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Please keep in mind that this is a ''very'' subjective trope; what strikes one person as "THAT'S AWESOME!!!!" may strike you as "meh". '''[[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|Disagreeing with someone else's opinion is NOT a valid reason to delete their example.]]''' When in doubt, ''leave it alone''.

* ''[[The Adventures of Irving and Friends (Fanfic)/Awesome|The Adventures of Irving and Friends]]''

* ''[[Ace Combat the Equestrian War (Fanfic)/Awesome|Ace Combat: The Equestrian War]]''

* ''[[All Things Probable Series (Fanfic)/Awesome|All Things Probable Series]]''

* ''[[Another Brother (Fanfic)/Awesome|Another Brother]]''

* ''[[Skin (Fanfic)/Awesome|Skin]]''

* ''[[Snow Angels (Fanfic)/Awesome|Snow Angels]]''

* ''[[Starkits Prophecy (Fanfic)/Awesome|Starkits Prophecy]]''

* ''[[Stars Above (Fanfic)/Awesome|Stars Above]]''

** Aziraphale gets another moment of awesome at the climax of ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3547876/1/When_Summoning_Please_Watch_The_Wording When Summoning, Please Watch The Wording]''. Long story short, some wannabe Satanists have crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]] in truly nasty fashion and then mock Zirah for being the "pathetic lackey of a dead god". At which point Zirah [[Beware the Nice Ones|shows them exactly how "pathetic" good can be]]:

{{quote| Aziraphale's expression was like thunder. "Come to me, my child," he said, his tone as cutting as diamonds. "''[[Go Mad From the Revelation|And I will show you a true wonder of a miracle!]]''"}}

{{quote| Fear was something else. Fear was something uniquely, terribly ''human'', an immovable part of the psyche. And Crowley was the Serpent of Eden. The first demon humanity ever met. The only reason they ''had'' primal fears was because he'd ''put'' them there.}}

* [http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ Eyrie Productions] is a site full of fanfics that shine with these.

** Iruel is held off by Shinji {{spoiler|rapidly altering the diseases in Rei's blood to horrifying extents, followed by being finished off with a psychic attack.}}

** The fight against Zeruel, although {{spoiler|retold as part of Shinji's greatest failure then}}, took the original and made it even more amazing.

** The culmination of {{spoiler|the 40k gods' [[Gambit Roulette]]}} has to be seen to be believed.

* How can we ignore ''[[The Open Door (Fanfic)|The Open Door]]''?

[after praising him to the rafters by saying he's better than ''his whole society'']"Kid, live your life." }}

**** [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|And he does]].

** The ''Stiletto'' {{spoiler|blowing up two [[Battlestar Galactica|Resurrection Ships]] with a single shot}}. After taking city-killer nukes without shields or damage.

** {{spoiler|People of Nesme, I present to you [[This Is My Boomstick|the Kalashnikov!]]}}

** And In ''Apotheosis Now'', pretty much every one of the good guys gets at least one CMOA. Including SHODAN and {{spoiler|Gendo}}.

** Don't forget {{spoiler|"I have been Roland, Beowulf, Achilles, Gilgamesh..."}}

{{quote| "Crap like this is why I don't let pilots live with me anymore?"}}

** And then of course there's the part where {{spoiler|we learn that Third Impact was averted not by Shinji, but ''Gendo. Ikari.'' "Get away from MY SON!" has often been a standard cry for a CMOA, but considering who says it, and who he says it ''to'', makes it even more so.}}

* The ''[[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]]''/''[[Babylon 5 (TV)|Babylon 5]]'' story [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1944628/1/A_Thin_Veneer A Thin Veneer] has what almost seems like a Crowning Month of Awesome for Starfleet Captain Acaltha and a group of Klingon ships as their quite-possibly-deranged crews pin a Minbari strikeforce to the wall with a series of more and more deranged dirty tricks, including {{spoiler|decoy Klingon 'ships', using weapons that were obsolete for decades to nasty effect, resonating the Minbari's hulls to overload their communications with Klingon opera and annoyingly cheerful J-Pop, and in the end, giving them the planet... that was abandoned before the Federation/Klingon task force ever showed up.}}

* The first novel of ''Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness'' is, essentially, one long Crowning Moment for Neville Longbottom.

