magic pool, to the others.

* The ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' novels suffer from Frank's annoying tendency to skip some amazing moments of awesome which... are actually rather crucial to the story. The Fremen/Sardaukar battle at the end of the original novel, for example, was alluded to in less than a page (fortunately the duel between Paul and Feyd-Rautha in the last chapter was dealt with in full); the massive jihad between the events of ''Dune'' and ''Dune Messiah'' is never covered... even [[spoiler: the destruction of Arrakis]] at the end of ''Heretics of Dune'', for example, was skipped over between chapters. Though what crowning moments of awesome are included more than make up for it.

** Another one in the seventh book, Death Eaters went after Augusta Longbottom to get her grandson, Neville, under control. As Neville himself said, "Dawlish is still in Saint Mungo's and [[NeverMessWithGranny Gran's on the run]].