History Awesome / CommandAndConquer

* No discussion of Kane's awesome is complete without mentioning his casual disposal of TheStarscream. Up until this point you've been taking orders from Seth, a shady guy with a tendency to send you into missions with faulty intelligence (such as calling an area undefended when it is in fact heavily defended) and slight hints of envy towards you. He's also made it clear that if you fail, [[YouHaveFailedMe you die.]] He plans to send you on a mission that involves a frontal assault on the Pentagon itself. Then Kane is introduced for the first time in the game, by ''killing'' Seth.

* GDI's leadership gets one in ''Tiberian Dawn'', when they actually manage to [[OutGambitted trick Kane for once]]. Even better, they do it by taking advantage of one of ''Kane's'' plans.

* In the sequel, Tiberian Sun, he returns just as badass. [[spoiler:As a traitor is about to be executed under continuous shouts of "Kane lives in death." Kane then appears, shouting "Kane LIVES!"]] Even if you know it's coming, it'll give you chills every single time.

* The beginning of GDI's first mission in Tiberian Sun shows GDI soldiers running in terror from Nod cyborgs screaming for reinforcements. Reinforcements who proceed to rain from the sky in [[ItsRainingMen drop pods]], blasting the cyborgs to pieces and landing on their corpses.
* And the last GDI cut scene in Tiberian Sun has the player character, Michael [=McNeil=], going hand-to-hand with Kane himself in Nod's Pyramid Temple. They struggle, go off-camera, shots are fired, and Kane walks back into frame, still spouting his "I'm a close second to God" gibberish, leaving the player to think [=McNeil=] is dead. Then Kane chokes, checks himself, and realizes he's bleeding, turning [[OhCrap just in time]] to see [=McNeil=] running up to ''stab him with a giant shard of Tiberium'' and send him to hell with a pithy one-liner.

* CABAL gets a good one in Firestorm. In the Nod campaign, when you're trying to take CABAL's core offline [[spoiler:It turns out the core is just a hologram, and CABAL starts launching waves of cluster missiles all over the map.]] The kicker: CABAL then taunts you with this line, "By the way, missile launch detected."
* The opening Nod cutscene of ''Tiberian Sun'' has a nice bit:

* Likewise the GDI opening cut scene with McNeil (Michael Bihen) being commanded by Solomon (James Earl Jones,) aka Kyle Reese and Darth Vader. After Kane's appearance Solomon offers the best GDI jump jet soldiers to retake a base, already being dispatched from the Philadelphia space station as the Kodiak cuts a path across the atmosphere.

*** Every time [[MagnificentBastard Kane]] taunts the GDI commander/player it is both awesome and terrifying.

*** Alexa Kovacs briefly tops that by [[spoiler:revealing that she set up Killian Qatar for an attack by Nod forces on Temple Prime, temporarily leaving Kane ''speechless''.]]
** The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVH-qeWom0o intro cutscene]] to ''Kane's Wrath'' is, itself, a true CMOA for Kane himself. How awesome is this speech? Kane punctuates it ''[[LargeHam with thunder and explosions.]]''

* The activation of [[MakeMeWannaShout Sonic]] [[LetsGetDangerous Emitters]] in the GDI campaign of Tiberium Wars. Your powerful GDI force is on the run from the alien Scrin, and entire battalion of Mammoth Tanks are being destroyed in the background by the alien hordes while you are desperately fighting to evacuate a small group of scientists in buses with a small force of your own while the whole city is being torn apart. Your GDI troops flee across a river and an engineer reactivates the sonic grid meant to reclamate the area, not fight a war. The emitters power up, and you hear the trademark sound of TWIII sonic weapons firing... Cue Scrin units blowing up and essentially ending their ground pursuit of your forces, with soldiers shouting how powerful the emitters are in awe. ''That'' is one heck of an introduction to one heck of a base defense.
* GDI as a whole gets one in Tiberium Wars. After several decades of peace, Nod comes out of nowhere, destroys their main command center (with most of their civilian leaders), takes the Ion Cannons offline and invades every single Blue Zone simultaneously. GDI takes the hit, fights off the assault, gears up, and pushes Nod back deep into the Yellow Zones. Then the Liquid Tiberium Bomb goes off and it looks like they've won... until the Scrin arrive, attacking cities all over the planet. GDI fights them off, turns around and successfully invades ''[[DeathWorld Red Zones]]'' destroying all of the Scrin towers but one. Kane may have succeeded in his objectives, and the Scrin may have been able to retreat, but from on a tactical level, GDI crushed BOTH of them.

