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People who have not yet read ''[[Hand of Thrawn|Spectre of the Past]]'' and ''[[Hand of Thrawn|Vision of the Future]]'' should take note of this. People who have read them will undoubtedly get that really awesome spine-shiver that is accompanied with an "OMG that's so awesome" feeling. You know the one I'm talking about. Yes you do. }}

 

== Episode One ==

 

** I think what happens directly after Maul shows up adds a lot to the awesomeness. When the doors open to reveal Maul, Amidala and her troops look good and ready to wet themselves, until the Jedi step forward...

'''Amidala:''' * who can't wait to get the hell away from Maul* "...we'll take the long way (around)." }}

* When Obi Wan {{spoiler|jumped out of the shaft in the Theed palace and chopped Darth Maul in half}}.

* No mentions of the pod-race finale in Episode I? Sure, it was more the folly of Sebulba rather than direct actions on the part of Anakin, but just watching Sebulba's ginormous pod engines smash into an oncoming rock at 500 MPH as Anakin's tiny little thing cruises majestically on by was certainly a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in my book.

* Obi-Wan out of the gate vs Maul in Episode I.

* For this troper, the duel between Darth Maul, Obi-Wan Kenobi & Qui-Gon Jinn is now and will forever remain the Crowning Moment of Lightsaber awesomeness in all of Star Wars.

 

== Episode Two ==

** Mace facing down Dooku is awesome but it goes into [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] territory when it is revealed that dozens of the spectators in the audience are Jedi.You can see why Mace has the initials for "Bad Motherfucker" on his lightsaber.

* Let's talk about Count Dooku for a minute. Dude kicked the asses of Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi ''simultaneously'', and still had enough juice to give Yoda a decent fight. Granted that he'd probably have lost if the duel had continued, but the number of people who could last even that long has got to be awfully short. And y'know, he's played by [[Christopher Lee]].

** Yoda hopping around like a demon frog on acid when he was fighting Count Dooku counts too.

** The best part was that ''Yoda wasn't trying to win.'' He was playing around, trying to buy time for the clones to arrive and save Obi-Wan and Anakin. But he still was winning.

** The mere fact that the dwarf Yoda just about bested 6"4" Dooku is awesome

* The ending of the stadium battle when the Jedi seem defeated, but refuse to surrender.Then Yoda and an entire army of troops appear out of nowhere and save them. The phrase [[Big Damn Heroes]] has rarely fit better

** Agreed. The whole battle of Geonosis was just awesome to say the least. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rHvrLlQSWI&feature=fvst This] makes it even more awesome, in a way.

* The quiet opening, a single Star Destroyer rolling across the screen to the sound of lone drumbeats. Two small fighters race across the screen, and the most bombastic and cheer-inducing take on the Force Theme ''ever'' blares across the screen. We know ''exactly'' who these two Jedi Knights are, we know ''exactly'' what they're about to do, and we know in the space of a single scene that this is the ''movie we've been waiting twenty years for''.

** To quote the novelization; "Though this is the end of the age of heroes, it has saved its best for last."

** "Under the circumstances I'd say the ability to fly this thing is irrelevant."

** "I think we lost something."

** Come to that, pretty much the entire sequence from the movie's opening to the landing on Coruscant is just one ludicrously extended [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], ending with [[Deadpan Snarker|"Another happy landing."]]

** As the novelization states: ''"This is Anakin Skywalker's masterpiece."''

* In episode three, Obi-Wan has two: defeating (along with Yoda) an entire clone trooper company, and chopping off three of Anakin's limbs with a single strike.

* Or the time General Grievous had him hanging over a ledge on Utapau, and he used the Force to shoot the general with a blaster (complete with [[Bond One-Liner|irreverent comment]] afterward)? When Luke's hanging over a precipice, it means he's had the stuffing kicked out of him, and he's barely going to survive this encounter. When Obi-Wan is hanging over a precipice, it means he's about to kick ass.

* Windu also gets one in ''Revenge of the Sith'', in his duel with Palpatine. He'd even would have won, had Anakin not shown up. The dialogue that preceded was also awesome(for both!):

'''Mace:''' Not yet! }}

** Only Palpatine was most likely toying with Windu the whole time, as he had just butchered the three other Jedi Masters.

** The above dialogue is even better in the trailer:

'''Palpatine:''' Are you threatening me, Master Jedi? *Ignites lightsaber and lunges. Cue the most badass and ominous music ever used in a ''Star Wars'' trailer* }}

** Ah, but then we would not have seen Palpatine become the [[Large Ham]] he was ''born'' to be. Palpatine announces the birth of [[The Empire]] and the death of freedom to the Senate... who respond with ''a standing ovation''. Your Majesty, your ascent to [[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent Bastardhood]] is complete. The horrified-sounding [[Ominous Latin Chanting|ominous chorus]] in the background doesn't hurt, either.

** In the novelization it's stated that Palpatine and Mace stalemated with Anakin being the one to decide the outcome. At one point Ankain observes and can only make out the blades of their lightsabers, they're moving so fast that [[The Chosen One]] ''can't keep up with their movements''.

** Yoda's decapitating of the clones about to kill him on Kashyyyk. One moment, he's on the floor, seemingly defenseless after feeling the deaths of so many Jedi, and the clones are readying their blasters. The next, the clones are lying dead on the floor and Yoda is deactivating his lightsaber.

'''Yoda:''' At an end your rule is... and not short enough it was. }}

* Heck, the entire Obi-Wan vs. Anakin and Yoda vs. Palpatine sequence in ''Revenge of the Sith'' was a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. Especially considering the former was done in ''real time'', no speed-up required..

** According to the special features on the DVD, when Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen finished their fight, ''the entire crew broke out in applause.''

* At the end of Episode III, all it took was Vader taking one deep mechanical breath and every hair on your body stood on end, followed by one of the most the heartwrenching [[Big No|Big No's]] ever. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6bEs3dxjPg\]

** Or the look on Vader's face as the mask lowers, eyes widening as he realizes what his world will look like from then on...

** "[[Robot Chicken|Then I threw the senate at him! The whole senate! True story!]]"

* Say what you will about Anakin, but marching up the steps of the Jedi Temple at the head of the entire 501st is pure win.

* Obi-Wan, alone, nearly unarmed and without backup, facing up to a room full of bad guys including one with four Lightsabers. Han Solo would be proud.

** Not to mention his entrance in that scene: "Hello there." Best entrance ever. And then, of course, dropping that huge thing on Grievous' guards.

== Episode Four ==

 

** Made more impressive by setting up a contrast. First, we see the Blockade Runner go by, and it looks big and cool. And then we see what's chasing it...and the baseline for both "big" and, arguably, "cool" just got blown out of the water.

** Amusingly, George Lucas has stated that he knew he couldn't afford to do good special effects for every shot in the movie, so for the most part, he just did very fast, very short shots that would keep people from seeing the wires or anything along those lines... except that he deliberately spent a huge amount of money on getting the best possible special effects work he could for the opening shot, because he knew, in his own words, "If the audience bought that shot, then I had them."

== Episode Five ==

 

** [[Robot Chicken|What in the f**k is-]]

* "[[The Asteroid Thicket|You're not actually taking us into an asteroid field, are you?!]]" Oh, hell ''yes'' he is.

