History Awesome / DragonQuestTheAdventureOfDai

* Even though he did get help from Gomechan, and his Dragon emblem, it is still very awesome to see Dai get up, give a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Crocodine, and proceed to block everything he can throw at him before taking him out. He acknowledges Dai as a true Hero with his dying breath.

** Just after that first awesome moment, when Hadlar somehow escaped damage by using his mooks as a shield, and goes for the finishing blow from behind, with a lot of EvilGloating, [[DarkestHour just as it seems he is helpless and screwed]], Hyunckel tops his previous moment of awesome, using his very last spark of HeroicWillpower to turn his sword on his helmet back into a blade... piercing Hadlar's second heart, who dies acknowledging Hyunckel's victory, sincerely impressed by his valor. [[DeathIsCheap Hadlar's death does not stick]], but this would be the first step to him seeking true victory as a NobleDemon, ultimately redeeming himself.

** One more time when Flazzard comes for more after getting converted to a demonic flame spirit and lodged in the strongest suit of armor Mystvearn can give, impervious to magic. The rest of the (weakened) party promptly gets thrashed, but Dai made the resulting CurbStompBattle look downright EASY. Everyone stares in plain disbelief as Dai pulls a NonchalantDodge on every single strike, even though he is still blinded from the blood on his eyes.
* After that, even though it is low key, an exhausted Dai summons all of his HeroicWillpower and activates the Dragon emblem on his own for the first time, outside of battle, granting him the power to cast Begirama and break Leona's ice prison.

* The Demon Rock Castle is finally revealed to be a Humongous Mecha, wreaking havoc with its laser eyes, massive strength and hordes of Mooks... until Dai steps in and single-handedly demolishes it.

* Hadlar, knowing it's hopeless, still has the balls to oppose Vearn, all because he wants to be the one to defeat the disciples of Avan.

** Again, it has to be stressed, and spelled out. Kill-Vearn and Vearn are RIGHT to fear Avan, since for what he may lack in raw power, he possesses a type of strength that is completely at odds with [[MightMakesRight Vearn's beliefs]], and he goes and exemplifies it in the most irrefutable way: he can bypass what would otherwise take twice the power of what may be the most overpowered creature in the world.

** Again, it has to be stressed, and spelled out. Kill-Vearn and Vearn are RIGHT to fear Avan, since for what he may lack in raw power, he possesses a type of strength that is completely at odds with [[MightMakesRight Vearn's beliefs]], and he goes and exemplifies it in the most irrefutable way: he can bypass what would otherwise take twice the power of what may be the most overpowered creature in the world.

** And what makes Avan more awesome? He didn't get any new spell beyond Kaglimmer. He merely came up with a new way to use the power of purification by combining it with another spell, since it weakens things like traps and doors, allowing a weaker spell to overpower them easily. As an example, he cited using the secret way of purification with Safe Passage to nullify Kill-Vearn's trap, and then shows it in full by using the same arts with Click to open a gate that would take more than two Dragon Knights to cut open.

* The secondary characters ''finally'' get one near the end when, after receiving a beatdown by the Big Bad, [[DarkestHour the heroes cannot stop the imminent apocalypse]]. Realizing what needs to be done, [[YouAreNotAlone all of the friends]] they've made during their journey rush to the pillars and stop them themselves.
** In a meta-awesome moment, [[FinalBoss Vearn]] sees his explosive pillar plot foiled by the [[StarterVillain fake hero party]] of all people! It truly nails the point home about the power of human bonds which Vearn had scoffed at until now : even the lowest of humans can unite their will towards the purpose of saving their world when the chips are down, AND make a difference.
** Extra bonus points, and doubles with as a truly effective {{SugarWiki/Heartwarming Moment|s}}, since under Matoriv and his party's encouragement, self-acknowledged DirtyCoward Masopho finally mans up and [[MyGreatestSecondChance rises up to save the day]]. This is espcially touching since thanks to his life advice, Masopho was the one who kickstarted Popp's CharacterDevelopment into the badass he is by the end of the story, and now even he can see that his fate is not set in stone.

* Hym was able to will himself to come back to life after receiving a fatal blow from Hyunckel AND the death of Hadlar (which means every Royal Guard would be dead anyways). Not only he gained an actual life aura (meaning his life was now truly his), but he also became strong enough to easily match Dai's aura blade. Oh, and he gained a flowing silver hair like Hadlar's.

** Extra bonus points, and doubles with HeartwarmingMoment, since under Matoriv and his party's encouragement, self-acknowledged DirtyCoward Masopho finally mans up and [[MyGreatestSecondChance rises up to save the day]]. This is espcially touching since Masopho was the one who kickstarted Popp's CharacterDevelopment into the badass he is by the end of the story, and now even he can see that his fate is not set in stone.

