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== General ==
* How many of you have been sitting around, possibly watching the show in question, and thought, "Wow. That robot had some cool moves. I should look up the animations for the moves in that one Super Robot Wars game." Then an hour later after you've watched that robot's moves in six or so different games, you go on to watch the moves of a whole bunch of different robots just because you're doing it anyway?
* This series is so awesome it just got one in 2011 before the newest game cames out. Why is that you ask? {{spoiler|[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] IS GOING TO DEBUT IN [[Super Robot Wars Z]] 2!}}
** Screw that. '''[[Armored Trooper VOTOMS|VOTOMS]] IS COMING'''.
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** It's amazing that the Internet doesn't break down by sheer awesomeness from the news that '''2nd SRWOG will release in August, featuring casts from SRWD, released for [[Play Station 3]].'''
** And now [[Gigantor|Tetsujin 28 Go]] is coming too!
** Just about everything about Saisei-hen's second PV. {{spoiler|Rand and Setsuko are back}}, most of the old units' strongest moves are back (some gaining new moves even), and [[
* We should probably first point out that many units' strongest attacks or [[Combination Attack|Combination Attacks]] are actually taken from a Crowning Moment in their own series.
** Special mention goes to the Go Nagai team of Grendizer, Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger, and Getter Robo performing the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfEIAKpJP14 Final Dynamic Special].
* A behind-the-scenes one: during negotiations to license ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' for SRW, some Gainax executives were reluctant to give permission because they were worried having Eva [[Super-Deformed]] would be bad for its image. When Hideaki Anno, Eva's director, learned of this, he got pissed and delivered a verbal bitchslap to the execs along the lines of "No one is going to prevent ''my'' Eva from fighting alongside the likes of ''[[Mazinger Z|Mazinger]]'' and ''[[Getter Robo|Getter]]''!"
** Anno got another one more recently: As soon as ''[[Gurren Lagann]]'' became available, he called up SRW director Takanobu Terada - at roughly 2 in the morning - and asked "So, do you still have any room left for ''Gurren Lagann'' in your games?" Seriously.
== Classic Timeline ==
* Shinji Ikari, if [[Took a Level
** Speaking of Shinji, one can't forget that classic scene when he's put in Amuro's shoes of being scolded and Bright Slapped by Bright. Complete with the immortal line word-by-word, "You hit me! Not even my dad hits me!" and the [[Took a Level
== SRW Alpha ==
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* In [[Super Robot Wars Alpha]], the Third Angel is making short work of Neo-Tokyo 3 when a man in a snappy suit and a cigar steps out, and manages to fight the Godzilla-sized monster to a standstill with his bare hands. That man is [[Giant Robo|Alberto The Shockwave]].
** Later, when fighting a different Angel, the [[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam|Victory Gundam]] battleship ''Reinforce Jr.'' actually manages to kill it, leaving its captain stunned that it worked and everyone else wondering what the hell just happened.
*** For the record, only the Evangelion people and the captain himself are truly surprised. Everyone else just puts another notch onto the leaderboard, under ''Bright Noah''.
** From the second game, Ibis has an amazing one, when a major villain from [[Mobile Suit Gundam]] strafes the party with his exceptionally powerful and large Mobile Armor...and then proceeds to get his ass kicked by her when she appears in her transforming fighter and strafes the hell out of his Mobile Armor.
*** Hell, she has a lot more. Ibis going through massive [[Character Development]] right before her [[Mid-Season Upgrade]] (which consists of hefty stat boosts to her and her mech) by gathering up her [[Heroic Resolve]]. Up till that point, she has been suffering from truly low self-esteem from her past. Her managing to get over the past and ''then'' pulling off the Maneuver [[Gr AMX]], the same maneuver that caused her so much hell, is this and a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]].
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** ''Alpha 2'' also gave Musashi an epic moment. The Getter team is bound along with a set of hostages, and the villains are threatening to kill them should the Alpha Numbers approach. Musashi approaches in Black Getter and causes enough trouble for the Dinosaur Empire's emperor, Goll, to come out and deal with him personally. Undeterred, Musashi then performs his classic Daisetsuzan-Oroshi on Goll and throws him far away from the hostages. Declaring he's won, Gaogaigar then arrives with the Dividing Driver to separate the fight from the hostages, leaving the Alpha Numbers free to give Goll a righteous smackdown.
