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Beware the '''spoilers''', people! Unless you're a [[Spoiler Hound]], that is...but still, mark 'em if they give away too much.

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* [[DC Universe Original Animated Movies/Awesome|DC Universe Original Animated Movies]]

* [[Dreamworks Animation/Awesome|Dreamworks Animation]]

** [[Monsters vs. Aliens/Awesome|Monsters vs. Aliens]]

** [[Wishology/Awesome|Wishology]]

* [[Wallace and Gromit/Awesome|Wallace and Gromit]]

 

 

== Other [[Warner Bros]]. Cartoons ==

* The Legion of Superheroes has one of these concerning Bouncing Boy in 'Chain of Command'- He somehow displays awesome powers of strategy, saves an entire planet from storms, is voted LEADER, and even gets kissed on the cheek by Triplicate Girl(AKA the girl in the striped miniskirt). Slightly negated by the fact nobody ever mentions this again in season 2.

* While [[Bugs Bunny/Characters|Bugs Bunny]]'s entire filmography is pretty much wall-to-wall Awesome, the second half of Chuck Jones' ''Long-Haired Hare'' stands out in particular to this Troper.

** Honorable mention: The square dance at the end of ''Hillbilly Hare'', arguably a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for voice artist Mel Blanc, as well.

** As awesome as many of the protaganist's victories were, it was even more awesome when one of the shorts' recurring [[Butt Monkey|Butt Monkeys]] finally got a victory over them (granted they were usually villains, but their sheer [[Harmless Villain|harmlessness]] and [[Affably Evil|likable]] qualities made you desire at least one moment of triumph over their smug foes). Elmer Fudd (eg. ''Rabbit Rampage'', ''Hare Brush'') and Daffy Duck, even post-Flanderization (eg. ''Ducking The Devil'', ''Mucho Locos'') perhaps scored the most frequent and most satisfying victories.

*** To elaborate, ''Ducking The Devil'' involves Daffy luring the escaped Tasmanian Devil back to his zoo for a cash reward of "five hundred Gs"; Daffy succeeds, and when Taz snatches up a dropped dollar, Daffy charges into the Devil's cage, [[Curb Stomp Battle|attacks him and WINS]].

*** ''Mucho Locos'' exists as perhaps the only cartoon where a foe actually defeats [[Invincible Hero|Speedy Gonzales]], with Daffy whacking him with a mallet after hearing him tell one to many stories about "El Stupid Duck".

*** ''Rabbit Rampage'' basically involves Elmer beating Bugs at his own game he used on Daffy in ''Duck Amuck'', taking the animator's chair and using his brush to morph Bugs and the cartoon to [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|all manners of innovative torture]].

*** And of course Elmer {{spoiler|seemingly}} killing the wabbit in the most dramatic and atmospheric manner possible in '''What's Opera Doc''', avoiding crossing [[Moral Event Horizon]] by [[My God, What Have I Done?|breaking into remorseful tears straight afterwards]].

** Sylvester gets a Crowning Moment in the Chuck Jones cartoon ''The Fraidy Cat''. Porky Pig and his pet Sylvester find themselves in a haunted house, where the mice terrorize Sylvester by throwing knives, bowling balls and other weapons at him and Porky. Porky, of course, is oblivious to the threat, until, fed up with Sylvester's seeming cowardice, heads into the kitchen to confront the source of Sylvester's fears. The mice end up leading him to the executioner's block, and Porky, tied up under a mass of ropes, can only hold a sign saying, "You were right, Sylvester." Sylvester runs to the hills, only to be confronted by his conscience(a pale blue Sylvester standing next to a reader-board). His conscience points out that Porky raised him from a kitten, and then shows a comparative size chart of Sylvester and a mouse, and finally produces a sign reading, "Now get in there and fight! Fight! FIGHT!!!". This starts Sylvester getting riled up, to the point where he runs up to a tree, rips off a limb with his bare hands and brandishes it like a club--before discarding the limb and [[Beyond the Impossible|uprooting the whole tree]] and charging back to the haunted house to kick mouse butt!

* Although ''[[Quest for Camelot]]'' isn't much of a movie, its heroine earns a lot of points with this troper when she grabs a [[Mook]]'s mace and takes a swing at the villain. She earns more when, at the movie's climax, she announces her arrival on the scene by declaring boldly, "I will not serve a false king!" and then knocking the villain clean out of the building by swinging a timber at him.

