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* TheGhost - A mentioned character who never physically appears.
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** AbuseDiscretionShot - Abuse not being shown onscreen.
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** TransformationDiscretionShot - A scene of a character transforming offscreen.
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Capitalization was fixed from Main.Killed Off Screen to Main.Killed Offscreen. Null edit to update index.
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* UnrevealAngle - A shot is framed to show a secret being revealed without revealing said secret to the audience.
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* Character Development - A character changes off-screen

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* Character Development CharacterDevelopment - A character changes off-screen
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* Character Development - A character changes off-screen
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* VoiceOnlyCameo: A cameo that is only heard as TheVoice but not seen.
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* HyperspaceWardrobe - Someone can change clothes in the few seconds they're offscreen, or even just spin around so fast they resemble a small tornado to change.
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* PostCoitalCollapse: Characters collapse into bed to imply they were having sex.
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* GilliganCut: A protagonist's companion is shown performing an unpleasant task, despite refusing to do so in the previous scene, and may even wonder as to how they were convinced to do so.
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* AmbiguousCriminalHistory - A character committed crimes offscreen.
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* PostApocalypticTrafficJam: We see the aftermath of the chaos and destruction which occurred during the apocalypse, but not the event itself.
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** SexyDiscretionShot - When the answer to DidTheyOrDidn'tThey is definitely "they did", but we still don't get to see it.

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** SexyDiscretionShot - When the answer to DidTheyOrDidn'tThey DidTheyOrDidntThey is definitely "they did", but we still don't get to see it.
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** SexyDiscretionShot - When the answer to Did They Or Didn't They? is definitely "they did", but we still don't get to see it.

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** SexyDiscretionShot - When the answer to Did They Or Didn't They? DidTheyOrDidn'tThey is definitely "they did", but we still don't get to see it.
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* UndisclosedFunds - We're not gonna show you how much money this is, but trust us, it's a lot.
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* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen - A work goes to ridiculous lengths to avoid showing a character
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* TimeSkip - ItMakesSenseInContext.

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* TimeSkip - ItMakesSenseInContext.Lots of time is skipped over between two scenes.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome - Did no one see your CrowningMomentOfAwesome?

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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome - Did no one see your CrowningMomentOfAwesome?InUniverse SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome?
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* CensoredChildDeath - A child dies, but their death is never seen onscreen.
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* SnapBack - How did that turn back to normal?
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* StealthHiBye - Not only did we never see this character enter or leave, the other characters didn't either.

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* AnswerCut

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* AnswerCutAnswerCut - A character asks a question or makes a statement, then the scene shifts to the answer.



* {{Butlerspace}}
* CataclysmBackstory
* ChargeIntoCombatCut
* DidTheyOrDidntThey

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* {{Butlerspace}}
{{Butlerspace}} - Where did that butler come from?
* CataclysmBackstory
CataclysmBackstory - The society went downhill and set off the plot, but it happened quite a while back so logically, it's offscreen.
* ChargeIntoCombatCut
ChargeIntoCombatCut - Two people or groups of people get ready to fight, but the scene shifts.
* DidTheyOrDidntTheyDidTheyOrDidntThey - Two characters did something offscreen. It could have been sex, but we just don't know.



** BattleDiscretionShot
** DeadHatShot
** GoryDiscretionShot
** KissingDiscretionShot
** RapeDiscretionShot
** SexyDiscretionShot
** ScreamDiscretionShot
** ShadowDiscretionShot
** SoundOnlyDeath
** VomitDiscretionShot
** VillainyDiscretionShot

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** BattleDiscretionShot
BattleDiscretionShot - They're fighting, and although we might hear it, we don't see it.
** DeadHatShot
DeadHatShot - We didn't see them die, we just see one of their belongings.
** GoryDiscretionShot
GoryDiscretionShot - Blood or brains are seen splattering against a surface, but we [[NothingIsScarier don't see]] what ''made'' them splatter.
** KissingDiscretionShot
KissingDiscretionShot - Two characters lean in to kiss one another, but we never see them kiss.
** RapeDiscretionShot
RapeDiscretionShot - Even the ''idea'' of rape can be scary, so seeing rape would be ''too'' scary for this type of work. This is what happens when you want to add rape in a situation like this.
** SexyDiscretionShot
SexyDiscretionShot - When the answer to Did They Or Didn't They? is definitely "they did", but we still don't get to see it.
** ScreamDiscretionShot
ScreamDiscretionShot - We hear someone screaming, but we don't see what made them scream.
** ShadowDiscretionShot
ShadowDiscretionShot - Something bad is happening, but we don't see it, we only see a shadow of it.
** SoundOnlyDeath
SoundOnlyDeath - We hear a character die/something kill a character, but we don't see the death.
** VomitDiscretionShot
VomitDiscretionShot - Someone throws up, but we don't [[VomitIndiscretionShot see it]].
** VillainyDiscretionShotVillainyDiscretionShot - A character does something ''extremely'' immoral offscreen.



