History OffscreenMomentOfAwesome / AnimeAndManga

** In the Marineford arc. Several times throughout the arc, two fighters meet and start to exchange blows in a page or so. Then the scene changes, and when we see the two fighters again, the fight has stopped without any further explanation. Sort of Justified, though, in that you don't really have the time to fight a one-on-one battle in a massive war with all the opponents to be concerned about.

** Happens again as we learn about "The Payback War" which was the remaining Whitebeard Pirates fighting Blackbeard Pirates [[spoiler: in order to avenge Whitebeard]]. Then it happens again with Blackbeard Pirates as we learn they fought the Revolutionaries and forced them to flee their home base.

** One the most egregious recent examples happens during the Reverie, where the Revolutionaries have infiltrated and of which reader has been following for several chapters ''then'' Oda cuts away to heroes's adventure in Wano which is arguably more important. However rather than of cutting back to Reverie later when the [[ActBreak first act of Wano is done]] Oda instead has Blackbeard casually read a newspaper about how Luffy's brother Sabo and Revolutionaries ''fought Admirals Fujitora and Ryokugyu'' '''offscreen'''. Oda is a bigger [[TheTease tease]] than Nami.

** Another particularly JustForFun/{{egregious}} example would be Kakashi's battle [[spoiler:against the remaining zombified Seven Swordsmen of the Mist.]] Fans were looking forward to seeing him "go on a rampage" and finally offset the massive [[TheWorfEffect Worf Effect]] that he'd accumulated[[spoiler:. Indeed it is implied to be an absolute ''CurbStompBattle in his favor'']], but the battle occurred entirely off-panel.
*** Fortunately, the anime team was well aware of Kishimoto's choice to omit the battle and gives us a generous AdaptationExpansion, showing a full and proper fight. As we all know, it was probably because a.) fans would've pissed on the animation studio doorstep if they tried to skate around showing the battles, too, and b.) to provide some padding so that the anime wouldn't lap the manga - one filler marathon run was bad enough.

** The most JustForFun/{{egregious}} example of all may just be [[SatelliteCharacter Tenten]] [[spoiler: fighting ''Kakuzu'' with the Bashosen - a war fan that drains an immense level of chakra, but in return, can create a vast amount of a specific element.]] Being a weapons specialist, and getting some slight screen time (which compares normally to how she gets less panels than a landmark, the Hokage mountain) you'd expect a full out fight for the ages coming up, right? Wrong! [[spoiler:Instead we see Tenten passed out, face down in the dirt as a medic tells her never to touch the fan again while the panel just before showed two of the three masks broken (Asuma destroyed the other one).]] Kishimoto teases us again later, implying she's planning something with Team 10 but that'll never be revealed either.
*** That aforementioned wrong becomes a "Right" in the anime. [[spoiler:We get to watch Tenten destroy both masks - one right after she obtains the Bashosen, and then again after several episodes when sunset is approaching and she's heavily tuckered out from hours in battle.]] Yay, AdaptationExpansion!

** Five Kages off-panelled by [[spoiler:Madara. 'Nuff said.]] In this case, it's PlayedForDrama and shock potential, as, it was made perfectly clear that [[spoiler:they didn't stand a chance in hell.]]

** One episode had the captain of a submarine offer the series' main character [[WeCanRuleTogether the chance to work with him and travel the world.]] When our hero refuses despite the ''very'' generous pay, the captain forces the matter by saying that if he doesn't win their duel, he'll have to come with him. Jaden soundly defeats him, and thus has no actual obligation to take up his offer, but the captain persists and tricks Jaden's friends into leaving him behind, then the submarine dives with Jaden trapped on it. The episode immediately cuts to several weeks later, with Jaden's best friend brooding over the fact that he left. Jaden then comes in, battered and bruised, after having fought his way to freedom. Needless to say, his friends were overjoyed.

** The end of Season 3 has Juudai fusing his soul to Yubel's and the two disappearing. They reappear in Season 4, some weeks later, without saying what they were doing. Judging by the dialogue at the end of episode 155, however, they were off ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kicking the ass of]]'' ''[[EldritchAbomination the Light of Ruin]]''. While it makes sense that such a fight wasn't shown (since it's very unlikely they dueled it), it's still disappointing to miss.

