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* ''[[Transformers Animated/Awesome|Transformers Animated]]'' (2007-2009)
* ''[[Transformers: All Hail Megatron/Awesome|Transformers All Hail Megatron]]'' (2008-2009)
* ''[[Transformers: Shattered Glass/Awesome|Transformers Shattered Glass]]'' (2008-)
* ''[[Transformers Ongoing/Awesome|Transformers Ongoing]]'' (2009-)
* ''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron/Awesome|Transformers War for Cybertron]]'' (2010)
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== ''Transformers'' (2007) ==
* Blackout laying waste to the SOCCENT base in the beginning of the film
** This troper wasn't sure of what to expect, and saw it with my cousin, who expected she was going to hate it...that opening scene we were instantly converted into fans.
*** The commander of the base gets a mild one for managing to cut the information feed off from him.
** Speaking of the Decepticons, Frenzy gets one of these, consisting of somehow hacking and sneaking off Air Force One by doing the following:
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* Captain Lennox is pretty cool throughout the movie, but his CMoA is definitely during the final battle, where he charges Blackout on a motorcycle at high speed, jumps off the motorcycle and ''slides under'' Blackout to deliver a point-blank shot with a grenade launcher.
* The fact that Shia LaBeouf as Sam improvised most of his rant about how the Autobots were messing up the backyard, and Peter Cullen, recording his lines in some studio miles away, goes 'Calm down, calm down' in perfect comedic timing.
* Probably the moment when you realize just how insane the fights were going to be was the first robot confrontation between Bumblebee and Barracade. Bumblebee stands protecting Sam and Mikaela and Barricade leaps forward like a predatory animal and kicks Bumblebee in the face, sending him flying into the distance. Bumblebee looks up, shakes it off and rolls back to his feet and returns the favor in one swift motion.
* Ironhide using his cannons to propel himself in the air and somersaulting in mid-air. And that was before dodging missiles from Brawl, while transforming.
* Another one goes to Ratchet who uses a ''buzzsaw'' to cut off one of Brawl's arms.
** The whole scene could be seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umXFmKd-s3A here]
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* Starscream taking on several F-22s, seamlessly shifting between his jet and robot form, and destroying about half of them {{spoiler|before hiding among them and seemingly taking part in the attack on Megatron}}.
** A few minutes earlier, Starscream plays [[Stepping Stones in the Sky]] with F-22s.
* Any scene with Megatron in the first movie. ''Any''.
* Mikaela driving Bumblebee in the big finale.
* The U.S. military gets one early in the movie with their coordinated ground forces, A-10, and AC-130, forcing Scorponok to actually retreat, leaving a piece of itself behind.
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{{quote|{{spoiler|'''Mudflap''': You're never eatin' me! I'm gonna bust, yo', FACE UP!!}}}}
** {{spoiler|Devastator was then destroyed by this awesome '''human-made''' [[Wave Motion Gun|railgun]] on a destroyer a couple miles away}}. Hell, once again the Humans in general putting up a good fight, and even taking down some Decepticons on their own.
* Devastator itself gets one earlier on, {{spoiler|when it ''inhales'' one of the [[The Scrappy|annoying-as-Hell]] Twins. Too bad it wasn't permanent.}}
* Sideswipe cutting Sideways in half.
** For this Troper, it the fluid motion of it, his badass pose, and line afterward:
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{{quote|'''Optimus''': "Weak!" *Slap* "''Puny''!" *Punch* "Waste of metal!" *Slashes with arm sword* "Junkyard SCRAP!"}}
** Virtually every single move Optimus Prime delivers in that fight is a CMoA. Towards the beginning, Starscream jumps at him from behind, and Optimus simply turns around and catches him by the throat in midair. Without letting go, Optimus then kicks Megatron out of the way almost as an afterthought, then lifts Starscream up to kicking height, upside-down, and gets him right in the face. As a result, every move administered to Starscream is a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
** If you watch closely, you'll notice that Optimus is using them to confuse and confound each other's attack, which is exactly what one is supposed to do against multiple assailants. [[Mook Chivalry]] is '''not'''. In effect. Optimus Prime is '''legitimately''' stomping a mudhole in '''all three of them at once'''.
* [[Badass Grandpa|Jetfire]]. Just Jetfire. Let's see now: getting the heroes halfway across the world to where they need to get to; providing the heroes with loads of useful information; swooping in during the big battle to {{spoiler|take down two Decepticons single-handedly. And sacrificing his life to give Optimus the power he needs to save the day}}. It's official: Jetfire is the coolest old man ''ever''.
** It should also be noted that {{spoiler|during his previously stated [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment in the big battle, he had killed Mixmaster by slicing him in half with his cane then decapitating him with his cane followed by killing Scorponok by crushing his head with his fist after Scorponok had drilled into his innards}}.
