History Awesome / GUNDAM

* In the final episode, during his duel against Haman, Judau reactivates the disabled Double Zeta by channeling the strength of the good men and women from the original series, ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', and ZZ, including Elpeo Puru, Lalah Sune, Four Murasame, Katz Kobayashi, Sarah Zabiarov, and lastly Kamille Bidan. He then unleashes a tremendous WaveMotionGun blast on Haman before their duel ends with a SingleStrokeBattle exchange. This leads to a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, where Haman admits defeat as Judau asks why she didn't use as many funnels as she could've. Haman scoffs that they were conducting a duel and it wouldn't be fair, and dies with a smile on her face anyways, glad she came back if only to meet Judau.

* "I am Mashymre Celo, Zeon commander!" "I am Judau Ashta...." ''glances to the left and right'' "...currently skipping school!" ...although this may be a CrowningMomentOfFunny, but let's just say it belongs here.

* Bernie certainly deserves a mention for being able to hold his own against the new, insanely powerful, state of the art Gundam for at least a few minutes, despite being only an inexperienced rookie in a battered, mass-produced Zaku, and knowing the pathetic odds of success too. [[spoiler:Of course he ends up dying a tragic, horrible death, leading into what can be seen as a subversion of pretty much everything this trope is about. On the other hand, one could argue that his death is both an awesome moment and a TearJerker.]]

* In the final episode, during his duel against Haman, Judau reactivates the disabled Double Zeta by channeling the strength of the good men and women from the original series, ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]]'', and ZZ, including [[spoiler: Elpeo Puru]], Lalah Sune, Four Murasame, Katz Kobayashi, Sarah Zabiarov, and lastly Kamille Bidan. He then unleashes a tremendous WaveMotionGun blast on Haman before their duel ends with a SingleStrokeBattle exchange. This leads to a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, where Haman admits defeat as Judau asks why she didn't use as many funnels as she could've. Haman scoffs that they were conducting a duel and it wouldn't be fair, and dies with a smile on her face anyways, glad she came back if only to meet Judau.

** Harry Ord is full of these. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peTeioEJ_k8 See for yourself.]] Also doubles as CrowningMomentOfFunny

* Dianna Soriel. End of Episode 10. That is all. Also qualifies as a TearJerker and a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.
* The final battle between Loran Cehack and Gym Ghingnham at the end of the series, not the final battle between Turn A and Turn X Gundams but these two. After the two Gundams are locked in each others Moonlit Butterfly attack Gym throws Loran a sword and asks him if he ever used one before, Loran replies that he did once and then proceeds to unleash TranquilFury upon Gym [[spoiler: until Gym is swallowed by the twin Moonlit Butterflies.]]

* An absolute hilarious moment was Devine trying to [[spoiler: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.]]

* Bernie certainly deserves a mention for being able to hold his own against the new, insanely powerful, state of the art Gundam for at least a few minutes, despite being only an inexperienced rookie in a battered, mass-produced Zaku. [[spoiler:Of course he ends up dying a tragic, horrible death, leading into what can be seen as a subversion of pretty much everything this trope is about.]]
** One could argue that [[spoiler:his death]] is both an awesome moment [[spoiler:and a TearJerker.]]
*** Of course, since Bernie is voiced in the English dub by Creator/DavidHayter--THE DAVID HAYTER--this makes perfect, poignant sense.
** Take a moment to process that. He took on a GUNDAM with a ZAKU, and knowing the pathetic odds of success too. That's pretty awesome in this troper's opinion.

* What about Judau having bombs strapped to the ZZ Gundam, and then strapping grenades to ''himself''? And then, he forces his way into the Neo Zeon flagship with them.

** As long as we're talking about Judau punching people we can't forget when he punched out that obnoxious prick Wong Lee. Made even more awesome by the way it punishes Wong for the way he beat up Kamille back in Zeta.

