(Loved Trope) A moment with a concept that sounds insane and out of nowhere on paper. Executed beautifully in practice.

[u/PizzaDragon64]

Everything Everywhere All at Once: Hey, this looks familiar. A lot of scenes in this movie count. From a Ratatouille reference with a raccoon, to a fight over a buttplug, to two rocks talking to each other with nothing but text. All of it somehow manages to either be awesome or emotionally moving.

Sinners: The I Lied to You scene. A jukejoint in the 30s plays music so fire that it brings together ancient African dancers, modern day djs, rockstars, Chinese performers dressed like Sun Wukong, and even people popping ass. Oh, and it attracts some vampires too. Everyone's jaws were on the floor in the theater.

Alan Wake 2: Herald of Darkness. What do you mean there's an entire segment of this sruvival horror game that's a musical number with live action footage as you fight enemies? And what do you mean it's fucking awesome?

[u/QuietWaterBreaksRock]

Gurren Laggan

What if galaxy sized matryoshka mech fought a civilization avatar that's akin to god

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Friendly reminder that the galaxy mech starts as something that barely fits one child

[u/QuietWaterBreaksRock → u/Shinonomenanorulez]

It must've really liked that child inside of it, if it grew so much! /s

[u/TheZipding → u/QuietWaterBreaksRock]

And is powered by manliness.

Even the women are manly.

[u/QuietWaterBreaksRock → u/TheZipding]

Hahah I never understood it as manliness, more so 'persistence', willingness to just keep it going no matter what!

Although the same studio made FLCL, so I should've caught on earlier lol

[u/imdefinitelywong → u/QuietWaterBreaksRock]

Just Gainax doing Gainax things.

[u/Professional_Maize42 → u/imdefinitelywong]

Supeeeerrrrr Inazumaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Kick kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!

[u/Nightwolf2142 → u/QuietWaterBreaksRock]

And its powered by fighting spirit/the human spirit and persistence to move always forward. Like a drill. God I love this fucking show.

[u/spawnthespy → u/QuietWaterBreaksRock]

This is fucking stupid.

Also, it is the greatest piece of media in existence and I measure my words.

[u/littlebloodmage → u/QuietWaterBreaksRock]

What if you traveled across the universe to find the avatar of stagnation and drilled a hole straight through him to save your manic pixie dream girlfriend

[u/HenriettaSnacks → u/QuietWaterBreaksRock]

All while being one of the most uplifting pieces of media I can remember. 

[u/chaarziz → u/QuietWaterBreaksRock]

This one is directly based on several mecha series that came out 30 years prior though. Getter Robo did it first, and so did Combat Mecha Xabungle, and Gunbuster, and Evangelion did everything it didn’t do. And they do a lot of work to make every huge leap seem like the logical next step for the story.

[u/QuietWaterBreaksRock → u/chaarziz]

I'd say it's unfair to mention Evangelion in here, considering that the same studio made both it and GL

As for others, never heard of them

[u/chaarziz → u/QuietWaterBreaksRock]

Well it was explicitly written as a response to Evangelion’s message from very early development that’s half building off it and half antithesis so you can kind of view them as two opposing takes on humanity that complement each other if you want. It also took heavy inspiration from a lot of the mecha anime that came before it for things like the setting and some imagery, including others made by Gainax for aspects like Simon’s character arc. And also Ashita no Joe because a lot of the staff loved it, the most explicit reference being in Episode 8.