* Lennox giving the [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]] his just desserts by faking an emergency and getting the latter pulled out of their cargo plane by parachute drag. Also counts as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
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**** Or He didn't want to help Optimus at all. Megatorn just view himself as [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You|the only allowed to defeat Optimus]] and couldn't allow Sentinel to take the glory.
* [[Took a Level In Badass|Sam]] {{spoiler|KILLED STARSCREAM! HOLY CRAP!}} No seriously, {{spoiler|[[Screams Like a Little Girl|Sam]] [[Lovable Coward|Witwicky]] ''[[This Is Sparta|Kills]].'' ''[[This Is Sparta|Freaking]].'' '''''[[The Starscream|Star]][[The Dragon|scream]]!!!'''''...[[Not So Harmless|wow]].}}
** An even more awesome moment in the novel because {{spoiler|Starscream [[Death by Adaptation|ruthlessly kills Mirage]] right before}} so when he [[Eye Scream|stabs him in the eye]], he screams "[[And This Is For|That's for ]] {{spoiler|Mirage}} you [[Precision F-Strike|son of a bitch]]!"
* Carly gets a moment...she calmly approaches {{spoiler|''Megatron'', and basically tricks him into turning on Sentinel Prime!}} Dang...that was pretty awesome for a Victoria's Secret Model.
** {{spoiler|She didn't trick him. She just flat out ''talked'' him into it. She psychologically manipulated ''Megatron.''}}
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* Optimus Prime {{spoiler|finally defeating Megatron! Without Sam's help!}}
** Ummm...he defeated Megatron in the previous movie without Sam's help. Granted he got an upgrade but it still counts.
* Prime's trailer. We've been waiting for it for two films and it doesn't disappoint. Not only does it turn into a badass flying harness, but, like the original, it opens up into a base... which is fully stocked with dozens of weapons.
* Starscream's back to being dangerous in DotM. He drops down from low orbit to {{spoiler|shoot down the Autobots' spaceship}} and later leaps off a building and ''shreds'' the Ospreys transporting Lennox's team with his buzzsaw hand. Also serves as a [[Call Back]] to his F-22 [[Stepping Stones in the Sky]] moment in the first film.
* Bumblebee {{spoiler|killing Soundwave. He overpowers Soundwave and his [[Mooks]], then jams his arm cannon into Soundwave's chest and ''blows his head off '''through his chest!''''' Made even better due to the fact Bumblebee is shown mourning the death of Wheeljack at Soundwaves hands and now has avenged his fallen friend.}}
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** ''[[Rescued From the Scrappy Heap|Daaaayum!]]''
* Basically ''anything'' the Wreckers do in the final battle. Really, there's no way that a trio of weaponized race cars tearing down the streets blowing up everything in their path can't be insanely cool.
** Three words: "Wreckers...kill him!". The sheer brutality that the trio proceeds to unleash upon the pilot of the downed Decepticon fighter is practically a whole brand of badass unto itself.
* {{spoiler|Sentinel basically duels Optimus, while being shot at by NEST soldiers, and while smacking away the other 7 Autobots whenever they try to interfere. In short he fights all the good guys at once by himself and hold his own. It ends with a CMOA for some random unnamed NEST soldier, who pegs Sentinel with a rocket just a he finally pulls out the dreaded rust gun he was able to kill Ironhide with, causing Sentinel to lose his gun, and for him to fall back. Optimus pursues however and the Awesome goes back to Sentinel, who, one on one beats Optimus in a duel and would have basically won without Megatron suddenly interfering.}}
* Upon rewatching the movie, I found that Optimus has a very efficient way of dispatching foes that works out quite awesomely. {{spoiler|He uses said tactic to kill Shockwave and Megatron with deadly effeciency. Both Shockwave and Megatron fire at Optimus as he moves towards them. Optimus dodges both moves and hits his opponent in the chest (with a gunshot in Shockwave's case and his axe in Megatron's) which stuns them momentarily. He then uses that opening to deliver the set-up blows (punching out part of Shockwave's torso then slugging him in the face and choke slamming him or kicking out Megatron's knee from behind) and then delivers the killing blow.}} It's quite awesome to see the tactic play out.
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== Dreamwave Transformers comics ==
* In a ''[[Transformers]]'' vs. ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' comic set in [[World War II]], Grimlock and Roadblock are hanging onto a cliff, and Grimlock is starting to slip. He tries to get Roadblock to save himself, that he'd try to hold on long enough for him to get up, but Roadblock refuses:
{{quote|"Did you say ''TRY?'' We don't ''try'' around here, soldier -- do you hear me? We don't try, and we don't ''quit!'' NOW ''REACH!'' ''GRAB'' THAT DIRT! You are a lean, mean, climbing machine, and you are going nowhere but up! Sound off! I want to hear you say it -- 'Me, Grimlock, going up!'" }}
* In the second Generation 1 mini-series, Ultra Magnus takes down Menasor while still in truck mode. He does this by hurling insults to each of the Stunticons that make the Combiner. This drives Menasor insane and allows Ultra Magnus to catch air and ram Menasor IN THE FACE.
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