redleaf Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 I'm working on a new Star Hero campaign. One thing that came up in some private messages with members here is the concept of "Crowning Moment of Cool." For example, in Star Wars (the original movies), one Crowning Moment of Cool would be when Luke was fighting Darth Vader, and refused to fight, and then Vader mentioned Luke's sister, and Luke lost it and started laying it down on Vader. Followed by another Crowning Moment, when the Emperor tells Luke to kill Vader, and he throws his lightsaber away... What are some CMOC's in other sci-fi movies/shows? I think taking these and working backwards will also help plan a campaign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Goodwin Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" Try the TVTropes wiki. Warning: time sink ahead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted June 9, 2010 Report Share Posted June 9, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" Babylon 5 had about 100 of 'em. Warning: spoilers ahead! (Like anyone hasn't seen this show yet?) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAyH7sBh-iE&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPjmxIWLEaU&feature=related And the all-time best: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolgroth Posted June 10, 2010 Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" Ahh those bring back some great memories. Makes me want to run another space opera game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted June 10, 2010 Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" I miss watching Babylon 5. Maybe I'll watch some of the DVDs I have this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted June 10, 2010 Report Share Posted June 10, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" I believe TV Tropes lists this as "Crowning Moment of Awesome." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" So they do. . . As for the awesomeness that is Babylon 5, I believe you missed this one: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xavier Onassiss Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" I probably missed a lot of 'em, but my post was getting waaay too long already. Thanks for adding that one, though. Truly awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" That was a great scene, and it showed what a ruthless b*****d Londo could be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" I don't remember that episode at all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuSoardGraphite Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" My absolute favorite Bab5 moments: The first signs that Vir actually has a spine: Which culminates with: Next, the absolute coolest line ever uttered on terrestrial television: Pure AWSOMENESS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted June 13, 2010 Report Share Posted June 13, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" I'm working on a new Star Hero campaign. One thing that came up in some private messages with members here is the concept of "Crowning Moment of Cool." For example, in Star Wars (the original movies), one Crowning Moment of Cool would be when Luke was fighting Darth Vader, and refused to fight, and then Vader mentioned Luke's sister, and Luke lost it and started laying it down on Vader. Followed by another Crowning Moment, when the Emperor tells Luke to kill Vader, and he throws his lightsaber away... What are some CMOC's in other sci-fi movies/shows? I think taking these and working backwards will also help plan a campaign. Ask your players. Seriously. Enlist them in campaign planning and they will enjoy the game more. (Exceptions exists, but this generally holds true.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vulcan Posted June 13, 2010 Report Share Posted June 13, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" Ask your players. Seriously. Enlist them in campaign planning and they will enjoy the game more. (Exceptions exists' date=' but this generally holds true.)[/quote'] Heck, that's exactly why most of my characters have a couple of pages of background material. These are things I want you, the GM, to incorporate into the game so that my character is more fully a part of your world! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted June 13, 2010 Report Share Posted June 13, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" Heck' date=' that's exactly why most of my characters have a couple of pages of background material. These are things I want you, the GM, to incorporate into the game so that my character is more fully a part of your world![/quote'] Bingo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted June 14, 2010 Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" My favorite CMOC (or CMOA) is from the second episode of Firefly, "The Train Job," near the end where the crew tries to give the money back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tasha Posted June 15, 2010 Report Share Posted June 15, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" My favorite CMOC (or CMOA) is from the second episode of Firefly' date=' "The Train Job," near the end where the crew tries to give the money back.[/quote'] That episode had to crowning moments. First was when they gave the colony back their very expensive vaccine, and when they tried to give the money back to the Syndicate's representative. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palaskar Posted June 15, 2010 Report Share Posted June 15, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" When I click on the Londo Mollari link on teh Earth-Minbari war, I get the Season 5 Emperor talking about Centauri, not the one that goes kind of like this: When they ran out of ships, they fought with tanks. WHen they ran out of tanks they fought with guns. When they ran out of guns, they fought with stick and stones. When they ran out of stick and stones, they fought with bare hands. They. Were. MAGNIFICENT (SP?