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** It's awesome because It's Dick finally standing up for himself and his own ideals rather than putting up with Bruce's crap like he used to. Even in the comics where their relationship isn't so broken the first time Dick said "No." to him and stuck by it was his CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
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** Perhaps even more so was the original line, before the MoralGuardians had their way: "Then I'll [[SeeYouInHell see you in HELL]]!"
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* The show's effect on Mr. Freeze, permanently turning him from an utterly generic and forgettable character into a very sympathetic {{Anti Villain}} whose popularity even rivals the Joker.
* The show's effect on Mr. Freeze, permanently turning him from an utterly generic and forgettable character into a very sympathetic {{Anti Villain}} whose popularity even rivals the Joker.
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* Henry the security guard from the beginning of "The Terrible Trio" gets not one but ''two''. After the Trio beat him up and loot the safe he's guarding, their ringleader the Fox mockingly congratulates him on his attempt to stop them and gives him a stack of the money they just took as "compensation". Henry angrily [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules throws the money back]] into the arrogant little douchebag's face. His second, smaller CMOA comes when Batman and Robin arrive and the Trio flee; he urges them to forget about him and go get the thieves. Not too shabby for an extra.
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** If you look closely, while the Joker is sending off the coffin, ''he is crying.'' While mourning his foe and killing his foe's vanquisher ''at the same time.'' Ultimate Joker moment right there.
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* The first part of "The Demon's Quest" features Ra's al Ghul and his GiantMook Ubu, who's so loyal and devoted to his master that he keeps pushing Batman around for daring to walk ahead of Ra's. Batman spends the episode slowly counting the pushes he gets from Ubu: "I'll call that...strike one." "Okay, that's ''two''." Finally, at the end of the episode (the first part, that is), Ubu throws a punch at Batman for [[BerserkButton trying to leave without his master's say so]]. He catches the fist with one hand and says, "And ''that's'' three!" Batman then squeezes Ubu's fist so hard its hurting Ubu, and throws him over his shoulder that he leaves Ubu a shivering mess on the ground. CrowningMomentOfAwesome, indeed.
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* The first part of "The Demon's Quest" features Ra's al Ghul and his GiantMook Ubu, who's so loyal and devoted to his master that he keeps pushing Batman around for daring to walk ahead of Ra's. Batman spends the episode slowly counting the pushes he gets from Ubu: "I'll call that...strike one." "Okay, that's ''two''." Finally, at the end of the episode (the first part, that is), Ubu throws a punch at Batman for [[BerserkButton trying to leave without his master's say so]]. He catches the fist with one hand and says, "And "Alright, ''that's'' three!" Batman then squeezes Ubu's fist so hard its hurting Ubu, and throws him over his shoulder that he leaves Ubu a shivering mess on the ground. CrowningMomentOfAwesome, indeed.
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* In the episode "The Forgotten" Bruce is struck with amnesia and imprisoned as slave labour at a gold mine. When locked in a hot box, the "inmate" next to him breaks down and cries when he finally realizes he'll never see his family again. This causes Bruce to remember his family he'll never see again, and as such his identity. Now speaking with his gruffer, determined batman voice, he tells the guy they'll get out, proceeds to kick the metal box apart, scales a cliff to escape the guards, then comes back to open a bat-can of whoop-ass.
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* In the episode "The Forgotten" Bruce is struck with amnesia and imprisoned as slave labour at a gold mine. When locked in a hot box, the optimistic "inmate" next to him breaks down and cries when he finally realizes he'll never see his family again. This causes Bruce to remember his family he'll never see again, and as such his identity. Now speaking with his gruffer, determined batman Batman voice, he tells the guy they'll get out, proceeds to kick the metal box apart, scales a cliff to escape the guards, then comes back to open a bat-can of whoop-ass.
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** Also, that might have been a [=CMOA=] for Batman, but the entire episode is a [=CMOA=] for Tim Drake. The no-fear gas makes Batman lose all fear... including the primal fear for self-preservation, so it makes Batman suicidally reckless. Tim manages to TIE UP BATMAN for his own good and take on Scarecrow by himself. ''Awesome!''
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--->'''Mad Hatter:'''N-now wait just a minute! Don't do anything foolish! This isn't an ordinary dream! What if you're wrong?'''
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** It's worth noting that the above example was the Joker's ''first scene in the series''. [[IncomingHam Incoming]] [[IncrediblyLamePun Hamill]]!
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** These words and attitude summed up the WarOnTerror ''perfectly''.
