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9	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''
10	** In "Reign of Gunters", the Ice King stumbles upon a meeting of a "secret wizard club" held by Bufo, Laser Wizard, and Forest Wizard, and the trio are about to attack. The scene changes before anything happens. Near the end of the episode, the Ice King shows up beaten up, and explains that he got away but that he couldn't say how. [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall And he's looking right at the audience when he says this]].
11	** The episode "Jake the Dog" features an example that is at ''least'' as horrifying as it is awesome. [[spoiler: Alternate Finn has transformed into the new Ice King, with little of the goofiness and ineffectiveness of the original, and is about to attack Alternate Jake, who has just mutated into the Lich. We don't get to see the ensuing fight, as [[BenevolentGenie Prismo]]'s TV, through which the audience is seeing these events, goes out just as it's about to start.]]
12	** The episode "Earth and Water" has [[spoiler: Flame Princess and Cinnamon Bun staging a coup against the Flame King and imprisoning him in the very lamp that FP was sealed in when she first appeared in "Incendium".]]
13	** And let's not forget in Billy's Song from "His Hero", when he "threw the Lich King down". It was never seen how he did it but it would be implied to have been an awesome battle against the greatest evil that ever existed and the greatest hero ever born. All we learn about it in "Mortal Folly" is that it ended when Billy trapped the Lich in tree sap.
14	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': In "[[Recap/TheAmazingWorldOfGumballS6E4TheVegging The Vegging]]", Gumball and Darwin are so bent on doing nothing for a whole day that they decide to tune out everything around them, jumping forward in time and skipping whole events at will. This includes a whole sequence of an alien meteorite landing in their living room and sparking a war that destroys the planet, but they apparently did something about it between transitions as they're shown being thanked by a council of aliens for saving the galaxy from an unnamed threat.
15	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
16	** Monk Gyatso's skeleton is found on top of a pile of dozens of incinerated firebenders. His own bones are completely unburnt. However he died, he didn't go down easily.
17	** Iroh's [[spoiler: escape from the Fire Nation prison]]. He pulls his ObfuscatingStupidity whenever anyone's watching, while training determinedly in private. When [[spoiler: Zuko finally makes his last HeelFaceTurn and goes to rescue Iroh,]] he's long gone, having trashed everyone and everything in his path. All we find out is that he was "like a OneManArmy."
18	** Another one to do with Mai and Ty Lee. In the episode "The Drill", an earthbender team is sent to handle the drill. Mai and Ty Lee goes out to stop them. Ty gets a CMOA here -- but she only takes out about eight of the 24 benders. Mai isn't even seen, and the 16 are treated like they were never even there. In short, Mai just defeated 16 earthbenders on her own, offscreen. It's probably this because Mai had to kill them with her knives, and on-screen death is just a very sensitive topic to get into in Western Animation.
19	** When [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra Korra]] was a little girl, her dad, Tenzin, Zuko, and Sokka saved her from the anarchist group, the Red Lotus, who wanted to kidnap her to eventually kill her. Tonraq and Tenzin were in their thirties but it’s quite impressive that Zuko and Sokka did it in their seventies. When we see the Red Lotus in the series, they're all prodigies bordering on {{Hero Killer}}s, despite being middle-aged and just getting off a decade of close imprisonment. When they were bested by Tenzin, Tonraq, Zuko, and Sokka, they were in their prime.
20	* The title superhero team of ''WesternAnimation/TheAvengersEarthsMightiestHeroes'' was founded in the wake of 74 prisoners breaking out of jail. Since the show currently has a schedule consisting of 52 episodes, some of the villains get re-captured in between stories, or during subplots the viewers don't get to see.
21	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil'' had an onscreen fight, but both Cecil and the villain he was fighting were invisible. After a few seconds of invisible fighting, [[MidBattleTeaBreak Cecil freezes the fight to tell the audience]]:
22	-->'''Cecil:''' This is the greatest fight scene ever made; too bad none of you can see it.
