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*** But the greatest of them was perhaps outside the storyline itself: when Kisada died, he became the subject of [http://pages.sbcglobal.net/sarah-and-zen/l5r/k_wake.html an 80-person wake]. On top of his achievements within the story, when's the last time you saw a wake for a CCG character?
*** But the greatest of them was perhaps outside the storyline itself: when Kisada died, he became the subject of [http://pages.sbcglobal.net/sarah-and-zen/l5r/k_wake.html an 80-person wake]. On top of his achievements within the story, when's the last time you saw a wake for a CCG character?
*** What can you say when the writer creates what was supposed to be his original death (by being skewered by one of the most powerful Imperial artifacts), and had a hard time not writing "Is that all you fucking got?!?"
*** What can you say when the writer creates what was supposed to be his original death (by being skewered by one of the most powerful Imperial artifacts), and had a hard time not writing "Is that all you fucking got?!?"
** Yoritomo had several of those as well.
** Yoritomo had several of those as well.
*** On the day of the [[Final Battle]] between humanity and Darkness, when, after routing the forces of darkness' reinforcements, he threatened to attack the forces of Good unless the leaders of the storyline's seven great clans acknowledged his own (until then) minor clan as an equal. The gambit was successful.
*** On the day of the [[Final Battle]] between humanity and Darkness, when, after routing the forces of darkness' reinforcements, he threatened to attack the forces of Good unless the leaders of the storyline's seven great clans acknowledged his own (until then) minor clan as an equal. The gambit was successful.
*** When the Dragon of Water, a divine being, approached him to seek his battered clan's twenty strongest samurai to take them into the land of darkness on what was almost certain to be a suicide mission: "I am my twenty strongest samurai." (To which his adopted son, whose loyalties had been questioned until then, added, "And I am twenty-one.")
*** When the Dragon of Water, a divine being, approached him to seek his battered clan's twenty strongest samurai to take them into the land of darkness on what was almost certain to be a suicide mission: "I am my twenty strongest samurai." (To which his adopted son, whose loyalties had been questioned until then, added, "And I am twenty-one.")
**** Which was echoed several years later when Yoritomo's daughter found herself facing her [[Arch Enemy]] 's six strongest warriors alone. "Fool. Don't you know? Your men are outnumbered, twenty to six." {{spoiler|she wins the fight, go on to fight her nemesis, then, after being disarmed and skewered, actually shoves both her nemesis and herself in front of a living cannon about to fire. They both die.}}
**** Which was echoed several years later when Yoritomo's daughter found herself facing her [[Arch Enemy]] 's six strongest warriors alone. "Fool. Don't you know? Your men are outnumbered, twenty to six." {{spoiler|she wins the fight, go on to fight her nemesis, then, after being disarmed and skewered, actually shoves both her nemesis and herself in front of a living cannon about to fire. They both die.}}
** Bayushi Kwanchai, an unkillable badass whose divine gift is luck that rivals the gods, had his crowning moment of awesome when, after dispatching a dozen flesh eating demons, takes his dead uncle and cradles his lifeless body. Not awesome because of the drama, but awesome because the head of the Imperial Families is watching and ignoring Kwanchai basically hugging a dead body, which is a crime punishable by death in Rokugan, because he's afraid for his life if he tells Kwanchai to stop.
** Bayushi Kwanchai, an unkillable badass whose divine gift is luck that rivals the gods, had his crowning moment of awesome when, after dispatching a dozen flesh eating demons, takes his dead uncle and cradles his lifeless body. Not awesome because of the drama, but awesome because the head of the Imperial Families is watching and ignoring Kwanchai basically hugging a dead body, which is a crime punishable by death in Rokugan, because he's afraid for his life if he tells Kwanchai to stop.
*** Kwanchai topped himself recently when he returned to the site of his uncle's death, opened the portal to the realm of the flesh-eating demons, and stepped inside so as to close the portal, condemning himself to an eternity of suffering.
*** Kwanchai topped himself recently when he returned to the site of his uncle's death, opened the portal to the realm of the flesh-eating demons, and stepped inside so as to close the portal, condemning himself to an eternity of suffering.