* For this Troper, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXn2S3hYFOY the opening of SRW Alpha 3] definitely counts. The entire thing is a jaw dropping spectacle of the Alpha numbers taking on an invading army. What really sold it for me was at the end when they manage to break on through to the other side, only to find themselves overwhelmingly outnumbered, to the point that you can barely see the background for all the enemies flying in it. All of the Alpha's look around in disbelief, until the camera zooms in on Mazinger Z. Which clenches its fist and ''charges'' at the enemy full tilt, inspiring the other Alphas to follow suit. The only thing that could make it more awesome was if JAM Project was rocking out a song while it happened.
* In Alpha 3, following the [[Tear Jerker]] ending of ''[[GaoGaiGar|GaoGaiGar FINAL]]'', {{spoiler|all of the Alpha numbers are trapped, apparently forever, in an interdimensional void, with only enough power to send two small children back to Earth. They're not even going to bring back help - none of the team has any hope of that - just to tell their story to the people they saved}}. To make matters worse, a villain with the ability to teleport into and out of the void at will has decided to put them out of their misery. Right when everything looks positively [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|doomed]], a beam of energy appears out of nowhere, and the pocket dimension they're in literally ''shatters'', revealing a newly rebuilt and upgraded form of the series' flagship robot: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcqrlsW-1Pg&feature=related&fmt=18 SRX Altered Banpreios], which proceeds to load its traditional pilot (who was stranded with the other playable characters) on board and kick a truly epic amount of ass.
** In the same game, but in Touma's path, the debut of his [[Super Robot]] RaiOh's upgraded form, the DaiRaiOh, singlehandedly destroys one hundred enemy mecha in a [http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments&v=I_JrGFQfuYQ&fromurl=/watch%3Fv%3DI_JrGFQfuYQ&fmt=18 single battle.] If this doesn't quality as as [[Badass]], this tropers doesn't know what is. Yet, it probably helps that Touma was trained by Guy Shishioh from [[GaoGaiGar]].
*** And Heero...and Wufei...and Kazuya...and Tetsuya...and Camille, and...well, the Alpha Numbers are a (mixed) martial arts convention/tournament in mechanized division form, so Touma learns from ''everybody''.
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** While we're on a Mazinger note, Space Route Mission 36 (Shin Getter Robo, Stolen!): Kouji Kabuto <s>[[Memetic Mutation|dies in lava]]</s> convinces the Eisia excavation team to escape as part of his plan...then reveals to Gorgon that the plan's entirety was them escaping and him acting as their shield. Cue [[Bolivian Army Ending]]...of the first half. Then Tetsuya [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|Rocket Slaps]] him back to reason after freeing him from a Mechasaurus horde, and Mazinkaiser ensues.
* In the ''Alpha 3'' manga, after the heroes defeat the [[Big Bad]], they're confronted by [[Smug Snake|Son Ganlong]]. To defeat him, the Ide calls in all the rest of the heroes from the three previous games that didn't make it into the last one. This results in the largest Giant Robot beatdowns in fictional history. Up to, and ''including'', '''''Two'' Sanger Zonvolts'''.
** Similarly, the ''Super Robot Wars Z'' manga has a story where The Edel Bernal sets Zeuth up to battle...the Alpha Numbers (circa ''Alpha Gaiden''). This includes [[Mirror Match]] moments between ''[[Turn
*** Especially of note is where Sanger's Thrudgelmir stops the Mugen Punch ''effortlessly with one hand''.
** In an ''Alpha Gaiden'' manga, it depicts the first part of the raid on the Earth Cradle; the part with Sanger and his Thrudgelmir. While the whole freaking battle is insanely awesome (this ''is'' Sanger), the one scene that takes the freaking cake is when Sanger has lost his Zankantou and the Thrudgelmir's arms. Mazinkaiser goes up to the Thrudgelmir to finish it off. What does Sanger do? He fucking HEADBUTTS Kaiser's head with the Thrudgelmir's horn. This maims Mazinkaiser's head off (barely missing Kouji's piloting block).
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** The head-removal not only allowed for this, but let them dodge the Six Slaves attacks the Bergelmir uses "BOSS BOROT IS A MAN!"
* This troper feels the page is remiss without the Mazinkaiser / Shin Getter Robo scenario from ''Alpha Gaiden''. While one route involves Kouji and company going toe-to-toe with a {{spoiler|General Bat}}-piloted Shin Getter Robo to block a Stoner Sunshine, this troper found the other route was more epic. Namely, the Getter Team decides to go balls to the wall, and tanks the Stoner Sunshine with Getter G, ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G-4tE0-ojc#t=3m15s using the energy to Shine Spark] {{spoiler|General Bat}} into submission.''