23	* ''WesternAnimation/BeCoolScoobyDoo'': Feigenbaum from "In Space" is kidnapped and dragged into a vent by the monster, but manages to escape offscreen and rejoin the main characters (who incorrectly think he's lying).
24	* ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'': In the climax of "Hurty Tooth", Cricket discovers from Gramma his aching tooth won't stop aching no matter how many times he avoids the dentist unless it gets removed, and realizes he has to get it pulled out. He goes back to his exam room, tells Dr. Enamel the lesson he learned, prepares for the extraction and opens his mouth...only for Dr. Enamel to reveal he already completed the extraction some time offscreen while he was giving his lesson, which surprises him.
25	-->'''Cricket:''' Dang, you ''are'' good.\
26	'''Dr. Enamel:''' Eh, so I hear.
27	* Parodied in the Creator/CartoonNetwork Super Bowl spoof ''Big Game XXVIII''. Much of the pre-game and first half are spent hyping this huge halftime show featuring Music/TomJones, Carol Channing, Evel Knievil and a dancing monkey. Due to a camera snafu, we only see [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Scooby-Doo's]] Fred and WesternAnimation/SpaceGhost's Moltar bantering in the control truck.
28	* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': Alucard vs. Dracula round 1, all we see is Alucard confronting his father over his plan to KillAllHumans to "avenge" his wife Lisa, then Drac lunges at his son who's about to draw his sword. There's a gush of blood, '''cut to black'''. The next we see of Alucard, he has a massive scar on his chest and he's placed himself inside a coffin under a city to recover his strength. Considering how much of a CurbStompBattle Alucard experienced fighting Dracula a second (even with the help of his friends Trevor and Sypha), his first battle with his dad was likely a [[OneHitKill one hit K.O]].
29	* ''{{WesternAnimation/Centaurworld}}'': In episode one, [[spoiler:Rider is last seen face down at the edge of a cliff, sword still in scabbard, with countless enemies bearing down on her and cutting off her only line of retreat, including one in the process of swinging their weapon at her back]]. Towards the end [[spoiler:she shows up again, apparently having survived that encounter without obvious injury. However she did that, it was definitely awesome.]]
30	* ''WesternAnimation/TheCupheadShow'': In "[[Recap/TheCupheadShowS1E9SweaterLuckNextTime Sweater Luck Next Time]]", while the Devil is made to go around the back of the Elder Kettle's house, Cuphead quickly takes off the sweater, camouflages the Elder Kettle's radio with it, and takes them both upstairs to his room and sets them on the floor before heading back downstairs to join the back door, all behind Mugman and the Devil's backs.
31	* ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'': In "The Maddening Sprite of the Stump", Udrogoth is attacked by a giant muffin, which is defeated in an offscreen battle while the narrator explains that it was an exciting battle that [[BreakingTheFourthWall isn't within the budget of]] [[SelfDeprecation "a cheap show like this."]]
32	* A battle sequence against a mook army in the ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' episode "The Egg Beater" is interrupted by a newscaster to [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on this trope. The scene then cuts back to Jim, post-battle. A major battle where he fights ''all'' of his major villains, however, is shown immediately afterwards and in full.
33	-->'''Jim:'''''[charging into battle]'' Now, [[MadLibsCatchphrase EAT DIRT, GIGANTIC UNDEFEATABLE ARMY!]] [[LaughingMad AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!]]\
34	''[cut to television screen]''\
35	'''Newsreader:''' News flash! Cost of cartoons skyrocket! Producers seek cheap substitutes for huge action sequences!\
36	''[cut back to Jim, victorious]''\
37	'''Jim:''' [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall What a huge action sequence!]] I never thought we'd survive!
38	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'':
39	** A minor RunningGag through the series is that Launchpad gets into offscreen adventures with his former lovers while we watch the main story. The first time ("The House of the Lucky Gander"), he goes to help a woman named Ziyi with the local crime family, and when we see him later, he's wearing armor and an eyepatch with several arrows sticking out of him and a baby panda strapped to his back (with the implication that he NeverGotToSayGoodbye to Ziyi). The second time ("The Depths of Cousin Fethry!"), he spots a mermaid he identifies as "Oceanica", and the next time we see him, he's wearing (apparently) Atlantean armor, with several sea creatures gripping onto him and a conch shell around his neck.
