History Main / DistantReactionShot

* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip for [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1999/ga991114.gif 14 November 1999]], Garfield holds a sleeping Jon's eyes open as Odie licks them. The last panel shows two aliens on the Moon wondering what the screaming is. A ''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield'' strip relocates the aliens to the Saturnian moon Minas, as part of the "Garfield [word that sounds like 'Minus'] Garfield" RunningGag. TheRant points out that this makes the scream even louder.

* Used in ''WesternAnimation/{{How to Train Your Dragon|2010}}'''' to show the final fireball in front of a really big volcano.

* ''Battle Club'': Suplexes have a distance reaction shot from the outside of buildings.

** In the first part of "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", the family receives a thank you letter from Burns for the assorted chocolates... except for Homer, who had sent the candies in the hopes that Mr. Burns would at least remember his name. When Homer reads the letter, he orders the kids to step out of the room before unleashing a major F-Bomb. [[CurseCutShort The audience doesn't hear it]], but we cut to outside of the house as the church's organ lets out a note (Fittingly F minor), crows are disturbed and fly off from their perches, and the neighbors around the street stand around in shock.

** Another episode had Bart shout "Testing" through 10 megaphones. The sound was so loud not only did it cause windows all over Springfield to break but also shattered every bottle of Duff beer Homer had in the fridge.

* ''Franchise/DragonBall'' does this from time to time. The video games love to use it for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leQOOD8UleY moves that destroy the battle arena]].
* ''Anime/ExcelSaga'': How much is Hyatt bleeding? Enough to cover the Earth.
* An extravagant example comes from the ''VideoGame/FZero'' anime, in which light from the explosion of Black Shadow's Dark Reactor covers a rather large chunk of its home spiral galaxy and extends farther than the galaxy is thick. [[http://youtu.be/wa5OkdP3-r8 The famous scene]] is often posted, [[ItMakesSenseInContext making it seem as though Captain Falcon's signature attack triggered the explosion]].

* The first OVA episode of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' use this when Lloyd activates the exsphere in Iselia.

* When ''VideoGame/CombatInstinct'' 2's final boss is defeated, four ion beamers blast him simultaneously for the final blow. Cue massive explosion across space.

* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear''

* Smoke, one of the cyborgs in ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3'' has a fatality in which he drops a whole bunch of bombs. Cue the shot of Earth - which promptly [[EarthShatteringKaboom blows up]]. '''SMOKE WINS - FATALITY'''
** This finisher was later appropriated by Cyrax in ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat4 Mortal Kombat Gold]]''.

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* Used in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' to show the final fireball in front of a really big volcano.

* The end result of the Wuxi Finger Hold in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' was shown through one of these... [[spoiler:[[SequelHook conveniently keeping us from knowing if the villain truly died...]]]]

It's not rare for a Distant Reaction Shot to be followed by the camera zooming back to the small picture consequences, i.e., a {{take}} of characters far from the epicenter being affected by the event. If it's not a visual spectacle or being PlayedForLaughs, expect a horrified reaction from the witnesses.

Often used for the ApocalypseWow. TheScream is a specific version of this.

* The first OVA episode of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' use this when Lloyd activates the exsphere in Iselia.
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'' does this from time to time. The video games love to use it for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leQOOD8UleY moves that destroy the battle arena.]]

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' pulls it from time to time, when it is not filling the screen with explosions. One notable example would be when [[spoiler:Simon detonates a hole in Lordgenome's chest with the contact key of his mecha]].
* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''

