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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rackhir" data-source="post: 4436741" data-attributes="member: 149">There's a fascinating website called <a href="http://www.TVtropes.org" target="_blank">www.TVtropes.org</a>. Which I warn you is an endless rabbit hole you can vanish into. It's basically devoted to deconstructing and categorizing all of the plot elements and twists in movies, tv shows and even real life.One particular "Trope" is <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrowningMomentOfAwesome" target="_blank">The Crowning Moment Of Awesome</a>. Which is basically that moment when a character does something iconic or epic.One of my favorites from Anime for example is in the movie "Char's Counter Attack". The bad guy has been beaten, but his plan to drop a huge asteroid on earth has basically succeeded. At that point, the hero essentially says "Hell NO!" and goes to try and stop the asteroid by himself with his (relatively) tiny-giant Robot. It's such a magnificently futile gesture that even the enemy soldiers, who mere moments ago, were trying to make sure it hit the earth, join in trying to stop it. Throwing away their lives in the attempt.This isn't exactly actually the clip, it's from a japanese mashup game that combines a couple of dozen different shows, but it has basically the same things happening.[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kWKWx_UsBo[/ame]Now, moments like this are part and parcel of D&D since you are (hopefully) playing heroes. The first one that really impressed me from a SH was <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showpost.php?p=1029552&postcount=32" target="_blank">Nwm single handedly taking on and destroying an entire army</a> in Sepulchrave's Tales of Wyre (which has a number of Crowning Moments of Awesome).So what are your Crowning Moments of Awesome? Or Favorites from Story Hours?</blockquote>

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