This troper as a teenager once walked on the beach at night past a couple of women who were playing in the water. It was dark so I didn’t really notice anything but I walked near them only because I saw something that looked like abandoned clothing, I didn’t realize it was theirs at the time considering I had already walked away before noticing them. Of course I only realized they were naked on the bus home. I don’t know what a conversation with them would have turned out like, but I think its enough to qualify as a MissedMomentOfAwesome anyway.

This editor saw ''{{GATTACA}}'' in biology class when we were studying genetics. Sounds good, right? However, one class ended right before Jerome was about to climb the stairs. The next day, the teacher was having a hard time fast-forwarding to the right part and ended up having to start ''after'' that scene had ended, so our only experience with the part that this very wiki lists as the {{Crowning Moment Of Awesome}} was our teacher matter-of-factly telling us "he made it up the stairs".

This troper owns the Wii version of StarWars TheForceUnleashed and was sorely disappointed in that the main attraction (being able to Force pull down a Star Destroyer) was reduced to just a cutscene. Later, he saw a video of the 360 version of the same sequence on Youtube and thought to himself that the Wii (and PS2) version got the (somewhat) better end.

As an aspiring writer, this troper's worst problem is that he cannot help going so far out of his way to avoid this trope that it takes him weeks to write something that can be read in a comparable number of minutes, making it nearly impossible for him to ever finish a project.

In a "I should have said this" moment, this troper was trying to defend a friend from a bully. said bully had just compared said friend to a monkey saying "they both throw shit" (his exact words). the irony in this is that he just threw a glue stick, yet I failed to point this out at the time.

This troper once had a fairly well-written (modern edition, not from before 1969) World History textbook that included not so much as a single word or pixel indicating people had ever walked on the moon.

Maybe it's because that's come to be considered a matter of opinion rather than fact, thanks to stupid conspiracy theorists.

This troper's had his fair share of puns he WOULD have used, if the situation hadn't passed long ago.

This Troper's friend had a bubble coating around his arm and had his arm set on fire, with no burn marks because of the coating, While in chemistry class. Thus making me regret taking Physics.

This troper is a junior instructor in tae kwon do. I was teaching my brother when he demonstrated a specific sequence of moves, only to mess up. After his group was done I said to him, "That could have been a CrowningMomentOfAwesome!!"

This troper was excited to find the Claymore item in Metal Gear Solid 4. And then was sorely disappointed to find that it was an explosive and not a sword.

While talking to my sister, a huge ''DCUniverse'' fangirl, about the horrors of cleaning out the fridge, I had the perfect reference set up... except I said "Green Arrow" instead of "Green Lantern", turning what could have been a CrowningMomentOfFunny into an EpicFail.

No joke, this troper also accidentally said Green Arrow instead of Lantern in what would have been a very funny joke.

This troper was just playing StarcraftII 1v1 online. I had an observer over my opponent for virtually the entire game. Therefore, I was fully aware of his/her MASSIVE force of marines, marauders, siege tanks, medivacs, and ghosts (with at least one nuke). I began preparing for the inevitable attack by building up my own massive force of zealots, dark templar, stalkers, void rays, and colossi. My observer saw as the opponent prepare the massive force to attack me... and then left the game, or lost connection. THE BATTLE WOULD HAVE BEEN EPIC! Especially when the ending stats revealed that our armies were almost the same size (mine was slightly bigger).

This troper was waiting for a pizza with friends from work when I pulled out a puppet I had made that our boss wanted to see, when one of us decided that the delivery guy was taking too long and that the puppet would take the pizza and ask why the pizza was so late when the pizza place was down the street. Then, the delivery guy showed up before I could go get the puppet out.

I was sleeping during the day when some people started chatting online and it turns out to be the people I waould want to friend with. It is only when I woke up that I realised most of them are gone and I could have actually contributed and made more friends but I wasted my chances on that.

This troper has had a LOT of cases of Comeback Tomorrow, but the one I regret most is the time I was standing around with a couple of girl-friends (most of them underaged), talking to a random guy none of us knew personally, who announced that there was no such thing as rape, "just surprise sex you didn't know you wanted." Everyone stood around and looked awkward for a couple of minutes in reality, but to this day this troper dearly wishes she'd gone through with her gut reaction to punch the guy in the face, then followed up with "that wasn't assault, it was a sparring match you didn't know you wanted." #QUOTE# OOH OOH or "That wasn't assault, we just don't talk about Fight Club." Really anything snappy and related to violence without repercussion would have done the trick. Comeback Tomorrow is a bitch.

This troper suspects that, by the toss of a coin, he lost the chance to have sex for the first time. Admittedly, it would have been with a friend he hadn't met for over five years, but had seen frequently until he was six (whereupon he moved to another part of the country) and she was roughly four years older than he was, so, if it would have happened, I would probably be typing on the BigLippedAlligatorMoment page about how I swore not to mention it. To quote SimonAndGarfunkel, every way you look at it, you lose.

This troper has several times come up with the perfect thing to say... long after the situation has passed. For example, the time me and my brother went around collecting money for some charity(which we did for school). Among the houses we visited were the house we lived in before we moved, and after we left, I came up with the perfect thing to say... All your base were belong to us.

This Troper was one day practicing Martial arts when I decided to try round house kick a fly out of mid air, it actually worked! It dropped out of the air but not just once this troper did it four times in a row! But of course no one way around to see it and most people don't believe me when I say it, which is fair enough, really. Don't know if I can do it now though.