History Awesome / FireForce

* Episode 1
** The first awesome moment of the series comes into two flavors because of how it is set up. When Shinra watches Company 8 in action, the viewer is lead to believe this will be a "wow, I wanna be like them when I grow up" sort of moment, que Fire-Soldier-Academy arc. Wrong! Not only does Shinra rocket forward in a spectacular DivingSave BigDamnHeroes moment, he then reveals that he has ''already graduated'' from the academy and is, in fact, Company 8's newest member. It is a play on expectations that adds a meta-flavored awesome to the first display of Shinra's power.
* Episode 2
** Maki spars with Shinra and then Arthur, and demonstrates how a second-generation pyrotechnic can ruin their day. She [[AntiMagic extinguishes Shinra's Devil Footprint propulsion]] and then transforms Arthur's Excalibur into more of her familiars, leading up to a giant version that unnerves them. Even in hand-to-hand combat she dominates and unleashes this killer line at Arthur.

* Episode 4
** After her subordinates capture the sapient infernal, Princess Hibana utterly shuts down Shinra with just a glance. He falls down, unable to move. In a later episode, she reveals that this is Heat Syncope, a technique which uses heat to mess with liquid in a person's head and induce heat stroke and dizziness, which means that this is the first episode to show what PlayingWithFire can ''really'' do, beyond straight-forward combat.

* Episode 15
** How good an inventor is Vulcan? He built a holo-projector that works fine outside in a post-apocalyptic world. ''From scratch''.
* Episode 16
** Giovanni gets the drop on Shinra and absolutely dominates him--seriously. The main character isn't even able to fight back and gets his ass summarily handed to him, and the guy follows it up by having the good sense to restrain him.
* Episode 19
** This episode showcases why you do not mess with the women of fire force company 8, as they all proceed to beat their opponents soundly and taking very little damage in the process.
*** Maki is heavily outnumbered (5 to 1) yet her opponents never stood a chance. With the mobile pile drivers Vulcan made for her, she and her familiars clobber all of them senseless.
*** Tamaki is ''very'' agile when her Lucky Letcher Lure isn't acting up, and even that contributes to victory.
*** Even Iris, the NiceGirl GoodShepherd, sneaks up behind an enemy with a crowbar.

* Episode 22:
** The sheer scale of how outmatched Shinra is by Sho becomes clear when it's revealed his opponent can ''stop time'' due to basically being connected to ''Lucifer''. So what does Shinra do? Tap into his link to Sho to grab some of that power for himself--which promptly allows him to move at speeds faster than light, disassemble his subatomic particles and re-assemble them, and counter fiction's most broken power.

* Episode 9:
** Ogun's fight against the forest Demon, temporarily powering up to Captian Burn's level.

* Episode 17:
** Charon, determined to protect the pillars even at the cost of his very life, pushes his absorption powers to their limit to redirect a nuclear attack by Nataku -- that's powerful enough to destroy all of Tokyo -- onto the moon, leaving a huge crater on the moon's surface.
* Episode 20:
** Juggernaut overcoming his fears and withstanding multiple injuries to finally put down a white clad who had killed a Company 2 comrade and nearly killed Tamaki. And not with a simple attack or smack or two - no, he ''dunks a ballistic fire missile into her face'' so hard that [[EyeScream her eye pops]] before flattening and obliterating her in one fell swoop. Literally losing AnArmAndALeg in the process didn't even stop him one inch.

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-->'''Maki''': A knight should kneel before a princess. You're not obeying the code of chivalry.

-->'''Akitaru''': Don't talk to me about Second Generation or Third Generation. [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower I train every day.]]

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** Charon, determined to protect the pillars even at the cost of his very life, pushes his absorption powers to their limit to redirect a nuclear attack by Nataku- that's powerful enough to destroy all of Tokyo -onto the moon, leaving a huge crater on the moon's surface.

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* Chapter 300: How does Shinra stop Haumea from feeling despair in the recreated world? By making death more intimate by turning the world into that of Manga/SoulEater. And to make sure that it sticks, he calls in Charon to cheer her up.

* Any fight scenes with Benimaru Shinmon are suitably epic but the one that takes the cake is his fight against his own Doppleganger which is envisioned as TheWorldsStrongestMan by the people of Asakusa and nearly destroys the Earth. Benimaru destroys it in a single strike, proclaiming despite how strong his people imagine he is, [[BadassBoast his true strength is even higher than that!]]