History Main / NegatedMomentOfAwesome

* In the season two finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' "[[Recap/AmphibiaS2E36TrueColors 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.

* In ''Anime/PokemonTheSeriesRubyAndSapphire'' episode "Whiscash and Ash", OneShotCharacter Sullivan attempts to catch a Whiscash using a Master Ball, in its first and only main anime appearance. Sullivan throws the ball at Whiscash...and the Whiscash promptly swallows it. That's right, the ultimate ball in the games, which is guaranteed to catch its target, ''[[EpicFail utterly failed]]''.

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' episode "Whiscash and Ash", OneShotCharacter Sullivan attempts to catch a Whiscash using a Master Ball, in its first (and so far, only) anime appearance. Sullivan throws the ball at Whiscash...and the Whiscash promptly swallows it. That's right, the ultimate ball in the games, which is guaranteed to catch its target, ''[[EpicFail utterly failed]]''.

* In ''Fanfic/{{Equestrylvania}}'', Spike attempts to pull a YouShallNotPass on a group of monsters to protect Rarity and Sweetie Belle, only for [[spoiler:Fluttershy to show up with the [[AchillesHeel Golden Cross]] and scare them off.]]

* In ''Fanfic/OfSheepAndBattleChicken'', a story built on RuleOfCool and over the top action, this trope is especially jarring when the hype for a battle between Shepard and a Salarian assassin named Shift is built up for several chapters. [[spoiler:Shift is killed instantly by an eezo-fueled bomb left behind when Shepard and company chose discretion as the better part of valor.]]

** Episode 11. [[spoiler:Homura]] suffers this during her battle against Walpurgisnacht. She unleashes a barrage of MoreDakka and MacrossMissileMassacre, performing a SerialEscalation of ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill with military hardware, in an attempt to destroy the witch. Just when it seems Walpurgisnacht is defeated, the witch reveals all the attacks were NoSell, and IAmNotLeftHanded as a FlunkyBoss with MindOverMatter. It can even be argued the entire franchise embodies this trope since heroines of the spin-offs can only achieve a PyrrhicVictory at best, thanks to the BatmanGambit villainy of [[spoiler:Kyubey]] working against them.

* In Game 3 of the 1992 World Series, the Atlanta Braves had Terry Pendleton on first and Deion Sanders on second with no outs. David Justice hit a deep fly ball that Toronto Blue Jays center fielder Devon White caught as he crashed into the wall. Sanders slowed down near third as Pendleton crossed him on the basepaths, recording the second out of the inning. White threw the ball to second baseman Roberto Alomar who threw to first baseman John Olerud who then threw to third baseman Kelly Gruber. Gruber chased Sanders back to second and tagged his heel before sliding into the bag. Triple play? Not according to umpire Bob Davidson who called Sanders safe despite having a good view of the tag. Had Davidson called Sanders out, this would have been only the second triple play in World Series history.

* In the ''Manga/SailorMoon'' episode "Umino's Resolve! I'll Protect Naru", Umino/Melvin valiantly confronts the monster Akan and gets tossed aside.

* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime''.

* In ''LightNovel/HeavyObject'', Klarheit Rubyhunter's pilots a bomber during the retaliatory attack on an enemy base which wiped out most of his unit. Seeing that the enemy leaders are evacuating in a tiltrotor, Klarheit [[TakingYouWithMe 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 the crash, Klarheit has to sheepishly ask his squadron for help since his plane's busted and there are enemy soldiers all around him.

* An absolutely hilarious example in UsefulNotes/{{Darts}}[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H0qc7WZvEAY here]]. Ted Hankey delivers a sick [[PreMortemOneLiner one liner]], declares [[CallingYourAttacks he's going to hit a double eight]]...[[EpicFail then misses every shot]].
->Who's in charge, me or the Devil? -->[[TemptingFate I think I'm in charge]].

* An absolutely hilarious example in [[UsefulNotes/{{Darts}}]] [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H0qc7WZvEAY here]]. Ted Hankey delivers a sick [[PreMortemOneLiner one liner]], declares [[CallingYourAttacks he's going to hit a double eight]]...[[EpicFail then misses every shot]].

