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The Original Series

• In Into The Wild, Rusty defeating Graypaw, who was much stronger and more experienced than him by using his I Surrender, Suckers tactic! He showed how badass he would be from the first chapter!
  • Later, when Tigerclaw flees from the Moonstone in terror, Firepaw just sits around wondering why he was so scared.
  • When Yellowfang, the injured, old, and out of practice she-cat takes on Blackfoot, ShadowClan's deputy and rips him a new one. This was so awesome, it got Yellowfang formally admitted to ThunderClan!
  • Yellowfang's fight with Brokenstar at the end. Not only does she hold her own, just when it looks like she might lose, Firepaw jumps in to save her. They then defeat Brokenstar and drive him out of ShadowClan.
• In Fire and Ice, when Fireheart figures out Brokenstar's gambit to get rid of all the warriors and then attack, how does he respond? By gathering up all the apprentices and elders so that they can beat defeat Brokenstar.
  • All four clans going to battle! Especially Tigerclaw's fight with Crookedstar and when Fireheart and Runningwind fight Nightstar!
• In Forest Of Secrets when Tigerclaw is raging about Graystripe's kits Cinderpaw tells him to shut up and lick one so it will survive. He does.
  • And when Yellowfang feeds her own son deathberries so that he won't be able to threaten the forest anymore!
• The ending of Rising Storm features a massive villainous one. All hail Tigerstar!
  • Cinderpelt healing Littlecloud and Whitethroat despite the possibility of punishment.
• Bluestar's Heroic Sacrifice.
• Warrior Cats deserves a mention here, particularly this bit from The Darkest Hour: Stonefur has the audacity to defy Tigerstar himself when surrounded by nearly two full Clans of Tigerstar's supporters. Ordered to prove his loyalty by murdering his own apprentice, he instead challenges Tigerstar to kill him. Darkstripe attacks on Tigerstar's orders, but Stonefur, who, it should be pointed out, is starving and greatly weakened, defeats the well-fed and rested warrior in combat, and is only killed when the strongest warrior on Tigerstar's side steps in to help.
• The Darkest Hour contained a lot of these, from Bramblepaw publicly announcing that he would rather die than join his tyrannical father, to Firestar fulfilling his prophecy and defeating Scourge, the cat that killed Tigerstar nine times with one blow... after already having died at Scourge's claws.

Scourge: "How!? I killed you!" Firestar: "You did. But I am a leader with nine lives who fights alongside StarClan. Can you say as much?"

• • And don't forget Firestar's nine lives ceremony.
• Bramblepaw's response to Tigerstar asking him to join TigerClan was pretty awesome, too.

"Join you?" Bramblepaw growled. He paused, swallowing as he fought to control his anger. When he spoke again his voice rang out clearly so that every cat in the clearing could hear him. "Join you?" he repeated. "After everything you've done? I'd rather die!"

• • Followed by some epic burnage.

Tigerstar: "Are you sure? I won't make the offer twice. Join me now or you will die." Bramblepaw: "Then at least I'll go to StarClan as a loyal ThunderClan cat."

• • Firestar's thoughts on the situation are just the icing on the Awesome Cake:

Firestar: There could be no greater challenge to Tigerstar's power than for his own son to reject him in favor of the Clan he despised.

• When Bone, the BloodClan "deputy," is killed by a pack of apprentices.
  • "Let go of my brother!"
• The Darkest Hour is pretty much a Crowning Moment of Awesome for the series in and of itself.
  • Warrior Cats is pretty much a Crowning Moment of Awesome for children's books in and of itself, actually.
• Despite Scourge being evil and all that, hes still gets a CMOA when he rips out ALL NINE OF TIGERSTAR'S LIVES AT ONCE, and followed with this in the Rise of Scourge manga: "My littermates said I was too small... too weak. But I've proven them wrong. I've learned how to be strong...how to live for blood. Because that's the key. The only answer. I am leader of BloodClan. I am Scourge. AND I HAVE WON!"
• Tallstar refusing Tigerstar's offer in the Darkest Hour.
• Graystripe's deputy ceremony on the field of battle.
• Morningflower kicking BloodClan's ass.