* [[KillSat The Ion Cannon]], especially in ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRenegade''. From the moment you activate it a light rain starts up out of nowhere as the atmosphere ionizes, columns of light swirl together over the target, and... ''BOOM'', everyone dies.

* CMOA in music form: One of the themes is based around his CatchPhrase "I got a present for ya".

* Even canonically earlier, would be the end of the Soviet Campaign from the original ''Red Alert''. To explain, up to this point the player had no reason to believe that there was any connection between ''Red Alert'' and ''Command & Conquer'' aside from the basic style of gameplay. There was, however, an apparently low-ranked bald-headed officer hanging out in the background of a lot of the Soviet cutscenes, but it was probably just a coincidence, right? Cue the ending cutscene. [[spoiler: In the span of a few short moments the victory celebration changes as Nadia kills Stalin, then Nadia gets killed by that nameless henchman... yep, it's Kane, and you just set the stage for the Brotherhood's rise to power.]]
* In ''Red Alert'', any time Nadia makes tea (it's a long story). [[spoiler:"Poison?! You BITCH!!"]]

* Stavros' revenge on Stalin at the end of the Allied campaign in ''Red Alert''. Cold is not the word.
* The Soviet {{Cyborg}} SuperSoldier Volkov from ''Red Alert'' didn't have such good lines, but was ludicrously badass, to the point where he made Tanya look weak. Yeah. He fought tanks. He fought Tanya. He fought a ''battleship.'' And he won. The first mission you use him has he and his (also a cyborg) dog airdropped into a sea of explosive barrels. One Allied soldier sets them all off. Neither one is even ''scratched'' by the resulting explosions.

* Original Red Alert, Allied first level: rescue Albert freakin' Einstein. Tanya shows up laughing. She kills anything you point to. Einstein runs to safety. [[OhCrap Cruisers show up.]] The Soviet base gets shelled into nothing. [[CurbStompBattle Battle over]].

* And the Rhino Tank's epic declaration in Red Alert 2:

* ''Red Alert 3'' features President Ackerman, a walking, talking CMOA. Ackerman's election campaign slogan? "Screw 'em all!" Vote for him, if you want to live.

* Command And Conquer Generals: In the first mission of the USA campaign you see a group of Crusader tanks wiping the floor with a column of Iraqi scorpion tanks without a single loss. This is followed by another wave being slaughtered by Raptor jets. [[CurbStompBattle Yeah.]]

* No discussion of Kane's awesome is complete without mentioning his casual disposal of TheStarscream.

** For reference, you've up until this point been taking orders from Seth, a shady guy with a tendency to send you into missions with faulty intelligence (such as calling an area undefended when it is in fact heavily defended) and slight hints of envy towards you. He's also made it clear that if you fail, [[YouHaveFailedMe you die.]] He plans to send you on a mission that involves a frontal assault on the Pentagon itself. Then Kane is introduced for the first time in the game, by ''killing'' Seth.
*** One [=YouTube=] comment sums it up: "'This plan is so secret, even Kane knows nothing of it.' Moron, Kane knows ''everything'' his people do."

* This troper has a soft spot for a certain cutscene in Command and Conquer: Renegade. Though the name of the level is elusive, it begins with a Nod commander ordering the immolation of several civilians. Needless to say this provokes a very pissed off, "REAL TOUGH GUY!?" from the player Commando who promptly snipes said commander in between the eyes.

*** Which sadly loses out, in this Troper's opinion, to that of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvJVjAIVwxU&feature=related the sequel]]. Wow, EA knows how to get it right. [[BrokenBase Well, sometimes]]...

Kane, the BigBad of the ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries'' gets quite a few moments.

** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKy4BdOVsZI&feature=related Rule of thumb, Hassan: You can't kill]] the [[MessianicArchetype Messiah]]."
** Which itself gets a CallBack in a trailer for Tiberium Wars: a television reporting Kane's death is switched off...by Joseph Kucan.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMstBfNZor8 Don't tell me this cutscene didn't give you goosebumps.]]

** Even canonically earlier, would be the end of the Soviet Campaign from the original ''Red Alert''. To explain, up to this point the player had no reason to believe that there was any connection between ''Red Alert'' and ''Command & Conquer'' aside from the basic style of gameplay. There was, however, an apparently low-ranked bald-headed officer hanging out in the background of a lot of the Soviet cutscenes, but it was probably just a coincidence, right? Cue the ending cutscene. [[spoiler: In the span of a few short moments the victory celebration changes as Nadia kills Stalin, then Nadia gets killed by that nameless henchman... yep, it's Kane, and you just set the stage for the Brotherhood's rise to power.]]
** ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D51_UgXMSzM "Is that camera still running?!"]]''
** ''Kane's Wrath'' is one long CMOA, but that's understandable when you've got an entire expansion focusing on that most Magnificent of [[MagnificentBastard Magnificient Bastards]]. When Kane reveals that he [[spoiler: deliberately engineered Redmond Boyle's survival because he knew he'd act as an UnwittingPawn and use the Ion Cannon on Temple Prime]], Kane's capacity for the Xanatos Gambit reaches incredible proportions.

* In ''Red Alert'', any time Nadia makes tea (it's a long story). [[spoiler:"Poison?! You BITCH!!"]]
** Followed, of course, by "For the forseeable future... Comrade Secretary, I ''am'' the future."
* Stavros' revenge on Stalin at the end of the Allied campaign in ''Red Alert''. Cold is not the word.

* Command And Conquer Generals: In the first mission of the USA campaign you see a group of Crusader tanks wiping the floor with a column of Iraqi scorpion tanks without a single loss. This is followed by another wave being slaughtered by Raptor jets. [[CurbStompBattle Yeah.]]
* The Commando is pretty much a walking, talking Crowning Moment of Awesome all to himself.
--->"[[IAmNotLeftHanded And that was left-handed!]]"
** The Soviet {{Cyborg}} SuperSoldier Volkov from ''Red Alert'' didn't have such good lines, but was ludicrously badass, to the point where he made Tanya look weak. Yeah. He fought tanks. He fought Tanya. He fought a ''battleship.'' And he won.
*** The first mission you use him has he and his (also a cyborg) dog airdropped into a sea of explosive barrels. One Allied soldier sets them all off. Neither one is even ''scratched'' by the resulting explosions.

* ''Red Alert 3'' features President Ackerman, a walking, talking CMOA. Ackerman's election campaign slogan? "Screw 'em all!" Vote for him, if you want to live.
** His position on illegal immigration? Attack dogs! No walls, no permits, just dogs. ''Attack'' dogs!
** "While the other candidates are serving special interests, I'm serving the Commies a steaming platter of ''shame,'' with a side order of ''suck it!''"
** He's so awesome that he's [[http://www.gametrailers.com/player/42085.html donating]] a pint of blood a week to the uninsured to make them indestructible.
** "You can twist my words, but I can twist that knee until it pops!"
** You want the real crowning moment? In the 2008 elections he actually received a fair few votes... ''in real life''.
** Ackerman actually takes it UpToEleven after [[spoiler: his FaceHeelTurn, when he goes from awesome to CrazyAwesome. How crazy? He turned Mount Rushmore into a giant supervillain lair armed with {{Death Ray}}s and every other weapon of mass destruction you can think of... ''and no one even knew he had done so until he unveiled it''.]]
* "Is it done, Yuri?" "No, Comrade Premier... it has only begun."
** Quickly followed by the game's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuwtNDkHch0 incredible intro]] coupled with its CrowningMusicOfAwesome.
*** Which sadly loses out, in this Troper's opinion, to that of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvJVjAIVwxU&feature=related the sequel]]. Wow, EA knows how to get it right. [[BrokenBase Well, sometimes]]...

