Tropescilloscope: Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene

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

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