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[[caption-width:250:Epic Writing: brought to you by the letter L]]
-->''"No one will be admitted during the breathtaking car-parking sequence!"''
-->-- '''Crow T. Robot''' on ''Rocket Attack U.S.A.'', ''MysteryScienceTheater3000''

So you have yourself a situation that might be important, but it just isn't ''[[RuleOfCool awesome]]'' enough. There's something missing. What could it be...?

I know! Let's throw in some gripping orchestral music, lighting changes, [[RepeatCut different camera angles]], something! Don't write like a man, write like an EvilOverlord! [[FeedMe Exaggerate your expressions and gestures]], [[ThisIsSPARTA speak with excessive intonation]], and if all else fails, throw in some closeups, slow motion, and OminousLatinChanting! With practice, even ''you'' can turn something like eating a snack into an ''epic battle of light and dark''. Anything can be SeriousBusiness. And anything can be a [[MartialArtsAndCrafts martial art]].

Get enough of these in one place, and you've got a NinjaPirateZombieRobot. In especially bad cases, this can fall into the {{Narm}}.

If you've ever seen a guy doing macho posturing, or a preacher playing even the mundane parts of TheBible, you'll know this is TruthInTelevision.

When this gets overdone, you often end up with GetOnWithItAlready.

{{Large Ham}}s are the living embodiments of this trope.

{{Melodrama}} is the dramatic equivalent.

See also MundaneUtility (for ''awesome'' tools that are used to do mundane things), BadassBlink (which reminds you stealth and awesome do not mix). Contrast with UnusuallyUninterestingSight.
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[[folder:Advertising]]
* Every advert for any sporting event ''ever.'' Reaches [[TVTropesDrinkingGame egregious]] proportions when promoting the less, shall we say, eventful sports. Granted, sports like football (either of them), basketball, or hockey are fairly action packed, but ''curling?!''
* The new line of Burger King adverts. A man eating a burger while describing it in a voice more appropriate for action movie trailers. "''And this time''... there is '''bacon'''." Made even funnier because all his mates look at him [[GenreSavvy like he's lost his mind]].
* An ad for the fruit juice Fresh Up features a man knocking back a can of the juice dramatically, while rock music plays and the wind blows up around him. The first time he does it on a ski field. Then he does it at work. Then he does it at the busstop. Then while mowing the lawn. Then- well, [[OverlyLongGag you get it]]
* There's a UK Coors Light advert which does the same action movie voiceover gag as the BK one. It ends with the tagline 'Damn, that's a light-tasting beer!' spoken by a pretty girl, in the same voice.
* Singapore armed forces commercials. Watch and be amazed.
** Navy: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQOlmClWyzk Transforming Battleship]]
** Navy: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PD0cYeVpkgI Fleet of office buildings go to war]]
*** "[[MontyPython Good Lord! The Crimson Permanent Assurance!]]"
*** [[http://tubedubber.com/#PD0cYeVpkgI:ttQjm-8OITE:0:100:0:0:true An even more badass version]]
** Air Force: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3VjMyp-L4w Set Your Sights Higher]]
* Michael Bay [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXRCf9LbLM0 demands things to be awesome!]]
** A suggestion for Michael Bay's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXGWZxI9lAs take on breakfast]]
* A Fedex commercial parodied this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmZRDUO1wGQ here:]]
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InGiAr3CPSw GRABIT.]] Listen to that '''EPIC MUSIC AND NARRATION''' as you '''''REMOVE DAMAGED SCREWS.'''''
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc_szUYJAYE "Yeah... babies EVERYWHERE!"]]
* '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2QRIWdNtxY Segata Sanshiro]].'''
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V65dtKOk2Y&feature=related Segata Sanshiro commands you to buy Bomberman]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVdS1NJLlIw This japanese ad]]. (It's advertising satellite TV, by the way.)
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL4hyATkQ74 This old Windows ad featuring Steve Ballmer]]
* Many, many IBM commercials do this. See [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F63tYLhiqZ8 this one]] for example.]
** And on the other side of the personal computer war, who could forget [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8 Apple's pastiche of the book]] [[NineteenEightyFour 1984]]?
*[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pir1Hug-CEc But nobody out-awesomes the]] [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SemperFi United States Marine Corps!!]]
* The latest ad for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUawhjxLS2I Office 2010]] is awesome.
** The adverts for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssOq02DTTMU Windows 7]] focus more on RuleOfCute, but does so with ''epic'' CrowningMusicOfAwesome. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6adgIJE8YQ Is that the theme to]] ''{{The A-Team}}''?
* Even an [[http://www.trenpatagonico-sa.com.ar/ Argentinian railway]] gets in on the madcap.
* Danish movie audiences are frequently, just before the movie starts, treated with a small snippet where a mixed choir sings a song to the tune of AlsoSprachZarathustra. The lyrics translates to: "Turn off your mobile/it is time to watch movies/and it is such a bummer/if it rings during the movie"
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[[folder:Anime]]
* ''DeathNote'' loves doing this. You'd be surprised how epic [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skfMexjZ4O0 eating chips]] or [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjydsimSvHk writing in a notebook]] can really be. You obviously aren't trying hard enough. Granted, said notebook is an ArtifactOfDoom that ''kills'' people when their names are written in it, but is dashing across the desk (complete with red/blue after-effects and flaming eyes) really necessary?
** Mikami Teru takes this even further by making slashing motions with his pen as if it were a sword while writing names in the [[ArtifactOfDoom Death Note]] while saying "sakujo" ("delete" in the English dub) to himself when he [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOFEXzYRGG0 finishes writing a name]].
** What is he, a [[DoctorWho Cyberman?]]
*** A particularly epic sakujo of the anime includes slow motion, a fall backwards, and a very, ''very'' joyful look on his face that resembles an orgasm more than a killing. [[http://celesse.deviantart.com/art/Death-Note-Gasm-53647615 Fanart ensued.]]
*** The same [[MemeticMutation Sakujo-gasm]] also has what appear to be large drops of shiny white [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything sweat]], with a spotlight on his crotch. seen at the end of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPoQmytWvIQ this video]], which includes every instance of his CatchPhrase
*** "I'll take a potato chip, hehhehe, AND EAT IT!"
** Also, when Mello eats a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftJWy7IDMkg chocolate bar.]]
** It should be noted that while the Japanese version of the potato chip eating was similar, the people dubbing decided to go full out and added freaking ''[[EvilLaugh maniacal laughter]]''.
*** Not quite. The laughter was there in the original - the most the English dub did was to make it more noticeable.
** '''[[BeyondTheImpossible Epic hugging]]''', 'cause just a hug isn't epic enough.
** The manga wasn't anywhere near as ridiculous with some of these aspects, and it's arguable this is just a result of trying to transfer the striking and stylized visuals possible with individual panels.
*** And you have to admit, it does all [[RuleOfCool look fantastic]].
* ''{{Akagi}}'' will freight the outcome of a simple round of {{Mahjong}} with [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic an amount of drama and symbolic content]] roughly on par with [[TheBible the Book of Revelation]].
** The SpiritualSuccessor, ''Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji'', is as advertised.
*** In fact, characters are displacing wind while placing down playing cards and create small tornadoes while pounding down with their fists!
*** ''Kaiji'' has a sound effect for [[VisibleSilence silence.]]
*** To be fair, the "zawa zawa" sound effect tends to be used in cases where the silence comes right after some horrible omen of [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom DEATH AND DOOM]].
**** Actually, 'zawa' means "an uneasy atmosphere", but it's roughly equivalent to writing "DOOOOOOOM" in a Western comic.
* ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' does roughly the same thing with a [[strike:children's]] [[strike:collectible]] card game. Though in that case, the fate of the characters involved (or even that of the world) really ''[[SeriousBusiness does]]'' hang in the balance. Still, the amount of drama that goes into picking up a card and putting it back down is [[strike:almost]] laughable.
** Taken to the next level in the Battle City Arc: apart from the usual dramatic [[CatchPhrase catch phrases]] and exaggerated arm gestures, the use of an Egyptian God Card also requires OminousLatinChanting, lightning flashes and [[WhereDidTheyGetLasers ancient Egyptian laser beams]].
** {{Lampshaded}} in an episode during the Battle City arc. Joey and Mako Tsunami were set to duel in what was apparently the local version of Sea World. Since they had an audience (which they shanghaied by somehow interrupting a killer whale show), Joey attempted to play to the crowd by drawing his card in an even more dramatic fashion than usual, pirouetting and rotating like a champion ice skater. Mako interrupts this display of card-drawing prowess by demanding Joey get on with it, after which both duelists continue their duel at the standard, slightly less ridiculous level.
** And, just like everything else about ''Yu-Gi-Oh'', [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries the Abridged Series]] lampoons this mercilessly.
---> [[spoiler:'''Steve''']] '''Arkana''': "Now let's begin by shuffling our cards in a needlessly dramatic fashion."
---> '''Yugi''': (shuffling his cards with an utmost serious look) "Way ahead of ya."
*** "Oh my God! '''A giant rock!'''"
** Even the characters themselves seem to take this trope into consideration when playing:
---> '''Adrian''': I reveal two of my face downs.
---> '''Chazz''': But how?
---> '''Adrian''': Easy, I just call out their names dramatically, and they pop up.
* ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}}'' takes this insanity to new heights with car. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd9E7Z55WlE&NR=1]]
* ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}'' does this with the series finale. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd9E7Z55WlE&NR=1 here]]
* ''DuelMasters'' is almost as bad about this; however, this is intentional, as it's an AffectionateParody of ''Yu-Gi-Oh''.
** No, that's just the [[GagDub dub.]]
* Lelouch Lamperouge of ''CodeGeass'' is a textbook example of this. With a fabulous, stylish Batman-esque costume, Lelouch, [[LargeHam with his flair and love for drama]], fired up his popularity amongst Japanese resistance cells against Britannia with his exaggerated gestures, speeches, and [[TheChessmaster ability to pull off outrageous plans]] that [[RefugeInAudacity most would consider suicide]].
** Lets not forget his keyboard-controlled Knightmare Frames, which let him show off his AWESOME typing skills. Suck it, GUI.
*** With [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic keyboards that sound like church organs, no less.]]
*** Though it is worth remembering that although he is typing at a keyboard, he is controlling a freakin' giant flying robot which can easily destroy most other giant flying robots.
**** Also? He's NOT the first one who controls mechas with keyboards. ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qvva6RwSdS4 Video Warrior Laserion]]'' did that ''twenty'' years ago.
** He also makes something as mundane as taking a (very special) contact lens on an off [[strike:FANTASTIC]] ''FABULOUS''!
** Lelouch's habit of being overly dramatic when speaking, using his Geass, or doing ''anything'' is [[LampshadeHanging mocked]] by C.C., who asks him why he feels the need to do some overly-dramatic hand gymnastics at some times and going without it at others. His answer boils down to "Shut up," which, ironically, is pretty undramatic.
** One must not forget the destruction of the giant pizza. Dramatic chords everywhere, people chasing Euphemia, Suzaku tries calming everyone while the music continues and no! His attention wanders! The pizza is cast onto a tree by accident! Poor C.C.
** Don't forget Jeremiah and his [[MemeticMutation '''MOTHERFUCKING STORM OF LOYALTY!!!''']]
** Or Suzaku delivering one of his patented Spinzaku spinkicks, particularly when he makes his entrance [[spoiler:as Knight of Zero]], the latter capped off with a shit-eating grin.
* ''HikaruNoGo'' relies on this in order to keep the interest of viewers who aren't familiar with Go.
* Any time someone tastes the hero's home-made bread in ''YakitateJapan'', it's an event which makes the parting of the Red Sea look minuscule in comparison, replete with dramatic music, flashing lights, and vivid hallucinations. (One might wonder if the hero is [[MushroomSamba actually slipping psychotropic drugs into his creations]]...)
** In fact, in one episode Kazuma makes a bread composed mostly of cannabis derivatives... and it was so delicious, [[spoiler: the judge who tasted the bread was [[TimeTravel sent back in time]] and saved his own mother from DeathByChildbirth.]]
* ''GaoGaiGar'' combines this with the {{Invocation}} in MissionControl, whenever the heroes need to use the ForgottenSuperweapon or start a TransformationSequence:
-->'''Taiga:''' Final Fusion... (points dramatically) ''APPROVED!''\\
'''Mikoto:''' Roger! Final Fusion! (''Closes eyes, opens them with determined expression.'') Program [=DriiiiiIIIIIIIIve!=]\\
(''Mikoto smashes ''through'' the "molly-guard" safety glass covering the BigRedButton. Every time. Cue TransformationSequence for the titular CombiningMecha.'')
**Later in the series, she also swipes a keycard to release the Goldion Hammer for use. She does it so epically that one wonders what it looks like when she goes to the ATM!
**Taiga Koutaro is equally dramatic about turning the key that activates the card reader, but he's the living embodiment of this trope. Later still, he has a key that, when used in tandem with its partner, activates a super weapon that's a Goldion Hammer big enough to ''extinguish a sun''. You can imagine how understated he is when he uses it.
*** Made more hilarious by the fact that the partner key is held by the Prime Minister, a doddering old man who takes ''forever'' to retrieve it (fumbling in his coat for a few seconds as he does so), ''blow on it'' and ''then'' use it as it was intended.
*** No, you can't. Taiga ''defies'' imagination. Of course, given the situation and stakes, I'm surprised that Entouji managed to keep such a straight face during the transformation of the battleships. (Yeah, the hammer has a tiny handle made of battleships.)
*** Taiga is apparently ready to go with this sort of thing at all times. During the OVA sequel, he makes his grand appearance in the middle of a battle, carrying the key which can override the lock on Final Fusion... which is embedded into the grip of a golf club. That's right, ''he slams a golf club into a console as a valid command decision.'' The club's named the ''[[IncrediblyLamePun Taiga Wood]]'', no less.
** Also come into play early on in the series when they use the ridiculous end all attack Hell and Heaven on ''every single enemy''. Even the tiny motorcycle the size of GaoGaiGar's pinky, this can be argued as something needed to retrieve the Zonder core, but the core to the motorcycle was bigger than the motorcycle itself. Still the scene's really funny out of context, when you just see the last frame and it's Hell and Heaven colliding with seemingly ''nothing at all''.
** Also with the introduction of Liger Shishio, Leo's brother. When their SiblingRivalry gets physical, the ''narrator'' actually describes the attacks they use on each other with all the seriousness of Gao Gai Gar's.
* Uryu from ''{{Bleach}}'' occasionally displays lightning-fast, incredibly accurate... ''sewing'' skills, knitting away with the same stern concentration he has when battling.
** To be fair, this is meant to be [[RuleOfFunny funny.]]
** Also applied to Uryu in general, considering he makes his own uniform for battle, sheerly for the sake of looking cool...and even has a back up uniform if the first one gets damaged.
** Oh god, the Lucky Dance. I mean, really, I know a lot of people have cool entrances into battle but, come on...[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF1-8Qsigbc&feature=related it had to be this]]?