* 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. This troper never thought he'd shed ManlyTears for faceless, nameless {{mecha mooks}} like that.
* My favorite was the second time Amuro faced the Zeon AcePilot Gyunei Guss, except this time it was a fair fight and Amuro took him out with barely breaking stride. Letting go of the shield in the middle of a smoke cloud and then flanking him was just one of those clever moves Amuro was known for.
* For this troper, Amuro jumping out of a car to crash-tackle a horse-riding Char is the scene that sticks in his mind for the movie.

*** Of course, since Bernie is voiced in the English dub by DavidHayter--THE DAVID HAYTER--this makes perfect, poignant sense.

*** Of course, since Bernie is voiced in the English dub by DavidHayter--[[BadAss THE DAVID HAYTER]]--this makes perfect, poignant sense.

* Amuro pulls off a nice one when he 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.

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** Except for Shining Gundam, Strike, Impulse, and Strike Freedom, and possibly a few others I've missed.

* Awesome/MobuilSuitGundamTheOrigin

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* In the first episode, Kamille is beaten up by Titans Military Police. Later in the episode, he comes back in a stolen Gundam...
--> '''Kamille:''' "Hey, Mister MP! Wanna know what it's like to be picked on by somebody bigger than you?"
* Of course, Char gets ''another'' one of these moments: after being cornered in a damaged ship, proceeds to force Haman to retreat by '''blowing up the ship around him'''.
** Which follows a moment in the previous episode in which Char '''kills every single Axis soldier''' with one shot from The [[WaveMotionGun Mega Bazooka Launcher]].
* Kamille manages a pair of moments in the last two episodes, one being the eponimous Wave Rider Crash scene. The other is when he channels his rage into the Zeta Gundam to create ''an impenetrable barrier of anger'', and using that rage, turns his regular old Beam Saber into an InfinityPlusOneSword of extreme length, cleaving an enemy suit in half from a huge distance away.
* Obviously, Amuro needs at least one CMOA in this series: The Adhumla, the AEUG's flying command center, is under attack from a powerful Federation Asshimar suit. Unfortunately, Char and Kamille are ill-equipped with shot ammo instead of bazookas. When the Asshimar is about to go in for the killing blow on the Adhumala's bridge, Amuro makes [[BigDamnHeroes his big damn hero]] entrance by flying in on a cargo plane and ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfIeRdSwFGc ramming it into the enemy suit]]'', throwing himself through the windscreen and forcing the enemy suit to retreat.
* This Troper is pissed off that you guys have not mentioned one of Char's ''biggest'' CMOA's ever: his actions during the Dakar reunion, where [[spoiler: he verbally whoops the Titans's collective asses, shows their atrocities to the whole world and reveals his identity in a ''really'' epic speech]]
** Don't forget Beltochika Irma ''finally'' showing [[CharacterDevelopment that she had changed her childish ways]], by [[spoiler: becoming a HotScoop and recording the brutal mecha battle whose footage Char uses in his speech.]]
* Let's not forget when Haman Karn boarded Jamitov Hymem's ship being expected to negotiate, [[spoiler: instead bluntly informing him that she's about to [[ColonyDrop crash Axis]], [[ColonyDrop a giant rocket-propelled colony asteroid]], into their headquarters. She rejects Jamitov's subsequent offer to revive the Zabi family, then tells him she is only after his life. [[DodgeTheBullet After dodging a bullet aimed at her]], she pulls off one of her earrings, filled with enough cyanide gas to kill everyone in the room, effectively taking the room hostage long enough for her backup to arrive and aid her escape. Not before she breaks the earring on the ground, killing everyone in the room except Jamitov and Jerid, who retreat.]] Haman-sama, indeed.
* MauveShirt EliteMook Ben Wooder defines VillainousValour when, refusing to allow Four desertion to hold his army hostage, he climbs into the Psyco Gundam and does a decent job of flying it, despite having no Newtype potential whatsoever. He then earns another one when, with all his mobile suits shot down, he orders the rest of his men of his ship, and crashes it into the ''Audhumla'', shoots Four when she attempts to stop him, and goes out firing a machine gun turret at the MK-II.
* In the Hong Kong arc, Mirai gains one via keeping her cool when both she and her and Bright's children are caught in a particularly terrible HostageSituation: [[spoiler: being put in a small boat near a battlefield, meaning that they can either potentially be killed by friendly/enemy fire or drown if their boat is sunk]]. Any person in her situation would've understandably freaked out, [[YamatoNadeshiko Mirai]] ''[[NervesOfSteel did]]'' ''[[SilkHidingSteel not]]''.
* Awesome for a villain: Yazan Gable, a [[BadassNormal non-Newtype]] handing Kamille his rear in a 1 on 1 battle, using a mobile suit that only Newtypes were supposed to be able to handle. He then went on to be the HeroKiller and had a higher kill count then the BigBad.

