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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''':

 

 

 

* ''[[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:

*** For Meia, [[The Stoic]], the [[Heartwarming Moments]]. Anime are more memorable than any amount of badassery she performed.

*** Dita's [[Rousing Speech]] to a dejected crew in the season one finale.

*** Hibiki has plenty of these, but when he {{spoiler|says Dita's name just before the end credits}} in the final episode, he manage to top everything else he did during the entire series.

*** What, no love for the Paksis? This ''is'' the thing that {{spoiler|obliterated a superweapon about to blow up the galaxy, when everyone else was powerless to stop it, just because it wanted to protect its friends.}}

* Maya Toumi spends the first two thirds of the series on the sidelines before getting to pilot. When she ''does'', she gets put as a backup, and when she goes into battle for the first time, the rest of the cast is worried about protecting her. In said battle, things start going south when a Festum starts assimilating Sakura - the rest of the cast tries to stop it to no avail... until Maya arrives and nails it with a perfect sniper shot into its weak point. The remaining Festum tries to dive down on Maya from above, and she easily shoots that one down as well. Those at [[Mission Control]] are left in awe.

* Soushi in the final episode:

 

== [[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}}

* A moment towards the end of ''The Prince Of Darkness'' comes to mind, when Ryoko and her squad, plus Saburota, are beating the hell out of Hokuten's elite troops, guys who even gave the Black Selena problems. With Hikaru and Izumi ribbing Ryoko about her love live ([[You Need to Get Laid|or lack thereof]]) the whole time. Ryoko yells at the two of them to take the battle seriously, so they do: Less than a second later, Hokuten's squad is ''demolished''.

* The whole last fight between Akito and Hokuten also count. While all those girl fighting the Hokuten's elite troop, Akito and Hokuten mech stand silently. Face to face. Akito spend minute gathering a rage from what happen {{spoiler|to him and Yurika.}} They charge with each other with all their might. Akito end the fight swiftly by by punch DIRECTLY AT HOKUTEN'S COCKPIT crushing his opponent Kamille Bidan style. After that, the Black Serena armor(Akito's mech) fall out, revealing his old Astevaris unit inside. Their eyes were soaking by an oil like it was crying for the revenge. That moment make this troper(who happen watch the movie before the anime) shed his tears.

 

* The first season had the brutal and very satisfying conclusion to the fight with Big Duo. Roger, after and episode of being beaten up by the damn thing, ''drop kicks'' Big Duo into a crater, ''surfboards'' it's body to the bottom, ''piledrives'' it's head off, and rips it's chest cavity clean off with the camera angles capturing the brutality perfectly.[[Nietzsche Wannabe|Schwartzvald]] only makes it better with his [[Oh Crap]] reaction in the beginning, and is literally crying by the finale, which, considering he was a gloating, cocky bastard up to that point, is total karmaic justice.

* Pretty much every second of "The Greatest Villain" is a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for either R. Dorothy Wayneright or Jason Beck.

== [[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.

 

== [[Giant Robo]] ==

* Shockwave Alberto [[Big Damn Villains|jumps out of Giant Robo]] before it's engulfed by the Eye of Voglers's energy blast and deflects it with a shockwave. After giving a badass speech and lighting his cigar ''on the energy blast'' he absorbs all of the Eye of Vogler's energy, causing its shields to drop and the machine to collapse.

* Nearly every living Expert of Justice gets one as they help Daisaku charge to Giant Robo.

* In episode 22, {{spoiler|After Benkei decides to turn against our heroes, Tsutsuji (who was implied to have been blown out of the colony during their trip to the sun) reappears, ''kicks'' him (activating his chainsaw in Xanthippe's face), and verbally browbeats Benkei into staying on the heroes' side. Who knew henpecking could be awesome?}}

** Also, {{spoiler|Takane gets another [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment.}}

 

== Other ==

** Dragonar also featured a scene in which the three main characters, using "borrowed" mecha, grab an enemy unit, carry it high into the air, fly toward the ground at top speed, and send the enemy unit flying ''straight into the ground'', letting go only a few feet above the terrain below.

* The premiere of the Mugen Punch in ''[[Genesis of Aquarion]]'', knocking the Shadow Angel ''into the moon!''

