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Smash to Black
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Before a commercial, television shows have traditionally done a Fade to Black. Recently, though, television dramas skip the fading and cut the picture to a completely black screen. Typically, a Smash to Black will immediately follow a shocking moment such as a Wham Line, a Commercial Break Cliffhanger, or a Cold Opening, but can also follow a One-Liner or a moment of Deadpan Snark. Expect this to be called "Older Than The DVD" thirty years down the road. Named for the Smash Cut, of which this is a subtrope. May be accompanied by a Scare Chord. |
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Shin Megami Tensei II does the same, only without any sound effects to go with your final moments of life. | |
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Adventure Time does this at the end of each episode. | |
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Everybody Hates Chris ended its series this way as well, mainly as a Shout-Out to The Sopranos. | |
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The Bridge Curse: Expect for there to be smash cuts to black after attacks by the ghost. | |
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Cleaning Redville: The game does this after you accidentally hit someone walking across the street. | |
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The Swarm (2020): While trashing some locusts nests in a fit of rage, Virginie slips on an overturned container, hits her head on the ground, and then the screen near-instantly goes black. | |
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Done in The Stanley Parable as well, sometimes out of nowhere, usually to indicate something bad has happened, and always to great effect. | |
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The second hallucination Scarecrow induces in Batman: Arkham Knight ends with a hard a cut to black, which implies Batman died or passed out in shock. Since Batman has to deal with these hallucinations for the rest of the game, it also works as an Ending Trope of sorts for the game's first chapter. | |
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Avengers: Age of Ultron: As the New Avengers present themselves at the end, the music swells, Captain America steps up to them and says "Avengers... A--" Smash to credits. Seeing as the movie was directed by Joss Whedon (see the entry under Live-Action TV below), this isn't surprising. | |
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CSI: NY ends it's sixth season cliffhanger, "Vacation Getaway," with a black screen immediately after Lindsay and a serial killer take aim at each other... and a single shot is heard before the ending theme music begins. | |
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Skins smashes to black so often that the one time they did the fade out (Katie's S4 episode) it stood out (and some people suspected the fade out to be a lengthening device to cover up time lost from cut scenes). | |
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The "Sex Survey Results" episode of Lasagna Cat uses a Smash to Orange in its ending. | |
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No Country for Old Men is a strange example in that the smash to black comes after a long scene of dialogue in which Ed Tom Bell describes two unsettling dreams to his wife over breakfast. In a movie full of disturbing violence and suspense, the smash to black makes the final scene all the more ominous. | |
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The Simpsons was perhaps the first show to do this consistently. Most act breaks avoided fadeouts, in part because they usually end acts on a gag and it is thought a fadeout would detract from its impact. To combat the automatic commercial problem noted above, most Simpsons episodes have a fadeout artificially added when they air in syndication. This can be problematic since often there is plot or a joke happening up to the very last second of an act, so the fadeout often begins while the action is still occurring. |
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Pops up now and then on Fringe, notably when the porcupine monster rampages through a TSA holding area in the teaser of "Nothing as It Seems". | |
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In Alien: Isolation, whenever the Xenomorph catches you, the screen smashes to black the moment before the creature deals the finishing blow. | |
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Season 5 of Mad Men ends this way, just after a woman propositions Don Draper. It's probably a tribute/Shout-Out to The Sopranos (on which Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner was a writer and producer). | |
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The Whole Truth (2021): When Mai's car crashes into another one while she's driving in the rain, the screen cuts to black immediately afterwards. | |
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"No Evil" has this in "Black Bart" as part of Wrip's perspective when Charles/Black Bart takes Xochipilli's ear covers, absorbing the Black Tezcatlipoca. He promptly uses the new power on everyone nearby, Wrip included, causing a Smash To Black. We're then given a shot of her waking up, surrounded by the rest of the cast. | |
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In Shin Megami Tensei I, if all human characters in the party die, the screen makes a sudden cut to black accompanied by a screeching sound, which lasts several seconds before fading in to a scene of you crossing into the afterlife. Shin Megami Tensei II does the same, only without any sound effects to go with your final moments of life. |
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Gameof Thrones did this in Season 3 Episode 9 Rains of Castamere, which concluded with the infamous Red Wedding. While the audience is reeling, not only does the screen smash to black, the credits, which usually have a backing track, are completely silent. | |
