Perhaps I can help, instead?

Crowning Moments of Awesome for the PPC (spoilers) by Tawaki on 2008-08-13 05:38:00 UTC Reply

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.

Once again...I find myself utterly lost. Eru help me. (nm) by Lily Winterwood on 2008-08-16 04:14:00 UTC Reply

Perhaps I can help, instead? by kd7sov on 2008-08-16 06:33:00 UTC Reply

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.

I see... by Lily Winterwood on 2008-08-16 18:12:00 UTC Reply

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.
Just be careful... by Ansela on 2008-08-16 17:55:00 UTC Reply

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.

Thus the warning that was linked from the main page. by kd7sov on 2008-08-17 00:56:00 UTC Reply

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.

Pick a moment from the 2008 Mary Sue Invasion. by pigeonarmy on 2008-08-13 14:42:00 UTC Reply

Seriously, the whole thing was just one Crowning Moment of Awesome after another.

Relentless.

I'm going with... by Sara on 2008-08-13 20:09:00 UTC Reply

...the destruction of the indestructible Centaur!Sue and the can-can line.

But then there are so many others...

Definitely the can-can line. (nm) by Tomato on 2008-08-13 21:44:00 UTC Reply

What about Dafydd's last stand? by WikiMaster on 2008-08-13 13:56:00 UTC Reply

That was pretty awesome.

Ooh, thirded. (nm) by Sara on 2008-08-13 20:09:00 UTC Reply
I second that. (nm) by Tomato on 2008-08-13 14:14:00 UTC Reply