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Ace Combat- In the "Destroy the Arkbird" chapter of The Ultimate Ace
, three Su-37s, specifically Yellow Squadron birds arrive to fight with Wardog and Mobius Squadron. Blaze charges forward to take them on singlehandedly while getting the other pilots to focus on their primary target... Which he somehow does, but exactly how he does it is not clearly described. Lampshade Hung in-story when the other pilots also are confused about how he pulled it off and Blaze simply says "classified" when asked.
- The Boys: Real Justice: While Homelander was getting his butt kicked by Bizarro and the Legion (which the reader gets to see note ), Robin (Damian Wayne) and Superboy (Jon Kent) busted Ryan out of the Vought Tower and brought him to the Justice League HQ (which the reader does not get to see) and reunited him with his mom. Considering how Superboy has all of Superman's powers and Robin is basically Batman with less impulse control, that must've been one heck of a breakout...
- Many of the fights in Christian Humber Reloaded are only described as far as Vash performing the killing move on the enemies, notably when Vash fight his corrupted self again in "Darkness Never Dies No Matter How Many Times You Kill It."
- An Eye Of The Fox scene which depicts Kira calmly walking out of the Autobot's cave and proceeded to take out an entire forest it is still cool to imagine.
- In The Last Spartan, when Tali is explaining the quarian Pilgrimage to Master Chief, she mentions a time when Kal'Reegar, himself on a pilgrimage at the time, returned to the fleet to give the Rayya's Captain a Brute Gravity Hammer as a return gift. Tali described Reegar as being victim of multiple suit breaches and other injuries, but when Chief asks her exactly how he got it, Tali only says "It wasn't easy."
- In The Institute Saga, Thanos manages to assemble the Infinity Gauntlet with all six Infinity Stones despite all the good guys trying to stop him, then as he finishes assimilating the power it grants, he is faced with Spider-Man and Squirrel Girl. Cut to Superman finding Spider-Man muttering about how he was there, but still doesn't know how Thanos was taken down.
- In The Bridge, a swarm of Destroyah babies overruns Ki Seong's restaurant and start eating and destroying everything, so she prepares for a fight. The next time we see her, she's somehow tamed them all and put them to work cooking and cleaning up the restaurant.
- In brilliant lights will cease to burn, Izuku seals several of the Sakura Cards offscreen, including Time, Erase, and Libra, with the story itself only showing the leadup or the aftermath of the event (i.e. Izuku being arrested after capturing Erase).
- RWBY: Epic of Remnant: After EMIYA Alter shoots their Bullhead down, Roman Torchwick manages to escape with a critically injured Cinder Fall without anybody seeing him. This is only mentioned after the fact in Arthur Watts' report to Salem.
- A Dovahkiin Spreads His Wings has for Experienced Protagonist Jon Whitewolf, the Legendary Dragonborn whose backstory involved protecting the world from utter devastation, twice. The first when he slaughtered Alduin the World Eater, and the second when he defeated the First Dragonborn Miraak.
- When the Lannister guards attempt to arrest Valerica, the author doesn't even bother to show the event. The pre-fight scene has her bearing a Grin of Audacity and telling the guards to Bring It. When she's next seen, she is completely unharmed, splattered with blood from head to toe and the guards nowhere to be seen.
- In The New Recruit, Matt Garetty (after the Seattle Incident) has been on the run from the Seattle police, the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, etc, for over a week. Once Coulson recruits the kid to SHIELD, Agent Sitwell gets the police and all other agencies to drop the manhunt with nothing but a few phone calls.
- Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse):
- Once a cult tried to revive Dracula in the basement of the apartment building top-tier badass vampire hunter Julius Belmont lives in. Needless to say, they failed. Offscreen.
- First scene, Daisuke drops a mech on Soma. One Smash Cut later, he complains that Soma destroyed it in five minutes.
- In Harry and the Shipgirls, we are told that a combined force of five fleets of Abyssals attacked Unalaska after the Northern Ocean Princess refused to participate in their plans for the genocide of humanity. While those five fleets won, it was at a cost of six of them sinking for every single member of the Northern Ocean Princess's fleet, making it a simple matter for shipgirl forces to mop them up later.
- In Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily, the end of the second part of the Fog Car has Paul London about to fight Easter. Then London appears just as Pyramid Head is about to wail on Specter, slamming his staff and looking exhausted and a bit bloodied. The only other signs of an epic battle that occured is Easter emerging moments later looking completely pissed off and damaged showing that the wrestler didn't go easy on them.
