This troper once pulled one of these while playing manhunt (team tag in the dark) my teamates were formulating a complex plan when I got fed up, so I told them to run, grabbed a handy pot and spoon (we were camping) and banged them together, everyone on the other team chased me, and everyone on my team made it to the base (including me!)

This Troper suffered from a case of LeeroyJenkins when I started playing ''TearsToTiara''. I got killed in the ''first'' battle ''twice'' before I started thinking tactically.

When playing Doom, this troper sometimes pulls off a Leeroy, for the added risk of being in an imprevisible situation.

Doom is always a Leeroy for me.

Soon as I can find my old copy of DOOM II, I've got to give that a try!

This troper is pretty much a Leeroy in any FPS, rail shooter, or 3PS that she plays.

At one point while playing CastleVania: Judgement, I was playing as Death fighting Time Death, and I was beaten several times, so, when he was spamming the super attack, I just said "Screw it. LEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOY JENKINS!".

In any shooting game this tropette has played at least once, she will simply go in all guns blazing. Much more fun.

Are you me? =)

This troper, IN RealLife. YES, THAT'S RIGHT. Although, I haven't died yet...

Gets this troper killed quite often in every video game she's played, but once at a movie theater, someone shouted "LEEEEROOOOOOOOOOY JEEEEENKIIIIIIINSSSS" from the back of the theater...that was pretty weird.

This troper's game tactics are all the same: rush in, kill people, and try not to die. I fail at the last part.

In ''zOMG!'', I sometimes get bored enough to do a Leeroy on purpose. People generally find it amusing as long as I'm not crewing with them or anything.

Speaking of zOMG!, this troper frequently finds himself pulling Leeroys ''entirely by accident''. Enemy targeted from a distance? No problem, I'll just reel the little bastard in with Sunrays (eighth ring) and let my crew mates... wait a minute, I'm running over to it and attacking with Hack. Right in the midst of all its buddies. Hoo boy, bad time to press 5 instead of 8...

This troper DM'd a DungeonsAndDragons campaign where we convinced a character to name himself Scorpious "Leroy" Jenkins. After the first few sessions of combat, he switched to crossbow full time.

Maybe doing this in Metal Gear Solid isn't so nice, but it sure is fun.

More than once, I have shouted this out in appropriate situations. Also, if I get bored with a strategy game, I'll just do the all-guns-blazing-no-holds-barred approach for whatever game it may be.

Had this happen in the CWK Grandmaster fight in MapleStory once. Background knowledge: The accepted strategy for the fight (consisting of four bosses, one on an elevated platform and the other three below) is to have someone lure the bottom three bosses to a corner while everyone kills off the boss on the platform, then send over the other three bosses to the other corner one at a time. Essentially divide and conquer. Problem is, the lurer can only do his job efficiently if nobody else is attacking the three bosses, and at that time there were a few people who apparently didn't get the strategy in their head and went all over the place. And since the bosses work exceedingly well when they're together, tombstones soon began to follow...

In [=TF2=], people do not seem to expect a fleeing Medic to make an instant 180 and rush straight back with the bonesaw leading the way. This troper has caught more than a few pursuing Pyros and Demomen with this tactic. It's also very therapeutic to jump in a crowd with the fire axe in hand and hope for a lucky crit.

Happens too often in ''Left4Dead''. They are the guys who think running ahead as fast as you can is the way to play, or that they can take on any Witch they encounter. They're also the ones who will always throw a bad molotov that severely hurts the rest of the team. Leeroy Jenkins players in this game are usually dealt with by letting the player be punished for their idiocity (or they will shoot the guy themselves) and then vote them off. This troper and his friends once had a little girl on the team and she would try to kill every Witch we saw. Fun times rolled around when she tried to kill a Witch with a friggin' Uzi.

I managed to have two different types of Leeroy in my first round of ''{{Left 4 Dead}} 2'', namely the guy who tried to sprint past all the zombies without engaging them and the guy who rushed ahead of the group. The second one was apparently just new and didn't know to stick together, the first one was an idiot.

Normally, this troper does this when important [=NPCs=] that he's come to like die. It normally gets him killed.

This troper pulled a rather amusing one when she was in a rp, deliberately having her character (Leon's his name) going up against a sorcerer when he's basically magic fodder. How fun that was. >D

This troper did this quite literally 5 minutes ago while playing F.E.A.R 2. And it would've worked, too, if that damn Replica soldier with the friggin' Laser hadn't popped out from those double doors...