* 'SRW @3'. During the [[GaoGaiGar]] Final storyline, everybody was under the influence of the 11 Lords of Sol's chemicals, causing them to feel relaxed to the point where they don't care about anything, even if Guy is getting his ass handed to him by Palpelapa(or however you spell it). Some people were immune to this though, the GGG mechs (who were switched off), Hiroshi Jeeg (who's a cyborg), Rei (who's.....an emotionless clone I guess) and the Virtual On guys (fourth wall breakers and ''maybe'' robots themselves). But one person was not only immune to these chemicals but actually manages to get the rest of the group to snap out it.....with his rock music! His name? Nekki Basara of 'Macross 7'! Why could he resist the chemical? Uh....because he's too hotblooded I guess.
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** Basara gets another moment of awesome during the Information High level. {{spoiler|Sharon Apple}} had already screwed over your team by effectively nullifying and locking all unit abilities and seishins. [[Luck-Based Mission|After barely killing a few Ghost X-9's]], he shows up, plays "Holy Lonely Light", and suddenly your team is charged with so much [[Hot Blood]] the Battle 7 is free {{spoiler|from Sharon Apple and ZAFT's control}}, and you team is back to normal, and much [[Badass]] ensues.
* General Bat gets his in ''Alpha Gaiden'' by fighting the Preventers/Irregulars in Shin Getter Robo, despite the fact even sitting in the pilot seat is slowly killing him despite the use of a device to lessen the getter rays effects on him but shin getter still emits so much getter energy that it is still harming him, but he doesn't give a shit as long as he gets to take the Getter Team with him, and manages to survive ''point blank getter ray poisoning'' afterwards so he can make a defiant last stand in front of Machineland when you have to fight him and [[That One Boss|Emperor Gore]], pretty much establishing himself as [[Crazy Awesome|insanely]] [[Determinator|determined]] [[Badass]].
* Speaking of moments of awesome, theres one person in the entire cast of Alpha Gaiden that has possibly the most awesome moments in the entirety of Alpha Gaiden manga, rivalling Sanger AND Jiron listed above AND one of the best contender for the best in the whole franchise. That mans name ? Tetsuya Tsurugi from [[Great Mazinger]]. Its a story depicting the prequel of Alpha Gaiden serving as the moment before Egret Fehu does his job at the Earth Cradle. What does Tetsuya do ? Oppening with the classic [[Big Damn Heroes]] Thunder Break to save the crippled base defense line of Gespenst and Valkyrie Squad, then, after making a [[Badass Boast]] that he dont care about anything, his job is to give a trashing to the enemy, he singlehandedly handles a whole Army of Mycenian Dragoon Squad resulting in a cracked and crippled Great. Then Ryuuma Shogun come only to get handled by a Thunder Break and a point blank all or nothing stab with Mass produced Photonic Beam Saber with a little help from Venus A.
** This feat is so awesome that [[Badass|SANGER ZONVOLT]] himself stares at his prowess in such an expression that signifies fear. You read it right. Sanger motherfucking Zonvolt himself FEARED Tetsuya Tsurugi.
** To quote what Egret Fehu said :
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'''Egret Fehu''': Maybe he represents the soldier people have sought to obtain up until now... }}
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== SRW J ==
* [[Justice Gundam|This troper]] considers Missions 49 (Nadesico side) and 50 in ''[[Super Robot Wars|Super Robot Taisen]] J'' to be [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for... well, pretty much the whole team! In the first case, the team has to face both the [[Mazinger Z|Mikene Empire]], generals and Ankoku Daishogun included, AND the Reclaimers from ''Brain Powerd'' all at the same time. All this while Orphan is shooting up through the atmosphere, minutes away from [[The End of the World as We Know It|extinguishing all life on Earth]]. Thanks mainly to Kouji's Mazinkaiser and to Yuu and Hime's Brains, {{spoiler|the team puts up an epic battle and destroys the Mikene generals, kills Ankoku Daishogun itself, gives both [[Smug Snake|Jonathan]] and [[Dark Action Girl|Quincy]] a much-deserved butt-kicking... and tops it off with a [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]] moment by actually defeating the unimaginably powerful Hyper Baronz piloted by Baron Maximillian, [[Love Makes You Evil|actually Jonathan's crazed mother who didn't care that she was committing genocide as long as she could make her son's objectives come true]]. For the record, Yuu and Hime did ''not'' defeat the Hyper Baronz in the ''Brain Powerd'' anime, as it was [[Nigh Invulnerable|far too powerful]] for ''anyone'' to handle, and had to resort to simply holding out until Baron's life force was totally spent. True, Hime scored a few hits on the thing, but still...}}