* With his [[MiniMecha Hyper Zombie]] defeated, [[SmugSnake Zaboera]] escapes from the battle, only to find [[GentleGiant Crocodine]] waiting for him. Zaboera pleads for mercy, [[BlatantLies promising not to hurt anyone anymore.]] Crocodine lowers his axe... and [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Zaboera]] [[ISurrenderSuckers attacks]] [[TooDumbtoLive him]] with his poisoned nails. Crocodine points at the handle of his axe, [[OhCrap already falling to trap Zaboera's hands.]]

** And what makes Avan more awesome? He didn't get any new spell beyond Kaglimmer. He merely came up with a new way to use it, by using another spell on top of it since the purification spell weakens things like traps and doors, allowing a weaker spell to overpower them easily. As an example, he cited using the secret way of purification with Safe Passage to nullify Kill-Vearn's trap, and then shows it in full by using the same arts with Click to open a gate that would take more than two Dragon Knights to cut open.

** And what makes Avan more awesome? He didn't get any new spell beyond Kaglimmer. He merely came up with a new way to use it, by using another spell on top of it since the purification spell weakens things like traps and doors, allowing a weaker spell to overpower them easily. As an example, he cited using Kaglimmer with Safe Passage to nullify Kill-Vearn's trap, and then shows it in full by using Kaglimmer with Click to open a gate that would take more than two Dragon Knights to cut open.

* Hym was able to will himself to come back to life after receiving a fatal blow from Hyunckel AND the death of Hadlar (which means every Royal Guard would be dead anyways). Not only he gained an actual life aura (meaning his life was now truly his), but he also became strong enough to easily match Dai's aura blade. Oh, and he gained a flowy silver hair like Hadlar's.
* How did Hyunckel knock down reborn Hym? By making a risky move using the Hollow Stance to use Hym's force againsthimself, pretty much having Hym ram into his Aura-enhanced fist at full power.

** And what makes Avan more awesome? He didn't get any new spell beyond Kaglimmer. He merely came up with a new way to use it, by using another spell on top of it since the purification spell weakens things like traps and doors, allowing a weaker spell to overpower them easily. As an example, he cited using Kaglimmer with Safe Pasage to nullify Kill-Vearn's trap, and then shows it in full by using Kaglimmer with Click to open a gate that would take more than two Dragon Knights to cut open.

* With his [[MiniMecha Hyper Zombie]] defeated, [[SmugSnake Zaboera]] escapes from the battle, only to find [[GentleGiant Crocodine]] waiting for him. Zaboera pleads for mercy, [[BlatantLies promising not to hurt anyone anymore.]] Crocodine lowers his axe... and [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Zaboera]] [[ISurrenderSuckers attacks]] [[TooDumbtoLive him]] with his poisoned nails. Crocodine points at the handle of his axe, [[OhCrap already falling to trap Zaboera's hands.]]

* EVERYTHING about Avan's past before he became the Hero and Master of Heroes. He is of a family of scholars, wears glasses, is a failure at sparring, prefers to skip an important meeting just to teach ladies how to cook, and skips Guard duty to hunt bugs. Then turns out the only true thing of those is that he's a scholar. He wore dud glasses, intentionally failed at sparring, taught cooking because that also included teaching the ladies how to prepare meals for the wounded and sick, skipped guard duty to hunt Poisonous Moths to make a frenzy-inducing powder drug that could be used to cause Hadlar's monsters to fight each other, fought toe-to-toe with Hadlar while he was still inexperienced in combat. And even before then, he saved Princess Flora when he was probably just a little older than Dai, cleaving a mean-eating plant in a single stroke.
* Despite all her clumsiness, Princess' Leona amazing leadership skills are what makes the pursuit for the Minakatoru (Kaglimmer) successful. Had they started heading back as soon as the ten-hours candle burned out, it would have been all for naught, but she still believed they could make it and that she could inherit the ultimate holy spell in order to be able to dispel the curse in the dungeon and be able to use Evac to get back to the surface.

* EVERYTHING about Avan's past before he became the Hero and Master of Heroes. He is of a family of scholars, wears glasses, is a failure at sparring, prefers to skip an important meeting just to teach ladies how to cook, and skips Guard duty to hunt bugs. [[spoiler:Then turns out the only true thing of those is that he's a scholar. He wore dud glasses, intentionally failed at sparring, taught cooking because that also included teaching the ladies how to prepare meals for the wounded and sick, skipped guard duty to hunt Poisonous Moths to make a frenzy-inducing powder drug that could be used to cause Hadlar's monsters to fight each other, fought toe-to-toe with Hadlar while he was still inexperienced in combat. And even before then, he saved Princess Flora when he was probably just a little older than Dai, cleaving a mean-eating plant in a single stroke.]]

