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• This Ghosts of the Future strips makes scooping ice cream awesome.
• Parodied in this Ozy and Millie strip.
• This Badass Muthas strip features AWESOME toe disinfection.
• An early Gene Catlow strip introducing us to Cotton Taylor shows him carrying out his tech duties, including paperwork, with unbridled enthusiasm.
• This El Goonish Shive strip arguably crosses the border into Narm.
  • To be fair Mr. Raven has something of a reputation for barely controlled insanity.
  • It's intentional, though. See the 2 strips that follow.
  • Tedd also pulls this with the equivilant of a grade school science fair project. This is standard fare for Tedd though.
  • Even Susan gets in on this, here.
  • On top of that, we get the most overdone rating of a You Tube video in the history of fiction.
• This Xkcd strip features a guy who dreams up elaborate scenarios that fit this trope whenever he learns a new skill. In this case specifically, he dramatically saves the day with his knowledge of regular expressions.
  • Later in this mini-strip he is making a sandwich.
  • Saying "So it has come to this." achieves this in any situation.
• This Sugar Bits, though it's played for comedy.
• Parodied in this Penny Arcade strip.
  • See also Paint The Line 2, a Cold War epic with the fate of the free world riding on a ping pong tournament.
• Kesandru's interrogation technique from Sluggy Freelance.
• Maliki is the king of Awesome Overdosing. You don't even have to know French to see EPIC ping-pong or how testing a brand-new litter box can become a bombastic display of magic.
• Daisy Owl: "All is not lost. There is still hope. There is still honey. That is my dream."
• This Chibi Mikusan strip.
• Girl Genius:
  • Partially Straight: You've never seen a coffee machine fixed like this. "Spark Roast Coffee: Perfection in Every Cup." Still, when taking a sip of it results in this, it's some impressive coffee.
  • Straight: OTHAR TRYGVASSEN, Gentleman Adventurer!
  • Inverted: "Why do I even HAVE one of those?"
  • Wooster's dramatic exit. James Bond couldn't have done it better.
• MS Paint Adventures series Problem Sleuth: "Pose as a team, because SHIT JUST GOT REAL."
  • DING.
  • Homestuck also gives us MAIL.
  • No John, Con Air is not an awesome movie. There is no reason to reference this, nobody's even watched it. I mean, come on, you've done this once already, so you really sho- WILL YOU STOP IT WITH THOSE BUNNIES???
  • Also, the autoresponder's description of how he would confess to Jake.

TT: If it's me going through with this, hypothetically, TT: I'm not dropping some limp wristed shucks buster on his ass, and praying to the horse gods of irony for reciprocation. TT: There will be no rocking back and forth on pigeon-toed feet, while my face flushes with the blood of a thousand timid bishies. TT: I will not hold one tentative hand behind my head like a flustered asshole from an Asian cartoon, nor will an oversized bead of sweat overlap ludicrously with my visage. TT: If it's me, I'm going all out. TT: Oceans will rise. Cities will fall. Volcanoes will erupt. TG: uuh TT: What I'm saying is, it's going to be a scene, and bystanders need to brace themselves.

• • Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff devotes five panels of buildup to a bro hug bump over the "new hot game" in the fifth comic.

where doing it man where MAKING THIS HAPEN

• The Slice of Life webcomic Nectar of the Gods has these kinds of moments throughout the entire comic, considering it's just a comic about bartenders and mixing drinks. The writer uses a bunch of plots, some evil corporation, rivalries and drama that might make the comic slightly stray from its Slice of Life setting just enough to make it interesting. Bacchus is constantly making mixing drinks seem more epic than anyone ever thought it could be. Some of these may occur in the protagonist's bar or in a tournament or possibly in the open air.
  • Apollo Vindread (The protagonist's Father) Is a Wine brewer of almost every kind of Grape known for wine. Sousuke Nitroyuu once came to his Vineyard to taste his wine, if he liked it, he would buy 20 crates of each wine! Apollo Decanted the Wine with an Aura to make it taste so good that Sousuke bought all the wine he could.
  • Bacchus Creed (aka the Dragon God) makes a martini in the most elegantly epic way ever!
  • The Taste Judge, Harvey Spanner, had an incredibly difficult time spitting out the Martini (it's part of his job to spit it out) because the martini was so amazingly perfect for him, it was like liquid happiness.
    • Another thing Harvey does is that every time he tastes two drinks that he has to judge in the Nectar of the Gods Tournament, he makes judging epic by perfectly analyzing the drink with one taste and Crushing the Glass of the Losing drink!
• Art of Sequential Art cutting carrots. Also, The Lost World lawn.
• FW! Adventures parodies this with a Scrabble Scramble Game!
• Starslip / Starslip Crisis has the solution to defeating the evil dictator's mind control be a simple instruction: WEAR IT LIKE A HAT!!!
• Questionable Content -- Hanners, when arriving at Marigold's house.
  • Subsequently, when shut-in Marigold has some trouble bringing herself to open the door of a bar where she has agreed to meet the gang.
• The Word Weary: In this comic, Lillith suggests a cool boss fight for John's D&D game- namely making the other characters fight Rasputin, who happens riding the Tsar of Russia (the Tsar is a white dragon.)
  • THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
• THE ULTIMATE CLEMENTINE PEELING TECHNIQUE! Complete with speeed liiines.
• At the end of the year-long Penny and Aggie arc "The Popsicle War," the title characters and their friends celebrate their social neutralization of the bully ringleader Karen with fireworks, a custom normally reserved for national holidays of independence.
• In http://dragonmail.fadri.org/index.php?lg=en&pg=307, when Boltrin grows to defeat azgrariel.
• This comic of Blip. Don't tell me you didn't imagine some cheesy action music in the background.
  • Does a blind date merit a dramatic close-up and a musical Sting? Absolutely.
  • Interestingly, the comic also pulls the opposite trick, taking genuinely awesome moments and deliberately undermining them through sarcastic narration.
• While its been Fetish Fuel for sometime, only Collar 6 could make SPANKING this intense!
• A staple of T-Rex from Dinosaur Comics. Ryan North also makes use of Bold Inflation in his comments to announce awesome things, such as posting some photos!
• Eddie does this in Emergency Exit.
• This Commissioned strip. Chess has never been so epic.
• Paranatural has the "Super Max Speed-Changing Cool Technique" and the soup can throw, among other things.
• Lovelace and Babbage: [shuffling punch cards] "LET US CRUNCH SOME NUMBERS!"