Mundane Made Awesome / Webcomics

• This Badass Muthas strip features AWESOME toe disinfection.
• Blip:
  • This comic. Don't tell me you didn't imagine some cheesy action music in the background.
  • Does a blind date merit a dramatic close-up and a musical sting? Absolutely.
  • Interestingly, the comic also pulls the opposite trick, taking genuinely awesome moments and deliberately undermining them through sarcastic narration.
• Rowan from Boy and Dog is a baby, so he celebrates every little thing he learns.
• While it's been fetish fuel for sometime, only Collar 6 could make SPANKING this intense!
• This Commissioned strip. Chess has never been so epic.
• Daisy Owl: "All is not lost. There is still hope. There is still honey. That is my dream."
• How does the artist of Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures make behind-the-scenes stuff (i.e. talking about her comic-making process) more exciting? UNNECESSARY DYNAMIC POSES!
• A staple of T-Rex from Dinosaur Comics. Ryan North also makes use of Bold Inflation in his comments to announce awesome things, such as posting some photos!
• In Dragon Mail, when Boltrin grows to defeat Azgrariel.
• The premise of Dr. Frost is of psychologists and counselors diagnosing disorders and mental health problems. But it plays out like a mystery series.
• El Goonish Shive:
  • This strip.
  • Tedd also pulls this with the equivalent of a grade school science fair project. This is standard fare for Tedd though.
  • Even Susan gets in on this, here. And here. A girl entering her school wearing pants has never been so dramatic.
  • On top of that, we get the most overdone rating of a You Tube video in the history of fiction.
  • To say nothing of the importance of giving accurate movie reviews.
• Eddie does this in Emergency Exit.
• FW! Adventures parodies this with a Scrabble Scramble Game!
• An early Gene Catlow strip introducing us to Cotton Taylor shows him carrying out his tech duties, including paperwork, with unbridled enthusiasm.
• This Ghosts of the Future strips makes scooping ice cream awesome.
• Girl Genius:
  • Partially Straight: You've never seen a coffee machine fixed like this. "Spark Roast Coffee: Perfection in Every Cup." Still, when taking a sip of it results in this, it's some impressive coffee.
  • Straight: OTHAR TRYGVASSEN, Gentleman Adventurer!
  • Inverted: "Why do I even HAVE one of those?"
  • Wooster's dramatic exit. James Bond couldn't have done it better.
• Gosu:
  • Gang Ryong and later Doh Gyeom delivering dumplings should not be anywhere near as action-packed as it appears to be.
  • Wang Ahk whenever the issue of Rock–Paper–Scissors is brought up. Both his and Gang's skill in the game makes sense when you think about it.
• The whole Hand Command that make from Rock–Paper–Scissors a Serious Business.
• The royal guard from Hero Oh Hero has a unique teaching style.
  "I shall educate you adolescents. With...this chalk."
  Unsound effects: Stroke! Doodle! Draw!
• ''THE ULTIMATE CLEMENTINE PEELING TECHNIQUE'' from Johnny Wander. Complete with speeed liiines.
• In Little Robot, Big Scary World, one of the most important items BIP collects is an ordinary rock dubbed "Nice Rock."
• Maliki:
  • Maliki is the king of Awesome Overdosing. You don't even have to know French to see EPIC ping-pong◊ or how testing a brand-new litter box can become a bombastic display of magic◊.
  • Not to mention Game of Kermesse a five strips arc, taking the idea of town fair to whole new proportions, culminating in a Vehicular Combat.
• morphE: The Insufferable Genius chess grandmaster Billy Thatcher has spun his chess career into Pawnography, a trashy reality TV Show Within a Show, complete with melodramatic B-plots and alleged love children.
• The Slice of Life webcomic Nectar of the Gods has these kinds of moments throughout the entire comic, considering it's just a comic about bartenders and mixing drinks. The writer uses a bunch of plots, some evil corporation, rivalries and drama that might make the comic slightly stray from its Slice of Life setting just enough to make it interesting.
  • Bacchus is constantly making mixing drinks seem more epic than anyone ever thought it could be. Some of these may occur in the protagonist's bar or in a tournament or possibly in the open air.
  • Apollo Vindread (The protagonist's Father) Is a Wine brewer of almost every kind of Grape known for wine. Sousuke Nitroyuu once came to his Vineyard to taste his wine, if he liked it, he would buy 20 crates of each wine! Apollo Decanted the Wine with an Aura to make it taste so good that Sousuke bought all the wine he could.
  • Bacchus Creed (aka the Dragon God) makes a martini in the most elegantly epic way ever!
  • The Taste Judge, Harvey Spanner, had an incredibly difficult time spitting out the Martini (it's part of his job to spit it out) because the martini was so amazingly perfect for him, it was like liquid happiness. Another thing Harvey does is that every time he tastes two drinks that he has to judge in the Nectar of the Gods Tournament, he makes judging epic by perfectly analyzing the drink with one taste and Crushing the Glass of the Losing drink!
• In Noblesse this trope is applied, to humorous effect to Rai unlocking and opening a modern door for the first time.