** In Mission 50, the team takes on the remnants of the Jovian and Grados Empires as they're trying to take possession of [[Wave Motion Gun|the Genesis]] superweapon from ''[[Gundam Seed]]''. They end up going against a whole armada of powerful robots, AND taking on some of the most annoying - and POWERFUL! - bosses in the game (among which the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Quirky But Deadly Death Oni Squad]] and the [[Ax Crazy|insane serial killer Gostello]] from ''SPT Layzner'') while desperately trying to make it to Genesis in time to stop it from firing and destroying Earth. By the time the mission is over, {{spoiler|the team has not only destroyed Genesis and saved the day, but has managed to kill not one, not two... but THREE [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] from three different Real Robot animes: the evil [[Smug Snake|prince Ru Kain]] of ''Layzner'' in his frighteningly powerful Zakarl, [[Knight Templar|Haruki Kusakabe]] of ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico|Nadesico]]'' AND [[Omnicidal Maniac|Rau Le Creuset]] of ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' in his Providence Gundam. The fact that one of these villains is a shameless [[Karma Houdini]] in the anime he comes from only makes it all the more satisfying, and had [[Justice Gundam|this troper]] almost immediately promote this game to his favourite SRW episode for hand-helds.}}
* Rau Le Creuset from [[Gundam Seed]] gets one in SRWJ when he kills [[Martian Successor Nadesico|Haruki]] [[Complete Monster|Kusakabe]].
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== SRW MX ==
* ''[[Super Robot Wars MX|MX]]'' gives Rom Stoll of ''Machine Robo'' the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bpx66Ld-TI spotlight during the End of Evangelion event]. There, the scene only gets as far as {{spoiler|the instant before Asuka dies at the hands of the MP Evas}}. Right before the moment of agony anybody who's seen the movie has come to expect, we hear Rom yell '''"WAIT!"''' He goes on to explain to the gibbering monsters that sometimes, when everything seems darkest, the tide of battle can turn in an instant, and that's what's known as "divine intervention". Then he and 15 other fighters appear on the battlefield at maximum Will and proceed to rip the EVAs apart.
* Hell, every time Rom Stoll interrupts with '''"WAIT!"''', it instantly counts as awesome, as well as when he responds with ''[[Catch Phrase|"You don't deserve to know my name!"]]'' after any of the stunned villains demand they tell them his name.
** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLQ4qR7MpCQ He saved the Dragonar Team from certain defeat, confusing the Gon Jem and the Shitennoh in the process.]
* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFeKFc0peH8 Chapter 10], Duke Fleed in Grendizer fighting a brainwashed Kouji Kabuto and a Vegan-controlled Great Mazinger. He succeeds in bringing Kouji back to normal while disabling Great Mazinger.
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== SRW W ==
* The entirety of Mission 12 in ''[[Super Robot Wars W]]'': Several of the teenaged memebers of ''Warter'' (The Heroes' group) end up enrolled at [[Full Metal Panic!|Kaname's]] school (As if Sousuke wasn't bad enough). Meanwhile, Kaname is given the task of doing something about the school's perpetually-losing Rugby team ''plus'' finding something entertaining for the [[School Festival]], not to mention making sure delinquents from rival schools don't mess things up. Naturally, she enlists Sousuke's help, despite the fact that she really should know better by now. He tells her that he'll handle the whole load himself. The day of the festival comes, and Baron Ashura decides that (s)he'll strike at Kouji Kabuto, the pilot of [[Mazinger Z]], by attacking the school with a pair of robot beasts. But when the attack begins, Sousuke reveals the re-trained Rugby team, all equipped with Bonta-Kun suits! After getting the team Psyched up (With Kaname translating a surprising amount of foul language, in front of children, no less), they proceed to blow the two beasts straight to hell. When Death Black Beastmen and fighters from the Galra Empire show up, Sousuke has a plan for that too. To keep the illusion that this is [[All Part of the Show]], he has the Bonta-Kuns direct giant magic lions (namely, [[GaoGaiGar]] and <s>[[Voltron]]</s> Golion) to protect the school. Much asskicking ensues, leaving Baron Ashura with a healthy fear of Bonta-Kun from now on.
