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** Ditto for [[Immortal]], who in addition to the above, also have [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VBdAY8eA9w music videos] where they look like [[Kiss]] [[LARP|LARPing]]
* Heavy Metal fans can simultaneously celebrate [[Dio]]'s "Holy Diver" as a great old-school Metal standard, while realizing that the lyrics make no sense and and the music video is ridiculous in a [[So Bad It's Good]] way.
* [[Dragon Force (video game)]], [[Memetic Mutation|the hardest metal known to man]], better known as [[Fan Nickname|Dragonfarce]].
** "Heart of a Dragon" somehow manages to sound rather triumphant despite sharing a melody with the children's song "Three Little Speckled Frogs".
* Heino. Anything by Heino, especially if it refers to "letzten Abendrot," cowboys, or involves clapping.
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* [[Hollywood Tone Deaf|YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...!]] [[Biz Markie|YOU GOT WHAT I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!]] [[Tear Jerker|But you say he's just a friend...]] but you say he's just a friend -- oh, baby, YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...
* [[Jewel]] has a lot of this, especially in her debut album.
* [[Vitamin String Quartet]] runs on this. They specialize in string quartet covers of popular songs, ranging from the predictable "[[Evanescence|My Immortal]]" to "[[Dragon Force (video game)|Through the Fire and Flames]]" and "[[Three Days Grace|Animal I Have Become]]" ([[Flat What|What?]]). This should be totally cheesy. And yet, due in part to amazing arrangements and great musicianship...it's not.
* "Mana" by Equilibrium ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chHJGk25MVI Part 1] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqdwDxnH5bE Part 2]). Most of their music is pretty straight folk metal, but ''this'' is a sixteen minute instrumental rock epic, complete with choirs, flute solos and a retro video game sound-effect breakdown. It sounds like something from a mid-90s JRPG, and revels so gleefully in it's own ridiculous grandeur that you can't help but love it. Found in two parts here and here.
* Two-Ton Paperweight is awesome precisely ''because'' it takes a subject like a crappy car and makes it worthy of suicide, murder, and obscene amounts of violence, all to a rockin' tune. It helps that anyone who's ever had a shitty car can totally relate. "My. Car. Is a '''''[[My Car Hates Me|PIECE OF SHIT!]]'''''"
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* Many considered the [[Blind Idiot Translation]] of ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'' to be this, which is why the PSP version's [[Purple Prose]] was so controversial. Of course, some consider the often over-the-top prose to have Narm Charm itself.
* ''[[Pokémon]]'': "Hi! I like shorts! They're comfy and easy to wear!"
** The phrase "It's super effective!" not only made it into the original Pokémon games, but is still the standard [[For Massive Damage]] line over a decade later, enough so that the Pokemon Trainer's final smash in ''[[Super Smash Bros.|Super Smash Bros Brawl]]'' references it with no gameplay need to do so. For similar reasons, variations on the "I like shorts!" kid appear in many of the games.
* ''[[Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box]]'' -- especially the climax and [[The Reveal]]. There are at least two extremely lackluster voice actors; there's a fair amount of [[Melodrama]]; and if you're smart enough to have played through the game to this point, then you're smart enough to spot the [[Plot Hole|plot holes]]. [[Tear Jerker|And you'll still bawl your eyes out]].
* ''[[Okami]]'': You'd think that God herself getting [[Mouse World|shrunk]] to the point where brooms are deadly and [[The Thing That Goes Doink]] is usable for platforming would be sillier than it is, yet it works. Even when you have to jump down the Emperor's throat while he snores and fight a boss [[Womb Level|in his stomach]].
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* [[Starcraft]]: Seriously, the dialogue is a Force 12 [[Cliché Storm]]. And yet, it still ''works.''
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'':
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days
{{quote|'''Roxas''': ''No! {{spoiler|Xion}}! Who will I {{spoiler|eat ice-cream with?}}''}}
** ''[[Kingdom Hearts (video game)|Kingdom Hearts]]'': ''"[[Title Drop|KINGDOM HEARTS]] IS LIGHT!"''
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* Kinda the whole idea of ...''[[Freedom Force]]''.
* The boss /yells in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' tend to be extremely [[Narm|narmy]]... but they're just so ''epically'' narmy.
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* ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]''. "You [[Spoony Bard]]!" It's a silly and mistranslated line, but so well loved that it's preserved in all remakes and sequels.
* Most fans of ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'' cite the generally upbeat characters, silly dialogue, "save the crystals" Light Warriors plot and the game's tendency to [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall|lean on the Fourth Wall]] as the reason they love it... in other words, the very reasons many fans of "Classic Final Fantasy" (before Square [[Unpleasable Fanbase|ruined everything, of course]] seem to ignore it. Which is not to say the game is devoid of seriousness, because in certain scenes there may well be [[Tear Jerker|something in your eye]]...
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** The fact that while he said it to the person while ''{{spoiler|engulfing him in fire}}'' probably helps.
*** Being voiced by [[Mark Hamill]] doesn't hurt much either.
** Also the following line from Zuko in "[[Avatar: The Last Airbender/Recap/Book 2/09 Bitter Work
{{quote|"It keeps blowing up in my face... ''just like everything always does''!}}
** And, when he starts yelling at the sky in "Bitter Work" about how it's always thrown hardship at him, but lightning won't strike him now. He's so conflicted, he can get away with that.
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