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** The fact that the tennis match between Light and L didn't turn out ''more'' epic than it did is a bit of an anomaly.

* ''[[Dragon Ball]] Z'' does this with Tien telling King Kai a joke. Complete with dramatic falling, giant faces, and energy blasts. Even before that, in the dub.

'''Goku: IT WAS TOO FAR TO FLY!!!''' }}

:: Here it's being [[Played for Laughs]].

** [[Lampshaded]] in an episode during the Battle City arc. Joey and Mako Tsunami were set to duel in what was apparently the local version of Sea World. Since they had an audience (which they shanghaied by somehow interrupting a killer whale show), Joey attempted to play to the crowd by drawing his card in an even more dramatic fashion than usual, pirouetting and rotating like a champion ice skater. Mako interrupts this display of card-drawing prowess by demanding Joey get on with it, after which both duelists continue their duel at the standard, slightly less ridiculous level.

** And, just like everything else about ''Yu-Gi-Oh'', [[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series|the Abridged Series]] lampoons this mercilessly.

'''Yugi''': (shuffling his cards with an utmost serious look) "Way ahead of ya." }}

*** "Oh, my God! '''A giant rock!'''"

** Even the dubbed characters themselves seem to take this trope into consideration when playing:

'''Adrian''': Easy, I just call out their names dramatically, and they pop up. }}

** [[Dan Green|I'm going to drink some MILK! And then I'll do my laundry...]]

* ''[[Hikaru no Go]]'' relies on this in order to keep the interest of viewers who aren't familiar with Go.

* ''[[GaoGaiGar]]'' combines this with the [[Invocation]] in [[Mission Control]], whenever the heroes need to use the [[Forgotten Superweapon]] or start a [[Transformation Sequence]]:

(''Mikoto smashes ''through'' the "molly-guard" safety glass covering the [[Big Red Button]]. Every time. Cue [[Transformation Sequence]] for the eponymous [[Combining Mecha]].'') }}

** Later in the series, she also swipes a keycard to release the Goldion Hammer for use. She does it so epically that one wonders what it looks like when she goes to the ATM!

* Minor example, but [[Genre Savvy|genre-savvy]] Haruhi of ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi|The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' fame manages to make a table tennis serve appropriately ''EPIC''. In the same episode, Kyon adds a brief burst of light to placing down what he thinks is a winning [[Mahjong]] set.

** To say nothing of the '''epic''' [[Space Opera]] that ensues in everyone's imagination when they battle the Computer Society in a doujinsoft [[Real Time Strategy]] game. Complete with orchestral soundtrack and [[Deep-Immersion Gaming]].

*** Made even funnier when it constantly swaps between the epic orchestral music and the mundane beep-music of the cheap strategy game in the real world and by the fact that we all know real gamers also act like this!

*** And the fact that she's already [[Dynamic Entry|Dynamic Entry'd]] the Computer Club President, followed by saying something like, "The contest begins when your opponent says contest!"

** Are you kidding? Haruhi is the epitome of this trope. Practically everything she does is presented as <s> overly dramatic</s> enthusiastic, even walking into a room.

** Then we have ''Suzumiya Haruhi no Gensou'', the CD of the concert where the J-pop songs of the series are rearranged and played by none other than the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNrtK78tlJA Parallel Works 2] has epic pachinko.

* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'' -- Who knew test scores could be so action-packed?

'''All three:''' [[All Your Powers Combined|By our three scores combined]], we have a hundred and three! }}

** In a color chapter of volume 4 of the manga, Tomo, in a daydream sequence about what she would do if she had her classmates' abilities, makes an epic entry into the classroom in which she backflips from the classroom door into her seat, answers a question asked by the teacher, and says she forgot her textbook. Then back in reality, Tomo blames Osaka for the end of her daydream sequence, saying "her powers got mixed in there, and everything got all weird."

** Ed doesn't understand why nobody else appreciates his... ahem... unique aesthetics.

* The dodgeball match in the ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]'' [[Comic Book Adaptation|supplementary manga]] of the second season, which had [[Super Soldier|Fate]] vowing to protect Nanoha, performing a [[In a Single Bound|Super Jump]] to keep said promise, and having a final showdown with [[Those Two Guys|Suzuka]], who had now been completely absorbed in the competitive atmosphere ("As expected from Fate-chan!"), complete with internal [[Combat Commentator|Combat Commentary]]. It ended with Fate losing both the match and her consciousness after Suzuka successfully countered her nigh-impossible to dodge attack, which was depicted in slow-mo.

'''Amy:''' I wouldn't expect any less from one of Nanoha-chan's friends. }}

* The third episode of ''[[Welcome to The NHK]]'' turns ''googling porn'' into a magnificently epic adventure on the high seas.