- The Last Seidr: The majority of the fic focuses on Harry Potter, the Sorting Hat, and Fawkes on the SHIELD Helicarrier during the events of the first Avengers movie. Thus, numerous scenes from that movie are mentioned only in passing.
- No stars in sight: We aren't shown exactly how Ikharos killed the Nïdhwal in Chapter 5. The scene ends with him charging into the sea monster's jaws with his glaive, then cuts to the aftermath where a blood-soaked Ikharos is dragging the Nïdhwal's massive corpse onto land where he is greeted with cheering Cabal soldiers.
- Running With Death: During a chapter told entirely from Wednesday's point of view (and thus out of sight of the action), Harry was targeted by Pennywise the Clown. Not only did Harry walk away without any injuries, he criticized Pennywise's scare tactics and (using the foil Gomez had gifted him) cut off parts of it's body as gifts for Granny. Pennywise ran away crying.
- The Spectacular Spider-Man: Lost in Gotham: We never see it because it happened in Peter's old dimension, but Gwen becoming the new Spider in Peter's stead, and taking down Vulture while still learning how to use her web-shooters.
- Spider-Ninja:
- While looking for their sister, the Turtles saw a bank robbery in progress. They stopped the thieves, beat them up, stole their armored car, and left the money with the cops. This all happens off-screen, with the main focus of the chapter being Petra's Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Subverted in that anyone who watched the pilot for the 2003 series can probably guess how this played out. note
- Before the events of the fic, an epic battle between the Skrulls and the Kree completely wiped out the Kraang species.
- Casey Jones found out the location of Shredder's new hideout via what Fury called "impromptu interrogations" on the Dragons.
- Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K: The First Battle of Axum was the first time that the Galactic Republic and the Jedi fought the Imperium of Man in a full-scale ground battle (previous battles had either been in space or aboard starships). This battle saw Ki-Adi-Mundi and the Galactic Marines spearheading Axum's defense against an Imperial invasion force which consisted of an entire Space Marine chapter supported by thousands of Imperial Guard regiments. We're told that the Republic defenders got absolutely curb-stomped and lost dozens of Jedi in the first minutes of the fighting alone, but never get to actually see any of it because the entire battle happens offscreen between Episodes 8 and 9.
- There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton:
- According to what Stuart tells Ben and Kevin, Vilgax once fought Thanos and survived. Which, given what Thanos is capable of even without the Infinity Stones, is saying something.
- Piccolo and Bardock both reference to Captain Marvel fighting and apparently killing Frieza at some point.
- Chapter 24 of The Girl Who Could Knock Out the Hulk ends with The Cavalry arriving to help the Avengers fight off Centipede reinforcements in OsCorp, setting up a big battle... and then the next chapter opens with Kara waking up in a hospital room recovering from her Kryptonite-induced injuries a week later.
- At some point in the past, Max teamed up with Kanjigar to prevent the Forever Knights from finding Trollmarket. This was eventually shown in full in Chapter 7 of From His Vantage Upon the Moon.
- In the first chapter of Just Another Day at the Office, Jane Shepard is returning to Knowhere after capturing a Cybertronian bounty. Considering the fact that she's human and that the Decepticon in question, Flywheels, is several times her size, this is considered impressive even In-Universe, but we don't see the fight.
- At one point in the 90s, Nora Wakeman ended up accidentally teleported to Cluster Prime and stranded there for a week, surviving on nothing but her rations before finally managing to escape after infiltrating Vexus' palace to steal Jenny.
- Touhou Galaxy: After the events of ReMind, several members of the group such as the Phantom Thieves went back to their own worlds and did the events of their games which is why they did not reappear until Odyssey. Likewise, during the events of Kingdom Battle, said members were tied up dealing with the Rabbids such as the Phantom Thieves learning that Rabbids in Mementos could summon their own Personas.
- My Deepest, Darkest Secret: In Darkest Hour, Richard mentions that halfway close to the lair, Solon woke up, transformed into a wolf, and battled his captors while still half-drugged, and despite getting injured in the process he nearly won had reinforcements not joined, which sounds like something that deserves to be seen. Read the 5th word if you're still looking for that specific moment.
- From Gods of This New World when Mello goes to kidnap Sayu he fails miserably because she was waiting for him with a gun and she had L at her back.
- In Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami, Dark Yagami
becomes King of the Shinigami, acquires a notebook that can do anything, and takes over the world. He then gets attacked by his sister Sayu, of all people, who manages to become Queen of the Shinigami. They're about to fight at the end of the chapter, but at the start of the next, the author decides that a fight between two Shinigami would be stupid, and has her merely defeat Dark and hand him over to L. This is averted several chapters later, when the fight between the two actually takes place.
