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** Of course, don't forget how he handled his best friend, another Zabi. A normal bastard will leads his best friend right into an enemy trap. A Magnificent Bastard? Calls him on the phone, explains his motives, and waves good-bye.

* "Take your sorrow, and turn it into anger! Zeon thirsts for the strength of its people! '''SIEG ZEON!'''" [[Social Darwinist|Gihren Zabi]] taking the death of his little brother and turning it into a political rally; not in the final episode, but still an iconic moment for the series.

** Andrew WK did a fandub of that speech. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L03K2njcCrM It is glorious.]

** [[Gackt]], being a [[One of Us|a huge fanboy of the series]] ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a87gJSNm9t0 pulls it off in a live concert!]''

 

 

* Whilst taking place in the same time frame as the original series, this series also has some awesome moments. This troper believes that the one that trumps all other moments in the series is summarized in [[Two Words]]: Norris Packard.

* Also, in the middle of his fight with Norris, the main protagonist, Shiro Amada, after going into something of an [[Unstoppable Rage]], ''rips off his own unit's damaged arm'' in order to fight with Norris further, and ''uses it as a bludgeon''.

* From the third episode of MG IGLOO 2: Guntank charge!

 

* Bernie certainly deserves a mention for being able to hold his own against the new, insanely powerful, state of the art Gundam for at least a few minutes, despite being only an inexperienced rookie in a battered, mass-produced Zaku. {{spoiler|Of course he ends up dying a tragic, horrible death, leading into what can be seen as a brutal subversion of pretty much everything this trope is about.}}

** One could argue that {{spoiler|his death}} is both an awesome moment {{spoiler|and a [[Tear Jerker]].}}

*** Of course, since Bernie is voiced in the English dub by [[Metal Gear Solid|David Hayter]] - [[Badass|THE DAVID HAYTER]] - this makes perfect, poignant sense.

 

== [[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory]] ==

== [[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam|Zeta Gundam]] ==

* In the first episode, Kamille is beaten up by Titans Military Police. Later in the episode, he comes back in a stolen Gundam...

* Of course, Char gets ''another'' one of these moments: after being cornered in a damaged ship, proceeds to force Haman to retreat by '''blowing up the ship around him'''.

* Which follows a moment in the previous episode in which Char '''kills every single Axis soldier''' with one shot from The [[Wave Motion Gun|Mega Bazooka Launcher]].

* What about Judau having bombs strapped to the ZZ Gundam, and then strapping grenades to ''himself''? And then, he forces his way into the Neo Zeon flagship with them.

* In the final episode, during his duel against Haman, Judau reactivates the disabled Double Zeta by channeling the strength of the good men and women from the original series, ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam|Zeta Gundam]]'', and ZZ, including {{spoiler|Elpeo Puru}}, Lalah Sune, Four Murasame, Katz Kobayashi, Sarah Zabiarov, and lastly Kamille Bidan. He then unleashes a tremendous [[Wave Motion Gun]] blast on Haman before their duel ends with a [[Single-Stroke Battle]] exchange. This leads to a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], where Haman admits defeat as Judau asks why she didn't use as many funnels as she could've. Haman scoffs that they were conducting a duel and it wouldn't be fair, and dies with a smile on her face anyways, glad she came back if only to meet Judau.

** As long as we're talking about Judau punching people we can't forget when he punched out that obnoxious prick Wong Lee. Made even more awesome by the way it punishes Wong for the way he beat up Kamille back in Zeta.

* "I am Mashymre Celo, Zeon commander!" "I am Judau Ashta...." ''glances to the left and right'' "...currently skipping school!" ...although this may be a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]], but let's just say it belongs here.

 

== [[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam|Victory Gundam]] ==

 

== [[Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack|Char's Counterattack]] ==

* For this troper, Amuro jumping out of a car to crash-tackle a horse-riding Char is the scene that sticks in his mind for the movie.

 

* Loran using the last two nuclear missiles in existence to stop a [[Colony Drop|space colony from destroying a city on the moon]].

* [[Kiai|UNIVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERSE!]] Enough said.

* Setsuna's final battle in the first season. He had just beaten the [[Big Bad]] of the first season, his Gundam is damaged and he's exhausted. Then out of nowhere [[Char Clone|Graham Aker]] shows up in his custom Flag... except that his Flag has '''a GN Drive tacked on it and is toting a beam saber!''' The two summarily proceed to tear each other's mobile suit to pieces in a short but very violent battle, trading [[Motive Rant|Motive Rants]] back and forth all the while.

* Allelujah never really liked when [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Hallelujah]] took over his body and went to [[Curb Stomp Battle|kill stuff]]. So when Allelujah's Gundam is heavily damaged with the enemy actively searching the area for him, what do they do? They team up and temporarily merge, of course! We get to witness a hyper-awesome two-on-one [[Curb Stomp Battle]] where [[Fan Nickname|Doublelujah]] utterly owns [[Tyke Bomb|Soma]] and [[Colonel Badass|Sergei]] ''at the same time''.

* The 00 Raiser's first battle. Devine comes quite close to taking it down by stabbing it with a beam saber... only to find out the hard way that the 00 Raiser in [[Super Mode|Trans-Am mode]] can [[Flash Step|create a quantum wormhole and shunt itself through it; what she hit was only a post-teleportation afterimage]]. By the time she realized what happened, Setsuna destroyed her weapon with a surprise attack. Then she tried to cut him again... only for him to teleport once again (this time with an awesome shot of the Gundam materializing into existence from glowing particles) and deliver the coup de grace from behind. Even ''[[Manipulative Bastard|Ribbons]]'' was completely floored by it...

** ...which didn't prevent him from getting his own moment right afterwards when [[Manipulative Bitch|Wang Liu Mei]] tried taunting her: he backhanded her so hard she fell off her feet. Granted, she had it coming for quite a while but ''[["Hell Yes!" Moment|still]]''.

'''Ribbons:''' ''Shut up'', you greedy little bitch. }}

* Possibly the greatest moments of the second season were in the 17th episode.

** First, pilots a mobile suit with ''no arms'' through a raging battle to get to the Le Cygne...

** Second, when she gets in the Le Cygne, an MS she's never piloted before, using minimal movement to dodge cyber-newtype Erisia's shots by a hair...

 

== Fandom ==

* Japanese ''Gundam'' fandom managed to flesh out the vague references in the original ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' and create a proper UC time line, which was adopted by Sunrise.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvxxXGz8wjA This video.] Master Asia would be proud.

 

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