Dissidia Final Fantasy/Awesome

"Tidus: "Where are you going? There's no tomorrow for me... UNLESS I BEAT YOU TODAY!""
 * The entire plot of Dissidia Final Fantasy. The most iconic Final Fantasy Characters ever, including: Cecil, Terra, Cloud, Garland, Kefka, Sephiroth, and many more, in a battle to decide the fate of all Final Fantasies. This may be the first good Final Fantasy spin-off ever.
 * Hey! Chocobo Racing is freaking awesome too.
 * And the Tactics series.
 * Chaos refers to the series title, calling the 10 assembled heroes and their journey the Final Fantasy. This was the first time the title of the franchise was mentioned by a character in an English translation during the series' entire 20 year history. Chaos is Serious Business.
 * Gilgamesh, as he does in so many other ways, barely fails at beating Chaos to a Title Drop with his "Ultimate Illusion".
 * The intro emphasizes pretty well the ridiculous extremes to which the Rule of Cool is taken for this game to exist. It is a five-minute long Square-animated CG FMV sequence of the twenty combatants in one gigantic battle royale that includes, among other such moments, Squall squaring off with Sephiroth while running up a glacier, Zidane and Kefka clashing in midair, the Light Warrior, the Onion Knight, Cecil, and Cloud all ganging up on Garland, Tidus and Zidane pulling a Fastball Special against Exdeath, Terra and Ultimecia having a long-range magic duel, Firion swinging through the air on a grappling-hook-knife-thing after being knocked off the platform by Jecht... the list goes on and on. Perhaps the greatest thing is that practically all of these physics-defying extravagances are actually more or less achievable in the gameplay itself, subverting Cutscene Power to the Max for the first time in a Square game in a long time.
 * This troper would like to point out one detail: the Fastball Special Tidus and Zidane pull off? Both of them are in midair. Tidus jumps into the air just fast enough for Zidane to wrap his tail around Tidus' ankle so Tidus can essentially kick him at Exdeath. Now that is an Indy Ploy.
 * Squall and Zidane's Destiny Odyssey modes provide a twofer: Squall goes to confront Ultimecia alone, and when she congratulates him for being heartless and selfish enough to abandon the other heroes, proves her wrong with a World of Cardboard Speech declaring his belief in the The Power of Trust and the Power of Friendship. He announces his willingness to take on both Ultimecia and Garland by himself to make the others' lives easier, preparing to fight both of them at once...
 * ...only to be interrupted by Zidane tackling Garland off the screen and telling Squall to stop trying to be so cool.
 * Honestly, that entire speech by Squall, I could see what was going to happen (that someone would show up and help; I just had no idea who), and it didn't detract from the sheer awesomeness of the scene AT ALL.
 * Not to mention that Zidane knocked Garland down.
 * The funny part about this is that both Zidane and Squall have the same reactions to each other from their own points of view, "That idiot!"
 * The EX-Bursts alone are worth mentioning, all of them do something truly badass. Whether it be a simulation of their Limit Break from their respective game for most of them, Jecht almost parodying his own son's by doing the same things he does with a Blitzball with a meteor, the Cloud of Darkness laser-beaming the target into oblivion, Onion Knight reducing the fighting game momentarily into menus... This troper's personal favorites come from V's representatives: Bartz using almost ALL of his allies' weapons in his Game Breaker setup from the game that he came from, and Exdeath using the power of the Void to crush the target with his bare hands.
 * Here's a good look at all of them with the appropriate music. This troper's personal favorite is Shantotto's, in which she casts all of her most powerful spells on her opponent while doing her signature laugh.
 * Before the final battle in every Destiny Odyssey, the villain-hero pair each get these. Examples include:
 * The Emperor traps Firion and conjures a ring of energy orbs that explode and seem to knock him out. Firion's weapons float up from his limp form and fly forward, almost impaling the Emperor. Firion then gets up and calls his weapons back, holding his sword in front of his face ready to fight, and proclaiming that as long as he is alive he will never give up.
 * Also, following the Emperor's defeat in the Shade Impulse, he asks what on earth Firion is. Firion's reply? "Just a swarm of insects."
 * Of course, Cecil, Bartz and Cloud have their own echoes for him, too, but Firion's just stands out as most awesome.
 * After spending his entire storyline running from villains, Bartz stands his ground against Exdeath. He gets knocked down, and Exdeath tells him to stop fooling around. Bartz leaps back, summons the Revolver and Buster Sword, and declares that he's being serious. He then proceeds to pummel Exdeath to the point Exdeath has to teleport to avoid getting hit.
 * Terra faces off with Kefka while her friends hold off the Cloud of Darkness. Kefka proceeds to unleash a metric fuckton of explosive spells at her. Terra responds by running the fuck away, culminating in using a Teleport spell to escape when she can't run anymore. Kefka appears directly behind her in a capsule and shatters the glass, Force Repulse style.
 * As Squall attacks her, Ultimecia freezes time, moves out of the way, surrounds Squall in a flurry of magic bolts, then unfreezes time to bombard him. Squall survives and declares he doesn't care if she controls time, he still plans to beat her.
 * This one is especially awesome as it's a Crowning Moment for BOTH the hero and villain. Ultimecia pulls an awesome move, basically using her Ex-Burst on him only to have Squall block the entire thing, unlike Onion Knight and Firion who got smacked down in what should have been a KO (of course, given the battle system, what is an isn't a KO is constantly in flux, maybe they didn't have enough Brave points)
 * Tidus attacks Jecht, Jecht shrugs it off and knocks Tidus half-way across the arena with one punch. He then goes over, lectures him on how he never stood a chance, and then starts to leave. Tidus slowly gets to his feet and calls Jecht back to keep fighting.

