Tropescilloscope: Offscreen Moment of Awesome

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

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