History Main / GoryDiscretionShot

** In Chapter 49, while changing at the locker room, Mineta tries to perv on the girls looking through a peephole in the wall. He stupidly ignores Izuku's warnings to not to do it, and after Izuku punches him away from the wall, the scene then cuts to the girls' locker room, who can only hear him screaming as he suffers a NoHoldsBeatBarretDown from a very pissed off Izuku. Kyoka then comments he's probably dead once everything gets quiet.

* ''Webcomic/KillLaKillAU'': A six-year old Ragyou is hit by car. Videowise, just as she's hit, the scene cut to black and then a crash is heard.

*** ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidIIIArielsBeginning'': The screen quickly goes to black just before the pirate ship kills Athena. ''Yikes!''

A related trope is the camera cutting away when things get nasty. Say if someone is getting whipped, we'll only see their face contorting in pain. Alternately, a cut similar to a ScreamerTrailer may be used, showing a split second worth of the carnage. In the same vein, the aftermath of murder may be demonstrated minimally with a DeadHandShot, hopefully [[AnArmAndALeg one still attached to the body]].

** In the Volume 5 finale, [[spoiler:[[MoleInCharge Professor Lionheart]]]] attempts a VillainExitStageLeft. Unfortunately for him, [[spoiler: Salem's Seer Grimm is waiting for him, and he has [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness Outlived His Usefulness]]]]. Begging for mercy, he's dragged offscreen. The wet, visceral sounds that ensue suggest that he's being repeatedly stabbed by its [[CombatTentacles tentacle spines]].

*** ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaidArielsBeginning'': The screen quickly goes to black just before the pirate ship kills Athena. ''Yikes!''

* In ''Literature/{{Neverwhere}}'', [[ChessmasterSidekick the Marquis de Carabas]] is captured by Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar and wakes [[CrucifiedHeroShot crucified to a makeshift wooden frame]]. The two hitmen finish hammering in the nails, make a few threats, step aside to reveal a table of [[ColdBloodedTorture small, sharp metal implements]]...and the chapter ends and cuts to the protagonists continuing with their quest. By the time the narrative makes it back, [[spoiler:the Marquis's dead body is described as nothing more than a "bloody thing" hanging from the wooden frame]].

* Such a part can be found in the [[TheFilmOfTheBook 1954 animated film adaptation]] of ''Literature/AnimalFarm''. When Napoleon's Dobermans execute the animals that attempted to revolt, it's so gruesome that not only do we the audience not see it, but the raven that's watching looks away in fear. A rather clever subversion of [[AnimalStereotypes the raven's connotation with death]], but it's nonetheless one factor that makes the movie unsuitable for minors. Also, [[spoiler:when the animals rebel once again in the end and kill Napoleon, all you can see is the portrait of the BigBad falling to the floor and shattering]].

** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyondReturnOfTheJoker'''s edited version utilizes this. In the original, [[spoiler:a brainwashed Tim Drake snaps and shoots the Joker in the heart with his flag-gun, killing him]]. In the edited version, [[spoiler:Tim instead throws the gun away and assaults the Joker, spilling various liquids all over the ground, which eventually get in contact with some live electrical wires, electrocuting the Joker off-screen with a hideous scream]]. Some consider the edited version ''worse'', [[spoiler:as we cannot clearly see what happens, ''[[HellIsThatNoise but we can hear it]]'']]...

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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'', [[spoiler:we're not shown ''how'' Carlos died fighting Chakal. Which is probably for the best.]]