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