** "[[Never Tell Me the Odds]]," quite possibly the most badass line in the entire series.

Yoda: ''That'' is why you fail. }}

*** So very very true

** Yoda has tons of cool lines. Another good one is "Do, or do not. There is no try."

*** Some of Yoda's lines have made it onto fortune cookies, as "Do or do not, there is no try" has been found along with other Yoda lines.

* "I love you." "I know." Now ''that's'' how you deliver a romantic line, '''[[Narm|Anakin]]'''.

** Especially since this line was an ad-lib by Harrison Ford.

* "I find your lack of faith disturbing."

** "All too easy"

** "[[You Are in Command Now]], ''Admiral'' Piett."

*** And just in case you don't know the context of the last one, Vader had just force choked the ''previous'' Admiral, which was on ''a separate ship'' from Vader. He gives Piett his promotion ''before'' the previous admiral hits the ground.

** "''No'' disintegrations." "As you wish..."

*** awww, and you feel so sorry for him...

*** Especially when you consider Boba undoubtedly knows he's talking to the man who killed the man who killed his father.

** "I am altering the deal. ''Pray'' I don't alter it any further."

*** (Robot Chicken turns this into a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H-Q2eIYesU in its own right].)

* "You have failed, your Highness. I am a Jedi, like my father before me." Doesn't matter than the Emperor immediately got lightning happy, that was the moment the Good Guys ''won''. Probably the second greatest [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in the entire series.

** And looking at the progression of events around that point, that scene pretty much literally ''is'' when the tables turned and the good guys started to win. After that declaration, the Shield Generator blew up, Executor was destroyed, and the Death Star Run into the reactor began. Everything began to fall apart for Palpatine.

* During the Battle of Endor, Green Leader aka Arvel Crynyd's fighter gets shot down. As his ship begins to break apart, the pilot manages to [[Ramming Always Works|crash it clean through]] the bridge of the ''Executor'', causing it to lose all control and smash into the Death Star. ''Best. Death. Ever.''

** Not only that, but according to [[Expanded Universe]], after the battle there was an ''award'' named after the pilot called the Crynyd Award, given for conspicuous bravery in space combat.

** The Rebels also named a captured Star Destroyer after the guy.

* Death Star battles seem to be powered by [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. Watching Lando & Company come blasting out of Death Star 2 with their hair on fire is just awesome.

* Palpatine's "Oh, I'm afraid the deflector shield will be ''quite operational'' when your friends arrive..." It's just the way he says it, a mockery of a friendly old man's concern.

** Also, absolutely everything else Palpatine says in that conversation, including but not limited to "''[[The Chessmaster|Everything]]'' [[The Chessmaster|that has transpired has done so according to]] ''[[The Chessmaster|my]]'' [[The Chessmaster|design]]".

** As someone who saw the films in order, there's the impact of seeing the lightning for the first time. Palpatine gives some death threats etc, and you expect some big lightsaber fight or force choking or what have you. Instead, out of freaking nowhere he starts shooting LIGHTNING at Luke. While the lightning has been downgraded and made much more commonplace since then, back then not even Darth Vader could do it (now we know why, but the EU wasn't as developed at the time). It made the Emperor a grade-A badass.

* After Vader has failed repeatedly to lure his son to the Dark Side, he finally discovers Luke's [[Berserk Button]]:

** The music cue that played at that moment especially made it powerful.

** Luke's cry of "Never!" and then nearly taking Vader's head off in the duel was also awesome.

* Luke walking off the plank over the Sarlacc pit, turning, grabbing the edge, flipping back onto the skiff, catching the lightsaber Artoo fires from Jabba's sail barge, igniting it, and '''proceeding to kick ass'''.

** The buildup in that scene is awesomely constructed, especially the music, which was recycled for the teaser trailers for Phantom Menace, if you recall.

* '''THE ENTIRE BATTLE OF ENDOR IN SPACE'''. Some specific moments are

Lando: We'll last longer than we will against that '''Death Star'''! ''And we might just take a few of them with us!'' }}

** Commander Merrejk's total "Oh God we're dead" moment while Piett's shouting to "intensify the forward batteries" of the ''Executor'' and Merrejk sees off in the distance the out of control A-Wing coming straight for them.

Merrejk: '''''TOO LATE!''''' }}

* With all the Luke/Vader action, it is easy to forget Han. In a flash of genius, he gets the men in the base to come out by pretending the Rebels have surrendered, only to jump them outside.

* The scene where Luke surrenders himself to Vader in ''Jedi'' and addresses him as "Father". When Vader prods Luke that he accepted the truth, Luke firmly responds "I accept the truth that you were once Anakin Skywalker, my father." With a simple turn of phrase, Luke shows Vader how he has grown from a boy who was capable of a [[Heroic BSOD]] upon hearing Vader's little emotional sucker punch to a mature man who accepts an uncomfortable truth ''his way''.

* Still failing to turn his son, Vader watches him get fried by the Emperor, and in a moment of clarity remembers the noble Jedi he was. He then owns the Emperor and seals the victory of the Rebels. Maybe the greatest [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in all of ''[[Star Wars]]''.

** This is even better in the NPR radio adaptation, with Brock Peters' incredible delivery in this exchange:

'''Vader:''' Darth Vader's master, BUT NOT ANAKIN SKYWALKER'S! }}

* Luke gives his father a proper send-off, while the magical musical Force theme plays for the last time, and then we see people across the galaxy celebrating freedom. And two dead Jedi watch in approval... except there are actually three Jedi who can now rest knowing the evil they fought is gone. (And then we get the credits, which despite the great music become a Dethroning Moment of Suck about 20 seconds in when you realize [[Awesomeness Withdrawal|it's over]].

*** If I remember correctly, Yoda doesn't squeeze it, he catches it, then reverses it. TWICE (once for Dooku, once for Palpatine).

**** He catches two Force Lightning uses from Dooku. The first one he reverses. The second one he catches, squeezes into a little ball and then '''casually extinguishes it by closing his hand''':

** Also it was shown being deflected for the first time in Attack of the Clones by Obi Wan. "I don't think so."

** Mace Windu takes it one step further by ''blocking it with his lightsaber and '''deflecting''' it back at Palpatine''.

 

== [[The Force Unleashed]] Series ==

 

 

== Empire at War: Forces of Corruption ==

* Second Battle of Kuat, the Consortium capturing the Eclipse, a ship so big, it has a turbolaser that is powerful enough to blow a Super Star Destroyer in half, with 1 shot! Just going to town with that weapon is priceless, as it destroys anything that you target with it: [[IS Ds]], Mon Cal cruisers, Space Stations, if it moves it can get blown up by the weapon. You should be cackling with glee when you fire it the first time.

* You also own Thrawn to the point of having to ''retreat'' in an earlier mission.

 

== [[Dark Forces Saga]] ==

'''Kyle:''' "Your shields will fall." }}

* Also, the first time you do the forward jumping attack (I think that's what it was) with the lightsabre on some feckless [[Mook|Stormtrooper]]. You end up doing this forward front flip with a crazy twist in mid-air, and at the top of your arc, you ''punch your lightsabre through the top of the guy's head.'' Yes, it ends up being one of your [[Awesome Yet Practical|standard moves]] after a while, but that first time? ''INSANITY.''