** The Gundamjacking of the Physalis. Dressed in a Federation uniform, Gato walks into the ''Albion'', hops into the Gundam, draws its beam saber and ''cuts his way out through the hull.''

* Of course, it would be wrong not to mention [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice the way Kou defeats Cima.]]

** And before this moment? He was routing Ple/Puru Two in the Quin Mantha (A giant mech with powerful weapons in a custom mook suit. To say he took levels in badass from his JokeCharacter days is a pretty big understatement.

* The final fight of the series: Setsuna piloting the [[SoLastSeason Exia]] versus Ribbons piloting the [[FlawedPrototype 0 Gundam]]. Why is it awesome? Just consider [[TohruFuruya 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.

* Tobia. Motherfucking. Arronax. [[http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/8849/1246724158388.jpg The kid is made of the damn things.]]

* Awesome/AfterWarGundamX

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** Awesome/MobileSuitGundam
*** [[Awesome/MobileSuitGundamThe08thMSTeam 08th MS Team]]
*** Awesome/MobileSuitGundamMSIGLOO
*** Awesome/MobileSuitVictoryGundam
** Awesome/MobileFighterGGundam
** Awesome/MobileSuitGundamWing
*** Awesome/MobileSuitGundamWingEndlessWaltz
** Awesome/AfterWarGundamX
** Awesome/MobileSuitGundamSEED

** Awesome/MobileSuitGundam00
** Awesome/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn
** Awesome/MobileSuitGundamAGE
** Awesome/SDGundamForce

*** Of course, since Bernie is voiced in the English dub by DavidHayter - [[BadAss THE DAVID HAYTER]] - this makes perfect, poignant sense.

-->- '''Kamille:''' Hey, Mister MP! Wanna know what it's like to be picked on by somebody bigger than you?

-->'''[[CrazyAwesome Hallelujah]]:''' Sayonara da, '''''ONNA!!!'''''

** ...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.

--->'''Hallelujah:''' [[EnemyMine Peries!]]
--->'''Soma:''' [[LetsGetDangerous Roger!]]

--->"This is not death! '''IT'S FOR HUMANITY TO LIVE ON!!!'''"

--->"'''[[FacingTheBulletsOneLiner I AM A SOLDIER OF THE FEDERATION, SWORN TO PROTECT THE PEOPLE!!!]]'''" ''(boom)''

* Asuna in volume 8-9...

* 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.]]
* Japanese ''Gundam'' fandom managed to flesh out the vague references in the original ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam'' and create a proper UC time line, which was adopted by Sunrise.

* In the Hong Kong arc, Mirai gains one via keeping her cool when both she and her and Bright's children are caught in a particularly terrible HostageSituation at the sea. Any person in her situation would've understandably freaked out, [[YamatoNadeshiko Mirai]] ''[[NervesOfSteel did]]'' ''[[SilkHidingSteel not]]''

* Which follows a moment in the previous episode in which Char '''kills every single Axis soldier''' with one shot from The [[WaveMotionGun Mega Bazooka Launcher]].