• Parodied in this Ozy and Millie strip.
• Daryl Smithson of Pacificators learned her wrestling moves from a stubborn goat.
• Paranatural:
  • This is a plot point because spirit attacks get a boost from flourishing moves, known as "flexing your spirit muscles". Chapter 1 has the "Super Max Speed-Changing Cool Technique" and the soup can throw, among other things.
  • Chapter 4: HITBALL. The second half is one big anime parody of dodgeball.
  • This exchange:
    Max: W-what are you doing?!
    Ed: She's...She's!! CHANGING THE SUBJECT!
• At the end of the year-long Penny and Aggie arc "The Popsicle War," the title characters and their friends celebrate their social neutralization of the bully ringleader Karen with fireworks, a custom normally reserved for national holidays of independence.
• Penny Arcade:
  • Parodied in this strip.
  • See also Paint The Line 2, a Cold War epic with the fate of the free world riding on a ping pong tournament.
• MS Paint Adventures series Problem Sleuth:
  • "Pose as a team, because SHIT JUST GOT REAL."
  • DING.
  • Homestuck also gives us MAIL.
  • No John, Con Air is not an awesome movie. There is no reason to reference this, nobody's even watched it. I mean, come on, you've done this once already, so you really sho- WILL YOU STOP IT WITH THOSE BUNNIES???
  • Dave Strider is the magician of the mundame made mirthful, turning any sentence into an orgy of mixed metaphor and Freudian slipping down any slope he can.
  • Also, the autoresponder's description of how he would confess to Jake.
    TT: If it's me going through with this, hypothetically,
    TT: I'm not dropping some limp wristed shucks buster on his ass, and praying to the horse gods of irony for reciprocation.
    TT: There will be no rocking back and forth on pigeon-toed feet, while my face flushes with the blood of a thousand timid bishies.
    TT: I will not hold one tentative hand behind my head like a flustered asshole from an Asian cartoon, nor will an oversized bead of sweat overlap ludicrously with my visage.
    TT: If it's me, I'm going all out.
    TT: Oceans will rise. Cities will fall. Volcanoes will erupt.
    TG: uuh
    TT: What I'm saying is, it's going to be a scene, and bystanders need to brace themselves.
  • Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff devotes five panels of buildup to a bro hug bump over the "new hot game" in the fifth comic◊.
    where doing it man
    where MAKING THIS HAPEN
  • John is bored, but in an epic way.
  • John meeting his denizen, overcoming his personal trials and mastering his powers, and playing a gigantic pipe organ that causes all of LOWAS and beyond to be covered in strong gusts of wind. All to blow dust out of Caliborn's Homestuck cartridge.
• Questionable Content:
  • Hanners, when arriving at Marigold's house.
  • Subsequently, when shut-in Marigold has some trouble bringing herself to open the door of a bar where she has agreed to meet the gang.
• Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:
  • A twofer that results in the speaker (dressed as a King) no longer being welcome in Waffle Houses.
    "Bring me the mingled blood of a thousand forest-dwellers!^note Maple Syrup
    "Now bring me milk meant for a baby cow!"
  • In-universe in "Hitchcock": The greatest dick pic ever:
    "I mean, I don't really want it, but... did you use a flying drone camera... at sunset... and with a Hitchcock zoom at the end?"
• Art of Sequential Art cutting carrots. Also, The Lost World lawn.
• From Slice of Life:
  • Pinkie Pie's first time trying a cupcake leads to a reaction panel with rainbows, roses, and Tears of Joy. Somewhat justified in that, prior to that, all of the cakes she's eaten were made of rocks.
  • When the other kids at flight camp find out the Pound Cake lives on the ground, they're very impressed.
    Lofty: "Is it true there are bears down there?"
• Kesandru's interrogation technique from Sluggy Freelance.
• Starslip has the solution to defeating the evil dictator's mind control be a simple instruction: WEAR IT LIKE A HAT!!!
• This Sugar Bits, though it's played for comedy.
• The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: [shuffling punch cards] "LET US CRUNCH SOME NUMBERS!"
• From Trixie vs. Colgate: Colgate is a...DENTAL HYGENIST!
• Tumblr user .emcee made MOERO! Match Card UNO, the card game Uno as an anime heavily inspired by Yu-Gi-Oh!.
• Eugene from Weak Hero, thanks to his years working as a bread shuttle, has the amazing passive abilities to correctly guess people's drinks and locate the nearest supermarket.
• The Word Weary: In this comic, Lillith suggests a cool boss fight for John's D&D game- namely making the other characters fight Rasputin, who happens riding the Tsar of Russia (the Tsar is a white dragon.)
  THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
• xkcd:
  • This 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.
  • Later in this mini-strip he is making a sandwich.
  • Saying "So...it has come to this." achieves this in any situation.
  • Don't forget the permafrost chasers.

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