* Han Solo once said that there are only a few people in the whole galaxy who can take down Boba Fett in a fair fight. Well guess what? ''Kyle Katarn is one of them.''

* In the prequel novel to the games, Kyle Katarn is a stalwart Imperial soldier, one of the billions who believes that the Empire really ''is'' a just government. As his last test before graduation from the Academy, he leads a squad of stormtroopers in the assault on a Rebel base. Despite heavy casualties, the battle is a success and most of the rebels are killed. Katarn is promoted and given the Imperial equivalent of a Medal of Honor at his graduation ceremony. Soon after, he is informed that his father was killed by rebels, and is given leave to grieve for him. While on a pleasure cruise, he runs into one of the rebels that he spared at the base, a woman named [[Action Girl|Jan Ors]]. Through a recording supplied by a rebel propaganda droid, she shows Kyle that the Empire was actually responsible for his father's death. Kyle's response? He doesn't say a word. He just takes the Imperial medal off of his uniform, and [[Heel Face Turn|throws it down the trash chute]].

* Back to Jedi Knight II, there's a section of Kejim where an idiot Stormtrooper sets off a volatile container near a bridge. Kyle has to cross the bridge while it starts collapsing from the damage; just as Kyle crosses it, it violently explodes. Cue this exchange:

'''Kyle:''' Just another day at work, Jan. }}

* Come on. How can people miss out on that one level where Kyle fights a bunch of Reborn alongside Luke Skywalker? The game already does a great job immersing you in the Star Wars universe and playing as a Jedi to boot. But it added icing to an already awesome cake by having you fight alongside one of your boyhood heroes as well.

 

== Miscellaneous ==

 

 

== Comic Books ==

* Pretty much the entirety of Dark Horse's ''By the Emperor's Hand'' is a Crowning Moment of Awesome for Mara Jade, especially the final arc in which she infiltrates Black Nebula's base, fools the villain of the piece into thinking she has incredible technology to help her win consistently in his casino (which he can then buy from her mysterious backers), and eventually kills him {{spoiler|with a lightsaber embedded inside a bust of [[Magnificent Bastard|Xizor]], [[Karmic Death|to whom he had been the Understudy]]}}. But the greatest crowning moment of all has to be issue three, wherein {{spoiler|Mara escapes from Ysanne Isard's clutches and makes her and all of Imperial Intelligence look like utter fools.}} Perhaps the best line to represent this moment is:

* The ''Knights Of The Old Republic'' comic series (a prequel to [[Knights of the Old Republic|the game]]) is basically a series of incredible awesome punctuated by a ridiculous number of [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moments of Awesome]]. These include:

** In the first story-arc, ''Commencement'', [[Comedic Hero|Zayne]] and [[Deadpan Snarker|Gryph]] escaping ''five'' homicidal Jedi Masters and making it into the underworld of Taris; the ''Last Resort's'' escape from the planet; the ''Last Resort's'' arrival at the Taris asteroid, rescuing [[The Hero|Zayne]] and [[Action Girl|Jarael]] from [[Broken Pedestal|Zayne's former Master]] Lucien Draay; and best of all {{spoiler|[[Big Damn Heroes|Jarael's rescue of Zayne from all five Masters]] complete with his lightsaber and ominous red spacesuit}}. Zayne even gets one in the epilogue when he {{spoiler|contacts the Masters, with little trace of the old [[Comedic Hero]] about him, and gives them a chilling [[We Will Meet Again]] speech, ending with "And if I do end up collapsing the Jedi Order, just remember one thing. You started it."}}

** In the Vindication Arc, Gryph chews out Q'Anilia for never really understanding Zayne, as well as acknowledging that Zayne's "Prophecy" was his idea, and that he was technically the Sith the masters had seen in their vision. Q'Anilia's shock was absolutely priceless.

** When Zayne tries to save Raana Tey in Knight's of Suffering; Think about it; This is the woman who helped kill his friends, framed him for murder, persauded his girlfriend to try and kill him, and who helped destroy his life more then almost all of the other masters (except Lucien). The fact that he was able to forgive her for all of that was just incredible.

* In one of the ''Star Wars: Empire'' comics, we had [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Able Able One Seven Oh Seven], a clone trooper who survived in a jungle for twenty years. That he survived is awesome itself, but he really accounted for himself well when the Rebellion and the Empire landed on his world, and later joined the Alliance.

* ''[[Star Wars Legacy]]'' issue 4 which is about a squad of Stormtroopers ends with them fighting and killing a ''Sith Lord who's armed with a force whip and lightsaber" by shooting him in the back.

** But the shooting's still not as awesome as what happen right before, when one of them, an ex-Mandalorian named Hondo Karr, picks a fight with said Sith Lord ''with a knife'', which provided the distraction for the shooting.

* Admiral Gar Stazi turn the trap laid by the Imperial fleet over its head and able to steal the Advanced Star Destroyer in ''[[Star Wars Legacy]]'' 21. Him also giving badass retort to Valan's offer to surrender also makes him living up his name of [[Badass|GAR]].

* Boba Fett clears out a flying Imperial concentration camp for a pittance, just to prove he's Boba motherfucking Fett. He even guns down the Mengele analogue who charges at him with a lightsaber, reminding him that "Jedi weapon doesn't make you Jedi". Then, when the Captain threatens to blow up the ship with them both on it, Fett just turns and walks away, promising to find and kill him later...luring the Captain out of the pilot's seat so Fett can kill him. Boba Fett is ''[[Badass]]''.

** There was also the time that Fett and Vader went [[Back-to-Back Badasses]] to slaughter a neverending wave of bounty hunters, mercenaries, and assorted scum looking to make names for themselves. Why didn't Fett join them? Because he is that rare breed of person who doesn't fear Vader, but ''respects him.''

* In ''Nomad'', Darca Nyl deflected blaster bolt with lightsaber. Seems mundane? Darca Nyl is not a Jedi, is not a force-sensitive, and has no lightsaber training whatsoever. He did it ''on pure reflex''. Also, saving a couple and their farm from a gang with a caravan brought back just in time, and giving the [[Big Bad]] a [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] with a bomb.

** And realizing that [[Good Feels Good]], and he has a reason to go on living even after killing the guy who murdered his son.

*** And that the virus is native to Concord Dawn, his homeworld, so he was inoculated in childhood, and that he ''does'' have an antidote, but it's in his ship sealed in a case rigged with a self-destruct nodule that will detonate if his heart stops beating. So Dooku better damn well agree to his demands.

** The way that Fett kills Vizsla counts, too. After a [[How Much More Can He Take?|brutal fight]] that leaves both men injured and weakened, Jango slashes Vizsla's belly open with his gauntlet blades. Vizsla, holding his guts in, snarls that a little wound like that won't kill him. To which Fett, lying back in the grass, replies no, but {{spoiler|''they'' will. Vizsla turns just in a time to see a nasty lion like creature pouncing on him}}. Cue [[Gory Discretion Shot|off panel screams]] fading away into a gurgle.

* The climax of the [[Alternate Universe]] story''Star Wars Infinites: A New Hope'' has Yoda taking control of the Death Star, shooting a ton of Imperial ships with the superlaser before finally having it [[Colony Drop]] right on Palpatine's palace.

