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* Perhaps the most infamous [[Real Life]] videogaming example is Kaz Hirai's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaBUeINW_3s ecstatic reveal] of ''[[Ridge Racer]]'' on the [[
* ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' lives off this trope. While trials are important and serious affairs in real life, in the game a trial is an epic battle of wits. With [[Crowning Music of Awesome|theme music]], [[Speed Stripes|action lines]], people reacting to arguments as if they have been ''[[Face Fault|physically struck]]'', and [[Giving Someone the Pointer Finger|finger pointing]]... lots and ''lots'' of finger pointing. That it remains hilariously self-aware of its over-the-top nature only makes the games that much more appealing.
** It's even lampshaded by Maya in the second game. "Spine tingling legal action! Mind numbing legalese! You will say 'wow!'"
** The very courtroom seems to be geared to a legal battle of wits, with the defense attorney and the prosecutor facing each other and the witness standing in the middle, as opposed to the standard "both lawyers facing the judge" courtroom.
*** That's actually the standard layout for [[Real Life]] Japanese courtrooms, which look exactly like that. Not as much spiky hair and whip-swinging, though.
** Actually, it may be a subversion. It IS awesome.
** Aaand... they just outdid themselves. ''[[Ace Attorney Investigations]]'' applies the WDYMINA factor to Edgeworth's ''logical thought processes''.
*** [[Running Gag|Aaand... they]] outdid that even further by combining two fandoms: ''[[Professor Layton VS Ace Attorney]]''. [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|Cue the rejoicing.]]
** Contrast to ''This is Wonderland'', the most unglamorous courtroom drama ever attempted. Most of the lawyers are either woefully unprepared or dealing with very severe personal problems. Or just bastards. This form of cinematography is frequently used for the purpose of extremely dark satire, complete with romantic, life-affirming theme music, a switch to commercial breaks that borders on the Neo-Classical, and lots of architectural shots.
** ''[[Capcom Sequel Stagnation|Ultimate]] [[
* The girls of ''[[Touhou]]'''s Scarlet Devil Mansion playing [http://danbooru.donmai.us/pool/show/1529 The best game of Jenga EVER!]
** A particular [[Fan Vid]] called "Sakkyun Hair Makeover." Sakuya finds Meiling sleeping on the job, and decides to take advantage of the situation by...styling her hair. Like almost every girl from the Windows generation up. And cosplaying as them. All done with dramatic poses and ham.
* In the game ''[[Prince of Persia]]: Sands of Time'', everything the Prince does is awesome. Even a relatively mundane act, such as taking a drink of water, is accompanied by a dramatic bullet-time camera rotozoom closeup, heroic music, and whooshing sound effects. It's the coolest water-drinking animation ever devised.
** Similar to the potion-drinking in the 3D ''Zelda'' games, where the camera closes on Link, who quickly "draws" the bottle, and after drinking, does an heroic lip-cleaning (sometimes breathing a fog colored as the potion). Only lacks different music and slow motion (though [[Time Stands Still]] as you drink) to try being more awesome.
** Taken even further in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]] Melee,'' where Young Link's single-player victory montage consists entirely of shots of him drinking milk, and the final triumphant chord coincides with a mouth-wipe in slow motion.
** In the same vein, [[The Wind Waker|Toon Link's]] Baton-taunt is so incredibly overdone that it makes his game-self look humble and modest in comparison. He waves that thing like the fate of the world would depend on it (OK, it once did, but that's not the case ''here'').
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]'' plays this trope straight by inserting a vocals-only version of the game's theme song to an otherwise unremarkable ladder climbing sequence. This addition, however, has led to the ladder sequence becoming one of the game's most memorable parts, as many of those as there are in the game to begin with.
** Although by the end of it, it more closely resembles an [[Overly Long Gag]], because climbing said ladder takes up the ''entire'' duration of the song. And the part where the song is a thinly veiled parody of spy film songs.
** And [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkkP-UXTN0k This scene] involves the local equivalent of Light's potato chips.
*** The game's many secret theaters merrily jog between this and a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] -- for example, let's play [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkkP-UXTN0k&feature=related Rock, Paper, ROCKETLAUNCHER !] or [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPgDIWxgOYA&feature=related Try to change the future to stay a main character], ogling some breasts in between and getting [[Ho Yay]]'d.
* ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'' has an [[Establishing Character Moment]] in its first cutscene, wherein Dante performs an utterly epic chair-sitting and phone-answering combo. Say this about Dante, he never does anything by halfs. Not even to answer a phone with nothing beyond "Sorry, not open for business yet." Link [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ckzmUwN43o here] at about 2:20
** The fourth ends with Dante kicking down a door, making a ''[[
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvOCfnJgGg0 This scene]. Both Dante AND Agnus got into the act of being as over the top as possible before their fight!
** Slow. Motion. Pizza. Eating.
*** Taking a break during battle while scythes are sticking out of his body to take a bite from said pizza.
* The ''[[Pokémon]]'' games all feature calm, ambient music while your character walks around. All very good and well... until Nintendo needed some music for the ''Pokémon'' levels of ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'', at which point the songs (except for the battle themes, which are already awesome) gained a symphony orchestra's worth of strings, horns and electric guitars, and mutated into [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Dmjbj8CEzI this], [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=g3-JSNLKIhM this] and [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=t18xkblQ0uU this]. And that's before we get onto the [[Ominous Latin Chanting]] of the game theme itself...
** Ditto (pun semi-intended) for the ''Pokémon'' theme remixes in the ''[[Pokémon Stadium]]'' series.
** ''Brawl'' is ''made'' of this trope.
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*** ''[[Pokémon Colosseum]]''/''Pokemon XD'' did it first.
** Pokemon games have been doing this all over the place for years now. Music, battle settings and camera movement, attack animation... It's sometimes justified; when you're in a huge battle in the story or metagame, it does portray how awesome things get. But what should otherwise be a mundane 5 second battle with wild Pokemon you've run into a million times before, it starts to get a little ridiculous and some of it can make the battles last longer than they have to.
* ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]] Strikers: Charged'' takes soccer--yes, ''[[The Beautiful Game|soccer]]''--and applies a LOT of [[Mundane Made Awesome]] to every aspect of the game. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX86e2dHk9E But don't take our word for it.] And yes, everything--''everything''--in that video actually can happen in-game.
** ''Mario Strikers'' has nothing on ''[[Touhou]] Soccer'', as exemplified in [[Kamehame Hadouken|this]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofnEdB8Blc clip]. And [[Beam Spam|this]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlBWNGq72DY one]... and [[Japanese Vampire|this]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvFIafpVMh4 one,] [[Megaton Punch|this]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYq-nEdBFoA one,] [[Bullet Hell|th]][[Foe Yay|is]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u823w5GI24 one]... To name a few. What do you mean, [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xr9PqLlMgG4 it's not soccer?]
** ''Touhou Soccer'' is a clone of the ''[[Captain Tsubasa]]'' game, which is just as much as [[Mundane Made Awesome]] as its parody.
* The final boss battle of ''[[Super Mario Galaxy]]'' has Mario fight [[Big Bad|Bowser]] inside the Sun to ''techno music!''
* The boss battle musics from ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' are the music of their levels, with ''full synth orchestras''. Common instruments include strings, vibraphones, pan flutes, oboes, and clarinets. This has spread to popular remix site [http://www.vgmusic.com/ VG Music], under the moniker "[[Boss Remix]]".
** [http://www.rareware.com/extras/tepidseat/music/index.html In this interview] the game's compositer Grant Kirkhope admitted he likes to "write big melodramatic tunes that are a bit tongue-in-cheek" and that "Bosses are always a good opportunity to do this." It was only expected for this other projects like [[Banjo-Kazooie|the Banjo games]] and ''[[
* ''[[Scribblenauts]]'': "[http://www.esrb.org/ratings/synopsis.jsp?Certificate=26980 ...steak can be attached to a baby to attract lions...]" Shows you that the ESRB really does have fun with their games, even though they may be [[Serious Business|taking it a bit too seriously]].
* In ''[[
** Or the officials' Mad Operation Skillz in EXE2 during the Shadowman chapter? Extreme keyboarding to the max!
** Throughout the series you're running an anti-virus program! It IS awesome, when you think about it. What do you think operating actually is? That's right, constantly manually rewriting code to adapt to a virus trying to defend itself. Granted, it IS in the form of [[Extreme Graphical Representation]], but still, think about that for a minute.
* ''[[Viewtiful Joe]]''. Joe's over-dramatic bullet time action poses can actually kill enemies.
** His "epic costume change" at the beginning of the second game (right after a [[Male Gaze]] of his girlfriend's new set) makes him perform a Ginyu Force style pose so a V can anticlimactically * poof* onto his hat.
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* poof*
'''Joe:''' "'''SHAZAM!'''" }}
* Most of the ''[[Kunio
** And that's not even counting the other versions of ''Super Dodge Ball''. The [[Neo Geo]] version could be mistaken for an SNK game, or another Pocket Fighter.