This Troper plays a variant of Capture the Flag called Capture the Flag with Stuff, in which the titular "stuff" consists of various items that affect the game (wands, potions, and belts.) One belt, Andy Warhol's Belt of Pop Occultism, allows the user to stun all members of the other team in the area for sixty seconds. The activation phrase? "LEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYY JEEEEEEEEEENKKKKKIIIIIIIIIIIINSSSS!!!!!!"

When this troper and his comrades were playing a game of laser tag we were cornered by the other team with odds that were clearly on the other team's side, all three of us charged out guns blazing, shouting LEEEEEEEEEEEROY JEEEEEEEEEEEENKIIIIIINSSSSSSS (Though you can't actually drag it out, as you are liable to be stunned mid-word if you do.)

This troper, when playing .hack, has a tendency to do this when a powerful monster targets my Wavemaster, who's there for serve as a healer most of the time (You don't mess with my healer...and that goes double if Mistral is serving as my healer). Also, when playing {{Doom}}, i have a tendency to charge into some rooms, packed full of various demons and such, using my chaingun to mow them down while shouting "I am bulletproof!", like Heavy. You'd be surprised how well that strategy works most of the time

This troper will sometimes inadvertently find himself in this situation. He will run out, thinking everything is clear, then start getting shot in the back by enemies that have managed to get around him. I usually manage to get away, though.

@@Is it possible to have a real life example?@@ Anyway, this troper once went to an AliceInWonderland interactive outdoor play, and as the rabbit went through the hole, I exclaimed "Follow that rabbit!" and charged into the rabbit hole. Yeah, I'm that type of person...

I went through a stage where if I was playing a video game I behaved like a {{Leeroy Jenkins}} as an actual strategy in single player mode... to my amazement ''it actually worked'' a lot of the time. Sometimes the game just isn't prepared for something as simple as an armoured spartan coming rushing towards the enemy position slinging sticky grenades and firing a plasma pistol at full speed at the nearest elite. Yeah, I died a lot, but probably less than I would've playing tactically. Cue me using this strategy in co-op with a friend who played more tactically. I ran in causing havoc, while he hung back and picked off anything that looked too ugly. Worked like a charm. Being a berserker isn't always bad. In single player at least. I'm more tactical in multiplayer.

Are you kidding? Beserker-ing is ''way'' more effective in multiplayer, since the other player who's hanging back acts as a SpawnPoint.

Speaking of Halo, a good Leeroy Jenkins strategy is dual wielding either [=SMG=]s or Spikers. It's like being Captain Mifune from Matrix Revolutions; you last a little bit before you get your ass kicked hard by a Ghost or someone with a shotgun. Though miraculously this strategy ended up with me reaching Lt.

This Troper cannot play a video game without ,at least once somehow charging through all guns ablazing.If it is obvious that won't work I will wait as long as it takes, and then the minute I get the chance i will charge through anywhere I can as long as I can. No matter the outcome or how impossible it seems.

I've done this playing BrutalLegend. Multiplayer AI practice, Ironheade vs. Ironheade. Actually, gentle difficulty. The first time I played it like this. I charged for the opposing stage with just Headbangers, Razor Girls, and a couple Thunderhogs. Just before, I said "LEEEEEEROOOOOOY JEEEEENKIIIIIIIIIIIINS!"

This troper isn't very good at FPS games, and finds the only way he can make a signfcant contribuation to the team is tto run forward and draw fire and attetion, while the good players go and win the game. Its hillarous when some gets close to kill me, then gets taken out by a scout waiting for someone to apporach the obvious diverson, or busy killing said diverson. This works well unless I'm in a game where EVERYONE is a newbie, then were all fucked

1. Find a multiplayer game that requires teamwork (EG ''TeamFortress2'', ''{{Left 4 Dead}}''.)

2. Scream "LEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYYYY JEEEEEEEEEENKKKKKIIIIIIIIIIIINSSSS!!!!!!"

3. ???

4. PROFIT

Or you get kicked by paranoid team members.

This troper once ran a Role Play dungeon on {{Mabinogi}} with a friend of mine and her brother. The quest has the party leader (my friend in this case) playing an experienced Mage, Tarlach, I was a loli archer, Mari, and my friend's brother was Ruairi, the sole melee fighter of the three. He clearly had no concept of team strategy when you're the sole melee fighter with an archer and a mage; he would frequently run off to the other side of the room and ignore the rest of us while the enemy skeletons were walloping us at melee range. Even worse, he totally abandoned us to die in one room and ran off ahead, and then by the time he finally returned both my friend and I were dead, and he didn't even bother using any healing potions despite Ruairi starting with plenty to spare. When he died as a result, I totally gave up on the dungeon and left; knowing full well the boss of the dungeon is impossible to defeat without Mari. It was my attempt to cut short a clearly doomed quest before we got any further.