** Devon and Cornwall get theirs after saving Aden the falcon from the griffin...Cue the [[Superman]] Theme.

** Sure, [[Big Bad|Sir Ruber]] is a [[Large Ham]] and [[Ambiguously Gay]], but at one point he and his team are cornered by dragons. One of them backs Ruber up against a wall, and he looks with visible disgust at the saliva dripping from its jaws. Then, just as it's about to fry him, he ''punches it in the face.'' Ruber & Co. are later seen ''eating'' that dragon. Let me repeat: Ruber ''killed a dragon '''by punching it!'''''

** Loud Kiddington, the poster child for [[No Indoor Voice]], had one of his own in the "Presidential People" episode. When George Bush (the first) lets it be known that he is banning broccoli from presidential grounds, Loud starts following him around everywhere, ''Green Eggs and Ham''-style, asking him to eat the piece of broccoli on the plate he is carrying. After repeated refusals, Bush finally does take a bite, and he naturally doesn't like it - but this, validity on his hatred of broccoli, is exactly what Loud and his buddies wanted to hear from him.

** Froggo got one in the sketch where he befriends Joseph Stalin. As Froggo's big buddy, the Soviet dictator has quite a bit of fun with him and comes to torture anybody who does something wrong to him such as picking on him or giving him a bad grade on a school assignment. It's thanks to this sketch that we learn the important lesson to never pick on short kids because chances are they might have friends in high places.

 

== [[Hanna-Barbera]] Cartoons ==

** Great use of a seldom used speaking voice for Tom at the end - he stops in mid-smackdown and says to us: "Gee, I'm throwin' away a million dollars...[gleefully] BUT I'M HAPPY!!!"

** There's another one where Jerry and another mouse keep tormenting Tom in his sleep with cruel pranks that make it look like he's trying to kill himself. In the end, he discovers them PULLS A GUN ON THEM, stuffs them in a bottle, and gets on with his nap. And it's glorious.

*** Pretty much every time Tom wins is a Crowning Moment, actually, since it usually means Jerry's being too much of an ass for the writers to justify letting him win (but once or twice it's [[Magnificent Bastard|just letting the villain win]]). Tom turning the tables on Jerry in "Mouse For Sale" kicks ass.

* Fred and Daphne leading an army against {{spoiler|what they thought was}} an army of the undead in "''[[Scooby Doo]] and The Mummy's Curse.''"

** Or the fact that the whole ghost plot of the movie was actually {{spoiler|a scheme by Velma to catch the real bad guys}}. Though knowing that it was {{spoiler|Velma}} behind the ghost-Cleopatra mask makes Scooby and Shaggy's [[Looney Tunes]]-esque antics/distractions completely hilarious.

** Ben Ravencroft, played by [[Tim Curry]], revealing that he had been playing the heroes for saps for the entirety of "''Scooby Doo and The Witch's Ghost,''" and the proceeding to summon the [[Big Bad]] using ''real'' magic. [[Animation Bump|The animation as he casts the spell]]... [[Nightmare Fuel|just... wow]].

** Daphne's karate skills in "Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword".

** ''Scooby-Doo and the Boo Brothers'' have the titular Boo Brothers, having acted as [[Plucky Comic Relief]] beforehand, fight against the ghost of the southern colonel, and for all of their antics, manage to chase him off. That's quite a feat for a trio that previously were merely expies for the [[Three Stooges]].

 

* In the ''[[Birdman]]'' episode bearing his name, Number One definitively cements his position as Birdman's greatest foe. After capturing Birdman, he gets [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] and blasts [[Non-Human Sidekick|Avenger]] with a laser before returning to base, heading off (or so he believes at the moment) the one factor that has ruined almost every other villain in the series. The whole episode is arguably the series' Crowning Moment, if such a thing is possible.

** Falcon Seven's Crowning Moment of Awesome comes in "Murro the Marauder". Birdman is battling and losing to his own shadow, which has brought to life by Murko. His only possible hope is that it might share his weaknesses as well as his powers. After he is freed by Avenger, Falcon Seven acts on this and saves Birdman by {{spoiler|hitting it in the head with a chunk of masonry}}.

* ''[[The Flintstones]]'' in the "Dr. Sinister" episode. Fred and Barney, shanghaied into a terrifying [[James Bond]] like adventure, about to cast into a literally bottomless pit on the orders of the aforementioned [[Big Bad]]. In a desperate move to try to save themselves, Barney gets the idea of hitting the [[Mook]] about to throw them a judo chop. It works perfectly and the action gets wild and wooly as Fred and Barney start taking on a whole army of goons with "a Judo Chop Chop!" before making a break for it in a glorious chase, judo chopping all opposition until they use Sinister's treadmill trap against them for a spectacular knockout blow against the villains.

