Epic

When people use this word in a sentence that doesn't include truly epic things such as WWII or the Holocaust...or I'll even let an earthquake slide....it absolutely makes me twitch and want to slap the closest human next to me.

–adjective Also, ep·i·cal.

1.

noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style: Homer's Iliad is an epic poem.

2.

resembling or suggesting such poetry: an epic novel on the founding of the country.

3.

heroic; majestic; impressively great: the epic events of the war.

 

NOTHING about a jackass cracking his head on concrete while attempting a "parkour" move is majestic or even remotely heroic or poetic.