Call of Duty/Awesome: Difference between revisions

* Going back to the very first game, this troper thought that Sgt. Moody's rescuing of a injured ally under heavy German fire after verbally chewing out a cowardly medic was pretty awesome. And he gave up his Made of Iron ability while doing this.

** [[Tropers/Kadorhal|I]] was heavily injured when I got to that point, so while Moody went to get the ally, I had to crawl back a bit and grab myself a medkit. And Moody ''still'' made it back in one piece.

* The American campaign opens with you manning the machine gun on a jeep escaping from a massive German charge. The awesomeness must be seen to be believed.

* The Berlin level in the first game. Once that damned tank is destroyed, it's a massive steamroll as a handful of Germans get hit with an infinitely long Russian charge. At the end there's the aforementioned flag raising, which is almost always followed by the player jumping off the roof of the Riechstag and/or throwing a grenade at the flag bearers right before the game ends.

** "Good."

* Ice axe. Snowmobile. Clothesline. 'Nuff said.

* {{spoiler|[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja|KNIIIIIIFE EEEEEYYYYE ATTAAAACK!!!!!!]]}}

* There's also the moment earlier in the prison mission {{spoiler|where you find Captain Price alive.}} Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny.

*** Worth noting is the intro to "Exodus." Shepherd asks Foley to perform a critical mission to stop the Russians, and Foley's response? "Point it out on a map, sir. They won't take it." The way he ''says'' it is the kicker, here; it isn't a promise. It's simply a statement. It's a fact, as simple as the sky is blue. [[Hold the Line|They will hold the line.]]

* The ISS interactive cutscene. You know the one.

* The [[Badass Creed|speech]] given by {{spoiler|Captain Price}} in the opening cutscene of "Just Like Old Times", in response to {{spoiler|General Shepherd's betrayal}}, is positively dripping with [[Warrior Poet|poetic awesome]]:

{{quote|"The healthy human mind doesn't wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on Earth. But I think that's a luxury. Not a curse. To know you're close to the end is a kind of freedom. Good time to take...inventory. Outgunned. Outnumbered. Out of our minds. On a suicide mission. But the sand and the rocks here, stained with thousands of years of warfare...They will remember us. For this. Because out of all our vast array of nightmares, this is the one we choose for ourselves. We go forward like a breath exhaled from the Earth. With vigor in our hearts and one goal in sight: We. Will. Kill him."}}

{{quote|'''Gaz''': "Enough bloody sniping! Where is the informant?"

'''Kamarov''': ''(shouts in Russian)''

'''Kamarov''': "The house! The house at the northeast end of the village!"<br />

'''Gaz''': "That wasn't so hard, now was it? Now go sit in the corner." ''(knocks Kamarov out)'' }}

*** That line is spoken by a random NPC, not Corporal Dunn. Dunn's line is actually ''better;'' he responds to that line with this one: "Not soon enough, man. But I know we're gonna burn it down when we get there." It's also a meta-[[Crowning Moment of Funny]] for anyone who recognizes that Dunn's voice actor is Barry Pepper, who's last notable videogame role was [[Prototype (video game)|someone who could single-handedly accomplish this in bloody fashion.]]

** To add to Ramirez's badassery, this Troper managed to actually ''snipe'' the Russian shooters on top of the White House using nothing ''but'' the IRON SIGHTS on the M4A1, as well as lob some ''carefully aimed'' M203 rounds into the windows with mounted machineguns to clear the way for his team.

** This troper got to witness Dunn pull of some surprising badassery: while playing through either "Wolverines!" or "Exodus" (I forget which, but it was one of the missions where you fight through suburban Virginia), this troper was having a rough time in the beginning fighting through the houses, but I swear, every time I turned around, Dunn was taking someone down in hand-to-hand and running ahead of me. To reiterate: he wasn't firing his rifle, instead beating Russians down with the butt of said rifle, and pushing ahead of the PC to boot. Wow.

*** In terms of melee badassery, Sgt. Foley in the same game takes the cake. He doesn't bother with fancy hip tosses or gun butts, he just kicks the other guy over and executes him. Do not mess with Foley.

*** This troper was too busy giggling in sheer joy to actually think anything.

* The [[Crazy Awesome|two times]] you use a soldier as a [[Bulletproof Human Shield|shield]] and gun other soldiers down with the shield's rifle in Black Ops.

