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