** There's also poor Dennis Creevey, who never said a word after [[Break the Cutie|realising his parents were dead]], until one of the Death Eaters, Rudolphus Lestrange, killed his older brother, Colin. Dennis then proceeds to {{spoiler|put his wand [[Eye Scream|through Lestrange's eye]], and yell [[Unstoppable Rage|"AVADA KEDAVRA YOU SON OF A BITCH!!!]]}}

** Viktor Krum had one as well. When Hannah Abbott and Neville Longbottom realize that {{spoiler|the Weasley family is not in their home and wrongly assume they were captured, they disguise themselves as [[Mooks|Death Eaters]] and are caught and sentenced to execution. Percy Weasley witnesses their trial and contacts Ludo Bagman, who contacts Krum, who flies non-stop from Bulgaria to England, takes Polyjuice to switch out with Percy, and then proceeds to spirit Neville and Hannah away while the two of them blast through the doors.}} Bonus points for this little exchange:

* [[The Land Before Time]] fan fics having a CMOA? ''Hell'' yes!

** [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2151472/1/Land_Before_Time_War_of_the_Worlds Land Before Time: War of the Worlds] has a few CMOAs. The most memorable involved an ''amphibious assault'' [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2151472/9/Land_Before_Time_War_of_the_Worlds combined with Littlefoot, Ali and Shorty parachuting] into an enemy held island for a commando raid.

* The ''Wordverse'' is a giant crossover fanfic on the [http://www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?t=22367 The Atomic Think Tank] boards. The first story's final fight is John Preston (''[[Equilibrium]]'') and ''[[Batman]]'' vs ''[[V for Vendetta|V]]'' vs {{spoiler|the League of Shadows and Ras Al-Gul}}. And that's the initial story, it gets better later on.

* Naruto gets quite a few in S'tar'kan's epic series [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2731239/1/Team_8 Team 8]. This troper's favorite is his battle with Neji, where he {{spoiler|uses the Kyuubi's chakra to blow open his closed tenketsu points and beat Neji black and blue in taijutsu.}}

** Don't forget Haku. {{spoiler|Breaks through the Sound Four's barrier and goes on to fight Orochimaru alongside the Hokage, easily keeping up with them.}}

** Hinata's reaction to finding out just how horribly Naruto was mistreated by some for being the host of the nine-tailed fox.

** Arguably, Shino's best CMOA in the entire series is during the preliminaries of the Chunin Exams, immediately following Hinata's harsh beat-down at the hands of Neji.

{{quote| Glancing around, Shino noticed that both Rock Lee and Tenten were staring at him. Looking down, he realized that there was a fine spray of aspirated blood across the front of his jacket. Hinata's blood. He looked back up.<br />

* Nigh everything written by [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1308758/lord_of_the_land_of_fire lord of the land of fire]. While I can't endorse the sex scenes, he manages to make some very awesome scenes that readers often fail to fully appreciate the Awesomeness of. "A Few Angry Words" contains a paralel to [[The Bible (Literature)|Revelation Chapter 19 (Yes, that's the Second Coming of Jesus)]], while "The True Monster" contains a rather thorough paralel to World War II! Just when you think this guy has written himself into a corner, he comes out with something even more awesome as a resolution.

* Edward Elric gets one in ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2929916/1/Invert Invert]'', a ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''/''[[Harry Potter]]'' crossover. Bound by magic and being mindraped by Voldemort, Ed breaks Voldemort's concentration by calling up an image of the Gate of Truth, causing it to manifest for a few moments before fading out. In the distraction, Ed breaks Voldemort's grip on him and ''kicks him in the balls'' for good measure.

* An OC named Philip gets one in the W.I.T.C.H. Fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3134487/5/WITCH_POWER_The_Dream_Comes_Real WITCH POWER] by Xen Kenshin when he completely DESTROYS {{spoiler|Nerissa's demonic minions Shagon and co.}} because of an unstoppable rage.. downside? He kills his love interest {{spoiler|Irma.}}

* In ''[[Daria]]'' fanfic, two OC's are living, breathing CMOAs every time they show their faces! ''Jim Vitale'' (especially when written by Scissors MacGillicutty) and ''Black Majesty'' (when written by Roentgen). The pinnacle of the [[Big Bad]], both are superb examples of the [[Manipulative Bastard]] who lives by [[The Plan]]- and while Black Majesty is probably [[Like a Badass Out of Hell]], Vitale is a fusion of [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]] and [[Badass Normal]] with his own [[Catch Phrase|CatchPhrases]] (anyone who he calls 'asshat' is in for a world of 'ow', people he calls 'sport' should watch their backs, and as he says, 'the law is just what lawyers do with it'), his own version of the [[Kubrick Stare]], a [[Compelling Voice]] and takes any woman in sight that he wants - because [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]], and he's a amped-up version of [[Draco in Leather Pants]].