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* In "Joker's Millions", a rival gangster, Edward 'King' Barlow, dies and leaves the Joker a vast fortune (250 million!) in cash, jewels and gold. After splurging it on buying his freedom, a giant mansion and a new Harley, Joker learns he has to pay inheritance tax. But while going through the vault, he finds bills with Barlow's face...and this video will;
-->'''Barlow, on his deathbed:''' Hiya, Joker. If you're playin' this tape, you've probably figured out you've been had. Yeah, I left you some cash, but only ten million - which, knowing you, you've already blown. All the other stuff, the money, jewels, and gold, it's all fake. See, I always hated your guts, and this was the perfect payback. By now, you're probably out of real money, the I.R.S. is after you, and you can't admit I fooled you, or you'll be the laughingstock of the underworld. The joke's on you, sucker! I got the last laugh after all!
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-->'''Barlow, on his deathbed:''' Hiya, Joker. If you're playin' this tape, you've probably figured out you've been had. Yeah, I left you some cash, but only ten million - which, knowing you, you've already blown. All the other stuff, the money, jewels, and gold, it's all fake. See, I always hated your guts, and this was the perfect payback. By now, you're probably out of real money, the I.R.S. is after you, and you can't admit I fooled you, or you'll be the laughingstock of the underworld. The joke's on you, sucker! I got the last laugh after all!
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* You can find The '''opening credits''' managed to pull off a crowning moment of awesome. By demonstrating [[EstablishingCharacterMoment everything you need to know about Batman in less than 30 seconds]]. [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome The music helped, too.]]
** And, as theexamples creators noticed after the fact, it ''never explicitly stated'' "Batman" anywhere in the credits.
* "Almost Got Him": Harley, Batman and Catwoman...
--> "What you gonna do pummel me or rescue your girl, you only have time for one."
--> Batman reaches over and cuts the power to to the conveyor belt without a word or releasing Harley.
* In "Two-Face, Pt. 1," Harvey is being blackmailed by Rupert Thorne, who's enjoying every second of watching the DA who's gunning for him squirm. A close-up of his face shows Harvey near a psychotic break, then... [[TranquilFury he calmly gets up]], entering [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtUBwucBCfQ this exchange]].
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--> Rupert: Oh, yeah? What's that?
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* [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ld0uIhst3TA The Joker's eulogy to Batman]] in "The Man Who Killed Batman." Topped immediately after by Harley Quinn playing Amazing Grace ''on the kazoo''. Apparently, it had to be done all in one take because everyone was cracking up way too hard to try it again. The Joker then concludes the eulogy with a cheerful "Well, that was fun! Who's for Chinese?"
* In "Beware the Creeper", the title character {{Offhand Backhand}}s ''Batman''. '''BATMAN'''.
** Not to mention getting the Joker to become a sniveling mess at the[[Awesome/{{DCAU}} DCAU CMoA page]].end, turning to ''Batman'' for help!
---> '''Joker:''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTkoMQZjCHY HE'S A LUNATIC!]]
*** Ironic, considering [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he pushed Jack Ryder into the same vat of chemicals the Joker fell into]], for reporting the anniversary of that fateful day.
* In the episode "Joker's Wild", the titular Joker-themed casino is opened, attracting the ire of the Clown Prince Of Crime himself, and Batman investigating incognito as Bruce Wayne. As the Joker commandeers a Blackjack table, Bruce decides to go and play a round, while at the same time taking several verbal jabs at the decor AND the Joker, while the Joker remains completely unaware that his own worst enemy is having a laugh at his expense.
** Which itself is also a [[Funny/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries CMoF]]:
--->'''Bruce Wayne:''' Too bad it has to be in such gruesome surroundings.\\
''(Joker fumbles with the pack, then recovers.)''\\
'''Joker:''' Don't care for the decor?\\
'''Bruce:''' Not hardly. All those horrible faces grinning at me. That would do things to my mind after awhile.\\
'''Joker:''' ''(grumbling)'' Who says you have one?\\
'''Bruce:''' ''(looking at his cards)'' Yep, I'd be ready for the laughing academy if I had to stare at that ugly clown all day.\\
'''Joker:''' ''(infuriated)'' Why you...
** FridgeBrilliance: The Joker always wanted to make Batman laugh. He does, ''but he never realizes it''. The ultimate joke on the Joker.
