Tropescilloscope: Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene

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

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