Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind/Awesome

The Ohmu's Dream, which is also a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming. Nausicaa's final choice at the end of the manga is the Crowning Moment that the entire story had been building up to.
Nausicaa had several Moments Of Awesome, from when she slaughtered a room full of men after find they had killed her father to jumping straight into a poisonous forest filled with dangerous animals and poisonous spores without her protective mask to flying right into, and taking out, two guardsman to hijack a flying machine and rescue a baby Ohmu even though she was shot in the side to charging alone against an entire enemy cavalry and stopping them by confusing their beasts with a "buzzer" projectile. For being The Messiah, Nausicaa was pretty damn badass.