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* ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]''. Joe's over-dramatic bullet time action poses can actually kill enemies.

** His "epic costume change" at the beginning of the second game (right after a [[Male Gaze]] of his girlfriend's new set) makes him perform a Ginyu Force style pose so a V can anticlimactically * poof* onto his hat.

'''Joe:''' "'''SHAZAM!'''" }}

* Most of the ''[[Kunio Kun]]'' series practically lives off this trope. Starting from ''[[River City Ransom]]'', most of the series has lots and lots of comical violence, even the sports games, where it become so ''absurd'' it's just plain ''awesome''. And it doesn't stop there. One game features a cross-country event where you can run through people's houses. ''Super Dodge Ball'' involves players not just getting eliminated, they ''DIE'' -- and players and the ball go flying all over the place. And there's a lot more where that came from:

* ''[[Trauma Center]]'': During most of the game, you feel like you are playing space invaders on someone's stomach. But again that "is" indeed awesome. Also, the final GUILT parasite at ''Under The Knife 1'' {{spoiler|Is a giant spider parasite that creates a web that seems to "Absorb" heartbeats?}}. Also, a doctor who begins an operation with a.... [[Asskicking Pose]] and/or hand gestures!

** ''[[Awesome Series]]'', naturally, takes this and runs with it:

'''Nurse''': THEY'RE SHOOTING X-RAY BEAMS OUT OF THEIR RADIOACTIVE SUPERCORES! USE YOUR ZAPPY GUN TO STOP THEM! }}

** Also, Surgical [[Bullet Time]].

* The opening video for ''[[Gaia Online]]'''s MMO ''zOMG!'' features a character ''putting on some rings'' to epic music. The rings then burst into flame. Justified, as A) this is Gaia Online, and B) the rings in question are the [[Improbable Weapon]] being used to fight [[Everything Trying to Kill You]] in the game.

* ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'': Corn.

* In the [[Play Station 2]] and Wii rereleases of ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'', Leon can get a gangster outfit with a [[Cool Hat]]. If you hit the reload button while using the infinite ammo Chicago Typewriter, he'll instead reach up and adjust it. On the third push, the camera angle changes to low-angle, he flings the hat into the air, and catches and dons it with a pose more suited to someone from ''[[High School Musical]]''.

* [[Destroy All Humans!|Destroying all humans]] is awesome in its own right. Being the alien, hiding among the unwitting humans as ominous theremin-laden music plays, and then revealing yourself and causing mass hysteria and humongous explosions.

* ''[[Bayonetta]]'' uses this trope to an extreme, almost the entire game. From mixing drinks, to eating candy, to rescuing stuffed animals. Everything is over-the-top dramatic.

** The best example though, is taking her lipstick, loading it into the gun and firing it at the [[Big Bad]] with most badass line of the entire game.

* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'' features a sequence in which Link has to clear the Bokoblins out of an old ghost town, to a faux-[[Spaghetti Western]] guitar piece evocative of high-noon shootouts. Later, if you speak to the resident chicken as a wolf, it'll ask you to befriend all the cats in town. And if you accept, you have to hunt down all twenty cats...to the same high-tension piece they had him shooting Bokoblins to.

** [[The Legend of Zelda CDI Games|"When I'm crouching, you can make me do the duck walk! Cool, huh?"]]