Steve Pauses Very Dramatically
You've
Seen It a Million Times. The characters will be in a conversation when suddenly the
scene changes to another location entirely... but the conversation continues as if no time has passed at all, despite how far away the new location was from the original one. Sometimes this will be avoided by a "I still don't get...", to make it seem like the characters have been talking all along, but usually they just scene transition and keep talking.
Subtrope of
Time Skip. Related to
Traveling at the Speed of Plot. The supertrope of
Gilligan Cut and
"I Know What We Can Do" Cut.
Examples:
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Anime & Manga
- In Ichigo Mashimaro, Hiroki Matsui, cosmetics salesman, is punched in the eye, breaking his glasses and causing them to hang under his nose by one ear, thanks to Nobue becoming convinced that he's a pedophile. A few panels later, he's in front of the company president, resigning. For whatever reason, he has not removed his glasses.
Fanfic
- In the second chapter of My Immortal, Ebony and Willow have a conversation with the line "as we went out of the Slytherin common room and into the Great Hall" thrown in at one point. The Slytherin common room and the Great Hall are hardly next to each other, but Ebony and Willow apparently traversed the whole distance between two lines in their conversation.
Film
- This is played straight in Speed, where Keanu Reeve's character and his SWAT teammate start a conversation in a skyscraper, then the scene cuts to the roof of the building, where they finish it after running up several flights of stairs.
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the World jumps around erratically in this manner several times.
Literature
Web Animation
- Homestar Runner uses this in the sbemail "rock concert"; Strong Sad and Strong Bad carry on a conversation through several such cuts.
Webcomics
Western Animation