* ''[[X Wing Series|Requiem For A Rogue]]'' is commonly seen as a weaker plot for its very [[Off-Model]] art, some rather pointless deaths, and general weirdness - however, it's hard not to find Wedge's undbending defiance in the face of the Dark Jedi who brought him back to life and could kill him effortlessly awesome.

* There's a comic story where Darth Maul is resurrected and fights Darth Vader. Maul completely outfights him, while claiming he lacks the hatred to win. As he goes to finish it, Vader activates his lightsaber so that ''it goes through him'' and Maul. Cue this exchange.

'''Darth Vader:''' {{spoiler|Myself.}} }}

* Remember Luke's brief mention of a friend named "Tank" to Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru? Tank becomes a full fledged character in the Star Wars: Empire comic series as a junior officer named Janek Sunber. One of his earliest assignments sends him to a primitive jungle world on a routine patrol. Things take a turn for the worse when the natives lay siege to them, and only Sunber's quick thinking and original strategies hold the fort. Throughout the whole arc, he's firmly cemented as a [[Badass]], but his Crowning Moment of Awesome comes when he and his unit are left stranded out in the battlefield when the group behind him retreats due to its cowardly commander. Sunber knows that if he doesn't do something, they'll all die. Spying the wreckage of one of their juggernauts, he primes a thermal detonator, noting to himself all of the ways this desperate gambit could fail. He throws the grenade, miraculously managing to place it so that it detonates the tank's fuel cells as the enemy advances, blasting them into disarray and allowing him and his soldiers to fall back.

* Captain Raymus Antilles, the captain of the ''Tantive IV'' whom Darth Vader executes at the beginning of ''[[A New Hope]]'', scores one in a prequel comic to Episode IV. A merciless Imperial officer has Leia at gunpoint and is planning to shoot her to make a point to her men. Knowing that there's no time to think, Antilles orders the gunners to fire, not at the officer, which would have vaporized Leia as well, but just ''over'' him. The shot scorches the man by mere proximity while leaving Leia completely unharmed.

* The recently released ''Agent of the Empire'', starring 'good imperial' Jahan Cross. Though only one issue has come out so far, the very concept behind it (Jahan Cross being the Star Wars equivalent of James Bond) is awesome.

** That one issue even includes a few Bond-style lines:

** Oh, and he's an old friend of {{spoiler|Han Solo}}, from their training days together at the Imperial Academy. That's almost makes Agent Cross a Moment of Awesome simply by association.

** Even the text on the front cover comes across as awesome:

 

 

** Another ''[[New Jedi Order]]'' example: Ganner at the well of the World Brain: "[[You Shall Not Pass|None shall pass]]."

** Yet another NJO example: Admiral Pellaeon, Thrawn's former [[Bastard Understudy]] gets to deliver this line:

** In a terrific callback, in the ''Hand of Thrawn'' series taking place ten years later, Lando tries the same escape tactic against a Star Destroyer, musing that it had worked so well for Luke ten years earlier... and the Star Destroyer counters it effortlessly. The new lieutenant obviously did his job.

** The man even dies with a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. After spending 3 books being an undefeatable master strategist obsessed with the artwork of the species that he's so handily defeating, he's killed simply by a knife stabbed into his back by his bodyguard. Pure white uniform, crimson blossom of blood..

** He gets a great moment when Joruus takes over his flagship to go capture Leia on Coruscant. Thrawn asks if he has the power to do it and C'baoth asks him if he doubts the power of the Force. Thrawn's response is pure [[Magnificent Bastard]].

* The ''X-Wing'' novels have their share, with a prominent one being in ''The Bacta War:'' when the SSD Lusankya realizes that over three hundred proton torpedoes and concussion missiles are locked on it. Stackpole's dialogue left a lot to be desired, but that moment oozed "win."

** Ysanne Isard nicking the ''Lusankya'' out from its hiding place -- ''from underneath [[Oh Crap|Imperial City]]''. [[Stuff Blowing Up|KA-BOOOOM.]] Iceheart, you [[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent Bitch]], I read your ''book!''

** [[Crazy Awesome|Lara Notsil.]]:

''Signed, White Lancer.'' }}

*** But the fact that a book later she almost single-handedly brings down Warlord Zsinj from within his flagship, fools him into a losing gambit, eliminates his alien experimentation program and frees the prisoners, and then has the gall to send a message to General Solo and the rest of the New Republic fleet right under his nose is truly a reason to punch the air and cheer.

*** She'd be a [[Mary Sue]] if not for her very believable character flaws and development (such as borderline insanity, and it getting worse, not better) and the fact that she doesn't completely take over the story, still allowing Wedge and the other heroes to play their parts and achieve victory. Instead she just comes across as an utterly cool and admirable role model (natch, for a [[Star Wars]] woman), and all this after doing a [[Heel Face Turn]].

'''Wedge''': "Write that down. That should be the Wraith Squadron slogan." }}

** Another moment occurs in ''Wedge's Gamble'', where Wedge and the future Mrs. Winter Celchu hijack a solar mirror orbiting Coruscant from the ground and turn it into a [[Kill Sat]], with spectacular results. The reactions of the hapless mirror crew are just icing on the cake at this point. Say what you will about Stackpole's writing style, but the man knows how to do [[Stuff Blowing Up]] properly.

** In ''Wraith Squadron'', Kell Tainer and Runt use false signals to trick the enemy into thinking that the ''Millennium Falcon'' happens to be damaged and escaping the hidden Folor base being raided. They pull this off long enough to let the last of the personnel transports escape... and then mock the Imperial captain over an open channel.

*** Later in the same book, Voort "Piggy" saBinring boards an enemy craft solo armed with only a jury-rigged starfighter laser cannon and captures it ''all by himself''.

**** Not that inconsiderable, considering that Piggy is a 2 meter tall (tall as Chewbacca) much-wider [[Pig Man|porcine]] killing machine, and said laser cannon is powerful enough to make all the water in your body flashboil instantly, effectively making you into a wet explosion and passing right on through you like a rock through wet kleenex.

**** That's exactly ''why'' it's a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].

**** Piggy also scored a another [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in Solo Command, when he was in a meeting with Admiral Ackbar. A lieutenant came into the room, brainwashed by the Big Bad, shot Piggy in the stomach, before turning to attack the admiral. Piggy, with a massive burnt gut wound, pulled out his vibroknife, and cut the lieutenant's blaster apart. When the lieutenant didn't even care and started to strangle of the Admiral, Piggy ''picked up the Admiral's desk, and rammed the desk against the wall'', causing not only the brainwashed lieutenant's head to smush, but ''to bow out the other side of the wall, knocking unconscious the ensign leaning on the other side''.

*** ''[[X Wing Series|Starfighers of Adumar]]'' was ''awesome''. Remember that point where Red Flight was [[Last Starfighter|outnumbered four to thirty?]]

*** Lately I read it again and found a quieter one where Wedge finally tells one of the [[Blood Sport]]-obsessed Adumari that what they see as honor ''is not honorable''. Since then, I haven't been able to hold any [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] in high respect.

