Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep/Awesome

"Ven: "You don’t understand! Because of my friends, because I have people I want to protect I can become stronger.And our connected hearts are my power!""
 * Arguably, Birth By Sleep is one of these for the entire series. Gameplay-wise It has been widely praised as having the best combat system so far in the series. Story-wise, not only does the game probably provide more answers than questions about the Kudzu Plot that Kingdom Hearts has become, but it also makes a rather strong effort to connect the Disney worlds to the main plotline, as opposed to COM, Days, Coded, and a good half of KH2, wherein the Disney worlds seemed tacked on.
 * All three final bosses.
 * When Master Xehanort
 * Ventus uses Heroic Willpower to unfreeze himself to protect Aqua from Vanitas. Then Vanitas unmasks himself and.
 * Ven: "My friends are my power, and I'm theirs!" (He then proceeds to rush into a battle that he know he will not make out of alive, regardless of victory)
 * Made even better in the original, where Ven's speech goes like this:
 * Made even better in the original, where Ven's speech goes like this:

"Ven: "Mister, get inside! It's not safe out here!" Merlin: "Oh, ordering me about--now that's unsafe!""
 * As Aqua and Mickey encounter a spacey Ven, the former approaches him to ask what is going on. ! It's right there you know King Mickey took one of his many levels in Badass.
 * Also a crowning moment for
 * Seeing Cinderella's wicked stepfamily get what's coming to them!
 * Your Mileage May Vary: There are some who think that this demise was a bit too harsh, especially since the Direct-to-Video sequels expand upon  Canon or not,   made this troper question Nomura's judgment.
 * Scrooge McDuck talked back to an Unversed. Sure, he's badass in his canon, but that still takes balls to do that while unarmed.
 * He probably would've won, too. All because he thought the Unversed may have been after his munny, of course. That's right, when faced with possible death, Scrooge only cares for the safety of his well-earned munny. Now that is Badass.
 * Another Cool Old Guy from Disney has a great moment in Ven's story...


 * Needless to say, Ven doesn't push the issue any further after that.
 * Aqua
 * Another thing about Aqua: Gameplay-wise,
 * Vanitas has some impressive Crowning Dialogue of Awesome, though some of it may also count as Nightmare Fuel. Among the greatest examples for him is this: "In that case, I'll choke the life out of your friends. Then let's see how long you play the pacifist."
 * I thought the scene where Terra is  was pretty freakin' sweet. Not because the world itself was being destroyed (that's sad), but with the way the camera shook while he was just watching made the scene look intense.
 * After
 * "You may be  but, I will not let you hurt my friend! was a pretty epic one for Terra, even if it turned out pretty badly for him.
 * Vanitas
 * The moment realizes he's fucked.


 * "My name is Master Aqua. Now return my friends heart or pay the price" Aqua proving she is by far the biggest badass amongst the main characters.
 * A villainous example has to be when Braig, pissed that he got scarred from a fight that Xehanort set up, starts shooting at him. How does Xehanort take this? He just sits back and lets the bullets hit his shield. And then, when Braig gets in close range, Xehanort just summons his Keyblade right to his throat, causing Braig to back down his aggressiveness.