->''"Stop trying to fade me out, I'm giving a monologue here."''
-->--'''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick''', ''Film/{{Dune|1984}} [=IRiff=]''

{{Dissolve}} from a scene to [[FadeToBlack black]] (or, on occasion, [[FadeToWhite white]]). Often, the last instruction in a script or screenplay.

This trope originated on stage, where the stage's lights would fade out to mark transitions.

It's also a musical technique whereby a song fades to silence. Most of the time this is done to save the songwriter the hassle of having to write an ending -- the chorus will repeat, sometimes with a TruckDriversGearChange, and the song will fade out.

Please list {{subver|ted}}sions under FakeOutFadeOut.

OppositeTrope of FadeIn. Compare FadeToBlack, when the screen going black marks important moments, not the end of a scene. Contrast with SmashToBlack, when the screen suddenly goes black. Don't confuse with FadeForward.
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!!Examples:

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[[folder: Films -- Animation ]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'': There is a fade-out that takes place after candles are blown out by the wind.

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[[folder: Films -- Live-Action ]]

* ''Film/ACornerInWheat'' from 1909, by cinema pioneer Creator/DWGriffith, offers one of the earliest known examples of this trope. In this case, it reinforces the DownerEnding where everything is terrible for everyone (the wheat farmer has been reduced to poverty, the people in the cities are going hungry, and even the wheat speculator dies when he's buried in a grain elevator).
* ''Film/WhiteShadowsInTheSouthSeas'': A unique spin on this that ties into the title, as several shadows pass in front of the camera at the end, gradually darkening the image of Fayaway in mourning on a hilltop.

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[[folder: Music ]]

* Music/SidMaudlin:
** Many of Music/SidMaudlin’s song fade to silence on the final chorus.
** The film version is referenced in ''Prom Queen Resurrection'': at the end of the movie that the song describes, the Prom Queen is shot, and the scene fades to black.

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[[folder: Web Comics ]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Pacificators}}'': J.A. managed to get one to [[http://www.sailorenergy.net/MangaPacificators2/MangaPacisV04n269.html work quite nicely on paper]] by drawing panels progressively darker until the last one on the page is all black.

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[[folder: Western Animation ]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS5E20TheWrongJedi The Wrong Jedi]]" and "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS6E13Sacrifice Sacrifice]]" both end with the screen slowly fading into black. These are the only two episodes of ''The Clone Wars'' to end this way, being the finales of seasons five and six.

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