Tropescilloscope: Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene

A quiet scene in an action episode that gives it substance. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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More Tropes Ax-Crazy Stylistic Suck The Film of the Book After the End Married to the Job All Men Are Perverts Market-Based Title Broken Bird Idiot Ball Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Trailers Always Spoil Spiteful Spit Pay Evil unto Evil The Un-Reveal Russian Films British Films Demonic Possession Pretty Little Headshots Meaningful Background Event Bury Your Gays The End... Or Is It? Covers Always Lie My God, What Have I Done? Pragmatic Villainy Villain Ball Adorkable Our Zombies Are Different Riddle for the Ages "Shaggy Dog" Story Not Even Bothering with the Accent Air-Vent Passageway Defrosting Ice Queen Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Hooker with a Heart of Gold Evil Laugh Daddy's Girl Psychopathic Manchild Not So Stoic No Ending Twist Ending Determinator Flashback Jitter Cam Four-Temperament Ensemble Laughing Mad Star-Crossed Lovers Straight Gay Department of Redundancy Department Arc Words Yandere Alpha Bitch Police Brutality Take That! Combat Pragmatist The Hero Dies "Awesome McCool" Name Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Badass in a Nice Suit Getting Crap Past the Radar Depraved Bisexual Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Deliberately Monochrome Police are Useless Bond Villain Stupidity Slap-Slap-Kiss Male Frontal Nudity Adaptational Attractiveness La Résistance Cat Fight Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Historical Villain Upgrade Evil-Detecting Dog Australian Movies I Need a Freaking Drink Kill 'em All Berserk Button Death of a Child Punny Name Auto Erotica Fatal Family Photo Determinator aka: The Determinator Vacation Films Meet Cute Unwitting Instigator of Doom Abusive Parents Running Gag Reasonable Authority Figure Bavarian Fire Drill B-Movie Soft Glass Animal Motifs Mad Scientist The Ditz Action Girl The Lost Lenore Nice Hat Science Fiction Films Boom, Headshot! Epic Fail Leave the Camera Running Self-Deprecation Chekhov's Gunman Cool Guns Rule of Symbolism Insistent Terminology Big Fancy House Almost Kiss Kids Are Cruel Aluminum Christmas Trees Dramatic Irony Refuge in Audacity Redshirt Army Mooks Even Evil Has Loved Ones Developing Doomed Characters All There in the Manual The Dragon Match Cut Ass Shove Mugging the Monster Sassy Black Woman True Companions No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Genre Throwback Madness Mantra The Great Depression Fate Worse than Death Dies Wide Open Greater-Scope Villain Epic Movie A God Am I Artistic License – History Jerkass Has a Point Index of Film Westerns Evil vs. Evil Dissonant Serenity Dark and Troubled Past The Big Guy No Antagonist Contrived Coincidence Rousing Speech Early Installment Weirdness Military and Warfare Films Overly Long Gag Horror Films Drill Sergeant Nasty Meaningful Name Bunny-Ears Lawyer Adaptational Badass Missing Mom Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Adaptational Villainy Badass Normal Shell-Shocked Veteran Ungrateful Bastard Canon Foreigner Eyepatch of Power No-Holds-Barred Beatdown He Who Fights Monsters Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Artistic License – Law Victoria's Secret Compartment Be Careful What You Wish For Casting Gag "Well Done, Son!" Guy Manipulative Bastard The '50s Mighty Whitey Improbable Aiming Skills Adaptation Dye-Job Fanservice Extra Black Comedy Children Are Innocent Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Zombie Stories Heterosexual Life-Partners I Have Your Wife It's Personal Honor Before Reason As the Good Book Says... Parental Substitute A Date with Rosie Palms Blatant Lies Defiant to the End Batman Gambit Obviously Evil Japanese Films And the Adventure Continues MacGuffin Names to Run Away from Really Fast Stealth Hi/Bye In Name Only Artistic License – Gun Safety Wham Shot The Voiceless Adaptational Heroism Eldritch Abomination Back from the Dead Bullying a Dragon Heel–Face Turn Brother–Sister Incest Fiery Redhead Whole Plot Reference Random Events Plot Chewing the Scenery The Hero Kubrick Stare Beauty Is Never Tarnished Would Hurt a Child The '70s Early-Bird Cameo Drugs Are Bad Pragmatic Adaptation Villain Song Annoying Younger Sibling Peek-a-Boo Corpse Mood Whiplash Dark Is Not Evil Call-Back The '80s Men Are the Expendable Gender Guns Akimbo Action Survivor Break the Haughty Corrupt Corporate Executive Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Here We Go Again! For