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** Screw that. '''[[Armored Trooper VOTOMS|VOTOMS]] IS COMING'''.
** YMMV on the ''most'' awesome part of the SRWZ2 list, but almost everyone agrees that it ''is''.
** 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 [[PSPlay 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 [[This Is Sparta|USABLE. SHIN. DRAGON.]]
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** In ''Alpha 3'', the moment belongs to Shinji Ikari again. When the events of End of Evangelion play out, we get to the point where {{spoiler|humanity is melting into goo}}, but instead of going screamingly insane, Shinji gets ''royally pissed off'', marches down to [[Elaborate Underground Base|Terminal Dogma]] and gives his father a piece of his mind. And by "piece of his mind", this troper means a "robot-sized katana to the face".
*** The whole level is pretty much a Crowning Moment of Awesome for the Alpha Numbers (protagonist group in the Alpha games), as they're effectively <s>kicking</s> ''[[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!|Bright Slapping]]'' the crap out of the merged Shinji/Eva Unit-01/MP Evas + Tree of Life, also known as [[God]]. This is while, by all rights, they ''ought'' to be melting into LCL, but they're just too damn [[Hot-Blooded]] to turn into goo.
** After watching End of Evangelion and seeing how nigh indestructible and horrific the MP Evas were, who doesn't get satisfaction out of seeing them in a SRW game get utterly ripped to shreds by Mazinkaiser's Fire Blaster, Shin Getter's Shin Spark, SRX's Buster Cannon, [[Gao Gai GarGaoGaiGar]]'s Goldion Hammer, Sanger's Zankantou etc.
 
* 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 (Anime)|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.
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* 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 ''[[Gao Gai GarGaoGaiGar|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 [[Gao Gai GarGaoGaiGar]].
*** 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''.
*** Being an [[Expy]] of [[Kamen Rider]], Touma gets lots of these. To wit, [[Rai Oh]]'s first appearance is probably the manliest of the originals, then he gets [[Rai Oh]]'s strongest attack, then he upgrades to [[Dai Rai Oh]], where we get the above, then [[Dai Rai Oh]] gets Jinrai, which is basically a [[Kamen Rider|Rider Kick!]] performed with a [[Humongous Mecha]], then he ''kicks the [[Big Bad]] into oblivion in the name of love!'' Notable also in that he's the only character who gets to do the last one, alongside ''Sanger''.
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* 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 a Gundam (Anime)|Turn a Gundam]]'' and ''[[After War Gundam X (Anime)|Gundam X]]'', as well as having the Zeuth versions of Kouji Kabuto, and the Getter Team face off against their Alpha counterparts in Mazinkaiser and Shin Getter.
*** 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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* 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 [[Gao Gai GarGaoGaiGar]] 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.
** Actually, Basara resisting the stuff may be because he has {{spoiler|the Anima Spiritia}}. Depending on your perspective, that might as well translate into "too [[Hot-Blooded]]."
** 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.
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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 Asas 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|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 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, [[Gao Gai GarGaoGaiGar]] 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 [[Gao Gai GarGaoGaiGar|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> [[Go Lion]] team has spent the last week trying to train the princess to take his place in the blue lion with limited success. <s>Allura</s> Farla's doing well, actually, but the blue lion's just not responding to anything. To make matters worse, [[Gao Gai GarGaoGaiGar]]'s "Hell and Heaven" [[Finishing Move]] is taking a near-fatal toll on Gai's cyborg body. But there's no time to work things out just now and you have to sortie with both [[Gao Gai GarGaoGaiGar]] and [[Go Lion]] benched for the time being. Our heroes find themselves confronted with the sight of three [[Tekkaman Blade (Anime)|Tekkamen]] chasing a fourth. It's D-boy's sister Miyuki, and if you've seen the series, you ''know'' [[Dead Little Sister|where this is going]]. To make matters worse, the Zonder show up, intent on taking Miyuki for themselves and finding out how the Tekkamen can resist Zonderization. They capture her and trap her within a Zonder, triggering a three-way battle. [[Gao Gai GarGaoGaiGar]] sorties, Guy being more than willing to sacrifice himself if he can save Miyuki. Here's where the awesome kicks in: Trying to make a bad situation worse, <s>Haggar</s> Honelba infiltrates the ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico|Nadesico]]'' in order to kill Farla, but she's stopped when ''Mamoru'', of all people, forces her off the ship. Honelba turns her wrath on him, but is stopped when Farla gets the Blue lion to move and attacks her. The others also quickly sortie, and [[Go Lion]] is back in the fray. With the Zonder and Radam chased off, that only leaves the problem of Miyuki. Gai begins to power up Hell and Heaven, over the protests of everyone, including D-Boy, when Goldymarg shows up to lend a hand (and a [[BFS|Big Fragging]] [[Drop the Hammer|Hammer]]) '''''HIKARI NI NARE!!''''. [[Go Lion]] and [[Gao Gai GarGaoGaiGar]] are back in business, Miyuki is safely within GGG's care, and one of the most tragic moments in ''[[Tekkaman Blade (Anime)|Tekkaman Blade]]'' is <s>completely</s> temporarily averted.
** 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.
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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 (Anime)|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]].}}
** ZAFT route is no slouch either. {{spoiler|[[Gundam SEED Astray|Gai Murakumo]]}} breaks into the bridge of ''Dominion'' in Stage 50, delivers an epic beatdown to Azrael (including a [[Shout-Out]] to Rom Stoll), and evacuates everyone (including Flay and Natrale) from the ship, leaving Azrael to die alone. Due to this twist, Mu's life is also spared and directly leads to [[Tekkaman Blade (Anime)|Colbert]]'s death.
 
* 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.
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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 a Gundam (Anime)|Turn a Gundam]]'' vs. ''[[After War Gundam X (Anime)|Gundam X]]'', ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' vs. ''[[Grendizer]]'', ''[[Zambot 3 (Anime)|Zambot 3]]'' vs. ''[[Space Warrior Baldios (Anime)|Baldios]]'', ''[[Chars Counterattack]]'' vs. ''[[Overman King Gainer]]'', ''[[Gravion]]'' vs. ''[[The Big O (Anime)|The Big O]]''. '''OH. YEAH.'''
* 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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** 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 Its Horrible]] category... if it weren't for [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9GQNKD0-9Y Sanger suddenly appearing and uses one single strike to cleave dozens and dozens of Bartoll at once]. Although it wasn't pushing it to the [[So Cool Its Awesome]] territority, it certainly pushes it to mediocrity instead of [[So Bad Its Horrible]]. Admit it, whenever Sanger walks, awesome is always nearby.
* Elzam bypassing several [[A Mech Byby 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.
* In [[OG 2]], Arado Balanga finally joins the party. Four elite Armored Modules, getting millimeters away from attacking a factory on the Moon, Arado's in a mech categorically unsuited to his skills and technically not even on that side anyway. So what does he do? Reprogram a ''sniper'' mech for melee combat on the fly, charge right in and use the thing to take on all four with a whole lot of rebel yells. 'Course, the jerkwad Inspector Vigagi shoots him down right after...
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