History Awesome / GUNDAM

* Mahq.net's 2003 AprilFoolsDay [[http://www.mahq.net/rants/prank.htm announcement]] of a ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Gundam SEED]]'' sequel that fooled Japanese fans. And when ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeedDestiny Gundam SEED Destiny]]'' came out, [[ReverseFunnyAneurysm it just got funnier.]]

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=POIKOhzDUww Here's a compilation of footage]] all 3 installments of the ''Extreme Vs.'' series, showcasing multiple generations of Gundams fighting it out.

[[AC:[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]]]
* Gundam Nadleeh's first on-screen appearance. After jettisoning Virtue's armor with enough force to send his attackers flying, Nadleeh grabs Virtue's {{Shoulder Cannon}}s, crosses its arms in front of itself and fires a single shot from each over the other shoulder. That single shot instakills all six Tierens who were holding it down. Even resident ColonelBadass Sergei Smirnov was sufficiently intimidated by it to order a retreat... for the three remaining members of his squad. This incident cemented that if Tieria switches over to Nadleeh, he's ''serious''; too bad he screwed it up by bawling his eyes out over how he wasn't supposed to reveal Nadleeh this early in the plan, breaking down to the point [[DudeLooksLikeALady he]] stopped using masculine pronouns altogether.
* Setsuna's final battle in the first season. He had just beaten the BigBad of the first season, his Gundam is damaged and he's exhausted. Then out of nowhere [[CharClone Graham Aker]] shows up in his custom Flag... except that his Flag has '''a GN Drive tacked on it and is toting a beam saber!''' The two summarily proceed to tear each other's mobile suit to pieces in a short but very violent battle, trading {{Motive Rant}}s back and forth all the while.
* Allelujah never really liked when [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Hallelujah]] took over his body and went to [[CurbstompBattle kill stuff]]. So when Allelujah's Gundam is heavily damaged with the enemy actively searching the area for him, what do they do? They team up and temporarily merge, of course! We get to witness a hyper-awesome two-on-one CurbstompBattle where [[FanNickname Doublelujah]] utterly owns [[TykeBomb Soma]] and [[ColonelBadass Sergei]] ''at the same time''.
-->'''[[CrazyAwesome Hallelujah:]] '''Sayonara da, '''''ONNA!!!'''''
* The 00 Raiser's first battle. Devine comes quite close to taking it down by stabbing it with a beam saber... only to find out the hard way that the 00 Raiser in [[SuperMode Trans-Am mode]] can [[FlashStep create a quantum wormhole and shunt itself through it; what she hit was only a post-teleportation afterimage]]. By the time she realized what happened, Setsuna destroyed her weapon with a surprise attack. Then she tried to cut him again... only for him to teleport once again (this time with an awesome shot of the Gundam materializing into existence from glowing particles) and deliver the coup de grace from behind. Even ''[[ManipulativeBastard Ribbons]]'' was completely floored by it...
** ...which didn't prevent him from getting his own moment right afterwards when [[ManipulativeBitch Wang Liu Mei]] tried taunting her: He backhanded her so hard she fell off her feet. Granted, she had it coming for quite a while but ''[[HellYesMoment still]]''.
--->'''Wang:''' "What's the matter? You seem rather unsettled-" '''''[[ArmorPiercingSlap THWACK!]]'''''
--->'''Ribbons:''' "''Shut up'', you greedy little bitch."
* Possibly the greatest moments of the second season were in the 17th episode.
** First, Celestial Being got the 00 Gundam into space with a two-stage acceleration by flying vertically upwards in the Ptolemaios and using the momentum to launch the 00 and the 0-Raiser, the two combining in mid-air and flying forth on their own. In the upper atmosphere, the Empruss ambushed and almost killed them... then the 00-Raiser went Trans-Am and not only blew the Empruss away with a single shot but '''used the particle beam as a gigantic beam saber hundreds of kilometers long.''' The enemy's [[OhCrap reaction]] was simply priceless when the beam came out of nowhere, turning into a HopeSpot as it closely missed their KillSat... ''then'' the beam started sweeping.
** ''This'' is what happens when you give a WaveMotionGun to the man who always pilots the melee-focused mobile suits of his team: he turns it into a LaserBlade ImprovisedWeapon. CrazyAwesome in droves!
** When the Memento Mori's dying shot hit the orbital elevator, the good guys called out to everyone on the battlefield that the fragments of the elevator are going to hit heavily populated areas and kill millions. Cue Celestial Being, Katharon, the Federation army and even A-LAWS deciding to shoot the falling debris instead of each other with what is probably the largest furball of mobile suits gathered at one time in the whole series. Not just Gundams and A-LAWS' state-of-the-art mobile suits but even obsolete {{mook}}s [[SoLastSeason like Flags and Tierens from the first season]], all working together to save those lives.
* In an early episode of the second season, Setsuna is swooping down on an enemy aircraft carrier with intent to kill... then out of nowhere appears Graham Aker and '''''crash-tackles Setsuna's Gundam in mid-air'''''.
* An absolute hilarious moment was Devine trying to jack the 0-Raiser... only to find out the hard way that Saji's Haro hitched a ride in the cockpit! The Haro promptly went into HyperDestructiveBouncingBall mode, pinballing around the cockpit and hitting Devine a few times before landing on the control panel and initiating a [[CombiningMecha docking sequence with the 00 Gundam]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93JrG4Vp_rI It has to be seen to be believed.]]
* The final fight of the series: Setsuna piloting the [[SoLastSeason Exia]] versus Ribbons piloting the [[FlawedPrototype 0 Gundam]]. Why is it awesome? Just consider [[Creator/ToruFuruya who]] is Ribbons' seiyuu and take a look at [[http://www.mahq.net/mecha/gundam/00/gn-000-acd.jpg his machine]]. Looks familiar? Damn right it does; '''it's a goddamn RX-78'''! It is simultaneously a touching homage to the original Anime/MobileSuitGundam and (through Setsuna's victory) a symbolic PassingTheTorch to the newer Gundam series.
* Then came TheMovie, chock-full of awesome moments.
** Quite early in the movie, Allelujah and Marie are being chased by ELS-controlled vehicles. Upon realizing that they're going after Marie, Hallelujah jacks Allelujah's body to act as bait, evading the rogue vehicles with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVMM9ZCpikw spectacular application]] of LeParkour.
** One can be summed up thus: what's better than Doublelujah curbstomping stuff in a Gundam? Doublelujah and Soma/Marie ''co-piloting a Gundam''. That's right, the two most successful results of the HRL's SuperSoldier project fighting side by side in a BattleCouple!
--->'''Hallelujah:''' "[[EnemyMine Peries!]]"
--->'''Soma:''' "[[LetsGetDangerous Roger!]]"
** Every time Gundam Zabanya gets into a fight. ''Every single time.'' If the target doesn't die in a MacrossMissileMassacre, it WILL in the following AttackDrone BeamSpam.
** Graham and Andrei both [[DyingMomentOfAwesome go out in a suitably awesome fashion]]: overloading their mobile suits' [[SuperMode Trans-Am]] as a form of TakingYouWithMe.
*** Graham, his mobile suit on the verge of being completely overtaken by ELS, gives Setsuna a RousingSpeech and deliberately crashes into the ELS structure Setsuna was up until that point unsuccessfully trying to infiltrate before going boom, tearing a sizable hole into the thing and allowing Setsuna to proceed. Despite Graham trying to kill him for two whole seasons, [[TheStoic Setsuna]] is visibly saddened by his passing.
----> "This is not death! '''IT'S FOR HUMANITY TO LIVE ON!!!'''"
*** Andrei chases down an ELS that got past the final defense line and despite having far too few firepower to destroy it, he ''attacks it in melee and blows himself up along with his whole squad to stop it from reaching Earth''. What is especially touching is that right before his death, we see a brief shot of his dead parents (whose sakes [[TheAtoner Andrei]] is a soldier for) smiling at him.
---->"'''[[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner I AM A SOLDIER OF THE FEDERATION, SWORN TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE!!!]]'''" ''(boom)''

