Tropescilloscope: Offscreen Moment of Awesome

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

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