40	** While we do get to see Donald fight many shadows during the battle against Magica de Spell, we don't get to see him fight the possessed Gizmoduck suit by himself, just that he was none too worse for wear afterward.
41	* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Da Boom", one of the changes that happens when the Griffins and several other characters survive a nuclear apocalypse is that Joe has gone from being paralyzed to being fused into his driveway from the waist up. He then prepares to get into a fight with [[RodentsOfUnusualSize a giant mutated rat]], and he apparently wins because he's shown alive and chiseled out of the ground later on.
42	* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' episode "Relax-O-Vision" runs on this trope. The Lobe orchestrates a VillainTeamUp and kidnaps Steff, forcing Freakazoid to fight to save her. However, every time some action is about to start, the episode cuts to Relax-O-Vision, inoffensive StockFootage with pleasant music. After saving Steff, an annoyed Freakazoid decides to beat up the guy who invented Relax-O-Vision... as more Stock Footage rolls.
43	* Almost every episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' mentions a NoodleIncident which would've been really cool to see. Of course, if we got to see all of them, it wouldn't be Futurama anymore.
44	* In the FiveEpisodePilot ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'', Cobra Commander tries to punish Ramar -- a huge, muscular slave -- by forcing him to fight a bigger, nasty, scary robot armed with a small arsenal of weapons. The cartoon switches scenes as it approaches, but a later scene shows that Ramar, while exhausted, has ''torn it to pieces.'' (In the finale, Ramar proceeds to mop the floor with COBRA mooks after ''all'' the slaves are liberated, which is ''not'' done offscreen.)
45	* ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' intimates that Godzilla himself gets one in a BadFuture timeline in the episode ''Future Shock'', protecting what appears to be the last of humanity from a race of genetically engineered monsters called the Dragmas. By all accounts, he went down fighting, and took a few of the Dragmas with him. He's remembered as a hero in that timeline, complete with a memorial statue in honor of what ended up being his LastStand.
46	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
47	** In "Boss Mabel," Dipper somehow defeats and captures a monster called the Gremloblin, who can show you your worst nightmare if you stare into its eyes. All we see is Dipper heading out to the woods with a ridiculously large spiked mace in hand. The next thing we know about this is that the monster ''somehow'' got stuffed inside a huge burlap sack and Dipper managed to drag it back to the Mystery Shack.
48	** In "The Deep End" Mabel mentions an earlier romance with a couple of cute vampires and when Dipper questions this she responds, "I don't tell you everything." Whether or not she was making it up is unknown.
49	** In the second "Mabel's Scrapbook" short, Mabel shows pictures of past adventures as well as the time her and Dipper won a dogsled race against a space lizard.
50	** In the "Clay Day" segment of "Little Gift Shop of Horrors", there's a fierce battle between Claymation monsters that happens as a ShadowDiscretionShot, while the characters watch the off-screen mayhem and comment that stop-motion animation is not only pure evil, but [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall very expensive and time-consuming]].
51	** In "Northwest Mansion Mystery", we see a newspaper clipping of Dipper fending off a giant bat with a taser, at the top of a bell tower, in the middle of a thunderstorm.
52	** According to Stan in a flashback during "A Tale of Two Stans", he once had to chew his way out of the trunk of a car.
53	** "The Last Mabelcorn", Mabel and her friends [[spoiler: prepare to fight the selfish unicorns that had lied to them about Mabel's purity, and refused to give them the unicorn hair that they need. The next scene has them covered in [[AlienBlood rainbow-colored unicorn blood]], with Mabel clutching a fistful of hair in one hand.]] According to WordOfGod, the fight itself was fully animated but had to be cut due to time constraints.