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The Devil Inside is especially infamous for ending on this note, as the characters rush to seek out an exorcism to rid their friend of an evil spectre only to end up in a violent crash, then cutting to "The facts surrounding the Rossi case remain unresolved. Visit therossifiles.com for more information on the ongoing investigation." The film then rolls the credits after flashing the aforementioned website (Now defunct), and audiences everywhere are furious with the outcome. | |
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Inverted in the case of the ending of Total Recall (1990) which does a Smash To White. | |
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The first episode of Tales from the Borderlands ends with the group discovering the Gordys Project, just as Rhys sees A.I. Handsome Jack right next to him. | |
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BioShock Infinite ends in a similar way to the Mass Effect example below. The actions in the final scene coincide with the soundtrack, cutting to black with the final piano note. And by actions, every version of Elizabeth (one of the two main characters) in the multiverse disappearing from existence before the camera, smashing into black with the last one—the one known throughout the game. Especially when its revealed Elizabeth drowned her father at his own request. | |
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United 93 ends this way after we see from the cockpit's perspective how the plane plummets to the ground. | |
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Not only does Monty Python and the Holy Grail end with a smash to black when the policeman covers the camera lens with his hand (followed by some moments of a broken film reel and a white screen before turning black again), it also has no ending credits whatsoever. | |
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Star Wars: Republic Commando ends with this, with the door of the gunship that the protagonist squad is in slamming shut after Boss says "Delta Squad! Lock and load!" | |
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In Turning Red, Mei's nightmare ends this way after a Fly-at-the-Camera Ending. | |
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O Lucky Man!: An atypical usage. This effect, usually used as a dramatic ending, is used over and over again in this film, for transitions between scenes and even cuts within scenes. The effect is to unsettle the viewer. | |
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Beware the Woods: The movie cuts to black as June is driving away with the old lady chasing her on foot. | |
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The Wolf Among Us ends Episode 1 with the reveal of Snow White's severed head on the front step of the Woodlands, Episode 2 with Crane smashing the magic mirror, Episode 3 with a severely injured Bigby lying bleeding in an alleyway, Episode 4 with whatever action the player took upon meeting The Crooked Man (especially effective if the player chose to smoke as the smash occurs when Bigby ignites his lighter, and most shockingly, Episode 5 with Bigby's reaction to the game's single largest Wham Line that leaves a major part of the story (is Faith really dead, and if so, when did she actually die? Is Nerissa who she says she is, or is she actually Faith in disguise?) up for discussion. The smash only occurs if the player chooses to go after Nerissa, and punctuates Bigby's last memory of Faith. "I'll see you around...Wolf." | |
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Resolution, a film about stories, the resolution thereof, and the Eldritch Abomination guiding the story, has the characters asking the narrator for a second chance. There's a roar and a cut to black and the film ends. | |
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The Rundown ends similarly. | |
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Animaniacs (2020) finish all their episodes, as well as the segments, with the smash to black prior to the credits. | |
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At the end of Chapter 4, Ash is revealed to be another survivor of Hamel Incident and affected by the Erebonia curse, shoots the emperor and is taken into custody. | |
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Mass Effect 3 ends like this, with the Smash to Black coinciding with the final note in the ending music. However, if the EMS is high enough and the player chose to destroy the reapers, there is a quick scene after in which Shepard wakes up in the rubble. | |
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Steven Universe uses this instead of its usual star shaped Iris Out for more serious episode endings. | |
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The Late Late Show did this with Craig Ferguson's Grand Finale, referencing Newhart, The Drew Carey Show, St. Elsewhere, and getting cut off like The Sopranos, music and all. The new James Corden version used this on a "Celebrity Noses" sketch (one where Corden can't get to Celebrity Noses because things keep going wrong) cut to black because the director told them they were out of time. |
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The movie Avatar ends the same way. | |
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Gurren Lagann has this at the end of the eighth episode, wherein after Kamina passes following his Dying Moment of Awesome, speaking his final words to Simon. | |
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Lost does this with just about every major or minor plot twist. In other words, a lot. | |
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Shovel Knight: In the King of Cards campaign, after the credits, King Knight is basking in his castle and monologuing that he got rid of every card and made his castle golden, and that he will be a king forever. The usual "The End" writes out. However, upon your attempt to return to the logo, the words "The End" disappear. Then the door opens, and Shovel Knight enters. King Knight prepares to battle Shovel Knight, and the screen smashes to black before finally going to the logo. | |