*** Technically, he got a laugh from Bruce Wayne, ''not'' Batman.
* "Joker's Favor." Everyman Charlie Collins is having a bad day, so he curses out a guy who cut him off in traffic. Unfortunately, that guy is the Joker. The Joker follows Charlie home, threatening the poor guy and his family, with Charlie pleading for mercy the entire time. The Joker agrees to leave him alone, in exchange for a favor to be cashed in at any time of his choosing. Cut to a few years later. Charlie's lived with the specter of the Joker over his head- and in spite of changing his name and relocating his family, the clown still finds him and calls in his favor, holding his family as collateral. Said favor turns out to be a suicide bombing in a police convention (he didn't even need to be there, Joker just felt like blowing him up, too). Here's where the awesome kicks in: Charlie first manages to [[MacGyvering construct a makeshift Bat-Signal out of items in a broom closet]]. Then, after the Bat arrives and chases the Joker out into the open, Charlie confronts him in the alley, holding the bomb intended for the police:
-->''"This is how it ends, Joker. No big schemes. No grand fight to the finish with the Dark Knight. Tomorrow, all the papers will say that the great Joker was found, blown to bits in an alley, alongside a miserable little nobody. Kind of funny. Ironic, really. See, I can destroy a man's dreams, too. And that's really the only dream you've got, isn't it?"''
** The bomb had since been disarmed, but unassuming Charlie Collins managed, in two minutes, to repay the Joker in kind for years of psychological torture. Score one for the little guy.
** And on top of that, Charlie managed to scare the Joker so badly with his bomb threat that the clown prince of crime himself was screaming for Batman, terrified of being offed by a nobody. And that was Charlie punched him hard enough to knock him over.
** This trick actually makes Batman ''laugh''. It's just one more way Charlie managed to one-up the Joker; the Joker has never gotten a laugh out of Batman.
** Though Harley Quinn did. She had captured Batman and was relating her deep love for "Mistah J" to him. Batman starts laughing, a phenomenon that freaks Harley the hell out.
** There's a secondary, smaller [=CMoA=] involved with this one: When Joker chases the guy, he goes completely under the speed limit and ''uses his turn signals'' all with a big Joker grin on his face.
* In "Old Wounds" Dick finally gets sick of Bruce's obsessive and borderline abusive JerkAss behavior and quits being Robin. When Batman tries to stop him Dick [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu flattens him with one punch.]]
** That's more of a TearJerker to some. It wasn't Dick ''besting'' Bruce - it was Bruce being too decent a guy to open a can in response. It seemed especially odd against the backdrop of the animated series, which, unlike the comics, always portrayed Bats as compassionate and driven (though occasionally brusque) rather than cold and obsessed.
*** Go back and watch the entire series again - you can actually watch their relationship slowly fall apart as Bruce grows more and more obsessed. While it is awesome to see Dick stand up for ''his'' beliefs and begin to flesh out his own morals and sense of justice, it's still sad to see such a father/son relationship fall apart, especially since ''Batman Beyond'' reveals that they never truly reconciled. While old Bruce will occasionally reminisce about past adventures and exploits with Barbara and Tim, he ''never'' talks about Dick, and his reaction to seeing Terry in Dick's old formal wear is heartbreaking.
* The first part of "The Demon's Quest" features Ra's al Ghul and his GiantMook Ubu, who's so loyal and devoted to his master that he keeps pushing Batman around for daring to walk ahead of Ra's. Batman spends the episode slowly counting the pushes he gets from Ubu: "I'll call that...strike one." "Okay, that's ''two''." Finally, at the end of the episode (the first part, that is), Ubu throws a punch at Batman for [[BerserkButton trying to leave without his master's say so]]. He catches the fist with one hand and says, "And ''that's'' three!" Batman then squeezes Ubu's fist so hard its hurting Ubu, and throws him over his shoulder that he leaves Ubu a shivering mess on the ground. CrowningMomentOfAwesome, indeed.
** I think you're forgetting the part where Batman, shirtless except for his cape and cowl, and Ra's al Ghul, also shirtless, start '''SWORDFIGHTING''' in classic Errol Flynn style over a bomb set to halve the world's population - honestly, that entire two-part episode was pretty much one extended CMOA.
** This is pretty much directly adapted from the original O'Neill/Adams comic, and it was just as awesome there.
* "The Underdwellers" features a one-shot villain who runs a thieves guild consisting of young homeless runaways. Batman is horrified when he sees how the leader treats his "charges", but after chasing him into a subway tunnel, Batman still pulls him out of the way of an oncoming train, and when asked why, Batman tells him:
-->'''Sewer King:''' Why?
-->'''Batman:''' I don't pass sentence; that's for the courts! But this time...''this time,'' I'm sorely tempted to do the job '''myself'''!
