Halo (series)/Awesome: Difference between revisions

* Humanity's victory over the Covenant. Sure, [[Humans Are Special|humans may be special]] and made several sacrifices of dubiuos morality, but when you think about it, being able to survive, and ultamately triumph over a colective of races who put together, basicly out preform you in almost every way, that counts as a CMOA.

 

* This Troper would suggest that Johnson's Crowning Moment occurs during the legendary ending for the first game. "This is it, baby. Hold me."

 

* No, no, no. The utter Crowning Moment of Awesome came in the real-time demo: Chief and Cortana are battling their way through a war-torn city. They evade several patrols of grunts and Jackals, survive a drop-attack of Brutes, and manage to out-race a Phantom troop carrier. They come to a halt in sight of their target, a damaged Covenant cruiser. Suddenly pods rain down around them, and out pop five black-clad Special Ops Elites, each armed with one-hit-kill energy swords. Chief surveys the odds and drops one of his SMGs.

* One simple line that seals "The Great Journey" as one of the best videogame moments of ''all time'':

** To top it off the title of the section of the game, which begins with your ship being knocked down, it titled "They'll regret that too".

** Don't forget this gem on Legendary:

** Same scene, different line on Heroic:

*** Johnson has a skull named after his badass quoting.

*** Of course, another shining example would be this quote:

** It [[Establishing Character Moment|establishes]] the Arbiter as both [[Crazy Awesome]] and a foil to the Chief: rather than leave a deactivated bomb on his ship, the Chief ''goes into space and hurls it back at the enemy''. Rather than go the long way around to try to catch a fugitive, the Arbiter ''sends the space station he's on into freefall''.

* The closing lines just before the game's credits sequence:

* Used both ingame and in the tech demo showed at a pre-release showing of the game, the awed statement of a pinned down Marine upon seeing who had come to back him up.

 

== Halo 3 ==

** This troper's favorite moment in all of video gaming comes from this sequence. With two buddies, he cleared the airspace in the vicinity of a scarab, and then dropped his teammates off on top. After they battling through the Covenant on the Scarab, they destroyed the core. But instead of just jumping off, this troper's friends made their way back up to the TOP of the Scarab, where he picked them up and flew away JUST SECONDS before detonation. And then they did it again for the other one. After that enormously satisfying feeling of "Fuck yeah!" to be had from this experience, not much can come close (at least for this troper) to this particular crowing moment of awesome.

** [[Ethereal Frog|This Troper]] boarded with a Chopper. It took a few tries, but landing on a golden brute after flying 10 meters made it so worth it.

* Any time you get to kill a Scarab is CMOA material. I'm particularly fond of ''The Storm'' and ''The Ark'', especially if, rather than shooting the Scarab until it kneels, you get aboard by hopping onto it from the elevated section (''The Storm''), or driving a vehicle up a grav lift or ramp onto it (''The Ark'').

** Offensive Bias gets one shortly (storyline-wise) thereafter when he lures Mendicant into a perfect trap. He mentions throwing around battleships like fighters, and doing things to the laws of physics that would drive his crews mad if they were still alive. Please note that Mendicant's first move in the battle is ''a [[Zerg Rush]]''.

** Mendicant Bias gets one himself in the final terminal, only accessible on Legendary:

* One simple exchange:

** That one line proves beyond any and all doubt just how [[Badass]] the Elites are (in case you're guessing, the Elites completely {{spoiler|''thrash'' the Brutes}}).

** This troper enjoys grabbing a Needler from the previous encounter so that, just after Sgt. Reynolds says that, the brute gets turned into pink mist from about 25 needlers suddenly occupying his cranium

** This troper feels the need to notice that Reynolds was being held in the air by that Brute... ''by his throat''. The fact that he was able to ''breathe'' is impressive in and of itself.

** It's even strong enough to pick up a tank. Believe me, this troper has seen it happen.

** Then, immediately afterward, when you get to mount up on a Scorpion tank:

*** That scene is made even more awesome if you manage to give the four marines riding your tank [[Stuff Blowing Up|Fuel Rod Guns]].