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_IHDZz0nZc Even better in the dub.]]
* ''KamenRiderKabuto'' took a (quite literal) CookingDuel between the titular character and a {{Masquerade}} monster, and used dramatic camera angles, [[SpeedStripes speed-lined]] ingredient chopping, and gratuitous usage of the show's [[ThemeMusicPowerUp rock theme]] for actual battles to boost the action of preparing a bowl of soup to epic levels. Considering the normally serious tone of the show, this skirted dangerously close to {{Narm}} levels. Though to be fair, cooking mastery was a major part of the lead's character.
*The trope is taken to its logical extreme with ''LuckyStar'''s Meito Anisawa (''Anisawa Meito'': ''Ani Me''), who turns his pursuit to sell something to "Legendary Girl A" Konata into something almost ''DragonBall''-like.
**Hiyori turns something as simple as [[{{dojikko}} tripping]] into an epic battle for the survival of one's drawing hand.
** And don't forget: shopping for trading cards is SeriousBusiness.
** Konata already has maps, routes, teams, designated locations, and ''synchronized'' watches for...a trip to Comiket.
* In ''PrinceOfTennis'', a mere tennis serve is illustrated by a sequence including the extinction of the dinosaurs by a meteor shower of tennis balls. Happily, this means the series about tennis does, indeed, put more drama into tennis than [[DeathNote the series about mass murder]] does.
** For those who are curious, the scene in question is available [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj-nfYMcJpk here on YouTube]].
** Still not convinced about the nature of the anime? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khpyUChlwfU Just gaze at this tennis match]] which is elevated to DragonballZ proportions. Words alone fail to describe it.
* ''{{Eyeshield 21}}'' does this a lot too. Although the way techniques in the manga are portrayed in a way such that you realize that the cool effects are purely symbolic, the anime features fast runners becoming surrounded by bright colorful ''battle auras''. Because! Sena is...''running!'' But! Not only is he ''running!'' He's running ''FAST!!''
* ''{{Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan}}'' plays Sakura-kun's death and resurrection in this manner in the final episode of the first series. Normally, this would be a legitimately dramatic scene... but in this series, this happens at least {{once an episode}} and is played purely for comedy, so handling it as if it were actually dramatic only makes it funnier -- which was probably their intention.
* Spoofed ruthlessly in the second season of ''SayonaraZetsubouSensei'': Itoshiki, tired of casual conversation, tries saying an incredibly casual phrase in an earth-shattering dramatic way. It turns out to be very fun to do, and all of his students take turns saying casual things extremely dramatically. It gets even better when they start practicing extremely dramatic reactions to the above statements.
** Chiri, however, subverts this right off the bat in the same scene by saying that she gave her sister a lethal vitamin injection in an overly dramatic tone, acting like it's actually no big deal at all.
** Frankly, Itoshiki-sensei makes remarking that something bugs you into an ''art form''. '''[[{{Catchphrase}} I'M IN DESPAIR!]]'''
* Minor example, but genre-savvy Haruhi of ''[[SuzumiyaHaruhi The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' fame manages to make a table tennis serve appropriately ''EPIC''. In the same episode, Kyon adds a brief burst of light to placing down what he thinks is a winning {{Mahjong}} set.
** To say nothing of the '''epic''' SpaceOpera that ensues in everyone's imagination when they battle the Computer Society in a doujinsoft RealTimeStrategy game. Complete with orchestral soundtrack and DeepImmersionGaming.
--->''"GLORY TO THE COMPUTER CLUB!!!"''
*** Made even funnier when it constantly swaps between the epic orchestral music and the mundane beep-music of the cheap strategy game in the real world and by the fact that we all know real gamers also act like this!
*** And the fact that she's already [[DynamicEntry Dynamic Entry'd]] the Computer Club President, followed by saying something like, "The contest begins when your opponent says contest!"
** Are you kidding? Haruhi is the epitome of this trope. Practically everything she does is presented as [[strike: overly dramatic]] enthusiastic, even walking into a room.
** Then we have ''Suzumiya Haruhi no Gensou'', the CD of the concert where the J-pop songs of the series are rearranged and played by nothing less than the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra.
** The scene when Kyon finally breaks the [[GroundhogDayLoop Endless Eight loop]], complete with swelling background music. The most dramatic declaration of [[spoiler:unfinished homework]] ever. Given how uneventful the past eight episodes had been, it was necessary.
** Naturally, ''HaruhiChan'' takes it further, with ''DeathNote''-style doodling-as-swordplay and Kyon and Haruhi building balloon-modelling into an fierce battle.
* On the matter of ''epic'' ping-pong, one can hardly forget the fighting manga-esque ping pong battle in ''[[TheWallflower Yamato Nadeshiko Shichihenge]]''.
* Ever silly, a RecapEpisode of ''ExcelSaga'' had quite possibly the most epic scene of setting up dominoes that has ever been made.
* ''JoJosBizarreAdventure'' has an Epic match of Rock, Paper, Scissors complete with people floating in the air, windows breaking, powers being stolen from people, and a kid throwing himself in front of a big rig truck because he lost and getting saved by the arrogant manga-ka he was playing against so that the kid couldn't steal his power (which, by the way, is the ability to read people, quite literally, like a book and write commands into people that they have to follow).
** Earlier in the story there is a epic poker match that involves fighting for souls, people being turned into poker chips and two people trying to out-cheat each other. Oh yeah, and the hero breaks the villain's finger for what seems like nothing at first (but is quickly shown to be interrupting a cheating attempt). The last wager quite literally knocks the villain out.
*** Part Two has the chariot race between Joseph and Wham, which involves vampire horses, a giant warhammer, a pillar being used as a weapon, massive crossbows, Wham [[EyeScream blinding himself]] to avoid being tricked, and several ImprobableAimingSkills. And it truly ''is'' awesome.
*** We could just go with the easy route and say everything that is JoJo is this. The only reason it doesn't get into RuleOfCool is because of how utterly insane everything, especially the increasingly insane and weird powers which are ''supposed'' to be PsychicPowers.
* ''TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' pulls out dramatic music and slo-mo at the end of episode 6 when Yoko loses her top.
** To say nothing of what they do when the giant robots actually get involved...
** The second episode had at least ten full seconds of seizure-inducing color-flashes when Kamina saw the skull in the dirt (granted, that skull turned out to be [[spoiler:Kamina's father]]).
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdfXUQspWNI Parallel Works 7]] wastes the series' best song, "Libera Me From Hell", on... nature shots and shadows of running people.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNrtK78tlJA Parallel Works 2]] has epic pachinko.
** The most ultimate [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWRC7opMMug&NR=1 punch]] in the world.
*** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFtw7qW7Vcw Oh no you didn't!!!]]
* ''AzumangaDaioh'' - Who knew test scores could be so action-packed?
-->'''Osaka:''' ''Forty-two points!''\\
'''Kagura:''' ''Thirty points!''\\
'''Tomo:''' ''Thirty-one points!''\\
'''All three:''' [[AllYourPowersCombined By our three scores combined]], we have a hundred and three!
** In a color chapter of volume 4 of the manga, Tomo, in a daydream sequence about what she would do if she had her classmates' abilities, makes an epic entry into the classroom in which she backflips from the classroom door into her seat, answers a question asked by the teacher, and says she forgot her textbook. Then back in reality, Tomo blames Osaka for the end of her daydream sequence, saying "her powers got mixed in there, and everything got all weird."
*** This scene was adapted into the anime thusly: Tomo announces the disbanding of the Bonkuras/Numbnuts/Knuckleheads, given that she's found a way to get out of being one herself: by stealing Sakaki's athleticism and Chiyo's intelligence. Osaka chimes in, saying that Tomo can have her lateness and forgetfulness. Tomo explains the consequences of absorbing these "abilities" as well, pretty much the same as described above for the manga. Osaka apologizes for these additions.
**The series runs off the trope.
* In ''AirGear'', Agito symbolically ''turns into a shark'' occasionally when he's just riding around. Similarly, Bucca turns into a ''tank'' (and other characters can apparently ''see'' this transformation) and Kazu turns into a ''jet'' at times, even if they're just riding to school, or something.
** Actually this can apply to pretty much anyone major to the plot, as various illustrations in the background to put emphasis on their "Roads" will be on the page. These Including Ikki's [[Film/{{Transformers}} Megatron-esqu jet]] with wings, Ringo's huge ass bundle of vines with what looks like [[GreekMythology Athena]] in the middle of it, and Aeon Clock [[spoiler:as well as Kazu and anyone else who can "stop time"]] with the huge mechanical workings of and gears spammed all over the page.
* ''BlackJack'' is to Medicine what ''PhoenixWright'' is to Law. Never will you find more epic surgery prep than in this anime.
** Not to forget ''Team Medical Dragon'' and ''Godhand Teru''. If these mangas are to be believed, performing surgery is the next most badass thing after being a ninja.
*** [[DrMcNinja Actually, it's right up there if you think about it.]]
* The first episode of ''{{FLCL}}'' shows [[KissOfLife "CPR"]] in BulletTime. We're then [[AnimatedActors told by the characters that it was shot in real time]].
* Like the ''Bleach'' example above, ''{{Gunnm}}: Last Order'' fetches at least one instance of supersonic needle point but that hardly holds a candle to two battle androids engaging in a truly epic round of thumb wrestling supplemented with flip kicks and century old Martian kung-fu.
* A frequently used comedic trope in ''RanmaOneHalf''. See: [[MartialArtsAndCrafts Fine Dining Martial Arts, Takeout Delivery Martial Arts, Rhythmic Gymnastics Martial Arts, Tea Ceremony Martial Arts, Calligraphy Martial Arts]]...and so on.
** "I will NEVER forgive this offense of the CURRY BREAD!"
** Taro might fit into this trope as well. His main goal in life is to replace his EmbarrassingFirstName, "Pantyhose", but all of his chosen replacements are attempts to take AwesomeMcCoolName literally, and thusly just as stupid- "Mr. Cool Taro", "Awesome Taro", etcetera.
** Ranma himself lampshades the tendencies of other martial artists to do this by giving fancy flowery names to manuevers such as "Ultimate Serenity Strike" or the like and later agreeing quite calmly that it was "just a backrub."
* ''KeroroGunsou'' parodies the living daylights out of this trope. About once an episode, Keroro tries to turn his dialogue into a dramatic declamation... about vacuuming... or model building... or going to the toy store...
* Employed several times in ''FullMetalPanic? Fumoffu'', most notably in the hot springs episode: Kurz Weber's LovableSexManiac antics collide with Sousuke's always-excessive security measures, with epic results. Kurz delivers not one but two "inspirational" speeches to Sousuke's classmates, the second of which sends Kazama into [[GundamSEED SEED mode]].
** One episode of the first ''FMP'' season features HumongousMecha engaging in fierce battles of tug-o-war and ping-pong.
** Also from ''Fumoffu?'', don't forget the epic, RousingSpeech-ifying, ''FullMetalJacket''-channeling, ([[UnnecessaryRoughness literally]]) jaw-shattering Rugby match.
** The 2nd episode of Fumoffu features an epic dash, complete with athletic moves, zooming and epic posing, all just to buy a loaf of bread from a lunch stand.
* In ''FullMetalAlchemist'', the day Colonel Roy Mustang becomes fuhrer, all female officers will be required to wear: '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9R9lWM3wio tiny miniskirts!]]'''
** The Colonel also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4dMQ7m9oQ0&feature=related loves dogs]].
*** And don't forget EVERYTHING [[LargeHam Alex Louis Armstrong]] does. [[ThisIsSPARTA EVERY. SINGLE. FREAKING. THING.]] With sparkles of AWESOME included.
**** But of course! This epicness has been passed down through the Armstrong family for generations!
* The dodgeball match in the ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' [[ComicBookAdaptation supplementary manga]] of the second season, which had [[SuperSoldier Fate]] vowing to protect Nanoha, performing a [[InaSingleBound Super Jump]] to keep said promise, and having a final showdown with [[ThoseTwoGuys Suzuka]], who had now been completely absorbed in the competitive atmosphere ("As expected from Fate-chan!"), complete with internal [[CombatCommentator Combat Commentary]]. It ended with Fate losing both the match and her consciousness after Suzuka successfully countered her nigh-impossible to dodge attack, which was depicted in slow-mo.
--> '''Arf:''' ...what kind of strength does that kid have...?\\
'''Amy:''' I wouldn't expect any less from one of Nanoha-chan's friends.
* The third episode of ''WelcomeToTheNHK'' turns ''googling porn'' into a magnificently epic adventure on the high seas.
** Before that it made Satou ''looking through uncensored hentai game CG sets'' (and [[ADateWithRosiePalms some other stuff]]) as astounding to the audience as it is to him by punctuating [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean reaching the end]] with ''giant explosions''. Lampshaded when a note on the screen says this is an imaginary screen.
* Kyoko Mogami, the heroine of ''SkipBeat'', is prone to exaggeration and flights of fancy. For a talent demonstration, she opts to ''peel a radish'' with what amounts to ''[[HotBlooded BURNING SPIRIT]]'', complete with [[{{Kiai}} intense roaring]] and [[OpenTheIris dilated eyes]]
* ''DigimonTamers'', where nearly every main character has a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7alo_8jtwJo different, epic, method to slide a card through their Digivice]], complete with fancy card spinning and flipping, and kung-fu moves. The payoff comes in the form of two sequences which come close to being actually epic, including a split-screen triple slash, and the final one where all four mains slash the same card
* The Ramen King subplot in episode eight of ''KemekoDeluxe'' turns ''eating ramen'' into SeriousBusiness.
** Not to mention [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNC-WqF3oCA&fmt=18 this scene]]. Best use of Beethoven's 9th ever? ''Hell yes.''
* ''OnePiece'': [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqNw_6Ayqao&NR=1 Pirate Docking 6: BIG EMPEROR!]], though it actually ''is'' CrazyAwesome.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwuHDyaGcMA Crocus' abuse of the dramatic moment,]] part of one of the more bizarre episodes of OnePiece. Also LampshadeHanging.
* Granted, the [[spoiler:rooftop duel between Keiichi and Rena]] at the end of the first season of ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi'' was pretty awesome on its own, but did they really ''need'' to play it up like it was [[StarWars Anakin vs. Obi-Wan]]?
** Water Gun fights and Zombie Tags are [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] to many viewers. However, they are rather over-exagerated.
** Also,being at the [[BeachEpisode pool]] and fighting. No, not [[IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight that fighting]]. The fighting like in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9L6slBJDQU Daybreak]].
** The water gun fight is even ''more'' dramatic in the manga.
* ''Kurozuka''[='=]s anime gives us the incredible, breath-taking, five-minute 'throwing a bag of excrement into the river' scene. I ''really'' wish I was just making that up.
** There is also a scene later on where Karuta gets rather too into making hotpot before the big battle, complete with dramatic beats and zooms.
* The ''Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok'' manga had a scene where the titular character taught the others how to drink milk... ''awesomely''. Possibly referencing the [[LegendOfZelda Ocarina of Time]] example below.
