History Awesome / Left4Dead

** 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.

* There's one for any player who manages to take down a Tank single-handedly (Hint: Boomer bile).

* 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. [[hottip:* :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...]]

** This Troper imagines a kindly old woman, sitting serenely on her front porch, dual-wielding sawed-off shotguns, a chainsaw, a katana, twenty homemade molotovs, and the '''biggest set of balls that ANY person has ever had.'''
*** Same, except she's also completely blind, because she don't need no damned ''sight'' to kill those abominations unto God.
*** So... she's the [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Demoman's]] mother?

* The second half of "Hard Rain" takes place during a [[strike:thunderstorm]] goddamned ''hurricane.'' It's more than just a set effect as might commonly be found in other video games. Areas your group previously passed through unhindered are now flooded knee-to-waist deep, and the rain and wind kick up at intervals. As a result, the game reduces how far you can see. Likewise the game not only sends the bass booming with the thunder and lightning, but also turns down the in-game voice, meaning that if you want to say anything, you have to shout over the din of the storm. Many players use an out-of-game chat client to coordinate their assaults, however.

* Finishing a campaign only using a melee weapon, you get an achievement for it and it FEELS damn good as well. Bonus points for the frying pan, katana, and guitar.

This is for cutscenes, achievements, and canon things that are awesome. Personal anecdotes go on [[TroperTales/Left4Dead here,]] ladies and gents.

* As a Boomer, covering every survivor with bile and disappearing into the shadows without a scratch

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** Bill's own internal monologue as he jumped off of the bridge is nothing but sheer awesome. It's less of a man leaping into a fight and more of a father tired of seeing his child being bullied. ''And he does this while charging headfirst into three tanks''.

*** So... she's the [[TeamFortress2 Demoman's]] mother?

* The second half of "Hard Rain" takes place during a [[strike:thunderstorm]] goddamned ''hurricane.'' It's more than just a set effect as might commonly be found in other video games. Areas your group previously passed through unhindered are now flooded knee-to-waist deep, and the rain and wind kick up at intervals. As a result, the game reduces how far you can see. Likewise the game not only sends the bass booming with the thunder and lightning, but also turns down the in-game voice, meaning that if you want to say anything, you have to shout over the din of the storm.

* Okay, let's start with the best line of the series.

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

* Bill's first encounter involves him slaughtering his way out of an infected veteran's hospital having just emerged from being [[TheDeterminator under anaesthetic on the operating table.]] His weapon of choice? [[DualWielding A pair of bonesaws]].

*** "... they gonna wish we hadn't."