[[AC:[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamCharsCounterattack Char's Counterattack]]]]
* The most notable one is in the ending. After defeating Char in battle, Amuro tries to push back the ColonyDrop Char was planning throughout the entire movie. ''Physically''. Although this would be a suitable one for Amuro, it's even more of one for the series' {{mooks}}. As Amuro struggles to push back to Axis asteroid, which would send the Earth into a new ice age, the rank and file soldiers from both sides of the war charge in and help push the asteroid back, despite Amuro's pleas for them to go and save themselves, due to the fact that atmospheric re-entry would destroy their mobile suits. They gladly continue pushing back anyway, the soldiers of each side sacrificing themselves to save the earth, even as they explode left and right.
* The second time Amuro faces the Zeon AcePilot Gyunei Guss, except this time it is a fair fight and Amuro takes him out with barely breaking stride. Letting go of the shield in the middle of a smoke cloud and then flanking him is just one of those clever moves Amuro is known for.
* Amuro jumping out of a car to crash-tackle a horse-riding Char.
* Amuro pulls off a nice one when he [[MacGyvering MacGyvers]] his way through a fight with Char. After leaving the Nu-Gundam to try to speed up the dismantling of Axis from the inside, he stumbles across an ammunition room. In the span of time it takes Char to enter Axis, he sets up multiple radios through which he can hear Char's approach and attempt to ''remotely blow him up with a well-positioned rocket launcher.'' The plan fails, but it's awesome nonetheless.