Morningflower: " Gorsepaw! Gorsepaw! Gorsepaw!"

The New Prophecy

• Feathertail kills a mountain lion with a stalactite.
  • To be more specific, she impaled it with the stalactite.
• Cinderpelt's defense of the nursery during the badger attack is pretty awesome as well. Cinderpelt is a medicine cat, although trained in basic self-defense, she's not expected to do any actual fighting. On top of that, she's crippled by a twisted hind leg. Yet when the badgers invade ThunderClan and move in on the nursery, she barricades the entrance with herself and fights them off. She dies in doing so, but StarClan rewarded her with a second chance of life, and reincarnated her as her own niece.
• Tawnypelt gets hers when she rejects Tigerstar's offer to gain power, saying she'll gain respect and power her own way.

Power Of Three

• Pretty much every scene with Sol is a Crowning Moment of Awesome. Like Jayfeather getting Mind Raped when he detected his presence, how unbelievably calm and composed he is all the time, his deep, hypnotic voice, and this exchange:

Firestar: "Then why are you here?" Sol: "I came because it was time." Spiderleg: "Time for what?" Sol: "Time to come."

• • And let's not forget how he predicted a total solar eclipse and, knowing it would scare everyone shitless, used it as an elaborate metaphor to (sort of) explain his motives.
    • This troper firmly believes that he specifically convinced WindClan to launch their attack on ThunderClan so that his predicted solar eclipse would occur right in the middle of the battle and allow everyone to start taking him seriously (and it certainly works, in ShadowClan's case). This would also explain why the attack had no clear motive: can you imagine Onestar justifying himself with "Well, Sol thought it would be a good idea"?
  • Sol is capable of making the already confusing plot even more confusing in a single sentence:

Sol: "Are you sure you have found the three?"

• • And in Sunrise, when a ThunderClan patrol comes to take him prisoner, not only does he figure out exactly why they are after him in a matter of seconds, but him calmly agrees to go, offerring no resistance:

Sol: "You don't need to put me under guard, you know, I'm not going to run away."

• • And when he forms his own Clan and later teaches them to fight just so they can fight off some dogs. When they eventually fight the dogs, most of the cats get ripped apart. Not only does he not help at all, but he calmly strolls in later and tells the survivors that it was their fault for wanting to fight, and then tells them to get him some food.
• Lionblaze in the battle at the end of Outcast. He comes out absolutely covered in blood, and none of it is his.
  • At the beginning of Sunrise:

Tigerstar: *Lionblaze's claws held at his throat* "You'll never do it." Lionblaze: "No." *backs away* "You're already dead."

• Jayfeather when he leads his siblings in faking a sign from StarClan to restore Blackstar's faith after he'd been led astray by Sol... and then the "fake" sign gets hijacked by StarClan and turns into a real sign. From this, Blackstar's faith is renewed, he drives out Sol, and ShadowClan as a whole is saved from falling apart.
  • Not just the idea of the fake sign, but the sign itself. As Hollyleaf said: "Only Jaypaw would have thought of digging up trees as a message from StarClan."
• Even Leafpool (probably the last cat you would expect) gets one at the end of Sunrise when Hollyleaf tries to kill her, and she asks her whether it would be easier for her to die or go on living. The answer is obvious enough to Hollyleaf, and she lets her go.