** During the Darkness arc, all but one name in Domino City was shown to have vanished from the Trueman assault. That sole survivor: Seto Kaiba.
** The Anime's Ending with the duel of Yugi and Judai. After Yugi turns into Yami, he proceeds to summon Slifer and Judai proceeds to attack him and the screen [[FadeToBlack fades to white]] and then skips ahead to a unspecific time afterwards. The end of the duel is left ambiguous as to who won and also leaves out how the hell Judai get back to his own time, not to mention how he ended up in the desert.

* ''Manga/KareKano's'' abrupt TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised ending, especially since we were getting all hyped up about the play Yukino had been preparing for the past few episodes. This is made even more unforgivable by the fact that, after religiously following the manga virtually to the ''panel'' for almost its entire length, Gainax diverted from the story to add an ''original filler episode'' just before the end, when only one more episode would have allowed them to portray the play in its entirety.

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' humorously references this when Jack Rakan shows [[BackStory a film about the war that he and Nagi fought in]]. He leaves out everything except the final battle, calling it "[[TakeOurWordForIt A thrilling series of battles that would take a whole trilogy of movies or about 14 volumes to actually illustrate!]]" This is [[BoisterousBruiser entirely in character for him]].
** The manga once again uses this intentionally for comedy, once again involving Jack Rakan. [[spoiler: four of Fate's minions go into their OneWingedAngel forms [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v29/c260/3.html to fight him]]. Then [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v29/c260/4.html this]] happens.]] If any other character tried to pull that, it would be a huge cop-out, but in this case it's perfectly in character for Jack, and preserved the minions' abilities for more dramatic reveals in later battles against the main characters.
** Also can't forget the massive 3rd day of the Mahora Festival and the climactic battle against [[spoiler:Chao Lingshen's]] forces. One part of the battle involved [[{{Ninja}} Kaede]] going up against [[TheGunslinger Mana]]. Easily two of strongest characters in the series even now, and we only get to see the first part of the battle and the result (the two hit each other with time-displacement bullets at the same time, rendering the match a draw).
** The Setsuna/Tsukuyomi fight in the climax of the [[MagicalLand Magica Mundus]] arc. Here we have Setsuna getting a rematch against an opponent that not only defeated her earlier but also implied that she'd rape Setsuna, or something to that nature. This time Setsuna is armed with a renewed self-confidence and [[spoiler: a new pactio forged by her fandom-pleasing make-out session with Konoka]] while Tsukuyomi [[spoiler: uses some kind of demonic power up of her own]]. The fight starts, it's good and then it just kind of jumps to the end. We're told that they fought for over half an hour, but we're only shown like a third of that. Good build-up that lead to a rather hollow climax because we didn't get to see the stuff that lead up to it.
** The finale of the entire series did this with [[spoiler:the climax of the MythArc of the entire series, which had apparently been resolved off-screen (the author having [[TorchTheFranchiseAndRun rushed the ending due to a dispute with his publisher]]) with the Lifemaker apparently having been beaten and Nagi apparently having been saved in an apparently epic battle that apparently showed how powerful Negi and his entire class were when they were all united]].

* In the second ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Max Heart'' movie, [[SixthRanger Hikari/Shiny Luminous]] decides to fight a [[MonsterOfTheDay Zakenna]] ''by herself'' [[YouShallNotPass so Nagisa/Cure Black and Honoka/Cure White can proceed]]. Aside from a 2-second scene later, we see nothing of the fight. It should be not that Luminous is a SupportPartyMember and a [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]].

** Happens again as we learn about "The Payback War" which was the remaining Whitebeard Pirates fighting Blackbeard Pirates [[spoiler: in order to revenge Whitebeard]]. Then it happens again with Blackbeard Pirates as we learn they fought the Revolutionaries and forced them to flee their home base.

** The Anime's Ending with the duel of Yugi and Judai. After Yugi turns into Yami, he proceeds to summon Slifer and Judai proceeds to attack him and the screen [[FadeToBlack fades to white]] and then skips ahead to a unspecific time afterwards. The end of the duel is left ambiguous as and also leaves out how the hell Judai get back to his time, not to mention how he ended up in the desert.

*** Which ''also'' got an AdaptationExpansion in ''Ultimate Ninja Storm Three'', the actual battle? ''[[{{HSQ}} Beyond words]]''.

** In the Alola League's preliminary round, Mallow decides to utilise Shaymin, her accompanying Mythical Pokemon who has almost never been shown battling up until this point. The rest of the match doesn't chart Mallow, all we see is a shot of the wrecked opponents Shaymin leaves and the reveal they survived into the next round.

