offscreen

To kill a character offscreen.

Adjective

  1. Existing or happening outside the frame of the cinema or television screen
    • In addition to racking up what looks like a substantial offscreen body count, the movie at one point offers an eight-second introduction for a sleazy used-car salesman character for the sole purpose of justifying Tripp...

Origin

From off + screen.

Forms

off-screen

Adverb

  1. Outside the frame of the cinema or television screen

Forms

off-screen

Antonyms

onscreen

Verb

  1. To kill a character offscreen.
    • Yeah, I also hate her. I hope she gets offscreened in the third act low-key.

Forms

offscreens offscreening offscreened off-screen

Related

offstage