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== Straw Hat Pirates ==

* Luffy's sole reason for becoming a Pirate, going after One Piece and becoming the Pirate King: Because it would be an interesting adventure, and that the Pirate King has the most freedom in the sea. Heck, even when Rayleigh offers to tell the crew where the One Piece is, Luffy loudly declines and says he'll quit being a pirate if he knows where it is. Why?

{{quote|'''Luffy''': I don't want to go on a boring adventure like that!}}

* Chapter 670, Luffy continues to show off his Haki skills by effortlessly grabbing Smoker's arm and pinning him to the ground, the same way Smoker stopped him waaaay back in Loguetown. Granted, {{spoiler|Law's ability switched Smoker and Tashigi's bodies, and he was really fighting Tashigi. But it shows growth.}}

 

* That whole part where he fights {{spoiler|Kuma}}. Especially the part where he {{spoiler|takes all of Luffy's pain into his body}}. Pure unfiltered awesome.

*** That was so much pain, it inverted the colors of the show.

** And in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-juFkb2tME anime]. I don't care what else is on the list: this one not only wins for Zoro, but quite possibly the entire series.

* This troper thought Zoro got his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] ''much'' earlier, when fighting Buggy the Clown's second mate. After ''cutting open his own wound'' to show what a [[Badass]] he is, he gets kicked around a bit by Cabaji. Finally, he complains that he's tired, knocks Cabaji off his unicycle, and, when Cabaji rushes him, Zoro takes him down with one strike. Keep in mind that this is Zoro's ''second fight scene''.

* Luffy and Zoro have a chance to be awesome without beating anyone up on Jaya Island. In fact, it's awesome specifically ''because'' they didn't beat anyone up while taking ridicule from Bellamy and the rest of the bar. I'm sure I'm not the only one that was reminded of Shanks during this scene.

* How has this gone on so long with no one changing it? What about the time, in Whiskey Peak, where Zoro takes on the entire town by himself. Only to then have to fight Luffy.

** Then, when against Ohm, Zoro does the three-style sword Phoenix Slash, ''right through a wall'' and hitting Ohm, despite not knowing where Ohm was.

* While out sword shopping Zoro is about to make a purchase, but is warned by the shopkeeper that that particular sword is cursed to give its owner bad luck. Zoro proceeds to test out this curse in an awesome fashion by throwing it up into the air and seeing if it will come down on his arm blade-first. {{spoiler|It doesn't.}} That's right, when Zoro goes sword shopping, he doesn't fuck around.

** While a semi-conscious Zoro was tossed in the air, Hatchan began spinning his six swords like windmill, so that when Zoro fell back down, he would be sliced mercilessly by the rapidly spinning blades. For a minute, it looked too late for Zoro to dodge them. Only for him to land safely to the ground, ''as he cut up Hatchan's hands in midair'', spinning his body so that it matched the rotation of Hatchan's swords.

*** Zoro reminded Hatchan when they met again right before Sabaody that he wasn't able to touch him in their previous fight.

* Tossing an ENTIRE BUILDING off of himself in Alabasta. Keep in mind he is a normal human with no special power other than raw badassery.

* What about him and Luffy cutting and punching through a ''tidal wave'' through sheer determination?

** [[Fridge Brilliance]] sets in when you realize {{spoiler|it's this feat that made [[Canon Immigrant|Ryuuma]], who's sort of like a prototype of him, legendary}}.

* Chapter 669: Zoro cuts a mountaintop in half with one hand, effortlesly, while half asslep.

* Sanji's cooking deserves a mention here. After all, it managed to hunger an '''''ENORMOUS''''' sea cow-monster to a crazed state from '''''SEVERAL MILES AWAY''''' and send said sea monster into a high speed pursuit after the Straw Hat's replacement ship (see episode 31).

* Kicking Fullbody's ass and then delivering a couplet "Offending a chef at sea, is one mistake you should never make. Especially when that chef is me, Sanji."

* 646: {{spoiler|Just by remembering his two years in Hell, Sanji can heat up enough to set Wadatsumi aflame just with a kick.}}

 

* Usopp in Thriller Bark. Four words: "I am already negative!"

** And then he tops that later in the fight ''by being a coward'': {{spoiler|"Somebody save me! Save me...SOGEKING!!!"}}

* In 661, Usopp manages to keep ''BOTH'' Luffy and Robin afloat in ''freezing'' water while Zoro goes to work on a group of sharks.

 

* Nami's taken down her share of bad guys, but certainly her most stylish moment was leaving her villiage...and stealing everyone's wallets in the process.

** Nami's true crowning moment of awesome comes when she navigates the Going Merry UP a Knock Up Stream, which is capable of tearing up small islands. Anyone can kick ass, but only Nami can predict weather on the Grand Line and sail a ship onto a sky island.

** And in 640 she takes down even more people with what seems to be a {{spoiler|thundercloud melee weapon!}}

 

* Why is there no love for Chopper here? Seriously? Examples of his awesome include defeating two of Wapol's top men in 3 minutes, finding a GIGANTIC crab and piloting it for a getaway vehicle, and almost getting himself killed to get a plant he thought would save lives.

