History Awesome / GearsOfWar

* Playing as [[Film/TerminatorDarkFate Sarah Conner]] or [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Emile-A239]] in Horde mode in ''VideoGame/Gears5''.

* Dom's HeroicSacrifice is definitely a TearJerker, but it is also thoroughly awesome. Just ''watch'' the pyrotechnics!
** And on top of everything, an instrumental of Gary Jules version of Mad World plays in the background, which should just be awesome to any old school Gears fan.
* On a meta-level, this role put Carlos Ferro on the videogame map.

* Though by itself the scene where Dom has to euthanize Maria is definitively a TearJerker, the scene itself is a CMOA for Epic Games, with a combination of heart-wrenchingly well-done music, brilliant writing, and perfect acting, on top of the fact that Epic went with such a strikingly mature and straightforward approach to such a story. It was the moment that, in this troper's eyes, ''Gears 2'' went from being a really good game to being a truly ''awesome'' one.

* "Control, this is Delta. We've hijacked a [[spoiler: Brumak]] so that we can-" "You ''what?!''" "We're [[spoiler:riding a Brumak]]; we're gonna use it to clear the area faster." "Uh... okay..." [[Awesome/VideoGameLevels Best. Level. EVER.]]
* Marcus [[spoiler:finally getting fed up with Griffin's bullshit and verbally thrashing him.]]
--> [[spoiler:I just lost my fucking [[TrueCompanions brother]], alright?! My ''BROTHER''! You, your tower, and all this fuckin Immulsion can '''GO TO HELL!!''']]
* [[spoiler: "Feel that? That's from Dom...and everyone else you killed, ''[[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch you bitch."]]'']]
* [[spoiler: Even as an older man 25 years after his "glory days" in the Locust War, the man can still keep up with the best of them, including his son and his friends as they fight the Swarm.]]

* [[spoiler: Dom's HeroicSacrifice is definitely a TearJerker, but it is also thoroughly awesome. Just ''watch'' the pyrotechnics!]]
** [[spoiler: And on top of everything, an instrumental of Gary Jules version of Mad World plays in the background, which should just be awesome to any old school Gears fan.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFEXppw4INc&feature=player_detailpage#t=9s Cole showing us just why he's considered one of the best, if not THE best Thrashball player who has ever lived]], only it's [[spoiler: Lambent]] he's plowing through instead of people.

* [[spoiler:Saving J.D. and his team by remotely hacking a bot-transport craft and crashing it into Jinn's drones when they have J.D. & company cornered]].

* [[spoiler:Adam's HeroicSacrifice, which resulted in no less than the ''extinction of the entire Locust Horde and Lambent'' and bringing peace to Sera.]]

* [[spoiler: Clayton Carmine surviving all of Gears of War 3. We see the crashed helicopter, a gear's body lying on the ground, and a helmet. Then someone else picks up the helmet and puts it on, revealing GRUB KILLER on his chest plate.]] That is all.
** Plus Clay's [[spoiler: BigDamnHeroes moment in the final battle against Myrrah, followed by him [[ScrewDestiny surviving the helicopter crash]].]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Clay:''' EAT DIRT AND DIE, MOTHERFUCKER!]]

* At the end of RAAM's Shadow, Kim goes hunting for RAAM to get revenge for [[spoiler:Valera]]. He finds him injured and prepares to kill him, but RAAM summons a ring of Kryll to protect him. Kim won't let this stop him, and he ''begins walking through the Kryll to try and reach RAAM, receiving several cuts from the man eating terrors''. He likely would have been torn apart, and was only stopped when Barrick pulled him back, but damn, that took guts to try and do.

* His entry in the original Gears of War, the sudden change in music foreshadowing that this is not a guy to mess with, emerging from the smoke of battle as a giant figure clad in black who is instantly different from all the Drones you've been killing so far. His badassery increases as he slowly strides through a pitched firefight between the COG and Locust, barely even acknowledging all the chaos around him, as he [[spoiler: nears Minh Young Kim, sucker punches him, and then finally and slowly executes him by impalement.]]
** The Ultimate Edition adds something that makes RAAM 1000x more badass when [[spoiler: Kim]] attempts to chainsaw bayonet the Locust General, RAAM simply barehand blocks it, the revving blade actually grinding to a halt in his grip, rips the Lancer from [[spoiler: Kim's]] hands, kicks him to the ground and then [[spoiler: swiftly kills him via impalement.]]

