Tropescilloscope: Offscreen Moment of Awesome

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

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