History Awesome / AttackOnTitan

** Lady Kiyomi, even as she's being held at gunpoint and threatened with execution by Floch with several of her comrades dead at her feet, maintains a level head with the fanatical Yeagerist until she sees an opportunity to seize the treacherous soldier, ''forcing him to the floor and twisting his arm'' and declaring [[DoNotGoGentle she did not intend to die quietly at the hands of the raving fanatic]]. And '''then''' Mikasa launches a one man assault on the room, disarming Floch's comrades and forcing him to flee as the ragtag alliance launches their assault on the Yeagerists.

With the flame of hatred, we swing the swords\\
Is that our fate or our will?\\
We will fight until this hot wind takes our wings away''

* Erwin's plan is to lead the entire remnants of the Survey Corps into a suicide charge specifically designed to give Levi even a slight chance of taking down the Beast Titan. He remarks to Levi that his life's work was to go to the basement and see what was inside, learn it's secrets and finally prove the answer to the question he shared with his father. but in order to make the mission mean something, he has to give it all up. And inspire the green recruits with the epic speech to end all epic speeches.
-->'''Commander Erwin Smith:''' I will now announce our final operation! All soldiers, line up! All units will now perform a mounted charge! Our objective is to rush the Beast Titan! Obviously, this will make us a perfect target for the enemy! We will observe and take into account the target's throws, then, we will all fire signal flares simultaneously! We'll do everything we can to reduce the accuracy of his attacks to whatever extent possible! While we act as a diversion, Captain Levi will take down the Beast Titan! That is all!

-->'''Erwin:''' Standing around here simply means waiting for rocks to come raining down on us! Now hurry up and get ready!
-->'''Floch Forrester:''' ''(Terrified out of his mind)'' Are we... about... to die?
-->'''Erwin:''' That's right.
-->'''Floch:''' So you're saying... if we're going to die anyway, we might as well die fighting?
-->'''Erwin:''' That's right.
-->'''Floch:''' No... if we're going to die anyway... we can die however we want... we could even die while disobeying orders... There's no meaning to any of it, is there...?
-->'''Erwin:''' That's absolutely right. It is all utterly meaningless. No matter what dreams or hopes you may have, no matter what kind of blissful life you've lived until now... what happens to your body when it gets shredded by a rock... is the same. ''All'' men die sooner or later. Does that mean all life is meaningless? Was there no purpose to any of us ever being born? And if so, would you say the same of our dead comrades? Were all of their lives... meaningless? [[SuddenlyShouting NO, ABSOLUTELY NOT!]] IT IS UP TO ''US'' TO GIVE MEANING TO OUR COMRADES' DEATHS! THOSE BRAVE FALLEN MEN AND WOMEN! THOSE POOR FALLEN MEN AND WOMEN! THE ONLY ONES WHO ARE CAPABLE OF PAYING RESPECT TO THEM, ARE ''WE'', ''THE LIVING''! WE ''TOO'' SHALL ''ALL DIE HERE TODAY'', AND ENTRUST THOSE NEXT IN LINE WITH THE SAME DUTY OF GIVING MEANING TO ''US''! THAT IS THE SOLE WAY WE CAN OPPOSE THIS CRUEL WORLD! '''RAGE, MY SOLDIERS! SCREAM, MY SOLDIERS! ''FIGHT'', MY SOLDIERS!!!'''

*** And you think this would be simple enough to end this climatic battle? Nope, as the anime version makes this even ''more'' badass. Levi struggles to evade the remains of Armin's Colossal's head, even hurting his left leg at the process before going all out to throw the thunder spear to the teeth of Eren's Titan so Mikasa could reach Eren's real head to end this conflict for good.

** Lady Kiyomi, even as she's being held at gunpoint and threatened with execution by Floch with several of her comrades dead at her feet, maintains a level head with the fanatical Yeagerist until she sees an opportunity to seize the treacherous soldier, ''forcing him to the floor and twisting his arm'' and declaring she did not intend to die quietly at the hands of the raving fanatic. And '''then''' Mikasa launches a one man assault on the room, disarming Floch's comrades and forcing him to flee as the ragtag alliance launches their assault on the Yeagerists.

*** Even better, he does it using not the modern streamlined ODM-Gear that was a blend of both the classic and the Anti-Personnel ODMs, but rather [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece the clunky 5-year old ODM-Gear]] designed specifically for fighting against Titans, giving the equipment that had started the series a final proper sendoff and a last hurrah.

* Unknowingly, Hange avenged both Erwin's father and Armins' parents by incarcerating Djel for the rest of his days. The very man who was initiated to the First Interior Squad after he'd tortured Mr. Smith to death and had killed the Artlets when they tried to escape in their prototype Hot-Air Balloon. And she coolly turns the tables on Ralph when he calls her a devil by firing back that Nick must have obviously thought the same about them.