* ''Anime/{{FLCL}}'' does this when the satellite is hurtling towards the town in "Full Swing".
* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' does a comically-lengthy version of this with the dropping of the Dodurian Bomb (basically a natural StinkBomb). The moment the fruit's olfactory onslaught is unleashed, we first get a bird's eye view as the fruit's giant stink cloud explodes. We then see ''17'' different characters react to it all across Human World. Most show variants of "''[[{{Pun}} What the smell?!]]''", one (Teppei, the guy who ''sent'' Toriko and Komatsu there) prays, and another (Sunny) collapses in reaction to it. Only one (Zongeh) doesn't react due to smell tolerance, but the two next to him do.
** Also done in a more serious way during the final battle against NEO to show off how extreme it is - multiple characters' attacks end up battering the poor planet, such as a palm strike embedding a country-sized hand shape into the mantle, and Toriko's own Leg Knife ''cleaving off a chunk of the horizon''.
* In ''Urotsukidoji,'' this is done with the Overfiend's ''conception.'' At that moment, the movie rapidly cuts to several other major characters, as they react to the "disturbance in the Force", and then cuts to a shot of the whole Earth, wreathed in purple light, with especially creepy sound effects. Nothing will ever be the same.

* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': At the end of one episode, Big M. does a SkywardScream that "I WANNA GO HOME!!!" The camera pans out to a shot of planet Xing Xing as he shouts this.

* A tragic one occurs in ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'', when [[spoiler:Kitty Pryde uses her powers to [[HeroicSacrifice permanently fuse with a gigantic bullet that's on course with the Earth]], making the object intangible and thus saving the planet]]. As this happens, Professor X, who's in exile on Genosha and has been out of the plot for nearly the whole series, is shown holding his head and crying, signifying that he's feeling the pain. Justified in that he's one of the most powerful psychics in the world, and implied to be directly connected to all of the X-Men.

* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'': when R.J. opens the bag of chips, the dust forms a huge mushroom cloud visible from space. Later on when the security system is activated, we pan out to see the ''entire galaxy'' with a small flash of light at our location.

* Used in ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' to show the final fireball in front of a really big volcano.

%%* When Finn [=McMissile=] blows up Tony Trihull (also a large ship) at the end of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}''.
* The end result of the Wuxi Finger Hold in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' was shown through one of these... [[spoiler:[[SequelHook conveniently keeping us from knowing if the villain truly died...]]]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'', during the competition North, Jack, Bunny, and Sandy are holding to collect the teeth, North jumps down a chimney. Below, Bunny lights up a fire and says, "Ho-ho-ho." We then cut to outside of the house [[PainPoweredLeap as an explosion comes out of the chimney and we hear North scream]].
* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoxtrolls'', [[spoiler:Snatcher's DeathByGluttony happens this way, with a cut to a distant shot of Cheesebridge and a huge cloud of orange-yellow mist erupting from the Portley-Rind mansion.]]

* During the interception of a malfunctioning agricultural robot at the start of ''Film/{{Runaway}}'', Officers Ramsay and Thompson jump on top of it, [[DefeatEqualsExplosion only for the robot to explode]]. Cut to a group of farmers making quips about "World War 3" as they watch a large cloud of black smoke rise over their fields.
* ''Film/DieHard'', when Hans detonates the roof of the Nakatomi and John just ''barely'' manages to save himself by jumping off it via a fire hose he uses as a makeshift rope. One of the camera cuts shows the building for a several mile long distance and the very visible explosion coming from it.
* ''Film/Alien40thAnniversaryShorts''. "Containment" opens with a distant shot of a colony ship [[SelfDestructMechanism silently disintegrating]] with the tiny figure of a single EscapePod launching away, then we cut to events inside the pod among the {{Sole Survivor}}s.

* The ''Series/{{Dune}}'' mini-series has a dead-serious one of these with a spice-blow right after Liet Kynes realizes that he's right on top of it and begins screaming, "I AM A DESERT CREAT-"
* ''Series/FatherTed'' did this in one episode where a milk truck (in... well... near Ireland) is filled with explosives and blown up. The audience doesn't witness the actual explosion, but instead cuts to a shot of an Eskimo [[EskimoLand ice-fishing]] somewhere far above the Arctic Circle, who gives a surprised jerk and looks around in puzzlement. This is also a GilliganCut, as it happens in the middle of the HoistByHisOwnPetard villain giving the page-quote above.

* ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' did this in the episode where Francis tried to catch a rat in the crawlspace of a cabin, and screamed when about 100 rats came out of the rotten wood, enough to be heard throughout Mamu.
* On ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Ross is aghast that not only did his co-worker swipe his special sandwich (leftover Thansgiving turkey with bread drenched in gravy), but that his boss got full and threw the rest away. His anguished cries of '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOtNMp9GSoM MY SANDWICH?!]]''' is cut to the outside of the building, then birds flying away in Central Park.

* The makeshift nuke on Virmire in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' causes a huge explosion that can briefly be seen from orbit. Pretty painful for [[spoiler:the team-member that got left behind]].

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'': When the World of Balance ends, the planet can be seen from space, with explosions.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'', Bahamut ZERO's Tera Flare zooms to outside the planet and pans through space. Sephiroth's ultimate attack causes a meteor to smash through the solar system, destroying every planet in its way, before hitting the sun, causing a ''Super Nova''.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'': The Eden Guardian Force arrives from space, bending space-time around the enemy to bring the enemy close to the ship, firing a beam of energy, zooming out to show the energy beam crossing a great expanse of space, colliding with a galaxy, causing the galaxy to explode from its center in a massive explosion, surrounded by smaller explosions.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', the attack of the [[SummonMagic Eidolon]] Ark culminates with a bolt of magic that smashes into the enemy from on high. As the screen whites out from the shockwave, the scene cuts away to outer space, where a brief burst of light shoots out of the planet and illuminates the adjacent area.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'': As [[spoiler:Reddas destroys the Sun-Cryst]] at the Pharos at Ridorana, a massive tower at the edge of the world, it lets out an explosion of light so powerful, the camera cuts away to show characters across the game's section of Ivalice watching it, [[SilenceIsGolden in complete silence]].
* ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear''
** ''Guilty Gear XX #Reload'': Bridget's Instant Kill yo-yos the opponent to the surface of the moon, with the Earth visible from space. Slayer's Instant Kill punches the opponent to the next galaxy.
** ''Guilty Gear Xrd -REVELATOR-'': Jack-O' Valentine's Instant Kill has the opponent tied up and kicked, with an explosion on the Earth's surface, visible from space.
* ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'''s Megaton Punch shows a crack running down Pop Star when you hit hard enough. A perfect score splits the planet, but doesn't cause the two halves to break apart.

* When ''VideoGame/CombatInstinct'' 2's final boss is defeated, four ion beamers blast him simultaneously for the final blow. Cue massive explosion across space.
* ''VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries'': This is a common gag among the series' [[TheManyDeathsOfYou many, many fail scenes]]. For example, in the Grapple Gun route of ''Infiltrating the Airship'', using the bomb will result in a distant view of the airship as the bomb goes off.

* ''Webcomic/VGCats'' uses a variant in [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=188 this strip]] in the form of a literal [[AtomicFBomb F-bomb]].

* An example occurs in the first episode of the webcomic ''Webcomic/FlintlockesGuideToAzeroth'', when the title character uses a high-power explosive on a squirrel. Cut to a pair of dwarves halfway across Loch Modan, observing the mushroom cloud in the distance, and correctly identifying it as Flintlocke's handiwork.
* ''Webcomic/DeadWinter:'' Lou comes up with [[http://deadwinter.cc/page/274.htm a plan]] to get into the supermarket, but Liz's role in the plan isn't pleasant. Upon hearing the explanation, [[http://deadwinter.cc/page/276.htm she isn't happy]].

* In ''Webcomic/{{Tweep}}'', although [[DownplayedTrope to a lesser extent than usual]], [[http://www.tweep.com/comic/?date=06-01-11 when Jack pulls a prank on Lily.]]