* ''[[The Smurfs]]'' had a Moment for Gargamel in the opening credits for the syndicated ''Smurfs' Adventures'':

** Actually, I believe that scene was from a special episode from the previous season of the show -- possibly that dealing with the Olympics, which I never saw fully.

*** Just to invoke a touch of [[Fridge Logic]], when Gargy intones this spell--he is * standing* on a mountain.

* The ''[[Jonny Quest]]'' episode, "The Robot Spy." Imagine an episode that begins with the ultimate in 1960s [[Nightmare Fuel]] with the Dr. Zin's spider like robot sneaking about, attacking any sentry in its way through the dead of night. Then when it is discovered, the episode changes to the wildest animated fight sequence in all of 1960s TV as the good guys furiously throw everything at the spider robot and [[Implacable Man|it just keeps on going!]] Best of all, the episode avoids almost all the series' otherwise embarrassing ethnic stereotypes with a futuristic story that still feels reasonably believable and neat today.

 

* The entire show, for being a kids' show that does not veer away from difficult topics while not being preachy. The writing, voice acting, and characters will, in [[Nettik|this troper]]'s opinion, never be surpassed. And she loved Avatar.

* Helga G. Pataki is possibly the deepest, most well-rounded nine-year-old girl ever to set foot in Western Animation. From negligent [[Word of God|alcoholic]] parents to having a mental disorder (the majority of the fanbase has decided she has bipolar disorder), to putting all of her faith in Arnold... The list goes on and on. Her voice actress, Francesca Smith, actually won a Young Artist Award for her portrayal of Helga.

*** And he's got air in his body. Lungs, remember?

** Earlier in the movie, he builds an entire fleet of spacecraft out of CARNIVAL RIDES in only a few days (Single-stage-to-Yolkius, too) and then leads all his school friends into space to battle an entire alien empire. With "Kids in America" playing in the background.

* ''The Mighty B!'': ''O Say Can Bess See''. Bessie gets rewarded for being the top regional seller of taffy with a strange abstract art. She tries her best to relax in order to see what's in it {{spoiler|and goes through a cool sequence of self-discovery to see what the picture was, but her dog Happy reveals it to be, well, a bee.}}

* ''Rugrats'': It's easy to say that whenever Chuckie Finster and/or his dad, Chaz, lose their usual docile nature, it's a Crowning Moment right there. Chaz's big one comes in the episode ''Family Feud'': when arguments over tastes in movies lead to Tommy's parents getting into a feud with Phil and Lil's, the babies attempt to reconcile them, only for it to get worse when items the babies give them are mistaken as gifts from their normal families. When the babies decide to run away, Chaz is the only one who realizes it and lets the other parents know. When they ''still'' argue, Chaz blows up and delivers a ''[[Reason You Suck Speech]]'' that their petty arguments lead them to forget what matters most: their kids.

* ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'': The ending for ''Rocko's Happy Sack''.

'''Filburt:''' (nervous) That'll be one dollar and fifty cents, please... }}

 

* Matt, combining [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]] with [[The Power of Rock]] in order to {{spoiler|fight off the possession of the demon Shagon in the episode "S is for Self". After attempting to overpower Shagon with his fists ("wrong weapon"), he materializes a guitar out of sheer willpower and blasts the demon out of his mind with a series of power chords ("right weapon"). After doing so, he not only regains control of his own body, but absorbs Shagon's powers as well, giving him the ability to take Shagon's form and use his nifty demonic attacks}}.

* In the first-season finale "The Final Battle", Elyon {{spoiler|unleashes the full extent of her powers on Phobos after learning his true nature. For half the season, Phobos had been manipulating Elyon, pretending to be a loving big brother to her as he prepared to steal her powers. Just before imprisoning Phobos in a magical cage, Elyon tearfully tells him: "You were ''never'' my brother."}}

* In ''[[My Little Pony]] And Friends'', one of the serials involves the Ponies staving off the approach of a city from another dimension -- and this was a [[Animation Age Ghetto|completely nonviolent adventure show]] for girls. If stopping an ''extradimensional invasion'' without any violence at all isn't awesome, this troper doesn't know what is.

** By these standards, the Flutter Ponies' defeat of the [[Big Bad]] in the episode "Bright Lights" is truly made of Girl Power Awesome:

''we're impossible to catch!'' }}

* ''A Charlie Brown Christmas'' when Linus gives his recitation of the Shepherds' vision of the angels' announcement of Jesus' birth. The scene has a moving power that rivets you to the screen regardless of your beliefs, regardless of the fact it's a [[Talking Heads]] scene.

