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* Everything with the dinosaurs. Everything.
** FUCK. '''YES.''' [http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/6735/dinosaurempire.jpg\]
* Musashi killing a dinosaur by swinging it around by the tentacle-drill it just impaled him with. And still having the strength to pilot the Getter almost immediately afterwards, despite bleeding from the gaping hole in his stomach.
* The ever-morbid Professor Shikishima frees himself from the dinosaur holding him hostage by telling Ryoma to just shoot them both, because his life dream is to die in a bloody fashion. To show how serious he is, he asks Ryoma to shoot him with the flashiest weapon he has, remember to photograph it, put it in Shikashima's personal photo album and narrates in detail where he wants to be shot, which of his organs he should lose and how his corpse should lie sprawled out. When the dinosaur shits itself and flees, Shikashima just walks away, ''dejected'' that he couldn't get his wish.
* {{spoiler|Musashi's sacrifice}} at the end of the original series has permanently etched itself into the minds of mecha fans as the prime example of a [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. Anyone who can maintain their heroic resolve while literally ''melting'' in the cockpit counts as a [[Rank Inflation|Grade-CMOA]] [[Determinator]].
** And it was such a noble sacrifice that one of the alternate [[OVA|OVAs]] actually put it at the very beginning of the series. Only this one took out all of New York, and the entire forces that the Getter Team had been struggling to fight in the first place.
** There's also the lesser-known sacrifice of {{spoiler|Benkei}}, in the ''Shin Getter Robo'' manga, which was arguably just as awesome since he was ''on fire''.
* The final battle of ''Getter Robo G'' is 100 freakin' pages of awesome super robot action. Notable for featuring the first instance of Getter Dragon's [[Badass Arm-Fold]] pose, used as it rises out of the ocean it was shot down into - a scene imitated in [[
* Gou from ''Getter Robo Go'' saves his allies (who pilot [[Humongous Mecha]] ranging from 11.2 to 20 meters tall), from an enemy mecha that's even larger by using the Beetle, a scouting mecha that can't be any more than twice his height. And he does it by jumping in the air and [[Everything's Better
* Canadian pilots Sam and Bob Hosner get theirs when they demonstrate the defensive power of their mecha - by casually shrugging off a direct hit from a [[Kill Sat|satellite cannon]] strong enough to burn entire forests to the ground or destroy reinforced underground military bases. ''Twice.''
** Debatably this or when they single-handedly take on the [[Base
* Schwarz+Shou saving the immobilised Volga by grabbing its (as described) [[BFG|FUCKING HUGE CANNON!!]] with their mech and yanking the whole gigantic robot around so its cannon is pointing at the enemy.
* Ryoma, who after returning partway through Getter Robo Go, spends pretty much the rest of the series crushing dinosaur skulls with his BARE HANDS.
* Anyone else impressed that Ryoma broke a katana in half by catching it with his pecs and ''flexing it to pieces''?
** Catches it nothing. Someone ''stabs him in the heart'' and breaking the sword while it was ''in him'' was his response.
* Gou stops the nuclear missile aimed at his allies by leaping in its path with Getter Robo and ''combining with it'' as soon as it hits his mech. [[Slap-On-The-Wrist Nuke]] indeed.
** And then everything that follows. Gou combines with the enemy's [[Base
** Not to mention they ignore the old rule of having to open get and recombine to use different forms. By this point they have so much Getter Energy that they just spawned the top half of Getter-2, giant drill and all, from the chest of Getter-1.
* The whole fact that the Getter Emperor was created by combining Shin Getter Robo with freakin' ''MARS''!
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* When one of the plant monsters from ''Getter Robo Hien'' attacks New York, America responds by transforming the ''Statue of Liberty'' into an enormous [[Wave Motion Gun]], that is wielded by another [[Humongous Mecha]], and opens fire.
* The "final battle" in ''Will of Evolution'', between the galaxy-sized Getter Emperor and "God"... who the mecha just punches face-first through a galaxy.