* In the final battle of ''[[Aura Battler Dunbine]]'', {{spoiler|Elle, one of the leaders of the protagonists and a powerful psychic, tries to mentally disable one of [[The Rival|Bern Bernings]]'s ultimate attacks. She succeeds, but in retaliation Bern launches his own mental attack, despite having shown NO psychic ability before, to not only kill her, but tear off her clothes and flail her body around like a puppet in the process. Not to mention he was fighting in a mecha far away from Elle's flagship at the time.}}

** [[Justice Gundam|This troper]]'s favorite moment was {{spoiler|when Shou faced the incredibly huge and powerful Leprechaun piloted by the show's [[Psycho for Hire]], and finally destroyed it, getting everybody rid of Jerrill's worthless existence, with one telling blow. The Hyper Leprechaun [[Nigh Invulnerable|seemed to be invincible]], but he did it nonetheless.}}

* A mention must also be given to ''Combat Mecha [[Xabungle]]'' and it's infamous [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vVauhgm06k ICBM catch].

** He actually preceded it... When [[Ms. Fanservice|Mizuki]] has been dominating a ping pong match with [[Mauve Shirt|Alex]]... there comes Sandman challenging them, with just Leele as his assistant... except she's just there for formalities of a match. Sandman then goes on to completely beat them with perfect score... while [[Calling Your Attacks|calling out attack names of his strikes]]... using SANDALS. That episode certainly shows that even without mecha, {{spoiler|he gets one soon, though}}, Sandman is ''beyond'' awesome.

* ''[[Kannazuki no Miko]]'', especially on Chikane Himemiya. After in the early episodes serving as a [[MacGuffin]] character, she betrayed Himeko, kicks the curb out of Souma; who practically has done all the fighting by himself, corrupts his mecha, took it to the enemy home base, and even without her mecha, she wipes out the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] on foot by herself (except the said squad's leader, but he still loses). And after the end, it's later revealed that it's all just a [[Plan]] due to her reasoning of [[I Want My Beloved to Be Happy]].

** 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''?

** {{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.}}

* In ''[[Zone of the Enders]] Dolores, I'', when [[Badass Family|the Link ]] arrived at Earth Orbital Elevator, the situation had turned grim, while the officer in charge can't do anything since he didn't get any order. [[Action Mom|Rachel]] explains the situation, that they had to give up most elevator structure to preserve it. While the officer still in doubt, (well, it is a several million dollar infrastructure being sacrificed in process) they decide to take matters into their hands: {{spoiler|[[In Its Hours Of Need|They wrestle their control from said officer]], who can't do or say shit.}} Then, Rachel gives her speech:

** Needless to say, all the officers choose to stay behind.

* In ''[[Basquash]]'', we have the last scene of Episode Seven. To describe it without giving anything away, let's just say This Troper hasn't been this pumped after a mecha series scene since Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. It's just that epic.

** To describe it more thoroughly, {{spoiler|the previous episode and a half had been focusing on [[Magnificent Bastard]] James Lowe's plan to sterilize Street Bigfoot Basketball with rules, referees and lines. To make matters worse, when the fan response is a little less than lukewarm, his only notion is wanting to train them to accept and like these new rules. Cue Sela and Haruka's plan to start disrupting things by distributing scandalous pics of themselves... followed promptly by Dunk Mask, previously in a funk being torn over joining this new league to get the money he needs to make it to the moon and cure his sister and playing the game that fulfills him, showing up to completely disrupt the farce. CUE OPENING THEME AND FOUR MINUTES OF BASQUASH AT ITS ABSOLUTE FINEST. It concludes with Dunk Mask heaving a basketball filled with the diamonds offered to him by Lowe in the most outrageous rebound pattern barrage yet, bouncing every which way until it shatters the glass office that Lowe is watching from. '''KICK. ASS.'''}}

** {{spoiler|James recently had his own [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] and [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] ''at the same time''. After Dunk Mask gets arrested and thrown into jail (again), James realizes that he is unable to get Dan out of prison through official channels. Everyone, even those who know him well, think he's running out of ideas. What does he do? He DRESSES UP AS A HILARIOUSLY COSTUMED SUPERHERO NAMED "MISTER PERFECT" AND BUSTS JD OUT WITH A ROCKET LAUNCHER that's what he does! ''Awesome.''}}

* "My name is NOT {{spoiler|Barius}}! [[Dangaioh|I... I'M PAI THUNDER!]] AND {{spoiler|YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER!}}"

{{spoiler|Kunugi: "And ''I'' say that a God that man can percieve isn't really a God!" <gunshot>}} }}

 

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