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{{Cleanup|This page is too large and scattershot to be useful. The examples below need to be moved to Awesome pages under the specific works they apply to.}}
We haven't forgotten about anything else, have we? Nope...not anymore. [[Moment of Awesome|Extreme coolness]] even extends outside the realms of television and film, as discussed below.
== Subpages ==
* [[Bionicle/Awesome|Bionicle]]
== [[Eastern European Animation]] ==
* ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGv7IF2XKa8 Swans of Nepryadva]'' is an animated commemoration of one of the most famous and glorious battles in the Russian history - [[wikipedia:Battle of Kulikovo|The Battle of Kulikovo]], which took place in the late XIV century and played a vital role in the liberation of Russia from the Mongolian reign. The movie is ''charged'' with badass awesomeness fuelled by magnificent music, but [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|THE moment]] is the intervention of [[The Cavalry]] (literal) near the end. "Now it's time! Go forth, brothers!" Damn, I still can't watch the scene with a quiet heart.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mix_e7cQUhg Mowgli]: unlike in most versions, in Soviet Russia Mowgli actually grows into a badass jungle warrior and the leader of the wolf pack. How badass? Well, he '''rips Sher-Khan's maw open with his bare hands''', that's how.
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* In ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', Strong Bad has one, seemingly for the sole purpose of annoying his fans: In [https://web.archive.org/web/20110906163156/http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail162 the chair], he receives an email asking him to remove his mask, while sitting in a high-backed chair that obscures most of the screen. After reminding the viewers that his mask is his face, he proceeds to rip off his face and hold it above the top of the chair, while screaming in pain.
** And then shows them a picture o his parents.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20131112095149/http://www.homestarrunner.com/filmstyle_trogdor.html The trailer] for the Peasant's Quest movie is made mostly out these.
*** Actually, this describes pretty much any trailer ever made.
{{quote|"Where's my cottage? TROGDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!}}
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{{quote|"And the Trogdor comes... in the night!"
"Not tonight, he doesn't! ...come. In the night. Trogdor." }}
** [
** Not to mention {{spoiler|The revelation that Homestar has been running a parallel email show and all the instances of Homestar Runner appearing in sbemails are "really" instances of Strong Bad appearing in hremails. The Brothers Chap were a little burnt out on the sbemail format and used this to take a break from it, complete with producing several randomly numbered hremails.}}
* ''[[TV Tome Adventures]]''. Season 2 finale. Yes.
=== "Dad's Home!" ===
* The titular Dad of ''[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/195918 Dad's Home]'' is so badass he deserves his own category. Among the many things he does:
** Puts out a fire that spontaneously ignited on the top of his head using the family cat.
** Jams a television set through the door of a fridge.
** Lassos a keg of beer from a moving truck and punches through the top, then kicks the keg clear across the street into someone else's house
** Pulls a broadsword out of his mouth, then smushes a fly with the flat side and throws it so it impales the neighbour's mailbox
** Snaps his fingers to disappear in an explosion and teleport to the front door with his head again on fire (before again using the cat to put it out
** Shoots [[Frickin' Laser Beams]] out of his eyes
** Pulls the old "whisk a sheet from under a table of plates and glasses without knocking them over" trick while balanced on one leg, then kicks the table over
** When the police finally arrive, he calls down a bolt of lightning to hit him and give him a totally bitching electric guitar, then creates a stage and massive speakers out of the ground and finishes by rocking out to a guitar arrangement of the F-Zero theme.
** Really, this is all summed up by the end - "And so, Dad was able to avoid having to face the consequences for his inexplicable acts of random violence... [[The Power of Rock|by rocking out really hard.]]"
*** "Also, his head caught fire again. What's up with that?"
* And the moments get added onto in "Dad's at Work." For starters, nearly every sudden movement he makes ''explodes,'' if not sounds like a gunshot.
* And then in the newly released Dadgame, you take control of this unbelievably badass fellow and ruin your boss' shit as a starting level in story mode (he [[Big Bad|deserves it]]). He then goes on to:
** Block a ninja's attacks with his [[Infinity+1 Sword|briefcase]].
** [[One-Man Army|Fight the police force single handedly.]]
** Defeat a slew of robots.
** {{spoiler|Defeat two robots from previous works of the game's creator.}}
** Defeat [[That One Boss|the creator of the game himself.]]
** And completely obliterate the town's mall.
*** And at the end they had a barbeque. It was nice.
=== [[Machinima]] ===
* In the works of Oxhorn, from [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GumS77ctLf0 this alone], any and all of the musical numbers.
