Call of Duty/Awesome: Difference between revisions

* {{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.

'''Worm''': Who's Soap? }}

** What makes this moment even better is that, as you will notice, that pistol is the 1911 {{spoiler|1=that Price passed to Soap so he could kill Zakhaev at the end of MW1.}}

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c8ZMlRfXYA]

* 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]]:

* Driving a vehicle ''one-handed'' onto the ramp of a moving plane, with the original driver having just been shot. Holy crap.

** This troper actually hit the side of one of the SUVs chasing you and didn't have the time to knock it off so he just kept on driving to the plane with the SUV in front of him.

*** Possible CMOA goes to the original driver as well, Rook. Even though he's only driving a jeep against {{spoiler|Shadow Company technicals}}, the fact that he can force vehicles so much heavier then the jeep without causing much damage to the jeep itself deserves praise.

* Price's intro to ''Endgame''

But only if he lives, and we die. }}

* ''[[Call of Duty]] 4.'' "Game Over." {{spoiler|Cornered, surrounded, outnumbered, pinned on the bridge with an exploding gas tanker at your back. Enemy helicopters flying overhead, taunting you. Watching your squadmates killed one by one, executed by the [[Big Bad]] himself, and then rolling over, seeing Captain Price sliding his sidearm out to you, giving you one last chance to kill the man he couldn't. And when the dust settles, the Loyalists arrive, and Kamarov is standing over you, frantically calling for aid and telling you "You are going to be alright, my friend!"}} So freaking badass.

* Sergeant Paul Jackson's {{spoiler|death in the middle of the nuclear wasteland}}.

*** The exchange a little before that is rather inspiring:

'''Outlaw Two-Five''': {{spoiler|Roger that. We know what we're getting into.}} }}

*** {{spoiler|They really didn't...}}

*** Vasquez also gets an awesome line here:

* "Get on the minigun!". Oh hell yeah...

* ''[[Unflinching Walk|"Good night, ya bastard."]]''

* Gaz gets his as early as the second mission, where, fed up with Sergeant Kamarov's refusal to tell them where the informant they need to find is located, proceeds to grab Kamarov and dangle him over a ledge.

'''Gaz''': ''"[[Punctuated for Emphasis|WHERE! IS! HE?!]]"''<br />

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

*** Also, while he may fire slowly the good Captain ''[[Improbable Aiming Skills|never misses]]'': any shot he takes, kills. Getting rescued from a sticky situation with an empty magazine by a flawless headshot to a sprinting target across the full length of the LZ square tends to leave a favorable impression, or at least it did for me.

*** As icing on the cake, that missing strongly implies that MacMillan's legs have been fucked up permanently... until Modern Warfare 3 reveals that not only did he recover, he is now the [[Colonel Badass]] commanding the SAS, ''and'' he sends Price gear and intel to hunt Makarov.

'''MacMillan''': "Tell me what you need, son." }}

* While {{spoiler|General Shepherd}} is unmistakably the [[Big Bad]], the fact that he actually manages to execute his entire plan flawlessly {{spoiler|except for not surviving to see the results}} despite {{spoiler|Price throwing an honest-to-god [[Spanner in the Works]]}} is still damned impressive, even though we're not rooting for him. It is not possible to listen to him at the very end when he, in simple, honest words, finally explains his motivation and still feel like you can judge him based on [[Black and White Morality]].

* Okay, Private James Ramirez may not be as badass as Price or Soap, but he deserves some props for all the crap that went down in D.C. Saving "Raptor," protecting evacuees, taking out enemy anti-armor troops and even enemy armor, gunning down Russian troops while trapped inside a crashed helicopter, awesome. Then in ''Whiskey Hotel'', you manage to retake the White House ''without'' electronic supports (not even powered small arms optics), but have to ignite and frantically wave green flares atop the roof to (narrowly) prevent friendly air power from bombing your position. Anyways, as your squad gathers up on the roof and talks about payback (granted, they're all {{spoiler|[[Unwitting Pawn|pawns in Shepherd's plan]],}} but really awesome pawns at that) you look over the devastated city, and start to see green smoke rising over other famous D.C. landmarks; looks like Ivan may be in trouble, eh?

** Made even more awesome when Dunn, who, up until this point, had been your obligatory [[Deadpan Snarker]] and apparent [[Expy]] of Hudson from [[Alien|Aliens]], delivers the following simple line at the resolution of the above-mentioned Moment of Awesome: ''"So when we goin' to Moscow?"''

* Raiding the [[That One Level|Gulag]] is ''hardcore''. No, seriously. [[Modern Warfare|Try it on Veteran.]]

* This troper always found this exchange from MW2 awesome:

{{spoiler|'''Price:'''}} Roger that. }}

* Makarov. Just...fucking Makarov. Say what you will about him, his speech in the ''Infamy'' trailer was epic.

* {{spoiler|''[[Title In|"Of Their Own Accord"; Washington, D.C.]]''}}

* {{spoiler|Price}} gets an indirect one in "Just Like Old Times"

{{spoiler|Shepherd: "It's Price."}} The implication? {{spoiler|Captain Price is that good.}} }}

* [[Tank Goodness|War Pig]]. Everything about it is amazing. Especially when it starts shooting.

"'''FIRE!'''" '''''*kaboom*''''' }}

* IW's tradition of having a bonus scene playing in the background as the credits roll. In COD1 you get a mostly-2D version of levels 2-3, in COD2 you get a rather amusing video where they attempt to make a map using every single animation they have (and they still make it good!) and in COD4 they have an AC130 scene in which the devs demonstrate their awesome cheating skillz (semi-auto 40mm, follwed by a rap song from [[S Sgt]]. Griggs. They seem to have forgotten it in MW2, though.

** Particularly the part where Sergei ''impales a guard from behind with a pickaxe.''

** Don't forget to mention about the "Steps".

'''Crowd:''' Freedom! }}

** After picking up the Death Machine, the new objective being simply "Raise Hell" sent chills down this troper's spine. And raise hell he did.

* 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!

* Close to the end of Project Nova:

'''Reznov: EVERYONE!''' WE STAND ALONE! }}

* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Virus [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgfWSl0EDao\]

** This bears mentioning again. ''{{spoiler|You are wearing Juggernaut armor}}''. And it is even more awesome than you think.

** The awesomeness starts right from the start of the mission.

** These two lines:

'''Price''': [[Badass Boast|It won't help him.]] }}

** 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...}}

* Price, after figuring out Yuri {{spoiler|worked for Makarov}} from {{spoiler|the now deceased Soap}}, tells Yuri to open the door, spins Yuri around, and PUNCHES HIM DOWN THE ENTIRE STAIRCASE.

** 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:

* In ''Down The Rabbit Hole'': {{spoiler|Team Metal's last stand. As a wounded Yuri fires at the hostiles, Grinch rolls over to dodge an RPG. Grinch drops his empty M14 and pulls out dual pistols and fires them at different directions. An RPG round nearly hits Sandman as he continues to fire. One hostile runs towards Truck, but Truck throws him over his shoulder and kills him. Another hostile runs towards Sandman, who takes out his knife and stabs him, and then throws it at another incoming hostile. He is wounded on his right arm, so he just e draws out his pistol with his free left hand and resumes firing. The fact that they all die really sucks, but they went out like total badasses}}.

* 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.