** In the World Cup, Sherrie and her buttler form a team if two people (in spite of everyone trying to get at least three members due to the format) and manages to beat a whole bunch of other teams all by herself. The others are astonished when she tells them this.
** Right at the end of the series, Jack sets off to fight a whole bunch of powerful oponents - including Kyryu who he had never been able to beat - as part of his persobal training, abd beats them all. Those duels are never shown.

* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'': We never got to see the war between the Federation and the Jupiter Empire, despite the appearence that Tomino had been setting them up as an OutsideContextVillain. By the time MobileSuitVictoryGundam had rolled around it was over.

* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'': We never got to see the war between the Federation and the Jupiter Empire, despite the appearence that Tomino had been setting them up as an OutsideContextVillain. By the time MobileSuitVictoryGundam had rolled around it was over. It has been speculated that if the F-91 series hadn't been canceled, that they would have shown up as a BiggerBad.

** The finale of the entire series did this with [[spoiler:the climax of the MythArc of the entire series, which had apparently been resolved off-screen with the Lifemaker apparently having been beaten and Nagi apparently having been saved in an apparently epic battle that apparently showed how powerful Negi and his entire class were when they were all united]].

** One episode had the captain of a submarine offer the series' main character [[WeCanRuleTogether the chance to work with him and travel the world.]] When our hero refuse despite the ''very'' generous pay, the captain forces the matter by saying that if he doesn't win their duel, he'll have to come with him. Jaden soundly defeats him, and thus has no actual obligation to take up his offer, but the captain persists and tricks Jaden's friends into leaving him behind. The episode immediately cuts to several weeks later, with Jaden's best friend brooding over the fact that he left. Jaden then comes in, battered and bruised, after having fought his way to freedom. Needless to say, his friends were overjoyed.
** In the manga, Jaden/Judai also defeats Crowler/Chronos as part of his entrance exam, but it's never shown, despite being referred to a few times.

** The Anime's Ending with the duel of Yugi and Judai, after Yugi turns into Yami He proceeds to summon Slifer and Judai proceeds to attack him and the screen [[FadeToBlack fades to white]] and then skips ahead to a unspecific time afterwards, the end of the duel is left ambiguous as and also leaves out how the hell Judai get back to his time, not to mention how he ended up in the desert.

** Another particularly {{egregious}} example would be Kakashi's battle [[spoiler:against the remaining zombified Seven Swordsmen of the Mist.]] Fans were looking forward to seeing him "go on a rampage" and finally offset the massive [[TheWorfEffect Worf Effect]] that he'd accumulated[[spoiler:. Indeed it is implied to be an absolute ''CurbStompBattle in his favor'']], but the battle occurred entirely off-panel.

** The most {{egregious}} example of all may just be [[SatelliteCharacter Tenten]] [[spoiler: fighting ''Kakuzu'' with the Bashosen - a war fan that drains an immense level of chakra, but in return, can create a vast amount of a specific element.]] Being a weapons specialist, and getting some slight screen time (which compares normally to how she gets less panels than a landmark, the Hokage mountain) you'd expect a full out fight for the ages coming up, right? Wrong! [[spoiler:Instead we see Tenten passed out, face down in the dirt as a medic tells her never to touch the fan again while the panel just before showed two of the three masks broken (Asuma destroyed the other one).]] Kishimoto teases us again later, implying she's planning something with Team 10 but that'll never be revealed either.

* It's not rare with Saitama in ''Manga/OnuPunchMan''. A major example: toward the end of the Tournament arc Gouketsu is introduced, a giant Dragon-level monster who gets ''a lot'' of build-up and seems a future ArcVillain. [[spoiler: Saitama effortlessly obliterates him off-screen, just like nearly every opponent he faces; only his head is left.]]

* The ''Manga/MedakaBox'' finale sees Medaka defeat [[spoiler:the ''MOON'']] in offscreen single combat. She follows this up with an offscreen takedown of [[spoiler:[[BossRush every named character]] in the series]]. Yeah, it's that sort of series.

