Basic Trope: A mundane action is played to look more epic than normal.
- Straight: Bob is running to get on an elevator, but the doors are closing, so he makes a slow-motion dive for it from some distance away, complete with a Big "NO!".
- Exaggerated: Every time Bob takes a step, breathes and blinks in the scene, it goes super slow-motion and put in several dramatic camera angles, complete with orchestral music and Ominous Latin Chanting playing.
- Downplayed: Bob is running to get to an elevator, but it's clear the trip there was a lot more than just walking to the elevator.
- Justified:
- Large Ham
- Bob is running to get on the elevator so he can escape before the building explodes. He is still just trying to get onto an elevator, though.
- Inverted:
- Bob is fighting off Mr. Evulz, but the scene treats it as mundane as opening a door.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight
- Mundane Horror
- Subverted: It looks like Bob's about to dive for the elevator... but instead he turns and starts going up the stairs instead.
- Double Subverted:...which he climbs two steps at a time while Awesome Music plays.
- Parodied:
- Bob makes a leaping, slow-motion dive for the doors, along with awesome music, a Big "NO!", and everybody around him gasping in shock at how awesome it is. When Bob gets inside at the last second, he does a heroic pose and everybody applauds.
- Everything Bob does is treated like this. For example, a scene of Bob eating cereal for breakfast has Bob sharply dipping his spoon on the bowl, a close-up shot of his mouth chewing the cereal, with a lot of dramatic camera angles, complete with Ominous Latin Chanting in the background.
- Zig-Zagged: Bob treats some mundane actions dramatically, but does others normally, while he treats some momentous actions with due respect but shrugs off others.
- Averted: Bob enters the elevator casually with elevator music.
- Enforced: "We need to make this scene longer, so let's make it seem more awesome than it really is!"
- Lampshaded: "We could've gone without the leap and giant 'NOOOOO!', Bob."
- Invoked: Bob's life is very mundane, so he decides to spice up his life with awesomeness.
- Exploited: For Obfuscating Insanity, Bob always invokes a Narm-filled version of this. So, of course, Mr. Evulz sees nothing unusual on the spycams when Bob actually saves the world.
- Defied: Bob starts to dive, but his friend Alice grabs him and tells him to just use the next elevator, which is currently open.
- Discussed: "Yeah, sometimes I want to mop the floor wearing a Badass Longcoat and playing Ominous Latin Chanting..."
- Conversed: "This movie has mundane moments spiced up with epic. Perhaps the creator ran out of ideas?"
- Deconstructed: These kinds of scenes basically reek of Narm. In-universe, since Bob keeps doing these, he's seen as childish, and is laughed at.
- Reconstructed: ...which was the intention of the creator or Bob.
- Played for Laughs: Bob does this as a Running Gag.
- Played for Drama: Bob loses friends and allies and/or falls behind on what he's supposed to do because he creates drama where he didn't need to create drama.
Now... I have no choice. Destiny has lured me here... to go back to Mundane Made Awesome!