This Tropette also plays Mabinogi, and another friend and I are referred to as "barbarians"...Meaning we run in and Leeroy, to the point where during a Skype chat with other players that are friends, I ran into a room in Longa dungeon and screamed, "LEEEEEEEEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOYY...JEEEEEEEEEEEEENKIIIIIINS~!"

This Troper has seen his fair share of these in the ''Uncharted 2'' online multiplayer mode, especially in the co-op games. Admittedly, it can be partly attributed to a lack of communication means unless one has a headset, but the sheer idiocy of some of the players is mind-boggling.

This troper + Team Fortress 2 + Scout + Baseball Bat = this. Regardless of which map I'm playing on.

This troper is this whenever he plays a strategy game,with a little bit of turtling. He just can't attack until he knows his units are all upgraded and he has reached the population cap. He hates sending units to their death so when he attacks he needs to be sure he WILL win by throwing everything you've got at the enemy without planning. Usually he loses wich is why he doesn't play multiplayer very much. May be because of the VideogameCaringPotential

Superficially, this troper is Leeroy Jenkins at most games he plays. However, I use care and actually invest a lot of skill into CQB combat.

Played straight and subverted by this troper. In most [=MMOs=], I end up being TheCaptain for my group - so 90% of the time I have to be patient, calm, and keep everyone else's suicidal urges in check. ... But if the group is powerful enough I turn into a Leeroy; largely because I know they can handle it, it gets us through faster, and it's more entertaining. (If your group can handle 4 pulls at once, and you're doing just 1, you're playing it too safe! >.>) It's funny, it gets me a reputation for being nuts... yet I very, very, very rarely actually cause any deaths, wipes are extremely rare. I kind of like it that way hehe

I can be this in 40k. Case of point: five space marines from a tactical squad against Kharn, with the tactical marines being the chargers. Cue "Let The Bodies Hit The Ground". Having said that, my best friend once made his dreadnought charge my wolf lord with a thunder hammer, melta bombs and a storm shield, who was in a squad of Blood Claws with one squad member armed with a power fist. My wolf lord failed to slay the dreadnought while my blood claw slew it. I took no casualties. Kinda makes up for my reputation of being garanteed to lose a game, no matter how certain victory looks...

This troper role plays in a FinalFantasyVII sim on SecondLife and believes some of his AVALANCHE friends are a bunch of leeroys, including the higher ranked guys who should be setting an example since they're semi-leaders. The faction had way too many cases where a rebel would attack a Shinra patrol, causing the enemy to call in for stronger forces by the time the leeroy calls for help. It got to the point where people now don't even bother coming out to save people from this stupidity, though this had recently caused much stress and in faction fighting on what the group should do in these cases since some thing leaving people behind for this makes the group look like jerks.

This troper does this when playing Sven Co-op Single-Player, though considering how fucking hard it is to solo a Co-op game, it works ''wonders''.

I ran into this problem fairly often while raiding Sunwell Plateau in WorldOfWarcraft, notably with Kalecgos. To be fair, Kalecgos' aggro range is large enough that people who aren't standing on his platform can aggro him, unlike most other raid bosses, in which it's possible to get everyone over the threshold and into the boss arena before the pull, so that even if someone jumps the gun, the others don't get locked out. Unfortunately, this often happens before I can explain the fight, and the members tend not to listen to my telling them to get in the portals. Surprisingly though, not all these incidents result in total disaster; we almost defeated Brutallus when one member went Leeroy and pulled him before my explanation or Ready check.

This troper is writing out a story for a Halo Reach machinima, and this trope is lampshaded when the hulking Elite armed with a Gravity Hammer runs into the fray and shouts out "ZZOOOOOOOMMMMBIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEE, ZURFEEEEEERRRR!!!!!"

You think that's bad? Whenever I'm doing Firefight, theres always one idiot who charges at a Wraith, Hunter or group of Elites. Three guesses how this ends...

Happens quite a bit when this troper and her friends play PerfectWorld and especially with one friend in particular - this troper plays a Venomancer who has to strategize through dungeons, and her impatient friend is a Barbarian who constantly pulls this move in said dungeons. Having a very high-leveled character compared to her friends does make the Leeroy maneuver not-so-risky, though it's killed our other friends a few times.

This trope is part of the reason I prefer to solo, and why I don't get into MMO's that ''require'' teaming. On the other hand, I have regularly teamed with this kind of player just cause he's a cool guy and fun most of the time, but I always, always, ''always'' have a contingency. After awhile you kind of expect him to pull an IndyPloy out of his ass, and learn how to plan around it, or even count on it.

This Troper does this all the time in ''Laserquest'' games. LaughingMad optional. It's just more fun that way.