""I couldn't stand a day without a past or future. I need to live each moment - to keep fighting here and now.""
 * How about the Onion Knight trying to get in a crowning moment only to have the Cloud Of Darkness completely shut it down and have one of her own instead, shooting him in the face with her Particle Beam after making him look completely out of his league?
 * Which turns right back around on her when the beam dissipates and we see that the Onion Knight, a tiny little kid, no older than twelve, survived the onslaught. Then proceeds to lay the smackdown on her!
 * Pretty much any time the characters quote or paraphrase themselves from their original game is bound to get at least one fan squealing. And of course, half the dialogue in the game parallels, paraphrases or direct quotes the original series.
 * Squall seems to be walking awesome in this game. He's the only hero to outright defeat his opposing villain in Shade Impulse.
 * Even better, he manages to be one of the few to actually give a satisfying response to the villain's last words.

"Exdeath: "So, you offer your life in exchange for theirs?"
 * For many, if not all, of the characters right before the battles from which they obtain the crystals, and afterwards as well.
 * Particularly Squall,
 * Warrior of Light's is a beautiful hero moment: to Garland, upon vowing to
 * There isn't a fanboy/girl who didn't squeal when Bartz
 * For the player: Beating Chaos in Inward Chaos.
 * Just before that, seeing all ten Warriors of Cosmos lined up to fight Chaos, with cuts to each one from Tidus to the Warrior of Light walking up the steps. That is epic, that is awesome, that is exactly what this game is about.
 * How about
 * Though you probably went Oh Crap when you first saw it, it's hard to deny that Utter Chaos may be one of the coolest attacks in the series. Goes double for Regnum Dei.
 * This could also double as a crowning moment of funny. But when Terra ends up getting Kefka to say sorry ma'am is fricking Awesome
 * In 012 Duodecim, while the other six remaining Warriors of Cosmos set out on their mission to stop the influx of manikins, the Warrior of Light stays with Cosmos as her last line of defense...
 * And then, at the end, when he finally
 * Speaking of which: Lightning, Vaan, Yuna, Laguna, Tifa, and Kain's headlong assault on the source of the manikins, complete with a battle royale versus Garland, Kefka, Emperor, Cloud of Darkness, and Ultimecia, is also pretty awesome.
 * The above Troper undermines 's contribution. Truly the Determinator to end all Determinators.
 * And speaking of, his Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner to Exdeath during his chapter is simply magnificent.
 * "Of course not. I offer yours"."

": "Toss aside you blade, and say goodnight." Lightning: "No thanks, it's not my bedtime.""
 * Cloud in duodecim. Back in the 12th cycle when he was a warrior of Chaos, he saved Tifa from Sephiroth. After already having doubts about his role in the conflict, meeting Tifa makes him realize he's fighting for the wrong side. So he goes to talk to Cosmos, right? Nope. He goes and picks a fight with Chaos. It didn't end well for him, but he has brass balls to try.
 * Chaos himself did pretty well here. Statistically, he's merely at level one, so you expect a quick victory, right? Wrong. He's just as fast and deadly as in the original's final battle (which is very bad given Cloud's Mighty Glacier tendencies). And when Cloud actually "wins"?
 * And thus it becomes ever so delicious to beat his ass with Cloud in Shade Impulse.
 * Yuna simultaneously being a Badass Pacifist and an Action Girl in trying to peacefully resolve the conflict between Brainwashed and Crazy Tidus and Jecht  So simple, but so elegantly awesome.
 * Beating Feral Chaos. You will feel like a badass.
 * Feral Chaos may have the most potentially-damaging and nightmarish Ex-Burst of the cast, but his is also the only one you can save yourself from. How? By using your own Ex-Burst against him in the middle of it. If you manage to get the killing blow, all the better.
 * Lightning's opening quote during her fight with


 * In Scenario 000, once you start to close in on Feral Chaos, the BGM suddenly shifts to Canto Mortis, which replaces every other BGM track for the Scenario's previous areas. If there was ever a theme that said "shit just got real", its this one.
 * Also, Cantata Mortins and God In Fire, Feral Chaos' battle theme. It is incredibly awesome.