Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)/Comic Books

"Paco: I'm Paco. And I am going to hit you with this stick until you get the #&%$ off my planet."

- Blue Beetle #25

"Rorschach: No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise."

- Rorschach of Watchmen

There are certain things you might see when reading a comic book that'll make you say, "Oh, s&%#! Did he just do that?"

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Works with "Awesome" subpages
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""Hello motherf@#&%r! GOT ANY CANDY?""
 * Albedo Anthropomorphics #1 in the first three pages of the feature strip "Erma Felna: edf" where a planet colony with a Funny Animal population is invaded by an aggressive rabbit nation. When the readers first reading this in 1982 realized that is no kiddie comedy and the series is deadly serious and for an adult audience, the modern furry fantasy genre was instantly born.
 * Skinner Sweet, a bank robber, candy-lover and overall Complete Monster in the Stephen King-penned backup strip to the new Vertigo comic American Vampire,

"Robo: Nice shooting, Tex! Tex/Sam: It's Sam, sir. Robo: No, you're Tex now."
 * Say what you want about Asterix and Obelix All At Sea, but Obelix, having not gotten to battle any Romans for most of the album,   is nothing short of awesome. There are dual-wielding Romans. That doesn't mean people from Rome dual-wielding weapons -- that means Obelix actually, literally dual-wielding a couple of Romans.
 * The end of Astro City #8 "Patterns" is an amazing moment for The Confessor. First, - a secret he's kept for over a hundred years, half of which time he spent operating openly as a superhero - by fighting, desperately, with his full speed and strength in front of thousands of people and several news cameras. His opponents are a whole squad of soldiers armed with . After.
 * Towards the end of the Tarnished Angel arc, former supervillain and Chrome Champion Steeljack has figured out who it is who's been killing low-level supervillains, and only he can do anything about it. Unfortunately, . He breaks free of containment, then, being hunted all the while,   When they don't believe him, he, out of desperation, overcomes the magnetic weapon that can usually defeat him. He proceeds to , and then confronts the mastermind behind the killings, who reveals intent to  . This knowledge, and the knowledge that no-one but him can stop it, drives Steeljack to engage in a brutal, epic fight with the villain..
 * Atomic Robo is pretty much a walking CMOA, but highlights include:
 * In his debut appearance, defeating Baron Von Blabs-about-his-only-weakness.
 * Beating the shit out of a multitude of Wehrmacht soldiers in mecha-suits, including the first one, which he took out using a howitzer like a club.

"STEPHEN HAWKING IS A BASTARD"
 * His finest moment: After being sent on a rocket mission to Mars and, thanks to Stephen Hawking (yes, THAT Stephen Hawking), having absolutely nothing to distract him on the incredibly long journey out, Robo is forced to hang around on Mars for over a year before he can come back. In order to distract himself, he starts "studying Martian rocks". His departure is marked by the following message, written across a significant proportion of the surface of the planet:

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 * Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight gets a few. At the end of the "Wolves at the Gate" story arc, Dracula is working with Buffy against vampires that have stolen his special powers (turning into wolves, mist and so forth). Just when all seems lost . But hey, pretty much everything Dracula says or does in "Wolves At The Gate" is a CMOA or Crowning Moment of Funny.
 * In the same arc, Dawn fighting a giant robot version of herself (with a tail!) while Andrew gives her support- and mecha destroying tips.

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"Liana: WATCH YOUR MOUTH!"
 * DC Comics:
 * Swamp Thing had his arm ripped off while fighting the demon Etrigan. He picked up said arm, reattached it to the empty socket and punched Etrigan right in the kisser.
 * A somewhat unusual but still awesome scene from the French comic Le dernier Chant des Malaterre comes when the (extremely cowardly and generally dislikeable) squire of one of the main characters tries to escape but loses control of his horse and heads back towards the place where his master is to be burnt at the stake. His last thoughts/words are basically "Fuck this." followed by "I'M COMING MY LORD!" It doesn't end well but damn, it's kind of awesome...
 * Cute little Liana, of A Distant Soil, smacks her beloved brother, Jason, in the face after he screams at Seren and calls him a faggot.

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"Nolita: What are you doing? Mitchell Hundred Great Machine: Changing."
 * Elf Quest has a few, although they can be hard to pick out from the general awesome that is the whole series.
 * Skot and Zhantee during the war for the palace shards. Anyone who's read it will know about the events to which I am referring.
 * Redlance protecting the children alone after trolls attacked the Go-Backs' lodge, even though he hates fighting.
 * Rayek learning not to be such a selfish brat.
 * Rayek's coolest moment was during the fistfight between him and Cutter. They aren't allowed to kill one another, but the fight isn't considered over until one of them calls for healing. After a pretty even start, Cutter gets the advantage and delivers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown unto Rayek, telling him to "CALL!" Rayek, near death but still fighting back, refuses, "because you haven't had enough". It eventually dawns on our hero that this is Rayek's way of apologising for everything he's done - so he calls for him to be healed.
 * Cutter forcing Door to open, even though before that only Strongbow was able to, out of sheer loyalty to Skywise.
 * Vaya taking a third option between  It is Awesome.
 * The final page of issue one of Ex Machina, for both the characters and the creators. In character, because, and for the creators because of the extreme HSQ.
 * Ex Machina #49: Mitchell Hundred has gone into a Heroic BSOD after finding out . But when he is told that people are going crazy in the streets, he immediately snaps out of it, figures out the cause in seconds and coordinates a plan to stop the riots. Then he goes even further:

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 * In the Firefly comic Better Days, Shepherd Book gets his very own moment of awesome when he  In his own words, "There's no hell for these things."