*The last episode of ''MacademiWasshoi'' features an intensive manga drawing scene complete with evil overlord pencil techniques, maniacal laughs, and pencils leaving streak marks across the sky... all too similar to [[DeathNote a certain other anime]].
* General Hengel in ''TentaiSenshiSunred'' takes on even the most boring of everyday dasks -- like buying furniture -- with an ''incredible seriousness'' and lightning effects in the background. His subordinate sees him as slightly loony, but is loyal nonetheless.
* No one mention ''SchoolRumble'' yet? The series LIVES off this trope
** During the sports festival, the jousting tournament is accompanied by music that would have fit in ''LordOfTheRings'' or ''StarWars''.
** The Survival Game episodes were made almost in the style of ''BattleRoyale''.
* ''{{Saki}}'' has {{Mahjong}} played with dramatic camera angles, speed lines, flashing lights, and gusts of wind. Of course, being able to get plus-minus zero score every time is pretty damn awesome and somewhat inhuman, but that is just the beginning. We're not just talking dramatic music and lighting, this goes BeyondTheImpossible and then turns it UpToEleven in ways you would not imagine. Winged creatures, transformation and ''lightning'' are only the '''beginning.''' Good luck understanding ''any'' of the actual mahjong play except through context, but it is frikkin' '''''epic'''''.
* What terrifying event upon the Flying Pussyfoot drives [[{{Baccano}} Isaac and Miria]] to horrified tears? It's not the hijackers, or the apparent appearance of the [[UrbanLegend Rail Tracer]]. Nor is it the mutilated, unrecognizable corpses scattering the train cars. The truly terrifying thing is the sudden realization that ''they forgot to get Ennis a present!'' '''[[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!]]'''
* Tamaki from ''{{Ouran High School Host Club}}'' explains the ways of the common people in this fashion.
* In the ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' anime, releasing a Pokémon onto the battlefield is often done with great emphasis, and a flashy background. When contests were introduced, it got a little more flashy. Thanks to a new contest upgrade in the Diamond/Pearl/Platinum games though (which then got introduced in the anime too), releasing a pokemon into a contest now is similar to setting off several large, bright, fireworks - '''''all at the same time'''''.
* It looks like the ''{{Gintama}}'' anime [[AffectionateParody learned a few things about this trope]] from ''DeathNote'' (even throwing in a [[TheCameo shinigami at the end]]), seeing how it kicked off its 3rd season with what else but tactical warfare over... who'd get to eat sukiyaki?
** Oh, and let's not forget that whoever "won" would become the [[ "nabe shogun/emperor"]].
** Or the rousing speech on the epic truth of Strawberry Milk. ICHIGO GYUNYU!!
* On an episode of ''MarsDaybreak'', the ''Ship of Aurora'' is trapped on a drained dock and Earth troopers are trying to cut their way in. TheCaptain calls to deploy the "Elizabeth Cannon." The rest of the crew suddenly get OhCrap looks on their faces and promptly cover their ears to prepare for the weapon's deployment... which consists of the captain (Elizabeth) yelling in the loudspeaker at the top of her lungs with the external loudspeakers turned all the way up. Don't laugh, it ''worked''.
* ''StreetFighter Alpha: The Movie'' uses extre close-ups, cuts to amazed onlookers and inspirational music when Ryu ties his headband on.
* Pretty much everything about ''CaptainTsubasa'' is done in awesome fashion with slow-motion and special effects. To count - soccer balls catching on fire, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciA3S-1EOGM shoots that are strong enough to rip clothing and ''send an adversary flying'']], inner monologues that sometimes evolve to ''mental dialogues'', special kicks that need to be ''shouted'' before used...
** Altough nothing compares to the ''awesomeness'' that are Kojiro Hyuga's training sessions. To learn a new kind of special kick, he usually has to ''shoot balls through waves on a beach'' or ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Tsa6U9K8M shoot balls to pierce through trees by summoning lightning]]''. I'm dead serious.
* More than one moment in {{Medabots}}, but especially when Ikki inserts Metabee's medal in its body. Seriously, I know it's his soul and everything, but is camera rotating, excessive posing and shouting really necessary to show a kid inserting [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean something in a robot?]]
* ''CowboyBebop'' gives us the best way to get rid of a fridge ever, with sparkles and orchestral music too. [[spoiler: Then Ed eats the monster that's been attacking them. Seriously.]]
* ''HigurashiNoNakuKoroNi Rei'' episode 1: Who would've thought that taking off Keiichi's trunks would be SeriousBusiness. Takano's Kunai Syringes, [[strike:Ciel's Black Keys]] Chie's T-squares, the Yamainu lurking in the pool, Oishi's riot police, Kasai's stun grenade among many others. Oh, and Keiichi's [[UnusualEuphemism fur seal]].
* MahouSenseiNegima gives us one of the most epic [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/c261/12.html arm wrestling matches]] ever. It ''blasts a hole in the floor''.
* Rust Blaster manages to turn [[http://www.onemanga.com/Rust_Blaster/1/22/ getting to the cafeteria first]] into a combination race/battle for survival, complete with the main character fighting off five guys at once to get the best meal possible.
* In ''LePortraitDePetitCossette'', Eiri vanquishes [[MadArtist Marchello Orlando's]] [[ArtInitiatesLife Cossette]] by drawing a portrait of the real one. Using [[OverdrawnAtTheBloodBank his own blood]].
*Wouldn't debate competitions be so much more interesting if they were as bright and shiny as the red and blue text in UminekoNoNakuKoroNi? This is so far more true in the VN than in the anime. In the VN, they'll literally show bright sword slashes flying through the dark while intense music like [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsOmgr3q4sA Dread of the Grave]] or [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuRRe1moVhY Dreamenddischarger]] plays.
** Umineko Chiru has Dlanor and Battler actually having a SWORD FIGHT with their respective truths...and it's pretty epic [[spoiler:especially when Battler decides to whip out the Gold Sword of Truth and completely trump her.]]
* ''OnaniMasterKurosawa'' is basically DeathNote [[XMeetsY but with fapping]]. Yes, really.

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[[folder:Fan Fiction]]
* The Gatemaster would be an otherwise fairly typical {{Sonic The Hedgehog}} self-insertion fic if it wasn't for a massive dose of this trope, along with an insane length. Also a case of TropesAreNotGood, as it only served to make the whole thing more pretentious and longwinded.
* Done in gloriously overblown epic-fantasy style with American politics [[http://randomactsofshark.blogspot.com/ here]].
* Anything described with PurpleProse in {{ShinjiAndWarhammer40K}}.
** For example, Shinji decides to clean the apartment: [[CrowningMomentofFunny "Demons of untidyness! Fear me! I have come, with the mop of justice and the sponge of truth! I shall cleanse you from this home! Let it be sanctified with the sweet scent of the Emperor's soap!"]]
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[[folder:Film]]
*''AmericanPsycho'' and business cards. Extreme close-ups, slow motion reveals, tense narration - hell, the main character even ''breaks down mentally and starts sweating and shaking'' when someone has a better business card than him. This is quite intentional, as the main character, as the title implies, is nuts.
** Not to mention the hilarious results of Luis Carruther, present to watch the first business card battle, getting his own ''gold'' business card just to be a part of the group (and whose card is also revealed in slow-motion and overblown dramatic effect). The result? A straight-faced Patrick puts on a pair of gloves and follows him into the bathroom to ''strangle him''.
* ''Angel Heart'': RobertDeNiro, as LouisCypher, eats the ''everloving hell'' out of a hard-boiled egg. Then again, he's just compared that egg to the human soul.
* Pretty much all of MichaelBay's ''{{Armageddon}}'', of which critics [[http://www.agonybooth.com/armageddon/ complain it looks like a giant trailer]].
* In a parody of one of the scenes in question from ''{{Armageddon}}'', the various monsters of ''MonstersInc'' [[PowerWalk walking on to the factory floor.]] Done with slow motion, dramatic music, and a strong backlight as they heroically...begin their typical day at work. The [[HilariousOuttakes fake outtake]] from the end credits take it even further, having a character trip and start a chain reaction of the monsters falling, all without stopping the slow motion and music.
* The ''[[Film/{{Batman}} Batman]]'' films, including the DarkKnightTrilogy, are '''notorious''' for this. Apparently Batman ''putting on his clothes'' is worthy of dramatic camera angles and epic DannyElfman/Elliot Goldenthal/Hans Zimmer & James Newton Howard music. To wit:
** ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdwPE_1qVTU Batman]]''
** ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3eK3qllT1Y Batman Returns]]''
** ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPSEDXw4ilc Batman Forever]]''
** ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH2n3sB9N5U Batman and Robin]]'' [[NauseaFuel (warning: Bat-butt)]]
** ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrqyHZhRuZk Batman Begins]]''
** Not to mention in "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6K1qNsE9v0 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm]]" when Alfred freaks out just watching.
* ''Bowfinger'' does it with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmLVvI9lAhA the arrival of FedEx]].
* Parodied in the beginning of ''BruceAlmighty'', using slo-mo as well as "cheesy inspirational music" to celebrate the creation of the world's biggest cookie. Later on, Bruce turns drinking a bowl of tomato soup into an awesome moment.
** He doesn't drink it, he just splits it like the Red Sea.
* A scene near the climax of ''Bullitt'' (a film which notably featured one of the most legitimately awesome [[ChaseScene car chases]] in the history of cinema, shot in a fashion that would seem almost minimalist by today's action movie standards) revolves around '''EXTREME DOCUMENT PRINTING'''.
** Hey, they had a ''fax machine!'' How cool is that??!!
* In the film ''Dungeons And Dragons'', [[LargeHam Jeremy Irons' acting]] was two notches above everyone else- and his eyebrows' acting was five notches over him. Those eyebrows deserve an award of some kind. He wasn't used to having so much green-screening done, and felt the need to compensate for the then-absent dragons, magic, and other factors by making everything as Damn Awesome as he could make it. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFTqvcQJtzQ The results can be seen here.]]
* ''[[{{Daredevil}} Elektra]]'' suffers intensely from this. At one point, Elektra, moving into a house, ''unpacks her toiletries'' to the accompaniment of the kind of disjointed editing and tense, thumping background music that usually accompanies things like billion-dollar heists and the assembly of home-made death-traps.
* The commercial for "Brawndo" energy drink from the film ''{{Idiocracy}}'' has an over-enthusiastic announcer who shouts every other set of words. It's got '''electrolytes!'''
** It also made [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru6p5NLXxvY riding a pony]] awesome.
* The opening of ''The Ipcress File'' has the main character getting up, getting dressed, making and eating breakfast, all to the accompaniment of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL2jVmODN3g one of the most haunting movie themes ever composed]]. However, this is totally deliberate and emphasises the [[SpyFiction unglamorous take on spies]] found throughout the movie.
* In one scene just before the climax of ''Film/IronMan'', Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane turns the act of taking a sip of whiskey into a long, intense, incredibly menacing event. As one reviewer put it, "he drinks the ''shit'' out of a glass of Scotch."
* The 2005 ''KingKong''. Jack Driscoll typing the letters to spell out "Skull Island" onto his typewriter.
* ''[[ThreeHundred 300]]'' used slow motion, camera effects and a voice-over to add [[{{HSQ}} AQ]] (Awesome Quotient) to many scenes. [[{{Narm}} Not all of them worked out]].
* Mocked in ''ShaunOfTheDead''. It takes the "tooling up" segments of horror movies (specifically the ''EvilDead'' films), and makes them things like getting ready for work. XTREME TOILET FLUSH!
** Also heavily used in the director's later parody/homage of cop movies, ''HotFuzz''. The concept is taken and beaten into the ground, with dramatic paperwork, dramatic murder-via-baked-beans, dramatic hitting-somebody-over-the-head-with-a-peace-lily, dramatic travelling-across-England, dramatic putting-change-on-a-counter, etc. It's somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
**Hitting a giant with a potted plant isn't just dramatic-- it's off the fuckin' ''[[BondOneLiner chain]]''!
***It was probably more about the [BondOneLiner] and the irony of beating someone down with a '''peace''' lily.
* Actor Michael York's entire acting method consists of intoning every line as dramatically as possible.
** [[AustinPowers Every role]]?
** Ditto Glenn Shadix.
* ''Film/TheWizard'' loves to play mundane things as godlike artifacts. For example, the [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=zfjE2z_x5k8 Power Glove]] is made to look like some high tech cybernetic enhancement, which is about the opposite of what it really was. Ironically, that scene shows just how "bad" it is, with the footage of Rad Racer being a mediocre at best performance (so much for his InformedAbility). And let's not forget SUPER! MARIO! BROTHERS! THREEEEEEEE~! (Then again, that game ''is'' pretty awesome.)
** And let's not forget the truant officer's equal parts mystified/horrified cry of "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?!" as the kids escape his clutches by boarding onto an elevator.
* ''MysteryScienceTheater3000: TheMovie'' calls out ''ThisIslandEarth'' for doing this at one point. Having shown the characters close up images of his devastated homeworld on the viewscreen, the alien character orders "Normal view" and we are treated to a static ten-second shot of our characters looking at a viewscreen now simply showing a planet, while the orchestra gives it the full dramatic PAH PAH PAAAAAAH!! PAH PAH PAAAAAAAA!! treatment.
**'''Mike, Tom and Crow:'''"Nor-mal view! NOR-mal view! NOR-MAL view! NOOOR-MAAAL VIIIEEEW!!!"
*** There is an eerie similarity between this melody and the opening to Antonio Lotti's ''Crucifixus''.
* In the first two ''StarTrek'' films, turning on the ''Enterprise's'' exterior floodlights (''especially'' the one lighting up the registry number), is given an ''EPIC'' treatment.
** Crosses the line into SceneryPorn. But they had to fill the time up with ''something''.
* ''StarTrekInsurrection'' combines this with {{Conservation of Ninjitsu}}. After the bad guys send down a bunch of small, flying robot drones that shoot darts, the heroes' encounter with dozens of them is treated like a standard mid-movie action scene. Their later battle against just five drones is given a far more epic treatment, including a Spaghetti Western style ''staredown'' with the drones before they draw their weapons.
* A recurring joke in ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' was to punctuate scenes like this with comments along these line:
---> ''(A teenager starts drink a coke as if he were in some kind of soft drink commercial)''
---> '''Tom Servo:''' (As the teenager) I'm gonna drink the ''hell'' out of this coke!
* ''{{Rifftrax}}'', the spiritual sequel to ''MST3K'', has used the joke in a similar manner:
---> '''Woman:''' I am so taking the stairs.
---> '''Bridget Nelson:''' ''So'' taking the stairs, I'm gonna take the ''hell'' out of those stairs!
* ''{{Rocky}}'' turned running up the stairs into a cultural phenomenon!
* ''{{Wanted}}'' has some of this – though it's hard to see mundane acts in that movie (Wesley and Fox's kiss probably counts).
* ''CasinoRoyale'' had some very dramatic music playing during JamesBond's drive from the airport to his hotel. The clincher was that he was driving in a Ford Focus, which is a far cry from 007's usual CoolCar.