** There is also the street child who thinks he has eluded the "Grup" Batman, only to learn the hard way how good he is at following him with a relentless skill when he appears out of nowhere.
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** The villain gets one of his own. After fighting Batman, he fell into the gator-infested waters.
-->'''Batman:''' Give me your hand!\\
'''Sewer King:''' ''NEVEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRR!!''\\
''(Fell into the water. The gators quickly dive in, apparently eating him alive.)''\\
'''Batman:''' A gruesome fate for a gruesome man.\\
'''Sewer King:''' ''([[StealthHiBye alive and well]])'' Actually, I rather enjoyed it.
* And of course, from "Nothing to Fear":
--->'''Batman:''' "I am Vengeance! I am the Night! '''I AM BATMAN!!'''
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** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNq8Fil6oJ4 Watch it]]. It's epic.
*** In a CMOA for the voice actor, Kevin Conroy was working in a soup kitchen for first responders after 911. One of the other cooks found out who he was and had Kevin deliver that line to cheers.
* Dr. Harleen Quinzel gets one. Her response when she is the Joker's psychiatrist and he notes that her name could be shortened to Harley Quinn? NeverHeardThatOneBefore. To. The. Joker.
** She arguably gets two more as well. The first comes in the episode "Harlequinade" after The Joker abandons her and tries to blow up a bomb with a plane. She shoots a Jester head and not only nails Joker but knocks him out, all after a [[OneLiner "Laugh this off, puddin!"]]. The second comes in using Joker's original plan in "Mad Love" in such a way that Batman goads Joker about it, saying she came closer to killing him than Joker ever did.
* The episode "Read My Lips" was mindblowingly weird, but Bats still manages to score a CMOA. The main villain is the Ventriloquist, a little guy with a mousy demeanor who happens to have multiple personality disorder. His alternate personality is a cruel, angry and unstable mob boss ("Scarface") which he uses a puppet to express. Near the end of the episode, Bats has been bonked over the head one too many times and awakens tied up over a bizarre death trap. So how does he distract them long enough to escape? He convinces the "Scarface" personality that there's a traitor in the group, then throws his own voice to make it sound like the puppeteer is insulting him, ''causing an argument between the man's two personalities.'' Whoa.
** And then that mousey little guy gets one of his own in season four, when he [[spoiler:shoots the hell out of his own puppet, banishing his second personality forever.]]
* In ''Never Fear'', Bats breathes in an anti-fear gas and throws himself into a pond full of crocodiles. Guess who comes out alive. And he's not even in costume at the time!
* From "Harley And Ivy": Poison Ivy. The Joker. GroinAttack!
* "The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy": Batman is forced to give up his cape and cowl to live after the episode's villain puts him into what appears to be an inescapable death trap. How does he protect his identity? HE HAS ON ANOTHER MASK.
** What makes this even better? It was all part of a BatmanGambit.
** [[spoiler: "Why do you want Batman's cape and cowl?" "I... am going... TO WEAR THEM!" * Boss reveals himself as Batman. And then he sends it to the guy in prison, to keep him warm.]]
*** [[spoiler:There's a little hint which revealed the Boss to be Batman. The Boss hung up on the villain while he was still talking, which is an equivalent to Batman's StealthHiBye.]]
* Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman, managed a CMOA in real life as well. After the 9/11 attacks, Conroy was volunteering at a soup kitchen, feeding rescue workers, victims, and such. (Which is pretty awesome in and of itself.) Eventually, someone recognized his voice, and word quickly spread. Then Conroy stood up in a chair and recited "I am Vengeance! I am the Night! '''I AM BATMAN!!'''" He got a standing ovation.
* In the ''[=SubZero=]'' movie: Dick Grayson jumping his motorcycle, using a stack of wrecked police cars as a ramp. (On the last few frames before the jump, you can see him ''smiling''.)
* In the episode "The Forgotten" Bruce is struck with amnesia and imprisoned as slave labour at a gold mine. When locked in a hot box, the "inmate" next to him breaks down and cries when he finally realizes he'll never see his family again. This causes Bruce to remember his family he'll never see again, and as such his identity. Now speaking with his gruffer, determined batman voice, he tells the guy they'll get out, proceeds to kick the metal box apart, scales a cliff to escape the guards, then comes back to open a bat-can of whoop-ass.
* Alfred gets a sneaky one in "The Lion and the Unicorn". Alfred knows half of a plot-important password, and has been captured by Red Claw because of it. She shoots him up with truth serum; knowing it's only a matter of time, he states, "You'll get nothing but gibberish out of me!" and immediately begins spouting nursery-rhyme nonsense without pause. So when he falls under the effects of the serum and starts answering "The Lion and the Unicorn are Fighting for the Crown" to her question, she doesn't realize for several critical minutes that he is, in fact, telling her the password.