* Multiplayer, Sandtrap map. Make the Elephant fly.

** Even better when Cortana decides to get a bit of revenge on the Gravemind by talking the Chief through blowing up High Charity.

** [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|For a few minutes, anyway]]...

* Whether you like Guilty Spark or not, you have to admit that his ability to take on {{spoiler|[[Super Soldier|Master Chief]]}} without any problem was just awesome.

 

** One for Red Team as well when you consider that those Elites were probably Honour Guards.

* One of the Spartans has a victory quote that drips with pure awesome.

* The ultimate infantry upgrade on the UNSC side in ''Wars'' if you're playing as Captain Cutter? I'll let the announcer say it:

** It must be said, ODST in ''Wars'' are awesome in their own. Mainly due to the ability to drop them to any point of the battlefield you have line of sight to from freaking ''orbit''. When one lone Warthog can effectively spawn a [[Zerg Rush]] of regenerating infantry... yeaaahhh...

 

* The Rookie gets one. A lone, regular human, surviving on their own in a Covenant-infested city for hours? Even ''Dare'' says that he's good.

* A regular NMPD officer gets this. She's in the headquarters talking to Dare, who wants her to get some people into the Superintendent's data center. The woman replies that she can't do that, and Dare apparently threatens to have her fired. The woman laughs and says the following.

* Jonas is a [[Badass Normal]]. One CMOA has him ''sitting on a car'' to stop it. Keep in mind the man is 6'10" and 500 pounds.

 

== Halo: Reach ==

* ''Reach'' has {{spoiler|Jorge's and Emile's [[Dying Moment of Awesome|Dying Moments of Awesome]] - manually detonating a slipspace bomb that annihilates a Covenant Supercarrier, and killing an Elite right after it impaled him, respectively, and Noble Six using a mass driver to one-shot a Covenant Battlecruiser}}.

*** [[Word of God|Bungie says]] {{spoiler|Jun's still alive}}.

* Another one, but this time with a random Marine: at the beginning of ''Long Night Of Solace'' (the space level) when you get in the base you see a dead Ultra Elite with an energy sword. An Army Trooper kicks the body, and it's implied ''he'' killed it.

** A beam rifle would have shown a solid beam with different sound. Slow it down and you definitely see it's a needle projectile. It was just that her shields were down.

** There's also the fact that [[Fearless Fool|Jackals literally do not feel fear]], so it didn't really take the same amount of nerve to make the shot, just opportunity. Still impressive, though.

* The beginning of ''Tip of the Spear''. You are probably embarking on one of the ''largest'' UNSC offensives in the games! AND IT IS AWESOME, especially when a pair of ships come in after you destroy an anti-air turret and start shooting down at the larger battle below you.

* If you mount a Wraith without grenades, how do you kill it? PUNCH IT. AND IT WORKS.

* Travelling back to the early days of Halo, how has no-one remembered the famous Keyes Loop of ''Fall of Reach''? A puny UNSC Destroyer (485m) manages to, with one of the most brilliant, most balls-out ship maneuvers in the entire series, take down ''three'' Covenant ships (two frigates - 1000m - and a destroyer - 1500m) and scare a fourth (a light carrier - 1455m) into escaping. This is the move that got Jacob Keyes promoted to Captain and single-handedly boosted the morale of the entire local UNSC force.

* Halo Evolutions probably wins points for the most audacious moment towards the end. Admiral Cole goes to his (possible) [[Not Quite Dead|not-quite death]] by luring a 200+ Covenant Fleet in close and then {{spoiler|igniting a brown dwarf by [[Deus Ex Nukina|nuking it repeatedly.]]}}

* ''Fall of Reach''. The ''Cradle''. When it {{spoiler|blocks Covenant plasma salvos from hitting the UNSC battlegroup. And they don't launch any escape pods. The entire UNSC force there is stunned, then they really go to town on the Covenant.}}

** To clarify, the ''Cradle'' is a ''drydock''.

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