Tropescilloscope: Offscreen Moment of Awesome

An "awesome" scene takes place offscreen, often for comedic effect. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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