![]() ![]() The next page has her admiring her new body, and receiving a phone call from Hell saying that there was a minor problem with the spell, making her a Vain Sorceress on top of things. He then offers her the chance to enroll in the same program to sell her soul for beauty, which she emphatically rejects. A rather plain black girl in a school full of Blonde Bimbos, she summons a demon to take revenge - only to be told that he can't act against other clients. Sistah Spooky gets one of these during her Back Story.The next panel shows Soong in the hospital, being treated for a sprained ankle. Batman: Gordon of Gotham: Soong tells Bullock that he's capable of making a difficult jump down a fire escape to pursue a fleeing Serial Killer.In the next panel, they're both standing in a police station - with Batman's reaction making it clear that it's not a time skip and that Green Lantern has just casually teleported them both there. After Batman and Green Lantern discover a murder, Green Lantern says that they should report what they know to the police, and Batman argues that given his reputation he can't just walk into a police station to report a crime. Batman: Black and White: "Guardian" has an in-universe, real-time example, thanks to the Golden Age Green Lantern's Reality Warper powers.Also a running gag in Bone, where somebody will say, "Those rat creatures would have to be pretty stupid to !" In the next frame, we see the rat creatures have done just that, and the same person will say, "Stupid, stupid rat creatures!". ![]() As shown above, a running gag in Carl Barks's (and, later, other authors') Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics.Note of historical interest: This was the first trope page ever to be put on TV Tropes. This is a relative of Thinks of Something Smart, Says Something Stupid, and they can easily occur together if the thought comes before the cut and the speech after. ![]() See also Ironic Echo Cut and Cue the Falling Object. Not to be confused with a Description Cut, which is where a description of what a character is probably thinking/doing is immediately contradicted by the character in question. Compare Immediate Self-Contradiction and Instantly Proven Wrong where the contradiction is immediate in-universe. Often combined with a Smash Cut if the transition is especially quick or the character is cut off mid-sentence. Cut to it being, in fact, the worst that could happen. ![]() Murphy's Cut: Somebody says "It can't be that bad!" or "What's the worst that could happen?".For example, they are ordered to 'safely' dispose of a bomb, and then there is an abrupt cut to them having to do so by hand. There is no discussion or refusal involved, simply the cut to them being shown doing it - but in a way much more unpleasant than we had imagined. The Order Cut: Somebody is ordered to do something unpleasant by somebody else.Directly after them insisting this, there is a Whip Pan showing the contrary happening, generally to their specific detriment. The Contrary Cut: Somebody actively says something will happen, or will never happen, most determinedly.It has three variants, but the staple between them is the sudden shift in scene. Simply put, if the character says "I'm not doing this", no matter how many times they say it, chances are the character will do this for the sake of comedic effect, sometimes even while stating "I can't believe I'm doing this". The Gilligan Cut is a staple of classic comedy. ![]()
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