* ''My Little Pony Roadeo'': Coin manages to catch a blast from a trio of villainous unicorns with a specialize stone saucer and, due the heat he generates in his hands, unwittingly sends the blast back at them but can't hold the saucer steady. E.G and Trail Blazer quickly rush in and kick the saucer to redirect the blast skyward and it can be seen from several miles from the forest they're in, including Ponyville.

** When Vegeta discovers that [[spoiler:Gohan swiped his stashed Dragon Ball]], we get a string of these showing that Vegeta's yell is audible from [[spoiler:the Z-warrior's hideout, Frieza's base, Goku's spaceship (still in space), Yemma's house in the afterlife, and Earth 20 years in the future.]]
** This happens again from Vegeta when he realizes that [[spoiler:Gohan, Krillin and Dende are wishing with the Namekian Dragon Balls loud enough that Piccolo, who was on the other side of the planet could hear it.]]

* WebVideo/TheUnexpectables D&D stream has at least 3 different instances involving orc barbarian Borky; one scream of terror from discovering skeletons, and two GoryDiscretionShot [[ShockAndAwe Lightning Javelin]] impacts, complete with miniature mushroom cloud.
* In the stickman gif starting with "If the door doesn't open, break it down" and ending with "If pushing doesn't work, try pulling", the final attack resembles a ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' summon, showing the planet from space, as a beam spreads out and narrows into a focused blast of explosive energy.

* The Strong Bad Email "hremail3184" from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner" actually does it when [[spoiler:Strong Bad blows up the Lappy.]]
* ''WebVideo/SuperMarioLogan'': Jeffy screaming "ARE YOU FUCKING HIGH?!?!" in "Jeffy's Tantrum!" ''shakes the Earth itself''.
* ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice:'' The massive wave of holy light that comes from [[spoiler:the Star Child finally finding a vessel, meaning a good chunk of the Emperor's soul has finally returned]], has an ever-increasing series of these culminating in one from ''outside the galaxy entirely''.

* In the ''WebAnimation/ChimneyChickens'' episode ''Meet the Genius: Buzz Watson'', when Blaze throws the nitroglycerin he was asked to fetch at Buzz, the camera cuts from inside the lab to outside the school to show the resulting explosion.

* ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'' does this in the episode "Roswell That Ends Well", with a nuclear test going off and obliterating [[spoiler:the man Fry ''thought'' was his grandfather]]. The scene then cuts to a diner where Professor Farnsworth and Leela are sitting down to eat as the mushroom cloud from the explosion appears in the window. Neither they nor the residents of the town seem to pay it much mind. Believe it or not, that was realistic - during the 1950s, atomic tests in the desert southwest were so commonplace that people eventually stopped paying them much attention.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

--> '''Flanders''': ''Dear lord!'' That's the loudest profanity I've ever heard.

* Happens in ''Anime/FateZero'' when Saber uses her WaveMotionSword Noble Phantasms against [[spoiler:Rider and destroys his Gordius Wheel]], the shot cuts to Kirei Kotomine on a rooftop along with [[spoiler:Kariya Matou, his Berserker and an unconscious Irisviel]] watching the beam.

* Franchise/DragonBall does this from time to time. The video games love to use it for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leQOOD8UleY moves that destroy the battle arena.]]

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' pulls it from time to time, when it is not filling the screen with explosions. One notable example would be when [[spoiler: Simon detonates a hole in Lordgenome's chest with the contact key of his mecha]].

* A tragic one occurs in ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'', when [[spoiler: Kitty Pryde uses her powers to [[HeroicSacrifice permanently fuse with a gigantic bullet that's on course with the Earth]], making the object intangible and thus saving the planet]]. As this happens, Professor X, who's in exile on Genosha and has been out of the plot for nearly the whole series, is shown holding his head and crying, signifying that he's feeling the pain. Justified in that he's one of the most powerful psychics in the world, and implied to be directly connected to all of the X-Men.

* The end result of the Wuxi Finger Hold in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' was shown through one of these... [[spoiler: [[SequelHook conveniently keeping us from knowing if the villain truly died...]]]]