54	* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' is about to go into a massive and very violent battle between mushroom-harvesting dwarves and cookie-making elves, but a DrillSergeantNasty (played by R. Lee Ermey) pops onscreen and deems the fight will be too graphic to show to the younger, more sensitive viewers... [[RelaxOVision so he has the scene cut to footage of a cute pink koala]] while he comments on how epic the battle is. However, when he thinks the battle is about over, he jumps the gun and we catch a glimpse of the mayhem -- until the sarge cuts right back to the koala. ("Woah, that was entirely my bad! I misread the signals!") The next time he switches scenes, it really is over.
55	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MrIncredibleAndPals'' short, Frozone creates a bridge out of ice off-camera, while Mr. Incredible points out how amazingly this feat demonstrates Frozone's powers. In the commentary, Frozone complains that the fact he created the bridge off-camera prevented viewers from seeing the best part of the short.
56	* ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' parodies this trope at the end of "GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff," when the (literally) squid-brained cop thanks Zim for taking him back to the ocean, and for the intergalactic space battle that occurred on the way there.
57	** The trope also happens in "Tak the Hideous New Girl," coming back from a commercial break:
58	--->'''Zim:''' What a horrible adventure with that Ham Demon! But I'm still no closer to solving this Tak thing.
59	** [[RuleOfThree Happens a third time]] in "Gaz Taster of Pork", this time with mentions of a missile-firing squid, and the aftermath involving Dib and Gaz driving a beat-up car while wearing beaver costumes.
60	** The show is also canceled right before the episodes "Ten Minutes to Doom" or "The Trial" could be released and, judging by the scripts, many fans think that these episodes would have been quite awesome. Also in the commentary to "A Room with a Moose" a commenter states that there was going to be a huge space battle between Dib and Zim to create a climatic ending to the show but they wasted the budget on the 3D walnuts for this episode.
61	* In ''WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo'', WordOfGod states that Johnny actually ''does'' get laid sometimes, but we only see the attempts where he fails because they didn't think watching Johnny actually ''succeed'' at picking up women would be funny.
62	* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':
63	** In "The Savage Time", the League time travels back to World War II, and J'onn gets captured by the Nazis. A man starts to torture him, but when the camera cuts away, J'onn calmly walks out of the cell in the man's form, and the beaten up man is tied up in his place.
64	** In "The Once and Future Thing: Time Warped", Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern get sent to the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' era and team up with what's left of the Justice League. When they capture Ghoul, Batman tries his patented HighAltitudeInterrogation to get him to talk. The elderly Bruce Wayne goes, "I can't believe I was ever that green. ''This'' is how you interrogate someone." In the next scene, everyone watches in amazement as Ghoul, who is utterly terrified of whatever Bruce did, starts confessing everything about his boss Chronos' plans and confesses he wet his bed until he was 14.
65	--->''Static:'' Wow. Batman playing Good Cop.
66	--->''Green Lantern:'' Everything's relative.
67	* ''WesternAnimation/KidCosmic'': In "Kid Cosmic and the Local Heroes", most of the episode's events are recorded on an old camera. At one point, [[TeamPet Tuna Sandwich]] (a '''cat''') saves the Local Heroes from a doom portal, but the camera's footage evidently was corrupted and subsequently deleted by the portal's arrival.
68	-->'''Jo:''' That was unbelievable and indescribable! You absolutely had to be there! And no explanation would ''ever'' do it justice!
69	* In the ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' episode "A Man Without A Country Club", while practicing for the country club Dale asks "What happens if my tee shot lands on a bird's back and he carries it out of bounds but then is attacked by a larger bird who grabs the ball and drops it in the hole? Is that still a hole in one?, 'cause that's how I'm gonna play it.", and Hank replies "Dangit, Dale, [[NoodleIncident it already happened once,]] what are the odds of it happening again?".
70	* In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', Chat Noir helps the eponymous protagonist break into the mayor's house by beating up the ''dozen'' cops guarding it...but the battle is just getting started when the camera cuts away. Several minutes later, it cuts back to Chat walking away from a pile of unconscious policemen -- apparently so unharmed that he can bow mockingly to them and then immediately jump into the fray to help Ladybug. For reference, Chat is a ''15-year-old'' boy.
71	** Also the [[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E23PrincessFragrance Magician of Misfortune]].