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Dollhouse | |
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Hilda does it many times prior to the credits in almost all of the episodes. | |
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Malcolm in the Middle did this in nearly every episode, complete with a door-slamming sound effect. | |
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Don't Look: The first Flashback of the movie ends this way, right when we hear a gunshot after a man tells his daughter "don't look". | |
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The Walking Dead: Season One ends Episode 1 on a weird gradual example as all the lights in the Travelier Motel go out one by one, and a moment after the last one shuts off, the smash occurs. Episode 2 ends with a smash to punctuate Jolene's video tape of Clementine in the motel, and the line, "You'll be safe, I promise". Episode 4 ends with Lee being stunned completely speechless by The Stranger on the walkie talkie as the game ignores whatever option the player chose by smashing to black, and Episode 5 ends with the Sequel Hook of Clementine alone in a field spotting two figures off in the distance. | |
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Occurs twice in The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III. At the end of Chapter 4, Ash is revealed to be another survivor of Hamel Incident and affected by the Erebonia curse, shoots the emperor and is taken into custody. The cliffhanger ending, as Rean kills the Ancient Beast and unleashes the Great Twilight after Millium's death, fully succumbing to his Superpowered Evil Side and is immobilized by Osborn who prepares to finish what he started. |
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The Amazing World of Gumball ends nearly every episode with a hard cut to the credits. The one time they used an Iris Out, it was just a Fake-Out Fade-Out. | |
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Stranger Things ends episodes with this. It memorably subverts this in "Dear Billy" where Max's running from Vecna ends with a Smash Cut, four seconds of silence, another second of dialogue and a Smash From Black to her opening her eyes above the grave before that scene ends with a gentle Fade to Black. | |
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s-CRY-ed has one that's phenomenally brutal in its simplicity. Kimishima has been severely injured amidst his Moment of Awesome. So Kazuma carries him back home. Somewhere along the way, Kimishima stops talking, but Kazuma doesn't realize what this means. When they get home, Kaname realizes what's happened, and starts to cry. But Kazuma... | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic uses this in many act breaks. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus had one episode ("Michael Ellis", 1974) in which the actors were discussing how to end the show. | |
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Unus Annus ended this way as the channel was deleted live on stream. | |
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Used hilariously to conclude the penultimate Season 2 episode of Galavant | |
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Criminal Minds ends the fourth season like this (and on a major cliffhanger). | |
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Each chapter of Death Stranding begins with one of these after a few lines of introductory dialogue. | |
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The Lighthouse uses this after Winslow falls from the titular building while whitewashing it. | |
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She-Ra and the Princesses of Power does the smash to black prior to the credits. | |
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An option in Limbo can be switched on if you don't like the gory deaths that can occure. It smashs to black the instant the boy is about to be killed, but leaves the sound of his demise in. | |
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The first officially-released teaser for Godzilla (2014) has two, one right after the first glimpse of Godzilla, another right before the second glimpse. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer, | |
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A Classic Horror Story: After Mark swerves the RV into a tree, it crashes, and the screen cuts to black. | |
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Firefly, Joss mentions in the DVD Commentary for Firefly that in order to avoid the automatic cuing of the commercial, they changed the color of the blackout, so Smash to Black became Smash to Almost Black But Really Just Very Dark Brown. |
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Family Guy did this in "Lois Kills Stewie". Serves as bit of a Take That! to the infamous ending of The Sopranos mentioned above. | |
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Chronicles of the Kencyrath. Spoofed when the heroine falls out of a tree while retrieving a banner and everything goes dark...because the banner has fallen across her face, as she belatedly realises. | |
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Jen suffers this at least twice in Revenge (2017). | |
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Most of the episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants ended like this, yet allowing the background music to end properly even after the end. Starting from somewhere around season 6, smashes to black are only seen on the DVD or iTunes versions of the episodes (note that the background music is ending within the episode, not after the smash to black), while on Nick.com and international versions of Nickelodeon, there are no smashes. Starting with Season 9B, this was mostly replaced with Iris Out. "Okay! The secret formula i—" |
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The ending to Inception. | |
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In Zoids: Wild, Quade's final battle against Gigaboss and Demise ends this way right as Quade is killed and Zaber Fang is severely injured. | |
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