the Evulz Bald of Evil The Faceless Artistic License – Military The Atoner The Smurfette Principle Posthumous Character Gilligan Cut Smug Snake Truth in Television Reckless Gun Usage Did Not Get the Girl Break the Cutie Film Noir Index Documentary Stuff Blowing Up Comically Missing the Point She's Got Legs Shirtless Scene Kill It with Fire Eureka Moment What You Are in the Dark Logo Joke Your Cheating Heart Pimped-Out Dress Ascended Extra The Load Mistaken for Gay Monumental Damage Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Wham Line Award-Bait Song Insult Backfire Camp Gay Word of God Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Too Dumb to Live The Smart Guy Flipping the Bird Video Credits Camera Abuse Central Theme Mundane Made Awesome Villain Opening Scene Spell My Name with an "S" Spared by the Adaptation Karma Houdini Mama Bear Morality Pet Wounded Gazelle Gambit Overprotective Dad You Killed My Father You Have Failed Me Age Lift Costume Porn Unusual Euphemism Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Hypocritical Humor Undying Loyalty Together in Death Man on Fire Retired Badass The Oner Love Triangle Good Is Not Nice Brick Joke Hollywood Darkness "The Reason You Suck" Speech Rewatch Bonus Major Injury Underreaction The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Broken Pedestal Tempting Fate Race Against the Clock Big Bad Roaring Rampage of Revenge Same Language Dub Redemption Equals Death Red Oni, Blue Oni Double Entendre Bar Brawl Put on a Bus Bittersweet Ending Attempted Rape Intrepid Reporter Storming the Castle Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Crazy-Prepared Scenery Porn Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Every Car Is a Pinto Composite Character Skewed Priorities Big Applesauce In the Back Motor Mouth No-Sell Scare Chord This Is Gonna Suck Face–Heel Turn Nice Guy Everyone Has Standards Spiritual Successor Throwing Your Sword Always Works Fingore Have a Gay Old Time Really Gets Around Evil Is Hammy Dogged Nice Guy The Dog Bites Back Thriller More Dakka Worthy Opponent Gold Digger Only Known by Their Nickname Dwindling Party The Sociopath Brutal Honesty Deadpan Snarker Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping All for Nothing The Lancer The Chick Instant Death Bullet My Beloved Smother Heel Realization Green-Eyed Monster Does This Remind You of Anything? Anachronism Stew And I Must Scream Well-Intentioned Extremist Product Placement All There in the Script Eagleland Antagonist Title Hope Spot Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Amusing Injuries Hoist by His Own Petard Action Prologue Badass Grandpa Friend to All Children Cassandra Truth Super Strength Breaking the Fourth Wall Spanner in the Works Butt-Monkey Dark Action Girl Sexy Discretion Shot Anyone Can Die Red Right Hand Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Improbable Weapon User The Casanova Paper-Thin Disguise Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Chekhov's Skill Black and Gray Morality Only One Name Happily Married Gone Horribly Right Eiffel Tower Effect Drives Like Crazy The Ghost Affectionate Parody Neck Snap Manic Pixie Dream Girl Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Diabolus ex Machina Shown Their Work What the Hell, Hero? Red Shirt Henpecked Husband Cool Car Artistic License – Physics The Cameo Scenery Gorn Show Within a Show Ominous Latin Chanting Easily Forgiven Sequel Escalation Big Bad Duumvirate Stealth Pun Our Vampires Are Different Sadistic Choice Handicapped Badass Historical-Domain Character Domestic Abuse Captain Ersatz Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Accidental Misnaming Works Set in World War II No Celebrities Were Harmed Precision F-Strike World of Ham Call-Forward A Father to His Men Bi the Way Rasputinian Death Narrator Light Is Not Good Offscreen Moment of Awesome Beware the Nice Ones Red Eyes, Take Warning Scary Black Man Those Wacky Nazis The Stoic Disney Death Wicked Cultured Room Full of Crazy Bait-and-Switch Biopic Grievous Bottley Harm Reality Ensues Belligerent Sexual Tension Amoral Attorney Bowdlerise Left the Background Music On Aside Glance Vomit Discretion Shot Card-Carrying Villain Took a Level in Jerkass Badass Bookworm Heroic Sacrifice Creative Closing Credits The Reveal Ambiguous Disorder Hong Kong Films Off-into-the-Distance Ending Not Quite Dead Bloodier and Gorier Heroic BSoD Dying Moment of Awesome Extreme Doormat There Is No Kill Like Overkill Cloudcuckoolander Real Life Fainting Jump Scare Slasher Movie French Films Music Stories Kick the Son of a Bitch Alliterative Name Meaningful Echo Parental