Xtifr
World's Toughest Milkman
Since: Jan, 2001
World's Toughest Milkman
Jul 21st 2012 at 2:08:10 PM
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The Trope What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome? has been renamed to Mundane Made Awesome because a lot of people seemed to be confused about what it actually meant. In this case, I am really not sure whether the example fits the definition. Is not keeping your hands on the guitar really mundane? I honestly am not sure. If someone wants to re-add the example, that's probably ok, but A) make sure to use the new name, and B) please try to clarify a little bit how this is a case of the mundanes.
Also, if you do re-add it, please read Example Indentation first and try to fix this so that it follows the guidelines.
- What Do You Mean, It's Not Awesome?: The Star Power moves a thousand times over. Rarely do any of the characters keep their hands on the guitar when they use them. This was fixed in Guitar Hero III, where Star Power animations are somewhat toned down, and the characters in fact keep playing properly (with visual effects instead of wilder antics). Which, whilst it's less distracting, is also much less awesome. Also, from then on, the only other indication that you are on Star Power, aside from the highway turning electric blue, is more vibration from the crowd, aside from a few lightning flying here and there.
- Back for the DS version — almost every character throws their guitar around, except Johnny Napalm who jumps around. On a similar note, many display psychic powers when finishing a song. E.g. Pandora spins her guitar on her hand, then walks away, leaving it hanging there.
- And then there's the infamous five note chord in Smash Hits, used for a thunderstrike at the very end of "Raining Blood". Furthermore, it gives Star Power despite ending the song, just for the sake of having lightning (though you can trigger Star Power, assuming you already had at least 25% of the SP gauge filled beforehand, and that this final chord is a sustained note).
Guitar Hero: Live should have it's own page due to being a series reboot, and should also have tropes and opinions posted on its respective pages