== [[Interactive Fiction]] ==
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*** It is, but it's all objective really. One one side, there were the people who believed Draco was [[The Messiah|a second Jesus]] who would bring down the evil mods for once and for all. On the other hand, he was an insufferable [[Jerkass|jerk]] who wouldn't stay down. (Anyways, this longtime YCM member does believe Draco forgot to mention that he was banned really-permanently a short time after the ban was lifted. Both sides of the story, right?)
* A few years ago the ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' fan forum got hacked by a script kiddy who went and started to cause chaos. Once the situation became apparent almost the entire collective forum proceeded to mock him. We mocked his piss poor planning, his bad grammar, and his power tripping in general. It was a glorious few hours.
* The ''[[
* The ''[[Card Master Conflict]]'' [http://forums.cardmasterconflict.com:8080/ forums]{{Dead link}} have a habit of doing this too, as the mods seem to take an almost sadistic pleasure in picking apart [[
* Something like this just happened on [http://forums.court-records.net/index.php Court Records Forums]. Someone calling himself [http://forums.court-records.net/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=5954 "Cock Mongler"] decided to try his hand at trolling. The problem? ''His trolling sucked.'' Seriously it was hilariously bad. [http://forums.court-records.net/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=1777 The Doctor]'s showdowns with him were hilarious.
* This troper was on a forum several years back where a troll showed up and started mocking everyone mercilessly. When threatened with an IP ban, he just bragged that he was doing this from his school and would continue the harassment as soon as he got home. Some time after this, the admin showed to to make a post informing the troll that he had just gotten off the phone with the troll's principal, who was very happy to hear what he was doing on school time with school equipment. By that point, the troll had already been dragged off the computer by school officials, but we all had a good laugh anyway.
* On a [[Warhammer
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100723080016/http://www.halflife2.net/forums/index.php HL2.net's] Stern Ascension - a guy called Cpt Stern had almost 30000 posts, and for his 29999th post, he made a countdown thread, with everyone [[Wild Mass Guessing]] what the next member title is. Then a lot of regulars changed their avatars to the one Stern uses, or a variation (the French Ninja one comes to mind). Stern didn't post for a few days, so needless to say, the forumites got a bit bored and crazy, so Sulkdodds, a 'super mod' and possibly the most active member of staff on the forum went on a rampage, duplicating, merging and creating threads, with such jems as 'Stern's Countdown To Concealed Weapons In Poland' emerging. By time Stern posted, his post cound was reset, his member title was changed to 'sockmonkey' (without capitalization) and Sulkdodds had his mod powers taken away, albeit temporarily - everyone treated him as a martyr, and made requests for him to get his powers back. And so, the status quo was restored, barring a few [[Continuity Nod
* This troper was a part of an online roleplay with a friend on a forum. During the RP, my character and my friend's character were being attacked by a swarm of [[Energy Beings|Thought Beings]] several thousand members strong. My character was terrified, because she had no magical powers to speak of and couldn't fight them, really. But when my friend's character urged her on, her [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] came when she ''dove'' into the heart of the swarm, found the [[No Ontological Inertia|core controlling them all]], lunged at it, and proceeded to slaughter the core and obliterate the swarm... by ''driving the pointed end of a '''frickin' [[Improvised Weapon|GARDEN TOOL]]''' imbued with [[The Power of Friendship]] into its heart.'' Now ''that'' is one [[Badass Normal]]!
* Another online roleplay example, based of several ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' series, there was a short mishap involving a character basically splitting in two and getting a female body. This didn't stop said character's girlfriend, Ashe (whom this troper was playing as) from having lesbian hijinks with her. But that wasn't the awesome. The CMOA came when Neon Tiger smashed down the door, with a camera, screaming "SURPRISE, CARPET MUNCHERS!" ''While the two were in the middle of having sex''. [[Hilarity Ensues]]. By the time the incident was over, Neon had been kicked out of the room twice, a porn video was uploaded to the net that somehow grossed into the eight digit numbers in practically half an hour (according to Neon, anyway), and this troper was practically laughing his head off and gaping in disbelief at the shenanigans that had occurred.
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# Saving the whole group from neo-Nazis by kicking up a huge cloud of dusty sand.
