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* Relena's first Crowning Moment came in the school ball episode.
** Then, when Relena was "forced" to join [[War for Fun and Profit|Romefeller Foundation]] [[Hostage Situation|for the safety or Sanc Kingdom
** Also, Relena gets one that overlaps with [[Tear Jerker]] and [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] in the end of the series,
* The Gundam Wing Zero, blowing up an ''entire space colony'' in one shot. Also a case of [[Nightmare Fuel]].
* Also in the final arc of the series, there's a scene where Trowa is infiltrating the space fortress Libra. A pair of enemy soldiers emerge from a nearby hallway and start shooting at him. Trowa performs an incredible acrobatic jump, landing on a high catwalk a distance away... and then ''bows'' to the guys who just tried to kill him before running off.
* The entire setup of the Antarctica duel: Zechs is mad that OZ messed up his fair fight with Heero, so he defies orders to secretly rebuild the Gundam, has Noin locate the pilot, then brings him to a secluded base just so they can have their one-on-one uninterrupted. The fight itself is decently cool, but the real CMoA comes when OZ, having discovered Zechs' treachery, sends literally hundreds of mobile suits to capture everyone at the base. In order to buy time for everyone (including Heero, Trowa
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9C8KHT64RI#t=19m29s The end of episode 41] is undeniably one of the high points of the series. Two moments stand out: post-amnesia Trowa saving Noin's ass and Zechs ''destroying the entire Barge station with Epyon's beam saber'' after the rest of his attack force has been wiped out.
* Quatre's CMOA comes in the series when
** He gets another late in the series when he manages to master the ZERO System on only his second usage of it AND gets the other Gundam Pilots to drop their "I work alone" attitudes in order to execute precision strategies, thwarting Dorothy and White Fang's own use of the System. Heero may be the protagonist, but Quatre is hands-down the Wing Team's leader.
*** For this troper, being of Middle Eastern descent, the fact that Quatre is supposed to be Arab, and defying every damn stereotype about the culture is a huge crowner for him and every Arab anime fan who wants to be a hero.
** A scene not too long after Quatre and Heero escape to Earth after Quatre's [[Sanity Slippage]] and Quatre holds up several men at gunpoint with a machine gun. Sure, it's small and somewhat pointless, but considering Quatre is considered weaker than the other pilots, he's still pressuring the soldiers to surrender ''while holding a machine gun''.
* Otto
* Treize CMOA:
** Defeating Wu Fei in a sword fight, making the [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]] [[Heroic BSOD|having it hard]].
*** Which is then flipped on its head when Treize reveals during his duel with Wufei, who accuses him of being heartless, giving him a [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] by counting off the names of everyone who ever died for him. Seconds later, he jumps Wufei, only to be fatally stabbed. Cue [[Tear Jerker]] moment as Wufei gives a manly cry "I didn't think I'd win...".
* Treize challenge Zechs [[Honor Before Reason|to a duel of
** Followed immediately by {{spoiler|Lady Une finally waking from her coma}}, [[Gundamjack|commandeering the Wing Gundam]], and making it up to space ''just in time to make a [[Diving Save]]''.
*** And props to Wing Gundam for {{spoiler|SURVIVING A SUPERLASER TO THE FACE. Sure, it totaled the mech, but props the designers for pilot safety. Seriously
* [[Action Girl]] Lucrezia Noin gets a more subtle one right after Heero [[Spanner in the Works|pwns OZ]] by [[Take a Third Option|blowing himself and his Gundam up rather than surrender]]. When Lady Une is ''very'' pissed off and about to send OZ to attack the colonies anyway, Noin remarks on that. Une is about to [[Armor-Piercing Slap|bitchslap her]] into submission (which she did earlier in the episode, when Noin openly [[What the Hell, Hero?|called her out on the plan]]), but Noin calmly blocks her slap and says "You certainly should be more graceful, ''Lady Une''". [[This Troper]] was literally ''squealing'' for Noin right then, and still does whenever she watches the scene.
* Trowa uses the traveling circus act as a disguise to hide his Gundam, and reveals it during the show at a military base. Where he proceeds to destroy everything. Just as he is about to commit suicide with his [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]], his sister [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|slaps him out of it
* Watching Mooks scream out [[Oh Crap|"IT'S A GUNDAM!!"]] is both awesome and funny at the same time. The most notable example is the Deathscythe Hell's first battle where it proceeds to scare an OZ pilot shitless before wreaking havoc on all the others.
{{quote|"The God of Death is back from Hell!"}}
* Lady Une freeing the Gundam pilots as well as her final speech have to count.
* Lady Une pulls an Awesome moment early in the series.
* For for a OZ pilot, Walker managed to pull one off. After providing Zechs with Tallgeese, Walker goes into battle to buy him some time and gather data on the Gundams. He manages to save an Alliance general, and surround Heavyarms with his troops. However,
* Episode 49, the series finale: when Heero {{spoiler|fires his BFG at the giant space fortress hurtling towards earth as he begins to burn in the upper atmosphere while yelling "I will... I will... I will survive!". Not to mention when he appears moments later flying away from the massive blast in his jet mode in ultra dramatic style}}. This is amazingly awesome because of the fact he pretty much '''screams''' it (at least in Japanese); this is coming from a guy who has [[The Stoic|never raised his voice prior]]. To top it off, for the majority of the show he didn't care whether he lived or died as long as his mission was completed. Watching that scene was so... [[Squee]].
* From ''Endless Waltz'':
** Heero having finally arrived, with Wing Zero, at the compound where Relena and Mariemaia are:
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'''Heero:''' I'm asking if your shelter is shielded.<br />
'''Mariemaia:''' [[Tempting Fate|Of course! See for yourself just how powerless you are!]]<br />
'''Heero:''' Roger that. (fires [[BFG]]
'''All the Bad Guys: '''[[Oh Crap|...!]]
** Relena intercepting Lady Une's [[Armor-Piercing Slap]] for Mariemaia and delivering one herself.
** A retroactive moment for Trieze; even after he has been dead a full year, just sharing his name is almost enough to allow Mariemaia and Dekim Barton to conquer the world. The only reason it doesn't work is because Trieze's soldiers are so loyal to his vision that when Dekim oversteps that vision they kill him. How many characters can claim to nearly take over the world from '''beyond the grave'''?
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