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Because [[Humongous Mecha]] are [[Rule of Cool|awesome all by themselves]], we had to split up the anime section of "Awesome Moments" just for them. [[Megas XLR|Chicks dig giant robots]], you know.

 

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'''Examples''':

** [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00/Awesome|Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]

** [[Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn/Awesome|Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn]]

* [[Gun X Sword/Awesome|Gun X Sword]]

* [[Kotetsu Jeeg/Awesome|Kotetsu Jeeg]]

* [[Mazinger Z/Awesome|Mazinger Z]]

** [[Great Mazinger/Awesome|Great Mazinger]]

* [[Megas XLR/Awesome|Megas XLR]]

* [[Neon Genesis Evangelion/Awesome|Neon Genesis Evangelion]]

* [[Super Dimension Fortress Macross/Awesome|Super Dimension Fortress Macross]]

* [[Super Robot Wars/Awesome|Super Robot Wars]]

* [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann/Awesome|Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]

* [[Transformers/Awesome|Transformers]]

 

 

* ''[[Vandread]]'' has numerous moments like this, but because of the show's focus on [[Combining Mecha]] and [[The Power of Friendship]], many of them are shared between several people.

** Solo moments:

* Soushi in the final episode:

{{quote|"That, Festum, is '''pain!''' Would you like to know the name of the tactic I showed you? It's the ''War Of Attrition!'' The tactic of ''enduring pain!''"}}

 

== [[Heroic Age]] ==

* Age and [[Kaiju|Bellcross]] get one at the end of the first episode, by ''jumping'' into ''orbit'' to attack the Bronze hive ship.

* Talking about the black hole weapon, during the epic battle between four of the five Nodos (which played out, iirc, over the course of ''three'' episodes), Bellcross' punch proves ineffective against a supercharged black hole, which begins to pull him in, along with several asteroids and a small moon. So, a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moment]] for Cerbius? {{spoiler|No - for Artemia and especially its ''alter ego'' Mehitak. Artemia coolly flies in and ''simply pulls Bellcross out''. Which, considering Artemia's weakness against ''gravity based weapons'' and Mehitak's only recent emergence from a [[Heroic BSOD]], is pretty special indeed}}.

* Or how about when Bellcross kicks Lernaea ''through a freaking moon?''

== [[Martian Successor Nadesico]] ==

* Ruri skirts this a lot, but she about tops herself for good when she wrests control of the ''Nadesico'''s computer from Nergal, then proceeds to hack into United Earth Forces network and lock down the entire base, trapping everyone inside, appearing on all their security screens in a silly-looking cat costume and apologizing in advance ("Please keep quiet for a short while") for good measure.

** But you can watch how it would have gone in some of the Nadesico-featuring [[Super Robot Wars]] games.

* Ryoko Subaru gets one in her first appearance by doing an [[Out of the Inferno]] moment, whilst towing three mechs, tied together with a white bow so that the Nadesico know that she's friendly. The fact that she does this despite not knowing if the rest of her [[Amazon Brigade]] are alive or dead... {{spoiler|they're alive}}

== [[Bubblegum Crisis]] ==

* Largo's confrontation with Quincy in episode 6, where he demonstrates what he can do with the [[Kill Sat|satellites]]. Quincy finally realizes Largo isn't human:

'''LARGO''': Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Largo. I am the maker of the new world. }}

* Also, the introduction of Priss' new Motoslave, where, shortly after Largo's hyperboomers destroyed the old one, pays them back in full by taking two of them out ''all by itself'' before Priss even gets ''into'' it.

** I'd also like to mention Waku's fight early in the series. He ''tears a robot in half with his robot's '''knee'''.''

** What about {{spoiler|Kirie}} basically driving his first opponent to suicide ''with words alone''?

** There's also the beginning of {{spoiler|Mako}}'s fight in the manga, where right before piloting Zearth she {{spoiler|absolutely owns the [[Alpha Bitch]] that harrasses her by first pulling her and her boyfriend into Zearth's cockpit ''when they're naked'' ([[Caught with Your Pants Down|they were in a love hotel]]), then slapping her and giving her a [[What the Hell, Hero?]] speech before she sends both kids to definitive safety. At the end of the chapter, the [[Alpha Bitch]] has reformed and is cleaning up the classroom, like Mako always did.}}

** {{spoiler|Anko}}'s battle in the manga, where {{spoiler|she gets her legs ''burned off'' by acid [[Plucky Girl|but keeps going on]], wins her fight, and ultimately gives a [[Rousing Speech]] to Earth before passing away in her father's arms.}}

* Strange as it may seem [[Mayoi Neko Overrun]] has something that belongs in this section; episode 7, ''The Stray Cats Rode'', it is an episode that amounts to an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the [[GaoGaiGar|Braves series]], complete with a new ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYx0e3cQC44 Opening Theme]'' by Yoshiki Fukuyama of [[JAM Project]], that even follows [http://fudoushin.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/rules.jpg the Rules of Super Robot Anime], [[Beyond the Impossible|right down to]] the [[Megas XLR]] ones.

 

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