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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* In the 3rd edition of ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' ("Epic", just because it's so Epic), many powers have the mechanical effect of bolstering allies or hindering enemies through the awesomeness of the power or the character using it.
** The infamous "arseplomancer" build for Dungeons & Dragons 3.5: the Exemplar class lets you pick one skill which can be used to impress people, and a high enough Escape Artist skill lets you pass through a space narrower than your head. The result is a character who climbs into a guy's rectum in a manner so awesome that everyone in 60
* ''[[Exalted]]'' uses this trope at times. For example, the Dawn caste [[Battle Aura|anima power]], which can automatically activate itself after a sufficiently large expenditure of Essence (though it can also be activated manually). The Dawn anima makes its Exalt appear blindingly shiny, huge, and terrifying to behold. Mooks who witness it must make a roll to resist fleeing in terror; named characters merely have to put up with an opponent who is too awesome to look at directly.
** The entire stunting system is an attempt to invoke this trope in gameplay.
* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'' overflows with characters that through their sheer presence can invigorate allies to near-invincibility, render enemies catatonic with fear or anything in between, ranging from Tau Ethereals (members of the ruling class), Space Marine Chaplains ([[Super Soldier]] [[Badass Preacher
** And then there's [[Four-Star Badass|Creed]], [[Memetic Mutation|tactical genius]], who can use his [[Charles Atlas Superpower|awesomeness]] to hide a [[Tank Goodness|Baneblade]] on open ground. Partially through camouflage, mostly through badassery. And the orks - the [[Crazy Awesome|orks]] get this a lot.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In [[Billy vs. SNAKEMAN]], if a player manages to complete several VERY hard achievements, Awesome points are given out which can be spent on bonus abilities. Also, certain levels of awesome are required for some quests.
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has a section where you are battling through an city filled with demons and undead with the main leader of your faction. Their presence alone makes you nigh invincible.
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** Parodied by the game designers briefly during the ''Cataclysm'' beta. When fans complained that the Maelstrom (a whirlpool formed when the source of magic itself imploded) wasn't epic enough, Blizzard added ''a zombie playing a guitar, riding a tyrannosaurus rex that itself was riding a flying shark with a laser cannon.'' It was called "Epicus Maximus, Paragon of Epicosity".
* The mere presence of the Servants in ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' has a little bit of this. And when a character like Lancer gets ''serious'', the pure awesome makes both you and the air freeze in fear.
* Once you get a few levels above the [[Mook
* The characters of ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' regularly cause huge explosions from the presence of their sheer manly awesomeness. Yes, even the women.
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* In ''[[A Very Potter Musical|A Very Potter Sequel]]'', {{spoiler|Future!Draco}} describes time travel as being so awesome, you'll shit your pants. Ron actually does.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ji_lMIixFw&feature=related This video.]
* ''[[Suburban Knights]]'' has many instances of parodying this - the reviewers find they can do amazingly awesome things just because the character they're role-playing as (and in one case the actor playing the character they are role-playing as) possesses some form of
** Hell, it's ''broadcasted'' on Channel Awesome.
* According to [[Tobuscus]]' Literal Trailer for ''[[Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood|Assassin's Creed Brotherhood]]'', this is how Ezio kills a guard (it's actually an arrow, but [[Rule of Funny]]).
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[South Park]]'' has some undeniable moments of
** In ''Imaginationland'', [[The Woobie]] Butters Scotch brings an entire sub-universe back into existance after it is blasted into non-existence by a nuke. ''With nothing to work with but his own imagination.'' He even brought back his friends from '''''the real world.'''''
** In the two-parter "Pandemic", Craig Tucker saves the world from giant guinea-pigs by refusing to be a plaything of the universe and thinking for himself - he accidentally steps on a special tile and stands there ''shooting paralyzing lasers from his eyes.''
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