* Post's gigantic ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]'' fic, [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4778437/1/These_Black_Eyes_A_Re_Post_Ing These Black Eyes] is pretty much comprised of CMOA but my favorite is his OC Noir, who has at this point been {{spoiler|kicked out of the Titans after Slade framed him as his Third Apprentice and had been marked with a microchip which Slade could activate and easily kill him at any time, going in to save the Titan's asses. When Slade tries to activate the chip, Noir shows how he got rid of it: by slicing off his own arm. He then proceesed to kill the bastard and save his friends. Hell Yeah.}}

** Don't forget chapter 249 {{spoiler|Dagger's forces are pursuing Robin and Noir, who end up unintentionally leading them into a ambush by the US Army, who were warned in advance by Lex Luthor, and were waiting for Dagger's men to attack.}}

** Here's the absolutely epic speech Auron makes, in its entirety:

{{quote| '''Auron:''' Braska? Can you hear me? Yevon? Fayth? Lords of the Living and the Dead? Are you listening? Rikku will not die today. Rikku will not die today. Rikku will not die tomorrow. Rikku will not die in Zanarkand. Listen to me. Hear me all of you. All of your plans and your devices and wars, she has no part of them. She is not here because of you, to help you or to stop you. She is only here because she loves her cousin. Do you even understand such a simple reason? So Rikku does not die today. Rikku does not die tomorrow. Rikku does not die in Zanarkand at all and if she does '''then there is a new side in your forever wars''' and a '''new player''' and {{smallcaps| then I '''promise''' you that at the end of everything, at the end of it all '''no one will be standing.'''}}}}

''"Okay, moving faster."'' }}

* Ultra Sonic 007's remake of Digimon: Zero 2 final battle between BelialMyotismon and the DigiKnight. Read it [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1584078/60/Zero_2_A_Revision\]: your head will explode from sheer awesomeness.

* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[Fanfic]] [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3384712/1/The_Lie_Ive_Lived "The Lie I've Lived"] {{spoiler|after the Dementor fight at the end of Book 3, Harry finds out that, when his dad died, he got all of his memories.}} After that discovery, Harry becomes steadily more badass as the story progresses.

** After the summer is over, Harry is, of course, put in the Triwizard tournament again. In one chapter, he {{spoiler|sneaks onto the Durmstrang ship, where they keep a Geist. Not a mischevious prankster like Peeves, but a full blown demonic entity formed from the fear and dark magical 'residue' of the school and the boat. He gets away from it, which angers the Geist. Later, the Geist chases him and Fleur into the Forest. Harry stays there and stalls the Geist, while Fleur goes to get help...From the HOGWARTS GHOSTS. What follows is a medieval style smackdown. The Bloody Baron with a CLAYMORE, the Fat Friar with a giant cudgel, Peeves (who is actually somewhat demonic), and to top it all off, Professor Binns, wailing on the Geist with his fists.}}

* [[Halo]]: [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3162975/26/ Combat Evolution] has several, but Wa, the Spartan Shock Trooper, gets one just by existing. Everything about his weapons and tactics is designed to scare the Covenant. He is to the covvies at large what the Chief is to the Covenant rank and file, and to the Spartans what the Spartans are to everyone else. He demonstrates this in chapter twenty-five by {{spoiler|walking into a combat situation, saving his teammate, taking a hit from a ''Brute Hammer'' and getting right back up, then tearing the Brute's midsection out. Then he '''rips the top of its skull off'''. The oncoming brutes ''stop dead''.}}

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3756274/1/The_Faltering_of_Suzumiya_Haruhi The Faltering of Suzumiya Haruhi] is a CMOA in itself, because the writing style is so ridiculously close to Baka-Tsuki's translations of the original work, that it could be a lost original short story or something like that...

* There are several by [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/8744/Thrythlind Thrythlind]:

** [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5175006/16/Divine_Blood Divine] [[Divine Blood (Fanfic)|Blood]] Chapter 11. {{spoiler|Ranma "Braiding Tornadoes"}}

''"He grows on you." Fate smiled and had Bardiche load another cartridge.'' }}

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2277668/1/Kingdom_of_Chaos Kingdom of Chaos], a ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' fic set after ''Chain Memories'' (written before ''Kingdom Hearts 2'') has a wonderful Crowning Moment at the hands of {{spoiler|Larxene. The Organization has been betrayed and hung out to dry by Axel (whose convoluted plot to restore his heart to him has just succeeded) and most of their members have been killed by a [[Deadly Upgrade|Deadly Upgraded]] Sora. About all that's left is Marluxia, who takes Axel to task for his betrayal and starts kicking his ass. Finally Axel is on his last legs and, as Marluxia delivers the killing blow, Larxene, combining a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and a CMOA teleports into the space between Axel and Marluxia's scythe, saving him at the cost of her own life. Marluxia is so astonished that he actually offers Axel an elixr that can save her life en exchange for his surrender.}}

