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