Abandonment Fake Shemp Fantasy Films Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Retcon Disney Villain Death Action Genre He Knows Too Much '80s Hair One Steve Limit Facial Horror Dual Wielding Based on a True Story The Brute Character Development Drowning My Sorrows Freeze-Frame Bonus Cold-Blooded Torture Big "NO!" Bland-Name Product Loophole Abuse Never My Fault Disappeared Dad Ragtag Bunch of Misfits An Axe to Grind Genre Shift Cool Old Lady Guile Hero It Will Never Catch On Evil Plan Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Death Glare Recycled IN SPACE! Mr. Exposition Arranged Marriage Damsel in Distress Laser-Guided Karma Vampire Fiction No Name Given Sacrificial Lion Black Dude Dies First From Nobody to Nightmare Politically Incorrect Villain Last-Name Basis Big-Bad Ensemble Take a Third Option Not So Different Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique How We Got Here Bottomless Magazines Public Domain Feature Films Heroes Want Redheads Sports Stories Mercy Kill Leitmotif Would Hit a Girl Cool Shades Interrupted Suicide Fatal Flaw Slasher Smile Italian Films Rich Bitch Anti-Villain Does Not Like Shoes Establishing Character Moment The Place Jerk with a Heart of Gold Corpsing Serious Business Cruel and Unusual Death Serial Killer Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Leaning on the Fourth Wall Armor-Piercing Question Foregone Conclusion Calling the Old Man Out Actually Pretty Funny Dull Surprise Let's Get Dangerous! Adaptation Expansion Fantastic Racism Chekhov's Gun Bond One-Liner Humans Are Bastards Hero Antagonist Anachronic Order Black Best Friend War Is Hell Fan Disservice Never Found the Body Novelization Ms. Fanservice Fun with Acronyms Say My Name Love at First Sight Re-Cut One-Man Army Agony of the Feet The Musical Suddenly SHOUTING! Daylight Horror Double-Meaning Title Fat Bastard Hypocrite folderlabel Chiaroscuro BFG Animal Title Index Author Appeal Needs Wiki Magic Love Hidden Depths Oh, Crap! Cowboy Cop Very Loosely Based on a True Story Shower Scene Brainless Beauty Ambiguously Gay Made of Iron Unreliable Narrator Bolivian Army Ending Implacable Man Wretched Hive Curse Cut Short Expository Hairstyle Change Not So Above It All Celebrity Paradox Up to Eleven Stock Footage Disguised in Drag Title Drop Hero of Another Story Darker and Edgier Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Hair-Trigger Temper Taking the Bullet Nothing Is Scarier Gender Flip The Dreaded Expy Adaptation Distillation Creator Cameo Token Minority An Aesop Mexican Standoff Evil Brit Obfuscating Stupidity Suspiciously Similar Substitute Babies Ever After Foreshadowing Big Brother Instinct Kick the Dog You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Shoot the Shaggy Dog Mystery and Detective Films Fourth Date Marriage A Minor Kidroduction Romantic Comedy Silent Movie Sci-Fi Horror All Just a Dream Ambiguous Ending Eye Scream Only a Flesh Wound Poor Communication Kills Bad Boss The Stinger What Happened to the Mouse? German Films All Girls Want Bad Boys Woman Scorned Advertised Extra Totally Radical Immune to Bullets Gainax Ending Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Naked People Are Funny Car Fu Made of Explodium Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Affably Evil Dutch Angle Body Horror Gratuitous English Cool Old Guy Red Herring Bring My Brown Pants Papa Wolf Bloody Hilarious Ironic Echo Danny Peary Cult Movies List Death by Sex Properly Paranoid Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Not Using the "Z" Word Moment Killer Cluster F-Bomb Bloodless Carnage Male Gaze The '90s Curb-Stomp Battle The Cavalry Get Out! Knight Templar Blood Knight Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Small Name, Big Ego Fanservice Important Haircut Final Girl Crucified Hero Shot Sequel Hook Didn't Think This Through Superhero timeperiod Credits Gag Dark Reprise Animated Credits Opening Cain and Abel Driven to Suicide Blood from the Mouth Gorn Unresolved Sexual Tension Pretty in Mink Continuity Nod Shout-Out Malevolent Masked Men Outrun the Fireball Neck Lift Make It Look Like an Accident Smoking Is Cool Manchild Disproportionate Retribution Pyrrhic Victory Villain Protagonist Film Noir Beta Couple Adapted Out Becoming the Mask The Remake Funny Background Event Badass Longcoat My Greatest Failure Catch-Phrase Grey and Gray Morality Setting Update Famous Last Words The Bad Guy Wins Authority Equals Asskicking Reality Has No Subtitles Lampshade Hanging Exact Words Dramedy Even Evil Has Standards Retirony Offscreen Teleportation The Mole Noodle Incident Death by Adaptation Big Damn Heroes Jerkass No