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* Just about every part of the 30th anniversary, including the life-size statue of the RX-78, and the two-minute animated short showing [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s39oTJqgkc every single protagonist Gundam, up to the 00 Raiser and Unicorn, working together to get the Core Fighter into space.]]
** Except for Shining Gundam, Strike, Impulse, and Strike Freedom, and possibly a few others I've missed.

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* One episode in, and series main character Banagher Links already has three. The first comes when he rescues Audrey Burne from falling to her death, ala Hikaru-and-Minmei, in a hijacked worker pod, which runs out of fuel in midair, thousands of feet up...and he still manages to crash-land it in the front yard of his own school, and get out unscathed.
* The second comes when, facing three professional soldiers, he incapacitates two of them in the span of a couple of seconds(breaking the nose of one of them by headbutting him in the face), then a few moments later deals with the third of them by drop-kicking her, dodging her own kick, and actually grabbing her by the hem of her coat and physically throwing her off the platform on which they were standing.
** This troper feels that this scene counts as a [=CMoA=] for said third character, Marida Cruz, as after her two comrades are incapacitated, she picks up the glasses of the one whose nose is broken, hops onto his back, THEN slides his glasses back onto his nose without even looking, and jumps off of him.
* "Go...and get the hell...OUT OF MY WAY!!!" 'nuff said.
** Clarification: Banagher, in Unicorn, shows up, giving Marida [[OhCrap a look of sheer terror.]] It then dives at the Khsatriya, which up to this point had done quite well for itself, and is easily three times Unicorn's mass. It tackles the Khsatriya, grabs the right hand which had just drawn a beam saber, and CRUSHES THE HAND. It hits full thrusters, forcing Marida to eat airbag, and slams it out of the colony. Once a moment's opening comes up, Marida sends EVERY SINGLE BIT SHE HAS (24 total) to kill this Gundam before it can do anything else. Unicorn responds by going into Newtype-Destroyer mode, creating an I-field that blocks every blast coming towards it, and transforms into a true Gundam's features, complete with red beard and V-fin. It draws a beam saber, and shit gets underway. Episode end. Good luck waiting for autumn.
* A [=CMoA=] goes to Commander Daguza Mackle in the same episode, who gets out of his MS to take on the monstrously-heavily-armed Kshatriya with a bazooka, and actually survives (Technically, he attacked her with a giant flash-bang, though, which detracts from it somewhat)
* Also, resident [[CoolOldGuy old guy]] Cardeas Vist, gets a [=CMoA=] when, while being held at gunpoint by three guys, at least one of which was a professional Special Forces operative, and unarmed himself...He proceeds to break the neck of the Special Ops guy with his bare hands, then use him as a [[HumanShield meat shield]] while he grabs the dead man's gun and shoots his buddy in the face with it.
* Another [=CMoA=] for a [[FacelessGoons faceless grunt]], the pilot of the Stark Jegan, a souped-up grunt, who actually manages to last more than two seconds against the aforementioned Kshatriya, and was actually managing to hold his own in close combat until she got the drop on him by firing her thrusters in his face. This also counts as a [=CMoA=] for her, as she manages to survive will equal professionalism and badassery too.
* The release of Episode 2 gives us at least two more.
** The combat debut of Full Frontal. The awesomeness begins when a panicked technician states that one of the approaching enemy mobile suits [[AscendedMeme is moving three times faster than the others.]]
** Marida's rematch with Banagher. Banagher, not listening to fellow pilot Riddhe, chases after Full Frontal, and is suddenly attacked from another direction. From out of ''nowhere'' comes the Kshatriya (which, might we add, has not been repaired since its last fight with the Unicorn), which proceeds to defeat the Unicorn Gundam with ''a single blow''. How? Marida gets in close, immobilizes the Unicorn's arms with the Kshatriya's left arm and one of its three remaining wing binders, pulls back her suit's damaged right arm (the one with the crushed hand) and ''punches the Unicorn's cockpit at full force.'' The impact causes Banagher to vomit into his suit and pass out. [[MortalKombat Flawless victory]].