* Going by that, let's just say almost all the units in all the games. Special heart-warming win goes to the Avatar in C&C3, who speaks everything in a full-deadpan, evil DangerDeadpan voice.
--> "Under control."
--> [[CannibalismSuperPower "I like."]]
--> [[CannibalismSuperPower "I want that."]]
--> [[CannibalismSuperPower "Pay up."]]
--> "To dust."
** And the Rhino Tank's epic declaration in Red Alert 2:

*** Which is utterly smoked by the Apocalypse Tank's new voice and quotes in Red Alert 3:

*** Then [[UpToEleven it gets completely totalled]] by the Pacfier FAV, which literally has 3 emotions, Total Confidence, Absolute Confidence and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Totally Absolute Confidence]].

* Tiberium Twilight has quickly become the black sheep of the franchise, but that doesn't mean it too doesn't have its share of [=CMOAs=].
** Notably, during the GDI campaign, is Colonel James' response to an impenetrable Nod defense: drop an entire GDI army on it from orbit.
** And who could forget the Titan MKII voice?:
---->"That's right, daddy is here now!"
---->"I'm gonna crack some skulls!"
---->"Bringing the pain!"
* The beginning of GDI's first mission in Tiberian Sun shows GDI soldiers running in terror from Nod cyborgs screaming for reinforcements. Reinforcements who proceed to rain from the sky in [[ItsRainingMen drop pods]], blasting the cyborgs to pieces and landing on their corpses.
* And the last GDI cut scene in Tiberian Sun has the player character, Michael [=McNeil=], going hand-to-hand with Kane himself in Nod's Pyramid Temple. They struggle, go off-camera, shots are fired, and Kane walks back into frame, still spouting his "I'm a close second to God" gibberish, leaving the player to think [=McNeil=] is dead. Then Kane chokes, checks himself, and realizes he's bleeding, turning [[OhCrap just in time]] to see [=McNeil=] running up to ''stab him with a giant shard of Tiberium'' and send him to hell with a pithy one-liner.
---> Kane: "I am the future! The [[TitleDrop Tiberian Sun]] has risen-!" (holds hands to chest, sees blood on fingers. Turns to see-)
---> [=McNeil=]: "NOT ON MY WORLD!" (Stabs Kane. You see the Tiberium spike jutting out of Kane's back. [=McNeil=] twists the spike and Kane falls to the floor, ''quite'' dead.) "And that's an order."
* CABAL gets a good one in Firestorm. In the Nod campaign, when you're trying to take CABAL's core offline [[spoiler:It turns out the core is just a hologram, and CABAL starts launching waves of cluster missiles all over the map.]] The kicker: CABAL then taunts you with this line, "By the way, missile launch detected."

* The Mammoth tank's total confidence while being pitted against ''a alien freaking invasion''
--> Armor Superiority
--> Flatten Them!
--> Roll Over Them!
--> Lets have some FUN!
--> Close in!
--> Unstoppable
--> Unrivaled
* GDI's leadership gets one in ''Tiberian Dawn'', when they actually manage to [[OutGambitted trick Kane for once]]. Even better, they do it by taking advantage of one of ''Kane's'' plans.
* The activation of [[MakeMeWannaShout Sonic]] [[LetsGetDangerous Emitters]] in the GDI campaign of Tiberium Wars. Your powerful GDI force is on the run from the alien Scrin, and entire battalion of Mammoth Tanks are being destroyed in the background by the alien hordes while you are desperately fighting to evacuate a small group of scientists in buses with a small force of your own while the whole city is being torn apart. Your GDI troops flee across a river and an engineer reactivates the sonic grid meant to reclamate the area, not fight a war. The emitters power up, and you hear the trademark sound of TWIII sonic weapons firing... Cue Scrin units blowing up and essentially ending their ground pursuit of your forces, with soldiers shouting how powerful the emitters are in awe. ''That'' is one heck of an introduction to one heck of a base defense.
* The opening Nod cutscene of ''Tiberian Sun'' has a nice bit:
-->'''CABAL:''' ''A division of Hasan's Elite Guard is closing on our position. The probablility of a favorable outcome can be increased if we can return to your main base and engage the enemy as we move.''
-->'''Slavik:''' Define 'favorable outcome', CABAL.
-->'''CABAL:''' ''They all die.''
-->'''Slavik:''' (entirely matter-of-fact) That'll do.
** Likewise the GDI opening cut scene with McNeil (Michael Bihen) being commanded by Solomon (James Earl Jones,) aka Kyle Reese and Darth Vader. After Kane's appearance Solomon offers the best GDI jump jet soldiers to retake a base, already being dispatched from the Philadelphia space station as the Kodiak cuts a path across the atmosphere.
-->'''McNeil:''' Let's kick some ass.
* Just any particularly powerful unit will indeed sound badass.
* GDI as a whole gets one in Tiberium Wars. After several decades of peace, Nod comes out of nowhere, destroys their main command center (with most of their civilian leaders), takes the Ion Cannons offline and invades every single Blue Zone simultaneously. GDI takes the hit, fights off the assault, gears up, and pushes Nod back deep into the Yellow Zones. Then the Liquid Tiberium Bomb goes off and it looks like they've won... until the Scrin arrive, attacking cities all over the planet. GDI fights them off, turns around and successfully invades ''[[DeathWorld Red Zones]]'' destroying all of the Scrin towers but one. Kane may have succeeded in his objectives, and the Scrin may have been able to retreat, but from on a tactical level, GDI crushed BOTH of them.

