A Smash to Black will immediately follow a shocking moment such as a Wham Line, a Commercial Break Cliffhanger, or a Cold Opening.

A means of denoting the end of a scene by steadily and quickly reducing the image brightness until the entire screen is flat black. Its inverse, Fade In, ...

The soon-to-be-dead character finds themselves staring down the barrel of a loaded gun in their very last scene. Cut to black, gunshot rings, credits roll.

It may be used to represent a character closing their eyes. Also, black may be replaced with white, though black is more likely for quick cuts whereas whiteouts ...

Smash Cut: An abrupt cut from one scene to the next. Smash to Black: Instantly cutting to black at the end of a scene. Sneeze Cut: Someone is talking ...

A Smash Cut cut occurs without warning in the middle of a scene and transitions abruptly to another, and is often intended to give the audience a startl

Videowise, just as she's hit, the scene cut to black and then a crash is heard. The omake of The Hero Melromarc Needs and Deserves shows what would happen ...

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