** There's a Moment of Awesome for ''the entire squadron'' in ''[[X Wing Series|The Krytos Trap]]'' after they're told they won't be able to help the people of Thyferra or go after the prisoners aboard ''Lusankya''. Led by Corran Horn, {{spoiler|the entire squdron goes on to ''quit so they can go ahead and do it anyway.''}}

** Speaking of Horn... Just off hand, I can remember TWO incidents in which he essentially comes back from the dead. The first time, during the first X-Wing book, he winds up being saved by a ship that travels much faster than an X-Wing in hyperspace, so not only does he get back home before the rest of the squadron (who, unwillingly, left him to die) but he decides to play a prank on his superior officer with a "Don't feel guilty about leaving me behind" speech. Even coming back from the dead in time to {{spoiler|save Tycho from wrongful imprisonment/execution}} doesn't top that.

*** Then there's Horn taking on what is essentially a cruiser which decided to take [[More Dakka]] to the extreme, dodging twenty turrets just like those mounted on the Millenium Falcon while his own allies fired twenty four missiles at him. He kills the ship by getting close to the cruiser and putting it between his fighter and the missiles just as they catch up to him.

**** Horn's Astromech 'Whistler' gets his own [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] there. One of the pilots shot his missiles off too late, so Horn was still going to bite it, just from the allies and not the enemy. He tries to dodge, and finds that the randomisation program he'd had his droid enact to make his movements more erratic meant it was impossible for him to dodge. His reaction? "Whistler! Cut it out!". "Horn then realised that by using the indefinite term "it" he was going to die". Queue a debriefing session later, with Horn very much alive. "When I said cut "it" out, I'd meant the randomisation program. Whistler, being a little more direct in his problem solving, just cut the signal the missiles were using to track me".

** Face Loran gets a simlutaneous [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] and CMOF while impersonating Imperial Captain [[Small Name, Big Ego|Darillian]]. His cover almost, ''almost'' slips in front of [[Big Bad|Admiral Trigit]], but he keeps it in place just barely with a totally [[Large Ham|OTT monologue]] about Darillian's unrequited love for '''Ysanne Isard.'''

** This leads to the second one, where the Wraiths are discovered in a battle, as having been faking Darillian. They destroy all the enemy forces, and turn back aground, reporting to the superiors that they were ambushed, and brilliantly escaped as the only survivors. Since they people who discovered the deception were at the battle, they kept cover. Repeat: They murdered the enemy forces. Turned around, and claimed it was an ambush that only they survived. This is right up there with succesfully arguing for someone to take sympathy that you're an orphan, when you just murdered your parents!

* In ''[[Shadows of the Empire]]'', [[The Rival|Xizor]] manages to make ''Darth Vader'' look like an idiot ''in front of the'' '''Emperor'''. To elaborate: Xizor tips off Vader about a Rebel base. Vader takes credit for it in front of the Emperor. Vader is sent off to pulverise said Rebel base. Xizor drops in on the Emperor for drinks and casually mentions giving the info to Vader. Vader phones in to report mission accomplished. The Emperor makes Vader ''thank'' Xizor. While ''[[Humiliation Conga|kneeling]]''.

** Fortunately, Vader gets his own back when he turns up evidence that Xizor is behind the assassination attempts on [[Papa Wolf|Luke Skywalker]].

'''Vader''': You may keep the title. [[[Dramatic Pause]]] For another two minutes. }}

** Luke, Lando, Chewie, Leia and Dash Rendar all get one for this scene. The group is racing through Xizor's Palace trying to rescue the kidnapped Leia, only to find that she's freed herself. The race starts to escape, but at the same time, Xizor has figured out exactly where they are by watching the disruption of security camera feeds on each level. The rebels are forced into a small room under an overwhelming storm of blasterfire. They're all prepared to make a heroic [[Last Stand]] when they remember some of the equipment they bought ahead of time...and come out of the room holding an [[Mexican Standoff|active thermal detonator]].

*** Then Lando gets his own after the group has threatened their way out of the hopeless situation. Lando pulls out the ''second'' detonator, and Xizor sneers at him, saying "You can't blow us up any more with another of those." Lando just grins, sets the timer for five minutes, and drops it down the garbage chute into the basement. Cue hysteria as all of Xizor's [[Mooks]] essentially tell him to piss off and scramble for the exits.

** In the Tales from the New Republic anthology, Fett takes on an entire Imperial garrison to recover a target he is after - although the quarry escapes. Years later, Fett finds him as an old man, telling stories about Boba Fett to a group of orphans (one of whom asks if Fett is a good guy or a bad guy). After the story is over and the children leave, Fett emerges from the shadows, [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|tips the man for his story (saying it may provide "an answer to a little girl's question") and leaves him in peace]].

*** Not just a tip. A credit chit worth tens of thousands of credits--equaling the exact bounty that had been placed on the man's head. This story, written before the prequel movies, also becomes [[Fridge Brilliance]] in light of [[Attack of the Clones]], when you see why Boba Fett has a soft spot for orphans.

'''Jacen''': ''Yes. I'm a Jedi.'' }}

** Jacen's best [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] occurs earlier in Traitor, actually, and I can't believe everyone seems to have missed it: when he makes the living armor out of amphistaffs and looks at the Yuuzhan Vong warriors headed towards him, with the immortal line, "I'd like you to meet some friends of mine." Followed by a fantastic [[Curb Stomp Battle]].

* Jaina Solo actually got one in ''[[New Jedi Order|The New Jedi Order]]'', back when the Expanded Universe's current female disenfranchisement complex was still in its infancy. At the climax of ''Destiny's Way'', {{spoiler|she took on Yuuzhan Vong [[The Dragon|Warmaster Tsavong Lah]], with the final result that her lightsaber ended up embedded in his neck}}.

* Minor example in ''The New Rebellion'':

'''Han''': I know. I'm counting on it. }}

** Bigger example from ''[[The New Rebellion]]'': Wedge, in command of a small taskforce going up against Imperial Star Destroyers, realizes the enemy ships are controlled by droids, and tricks the primitive AI into thinking he's on their side. They move into a defensive position, and then Wedge gives the all-clear to let 'er rip.

*** Bel Iblis himself gets one just before it - when the conspirators have trapped his borrowed Star Destroyer and foiled the plan to save the New Republic from civil war, his reaction is to [[Ramming Always Works|prepare to ram them]].

*** Mara also had one in ''Vision of the Future'': {{spoiler|remote-control crashing her personal ship, the ''Jade's Fire'', into the Hand of Thrawn complex's hangar bay}}.

* Chapter 11 of ''Inferno'': Luke finally calling out Jacen on [[Character Derailment|all the stuff he did during the course of the series]], including the massacre of the Jedi Academy earlier in the book + basically telling Ben to go assassinate the former leader of the Alliance, and ''literally rendering him immobile'' during the conversation (Jacen was force-pushed into his chair and pinned there). Keep in mind that Luke is still grieving over his wife's death and doesn't yet know the full details of that duel.

** I want to point out here that Mara ''did'' find out all this, and it led her to her death in the already-mentioned duel (read ''Sacrifice'' for that), but not without a [[Tear Jerker|tearjerking]] [[Final Speech]]:

* In the very next novel, Fury, we have Jagged Fel tricking Alema Rar into force-snatching his blaster. We then find out it's set to explode if it's taken from him...

** Lando pulled a similar trick in ''Exile'' in which Alema steals his cane...at which point he orders it to shock her.

** From that same book, Wedge Antilles in a ''damaged'' droidless ship taking down ''an entire squadron of coralskippers''. An entire squadron! By himself! ''Jedi'' can only do that when they have superior firepower or tricks! Blackmoon Eleven: The Greatest Pilot Of All Time.

