Tropescilloscope: Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene

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

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