* "Riddler's Reform" grants the Riddler an interesting one. It isn't a NotSoHarmless moment, as we've already seen Nygma come close to taking Bats out in his two previous episodes. Rather, it's a tiny glimpse of what The Riddler could accomplish if he was ever able to put the gimmicks aside and really concentrate on a goal. When he wants to finally kill Batman, what does he do? Lures him into a huge building, seals the doors and windows, and starts counting down from ten. No mercy, no hidden exits (that he knew about, anyway), no last chances, just a locked door and a great big bomb. It came as close or closer to working as anything the Joker ever came up with.
** Batman, not to be outdone, then gets 2 of his own when he first proves Nygma's guilt using the same trick Nygma had earlier used to make Batman seem paranoid and out to get him, then refuses to tell Nygma how he escaped the warehouse. The end result is the Riddler locked in his cell and screaming for someone to tell him how Batman escaped.
* From "The Laughing Fish": Batman fights [[EverythingIsEvenWorseWithSharks a shark.]] Underwater. ''[[HandyCuffs Handcuffed]].'' And still has the energy to go beat up the Joker.
* In "Christmas with the Joker", the Joker threatens hundreds of lives, takes prominent social figures hostage, blows up a railroad bridge as a trainful of passengers is about to cross, all so he can [[spoiler: pie Batman in the face as a Christmas present.]]
* In the Batman light episode "Showdown", Jonah Hex manages to destroy Ra's al Ghul's airship, defeat his army of mercenaries, and beat up Arkady Duvall, Ra's son in a sword fight, all by himself. And all of it to capture Duvall over his assault on a woman back east, instead of their belief of his being a railroad spy. What makes it even more awesome is that Hex is in his ''[[BadassGrandpa sixties]]'', and does all this with his bare fists, a knife, and whatever [[StuffBlowingUp explosives]] he finds, including the airship's ''own cannons''.
** And, as the
* "Almost Got Him": Harley, Batman and Catwoman...
--> "What you gonna do pummel me or rescue your girl, you only have time for one."
--> Batman reaches over and cuts the power to to the conveyor belt without a word or releasing Harley.
* In "Two-Face, Pt. 1," Harvey is being blackmailed by Rupert Thorne, who's enjoying every second of watching the DA who's gunning for him squirm. A close-up of his face shows Harvey near a psychotic break, then... [[TranquilFury he calmly gets up]], entering [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtUBwucBCfQ this exchange]].
--> Harvey: There's just one problem.
--> Rupert: Oh, yeah? What's that?
--> Big Bad Harv: [[PreAssKickingOneLiner You're talking to the wrong Harvey.]]
* [[http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ld0uIhst3TA The Joker's eulogy to Batman]] in "The Man Who Killed Batman." Topped immediately after by Harley Quinn playing Amazing Grace ''on the kazoo''. Apparently, it had to be done all in one take because everyone was cracking up way too hard to try it again. The Joker then concludes the eulogy with a cheerful "Well, that was fun! Who's for Chinese?"
* In "Beware the Creeper", the title character {{Offhand Backhand}}s ''Batman''. '''BATMAN'''.
** Not to mention getting the Joker to become a sniveling mess at the
---> '''Joker:''' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTkoMQZjCHY HE'S A LUNATIC!]]
*** Ironic, considering [[HoistByHisOwnPetard he pushed Jack Ryder into the same vat of chemicals the Joker fell into]], for reporting the anniversary of that fateful day.
* In the episode "Joker's Wild", the titular Joker-themed casino is opened, attracting the ire of the Clown Prince Of Crime himself, and Batman investigating incognito as Bruce Wayne. As the Joker commandeers a Blackjack table, Bruce decides to go and play a round, while at the same time taking several verbal jabs at the decor AND the Joker, while the Joker remains completely unaware that his own worst enemy is having a laugh at his expense.
** Which itself is also a [[Funny/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries CMoF]]:
--->'''Bruce Wayne:''' Too bad it has to be in such gruesome surroundings.\\
''(Joker fumbles with the pack, then recovers.)''\\
'''Joker:''' Don't care for the decor?\\
'''Bruce:''' Not hardly. All those horrible faces grinning at me. That would do things to my mind after awhile.\\
'''Joker:''' ''(grumbling)'' Who says you have one?\\
'''Bruce:''' ''(looking at his cards)'' Yep, I'd be ready for the laughing academy if I had to stare at that ugly clown all day.\\
'''Joker:''' ''(infuriated)'' Why you...