# Distracting a [[Big Bad]] so that an ally could knock them out, then using a time machine to send said mastermind to the site of [[The Tunguska Event]] moments before impact and spontaneously quiping "Only one person knows what really caused it, and he'll never be able to tell us."
* [[
** and you can find the post [https://web.archive.org/web/20111124215637/http://www.gamefaqsarchive.com/image/rockmfr.jpg here].
** [[
* A few years ago, when he was but a noob, [[User:Moogi]] was once involved in a message board discussion that was going nowhere. The conversation got boring quickly, so in order to make things interesting, I - in the course of a single post- turned the entire thread into a space opera war epic RP. The battle went on for over a week, dividing the board into warring factions amid much hilarity. Sadly, shortly after the battle ended, the entire forum [[Jumped the Shark|completely lost its sense of humour]], and within a month or so, I never went there again.
* Roleplaying a game of ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'' on IRC. The character in question had the secret mutant ability to melt objects he touched. Thanks to the good-natured douchebaggery of the DM playing Friend Computer, the character was saddled with the annoying rank of "Team Groomer", having to make sure his teammates were properly hygienic. After one of his fellow teammates got close to murdering the head of the underground rebellion group he was secretly apart of, he used his title of Team Groomer to help the teammate by fixing his ruffled hair - And then pressed his hand onto his head and melted his brain.
** This troper's first, and so far only, game of ''Paranoia'' ended with Friend Computer self destructing and taking all of Alpha Complex with it, due to being given about six different and mutually exclusive instruction disks at roughly the same time. Then there was the fun with the 'mutant detector' device at the beginning...If someone gives you a black box with a single button ''do not'' press it unless you wish to get shot.
* This troper once stumbled upon a post by [[Small Name, Big Ego|John Byrne]] on his forum Byrne Robotics about what is wrong with modern comics (possibly targeted at a specific writer, the details are lost to history), which I responded to on the [[Super Dickery]].com forums, point by point, pointing out how each one was either asinine or, in most cases, hypocritical, as he's ''infamous'' in the comic book industry for doing them himself. I accidentally started a war between [[Super Dickery]] and Byrne Robotics, where several other people on the board went onto the forum under fake names and posted various insulting things, often ''the post I had originally made itself.'' The best part? Everybody on [[Super Dickery]] ''hated me'' for various reasons; at this point there was an ongoing debate as to whether it was more appropriate to rape me ''before'' or ''after'' they killed me. But damn it, they followed me into battle.
** This troper was witness to this, and the follow up attacks. Basically Byrne made his forum tightly controlled, and IIRC, made it impossible to post a new topic unless you had a certain amount of posts. My memory is a bit foggy, but I believe we had several sleepers, until Byrne went to a con one weekend and was away from his mod-station. We unleashed several new threads, in a surprise attack. Also, they did stop hating ROBRAM eventually. By hating me instead.
* If you're going to write legal threats to The Pirate Bay, ''don't'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120430100232/http://static.thepiratebay.org/warner_resp2.txt use the same form letter twice.]
* On the Customer Service Forums of ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', <GM> Batta had a crowning moment by delivering [http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=39204260&postId=391307190&sid=1#11 this smackdown]. After somebody complained about getting banned for "discussing an in-game item," Batta told him that "There is still a distinction, however, between discussing [http://www.wowwiki.com/Huge_Brown_Sack the item] as it pertains to the game, and commenting in the World Trade channel about said item in one's face while drunk at a frat party."
* This troper goes to a Catholic school with a rather intricate intranet system involving a rather large forum. Last year a freshman made a topic about a Nostradamus special on the History channel for discussions. He and another freshman began to write things that are clearly against Catholic Dogma such as literal interpretations of the Book of the Revelation to John and serious talk about the rapture and the 2012 apocalypse theory. Some juniors came in and began to debate against these statements. The freshmen, especially the one who started, began going on caps lock rants. The juniors revealed themselves to be atheists and it devolved into a [[Flame War]]. Then, It managed to regenerate back into a legitimate debate, degrade back down to a flame war, and regenerate back into a discussion that eventually prompted the topic's archiving. 300 pages in Microsoft Word, 30 pages of 15 posts per page, full of essay-length posts, all in a Catholic school with a rigorous academic program.
