Basic Trope: The scene cuts or dissolves from one subject to another similar to it, in appearance and/or position.
- Straight: A shot of a mountain cuts to a similarly shaped pile of sand in a beach.
- Exaggerated: A shot of a mountain cuts to a very perfectly similarly shaped pile of sand that even the hills and caves can be seen on the pile of sand.
- Downplayed: The scene doesn't really match perfectly, but it still counts.
- Justified: The sand sculpture is modeled after the mountain.
- Inverted: The shot of the mountain cuts to a completely unrelated shot of a chainsaw.
- Subverted: A shot of a mountain in silhouette seemingly cuts to a pile of sand, but it turns out the "mountain" was actually just the pile of sand; it was just shown in silhouette.
- Double Subverted: The shot of the pile of sand then cuts to Alice's similarly-shaped pile of clothes on the floor.
- Parodied:
- "Nice transition."
- Alice and Bob are seen hiking on the mountain in the shot. When it cuts to the pile of sand, Alice and Bob are still there, visibly confused and puzzled.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: A shot of a mountain cuts to a different, non-matching shot.
- Enforced: The creator wanted to make the shots look cool.
- Lampshaded: "So anyways, I've always wondered if piles of sand are pretty much tiny mountains..."
- Invoked: As the scene changes to the beach, Alice dumps a bucket of sand on the beach, forming the shape of the mountain and creating the transition.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: As the shot starts to shift to the sand pile, Bob kicks it out of shape, ruining the transition.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: "That transition was really cool!"
- Played for Laughs: As Bob is about to throw a pie at Alice's face, the camera cuts to a soccer ball hitting a goal net at Bob's soccer match just as the pie is about to hit Alice's face.
- Played for Drama: After Alice dies in a car crash, a close-up shot of Bob's tears sliding down his face slowly fades into two similarly-shaped rain droplets sliding down Bob's car window as he exits his car and enters Alice's funeral.
- Played for Horror: A shot of Emperor Evulz about to stab Bob in the heart cuts to a shot of Alice cutting open a watermelon.
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