* While flying a mecha that is also a bomber Sho and Schwartz are besieged by a swarm of monsters that start to eat their way in. Getting too many holes in a plane that high up wasn't going to be pretty. Cue Sho going to even higher altitudes and constantly pushing the machine to its limits all the while the monsters are falling off or getting cooked to a crisp. When the last one finally dies they're pretty much in the atmosphere. Oh and the cherry on top are Sho's words when they arrive at the rendezvous point with "Sorry we're late." as though they had been held up by foul weather.
== Getter Robo: Armageddon ==
* Each series has its own, but the [[Revival]] ''Armageddon'' tends to have them all over the place. In particular, the [[Calling Your Attacks|Stoner Sunshine]] scene tends to take the cake.
** And right before that scene, the one-on-one (until the bad guys cheat) fight between Shin Getter and Getter G. Specifically, how it ends, with Shin Getter 1 grabbing part of Getter Dragon ''in mid-transformation'':
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'''Hayato:''' Must be something you learn when you're part of a ''real'' team.
*Ryouma proceeds to crush Saotome's Get Machine to pieces* }}
** Even better in the original version.
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'''Hayato:''' That's the difference between development team and ''combat'' team. }}
** The debut of the Black Getter, where it proceeds to tear apart one of the invaders with its bare hands, after the Shin Getter itself had so much trouble with it, is way up there, as well.
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** The nature of the Shin Getter Robo/Shin Dragon combo is in itself a CMOA. A giant robot surfing into space on the head of a giant robot dragon attached to the crotch of another giant robot made from thousands of giant robots combined together? Awesome.
* Dr. Saotome stopping Shin Getter-2's [[This Is a Drill|giant drill]] with ''the palm of his hand.'' Note that he wasn't piloting a giant robot, though he was standing on the head of one. He then swings the [[Humongous Mecha]] around by its drill, before hurling it across the battlefield.
* [[Action Girl]] Kei defeating a HUGE Metal Beast ''[[Hot Amazon|while naked]]''? And IIRC, right after {{spoiler|discovering the truth about Go's origins as Michiru's [[Opposite
== Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo ==
* As mentioned previously, the first episode opens with a close adaption of Musashi's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] from the original manga, now animated.
* Ryoma gets his in ''Shin Getter Robo vs. Neo Getter Robo'' when he jumps from the head of a 200ft tall robot to ''dropkick a dinosaur in the face''. He then proceeds to beat up its buddies - a squad of dinosaurs with guns - by himself, using karate.
* Ryoma rescues four falling children by speeding towards them on a rope ladder hanging from the bottom of a jet, jumping off and grabbing them in mid-air, then falling several hundred feet (the skyscrapers looked very small beneath them) and onto the roof of a car. They all survive.
* Texas Mack. Just... Texas Mack. Even though ''Shin vs. Neo'' is commonly regarded as the weakest Getter OVA, [[Eagle Land|Eaglelander]] Jack King and his giant cowboy robot Texas Mack (also piloted by his sister, and Jack's ranch dog) are generally considered a walking CMOA AND [[Crowning Moment of Funny]], and reason enough to watch the short series.
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** And you thought Ryoma had crazy expressions before this scene? Take a look at [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7JqnxAoh-E this].
** This scene is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rALNw2-Aa7Y reenacted] in [[Super Robot Wars NEO]], but with Abe no Seimei
* You think Ryoma is crazy in this one? Well, you're right, but that doesn't make Hayato any less nuts himself. [http://i902.photobucket.com/albums/ac230/OnePixelJumpMan/getterpoke.jpg See this?] That's Hayato Jin poking somebody's ears off. And then he claws his eyes out.
** Hayato, in this episode, is also able to fight Ryoma to standstill before a bunch of oni interrupt them. Read Ryoma's exploits above this, then remember: Hayato fought him to a ''standstill.''
== 70's Anime ==
* Sure, it was a watered-down version of Ishikawa's original vision in a number of ways, but the 70's anime adaptations of ''Getter Robo'' and ''Getter Robo G'' could still be awesome in their own way. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3OrAgMmSHM Here], for example, is Musashi's sacrifice in the anime continuity.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZvWhC6udoQ Soccer, Hayato style.]
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