Annoying movie/TV trope - The teleporting escape

[VincentHanna]

Does anyone else absolutely hate this in shows?

It's usually happens when an antagonist has been caught/injured and then there is either a distraction for a very small amount of time and the character just disappears in to thin air, usually in a way that would be utterly impossible.

The most obvious one is Batman disappearing when talking to Commissioner Gordon but I don't actually mind that one so much, as you could imagine he could dive off a roof (still implausible that the other characters wouldn't see/hear it)

Apparently the above is called the Stealth Hi/Bye trope?

Another more egregious example would be in HEAT, after the opening heist of the movie, when the Deniro and his crew try and kill 'Waingro' in a diner car park. A police patrol car appears. They pause what they are doing briefly and then when they look back he is magically gone. I can't demonstrate with a video as that scene as it has swearing.

The most recent example that inspired this thread was in Season 4 of Slow Horses, in episode 3

Spoiler

Hugo Weavings son (Patrice) is stabbed near the neck, run over at fairly high speed by a Hackney Carriage taxi and manages to escape with only 1 exit and about 10 seconds when nobody is looking for his body

There's loads of other examples, if you can think of any feel free to add them (with spoiler warnings if necessary)

 

[VincentHanna]

"Man looks across a road at a suspicious looking person, bus goes buy, suspicious person has now vanished - OMG!!!!!!" - I detest that trope, it's insulting to common sense unless the person has a superpower etc.

Good example.

That's one of the most overused ones and It's just silly.

 

[VincentHanna]

Most movies are daft if you look at them logically.

Absolutely, but there's a suspension of disbelief to things that happen on screen and this is one that pulls me out of that.