*** And then there was Winter Court, a canon play-by-post RPG set up by AEG, in which two characters discussed throwing paper shurikens at Kwanchai, and not wondering how he would react, but quote 'how many survivors would there be?".
*** And then there was Winter Court, a canon play-by-post RPG set up by AEG, in which two characters discussed throwing paper shurikens at Kwanchai, and not wondering how he would react, but quote 'how many survivors would there be?".
*** Kwanchai's luck was inherited from his master, Bayushi Tangen, who saw his inability to die as a massive failure. This trait also carries over to anyone who studies under their school. They are seen as suicidally insane and entire armies start getting scared when a single Bitter Lies swordsman starts running towards them.
*** Kwanchai's luck was inherited from his master, Bayushi Tangen, who saw his inability to die as a massive failure. This trait also carries over to anyone who studies under their school. They are seen as suicidally insane and entire armies start getting scared when a single Bitter Lies swordsman starts running towards them.
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== CCGs ==
== CCGs ==
* This troper considers his near-standstill ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' duel against an Envoy/Yata Lock deck, ''the'' ultimate [[Game Breaker]] deck in the entire game, with a lame and incomplete ''feline-themed bounce deck'' a personal [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
* This troper considers his near-standstill ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' duel against an Envoy/Yata Lock deck, ''the'' ultimate [[Game Breaker]] deck in the entire game, with a lame and incomplete ''feline-themed bounce deck'' a personal [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
** This troper has a similar story, in which a rookie duelist puts together a large, incoherent deck, is toyed with by an opponent who wants to reduce his life points exactly to zero, and wins by decking said opponent with a Cyber Jar. Somehow, that one duel is what turned him from a hopeless rookie into a player with actual skill and a fondness for the Crab Turtle. (Sadly, his reign came to an end when all his rare cards got stolen, but that's neither here nor there.)
** This troper has a similar story, in which a rookie duelist puts together a large, incoherent deck, is toyed with by an opponent who wants to reduce his life points exactly to zero, and wins by decking said opponent with a Cyber Jar. Somehow, that one duel is what turned him from a hopeless rookie into a player with actual skill and a fondness for the Crab Turtle. (Sadly, his reign came to an end when all his rare cards got stolen, but that's neither here nor there.)
** About a month or so before the bans were instituted, this troper pulled off his first ever one turn win, against a discard deck. One turn wins were common in the day, but this was special as it involved Exodia...
** About a month or so before the bans were instituted, this troper pulled off his first ever one turn win, against a discard deck. One turn wins were common in the day, but this was special as it involved Exodia...
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** I haven't played ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' in years, but while at high school it was insanely popular for about two full years, during which time there was one duelist no one could beat. He had the deck, he had the experience, he had everything. In the middle of an unofficial tournament I ended up facing him in an early duel, and my opening hand was 'Lord of D, Flute of Summoning Dragon, and two of my Blue Eyes. I held off from the combo for one turn, during which he set out what was clearly supposed to be his ultimate combo breaker. People actually cheered when I pulled out Lord of D, Flute of Summoning Dragon, Blue Eyes, Blue Eyes, Hyozonru (The card I picked up for my second turn). Life points gone, master duelist out of tournament. Sure, I lost the next duel to someone who had a deck specifically tailored to defeat dragons, but for those short moments I was the acknowledged best duelist in school.
** I haven't played ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' in years, but while at high school it was insanely popular for about two full years, during which time there was one duelist no one could beat. He had the deck, he had the experience, he had everything. In the middle of an unofficial tournament I ended up facing him in an early duel, and my opening hand was 'Lord of D, Flute of Summoning Dragon, and two of my Blue Eyes. I held off from the combo for one turn, during which he set out what was clearly supposed to be his ultimate combo breaker. People actually cheered when I pulled out Lord of D, Flute of Summoning Dragon, Blue Eyes, Blue Eyes, Hyozonru (The card I picked up for my second turn). Life points gone, master duelist out of tournament. Sure, I lost the next duel to someone who had a deck specifically tailored to defeat dragons, but for those short moments I was the acknowledged best duelist in school.
* This troper recalls being in the first sponsored sealed deck tourney for the ''street fighter/Soul Caliber'' TCG at my local store, and due to the vagaries of chance getting the single worst starting character in the game. He then proceeded to use psychology and acting to convince his various opponents that he had all but given up while managing to eke out a victory and eventually take the first prize.