** FridgeBrilliance: The Joker always wanted to make Batman laugh. He does, ''but he never realizes it''. The ultimate joke on the Joker.
*** Technically, he got a laugh from Bruce Wayne, ''not'' Batman.
* "Joker's Favor." Everyman Charlie Collins is having a bad day, so he curses out a guy who cut him off in traffic. Unfortunately, that guy is the Joker. The Joker follows Charlie home, threatening the poor guy and his family, with Charlie pleading for mercy the entire time. The Joker agrees to leave him alone, in exchange for a favor to be cashed in at any time of his choosing. Cut to a few years later. Charlie's lived with the specter of the Joker over his head- and in spite of changing his name and relocating his family, the clown still finds him and calls in his favor, holding his family as collateral. Said favor turns out to be a suicide bombing in a police convention (he didn't even need to be there, Joker just felt like blowing him up, too). Here's where the awesome kicks in: Charlie first manages to [[MacGyvering construct a makeshift Bat-Signal out of items in a broom closet]]. Then, after the Bat arrives and chases the Joker out into the open, Charlie confronts him in the alley, holding the bomb intended for the police:
-->''"This is how it ends, Joker. No big schemes. No grand fight to the finish with the Dark Knight. Tomorrow, all the papers will say that the great Joker was found, blown to bits in an alley, alongside a miserable little nobody. Kind of funny. Ironic, really. See, I can destroy a man's dreams, too. And that's really the only dream you've got, isn't it?"''
** The bomb had since been disarmed, but unassuming Charlie Collins managed, in two minutes, to repay the Joker in kind for years of psychological torture. Score one for the little guy.
** And on top of that, Charlie managed to scare the Joker so badly with his bomb threat that the clown prince of crime himself was screaming for Batman, terrified of being offed by a nobody. And that was Charlie punched him hard enough to knock him over.
** This trick actually makes Batman ''laugh''. It's just one more way Charlie managed to one-up the Joker; the Joker has never gotten a laugh out of Batman.
** Though Harley Quinn did. She had captured Batman and was relating her deep love for "Mistah J" to him. Batman starts laughing, a phenomenon that freaks Harley the hell out.
** There's a secondary, smaller [=CMoA=] involved with this one: When Joker chases the guy, he goes completely under the speed limit and ''uses his turn signals'' all with a big Joker grin on his face.
* In "Old Wounds" Dick finally gets sick of Bruce's obsessive and borderline abusive JerkAss behavior and quits being Robin. When Batman tries to stop him Dick [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu flattens him with one punch.]]
** That's more of a TearJerker to some. It wasn't Dick ''besting'' Bruce - it was Bruce being too decent a guy to open a can in response. It seemed especially odd against the backdrop of the animated series, which, unlike the comics, always portrayed Bats as compassionate and driven (though occasionally brusque) rather than cold and obsessed.
*** Go back and watch the entire series again - you can actually watch their relationship slowly fall apart as Bruce grows more and more obsessed. While it is awesome to see Dick stand up for ''his'' beliefs and begin to flesh out his own morals and sense of justice, it's still sad to see such a father/son relationship fall apart, especially since ''Batman Beyond'' reveals that they never truly reconciled. While old Bruce will occasionally reminisce about past adventures and exploits with Barbara and Tim, he ''never'' talks about Dick, and his reaction to seeing Terry in Dick's old formal wear is heartbreaking.
* The first part of "The Demon's Quest" features Ra's al Ghul and his GiantMook Ubu, who's so loyal and devoted to his master that he keeps pushing Batman around for daring to walk ahead of Ra's. Batman spends the episode slowly counting the pushes he gets from Ubu: "I'll call that...strike one." "Okay, that's ''two''." Finally, at the end of the episode (the first part, that is), Ubu throws a punch at Batman for [[BerserkButton trying to leave without his master's say so]]. He catches the fist with one hand and says, "And ''that's'' three!" Batman then squeezes Ubu's fist so hard its hurting Ubu, and throws him over his shoulder that he leaves Ubu a shivering mess on the ground. CrowningMomentOfAwesome, indeed.
** I think you're forgetting the part where Batman, shirtless except for his cape and cowl, and Ra's al Ghul, also shirtless, start '''SWORDFIGHTING''' in classic Errol Flynn style over a bomb set to halve the world's population - honestly, that entire two-part episode was pretty much one extended CMOA.
