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* 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?

** You can't leave that out, while on his adventure to become the Pirate King, he will gladly die in the process, because if he dies on the way he died for what he lived for. He himself states this from the very first episode on.

* During the Thriller Bark Arc, when the Rolling Pirates give him his first shadow power-up (episode 370), they ask him "Can you use a sword?" He replies "No, not one bit." Then they toss a sword towards him, he catches it and then slashes an entire tree to splinters so quickly we can't even see it. Also counts as a CMOF when he realizes what just happened.

** Additional Words: "Nami! You'll always be [[True Companions|my friend]]!"

** It's easy to overlook, but notice when they first enter Nami's room: Luffy grabbing Arlong's sword and Arlong finding it impossible to move. It's the first time Luffy's been truly ''angry''. And it makes him [[Hulk Out|terribly strong]].

** Trashing the map room Nami had been held prisoner in for most of her life as a slave mapmaker, and then finishing off Arlong by literally curb-stomping him so hard that he ''put Arlong through '''five stories of floors''''', from the top to the bottom of Arlong Park. ''Then'' [[Humiliation Conga|it collapsed on top of him]].

** The thing that really sold me on that walk, before the fight started, was the two Pirate Hunters refusing to let anyone in Arlong Park. "We're waiting for those guys. Those guys will change the future."

** You forgot the Lapahns. And avalanches. And saving a little lapahn from an avalanche. And that the 'mountain' was a literal pillar hundreds of feet high with no hand holds, and completely smoothed by gale force winds. Oh, did I mention he is frostbitten to the point where his muscles were freezing? Not that wussy 'frost-bite' frozen, but frozen to the point of actually cracking apart.

** Then taking a direct hit from a mortar shell defending Dr. Hiriluk's jolly roger from Wapol. Cue "Luffy Gets Angry" mode.

** And his recruitment of Chopper. He doesn't care that Chopper is different. Very few times will you find a moment that is Awesome, Funny, Heartwarming AND a Tear Jerker at the same time.

* The final defeat of Sir Crocodile. He is punched through the solid stone roof of an underground chamber so hard an entire city block above him basically explodes. In the anime this happens while Dvorak's [[Crowning Music of Awesome|Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" 4th movement]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gESjBdyvq4A plays.] The recap movie changes the exploding city block to Crocodile being propelled vertically through a massive tower and rocketing out the top.

** Speaking of the Enies Lobby arc, Luffy has a great [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when he {{spoiler|storms the Marine headquarters and proceeds to beat down hundreds upon hundreds of guards by himself. ''With his bare hands.'' And it is stated that of all the guards taken down, Luffy took down at least ''one thousand'' of them.}}

*** Furthermore, {{spoiler|at least 500 of them were taken down in ''five minutes.''}}

'''Luffy:''' Yeah... and I'm alone. Now step aside!!!! }}

** "ROBIN! SAY YOU WANT TO LIVE!"

** Even more [[Badass]] on TV. Luffy punches the Pacifista so hard, ''he makes a crater under it!''

* After seeing Luffy get the crap kicked out of him by Foxy, it was ''very'' satisfying to see him turn the fight around in one punch.

* A combined [[Crowning Moment Of Awesome/C Mo F|C Mo F]] for Luffy in the Enies Lobby arc. Luffy approaches the Marines standing outside the gates to Enies Lobby. The Marines ready their weapons and prepare to stop him... then Luffy ''stops'', '''bows his head''' and '''''asks them politely to let him in'''''. The Marines are actually stunned. Then they tell him that asking politely won't work... and what Luffy does next probably made them wish they had just let him in when he asked.