* This troper recalls being in the first sponsored sealed deck tourney for the ''street fighter/Soul Caliber'' TCG at my local store, and due to the vagaries of chance getting the single worst starting character in the game. He then proceeded to use psychology and acting to convince his various opponents that he had all but given up while managing to eke out a victory and eventually take the first prize.
* Technically not a CCG, but; we're playing Steve Jackson Games' ''Munchkin.'' This one depends on the a house rule--we created separate Monster cards for each of our three boys in the house. The youngest one has a 1st level card named after him: Darth Philip. (Losing a fight against Darth Philip and "the other players mock you mercilessly for 15 seconds--you can't beat a five-year-old???") So, anyway, I'm playing with his big brother Paul, who opens a door and pulls the Darth Philip card. I (Dad) throw down the "...and Mom" enhancer card, making him a level 11. Paul then throws down the "Monster is Busy" card, which of course shows a picture of monsters playing a board game. Of course, in the next room, the real Philip was playing a game.
* Technically not a CCG, but; we're playing Steve Jackson Games' ''Munchkin.'' This one depends on the a house rule--we created separate Monster cards for each of our three boys in the house. The youngest one has a 1st level card named after him: Darth Philip. (Losing a fight against Darth Philip and "the other players mock you mercilessly for 15 seconds--you can't beat a five-year-old???") So, anyway, I'm playing with his big brother Paul, who opens a door and pulls the Darth Philip card. I (Dad) throw down the "...and Mom" enhancer card, making him a level 11. Paul then throws down the "Monster is Busy" card, which of course shows a picture of monsters playing a board game. Of course, in the next room, the real Philip was playing a game.
** With Mom.
** With Mom.


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* In ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', Strong Bad has one, seemingly for the sole purpose of annoying his fans: In [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.
* In ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', Strong Bad has one, seemingly for the sole purpose of annoying his fans: In [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.
** And then shows them a picture o his parents.
** [http://www.homestarrunner.com/filmstyle_trogdor.html The trailer] for the Peasant's Quest movie is made mostly out these.
** [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.
*** Actually, this describes pretty much any trailer ever made.
{{quote|"Where's my cottage? TROGDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!}}
{{quote|"Where's my cottage? TROGDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOR!}}
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*** Was that forum The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' Card Maker Forum? If it was, I see you, Draco.
*** Was that forum The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' Card Maker Forum? If it was, I see you, Draco.
*** 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?)
*** 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.
* 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 ''[[College Roomies from Hell]]'' forum had a similar event minus the hacking when a troll posted a thread entitles "I just have to say..." with the text of the first post reading "...that I have no respect for anybody with any authority on this forum". After one of the regulars pointed out just how much of a lame trolling this was, this rapidly turned into dozens of pages of the locals having fun throwing lame insults at each other.
* The ''[[College Roomies from Hell]]'' forum had a similar event minus the hacking when a troll posted a thread entitles "I just have to say..." with the text of the first post reading "...that I have no respect for anybody with any authority on this forum". After one of the regulars pointed out just how much of a lame trolling this was, this rapidly turned into dozens of pages of the locals having fun throwing lame insults at each other.
* The ''[[Card Master Conflict]]'' [http://forums.cardmasterconflict.com:8080/ forums] have a habit of doing this too, as the mods seem to take an almost sadistic pleasure in picking apart [[Troll|trolls]] and [[Spammer|spammers]]. For the forum regulars, it's become an event not unlike a random barbecue: everyone gathers to either watch or actively join in, and a good time is had by all!
* The ''[[Card Master Conflict]]'' [http://forums.cardmasterconflict.com:8080/ forums] have a habit of doing this too, as the mods seem to take an almost sadistic pleasure in picking apart [[Troll|trolls]] and [[Spammer|spammers]]. For the forum regulars, it's become an event not unlike a random barbecue: everyone gathers to either watch or actively join in, and a good time is had by all!