** This is pretty much directly adapted from the original O'Neill/Adams comic, and it was just as awesome there.
* "The Underdwellers" features a one-shot villain who runs a thieves guild consisting of young homeless runaways. Batman is horrified when he sees how the leader treats his "charges", but after chasing him into a subway tunnel, Batman still pulls him out of the way of an oncoming train, and when asked why, Batman tells him:
-->'''Sewer King:''' Why?
-->'''Batman:''' I don't pass sentence; that's for the courts! But this time...''this time,'' I'm sorely tempted to do the job '''myself'''!
** There is also the street child who thinks he has eluded the "Grup" Batman, only to learn the hard way how good he is at following him with a relentless skill when he appears out of nowhere.
--> Then there's this whole part with Batman ALLIGATOR WRESTLING!!
** The villain gets one of his own. After fighting Batman, he fell into the gator-infested waters.
-->'''Batman:''' Give me your hand!\\
'''Sewer King:''' ''NEVEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRR!!''\\
''(Fell into the water. The gators quickly dive in, apparently eating him alive.)''\\
'''Batman:''' A gruesome fate for a gruesome man.\\
'''Sewer King:''' ''([[StealthHiBye alive and well]])'' Actually, I rather enjoyed it.
* And of course, from "Nothing to Fear":
--->'''Batman:''' "I am Vengeance! I am the Night! '''I AM BATMAN!!'''
** [[ItMakesSenseInContext To a blimp.]]
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNq8Fil6oJ4 Watch it]]. It's epic.
*** In a CMOA for the voice actor, Kevin Conroy was working in a soup kitchen for first responders after 911. One of the other cooks found out who he was and had Kevin deliver that line to cheers.
* Dr. Harleen Quinzel gets one. Her response when she is the Joker's psychiatrist and he notes that her name could be shortened to Harley Quinn? NeverHeardThatOneBefore. To. The. Joker.
** She arguably gets two more as well. The first comes in the episode "Harlequinade" after The Joker abandons her and tries to blow up a bomb with a plane. She shoots a Jester head and not only nails Joker but knocks him out, all after a [[OneLiner "Laugh this off, puddin!"]]. The second comes in using Joker's original plan in "Mad Love" in such a way that Batman goads Joker about it, saying she came closer to killing him than Joker ever did.
* The episode "Read My Lips" was mindblowingly weird, but Bats still manages to score a CMOA. The main villain is the Ventriloquist, a little guy with a mousy demeanor who happens to have multiple personality disorder. His alternate personality is a cruel, angry and unstable mob boss ("Scarface") which he uses a puppet to express. Near the end of the episode, Bats has been bonked over the head one too many times and awakens tied up over a bizarre death trap. So how does he distract them long enough to escape? He convinces the "Scarface" personality that there's a traitor in the group, then throws his own voice to make it sound like the puppeteer is insulting him, ''causing an argument between the man's two personalities.'' Whoa.
** And then that mousey little guy gets one of his own in season four, when he [[spoiler:shoots the hell out of his own puppet, banishing his second personality forever.]]
* In ''Never Fear'', Bats breathes in an anti-fear gas and throws himself into a pond full of crocodiles. Guess who comes out alive. And he's not even in costume at the time!
* From "Harley And Ivy": Poison Ivy. The Joker. GroinAttack!
* "The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy": Batman is forced to give up his cape and cowl to live after the episode's villain puts him into what appears to be an inescapable death trap. How does he protect his identity? HE HAS ON ANOTHER MASK.
** What makes this even better? It was all part of a BatmanGambit.
** [[spoiler: "Why do you want Batman's cape and cowl?" "I... am going... TO WEAR THEM!" * Boss reveals himself as Batman. And then he sends it to the guy in prison, to keep him warm.]]
*** [[spoiler:There's a little hint which revealed the Boss to be Batman. The Boss hung up on the villain while he was still talking, which is an equivalent to Batman's StealthHiBye.]]
* Kevin Conroy, the voice of Batman, managed a CMOA in real life as well. After the 9/11 attacks, Conroy was volunteering at a soup kitchen, feeding rescue workers, victims, and such. (Which is pretty awesome in and of itself.) Eventually, someone recognized his voice, and word quickly spread. Then Conroy stood up in a chair and recited "I am Vengeance! I am the Night! '''I AM BATMAN!!'''" He got a standing ovation.
* In the ''[=SubZero=]'' movie: Dick Grayson jumping his motorcycle, using a stack of wrecked police cars as a ramp. (On the last few frames before the jump, you can see him ''smiling''.)