** The second time you play it, it involves the "Beauty Contest" episode from ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]''. This time, Ashura desguises his/herself as Dr. Yumi to try to sabotage the proceedings and get someone incompetent selected as captain. [[Obfuscating Stupidity|(s)he gets Yurika (re)picked, of course]]. Angry that didn't work out, Asura summons a pair of robot beasts to attack, only to find out that Sousuke's contribution to the "keep rival delinquents out" plan just happened to have included enough high explosives to kill two robot beasts outright. The following mission includes a major beatdown of a rival military squad with a team of Bonta-kuns, and the subsequent humiliation of [[GaoGaiGar|Pizza]] by the same.
* Mission 15 of the same: "Five-Colored Bonds, Gold-Colored Hero". [[Voltron|Sven]]/Shirogane's just been <s>badly injured</s> killed, and the <s>[[Voltron]]</s> [[
** As much as awesome that scene is, however, it's still possible to re-enact the tragic moment, if you didn't focus much on the Tekkaman Blade scenario. Miyuki can still permanently die, but through another method.
*** IIRC, She survives that, too. She helps Blade get out of the path of a [[Wave Motion Gun]] (explained below) and uses Shinya's crystal (since he didn't need it to get to the moon here) to restore the mental degradation he was going through at that part of the series.
* Stage 37 of Paris route,[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCD78P1wAwQ The Final Battle against Mycene]. As a bonus it also includes the awakening of Kaiser Nova, Shin Shine Spark, And new combination attack, including the FINAL DYNAMIC SPECIAL against Ankoku Daishogun.
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hzIwyyhig4 Stage 49] is filled with awesomeness. Other than a small twist from the original (you didn't enter another dimension), Guy recovers from Sol Lords' control and receives Genesic Gaogaigar, and asskicking ensues. But Valzacard's debut tops that off: After Kazuma, Mihiro, {{spoiler|Aria and Regulate with Alm Stola}} escapes from The Database's station, they're under hot pursuit from Applicant and his brand-new ''Alm Stola Finis'', it's at this point Horace announces "all keys are gathered" and execute the combination code. Cue [[Crowning Music of Awesome|Sail for the Future]] and watch Kazuma piloting Valzacard to kick Applicant's ass.
* After Stage 49, the good guys have to split up, half the force going to take on the [[Tekkaman Blade|Radam]] on the Moon, and the other half to stop GENESIS. On the Bloody Valentine War side, the heroes have managed to take control of the station, but the weapon is already charged up, and they don't have the time to stop it. That's when Ruri calls in from the ''Nadesico C'' and ''hacks the control system'' to point GENESIS at the Radam command ship as it takes off, killing two birds with one stone.
** The Radam path was pretty badass too - you go through the Tekkaman Blade finale mostly keeping to canon (with the usual accounting for SRW craziness)... but when D-Boy loses his personality and memories, running purely on hatred for the Radam, leaving Aki to mourn his cruel fate to fight alone... Ruri chimes in out of nowhere with a "He's not alone." and jumps down with the rest of the gang, ready to rip Omega and the Radam remnants a new one. They then all proceed to call out to D-Boy, and end up dodging the Bad End the anime had by having D-Boy reclaim himself and then proceed to beat the living shit out of Omega.
** Also, Blade and Evil having a final duel in Stage 50. Alone. Kill him and he transform into Blaster form, and so does Blade. And they have a second duel. All while [[Crowning Music of Awesome|Masquerade]] is playing as the BGM. Its as awesome as it sounds. {{spoiler|It's also a [[Tear Jerker]] since, having a twist from the anime, Shinya/Evil is able to revert back to his own personality ''and'' helps D-Boy/Blade to break out from surrounding Radam Beasts, ending the stage by [[Heroic Sacrifice|blowing himself up along with all "enemies" around him]].}}
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* Stage 53. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnH4bSj2DP8 The Goldion Crusher and Orgun's Grand Cross Attack] that took out the Soul Lords and Evoluders once and for all. Yes, the Goldion Crusher is so bright that Orgun can even use it as a substitute for the Sun for his final attack.
** In the same stage, the Sol Lords decides to attack {{spoiler|Nadesico A (with Yurika in command, it's a long story)}} directly and {{spoiler|Akito}}, who ran away again after Stage 47 (the last of ''The Prince of Darkness'' storyline), shows up and rejoins your group ,vowing to protect everyone. After this, try to strip all of the armor and extra weaponry off his Black Selena, {{spoiler|and perform the [[Combination Attack|Double Gekigan Flare]] with Gai Daigoji once more}}.