** Wasn't sure where to place this, move if needed. This Troper started a roleplay on ''[[Gaia Online]]'', based of the game ''Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time''. Essentially, it is a continuation. The plot can be summed up as this: The seven sages of Hyrule are losing their powers because of the Big Bad ( who is actually the Light Sage, Rauru ). Zelda accompanies Link and Sheik ( who has been rendered as separate from Zelda, obviously )to what is basically an alternate Hyrule, much like our world, to retrieve the seven sages incarnated there. The group returns to Hyrule in the time of Twilight Princess, where everything has gone to Hell, because the Hero and Princess went missing for hundreds of years. The new group consists of: Action Girl Aadrian, White Prince Arthmeal, Shrinking Violet Pan, Nice Guy Kyo, The Nondescript James ( the last two had gone missing early on ). Upon reaching the temple of time, Aadrian, the action girl, encounters the image of the one person she's terrified of, and is saved by the usually cowardly Arthmeal. This, however, is NOT the Crowning Moment. The crowning moment occurs when Kyo, who had been cursed by the rouge Sage Rauru, sees his Love Interest ( Sheik ) in danger. Up until this point, Kyo had essentially been complete Nice Guy. He was somewhat shy, laid-back, and bit of a Papa Bear to his friends. Cue giant monster about to axe his boyfriend, during which he promptly turns around, unlocks his Sage powers, ''breaks the monsters axe in half with his bare hands'' and drives the monsters out of the temple.
* Found this in our entry on [[Moe Moe]]:
{{quote|In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books and movies, Luna "Loony" Lovegood is considered by some to be moe, even causing [[Image Boards|Anonymous]] to have the unusual reaction of "I want to date her and meet her parents" rather than "I want to have [[Gorn|violent]], [[
** Yes, something actually elicited a shred of humanity from 4chan. The [[Four Is Death|four]] [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|horsemen]] should be arriving any moment now.
** Similarly, 4chan loves [[Yotsuba&!]] in the same way the rest of us do, by really liking her. Not the [[Squick|usual version]] of love for which 4chan is known. If 4chan goes out of their way to protect you, that is something. It definitely helps that she is ridiculously cute and pretty awesome herself.
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* One happened recently in the [[R 41 NBOW]] RUMPUS [[P 4 RTY]] TOWN memo in Pesterchum 4.13, a fan-made chat client designed to look like the one used in Homestuck - it consisted of this troper as [[Devil May Cry|Dante]], another person as Doom Rider (who, for those who don't know, is a coked-up Ghost Rider Expy), [[Super Mario Bros.|Bowser and Mario]] in a [[Mario Kart]]-esque race around the memo where the winner got to kidnap the "Princess" (also known as Roxy Lalonde), Bowser won, but dante, who was on foot and devil triggered, came in second with Doom Rider in 3rd and Mario as a DNF. during the race there was wailing guitars, blue shells, bullet bills and the speed of light being breached. see the full log [http://pastebin.com/jv4z9jRa here] (warning: it is quite long)
== [[
* Just what the hell was eon8? ''Nothing.'' But for a few weeks, the whole internet was wondering. And that was the point. Apparently, putting up a mysterious web page with a target-dotted map of the world and veiled references to various plans (and codebooks!) can freak out thousands of people quite easily if you cover your tracks well enough.
* The March 1, 2010 update for ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' was a big Crowning Moment for both the run-of-the-mill internet user and [[Valve]] alike. For the users, [[Valve]] first mysteriously released an unannounced update, the first in a long while. This update added an achievement, green lights to the radios, and a static affect when a radio is taken to a certain location. Working together, the users of both Steam User's Forums and Facepunch found the meaning to the code in some of the sound files, ran the other static files through a program that made pictures out of sound, solved the mystery of the photos, connected to a BBS connection, and worked until the official announcement of ''[[Portal 2]]''. For [[Valve]], they [[Magnificent Bastard|put together the puzzle, knowing that those of the Internet would solve it so they could safely announce the game.]] Truly a memorable moment for all those involved, solving and spectating.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OVCpD-7nI4 WalrusGuy's last poop.]
* Not really a YTP...but it kind of is...but it isn't. No matter how you look at it, though, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73V2ooNHb9k this video] is awesome!
* The beginning of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O5UZLdwO1w "MEET THE SPECTATOR"]: [[Team Fortress 2|The Engineer]] playing "Smoke on the Water." Also a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
== [[The Talmud]] ==
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