* ELEPHANT GUN. {{spoiler|An armament Haki-infused Gear 3rd technique that Luffy uses to knock out a ''Kraken''.}}

* We all knew it was coming, but after {{spoiler|Hody gloats about his evil schemes, poised to slice off King Neptune's head, Luffy exits from Megalo's mouth and gives Hody a Gear 2nd kick right in the solar plexus.}}

** And after that, the citizens of Fishman Island are confused as to where the Straw Hats' allegiance lie. Luffy simply answers:

* {{spoiler|Then Hody tries to send his army of 100,000 men at Luffy's mere crew of ten... and Luffy drops ''50,000'' of them with one burst of Haki.}}

** Made all the more awesome by Zoro's reaction: "That's what I expect from a guy who calls himself my Captain."

* During the conclusion of the Little Garden arc, Mr. 5 (a bomb-man) is about to kill Usopp by detonating his entire body. Suddenly, Zoro leaps out, and defeats Mr. 5 with one attack. ''[[Incendiary Exponent|While on fire]]''.

** And right before that, when he was still trapped, he actually started to CUT HIS OWN FEET OFF to escape.

'''Zoro''': "You've got it wrong, I was cutting off my feet so I could fight them, not escape." }}

** On top of that, while waiting for Luffy to come and free them from the wax, Zoro poses with his sword. Nami asks what is he doing and he replies with ''"In case we become candles, I have a nice pose."''

* His speech to a crying Chopper during the Davy Jones Games, being the only one who didn't panic about Chopper being taken by Foxy, also deserves a mention here.

* Then, his team-up with Sanji in the Groggy Ring. Despite the two of them initially bickering and arguing, they made one fine team at the end, beating the Groggy Monsters.

* 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.

* His whole fight with Ryuuma was undeniably amazing. From exchanging cuts and slashes that completely destroying the room they were in, to fighting up on top of the tower and finishing it with an aerial fight.

** The best part of this fight was this quote from Ryuuma just before the destruction began:

** - This guy, an undead samurai with Brook's entire moveset and an excellent sword, was ''scared'' of Zoro!

** And directly beforehand, when they first met face to face, and Zoro smugly announces that he's going to defeat Ryuuma and take his sword. Brook actually ''faints'' from his coolness!

* {{spoiler|Zoro taking the entire Ryugu Palace hostages, and improvisation upon the situation. And being completely non-chalent about it. To one of the three princes.}}

* His [[Badass Boast]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn5VGu11Was when asked what he could possibly do against] [[Jerkass God|Eneru]]:

* Chapter 617 {{spoiler|Yes, he has just took on Hody Jones, a ''Great White Shark Fishman'' with enough brute strength to crush down a whole wall with his grip. What's so special you ask? He's fighting [[Underwater Boss Battle|underwater]], where Hody's strength is ''ten times stronger''.}}

** {{spoiler|Even better, in Chapter 618, Zoro [[Curb Stomp Battle|totally owns Hody Jones]]. ''Underwater.'' '''With one slash'''.}}

** {{spoiler|And the damage caused by that one slash was so severe that Hody has been OD'ing on Energy Steroids just to keep standing.}}

* 635 {{spoiler|He creates a tornado of blades that one mook likens to a reaper's scythe. When asked how long the tornado will continue to chase them, this is his response..}}

* In chapter 642, {{spoiler|Zoro cuts Hyouzou's swords in half. ''Lengthwise''}}.

** And in chapter 646 {{spoiler|He procedes to one-shot the deadly poisonous merman, with but what looks to be a variation of a simple move, while quoting a line from his battle with Mihawk. (thats what the whole frog thing was about)}}

** Lets not forget that during that fight it took two shots from {{spoiler|Luffy}} to bring him down, and both were pretty devastating blows, ''plus'' Usopp got the crap beaten out of him already earlier that day.

* Ahem, Usopp cheering Luffy on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO-7tDtXZO0 folks.]

* No one's mentioned the Little Garden arc? It's not the most substantial arc in the world, but it's Usopp, and not Luffy, that ends up being the hero. Luffy's kick to Mr. 3's spinning candle of doom only managed to make things WORSE, in that it caused the wax to coat Zoro, Nami, and Vivi that much quicker. Not only this, but he also got himself snared by Miss Goldenweek's painting. Usopp, on the other hand, was the one who managed to exploit the wax's weakness by setting the whole thing on fire.

* "RUBBERBAND OF DOOOOOM!"

