Tropescilloscope: Offscreen Teleportation

He can get anywhere if he's off-camera for even a split-second. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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They Really Do Love Each Other Hypocrite Humans Are Bastards Stylistic Suck Anguished Declaration of Love Rousing Speech Superhero Would Hit a Girl Romantic False Lead I Want My Beloved to Be Happy All Men Are Perverts Made of Iron Would Hurt a Child Babies Ever After Hero of Another Story Ripped from the Headlines Final Girl Mr. Fanservice Chekhov's Gun Immune to Bullets Whole Plot Reference The Dragon Noodle Incident Mercy Kill Drugs Are Bad Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Dirty Cop Ambiguous Ending Fake Shemp Rule of Symbolism Shout-Out Canon Foreigner Villain Song Pragmatic Villainy Action Genre Oh, Crap! Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! 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Fainting Destination Defenestration Age Lift The Chick I Need a Freaking Drink Genre Shift Big-Bad Ensemble Stealth Pun Deus ex Machina Bunny-Ears Lawyer Heroes Want Redheads Offscreen Moment of Awesome Bald of Evil Cool Car Crapsack World Adaptational Heroism Body Horror It's Personal Adaptational Badass The Hero He Knows Too Much Have a Gay Old Time Covers Always Lie "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Genre Savvy Bring My Brown Pants NO INDOOR VOICE Adaptation Dye-Job The '70s Camp Gay Artistic License – Military Motor Mouth Boom, Headshot! 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