History Main / IrisOut

* Queen pulls one of these in ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}} Chapter 2'' after she captures your party, excluding Ralsei, and betrays Berdly while she's at it.
* Also used to transition between scenes in many video games; for example, ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'' and ''VideoGame/PaperMario64'' did this using outlines of characters' heads rather than the traditional circle.
** When you entered a level in the original NES ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', the transition was a box that always went into the center of the screen. The remakes used a circle that was always centered on Mario.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld'' did this with a circle at the end of every stage, except those finished using a keyhole. Keyhole exits did an [[InvertedTrope inversion of this trope]] using the keyhole itself as the iris.
** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', this happens each time you spend a night at an inn, stopping to let Mario strike his trademark pose before finishing.
** ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', and the ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'' games do this with the outline of Bowser's face whenever Mario loses a life. The ''New Super Mario Bros'' games also have generic circle irises for pipe and door entries and IdiosyncraticWipes for secret pipes hidden off screen. And, in ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'', if you enter a door in a hidden area, there's an additional iris-out for the passage.
** If you lose your last life in ''Galaxy'', then instead of Bowser's face, the iris out will be shaped like the words "GameOver" instead.
* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'': "There's a Zombie on Your Lawn", the music video that plays when the player defeats Dr. Zomboss, ends with an iris out on Sunflower, who [[BreakingTheFourthWall winks at the viewer]].
* All ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' games released after ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' used iris-outs between areas in a world. The outline is always some sort of symbol related to the world currently in - a keyhole in Twilight Town, a Mickey Mouse head in Disney Castle, a lightning bolt medal in the Olympus Coliseum, a rose in Beast Castle, and a standard Iris Out in Timeless River...
* Used for all level transitions in ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'', with the iris in the shape of the initials "DK".

* In ''VideoGame/KillerQueen'', whenever a win is achieved the screen first freeze-frames, then irises and zooms in on the player scoring the winning point.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' (pictured above): Almost all of the shorts [[EveryEpisodeEnding end with this,]] save for select shorts where it instead fades to black.

* ''VideoGame/VirgoVsTheZodiac'' uses an iris out as the transition from the overworld into battle encounters.

* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' "Please Please Please Get a Life Foundation" segment ends with an iris-out on a {{Fanboy}}'s nose, but he reopens it, saying that ItsBeenDone before closing again.

* ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy''[='=]s music video for "{{Music/{{Cat Hairballs}}" irises out on an unconscious Stimpy's butt, which had been stamped and branded with a "Grade A" mark of approval.

* ''WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy''[='=]s music video for "[[VideoFullOfFilmClips Cat Hairballs]]" irises out on an unconscious Stimpy's butt, which had been stamped and branded with a "Grade A" mark of approval.

* ''Series/TippingTheVelvet'': In the TV version, obviously. Usually on Nan, since she's the narrator. Each episode closes on the scene by doing this, in the last one with a heart shape after Nan finds true love with Flo.

* This is the usual closing for ''[[Franchise/WinnieThePooh My Friends Tigger & Pooh]]'', though Tigger will sometimes play around with it. Also, in "How to Say I Love Roo," the iris is in the shape of a heart, closing in on Kanga and Roo hugging.

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'' does this at the end of almost every episode, with a few exceptions here and there. A common gag is for the iris to close on a character’s bodypart, [[BlackComedy thus snapping it off.]]

* {{WesternAnimation/RenAndStimpy}}'s music video for [[VideoFullOfFilmClips Cat Hairballs]] irises out on an unconscious Stimpy's butt, which had been stamped and branded with a "Grade A" mark of approval.

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A transition where the screen turns to solid black starting at the edges and pushing inwards, forcing the view of the scene into an ever-dwindling circle in the manner of a camera iris closing. The circle is centered either on the physical middle of the screen, or on some object or person of importance in order to draw attention to it. When the center of the "iris" is on a person, it sometimes pauses to allow them to get off a OneLiner or other comment. Some shows use the Iris Out instead of FadeToBlack for [[ImpairmentShot a character's POV when they pass out/faint/are knocked unconscious]]. Image overlays are occasionally added onto the iris to give it an effect.

* ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'': The "Neighborhood of Make-Believe" segments are usually {{bookend}}ed by this, with the iris appearing on the trolly as it goes from the real world to the pretend one and back. This is one of Fred Rogers' ways of helping his young audience [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality know the difference between reality and fantasy]].

** In Episode 17, an iris shrunks around Yui's face. Unusually, the area that is usually black is red with yellow polka dots in a regular pattern.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', and the ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'' games do this with the outline of Bowser's face whenever Mario loses a life. The ''New Super Mario Bros'' games also have generic circle irises for pipe and door entries and IdiosyncraticWipes for secret pipes hidden offscreen. And, in ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'', if you enter a door in a hidden area, there's an additional iris-out for the passage.

* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' where the characters get involved in a movie production, everyone starts to argue about how to end the movie. The Diva wantsit to end on her face, and another suggests a ride into the sunset, and and Launchpad starts to describe the iris out as the perfect way to end it. Guess which one they chose.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMario64'', ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'', and both ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBros'' [[VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii games]] do this with the outline of Bowser's face whenever Mario loses a life. The ''New Super Mario Bros'' games also have generic circle irises for pipe and door entries and IdiosyncraticWipes for secret pipes hidden offscreen. And, in ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'', if you enter a door in a hidden area, there's an additional iris-out for the passage.

* ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' (pictured above): [[UpToEleven Almost all of the shorts]] [[EveryEpisodeEnding end with this,]] save for select shorts where it instead fades to black.

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' does this at the end of "Here's Mud in Your Ed" (as mentioned above), when Edd says while BreakingTheFourthWall, "An iris in [on Eddy] would be appropriate." After that happens and the screen is completely black, he says, "Thank you!"

* ''* The first episode of ''WesternAnimation/BountyHamster'' ends with Cassie and Marion being ChasedIntoTheSunset by an angry mob followed by this trope. Marion then pops up to reassure the audience that they managed to give their pursuers the slip, only to hear one of the mob shouting: "There he is! In front of the hole that gets smaller!"