*** Made even awesomer (and a CMOF) by current Rogue Squadron (Wedge's old command) Leader Gavin Darklighter (a pilot Wedge trained way back when) not knowing who he's talking to and having the following discussion with his old CO:

''Gavin: Son, if you develop piloting skills in proportion to your nerve, someday they'll call you [[Irony|the greatest pilot of all time]].'' }}

** Wedge in general is win in that duology. He's consistently, intensely brilliant, [[Xanatos Speed Chess|quick on his feet]], able to see through deceptions, and daring.

* Alan Dean Foster's ''The Approaching Storm'' has one for Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luminara Unduli, and Barris Offee, when they have to entertain a group of Ansionian trader nomads as part of their diplomatic mission. Barris performs some stunning lightsaber gymnastics, Anakin sings a beautiful melody his mother used to sing him, Obi-Wan tells a spellbinding story, and Luminara does a sand show that ends up with her floating a meter above the ground with a virtual sandstorm swirling around her.

** They all get another one towards the end when the four of them take on ''two'' armies of rival Ansionians, defeating both, ''[[Technical Pacifist|without killing a single combatant]]''.

** There's also one for Mon Mothma, where she basically calls Luke out for acting like Leia's the only one who's missed her calling by not becoming a Jedi, and assuming there isn't anything he might be able to learn from her.

** The third book, ''Showdown at Centerpoint'' has a series of [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Crowning Moments Of Awesome]] for Anakin, Jacen and Jaina, ages 7, 9 and 9, respectively. New Republic Intelligence agent Belindi Kalenda sums the list up nicely for the childist Admiral Ossilege:

** And, of course, when [[Lost Superweapon|Centerpoint Station]] is about to fire a blast that will kill upwards of eight billion people, seven-year-old Anakin manages to align the repulsor and intercept Centerpoint's shot [[Just in Time|at the last possible moment]]. Even as a little kid, that boy was [[Badass]].

** Don't forget, Han manages to bring an obsolete ship to a survivable landing, if not the most graceful. Bear in mind that half the systems were blown out, and he had to blow some more to make this work.

** Highlights include taking ''himself'' hostage to reason with his wayward former apprentice, Depa Billaba and getting his butt kicked by Kar Vastor and [[Xanatos Gambit|still coming out ahead]]. At the end, {{spoiler|he incapacitates Vastor with a telekinetically thrown shield, having previously (with the help of the clones and Nick) killed all Vastor's [[Elite Mooks]]. Depa is down and catatonic. Nick Rostu is down and badly wounded. Mace remarks "Looks like I'm the last one standing."}}

*** [[Sidekick]] Nick Rostu also gets one just before that. {{spoiler|Vastor is down, but Depa has finally snapped. Despite Mace's pleading, she raises her lightsaber to her temple. Before she activate it and put a blade directly through her brain, Nick--who up to that point appeared dead--summons enough strength and accuracy to ''shoot the handle out of her hand''}}. That Nick is quite the [[Badass]], and furthermore {{spoiler|he lives}}.

** In the first instance, she and Luke have just infiltrated the Shadow Academy. Tamith Kai confronts her and with one kick to the kneecap, sends her down. Second instance, she and Lowbacca storm a battle platform. She uses the Force to deflect away lightning, tosses her lightsaber into the air and nails a TIE bomber overhead, sending it crashing down, but not before kicking Tamith Kai's ass again-with a single palm strike to her chest.

*** Made even better by that damaged TIE bomber crashing into Kai's hovercraft, killing her, just after Tenel Ka dived overboard.

*** Automatically a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] purely for the term "Nostril of Palpatine".

* ''[[Jedi Academy Trilogy|I, Jedi]]'' is full of them.

** When Corran takes on Exar Kun and is all but broken from being utterly [[Mind Rape|Mind Raped]], Mara Jade strolls in like a [[Big Damn Heroes|Big Damn Hero]] and saves him by giving Kun an ''epic'' [[Shut UP, Hannibal]] / [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]. The most delectable part is when she reels off [[The Long List]] of every Imperial baddie she's ever worked with / against, and describes how they would have thought Kun -- the undying, ancient Sith Master -- to be a ''total incompetent.''

** The way he teaches Remart Sasyru the art of the clever comeback.

** His whole campaign to break the pirates' morale.

** Chak Fel's painful humility. He doesn't want to give up command, particularly to General Drask, but he's a pilot, not a commando officer, and Drask can command more effectively. Doubled when Drask tells Fel it will be a joint command, for no reason other than that it will let Fel keep a little of his pride.

** Dean Jinzler, overlapping with [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], letting go of his anger for his sister and embracing his heritage.

* Joruus C'Baoth had a few. First up was his opinion on "Power" speech. Next up was using the force to reconfigure a person's mind. Then finally, outsmarting Thrawn and managing to what was basically seizing control of Wayland.

* In the collaborative [[Timothy Zahn]] - Michael Stackpole novella ''Side Trip'', Grand Admiral Thrawn returns from the Unknown Regions to play dress-up as Jodo Kast, destroy Black Sun's influence on Corellia, and get command of the Noghri from Darth Vader. None of the [[The Ishmael|viewpoint characters]] know who he is or what he's doing; they think he's a bounty hunter going with the money. But the readers know, and can piece together what he's doing, and it is ''awesome''.

* This troper is generally uninterested at best in ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'', but finds the things an older Wedge Antilles gets up to to be completely, utterly awesome.

** In ''Betrayal'' he breaks out of an (admittedly cushy and low-security, but still monitored) prison cell using a tumbler of water, a video game, and a wheeled chair. By planning carefully, memorizing how his captors respond to what he does, timing things to the half-second, and moving very quickly when he gets the chance. After that he locks his captors and the security detail into that cell and thinks that now all he has to do is find a locker room, shed these clothes and substitute them for a local uniform, find a hangar, and steal something with a hyperdrive. All while evading members of Intelligence. He calls this task ''Easy'' - and it must have been, since his next appearance has him in an X-Wing, easily evading every attack coming at him. And identifying his attacker as his daughter ''because of her flying style'', despite not knowing that she would be there.

'''Wedge''': "Of course you can. You could also have me assassinated in a time of peace for having nicer hair than you. If I worried about that sort of thing, I'd never get any sleep." }}

** In ''Exile'', he meets with Jacen, who can't get a good sense of him through the Force - just an impression of confidence and patience. Later he gets fired from being the Admiral controlling the Corellian military because he's too moral, too willing to seek peace and strongly against assassinating good rulers to put bad ones who like Corellia in their place. He makes a complex decision in a quarter second. For a moment he feels panic, but realizes that he's now a target for assassination, which ''calms him down'', so he is able to compose himself and give a smile "like he was a rancor and they were meat". Then he considers the situation, realizes that it would wrap up his story in a narratively tidy way if he was killed just after formally handing his power over to his replacement, and works with his wife, daughter, and family friends to avoid that.

* In ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy|Dark Force Rising]]'' Leia single-handedly blows open the Empire's [[Moral Event Horizon|horrifyingly cynical]] [[Evil Plan|scam]] to secure their supply of [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|Noghri]] commandos <ref>Their planet was poisoned by a spaceship crashing during the Clone Wars, and then the Empire made it permanent by secretly modifying the inedible plants so that nothing else would grow. ''Then'' they turn around and demand tribute in the form of Noghri commandos in exchange for ''very slowly'' cleaning the world of the damage they caused. Assholes.</ref>. The sheer righteous fury radiating off of Leia is something to behold.