* The special ''Anime/PokemonMewtwoReturns'': Team Rocket, led by the rarely used Giovanni, have captured the Pokemon clones and their babies. Mewtwo is horribly injured, and Ash must free the Pokemon and help Mewtwo. When Giovanni and a small army of TR grunts shows up to fight, Misty and Brock step up to fight, letting out their Pokemon. ''Then it cuts away to a different scene''. When it cuts back, the battle's over, thereby skipping one of the few battles against the Team Rocket organization as a whole (not just individual members like Jessie and James) in the show's entire 14-plus season history.
** In the [[{{Anime/Pokemon}} main series]], May's final battle in the Kanto Grand Festival. It's a staple of the anime in the later sagas to have two rivals in the tournament arcs - one for the protagonist to beat, and one to beat them. After May's epic battle with Drew - which started at the tail end of one episode and carried on into the bulk of the next - we only see the last two minutes or so of her battle with Solidad.
** Ash's Quilava's battle against Nando's Armaldo in the Sinnoh League tournament. The second that Ash sends out his Quilava to battle, the scene shifts over to the Team Rocket trio trying to make sales with their merchandise. By the time that it gets back to the fight, both Pokémon are on the ropes and do one final attack on one another only to double-KO each other.
** Also, during the Johto League, Ash and the gang encounter a witch who miscasts a Pokemon translation spell, turning Ash into a Pikachu at the end of the episode. The transformation is stated to last a few days, and the next episode picks up... [[SnapBack about five seconds before it wears off]].
* ''Anime/DevilMayCryTheAnimatedSeries'': in the final episode, Dante finally pulls out his Devil Trigger SuperMode...Offscreen. He's grappling with the BigBad, the camera zooms in on his face, he starts glowing, his eyes widen and his voice deepens. The camera cuts back to show an explosion on the roof they are fighting on. When it comes back to them, the fight's already over (though this also holds the implication that he may have used devil trigger explosion and killed the demon instantly with that).

* Parodied twice in the ''Manga/TheLawOfUeki'', with characters describing how awesome a DangerousForbiddenTechnique was, after it was used ''off-camera''. The {{Narrator}} then [[{{handwave}} explains]] that it was the result of a lacking special effects budget.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Subverted with the Byakuya/Kenpachi versus Yammy battle. Byakuya and Kenpachi are set to actually team up against the most powerful Espada of all, who has just released his full power, and the scene cuts away. The pair eventually arrives in Karakura Town looking ragged, beaten and with healers running after them saying they can barely stand. It looks like they've returned from an epic battle, so one Shinigami dares to ask how good the fight was... "Boring", is the response.
** When Yuki and Shino begin their stint as Karakura Town's guardian Shinigami, they immediately run afoul of a gang of very powerful Hollows. Cue the arrival of Ichigo, Uryuu, Sado and Orihime. When Yuki comes around later, he recalls Orihime talking about his injuries and Ichigo and Uryuu engaging in SnarkToSnarkCombat while fighting. He's awed by the gang's ability to fight Hollows, but that is awe is all that's really revealed.
** Zaraki's greatest ever fight is finally revealed in flashbacks, his epic battle with the [[MasterSwordsman greatest of all swordsmen]] very first Kenpachi, Yachiru. The story only deals with the assessment by [[BloodKnight Zaraki]] and [[AxCrazy Yachiru]] of how astonishing and extraordinary a battle it truly was as the focus is on the fall-out, not the battle itself. [[spoiler:Yachiru is the original name of [[TheAtoner Captain Unohana]].]]

** In ''Series/{{MADtv}}'', a female student even points this out in a parody episode called Naru210. The cameraman apologizes, admitting he is easily distracted. So of course when he focuses back on Naruto's fight again, it's already over.
* In the ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' manga, the Demon World Unification tournament sets up some potentially epic battles (Kurama vs. Shigure, Hiei vs. Mukuro, Yusuke vs. Yomi), but only shows a little of Yusuke vs. Yomi before suddenly cutting to after the tournament.
* In ''Anime/{{Canaan}}'', it is never shown how Yunyun [[spoiler:saves Maria from being blown up by the time bomb in that train car]]. That must have been quite a stunt, especially considering how little time she had to pull it off.