72	* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
73	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
74	*** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E20ItsAboutTime "It's About Time"]], Twilight sets out to return Cerberus(!) to the gates of Tartarus(!!), so that all the evil creatures that are imprisoned there won't break free and destroy Equestria([[RuleOfThree !!!]]). And all we get to see is Spike waking up next morning and remarking that [[LampshadeHanging Twilight should go on epic adventures more often]].
75	*** In [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E23InspirationManifestation "Inspiration Manifestation"]], we don't get to see Luna and Cadance join Twilight to restore Ponyville; we only hear Twilight saying that it happened.
76	** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyMakeYourMark'': While Misty is out partying at Zephyr Heights in "The Manesquerade Ball", Opaline [[spoiler:successfully retrieves the Dragon Stone after accidentally dropping it in "Sunny Side Up", following an arduous climb up the mountain]]. The viewers don't see Opaline's quest since the episode focuses on the MasqueradeBall.
77	* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
78	** In "Candace Disconnected", the titular duo, and their friends, apparently build something really big, which is not seen except for a few unfinished parts because of the episode focusing on Candace being sent to Easter Island because of the cell phone they programmed for her. When she returns, all we see is Phineas saying that it was really big, and Ferb adding that it was hauled to the museum.
79	** In "Doof Dynasty", Phineas and Ferb rescue Isabella. In the time it takes for them to get up the booby-trapped staircase and slide down the rail, Buford and Baljeet have defeated every single warrior in the tower.
80	* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode Him Diddle Riddle, the trio are given the riddle "In the ear of corn, you will find; happiness, joy, and the ties that bind; squirrels store nuts and birds sing songs; but in the cave of eternity, everyone's wrong; on the limb of a tree, there's a monkey who's free; and there he will give you something for me.". Cut to commercial, and when the show returns the girls are exhausted. Him, who is holding an ice cream cone, remarks "I can't believe you got that right. You got the right flavor and everything!"
81	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' episode "A Great State Fair", most of the episode focuses on T.J. trying to contact Gus's dad, who forgot to give Gus his permission slip to the fair. One of the things T.J. tried attempting, according to Vince, was making a run for the interstate in a bumper car. This was never seen in the episode.
82	* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''
83	** Rick and Morty hunting a vampire? Rick and Morty going to Atlantis? You're gonna have to take their word for it.
84	** {{Subverted}} in the Season 3 premiere, which opens just as Rick finishes telling his family how he escaped from the Galactic Federation's prison (after Season 2 ended with him turning himself in), while they eat at a Shoney's restaurant. Morty points out that he wishes he could have seen it... then it turns out that Rick is still imprisoned, trapped inside of a virtual reality simulation as part of his interrogation. The rest of the episode then shows us exactly how he manages to escape, and it's as awesome as it can be.
85	* ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': One episode revolved around the idea of Rocko sending his parents back in Australia a video of his daily life. During one scene, he focused on Spunky, telling him to "do his trick" for the camera. We don't get to see said trick as the camera battery dies out and fades to black, but we do get to hear Rocko and Heifer's utter amazement at whatever it was.
86	* {{Lampshade\|Hanging}}d in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Sealab 2021}}'' episode "Neptunadi", where Tornado Shanks has a massive off-screen battle with a Kraken while the audience is only shown the other characters' reactions. Quinn then says "Anyone who missed ''that'' should just go kill themselves right now!"
87	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
88	** In "The Wandering Juvie" we are treated to an episode of Itchy and Scratchy with Itchy leading an army of mice against Scratchy and his army of cats in a parody of Film/{{Braveheart}}. Just as the action begins, it cuts away saying that it's been edited for prison viewing, and then we cut to the mice celebrating their victory and the spectacular 3D blood and gore from the fight.
89	** And then there's the big brawl between TheMafia and the {{Yakuza}} in front of the Simpsons' house in "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson". A short Yakuza member simply stands in the middle of the brawl in a BadassArmFold, which makes Homer refuse to go inside the house and take shelter because he knows that the little guy must be about to do something awesome at any moment. Marge then physically drags him inside, and as soon as she does so a {{Kiai}} is heard followed by the sound of bodies colliding, eliciting a disappointed groan from Homer who didn't get to see it.
