Most Triumphant Example (Sugar Wiki)/E

This is simply what you think is the (not some of the, the) best example of any trope (an objective trope, not subjective, since this already is subjective). The "Crowning Example" if you will.

There could be several reasons you think an example is the best.
 * You thinks it's the best in terms of illustrating the trope.
 * You think it's the most well done.
 * It's your favorite play in that trope.
 * You just really like the source material.

Oh, and each troper gets one example per trope, no more. Also, don't go "no, this is," or phrases like that. This is about our own personal favorites.

"''' Some people call it a mace, some people call it a morning star; I called it "damn heavy.""
 * Early Installment Weirdness
 * Ida Makes A Movie
 * The Dark Tower. When a first installment is so weird the author feels the need to go back and rewrite it to bring it more in line with the rest of the series, you've got a winner. --Wrybread
 * Earn Your Happy Ending
 * The Shawshank Redemption - Amitai
 * Noir
 * Harry Potter
 *  Clannad.
 * Higurashi no Naku Koro ni
 * Princess Tutu, literally.
 * Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, just as literally.
 * "This day, we fight."
 * The Chronicles of Prydain
 * Sailor Nothing
 * Mass Effect 2
 * Seconded, unless Mass Effect 3 can pull a good ending from somewhere.
 * An American Tail
 * Great Expectations
 * Saji Crossroad
 * The theatre version of Wicked
 * Marvel Universe from 2004 to 2010
 * Fullmetal Alchemist ` Marlee Cross
 * HerbieHero seconding, at least for the manga/Brotherhood anime.
 * The good ending of Heavy Rain
 * Toy Story 3
 * Mega Man Zero 4
 * Jean Valjean. Oh my God, Jean Valjean.
 * Sazan Eyes: Happy Ending Unlocked! Requirements
 * Ear Worm (in-universe)
 * AW SNAP! AW SNAP! COME TO OUR MACARONI PARTY THEN WE'LL TAKE A NAP!
 * Eccentric Townsfolk
 * Springfield, USA
 * Egopolis
 * CWCville, full stop. Not only is every commercial operation there branded "CWC", anyone in the city who opposes its namesake for any reason is automatically evil, and all the good guys are on Comic-Chris's side. Really, takes the whole idea of Egopolis to a whole new level.
 * Elaborate University High
 * Ouran Academy
 * Alice Academy
 * Whateley Academy
 * Eldritch Abomination
 * Giygas. Dear God, Giygas.
 * Cthulhu. His name is practically synonymous with the genre!
 * The Nothing. There are quite literally no adequate words to describe it. When Atreyu saw it it physically hurt him because his brain couldn't comprehend what he saw.
 * Kirby
 * The Angels
 * Electric Torture
 * On A Pale Horse: Just look at this page to see why.
 * Force Lightning
 * Elegant Gothic Lolita
 * The entire cast of Black Butler
 * The dolls of Rozen Maiden
 * Evangeline
 * Elemental Powers
 * Avatar: The Last Airbender
 * Bionicle, who doesn't have (one of the current 16 main and countless sub-) elemental powers or have the potential to have them unlocked?
 * Elimination Houdini
 * Sanjaya Malakar
 * Elmuh Fudd Syndwome
 * Doctah Wight. "We may at be abew to lokay anudda enewgy emission fwom da wadaw woom! When we fine dat metea, we'ww fine Doctah Wahwee!" This is apparently the result of having Japanese VA speak English.
 * Uhhh... Elmer Fudd?
 * The Impressive Clergyman
 * Emperor Scientist
 * Yawgmoth
 * Baron Klaus Wulfenbach
 * Encyclopedia Exposita
 * Dune
 *  Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri 
 * The Complete History of Everything
 * Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy
 * Oh god yes...
 * The Mass Effect Codex. Seriously, the primary entries are enough to get anyone fairly well acquainted with the ME universe, but nope, it goes into a whole set of secondary entries expanding the universe even further.
