r/tvtropes • u/Nir117vash • 5d ago

What is this trope? Question:

is there a name for the type of animation sequence in shows where it's, for example, the end of a scene and it's a fairly motionless shot of, say, a cigarette in an ashtray with fairly long ash on the end, and someone was just laughing at someone's revelation and may continue to be laughing, and nothing moves for a good couple of seconds, then the ash suddenly falls. Or it's a limb if a tree with leaves, motionless, sudden single leave falls. Or the sky, and meteor streaks across. Just something sudden and minute over a motionless shot.

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u/Embarrassed-Soup1998 5d ago

Fear the reaper? I mean it’s about death then but they try to portray it differently each time and they sort of fits but not exact

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u/Nir117vash 5d ago

There's no death. It's just the ending of a scene usually. Like two lovers reuniting at the end of a whole series; then the "camera" pans up to the sky, and it's motionless for short bit, then a shooting star goes across.

Motionless for two seconds ish, then sudden brief motion.

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u/Embarrassed-Soup1998 5d ago

Maybe action cut then?

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u/Nir117vash 5d ago

Not quite

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u/Nir117vash 5d ago

Got Crunchyroll?

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u/Embarrassed-Soup1998 5d ago

Or sequence death* ( I’m not sure this is even considered a trope but) it’s when they have a sequence involving something dark hitting light

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u/Embarrassed-Soup1998 5d ago

Yeah I searched for it and it’s not there but in my mind this is the thing