* 636: Apparently Usopp's arsenal of Pop Greens include {{spoiler|bamboo plants that grow fast enough to stab/impale enemies, and in a recent chapter, we have EXPLODING SKULL GRASS.}}.

* 643: Usopp's fighting {{spoiler|against Daruma, with what seems like no effect, until he suddenly says: "I've just finished laying out my trap. 1...2...3... In three moves you will be sniped by me. IT'S OVER!"}} [[Bad Liar|When he gets called out]] on this he replies with this [[Badass Boast|truely magnificent reply.]]

* And in chapter 646, he makes good on his claim.

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

*** Someone [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI0ERM55p8E put an awesome video on youtube]

** Let's not forget his fight against Gedatsu. Combination [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] and [[Took a Level In Badass|badass level up]].

** Water 7 has him {{spoiler|saving Nami from falling rubble AND bursting out of the building as it burned with 2 more rescues, not including a mouse.}}

* {{spoiler|Chopper protects the Thousand Sunny from a Kraken attack with his Guard Point form!}}

* 636: {{spoiler|Chopper reveals that all but one of his seven transformations can be activated without a Rumble Ball. He's also able to go after [[Tunnel King]] Daruma on even footing.}}

** This [[Badass Boast]] in the same chapter:

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

 

* In chapter 643, Brook reveals the true power of the Yomi Yomi Fruit, {{spoiler|the power to be effectively immortal by manipulating the energy of the soul and also channel the cold of the underworld through his body and sword. Talk about [[Creepy Awesome]].}}

* This [[Badass Boast]] in 645, when the ark Noah is threatening to crush the entire island:

* After {{spoiler|Zeo}} brags about his [[Instant Death Radius]], Brook [[You Are Already Dead|does his thing.]]

** Leading up to that, when Zeo was making light of death, [[Berserk Button|Brook gets]] ''[[Berserk Button|pissed]],'' and responds by absolutely ''owning'' Zeo. Thus leading up to the above CMOA.

* This troper believes that the first ship, Going Merry, deserves a mention as well. Turning up in time to rescue them from Enies Lobby {{spoiler|which was about to be pounded out of existence by cannon fire}} guided only by the spirit of the ship and despite having a keel that had snapped in half. {{spoiler|Then of course we get one of the biggest [[Tear Jerker|tearjerkers]] in the series.}}

* Let's not forget the tenth movie ''Strong World'' or more specifically {{spoiler|the scene when the Strawhats sans Nami crash Shiki's meeting with the pirate captains ([[Badass in a Nice Suit|all in dress clothes, mind you]]) with their guns over their shoulders.}}

* Straw Hats start firing* }}

* Chapter 633. The crew and the ship get {{spoiler|a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment. Franky flies the ship and lands it right in the middle of the square, using the Gaon Cannon to break up the assembled New Fishman Pirates. Luffy is regurgitated by Megalo and takes out Hody. Nami literally appears out of nowhere, having stolen back the letter the queen worked so hard to get, Robin frees all the prisoners and Neptune's whale takes them to safety, which is all topped off by the entire crew (Zoro and co have freed themselves) lined up and ready to kick ass}}. Beatdowns will ensue.

* Chapter 646 can be seen as a single huge moment of awesome composed by the many, above-mentioned moments that merge in a gargantuan one. Is also the chapter with the greatest number of double pages in a row so far.

* YMMV, Chapter 654: In the last two pages, we have this. Straw Hats surfacing into the New World.

'''Luffy:''' '''PERFECT!!!!''' }}

** Really, the best part about this exchange is that most of them are ''smiling'' when they say this.

** [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Made even better when said boss shows up,]] [[One-Hit Kill|and after one-shotting Blackbeard's entire crew,]] also [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|commends his right hand man for lasting this long, proclaiming that there's no one else who could take his place as chief]].

*** Also made better by how it's a ''villain'' taking a brutal beatdown from a hero and getting back up again. You could easily see this scene being repeated with {{spoiler|Luffy}} being the one getting pounded into mush.

