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* At ''Wrestling/{{R|ingOfHonor}}OH Nowhere To Run'' in 2005 Wrestling/JimmyJacobs was showered with chants of "You beat Wrestling/{{Eddie|Guerrero}}!" by the fans in reference to the fact Eddie Guerrero got disqualified in his match with Jacobs on Wrestling/WWESmackdown earlier.

* Wrestling/CMPunk's moment is when he hijacked the WWE Championship in the middle of his hometown Chicago ''one hour before his contract expired''. It is by far and away one of the most shocking things to happen in recent wrestling history, and likely nothing of a similar nature will ever top it. As shown when Wrestling/{{TNA}} did poor rehash of it with Wrestling/AJStyles a mere two years later.

* Wrestling/TheMiz likes to brag about how he won the main event ''Wrestling/WrestleMania'', going over Wrestling/JohnCena in the process, conveniently forgetting how it was because of the Rock that it even happened at all. The funny part is that he actually doesn't remember the match due to suffering a concussion.

If the incident however occurred during an off-screen moment within the plot and is never actually explained to the audience it turns into the NoodleIncident.

* The time Franchise/{{Batman}} knocked out Guy Gardner with one punch gets mentioned far more than [[ExiledFromContinuity most of the Justice League International era]]. Partly because it's a OnceDoneNeverForgotten down moment for [[ButtMonkey Guy]]. It was even included as a MythologyGag in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold''.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':
** Superman's most notorious Moment Of Awesome (or at least, Moment Of "What The--?") actually came from the [[Film/SupermanTheMovie 1977 film]], where he reverses time by ''reversing the Earth's orbit'' in order to prevent an earthquake that killed ComicBook/LoisLane. When anyone wants to point out how ''insane'' Superman's powers can get, though, that's what they point to. Ironically, he ''never actually spins the Earth backwards'' - he's traveling through time and it appears to spin backwards. At least that was the creators' intent.
** Another infamous example being the time ''ComicBook/{{Superboy}}'' (his younger self) towed an entire solar system of planets behind him. This feat is where the infamous "juggling planets" term came from regarding ultra-powerful characters.
* ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s most notorious moment of awesome was beating the Anti-Monitor up in ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. Sure, he got a lucky shot and killed her, but she nearly kills an EldritchAbomination that had previously devoured an ''infinite'' number of ''universes''. That was not her only or last awesome moment, but it is the most memorable one. And it is often referenced InUniverse by whoever remembers the Crisis.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'', after an encounter with a rampaging [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]], the Exiles and the resident ComicBook/AlphaFlight team repeatedly joke that [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Susan Storm]] ''never shuts up'' about the time she beat the Hulk.
* In the ''ComicBook/XWingRogueSquadron'' comics, the pilots in Rogue Squadron love talking about how they could take the Death Star. Pilots surrounded by enemy craft say that it's as crowded and hostile as the Death Star, and actually given the odds they'd prefer to be back there. People [[http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/1527/blz14.jpg go through]] an estate's defenses faster than [[HoldYourHippogriffs X-wings go through a Death Star]]. When breaking into something they say things like "Well, it's not like it's a Death Star." "Not like we're in X-Wings." Understandable, considering that it was founded by the two X-Wing pilots who survived the first one, and commanded by one of the two who proceeded to destroy the second one.\\\
While composing a mission plan, someone asks if they abort if something goes wrong. Asked to define wrong, a commando [[http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/7357/swrsmr205.jpg says]] "They've sent a Death Star," obviously a flippant remark since this is set between superweapon eras. An older pilot says they'll just leave the Death Star to Wedge and Tycho, two pilots who took down the second one, while they do their job. Tycho [[http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/5770/swrsmr206.jpg says]] "Only ''one'' Death Star? Then we'll be ready to [[BigDamnHeroes save you when you need it]]."
* In ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'', the Sentry's SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome was mentioned as a possible tactic so frequently that he rapidly got sick of it. He does not throw ''everything'' [[HurlItIntoTheSun into the Sun]]. According to [[MemeticMutation the Internet]], not only does he hurl everything into the sun, but this has become Norman Osborn's go-to solution to every problem. "Bob, throw X into the sun."
* In the ''ComicBook/MiniMarvels'' strips, Hawkeye always talks about how he defeated Iron Man with just his bow and arrows when anybody gives him lip for not having powers. It gets to become sort of a running gag.
-->'''Dr. Strange:''' Yes I remember that fight, you mention it often.
* From ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'':[[note]]''Winter Soldier: Winter Kills'' oneshot[[/note]]

