obligatory scene

obligatory scene
  a cliched and expected scene for a particular genre, e.g., a love scene in a romance or dramatic film, a shoot-out in a Western, the solving of a crime in a mystery, a rescue in an action film, etc.
  Example: The famous waves-churning embrace in From Here to Eternity (1953)

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