* EmpathyDollShot
* ExpositionCut
* GreatOffscreenWar

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* EmpathyDollShot
EmpathyDollShot - A kid died. We don't see the death or the body, but we see one of the kid's toys.
* ExpositionCut
ExpositionCut - One character gets required information, but we don't need to hear it, so we don't.
* GreatOffscreenWarGreatOffscreenWar - A war happened, but it was before the events of the series so we never saw it.



* HookedUpAfterwards
* ImpliedLoveInterest
* InferredHolocaust
* InfiniteSupplies
** OffscreenVillainDarkMatter

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* HookedUpAfterwards
HookedUpAfterwards - Two characters look like they'll hook up, but then it ends.
* ImpliedLoveInterest
ImpliedLoveInterest - Someone has a lot of love-interest-related tropes, but we never see anything romantic around that character.
* InferredHolocaust
InferredHolocaust - Something bad will logically happen, but we never see it happen.
* InfiniteSupplies
InfiniteSupplies - Somebody has a whole lot of things that are logically hard to obtain and we don't know how they obtained them.
** OffscreenVillainDarkMatterOffscreenVillainDarkMatter - It's unknown how a villain affords their evil supplies.



* InvisibleCelebrityGuest

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* InvisibleCelebrityGuestInvisibleCelebrityGuest - The characters meet a celebrity but we never see said celebrity.



* JumpCut
* KilledOffscreen

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* JumpCut
JumpCut - One scene jumps to another.
* KilledOffscreenKilledOffscreen - We never see a dead character die.



* NothingIsScarier
* OffscreenBreakup
* OffscreenCrash

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* NothingIsScarier
NothingIsScarier - ...than a scary lack of something.
* OffscreenBreakup
OffscreenBreakup - Two characters are a couple in one scene, and they've broken up in another, but we don't see what led to the breakup.
* OffscreenCrashOffscreenCrash - We hear a crash, but don't see what went crash.



* OffscreenRealityWarp
* OffscreenRebuilding
* OffscreenRomance
* OffscreenStartBonus
* OffscreenTeleportation
* OffstageVillainy
* RelaxOVision

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* OffscreenRealityWarp
OffscreenRealityWarp - The scene shifts from one scene to another and back to the first, but something is different. We never see how the change happened.
* OffscreenRebuilding
OffscreenRebuilding - A city was destroyed and rebuilt and we never see the rebuilding.
* OffscreenRomance
OffscreenRomance - Two characters are not in a relationship, they [[PutOnABus disappear]], they [[TheBusCameBack come back]] in a relationship.
* OffscreenStartBonus
OffscreenStartBonus - The level of a game starts. There is more than one path one of which leads offscreen. Taking this path leads to a bonus.
* OffscreenTeleportation
OffscreenTeleportation - Someone can move so fast they might as well be teleporting, as long as we don't see them move.
* OffstageVillainy
OffstageVillainy - We don't see the villain do anything evil.
* RelaxOVisionRelaxOVision - The writers don't want us to see something bad, so they show us something good (if a little sappy/boring) while the bad thing is happening.



* SingleStrokeBattle
* SmashCut
* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome - Similar to AgeCut.

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* SingleStrokeBattle
SingleStrokeBattle - During a duel, both characters leap in the air and strike, but we don't see what happens, and when they land, one is dead.
* SmashCut
SmashCut - A scene abruptly switches to another.
* SoapOperaRapidAgingSyndrome - Similar to AgeCut.AgeCut but they've grown older too fast for it to make sense InUniverse.


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* TheVoice - We hear this character, but never see them.
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* HeelFaceReturn - A villain reforms offscreen.
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* NoodleIncident

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* NoodleIncidentNoodleIncident - It was important to the character, but the details aren't given because they don't influence the story.
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* OffscreenRomance

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