- Occurs in Peter Chimaera's Digimon 2:Return of Digimon, where Digimon fights Evil Digimon. The first time Digimon one shoot kills him with his robot suit, only for it be reveal that "In Chapter 2, the evil Digimon is not really dead — IT WAS A TRICK!" Then, the second time, after "punching through the ceiling and fighting IN SPACE," the story in its entirety goes, "They fought for a long time until they were tired from the fight, and Digimon killed him with a lethal blow. "Impossible … I can not be stopped!" Then an explosion."
- Vow of Nudity: In one chapter, the core party of six adventurers gets attacked by illusory doppelgängers from their past. From the protagonist’s point of view, she sees two teammates get trapped in desperate drawn-out duels for their life, two teammates quickly lose their fight and die, and then she herself gets unceremoniously stabbed unconscious once she’s ambushed by her own. When commenters asked about Mona, the sixth and final teammate who was only seen attempting to heal a dying teammate, the author replied that she’d already fought and dispatched her phantom before the team even regrouped. (This was even more surprising considering she’s a tiny fairy who’d never shown any combat prowess before this)
- In Boys do Tankary?, the outcome of three tankery matches, one of which is against the apparent main antagonists, is mentioned over the course of six short sentences. Surprisingly, the heroes actually lose the last one.
- In Boys und Sensha-dō!, when Shiho disowns Miho, her husband, who so far had not been shown at all and was assumed by Miho and readers to be a Henpecked Husband, calls her out on it, as Shiho mentions in passing when Maho does the same.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): In Chapter 7, Monarch and the Russians send a joint search-and-bury operation into the elaborate underground base that was commandeered by Alan Jonah and his men, looking for any survivors among the civilians that Jonah recruited. We see the aftermath of a battle or two between humans and the Artificial Zombies that were attempting to swarm their barrack, which took place wholly offscreen some time ago.
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed
- In Gold Poisons, Nie Huaisang locates Mo Xuanyu for Nie Mingjue, allowing Jin Guangyao to be cleared.
- A quite odd, untitled fanfic written in Polish (sporked here) does it spectacularly. In one scene, the good guys are sitting in a library, trying to find out how to defeat Voldemort. In the next sentence, the narrator suddenly states "Voldemort defeated!", hastily explains that he's been beaten in some unknown way and will definitely never rise again, then proceeds to the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue.
- In The Chosen Six, when the werewolves attack Hogwarts, Flitwick on his lonesome waits for those that attack Ravenclaw tower, with his jacket off, sleeves rolled up and wand ready. He warns them to capitulate now, but they only laugh at him. He later is mentioned to have defeated all of them and only needs to sleep off his exhaustion.
- In The Very Secret Diary, this is inverted, or something like that. The fic is, essentially, a Lower-Deck Episode to Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, showing Ginny's correspondence with Tom Riddle (which we knew happened in the book, but didn't get to see). So in the context of canon, Ginny fighting back and interfering with Tom's plans happen "offscreen"... but in the context of the fic, we get a front-row seat. One good example is the moment when the fic officially collides with canon — the one time Harry wrote in the diary. In the book, we just know that someone (later revealed to be Ginny) tried to flush the diary down the toilet for some reason, before Harry found it and wrote in it. In the fic, an entry has Tom threatening to force Ginny to commit mass homicide, terrorizing and taunting her... before the entry abruptly ends. The next entry begins with the canonical line, "My name is Harry Potter," and the line, "Someone tried to flush it down a toilet" becomes a Wham Line, revealing to the reader that this is when Ginny tried to dispose of the diary, and while she wasn't able to destroy it, she did manage to prevent a massive tragedy.
- The New Adventures of Invader Zim: In Episode 11, Tak is seen being attacked by a swarm of Zim's plant monsters. Later, she appears almost entirely unharmed and manages to track down the Central Root in order to aid in destroying it. The author merely says that it's because "she's just that good".
- Queen of All Oni has a few:
- When all the people competing for the position of Jade's foreman are ordered to fight for the spot, Blankman knocks out all the others in under two minutes. Without breaking a sweat. Unfortunately, we don't get to see it — we see Jade telling them to fight, and then the narrative cuts ahead to afterwards.
- The fight over Kuro's mask at the beginning of chapter 12. We only see the beginning of the fight, the rest is cut for the sake of the chapter's length.