* In the first issue of the 2010 ''ComicBook/MsMarvel's'' series, [[ComicBook/SpiderWoman Jessica Drew]] tries to remind Carol of how awesome she is with the inverse of the trope name: "Remember when you stopped the sun from exploding?".
* ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'':
** Uncle Scrooge frequently likes to boast of his past adventures, especially in stories by Creator/DonRosa, [[PromotedFanboy who grew up]] on the works of Scrooge's creator Creator/CarlBarks.
** In Rosa's "The Magnificent Seven (Minus Four) Caballeros", ComicBook/DonaldDuck ever so casually mentions to pals José Carioca and Panchito Pistolas about the times he found [[CityOfGold El Dorado]], the lost mines of the Incas, Atlantis, and King Solomon's Mines, the last living dinosaurs... all of this as an afterthought. He did all of that in stories by Creator/CarlBarks, but José and Panchito's awed reactions really put all of that into perspective.
* ComicBook/{{Vixen}} is frequently reminded of the time she ''punched a hole in Amazo''.
* Rare is the appearance by frequent ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' baddie Cheshire that doesn't mention the time she nuked the capital of {{Qurac}}.
* Everyone knows: ComicBook/SquirrelGirl once defeated Doctor Doom. And it wasn't just a Doombot, either.
* Bane's famous actions in ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}'' are referenced so often in ''ComicBook/SecretSix'' that it approaches a RunningGag.
-->'''Concierge:''' If you don't mind my asking, what do you bench press?\\
'''Bane:''' ...Costumed detectives, mostly.

* In the opening of ''Literature/TroubledBlood'' from the ''Literature/CormoranStrikeNovels'', Robin and Strike discuss events from the very first novel, ''Literature/TheCuckoosCalling''. She tells him that she could tell immediately that he was good at what he did, just from watching him, despite his poverty and the shabby state of his office. Meanwhile, he recalls how she brought in a tray of coffee and biscuits on her first day and he couldn't figure out how she got it all, that it was like a conjuring trick.

** In ''Spider-Man's Tangled Web'' #13, a group of villains are in a BadGuyBar telling their stories of how close they got to killing Spider-Man. A stranger walks in wearing a hat and coat and shares [[http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/473818.html?thread=12066778&style=light his story.]]

** There's a great straight example as well, when Sokka and Zuko are discussing romance:
--->'''[[MetaGuy Sokka]]:''' [[WeHardlyKnewYe My first girlfriend]] [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence turned into the moon]].\\
'''[[TheComicallySerious Zuko]]:''' (''{{beat}}'') [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments That's rough, buddy]].

* ''Literature/SinisterSixTrilogy'': In ''Spider-Man: Secret of the Sinister Six'', a minor villain gets into a battle with Spider-man and ends up taking a hostage. Spider-man convinces him to surrender after telling him about how the Sinister Six, some of the [[PsychoElectro deadliest]] [[MadScientist people]] [[MasterOfIllusion on]] [[ShapeShifter the]] planet, all attacked him one-by-one, then [[BossRush all at once]]. He sent them all running by mid-afternoon. Doubles as a [[AsYouKnow recap]]

* In the third book of the ''Literature/SinisterSixTrilogy'', a minor villain gets into a battle with Spider-man and ends up taking a hostage. Spider-man convinces him to surrender after telling him about how the Sinister Six, some of the [[PsychoElectro deadliest]] [[MadScientist people]] [[MasterOfIllusion on]] [[ShapeShifter the]] planet, all attacked him one-by-one, then [[BossRush all at once]]. He sent them all running by mid-afternoon. Doubles as a [[AsYouKnow recap]]

** In Rosa's "The Magnificent Seven (Minus Four) Caballeros", ComicBook/DonaldDuck ever so casually mentions to pals José Carioca and Panchito Pistolas about the times he found ElDorado, the lost mines of the Incas, Atlantis, and King Solomon's Mines, the last living dinosaurs... all of this as an afterthought. He did all of that in stories by Creator/CarlBarks, but José and Panchito's awed reactions really put all of that into perspective.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'':

** In an issue of ''ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManNickSpencer'', Peter is at [[BadGuyBar the Bar with No Name]] and zoned out until he overhears that the other patrons are having a trivia game about him. When they have a question about which herald of ComicBook/{{Galactus}} he defeated, Peter injects and [[ButHeSoundsHandsome (indirectly)]] gloats that it was Firelord after everyone else gets it wrong.
* From ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' #12: The X-Men are being attacked by a giant swarm of sentinel robots.

** Later, in ''Giant Sized Astonishing X-Men'' #1, Kitty, trapped on a mlles-long bullet that would have destroyed the Earth, managed to phase the bullet through the Earth. Years later, during the first ComicBook/HellfireGala, as part of her wardrobe for the event, Kate Pryde wore a brooch consisting of a large X-shaped diamond with a silver bullet in front. Emma Frost commissioned the brooch to serve a reminder to anyone who saw it that they owe Kate for saving the Earth.

* In ''Fanfic/BraveNewWorld'' (a ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' fic), Ash is [[SuperpoweredEvilSide inadver]][[RoaringRampageOfRevenge tently]] responsible for having killed five deities (including the god of ''death'') and causing a previous apocalypse. While the recently regained memories of this are quite traumatizing to him, Leo sees it as the most badass thing he's ever done and never lets him live it down.

* Three different characters in ''[[WesternAnimation/DespicableMe Despicable Me 2]]'' remark on Gru's theft of the moon in the first movie. Usually referring to how impressive it was or how large-scale it was.