** When Vegeta discovers that [[spoiler: Gohan swiped his stashed Dragon Ball]], we get a string of these showing that Vegeta's yell is audible from [[spoiler: the Z-warrior's hideout, Frieza's base, Goku's spaceship (still in space), Yemma's house in the afterlife, and Earth 20 years in the future.]]
** This happens again from Vegeta when he realizes that [[spoiler: Gohan, Krillin and Dende are wishing with the Namekian Dragon Balls loud enough that Piccolo, who was on the other side of the planet could hear it.]]

* The Strong Bad Email "hremail3184" from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner" actually does it when [[spoiler: Strong Bad blows up the Lappy.]]

* Happens in [[Anime/FateZero Fate/Zero]] when Saber uses her WaveMotionSword Noble Phantasms against [[spoiler:Rider and destroys his Gordius Wheel]], the shot cuts to Kirei Kotomine on a rooftop along with [[spoiler:Kariya Matou, his Berserker and an unconscious Irisviel]] watching the beam.

* The makeshift nuke on Virmire in VideoGame/MassEffect1 causes a huge explosion that can briefly be seen from orbit. Pretty painful for [[spoiler:the team-member that got left behind]].

* Used in ''a soccer game'' from the game ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}} Soccer'' when Mima uses her [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofnEdB8Blc Twilight Spark]].
%%** Used in the bad endings of ''Highly Responsive to Prayers''.

* VideoGame/HenryStickminSeries: This is a common gag among the series' [[TheManyDeathsOfYou many, many fail scenes]]. For example, in the Grapple Gun route of ''Infiltrating the Airship'', using the bomb will result in a distant view of the airship as the bomb goes off.

* WebVideo/DragonBallAbridged:

** In "Dial Meg for Murder", a hardened Meg steps into the shower with a loofa while Peter is in it. She tells him "Don't worry about it", [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnmale and]] [[ParentalIncest then...]]

** In "Barnacle Face" when Pearl lets out a scream so loud upon first seeing the barnacle on her face which popped up out of nowhere, the camera cuts the the various other high school students who also hear, followed by a long shot of the whole city.

* ''ComicBook/JusticeSocietyOfAmerica'' has the battle between the original ComicBook/GreenLantern, Alan Scott, and [[FaceHeelTurn his turned-mad son]] [[CastingAShadow Obsidian]]. After Alan Scott uses his GreenLanternRing [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever to match his son's size]] and blast him at full power, [[http://comiccoverage.typepad.com/comic_coverage/2007/05/the_highlight_r_1.html we cut to a wide shot of the city]] as a massive pillar of Green Lantern's light is rising into the sky, then cut into a wider shot as we see this massive pillar of light rocket into space.

* ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'': when R.J. opens the bag of chips, the dust forms a huge mushroom cloud visible from space. Later on when the security system is activated, we see pan out to see the ''entire galaxy'' with a small flash of light at our location.

* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip for [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1999/ga991114.gif 14 November 1999]], Garfield holds a sleeping Jon's eyes open as Odie licks them. The last panel shows to aliens on the Moon wondering what the screaming is. A ''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield'' strip relocates the aliens to the Saturnian moon Minas, as part of the "Garfield [word that sounds like 'Minus'] Garfield" RunningGag. TheRant points out that this makes the scream even louder.

The camera cuts away to some far-off and completely unrelated setting (such as space) and we see the rather minor (by this perspective) result of TheTake. The obvious implication is it must have been pretty spectacular at ground zero. If it's not being PlayedForLaughs or visual spectacle, expect a reaction shot from the horrified witnesses.

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* ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'': English teacher Yukari Tanizaki attempts teaching math. She grabs a textbook, and from space can be seen the planet Earth, so is the sheer overwhelmingness of math.

* The first OVA episode of ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' use this when Lloyd actives the exsphere in Iselia.

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