Cut short
Cut short verb - Make shorter as if by cutting off.
Top
Top verb - To be greater, better, or stronger than.
Both terms in one sentence
- Somewhat similar to Fake-Out Opening but distinct, this is when the story starts with what appears to be a probably over-the-top Action Prologue, but after it's been going on for a while, maybe Played for Laughs, it's cut short.
Source: Fake Action Prologue -
Curse Cut Short: "Mother-" *Cue Title* Darker and Edgier: The over-the-top superscience from the first movie is almost completely gone.
Source: Film / G.I. Joe: Retaliation - In one entry he describes how a field trip up Mount Fuji was cut short by a terrible typhoon, and on the way down his group was passed by a troop of oba-san who had already reached the top through the building winds, and were now marching down.
Source: Oba-san
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