** ''DrNo'' and ''FromRussiaWithLove'', being the first two Bond movies (not counting the original, unofficial "''CasinoRoyale''"), use the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Bond theme]] at every situation possible, even simple ones such as Bond's airplane arriving and 007 driving to the beach.
* [[MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail "We want... [dramatic chord] A SHRUBBERY!!"]]
** This one got a ShoutOut by accident in a [[TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]] script. Someone wrote "shrubbery" in the margin where a ScareChord was called for, and it got typed up.
* ''{{Stardust}}'' has an odd habit of putting very dramatic music and sweeping wide shots in scenes of everyone travelling. Okay, fair enough when it's a flying pirate ship. Not so much when it's just people walking. It's SceneryPorn music.
* The opening credits to ''SweeneyTodd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street''. Pies have never ''been'' so dramatic. There Will Be CGI Mince. Slightly logical, since they are of course [[spoiler:murder pies]].
* [[BetterThanItSounds For three men standing around in a graveyard and doing nothing]] [[LeaveTheCameraRunning for five whole minutes]], the [[ShowdownAtHighNoon final triello]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD2s-LJNXZ0 between the three protagonists]] of [[{{ptitlehluotwyqio1w}} The Good, The Bad and The Ugly]] is made awesome thanks to dramatic camera angles and [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome aweseome music]]. Of course, it ''is'' pretty damn awesome.
* {{Tommy}} - Pinball: the new religion!
* The documentary ''The Nation State'' introduces all of the guest professors in the film by doing a black-and-white, slow-motion close-up as the professor turns his head toward the camera, with (in some cases) dramatic music playing in the background. [[{{Narm}} And an entire anthropology class bursts into laughter.]]
* Stephen Chow plays with this in many films such as ''God of Cookery'', ''ShaolinSoccer'' and ''KungFuHustle'', dramatizing in slow motion and special effect hyperbole cooking, eating, and playing soccer, among other more mundane activities. Also, [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment musical numbers tend to break out]] at moments that wouldn't be as awesome without them.
* [[{{Bollywood}} Dhoom 2]] invokes this trope all the time. One of the most egregious examples also involves ProductPlacement. As [[NotSoDifferent Jai Dixit theorizes about the antagonist]], we see Mr. A in his SuperVillainLair. One of his inventions is a bracelet that can pull anything magnetic towards him. So naturally... he pulls a can of Coca-Cola towards him, and drinks it as the movie's theme song plays. [[CriticalResearchFailure nevermind that Coca-Cola cans are made of aluminum.
*Kevin Costner, aka ''The Postman'', awesomely delivers mail. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_sp8KbXgMM Behold!]]
* Paul Edgecomb peeing for the first time after having his urinary tract infection cured in ''TheGreenMile''.
* {{Blades of Glory}}. Just... all of it. Unless of course you take ice dancing seriously...
* TheStinger of ''MonstersVsAliens'' features the most epic [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V043oH_PZZg coffee request]] ever.
* [[TheDArkCrystal Trial By Stone]] consists f two old buzzard beating a rock with swords. The fuss they make over it, it should bebetter
* Documentaries about [[ApocalypseHow 2012]] get into this. In one, the narrator is talking about the possibility of Earth's magnetic field shifting, causing technological breakdowns, spontaneous earthquakes, and other horrendous effects. Said narrator says all of this in suitably dramatic fashion...which is somewhat undermined by his giving exactly the same emphasis when he points out that "Your compass will not point in the same direction any more."
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[[folder:Literature]]
* English poet Byron, back in the late 18th century, wrote this marvellous piece on the death of the hated Lord Castlereagh:
--> "Posterity will ne'er survey\\
A nobler grave than this.\\
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh\\
Stop, traveller, and piss"
* In one surviving fragment of a Greek poem by Hipponax, the poet wrote in Homeric verse, complete with the stylistic invocation of the Muse. The subject boiled down to, "Boy, that guy's a jerk, and I hope he dies." That makes this trope OlderThanFeudalism.
* The Roman poet Ovid wrote a poem in which he dramatically curses everything (the maid who delivered it, the wax and wood it was written on, the bees who made the wax, etc.) remotely connected with the letter his girlfriend sent him saying she didn't want to see him that day.
* English poet Alexander Pope wrote ''The Rape Of The Lock'' as a satirical, thinly fictionalized account of a contemporary society scandal... in mock-heroic, ludicrously overblown '''''EPIC VERSE'''''. He did this as a way of pointing out how ''utterly stupid'' it was to make a scandal out of the incident in question.
** Just to make clear how overblown it really is, the crimes described with an epicness that makes ''DeathNote'' look mundane include a [[YuGiOh game of cards described in battle-field terms]], a woman killing a man by frowning at him (and resurrecting him again by smiling), divine intervention as the villain tries to cut the lady's hair, and the finale, in which the severed lock of hair flies up to the heavens to become a star in the sky.
** The title itself in an exemplar of the trope. It echoes such Classical Roman tales as "The Rape of the Sabine Women" (rape used here in the sense of theft or capture). A story about someone stealing a lock of some girl's hair is thus elevated to the level of Roman Epic, before we've even started. Smart guy.
* The parody epic ''Batrachomyomachia'' (or ''Battle of Frogs and Mice''), sometimes attributed to Homer (the author of the better known ''Illiad'' and ''Odyssey''). "Frog-mouse war" (in Czech, at least) has become a term for a pointless, overblown conflict.
* ''The Wizard, The Witch, And Two Girls From Jersey'' spoofs this (along with most existing fantasy tropes) when the elves' epic poetry turns out to be about drinking a glass of water. It's hilarious. Really.
* The whole point of the bizarre ''[=NaNoWriMo=]'' novel ''[[http://community.livejournal.com/beststoryever/ The Best Story Ever]]''. A little robot, a little robot ferret, and a little robot sheep. Also cowboys, pirates, ninjas, Spartans, cave Vikings, samurai, inferno bees, jetpacks, velociraptors, wailing electric guitars, repeated fourth-wall breakage, and next to no grammar. At one point, the author actually says there's only been six sentences in the whole story. It also helps that the story has no idea whether it's a video game or not.
**Don't forget the boxers who live at the south pole. They have an entire chapter devoted to them. Also, the planet the story takes place on is SO EXTREME that there's only an EXTREME HIGH NOON side and an EXTREME NIGHT side.
* At one point in the {{Discworld}} novel ''Maskerade'', the protagonist has to learn the famous "Departure aria", in which her character sings about how difficult it is to leave her lover. This stunning piece of opera music (one of the opera masters is moved to tears to the point of being unable to speak by a talented rendition) turns out to [[FunWithForeignLanguages roughly translate]] as ''"This damn door sticks/This damn door sticks/It sticks no matter what the hell I do/It is marked pull and indeed I am pulling/Perhaps it should be marked push?"''.
** ''Wintersmith'' features the semi-literate, word-phobic Rob Anybody Feegle performing probably the most dramatic spelling of the word "marmalade" ever.
** ''[[ThisIsSparta THIS. IS. NOT. MY. COW.]]''
** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Death of Rats]]. [[foldercontrol]]

[[folder: Squeak. ]]

* A signature feature of NealStephenson's fiction is the grandiose, ridiculously detailed, and long digression describing some mundane or tedious activity. Examples include delivering a pizza (''SnowCrash'') and eating a bowl of cereal (''{{Cryptonomicon}}'').
* The gunshot that defines the second half of ''TheStranger'' is described something like this.
* ''TheEyeOfArgon'' devotes about half a page to a guy falling over after suffering a GroinAttack.
** Earlier than that, the following describes the hero's wine getting kicked over:
---> ''A flying foot caught the mug Grignr had taken hold of, sending its blood red contents sloshing over a flickering crescent; leashing tongues of bright orange flame to the foot trodden floor.''
* Florian and the otters in the {{Redwall}} book ''Marlfox'' perform a [[ShowWithinAShow Play Within A Book]] detailing a Duel of Insults. The characters hurl verbal abuse at each other and react as if wounded when their opponent makes a particularly [[IncrediblyLamePun cutting remark]].
* ''Secret House'' is all about this. Think Bill Nye in book form.
* PrideAndPrejudice and Zombies. That is all.
** Plus, it has ninjas!
** Now there's also SenseAndSensibility and Sea Monsters.
*The Catullus poem that starts 'Mourn, all you Venuses and Cupids...' and continues with a tragic description of the journey to the Underground. It could be summarised as 'I'm sad because my girlfriend's sad because her sparrow died.'
* Carl Sagan makes the ability to read into an epic, astounding, time-and-death defying feat.
--> A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person – perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* [[http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/#mea=2921 Lazy Sunday]]
* News Promos. ''TheDailyShow'' and ''TheColbertReport'' of course parody this mercilessly.
** And then ''The Daily Show'' went BeyondTheImpossible to bring us ''[[http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=178209&title=the-news-better-run this]]''.
** And then, on election night, they went further! '''[[http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=209508&title=Indecision-2008:-America%27s-Choice---Stephen%27s-Distractions CHUCK! JUICE IT!]]'''
*** '''THE FINAL ENDGAME ALPHA ACTION GO TIME LIFT-OFF DECIDE-ICIDAL HUNGRY MAN'S EXTREME RAW POWER ULTIMATE VOTESLAM SMACKDOWN '08 NO MERCY: JUDGEMENT DAY '08'''
* ''TheDayToday'', which did the over-the-top title sequence gag throughout every show in early 1994.
* ''{{WKRP in Cincinnati}}'', where Les Nessman's promo for the farm news was so massively, enormously overblown that it was an IncomingHam ''all by itself''.
* Standard operating procedure for any sports retrospective film, such as the NFL archive: a spoonful of slow-motion, a cup of the orchestral styling of Sam Spence, and season liberally with stark-voiced narration by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Facenda John Facenda]], and you've transformed a simple blocked pass into guarding the pass at Thermopylae.
** Australian coverage of the 2002 Winter Olympics repeatedly showed the final where every skater fell over [[DarkHorseVictory except for the Aussie, who won gold]]. With the orchestral, slo-mo replay, they tried their hardest to make it look like [[{{Narm}} it was Australia's greatest sports triumph and the greatest and most deserving victory since the destruction of Troy]].
*** Speaking of sports, here's a sample of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP11L9jRW94 snooker commentary]]. By {{BRIANBLESSED}}.
* Fans of ''DoctorWho'' often complain that the ChaseScene music continues after the ChaseScene is over, particularly in the last few seasons of the old show, and all of the new one.
** Almost all episodes of the revived series rely heavily on this trope; season-ending episodes routinely bury [[DeusExMachina Dei Ex Machina]] and related flaws under ''mountains'' of insistence from the writers, actors and the score that whatever is occurring is Awesome.
** One of the 2009 hour-long specials, "Planet of the Dead", tries to make the act of stepping on a bus tense and dramatic. Granted, it's a ClassyCatBurglar escaping the police, but she's not even ''running''. It's just a few shots of the police looking bewildered, her approaching the bus and the bus driver noticing her, set to some painfully over-the-top music.
* Parodied in ''{{Scrubs}}'' where an episode began with a melodramatic portrayal of Dr. Cox's four-year-old son Jack receives minor stitches on his forehead complete with epic music with Dr. Cox threatening Turk (who is doing the stitches) coldly that he better succeed. Once Turk finishes and everything is okay, Dr. Cox declared "The Surgeon lives!"
** Another parody in ''{{Scrubs}}'', also involving Dr. Cox, is J.D.'s imagined flashback of Dr. Cox in his intern days as a head-swaying, rebelious punk-rocker intern who responds to a colleague's greeting with, "Shut-up jackass. I ''rock''!!".
** In "My Friend the Doctor", Dr. Cox (who has a hurt back) bends down and picks up his badge off the floor, in slow motion and set to "Hero" by Enrique Iglesias. Though Carla admits that it ''was'' impressive.
* Hilariously parodied in the "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMoO2MD8HM4 nWo Saturday Night]]" segments of ''WCW Saturday Night'', which would see an nWo member take on a {{Jobber}} in a five-minute match; each and every move done by the nWo member would be augmented by over-the-top special effects, replayed from at least 5 different angles, and get thunderous, deafening applause and cheers from the (nonexistent) crowd.
* The TitleSequence of ''{{Dexter}}'' shows his normal morning sequence, but filmed in a way to seem like horrific and brutal parts of a murder sequence: a blood orange is viciously sliced then viscerally disemboweled, dental floss pulled like a garotte, [[ThereWillBeToiletPaper a small cut while shaving]] has us watch the slowly spreading blood... watch [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utqoFsMYPKs here]].
* The reality show ''WhoWantsToBeASuperhero'' likes to toss in special effects during editing -- objects appear in a blast of lightning instead of being brought out normally, etc. Granted, the show is about people coming up with concepts for superheroes, so it's thematic, but when the object is a boring old laptop, it just decreases the "reality" portion of the program.
* In the ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "Journey to Babel", in which Sarek is introduced, Sarek's shuttlecraft slowly arriving in the hangar gets louder, more dramatic music than even most battles.
* Japanese example: ''IronChef''. Dramatic orchestral music is used for almost all the musical cues, and the lead cameraman is apparently in love with crane shots that pan over the entire kitchen.
**And the fact that they use Instant Replay on a cooking show.
** [[http://takeshikaga.ytmnd.com How the dramatic yellow bell pepper eating by Chairman Kaga was missed by the previous editor, complete with loud sound effect, is unbelievable.]]
** "[[{{Spinoff}} In the immortal words of my uncle...]] '''''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome ALLEZ CUISINE!]]'''''"
* Pick an NBC reality show. The word "is" is... *20 seconds later* ...contractually obligated to have a pause that is... *we'll be right back*...*after commercials* ...longer than the show itself. Most could, in fact, be comfortably edited to run in a half-hour TimeSlot instead of an hour... if the network were willing to give up the extra {{commercials}} (yeah, right) and the whole idea wasn't to fill up as much PrimeTime as possible as cheaply as possible.
* Parodied in the ''WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' game "Improbable Mission," which puts an everyday task to ''MissionImpossible'' drama standards and plays it for laughs.
* ''MythBusters'' played inspirational/awe-inspiring music when Adam and Jamie successfully created a lead balloon.
** Well, yeah, but that ''was'' pretty darned cool.
* Two Words: [[CSIMiami Horatio...]][[GlassesPull ]][[CSIMiami ...Caine.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948 YEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!]]
** {{Jim Carrey}} parodies this beautifully [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glvGfQnx3DI here]].
*** As does WeeblAndBob, [[http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/CSI/ here]]
** Self-parodied by [[{{CSI}} the original series]] in Fight Night -- Grissom delivers his one-liner at the end of the teaser ("And a death during a felony? ... That's murder"), and the theme music revs up, but it's cut off by Grissom's beeper. Grissom looks really annoyed, and has to look into a second case before the credits roll.
** This also commonly turns up in the original as a technique to punch up its montage scenes of late-night lab work, by overlaying rapid-fire close up shots of each step (usually involving such mundane tasks such as adjusting a microscope or heating a test tube) with fast paced techno music.
