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You wouldn't believe the journey it took to get back to the main trope [...] ExpositionCut.

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You wouldn't believe the journey it took to get back to the main trope trope. You see... [...] ] ...ExpositionCut.

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'''Basic Trope''': When the cast explains something, it cuts to when they've finished (so the audience doesn't see it).
* '''Straight''': Alice has just had an adventure. Bob asks what happened, Alice begins explaining and it cuts to the point where she's finished explaining.
* '''Exaggerated''': Alice and Bob meet a movie producer, it then cuts to the ending credits of an adaptation of their adventures playing to a packed cinema.
* '''Downplayed''': There's a short montage of Bob's reactions to the story, rather than a complete cut.
* '''Justified''': Alice had a deal with Bob the reporter which involved giving him the details of her adventure when she got back.
* '''Inverted''': Bob tells Alice (and the audience) everything that had been happening while she was on her adventure.
* '''Subverted''': ...Bob mentions a few details, revealing that Alice told him a completely different story to what the audience know happened.
* '''Double Subverted''': Bob works out Alice was lying and this trope happens when she tells him the real story.
* '''Parodied''': Alice arrives on the scene only a few moments before Bob and thus doesn't know any more than him. The "cut" occurs without any time passing because she doesn't have anything to say.
* '''Zig Zagged''': Sometimes the audience has things repeated to them, other times they miss out on things that haven't been shown to them as TheUnreveal.
* '''Averted''': Alice doesn't need to explain what happened to anyone.
* '''Enforced''': The audience aren't going to sit through 5 minutes of having what they spent the last 30 minutes watching anyway.
* '''Lampshaded''': "You sure explained all that quickly, Alice."
* '''Invoked''': A show with NoFourthWall has characters do this to avoid having to listen to MrExposition drone on for hours.
* '''Exploited''': The characters can be heard using the timeskip to mock the audience who (they think!) can't hear.
* '''Defied''': MrExposition ''insists'' the audience here what he has to say as well.
* '''Discussed''': "This is boring. [[NoFourthWall Can't we just cut to when you've finished?]]"
* '''Conversed''': "Ooo, will this meeting pass like in those shows where they just cut to where you've finished explaining?"
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You wouldn't believe the journey it took to get back to the main trope [...] ExpositionCut.
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