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* ''FanFic/{{Bird}}'': Part of the narrative strength of the asylum arcs is the contrast between the quiet, emotional slice-of-life segments. The eerie, psychological horror segments. And the intense action segments. This is taken to a further extreme in the fight against Hatchetface, which rapidly cycles between all three.
* Quite a few of these appear in ''Fanfic/{{Leviathan}}''. Rather fitting, considering that one of the source materials is ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''.

* ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' plays up the action elements to their greatest strengths as a film, but there are still quiet, poignant moments. "You Can (Not) Advance" has one excellent example: the night after the pilots [[spoiler: defeat]] Sahaquiel, Asuka enters Shinji's room - without knocking - and enters his bed while he's still in it - without greeting him - deliberately facing away from him. The ensuing dialogue is personal, intimate (by Asuka's standards), sentimental, and quiet. Compared to the rest of this film - possibly the most action-packed, adrenaline-pumped of any of the Rebuild movies - this scene is powerfully soft.

* The series finale of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' has one scene when Spike shares one last meal with Jet and has a conversation with Faye about how people ultimately can't run away from their past forever. This scene shows, despite all of their differences in the past, they are a BandOfBrothers -- but Spike can't stay with them anymore.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles''. Nearly every moment where something isn't blowing up is an example. In particular, the confession right before the final fight - where Mr. Incredible admits to his wife that he's [[AdultFear not strong enough to bear the pain of losing them again]] - is very powerful.

* ''Film/CarryOnBehind'': Unusually for the Carry On films, there is a long and touchingly emotive scene [[spoiler: when Vera's mother Daphne reunites with her estranged husband Henry]].

* ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' has quite a lot of these.
* The Modus Operandi of ''Literature/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront''.
* The Literature/AgentPendergast novel ''Literature/CemeteryDance'' has a number of these kind of moments.
* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'' has some very powerful examples.
* The ''Literature/CodexAlera'' series has some very poignant ones.

* In ''Literature/BattleIsAnArt'' this is actually the basic story structure, with these scenes being arguably better than the actual fight scenes.

* The last lines in ''Film/MysteryRoad'' are Jay making the phone call [[spoiler:to Johnno]]. The drop, the shootout and its aftermath have no audible dialogue.

-->'''Echo-216:''' [[spoiler:[[PhonyVeteran I'm not a pilot. I'm not even a soldier, a marine! I'm a fraud! I stole that pelican! I stole it!]] Do you know why? Of course you don't. Have you ever been scared? So scared that you... ''(trails off)'' I'm worthless. You should leave me here with the rest of the garbage.

** ''Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah'' has the scenes between Emiko, Yukari and Kenichi about the dangers of the Oxygen Destroyer and Emiko's reminiscences of her and Dr. Serizawa's roles in the [[Film/{{Gojira}} first film]]. There is also the scene between Miki Saegusa and Meru Ozawa where they discuss what they will do once their psychic powers fade away.

* The films of Creator/MamoruOshii, almost as a trademark, tend to trade off between flashy and bombastic action sequences and long, quiet stretches containing some combination of dialogue (usually of a [[ContemplateOurNavels heavily philosophical bent]]), striking imagery, and beautiful, ambient KenjiKawai music. In fact, even though most of his films could be classified as "action films", the drama scenes often outnumber the action scenes, making them a controversial prospect for viewers who are more interested in action. A particularly notable example of this is the scene between Batou and his dog in ''Anime/GhostInTheShell 2: Innocence'', which is set to melancholy smooth jazz with no dialogue and massive amounts of emotion, right in the middle of an otherwise dark, cold and violent film.

*** Several in ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'', including the scene where Spock learns about the death of [[spoiler: his future self]], and his later conversation with Bones [=McCoy=] about the same thing, including a line that, perhaps inevitably, [[HarsherInHindsight didn't age well]].