** The CSI "one-liner leading into a Who song" motif was parodied on an episode of ''Two and a Half Men.'' Alan's bubblehead ex got a role on a spin off playing a Grissom/Caine/Taylor [[{{Expy}} Expy]] whose unbelievably groan-inducing one-liner led into "Squeeze Box."
* ''GarthMarenghisDarkPlace''
* ''{{Spaced}}'' at many, many points, including Brian taking Marsha's coat, and heroically [[PowerWalk power walking]] it into the bedroom with stirring heroic music.
** Music is from {{TheMagnificentSeven}}
* Spoofed in ''{{Seinfeld}}''. Elaine starts dating an aspiring author whose manuscript she's editing, [[ManHands until he neglects to put an exclamation point in a message that her friend had a baby]]. This causes Elaine to go a little overboard in adding exclamation points to the book, which her boss chews her out for while reading some samples in a mock-dramatic narration.
* In this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV5LF8dwd-8 youtube video]] special effects are used to spice up a sumo match. Really, really spice up. At one point a wrestler delivers such a ''mighty blow'' that the Earth is ''split in two''.
** [[http://check-it.org/14/ checkit014]] has all his sumo and [[RagnarokOnline Ragnarok Online]] videos like this.
* Would you believe [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GbaFAF7iME subscribing to a magazine]] will not only make YourHeadAsplode, but also make Your Entire ''World'' A-splode?
** Parodied with typical relish [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKo-DtRUsfA here.]]
* The ''HowIMetYourMother'' episode "Monday Night Football" uses this technique as the main characters try not to find out who won the superbowl.
**Barney plays this trope straighter than an arrow with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WDmEZP9Czg his video resume]]. The other characters [[LampshadeHanging hang a lampshade]] on it.
* Done a lot on the PBS mini series ''The 1900 House''. The new residents of the 1900 house would have a WDYMINA moment whenever something that would have been commonplace to an everyday family in 1900 (but unusual in 1999) happened. "The chicken laid an egg!" "I made toast!(without electricity)" or, conversly, when something that would be odd in 1900 happened. "I bought shampoo!" "I'm not wearing underwear!"
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLrizEcgIDQ Milk makes you strong]]
* While most of Planet Earth is nothing but [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome sheer awesomeness]], the ending section of one episode features the aerial ''camera crew'' climbing into the helicopter in ''dramatic slow motion''.
* ''TomicaHeroRescueForce'', which makes the {{Rescue}} genre much cooler then it has any right to be.
* Not that it wasn't epic already, but Roy and HG managed to make Eric Moussambani's ridiculously slow swim in Sydney even more epic. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zjCc_VyxM4&fmt=18 YouTube, anyone?]]
*[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzwU8_E13oQ Epic Shogi!!]] Note the name of the video; apparently trope awareness has gone global.
* BillNyeTheScienceGuy is a ScienceShow built around this trope.
* Johnathan Burking of ''America's Got Talent'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeN_m3UmPZo makes baton twirling, of all things, look awesome]]. With fire.
* In what is possibly the most awesome (and random) channel ident ever, BBC1 brings us [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHpfyeIxnQw dogs doing stunts]] to a soundtrack that seems to have been borrowed from an action movie.
* ''{{Supernatural}}'' has one of these in the episode "Mystery Spot". Sure it was awesome when Sam drove the Impala, cleaned the weapons, and (especially) stitched his own bullet wound in a TimePassesMontage, but the dramatic music didn't really work with the other scenes of Sam brushing his teeth, eating chicken, and making his bed. That's right, Sammy, you show that bedspread who's a badass!
* The block trailer that showcases some of Animal Planet's latest shows (''Whale Wars'', ''It's Me or the Dog'', ''Living with the Wolfman'') features stark silver and black text for the Animal Planet logo and the names of the shows and a soundtrack that could have come right out of a trailer for an action movie. And the final scene is a woman whipping out what looks like an extendable baton. Complete with AssKickingPose.
* [[MontyPythonsFlyingCircus In 1970 the British Empire lay in ruins...]]
** It's... Bicycle Repair Man!!
* TopGear: because it's not just a shot of a guy standing next to a stationary car, it's a desaturated shot of a guy standing next to a stationary car with forced perspective so he looks like a midget and the shot has been flipped upside down so you aren't quite sure which is the car and which is the reflection of the car in a puddle and also there is stirring orchestral music and a brief jump cut to some sort of atmospheric local wildlife before coming back to the car.
**''...in the world.''
* A recent Discovery Channel show called ''Time Warp'' consists entirely of guys running around with high-speed cameras and filming random things, ''but very slowly''. A lot BetterThanItSounds, since most things look significantly cooler when shot in 5000 FPS.
** The great thing about the show is they don't even ''pretend'' they're doing it for some higher scientific purpose, like the {{Mythbusters}} do. They straight up admit that they're just doing what they do because it's [[RuleOfCool really, really cool]].
* On {{Smallville}}, in a bathroom Lana Lang cuts her hair three inches . . . And she's ready for the world!!!!
* Did anyone else notice Danko's surprisingly emphasized shaving scene at the beginning of "[[Series/{{Heroes}} Cold Snap]]"?
* Anyone who thought the diablo couldn't be awesome, obviously wasn't watching the 2009 Grand Final of ''Australia's Got Talent''; otherwise they would've seen this kid: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7iWcjnGcw8 William Campbell.]]
** Um, [=EVERYONE=] thinks the ''{{Diablo}}'' is awesome. Or did you mean the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabolo diabolo]]''?
* [[{{The Tonight Show}} The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien]]: TWITTER TRACKER TWITTER TRACKER TWITTER TRACKER!!!!
* Extreme rice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf8cM7f6P2I
* The ''StargateAtlantis'' episode "First Contact" features several completely unnecessary pans across the entire city with stirring theme music playing loudly in the background, which cut to Rodney and Daniel Jackson doing something mundane like looking at security recordings. It's so overblown that it's almost certainly [[{{Lampshade hanging}} intentional]]. This ''is'' Stargate, after all.
* Subverted in one episode of {{30 Rock}}: Kenneth the NBC page's blazer is accidentally destroyed and his only way to get a replacement is to beat his rival in an epic contest called a "page-off". Just as all the NBC pages are gathered to watch the hotly anticipated battle begin, Pete the producer arrives. He puts a stop to the silly event, points out that there are plenty of unused jackets available for Kenneth, and angrily orders all the pages back to work.
* The first season of {{Babylon 5}} had an unfortunate tendency to end random scenes with dramatic musical stings, including many that did not remotely justify such treatment. Later seasons [[GrowingTheBeard toned it down]] (or perhaps the series simply got epic enough to keep up with its soundtrack).
* ''TheBigBangTheory'': It's a training montage! To "Eye of the Tiger"! About... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5oc-70Fby4 physics]]!!
* An off-air example: In ''DirtySexyMoney'', it was decided that they would discover that one of the Darling children was actually the illegitimate child of Letitia and Dutch. Dutch's legitimate son, Nick, had been romantically involved with Karen Darling. The production meeting on this one addressed the [[BrotherSisterIncest gorilla in the room]] by writing the word "INCEST" on the board in huge letters and then dramatically X-ing it out. [[spoiler:Brian turned out to be the illegitimate one, perhaps hinted at by the fact that he himself has an illegitimate son.]]
* When the first self-righting mechanism was accidentally discovered on RobotWars, it was subject to no fewer than ''six instant replays, each from a different angle''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&hl=en-GB&v=QuHnNXpWld0 Observe]].
* [[http://www.hulu.com/watch/63320/cosmos-the-lives-of-the-stars#s-p1-so-i0 Take a look]] at the intro to the ''Cosmos'' episode The Lives of The Stars, by Carl Sagan. Ominous music, startling shots, slow motion, sudden violence, all at larger-than-normal scale... Most epic, significant apple pie making ''ever''. And then it turns to perfectly average baking and serving. Of course, if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe...
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[[folder:Music]]
* The WeirdAlYankovic song "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT060JGp9sQ Trapped In The Drive-Thru]]" acts as if getting dinner at [=McDonald=]'s has the same impact as breaking up with a girlfriend.
** The song is a parody of R. Kelly's "Trapped in the Closet", which is an epic-length "Hip-Hopera" (22 separate chapters and counting...) about the inhabitants of an apartment complex doing little worthy of the drama. It features Kelly throwing his full vocal might into lines like "And then he said, 'I'ma heat this chicken!'".
*** Which, ironically, sounds like it could be a line from the aforementioned parody...
** This is pretty much Weird Al's usual strategy, changing the lyrics of epic rock songs or heartfelt pop songs to be about riding the bus or buying crap on eBay or eating ice cream. Interestingly though, perhaps his most pure use of this trope is not in a spoof but in an original song, an ecstatic paean to the opening of a local hardware store. Also interestingly, his song "Jurassic Park" ''inverts'' this -- taking an overblown epic about [[strike: a cake going soggy in the rain]] love and loss and making it about fleeing giant killer dinosaurs.
** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZsIQk7o-p0 Albuquerque]]" made ''ordering friggin' donuts'' epic!
* The ''ShyChild'' song "Drop the Phone" features fast-paced, anguished, barely intelligible yelling over an EPIC electro track - until you listen closely to the lyrics and realise it's about a guy checking his voicemail: "Then I just used a landline, to call my phone and check on my voicemail. The message is wiped!". Even worse, the chorus is an angry RageAgainstTheHeavens... about the fact that everyone else's cellphone can get a signal and his can't!
* James Blunt's music video for "You're Beautiful", as parodied on ''MadTV''. "Now I'm putting a bunch of stuff on a line on the floor, have you ever seen such a kickass video before?"
* ''Grunt: Pigorian Chant'' sounds exactly like something from a ''Pure Moods'' compilation... until you read the liner notes and realize it's [[MotherGoose nursery rhymes]] about barnyard animals being sung in PigLatin.
*Parts of ''Paul [=McCartney=]'s Liverpool Oratorio.'' There actually is some important drama of some sort going on in that sequence where the female lead is singing "Cancel my appointment to the squash club"--but it proved hard to get past that line. And if you don't already know [[ViewersAreGeniuses the true implications]] of "making an appointment with the Minister of Love"--a section that really is meant to be climactic--you might get baffled.
* The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew9YQVRSlHE music video to the AnJ song "Gorbachov"]]. Hot Russian women are [[DistressedDamsel under attack]] by Communist zombies, who get their asses kicked by a Conanized Mikhail Gorbachev wielding everything from his shield and axe to machine guns to laser eyes.
* Eileen Ivers, who dares to ask the question, "Would you like your traditional Irish fiddling with ''a freakin' wah-wah pedal??''" (The answer: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELav0ow-Quk Yes.]])
* Dave Chappelle did a hilarious skit where he pointed out "everything is cooler in slow motion" that ended with him flying off a toilet taking a slow motion dump.
* Miley Cyrus [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4TMbCu8KcU has stated]] that her song "Bottom of the Ocean" is about her mother flushing her fish. However, you would never guess that by the lyrics of the song, which treat the death of the fish as if it had the impact of a sad breakup. It's borderline {{Narm}} in context.
* In ''Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny'', Jack Black's character envisions himself literally blowing up someone's head with the power of the Pick. Even more awesome is that this doesn't stop him: he apologizes to the head-asplode man ''in the song'':
-->'''Jack Black''' I did not mean...\\
'''Kyle Glass''' He did not mean...\\
'''JB''' To blow your mind...\\
'''KG''' To blow your mind...\\
'''JB''' But that shit happens to me...'''ALL THE TIME!!!!'''
*Do a Google search for Manowar. An image search if you want to see their album covers. These people tried to use the rule of cool and just ended up [[http://everseradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/12/manowar1.jpg making themselves look downright stupid.]]
** Did you honestly expect anything different from [[{{Narm}} Manowar]]?
* For that matter, try GWAR. They went so far as to dress up in [[http://www.fourteeng.net/Logos/gwar-wp.jpg slightly-more-intimidating Power Ranger villain costumes...]]
* How to rock out with Cellos, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGnAzkh9kn0 lesson one]].
** {{Your mileage may vary}} on that one.
* You will never find a more heart-rendingly anguished song about hockey goal-tending than The Tragically Hip's "Lonely End of the Rink".
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7sHLjI1sQE Alestorm]] and Swashbuckle are {{pirate}} metal bands.
* Igor Keller brings you "Mackris vs. [[FoxNewsChannel O'Reilly]]", a sexual harassment lawsuit [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wxc8ZY0plM4 in opera form]].
* JonathanCoulton's song "Mandelbrot Set" is an epic rock ballad with an [[EarWorm insanely catchy riff]] about one man's world-changing battle against the forces of chaos. The man? Benoit Mandelbrot. The forces? Abstract mathematics. The means of his victory? Well... You take a point called Z in the complex plane / Let Z1 be Z squared plus C / And Z2 is Z1 squared plus C / And Z3 is Z2 squared plus C and so on...
**It would be even better if he'd actually ''described'' a Mandelbrot set. What he described was a Julia set.
* Behold the epic tournament of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dL9mlqbG5CU Hammerfall vs. The Swedish Womens Olympic Curling Team]]! Guess who wins.
* Nanowar, being a parody of Manowar, obviously runs entirely on this trope. And ON STEEL!
* '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfISlGLNU I'M ON A BOAT!]]'''
**Would you expect anything less of the guys who brought us Lazy Sunday? (Which is mentioned above under "Live Action TV" in its own right)
**There's also "Who Said We're Wack?", which has an epic battle-rap backing complete with dramatic strings, and is written as though calling someone "wack" is the gravest insult imaginable ("How could a person up and call a person wack?/ How could the devil turn the blue sky black?").
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NisCkxU544c LIKE A BAWHS]]
* Sisqo's Thong Song. And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3wtt8yRxYU HOW.]]
*"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvnYIxv_364 Canvas Bags]]" by Tim Minchin embodies this trope. An environmental ballad about taking canvas bags to the supermarket instead of plastic bags. It devolves into a rap-interlude by Minchin, the song becoming a massive CrowdSong with the audience waving canvas bags around, and then he brings on a fan, unbuttons his shirt, and lets it [[DramaticWind flap in the wind]], finishing off with a TruckDriversGearChange to end the set. At some gigs, he even sets off the pyrotechnics.
* John Cage's ''4:33'' consists of a pianist sitting down before a piano and spending the title time making ''no sound whatsoever''.
* Paul and Storm, formerly of Da Vincis Notebook, present: [[http://www.paulandstorm.com/lyrics/eddie-praeger/ The Ballad of Eddie Praeger]].
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[[folder:ProfessionalWrestling]]
* Any feud summary used in ProfessionalWrestling marketing of upcoming events. It's often less interesting to actually watch pay-per-view extravaganzas than it is the promotional videos explaining them. Extra points to TNA's promos for their annual ''Lockdown'' pay-per-view, which do a pretty convincing job of making a six-sided cyclone-fence cage look like it should be banned by the Geneva Convention.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* You would think that after having done that countless times ''Gargoyles'' would stop taking dramatic poses before petrifying at sunrise. Nope. And let's not forget [[NostalgiaCritic The Most Epic Yawn In History]].