** This is also Charles Schulz' own [[Moment of Awesome]], because he put his foot down when [[Executive Meddling]] kicked in and said that if he couldn't have that part in the special, he would not allow it to be aired. Similar battles were waged over the lack of a laugh track, the use of child voice actors, and the sophisticated jazz soundtrack.

*** I was watching A Charlie Brown Christmas tonight on ABC, and Linus' speech was left ''intact''. Am I missing something?

** It's even more awesome in the eyes of anyone who reads the ''[[Peanuts]]'' comics, and therefore knows that Linus has crippling stage fright and Lucy, every holiday season, without fail, signs him up to preform in front of the PTA, and then proceeds to drag him there under protest. He once spent an entire week sitting in a tree to avoid reciting publicly, and yet seeing Charlie Brown in such a state of despair makes him drop all that without a second thought.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSYa9jScb7Y Ozu's song] from ''[[Kappa Mikey]]''.

** The 1st of a [[Three Shorts|Two Shorts Format episode,]] entitled "Where There's A Wilt There's A Way," is mostly just 15 minutes of Wilt missing a basketball game on TV doing favors for people because of his inability to say no, even getting him into ''jail'' and ''escaping'' '''twice.''' So at the end he gets back to Foster's, grabs Bloo a bowl of chips (the favor which, keep in mind, if Bloo hadn't asked in the first place, Wilt could have seen the entire game uninterrupted,) sits down the ''very moment the game ends,'' Bloo pettily complains that he didn't get the right flavor of chips and demands that he go back and get the right kind, and Wilt finally snaps and delivers a '''[[Big No|CLUSTER BIG NO.]]'''

** More Foster's Moments of Awesome - Mac gets one in "My So-Called Wife" just before the climactic jet-car duel. Bloo himself is terrified, and suggests that Mac simply drive them both and the jet-car out of there, but Mac responds with a grim speech about how the whole contest has become about truth, and honour, etc...Bloo comments bewilderedly, "What do you mean?" Mac's response? "I. DON'T. KNOW." And he slams the pedal to the metal...

** And how could anyone forget Frankie's Moment of Awesome in "Frankie My Dear"? Having realised what a loathsome sleazeball her good-looking date really is, she faces him with a face like stone as he desperately tries to convince her otherwise, before concluding, "Hey, Frankie...did I ever tell you how awesome you look in that dress?" Without a word, Frankie balls her hands together, cracks her knuckles...and launches a piledriver straight into the camera lens and punches him out.

* The climax of most Super Secret [[Secret Squirrel]] episodes is basically Secret doing something awesome to outsmart the villain, but Secret beating [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgiq3EsmlCM One Ton], a villainous panda who Secret can't harm, since panda's are endangered and harming them is illegal, was the best. Instead of hurting him, Secret just sits on his head, not doing anything, nonchalantly jumping out of the way every time One Ton takes a swing, [[Deadly Dodging|causing him to beat himself up instead]]. One Ton finally decides to smash him with a car, which, of course, just ends with One Ton knocked out and Secret arresting him... for illegally endangering a panda.

** Also, tricking [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WP3uZApFmo Hot Rodney]. Also doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].

*** Somewhat dampened, though, by the ''massive'' [[Idiot Ball]] that caused the titular opponent to fall for SS's last trick. An even slightly more intelligent Rodney would most certainly have {{spoiler|taken one look at the "congratulatory belt", recognized it as the very bomb his assistant had strapped to Morocco earlier (or at the very least as an obvious bomb), said "Y'all must think I'm some sorta fool," and tossed the thing over his shoulder}}.

* The American ''[[Street Fighter]]'' cartoon had a few, one comes when Bison is fighting both Cammy and Chun-Li. Cammy attacks, screaming all the injustices Bison has done to her, and he just knocks her away with "Business is business!" Then Chun-Li attacks as well, yelling "[[You Killed My Father]]", to which Bison responds:

** Also: Any time a protagonist says "I don't think so!" you know that the villain's just crossed a line and is in trouble.

** Matrix defeating Megabyte by simply punching him into submission. It would seem Megabyte never met anyone physically strong enough to hurt him before.

* In ''[[Shrek]] 2'', the entire "Holding Out For a Hero" sequence is one big Moment of Awesome for all characters involved. To say nothing of Harold's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] afterward.

** Puss in Boots does so many awesome things that it's hard to pick just one. Nonetheless, there's a scene where Puss decides to repay his debt to Shrek by staying behind to stall the enemy guards chasing the heroes and then disarms the guards (figuratively) by making [[Puppy Dog Eyes|an adorable sad kitten face]]. Before they can regain their senses, he whips out his rapier and goes to town on them.