** Two Words: Monster Chopper.

* 645: {{spoiler|Chopper can now control Monster Point}}

 

* Nico Robin gets hers when she uses her power to put Frankys "treasure" in a vice grip.

** This troper found Robin's steadfast ''refusal'' to go through the gates of justice, including holding onto a wall ''with her teeth'' and then having to be dragged along to be even more awesome then any time she fought.

* Robin takes [[Curb Stomp Battle]] to a literal extreme in 635. {{spoiler|She uses her powers to create ''gigantic'' legs to stomp (it's actually the name of the attack) her opponents into the ground.}}

 

* As for Franky it comes when he tries to stop a train and then rebuilds himself into a cyborg.

** Later he takes an iron bar to the head without flinching and the bar bends to the shape of his head.

* In chapter 646 Franky reveals his ultimate weapon. {{spoiler|A frikken LASER BEAM!}}

 

* During the [[Big Boo's Haunt|Thriller Bark arc,]] two of the Straw Hats had been cornered by a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|giant zombie monkey spider]] which, like the other zombies, had no known weakness. Cue a [[Crowning Music of Awesome|quaint little song]] being sung from the unseen rafters, and suddenly the abomination is ''[[Oh Crap|freaking out;]]'' turns out, he remembers this song. The music stops, Brook attacks, and as he's walking away his [[Diagonal Cut]] kicks in and the enemy [[Incredibly Lame Pun|gives up the ghost.]] Brook wouldn't have batted an eyelash... [[I Would Say If I Could Say|even if he had any left.]] Ladies and gentlemen, [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|the musician has arrived.]]

* Another for Brook is his zombie's fight with Zoro. Ryuuma's body may be stronger than Brooks and that Zoro was a sword down but still, Brook was a close match he might not be able to beat Kaku, but he would still hold his ground.

* What about when he saved Luffy's group from the centaur patrol on Punk Hazard by freezing the barrels of their guns, causing them to blow up.

 

* When the Strawhats fought Oars together. Highlights include: {{spoiler|Zoro using Franky's heavy nunchuks, Franky making a staircase mid-fight so he and Chopper can punch him in the face, Usopp's giant-sized Pheonix Star, Brook's electric arrow attack, and managing to pin him to the gourn with his own horns for a while, so they can all start wailing on him.}}

* A recent moment was claimed by the Thousand Sunny, the Straw Hats' ''ship''. Two words: [http://www.mangareader.net/103-2602-12/one-piece/chapter-495.html Gaon Cannon!] In Zoro's own words, it's a little [http://www.mangareader.net/103-2602-13/one-piece/chapter-495.html TOO awesome.]

* The Seven Warlords of the Sea nearly ''always'' do this. Mihawk's is when he slices the ''Dreadnaught Sabre'' in half without even touching it, Doflamingo's is when he commands Sarquiss to ([[Gory Discretion Shot|apparently]]) hack Bellamy's legs off, Kuma and Teach when they reveal their Devil Fruit powers, and, well, picking just one moment for Moria? Certainly impossible.

** Also, Mihawk attacking and giving chase to Don Krieg's massive crew of over 5,000, with his ''four inch knife'', '''just because they disturbed his nap.''' He also sails the seas alone in a little raft. The same seas that are frequently described as being chocfull of freaky weather, (200 foot tall or more waves,) extremely powerful individuals, and giant monsters. Mihawk has more awesome crammed into him than most powerful crews have put together.

* Rob Lucci cumulates this with his [[Moral Event Horizon]] when he kills a pirate crew and 500 hostages at only 13 years old.

** Incidentally, killing those 500 hostages was Lucci's way of ''resolving a hostage situation.''

* When it comes down to it, the entire Blackbeard Pirate Crew can be said to live, breathe, drink, and, in Teach's case, eat this trope. Whether it be sneaking into one of the most heavily defended buildings in the world (presumably after climbing the Redline to get there; alternatively, he may have {{spoiler|flown}}), throwing a two-story building at an opponent, shooting a target that's over the horizon, testing fate with exploding apples, or even just walking down the street, almost everything they have done to date falls under this trope.

** Blackbeard: "Ace, your body is fire, right? I am... darkness." Swiftly followed by sucking an entire town into a black hole, THEN blasting it back out, THEN defeating Ace despite having a sun essentially thrown at him. This troper firmly believes he'll be the final [[Big Bad]] of the series just from this.

