Tropescilloscope: Offscreen Moment of Awesome

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

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