'''Shrek''': ''"Well, I guess you'll have to keep looking. Because I'm not giving up mine." *punches Charming into the air*'' }}

** Or the scene in which Queen Lilly breaks all of the princesses out of jail. By knocking down a stone wall with her head. Twice.

*** Followed by a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] when the dazed Queen (played by Julie Andrews) has to be helped up and led away...but she's singing to herself..."Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens..."

* In ''[[Anastasia]]'', Anastasia/Anya has one:

** Depending on [[Your Mileage May Vary|your mileage]], Dmitri's Crowning Moment comes either a few minutes prior when he disproves Rasputin's "[[Nothing Can Save Us Now|No one can save you now!]]" by [[Dynamic Entry|punching him in the face]], or earlier in the film when he steals Dowager Empress Marie's car, kidnaps her, and argues her into going to see Anya mostly by pure stubbornness, all in the name of [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy|making his beloved happy]].

** What about when he launched the Converted EMP Missle Refridgerator filled with Rock pops and Soda into the [[Eldritch Abomination]] he awakened himself by trying to jump start the cable reception with MEGAS and the end result of the goop from said creature corroding the [[Wave Motion Gun]] of the Glorft.

** How about the ''series'' finale? The final words spoken in the episode pretty much sum it up (paraphrased)

{{spoiler|'''Coop''': "Did you really think anyone ''else'' was gonna do it?"}} }}

*** Actually, that was from the first season finale as well. Still kinda cool, though.

** The Regis Mark V. It was a walking Moment of Awesome.

* Season 1, Episode 6 of ''[[Spawn]]: The Animated Series''. Spawn gets one when he surfs on the antagonist's van, Clown gets one with this line:

** Clown gets another one when he reveals his true nature. Up until this point, he's been an obnoxious, trash-talking sidekick, but Spawn finally pushes him one step too far, and he announces "you don't know who you're dealin' with... but it's time you found out". Everyone who knew the comic book knew what was coming, and it didn't disappoint: he gruesomely changes into Violator, and ''everything'' about his mannerisms changes. Now he speaks telepathically in a much more formal, darker tone that's almost totally devoid of humor (starting with the ominous line "now begins your training"), while laying down not only Spawn's first defeat in a fight, but a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] at that. And the original HBO broadcast went one step further than the DVD's. Initially, his voice was a constantly shifting [[Voice of the Legion]] with both male and female elements; it practically required closed captioning to make out, but it really, really made Violator feel completely non-human. They switched to a more hissing, decipherable voice in reruns and DVD's that lost a little bit of the effect, but either way, it was the perfect demonstration that Clown's really, really [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]] after all.

** Shortly afterwards, we have Spawn's utter wtfpwnage of Overkill and Tony Twist. After a brutal battle where Overkill solidly defeats Spawn (but not without getting a piece of rebar [[Eye Scream|right through his artificial eye]]), Overkill is being repaired... cue Spawn interrupting. Shortly after, Spawn pays Tony Twist, Overkill's boss, a visit and lets loose a bag full of {{spoiler|Overkill's severed limbs and part of his face,}} followed by shooting Twist's goons in the legs and [[Oh Crap|making Twist shit himself.]]

* Don't laugh -- Baby Piggy in ''[[Muppet Babies]]'': Animal disappeared while the babies were time travelling, and they find him in a mafia city. Animal refuses to open the door to the club he's hiding in for Kermit. Piggy steps up and sweetly says, "Let me try, Kermy"... and then karate chops the door down with a "HI-YAH!" that makes the others' eyes practically pop out of their heads.

* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'': The episode featuring the eight adamantium (y' know, the stuff that ''Wolverine's skeleton and claws are made out of'') robots, when Jack calls for strength enough to defeat the last... and the blow he deals is enough to make a robot say, just before utter destruction:

** Samurai versus Ninja.

** The entirety of III. Jack in Feudal Japanese armor versus an army of robotic drones. The end result is too awesome for words. It ends with a pan shot of Jack on top of a mountain of enemies, covered in <s>blood</s> oil, waving the flag of the allies we was protecting. The end of the three part pilot, and the intro for many to just how amazing Samurai Jack was going to be.

** "Jack and the Spartans". Samurai Jack plus Frank Miller's ''300''. [[HSQ|Holy SHIT]].

** Episode XXXIV, "Jack and the Swamp Creature". In a bid to find another route to the past, Jack is led by a loudmouthed hermit, who is [[Paper-Thin Disguise|totally not]] Aku in disguise, to find the Armor of the Titan, Chronos. Jack faces numerous obstacles, but succeeds in gathering the helmet and gauntlets. The Hermit then summons Chronos to destroy Jack, berating the Samurai for [[Good Is Dumb|being so stupid]]- until Chronos begins to fall apart. Jack emerges from the swamp, holding up the Eye of Chronos- the crystal from the helmet- and calls out Aku for his own complacency and laziness, telling how he saw the trap coming, before hacking at Aku with his magic sword. Aku manages to escape, but with the Eye, Jack may have the tool he needs to finish him once and for all.

