Kamen Rider Kiva/Awesome

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  • Even Kido, the owner of Mal d'Amour gets one early on, during Jiro's debut. Claiming to be the ultimate coffee critic, Jiro challenges Kido to make him coffee that he'll consider worth paying for, and Kido steps up to the plate. His verdict?
  • Riki's first ever busting out of his Dogga form in ep. 21 may not be the usual kind of CMoA, but the long wait for it and the Curb Stomp Battle that followed qualify it as such.
  • Ep. 26. Mio "abusing" her Fangire Queen status to finish off the Spider Fangire at long last.
  • Ep. 45. Castle Doran's been hijacked by a Sabbat forcefully clamping onto its back, taking it airborne - but Wataru as Emperor Kiva slips into Flight Form without a second thought, taking the battle to the enemy in a rare combination of Colossus Climb and Curb Stomp Battle. And the whole thing is taking place in 1986, meaning that Wataru basically earned the use of Castle Dran in 2008 on his own merit.
  • IXA-Cise! Enough said.
  • The debut of each form or weapon was a crowning moment of awesome.
  • Wataru and Otoya's epic fight against King, Otoya keep getting up after being beatdown as Dark Kiva and Ixa and knowing that becoming Dark Kiva would kill him, and convincing Wataru he was okay with the father and son pulled together in the end with an impressive double rider kick.
  • Nago's He's Back moment, complete with Fight For Justice in the background.
  • The Movie: Kiva always leaves a Kiva symbol imprint when using his Rider Kick (except in Emperor Form, where Rider Kick is less "kick" and more "repeated foot-blade hacking." Ow!) So in the movie, the fight between a giant-sized monster-Rider and a giant-sized Kiva fused with Castle Doran ends with Kiva slamming the villain into the frigging moon, leaving a massive Kiva symbol imprint. The moon gets better, though.