* In the second ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure Max Heart'' movie, [[SixthRanger Hikari/Shiny Luminous]] decides to fight a [[MonsterOfTheDay Zakenna]] ''by herself'' [[YouShallNotPass so Nagisa/Cure Black and Honoka/Cure White can proceed]]. Aside from a 2-second scene later, we see nothing of the fight. It should be not that Luminous is a SupportPartyMember and a [[NonActionGuy Non-Action Girl]].
** Also between episode 5 and 6, the three girls have their first battle against a major villain (Circulas) and it just started in the [[{{Cliffhanger}} end of episode 5]]. The battle was completely skipped in the following episode, and both sides were fine and didn't have any significant looses.
* In the ''Manga/OnePiece'' Marineford arc. Several times throughout the arc, two fighters meet and start to exchange blows in a page or so. Then the scene changes, and when we see the two fighters again, the fight has stopped without any further explanation. Sort of Justified, though, in that you don't really have the time to fight a one-on-one battle in a massive war with all the opponents to be concerned about.
** Several epic battles take place off-screen. Some examples include Garp and Sengoku vs. [[Anime/OnePieceFilmStrongWorld Shiki]], the Red Hair Pirates vs. Kaido's crew, and for the title of the new [[spoiler:Fleet Admiral post-TimeSkip, Aokiji vs. Akainu]]... we'll see it all in due time, right [[Creator/EiichiroOda Oda]]? ''[[PanderingToTheBase Right]]''?!
** Sanji kicks the piss out of [[spoiler: his abusive asshole brother Yonji]] offscreen. It's so bad that [[spoiler: Yonji needs a ''press machine'' to get his head back in shape.]]
* ''LightNovel/{{Katanagatari}}'' episode four had an intentional example, and spent a large part of the end of the episode rubbing it in viewers' faces: [[spoiler: Shichika barely manages to defeat the mysterious white-haired badass the show had been building up for the past three episodes, thanks to Togame drafting him a brilliant strategy]]. Or so we hear, at length, from the two afterwards. The audience spends the majority of the episode with his sister, on an island miles away. The preview at the end of episode 3 involves parting the sea, slicing up rocks, exploding ''a whole island'', and fighting a giant shark. That's all that was shown, in very brief clips.
* ''Anime/YuGiOh'',