In a few games of Warhammer40k, this Troper tends to do this with his Imperial Guard. One particularly memorable game involved the battle essentially having 2 phases. The first was a tactical, planned armored advance with mechanized units. This attack was annhilated by enemy antitank. The second phase involved a massed infantry charge that killed everything in its path. Just goes to show that while you may be a Wolf Lord in decked out Terminator armor, when 60 guys with bayonets decide they want to stab you to death? You. Will. Die.....Eventually.

This Troper once participated in an indoor, flashlights-only Capture the Flag war, inside a church, from 11 PM to 5 AM. Each team had two captains, and my friend Jason (also the youth pastor) and I were captains of one team, and we took our roles seriously. After having our butts handed to us for three or four times, we requested a time-out and called our team members together in an attempt to formulate a strategy. Five minutes of planning gave us a very solid strategy for defending our base (the main sanctuary) and infiltrating the opponent's base (the youth sanctuary and the kitchen) with as few people at a time as possible. Just as we were preparing to call off the time-out, one of our teammates ran out from the bathroom and across the church to invade the other team, screaming like a maniac. His attack ended the time-out and put us back at square one. At least he had chicken.

Upon triumphantly telling her friend about the time she played Elder Scrolls: Oblivion and used stealth alone to infiltrate the Mythic Dawn Cult's base, kill every member, and get back out alive (an exploit that took exactly five in-game days), this Troper got a blank look and "Why didn't you just run in swinging your sword and throwing fireballs and fight them where they could see you? It'd be faster." She tried this on a different save. Her friend was right.

This troper tends to play support types in CityOfHeroes. I see Leeroy Jenkins-types as a win-win situation: either they pull off a CrowningMomentOfAwesome, or I've got a chance to use Vengeance and Fallout (a powerful team buff and a powerful AoE attack, both of which require a defeated teammate to activate).

This troper is prone to do this in CallOfDutyBlackOps. Whenever someone's popping out from behind a window and shooting, picking off his teammates while other allies shoot quick bursts from behind walls, he charges forward firing the FAMAS at their head. It usually works, and anyone who kills him afterward immediately dies in a bullet storm from the previously-hiding aforementioned allies.

This troper knows a very random boy named Cole. One lunch, he screamed LEEROY JENKINS! then crashed into the lockers. This had absolutely no context whatsoever and managed to not be the randomest thing he's done.

This troper once pulled a Leeroy while playing Dungeons and Dragons. The party was invading a goblin underground base (AKA dungeon) and found the mess hall. I had my character bang pots and pans together very loudly, thus causing every bad guy in the dungeon to storm into the room. However, this in itself was not a Leeroy; I had a plan, namely using the tables as cover and inviting the bad guys into a death trap of arrows and sharp objects being poked over the furniture, causing bodies to pile up around the [=PCs=] as we laughed maniacally. Sadly, this plan had a flaw: I had neglected to inform anyone else and give the party time to fortify the area, and thus I pulled a Leeroy. I (the party Rogue) had great fun hiding under a table and repeatedly sneak-attacking everyone without being noticed for several rounds, but the DM still had to save our asses.

I've teamed with at least one in every MUD I've ever played. I've seen them often enough to sort of clock them ahead of time and have a self-preservation measure in case they go off, and if they're lucky, have a contingency to pull their poor asses out of the fire.

I was playing a mission based off of the Rush game mode from BattlefieldBadCompany at the local airsoft field and our team was set to capture the last base, but the fast push we had made forward at the beginning stagnated at the last base when a few accurate, hardened defenders began to make their final stand and our tickets started dwindling. After performing a quick recon mission in the woods that brought me within 100 feet of the enemy base, I was returning to our front lines to report on their numbers and positions when suddenly there was a massive "RAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!" from the direction of our base. Suddenly, a 6'4 Englishman was charging down the path straight toward the last base with a tomahawk raised above his head and the last 20 or 25 men of our army right behind him. Surprisingly, it WORKED; the defenders were so confused and startled by the sudden {{Braveheart}} charge that they forgot to fire until our army could see the whites of their eyes. When the charge started to falter and the troops started freezing up behind flimsy cover and trying to take accurate shots, I forced them to charge straight into the base and effectively ''scare'' the enemies into fleeing and giving up the game.

This troper's cousin ''and'' brother are this. Many a time have my plots and plans been reduced to ashes by their haste.

"All right, guys, let's do this! LEEEEEEEEEROOYYYYYYY...JEEEEEEEEEEEEENKIIIIIIIIIIIINS!!!"

No, wait, don't�AUUUGH!!

Well, at least he had chicken...

Alas, poor Leeroy, I knew thee not at all...