History Main / BeatPanel

* ''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield'' does this [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=10 here]] with reference to this page, and comment that ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' might not use it enough.

** Then there's [[http://www.mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=462 Garfield Plus Beats in the Beat Panel]], where a video game-related strip is edited to put [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic three]] [[VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou different]] [[VideoGame/EternalSonata Beats]] in the beat panel.

* Happens in ''Literature/{{Corsair}}'' manga, where the princess of a powerful pirate group finally announces to her family that she intends to wed their {{mysterious|Past}} and [[DudeLooksLikeALady very pretty]] strategist, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Kanale (or Canale... Or Kanare... take your pick)]]. Cue their [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership right-hand]] MasterSwordsman, Ayase, who [[TheStoic rarely shows any emotion at all]], speak the following:

* There's one early on in the ''Manga/BattleRoyale'' manga. Shuya asks Noriko how she can trust him so easily. She says "You didn't peek at my panties." Cue the ellipsis and possibly the only funny moment in the story.

* Creator/ChristopherPriestComics might well be the TropeCodifier. ComicBook/QuantumAndWoody, Comicbook/BlackPanther, and pretty much everything else he wrote were rife with beat panels. The impressive thing was that as often as he used them, they never got stale or overdone; he knew exactly when and where to use them.

* In an ''[[Comicbook/IronMan Invincible Iron Man]]'' issue, Pepper Potts admits to Maria Hill that she slept with Tony. A shocked Maria Hill admits that she also slept with Tony a few days before Potts. Follows a succession of panels with both looking shocked, each at each other, and then each looking down, visibly angry. After that, Hill mutters a simple "Tony Stark. Tony [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] Stark."

** Bendis likes beat panels so much he practically gave it one of his characters as a superpower. ComicBook/MilesMorales has a Venom Blast that activates a few seconds after physical contact with an opponent. Said foe will maybe be a little confused as to why Spider-Man just finger-poked them, then spasm wildly as the bioelectric stock courses through their system. All while Miles watches on with his big white spider eyes. In another indicator of the sheer Bendis-ity of this, the Venom Blast takes effect instantly under nearly every other creative team who's used Miles.

** The prequel book ''On The Origins Of [=PCs=]'' had a page with eight of these in a row, culminating in an outburst. [[ItMakesSenseInContext It fit the situation perfectly]].

* J.M. [=DeMatteis=]'s run on ''Spectacular ComicBook/SpiderMan'' featured a beat page -- but it wasn't funny, rather it was one of the creepiest pages ever seen in a comic book.

* Creator/PeterDavid enjoys regular use of these. The Madrox mini-series contained a number of examples.

* Happens in ''LightNovel/{{Corsair}}'' manga, where the princess of a powerful pirate group finally announces to her family that she intends to wed their {{mysterious|Past}} and [[DudeLooksLikeALady very pretty]] strategist, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Kanale (or Canale... Or Kanare... take your pick)]]. Cue their [[AsskickingLeadsToLeadership right-hand]] MasterSwordsman, Ayase, who [[TheStoic rarely shows any emotion at all]], speak the following:

* During the Creator/JossWhedon run on ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'', the morning after Peter Rasputin and Kitty Pryde [[RelationshipUpgrade finally make love]], they meet with Wolverine in the kitchen. Two beat panels follow; one where Wolverine looks at Peter, and one where he looks at Kitty. He then returns to his breakfast, muttering, "'Bout time."

* During the Creator/JossWhedon run on ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'', the morning after Peter Rasputin and Kitty Pryde [[TheyDo finally make love]], they meet with Wolverine in the kitchen. Two beat panels follow; one where Wolverine looks at Peter, and one where he looks at Kitty. He then returns to his breakfast, muttering, "'Bout time."

* Creator/KevinMaguire specializes in multi-panel closeups of characters [[{{Corpsing}} trying not to break down in laughter.]]

