Tropescilloscope: Offscreen Moment of Awesome

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

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Manic Pixie Dream Girl Revenge Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Groin Attack Those Two Bad Guys Big Bad Driven to Suicide Auto Erotica Psychopathic Manchild Continuity Nod Antagonist Title Arch-Enemy Kill 'em All Expy Hypocritical Humor Flashback Evil Counterpart Unwitting Instigator of Doom Major Injury Underreaction Big-Bad Ensemble Fourth Date Marriage Apocalypse How Abhorrent Admirer Fake Shemp The Oner Villain with Good Publicity Dwindling Party Real Life Film Series Animal Title Index Slap-Slap-Kiss Bound and Gagged Epic Fail Mama Bear MacGuffin Early-Bird Cameo Nice Hat All There in the Script Blatant Lies Nice Guy Fan Disservice folderlabel O.O.C. 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Missing Mom Extremely Short Timespan Camp Gay Artistic License – Law Honor Before Reason Cool Shades No OSHA Compliance N-Word Privileges Cain and Abel Badass Normal Rape as Drama Destination Defenestration Diabolus ex Machina Smug Snake Shown Their Work The Stoic Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Not Quite Dead Bavarian Fire Drill Manchild Our Vampires Are Different Drowning My Sorrows Christmas Movies Index In Name Only Implacable Man Combat Pragmatist Ship Tease Broken Bird Soft Glass Call-Forward Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Psychological Thriller Throwing Your Sword Always Works Intergenerational Friendship Bland-Name Product Faux Affably Evil Brother–Sister Incest After the End My God, What Have I Done? Badass Boast Token Minority I'm a Humanitarian Adaptation Expansion All Girls Want Bad Boys Accidental Misnaming Chase Scene Black Best Friend Dull Surprise Four-Temperament Ensemble Eagleland Unusually Uninteresting Sight Evil Laugh Gory Discretion Shot Market-Based Title All for Nothing Biopic Sinister Minister Retired Badass The Reveal Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Naïve Newcomer Spanner in the Works Obstructive Bureaucrat Ripped from the Headlines Catapult Nightmare Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Determinator aka: The Determinator One Steve Limit The Ditz Big Damn Heroes Mercy Kill Only Known by Their Nickname The Mafia Running Gag Mighty Whitey Cassandra Truth Bad Boss Berserk Button Crapsack World Faking the Dead Redemption Equals Death "Well Done, Son!" Guy "Awesome McCool" Name Rated M for Manly Papa Wolf She Cleans Up Nicely Well-Intentioned Extremist Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Offscreen Teleportation Disney Death Suspiciously Specific Denial Sanity Slippage Neck Lift An Axe to Grind An Aesop Historical-Domain Character Body Horror Hate Sink Hell Is That Noise Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Needs Wiki Magic Love Storming the Castle Gilligan Cut Freeze-Frame Bonus Gainax Ending Left the Background Music On And I Must Scream Yandere Ascended Extra Crazy Jealous Guy Wounded Gazelle Gambit Curb-Stomp Battle She's Got Legs Adaptational Heroism A Father to His Men World of Ham Casting Gag Line-of-Sight Name Not So Above It All Trailers Always Spoil Pragmatic Adaptation Demonic Possession Translation Convention Alliterative Name Foregone Conclusion My Beloved Smother It's Personal Pet the Dog Big Fancy House Chewing the Scenery A.I. 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