History Awesome / LegendsOfTheHiddenTemple

* ''Thirteen'' of the 32 successful Temple Runs were completed by solo players, which is awesome enough on its own, but within this are special subcategories of awesome:

** Shane of the Green Monkeys completes the Temple Run solo in "The Very Tall Turban of Ahmed Baba" while going through nearly ''every'' room in the Temple, avoiding getting caught by a second Temple Guard through judicious application of GenreSavvy.[[note]]Based on his path, the other two Guards were most likely in the Crypt and the Dark Forest; he outright ignores the former, knowing well enough not to take the upper path when the artifact is in an upper room, and he evades the latter by not bothering with with trees and just smashing through the wall.[[/note]] To cap it all off, he makes it out of the Temple with ''fifteen seconds'' to spare, something many contestants with much shorter routes couldn't pull off. And for bonus points, like Tarrah in "The Milk Bucket of Freydis", he eschews tossing the pots in the King's Storeroom to the ground in favor of smashing them between his hands; the only difference is that he walks to the pots and smashes them without a second thought.

* Purple Parrots Jordann and Jen succeed in "The Sumerian Legend of Gilgamesh", with the former getting the lycium of immortality out of the temple with eleven seconds to spare despite encountering Kirk Fogg.

* Episode 5's Blue Barracudas were actually contestants on the old version... One of them being the Silver Snake who jumped out of the temple in terror (and the other was defeated by the Shrine of the Silver Monkey back in the day). While they don't win, they DO reach the artifact, and probably would have made it out... had KIRK FOGG HIMSELF not been hanging out in The Dark Forest for a cameo, which cost each Barracude about 3 seconds as they passed through.

* Not only was "Lawrence of Arabia's Headdress" the first episode to air on Nickelodeon, but the temple run was a real nail-biter. But the Green Monkeys get the Headdress with only ''27 seconds'' left on the clock and get out with one second remaining.

* Red Jaguar Cadie's solo victory in "The Llocano Legend of Lam-Ang". Though she had a little bit of trouble with a few of the objectives, she found the rooster and made it out of the temple in time, winning her and her partner Mallory $25,000 dollars. It was also the first temple run victory in the reboot.

* Cadie's solo victory in "The Llocano Legend of Lam-Ang". Though she had a little bit of trouble with a few of the objectives, she found the rooster and made it out of the temple in time, winning her and her partner Mallory $25,000 dollars. It was also the first temple run victory in the reboot.

** "The Lucky Medallion of Atocha". At first, it looks like this run would be the trope's [[EpicFail exact opposite]], as Ty drops the team's one and only Pendant on his way into the Temple. However, his partner Jennifer grabs the dropped Pendant and ''tosses it to him through the Ledges, just in time for Ty to be caught by a Temple Guard''. Ty then proceeds to solo the rest of the run and makes it out with mere seconds to spare. It's an extremely rare instance where ''both'' players deserve credit even though only one actually went through the Temple; Jennifer's quick thinking saved their run from derailing before it even began. For Ty specifically, it could be seem as something of a redemption after [[https://youtu.be/1YhykzqWirI he finished with a silver medal]] on ''Series/NickelodeonGuts'' with a disappointing run on the Aggro Crag, struggling to make it to the summit after being sent back down to hit a missing actuator.

* "The Mussel Shell Armor of Apanuugpak" has Amanda first going through at a slow start and after she gets caught, her partner Gator ''blazes'' through the entire temple picking up where she left off with fans comparing Gator's comeback to that of Zac above.

** "The Lucky Medallion of Atocha". At first, it looks like this run would be the trope's [[EpicFail exact opposite]], as Ty drops the team's one and only Pendant on his way into the Temple. However, his partner Jennifer grabs the dropped Pendant and ''tosses it to him through the Ledges, just in time for Ty to be caught by a Temple Guard''. Ty then proceeds to solo the rest of the run and makes it out with mere seconds to spare. It's an extremely rare instance where ''both'' players deserve credit even though only one actually went through the Temple; Jennifer's quick thinking saved their run from derailing before it even began.
*** For Ty specifically, it could be seem as something of a redemption after [[https://youtu.be/1YhykzqWirI he finished with a silver medal]] on ''Series/NickelodeonGuts'' with a disappointing run on the Aggro Crag, struggling to make it to the summit after being sent back down to hit a missing actuator.