* 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.

== Others ==

* Coby's first [[Moment of Awesome]], which occurred in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VevU-adiou8 the very first episode] by telling off his boss:

** He gets another one when he sees Luffy and Zoro off after they defeat Morgan. He salutes them in respect, and then suddenly, from right behind Coby, ''all of the Marines'' Luffy and Zoro just liberated from Morgan join in the group salute. Let's think about this: ''Marines'' are saluting ''pirates''. This is so far the only time the Marines ever gave such a form of respect to Luffy and his crew.

* Everyone who charged into Enies Lobby defeating a force of 15,000 strong,with approximately hundred people, mainly shipwrights.

* Ace, Jinbe, and Crocodile get one ''off-screen''. Namely, when prisoners are brought to Impel Down, they are stripped, boiled on an iron kettle, tossed into water reaching a hundred degrees, and "baptized". According to one of the officers, they went through all that without lifting an eyebrow.

* I fail to see why Wyper hasn't been put here yet; he got 30 million volts and an El Thor head-on, and uses a Reject Dial, a device known to destroy a man's body after two uses, to kill off Shura, ''[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|actually kill Eneru]]'' ([[Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu|though Eneru amplifies his heart to revive]]), and blasts a gigantic beanstalk so that Luffy and Nami can confront Eneru. [[Determinator|ALL. WITHOUT. DYING.]]

* Vivi's duck Karoo gets one as well, when he and Vivi are running away from Bon Clay, and Karoo runs straight up a several-hundred-foot tall wall, despite [[Determinator|having gotten heavily injured in a stampede mere moments ago]].

* Let's not forget Pell's speech before {{spoiler|his [[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}.

** {{spoiler|Not to mention the fact that he survives an explosion capable of wiping out an entire city, at POINT BLANK RANGE!}}

* Bon Clay has been on a roll since his loss in Alabasta. Not only did he get himself captured to save fellow former Baroque Works members, but in the Whitebeard arc {{spoiler|he teamed up with Luffy and has since helped take out the fearsome (but oddly adorable) Minotauros, impersonated the Vice-Chief after regretfully leaving Luffy to fight Magellan alone, and to atone for running away went down to Level 5, the Freezing Hell, where he rescued Luffy from his cell and [[Badass|fought off killer wolves, that had been too bloodthirsty for the upper levels,while half-naked and bloody]]!}}

* And now there is Emporio Ivankov, {{spoiler|the retired Queen of Kamabakka Island. Don´t let him fool you guys. He may look like a parody of a Drag Queen, but he can repell a CANON BALL BY BATTING AN EYESLASH! And then he turned the poor guy, who attacked him, [[Gender Bender|into a woman]]!}}

** In the Marineford arc he's shown that that eyelash thing isn't just a joke. He uses a [[More Dakka]] version of it to beat the shit out of ''Kuma''.

** Then we learn in chaper 560 {{spoiler|that he/she knows Kuma...somehow. And Kuma apparently was ''afraid of him/her''.}} When it turns out Kuma doesn't even recognize them anymore, he/she delivers this ball-bustingly awesome line;

** How about in 547 when Ivankov SMASHED THROUGH A SOLID WALL WITH HIS FACE?

** 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...

** Evidence 6: He blocks an attack from [[Magma Man|Akainu]]. This guy blocks freaking ''lava''.

* Bon-chan gets a combined CMOA/CMOH when he stays behind at Impel Down so that Luffy and the prisoners can get away. An entire ship is shouting at him to come with them, Magellan is ready to kick his ass, and all the guy does is drop into a fighting stance while the "Okama Way" song plays. Bad. Ass.

'''Mr. 2 Bon-Clay:''' I have no regrets. }}

* Hell, One Piece in itself is a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. The in-series CMOAs, real life ones - the series should just be renamed Crowning Moments of Awesome with [[Pirate|pirates]].

* Queen Otohime. Slapping an adult, large fishman in submission? Seen a thousand times. Doing that when you have ''brittle bones'' and a frail body? Now, That, is something.