90	** "Homer Goes to College" has Krusty showing an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon where [[TheBadGuyWins Scratchy finally wins]] and has Itchy absolutely loaded down with explosives, including sticks of TNT shoved under his eyelids, plastic explosives put on his face in the shape of UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln's hat and beard, and two giant missiles pointed directly at his face. And then one of Homer's nerdy friends unplugs the TV so he can plug in his rock tumbler. By the time they get the TV back on, Krusty is declaring that they'll '''never''' be allowed to show ''that'' cartoon again and burns the film.
91	** Mr. Burns evidently subdued the Loch Ness Monster single-handed. All we see of this is Burns rolling up his sleeves to "do it [him]self", then it cuts to the monster suspended from their helicopter and Homer and Willie expressing their incredulity.
92	---> '''Burns''': Yes, I was a little worried when he swallowed me, but well, you know the rest.
93	** In "The Wife Aquatic" Homer recounts to Marge how he, Bart and a ship crew survived a storm and made it back to land. After the flashback ends, Homer finishes with:
94	--->'''Homer:''' And that's our story. Oh, wait -- we were attacked by a giant whale. He turned out to be pretty cool.
95	** In "Team Homer", Otto successfully manages a spare on a 7-10 split in bowling. As any bowler would tell you, it's extremely difficult to pull off.
96	* ''WesternAnimation/SolarOpposites'': With arsenals of sci-fi weapons at the ready, Terry and Jesse and the other Shlorpian family charge at each other for possession of the Pupa in "[[Recap/SolarOppositesS2E1TheSacredNonRepeatingNumber The Sacred Non-Repeating Number]]", only for the scene to cut to an image of a sticky note saying, "Sydney-- Please ask Hulu for an extra million $ so we can go over budget on a kick-ass action sequence! --Mike M." Terry then comments on the grandeur of the battle and the fact that it was done in [[TheOner one take]].
97	-->'''Terry''': Jesus, shit. That was the craziest battle I've ever been in. And all in one unbroken take? That must have cost a million dollars!
98	* The "Best Friends Forever" episode of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' openly revels in this trope, as the ending of the episode is essentially a huge battle between the forces of heaven and hell -- which is not seen at all. However, Heaven's force commander describes it, along with wishing he had a camcorder, and calling it "...like ten times bigger...!" than the final battle in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' movie. WordOfGod from Matt and Trey said they ran out of time to do an extended battle sequence, so they had to just have one of the angels calling out the action.
99	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In "[=SpongeBob's=] Big Birthday Blowout", exactly how [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick helped all the aquarium fish escape from their tanks and get into the tour bus remains unseen and unexplained.
100	* ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'':
101	** In the Season 1 finale Toffee's minions somehow capture Marco, who has beaten them effortlessly before. We will never know how Toffee did it.
102	** In "Running With Scissors", Marco spends sixteen years in Hekapoo's dimension tracking her down. We don't see any of the things he did during that time, but he mentions things like fighting an army of wolf bears and jetskiing off a waterfall.
103	* [[spoiler: Lars and the Off Colors]] from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' escaped from the cave they were hiding in, stole a ship, crashed it, stole ''another'' ship (which happened to be the fastest ship in the arsenal of one of Homeworld's elites), and escaped into deep space. All the while avoiding detection by all of the security in place. They also found [[spoiler:Lars]] a cool costume.
104	* Superman proving his smarts in the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Mxyzpixilated". Nothing like seven minutes of punking an [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien all-powerful]] {{Jerkass}} to point out that Big Blue has brains to go with that brawn. The capper is when Mxy tries to attack him with a HumongousMecha (for his scale anyway) that takes him months to build, and Supes sends him back in ''[[EpicFail less than five seconds]]!''
105	* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': As the Titans and their allies are captured in a series of coordinated attacks, The Brain gloats over Robin. Cut to Beast Boy, who's still free. How? We don't know; we only see him standing amid the smashed-up bodies of the robots sent to capture him.