* ''Film/FinalDestination4:'' A ''deleted'' scene occasionally included in TV airings takes place after [[spoiler:Janet]]'s near-death experience and shows her walking across a street with her eyes closed, testing to see if Death is still after her, and wanting to get it over with quickly if he is. This is followed by a touching moment of relief after she makes it across the road.

* ''Film/FinalDestination4:'' Interestingly, a ''deleted'' ActionFilmQuietDramaScene occasionally included in TV airings manages to be the scene that some fans most associate with the movie. The scene takes place after [[spoiler:Janet]]'s near-death experience and shows her walking across a street with her eyes closed, testing to see if Death is still after her, and wanting to get it over with quickly if he is. This is followed by a touching moment of relief after she makes it across the road. There's a sense of intensity, but also depth and frailty that really impresses a lot of people who see the scene.

* {{Exaggerated}} to the point of [[InvertedTrope Inversion]] with the entire film ''Film/InglouriousBasterds''. Although it was [[NeverTrustATrailer made it out to be]] a live-action ''VideoGame/{{Wolfenstein}}'' by the trailers, it's actually a heavily dialogue driven suspense-drama with violence being delivered in small, infrequent doses modified spiked with concentrated {{Squick}} and Theatrics.

-->'''Alexa Woods''': There's no room for sick men on this expedition.
-->'''Charles Bishop Weyland''': My doctors tell me the worst is behind me.
-->'''Lex''': You're not a very good liar, Mr. Weyland. Stay on the ship. We'll update you at the top of every hour.
-->'''Weyland''': You know, when you get sick, you think about your life and how you're going to be remembered. You know what I realized would happen when I go? A ten percent fall in share prices. Maybe twelve. And that's it.
-->'''Lex''': I've heard this speech before. My dad broke his leg seven hundred feet from the summit of Mount Ranier. He was like you. He wouldn't go back or let us stop. We reached the top and he opened a bottle of champagne. I had my first drink with my dad at 14,400 feet. On the way down, he developed a blood clot in his leg that traveled to his lung. He suffered for four hours before dying twenty minutes from the base.
-->'''Weyland''': You think that's the last thing your dad remembers? The pain? Or drinking champagne with his daughter fourteen thousand feet in the air? I need this.

** ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' has the Joker's interrogation scene in [[spoiler:before Batman takes over]], the Joker again turning, Harvey Dent into Two-Face in the hospital, and Alfred telling about his military past in Burma.

*** A bit later, Stark goes and has a faux-casual conversation with Loki about where each side stands and why the eponymous team is fighting. It quickly erupts into violence but it was quiet for at least a ''few'' seconds...

*** Right in the middle of the epic climactic battle, there's a surprisingly moving scene between, of all people, [[OddFriendship Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch]], when he drags her into a wrecked building to escape from an explosion and gives her a [[RousingSpeech awesome pep talk]] when he sees how terrified she is. It's a great reminder that, for all her frightening powers, Wanda isn't a supervillain, but a scared young woman with little experience in the field and no one else to turn to in the world but her brother, and Hawkeye isn't just a good soldier, but a good man.

** ''Film/CaptainAmericaCivilWar'' manages to intertwine the two: while Steve and Tony are beating the stuffing out of each other, [[spoiler:T'Challa non-violently confronts Zemo after discovering he was responsible for bombing the UN conference in Vienna]].

** Thanos and Dr. Strange's conversation on Titan, shortly before their big battle, where the two of them discuss Thanos' past and motivations in an [[WorthyOpponent almost respectful manner]]. It adds a lot of depth to the resulting fight, because we get to see both [[KnightTemplar how strongly Thanos believes]] [[WellIntentionedExtremist that he's doing the right thing]] and how Doctor Strange, perhaps alone among all the Avengers, isn't even [[NervesOfSteel the slightest bit intimidated]] by the Mad Titan.

*** After the two of them escape the traitorous Ravagers, Yondu Udonta expertly deconstructs the facade Rocket has built up around himself and points out how much the two of them [[NotSoDifferent have in common.]]