- The duel between Tarakudo and Hiruzen. One flashback ends with them about to fight, and another opens with Tarakudo just having killed him. And it seems he only won because Ikazuki defied his orders and helped him.
- While the heroes are dealing with Anton Mortimer, Tohru's sutras screw up Jade's tracking spell, and the Shadow Hand spend most of the chapter stuck on some kind of farm filled with magic animals and fighting them and their farmer. We only see bits and pieces of this, but it's implied to be one of the toughest fight sequences in the story.
- The J-Team's fight against the Shadow Man is such a Foregone Conclusion that the story immediately cuts from them preparing to fight to him being resealed.
- Jackie Chan Adventures: Olympian Journey parodies this. In one chapter, upon returning to San Francisco, Jade raves about an exciting adventure full of drama and comedy, only to reveal she was talking about their in-flight movie and their "adventure" consisted of buying a (magic) necklace from a jewelry store.
- Zelda's Honor has a rather prominent example at the end of Act 2. The battle between Ganondorf/Twinrova and the Talamir/Timner Eldritch Abomination builds up to be quite the epic showdown between three massively overpowered characters. Unfortunately, we cut away to the chase scene between Link and Barrachas; only to cut back later after the battle is over and Ganondorf's boot crushing the last remnants of the abomination.
- Dread String of Fate plays this for drama when Marinette gets into a fight with Adrien, unaware that the red string around her neck strangles her whenever she interacts with him. Since the story is from Luka's perspective, he isn't aware of what's happening... but he gets hit by the backlash and knows that something is wrong. Naturally, he immediately wants to check on her, but fears interrupting might make matters worse.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Chronicles of Harmony's End features Discord and his lawful counterpart Array teaming up to destroy Harmony, and of course it happens off page.
- Equestria: A History Revealed has the Lemony Narrator interrupt right before the big climactic Battle of Canterlot is about to begin so she can take a quick bathroom break. Once it cuts back, the battle had already ended.
- The God Empress of Ponykind: Dawn Sparkle duels Nightmare Moon in single combat. The scene cuts to the next morning, where we learn she lost.
- Inner Demons has Rarity's fight with Trixie. The narration cuts away just before they go at each other; later scenes imply that Trixie needed Queen!Twilight's help to win. This is impressive given that Rarity is just a fashionista, compared to Trixie, who's trained in combat magic. The Element of Generosity changing into a suit of mystic armor probably helped.
- In Loved and Lost, Rarity becomes once again the Diamond Dogs' slave, but this time a muzzle is put on her snout so that she can't annoy them into releasing her. As soon as the other heroes imprison the Diamond Dogs and free her from the muzzle, she goes to teach the mutts a lesson in manners. Ten minutes later, she returns with satisfaction to the other heroes as the traumatized Diamond Dogs are left shaking in a Troubled Fetal Position in their cell.
- In the Pony POV Series, Dark World has Minty Pie running after the heroes to help fight Discord, only to fall down into a series of caverns inhabited by some winter spirits that say she's their Chosen One in their battle against sun spirits. When we come back to this later, she's had a series of adventures and is facing down the evil Queen who was controlling both sides and manipulating her. Whether or not this works is up to personal taste
- We never get to see Rainbow Dash's escape from Ponyland Castle in Twillight Sparkle's awesome adventure, although we know that it involved a dragon somehow.
- A Growing Affection has a few:
- Hinata's performance in the unseen in canon Chunin Exam wherein she was promoted. Though she only gives Naruto a quick run down, she is happy enough with how she did that she boasts a little.
- Kohaku Zoishin fought Minato Namikaze in the semi-finals of the Chunin exam that saw Minato promoted. The battle lasted about ninety minutes and left everyone who saw it serious impressed with the skills of both Genin, even if most of them don't remember Kohaku's name or appearance.
- When Kohaku was attacked by two teams of Hunter Ninjas from her village, their Genjutsu blinded her, so the reader does not get to see how Gouki took them down. Subverted when the same fight is shown from Gouki's point of view.
- Vapors: There are a number of small ones because Naruto is the Hero of Another Story and having his adventures even when he isn't with Aiko. But there's one that must have been awesome when, while Aiko leads the benin against Gaara, Jiraiya teams up with the Third Hokage to permanently kill Orochimaru.
- A Crown of Stars: After the conquest of Buenos Aires, there were two Time Skips to push the history forward, skipping to the arrival of the enemy fleet. An unfortunate effect of this was most of the campaign of liberation of South America (and thus a good humber of battles featuring Shinji and Asuka piloting a two-seater Humongous Mecha, Touji and Kensuke -Kensuke!- riding their own giant robots, Misato wearing a Power Armor and leading from the frontlines...) happened off-screen.