* Though by itself the scene where [[spoiler: Dom has to euthanize Maria]] is definitively a TearJerker, the scene itself is a CMOA for Epic Games, with a combination of heart-wrenchingly well-done music, brilliant writing, and perfect acting, on top of the fact that Epic went with such a strikingly mature and straightforward approach to such a story. It was the moment that, in this troper's eyes, ''Gears 2'' went from being a really good game to being a truly ''awesome'' one.
* In the second game, Delta Squad end up swallowed whole by the Riftworm, a kilometers-long behemoth that's been sinking entire cities by eating the ground out from under them. Marcus decides that they need to kill this thing before it destroys anything else. How? "We rip its goddamn heart out". They proceed to [[WombLevel fight their way through the beast's innards]], surviving numerous deadly hazards and swarms of vicious parasites (which had already [[spoiler:messily killed [[MauveShirt the team's rookie]] earlier]]), finding each of the Riftworm's three hearts and giving it a "chainsaw bypass" by chainsawing through the main arteries & veins, causing the previously-unstoppable mega-monster to bleed to death from the inside. And when the beast breaches to the surface in its death throes, the team ''cuts their way out of it''.
* [[spoiler: Delta squad decapitating a Brumak with razor wire.]]

* The COG [[spoiler:teaming up with their enemies from the the Pendulum Wars, the UIR, in the final battle against the Locust and Lambent.]]

* ''Gears 4'', the gang's escape from the Locust burial site: the lift gears are about to crush everyone. Marcus just tells the others to "take 'em out!" [[HolyShitQuotient And they pull it off right before the gears chew them up at high speed.]]

* Playing as [[Film/TerminatorDarkFate Sarah Conner]] or [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Emile-A239]] in Horde mode.

** "That's for Anthony! And Benjamin!"

* Chairman Prescott's [[RousingSpeech entire speech]] at the beginning of Act 1 of Gears of War 2. Coupled with scenes of cheering Gears and Stranded loading up for war and some of the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome best damn music ever]], it comes out as a scene that leaves fists pumping.

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* Multiple players in GearsOfWar 2 can chainsaw the same enemy at the same time, because ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill.

* [[spoiler: Even after so many years, the man can still keep up with the best of them, including his son and his friends.]]

** "'''[[CelebrityEndorsement THE COLE TRAIN, RUNS ON WHOLE GRAIN BABY! WOOOOO!]]'''"

* Though by itself the scene where [[spoiler: Dom has to euthanize Maria]] is definitively a TearJerker, the scene itself is a CMOA for Epic Games, with a combination of heart-wrenchingly well-done music, brilliant writing, and perfect acting, on top of the fact that Epic went with such a strikingly mature and straightforward approach to such a story. It was the moment that, in this troper's eyes, ''Gears 2'' went from being a really good game to being a truely ''awesome'' one.
* [[{{RuleOfThree}} Triple]]. [[{{ChainsawGood}} Chainsaw]]. [[{{WombLevel}} Bypass]].

* Razor hail.

* J.D. and Kait piloting giant robots and destroying the hive boss in "Gears 4", and you get to finish him off using a helicopter.

* When the King Raven Jace and Delta are flying in in the ''Hollow'' arc is hit by a Nemacyst and the pilot is killed, Jace takes over, having only flown once before but having never landed. To make matters worse, they are still under fire, and the landing gear is shot off. Jace spots several Drones coming out of an Emergance Hole, so he aims for it, crashing down and sliding across the Locust, killing all of them, and impressing all the experienced {{Badass}}es in the squad.

[[caption-width-right:350: I'm ready to kick some ass...]]

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[[caption-width-right:236: Do you have what it takes to save humanity?]]

[[caption-width-right:236: {{Dare To Be Badass}} Do you have what it takes to save humanity?]]

[[DareToBeBadass caption-width-right:236: Do you have what it takes to save humanity?]]

[[DareToBeBaddass caption-width-right:236: Do you have what it takes to save humanity?]]

* J.D. and Kait piloting giant robots and destroying the hive boss in "Gears 4"

* Getting through all 50 waves of [[HoldTheLine Horde mode]], [[FlawlessVictory especially so if you defeated all the waves in one sitting, never had a single player quit the match early and never suffered a TotalPartyKill]]. The fact that 5 soldiers who refused to succumb to these beasts defeated the entire Locust Horde through sheer determination is one of the most awesome feats one can accomplish in the series. You beat the Locust back after 10 waves, so they think they can stop you if they thicken their skin to absorb twice as much damage. '''Not good enough.''' You slaughter them for the next 10 waves, so they practice aiming down the sights and double their accuracy because they think it'll help. '''Still not good enough.''' You kill even more grubs on the next set of waves. The Locust are getting desperate now, so they modify their weapons to deal twice as much damage because they're nervous they can't kill you otherwise. '''They'll have to do better than that!''' You still butcher them for 10 more waves and the end is in sight! Now, these genocidal monsters are down to their last throes and are '''scared shitless''' that you're about to drive them to extinction, so they re-double their training and throw every last unit they have at you while taking 2.5 times the damage, being 2.5 times as accurate and dealing 2.5 times the normal rate of damage. '''They're dreaming if they think that's gonna stop the COG!''' So, with your fellow Gears at your side, you make the final push, defeat the final Boss Wave and end the Locust War for good through your blood, sweat and tears. You're treated to a lovely banner displaying '''Queen Myrrah Defeated''' and Prescott's above quote to let you know that you and your squad carried the hope of humanity and earned your tomorrow. [[TrueCompanions Brothers To The End]], forever!