** If you were going to pose for a statue that potentially hundreds of people would see for the next 12 hours, wouldn't you strike the most impressive pose possible? And if you could get a do-over every 24 hours, why not do it better?
* Various characters in ''InvaderZim'' made frequent use of the trope, in conjunction with stylized expressions and loud vocalizations. The very first instance would have to be:
-->'''Professor Membrane''': Quiet, son! I'm making ''(large field of electricity crackles)''... toast!
** Also the episode title (rendered in foot-high solid lettering, one word at a time, while spinning through space) - "ZIM EATS WAFFLES"
** And also the episode "Germs", where Zim embarks on the vital and life-threatening mission of... ''cleaning his house''.
** Also, let's not forget the one episode where Dib gets powers, and showed off how awesome it was by sliding from the 2nd floor to the first, ''outside of his house'', threw toast, butter, and orange juice in the air, all forming to make breakfast, which he also ate in the air.
** Another Zim example, this one from a crossover: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x1JIAcbCbs this scene]] in ''[[NicktoonsUnite Nicktoons: Globs of Doom]]'' has bragging about mundane tools as if they were killer weapons of destruction (complete with fanfare):
--->'''Zim''': Eh, this squeaky toy will do you no good. You need the plunger '''''[[DoomyDoomsOfDoom OF DOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!]]'''''
** You're all forgetting the best example of all. Five words: "''A room...'''with a moose!'''''"
**What about FBI Warning of Doom? Zim attempts to return a movie, while a crazed mall cop tries to stop him. (Because it was after hours.) The whole ordeal ends with the cop trying to stop Zim with a zombie army. However, it can all be summed up with this one line:
---> Video Cleark: If that movie isn't in our drop box by the time we open tomorrow, you're gonna have to paaaaaaayyyyy..... '' '''late fees!''' ''
* ''[=~SpongeBob SquarePants~=]'', in the episode "Procrastination". As the name implies, Spongebob grapples with his denial for hesitation in writing a 800-word essay. In one of his many time-wasting gimmicks, he spends an implied ludicrous amount of time and effort writing the "The" at the start of the paper, so the sequence ends up just looking "awesome" instead of being the HardWorkMontage it initially appears to be.
** The opening scene of ''The [=SpongeBob SquarePants=] [[TheMovie Movie]]'' features a dramatic scene based around the "crisis" of a customer being given a Krabby Patty without cheese, complete with a slow-motion sequence of Spongebob putting some cheese into the patty. It's a DreamSequence, but still...
**How about any time the Crabby Patty is brought to the audiences attention by Spongebob, or at least when it focuses on him making crabby patties.
* ''SouthPark'' episode "Good Times With Weapons". The boys playing around with weapons is turned awesome with an ArtShift and the use of {{shonen}} fighting anime tropes, complete with an upbeat [[AnimeThemeSong makeshift J-pop song]] in the background.
** The episode "D-Yikes!," a parody of ''[[ThreeHundred 300]]'', features a sequence of Mrs. Garrison making coffee with sporadic slow-motion and intense, 300-esque music.
*** In that same episode, an unknown lesbian character takes a potato chip... and '''eats''' it.
** Lice Capades is worth a mention. "KEL-LAY!" And cutting to the lice being blown away and horribly dying -- while the kid who got the lice is taking a shower and washing his hair.
** There's also the Cartoon Wars episodes. In one example, after Stan learns that an Islamic terrorist attack may result from a portrayal of Mohammed in ''FamilyGuy'' and suggests they wait and see what happens, he follows it up by saying, "If we're still alive in the morning, (DramaticCloseup) then we'll know we're not dead."
** "It'll be the end of the world! ... of Warcraft."
* Doctor Orpheus, in ''TheVentureBrothers,'' has the ability to make his speech sound awesome (complete with dramatic music) -- regardless of what he's saying. ("Do not be too hasty in entering that room -- I had ''Taco Bell'' for lunch!")
** Monarch henchmen 21 and 24 manage to make [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX7Xy3EY6tk putting on their uniforms and getting into a car]] awesome by singing "Mars, Bringer Of War."
* Done occasionally in FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends, normally to emphasize or Lampshade how low-key the goings-on are for a show where fantastic beings spring to life on a whim.
*In ''PerfectHairForever'', anything Astonomicat does other than sitting around is accompanied by dramatic music - even performing a background check on a computer.
* ''RocketPower'' replaces such things as OminousLatinChanting with [[{{Narm}} embarassingly exaggerated]] attempts at [[RuleOfCool being cool]], especially in regard to extreme sports (being the premise of the show). Or, as the show puts it '''[[TotallyRadical sick]]'''!!
* Mildly spoofed in ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
-->'''Sokka''': I do believe it's my turn. I'm going to spend my vacation IN THE LIBRARY!!!
** Azula also employs the trope a couple of times during the third-season BeachEpisode by taking the [[SeriousBusiness same approach]] to beach volleyball and flirting with boys that she takes to world domination. It involves [[ElementalPowers fire]], [[ScreamingWarrior loud declarations]], and ''[[StuffBlowingUp explosions]]''.
--->'''Azula''': We have defeated you for all time! You will never rise from the ashes of your shame and humiliation! ... [cheerfully] Well, that was fun!
--->'''Azula''': That's a ''sharp'' outfit, Chan. Careful; you might puncture the hull of an empire-class Fire Nation battleship, leaving ''thousands'' to ''drown'' at ''sea''! ... Because... it's so sharp.
*** From the same episode, we have DisturbedDoves going along with Zuko ''[[ShirtlessScene taking off his shirt]]''.
** "The Ember Island Players" was [[TheAbridgedSeries a recap of the series]] [[WhoWouldWantToWatchUs as a play]], and they represented bending with ''streamers''. It actually looks cooler than you'd think (choreography and special effects were about [[StylisticSuck all they had going]]). There's also the fact that most scenes parodied are accompanied by the appropriate music (ex. the recreation of [[spoiler:Aang getting hit by Azula's lightning]] has the same dramatic music playing despite how completely ''un''dramatic [[BadBadActing their performance was]]).
** There's also when they were invading the Earth Kingdom palace and Sokka tried to kick down a big fancy door. He gives it a flying kick with a StockFootage-esque background... and the door doesn't budge an inch.
** Sokka's Haiku Battle (which the background music made it seem more like a Rap Battle.)
* The duel over dumplings between Shifu and Po in ''KungFuPanda'' which ends the panda's training, starts out as this but by the end of the fight, when Po proves his mastery (and lack of upset) by claiming he's no longer hungry, it has crossed over to become a full-fledged CrowningMomentOfAwesome, as evidenced by the spontaneous applause when this editor saw the movie on opening day.
* ''{{WALL-E}}'' somehow manages to make the act of ''[[spoiler:a fat guy standing up]]'' look unbelievably awesome. Complete with Richard Strauss' ''AlsoSprachZarathustra'' (AKA "That really epic monolith music from the beginning of ''[=~2001: A Space Odyssey~=]''"). But considering the fact that [[spoiler:it was probably the first time '''''in his entire life''''' that he managed to stand under his own power, not to mention the fact that he was probably the only person in his or several previous ''generations'' to stand up, and he summoned the resolve to do so because ''the fate of humanity'' depended upon it]], this ''was'' awesome.
**Also the character M-O. He doesn't have an ArmCannon, a CreepyMonotone or the ability to be able to [[FriendToAllLivingThings befriend every robot]] he's just a small obsessive NeatFreak, but Pixar was still able to make him as awesome as possible.
* ''{{Ratatouille}}'' turns SOUP-MAKING into the coolest freaking' thing ever!
* Ninja Handyman, from ''PlanetSketch'', solves mundane problems and, [[RuleOfCool being a ninja]], of course has to behave as if he had saved the day, big time.
* Most {{Transformers}}' [[KibblesAndBits kibble]] (the bits of alt-mode that don't have a purpose in robot mode) just hang off their bodies uselessly. Bulkhead of ''TransformersAnimated'', however, can [[http://www.tfwiki.info/wiki/Image:Bulkheadchair.jpg transform his kibble into a chair.]] This is considered by the fandom to be pretty awesome, especially since one of his toys can actually do this.
* In an episode of ''SamuraiJack'' after the Scotsman has rescued Jack from a bunch of sirens they have a series of contests to decide who would be the one to row back. The contests culminated in a thumbwrestling match, complete with close-ups on their thumbs and faces all while in slow motion.
* TheTick's speeches.
* ''DannyPhantom'', mainly in the episode ''Identity Crisis.'' Super Danny seems to permanently have a breeze around him, even when he's standing still.
** "This looks like a job for...''the vacuum cleaner!''" (Followed by him cleaning the room by ''riding'' the vacuum cleaner.)
** "I'm more than alright! I'm ''DANNY FENTON!''" (Cue dramatic lighting.)
** Speaking of which, the aforementionned Zim ''Globs of Doom'' scene takes place in, yes, Amity Park.
* In ''TheMarvelousMisadventuresofFlapjack'', a huge monstrous ogre-type tries to defeat Captain K'nuckles in a poker game with, as he puts it: "Pair of... TWOOOOOOOOOOSS!!" (He loses, naturally).
* ''{{Fillmore}}!'' was ''built'' on this trope. Middle school is SeriousBusiness!
* ''PhineasAndFerb'' practically ''runs'' on this trope. For example, the episode "Tip of the Day" ended with a crowd song about ''aglets'' (you know, those plastic things on the ends of a shoelace).
* John Redcorn on ''KingOfTheHill'' is frequently introduced with blowing leaves and a signature musical leitmotif in the style of a MagicalNativeAmerican, but he's usually just going about his mundane business.
* RegularShow has this in the pilot...with rock, paper, scissors.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* All instances of OverlyLongFightingAnimation.
*''PhoenixWrightAceAttorney'' lives off this trope. While trials are important and serious affairs in real life, in the game a trial is an epic battle of wits. With theme music, [[SpeedStripes action lines]], people reacting to arguments as if they have been ''[[FaceFault physically struck]]'', and [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger finger pointing]]... lots and ''lots'' of finger pointing. That it remains hilariously self-aware of its over-the-top nature only makes the games that much more appealing.
** Contrast to ''This is Wonderland'', the most unglamorous courtroom drama ever attempted. Most of the lawyers are either woefully unprepared or dealing with very severe personal problems. Or just bastards. This form of cinematography is frequently used for the purpose of extremely dark satire, complete with romantic, life-affirming theme music, a switch to commercial breaks that borders on the Neo-Classical, and lots of architectural shots.
** Actually, it may be a subversion. It IS awesome.
* In the game ''PrinceOfPersia: Sands of Time'', everything the Prince does is awesome. Even a relatively mundane act, such as taking a drink of water, is accompanied by a dramatic bullet-time camera rotozoom closeup, heroic music, and whooshing sound effects. It's the coolest water-drinking animation ever devised.
** Similar to the potion-drinking in the 3D ''TheLegendOfZelda'' games, where the camera closes on Link, who quickly "draws" the bottle, and after drinking, does an heroic lip-cleaning (sometimes breathing a fog colored as the potion). Only lacks different music and slow motion (though TimeStandsStill as you drink) to try being more awesome.
** Taken even further in ''SuperSmashBros. Melee,'' where Young Link's single-player victory montage consists entirely of shots of him drinking milk, and the final triumphant chord coincides with a mouth-wipe in slow motion.
* ''MetalGear Solid 3: Snake Eater'' plays this trope straight by inserting a vocals-only version of the game's theme song to an otherwise unremarkable ladder climbing sequence. This addition, however, has lead to the ladder sequence becoming one of the game's most memorable parts, as many of those as there are in the game to begin with.#
** Although by the end of it, it more closely resembles an OverlyLongGag, due to the fact that climbing said ladder takes up the ''entire'' duration of the song. And the part where the song is a thinly veiled parody of spy film songs.
** And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkkP-UXTN0k This scene]] involves the local equivalent of Light's potato chips.
*** The game's many secret theaters merrily jog between this and a CrowningMomentOfAwesome - for example, let's play [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkkP-UXTN0k&feature=related Rock, Paper, ROCKETLAUNCHER !]] or [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPgDIWxgOYA&feature=related Try to change the future to stay a main character]], ogling some breasts in between and getting {{Ho Yay}}'d.
* ''DevilMayCry 3'' has an EstablishingCharacterMoment in its first cutscene, wherein Dante performs an utterly epic chair-sitting and phone-answering combo. Say this about Dante, he never does anything by halfs. Not even to answer a phone with nothing beyond "Sorry, not open for business yet."
** The fourth ends with [[spoiler:Dante kicking down a door, making a [[CharliesAngel Charlie's Angels]] pose with Lady and Trish, having an [[StuffBlowingUp explosion right behind him]], and firing his guns indiscriminately]]. For no reason.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvOCfnJgGg0 This scene]]. Both Dante AND Agnus got into the act of being as over the top as possible before their fight!
* The ''[=~Pokémon~=]'' games all feature cheesy elevator music while your character walks around. All very good and well... until Nintendo needed some music for the ''Pokémon'' levels of ''SuperSmashBros.'', at which point the songs gained a symphony orchestra's worth of strings, horns and electric guitars, and mutated into [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dmjbj8CEzI this]], [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=g3-JSNLKIhM this]] and [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=t18xkblQ0uU this]]. And that's before we get onto the OminousLatinChanting of the game theme itself...
** Ditto (pun semi-intended) for the ''Pokémon'' theme remixes in the ''Pokémon Stadium'' series.
** ''Brawl'' is ''made'' of this trope.
** {{Pokemon}}. World-destroying terrorist organizations can be utterly destroyed by a small child and his/her motley collection of brightly-colored pets.
** Also, HeartGold/SoulSilver's [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic Arceus Genesis]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1FLRJQALg event]].
* ''[[SuperMarioBros Mario]] Strikers: Charged'' takes soccer--yes, ''soccer''--and applies a LOT of WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome to pretty much every aspect of the game. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX86e2dHk9E But don't take our word for it.]] And yes, everything--''everything''--in that video actually can happen in-game.
**Of course, ''Mario Strikers'' has nothing on ''{{Touhou}} Soccer'', as exemplified in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofnEdB8Blc this clip]]. And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlBWNGq72DY this one]]... and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFIafpVMh4 this one too]]. What do you mean, [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xr9PqLlMgG4 it's not soccer?]]
** ''Touhou Soccer'' is a clone of the ''CaptainTsubasa'' game, which is just as much as "What do you mean it's not awesome?" as its parody.
* The boss battle musics from ''DonkeyKong 64'' are the music of their levels, with ''full synth orchestras''. Common instruments include strings, vibraphones, panflutes, oboes, and clarinets. This has spread to popular remix site [[http://www.vgmusic.com/ VG Music]], under the moniker "BossRemix". [[http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/gamecube/LM_Main_Theme_%28Boss_Remix%29.mid Example]] from Luigi's Mansion.