* The ending of ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBioBroly Bio-Broly]]'' in ''Anime/DragonBallGT''. Goku was apparently supposed to fight Broly in Hell due to the latter acting up for some unknown reason. The movie ended while Goku was going back to filling his stomach in preparation, and they never show the fight, as it ends right there. There's not even a reference to it in the next three movies, despite the immediate next movie dealing a lot about Hell and the Afterworld, namely it mingling with the mortal world.
* In ''Yellow Dragon ga Arawareta'', the main heroine (the titular yellow dragon, an uber powerful being) is {{BrainwashedAndCrazy}}. Her friends decide to rescue her from a group of kidnappers (who are technologicaly advanced kingdom that want to use her as a weapon), no matter what it takes. We see a castle she was held in exploding, and we then learn that she never got under their control. She was just playing along to see what her friends will do, but didn't want to wait any longer, so she freed herself. Offscreen.
* In ''Anime/MajokkoTsukuneChan'', there's an episode called "Tsukune-chan vs. Aliens." [[spoiler: It's five seconds long, and all we see is the Mayor asking Tsukune-chan for help, and then a brief shot of the alien ship blowing up.]] Afterwards, an off-screen voice says "[[LampshadeHanging But I wanted to see that...]]"
* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar''
** Shin's fight against Raoh in the 1986 movie.
** In one episode of the anime series, Kenshiro fights an army of [[EliteMooks Ken-Oh's ninjas]] armed with poisonous weapons. Before Kenshiro kills any of them, it cuts to Raoh storming the Nanto capital. Shortly after Raoh destroys the gates and slaughters hundreds of guards, it cuts back to a pile of dead ninjas, just in time for Kenshiro to resist the poison and kill the ninja leader.
* ''Manga/BlackCat'' is very strange with this trope, and way too fond of it. They'll have occasions where they show just the beginning and end of fights, beginning and middle of fights, the middle of interrupted fights, and the beginning, middle, and end of a fight but without actually showing how the victor won. Basically, whenever opposing groups of badasses congregate in one place, you're not going to get to see much of the action. And since the badassness performed on-screen is damned near off the charts, it really makes you feel like you missed something. [[spoiler: It reaches its peak in the Train vs Creed fight, where after a long and brutal battle Train fires his ultimate attack, misses, and somehow wins anyway. No explanation is given except for a flashback of the ultimate attack sailing past Creed. And still completely missing. Maybe more of an Unexplained Moment of Awesome, but it is still disappointing.]]
** That last example is only in the anime. The manga's a bit better about this trope.
* ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' anime Episode 18: Vash and Wolfwood are about to take on about two hundred men to save Lina. We are then shown Vash getting his hair cut by Lina post-fight, as well as the ruins of the battle.
** In the corresponding ''Trigun Maximum'' chapter (the very first one), the large fight is also skipped, but Vash confronts the imposter holding Lina against her will and defeats him.
** Subverted in the first episode, where Vash gets up and without fear points his gun at the criminals and one hears a gun going off. It isn't until sometime later during said episode that it is revealed that Vash [[OhCrap forgot to put bullets in his gun]] and ran off while getting shot at.
* In ''Manga/FairyTail'' during the Phantom Lord Arc Mystogan visits Porlyusica and reveals that [[spoiler:he defeated every subdivision of Phantom Lord by himself and proves this by scattering all the subdivisions' flags across her yard.]] He also reports that [[spoiler:he was the one responsible for regathering Makarov's magic power, which was drained from his body by Aria, giving him the strength to defeat Jose Porla.]]
** Erza destroys [[spoiler: 100 monsters of the Pandemonium]] this way. It is [[AdaptationExpansion expanded]] in the anime to the point where we get to actually see it.
* ''Manga/BananaNoNana''. We see Hoshi Budou kick Nana's butt pretty badly. Then suddenly Nana has somehow won. Fans are very curious how a [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway Banana Manipulator]] could defeat a FragileSpeedster NinjaMaid.
* In ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'', Cho Hakkai's youkai form isn't shown to the audience until well into the series. Consequently, his first two battles in that form--one where he took out a basement full of gangsters and one where he killed a huge monster--take place entirely off-screen. Given that the monster fight freaked out even the combat-loving Goku, this probably overlaps with GoryDiscretionShot.
* In ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'', our heroines are going to a facility protected by a platoon PowerArmor {{Mooks}} in a rescue mission.
--> (camera pans over smoking wreckage)
-->'''Kuroko:''' You could have left one of them conscious to answer questions.
-->'''Mikoto:''' How was I supposed to know there wasn't anyone inside!?
* In the series finale of ''LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero'', Saito somehow [[spoiler: stole a fighter jet from a Japanese military base]] and used it to fly back and save everyone.
* In ''Manga/ShamanKing'' Sati and co [[spoiler: Defeat the 4 kings of hell to get the remaining four of the five grand elemental spirits, the most we see of this is Cado apparently having lost his arm against Mephistopheles. They all eventually win]]
* ''Manga/PingPong'': Peco and Smile's final duel in the anime.
* ''{{Franchise/Gundam}}'': We never got to see the war between the Federation and the Jupiter Empire, despite the appearence that Tomino had been setting them up as an OutsideContextVillain. By the time MobileSuitVictoryGundam had rolled around it was over. It has been speculated that if the F-91 series hadn't been canceled, that they would have shown up as a BiggerBad.
** Also the fight with the the Neo-Zeon movement on Mars, who fought with souped up versions of the old Zeon suits (they called themselves the Oldsmobile Army). The story ended up being told in a short manga series.

** The [=4Kids=] dub gave Ryou Bakura an [[http://thewittyphantom.tumblr.com/post/126291168108/shadow-realm-facts-according-to-pegasus-yami offscreen moment of awesome]], given the properties of the Shadow Realm. (Even if you use the original version, it means Bakura was sent to Hell and [[LikeABadassOutOfHell somehow managed to escape]], which is itself pretty awesome.)

* One episode of ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' had the captain of a submarine offer the series' main character [[WeCanRuleTogether the chance to work with him and travel the world.]] When our hero refuse despite the ''very'' generous pay, the captain forces the matter by saying that if he doesn't win their duel, he'll have to come with him. Jaden soundly defeats him, and thus has no actual obligation to take up his offer, but the captain persists and tricks Jaden's friends into leaving him behind. The episode immediately cuts to several weeks later, with Jaden's best friend brooding over the fact that he left. Jaden then comes in, battered and bruised, after having fought his way to freedom. Needless to say, his friends were overjoyed.

* In ''Anime/YuGiOh'', Tristan, Duke, and Serenity are ambushed by three [[{{Mooks}} Rare Hunters]], [[YouShallNotPass and Tristan decides to take them on himself so that Duke and Serenity can escape]]. Their escape is well shown; by the time the episode gets back to Tristan, [[CurbStompBattle all three Rare Hunters are lying on the ground at his feet]].

** The [=4Kids=] dub gave Ryou Bakura an [[http://thewittyphantom.tumblr.com/post/126291168108/shadow-realm-facts-according-to-pegasus-yami offscreen moment of awesome]], given the properties of the Shadow Realm.