* [[With Strings Attached (Fanfic)|With Strings Attached]] has a ton of these, including:

** When each of the four gets his magic, particularly when John flies.

{{quote| Osborn waved a hand in my direction. "You're nothing more than a common thug who decided to do the right thing for once, Schultz. That doesn't clean the slate of all the crimes you committed, Herman. One day as a lion does not balance out a lifetime as a jackal."<br />

Under my mask, I raised an eyebrow. Oh, thank you for hubris. "You're right, Norman. Absolutely right. All the good things I've done don't matter a lick compared to the bad. You're the expert on that topic, aren't you, Green Goblin?" If it wasn't for the persistent hum, you could have heard a pin drop. I think Ms. Marvel let out a low whistle at the comment. }}

* The [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]] fic ''Father'' has one in Chapter 5, when Asuka's [[Abusive Parents|father]] Erik (and his wife "Mrs. Soryu") visit after hearing rumors (true ones) that Asuka has gotten pregnant. Long story short, things devolve quickly, leading to Mr. Soryu [[Moral Event Horizon|shoving his pregnant daughter with such force that it slams her into a nearby wall hard enough to knock her unconscious]]. Before anyone else knows what's happening, [[Berserk Button|Shin]][[Papa Wolf|ji]] (Asuka's fiancé) has one-hit-KO'd Mrs. Soryu (being grazed by a bullet fired by her) and pinned Mr. Demon-Dad to the wall by the throat, having fully given himself over to the [[Unstoppable Rage|inner berserker]] and trying to crush the man's neck with his bare hands. Later, as Mr. Soryu storms up to Gendo in his office and threatens all sorts of retaliations, Gendo calmly and efficiently shoots down each and every one of the man's threats with logical and legal rebuttals. And when the man disowns Asuka and states that he'll leave her penniless and alone, Gendo reveals that Kyoko had left Asuka her entire estate and (considerably large) fortune to Asuka, ''and'' that SEELE (in this story now a new incarnation loyal to Gendo) have discovered that Mr. Soryu has embezzled/stolen his late wife's - now Asuka's - money, and that Mr. Soryu and his wife are now under arrest. Gendo then closes the conversation and finally [[Not So Stoic|blows his top at the man]]:

{{quote| "On a rather more personal note, allow me to tell you this: ''Do not mess with my family''! You brandished a gun in my son's home, with the proof being a wound on the back of his hand! You throw my future daughter-in-law against the wall, endangering her and her baby! I may be considered a total bastard by everyone else, and I gladly use members of my own family to further our goals, [[Papa Wolf|but I will NOT allow anyone else to jeopardize their lives]]! And despite what I may wish, your daughter is about to become family, thus she is under MY protection! Is this understood, Soryu? She is to become an Ikari, no questions asked."}}

* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6266421/1/FATE_Holy_Grail_War_of_2814 FATE/Holy Grail War of 2814], an offshoot story of [[Takamachi Nanoha of 2814 (Fanfic)|Takamachi Nanoha of 2814]], has Archer fighting the Wolkeritter by himself. Through a combination of Tracing, emotional manipulation based on his memories, and Unlimited Blade Works, he starts creating [[Green Lantern|power rings]]. He starts with enraging the Wolkenritter by threatening Hayate, using their rage to make a Red ring (and making a giant angry construct of Rin), drawing on their love for her to make a Violet ring, and using Signum's will, Vita's hope, and Zafira's compassion to make Green, Blue, and Indigo. Despite bleeding from everywhere from the strain, he blasts them all with a Ring-Construct [[Lyrical Nanoha|Starlight Breaker]] big enough to be seen from orbit and uses their fear to make a Yellow ring.

** {{spoiler|Of course, all of that was to free them and the Book of Darkness from Angra Mainyu's corruption, upon which he willfully surrenders his Linker Core to help save Hayate's life. Even if you don't like him, you have to admit he always has style.}}

* In the ''[[Touhou]]'' fanfiction [[Imperfect Metamorphosis (Fanfic)|Imperfect Metamorphosis]], an indestructible being that can absorb any form of attack thrown at it, soon acquiring the abilities of another being that [[Walking Wasteland|kills most things just by being near them]] and whose touch is potentially deadly to absolutely anyone, is loose in Gensoukyou. It swiftly dispatches its millenia-old creator, a [[Reality Warper]], two stupidly powerful magicians and a bearer of impervious [[Plot Armor]], leaving only Suika to fight it. After her treasured gourd is crushed in the battle, Suika acts [[Boisterous Bruiser|exactly like Suika]], proceeding to ''pound the ever-loving crap'' out of the life-ending monstrosity, leaving it (temporarily) broken and unconscious in a crater. Moral of the story: never force an oni to be sober.