** [[http://www.rareware.com/extras/tepidseat/music/index.html In this interview]] the game's compositer Grant Kirkhope admited he likes to "write big melodramatic tunes that are a bit tongue-in-cheek" and that "Bosses are always a good opportunity to do this." It was only expected for this other projects like [[{{Banjo-Kazooie}} the Banjo games]] and ''Grabbed by the Ghoulies'' to follow this trend.
* In ''MegaManBattleNetwork 1-5'' Lan jumps into the air and shouts "Jack in!! Megaman! ''EXECUTE!''" every time he does what is simply putting a plug in a slot (and he isn't even doing that in BN 4, 5, or 6 due to the [=PETs=] being wireless). This is taken a step further when when he spins the PET it to make the "[=MegaMan=] Symbol".
** Or the officials' Mad Operation Skillz in [=EXE2=] during the Shadowman chapter? Extreme keyboarding to the max!
*''ViewtifulJoe''. Joe's over-dramatic bullet time action poses can actually kill enemies.
** His "epic costume change" at the beginning of the second game (right after a [[MaleGaze male gaze]] of his girlfriend's new set) makes him perform a Ginyu Force style pose so a V can anticlimactically *poof* onto his hat.
-->'''Joe:''' "Go go phat-hat!" \\
*pof*\\
'''Joe:''' "'''SHAZAM!'''"
* Most of the ''Kunio-Kun'' series practically lives off this trope. Starting from ''RiverCityRansom'', most of the series has lots and lots of comical violence, even the sports games, where it become so ''absurd'' it's just plain ''awesome''. And it doesn't stop there. One game features a cross country event where you can run through people's houses. ''Super Dodge Ball'' involves players not just getting eliminated, they ''DIE'' - not to mention players and the ball go flying all over the place. And there's a lot more where that came from:
**And that's not even counting the other versions of Super Dodge Ball. The Neo Geo version could be mistaken for an SNK game, or another Pocket Fighter.
** ''Nekketsu Volleyball Dayo Kunio-kun'' had rather weird teams. The smile team bounces the ball ''off their asses''.
** ''Nekketsu! Street Basket - Ganbare Dunk Heroes'' had not one, not two, but THREE hoops stacked on top of each other, reaching absurd heights. And that's not even mentioning the fact that you can break the hoops and used them ''as weapons''. Mario's got ''nothing'' on this.
** The Kunio-Kun soccer games also had their insane share of violence, especially the second, which allowed you to jump, and you could pull off special shots and whatnot... And there's the weather changes, like lightning bolts.
**''Downtown Nekketsu Baseball Monogatari'' allowed you to do things just as drop-kick and slide-kick people, and even throw the ball at the umpires!
** Being able to beat opponents silly in ''Ike Ike! Nekketsu Hockey'' is enough for the price of admission alone.
** ''Kunio no Oden'' is a puzzle game... That happens to be the visualisation of a ''food-eating contest''.
** In ''Shin Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun - Kunio Tachi No Banka'', you can play as Alex and Ryan's ''girlfriends and beat up enemies with them.'' So, WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome?
** Kunio-Kun/Alex himself. He's the freaking hero of the entire series, an incredible fighter (without pulling out any KiAttacks whatsoever, except the stat-affecting kinds of techniques, which kinda makes sense), a super-star sportsman, and he's got a girlfriend who can kick ass. King of Video Gaming Awesome.
* Near the end of ''ZorkGrandInquisitor'', Mir Yannick gives a speech, in which he praises the vast technological advances of the past hundred years. They're actually bloated praise for wonder knives, the Clapper, and ice cubes.
* The prologue of ''DarkCloud 2'' features a circus performance where an ''elephant'' bicycle-kicks a large ball (complete with ''TheMatrix''-style slow-motion pan-around camera work) and bounces it off two clowns' noses before catching it with its trunk.
* In ''TheWorldEndsWithYou'', players take part in a game for their survival, where they have to complete missions while facing insanely tough enemies, which can only be fought using reality bending, psychic ''pins''. [[ImprobableWeaponUser (Or a stuffed cat, a cell phone, or a skateboard...)]]
** Minamimoto activating his final attack by ''reciting pi to 150 digits!''
***Sho is king of this trope. Who knew Math and Art could be pure awesome?
* The creators of ''DukeNukem'' really take the cake with [[http://kotaku.com/5026127/duke-nukem-trilogy-trailer-takes-the-cake this one]].
* Most, if not all of ''OsuTatakaeOuendan!'' involved people with real, though non-dramatic problems, which were fixed by ''dancing!'' Problems that included getting into college, cutting hair, recruiting for a school choir club, and '''not wetting the bed'''.
** ''EliteBeatAgents'', its Americanized spiritual successor, is just as weird. Getting help from an entire school, the Air Force and gorillas, foxes, bears and cows ([[WhereTheHellIsSpringfield just where are they anyhow?]]) while ''September'' is playing? Heck, one of the missions involves ''fighting off giggling zombies with peanut allergies''. No, seriously.
* ''TraumaCenter'': During most of the game, you feel like you are playing space invaders on someone's stomach. But again that "is" indeed awesome. Also, the final GUILT parasite at Under The Knife 1 [[spoiler:Is a giant spider parasite that creates a web that seems to "Absorb" heartbeats]]. Also, a doctor who begins an operation with a.... AssKickingPose and/or hand gestures!
** AwesomeSeries, naturally, takes this and runs with it:
-->'''Nurse''': There are deep lacerations along the sternum--WHERE ALIENS HAVE TAKEN OVER HIS BODY!!
-->'''Doctor''': HUWHAAAAAAAAAAAAT???
-->'''Nurse''': THEY'RE SHOOTING X-RAY BEAMS OUT OF THEIR RADIOACTIVE SUPERCORES! USE YOUR ZAPPY GUN TO STOP THEM!
** Also, Surgical BulletTime.
* ''{{Heroes of Might and Magic}} V'' has a lot of this during the in-game {{cutscene}}s. The characters have very few scripted gestures they can perform, so you often see them waving their arms around and [[PowerGlows glowing with arcane power]] while holding a perfectly normal conversation. {{Narm}} ensues.
* The little-known DS adventure game ''LifesignsSurgicalUnit'' has this in ridiculous quantities, especially in the first game, which had dramatic cutaways practically every time you took a step.
** Also, when the main character, Tendo, finishes up an operation, he always comments on his sutures ("That's... Perfect!") accompanied with a light flash and sound effect for no apparent reason.
* ''CommandAndConquer: Red Alert 3'' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIRPcICB-iY Just... well, just this.]]
** Oh snap!
* How do you vent your frustration over ''MegaMan 2'' 's [[ThatOneBoss Air Man]]? [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUVdA9ABzpg Put it in the form of a music video]].
* The game ''{{Audiosurf}}'' generates levels based on audio files. You're able to induce this effect yourself once you realize that not only can you give the same effect to less energetic song, but for ''any'' audio file, from speeches, to a recording of [[MontyPython the Argument Clinic sketch]], to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_b9YOPzhiU John Cage's 4'33'']].
* One of ''FinalFantasyVIII''[='=]s early cutscenes is of a ''satellite dish being turned on''. It gets the full [[FMVs FMV]] treatment: dramatic camera motion, gratuitously complex machinery at work, the whole nine yards. It even finishes by beaming a [[FrickinLaserBeams frickin' laser]] into space.
* ''[[FinalFantasyX2 Final Fantasy X-2]]'' features the same fetch quests that so dominate the RPG genre, save that this time they're all completely goddamn extreme. Complete with Charlie's Angels poses.
* In ''[[DarkForcesSaga Dark Forces]] 2: Jedi Knight'' one of Kyle's {{Idle Animation}}s is shaving his beard with a lightsaber
* ''NoMoreHeroes''. The Coconut Collector guy says that coconuts [[SeriousBusiness are more important than human life]] and doing jobs gives you favour with the God of Mowing/Garbage/Whatever.
* The opening cutscene of ''{{Fable}} 2'' has a small bird flying through a city, accompanied by epic music. It then poops. The cutscene focuses on the poo, and goes into BulletTime as it falls...then lands straight on the Hero's head.
* The opening video for {{Gaia Online}}'s MMO ''zOMG!'' features a character ''putting on some rings'' to epic music. The rings then burst into flame. Justified, as A) this is Gaia Online, and B) the rings in question are the ImprobableWeapon being used to fight EverythingTryingToKillYou in the game.
* ''MakaiKingdom'': Corn.
--> '''Zetta:''' "I, Overlord Zetta, DO NOT FEAR CORN, KETTLE OR OTHERWISE!"
* In the PS2 and Wii rereleases of ''ResidentEvil 4'', Leon can get a gangster outfit with a CoolHat. If you hit the reload button while using the infinite ammo Chicago Typewriter, he'll instead reach up and adjust it. On the third push, the camera angle changes to low-angle, he flings the hat into the air, and catches and dons it with a pose more suited to someone from ''HighSchoolMusical''.
* [[DestroyAllHumans Destroying all humans]] is awesome in its own right. Being the alien, hiding among the unwitting humans as ominous theremin-laden music plays, and then revealing yourself and causing mass hysteria and humongous explosions.
* ''Disaster: Day of Crisis'' has natural disasters combined with battling an former elite special forces unit, which is awesome in itself. But Evans likes to try and take things up a notch whenever he can, and he does this in the final chapter, first fighting Ray in a ''MetalGear'' expy, then following up with an epic hand-to-hand fight (also like ''MetalGear Solid''). And he does all this ''while the pair are in a hurricane''. And ''then'' he tries to set off a nuke. I repeat, '''IN THE MIDDLE OF A HURRICANE.'''
* ''DragonQuestSwords'' has the tombola sequence at the item shop, which is given all of the pomp and circumstance of unleashing a [[LimitBreak Mighty Strike]] to what amounts to spinning a wheel for a single ball to pop out.
* ''RhythmHeaven'' is all over this trope, with games dedicated to picking vegetables, eating dumplings, and kicking soccer balls made incredibly awesome by the music and settings.
* Complete any level in ''{{Peggle}}'' (''ANY'' level) and the game cranks up ''OdeToJoy''.
* ''Castle Crashers''. From fighting giant literal Cat Fish, weird..Giant fuzzy black things...Cute Teddy bears that attack you with dead fish, using a lolipop or a carrot as your own weapon. Not to mention..FIGHTING TO THE DEATH TO SEE WHO KISSES THE PRINCESSES AFTER YOU BATTLE HEROICLY TOGETHER TO SAVE THEM.
* In TalesOfSymphoniaDawnOfTheNewWorld, epic music plays as Regal does what can only be described as turning off the lights. Sure he's using special handcuffs, but Regal wearing handcuffs is not exactly something new.
* Taking the Daredevil trait in ''TheSims 3'' allows you to go EXTREME versions of mundane things. 'Read something EXTREME' or 'Take EXTREME shower', for example.
** Taking the Evil trait gives you actions like 'Wash hands with evil soap' and 'Read something maniacal'.
* MegaManZX Advent is loaded with this. Here's an [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsVdFQRTZcU example]], and a more [[XtremeKoolLetterz X-TREME]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MctUWQsl33Q example!]] Keep in mind that during gameplay, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation [=MegaMerging=] takes less than a second]].
* ''StreetFighter IV'' has its final boss. An evil clone who can teleport, use everybody's attacks, and has an absolutely ''epic'' voice, and is borderline NightmareFuel announces his name... "I... am... SETH!"
* ''{{Psychonauts}}'' in general tries - and throughout the game [[CrowningMomentOfFunny succeeds fantastically]] - at mixing the epic and the hilarious. Just have a look at the quote on the page for the game and its context. That's only the beginning - try Kochamara [[CallingYourAttacks Calling His Attacks]], a MilkmanConspiracy, fluorescent pink bulls wearing boots, a DastardlyDentist sporting a shower cap and a steel claw arm that doubles as a pepper grinder among the antagonists, and that "in the end, aren't we all just dogs playing poker?"
* ''DeadlyCreatures'' for the Wii takes this trope and applies it to ARACHNIDS. Seriously, the player controls a realistic-looking spider and scorpion, and both of them are capable of EPIC ARACHNID MARTIAL ARTS SMACKDOWNS on other arthropods, lizards, and small mammals:
** The Tarantula can use its spinnerets to make ''web zip lines'', can spin-kick enemies into the air, and has a ninja stealth pounce attack that can hit a FLYING WASP.
** The Scorpion can block attacks and flip enemies with its pincers, and has the ability to perform insanely over-the-top finishing kills in very [[GodOfWar Kratos-esque]] ways. For example, it can spear a mantis with its stinger, use the tail to slam it into the ground, grab the mantis' claw with its own pincer, ''stab the mantis with its own goddamn claw'', and finally '''[[NoKillLikeOverkill drive the mantis' claw in even deeper with a slam of its pincer to finish the poor bastard off.]]'''
* The aluminum bat powerup in ''[[BackyardSports Backyard Baseball]]''. The bat hits the ball, then the ball goes flying high (sometimes over a very, very tall wall) while a whooshing sound plays and immediately the character's {{Leitmotif}} (which is often CrowningMusicOfAwesome) plays.
* Even if not on a over-the-top manner, Sonic and the Black Knight features ''quick-time events for '''trading presents with villagers'''''.
* Gauntlet Dark Legacy does this with the names of its Legendary Items, all spoken with epic intonation in Sumner's booming epic voice. The item names themselves also feature this with gems as the SCIMITAR OF DECAPITATION, THE LEGENDARY ICE AXE, and THE LAMP OF DARK OBSTRUCTION!
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[[folder:Theater]]
* Compared to Greek drama, very little of Japanese Noh drama plays contained actual drama. Much of it featured characters going about everyday tasks and situations, with the actors extremely slow recitation of lines and expressive mannerisms allotting for drama portion.
* "Second" from ''The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee''. Who knew two prepubescent kids taking turns spelling words like "zoonosis" and "astrobleme" could be so epic?
* The GreekChorus in the musical ''Allegro'' breathlessly anticipates a child's first steps and glorifies his learning to walk with the heroic marching song "One Foot, Other Foot."
* YoureAGoodManCharlieBrown has a complex, metaphor-laden quartet, crossing multiple musical styles, and has at one point four main characters singing four different melodies with four different texts, reaching an intense musical climax and showing off the vocal talents of the soprano lead. The subject of the song? A 100-word book report on "Peter Rabbit."
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[[folder:New Media]]
* The entire reason behind YTMND's [[http://youmakemetouchyourhandsforstupidreasons.ytmnd.com/ Dramatic Reading of a Real Breakup Letter from a Real Person]] and, to a greater extent, the entire [[http://wiki.ytmnd.com/Epic_Maneuver Epic Maneuver meme]] focused around adding an epic, half-orchestral Nightwish soundtrack to animated images of people performing "epic" acts.
* In TheAngryVideoGameNerd's [[http://www.gametrailers.com/player/20753.html?type=flv video]] on ''DieHard: The LicensedGame'' for the NES, the nerd attempts to properly beat the game. The game proves to be so frustrating that everything around him explodes while the ''Die Hard'' music plays and he is constantly jumping and rolling away from the blasts, as well as sweating and bleeding. Eventually, sick of the game, he rips the game out of the NES, yells "Yippie-Ki-Yay, ****** ******!!" and throws it behind him and jumps ''Die Hard'' style from the massive explosion it causes.