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 * Lobster Johnson, of the Hellboy universe, has oodles of these, but two that stand out particularly are:
 * Upon discovering the location of the enemy fortress, what does The Lobster do? Sneak in quietly? Try not alert any of the guards? Fuck that, he blows the front door off and mows every henchman down with a Tommy gun!
 * His mere existence in the current day of the Hellboy world. The most powerful ghost in the whole of the 'verse through sheer willpower and commitment to justice.

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 * The end of the fifth issue of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac is a moment of awesomeness for Johnny, our sympathetic sociopath. As he's being confronted yet again by his two styrofoam Pilsbury Doughboys on whether he should just end it all or just kill some more people to paint the ever-drying wall, Johnny decides to stab the both of them and go on a psychotic yelling spree, shouting, "I'M NOT GOING TO PAINT THE WALL! THINGS WILLS CHANGE! I WON'T BE A SERVANT TO ANY OF YOU EVER AGAIN!" However,.
 * The price of the whole comic is worth it for the chapter called "Goblins". Edgar Vargas displays confidence and fearlessness in facing Johnny. He doesn't want to die, but when it comes down to it, "A heaven for me, and a hell for you. So fuck fear." BAD. ASS. AWESOME.

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 * Loaded Bible: set in a post-apocalyptic future, Jesus Christ returns to earth to kill vampires. During one fight, he spits in a vampire's face, and its head explodes.

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 * Marvel Comics:
 * Mr Fantastic's "Anti-Galactus suit". Do we have enough examples for a "Crowning Moment Of Awesome: Comics Mecha" yet?
 * Tony Stark tops this in ''War Machine: Weapon Of S.H.I.E.L.D." when Jim Rhodes takes control of an entire satellite with a Giant Robot mode.

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"And just so you know... my "superpower"? The one I used to "beat" you? I'm uber-empathic. I feel the pain of every living being within a four-mile radius. Including yours. I just felt everything I did to you. So don't you ever mock me for wanting to be human again."
 * Shaolin Cowboy literally consists entirely of these. The best ones are the main character turning just enough to reveal that the panel-wide pole he's carrying has  the same character taking out a seemingly endless army in its entirety by   and Geof Darrow's Crowning Moment of Awesome, the epically massive World Turtle that has to be the single most detailed two-page spread in comics history.
 * The Spirit: in one of Will Eisner's greatest artistic triumphs, he illustrated the climactic battle between the Spirit and his archnemesis the Octopus as a fight in a darkened room, showing only what was illuminated by a dropped flashlight rolling around the floor.
 * In Stormwatch: Team Achilles #6, Jukko HÃ¤mÃ¤lÃ¤inen fights The Midnighter over a man who can activate latent superpowers in people. It starts when Jukko asks the man if he can deactivate superpowers as well and the Midnighter mocks him over it. In response, Jukko presses the Big Red Button on a remote, instantly turning off the Cybernetics that make the Midnighter superhuman. He proceeds to beat the shit out of him ("You're... using... superpowers..." "No. Just jiu-jutsu. And anatomy. And leverage") before telling him:

"(Agent Bryan is jubilating after finally capturing Katchoo when the phone rings) Tambi: Not supposed to keep the little fish, Sara. I'm the one you want. Bryan: Who is this? Tambi: Tambi Baker! (Bryan's eyes go wide) I want to come in!"
 * Despite the fact that the Midnighter used to be a Special Forces operative before he was given superpowers, and would likely not react to jiu-jitsu as if he was totally naive of the martial arts in general.
 * Katchoo facing down Veronica in her summer house in Strangers in Paradise.
 * Tambi has several, but the crowningest of them might be when she saves Katchoo from the FBI, by offering to join their side.

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 * In Usagi Yojimbo:
 * Chizu fighting more or less all of her own Neko Ninja after her Number One framed her as a traitor.
 * Noriko.

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 * In Y: The Last Man:
 * Dr Mann rescuing Yorick from . ("You never did pay enough attention to me"'.")
 * 355 defeating  with both her arms broken.
 * "'Suka! 'Tchyo za ma ga'lima?!"
 * And Yorick's last great escape in the Distant Finale.
 * Plus Yorick taking on Alter
 * Toyota sparring with Dr Mann. "Wow, I'm shocked! You're actually...not...that...good!" (stabs Mann in the shoulder) Mind you, Dr Mann's earlier retort "I'm an Ivy League lesbian, bitch!" to Toyota is pretty awesome in itself.
 * And Hero shooting Toyota's sword in half. "Rock beats scissors, bitch!"