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* On a [[Warhammer 40000|40k]] ork themed forum this troper is a long time member of, a certain member applied for a name change, for an orkier name. It was accepted. Some time later, the forum undergoes rapid growth and this member decided he didn't like his new name. So he had a poll to decide what he should do (keep his new orky name, or go back to his less orky, but more outstanding name). The admin had their own poll, letting this boards members choose this members name. End result - penelope the pony. :biggrin:
* On a [[Warhammer 40000|40k]] ork themed forum this troper is a long time member of, a certain member applied for a name change, for an orkier name. It was accepted. Some time later, the forum undergoes rapid growth and this member decided he didn't like his new name. So he had a poll to decide what he should do (keep his new orky name, or go back to his less orky, but more outstanding name). The admin had their own poll, letting this boards members choose this members name. End result - penelope the pony. :biggrin:
* [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|Continuity Nods]], such as Stern's new member title and the community blaming strange happening on 'the Ascension'.
* [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|Continuity Nods]], such as Stern's new member title and the community blaming strange happening on 'the Ascension'.
* 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]]!
* 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.
* 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.
** Said RP has had numerous CMOAs. Other examples include Ashe dressing up as [[Devil May Cry|Dante]] and fighting Vile (complete with a Devil Trigger transformation!), G.E.M., AKA, the Pink Devil, ''climaxing'' in the middle of battle... And there was even one OOC, with the guy playing Cyber Kujacker suggesting an alternate universe case where the events of everything in the entire Mega Man series was a massive [[Xanatos Roulette]] by Willy, just to make him literally the last man alive, ''just so he could get laid''. As completely ridiculous as that sounds (including the annual lesbian orgies in celebration of him), it just seems so incredibly ''awesome''.
** Said RP has had numerous CMOAs. Other examples include Ashe dressing up as [[Devil May Cry|Dante]] and fighting Vile (complete with a Devil Trigger transformation!), G.E.M., AKA, the Pink Devil, ''climaxing'' in the middle of battle... And there was even one OOC, with the guy playing Cyber Kujacker suggesting an alternate universe case where the events of everything in the entire Mega Man series was a massive [[Xanatos Roulette]] by Willy, just to make him literally the last man alive, ''just so he could get laid''. As completely ridiculous as that sounds (including the annual lesbian orgies in celebration of him), it just seems so incredibly ''awesome''.
*** Another online roleplaying one: When playing a character halfway between a knight and a very powerful medium, this troper had to save a small dragon girl from being sacrificed to a [[Cosmic Horror]] (in all fairness, one implied not to exist) and had only himself and a wounded knight to work with, versus twenty reasonably powerful sorcerers and a warrior who had defeated him before. The warrior switches sides, but pulls a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] soon after and dies. This troper stops the girl from becoming an offering by ricocheting the dead man's sword off the wall and into the elder mage's neck - and jumps over the altar, kicking the elder mage's body in time to use his arterial spray as blinding powder. It defied all the laws of physics, but then this troper has always played by [[Rule of Cool]].
*** Another online roleplaying one: When playing a character halfway between a knight and a very powerful medium, this troper had to save a small dragon girl from being sacrificed to a [[Cosmic Horror]] (in all fairness, one implied not to exist) and had only himself and a wounded knight to work with, versus twenty reasonably powerful sorcerers and a warrior who had defeated him before. The warrior switches sides, but pulls a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] soon after and dies. This troper stops the girl from becoming an offering by ricocheting the dead man's sword off the wall and into the elder mage's neck - and jumps over the altar, kicking the elder mage's body in time to use his arterial spray as blinding powder. It defied all the laws of physics, but then this troper has always played by [[Rule of Cool]].
*** This troper has had three distinct [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moments Of Awesome]] in online roleplaying:
*** This troper has had three distinct [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moments Of Awesome]] in online roleplaying:
# Fighting off ghost pirates with an improvised slingshot and loose change, bubblegum, and marbles.
# Fighting off ghost pirates with an improvised slingshot and loose change, bubblegum, and marbles.
# Saving the whole group from neo-Nazis by kicking up a huge cloud of dusty sand.
# 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."
# 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."
* [[Game FAQs]]' Board 8 had one of these a few years back: the head administator posted a sticky on the top of the board about the details of the current character battle, and then immediately closed it. To everyone's surprise, someone actually managed to get a post into the topic in the ''four seconds'' it was open!
