History Main / NegatedMomentOfAwesome

** In [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots1169.html this strip]], Durkon's cousin Logann demonstrates HeroicResolve by willingly walking through a [[StormOfBlades Blade Barrier]], when Durkon demonstrates more practical actions by dismissing the barrier and healing Logann's wounds.

* ''Series/TheBookOfBobaFett''. Boba and Fennec Shand sneak into Jabba's palace via the kitchen are confronted by a chef droid [[MultiArmedAndDangerous swinging six cleavers simultaneously]]. Boba is preparing to fight it with his gaffi stick... only for Fennec to pop up behind it and cut its head off. The unarmed rat catcher droid who walks in next actually gives them more trouble, as Boba struggles to catch the small droid as it scrambles through every tight space in the kitchen.

** Througout the first half of the manga, Sasuke's main drive had been to hunt down and kill his traitorous brother Itachi. Upon finally finding him, the two have a gruelling battle, in which Sasuke emerges victorious. [[spoiler:Afterwards, however, when he's recovering, Tobi reveals a truth to Sasuke: that Itachi was actually GoodAllAlong and everything he had done had been to protect him, instantly turning the triumphant moment Sasuke had always desired into [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone one of deep regret]]]].

* One episode of ''Series/TheBoys'' has The Deep, who's otherwise the villains' resident ButtMonkey and ''almost'' a IneffectualSympatheticVillain [[note]]he has done ''some'' harm, but only by picking on people much weaker than himself[[/note]], sending a swarm of sharks at the heroes when they're on a boat at sea, and eventually showing up himself riding a freaking whale! For a moment there, he actually looks like a powerful and terrifying enemy... until [[DidNotThinkThisThrough he gets the bright idea to beach the whale in the heroes' path.]] They plow straight into it, killing it and knocking him out before making their escape.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'': 9, 8, and 1 are cornered by the Winged Beast when 7 flips into view behind it, charging up a slope and taking a running leap at it. She reaches the peak of her jump, silhouetted by the sun, weapon poised to strike with an AudibleGleam, the music swelling... and the Winged Beast looks back at her and deflects her with a wing, sending her sliding along the ground until she hits the wall behind the others with a thump. She gets up and tries charging it head-on, only for it to fire its harpoon this time, hitting her leg and throwing her back against the wall ''again''.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/SpidermanIntoTheSpiderverse'' as Miles prepares to take his "leap of faith" off a tall building to test out his Spider-Man abilities. The music swells, he closes his eyes... and the next shot is him walking back down the stairs.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderman'': After several episodes of fighting supervillains working for the mysterious "Big Man", Spiderman has learned the Big Man's identity and went to go stop him once and for all. Only to have Tombstone mop the floor with him.

[[caption-width-right:279:While this looks like a PowerUpLetDown, in actuality, his sword went flying over the side in between panels.]]

** Movie-exclusive example: our heroes have just broken out of the [[EldritchAbomination Anti-Spiral]]'s multidimensional labyrinth and formed Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, complete with epic RousingSpeech and introductory sequence. The newly formed super robot clashes with the villain's mecha Granzeboma in an awesome battle and on equal footing! ...and then the Anti-Spiral reveals the horrible truth about Nia. The heroes' shock allows the Granzeboma to gain the upper hand and utterly [[CurbStompBattle curbstomp]] the Tengen Toppa, throwing it through multiple galaxies and then savagely ''tearing it to pieces'' all the while rambling about the flaws of humanity. Yup, the titular mecha did not even last five minutes on screen. Which, fortunately, is followed by [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope all the pieces turning into smaller Tengen Toppa-class mecha]], then [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands reforming]] into the ''[[UpToEleven Super]]'' Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann.]]

''[Zoom performs an ArrowCatch on'' '''''[[UpToEleven lightning]]''''']

* In ''LightNovel/HeavyObject'', an enemy attack wipes out the majority of Klarheit Rubyhunter's unit. He pilots a bomber during the retaliatory attack where the enemy leaders attempt to escape in a tiltrotor. Klarheit crash lands his plane in order to take out the leaders and claim revenge... except the tiltrotor takes off and avoids him. Then an entirely unrelated laser blasts the tiltrotor out of the sky, meaning his sacrifice was pointless. And since he actually survived his crash, Klarheit has to sheepishly ask his squadron for help since his plane's busted and there are enemy soldiers all around him.

