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A subtrope of [[Gushing About Shows You Like]]. Just as we sometimes need to give praise to particularly engaging [[Gushing About Writing You Like|writing]] or [[Gushing About Characters You Like|characters]] we also need to express particular scenes that seem to be the pinnacle of their craft. This would be for a scene which isn't by any means an overtly awesome or epic moment, but it is a scene which does just what it needed to in order to have an epic scale impact on a viewer by pertaining its message effectively.

 

It's a scene, a song, an image, something that bring together all of the individual elements and tropes to create an ambience that impacts on the viewer and makes them remember it forever.

 

== Anime & Manga ==

 

 

== Film ==

* In the film of [[Watchmen]], at the very end we see New York being rebuilt after the Ozymandias attack on a clear sunny day, with epic music playing. The whole scene lasts, at most, about 15 seconds, but it's a [[Tear Jerker]] nonetheless.

** The intro. The way the amazing visuals are combined with fantastic editing and the best usage of a country music in a movie ''ever'' makes up an immensely beautiful scene.

* [[Double Indemnity]]: When it is revealed that {{spoiler|Keyes has been listening in on Walter's confession the whole time}}.

* [[Fight Club]] - The twist, with the perfect timing of the monologue and the climatic scene before the twist. Also the "plane crash sequence" at the beginning.

** The scene where Coraline lists various stuff around the house. Thanks to the epic music and the creative way the scenes are shot. Keep in mind, all of it was done in stop-motion.

** The part where she found the door for the first time. The editing, cinematography and colors add to the eerie feel. [[Mood Whiplash|Then]] there's the [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]...

** The extraordinarily eerie atmosphere in Other Bobinsky's flat near the end.

** Night sequences, period.

 

 

* [[Harry Potter]] - The third book. When Harry grabs Sirius and roughs him up. Sirius's response is a calm but surprised "Are you going to kill me Harry?" whose bluntness in forcing the question onto the hero, really helps it pop out.

** In the fifth book, the chapter "The Department of Mysteries". This chapter is not the battle, but the entrance into the Department. We are given so much to wonder at, it's like being taken into another magical world inside the magical world, in an atmosphere of awe and utter silence. Heart-chilling.

 

 

** Also, "[[Death From Above]]". While most examples on this page are here for being extraordinarily joyful, sorrowful, exciting, eerie or atmospheric, the level is notable for inducing discomfort. Minutes ago you were just desperately fighting your way through the tactically superior enemy troops after your extraction chopper crashed. Then suddenly, you're in control of a [[Big Damn Gunship]] pointing and clicking at white specks on the ground. [[Mood Dissonance]] at its best.

** "Just Like Old Times" in the sequel. It's just you and Price, sliding through the desert sands like ghosts, moving among the enemy soldiers, slicing throats, shooting heads, and drifting through dark tunnels. You're surrounded on all sides by a dangerously competent enemy force. You're outnumbered, outgunned, and on their turf. Around every corner is a chirping radio and a squad of balaclava-wearing hardasses who could kill you in seconds - and they have ''no idea you're there.'' There's very few scenarios that induce that many chills.

** The ending of FEAR Extraction Point was pretty epic as well. Just when you think you're all clear, and that you're getting a [[Gunship Rescue]], Paxton comes in out of nowhere and throws every single Replica Soldier at you he can, and you kill them all alone. Then comes [[The Stinger]] [[Twist Endind]] with some of the most memorable and disturbing [[Arc Words]] ever uttered.

* ''[[Half-Life]] 2: Episode 2'' - The tunnel fight against the Antlions. When all seems lost, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|the Vortigaunts show up...]]it's incredibly inspiring and completely does away with any frustration you felt from fighting bugs for the last ten minutes.

* [[Katawa Shoujo|Katawa Shoujo.]] Shizune's end of Act 1. The protagonist Hisao is feeling melancholic and depressed after a scary reminder of his deadly heart condition. He's sitting with Shizune and Misha on the roof. Misha's fallen asleep, and so can't translate for Shizune (who's deaf-mute). Hisao begins talking to Shizune, even though he knows she can't understand her, but she still picks up on his mood. In place of speaking, Shizune just stands up and throws open her arms, indicating the entire beautiful scene: the night sky above, and the festival below. She's telling him not to let all this goodness be spoiled by a bad mood. That alone is enough to cheer him up, but then she pulls him to his feet and points up to the sky, just as the fireworks begin. That single scene speaks so much of the relationship between them, even though they can't talk to each other.

 

 

== Western Animation ==

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpDRl2uD3_c This.]

* The use of Pulp's "Like a Friend" in the season four finale of ''[[The Venture Brothers]]''. Does a good job setting the fast pacing for Brock's race down the hill to get to the bunker in time, makes for an oddly sweet (albeit [[Lyrical Dissonance|lyrically dissonant]]) track as the leads happily dance with their hooker-dates, and then creates a great bit of comedic [[Soundtrack Dissonance]] when the song continues as {{spoiler|the hookers are turned into mutant Spanish flies and start spitting acid everywhere.}}