*** Extra points: try to notice what he says during said attack [[Crowning Moment of Funny|(Except he went completely silent)]]. He hasn't lost a bit of his hot-bloodness and love of justice even after all the hardness. For another proof, let him attack [[
* Prior to Stage 54, your group is desparate to find The Database's main base among the stars. So how do they find out? Remember [[Full Metal Panic!|Kaname]] stays behind when Sousuke rescues Tessa in Stage 49? She uses Whispered's resonance to tell Tessa about her whereabouts (in The Database's main base on Pluto), and as Taiga puts, the girls risk their sanity to bring the news to the group. Sail for the last battle!
** Hats should also go to the script writer, who is able to incorporate the real-world news of "Pluto being demoted to Dwarf Planet" around that time into the game and makes it a major plot point. (Lampshaded that way long before this event, everyone tries to recall the "forgotten planet" in the Solar System but no one remembers)
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== SRW Z ==
* In ''SRW Z'', it's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wz_ejDRRPxE&NR=1&fmt=18 ZAFT vs. ZEUTH], meaning Minerva vs. Archangel, ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'' vs. ''[[Eureka Seven]]'', ''[[Turn
* Despite coming off as a [[Complete Monster|sadistic bastard]], this troper cannot seem to NOT think the entrance of ''SRW Z's'' Asakim Dowan is pretty awesome, perhaps on the context on how his attack is animated. He cuts his enemy's mecha (in this case Denzel, Setsuko's superior), then nonchalantly PUSHES the upper half of the mecha apart of the lower half. It's really depraved, this troper admits, but when you learn that {{spoiler|you CAN use him in Rand's route, and do this to various enemies, and even the FINAL BOSS}}, you get some sort of awesome feel on him...
* ''[[Super Robot Wars Z]]'' itself can be called a huge [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Banpresto/Bandai-Namco. Why? They actually fixed the reviled show that is ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]'' and making the story and characterization of the show actually ''make sense''. Greatest. [[Fix Fic]]. EVER.
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*** Not to be outdone (in [[Updated Rerelease|OGs]], anyway, [[OG 2]] was a lot more tame), Wodan, whose Thrudgelmiir is in even worse shape than the Dygenguard, puts everything he has left into his final attack - a combination of a [[BFS]] with a [[Pillar of Light]] which utterly annihilates Egret Fehu, as well as the thirteen mechs he brought along for backup. Watch the awesome [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVjJkYyMbLA here]
** Also in OG Gaiden, [[Gonk|Shura General Magnaz Ald]] uses a cheap trick to disable his Colossal Blade. Sanger's response? Activate Dygenguard's default weaponry, and ''still'' continue to kick ass.
** Likewise, the OVA might have fallen into the [[So Bad
* Elzam bypassing several [[A Mech by Any Other Name|PTs and AMs]] just to talk to his younger brother Raidiese F. Branstein, all while ''"Trombe!"'' blares.
* Ryusei activating the R-1 by begging it to fire, and then using the Boosted Rifle to destroy a cruise missile.
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** Animated in ''full glory'' in the VERY FIRST EPISODE, VERY FIRST SCENE of ''[[The Anime of the Game|SRW OG2: The Inspectors]]''
* Lamia Loveless' first attempt to self-destruct, showing off her unbendable will for the first time, and saved the team she just 'betrayed'.
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** She repeats this unbending will of [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|awesomeness]] in the OVA, and she did it without using a mecha or self-destruct device, but just refusing the ODE's will, all while [[Bound and Gagged|tied up]] [[Fan Service|butt naked]]. Honestly, if she didn't pull that, the Hagane would've been creamed by the Bartolls that adapt to every of their moves and counters them well. Unfortunately, OG Gaiden tones this down that {{spoiler|her refusing has little effects to the Bartoll, and right after she pulls it, she gets shot down near dead}}.
** Which in turn, gives {{spoiler|Axel}} another [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]. {{spoiler|When everyone was just about to give up the prospect of saving Lamia, he just says "Just believe in me" and pulls off a [[Xanatos Gambit]] that risks on either destroying or wiping out Lamia's memories. And he does this successfully, all while plugging her out with his strongest attack (it could've destroyed normal men in direct hit, this could be a small [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Lamia, because she also survived it after her body's battered while the heroes try to weaken her, and her mind's in a complete wreck of resisting the extremely strong reprogramming of Duminuss), and destroys the big [[Super Robot]] containing her (compared to Kyosuke who destroyed a [[Real Robot]] considerably smaller), and in the same time, proves he genuinely got a [[Heel Face Turn]] treatment, gaining the trust of the heroes}}.
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* Anytime someone gets a new unit in the middle of a battle, you can expect a crowning moment of awesome.