** To say nothing of his ''SuperMarioBros. 3'' [[http://www.gametrailers.com/player/33161.html review]] and the firefight between him (paired with [[KungFuJesus Super Mecha Death Christ 2000]]) and the Devil (paired with an assload of newly possessed consoles). You just have to see it for yourself.
*** In his {{Moonwalker}} review, he winds up going berzerk, kasplodes his room and......turns into a cat and walks away. Probably an appropriate MichaelJackson reference.
**** That cat, aka Deathkitty, returns in the Atari Jaguar review to fight off the spinning Jaguar cube that comes out of the screen.
***** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wibltmswYU This.]] Just... this.
* Search Youtube for "Duel of the Fates" (a song full of [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Sanskrit Chanting]] from ''StarWars Episode I''). Whatever isn't music videos is most likely a variation of this.
** At least one use has been piping it and similar epic orchestral music over a wargaming convention.
* "[[HomestarRunner Because, mere mortal... this apartment...]] '''[[color:red:[[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail150.html IS RENT CONTROLLED!]]]]'''
** ...and water's included.
* Three words: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1Y73sPHKxw Dramatic Prairie Dog]].
* [[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pVKnF26qFFM The Great Office War]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-3qncy5Qfk POWERTHIRST!]] '''''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-3qncy5Qfk ROCKET]]''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-3qncy5Qfk EDITION!]]''
* "''Subject'' ''verb'' ''object'' '''MADE EPIC!!!'''"
* [[http://sieni.us/?id=34 This small Flash animation]] pretty much sums this trope up in a nutshell.
** Those with epilepsy should not press "random" on that page.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oR-F3gr_bvA The Most Dramatically Normal Day Ever]] trailer. Set to Lux Aeterna, of course.
* Arguably, the entire point of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Snjh1hT853g Batman Goes Shopping]].
** Also [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx6ubt4mCYI Butterfly Man.]] '''Warning''': Do not watch this video if you are eating or drinking ''anything''.
* [[http://tubedubber.com/ YouTube Dubber]] allows you to put your choice of CrowningMusicOfAwesome to a video of your choice. [[DarkKnightTrilogy Will you be wanting the]] [[AceCombat Megalith]] [[{{Rickroll}} Roll]], [[http://tubedubber.com/#oHg5SJYRHA0:ANT303erhV8:0:100:0:0:true sir?]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvlxDcALQ6g The Remarkable Journey of Higgins Von Higgins]].
* [[http://www.sharperfx.com/ Sharper FX]]. Websites for churches and christian organizations have never been so seizure-inducing epic.
* The {{Youtube Poop}} fad "X does Y while I play unfitting music" often invokes this, for example in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V7J5ci4GyY This one]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPO4bz4mAeY this one]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAddWawlwy8 this one]].
** Or '''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBPf8ko3I2Q this one]]'''.
* {{The Nostalgia Critic}} tests just how far this trope can go towards the end of [[http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/308-90s-sports-montage- this video]].
** In the middle of ''The Final Brawl'', with epic battle going on around them, the [[TheAngryVideoGameNerd Nerd]] dramatically bellowing and raising his fist... before placing a Geek Fight card on a table. The Critic responds in kind, and they argue about the power level...
* At some point, one has to wonder how much more ridiculous video game-to-film adaptations can get. Wonder no more: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs Minesweeper the film is here.]]
--->''"You are here because you are the best of the best! You come to me as beginners! When I'm through with you, you'll be experts! You are here! To sweep! MINES!"''
* Literal music videos are an [[MemeticMutation Internet meme]] wherein the lyrics for a song are rewritten to describe what's going on in the video. LampshadeHanging has never been so epic.
* There are many, ''many'' examples in AMVHell, but easily the most dramatic is the first two minutes of AMV Hell 4.
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[[folder:Radio]]
* Parodied many times in ''TheGoonShow'', as in the following example:
-->'''Neddie Seagoon''': ''(Portentously)'' Then... suddenly...
-->'''Orchestra''': LONG DRAMATIC STING
-->'''Neddie Seagoon''': ''(Feebly)'' ...Nothing happened. ''(Normally)'' But it happened ''suddenly'', mark you!
*''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy'' had a moment like this in episode 20, when Arthur comes back home and finds a mysterious present: a fishbowl engraved with these words: "So long, and thanks for all the fish." The musical score gives one the impression of some legendary item.
**He later discovers an interesting message when he holds it up to his ear and taps it.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* Parodied in [[http://www.ozyandmillie.org/d/20010502.html this]] ''OzyAndMillie'' strip.
* [[http://badassmuthas.com/pages/comic.php?53 This]] ''BadassMuthas'' strip features ''AWESOME'' toe disinfection.
* An early ''GeneCatlow'' strip introducing us to Cotton Taylor shows him carrying out his tech duties, including paperwork, with unbridled enthusiasm.
* [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2008-02-27 This]] ElGoonishShive strip arguably crosses the border into {{Narm}}.
** To be fair Mr. Raven has something of a reputation for barely controlled insanity.
** It's intentional, though. See the 2 strips that follow.
** Tedd also pulls this with [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-02-02 the equivilant of a grade school science fair project]]. This is standard fare for [[CrazyAwesome Tedd]] though.
* [[http://www.xkcd.com/208/ This]] ''[[{{XKCD}} xkcd]]'' strip features a guy who dreams up elaborate scenarios that fit this trope whenever he learns a new skill. In this case specifically, he dramatically saves the day with his knowledge of regular expressions.
* [[http://sugar.snafu-comics.com/?strip_id=51 This Sugar Bits]], though it's played for comedy.
* Parodied in [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/6/25/ this]] PennyArcade strip.
** See also [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/6/25/ Paint the Line]], a Cold War epic with the fate of the free world riding on a ping pong tournament.
* [[http://beta.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070618 Kesandru's interrogation technique]] from ''SluggyFreelance''.
* ''{{The Adventures Of Dr McNinja}}'' and the Crater of Racial Tolerance.
* ''{{Maliki}}'' is the king of Awesome Overdosing. You don't even have to know French to see [[http://www.maliki.com/strips/strip_pingpong.jpg EPIC ping-pong]] or how testing a brand-new litter box can become [[http://www.maliki.com/strips/strip_magiiie.jpg a bombastic display of magic]].
* ''Daisy Owl'': [[http://www.daisyowl.com/comic/2008-07-27 "All is not lost. There is still hope. There is still honey. That is my dream."]]
* [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/397060/-_-4koma-chibi-comic-hatsune_miku-minami_-artist-m This]] ''Chibi Miku-san'' strip.
* GirlGenius:
** Straight: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070525 You've never]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070606 seen a coffee machine]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070618 fixed like this.]] "[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070620 Spark Roast Coffee]]: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070622 Perfection in]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070625 Every Cup.]]"
** Straight: OTHAR TRYGVASSEN, {{GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER}}!
** Inverted: [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090720 "Why do I even HAVE one of those?"]]
* ''MSPaintAdventures'': [[http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=4&p=000509 "Pose as a team, because SHIT JUST GOT REAL."]]
* Art of Sequential Art [[http://www.collectedcurios.com/sequentialart.php?s=527 cutting carrots.]]
* FW! Adventures [[http://www.fw-adventures.com/2009/05/01/65-forest-no-scramble/ parodies]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_WMa42spAs this]] with a [[strike:Scrabble]] [[SeriousBusiness Scramble Game]]!
* ''Starslip'' / ''StarslipCrisis'' has the solution to defeating the evil dictator's mind control be a simple instruction. [[http://www.starslip.com/archive/20071224.shtml WEAR IT LIKE A HAT!!!]]
* QuestionableContent - Hanners, when [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1416 arriving at Marigold's house]].
**Subsequently, when Marigold has [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1463 some trouble]] bringing herself to open the door of a bar where she has agreed to meet the gang.
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* In the ''{{lonelygirl15}}'' episode "Foosball Battle", a game of table football is portrayed through epic close-ups and accompanied by the William Tell Overture.
** Sounds similar to a German film called ''Absolut Gigantisch''. Although the physically impossible finishing move (yes, that's a table-football '''finishing move''') was [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome pretty freekin' cool.]]
*An epic battle between lifelike Mario and Luigi character models, grunting and growling through a battle with intense music... and squeaky hammers. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epyv7tk7JaE]]
* [[YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries "Now let's begin by shuffling our cards in a needlessly dramatic fashion!" "Waaaay ahead of ya."]]
* "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXGWZxI9lAs Michael Bay eating a bowl of cereal]]".
* [[http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1155126/ This video.]]
* Japanese comedy troupe Ramens dramatizes origami into a mortal combat in this [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqu4aNbdFp8 The Japanese Tradition: Origami]].
* ''DragonBallAbridged'':
-->'''Goku''': "Gohan, follow Krillin. Get home to your mother."
-->'''Gohan''': "Right, daddy. Is there anything you want me to tell her?"
-->'''Goku''': "Yes, Gohan. Tell her..."
-->*''Zoom in to Goku. Hardcore rock guitar.''*
-->'''Goku''': "...to put dinner on!"
-->*''More zoom. Guitar continues.''*
-->'''Goku''': "..because I'm hungry!"
-->*''Extreme close-up. Guitar continues and then dies out.''*
* [[http://www.youtube.com/user/BaratsAndBereta Barats and Bereta]] are quite fond of this trope and have turned ordinary things like children's games, the [[YuYuHakushoAbridged Neighborhood Watch Committee]], April Fools' Day, and taking shots into unbelievably awesome things using dramatic music, dramatic lighting, and {{Narm}}.
*[[http://www.youtube.com/user/rhettandlink Rhett & Link]] write songs about the lamest things and make them seem fun and/or interesting. Some of their songs are sales pitches, rants, and casual dialogue put to a melody. When they are not writing music, they are taking on lame projects, promoting products that nobody would ever buy, and presenting confessions on another's behalf.
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f1AZ0USNMA "Shrimp on a Treadmill"]] is interesting enough as a study of how diseases and pollution affect the endurance of ocean creatures. Then YouTube got hold of it and started making music videos...
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[[folder:Other / {{Real Life}}]]
* [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/26542413@N05/2498740203/in/set-72157605110198862/ This depiction]] of the Japanese God of ''Studying'' (note the calligraphy brush in his armored hand). Apparently, in Japan, studying is badass.
** ''DeathNote'' backs up this assumption. Eating chips is similarly badass.
* The interface to Apple's [[http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/timemachine.html Time Machine]] backup software. A backup program is one thing, but a backup program that features a series of windows receding into the background to indicate which backup you're restoring from, all over a painstakingly rendered animated starfield backdrop, that's Epic right there. At the time of this edit, Apple had neither confirmed nor denied that the next version would play Strauss's ''Also sprach Zarathustra'' while in operation.
* Does [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=D5FzCeV0ZFc Howard Dean]] count?
** [[{{MemeticMutation}} BWAAAAGH!]]
** Only in the way it was covered, not anything he did. As Diane Sawyer pointed out, you couldn't even hear him over the enthusiastic cheers of his supporters. It was only when the "news" people stripped out the crowd's voices that his yell seemed weird and out of place. Anybody who was there could attest to the truth of this.
* A piece of music called (depending on the variant) either "Entry of the Gladiators" or "Thunder and Blazes" ''must'' be pretty awesome, right? Well, actually, it's the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g094B573iWI circus clown music]].
** [[MonsterClown AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! WARN US FIRST!]]
**I should probably be ashamed that part of that was part of [[{{Garfman}} my]] High School's fight song. We likely deserved it, too.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_head_syndrome Exploding Head Syndrome]] is much, [[WordSaladTitle much less awesome than it sounds.]] It doesn't even involve [[YourHeadASplode heads exploding!]]
*Apparently there is a condition where your head really can [[YourHeadAsplode Asplode]] by thinking too hard and much. Supposedly mainly affects chess players and academics.
** Actually, it only affects one particular chess player, [[http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/chess.asp and I wouldn't quite say it bothers him too much...]]
* Ohhhhhhhhh, the Alcatel [=OmniPCX=] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange phone exchange]] promotional video. What do you do when your engineers fail? You call James Bond to save the day, of course!
* Every single word spoken by Don [=LaFontaine=], aka the original Trailer Voice Guy, ever. The man could make ordering a burger at [=McDonalds=] sound like the ultimate battle for the fate of the world. (''"InAWorld where burgers are grilled, one man will rise to fight...for the fate of a cheeseburger.''") [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=JQRtuxdfQHw Witness for yourself]] what happens when you put Don and four other famous Voiceover Guys in a limousine and tell them to drive to an awards show. R.I.P, Don, the world is a less Awesome place without you.
** Seconded. I ... could not believe my ears when I watched that. That was absolutely ''incredible.''
** "It's never too early... for a ''salad.''" [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBG7dgamWLw About 3:05 in this video.]]
* The Backside of Water at the Jungle Cruise in the Disney parks. Some skippers have been known to go off into a massive speech upon approaching it, declaring how incredibly amazing it is. Even the normal spiel generally involves referring to it as "The Eighth Wonder of the Natural World" and announcing [[ThisIsSPARTA "The back! Side! Of! WATER!!!"]]
** The skipper will, inevitably, be disappointed to discover that [[spoiler:it looks a lot like the front side.]]
* In an essay in ''Me Talk Pretty One Day'', David Sedaris details his aversion and hatred of computers, and among his complaints is their presence in movie scenes that fall under this trope. "Each tiresome new {{Thriller}} includes some scene in which the hero, trapped by some version of the enemy, runs for his desk in a desperate race against time. Music swells and droplets of sweat rain down onto the keyboard as he sits at his laptop, frantically pawing for answers. It might be different if he were flagging down a passing car or trying to phone for help, but typing, in and of itself, is not an inherently dramatic activity"
* ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'' does this to anything worth mentioning, then paints it black, covers it in skulls, and sets it on fire.
** Unless it paints it red, because "red wunz go fasta!"
***And then ''they do.''
* Flair bartending.
* BillyMays, from the various {{Ridiculously Loud Commercial}}s for cleaning products he's done (RIP Beardman).
** Also the ShamWow guy. [[{{Narm}} His headset puts it over the top.]]
--->"Stop having a boring tuna! [[SeriousBusiness Stop having a boring life!]]"
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOjOGUZ3bwo This]]video sets a flooding storm drain to Latin. From the video:
--->"SHOUTING LATIN / MAKES FOR DRA-MA / THAT'S WHY YOU'RE ALL STILL WATCHING"
* Any store that has an electronic marquee display that tells of their wares.
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* What, no cooking shows? Iron chef, maybe?
* Zinedine Zidane is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lkOegLzmR8 even more awesome]] with {{Ominous Latin Chanting}}.
*The Physics Department of the University Of Wales has a "Centre for Explosion Studies". That can't really be as cool as it sounds.
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