 * Seconded. Want to learn about quarian eating habits? Cross-species religions? Krogan biology? The asari life cycle? How the heck eezo works? It's all there.
 * Enfante Terrible
 * The Curse of Millhaven
 * Stewie Griffin
 * Johan Libert
 * Ensemble Darkhorse
 * Luigi.
 * Cirno!
 * Papa Lazarou
 * Kamina
 * Osaka's not here yet!? Oh My Gah!
 * Luna Lovegood
 * Matt.
 * Senna.
 * Noah.
 * Midna
 * Dinobot
 * Trogdor The Burninator.
 * Jeremiah Gottwald
 * Zero
 * Death The Kid
 * Tikal
 * Ben Linus.
 * Boba Fett
 * The Fez
 * Derpy Hooves
 * Princess Luna, who not only has impossible amounts of fanfic and fanart dedicated to her, a lot of which is actually good, but also manages to be both dark and a horse.
 * Seconded on Luna, while Derpy is in essence a Recurring Extra and shows up quite a lot throughout the series, Luna was on screen for about half a minute in one episode, said two lines and spawned said impossible amounts of fanworks before even being mentioned again in Season 2 and not appearing again until a whole year after her first appearance.
 * Misao Kusakabe and Yutaka Kobayakawa
 * Kaa the Snake
 * Linda
 * Tsuruya, nyoro!
 * Hinata barely appears but is always one of the top two females in the series
 * Entitled Bastard
 * The Mayor from Days of Ruin
 * Epic Fail
 * A certain miscounting of bullets in |The Host
 * The people of Picoaza, Ecuador electing a foot powder their new mayor. Whether you consider it epic fail on behalf of the people or the politicians who let them down, I think you can hardly argue that it doesn't really get any better than this. (The direct link doesn't seem to work here but if you go to snopes.com and do a search for the words Ecuadorian foot powder then you'll get it.)
 * The unsigned editorial in the Investors' Business Daily that claimed that Stephen Hawking "wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless." (Hawking, a British citizen and resident, has been enrolled in the NHS since its' inception and recieved treatment for ALS through it since he was an unknown grad student.)
 * Osaka and Chiyo's way of predicting the weather didn't turn out the way they had hoped
 * Spencer Shay managing to start a fire with a fire extinguisher.
 * In Nichijou we have Dolph who killed himself by kicking himself in the foot causing him to trip and is pronounced on the spot. KantonKage
 * The Mallorean: Garion. He summoned one little thunderstorm with magic to make an impressive lightning display. It stopped the war, alright. And then it triggered a domino effect of global disasters: hurricanes, floods, droughts, a weather system thrown into such global chaos it even triggered an ice age. It required the combined talents of the two most powerful sorcerers alive, and six gods, months to fix the mess. Garion's been banned from manipulating the weather for 2,000 years as a result.
 * Epic Flail
 * The Morning Star.
 * Ball. And. Chain.
 * From Super Robot Wars, there is Baran Doban weapon of choice: A Super Robot-sized wrecking ball that can be swung beyond the speed of sound in a brutal finisher move.
 * Kamen Rider Decade: This is probably the only Live Action TV example we would ever have.
 * The Witch King's mace. In the special features, when they call "cut," the stuntman holding it drops it to the ground, grabs his shoulder in pain and starts yelling "Oh God."
 * The Witch King's mace. In the special features, when they call "cut," the stuntman holding it drops it to the ground, grabs his shoulder in pain and starts yelling "Oh God."

- '''Lawrence Makore (The Witch King's actor)

"Edgeworth: D-do I really inspire this sort of frothing desire from the female masses!?"
 * ...Youch.
 * The Flail of Many Heads
 * Primus uses the moons of Cybertron as a flail. Yeah.
