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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Casting Gag Australian Movies I Have Your Wife The Stinger Nothing Is Scarier Faking the Dead Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Action Genre Villain Opening Scene As You Know You Killed My Father Suddenly SHOUTING! Aside Glance Offscreen Teleportation I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Damsel in Distress Berserk Button Mighty Whitey Red Herring Bloody Hilarious Spanner in the Works Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Death Seeker Nice Guy Slasher Movie Broken Pedestal War Is Hell Shout-Out Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Vampire Fiction Evil Is Petty Ominous Latin Chanting Rich Bitch Your Head A-Splode Yandere Left the Background Music On Ambiguous Ending Break the Cutie Funny Background Event And the Adventure Continues Bullying a Dragon Japanese Films Credits Gag Adorkable Wicked Cultured Did Not Get the Girl Only Sane Man Recycled IN SPACE! 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She Cleans Up Nicely Kick the Dog Award-Bait Song Meet Cute The Mafia Conspicuous CG Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Music Stories Homage Jerk with a Heart of Gold Flashback The Stoic Hoist by His Own Petard Dogged Nice Guy Pre-Mortem One-Liner One-Word Title Canadian Movies Dirty Cop Suspiciously Specific Denial For Want of a Nail Hollywood Darkness Ghost Fiction Chewing the Scenery Four-Temperament Ensemble Sacrificial Lion Fantasy Films Bottomless Magazines Narrator Butt-Monkey Oh, Crap! Police are Useless What Happened to the Mouse? Sanity Slippage Disappeared Dad Gender Flip Soundtrack Dissonance Villain with Good Publicity Frame-Up Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Sassy Black Woman Anachronic Order Meaningful Name Laughing Mad Mundane Made Awesome Pretty in Mink Woman in White Early-Bird Cameo Gory Discretion Shot Smoking Is Cool Took a Level in Badass Adaptation Expansion Beard of Evil Kick the Son of a Bitch Red Shirt Heroic Sacrifice Adaptation Dye-Job Arc Words Light Is Not Good Stuff Blowing Up Pragmatic Villainy The Starscream Action Girl The Dragon Men Are the Expendable Gender Unusually Uninteresting Sight Annoying Younger Sibling Badass Grandpa Chase Scene The Remake Retirony Action Prologue Silent Movie Heroes Want Redheads How We Got Here Big Bad My Beloved Smother Off with His Head! Covers Always Lie Creative Closing Credits Eiffel Tower Effect Immune to Bullets Central Theme Psychological Thriller Badass Normal Documentary Same Language Dub Dissonant Serenity Getting Crap Past the Radar Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Blatant Lies The Cameo I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Dirty Coward Works Set in World War II Race Lift Crucified Hero Shot Call-Forward Meaningful Echo Air-Vent Passageway Determinator Every Car Is a Pinto Sir Swears-a-Lot Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Eyepatch of Power All Just a Dream Unresolved Sexual Tension Would Hurt a Child Laser-Guided Karma Contrived Coincidence The Dreaded Improbable Weapon User Grievous Bottley Harm Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Product Placement Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds It's Personal Artistic License – History The Casanova Heel–Face Turn Badass Boast Henpecked Husband The Hero Dies Spell My Name with an "S" Psycho for Hire This Is Gonna Suck Military and Warfare Films Humiliation Conga Book-Ends Bury Your Gays Expy Anyone Can Die Love at First Sight The Place Affably Evil Due to the Dead After the End Dropped a Bridge on Him Artistic License – Military Big Brother Instinct Stealth Pun Red Oni, Blue Oni Neck Snap Instant Death Bullet Fun with Acronyms Character Development Corrupt Corporate Executive May–December Romance Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Bond Villain Stupidity Artistic License – Law My Greatest Failure Stylistic Suck Asshole Victim Death by Irony Eureka Moment Animal Title Index The Brute Developing Doomed Characters Have a Gay Old Time Mood Whiplash Hero Antagonist Rule of Funny Fish out of Water A Father to His Men Femme Fatale Title Drop Star-Crossed Lovers Everyone Has Standards Hell Is That Noise Overly Long Gag Shirtless Scene The Oner Exactly What It Says on the Tin Public Domain Feature Films Final Girl Index of Film Westerns Suspiciously Similar Substitute Half the Man He Used to Be Arranged Marriage Mad Scientist Ironic Echo Age Lift Didn't Think This Through Rule of Cool British Films Beauty Is Never Tarnished He Who Fights Monsters Gilligan Cut Double Entendre Fainting Rousing Speech Crapsack World Dirty Old Man Killed Mid-Sentence Badass Longcoat Rewatch Bonus Gorn "Where Are They Now?" 