OSHA Compliance Half the Man He Used to Be Sole Survivor Cat Scare Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Badass Boast Empathic Environment Mind Screw The Stoner The Starscream Frame-Up Informed Ability Ghost Fiction Despair Event Horizon Foil Gory Discretion Shot Lock and Load Montage Dramatic Gun Cock As Long as It Sounds Foreign Bad "Bad Acting" Hollywood Law Dropped a Bridge on Him Ship Tease Suspiciously Specific Denial Training Montage Bound and Gagged Canadian Movies Faux Affably Evil The Quiet One Bare Your Midriff It Can Think Darkest Hour Arch-Enemy Once More, with Clarity! Intergenerational Friendship Sinister Minister Dressing as the Enemy Captain Obvious Femme Fatale May–December Romance Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Closed Circle And Starring Karmic Death Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Anti-Hero Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Shut Up, Hannibal! Evil Sounds Deep Crazy Jealous Guy Author Avatar Insane Troll Logic Naïve Newcomer Rule of Funny Downer Ending Sealed Evil in a Can Destination Defenestration The Vamp Only in It for the Money Shipper on Deck I Did What I Had to Do You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Improvised Weapon Five-Man Band Evil Is Petty Adaptation Name Change Artistic License – Biology Christmas Movies Index Took a Level in Badass Martial Arts Movie Demoted to Extra Non-Indicative Name Deal with the Devil Country Matters Manly Tears Big Eater Broken Aesop Conspicuous CG Tagline Awesome, but Impractical I'm a Humanitarian Romantic False Lead Dumb Blonde Actor Allusion Blackmail The Mafia Plucky Comic Relief Lighter and Softer Artistic License – Geography Sanity Slippage Translation Convention Better to Die than Be Killed Rated M for Manly O.O.C. Is Serious Business Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Psycho for Hire I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Reality Is Unrealistic Obstructive Bureaucrat A.I. Is a Crapshoot Horror Comedy Older Than They Look Deus ex Machina I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Those Two Guys Plot Hole The Alleged Car Apocalypse How Killed Mid-Sentence Film Series As You Know Psychological Thriller N-Word Privileges Crapsack World Playing Gertrude Slashed Throat Humiliation Conga Hell Is That Noise Soundtrack Dissonance Stalker with a Crush Ripped from the Headlines Maybe Ever After Time Skip Real Life Writes the Plot Unspoken Plan Guarantee Groin Attack Your Head A-Splode Wrong Genre Savvy Historical In-Joke Creepy Child For Want of a Nail Funny Foreigner Parental Neglect Earn Your Happy Ending Coming-of-Age Story Protagonist Title Due to the Dead Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Evil Counterpart Vitriolic Best Buds The Ace Hate Sink Woman in White Television Movie Index Silence Is Golden Deliberate Values Dissonance Tap on the Head Vomit Indiscretion Shot She Cleans Up Nicely Decoy Protagonist Death Seeker Pet the Dog Adult Fear Sir Swears-a-Lot Dirty Old Man Jerk Jock Line-of-Sight Name Villain with Good Publicity Death by Irony Only Sane Man Book-Ends Fish out of Water Toplessness from the Back 20 Minutes into the Future Asshole Victim Abhorrent Admirer The Bully Knife Nut Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Accidental Murder Alas, Poor Villain The Chessmaster Those Two Bad Guys Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Beard of Evil Villainous Breakdown In Medias Res The '60s Failed a Spot Check Never Trust a Trailer Taking You with Me Anguished Declaration of Love Mythology Gag Faking the Dead As Himself Imagine Spot One-Word Title Not What It Looks Like Dirty Cop Freudian Excuse Framing Device Face Death with Dignity Homage Pre-Mortem One-Liner Distracted by the Sexy Race Lift Parental Incest Betty and Veronica Enemy Mine Rule of Cool The Power of Love Adults Are Useless Punch-Clock Villain Tranquil Fury Bilingual Bonus Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Unusually Uninteresting Sight "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Historical Hero Upgrade Large Ham Dirty Coward From Bad to Worse NO INDOOR VOICE Extremely Short Timespan Mr. Fanservice Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Off with His Head! Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Stepford Smiler Fire-Forged Friends Exactly What It Says on the Tin Catapult Nightmare Black Comedy Rape The X of Y Chase Scene Rape as Drama Rule of Three Genre Savvy Revenge Visual Pun An Arm and a Leg Deconstruction It's All About Me Irony Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Loads and Loads of Characters The Alcoholic