* If your character in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' 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/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'' 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).

* ''Series/DontHugMeImScared'': In "Electricity", after his batteries are replaced, [[spoiler:Yellow Guy uses his upgraded intelligence to uncover the higher levels of the puppets' house, and gets Lesley to give him the book with the answers to his questions. However, when he goes back down to the main level to show his friends, Duck Guy [[KickTheDog takes out his new batteries and inserts his old ones back]], [[FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome reverting him to his usual idiotic state.]] He then forgets why the book was important and puts it in the shredder without opening it.]]

* In the fifth episode of ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'', Duck Guy realizes that something is about to go wrong before it's too late (a first for any character in the series) and fights back for once, [[CameraAbuse knocking over the camera]] and shouting that he doesn't want to do this anymore. [[spoiler:The Healthy Band immediately have their [[TheDragon Cans]] kill him and feed Yellow Guy his organs.]]

* The Hinokami Kagura sequence from ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'' has firmly cemented its place as the series' SignatureScene... which makes it easy to forget it's also one of these. Tanjiro, staring down death at the hands of [[SpidersAreScary Rui]] and with his life flashing before his eyes, remembers a ceremonial dance to the God of Fire his father taught him, and incorporates its movements into one final attack. With this, he's able to slice straight through Rui's strengthened webbing, close the distance between them, and with Nezuko's burning blood propelling his blade even further, he lands [[OffWithHisHead a decapitating blow]], all depicted with the most lavish animation and heart-wrenching music in the anime so far. Yet when the next episode comes around, we learn it didn't work. At the very last moment, Rui used his own RazorFloss to [[DetachmentCombat non-lethally cut off his own head]] before the blade could make contact, and with Tanjiro exhausted and unable to continue fighting, [[TheCavalry it falls to Giyu to finish the battle in his place]].

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': In Numenor, Galadriel demand to speak to the King of Numenor and gives to queen Miriel and epic BadassBoast about how she will not be stopped by a mere regent queen like Miriel. She is sent to prison for sedition, without having any of her demands met.

* If your character in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'' 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).
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UbvVe4YHCA LANDMASTER]] [[EpicFail FAILURE]].

** Likewise, in ''VideoGame/BlazblueCrossTagBattle'', [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Yang Xiao Long]] has a similar music gag which replaces the current BGM with her IAmGreatSong ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9mQTmXxU8E "I Burn!"]]''... except it requires her health to be dropped down into critical. So a single Distortion Drive will probably finish her off, and also like Bang, her badass fighting theme will ''keep playing'' as she's lying on the floor unconscious. Talk about insult to injury.

* ''Film/BloodWidow'': Laurie grabs [[AnAxeToGrind an axe]] to fight the killer with. She swings it... and the killer chops the axe head off.

* An implied one in ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'': When Mengsk's flagship comes nearby, Raynor and Findlay start a boarding action, with lots of explosions and MoreDakka. However, it's not Mengsk but his son waiting for them, implying they only got that far [[ILetYouWin because he wanted them to.]]

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue: Reconstruction'', Sarge, Grif, and Simmons (who until then, had not appeared in the season at all) suddenly [[TheCavalry come riding out of nowhere]] in their jeep with the country music blaring to attack the Blues. They then crash into a wall then are crashed ''into'' by an object moving about two miles an hour. Perhaps a rare example where even after their Negated Moment Of Awesome, the characters still prove to be a significant threat to their intended targets - the jeep's chain gun still works after all this.

* Episode 12 of ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'' ends like this; Gammamon Digivolves to his most powerful Champion form [=WezenGammamon=] for the first time, transforming himself into [[GodzillaThreshold living artillery]] to stop TheHorde of Weedmon from causing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. After unleashing a barrage of explosions, he prepares to finish off the now {{kaiju}}-sized ones by charging up a massive blast as the ThemeMusicPowerUp swells... only for the Weedmons' dad to show up and take them out of the city, LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand and ending the episode with a massive AntiClimax.