A Certain Magical Index/Awesome


 * The first real fight, the one between Stiyl and Touma, is pretty cool in the anime and manga. But in the light novels it's narrated from Stiyl's point of view, and we see how a magician views Touma and why he becomes The Dreaded. At one point, Stiyl seriously thinks he might be fighting God.
 * The ending of the fight where Touma destroys Innocentius with an Offhand Backhand before running up and punching Stiyl out.
 * When Touma and Stiyl face off against Aureolus Izzard, a Reality Warper. After immobilizing and toying with them, he instantly and . Touma cuts off Aureolus's subsequent Evil Laugh with an Evil Laugh of his own, walking steadily towards him----with an insane smirk on his face and mocking Aureolus's frantic attacks as . By the time Touma reaches him, . Even after, Touma was still able to bluff his way to victory with a Slasher Smile on his face.
 * Before that, the 13 Knights of the Roman Catholic Church blow up Misawa Cram School... only for Aureolus to literally reverse the damage and annihilate the Knights.
 * The reality warping technique, Ars Magna, was thought to be impossible because one needs to chant for 100-200 years to get it. Aureolus cut that time drastically by brainwashing everybody in Misawa Cram School to chant for him.
 * Misaka Imouto using her powers to make ozone in an attempt to suffocate Accelerator. He saw through the tactic and attacked her, but he complimented her on finally figuring out a way to hurt him.
 * During Touma's fight with Accelerator when he starts making plasma, Sister's make good use of their powers by making wind turbines turn dissolving Accelerator's plasma in the process. Complete with Theme Music Power-Up!
 * "Clench your teeth. Because a punch from someone strong is gonna be hurt."
 * Touma's fight with the Unabara impostor in the construction site.
 * Touma blocking the giant stone golem Ellis' punch with one hand.
 * Index herself gets one when, after discovering her Sherry Cromwell decides to use her golem to attack Index and get the 103,000 grimores that she has memorized  all while the song Jellyfish plays in the background.
 * Touma's Big Damn Heroes moment in episode 26 of Index, when he  Nice.
 * Touma saving  by leaping up using furniture thrown up by   was epic. Finishing it by
 * Immediately after above scene, Awaki was seen escaping
 * Volume 7: Good Is Dumb, but that doesn't make it any less Badass!

"Aleister: Seems like there's some commotion outside..."
 * Touma knocking Biagio Busoni's giant cross away with his left hand.
 * Accelerator, pissed off after a call from Kihara Amata who tells him that, activates his remaining esper power, shoves his arm in the wall of the building besides him and THEN PROCEEDS TO THROW THE WHOLE BUILDING AGAINST ALEISTER'S FORTRESS. Just wow...

"Touma: “Hey, terrorist. Do you know about thermal expansion?”"
 * In the novels, although he doesn't throw an entire building, he borrows a huge amount of energy from the planet's rotational vectors to fuel his attack - enough to slow it down by 5 minutes.
 * And as a testament to how invulnerable Aleister's fortress is, the building remains unharmed. To hammer in the point, Accelerator's attack used enough energy to slow down the Earth's rotation for five minutes!
 * Accelerator . Soundtrack Dissonance that could put Evangelion to shame? You bet!
 * Even the beginning of said fight was awesome. In order: Kihara's reaction? "Kakko ii!!"
 * The Academy City Invasion arc as a whole can be considered a single Crowning Moment of Awesome for anyone involved. Especially for Accelerator.
 * Accelerator outwitting the leader of Skill-Out and defeating him. Touma vs Hamazura, a few minutes after Touma had been shot in the side.
 * Mr. Misaka's phone call in the end of SS2, asking someone at Academy City why have been attacking military and research targets (in an attempt to ). He makes remarks about what he'd do to anyone hurting his daughter, and then the truly awesome part hits: He's talking directly to  . Yes, that's right. A wandering consultant is threatening possibly the most powerful man on the planet.
 * Volume 14:
 * Volume 15:
 * Volume 16:
 * Touma proves in Volume 17 that despite his label as one of the idiot trio, he's much smarter than he lets on. He pulls one over a terrorist by pouring boiling tea into a narrow air vent and causing it to expand, making the terrorist on the other side think that there's someone inside the air vents. The terrorist decides to check the air vent... and gets boiling hot tea poured on his face. This, by the way, was meant to distract the terrorist so Touma could enter the cargo hold through the door safely. Also, he ends the fight by giving the terrorist a lesson on thermodynamics.


 * Volume 18:
 * This is just after
 * Volume 22:
 * Also,
 * Shiage Hamazura proves his awesomeness: not only did he, he, in the process also completely screwed over Aleister and shot all his plans up to heaven. Since then, things have only been going downhill for Aleister...
 * This might have more repercussions than you would think.
 * In the Short Story, Uiharu SS, Uiharu jumps atop a vehicle that's moving at 120 kph, then ties herself to it and uses a parachute to turn herself into a human brake!
 * New Testament 2: Birdway got away with  using her skills at analyzing charismatic figures. No wonder she's the author's favorite.
 * In New Testament 3, she's even more Badass.
 * New Testament 4: One-Eyed Othinus curbstomps everyone, even Touma.