106	** ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'': In "The Return of Slade", the Teen Titans manage to beat [[NeverTrustATitle Slade in the first minute offscreen.]]
107	* ''WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons'': In the Screwy Squirrel cartoon ''Happy Go Nutty'', the dog chases Screwy Squirrel into a cave. A few seconds of absolute darkness, with a few cartoony sound effects, then Screwy lights a match and tells the audience, "[[BreakingTheFourthWall Sure was a funny gag. Too bad you couldn't see it.]]"
108	* In the finale of ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'', Bulkhead, Wheeljack, and Ultra Magnus [[spoiler: are groundbridged off of the bridge of the Decepticon warship, and into a room full of what looks like the the entire remaining force of vehicons. We don't see them again until near the end of the episode, where they are completely unscathed. What a fight that must have been.]]
109	* The ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'' episode "Except for Cooper" has the main characters do various incredible things only for Uncle Grandpa to turn the camera away each time because he's furious at a fan named Cooper for not eating his vegetables.
110	* This trope is intentionally lampooned in ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' episode "Escape to the House of Mummies, Part II". The Venture family escape a deadly cultist trap in some ancient ruin but Dr Venture is the only one able to leave the pyramid. While he manages to go back home ("to get help") he forgets he's supposed to go back to get the rest of the family because he is distracted into making a bet with his neighbor (for bragging rights). Meanwhile, the abandoned heroes have somehow made it safely out of captivity and are now accompanied by the Perfect Man, UsefulNotes/{{Caligula}}, Creator/EdgarAllanPoe, a time-lapsed Brock Sampson duplicate and a friendly {{mummy}}. They are now ready to carry out the final and climactic ultimate badass battle against the Cult of Osiris...but then we simply cut back to the REAL story which is Dr Venture and his buddies talking about the bet and then going for some brews, oblivious that they had forgotten to do something. By the way, there is no "Escape to the House of Mummies, Part I"!
111	* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'': In "The Hero", Wander realizes that HeroicWannabe Brad Starlight is just a StalkerWithACrush who wants to force Princess Demurra to marry him. Just as Wander and his allies set out to rescue her, Demurra shows up with a bound-and-gagged Brad, having escaped while Wander was making a RousingSpeech.
112	* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'' had one in the first season. There was this big deal about Cloud Tower (witches) and Alfea (fairies) working together to fight off the Trix, since their students are total polar opposites. Come time to show the battle, all they show are the fairies. Even in a scene where the Cloud Tower principal specifically calls for the witches to combine their powers with the fairies, they ''still'' only show the fairies.
113	* In ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'', [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Jack Spicer]] becomes trapped in the Yin-Yang World and comes across [[SealedEvilInACan Hannibal Roy Bean]], who happens to be one of his "evil heroes." Hannibal, being a [[HannibalLecture master manipulator]], tells Jack that he ''could'' be a great villain, but the reason he works so hard at being evil is his insecurity. Jack meekly protests that he ''is'' evil, and Hannibal replies [[IfYoureSoEvilEatThisKitten If You're True Evil, Let Me Out]]. For the record, Jack is shown desperate to prove himself as a villain, as well as the resident dupe to the other villains (and sometimes the heroes). Cut to the Xiaolin warriors finding Jack locked in the cage, having apparently fallen for it. Then they run into another Jack, and it's revealed that Hannibal used [[VoluntaryShapeshifting the Moby Morpher]] to disguise himself and trick the good guys. Subtle, and it only added another couple minutes to the episode's run time, but it sure says a lot about [[HiddenDepths Jack's character]].
114	* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/YogisTreasureHunt'' the gang is trapped in a room filling with water, and as Huckleberry Hound yells for help the show fades out to an ad break. When the show returns the gang are safe and sound on the roof of the building, and Huck [[NoFourthWall tells the viewers]] that they'd have seen an incredible escape "if it weren't for that there commercial interruption" ("Yeah, take Huck's word for it," Snooper adds, "it was a doozy!").
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Context OffscreenMomentOfAwesome / WesternAnimation