Subject: Crowning Moments of Awesome for the PPC (spoilers)
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Posted on: 2008-08-13 05:38:00 UTC
I mean to collect a bunch for the appropriate page on the TVTropes wiki.
Off the (cluttered) top of my head, I recall Agent Blue Photon's fights with Twp'atwt and Agent Mara and Isaiah pitting FatPheonix and Helen!Sue against each other. I know there are others.
I hope you are familiar with the concept of a wiki, because if you aren't, this explanation will make less sense to you.
There exists a wiki called "TV Tropes", which is devoted to collecting and, to a degree, analyzing "tropes" (basically, commonly-used concepts and methods of execution, such as shoulder angels/devils and genre savvy); despite its name, it accepts examples from anything, up to and including real life and fanfic. Since there is no such thing as notability on TV Tropes, examples don't even have to be from something widely known.
One of the tropes is the"Crowning Moment of Awesome", in which a character does something considerably more awesome than the norm; Vimes' rampage at the end of the Discworld book Thud is listed, if I remember correctly.
Does that help? If you need more information, I can see about clarifying.
So did anyone create a list of the CMoAs for the PPC?
(CMoA= Crowning Moment of Awesome)
If you didn't, I'd suggest the time when Jay threatened to rewire her console into a programmable toaster. This CMoA is found in the TOS.
TV Tropes is the sort of site that you visit with the intention of reading one or two pages and before you know it several hours have passed and you've got twenty+ tabs open. Plus it's rife with spoilers, but Tropers tend to be good at hiding them behind spoiler tags on the whole, so you don't have to see them if you don't want to.
Specifically, this one. (Well, last time I looked it was right up front. Someone appears to have taken it out. Ah, well, such is wiki.)
As for the second part, I am enough of a troper to know that the only proper response is "Two Words: Spoiler Hound".
Not that I am actually a spoiler hound in the typical sense of the term, but that's mostly for the same reason that I generally don't investigate fanfic for canons with which I'm unfamiliar; I find summaries unhelpful. Plus when I do investigate canons by such roundabout ways they tend to be ones that I can't get access to in their canonical forms.
Seriously, the whole thing was just one Crowning Moment of Awesome after another.
Relentless.
...the destruction of the indestructible Centaur!Sue and the can-can line.
But then there are so many others...
That was pretty awesome.