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Precision F-Strike folderlabel Italian Films Dies Wide Open Worthy Opponent Rule of Symbolism NO INDOOR VOICE Anti-Villain Hidden Depths Real Life Writes the Plot Really Gets Around Black Dude Dies First Reality Has No Subtitles Hollywood Law All Girls Want Bad Boys Meaningful Background Event Exact Words Never My Fault Cat Fight Loophole Abuse Death Glare Distracted by the Sexy Anti-Hero Leaning on the Fourth Wall Face–Heel Turn Brick Joke Bowdlerise Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas The Power of Love Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Heterosexual Life-Partners Sports Stories Author Appeal Depraved Bisexual What the Hell, Hero? Apocalypse How Plot Hole Loads and Loads of Characters Honor Before Reason Last-Name Basis Made of Explodium Adaptational Heroism Thriller Chiaroscuro Disguised in Drag Comically Missing the Point Arch-Enemy The End... Or Is It? Tap on the Head Manic Pixie Dream Girl Artistic License – Biology An Axe to Grind Deus ex Machina Composite Character Grey and Gray Morality Noodle Incident Camp Gay The Great Depression Dark Reprise Celebrity Paradox Maybe Ever After Dark Is Not Evil The Alcoholic Brainless Beauty Evil Brit Establishing Character Moment Leitmotif Dramatic Gun Cock Five-Man Band Mugging the Monster "The Reason You Suck" Speech Imagine Spot Car Fu Up to Eleven Random Events Plot The Atoner Evil Is Hammy Friend to All Children Knight Templar And Starring Flipping the Bird The '90s World of Ham She's Got Legs Adaptation Name Change Mythology Gag Evil Laugh Heel Realization Overprotective Dad No-Sell Properly Paranoid In Medias Res A Minor Kidroduction Let's Get Dangerous! Destination Defenestration Deliberately Monochrome Slasher Smile Despair Event Horizon Bunny-Ears Lawyer Would Hit a Girl Funny Foreigner '80s Hair All There in the Script Cool Shades Redemption Equals Death Brutal Honesty Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Informed Ability The Smurfette Principle Faux Affably Evil Papa Wolf Vitriolic Best Buds Fatal Family Photo French Films Important Haircut Cold-Blooded Torture Refuge in Audacity Hate Sink Death by Adaptation Biopic The Bully Deconstruction Scenery Porn Bittersweet Ending Catapult Nightmare Framing Device Match Cut Superhero Needs Wiki Magic Love Costume Porn A God Am I "Shaggy Dog" Story Mr. Exposition Sinister Minister I'm a Humanitarian Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" The Sociopath Well-Intentioned Extremist Sealed Evil in a Can Totally Radical Authority Equals Asskicking Naïve Newcomer Daddy's Girl The Film of the Book The '80s Villain Song Historical Villain Upgrade From Bad to Worse Villain Ball Lampshade Hanging Manly Tears "Well Done, Son!" Guy Cool Guns Ambiguous Disorder You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Deal with the Devil Those Two Bad Guys Blackmail Driven to Suicide Silence Is Golden Mystery and Detective Films Extremely Short Timespan Anachronism Stew Animal Motifs Smug Snake Shoot the Shaggy Dog All There in the Manual Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Amusing Injuries Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Affectionate Parody Captain Obvious Twist Ending Improbable Aiming Skills Re-Cut Cat Scare Demoted to Extra Fingore Hypocrite Famous Last Words Creator Cameo As Himself Calling the Old Man Out Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Wham Shot Spiritual Successor Chekhov's Gun Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! The Chessmaster Curse Cut Short Horror Films BFG Children Are Innocent Downer Ending Hong Kong Films Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking The Dog Bites Back Stalker with a Crush Vomit Discretion Shot Intrepid Reporter Idiot Ball Took a Level in Jerkass Your Cheating Heart Abhorrent Admirer MacGuffin Blood Knight Man on Fire Abusive Parents Not Quite Dead Black Comedy O.O.C. Is Serious Business Scenery Gorn Batman Gambit And I Must Scream Fate Worse than Death The Voiceless Tagline Bi the Way Rule of Three "Awesome McCool" Name Film Noir Continuity Nod Line-of-Sight Name Improvised Weapon Babies Ever After Adaptational Villainy Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Bait-and-Switch Mind Screw Dark Action Girl No Name Given Dutch Angle Self-Deprecation Adaptational Badass Logo Joke Small Name, Big Ego Evil Counterpart The Reveal Manipulative Bastard I Need a Freaking Drink He Knows Too Much In the Back Knife Nut The '70s Romantic False Lead Drives Like Crazy Jitter Cam Crazy-Prepared Historical-Domain Character Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Red Right Hand Big Bad Duumvirate Major Injury Underreaction Hypocritical Humor Mexican Standoff Green-Eyed Monster Empathic Environment Spared by the Adaptation Sequel Hook Obstructive Bureaucrat Zombie Stories Epic Movie Shower Scene Karma Houdini Death by Sex Big Damn Heroes Eagleland Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Offscreen Moment of Awesome The Alleged Car 20 Minutes into the Future Department of Redundancy Department Bavarian Fire Drill A Date with Rosie Palms Storming the Castle Facial Horror Taking You with Me Motor Mouth Vomit Indiscretion Shot Gainax Ending Amoral Attorney Bloodless Carnage Tempting Fate Big Applesauce Bilingual Bonus Reality Is Unrealistic Interrupted Suicide Adapted Out Not What It Looks Like Dull Surprise Stealth Hi/Bye Obviously Evil Even Evil Has Loved Ones Alliterative Name Be Careful What You Wish For Politically Incorrect Villain Male Gaze Mistaken for Gay Alpha Bitch Betty and Veronica Ambiguously Gay Agony of the Feet Morality Pet Jerkass Straight Gay Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Even Evil Has Standards Science Fiction Films Ungrateful Bastard Darker and Edgier Pyrrhic Victory Kubrick Stare Retired Badass Deliberate Values Dissonance Woman Scorned Shown Their Work Black Comedy Rape Slap-Slap-Kiss Foreshadowing Awesome, but Impractical Ripped from the Headlines Monumental Damage Mama Bear Lock and Load Montage Ascended Extra Broken Aesop Undying Loyalty Sci-Fi Horror Made of Iron No Ending You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Psychopathic Manchild Karmic Death Fatal Flaw Very Loosely Based on a True Story Bald of Evil Dumb Blonde Film Noir Index Not So Above It All An Arm and a Leg