* Thirty H's. All of it.

** Chapter 9: Tavros out-raps Dave. That is all.

** Chapter 12: All {{spoiler|eleven}} trolls team up to beat {{spoiler|Gamzee}} AND THEY MANAGE TO DO IT WITHOUT A SINGLE PERSON GETTING KILLED.

** Chapter 14: Can be summed up with the closing line: {{spoiler|TG: lets kill us a First Guardian}}

** Chapter 15: {{spoiler|Everybody teams up to beat Doc Scratch, but the best part has to be Aradia's awakening, which happens in the only way it could possibly be cooler than in canon: Aradia fools Doc Scratch into destroying her robot body while Derse explodes, wakes up, single-handedly engineers almost every major event since the timeline splintered, then goes back in time to mere seconds after she left, ''riding Bec''. '''Hell yes!'''}}

** The same fic has [[Magnificent Bastard|Lelouch]] beat Aizen by {{spoiler|waiting until he's caught in Negacion and Geassing him to kill himself.}}

* The Disney [[Dark Fic]] [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7056436/1/bLost_b_bTales_b_of_bFantasia_b Lost Tales of Fantasia], the Headless Horseman is bearing down on the king, when his servant steps up and empties all of his bullets into him.

** And Eddie Valiant's following fight with the Horseman, managing to use his [[Lethal Joke Item]] to [[Disney Villain Death|push the horseman off a flying ship]].

{{quote| The Horseman decided he hated this human more than any other being in any other world, and by the time he hit the ground, he had decided not to cut off his head, but to systematically break and destroy every single fibre of his being, starting with his toe tips, and continuing up to his neck, keeping him alive until the very end, and then wearing his head as a trophy during the Red Queen's gallas.}}

* Poland, in the Hetalia fanfiction ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5352659/1/1940_Lithuania 1940: Lithuania]''. He spends the first two thirds of the story alternating between being forced to work in a factory making uniforms for German soldiers and getting beaten up by Russia and locked in his room for several days at a time for not knowing when to shut up. Then Lithuania sneaks into Poland's room and finds out that Poland has been ''running an organized resistance movement from his closet this whole time'' and mailing instructions to his rebel forces by climbing out of his second story window and sneaking off to the post office, mailing the coded letters, then climbing back into his room, despite the fact that he is ''seriously'' weakened because Germany and Russia are killing so many of his people. Also, he blew up one of Germany's ammunition factories offscreen.

* Fate/Black Reflection. [[Bleach|Ichigo Kurosaki]] vs. [[Fate Stay Night|Saber]]. [[Sword Beam|Getsuga Tenshou]] vs. [[Wave Motion Gun|Excalibur]]. {{spoiler|The end result is a stalemate.}}

* The ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' fic ''[http://www.whofic.com/viewstory.php?sid=44024 Invisible Road]'' gives us this awesome [[Badass Boast]]:

{{quote| ''The Sontarans call me a warrior. The Cybermen call me a threat. And the Daleks called me the Fiveslayer. I have faced down ghosts and blood-drinkers, sun-eaters and world-burners. And if you, or any of your silly little ships, want to take anyone off this planet,'' '''you tell them {{spoiler|1=Ace McShane}} will be waiting for them.''' <ref>Oh, and she's beating the living shit out of a Sycorax with a [[Continuity Nod|BASEBALL BAT]] while she's saying all this.</ref>}}

{{quote| ''Your passion has done little to change my perception of you, young man, other than to make me realize that you truly believe in foolishness. That is a shame all the more; your father said you were intelligent. You have said enough. I have a high tolerance, but my patience is depleted in the case of your "righteous" crusade. You claim of yourself what you like, but you are no different than the myriad of children that have preceded you. I am well aware that the passion for academics does not exist in the vast majority of my students; not even those before me now. But the difference between them and those that are like you is that they live their life with their own purpose and meaning, no matter the pointlessness of that goal. There have been many like you, Atticus, and you are not the last that will come to me before I pass on. They may lack your details, your acuity, even your bravery, but they all have one thing in common: their dissatisfaction. Boys like you exist for no other purpose than crush the beliefs of others, to make them squirm with gifts of intellect or courage. It may work with the young men that surround you, but not with me, and not with my brothers in Christ. We know who we are; that is a solidarity that you will never touch."}}

** Atticus is left utterly speechless.