** ''Nekketsu Volleyball Dayo Kunio-kun'' had rather weird teams. The smile team bounces the ball ''off their asses''.
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** Kunio-Kun/Alex himself. He's the freaking hero of the entire series, an incredible fighter (without pulling out any [[Ki Attacks]] whatsoever, except the stat-affecting kinds of techniques, which kinda makes sense), a super-star sportsman, and he's got a girlfriend who can kick ass. King of Video Gaming Awesome.
** As of ''River City Super Sports Challenge'', it is apparently fair sportsmanship to use grenades in a triathlon, throw opponents off cliffs, push them in front of oncoming trains, and drown them during swimming sessions.
* Near the end of ''[[Zork: Grand Inquisitor]]'', Mir Yannick gives a speech, in which he praises the vast technological advances of the past hundred years. They're actually bloated praise for wonder knives, the Clapper, and ice cubes.
* The prologue of ''[[
* In ''[[
** Minamimoto activating his final attack by ''reciting pi to 150 digits!'' You could say Sho is king of this trope. He demonstrates Math and Art can be pure awesome.
** '''SLAM ON!!!'''
** The bonus chapter "Another Day" is all about this. INPINCIBLE Shuto Dan would like you to know his pins are his ''SOUL'' and if you don't think the same... well, actually it doesn't occur to him that you might think any different.
* The creators of ''[[Duke Nukem]]'' really take the cake with [http://kotaku.com/5026127/duke-nukem-trilogy-trailer-takes-the-cake this one].
* Most, if not all of ''[[Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan]]!'' involved people with real, though non-dramatic problems, which were fixed by ''dancing!'' Problems that included getting into college, cutting hair, recruiting for a school choir club, and '''not wetting the bed'''.
** ''[[Elite Beat Agents]]'', its Americanized spiritual successor, is just as weird. Examples include two instances of babysitting, directing a movie (not the movie itself; the ''directing''), driving a pregnant woman to the hospital, romancing a woman with artistry, digging for oil, auditioning for a play, and ''recovering from a cold''.
** For an example that doesn't have much to do with the dancing (yet,) the opening of one of ''Ouendan 2'''s bonus levels has your target emit an epic scream because some guy ''dropped his cellphone''. Then again, he dropped it in the sewers, and he needed to text his girlfriend for Christmas...
* ''[[Trauma Center]]'': During most of the game, you feel like you are playing space invaders on someone's stomach. But again that "is" indeed awesome. Also, the final GUILT parasite at ''Under The Knife 1'' {{spoiler|Is a giant spider parasite that creates a web that seems to "Absorb" heartbeats?}}. Also, a doctor who begins an operation with a.... [[Asskicking Pose]] and/or hand gestures!
** ''[[Awesome Series]]'', naturally, takes this and runs with it:
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'''Doctor''': HUWHAAAAAAAAAAAAT???
'''Nurse''': THEY'RE SHOOTING X-RAY BEAMS OUT OF THEIR RADIOACTIVE SUPERCORES! USE YOUR ZAPPY GUN TO STOP THEM! }}
** Also, Surgical [[Bullet Time]].
* ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]] V'' has a lot of this during the in-game [[Cutscene|cutscenes]]. The characters have very few scripted gestures they can perform, so you often see them waving their arms around and [[Power Glows|glowing with arcane power]] while holding a perfectly normal conversation. [[Narm]] ensues.
* The little-known DS adventure game ''[[
** Also, when the main character, Tendo, finishes up an operation, he always comments on his sutures ("That's... Perfect!") accompanied with a light flash and sound effect for no apparent reason.
* ''[[Command
** Oh snap!
* How do you vent your frustration over ''[[
* The game ''[[
* One of ''[[Final Fantasy VIII]]'''s early cutscenes is of a ''satellite dish being turned on''. It gets the full [[
* ''[[
* In ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy|Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy]]'', [[Final Fantasy VIII
* In the early ''[[Persona]]'' games, the eponymous Personae were [[Summon Magic|called forth]] by just sort of willing them into being. Perhaps with the occasional cry of "Persona!" or "Help Me!". In ''[[Persona 3]]'', Personae are summoned by ''shooting yourself in the head''. In ''[[Persona 4]]'', the gun-shaped Evokers are removed, and Personae are now summoned by shattering tarot cards (typically via an over elaborate strike with one's weapon, though the protagonist uses his bare hands because he's just that [[Badass]])
* In ''[[Dark Forces Saga]] 2: Jedi Knight'' one of Kyle's [[Idle Animation|Idle Animations]] is shaving his beard with a lightsaber
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* The opening video for ''[[Gaia Online]]'''s MMO ''zOMG!'' features a character ''putting on some rings'' to epic music. The rings then burst into flame. Justified, as A) this is Gaia Online, and B) the rings in question are the [[Improbable Weapon]] being used to fight [[Everything Trying to Kill You]] in the game.