- RE-TAKE: Fight scenes mostly occur off-screen. This includes Shinji, having knowledge of the future, disables Unit-03 without killing the pilot, and is stated to have broken all of its limbs. In the story's climax, Shinji's fight with the Mass Production Evas, most notably after Ghost Asuka finally decides to help him and they take the Lance of Longinus. We get an Oh, Crap! reaction from SELEE saying they're finished and the Unit-01 is going to kill their Evas and we get seen afterwards indicating that Shinji and Asuka took them down easily, but we don't get to see the fight.
- Rise of the Minisukas: Shinji, Asuka and Rei spend one week undergoing synch training and improving her teamwork in order to fight the five Israfels. Meanwhile, the Minisukas hasten to build more anti-Angel weapons to back the pilots. After seven days the three pilots and the Minisukas team up to destroy all five Israfels simultaneously, but the battle is completely skipped over by the narrator.
- The original version of Pokémon Revolution had been building up to a high-octane final battle in Kanto. The story ends at Chapter 38, just when the Johto forces start heading to Kanto.
- The final (extremely short) battle in the warehouse at the end of With Strings Attached is all sound effects and aftermath. That's partially because of how one-sided the fight was—the real battle was John and Ringo's attempt to get into the warehouse—and partially because the author hates writing fight scenes.
- A written-out version of this fight, about a page long, does exist.
- The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World has some, again partially because the author still hates writing fight scenes:
- John and Ringo's offscreen demolition of four ninjas, especially when they hang them on the side of the hotel with the words “Don't Fuck With 9000s” imprinted on them (also a Funny Moment).
- Ringo retrieving the countercurse from Gothmarik Citadel.
- Chasing Dragons: At some point following Balon's failed rebellion, Ser Harry Flash apparently stumbles on an attempt to stage a second rebellion and ends it by killing the movement's leader in combat. Unlike most of Flash's other adventures, we only hear about this one in passing in hindsight.
- The fic "Turning Point- Divergence" gives one to Thor and the Asgard, which reveals that they were able to assist the SGC in bringing the events of "Lifeboat" to a happy conclusion, the SGC contacting the Asgard for further help after they determined that the Talthusians' target world of Ardena had a Stargate. Not only were the Asgard able to draw on their own experience of mental transference to extract the various personalities from Pharrin's mind and put them all in clones of their original bodies (although Jack expresses satisfaction that Sovereign Martice wasn't one of the personalities to survive the transference from Daniel to Pharrin), but the Asgard even found the other two Talthusian sleeper ships and brought them to Ardena a couple of centuries ahead of schedule.
- In Reality Is Fluid Gaarra is severely injured tackling someone out of the way of an exploding EPS conduit. This is relayed to the viewpoint character after the fact because she was on another deck at the time (the story is told in First-Person Perspective).
- In Incorrect Smash Bros Quotes, it's mentioned that Dharkon brought Galeem along to a Christmas family reunion, and a fight broke out that Galeem won. Not exactly awesome on its own, but remember that the blog had established much earlier that Dharkon is distantly related to the Greek pantheon...
- Tales of the Undiscovered Swords: Since the 4th entry is narrated in first-person from Kiriha's viewpoint, the readers don't know how Ishida is taken to task for attempting to murder the saniwa. We also don't get to see what happens between Kiriha's last diary entry, in which he decides to lock himself into a closet and never come out, and his suddenly being on kiwame training in the next chapter.Kiriha: Ishida is nowhere to be seen. He may have been put to death, or banished, or put in solitary confinement, or something. All in all, no one knows what happened to him.
- In Guardian Blue Season 2, While Nick, Judy, and the other witnesses are being menaced by assassins, Chief Bogo and the rest of the ZPD are later revealed to have been busy blowing the lid on Lanolin Enterprises' conspiracy.
Other
- The first story in Peter Chimaera book of hsitorical faFfiction is entitled Hitler: Extreme Nazi. Too bad the only thing extreme about it is its short length; it barely takes up one page, which is short even for Chimaera.
- The season 3 finale for Jake English's Mysterious Theater of Scientific Romance from the Year 3000 says that the most awesome battle in the history of paradox space occurred. And then goes on to list all of the cool stuff we missed, such as everyone turning into Power Rangers, Phelous jumping into a black hole, Equius punching the universe in half, the Suicide Squad fighting the Secret Six, and a cheesy montage.