*** For Ty specifically, it could be seem as something of a redemption after [[https://youtu.be/1YhykzqWirI he finished with a silver medal]] on ''Series/NickelodeonGuts'', with a disappointing run on the Aggro Crag, struggling to make it to the summit after being sent back down to hit a missing actuator.

* "The Belly Button of Buddha" may be boring but the Blue Barracudas dominated that episode. They were first in the moat and the steps of knowledge. They won two pendants in the temple games. In the temple, Jennifer was able to do the run herself. This is also one of two solo runs that was done with two whole pendants, the other one being "The Milk Bucket of Freydis".

* "The Very Tall Turban of Ahmed Baba". Not only does Shane of the Green Monkeys solo the entire Run (in itself no mean feat), but he does it while going through nearly ''every'' room in the Temple, avoiding getting caught by a second Temple Guard through judicious application of GenreSavvy.[[note]]Based on his path, the other two Guards were most likely in the Crypt and the Dark Forest; he outright ignores the former, knowing well enough not to take the upper path when the artifact is in an upper room, and he evades the latter by not bothering with with trees and just smashing through the wall.[[/note]] To cap it all off, he makes it out of the Temple with ''fifteen seconds'' to spare, something many contestants with much shorter routes couldn't pull off. And for bonus points, like the aforementioned Purple Parrot Tarrah, he eschews tossing the pots in the King's Storeroom to the ground in favor of smashing them between his hands; the only difference is that he walks to the pots and smashes them without a second thought.

* "The Belly Button of Buddha" may be boring but the Blue Barracudas dominated that episode. They were first in the moat and the steps of knowledge. They won two pendants in the temple games. In the temple, Jennifer was able to do the run herself. This is also one of two solo runs that was done with two whole pendants, the other one being the aformentioned Milk Bucket of Fredis.

** The Red Jaguars in "The Ivory Hunting Horn of Roland" and "The Mask of Shaka Zulu"[[note]] Infamously, due to a production error that opened a much faster route to the treasure than the producers intended.[[/note]] and the Blue Barracudas in "The Moccasins of Geronimo" completed Solo runs in under ''two'' minutes; had Joel of the Silver Snakes in "The Enormous Iron Nose Ring of Babe the Ox" taken a more efficient route, he could easily have finished under two minutes as well. "The Ivory Hunting Horn of Roland" holds the record for non-production error Temple Runs at 1:50 - despite a path that included the Tomb of the Headless Kings ''and'' the Jester's Court, usually huge time sinks.[[note]] Mitchell of the Blue Barracudas could probably have scored an even faster time in "The Moccasins of Geronimo" had he not forgotten that he didn't need to put the statue together in the Shrine of the Silver Monkey ''after'' getting the moccasins until Kirk Fogg reminded him the doors were all open.[[/note]]
* The Blue Barracudas in "John Sutter and the Map to the Lost Gold Mine", and the Green Monkeys in "Lawrence of Arabia's Headdress" and "The Mussel Shell Armor of Apanuugpak" all completed successful Temple Runs despite running into ''all three'' Temple Guards.

** "The Much-Heralded Helmet of Sir Gawain" is a comeback for the solo runner, Tiffini. After giving a dumb answer in Steps of Knowledge and tanking her own temple game, she has to not only solo the run by herself with one pendant and worry about a possible production error (the lights to the Chamber of Sacred Markers flashed but the door didn't open), but also grab the much-heralded helmet (so heralded because it was the largest and heaviest prop for the show) all the way back to the gates with 53 seconds left, struggling with it as she carries it with her through the ledges and makes it out with only ten seconds to spare. The best part about it is that she encountered no Temple Guards on her run.

** "The Lucky Medallion of Atocha". At first, it looks like this run would be the trope's [[EpicFail exact opposite]], as Ty of drops the team's one and only Pendant on his way into the Temple. However, his partner Jennifer grabs the dropped Pendant and ''tosses it to him through the Ledges, just in time for Ty to be caught by a Temple Guard''. Ty then proceeds to solo the rest of the run and makes it out with mere seconds to spare. It's an extremely rare instance where ''both'' players deserve credit even though only one actually went through the Temple; Jennifer's quick thinking saved their run from derailing before it even began.