Omen Of The Stars

• The destruction of the beaver dam in The Fourth Apprentice. Special mention goes to the fact that the team was helped by kittypets!
• In The Fourth Apprentice Breezepelt attacks Jayfeather with Brokentail helping him! Jayfeather manages to hold his own until freaking Honeyfern pulls a Big Damn Heroes moment and saves him!
• Your Mileage May Vary on whether or not Jayfeather's treatment of Leafpool in Omen of the Stars is incredibly selfish and petty, but Squirrelflight calling him out on it in an undeniable crowner for her:

"Other cats have been hurt, too! This wasn't just about you, and I’m sick of you flapping your wings like an injured sparrow, feeling oh so sorry for yourself. You’re not the only cat suffering. Your pain isn’t the hardest to bear. I suppose I expected more from you because you’re the medicine cat; I suppose I forgot how young you are!"

• In Night Whispers we are introduced to Mapleshade, who is made of these. After Ivypaw yells at her for blocking her way, she leaps onto Ivypaw and says this line.

Mapleshade: "Show some respect, apprentice. You don't want to die in a place like this. There's nowhere beyond here, you know. Only Darkness."

• • Mapleshade is so creepy that even the other Dark Forest members are scared of her!
• Lionblaze, Leafpool, Crowfeather, Breezepelt, and Nightcloud randomly have a fight. No warning, just awesomeness.
• Lionblaze taking on a fox in Night Whispers.
• In Sign Of The Moon, Jayfeather volunteering to be eagle bait so that the Ancients can capture the eagle and become the Tribe Of Rushing Water. The fight with said eagle as well.
  • Also in Sign Of The Moon, Toadstep defeating a dog.
• Tigerstar revealing the true power of the Dark Forest. He has a massive army equal in size to StarClan.
• Half-Moon's Awesome Moment of Crowning. (That's a trope, don't scroll over it).
• Jayfeather teaching himself to swim in a few moments.
• From the prologue of The Forgotten Warrior:

Sol: "I have returned. Let vengeance begin."

• • In The Forgotten Warrior, Sol does not disappoint. He goes from the prisoner of a clan who absolutely hates him to an honoured guest in one chapter.
• If any book can rival The Darkest Hour for sheer awesomeness, it's probably The Last Hope. It has many moments, including:
  • Brambleberry being one of the few cats to ever successfully lecture Jayfeather.
  • Jayfeather managing to gather and unite all of StarClan.
  • The cats of StarClan vowing to die again for the clans of the lake.
  • Midnight showing up in the battle and owning Dark Forest cats.
  • Daisy taking a level in badass to actually fight the Dark Forest.
  • Blackstar taking out Redwillow, despite being severely weakened from recently losing a life.
  • Hollyleaf's Heroic Sacrifice.
  • Beetlewhisker rejecting the Dark Forest in the face of death.
  • Firestar defeating Tigerstar.

Expanded Universe

• Scourge has another scary-yet-awesome one in The Rise of Scourge [paraphrased]:

Ruby: "But Scourge! We're your kin!" Socks: "Doesn't blood mean anything?" Scourge: "Oh, yes. Blood is everything. But the only blood I'm interested in flows from my enemies. Look around you! These cats are bathed in blood. It soaks their fur and laps at their paws. We are BLOODCLAN!"

• Thistlepaw in Bluestar's Prophecy fighting a fricking dog. Over PREY. And WINNING, thus earning his warrior name, Thistleclaw.
• Crookedjaw calling Rainflower out after his warrior ceremony in Crookedstar's Promise.

"I'm sorry I can't make you proud of me. But I haven't finished yet. I'll do everything I can to make you glad I'm your son. You'll never make me ashamed of who I am or what I look like."

• Crookedstar's speech to Mapleshade at the end of Crookedstar's Promise, which also serves as a Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming and a Teark Jerker:

Mapleshade: "Your punishment is complete now, Crookedstar. You have lost everything." Crookedstar: "No, Mapleshade. You're wrong. I still have a clan that I love and am proud to lead. And now... ...now everything precious to me is here, in StarClan. My family is waiting here for me, when my ninth life has passed. It's you who have lost. You have no power over me anymore." Mapleshade: "I have destroyed you!" Crookedstar: "No, Mapleshade. I still have the cats that I loved. You have nothing and no one."