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• The reason behind YTMND's Dramatic Reading of a Real Breakup Letter from a Real Person and, to a greater extent, the entire Epic Maneuver meme focused around adding an epic, half-orchestral Nightwish soundtrack to animated images of people performing "epic" acts.
• In The Angry Video Game Nerd's video on Die Hard: The Licensed Game for the NES, the nerd attempts to properly beat the game. The game proves to be so frustrating that everything around him explodes while the Die Hard music plays and he is constantly jumping and rolling away from the blasts, as well as sweating and bleeding. Eventually, sick of the game, he rips the game out of the NES, yells "Yippie-Ki-Yay, motherfucker!!" and throws it behind him and jumps Die Hard style from the massive explosion it causes.
  • His Super Mario Bros 3 review and the firefight between him (paired with Super Mecha Death Christ 2000) and the Devil (paired with an assload of newly possessed consoles). You just have to see it for yourself.
    • In his Moonwalker review, he winds up going berzerk, kasplodes his room and......turns into a cat and walks away. Probably an appropriate Michael Jackson reference.
    • That cat, aka Deathkitty, returns in the Atari Jaguar review to fight off the spinning Jaguar cube that comes out of the screen.
    • And the review of Swordquest. He turns a video game contest into an epic adventure which has not been seen since King Arthur.
• This. It's Board James attempt at making a review of Crossfire that is as awesome as the nineties advert for it. It features a heavy metal soundtrack.
  • Also, "MOTHERFUCKER MIKE."
• Search Youtube for "Duel of the Fates" (a song full of Ominous Sanskrit Chanting from Star Wars Episode I). Whatever isn't music videos is most likely a variation of this.
  • At least one use has been piping it and similar epic orchestral music over a war-gaming convention.
• "Because, mere mortal... this apartment... IS RENT CONTROLLED!
  • ...and water's included.
• 3 words: Dramatic Prairie Dog.
• The Great Office War
• POWERTHIRST! ROCKET EDITION!
• "Subject verb object MADE EPIC!!!"
• This small Flash animation sums this trope up in a nutshell.
  • Those with epilepsy should not press "random" on that page.
• The Most Dramatically Normal Day Ever trailer. Set to Lux Aeterna.
• Arguably, the entire point of Batman Goes Shopping.
  • Also Butterfly Man. Warning: Do not watch this video if you are eating or drinking anything.
• YouTube Dubber allows you to put your choice of Crowning Music of Awesome to a video of your choice. Will you be wanting the Megalith Roll, sir?
• The Remarkable Journey of Higgins Von Higgings. It has to be seen to believed.
• Sharper FX. Websites for churches and Christian organizations have never been so seizure-inducing epic.
• The YouTube Poop fad "X does Y while I play unfitting music" often invokes this, for example in This one, this one, and this one.
  • Or this one.
• The Nostalgia Critic tests just how far this trope can go towards the end of this video.
  • In the middle of The Final Brawl, with epic battle going on around them, the Nerd dramatically bellowing and raising his fist... before placing a Geek Fight card on a table. The Critic responds in kind, and they argue about the power level...
• At some point, one has to wonder how much more ridiculous video game-to-film adaptations can get. Wonder no more: Minesweeper the film is here.

"You are here because you are the best of the best! You come to me as beginners! When I'm through with you, you'll be experts! You are here! To sweep! MINES!"

• A Literal Music Video is an Internet meme wherein the lyrics for a song are rewritten to describe what's going on in the video. Lampshade Hanging has never been so epic.
• There are many, many examples in AMV Hell, but easily the most dramatic is the first two minutes of AMV Hell 4.
• Lampshaded on The Spoony Experiment during his Phantasmagoria review. During one scene when ominous music is playing, he sings (with the music) "Cubicle isn't scary!" Also during very boring scenes the Spoony One will shout "PHANTASMAGORIA! PUZZLE OF THE FLESH!"
• Inception music + Hotel Mario = What do you mean, it's not Epic?
• The Nostalgia Chick has fun with this at the climatic scene of Pocahontas, telling everyone what to do in order to make it more EPIC.
• The entire joke behind this video.
• Boxing match commentary can spice anything up. Even...a slap fight between a pair of cats.
• What if making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich was like a QTE from God of War?
• In Noblesse this trope is applied, to humorous effect to Rai unlocking and opening a modern door for the first time
• In the Lonelygirl15 episode "Foosball Battle", a game of table football is portrayed through epic close-ups and accompanied by the William Tell Overture.
  • Sounds similar to a German film called Absolut Gigantisch. Although the physically impossible finishing move (yes, that's a table-football finishing move) was pretty freakin' cool.
• An epic battle between lifelike Mario and Luigi character models, grunting and growling through a battle with intense music... and squeaky hammers. [1]
• For Michael Bay, getting the mail is serious business.
  • So is eating a bowl of cereal. Behold.
• This video.
• Japanese comedy troupe Ramens dramatizes origami into a mortal combat in this The Japanese Tradition: Origami.
• Dragon Ball Abridged:

Goku: "Gohan, follow Krillin. Get home to your mother." Gohan: "Right, daddy. Is there anything you want me to tell her?" Goku: "Yes, Gohan. Tell her..." Zoom in to Goku. Hardcore rock guitar.* Goku: "...to put dinner on!" More zoom. Guitar continues.* Goku: "..because I'm hungry!" Extreme close-up. Guitar continues and then dies out.*

• Barats and Bereta are quite fond of this trope and have turned ordinary things like children's games, the Neighborhood Watch Committee, April Fools' Day, and taking shots into unbelievably awesome things using dramatic music, dramatic lighting, and Narm.
• Rhett and Link love this trope. Their songs include "Phatdippin'," "Epic Rap Battle," "In The '80s," and "The Shamwow Song," and a short video series called The Surrogate Sharers, in which they present embarrassing confessions on behalf of others.
• "Shrimp on a Treadmill" is interesting enough as a study of how diseases and pollution affect the endurance of ocean creatures. Then YouTube got hold of it and started making music videos...
• Extreme rice.
• An epic turkey.
• This whole video but especially around 7:00-7:30. (Contains destruction of actual pig carcasses.)
• EPIC SNAIL.
• CHESS CHESS CHESS CHESS CHESS CHESS!!!!!!
• Jotaro, riding a narwhal. And by proxy, this, set to Narwhals by Weebl
• Making Chocolate Pudding at 4 AM has never been so epic.
• Double Rainbow! What does it mean?
• Who says Stephen Fry isn't awesome?
• As Scourge Chat Log #2 points out, usually awesomeness of a nickname is inversely proportional to awesomeness of a netizen wearing it:

[Killzone’jaeden]: Rule of Guild Names: The more awesome the guild name tries to sound, the more the guild sucks. [Killzone’jaeden]: If I see, like, "Lords Of Chaos And Darkness"... done [Killzone’jaeden]: "The Right Hand Of God"... they don't even make it through the instance [Killzone’jaeden]: But if I ever see, like, "Ain't Misbehavin" [Killzone’jaeden]: I'm like SHIT

• Kind of the whole idea behind the YouTube channel Epic Meal Time.
  • While Regular Ordinary Swedish Meal Time has 100% more shouting and and 1000% more throwing and hitting things.
    • That would be an inversion. All the hollering, beating, slamming, chopping and psychedelic post-processing fx? That's just lunch as usual. His deadpan friends watch with mild interest.
• A review of the parody RPG Super PSTW not only missed the point of the game, but was so poorly written that it prompted this dramatic reading.
• In the Let's Play of The Oregon Trail, "Plague and Treachery On The Oregon Trail", when the decision came over what to do once they reached Snake River, Chewbot said he'd count anyone who posted their vote in the form of a haiku as two votes.

Think about it. What's more ridiculous than dozens of internet strangers voting on the river-crossing status of a fictional family based on an educational game that was created 30 years ago? Haiku about it.

• Only if served *Also Sprach Zarathustra plays as a sign reading With Onions is slowly raised, to uproarious applause*
• This LiveJournal comment: "DO YOU ALL HEAR ME?! THE HOUR OF JUSTICE IS COMING FOR ALL BITCHES, THE HOUR OF TRUTH!!!" in response to someone's fanfic getting a negative review.
• Celebrity gossip blog Just Jared writes breathless, awestruck stories about celebrities doing mundane things. Activities such as grocery shopping, taking their kids to school, doctor's visits and going to Subway for lunch are presented as being so much more amazing than normal because reality show contestants and bottom tier celebrities are doing them.
• Dot Dot Dot.
• This YouTube video has a political commentator going to a protest gathering outside a town hall and he tried to play up the (mostly harmless) people there as a dangerous angry mob.
• This video would just be a lecture about how life could have originated, if it weren't set to Ode to Joy. The sequel (about the origin of the genetic code) is set to Carmina Burana.
• A stick figure tries to open a door.
• Retro Game Master, a translation of a Japanese TV show, can get into this pretty often. It's about a guy trying to complete classic NES-era games in single playthroughs. The commentary translation sounds very literal, which in English tends to result in some... interesting emphasis. MIGHTY BOMB JACK, anyone?
• Desert Strike: Return to the Gulf - Epic Version. The Very True, Incredibly Epic and Completely Heroic story of how Lieutenant G.W. Bush won the first gulf war. "Take That, Iraqistan!". Megadrive game updated with a Big Damn Score by some of Hollywood's finest.
• Vegan Black Metal Chef combines metal music, studded leather, face makeup, Satanic imagery, and intricate sacrificial knives to make... a vegan cooking show.
• Every time Shesh Besh (a.k.a. Backgammon) is played it is precisely this awesome.
• In Boatmurdered one dwarf "made about the awesomest shirt ever".
• Batman eats a hotdog.
• These two videos make a MLG montage out of a train simulator.
• OH MY GOD! DOUBLE RAINBOW!
• Sittin' on tha toilet!
• What do you mean ping pong is not awesome?
• This mineral water commercial made by Lithuanian students is Brawndo Up to Eleven.