 * Epic Instrumental Opener:
 * "April", by Deep Purple. Holy shit is this Crowning Music of Awesome! -Zuul MF
 * Epic Movie
 * The Lord of the Rings. Millions of shots of film 7 years in the making.
 * Indiana Jones. Including, to some degree, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Oh yes, I went there.
 * The Prince of Egypt, in the animated territory.
 * '"The Lion King''.
 * Epic Riff
 * "Back in Black" by AC/DC.
 * The appropriately named "Epic" by Faith No More
 * "Iskander D'hul Karnon" by Nile
 * "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath
 * "Rebel Rebel" by David Bowie.
 * Ana Ng
 * Sorry, guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids will love it.
 * "Cryosleep" by Machinae Supremacy
 * "Comfortably Numb" by Pink Floyd
 * Epic Rocking
 * Neil Peart alone, whose nine-minute drum solo "O Baterista" ends up sounding like something that would accompany the Rat Pack.
 * Yoshiki Hayashi (X Japan}. 20 minute drum solo in the On The Verge of Destruction concert in 1992, 12 minute drum solo at Yokohama 2010. The 2010 one is even more impressive, arguably, because Yoshiki has severe neck and back injuries and has recovered from surgery for a cervical disc herniation. Which he got from years of drumming like this. Also see Art Of Life below, which i yet another example of Yoshiki's Epic Rocking.
 * Kraftwerk's 24 minute long version of Autobahn.
 * Opeth.
 * Everything by Liquid Tension Experiment.
 * Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary
 * Art Of Life, the longest song X Japan (a band already known for this) ever recorded at over 30 minutes long. Heck, it's epic enough that it's sold on its own as a full-length album. Comes complete with an orchestra and several contemplative piano solo!
 * The song "Like a Wall in which an Insect Lives and Gnaws" by Bull of Heaven. It's nearly six years long. Yup.
 * Cygnet Committee. Stairway looks up in envy.
 * Escort Mission
 * Ico. Has any girl ever brought out your protective side so much as Yorda?
 * Golden Eye 1997. Two Words: Protect. Natalya.
 * Pokémon Mystery Dungeon. Almost a third of the missions you get are of this type.
 * Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.
 * Resident Evil 4, because the AI is reasonably good so it's not too frustrating
 * Estrogen Brigade Bait
 * Prince Zuko
 * Seconded. Mmmm...
 * Ishida Yamato
 * Miles. Fucking. Edgeworth.


 * KAMINA.
 * Dean Winchester
 * Garrus Vakarian, for fitting the trope despite looking like this.
 * BigBoss. Even the Guys Want Him.
 * Roy Mustang
 * Sauske Uchiha
 * Link.
 * Tsuna at least, after the Cerebus Syndrome kicks in.
 * Friggin' Eli Goldsworthy
 * Over half the male cast in Primeval. Stephen, Becker, Cutter...and dear god Connor.
 * Flynn Rider
 * Roronoa Zoro
 * Amiti
 * Usui Takumi
 * Ethical Slut
 * Ninon de l'Enclos. The quote from Saint-Simon on that page explains why.
 * Ethnic Scrappy
 * "Oh Miss Scarlet, I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' no babies." So racist...
 * Even the Girls Want Her
 * Utena brings all the boys and girls to the yard. User:Willy Four Eyes
 * Sakaki. User:D Roy
 * Even the Guys Want Him
 * Everyone is gay for Big Boss.
 * We love you, Fruity Rudy!
 * Chuck Norris keeps a photo of David Tennant under his pillow. Every night before bed, he strokes it, and sometimes, he cries.
 * Ike
 * Tieria Erde
 * Tsukishiro Yukito. Moon power, my ass.
 * Usui Takumi
 * Everybody Lives!
 * British Airways Flight 5390 - Catprog
 * "Forest of the Dead"
 * Everybody's Dead, Dave
 * I'm going with Higurashi no Naku Koro ni for this one.