* ''[[Makai Kingdom]]'': Corn.
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* In the [[
* [[Destroy All Humans!|Destroying all humans]] is awesome in its own right. Being the alien, hiding among the unwitting humans as ominous theremin-laden music plays, and then revealing yourself and causing mass hysteria and humongous explosions.
* ''[[Disaster
* ''[[
* ''[[
* Complete any level in ''[[
* ''Castle Crashers''. From fighting giant literal Cat Fish, weird..Giant fuzzy black things...Cute Teddy bears that attack you with dead fish, using a lollipop or a carrot as your own weapon... FIGHTING TO THE DEATH TO SEE WHO KISSES THE PRINCESSES AFTER YOU BATTLE HEROICALLY TOGETHER TO SAVE THEM.
* In ''[[Tales of Symphonia: Dawn of the New World]]'', epic music plays as Regal does what can only be described as turning off the lights. Sure he's using special handcuffs, but Regal wearing handcuffs is not exactly something new.
* Taking the Daredevil trait in ''[[The Sims]] 3'' allows you to go EXTREME versions of mundane things. 'Read something EXTREME' or 'Take EXTREME shower', for example.
** Taking the Evil trait gives you actions like 'Wash hands with evil soap' and 'Read something maniacal'.
* ''[[Mega Man ZX]] Advent'' is loaded with this. Here's an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsVdFQRTZcU example], and a more [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|X-TREME]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MctUWQsl33Q example!] During gameplay, [[Gameplay and Story Segregation|MegaMerging takes less than a second]].
* ''[[
** And this is without even mentioning that Seth looks an awful lot like Dr. Manhattan from [[Watchmen]]. With a spinning Yin-Yang symbol in his stomach and no genitals.
* ''[[
* ''[[Deadly Creatures]]'' for the [[Wii]] takes this trope and applies it to ARACHNIDS. Seriously, the player controls a realistic-looking spider and scorpion, and both of them are capable of EPIC ARACHNID MARTIAL ARTS SMACKDOWNS on other arthropods, lizards, and small mammals:
** The Tarantula can use its spinnerets to make ''web zip lines'', can spin-kick enemies into the air, and has a ninja stealth pounce attack that can hit a FLYING WASP.
** The Scorpion can block attacks and flip enemies with its pincers, and has the ability to perform insanely over-the-top finishing kills in very [[God of War (
* The aluminum bat power-up in ''[[Backyard Sports|Backyard Baseball]]''. The bat hits the ball, then the ball goes flying high (sometimes over a very, very tall wall) while a whooshing sound plays and immediately the character's [[Leitmotif]] (which is often [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]) plays.
* Even if not on a over-the-top manner, ''[[Sonic Storybook Series|Sonic and the Black Knight]]'' features ''quick-time events for '''trading presents with villagers'''''.
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** Bejeweled 3 turns it [[Up to Eleven]], with even more epic soundtracks, even more awesome combos and special gems, game modes that are absurdly detailed for a gem matching game, complete with Nightmare Fuel-ish consequences (play Ice Storm for an idea of what I mean), and an ''instant replay'' available for big combos!
* ''[[Crisis Core]]: [[Final Fantasy VII]]'' has scenes of Materia creation accompanied by battle music. This also applies to the squatting minigame.
* The cutscenes in ''[[
* ''[[In Name Only|Dante's Inferno.]]'' That is all.
* ''[[Bayonetta]]'' uses this trope to an extreme, almost the entire game. From mixing drinks, to eating candy, to rescuing stuffed animals. Everything is over-the-top dramatic.
** The best example though, is taking her lipstick, loading it into the gun and firing it at the [[Big Bad]] with most badass line of the entire game.
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* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
** [[The
* ''[[Ryu ga Gotoku|Yakuza 3]]'' whenever Kazuma is having a revelation and tapping away on his phone to update his blog.