** Episode XIV "Jack Learns to Jump Good". The beginning has Aku in a field taunting Jack by playing keep away with a time portal. The ending sees Jack returning, only now having gained the ability to [[In a Single Bound|jump very very good]].

(Cut to credits) }}

** Episode XLVII ''The Princess and the Bounty Hunters'': The entire episode is about five bounty hunters teaming up in order to take down Jack. They're all made out to be pretty awesome. Jack himself only shows up in the last minute of the episode, with no dialogue, and proceeds to completely demolish them before leaving.

** "Jack and the Lava Monster". Jack is attacked by a Norse warrior turned into the titular lava monster. At one moment Jack decides that their fight is pointless and decides to leave but the the monster '''pleads''' him to carry on as to fall in fair combat is the only way for him to rid himself of the curse and to ascend to Valhalla. Jack ''agrees''.

'''Jack:''' (ominously) "Do not worry. I have only begun to fight!" }}

** What about when he takes out the world's three greatest archers while blindfolded and then {{spoiler|sacrifices a chance at going home to rid the world of the evil wishing well}} in VII ''Jack and the Three Blind Archers''?

** Irwin: Unleashing his monster powers and being able to hold his own against Hoss.

** Hoss: Hoss was a living, breathing Moment of Awesome throughout the entire special.

** Mindy: Her witch poition recipe musical number.

** Bun Bun: Revealing that he was behind ''every major problem'' that befell everyone.

** Skarr: His plan against Bun Bun, which results in Bun Bun's demise.

** Also, when he accidentally inhaled a lethal (to a human) amount of cocaine and had a shootout with five gangsters (which he would have won if the cocaine had not worn off)

*** Also a crowning moment for Steve: ''Lavate los manos!''

** Hayley has one in ''Meter Maid'' when she gets back at Roger for painting a nude picture of her, let Steve borrow it and not telling him it was his sister, and auctioning it.

'''Roger''': Think you got a shot porn star? Bring it! (Hayley punches him in the gut) I wasn't ready. (Falls to the floor in a fetal position, wrapping his arms around his stomach) That how Houdini died. }}

** Also Stan's plan to save Roger from an autopsy in "Office Spaceman".

* ''[[The Backyardigans]]'': Austin's solo during his song on "Tale of the Mighty Knights". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyqIBnpVfCI Oh, all the things... All the things the goblin has grabbed...]

** Emily gets one during the final fight sequence -- Barkis has got Victor down for the count, goes to stab him -- {{spoiler|and Emily steps in front of him and takes the blow. (And this might just be this troper's opinion, but she's pretty sure that the rip in Emily's dress indicates this is how Barkis KILLED her.)}}

** Victor's is "Take. Your Hands. Off Her." Though really, the fight sequence could qualify -- up until Emily's Moment of Awesome, he successfully holds off Barkis, armed with a sword, with a FORK. In fact, Barkis never touches him, but Victor scores at least THREE hits on him!

** For a hilarious re-edit/dub, check this out, still shows how awesome, if impossible that scene was: http://loadingreadyrun.com/videos/view/43/Superman-and-the-Concentrated-Light-Ray

** Let's not forget another Moment of Awesome for Supes in his other Fleischer short "the Bulleteers". Some gangsters with a rocket car are destroying various buildings, and the car has sprouted wings and is heading toward the Treasury when Supes literally ''punches'' the car out of the way and sends it flying out of control.

'''The Twins:''' [[Oh Crap|ADI-5000]]. }}

** Pretty much anything [http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a2505951cbd41dc011cbec38ccc00c1 Combaticus] did, especially [[Heroic Sacrifice|saving the Twins]], {{spoiler|''twice''}}. His entrance ''alone'' is a Moment of Awesome.

* In ''[[War Planets]]'' (aka ''[[Shadow Raiders]]''), the heroes are fighting the Beast Planet as it about to fire one of its weapons and destroy one of the Allied worlds while Tekla is refusing to participate while she investigates some strange findings inside one of the planets. At the climax, the heroes are failing, the weapon is about to fire, but Tekla finds out a major secret as the Beast's weapon is fired; each of the planet is designed with it's own propulsion and navigational control system. When Tekla realizes what the planet can do, she orders an evasive maneuver and the heroes in space are stunned to see a whole planet suddenly ''dodge the Beast's shot!'' They also realize only Tekla could have brought this miracle about and now they have more options fighting the Beast than they ever imagined possible.

** ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epHMrRPX6rI "And you, eater of worlds, may you] [[Regret Eating Me|taste our righteous fire... and CHOKE ON IT!!]] [[Heroic Sacrifice|For my]] [[Senseless Sacrifice|Planet's sake]], [[Facing the Bullets One-Liner|I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE!!!"]]''

*** Let's emphasize that: Ed won by [[Genius Ditz|being clever]]. No [[Super Strength]], no [[Reality Warper|reality warping]], just a smart move at the right time. It's like the writer's were apologizing for his [[The Ditz]] [[Flanderization|phase.]]

** "PUT THE MOON BACK, DEMON WAIF!"

* [http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25059520b3d89e0120b49221340025 G.I. Joe Resolute]. Yeah, I know, it's G.I. Joe, bet you didn't expect that. Except [[Warren Ellis]] got his hands all over it and you know what happens then. So far it's all awesome after awesome, but especially the scenes with Snake Eyes. {{spoiler|After everything else he did during Part 2, the end when Snake Eyes flicks the blood from his blade made me go "OH SHIIIII!" in ecstasy of awesome.}}

** It's possible that this scene blew the budget on Awesome for the whole film, which could be why that quality only shows up in a couple other scenes, in lesser amounts.

* Brain shows his inner [[Trickster Archetype]] in the ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' episode "Brain of the Future" when the two are taken prisoner by a race of humanoid cockroaches. Brain bets the queen he he can hold more in his two arms than her two guards can hold in their combined twelve, and if he's right, she'll let them go. She accepts his challenge, and of course, there's no way he can top the mountain of stuff the guards end up holding... but now that they've got their hands full, he's free to grab the [[MacGuffin]] and escape! [[Batman Gambit|Classic]]! [[Watership Down|El-ahrairah]] and[[Song of the South|Br'er Rabbit]] would be so proud.

** [[Action Girl|Jessica]] gets a good one in Episode 9. As Nick is busy trying to save Toby from the Volcano Gormiti ([[Designated Victim|Toby seems to have a habit for getting captured, huh?]]), and the Sea Gormiti are trying to hold off [[Big Bad|Magmion]]'s minions, Jessica is forced to fight Drakkon, Magmion's massive pet dragon, in a pitched battle above Mount Volcano... a battle which she handily wins through a combination of superior speed, quick thinking and the right dose of [[Super Strength]]! Click [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Ziy51nvB4 here] to view it.

* At one point in the ''[[Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' episode "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9SQcd7jMzk#t=4m40s Robotnikland]", Robotnik beans Sonic with a monkey wrench ''mid-Spin Attack''.

** Given his [[Butt Monkey]] role throughout most of the film, one couldn't help but cheer Jeremy after ''directly attacking'' the [[Nightmare Fuel|Nightmare Fuelish]] monster cat Dragon to protect Ms Brisby. After later finding her sobbing, heartbroken at having lost Timmy's vital medicine, Jeremy seems to ultimately lose concentration of the whole matter and rambles on to himself, before grabbing something from out of his wing; "Oh, by the way, you dropped this back there..."

* In [[Don Bluth]]'s other animated film starring mice, ''[[An American Tail]]'', we get the Giant Mouse of Minsk. [[Nightmare Fuel]], yes, but in terms of seeing the bad guys getting their asses handed to them, a ''very'' satisfying scene indeed.

** Private has his own during ''Untouchable'': how do you beat an enemy you can't touch? Simple: {{spoiler|build a robot suit ''so you can hug him''. Or pop him like a grape if he doesn't repent.}}

* ''[[Wallace and Gromit]]''. The Wrong Trousers. The titular heroes are locked into a deadly train chase with the evil penguin thief Feathers McGraw. The aforementioned dastard switches tracks, leaving our heroes destined for a painful crash. However, at the last possible second, Gromit notices a nearby box of "spare track". He grabs it and begins ''laying track in front of the speeding train'', guiding it to safety, his paws a blur.

** While it doubles as [[Nightmare Fuel]], the entire sequence of the first 9 plagues, along with the amazing musical number, featuring a [[Dark Reprise]] of the song "''All I Ever Wanted''," is nothing more than awesome, even if it is one of the scariest things God has done since leveling Sodom and Gomorrah. The song itself is great, especially the lyrics, such as "I sent my scourge! I sent my sword! Thus sayeth the Lord!" [[Nightmare Fuel|The 10th plague though...]]

* ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'': In "100 Percensus", Captain K'Nuckles is constantly bothered by Flapjack to take a census and be accounted for. K'Nuckles, being K'Nuckles, thinks Flapjack wants him to count to four, which he can't do. Eventually, he comes around and takes the census, only to find that Stormalong has been taken over by pirates. He gives the census to the pirate captain [[It Makes Sense in Context|(long story)]], who then proceeds to mock it:

'''Captain K'nuckles''': I can't count to four, ''[[Let's Get Dangerous|but I can count to three.]]'' }}

** Cue a crew of 100 pirates getting pushed off the docks of Stormalong by a very frustrated adventurer, three at a time.

* Beethoven urinating on the bully guard dog Killer in [[Beethoven the Animated Series]].

* ''[[The Cleveland Show]]'' - in ''Cleveland Junior's Cherry Bomb'', there was a scene where Cleveland, upset by his son's pledge of virginity, asks his step-daughter's boyfriend Federline to get him laid. Federline takes Cleveland, Jr. to the mall and sends him after a group of easy-looking women. The boy tells them that they need to improve their self-image, which prompts Federline to slap him. Cleveland, Jr., [[Beware the Nice Ones|of all people]], ''grabs Federline by the collar and threatens him.'' Federline is visibly intimidated.

** Oh, come on! ''Nobody'' is going to mention the time when the guys' wives all teamed up to give an abusive woman a beat-down? Double-points for Lester's wife and her flying tackle.

** Cleveland Jr. does this CONSTANTLY. Who can forget his rap battle with Kenny West?

** Nova's refusal to give up on Sprx in the final episode to the point of being a Determinator. {{spoiler|Crosses into heartwarming when he finally comes back.}}

** Gibson ''drilling Mandarin's claw off'' in an effort to save Otto.

* ''[[Chaotic]]''. Nothing is as awesome as facing down ''an entire wave of melted polar ice'' all by yourself, casting a time-freezing spell to keep the whole world and everyone in it from being drowned, and then getting frozen inside the subsequent ice in the process. [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to end all [[Heroic Sacrifice|Heroic Sacrifices]]...that is, until the most recent episode, wherein the power of the First Tree was drawn upon to completely obliterate Vitog, thus saving Perim again. After that, {{spoiler|Tangath Toborn}} did indeed deserve to "go to a world where an old warrior like him can live to fight another day". Besides being quite the [[Tear Jerker]], it also included a very nice [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]]:

** Tom's victories over Codemasters Crellen and Hotekk were pretty sweet, even more so with the fact that Tom is the only known character on the show to beat two codemasters.

* No love for [[Storm Hawks]]? What about Stork's sequence in the episode "Fire and Ice"? First, he evades the (pissed-off) Raptors, then, back on the ship, they finally catch up. He looks his usual, pessimistic, paranoid self, until, well...Oh, this could be bad...''for them''. He begins loosing off traps on them until they find him at the bridge, and, well, his 'last request' pretty much sums up the scene. "Get off my ship." Cue violent ejection of the Raptors.

** What about the The Lesson? The Storm Hanks managed to whup the Cyclonians one on one, or in the case of Stork vs the Raptors one on three, who were beefed up on enhancement crystals by using moves they learned through playing carvinal games. Aerrow's was the best, he pulled of a [[Batman Gambit]] by giving his skimmer a huge speed making the Dark Ace think he was running away until he saw that Aerrow had him at point blank range on his own skimmer.

Aerrow: How else? We've been training.(Blasts the Dark with his Lighting Claw Maneuver). }}

* In ''[[The Amazing World of Gumball]]'', Nicole's [[Badass]]-ness in "The DVD". [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU3NNTxfDxs\]

* ''From [[Johnny Test]], Dukey's rant at Johnny, Susan, Mary, and Hugh for risking their lives for money. Plus getting Hugh to think he's only imagining Dukey was talking.

* What about the episode of Cyberchase where the Cybersquad gets tricked into going to Tick Tockia because they think Hacker's sent Slider through the portal to the realm in question? Slider manages to pull out a screwdriver and get the floor to fall out from under him without Hacker noticing and then [[It Makes Sense in Context|attempts to stop the giant clock]] to save his friends. Granted he failed at the last bit but it is still AWESOME!

* Is it wrong that this troper cheered inside everytime the [[Harmless Villain|usually pitiful]] [[Villain Protagonist|Urpneys]] actually did something [[Not-So-Harmless Villain|genuinely competant or fearsome]] in ''[[The Dreamstone]]''? Most notable examples probably include "Albert's Ailment" and "The Spidermobile", where they not only steal the Dreamstone and bring it to Zordrak but manage to foil the heroes attempts to swipe it back.

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