Transformers Animated/Awesome

"Ratchet: "Time was I'd use my EMP generator to do this painlessly. Too bad I don't have it anymore.""
 * Ratchet in "The Thrill of the Hunt." He faces the trauma he endured during the war and defeats a foe that easily defeated his teammates. Extra points for the great moment where he sneers at Lockdown's request for the EMP to take away his pain after RIPPING OPTIMUS' STOLEN GRAPPLERS OUT OF LOCKDOWN'S ARM. That's cold, and also totally awesome.

"Sari: Man, you guys look beat. Need some oil?"
 * "Meltdown not hurt Dinobots. Dinobots hurt Meltdown!" Added awesomeness by the trio then transforming to robot mode, which no other character knew was even possible.
 * More "Crowning Moment of Funny" than awesome, but related regardless. The main human companion in most Transformers shows usually winds up The Scrappy. Sari Sumdac of Animated, however, managed to avoid this, in no small part by making Optimus Prime need therapy.
 * There's also the episode "Sari, No One's Home" where she, an eight-year-old kid, takes on the Constructicons (who came for oil) alone in her home. After they break her cell phone, she holds a council of war with her teddy bear, then goes rollerblading in when they threaten her TV and hits Mixmaster in the shin with a hockey stick(it breaks and she runs like heck, though), then ends up using the ninja obstacle course shown earlier in the episode to smack them around till she gets bored, dumping them on the ground. Then she goes up to the very battered and surprised Constructicons.

"Lockdown: I'm impressed. It's been eons since the last time anyone got the drop on me. Prowl: Next time will be much sooner."
 * Sari . (read: Rock Lord)
 * How about the moment before that, when Sari.
 * Speaking of Optimus Prime? Kicking Megatron out the docking tunnel and letting him burn up in Earth's atmosphere in the first episode.
 * Prowl coming out of nowhere and popping a wheelie on Lockdown's face.

"Megatron: I do not believe in luck. (flies off) Starscream: Neither do I."
 * Another Prowl Moment is when he gets the Samurai Armour from Lockdown. It's strange though, how he's more of a dick in Samurai Armour than he is as a Ninja, contrasting the general portrayal of "Samurai=honorable" "ninja=deceitful". The effortless way he takes down the Starscream clones, though, more than makes up for it.
 * When Starscream gives Megatron a pat on the back before he goes to take out the Autobots, "to wish him luck"... and plants a bomb on his back.

"Megatron: [Holds Starscream in the air by the head until he finally goes limp, and then lets him fall like a sack of potatoes.] "Does anyone else have a problem with my leadership?" Blitzwing (Random): "N-no, we're fine.""
 * Animated Starscream gets his share. Try when he and his clone army blast into the Decepticon base. Every one of his clones gets a little moment to shine there (especially the sycophant, who singlehandedly brings down Prowl). But the real moment comes when his clones incapacitate Megatron as Starscream grabs his sword. "Oh, I've been waiting a long time for this!"
 * Starscream kind of gets a lot of these in Animated. For one, try when he single-handedly handed the Autobots their collective ass in "Transform and Roll Out".
 * Or when he, after discovering Megatron alive but helpless, started going on about how "Anyone could just walk in here and terminate you..." while preparing to finish what he started and kill Megatron once and for all. Bumblebee runs in, attempts to bring Starscream down, and gets laid out in seconds before Starscream yells at him: "You interrupted my speeeeeech!"
 * Results in him juggling Bumblebee
 * Shortly after getting his body back and singlehandedly owning the Autobots, Megatron promptly assembles the Decepticons and makes a speech about how he's going to get back at the one responsible for his humiliation. He takes aim at the Autobots and charges up his fusion cannon, then turns around and hits Starscream with the Allspark key, draining him of all of his energy.

"Megatron: "Decepticons, transform and rise up!""
 * The best part about this is the fact that Blitzwing was in Random mode at the time and, for once, he didn't burst out into maniacal laughter. That's just how much Megatron scares him.
 * Then follows up by finally giving the Decepticons an equivalent of the famed "transform and roll out":

""You want power?" (rams Sari's key into the AllSpark in Megatron's chest) "HAVE YOUR FILL!""
 * Which fits perfectly with how the 'cons in this series see themselves as La Résistance, rising up against "Autobot oppression."
 * Optimus taking Megatron down in this episode.

""Oh slag, not again--!""
 * Bumblebee using his motor mouth to trick Blitzwing into transforming into a tank... in mid-air.

"Bulkhead: "You talk too much.""
 * Three Words:.
 * OH MOST DEFINITELY THE !
 * Another Megatron moment
 * Bulkhead from Animated has the scene where he's watching TV, and then his kibble turns into a chair.
 * There's two when he fights Lugnut: when Lugnut flies toward him, he tackles him in midair, and later, he beats Lugnut's Punch of Kill Everything by using his wrecking ball to set it off while Lugnut's still speechifying, causing it to backfire on him.

"Blitzwing (Hothead): "If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times... GIVE ME SOME WARNING BEFORE YOU USE THE PUNCH!""
 * Spiking his Poisonous Friends Mixmaster and Scrapper's drinks.
 * Of course, any time The Punch works, it's a CMoA for Lugnut. Lugnut is usually left standing in a crater. Nobody else will still be standing.

""I am Wreck-Gar! I DARE TO BE STUPID!""
 * Except Wreck-Gar who DOES survive Lugnut's Punch of Kill Everything. Yeah, the freakin' comic relief survives one of the most deadly attacks in the show. It's ridiculously minor, but it's a still awesome moment for Wreck-Gar.
 * Wreck-Gar's intro episode was made of this.

