The company she worked for knew about the dangerous effects of radium, yet used it in their paint anyway, and in fact encouraged the female workers to keep their paintbrushes sharp by licking them, and thus consuming dangerous radioactive material. A woman from the 1920s named Wendy died by covering herself with glow-in-the-dark, radioactive paint (using it as body paint for her lover during sex), and contracted bone cancer.

Radium Girls: In this case, it's not the death that is a crowning moment, but the aftermath of said death.

Eagerly and hilariously lampshaded in the recreation itself, since the bystanders actually start cheering for the grandma as they watch on how she curbstomps the Asshole Victim.

Wrin-Killed: A purse-snatcher gets his trachea smashed by a little old lady with 30 years' experience in Tae Kwon Do when he tried to take her purse.Even the narrator acknowledges this as a tragedy for some and gives it the #1 spot. It's more a Bittersweet Ending (or even a Tear Jerker), but it does count as a Moment of Awesome just for the fact that they didn't die in some bloody, horrific way. Ichiboned: A Japanese couple who were too repressed to have sex finally do it, but because they've never done it before, their hearts gave out when they reached simultaneous orgasms, since their abstinence meant that their bodies were never prepared for the effect of the hormones released after intercourse.And unlike the Ex'd Ex example, this could easily be classified as self-defense or justifiable homicide due to the man carrying a gun and already having a police record, meaning despite leading to the junkie's death, the nurse will likely receive at most a warning or probation.M.R.Ouch: A smokin' hot nurse who once was in the military tries to disarm a gun-toting drug addict with an MRI machine - and ends up killing him when the metal plate in his head also gets attracted.Fiddle Licked: A CIA agent posing as a violinist in a fancy restaurant uses an experimental laser rifle disguised as a violin case to kill a terrorist posing as a man on a date.As a Moments subpage, all spoilers are unmarked as per policy.

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