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The [[Theme Music Power-Up]] gets a [[Record Needle Scratch]].

 

 

 

* In the ''[[Lucky Star]]'' OVA, Tsukasa got one of these in the volleyball game against Kagami.

* Does [[Bleach|Ichigo]] trying to attack {{spoiler|[[Big Bad|Aizen]]}} and nearly getting cut in half for it count? {{spoiler|Aizen}} even stopped his theme music!

** The fact that it negates Ichigo's awesome makes {{spoiler|Aizen}} look all the more awesome.

** Chad's battle with Kyoraku. His final attack, after numerous failed attempts, is accompanied by a Theme Music Power-up (to Number One's instrumental version, which is like shorthand for 'big heroic deal!'), relevant emotional flashbacks, and a promise to Ichigo. Typical setup for a shounen victory, negated by Kyoraku striking him just once after Chad's attack has brought down a nearby building. The captain doesn't have a scratch on him.

** Ichigo launches a Getsuga Tensho against Yammy, which appears to be quite effective at the end of the chapter, but at the start of the next chapter, Yammy gets up, revealing that it had almost no effect on him, and gains the advantage over Ichigo before Kenpachi and Byakuya arrive to fight him.

* Asuka's battle with the mass-produced Evas in ''[[End of Evangelion]]''. To be specific: The would-be [[The Ace|ace pilot]] who has [[Heroic BSOD|become a helpless mess]] from her continual losses and having her [[Mind Rape|worst fears and memories thrown into her face]], Asuka, is confronted by nine enemies individually stronger than her own [[Giant Mecha]], armed only with a single knife and less than two minutes battery power. She then proceeds to destroy them one by one, wreaking carnage in her wake in the way she had promised for so long [[Informed Ability|she could]]. As the last of her battery power drains she is tearing the final one apart, her victory complete, only to whip around her AT Field to meet a thrown blade. It turns into a weapon that can pierce the field, impaling her [[Eye Scream|through the eyes]] just before the power cuts. Then the ones whom she defeated [[Slasher Smile|smile]] and [[Diabolus Ex Machina|get back up]]. What follows [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|is best]] [[Extreme Melee Revenge|not]] [[Gorn|described]].

 

* One early story in ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'' ended with the Avengers lunging towards the Masters of Evil, about to defeat them once and for all, but the Enchantress decided to [[Reset Button|turn back time to before the story began]].

 

 

* Pops up in ''[[Spy Kids|Spy Kids 3D: Game Over]]'' when [[The Chosen One|The Guy]] comes onto the scene with 99 lives in tow. Says a few words while exuding an aura of awesome. And gets killed immediately afterward, losing all of them in one shot.

* ''[[Monsters vs. Aliens]]'': upon seeing the giant alien robot, Missing Link vows to "turn that overgrown tin can into a dented-up overgrown tin can." But when he rushes it, he is knocked out by its deflector shield, and is out cold for the rest of the battle.

* Combined with a subversion of [[Soft Glass]] in ''[[A Life Less Ordinary]]'': Ewan McGregor's character (a janitor at an office building) finds out he is being replaced with a cleaning robot. Outraged, he picks up the vaguely R2D2-esque droid, storms into his boss's office, yells "''This'' is what I think of your robot!" and hurls the thing at the window pane... only to have it bounce off the glass, get up, and proceed with cleaning the room.

* [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Elizabeth Swan]], after fleeing from pursuing pirates in her home, runs into a drawing room with a coat of arms over the fireplace set with two swords. She runs up, grabs a sword, the music swells, and [[Crowning Moment of Funny|all she does is pull the whole thing off of the wall]].

* In ''Quigley Down Under'', there is a scene when Matthew Quigley tries to jump from the roof of a burning building onto the roof of a shed. The music is about to kick in with the heroic theme {{spoiler|as Quigley crashes through the roof.}}

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* [[Horde of Alien Locusts|The Vord]] in the ''[[Codex Alera]]'' are good at this. Very, very often, a High Lord or group of legionaires will strike what ought to be a devastating blow, only to find out [[Hive Queen|the Queen]] anticipated it or has enough [[Zerg Rush|reserves]] to render their heroism moot. Though not outright said, it is hinted that this is partially because {{spoiler|Tavi bled on the Queen's mound in the Wax Forest, and it inherited his intelligence.}}

* Bleys, in the ''[[Chronicles of Amber]]'', has a truly epic example of this at the end of the first book: he near-singlehandedly fights his way up the side of a mountain covered in troops (probably the single most impressive feat of swordsmanship we ever see, for all that he's supposedly only the fourth or fifth best swordsman)... and then gets knocked off the mountain only a few meters from the top. His army is soundly defeated thereafter, and we barely hear from him for the rest of the series. Bummer.

 

** This was by Alexis Denisof's choice. [[Joss Whedon]] offered him the opportunity to man up and hold his own in the battle, but Alexis [[Rule of Funny|thought just getting knocked out would be funnier]].

** In the Season 5 finale Doc bests Spike in combat, then faces up to Buffy knife in hand, saying "This should be interesting." Buffy throws him off the tower without even breaking stride.

* Cheese in the series finale of ''[[The Wire]].'' He spends several seasons working his way up through Prop Joe's organization and when he betrays Joe and Marlo is arrested, Cheese looks to be the next drug king of Baltimore. He steps up and starts of give a rant to bring all the other leaders under his wing, only for Slim Charles to get sick of his bullshit and murder him mid-sentence.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* Invoked in ''[[Exalted]]''. This is a game where you're encouraged to attempt as many CMOA as possible, but a basic power that Ebon Dragon grant to his Exalts is the power to negate somebody else's CMOA. The Ebon Dragon is the dracomorphic embodiment of ''dickery''.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

 

== [[Web Animation]] ==

 

== [[Web Comic]] ==

* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', John has discovered {{spoiler|Jack Noir over his dead Dad, and Rose's dead Mom,}} he gets a very serious look on his face, the music swells and... {{spoiler|Jack teleports behind him and stabs him through the chest.}}

** Also, we have {{spoiler|Tavros about to discover his true inner power by saving Vriska... then Vriska pretty much saves herself and gains her own inner power, literally stealing his Crowning Moment.}}

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Aang in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' finally manages to control the Avatar State... and then Azula zaps him in the back right in the middle of the [[Transformation Sequence]], because she's [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] like that.

** Virtually ''every time'' she gets in her mecha, it's hyped up as a big awesome sequence, only for it to be destroyed immediately ''every single time.''

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* In 1918 the Germans mustered all their remaining reserves, including the cream of their armies, for one more tilt at winning the First World War (or at least forcing a favourable peace) before the US Army deployed in full strength. Having battered the British Fifth Army to pieces and gained more ground in less time than anyone had managed in the past four years, the Germans were well on their way to winning. All of a sudden, the gains they made became the end instead of the means. Paris beckoned as a shiny distraction, the British rallied, US forces began to trickle into the battle... and the downhill slide began. For the Germans, this overlaps with [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]].

** It was more that, while the Germans were gaining ground, they were also taking just horrific casualties in the process, while marching away from their railheads, which meant that they were outrunning their supplies. They hit their culminating point, the Allied counteroffensive began, and what was left of the German army just collapsed, while the unprotected border with Austria was endangered by the annihilation of the Austrian army at Vittorio Veneto.

 

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