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