** Dygengaurd's Debut gets points for seeming like it will cruelly subvert this, then going ahead with it a few turns later, and with such awesomeness that it makes an enemy break the fourth wall.
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*** No love for Filio? He ''enabled'' Sanger's moment of awesome by pretty much reprogramming Dygenguard's operating system within like three minutes...
**** Before said scene, Master Rishu Tougo just shows WHY he's the master of Sanger and Bullet. {{spoiler|He BLOCKS bullets with his Zol-Orichalcum sword from his cane! Hell, even [[Badass]] Ratsel just had to utter: He didn't even need my help.}}
***** Ahh you know what? [[OG 2]] 30/ [[Updated Rerelease|OGs]] 37 is just made out of awesome and win and leave it at that.
*** The ''Alpha 2'' version of this scene was, [[Your Mileage May Vary|at least to this troper]], even more epic. In the OG versions, Zengar is somewhat distraught by Dygenguard's malfunction, and is fairly well out of it until Wodan throws the Type-3 Zankantou to him, at which point things just get a little silly. In Alpha 2, however, nobody just tosses it to him to snap him out of it: He scoffs at Kukuru (taking Vivagi's role as the antagonist here) for believing he can't fight, and '''''commands''''' that his blade be given to him. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnpcvNdky80 This scene] truly proved, at least to me, that he is, indeed, The Sword That Cleaves Evil.
**** Only reason why this wasn't brought up is because Kukuru didn't [[Break the Fourth Wall]] unlike what Vigagi did. Still awesome though.
* How did this scene not get here sooner. When {{spoiler|Ingram}} betrays the your forces and steals the [[Wave Motion Gun|R-Gun]], and a large Alien battleship is homing in on yours, while the SRX team are crippled and the rest of your units are probably damaged from fighting another Alien battleship and various assorted [[Elite Mooks|New Enemy Models]], all seems lost. Then [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7FARy_Lv4g Elzam shows up on the Kurogane and overrides the music with Trombe], activates the giant drill that comprises the entire front of the ship, and proceeds to have a [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment by ramming it right through the second alien battleship, followed by the SRX team giving the traitor a piece of their mind.
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== OG: The Inspector ==
* The '''ENTIRE''' first episode of the new Super Robot Taisen OG: The Inspector.
** Of special note from the first episode: Axel's fight with Beowulf and the monsterous mutated Gespenst Mark III.
* Kyosuke stopping the Thrudgelmir's [[BFS|Zankantou]] with the Alteisen's Revolver Stake in episode 5. It has to be seen to be believed.
* And now we have one for the writing staff (because it takes ''balls'' to pull off something like that): in episode 7, Kyosuke is in need of another PT because the Alteisen is being repaired... so Major Kai sticks him in the '''[[Real Robot|Gespenst Mark-II]] ''[[Super Prototype|Type-S]]'''''.
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** Bonus points to this scene for explaining ''why'' 99% of the pilots who execute that move give such a ham-tastic battle cry: ''The command console tells you to do it!''
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** Earlier, Rai and Latooni are trying to evacuate Shine when they run into Archibald and his Bioroid [[Elite Mooks]]. They're cornered... and then Gilliam tosses smoke grenades to cover their exit, and leads them to a balcony, revealing that he was snooping around because he [[Genre Savvy|suspected this would happen]]. Archibald and his forces smugly corner them... and Gilliam calmly smirks, tells Shine's party not to worry, and jumps off the balcony... into the arms of his Gespenst Type-R, turning the tables on Archibald, who's shocked that Gilliam was [[Crazy Prepared]] enough to hide a PT right under everyone's noses. For bonus style points, Gilliam is rocking the [[Sharp-Dressed Man]] and [[Badass Longcoat]] looks, and his Gespenst showing up is a shoutout to how he used to show up and ruin the heroes days when he was an enemy Boss.
* Episode 8: Ryoto, [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|*ahem*]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQCvVzKxeEs&feature=sub docks with Rio with his Boxer(s) still on]
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*** ...which technically counts as a Moment of Awesome for Crunchyroll, seeing as how that little bit wasn't in the episode's actual dialogue.
* Episode 21. '''It's entirety.'''
** R-Gun Gunner, Double Blade Kick, the start of Sanger and Wodan's duel, the ''Kurogane'' drilling the Cradle and the Branstein brother's ''epic'' take-down of Archibald.