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* EVERYTHING about Avan's past before he became the Hero and Master of Heroes. He is of a family of scholars, wears glasses, is a failure at sparring, prefers to skip an important meeting just to teach ladies how to cook, and skips Guard duty to hunt bugs. [[spoilers:Then turns out the only true thing of those is that he's a scholar. He wore dud glasses, intentionally failed at sparring, taught cooking because that also included teaching the ladies how to prepare meals for the wounded and sick, skipped guard duty to hunt Poisonous Moths to make a frenzy-inducing powder drug that could be used to cause Hadlar's monsters to fight each other, fought toe-to-toe with Hadlar while he was still inexperienced in combat. And even before then, he saved Princess Flora when he was probably just a little older than Dai, cleaving a mean-eating plant in a single stroke.]]

* The Dragon Rock Castle is finally revealed to be a Humongous Mecha, wreaking havok with its laser eyes, massive strength and hordes of Mooks... until Dai steps in and single-handedly demolishes it.

* Due to him receiving the most CharacterDevelopment in the story, Popp is a mine of these: He makes an epic [[YouShallNotPass one-man stand]] against Baran's Dragon Elite, a Heroic Sacrifice to ''[[TakingYouWithMe explode]]'' against Baran himself (and would've seriously injured him had Baran not chickened out at the last moment), becomes capable of [[WaveMotionGun throwing massive spells]], and stops Vearn's [[ThePhoenix Kaiser Phoenix]] ''with two fingers''.

* In his final battle, Hyunckel, after being beaten to an inch of his life by a horde of Mooks, is [[FromBadToWorse ambushed by eight]] [[ChromeChampion Chrome Champions]]. He tears them apart [[GoodOldFisticuffs with his bare hands.]]

* Avan casually writing a whole magic circle across the island upon arriving, and creating a dome repelling the Demon Lord's influence over the whole island.
* Pop starting his CharacterDevelopment, graduating from DirtyCoward to CowardlyLion when he, a SquishyWizard, goes against LightningBruiser Crocodine. Then he proves he has brains and taken to heart his lessons by renouncing to fight directly, and to ensure a {{Brainwashed}} Blass can't harm Dai, using the same legendary spell as Avan in the process. He was also prepared to pull a HeroicSacrifice if needed, even if it was because he could not live with himself if he abandoned the party like that. This was so awesome that Crocodine had a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment that kickstarted his HeelFaceTurn, and [[RestoredMyFaithInHumanity his respect for humankind]].
* Even though he did get help from Gome, and his Dragon emblem, it is still very awesome to see Dai get up, give a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Crocodine, and proceed to block everything he can throw at him before taking him out. He acknowledges Dai as a true Hero with his dying breath.
* Dai getting up on sheer {{Determinator}} power, and even though it's a NotHimself moment, he takes down Hyunkel by combining [[MagicKnight magic and swordsmanship]] without relying on the Dragon emblem.

* Hyunkel gets a succession of three awesome moments, that made it in the anime :
** Before fighting Hadler near the Ice Tower, Hadler is about to skewer Maam on the top of the tower, but Hyunkel makes the mother of BigDamnHeroes entrances by shattering the damn thing. Even Hadler is left speechless.
** During his fight with Hadler, after getting his armor pierced and filled with flames, he still stands up on pure HeroicWillpower alone, unleashing Grand Cross and wiping every low level mook.
** Just after that first awesome moment, when Hadler somehow escaped damage by using his mooks as a shield, and goes for the finishing blow from behind, with a lot of EvilGloating, [[DarkestHour just as it seems he is helpless and screwed]], Hyunkel tops his previous moment of awesome, using his very last spark of HeroicWillpower to turn his sword on his helmet back into a blade... piercing Hadler's second heart, who dies acknowledging Hyunkel's victory, sincerely impressed by his valor. [[DeathIsCheap Hadler's death does not stick]], but this would be the first step to him seeking true victory as a NobleDemon, ultimately redeeming himself.

* Due to him receiving the most CharacterDevelopment in the story, Pop is a mine of these: He makes an epic [[YouShallNotPass one-man stand]] against Baran's Dragon Elite, a Heroic Sacrifice to ''[[TakingYouWithMe explode]]'' against Baran himself (and would've seriously injured him had Baran not chickened out at the last moment), becomes capable of [[WaveMotionGun throwing massive spells]], and stops Vearn's [[ThePhoenix Kaiser Phoenix]] ''with two fingers''.
** During the final battle, Vearn uses a special stance that allows him to use three different [[CounterAttack Counter Attacks]] at the same time. So what does Pop do? He learns how to cast two spells at the same time, and attacks Vearn. Vearn uses two attacks to deal with Pop's spells, and uses the third (Kaiser Phoenix) to attack him directly... except that Pop was wearing the [[AttackReflector Mirror of Shahal]] under his clothes. Cue Vearn being hit by his own attack. And ''then'' Dai hits Vearn with Avan Strash Cross.

* In his final battle, Hyunkel, after being beaten to an inch of his life by a horde of Mooks, is [[FromBadToWorse ambushed by eight]] [[ChromeChampion Chrome Champions]]. He tears them apart [[GoodOldFisticuffs with his bare hands.]]