 * Everybody Smokes
 * Good Night and Good Luck
 * Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
 * God.
 * Everyone Is Bi
 * Bloody Torchwood!
 * ALL of CLAMP's work.
 * Everything's Better With Pineapples
 * Psych—every episode has a hidden pineapple in it.
 * Seconded.
 * Pineapple Upside-Down Cake.
 * Who Lives In A Pineapple Under The Sea?—Wrybread
 * Everything's Better with Platypi
 * Perry The Platypus
 * He's a semi-aquatic egg-laying mammal of ACTION! Seconded.
 * The scene with the platypus alone will be worth the price of admission.
 * Everything's Better with Samurai
 * Sanger Zonvolt
 * Kill Bill
 * Mifune Yajimbo
 * Ginji.
 * Everything's Better with Sparkles
 * Glitter Powder, the 3rd strongest healing technique in Toontown Online
 * Twilight.
 * Shiny Pokémon.
 * Everything's Better with Spinning
 * Ryu and Ken's Hurricane Kick. It just looks so damn cool.
 * Zangief. EVERY SINGLE MAJOR MOVE OF HIS involves spinning. Taken to absolutely ludicrous levels with the Siberian Blizzard.
 * The Stargate.
 * Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.
 * Spinzaku.
 * Neji Hyuga.
 * Naruto
 * The Spin Doctor with its signature move... Spin!
 * Earth.
 * Hitmontop
 * Everything Trying to Kill You
 * Nethack.
 * Warhammer 40,000.
 * Clock Tower
 * Australia
 * Pandora
 * zOMG!
 * Bullet Hell games
 * I Wanna Be the Guy
 * Evil Albino
 * Moby Dick
 * Evil Counterpart
 * Mario and Wario
 * Gotta go with Waluigi.
 * Fate Averruncus. Not to be confused with Fate Testarossa, who isn't actually evil.
 * Nale
 * Evil Feels Good
 * The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
 * "Truly, you underestimate the power of the Dark Side of the Force"
 * Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor
 * (Type 2) The Joker.
 * Evil Is Cool
 * REVOK! DARRYL REVOK!
 * The Master
 * The Joker.
 * Kimblee
 * Darth Vader—Wrybread
 * Scar. BE PREPAAAAAAARED!
 * Evil Is Hammy
 * Komodo. Evil is also the only good part of that movie, apparently.
 * FEEL THE POWER OF SHAO KAHN!
 * Megatron, yessss.
 * Try to name one Big Bad from Kingdom Hearts that isn't hammy.
 * Palpatine.
 * Seconded, UNLIMMMITTTTTED POOOOOOWWWWWWEEEEEEEERRRRRRR!
 * One word: PRESENTATION!
 * his name is LORD Garth!
 * Emperor Charles. ALL HAIL BRITANNIA!
 * Evil Is Petty
 * Heinz Doofenshmirtz
 * The devil in the original Bedazzled. He takes the time to cut off buttons on dry-cleaned laundry, scratch records in record stores, encourage pigeons to do their stuff on passersby...
 * Xykon
 * Evil Is Sexy
 * Hello, Lust!
 * [[media:jessie fantasy 01.jpg|Jessie]] from the Pokémon series.
 * Evil Knockoff
 * Bizarro
 * The Rowdyruff Boys
 * The Harpies The Eva Series.
 * Evil Laugh
 * Jafar
 * Sir Crocodile of One Piece
 * Phantom of Krankor
 * For no mere mortal can resist the evil of... the Thriller.
 * Ganondorf.
 * Kefka
 * How could we not mention the Joker?
 * The Master.
 * The Kurgan.
 * Lelouch vi Britannia in episode 23 of the first season. He sounds completely insane, and it's awesome.
 * Agent Smith.
 * Mandark. HA HAHA! HAHA HAHA HAHA HA!
 * Ted DiBiase, as immortalized in his entrance theme
 * This and this from Mega Man ZX.
