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* Almost anytime that Linkara uses his [[Memetic Mutation|Patented]] "I AM A MAN!" punch, especially in a serious situation, it can be pretty damn awesome.
* Setting ''<s>Superman</s> Bearded Idiot: At Earth's End'' [[Kill It
* When fighting the evil, sentient ''[[
{{quote| '''Comic:''' But how?! You have to explain it!<br />
'''Linkara:''' [[Joe Quesada|It's magic. I don't have to explain it.]] }}
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*** "I'm back, baby!"
**** The whole thing could be a real-world crowner for Lewis, utilizing <s>[[Double Vision|Double]]</s> ''[[Double Vision|Triple]]'' [[Double Vision|Vision]] as well as some other, truly [[Badass]] special effects, and managing to make convincing scenes where he technically ''beats up himself''. Quite an achievement by [[Web Original]] standards.
* Pollo pwning Dr. Linksano towards the end of ''[[
* Quoting a long passage from the third canto of ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'' (the "All hope abandon, ye who enter in" bit), then saying, "Read a book, people!"
* Yes it was pretty damn hilarious, but the 'Insano-War' was nothing but win. Like a condensed Team Brawl, except with Dr. Insano, which automatically makes it even more awesome!
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** Also, Liz's swords are [[Forgotten Realms|Twinkle and Icingdeath]].
** "Hello. [[We Need a Distraction|I'm distracting you]] so she can stab you!"
* Even the man's dreams are awesome; while reviewing ''Hardcore Station'' he mentions one where he was fighting alongside the [[Doctor Who|Seventh Doctor]] on the [[Star Trek
* ''Brute Force'', all on its own. How can a single comic issue contain so much [[Crazy Awesome]]?
** Linkara said it best: [[Cool vs. Awesome|ROBO BEAR VS. CYBER GORILLA!]]
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** The entire second half of the 2010 trailer. As if the promise of the Mechakara storyline reaching its climax and Harvey Finevoice, Ensign Munro, Black Lantern Spoony, and a mysterious scientist joining the action wasn't enough, the trailer's tone-setting music is E.S. Posthumus' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GusLypfx7OQ Pompeii]. My head nearly exploded from the epicness.
* In response to the insulting portrayal of people who don't go to college in ''Future 5'', he assembled a list of people who did very well for themselves after never going to college or dropping out. Number one on the list: Bill Gates.
* [[The Spoony Experiment
* His opening to ''Athena'', as he [[All Star Batman and Robin|once]] [[Sultry Teenage Super Foxes|again]] bashes blatant sexism and ludicrous fanservice in comics, as well as giving a [[Take That]] to all those watchers that think he hates women, he's gay or he's a religious fanatic because of his anti-gratuitous-nude rants. The fact that during all of it [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|he seems much more serious and angry than usual]] is just the icing on the cake.
* Linkara quoting ''[[The Divine Comedy]]'' during his ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|TMNT]] Meet [[Archie]]'' review, ending with "READ A BOOK, PEOPLE!"
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* Linkara furiously giving his six cents on why [[One More Day]] is terrible, giving one of his most scathing (though entirely justified) rants to date, ending it with these choice words:
{{quote| ''"[[Joe Quesada]]; [[Punctuated for Emphasis|YOU! ARE! A! HACK!!!]]"''}}
* The end of the 100th episode: {{spoiler|All Linkara's characters, plus almost everyone else from [[That Guy With
** Plus the opening credits, with a hard rock remix of the theme song playing over the covers of every comic he's reviewed.
*** Also, not indulging in the recent storyline, despite how obvious it would've been, being such an important episode.
* Lord Vyce. He is highly regarded as being intensely awesome and terrifying by the fans, but when you think about it, he's barely done anything! Yes, he kidnapped Linkara, attacked him with Shades, and sent the Vohrsoth after him, but the man himself has had two appearances and did very little in both. Lewis has managed to turn him into a fan favorite through hype and storylines. Congratulations, you're awesome, and we didn't even know it.
** Moreover, the only time Linksano has ever come off as legitimately creepy or threatening is when he described Lord Vyce before being [[Put
{{quote| ''There are forces in [[The Multiverse]] far beyond anything you've ever dealt with. Ancient, mindless evils that fill in the cracks and eat dimensions just for a ''snack''. Monstrous deities and empires spanning Universe after Universe have risen and fallen in the span of forever! But there is still one individual, one being that they are all horrified of! When I saw him coming near my universe, I fled. [[Evil Laugh|Muhahahhahahha]]. Weep for your Universe, Linkara! Weep for all Universes! For Lord Vyce is coming! Hihihi. And ''all that he sees, he conquers!'' HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA!''}}
* From the first part of his October 2010 Halloween review, "Ash Williams vs. [[Silent Hill]]: Dead/Alive." Winner: Ash.