* Another military example is Operation ''Ten-Go'', AKA the last voyage of the superbattleship ''Yamato'' in April, 1945. With the Americans besieging the island of Okinawa, the Imperial Japanese Navy felt compelled to do something to aid in the defense of the Japanese homelands, even though the IJN's fuel reserves were almost gone, and American subs and planes had sunk everything that dared to sail outside Japanese home waters. Nevertheless, rather than see their mighty flagship suffer the ignomity of being sunk in dock or left to rust, IJN high command conceived of a glourious ''kamikaze''-style last stand for their remaining surface ships. The plan was for ''Yamato'' to sail full-steam to Okinawa with a small escort task force, sink as many American troop ships as it could on the way in, then beach itself on the island, acting as a shore battery until it was inevitably destroyed. What ''actually'' happened came as no surprise to anyone who understood the tactical situation in the Pacific theatre at that point in the war; American subs and patrol planes spotted the ''Yamato'''s task force as soon as it left port, and provided minute by minute positional data to the fleet commanders near Okinawa. The US Navy launched over 400 planes with a squadron of fast battleships and cruisers as a backup to intercept the ''Yamato''. The planes got there first, and because the Japanese ships had no air cover and obsolete AA guns, were able to line up their torpedo and bombing runs with near impunity. End result? 6 out of 10 Japanese ships sunk, with the ''Yamato'' herself going up in an explosion so massive it produced a mushroom cloud that was visible from Kagoshima, a dire [[{{Foreshadowing}} preview of what was to come for the Japanese.]]

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'': When Highway Star has Rohan hostage and is pressuring him into luring Josuke into his life-sapping trap, Rohan gives an iconic (and memetic) "I refuse" - a powerful sign that he'll remain DefiantToTheEnd. Unfortunately, Josuke's animosity towards Rohan ends up leading him to do the ''opposite'' of what Rohan says, leading him to rush into Highway Star's trap and make Rohan's defiance all for naught. Fortunately, Rohan was still able to save the situation by using Heaven's Door to send Josuke flying backward faster than Highway Star can run.

* ''Series/{{Taskmaster}}'': In the second task of the first episode of [[Recap/TaskmasterSeriesTwo series two]], contestant had to throw a potato into a golf hole without touching the "red green". Joe Wilkinson managed to do so on his very first throw, earning raptuous applause from the studio audience. However, the negated part comes when Alex shows the replay, which revealed on closer look that Joe's foot slipped on the red green. After the debate among the other contestants and [[Creator/GregDavies the Taskmaster]], Joe's attempt was rule invalid and he was disqualified.

---> '''Ranma:''' Look! I can see [[PantyShot Akane's underwear]]!

*** When fighting Despero, Barry uses Thawne's trick of appearing in multiple places at once to try to rush the enemy with multiple afterimages. But he doesn't anticipate that Despero is psychic and is able to sense which of them is the reasl Flash, whom he promptly punches.

** Aang finally manages to control the Avatar State... and then Azula zaps him in the back right in the middle of the TransformationSequence, [[CombatPragmatist because she's clever like that]].
** Earlier in the season 1 finale minor character Hahn was sent to assassinate Zhao, finally reaches him, prepares his weapon... And then ruined everything by telling him to prepare to die (and getting the name wrong) before attacking and being hurled overboard. [[CasualDangerDialogue Then Zhao resumed his conversation with Iroh without missing a word.]]

* In the season two finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' "True Colors", Anne and her friends stop Grime and Sasha's Toad Rebellion on Newtopia while Anne finally gives Sasha the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown she's deserved for a while. Unfortunately, Grime and Sasha had just discovered that King Andrias was not what he seemed and actually had evil plans for the Calamity Box. In other words, by stopping Sasha and Grime's coup (along with Anne ignoring Sasha's attempts to tell her about Andrias while trying to ''kill her''), Anne and the others end up clearing the path for someone [[EvilerThanThou even worse than them]], leading to the events of the third season.

* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': Numbuh 3 brings out [[HumongousMecha her mecha H.I.P.P.I.E.-H.O.P.]] to fight a mutant turnip, and as she's locking and loading... it turns out the turnip was much, much bigger than the mech.
** Virtually ''every time'' she gets in her mecha, it's hyped up as a big awesome sequence, only for it to be destroyed immediately ''every single time.''

-->'''Cosmo:''' Wow, that might be [[EpicFail my biggest blunder ever]].
** In one episode, to catch a pair of criminals, Timmy has Cosmo and Wanda become a super-fast speedboat. After an intense build-up scene, complete with awesome music, Timmy pushes into high-gear...[[AntiClimax only for Cosmo (the engine) to go at a leisurely pace because he refuses to go over the water speed limit]].

