u/NoSchittSherlockSEA

Im not sure if there’s a term for these sort of scenes, but if you take the scenes out of the movie the plot still works, but the scene captures the spirit of the movie itself and removing it would make the movie lesser.

Warriors: The Subway Scene. After following the events of a Gang war, a bruised and battered Swan and Mercy take the subway from Coney Island back, and along the way a group of rich kids sit opposite them, heading to Prom, and they regard one another in silence. Mercy, feeling self conscious, attempts to fix her hair only for Swan to stop her, they have nothing to be ashamed of. Two groups leading wholly different lives can only contemplate each other in silence.

Fantastic Mr Fox: Canis Lupus. Mr Fox and co near the end of the film encounter the truly wild wolf, and Mr Fox attempts to strike a conversation, the wolf does not respond. In a film detailing Mr Fox’s struggle with settling down and his own wild tendencies, the scene is thought to be him making peace with leaving his wild past behind, sharing a fist in the air in solidarity.

Barbie: The Bench scene. Greta Gerwig was told to cut this scene. She responded that if this scene was cut, she wouldn’t know what the movie was about. A simple scene of Barbie telling the Old Woman she was beautiful captured the heart of the film and grounded a story that might have been absurd on paper.

[Loved Trope] Scenes that aren’t necessary to the Plot but without them the story would lose something that makes it special