* ''Webcomic/HeadTrip'' doubles up on the beat panels in [[http://headtripcomics.comicgenesis.com/d/20080915.html this strip]] because, well, as that particular chapter of ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Breaking Dawn]]'' put it, "There Are No Words For This".

A silent panel in sequential art. Usually the next-to-last panel in a serialized comic strip, since it approximates the comedic pause before a punchline.

* Happens in ''LightNovel/{{Corsair}}'' manga, where the princess of a powerful pirate group finally announces to her family that she intends to wed their {{mysterious|Past}} and [[DudeLooksLikeALady very pretty]] [[TheStrategist strategist]], [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Kanale (or Canale... Or Kanare... take your pick)]]. Cue their [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority right-hand]] MasterSwordsman, Ayase, who [[TheStoic rarely shows any emotion at all]], speak the following:

** The second time, it's Sonic and Mega Man confronting the robots, and their names [[NamesTheSame being the same causes confusion between the heroes.]]

--> [[spoiler: '''Kagami:''' Well, the easiest way is that relaxed state right after ejaculation. All right, ejaculate.]]\\

** Later in the same comic, [[spoiler:Sara hypnotizes Kaoru into "raping" Megumi as punishment for Megumi's HeelFaceTurn. Several {{BeatPanel}}s with Sara looking [[SweatDrop increasingly distressed]] and a caption of "thirty minutes later" with nobody feeling particularly punished, Sara finally tells them to cut it out]].

** Inverted [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1950.html here]], with the 3rd panel the only one with dialog.

** Taken UpToEleven: why have ''a'' beat panel, when you can have [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/3088.html five]]?

* ''Webcomic/{{Millennials}}'' has a few exemple of awkward copy/pasted silence, like this one [[http://www.kotopopi.com/live/]] where the audience give the speaker the silent treatment creating a super awkward moment.

* ''Webcomic/DeathToTheExtremist'' uses this ''constantly.'' Often taken UpToEleven with comics like [[http://dtecomic.com/?n=3 this]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' story "Powerful Pretty" (DC #36), Bubbles' face is smeared with makeup (part of a Sedusa plot). When she turns to Buttercup, there is a beat panel of Buttercup staring in disbelief, followed by a panel of her laughing her head off.

* ''Webcomic/{{Flipside}} makes heavy non-comedic use of beat panels to represent contemplation and tension, to the point where most of a given day's strip may occur in total silence. As just one example, [[https://flipsidecomics.com/comic.php?i=4637 this page in chapter 59]] has only two dialogue panels in a seven-panel strip ... the rest is pondering and anticipation.

--->"It's a trifecta. The comic tests the site's bandwidth, your patience, and my sanity."

-->'''Vole''': De pipple of Mechanicsburg vould ''not'' ekcept [shutting down Castle Heterodyne] as proof dot she iz a Heterodyne.
-->'''Gil''': No, neither would my father.
-->'''Vole''':...not unless she danced nekked through de ruins vile trying to shoot down de moon, turned all de tourists into monsters--and den built a very dangerous fountain out of sausages.
-->*beat*
-->'''Gil''': [[RefugeInAudacity Well... yes, that goes without saying.]]

* [[https://www.dumbingofage.com/2021/comic/book-11/03-see-you-in-the-funny-page/doris/ Discussed]] in ''Webcomic/DumbingOfAge'' (also note the position of the beat panel in the strip):
-->'''Dorothy''': Have you even drawn any comics before?\\

* Happens in [[http://retailcomics.com/comic/april-3-2007/ this]] ''{{ComicStrip/Retail}}'' strip because Cooper asks if the trope is overused.

Particularly efficient comic artists may [[IdenticalPanelGag copy and paste adjacent panels]], since the point of the BeatPanel is usually that the characters are frozen in contemplation. Another variation is to have ''two'' beat panels, with just a quizzical change of expression in the second to show a character's confusion (more likely to happen in a four-panel strip than a three-panel strip). It can also be [[OddShapedPanel unusually long]] to indicate a long beat.