 * Light Yagami
 * And don't forget about Ryuk!
 * I believe this one goes to Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, as seen here.
 * Seconded. Two words: Laugh
 * The Joker of course. Sometimes his laughter is more affable or dissonant than evil, but when it's evil, it's damn effective.
 * Albedo Piazzolla
 * "Your hope has become despair!".
 * Beatrice
 * Evil Mask
 * Majora's Mask.
 * Evil Matriarch
 * Precia Testarossa.
 * Livia.
 * Mother Gothel
 * Evil Redhead
 * Ganondorf
 * Evil Tastes Good
 * Turkish Delight
 * This is DELICIOUS!!!!
 * "Ooh! Cupcakes are ready!"
 * Evil Twin
 * Shaman King. Split from the same egg? Split from the same soul.
 * Evolving Credits
 * Planetes
 * Pokémon: Best Wishes has evolving OPENING credits.
 * Exactly What It Says on the Tin
 * Snakes on a Plane.
 * Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
 * Cowboys and Aliens
 * Executive Meddling
 * Disney.
 * The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the rare example where the exec in question actually made the film better.
 * Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid. One of the most infamous battles between a director and studio ever, and to this day the film is still being Recut in attempts to try to get it to how Sam Peckinpah wanted it. Other wiki link.
 * From what I've heard, Mahou Sensei Negima
 * As far as animated films go, The Thief and the Cobbler.
 * Exploding Barrels
 * Doom II. Level 23.
 * Half-Life2.
 * Expository Hairstyle Change:
 * Prince Zuko
 * Expository Theme Tune
 * Clone High
 * Mystery Science Theater 3000
 * Gilligan's Island
 * IIIN... west Philadelphia, born and raised...
 * He's gonna take you back to the past...
 * Expy
 * Signum. There's a reason why she's usually referred as Lamia Loveless' magnificent carbon copy,
 * Rei Ayanami has been expied to death.
 * The cast of Watchmen
 * Char Aznable and the "Chars"
 * Seconded.
 * Extreme Doormat
 * Dr. Manhattan
 * Gron Sad. Such a doormat, I'm not even going to bother getting his name right.
 * Mousse
 * Eyepatch of Power
 * Shura No Toki
 * Saito's Hawkeye in Ghost in the Shell, an eyepatch with a satellite uplink for sniping
 * King Bradley.
 * Nick Fury
 * Zaraki Kenpachi Just, Zaraki Kenpachi.
 * Kakashi. Literally. His eyepatch conceals his Sharingan which is always active otherwise.
 * Saul. Motherfrakking. Tigh.
 * Or there's always Snake.
 * Lockon Stratos
 * Date Masamune. One eye, six swords, countless way he can kick your ass.
 * Eye Beams
 * BURN.
 * Eye Scream
 * Dead Space 2. While there are a few instances of it in game, the most triumphant example comes as
 * "How about a magic trick?..."
 * Elle Driver
 * Scanners. Ewwww.
 * Moe from The Three Stooges. He lived off this trope.
 * Farscape, "A Clockwork Nebari."
 * Eye Candy. Full stop.
 * Berserk
 * End of Evangelion ...You know the scene, the horrifying scene.
 * The torture sequence of Lanfeust.
 * Most of of what CLAMP makes has this in it at least once.
 * Un Chien Andalou
 * Cormac McCarthy's The Crossing. The only example I know of where the victim's eyes are *sucked* out, rather than gouged or ripped out by hand, and where they retain their vision until they dry out, so he actually sees his friends trying to jam them back into place. --Wrybread
 * In Homestuck, Vriska loses an eye and an arm when Terezi exacts revenge on her for the various nasty deeds she'd done. In return, Vriska uses her mind control to.
 * Uryuu Minene. First, Yukiteru took her eye out with a dart. Then,  The resulting wound was so horrible it needed to be pixellated.