"Ratchet: "Time was, I'd use my EMP generator to do this painlessly. Too bad I don't have it anymore...""
 * Blitzwing icing up Bumblebee then overpowering Optimus.
 * In another scene he takes on the Autobot quintet singlehandedly, kicks their butts, and then stands back contentedly and watches them try to compose a new battle plan.
 * And then he proceeds to kick their butts again and only leaves when Megatron tells him to stop getting distracted on the way to work.
 * Ratchet's verbal assault on Lockdown when asked to numb Lockdown's pain with the EMP generator that he originally stole. And later, when he gets ready to take back the other parts he'd stolen from the Autobots:

"Ratchet: "You want me to use that EMP to make your pain go away?" (Blocks Lockdown's underhanded attack and takes back his EMP generator by ripping it from Lockdown's arm.) "This was a medical tool, meant to heal! You turned it into a weapon!" (Uses a full-blast EMP to take down the ship.) "This one's for Arcee.""
 * He then rips Optimus' grapplers out of Lockdown's arm.
 * Oh, it gets even better.

"Megatron: You're a persistent little Autobot. Optimus Prime: My NAME is Optimus Prime!"
 * For Grimlock it comes for when he transforms to dino mode, and scares Porter C. Powell shitless, grabs him by the leg, tosses him in the air and promptly swallows him. When he finally spits him out, he's covered in oil that completely ruined his suit.
 * One can't forget Animated Omega Supreme's first appearance, dramatically transforming in midair and proclaiming in a booming voice, "I am Omega SUPREME!" before beating the living crap out of a group of shocked Decepticons.
 * No forgetting the
 * As much as their spotlight episode wasn't that great, the S.U.V. ganging up on and giving him a beatdown was pretty cool.
 * entrance into the Substitute Autobots. " I am a hero!"
 * " and I Dare to be Stupid!"
 * Blurr's epic race back to Cybertron, running in space, over planetary rings. Breathtakingly awesome..
 * Ratchet asserting that.
 * Prowl mastering Processor-Over-Matter just in time stop Sentinel from being crushed by falling wreckage, which he stops in midair with the power of his mind. Even Jazz, the ostensibly superior Cyber-Ninja, is impressed.
 * Oh, and remember that kick-ass armor we mentioned above? Prowl gets it back. And keeps it. And it doesn't make him act like a jerk this time.
 * "Wazzpinator cannot go offline... Wazzpinator have plans..."
 * Optimus Prime beating the crap out of Megatron with his own arm
 * And then right after that, "Autobots! Transform!" and
 * Don't forget part 2, where, Man, Optimus is MADE of awesome..
 * The entire episode "Decepticon Air" was one massive CMoA for Optimus Prime. Basically by him doing his best Die Hard imitation.
 * Professor Sumdac mocking the Headmaster's Totally Radical tendencies when the Autobots' ambush is revealed. "I believe the phrase is, total ownage, noob!"
 * And he does it again to Starscream, complete with mocking the phrase again even though Headmaster himself isn't around.
 * And relaying Megatron's conversation with his spy on Cybertron, right under the Decepticons' noses after having long since convinced them he's not worth keeping an eye on.
 * Ratchet for putting Sentinel Prime in his place by.
 * And holding his own against Shockwave in the process.
 * Heck, Ratchet telling Ultra Magnus (and later Sentinel Prime ) exactly how unethical and generally dickish they were being counts as a CMoA, because they sorely had it coming.
 * "Endgame, part II". Pretty much in it's entirety. to wit:
 * "My name... IS OPTIMUS PRIME!"
 * Just Megatron saying his name, after not even knowing who he is, nor caring, counts.
 * This simply has to be noted:
 * When the final episode of Transformers:Animated aired in Japan, instead of showing the second version of the original JAM Project opening, "TRANSFORMERS EVO.", the opening for this episode was instead replaced by a version of the first edition of "TRANSFORMERS EVO." where the entire cast of Autobots sang the song. It's just as awesome as described.
 * The final battle between Optimus and Megatron, where Megatron finally views Optimus as the Worthy Opponent they have been to each other throughout the franchise history.
 * This simply has to be noted:
 * When the final episode of Transformers:Animated aired in Japan, instead of showing the second version of the original JAM Project opening, "TRANSFORMERS EVO.", the opening for this episode was instead replaced by a version of the first edition of "TRANSFORMERS EVO." where the entire cast of Autobots sang the song. It's just as awesome as described.
 * The final battle between Optimus and Megatron, where Megatron finally views Optimus as the Worthy Opponent they have been to each other throughout the franchise history.
 * This simply has to be noted:
 * When the final episode of Transformers:Animated aired in Japan, instead of showing the second version of the original JAM Project opening, "TRANSFORMERS EVO.", the opening for this episode was instead replaced by a version of the first edition of "TRANSFORMERS EVO." where the entire cast of Autobots sang the song. It's just as awesome as described.
 * The final battle between Optimus and Megatron, where Megatron finally views Optimus as the Worthy Opponent they have been to each other throughout the franchise history.
 * When the final episode of Transformers:Animated aired in Japan, instead of showing the second version of the original JAM Project opening, "TRANSFORMERS EVO.", the opening for this episode was instead replaced by a version of the first edition of "TRANSFORMERS EVO." where the entire cast of Autobots sang the song. It's just as awesome as described.
 * The final battle between Optimus and Megatron, where Megatron finally views Optimus as the Worthy Opponent they have been to each other throughout the franchise history.