Negated Moment of Awesome: Difference between revisions

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

A [[Negated Moment of Awesome]] is when a character is about to get their [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]], only for it to never come. The MOA in question ends up accomplishing [[All for Nothing|nothing]], [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|making things worse]], or, if the MOA was a hero apparently emerging victorious in battle, the enemy gets back up and just completely turns the tables back on them. Compare [[Hope Spot]], [[Reality Ensues]], and [[What Could Have Been]]. Contrast with just [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]] and [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]. Is surprisingly common in [[Darker and Edgier|more cynical]] works or even modern comedies poking fun at tropes and various cliches. Pretty much every [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] story ends like this.

A '''Negated Moment of Awesome''' is when a character is about to get their [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]], only for it to never come. The MOA in question ends up accomplishing [[All for Nothing|nothing]], [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|making things worse]], or, if the MOA was a hero apparently emerging victorious in battle, the enemy gets back up and just completely turns the tables back on them. Compare [[Hope Spot]], [[Reality Ensues]], and [[What Could Have Been]]. Contrast with just [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]] and [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]. Is surprisingly common in [[Darker and Edgier|more cynical]] works or even modern comedies poking fun at tropes and various cliches. Pretty much every [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]] story ends like this.

'''Warning: High chance of spoilers.'''

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== [[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.}}

* The works of [[Steven Hunt]] consist of roughly 60% setup, and 38% this, with the [[Big Bad]] who has curbstomped their way through dozens of [[Senseless Sacrifice~~|Senseless Sacrifices~~]] and Badass Armies turned abruptly [[Red Shirt]] losing abruptly within the last five to ten pages as the surviving heroes finally get it right.

* The works of [[Steven Hunt]] consist of roughly 60% setup, and 38% this, with the [[Big Bad]] who has curbstomped their way through dozens of [[Senseless Sacrifice]]s and Badass Armies turned abruptly [[Red Shirt]] losing abruptly within the last five to ten pages as the surviving heroes finally get it right.

* 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.

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== [[Web Animation]] ==

* In ''[[Red vs. Blue]]: Reconstruction'', Sarge, Grif and Simmons (who until then, had not appeared in the series at all) suddenly [[The Cavalry|come riding out of nowhere]] in their jeep, once again with the country music to attack the blues. Then they crash into a wall, then are crashed ''into'' by an object moving only two miles an hour. Perhaps a rare example where even after their [[Negated Moment of Awesome]], the characters still prove to be a significant threat to their intended targets - the jeep's chain gun still works after all this.

* In ''[[Red vs. Blue]]: Reconstruction'', Sarge, Grif and Simmons (who until then, had not appeared in the series at all) suddenly [[The Cavalry|come riding out of nowhere]] in their jeep, once again with the country music to attack the blues. Then they crash into a wall, then are crashed ''into'' by an object moving only two miles an hour. Perhaps a rare example where even after their Negated Moment of Awesome, the characters still prove to be a significant threat to their intended targets - the jeep's chain gun still works after all this.

* In ''[[Final Fantasy III]] Triology'', Setzer arrives to the "Chosen Ones'" battle with Kefka on his airship, having survived his fall in Part 1 by having landed on Relm's corpse (who died breaking Sabin's fall). He jumps out to join the fight, with "I need a Hero" playing in the background, but hits the edge of the cliff and gets broken in half, the music cutting off as he lands.