History Awesome / Left4Dead

* Pretty much anything a player does can be made awesome if it follows a well-timed melee attack to free himself from an incoming Smoker tongue. [[note]]To clarify, you're normally not able to attack with melee weapons while a Smoker is pulling you. Due to the delay between pressing the fire button and the attack actually occuring, however...[[/note]]

* A group calling themselves "The Angels of Death" have various pieces of graffiti in the first game. Comprising of 7 members, their messages imply they have killed hundreds of zombies. They even gain an 8th member along the way. Their messages even berate other survivors because the Angels feel like they are clearing the path for everyone else (how correct they are isn't seen, but you can often hear gunfire in the distance). Unfortunately, one message in L4D2 implies that only one member made it to the Lighthouse.

* In the new Left 4 Dead comic, "The sacrifice", Bill [[DyingMomentOfAwesome dies after fighting three Tanks at once with nothing but an assault rifle and a molotov.]]

* In the new Left 4 Dead comic, "The sacrifice", Bill [[spoiler: [[DyingMomentOfAwesome dies after fighting three Tanks at once with nothing but an assault rifle and a molotov.]]]]
** [[spoiler:To clarify, Bill has had an irrational hatred/fear of the Tanks, pushing aside everything else until the Tank is dead. He charges headlong into battle with ''3'' of them armed with only a molotov and an assault rifle. As soon as he hits the generator, a Tank punches him in the head, sending him flying. And as he's dying, he doesn't cower. Instead, he lights a cigarette and tells the Tanks to BringIt.]]

** The "Last Stand" update has a combination of a CallForward to this moment while further emphasizing the messages of the game by [[spoiler: having the finale of the map pit Bill against three Tanks at once and ''expecting you to win.'' But unlike The Sacrifice, the ''Tanks'' are the ones outnumbered now, because Francis, Zoey and Louis aren't cut off from Bill. And they're every bit as ferocious.]]

** The "Last Stand" update has a combination of a CallForward to this moment while further emphasizing the messages of the game by [[having the finale of the map pit Bill against three Tanks at once and ''expecting you to win.'' But unlike The Sacrifice, the ''Tanks'' are the ones outnumbered now, because Francis, Zoey and Louis aren't cut off from Bill. And they're every bit as ferocious.]]

** The "Last Stand" update has a combination of a CallForward to this moment while further emphasizing the messages of the game by having the finale of the map pit Bill against three Tanks at once and ''expecting you to win.'' But unlike The Sacrifice, the ''Tanks'' are the ones outnumbered now, because Francis, Zoey and Louis aren't cut off from Bill.

* The entire intro sequence in [=L4D=]. Special mentions include Francis staring at the Tank, not flinching when it throws a car over his head, Louis responding to the Witch breaking her arm through the door he was blocking by spraying it with a MAC-10 for 7 seconds straight while yelling “How do you like THAT!”, Francis helping Bill to his feet while simultaneously killing an infected with a shotgun, and another one-handed while saying “Merry Christmas”, Zoey spraying a Hunter with dual pistols after shoving it off Louis with the latter crawling next to a car and finishing it off with a headshot from his own pistol with his left hand, the Tank’s entrance (smashing a car into the air, barely missing the survivors as previously mentioned), Francis aiming his Shotgun at the Tank as it rounds a corner while muttering “[[BringIt Come on, come on!]]”, and as the Tank grabs an infected and smashes it into Francis, Bill notices at the last second, and sprays his M16 at he Tank just before it raises its arms to pound Francis into the ground, and when the Tank responded by throwing a punch at Bill, he dodges and it hits the wall, and instead of the Tank being stunned, it simply lobs a chunk of the wall and hurls it onto the fire escape the remaining survivors were climbing, barely missing them.

* [[spoiler:To clarify, Bill has had an irrational hatred/fear of the Tanks, pushing aside everything else until the Tank is dead. He charges headlong into battle with ''3'' of them armed with only a molotov and an assault rifle. As soon as he hits the generator, a Tank punches him in the head, sending him flying. And as he's dying, he doesn't cower. Instead, he lights a cigarette and tells the Tanks to BringIt.]]

* The entire intro sequence in L4D. Special mentions include Francis staring at the Tank, not flinching when it throws a car over his head, Louis responding to the Witch breaking her arm through the door he was blocking by spraying it with a MAC-10 for 7 seconds straight while yelling “How do you like THAT!”, Francis helping Bill to his feet while simultaneously killing an infected with a shotgun, and another one-handed while saying “Merry Christmas”, Zoey spraying a Hunter with dual pistols after shoving it off Louis with the latter crawling next to a car and finishing it off with a headshot from his own pistol with his left hand, the Tank’s entrance (smashing a car into the air, barely missing the survivors as previously mentioned), Francis aiming his Shotgun at the Tank as it rounds a corner while muttering “[[BringIt Come on, come on!]]”, and as the Tank grabs an infected and smashes it into Francis, Bill notices at the last second, and sprays his M16 at he Tank just before it raises its arms to pound Francis into the ground, and when the Tank responded by throwing a punch at Bill, he dodges and it hits the wall, and instead of the Tank being stunned, it simply lobs a chunk of the wall and hurls it onto the fire escape the remaining survivors were climbing, barely missing them.

* In the new Left 4 Dead comic, "The sacrifice", Bill [[spoiler: [[DyingMomentOfAwesome dies after fighting three Tanks at once with nothing but an assault rifle.]]]]

* Francis in the Left 4 Dead intro scene deserves a special mention. The Tank made his appearance clear by punching a car into the air, whipping over the 4 survivors’ heads, taking out part of the fence behind them. Louis, Bill and Zoey instantly turn around in shock, but Francis? He stares directly at the Tank and doesn’t even flinch when the car missed him by an inch. [[BringIt Bring it.]]

* Francis in the Left 4 Dead intro scene deserves a special mention. The Tank made his appearance clear by punching a car into the air, whipping over the 4 survivors’ heads, taking out part of the fence behind them. Louis, Bill and Zoey instantly turn around in shock, but Francis? He stares directly at the Tank with a face that says Bring It. and doesn’t even flinch when the car missed him by an inch.

* Rochelle out-hating ''Francis'' in the trailer for the Passing. Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

This is for cutscenes, achievements, and canon things that are awesome. Personal anecdotes go on the [[http://tropertales.wikkii.com/wiki/Main_Page Troper Tales Wiki]].
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** On the topic of Hunters, beating one to death with your bare hands in the first game. Guaranteed to make you think something along the lines of "I am a BadAss" at least once.