* 603: {{spoiler|Kuma of all people gets one - he makes a deal with Vegapunk so that his human weapon body protects the Thousand Sunny untill The Straw hats get back. When Franky finally finds it, two years later, his body is completely wrecked and can barley function. What is Kuma's reply to this? 'Mission complete' - Cue slow limp away without a word, and the reveal that the Thousand Sunny is absolutley spotless.}}

* New Villain {{spoiler|Vander Decken IX}} gets one. {{spoiler|He's a fishman with a fruit ability... that involves throwing things accuratly at a target. His current target is the Mermaid Princess. So what does he go and do with this ability? Apart from throwing weapons at the love of his life, he allies with the other fishman villain of the arc, Hodi, who is basically Arlong 2.0, and then throws Hodi's strongarmed human pirate captives as human artillery to invade the Palace and open it from the inside.}}

* Chapter 650: {{spoiler|Aokiji, the only Admiral in the marines who exercised moral justice, fought against Akainu, arguably the strongest and most ruthless man in the Marines, for ten days. And when he lost, not wanting to be Sakazuki's underling, he LEFT THE MARINES.}}

** {{spoiler|Later on, we get to see the island where those two fought. Half of it is perpetually on fire, the other half frozen solid. Their battle was so intense it permanently altered the climate.}}

 

== Others ==

** And his underling, Inazuma, when he {{spoiler|uses the powers of the Choki-Choki Fruit to cut up the floor and manipulate it like cloth to block an oncoming wave of knockout gas}}.

* I think that we can safely say that the ''entire'' Impel Down Arc is made of Crowning Moments of Awesome, with {{spoiler|'''''MR. 3, OF ALL PEOPLE'''''}} getting one as well, when he {{spoiler|blocked Magellan's highly poisonous Hydra attack with his Candle Wall, despite being only a quick sprint away from complete freedom, urging Luffy and company to escape.}}

* This one isn't for a character, but for Toei's decision to take away [[4Kids! Entertainment|4Kids]]'s rights to dub the anime. And then gave those rights to [[FUNimation]], who pretty much [[Superlative Dubbing|revived the franchise in the US]] despite being [[Screwed by the Network|Screwed By The (Cartoon) Network]].

* Here's ten for Luffy, his greatest punches up to his first ''shown'' use of ''Third Gear'' called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zmKhx7hktQ Luffy's Greatest Hits]. Unfortunately, Youtube edited out the soundtrack...

** {{spoiler|He cut out Smoker's heart. Smoker is a Logia with Haki, and Law cut his heart out. Damn.}}

* Vice-Admiral Jonathan Drake. Despite being the main antagonist of a Filler Arc, he proves himself to be a [[Badass]]. How? He nearly captures all the Stawhat Pirates ''without fighting once.'' Just using careful deduction and being an overall [[Chessmaster]], he figures out where each pirate is. Even better, Sanji notes that no one can be ''that'' relaxed without having a few tricks up his sleeve. This is before we learn that {{spoiler|Haki is required to become a Vice-Admiral}}. When standing face-to-face to Luffy, he cares more about trying to figure out why the hell they'd come to his base and the endless puzzle that is what they had to gain for the Alabasta incident. And finally, when is said and done, he merely notes that, dispite losing, it gave the men something to do. He isn't even that upset when he lost. ''Awesome.'' He probably would have captures them if [[Smug Snake]] Commandeer Shepherd didn't get involved.

 

== The Marineford Arc ==

** Doflamingo? That's not the crown of badassery, considering that Doflamingo's power comes from his manipulation ability. The way he dinks away Mihawk's BFS with his hook handed arm because he notices that Mr. 1 is"taking a nap" and because he's not in the best mood because he is disappointed that Whitebeard isn't STRONG enough, and then goes to only become important when needed, such as {{spoiler|saving Luffy and stopping Akainu}} for pretty much no reason except that that Impel Down prison place was getting pretty boring.

* What no CMOAs for the latest chapter? It's a huge [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for the World Government... and Luffy. {{spoiler|Marco is defeated by Kizaru after a vice admiral puts seastone cuffs on him and Kizaru fires straight through him. Jozu is frozen solid. Whitebeard is on his deathbed impaled by several vice admirals and marines while his commanders and the pirates are getting cut down all around him. Coby and Luffy fight and Luffy one-shots Coby like it's nothing. Finally the biggest [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in the chapter, Ace is seconds away from being executed when Luffy screams out with his king's haki knocking out hundreds of marines and stopping them from beheading Ace.}}

* The latest chapter is a huge [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. {{spoiler|Luffy defeats Garp (though Garp actually threw the fight), Luffy tries to free Ace, Sengoku attacks Luffy whilst turning into a giant Buddha that effortlessly beat Gear 3 Luffy, destroying the platform. Luffy is then rescued by a now freed Ace!}}

** And that would have been impossible without {{spoiler|Mr. 3. Yeah, the wimpy [[Smug Snake]] actually disguised himself as one of the execution soldiers and crafted the key to Ace's cuffs. And then his Candle Wall managed to absorb the blow of Sengoku's Buddha punch. And why is he doing all this? To repay Mr. 2!}}

* And now, a cross between [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] and [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when we're shown the crew's (sometimes tearful) realization of their own lack of strength. Usopp puts it best {{spoiler|when he says that he's always thought somewhere inside that Luffy was powerful enough that he could just sit back and watch him just become Pirate King}}. And then watching their conviction and dedication to becoming stronger so that they can help Luffy as well. It brings a happy tear to this troper's eyes.

 

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