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** Also said by the equally BadAss [[ColonelBadass Colonel Burton]] who can literally take a tank on himself, and beat it just by shooting his rifle at it.

** The Soviet {{Cyborg}} SuperSoldier Volkov from ''Red Alert'' didn't have such good lines, but was ludicrously {{badass}}, to the point where he made Tanya look weak. Yeah. He fought tanks. He fought Tanya. He fought a ''battleship.'' And he won.

Kane, the BigBad of ''CommandAndConquer'' gets quite a few moments.

** You want the real crowning moment? In the 2008 elections he actually received a fair few votes.

* [[KillSat The Ion Cannon]]

** The Soviet SuperSoldier in one of the ''Red Alert'' expansion pack missions didn't have such good lines, but was ludicrously {{badass}}. He fought tanks. He fought Tanya. He fought a ''battleship.'' And he won.
*** The first mission you use him has he and his dog airdropped into a sea of explosive barrels. One Allied soldier sets them all off. He isn't even ''scratched'' by the resulting explosions.

** Even canonically earlier, would be the end of the Soviet Campaign from the original Red Alert.

--> "I like."
--> "I want that."
--> "Pay up."

** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKy4BdOVsZI&feature=related Rule of thumb, Hassan: You can't kill]] the MessianicArchetype."

** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKy4BdOVsZI&feature=related Rule of thumb, Hassan: You can't kill]] TheMessiah."

*** Every time [[MagnificentBastard Kane]] taunts the GDI commander/player it is both awesome and [[NightmareFuel ''terrifying'' ]]

* "Is it done, Yuri?" [[NightmareFuel "No, Comrade Premier... it has only begun."]]

**** Then [[UpToEleven it gets completely totalled]] by the Pacfier FAV, which literally doesn't has 3 emotions, Total Confidence, Absolute Confidence and [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Totally Absolute Confidence]].

* In the sequel, Tiberian Sun, he returns just as badass. [[spoiler:As a traitor is about to be executed under continuous shouts of "Kane lives in death." Kane then appears, shouting "Kane LIVES!"]]

---->"It will soon be a ''wasteland.''"

* And the last GDI cut scene in Tiberian Sun has the player character, Michael [=McNeil=], going hand-to-hand with Kane himself in Nod's Pyramid Temple. They struggle off-camera, shots are fired, and Kane walks back into frame, still spouting his "I'm a close second to God" gibberish, leaving the player to think [=McNeil=] is dead. Then Kane chokes, checks himself, and realizes he's bleeding, turning [[OhCrap just in time]] to see [=McNeil=] running up to ''stab him with a giant shard of Tiberium'' and send him to hell with a pithy one-liner.

** Which itself gets a CallBack in a trailer for Tiberium Wars: a television reporting Kane's death is switched off...by Joseph Kucan. AndTheFandomRejoiced.

*** Which sadly loses out, in this Troper's opinion, to that of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvJVjAIVwxU&feature=related the sequel]]. Wow, EA knows how to get it right. [[BrokenBase Well]], [[RuinedFOREVER sometimes]]...