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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
- Pre-Battle Banter is the subtrope for the "subdued joking around and encouragement" form.
See also Darkest Hour, Line in the Sand, If We Get Through This…, It Has Been an Honor, Pre-Sacrifice Final Goodbye, If I Do Not Return, and numerous other tropes for the various other components that you mention. Index of Goodbyes and Last Words are a good place to start for those, and most are part of the setup for Dying Moment of Awesome tropes.
Also see also The Hero's Journey- the last big afqds (or set of them) is an important transition step between the main story and the final revelations and confrontations.
Well, would making a single trope that is essentially all those combined be a good ideam or are all these enough?
Yes, which is why it has been created: Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene and its subtrope Pre-Battle Banter
The rest I listed are moments that can happen within or surrounding that period of calm before the storm.
Got it.
There's a trope I want to make a page for, but I want to make sure we don't already have one for it. Right now, I'm calling it, "Somber humanity before battle", but if you can think of a better name, I would like to hear it.
It's the climax or near the climax of a story, and the heroes, and hero armies are about to take part in a HUGE battle against a seemingly unstoppable foe. The music, art, or texture does not establish that this is something to get pumped up for, this is something to be frightful over. The heroes know that the odds of victory are not good, and their all frightened. Nonetheless, they don't run even though staying means they will probably die. The heroes are all going through different emotions, some are frightened and clinging to what little courage they have left, some are sad, some face death with dignity or whatever.
But the heroes have some time before the battle starts, usually just a few hours. So what do they do with what may well be their last moments alive? They show moments of somber, but heartwarming humanity. Some try to raise the spirits of less hopeful soldiers or heroes, some look back at their lives and talk about how far they've come since their story started and compare who they were then, to who they are now, show regret and remorse at mistakes they made, or laugh at their past. Some heroes may tell jokes or sing songs to each other to try and cheer others and themselves up, to make them more confident, trusted friends and companions tell eachother that it's been an honor that they knew and fought together, rivals and friends who's relationships fell apart reconcile before it's too late, reformed villains or atoners complete their archs by showing compassion for former enemies, characters with friends or loved ones far away sent what could be their final messages to them, characters with deceased friends and loved ones offer prayers to the departed promising to join them if they die, and characters in a a relationship or romance have one last time in bed or one last kiss, or maybe their first and likely last kiss or time in bed before they die.
The scene is dark and somber, and doesn't negate the fact that it's very likely that not only could many or all these heroes die, but they could also fail. But the scene is not meant to give false reassurance. The scene is meant to boost confidence in both the characters and audience, and provide heartwarming scenes of humanity to show how far characters have come, and that even when facing death in the face, they still keep going until they die. Even comedy in scenes like these tend to be somber in nature.
Examples include Mass Effect 3, where squad members past and present give their final comments to Shepard, and tell him/her that it has been an honor to know him/her and Shepard having one last scene with romance character, and other characters in relationships doing the same. Aragorn trying to raise the spirits of Haleth in the Two Towers movie, Gimli and Legolas's brief conversation about dying side by side with a friend in Return of the King, and much of the cast of Game of Thrones doing all of the stuff I've mentioned.
Do we already have a page for this? Or can I go all out?