** Between Leia and her brother, in terms of their jobs and talents, Luke takes more after their father, Leia after their mother. In terms of temperament and ego, it's the other way around. Luke isn't very good at righteous fury - and the Noghri don't pick ''him'' as the mal'ary'ush, heir to Vader's power.

** Speaking of politics, the way she and Karrde manage to stop her main opponent's political career in the midst of a battle and save the other main characters (including her husband and her brother) from getting killed at the same time, also qualifies.

* IG-88 '''becoming''' the Death Star II in Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88. [[Magnificent Bastard|And then he takes it a step further by opening and shutting doors in front of]] ''Palpatine'', [[For the Evulz|just to screw with him]].

** Boba Fett steals the show, however. An IG-88 assassin droid is an armored one-ton droid outfitted from head to toe with blasters, knives, and grenades, and even without those it can still rip people apart with its bare hands. It is bulletproof, fireproof, and has a mind as fast as a supercomputer. Fett casually takes one down with a simple EMP trap, ''disassembles'' it, and [[Undignified Death|throws the parts in the junk heap.]]

** In the same series, the trial of {{spoiler|Tahiri}} is becoming more and more of a farce, and it begins to seem impossible that she will not be executed. Despite easily being capable of breaking out at any time, {{spoiler|Tahiri}} refuses to do so, because it would mean turning her back once more on the Light Side.

** How can the showdown between Luke and the Hidden One not be mentioned? Luke manages to show the hidden sect the folly of their isolation, beat the Hidden One in a massive Force battle, and then has his son finish him off with logic! Pure win.

** In ''Allies'', Raynar Thul, perpetual [[Butt Monkey]], executes a awesome one-liner before fighting off five Mandalorian Supercommandos off with a apprentice:

** Luke, after meditating for several days (and being quite weak), notices a strike team of Sith Warriors coming to kill him and his son. What do they do? [[Curb Stomp Battle|Take them all down.]]

*** The battle ends with Luke, in a single, split-second opening, cutting the leader of the Sith strike team (with powers and skills the equivalent of a Jedi Master) ''into four pieces.'' She looked away ''for an instant'' and that was all she wrote.

** In ''Conviction'', Leia runs to find Allana, who she realizes is acting in accordance with some prophetic dreams she (Allana)'s been having. This leads to Leia having to save Allana's hide from a Sith Saber (Equivalent of a Jedi Knight) leading a force trying to kill her and her mother. The Saber is twenty years Leia's junior, younger, stronger, and quite likely more experienced in combat. In about twenty ''seconds'', [[Curb Stomp Battle|he is decapitated without a second thought]].

* The novel ''[[Darth Plagueis]]'' is a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for [[The Dark Side]] itself.

== [[Western Animation]] ==

 

* The entirety of the intro to the first episode. Various scenes of the Republic winning battles.

* General Grievous' debut episode, where he slaughters an entire Republic army, then dispatches five Jedi single-handedly.

** Actually, it's hardly single-handedly. He ''is'' using ''three'' light sabers, wielding them with his arms and ''one foot''!

** One of those Jedi, however, gets his [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] in the next episode, when a ARC Trooper team comes to the scene, and find him still holding Grievous to a standstill after dueling for god knows how long.

** [[Up To Elven|Reaches new levels in the final two episodes]], where he essentially proves himself to be the ''Star Wars'' equivalent of the [[Terminator]] (with lightsabres), the Crowning Moment being when his two sabres are locked with those of the two Jedi he's fighting, and he simply reveals his second pair of arms, draws two ''more'' sabres, and kills them in seconds.

* Shaak Ti gets her crowning moment when she evades Grievous by using the Force to tie his cloak to a passing train. Then she pulls a [[You Shall Not Pass]] so the other Jedi can escort Chancellor Palpatine to safety, and proceeds to fight 30 Magnaguard droids to a standstill.

* The series also gives us Asajj Ventress killing an entire arena full of gladiators, Count Dooku then totally outclassing ''her'' in a lightsaber duel, Durge [[Foe-Tossing Charge|swatting aside dozens of clone troopers]], Obi-Wan ''[[Your Head Asplode|exploding]]'' Durge from the inside, Yoda using the Force to elevate ''hundreds'' of droids right into the path of oncoming fighters, followed by causing two massive ships carrying thousands of droids to collide, Anakin demonstrating his legendary piloting skills by destroying an entire weapons platform and hundreds of fighters by himself, Roron Corobb stopping Grievous in his tracks using only his ''voice'', along with many less notable (but still awesome) moments from the [[Elite Mooks|ARC troopers]].

* I'm just gonna try to list a few from the ARC troopers. Ahem: Walking out of their crashed gunship like they've rehearsed it, taking down droid snipers with an X-ray scope and rocket launcher, massacreing droids by the dozen, one taking down an AAT by himself while carrying nothing but a rifle, planting bombs all over a massive artillery cannon and destroying it, blowing Durge's armor right off his body with a hail of fire, revealing two rifles that can only be described as [[More Dakka]], frightening off General Grievous himself in a gunship that has the best. paintjob. ever. Oh, and remember that one clone holding a point almost by himself before Yoda arrives during the battle of Coruscant? That's their leader, a few years later. Hell, even their uniforms were [[Badass Longcoat|badass.]]

 

The movie:

* Anakin:

* What does it say about the series when [[The Scrappy|Jar Jar]] gets a Crowning Moment Of Awesome courtesy of a cloak borrowed from Anakin and an unexpected friendship with a swamp monster?

** Get ''another'' one in a later episode were he takes out three tanks by himself, and it's not because he's [[Obfuscating Stupidity|clumsy]]

* Two Words: DROID FIGHT!

* [[Heroic Sacrifice|"Do we take prisoners?" "I don't..." * boom* ]]

** And it ''works''!

** ''(blasts the ceiling)'' "'''Everybody quiet!''' I've got a call to make."

* ''Downfall of a Droid'': Firing on spaceships with ''walkers'' on a nearby asteroid.

* In ''Cargo of Doom'' Anakin has the walkers ''land on the enemy ship.''