* Walking to the SR 71 in your bulky space suit with everyone saluting you and then taking off into the edge of space. Too bad it didn't last longer.

* The whole first portion of the Crash Site level - this troper had to make an account just to proclaim the awesometicity of rolling down the river in a convoy of boats that size, while "Sympathy For The Devil" blares.

* The Russian Roulette scene in Black Ops. Now allow me to describe the situation. Mason and Woods got their asses captured by the Vietcong and forced to play a game of Russian Roulette while the VC bookie continuously flips his shit by yelling and slapping our heroes, let alone threaten them with a big-ass cleaver. Woods pulled the trigger and was luckily to avoid having his brains blown off. So when it's Mason's turn, he pulled the bookie towards him and fired the revolver right in his neck, and then proceeds to use him as a human shield. Now it might not sound all that awesome, but if you have learned probability, you'll know why. So let's do a calculation. Before Woods pulled the trigger there was a 1/6 chance that he would bust his brains out, after Woods pulled the trigger and was lucky that there was no bullet in the chamber, means that there would be 5 chambers left. So Mason had a 1/5 chance on that part. Now take the entire problem and put them together. 5/6 X 1/5 = 5/30 = 1/6. Simply put, Mason had a '''16.66% CHANCE OF ESCAPING THE RUSSIAN ROULETTE! AND HE DID!''' Thus, mathematically, this is a crowning moment.

** Not that it's any less awesome, but Woods tells when the bullet is in the chamber by saying, "Do it now," after he survives his roulette shot. This is possible because he would have been able to see where the bullet is in the rotation before he shot and as the gun laid on the table in front of him, seeing as the gun is a revolver. Unless of course empty shell casings had been placed in the extra holes, making it impossible to tell the difference between the blanks and the lethal shot.

** Woods then tops that with a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] by {{spoiler|tackling Kravchenko out a window to save you after he pulls the pins on all the grenades he has on his belt.}}

** Something of a [[Call Back]] to a similar scene in Call of Duty 3.

* The "Executive Order" mission on Black Ops. Saving {{spoiler|Weaver}} by ziplining across the base and breaking in from a window with guns blazing is just ''awesome''. Not to mention {{spoiler|stopping the Soyuz 2 launch by '''blowing it up using a guided missile.'''}} Holy shit indeed!

* Black Ops trailer. [[Memetic Mutation|The pizza guy.]]

* The sheer levels of preparedness that Dr. Clarke reaches. Have to escape by running over rooftops? He has mattresses laid out. Running low on ammo? He's got weapon caches. Russians trying to steal his research? ''He blows them up with explosives he planted in his own lab.''

* Zombies mode. [[Earthshattering Kaboom|Richtofen's Grand Scheme]]. That is all.

 

** At the beginning of the mission: {{spoiler|''Objective: Kill Makarov.''}} At the end, {{spoiler|you've fought your way through hordes of Russians, lost Yuri to an armed Little Bird, duked it out with Makarov amid the wreckage of a helicopter, and now you're lying in the shattered hotel. The camera pans up, reveals Makarov's hanging corpse, the player gets a moment or two to hold their breath, and then...}}

{{quote|'''Game''':{{spoiler|''Objective Completed.''}}}}

** Oh, Price doesn't just punch him down the stairs. He walks down the stairs after him cocking a pistol, then holds it to Yuri's head, saying the following:

{{quote|" {{spoiler|Soap}} trusted you! I thought I could too! So ''why'', in the bloody hell, does {{spoiler|Makarov know you}}?!"}}

* How the battle of New York ends. America pushes the Russians back into the harbor, and sends Team Metal to board the Russian command sub. Sandman and Frost board the sub and kill everyone on board, and then ''launch the subs missiles at the rest of the Soviet fleet.'' Even better, you get to race through the harbor as their fleet explodes around you. This pretty much ends the Russian invasion of the US.

* The battle for Paris is pretty awesome, as you get to call in a AC-130 at will. In ''Iron Lady'' you even get to switch back and forth between Frost and the AC-130. The ending is great also in seeing the Russian line by bombed, and knowing that Paris and most of France in under allied control.

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