* Unknowingly, Hange avenged Erwin's father by incarcerating Djel for the rest of his days. The very man who was initiated to the First Interior Squad after he'd tortured Mr. Smith to death. And she coolly turns the tables on Ralph when he calls her a devil by firing back that Nick must have obviously thought the same about them.

* Captain [[WorldsStrongestMan Levi Ackermann]] verses War Chief Zeke's [[TheDreaded Beast Titan]], whom Reiner considered more than a match for the mighty midget. And how does this fight between the two strongest fighters on either side go? [[CurbStompBattle Levi tears Zeke apart in under ten seconds]], leaving his Titan form a dismembered wreck and cutting a hand, an arm and one of his legs clean off his human body, without ever coming close to getting hit himself.

* The anime one-ups what was already a glorious and cathartic massacre with more magnificent oner-shots of Levi first spiralizing Zeke's arm into hock-ham, bungee-jumping down his back to spin-slash his Achilles tendons. Then a uniquely experimental view for an anime, a flight-cam shot of his ODM-Gear as he dives at Zeke's exposed nape, like he's a living harrier-jet! Before he beyblade tornados Zeke's other hand into giblets and unleashes a flurry of dual-wielding domination strikes that put Kirito's Starburst Stream to shame; hacking mercilessly through Zeke's attempt to crystallise his nape before reverse-slashing him out of his Titan in a tidal wave of blood.

* [[TranquilFury Eren's come back]]. He gets in close with a superb fake-out of continuing the brawl, roaring spit, blood and teeth at Reiner, but then utilizes Brazilian Jujitsu and ground-game to overcome Reiner's brutal knock-down power and tank-level physique. First utilizing Annie's hideously impressive arm-triangle clinch, leg-sweep hip throw[[labelnote:In the manga]]Eren lifts and throws Reiner ''just'' from the hip![[/labelnote]]. Then when Reiner tries to reverse top-mount, he gets caught in Eren's trap. A triangle-choke that begins to ''crush'' Reiner's armoured plates like so much glass with Eren's steel-trap thighs. Before Reiner can attempt to complete a lift and slam, Eren pulls him into a Gogoplata, then a double axe-kick arm-bar that shatters the earth and uproots trees. He finally turns Reiner over onto his belly utilizing wrist and shoulder control with his hips. Clamps his neck down with his calves, then bends the joint of his right arm so far back past the point-of-no-return that the armour shell bursts asunder. And Eren proceeds to ''rip Reiner's entire arm off at the elbow!''

** Eren's triumphant bellows as he [[JustForPun disarms]] the Armoured Titan is just a SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound.

** He's soon joined by Armin, Mikasa, Connie, Jean, Levi, and Pieck, who all survived the free-fall and look ready to throw down against the Jaeger Brothers. After Commander Arlert pronounces his BadassBoast, Eren's only response is a slightly disappointed frown.

* Mikasa's BadassBoast, where she reminds the Garrison at large that she's spent the last couple years honing the skills to carve up flesh with absurdly sharp blades, and being damn good at it. And that if they come any closer to Eren, they'll get to see her use them.

* In a {{flashback}} to the trio's childhood, [[BigBrotherInstinct Eren]] gets into a brawl with Armin's bullies because they stole bread from him, which he bought out of his own pocket, and [[KicktheDog ate it]]. After his demands weren't being met, Eren decides to [[UseYourHead meet the problem head-first]], then brawl it out with them, despite being the smallest boy there. Luckily, [[LittleMissBadass Mikasa]] shows up to even the odds, and lets loose with a flying kick that smashes the spiky-haired ringleader into the stall again.

** When Bertholdt realizes what's about to happen, he starts screaming in terror until he sees the rest of the Scouts watching from afar. After everything he's done--especially to Eren, Armin, and Mikasa in particular--he has the gall to beg them for help. [[KickTheSonOfABitch They don't]], and Titan Armin cracks his skull between his teeth like it was a peanut.

** Not to mention in the manga, Zackly brings the Berg's first non-conformist newspaper print to court as well, exposing how the government has suppressed the people's free-speech, investigations into the nature of the Walls and the King's Power, as well as their technological growth.

-->'''Erwin:''' I said ''ADVANCE, GODDAMNIT!'' Eren is right in front of you! ''DO NOT FALTER!''

* When those Titans stick their faces into the walls of HQ, Jean is feeling too hopeless to act... and then suddenly Rogue Titan outta nowhere!

* Armin gives Mikasa his gas so she can fight her way to the HQ, and asks her to leave him one blade so that he'll be able to avoid being eaten alive. Without missing a beat, Mikasa casually takes the blade from him and throws it away, because NoOneGetsLeftBehind. Doubles as a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Heartwarming Moment]].