* ''Dooku Captured'':

* ''The Gungan General'': Opens with {{spoiler|Obi-Wan and Anakin unconscious in a cell.}} The corresponding webcomic reveals {{spoiler|Turk successfully [[Out-Gambitted]] on two of the best Jedi knights in the galaxy. When they switched out their drugged drinks, ''his pet'' simply poisoned ''all the air in the room''.}}

** Do we even need the webcomic? According to the show itself, {{spoiler|ALL of the drinks were drugged, as everyone with a drink started to pass out before it cut to commercials.}}

* From the latest episode, ''Landing at Point Rain'' is a massive Crowning Moment of Awesome. {{spoiler|First off, we see the largest fleet seen in the series of 13 Republic ships (four ''Venator''-class Star Destroyers and nine ''Acclamator''-class Assault Ships) and its clear that ''this is just the first wave'' coming in to attack Geonosis. Then the landings come in, and there are ''hundreds'' perhaps ''thousands'' of landing craft launched for the attack. Its like a scene out of 'Saving Private Ryan', with landing craft being blown out of the sky as they desperately try to get to the staging zone. Anakin's, Ki-adi-Mundi's, and Obi-wan's landing craft are shot down and Anakin's and Mundi's troops have to make it through ''on foot', with Mundi's going through a dangerous cave system filled with Geonosians and Anakin's having to fight through a massive wall fortress. Obi-Wan's crashed in the landing zone, and while injured and on his back, he leads his troops who formed into a wagon train formation to fight the superior numbers of enemy soldiers. Long story short, Anakin's and Mundi's troops make it through with heavy casualties, Anakin's had destroyed the fortress and Mundi's had made some roast geonosian shish ca'bobs. And then when it looked like Obi-wan's troops were overwhelmed, a squadron of Y-Wings came down, dispatched by Admiral Yularen and bombed the shit out of the droids and geonosians. Then Anakin leads the charge through the ray shield, destroys the artillery to let the tanks through which blow the shit out of the shield. Episode ends with Anakin, Ahsoka's, and Ki-adi Mundi's kills-55, 60, and 65 respectfully.}}

* Pre Vizsla the leader of Deathwatch, pulling out a ''[[Rule of Cool|black bladed lightsaber]]'' then proving why Mandalorians are the [[Badass Normal|Badass Normals]] of Star Wars by dueling Obi-wan.

* Embo. Every single thing he does.

* [[Badass Adorable|Bo]][[Future Badass|ba]] [[Memetic Badass|Fe]][[Badass|tt]]. First by showing up at all, then by making a succesful plan to kill Mace Windu {{spoiler|which would have worked were it not for plain old dumb luck}} and then he singlehandedly crashed a republic battle cruiser, all without anybody knowing who he is.

* "R2 Come Home". Not only does {{spoiler|Artoo casually push boxes...then a ''grenade'' down on the Hunters, he then proceeds to take out a creature that Obi-Wan and Anakin ''combined'' had trouble dealing with, in about the space of five minutes. The best part is when the giant creature hold him up by the dome and looks at him, and he sprays oil at it. Not enough range. Then he extends his manipulators like he's trying to ''poke him in the eye.'' Artoo tries to ''poke'' a creature bigger than a Jedi Starfighter!}}

* While not as incredible as her battles in the other series were, Shaak Ti had a quick one in ''ARC Troopers'' where she single-handedly cut down five heavily-armored droids in about 10 seconds.

'''Ima-Gun Di''': Then let's make the end memorable! }}

** And their battle cry earlier; "For the Rebuplic! For the Twi'Leks!" [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|General Di]] is making their last stand because He'd promised the Twi'Leks emergency aid and it hadn't come. [[I Gave My Word|This is his way of saying sorry for somebody else being incompetent]].

** Savage Force-choking Ventress and Dooku, fighting Anakin and Obi-Wan to a standstill, and destroying over a dozen droids with a single Force wave, ''after'' they had repeatedly shot him.

* CHEWBACCA!!!!!!

* In season 4, Anakin takes down a sensor station by using The Force while swimming.

* {{spoiler|Tarpals'}} [[Heroic Sacrifice]], made so that the Gungans can take down Grievous.

{{spoiler|'''Tarpals'''}}: Not dying. ''Sacrifice''! }}

* Captain Rex's speech to [[General Ripper|General Pong Krell]] in "Darkness on Umbara".

* "The General" has Fives and Hardcase hijacking two Umbaran starfighters, then using them to destroy the enemy tanks.

* Rex leads his troopers {{spoiler|to arrest Krell after Krell tricked them into attacking each other}}. Even if it wasn't particularly well thought-out and {{spoiler|Krell}} killed a ton of troopers, they ''brought him down''.

* The whole Umbara arc might be a crowning moment of awesome to [[Dee Bradley Baker]] as well, since he spends the whole arc [[Talking to Himself]].

* Obi-Wan deliberately taking a beating from the Zygerrian D'Nar in "Kidnapped" in order to distract him while Anakin and Ahsoka deactivate the bombs planted all over the Togrutan colony of Kiros.

** The whole conclusion to the Zygerrian arc. Watching [[Complete Monster|cruel slavers]] get what they deserve is always satisfying.

* Ahsoka decapitating four Mandalorain Death Watch ''at once'', then proceeding to duel Pre Vizla long enough that the entire fight became a draw and escaping the entirity of Death Watch's forces. And this being lead up by disrupting the Death Watch as it was trying to torch a town of locals [[For the Evulz]] by grabbing a rake and using it as a quarterstaff. Plus she impaled a guy on the roof using a makeshift spear.

* Anakin taking on the Daughter and the Son on Mortis, faced with the choice of saving Ahsoka or Obi-Wan, and told that he could only save one of them. What does he do? Take advantage of the fact that the planet ''was the Force'', ''[[Take a Third Option|saves Obi-Wan AND Ahsoka,]]'', then defeats both the Son and Daughter in a [[Curb Stomp Battle]] with nothing more than the Force. Complete with [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|A:tLA]]-like voice effects for Anakin.

* Anakin's fight with Cad Bane on top of a moving ship in "Friends and Enemies" was pretty good, too. It was ultimately a battle in Anakin's favor, but Bane survived a lot longer than he would have normally, and might actually have done some damage if Rako Hardeen (Obi-Wan in disguise) hadn't been covertly sabotaging the fight by rocking the ship.

* Obi-Wan Kenobi and {{spoiler|Asajj Ventress}} vs. {{spoiler|Darth Maul}} and Savage Opress. That is all.

* "Wookiee Hunt" has a moment where Jinx successfully Mind Tricks a Trandoshan. Granted, he needed [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Chewbacca's help]] in [[Percussive Maintenance|getting the Trandoshan's brain to cooperate]], but still. This is a tricky technique. It took Ahsoka a while to master it, and she's been getting formal, consistent Force training since her early childhood...and even now, when she's the most skilled and educated Force-user on the island, she's ''still'' not volunteering to do it. Jinx had his training broken off before he even ''became'' a Padawan, he's likely been on the island long enough to have only minimal memory of what training he ''did'' get, and he ''still'' Mind Tricks a member of a notoriously strong-minded race. Not bad for a one-arc character.

== Fan Work ==

* [http://www.ryanvsdorkman.com/ The Ryan vs. Dorkman] films. No plot, no relevance to greater franchise: just two nerds, two lightsabers, and some of the best choreography and cinematography in recent history. Plus, the first duel counts as a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Ryan Wieber, who, partially on the strength of the SFX work showcased therein, was eventually [[Ascended Fanboy|hired by LucasArts]].

* While [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esUnYDeoW6s this] may not be as impressive a battle as some of the previously mentioned fanworks, it has one quote that is truly badass.

* Well, if we're mentioning fanworks, then we ''gotta'' bring up ''[[Darths and Droids]]'', simply for making Jar-Jar ''likable''.

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZM4Hkw5CPk Concrete Hustle]. SERIOUSLY.

* The Brotherhood of Shadow mod for [[Knights of the Old Republic]]. Full voicing, an incredible plot, three recruitable characters. Playable flashbacks to the raid on Mandalore's ship, the Star Forge hunt, the and Battle of Taris. A wonderful [[Anti-Villain]] for your antagonist, [[Redemption Equals Death]], [[The Power of Love]]...it is the king of Game Mods.

 

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