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->'''Rorschach:''' ''No. Not even in the face of Armageddon.'' Never compromise.
-->--''Rorschach'' of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''

* In the ''ComicBook/{{Serenity}}'' comic ''Better Days'', Shepherd Book gets his very own moment of awesome when he beheads a killer death robot with a sword he [[HyperspaceArsenal pulls from nowhere]]. In his own words, "There's no hell for these things."

* ''Awesome/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage''
* ''Awesome/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDW''

* ''Awesome/WorldWarHulk''

* ''Awesome/Spawn''

* ''Awesome/LaQueteDeLOiseauDuTemps''

** ''Awesome/MalibuComicsMortalKombat''

* ''Awesome/SmileSistersDuology''

* ''Awesome/{{Drama}}''

* ''Awesome/{{Zero}}''

* ''Awesome/FlashGordonZeitgeist''

* ''Awesome/{{Necronauts}}''

* ''Awesome/RickAndMortyOni'

* ''Awesome/MortadeloAndFilemon''

* ''Awesome/StuckRubberBaby''

* ''ShaolinCowboy'' consists of these. The best ones are the main character turning just enough to reveal that the panel-wide pole he's carrying has [[spoiler: ''chainsaws at both ends,'' which he then uses to ''cut a shark in half down the middle as he leaps out at him;'']] the same character taking out a seemingly endless army in its entirety by [[spoiler: ''punching a crab... one time;'']] and ''Creator/GeofDarrow's'' SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, the epically massive WorldTurtle that has to be the single most detailed two-page spread in comics history.

* In the ''ComicBook/{{Serenity}}'' comic ''Better Days'', Shepherd Book gets his very own moment of awesome when he [[spoiler: beheads a killer death robot with a sword he [[HyperspaceArsenal pulls from nowhere]].]] In his own words, "There's no hell for these things."

* The end of the fifth issue of ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'' is a moment of awesomeness for Johnny, our sympathetic sociopath. As he's being confronted yet again by his two styrofoam Pilsbury Doughboys on whether he should just [[DrivenToSuicide end it all]] or just kill some more people to [[SealedEvilInACan paint the ever-drying wall]], Johnny decides to stab the both of them and go on a psychotic yelling spree, shouting, "I'M NOT GOING TO PAINT THE WALL! THINGS WILLS CHANGE! I WON'T BE A SERVANT TO ANY OF YOU EVER AGAIN!" However, [[spoiler: he dies at the end, only to come back to life a little later on]].

** Vaya [[TakeAThirdOption taking a third option]] between [[spoiler: betraying her comrades and being slowly tortured by the troll King Guttlekraw. She grabs a mook's knife and goes for Guttlekraw's throat. The guards kill her before she can get him, but she still gets a much better and much easier death than she could otherwise have hoped for.]] It is ''[[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ18/DisplayOQ18.html?page=7 Awesome.]]''

** [[TroubledButCute Chizu]] fighting more or less all of her own Neko {{Ninja}} after her NumberOne framed her as a traitor [[spoiler:- ''and winning'']].
** [[PsychoForHire Noriko]] [[spoiler:making her way out of the collapsed mine, surviving - by the skin of her teeth - thanks to sheer stubbornness and pride]].

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There are certain things you might see when reading a comic book that'll make you say, "[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Oh, s&%#! Did he just do that?]]"

'''Comics with their own pages'''

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!!Examples Without Their Own Pages:

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* Judge Fear's comeuppance at the hand of the titular character: "Gaze into the fist of Dredd!"
** For those who have seen this line all over this wiki and still wonder what that means: [[spoiler:Judge Fear's face causes most of those who see it to die of fright. Judge Dredd's response on seeing it? Putting his fist ''through Fear's face and out the back of his head'']]. ''That'' is why it is awesome.
** For those who wnat to see that iconic panel it is at [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gazeintofist.jpg that other wiki]]
* The climax to ''The Apocalypse War'', where Dredd has the ability to end the war by wiping out East-Meg One - killing ''five hundred million people'' with nuclear fire - while being pleaded with not to... [[spoiler:and then presses the button. "You shouldn't start wars if you can't take the consequences!"]]
* "You forget, Spikes... if someone calls on the law for help... the law cannot turn a blind eye! '''AND I AM THE LAW!'''"
* In a more villainous form, the iconic shot in "America" of Dredd standing on the gunned-down body of a Democratic terrorist, the American flag on her and covered in blood: "Justice has a price. That price is freedom."
* In "Goodnight Kiss", Dredd is [[spoiler:crucified in the Cursed Earth, starving to death, and hallucinating... and then ''rips his way free of the cross'' to go find the villain]].
* One single-issue gag strip has Dredd assaulted by a gang of hoodlums in his own apartment while he's taking a bath. The thugs are heavily-armed, Dredd has nothing but his wits and his fists, but after the six pages are up he's taken them all down. And goes calmly back to his bath, all without once removing his frickin' HELMET.

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* The closing sequences of Creator/GrantMorrison-scripted nasty follow-up, ''Dare: The Future''. "I sold everything EXCEPT my soul..." And later, "Trust me. It's EASY." These quotes mean nothing out of context, but when you read the whole thing... YOWSAH is the only word. Also, from the same comic, Digby's Last Stand ("Eh-up, John Willie, y'bastard!")
* In the recent series by Garth Ennis, British space hero Dan Dare gets one; captured by the forces of his arch-nemesis, the Mekon, he is dragged in chains before his arch-nemesis and subject to a [[JustBetweenYouAndMe lengthy monologue about how futile the resistance posed by him and his allies is]]. Dare's response? Midway through, he calms interrupts the Mekon's rant with "We always oppose squalid little men like you. There's really nothing more to say." And then proceeds to ignore him entirely in favour of chewing out the Mekon's ally, the Quisling Prime Minister of Great Britain, instead.

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* ''ComicBook/MortadeloYFilemon'': Mortadelo is usually the one who saves the day. Whenever another one does it, expect it to be one of these moments.
** Filemón got an EPIC one at the end of "Las embajadas chifladas". See the ChekhovsGun entry for that.
** Superintendente Vicente got his at the end of "El bacilón". See the DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu entry.
** An unrelated example would be when Mortadelo used an [[CelestialBody ''universe'']] disguise in the last panel of "El disfraz, cosa falaz".

* Awesome/{{Daredevil}}