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*** We also have to give one to the girl from the opening story in each video, who was only born so her parents could torture her and create a weapon to kill anyone who didn't believe in their god. {{spoiler|She instead creates the Magic Gun that eventually would fall into Linkara's hands, which kills her parents using their own logic against them. And then she snaps Linkara out of the [[Gaslighting]] Mechakara was putting him through.}}
** It is a crime that the video has existed for more than six seconds and Linkara's [[Badass Boast]] hasn't been mentioned.
{{quote| I'm not some pretty boy with marital problems. I don't have some confused psyche or unresolved parental issues. You're not dealing with a [[Silent Hill]] protagonist here! Time and again, someone got it into their head that they could defeat me. Time and again they beat me down, they knocked me out, and they tried to make me give up. You come at me with insecurity, self-doubt, and angst? You try to make me doubt who I am? I am the man who defeated Pyramid Head. I am the man who conquered [[Countdown to Final Crisis|Countdown]]. I am the man who fought off the [[Star Trek Elite Force|Vohrsoth]] and destroyed Mechakara! I am the liberator of [[Kickassia]]! I am a [[Star Trek
*** What seals it for this troper is The Ecstasy of Gold plying in the background, building as he gets further, compleated with the erasing of the three projections, Pollo vanishing with a Dalek death sound.
** Of course, a mere appearance by Lord Vyce is an instant win, but now we get to see the whole costume! Well, from the chest up anyway.
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* The last third of the ''New Kids on the Block'' #4 review, done entirely in rhyme even when it stops being applicable.
* His [[What the Hell, Hero?]] to Uatu over the [[Esoteric Happy Ending]] of his teamup with Spider-Man.
* His wailing on [[The Nostalgia Critic
** Heck it was even awesomer at the beginning: Rather than get pissed at Douchey, Linkara turns his [[Insane Troll Logic]] back at him and actually manages to confuse Douchey enough to shut him up.
* At the end of his first Cry For Justice Review, he starts a count down: V-MINUS 42, counting down to the final battle with Lord Vyce. For each new review it goes down by seven- therefore, the final battle will be on February 14, 2011. The awesome comes at the end of his [[Care Bears]] #13 review: {{spoiler|Each time the graphic is shown before, it is usually accompanied by creepy, ominous music. However, at the end of this review Linkara figures out Vyce's weakness and proudly proclaims that he knows how to beat Vyce, and triumphant music plays through the credits, and over the V-MINUS 14 graphic, canceling out the creepy music}}.
* He's been nominated for Most Inspiring Geek on the Shorty Awards on Twitter!
* The ''Power Rangers Zeo'' #1 video has almost too many to count for both Linkara and {{spoiler|Mechakara}}.
** The fact that ''despite'' owning a complete Green Ranger costume at the time, he avoided what most people would have expected him to do & morph into ''that'', and instead morphed into {{spoiler|the [[Canon Foreigner|White Zeo]] [[Power Rangers
** Four Words: {{spoiler|Giant Mechakara vs Neutro}}
*** And even better: {{spoiler|Neutro is not an animation like last time, but an actual costume worn by Liz so that the two can fight for real.}}
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*** We've seen [[Alter Ego Acting|'Linkara']] rant, rave, and generally get riled up by all sorts of bad comics to no end, but this seems to be ''Lewis'', not Linkara, royally pissed.
*** When Linkara gets pissed, there's usually a bit of a whine to his voice in order to say "Hey, I may be pissed, but I'm just in-character and this is just for fun." In Lewis' rant toward the death of Arsenal's daughter, there's no whine or cracking of his voice, just pure, emotional, unmitigated FURY. And that's something considering that Lewis has NEVER been as angry as he was in that scene.
* At MAGFest 2011, Linkara attends [[
** Gets even funnier with the Deadliest Character video on [[
*** Not to mention Linkara making the Megazord sound unbelievably [[Badass]] by mentioning that it defeated almost every monster Rita and Zedd throw at it, while Mechagodzilla couldn't even beat [[Godzilla|one.]]