** And in the sequel, ''Yakuza 4'', the other playable characters take this up to eleven. Saejima doesn't cotton to all that newfangled technology, so he makes his Revelations with a ''wood-carving set'', cutting an image from a piece of wood in the most epic fashion imaginable. Tanimura, while perfectly capable of using a cellphone, prefers to create his Revelations by sketchbook, demonstrating in the process that he apparently graduated from the [[Death Note
** Also, arguably, the Karaoke-sequences qualify. At first, you (or your date) is just singing in front of a screen, but halfway through the song, an appropriate stage materializes out of nowhere, and the singer starts rocking out with a full stage-show, including lights, pyrotechnics, dancing and microphone-spinning. Karaoke to the MAX!
* No love for ''[[Fire Emblem]]''? This can be the only thing going through most of the characters' minds when they get critical hits! Flipping about elaborately when striking with your sword, and doing a tornado spin on your way back into position? Done. Stepping back, duplicating yourself, disappearing to strike the killing blow up close, then dropping down from the ''ceiling?'' Done. Throwing your shield the air, jumping higher than you threw the shield, landing before it while striking the killing blow, and catching it when it falls? Done. ''Waiting for your sword to gleam brilliantly in the sunlight''? Done.
* In ''[[Dark Forces Saga|Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy]]'', you can choose to have every kill with a lightsaber move given a cinematic slow-motion effect.
* ''[[Smackdown vs. Raw]]''. The game will "sell" a created wrestlers finishing the move like it's the most awesome thing ever. Watch as the game goes into slow motion with dramatic "whoosh" sound effect when your created wrestler does his finisher... an eye poke.
* In ''[[Zettai Hero Kaizou Keikaku]]'', this is [[Enforced Trope]] in the ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]''-themed [[Bonus Dungeon]]. All normal attacks are forbidden, and you have to fight using only over-the-top special attacks.
* ''[[
** Hugging.
*** For the yaoi fanboys and girls, that was an AWESOME hug.
** Drinking Coffee.
* In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', during Thane's loyalty mission, Commander Shepard is told about a Shepard VI, that spouts a line such as "I delete data like you on the way to real errors!" and when it crashes, the error message says that "The fate of the Galaxy is at stake, and you should try to fix the problem yourself". To which Tali or Garrus will comment "That's pretty extreme, Commander."
* ''[[
* Peeking at [[Hot Springs Episode]] is [[Serious Business]] for [[Agarest Senki|Winfield.]] With the most dramatic speech ever.
** Oh and fighting a boulder in generation 1, that definitely counts.
* In the ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro
* [[X-Play]] parodied the whole extreme game trend in the early to mid-2000s with '''[[Brian Blessed]]'''-level ham Johnny X-treme. The character decided no one was making a game '''X-TREME''' enough for him, so he created '''Johnny X-treme's X-treme Adventure''', a game that will '''PUNCH YOUR BALLS OFF''' with gameplay that feels like '''BAKING A LOAD OF COOKIES UP IN YOUR ASS'''. Despite having nukes, chainsaw rocket launchers, flying snakes with searchlights, a water level with alligators used as skis, '''UNLOCKABALLZ'''(tm), and a battle with a sharkasaurus in front of the White House, the game got a completely un-X-TREME 3...out of 5.
* ''FIFA World Cup 2002'' opens with a full orchestra, which plays at the start of a match to epic shots of the stadium, the teams walking out, over the top goal celebrations, missed shot reactions, even fouls. The series became far more cut and dry in future installments.
* ''NBA In The Zone'' had the option of having the national anthem before the game, like it were game seven of the finals or something.
* ''[[Saints Row the Third]]'' had a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7YI2NXTiyc trailer] which promised the game to be huge and full of never before seen footage from the game... of someone being punched in the nuts to truly epic music. As one Youtube comment claims, [[Grand Theft Auto]] raises the bar, [[Saints Row]] holds it to its crotch and pretends it's a cock.
* ''[[
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'', [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragons]] don't [[Breath Weapon|breathe fire]] so much as [[Reality Warper|wish it into existence]] with the [[Make Me Wanna Shout|Thu'um]]. Whichever smart-ass wrote the loading screen dialogs took this fact to the conclusion that when two dragons fight, they're really having an intense verbal debate.
** So does that make this an inversion? Awesome Made Mundane?
* ''[[
* ''[[
* In ''[[Kinnikuman: Muscle Fight]]'', Chienowa Man and Cubeman have a special animation that'll play out when they're low on health. They attempt to solve each other while "[[Fist of the North Star|Ai o Torimodose!!]]" plays in the background. If Chie no wa Man is solved first, Cubeman swipes at him and causes Chie no wa Man to fall apart. Chienowa Man laments that he can't compete with modern toys. If Cubeman is solved, Chie no wa Man punches him and cause the panels to line up. Cubeman rockets into the sky and blows up.
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