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted June 15, 2010 Report Share Posted June 15, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" This is from a book, not a film or TV show, but from Brin's Startide Rising: Patiently, We took the insults -- * Patiently, Evil intent -- * Now we stop, Patient no longer -- * Dream and logic, Join in combat !! I'll link other passages from books that I know are in other threads as I find them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted June 16, 2010 Report Share Posted June 16, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" When I click on the Londo Mollari link on teh Earth-Minbari war, I get the Season 5 Emperor talking about Centauri, not the one that goes kind of like this: When they ran out of ships, they fought with tanks. WHen they ran out of tanks they fought with guns. When they ran out of guns, they fought with stick and stones. When they ran out of stick and stones, they fought with bare hands. They. Were. MAGNIFICENT (SP?) I remember it as They fought them in space; and when their ships were destroyed they fought on the ground; and when the charges in their weapons were gone, they fought on with knives...and with rocks...and with bare hands...and they fought...and they fought...and they fought. Never have I seen such courage. Lucius Alexander What would be a crowning moment of awesome for a palindromedary? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted June 16, 2010 Report Share Posted June 16, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" I almost died laughing the first time I saw that. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jomster Posted June 16, 2010 Report Share Posted June 16, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" Well that's that then. Now I really will have to watch B5 once and for all! Totally agree about asking the players and linking into the character backgrounds. I think the trick with CMoC's is to not completely copy the classic scene otherwise you get comments along the lines of "What? You mean like in Aliens where...". Better maybe, but also much harder to build your own CMoC that is influenced by others rather than an exact copy. Having said that, I reckon either route would go down well in game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tasha Posted June 16, 2010 Report Share Posted June 16, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" When I click on the Londo Mollari link on teh Earth-Minbari war, I get the Season 5 Emperor talking about Centauri, not the one that goes kind of like this: When they ran out of ships, they fought with tanks. WHen they ran out of tanks they fought with guns. When they ran out of guns, they fought with stick and stones. When they ran out of stick and stones, they fought with bare hands. They. Were. MAGNIFICENT (SP?) the quote is around 1:27 or so, be patient PS this is the same video that was posted above Tasha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Mackinder Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" I''ve mentioned it before, but David Weber's 'Mutineer's Moon' (first of the Dahak trilogy, one of my favourites) has plenty of cool / awesome moments. This is perhaps the best. Basically, after having the bejeezus whomped out of him by the hero (Colin), the villain (Anu) *finally* gets a send-off that is well-deserved and perfectly appropriate ... ------------ "How?" the mutineer moaned. Even his implants couldn't fully deaden the agony of his broken limbs, and his face was white. "How could you DO that?" "Dahak taught me", Colin said grimly, and Anu shook his head frantically. "No! No, Dahak's dead. I killed it!" The agony of failure, utter and complete, filled Anu's face, overshadowing his physical pain. [Colin slings Anu into a convenient space-lifeboat. then says:] "You wanted Dahak, you son of a bitch. Well, Dahak wants you too. I think he'll enjoy the meeting more than you will." "No!" Anu shrieked as the hatch began to close. "Noooooo! Ple-!" The hatch cut him off, and Osir twitched as the lifeboat launched The gleaming minnow arced upwards through the enclave's shields, fleeing the planet its mother ship had come to so long before. It altered course, swinging unerringly to line its nose on the white, distant disk of the Moon, and its passenger's terrified mind hammered futilely at the commands locked into its computers. The lifeboat paid no heed, driving onward towards the mighty starship it had left millennia ago. Tracking systems aboard that starship locked upon it, noting its origin and course, and a fold-space signal pulsed out before it, identifying its single passenger to Dahak. The computer watched it come, and Alpha-priority commands within his core programming tingled to life. Dahak could have fired the instant he identified the target, but he held his fire, waiting, letting the lifeboat bear its cargo closer and closer, and the human emotion of anticipation filled his circuitry. The lifeboat reached the killzone around the warship, and a single, five-thousand-kilometer streamer of energy erupted from beneath the crater men had named Tycho. It lashed out, fit to destroy a ship like Osir herself, and the silver minnow vanished. There were tiny sounds aboard the leviathan called Dahak. The targeting systems shut themselves down with a quiet click. The massive energy mount whined softly as it powered down, its glowing snout cooling quickly in the vacuum of its weapon bay. Then there was only silence. Silence and yet another human emotion ...... completion. -------- This and other very cool moments and lines can be found on http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php/72222-Awesome-moments-in-fiction/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted June 19, 2010 Report Share Posted June 19, 2010 Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" More like a "Dethroning Moment of Suck" in terms of human intelligence. Suing an alien for abducting your ancestor? Oy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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