* The defeat of Lord Vyce - {{spoiler|Lieutenant Munro, Harvey Finevoice, 90's Kid, Iron Liz, and Linkara teaming up to strike the final blow.}}
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** Why does he not burn Ultimatum? Fire is too good for it. He then throws it in the trash.
* One night during an impromptu chat session on [[Lord Kat]]'s livestream, Lewis was asked whether he'd read his own [[Fetish Fuel]] [http://fetishfuel.wikia.com/wiki/Atop_The_Fourth_Wall page]. He replied, "Yes, I have. It's very flattering." That was it, plain and simple. He didn't ''*nudgegiggle*'' like [[Jew Wario]] and Angry Joe, or flip out and panic like Spoony; he just accepted it as "part of the experience", and left it at that. It might not have been the most entertaining personal response to the Fetish Fuel pages, or the most humorous, but it was without a doubt the most ''mature''. And for that alone, he gets a mark of awesome.
* His ''Godyssey #1'' review, which features a bizarre take on Christianity, a Mortal Kombat joke, and the character of Avengelyne, was released on Easter Monday, one week after ''[[
* SCI-Spy #1 and #2: Linkara's Sean Connery accent has to be heard to be believed.
* In the Gameboy #1 review, the theme song is done in video game style.
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* The opening credits of the "Star Trek #2" review, with clips from the [[Mirror Universe]], including Mechakara and Lord Vyce being taken down much more violently.
** The entire scene with {{spoiler|Mirror Insano.}}
** How about all the clever references to the [[Star Trek:
* A troll hit Linkara's blog giving some really nasty and cruel insults towards him and Liz, Linkara takes it in stride and even [http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2011/07/discussion-of-dcu-reboot.html debates with the guy]. The second the troll insults Linkara's fans? That's when he gets mad!
* Two from "Mightily Murdered Power Ringers"...
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** Also from Grinning Man, "COME ON DOWN, KIDS!"
* Linkara finally deducing the Entity's true form, name and who it is, just by 90's Kid saying "Heavy".
** And on a meta note, just that fact that Lewis essentially made {{spoiler|the Entity out to be [[Pokémon
** The [[Big "Shut Up!"]] to '90s Kid.
*** Which leads to the audience thinking [[Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?]] when {{spoiler|it's revealed that "the '90s Kid'' is actually [[Pokémon
* After the epic battle climaxes of the three previous storylines, {{spoiler|Linkara actually manages to make [[Talking the Monster
** Made more awesome by the [[Chekhov's Gun]] from last week's review {{spoiler|the plan to make the giant symbiote monster self-destruct from a mental breakdown was good, but could've been better executed. Which he then demonstrates.}}
** The episode really deserves kudos for its editing alone, with all the split second distortions of the Entity being such a complex job that Lewis missed his usual update time for the first time in three years.
* [http://dw-cosplay.livejournal.com/1073185.html Cosplaying] as the [[Doctor Who|Seventh Doctor]] (the one he first saw as a kid) for his second live show.
* Linkara seems to have started a habit of destroying his villains' motivations, getting Linksano to do a [[Heel Face Turn]] by pointing out how much ''work'' ruling the world would be. And then he still threatens to send him to Lord Vyce if he goes back to his old ways, and is darn intimidating while doing it.
* Gushing over the first issue of [[Captain America]], especially the iconic cover of Cap punching Hitler (in fact, his only real issue with the comic is that this never actually happens in any of the stories). And finishing it off with the USO montage from ''[[Captain America:
* The revised version of the Electric Tale of Pikachu review has Linkara and {{spoiler|Missingno., who is currently in 90's Kid's form}} not just in the same shot, but Linkara actually walks ''around'' him seamlessly as he taunts him. It stands out as probably the most complex and striking visual effect in the entire history of the show.
** Bonus awesome moment for [[Phelous]] for completing the effect in ''one day'' when Linkara had been working on it for some time.
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* The way he handles his 15 things wrong with Identity Crisis, he admits that there people who like the story and to some it was their introduction to comics which is why he does this different from a review or a countdown, he goes about this whole thing mild-mannered, save for yelling about moments that are really stupid, and simply giving his opinion on what this story did wrong.
* Snowflame. That is all. CMOA and CMOF. That is all.
* Using Comicron 1 to hijack the Nostalgia Critic's TV so they can do a crossover review of ''[[Star Trek: Insurrection
* "That is not my name." And the [[Oh Crap]] goes through the roof.
* The following [[Big Damn Heroes]] Moment:
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