Tropescilloscope: Offscreen Moment of Awesome

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

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