* [[Game FAQs]]' Board 8 had one of these a few years back: the head administator posted a sticky on the top of the board about the details of the current character battle, and then immediately closed it. To everyone's surprise, someone actually managed to get a post into the topic in the ''four seconds'' it was open!
** and you can find the post [http://gamefaqsarchive.com/image/rockmfr.jpg here].
** and you can find the post [http://gamefaqsarchive.com/image/rockmfr.jpg here].
** [[Game FAQs]]' Current Events board also had one a few years ago on Cinco de Mayo when the same administrator made a topic titled that said something along the lines of special announcement for this board. Earlier in the day, someone made an account suicide with a porn video that managed to max out its posts with 500. Soon after someone else posted the same video and also got 500 posts. A third attempt at the same only managed a couple of hundred posts. This, along with the similarity to the topic that announced that another board was being locked to newcomers, made it seem like bad news. The content of the posts was "500-topic Go Go Now." (Doubtfully verbatim). Later that night, the board broke the website record for fastest 500 topic. Less than a minute and a half.
** [[Game FAQs]]' Current Events board also had one a few years ago on Cinco de Mayo when the same administrator made a topic titled that said something along the lines of special announcement for this board. Earlier in the day, someone made an account suicide with a porn video that managed to max out its posts with 500. Soon after someone else posted the same video and also got 500 posts. A third attempt at the same only managed a couple of hundred posts. This, along with the similarity to the topic that announced that another board was being locked to newcomers, made it seem like bad news. The content of the posts was "500-topic Go Go Now." (Doubtfully verbatim). Later that night, the board broke the website record for fastest 500 topic. Less than a minute and a half.
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* Roleplaying a game of ''[[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.
* Roleplaying a game of ''[[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'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.
* {{[[User|ROBRAM 89]] 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 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.
** {{[[User|Bunnyofdoom]] 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.
** 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'' [http://static.thepiratebay.org/warner_resp2.txt use the same form letter twice.]
* If you're going to write legal threats to The Pirate Bay, ''don't'' [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."
* 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.
* 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.
** 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]]:
* 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]], [[Squick|squicky]] sex with her, then kill her"}}
{{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]], [[Squick|squicky]] sex with her, then kill her"}}
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** 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.
** 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.
* On a multiverse-themed MUSH, this troper's most recent character was Bandora from ''[[Super Sentai|Zyuranger]]''. How was she introduced? A battle for Candyland between Dora Boogaranan (also known as Terror Toad from ''[[Power Rangers]]'') and [[GaoGaiGar|Guy Shishioh]]. During which Boogaranan ate DrillGao II, ''in the middle of Final Fusion''. And then ''ate GaoFar''. Fortunately for the forces of good, the Genesic Machines then showed up to save the day. It was a battle that showcased the best of mecha [[Anime]] and [[Tokusatsu]].
* On a multiverse-themed MUSH, this troper's most recent character was Bandora from ''[[Super Sentai|Zyuranger]]''. How was she introduced? A battle for Candyland between Dora Boogaranan (also known as Terror Toad from ''[[Power Rangers]]'') and [[GaoGaiGar|Guy Shishioh]]. During which Boogaranan ate DrillGao II, ''in the middle of Final Fusion''. And then ''ate GaoFar''. Fortunately for the forces of good, the Genesic Machines then showed up to save the day. It was a battle that showcased the best of mecha [[Anime]] and [[Tokusatsu]].
* This Troper, who is a shameless nerd, was part of a collaborative fan-fiction in which a bad guy powered himself up to insane levels with a pocket gamma generator and pretty much conquered the world. The fan-fic died before she could actually complete her storyline, but it involved a small group of engineers, only one of whom was superpowered, human-rating a capsule that had only undergone two uncrewed tests, and secretly launching themselves into space to rendezvous with the (long since abandoned in this continuity) space station, recover a magnetic shield experiment, return to Earth without being intercepted and modify the shield to cut the villain off from his power source so the actual superheroes could beat the stuffing out of him.