*** That last moment cannot be emphasized enough: {{spoiler|Archibald has Rai and the R-2 in the clutches of his colossal mecha, leaving Elzam/Ratsel [[Sadistic Chocie|in the same position he was in]] when he was forced to kill his wife in order to save an entire space colony: kill his brother or let his archnemesis escape. Rai gives him the order to shoot through him to take out Archibald, and Elzam, grief-stricken, complies...at which point Rai hits the Variable Formation switch, popping the R-2 into the SRX's torso, hatch for receiving R-1 ''wide open'', and dodging the shot completely. Archibald, on the other hand, '''''takes it right to the face!'''''}} Crowning Moment of Karmic Justice right there.
* Episode 22: Wodan used the Sword of the Cosmos to rip the entire Earth Cradle in half. ''By himself.''
* Episode 23: During a tense battle, things aren't going well for the heroes as they're being swarmed by the Einst and a mind-controled Excellen. Then:
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'''Tetsuya:''' What? There's nothing else we can launch...
Cue [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}_j1wkZqGnrE Leitmotif] as [[He's Back|a fully recovered Kyosuke appears]] piloting the rebuilt ''Alt Eisen Riese''.<br />
'''Crewmember:''' Code confirmed. It's Assault 1!<br />
'''Kyosuke:''' (ripping off the eye bandage he's been wearing since the Alt got trashed) Excellen, I'm taking you back... }}
** The rest of the episode shows us, again, why you shouldn't press Kyosuke's [[Tranquil Fury|Berserk Button]] as he (literally) tears his way everything the Einst throw in his path to save Excellen.
* Episode 24: The ATX Team takes on the Inspectors and their [[BFG]]. In a perfectly executed combo attack on Sikalog, he's utterly wiped out while ''[[Crowning Music of Awesome|GO!!]]'' plays in the background. This is followed immediately by Cybuster making short work of Agiha while ''[[Crowning Music of Awesome|Neppu! Shippu! Cybuster!]]'' plays.
** Shuu showing up out of ''nowhere'' with his Granzon and destroying Vigagi's new Mega Galgau. ''With a single Black Hole Cluster.''
** Don't forget that right before that Shu takes out their [[BFG]] with a single shot too. You have no clue who did it until ''[[Crowning Music of Awesome|Dark Prison]]'' starts playing. This Troper let out a cheer when he realized who it was.
** Minor one occurs near the end of the episode with Axel and Kyosuke's duel. It begins playing out the same way Axel's fight with Beowulf did; Axel notes this, tells Kyosuke that he needs to be killed before he goes crazy like his [[Evil Twin]], then tries to use the same trick he used to destroy the [[Mk III]]'s arm. Kyosuke's response? Makes the Riese knee Soulgain in the gut (breaking off the power-struggle) and procedes to ''unload the mech's Claymores in Axel's face.''
** A very subtle, blink-and-you-miss it cherry on top of this [[Moment of Awesome]] cake? The trigger for the Black Hole Cluster is under Shu's middle finger...''he obliterates Vigagi by flipping him the bird.''
* Episode 25: Wendolo has Cybuster on the ropes and is smugly preparing to kill Masaki... and then his expression changes to [[Oh Crap]] in an instant as Grungust, Dygenguar and SRX unleashing their signature [[BFS]] attacks in sequence to make short work of the Einst-infected Dikastes while 'effing ''[[Crowning Music of Awesome|Steel Messiah]]'' plays in the background.
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*** As the ATX team and Axel charge Beowulf, he summons Einst-Gespenst Mk IIIs to halt Lamia and Kusuha. The girls counter with their limit breaks, Dynamic Killing the Elite Mooks.
** The final battle is not to be outdone. Beowulf solos Axel, Kyosuke, Excellen and Alfimi, severely damages Soulgain and nearly kills Alt Eisen Riese: only Alfimi's last minute [[Taking the Bullet]] for Kyosuke saves him. Kyosuke unloads the Revolver Bunker on Beowulf, and finally takes him down by hitting an empty Bunker on Soulgain's hand that was [[Chekhov's Gun|embedded in Beowulf in episode one]], driving it into the cockpit and killing Beowulf the same way Axel killed him at the start of the series. All set to Machine Soul.
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'''Kyosuke''': Your strike got him!! }}
** It also makes Axel's beatdown on Beowulf from episode one retroactively even more awesome. Beowulf has a line about learning "not from the deaths of others, but our own". Now, when did Beowulf get hurt that badly? Episode one. Axel hit him with a limit break (Code Kirin), a Rocket punch to the cockpit/core, a bunch of bombs, a detonating dimensional portal and a collapsing building. Evidently, Axel did kill Beowulf, it just didn't stick.
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