** Even better when {{spoiler|the people of Ryuugu kingdom stops supporting her cause after Tiger's death, she recovers from her [[Heroic BSOD]] by [[In Vino Veritas|getting motherless drunk]] and calling them all cowards and tossing a [[Rousing Speech]] via broadcast system.}}

** Not only did Otohime {{spoiler|manage to convince the Sunny Pirates to spare the Tennryuubito that they had once been enslaved to, she went with the Tennryuubito to Mariejois and ''convinced the Celestial Dragons, the most tyrannical and villainous nobles to ever be depicted, to sign a peace treaty with Fishman Island!!''}} She is definitely one of the the most [[Badass]] [[Yamato Nadeshiko]] ever!

** And it looks like Shirahoshi takes after her mother, seeing as she {{spoiler|kept the fact that Hody Jones was her mother's killer secret because she was afraid that if people learned about it, they'd get angry at Hody, and it would break her final promise with her mother, which is "to not bear any ill will to the assassin".}}

* The Three Princes {{spoiler|when they charge into the Plaza King Neptune is being held in. Most of Neptune's Army have been stomped by the Sea Beasts (who've been given the strength drugs). These guys? These guys take out ALL OF THEM. While giving a speech.}}

* Jinbe has one when {{spoiler|The now-monster Hody Jones attempts to kill the gigantic mermaid princess Shirahoshi with one of his water shots, that can go as far as the edge of the island. Jinbe blocks it with one of his own.}}

* Chapter 637: {{spoiler|Shirahoshi is basically committing a heroic sacrifice in order to stop a colossal arc from destroying the island. }}

** {{spoiler|And then in the next chapter, nearly all the citizens grab hold of on of Noah's chains to try and stop it. [[Kick the Dog|And then Hody uses his water move on them.]]}}

* 647: Shirahoshi {{spoiler|successfully summons the Sea Kings to stop Noah. She even gets in the way of Luffy's Elephant Gatling to stop his assault.}}

* 648: Jinbe {{spoiler|giving blood to Luffy [[Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right|in full defiance of Fisman Island's laws]].}} When pointed out, he has this to say.

** In the same chapter, it is revealed that {{spoiler|''Gold Roger could also understand Sea Kings''.}}

* In 651, it's noted that the Kid Pirates destroyed two of Big Mam's ships. Just to reiterate, they attacked and destroyed two ships belonging to one of the Four Emperors, and this one is known for razing ''countries'' if slighted. This being the second example of such an attack, clearly the Supernovas are either fearless or insane, possibly both.

** Chapter 564 Whitebeard pretty much proved he could do this himself at this point with the amount of damage he's done {{spoiler|regardless of silly things like being stabbed though the heart or health problems. It took even more so that all the three admirals to stop his attack. The said attack? Earthquake on the island and sea around him to the point where ''the sea itself was splitting like rocks.''}}

* Donquixote gets one in the Marineford Arc after {{spoiler|helping to kill Oars Jr.}} and setting the invading captains against their crews. He gives a massive [[Genre Savvy]] [[Hannibal Lecture]] on how flimsy and warped the ethics of the world are, and almost [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]] by noting how the roles of good and evil in regards to the marines and pirates are always shifting:

* In chapter 560, Boa Hancock {{spoiler|breaks Smoker's Seastone Jutte with a simple ''kick''.}} Remember that Hancock is a fruit user. She {{spoiler|broke a weapon made out of her [[Kryptonite Factor]] with a ''kick''.}} Without a scratch. And afterwards can still look down on {{spoiler|Smoker}} so far she's actually looking up. Bad. Ass.

** Oh, and by the way it was stated before that seastone is as hard as diamond...

** 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!}}

*** His quote alone makes it his greatest [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

* Chapter 572. Whitebeard shouting his {{spoiler|[[Last Request|final order]], and then prepares himself to fuck up the marines ''is simply the most badass thing he's done this whole battle.''}}

** Luffy and Ace being [[Back-to-Back Badasses]] and fighting all the Marines together is equally badass.