* This Troper, who is a shameless nerd, was part of a collaborative fan-fiction in which a bad guy powered himself up to insane levels with a pocket gamma generator and pretty much conquered the world. The fan-fic died before she could actually complete her storyline, but it involved a small group of engineers, only one of whom was superpowered, human-rating a capsule that had only undergone two uncrewed tests, and secretly launching themselves into space to rendezvous with the (long since abandoned in this continuity) space station, recover a magnetic shield experiment, return to Earth without being intercepted and modify the shield to cut the villain off from his power source so the actual superheroes could beat the stuffing out of him.
* When a fourth game was released on a social networking/gaming site this troper frequents, everyone went into a mad frenzy, with the join button being mashed for about 10 minutes by everyone. Fast forward to 36 hours later. The game, a version of Survivor, involved group and personal water and food levels that were essential to survive. Everyone by this point was starting to die of thirst, with some tribes already running out of water with no storm clouds on the horizon, to the glee of their respective opposing tribes. One such tribe had no rainy weather approaching, but had a good storage of water and food. They were also facing Tribal Council, and straight after the individual immunity challenge, one member of the tribe informs the other that they were probably going home, since everyone unanimously voted for them. Their response? They drink ''all of the water'' and eat ''all of the food'', singlehandedly destroying any chance of the whole tribe surviving, and saving the opposing tribe from oblivion. 30 minutes and several [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Crowning Moments of Funny]] later, the rest of the tribe resolve to ''keep'' their former target because she was now unbelievably strong and therefore would do very well in the challenges. All this because she scored a 0. ''Once''.
* When a fourth game was released on a social networking/gaming site this troper frequents, everyone went into a mad frenzy, with the join button being mashed for about 10 minutes by everyone. Fast forward to 36 hours later. The game, a version of Survivor, involved group and personal water and food levels that were essential to survive. Everyone by this point was starting to die of thirst, with some tribes already running out of water with no storm clouds on the horizon, to the glee of their respective opposing tribes. One such tribe had no rainy weather approaching, but had a good storage of water and food. They were also facing Tribal Council, and straight after the individual immunity challenge, one member of the tribe informs the other that they were probably going home, since everyone unanimously voted for them. Their response? They drink ''all of the water'' and eat ''all of the food'', singlehandedly destroying any chance of the whole tribe surviving, and saving the opposing tribe from oblivion. 30 minutes and several [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Crowning Moments of Funny]] later, the rest of the tribe resolve to ''keep'' their former target because she was now unbelievably strong and therefore would do very well in the challenges. All this because she scored a 0. ''Once''.
* On the little-known Halo Versus Star Wars RPG forum, this Troper saw an amazing CMOA. This Troper was playing an online [[Role Playing]] game based on Halo and Star Wars. One of the players decided to bring Warhammer 40K into the mix, so the resident Administrator set up a separate topic for the battle with the Warp. After about eight pages of battling, the Administrator decided that enough was enough and the site needed to get back to its original purpose. He pulled out an amazing game-ender and Crowning Moment of Awesome involving his main character (who is a Blank) and an ancient piece of technology that amplified the Blank field (not canon, I know.) The character suped up the amplifier so much that the machine went into a state of hyperactivity. It unleashed the pent-up "Blank energy" in the middle of the Eye of Terror like a cosmic bomb, destroying the Four Gods and the Warp itself. (What follows is the actual quote, remove if too long.)
* On the little-known Halo Versus Star Wars RPG forum, this Troper saw an amazing CMOA. This Troper was playing an online [[Role Playing]] game based on Halo and Star Wars. One of the players decided to bring Warhammer 40K into the mix, so the resident Administrator set up a separate topic for the battle with the Warp. After about eight pages of battling, the Administrator decided that enough was enough and the site needed to get back to its original purpose. He pulled out an amazing game-ender and Crowning Moment of Awesome involving his main character (who is a Blank) and an ancient piece of technology that amplified the Blank field (not canon, I know.) The character suped up the amplifier so much that the machine went into a state of hyperactivity. It unleashed the pent-up "Blank energy" in the middle of the Eye of Terror like a cosmic bomb, destroying the Four Gods and the Warp itself. (What follows is the actual quote, remove if too long.)
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** Shoots [[Frickin' Laser Beams]] out of his eyes
** 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
** 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.
** 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.]]"
** 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?"
*** "Also, his head caught fire again. What's up with that?"
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