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* ''[[Legend of the Five Rings]]'', being an Asian heroic fantasy setting, with over ten years of a continuous storyline, is of course chock-full of them, with most factions within the game having gotten several. Among the characters that have gotten the most:
** Hida Kisada, [[Magnificent Bastard]] and [[Heroic Sociopath]], has had many of them, starting with the flavor text of his original version: "Your knowledge cannot save you. Your magic cannot save you. Nothing can save you."
*** But the greatest of them was perhaps outside the storyline itself: when Kisada died, he became the subject of [https://web.archive.org/web/20100812192856/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?!?"
** Yoritomo had several of those as well.
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== [[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.
** [http://www.homestarrunner.com/filmstyle_trogdor.html The trailer] for the Peasant's Quest movie is made mostly out these.
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* 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 ''[[CRFH]]'' 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]{{Dead link}} have a habit of doing this too, as the mods seem to take an almost sadistic pleasure in picking apart [[troll]]s and [[spammer]]s. 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!
* 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 40,000|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:
* [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]]s, 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]]!
* 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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# 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."
* [[GameFAQs]]' 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 [https://web.archive.org/web/20111124215637/http://www.gamefaqsarchive.com/image/rockmfr.jpg here].
** [[GameFAQs]]' 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.
* 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.
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* 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.
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