Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex/Awesome: Difference between revisions

**** Aramaki mentioned that Gayle was very cooperative afterward... Why? Because the Major scared him shitless once the tables were turned. So no, she didn't kill him.

* Aramaki gets a good one in the first season when, tied up and armed with nothing and unable to communicate outside the building he's in, he rescues his friend, talks the people who have taken him hostage into switching sides, completely fakes out the corrupt police trying to assassinate him, his friend and the hostage takers, then has the classic Aramaki moment where he confronts the police and has them arrested. Section 9 works for him for a reason.

"What the hell is with [[Badass Grandpa|this geezer's]] tactical competence?" }}

* Ishikawa has a CMOA in the last episode of SAC 2nd Gig, when {{spoiler|after one of Gouda's lackeys pulls a gun on him demanding he hand over the plutonium, he knocks the guy out with his left arm, still in a cast.}}

** I would just like to point out part of what makes the above moment so special is that Ishikawa's forte is Data Gathering, not combat, and that he's usually working behind the scenes. So him doing something a bit more physically kickass instead of mentally is good deal of what makes this moment so utterly awesome. In a similar way, something that felt like a CMOA for Batou, Section 9's Number 2 Badass (after the Major), is when, rather than his usual kicking physical ass kickass stuff (though he does have a few CMOA that follow along those lines too), he's telling Gouda that he sucks, and why, deconstructing his plan, well, what Section 9 know of it so far. Sure, {{spoiler|he was reading keynotes given him by the Major}}, but still, that scene must have left a massive dent in Gouda's ego.

*** How about when he needed extra processing power and so he {{spoiler|used the cyberbrains of the customers at a pachinko parlor he owned, while making the machines pay out big in return for the help.}}

* The series itself probably has a CMOA when Section 9 uses American Spy Satellites to listen to every single electronic communication in post-cyberpunk Japan in real time.

* This troper would like to point out that the Laughing Man is in itself a Crowning Moment of Awesome. At the very least, it's an all-pervasive cultural phenomenon unintentionally started by someone who's possibly the world's most skilled hacker, {{spoiler|''accidentally'' inspires thirty-nine ''simultaneous'' assassination attempts on the same person}} and is quite probably {{spoiler|a sentient pure-data entity}} spontaneously spawned ''by pure injustice''. To top it all off, the Laughing Man is specifically stated, in-canon, to be an entity that's ''too cool to exist''. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Awesome]].

* Episode 4 of 2nd Gig, where Section Nine goes up against the rampant AI Jigabachi AV attack chopper and it's standard Jigabachi cousins. The entire scene is full of awesome, from the Tachikomas playing cat and mouse with the Jigabachis missiles and gunfire, to the Major ''physically restraining an attack helicopter'' by herself, to Saito pulling off a million to one shot on the Jigabachi AV's cockpit.

* And the famous scene where the Major kills a guy through a skyscraper window, then fades into the night, while in freefall.

 

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