* In the episode "The Forgotten" Bruce is struck with amnesia and imprisoned as slave labour at a gold mine. When locked in a hot box, the "inmate" next to him breaks down and cries when he finally realizes he'll never see his family again. This causes Bruce to remember his family he'll never see again, and as such his identity. Now speaking with his gruffer, determined batman voice, he tells the guy they'll get out, proceeds to kick the metal box apart, scales a cliff to escape the guards, then comes back to open a bat-can of whoop-ass.
* Alfred gets a sneaky one in "The Lion and the Unicorn". Alfred knows half of a plot-important password, and has been captured by Red Claw because of it. She shoots him up with truth serum; knowing it's only a matter of time, he states, "You'll get nothing but gibberish out of me!" and immediately begins spouting nursery-rhyme nonsense without pause. So when he falls under the effects of the serum and starts answering "The Lion and the Unicorn are Fighting for the Crown" to her question, she doesn't realize for several critical minutes that he is, in fact, telling her the password.
* "Riddler's Reform" grants the Riddler an interesting one. It isn't a NotSoHarmless moment, as we've already seen Nygma come close to taking Bats out in his two previous episodes. Rather, it's a tiny glimpse of what The Riddler could accomplish if he was ever able to put the gimmicks aside and really concentrate on a goal. When he wants to finally kill Batman, what does he do? Lures him into a huge building, seals the doors and windows, and starts counting down from ten. No mercy, no hidden exits (that he knew about, anyway), no last chances, just a locked door and a great big bomb. It came as close or closer to working as anything the Joker ever came up with.
** Batman, not to be outdone, then gets 2 of his own when he first proves Nygma's guilt using the same trick Nygma had earlier used to make Batman seem paranoid and out to get him, then refuses to tell Nygma how he escaped the warehouse. The end result is the Riddler locked in his cell and screaming for someone to tell him how Batman escaped.
* From "The Laughing Fish": Batman fights [[EverythingIsEvenWorseWithSharks a shark.]] Underwater. ''[[HandyCuffs Handcuffed]].'' And still has the energy to go beat up the Joker.
* In "Christmas with the Joker", the Joker threatens hundreds of lives, takes prominent social figures hostage, blows up a railroad bridge as a trainful of passengers is about to cross, all so he can [[spoiler: pie Batman in the face as a Christmas present.]]
* In the Batman light episode "Showdown", Jonah Hex manages to destroy Ra's al Ghul's airship, defeat his army of mercenaries, and beat up Arkady Duvall, Ra's son in a sword fight, all by himself. And all of it to capture Duvall over his assault on a woman back east, instead of their belief of his being a railroad spy. What makes it even more awesome is that Hex is in his ''[[BadassGrandpa sixties]]'', and does all this with his bare fists, a knife, and whatever [[StuffBlowingUp explosives]] he finds, including the airship's ''own cannons''.
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* In "Two-Face, Pt. 1," Harvey is being blackmailed by Rupert Thorne, who's enjoying every second of watching the DA who's gunning for him squirm. A close-up of his face shows Harvey near a psychotic break, then... [[TranquilFury he calmly gets up]], entering [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtUBwucBCfQ this exchange]].
--> Harvey: There's just one problem.
--> Rupert: Oh, yeah? What's that?
--> Big Bad Harv: [[PreAssKickingOneLiner You're talking to the wrong Harvey.]]
* For a more complete list, refer to the [[Awesome/{{DCAU}} DCAU CMoA page]].
--> Harvey: There's just one problem.
--> Rupert: Oh, yeah? What's that?
--> Big Bad Harv: [[PreAssKickingOneLiner You're talking to the wrong Harvey.]]
* For a more complete list, refer to the [[Awesome/{{DCAU}} DCAU CMoA page]].
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* In "Two-Face, Pt. 1," Harvey is being blackmailed by Rupert Thorne, who's enjoying every second of watching You can find the DA who's gunning for him squirm. A close-up of his face shows Harvey near a psychotic break, then... [[TranquilFury he calmly gets up]], entering [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtUBwucBCfQ this exchange]].
--> Harvey: There's just one problem.
--> Rupert: Oh, yeah? What's that?
--> Big Bad Harv: [[PreAssKickingOneLiner You're talking to the wrong Harvey.]]
* For a more complete list, refer toexamples over at the [[Awesome/{{DCAU}} DCAU CMoA page]].
--> Harvey: There's just one problem.
--> Rupert: Oh, yeah? What's that?
--> Big Bad Harv: [[PreAssKickingOneLiner You're talking to the wrong Harvey.]]
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