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Author: TheHandle

Sep 28th 2012 at 5:41:11 PM

Interesting trope. Also, TheAvengers was quite successful about being awesomecool.

In GurrenLagann, a lot of what the characters do, from InTheNameOfTheMoon speeches to wrestling moves in giant robots, is unnecessary (unless it boosts Spiral Energy) but cool.

In CodeGeass, Lelouch goes out of his way to over-dramatize everything he does. While some of it could be justified as propaganda and morale work, there's a lot of dramatic flair he does in public or when dealing with people who have no chance to remember it, usually because they're about to die.

Virtually any example of TheWrestlerInAllOfUs is part of this, so one could say it's a subtrope. There's just no excuse to use wrestling moves when normal moves are just as if not more effective. The ExtremityExtremist suffers the same problem, as do those that have too exotic a WeaponOfChoice.

A LargeHam is normally this in terms of characterization: there's no need for them to act out so much in order to achieve their goals, usually, but theyre very fun to watch. AwesomeEgo is similar, in that someone with such an oversized ego is better off hiding it for the sake of practicality, but they show it off because it amuses the audience. TheresNoKillLikeOverkill might fall into this depending on execution.