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The Original

• Kirby fighting an army of Luigis to the This Is Sparta Remix at an insanely high speed: [1]
  • Not to bring down the buzz, but he's on practice mode. His 0% damage ain't quite so impressive then.
    • Actually, the practice mode was probably only used to keep Luigi idle for the scene. Practice mode does not offer stocks, and in the video, each character has 5 lives (This troper went and checked on his N64). Also, the 0% damage is probably due to a cheat; however, since Kirby died more than once, it just means the damage wasn't shown, not that he wasn't affected.
• The Falcon Punch Kirby Mix, which would eventually spawned a whole bunch of Gourmet Race remixes all over Youtube and Nico Nico Douga, deserves a spot on this list.
• From Japan, there's this epic montage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D 1 Qw 39 pj-Pg
• The announcer. Just... the announcer. Forget the fact that Melees was nothing but silly Narm, and Brawls was very unenergetic. Possibly the coolest thing ever is just listening to him scream, "SUPER! SMAAAAAAAAASH BROTHERS!"

Super Smash Bros. Melee

• Giga Bowser at the end of Adventure mode. It looks like you've just beaten the final opponent in the Adventure, when all of a sudden, Bowser returns from the pit and transforms into an evil demon version of himself. And if you think that's already epic, take a look at this unbelievable Giga Bowser KO.
• Two words: Wombo Combo
• The intro movie to Melee. The whole damn thing. From the Mario trophy coming to life with the help of electricity and a wailing choir, to one of the best Title Screams in video games.
  • The very fitting title for that movie would be Your Whole Childhood Summed In One Epic Video.

Other

• This Brawl Hack to let Ganondorf use his sword. It even broke Link's Heroic Mime status, causing him to talk in Leet Speak.
  • And this Hack to give him the ultimate This Is Sparta Kick, sending Sandbag on a journey across the Homerun Stadium, spanning multiple days.
  • Mewtwo joins the Brawl & kicks Shiny Charizard's ass: [2]
    • This one puts him against a pretty convincing-looking Typhlosion.
• Ganondorf yells This Is Sparta with predictable results against a Pikmin: [3]
  • He also does it to Dark Link: [4]
  • And to Mr Game & Watch: [5]
• When Snake answers a codec call and is greeted by Slippy, who has apparently hacked into the channel. He even goes "Snake? SNAAAAAAKE!" if you get KO'd during the conversation!
• Outside of The Subspace Emissary, every character has a Moment of Awesome in the form of their Final Smash, which is exactly what it sounds like. See them all here, but be forewarned: overdoses of awesome are common. Viewer discretion is advised.
  • For at least one recognition, Luigi's Final Smash, which is an acid trip and a little scary at the same time.
  • If there's at least one good thing that can be said about the hacking situation with Brawl, it's that it demonstrates that super-sizing Lucario and having him let loose a screen-filling Kamehameha-esque Final Smash will make your head asplode and cause everything in your room to be displaced by the atmosphere of intense awesome.
• Arguably a real-life meets video game Moment of Awesome was at E3 when the Brawl Trailer was unveiled and, after having seemingly ended, was followed by a codec conversation between the Colonel and Snake and, with his theme music playing, Snake coming out from under his signature cardboard box and getting his name plastered on the screen. One of the most favored characters was revealed to be a third-party character for a game that was already Made of Awesome, and Gamers around the world suffered a Heroic BSOD because of it.
  • And what about Sonic's revelation? This troper didn't BSOD at Snake, but certainly did upon reading the name "Sonic" on Smash Bros. DOJO!!.
    • This troper thinks it would have been even more amazing if neither were mentioned at all during the development of the game, like R.O.B. and Lucario weren't. I'd estimate you would be able to hear the screams of disbelief from space.
• A CMOA not for the characters, but for Koji Kondo, Shogo Sakai, Kazumi Totaka, Kentaro Ishizaka, et al.: never before have such wonderful melodies graced this troper's ears. Absolutely beautiful.
• Searching for "epic Falcon Punch kills/KOs/wins/victory/etc." on YouTube will reveal a whole host of incredible, self-made CMOAs by players who have managed to pull off absolutely epic KOs with one of the slowest, most powerful moves in the game. Possibly popularized by this off-the-stage victory over Giga Bowser in Melee, or maybe the infamous Falcon Punch in the anime, but now these range from triple kills and handballs to just-as-epic off-the-stage reverse spin victories and messing with Captain Falcon's real Final Smash to get the desired result.
  • This troper cried manly tears watching the most epic Falcon ditto ever.
    • The off-the-stage Falcon Punches are also called Sacred Combos for a good reason.
    • If the Falcon Punch counts as one of the slowest and most powerful moves, then its buffed-up version, Ganondorf's Warlock Punch, would have to count as the slowest and most powerful. Here we have a triple-kill Warlock Punch at 1:13 to begin with. The question now must be asked: What would happen if these two ultimate punches were to ever collide with each other? This simulation explores that circumstance. Or this one.
  • Any time a Falcon Punch is thrown qualifies as a Crowning Moment of Awesome in and of itself. Even if it's interrupted by a deadly Luigi taunt that ends the match, the Falcon Punch is still the coolest thing in the game by far.
• One final Crowning Moment Of Awesome goes to Hideo Kojima, who designed the Shadow Moses Island stage. During the stage, the wall in the background will occasionally collapse, revealing a Metal Gear Rex, Ray, or a pair of roaming GEKKOs. Anyone who has played through Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots should by now realize that these were not random references: Snake and Ocelot would eventually return to the island and battle each other in the Rex and the Ray respectively. It takes balls to do your Foreshadowing in someone else's game. Let alone using the very definition of purely concentrated Nintendo fanservice to advertise the PS3's killer app.
  • Does that make Kojima a Magnificent Bastard?
  • Nope, just Magnificent.
  • This Troper likes to pretend that it is in fact Snake and Ocelot doing battle in their Metal Gears at the same time as when you are in the middle of brawling. This would explain why the codec calls only work on that stage. I was actually surprised that no one in Snake's support yelled TIME PARADOX!.
    • That's because Campbell's AI was too busy ragging on Weegee to judge the state of the space-time continuum.