** Later still, when the Eleventh Doctor, the Tenth Doctor, and the "War" Doctor are imprisoned in the Tower of London, the War Doctor suggests getting out by triggering an "isolated sonic shift among the molecules" of the door, which would make it disintegrate, only for the Tenth Doctor to point out it would take the sonic screwdriver ''centuries'' to calculate the correct harmonic resonance. A few minutes later, the War Doctor realizes that, seeing as the other Doctors and their sonics are just older versions of him and ''his'' sonic, if his sonic starts doing the calculation, the Eleventh Doctor's will have already completed the calculation. However, before they can disintegrate the door, Eleven's companion Clara bursts in, revealing that the door was ''[[WeHaveTheKeys unlocked]]''.

* ''{{Tintin}}'': In "The Crab with the Golden Pincers", Captain Haddock is fighting back against the desert raiders when a stray shot shatters his bottle of whiskey. He runs towards the raiders swinging his rifle and firing his choicest vocabulary at them, as they start running away. [[ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou Then it turns they weren't running from the drunken madman but from the camel-mounted cavalry riding up behind them]].

* PlayedForLaughs in ''[[{{WesternAnimation/SpidermanIntoTheSpiderverse}} Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse]]'' as Miles prepares to take his "leap of faith" off a tall building to test out his Spider-Man abilities. The music swells, he closes his eyes... and the next shot is him walking back down the stairs.

* If your character in ''[[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' can't pull off a Final Smash unless the opponent comes in close contact, attempts to use this attack on distant opponents can result in unfinished attacks. ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros4'' and ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'' feature far more Final Smashes where a single large hit leads into a cinematic finishing move, but if the first hit doesn't connect, the cinematic won't play and the Final Smash is wasted (in ''Brawl'', only Captain Falcon had a cinematic for his Final Smash).

A negated Moment Of Awesome may in and of itself be a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for the person doing the negating.

* The season 3 premiere of ''WesternAnimation/{{Superjail}}'' had this for Jailbot. After a tease at the end of the finale for the previous season that suggested he'd make his way back to the jail to save everyone, Jailbot ''finally'' arrives back at Superjail in the middle of the premiere's plot - just that he's several months too late, and he instantly backs down when his DistaffCounterpart Nova threatens to have his ass kicked.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** In "The Return of Harmony", Fluttershy is the only one of the Mane Six who proves [[IncorruptiblePurePureness unable to be corrupted by Discord's mind games]]. So Discord just corrupts her by [[RealityWarper reality-warping]] instead.
** In "Slice of Life", Doctor Hooves enters a bowling tournament faced with a 7-10 split with his team's victory riding on his getting the spare. The Doctor fumbles the throw but manages to strike one pin with it. That pin slowly wobbles toward the other... and comes within an inch of knocking it down.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'', when the others are captured by the Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Piggy, Candy races to his fortress to save them...only to get herself captured as well.

* In the season two finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' "True Colors", Anne and her friends stop Grime and Sasha's Toad Rebellion on Newtopia while Anne finally gives Sasha the NoHoldsBarredBeatdown she's deserved for a while. Unfortunately, Grime and Sasha had just discovered that King Andrias was not what he seemed and actually had evil plans for the Calamity Box. In other words, by stopping Sasha and Grime's coup (along with Anne ignoring Sasha's attempts to tell her while trying to ''kill her''), Anne and the others end up clearing the path for someone [[EvilerThanThou even worse than them]], leading to the events of the third season.

* The Chicago Cubs got into the 2015 NL Championship, being their first shot at a World Series in ''seventy years'', and were the clear favorites to clinch the pennant against the seemingly feeble New York Mets: In short, the Mets swept the Cubs in four games, with Chicago only scoring ''two runs'' overall, in the first game no less. To make it worse, the sweep was finished on October 21, 2015, [[FunnyAneurysmMoment the very day that]] ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' [[FunnyAneurysmMoment showed the Cubs winning a World Series]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': During the first Gobbowl arc, there's a dramatic moment, complete with epic camera shots and music, as Sadlygrove drives down the field to score. It's then revealed that [[WhatAnIdiot he ran the wrong direction and scored on his own team.]]

** Any time a contestant makes a huge wager on a Daily Double, gets the correct response but forgets to phrase it in the form of a question. [[ObviousRulePatchc In an effort to prevent this from happening in Final Jeopardy!, contestant coordinators make sure each player writes down "Who" or "What" while making their wagers on the category]].