Tropescilloscope: Offscreen Moment of Awesome

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

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