History Awesome / ModernWarfare

* Along the same lines as the venerable Reznov, Sgt. Foley puts the BadAss into AuthorityEqualsAsskicking and then some. To start he's voiced by [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} Keith]] [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Fucking ]] [[Franchise/MassEffect David]]. Then he's got a slew of awesome lines from "Get a grip, Corporal! Our weapons still work, which means we can still kick some ass!" when [[spoiler:the EMP starts dropping helicopters down around them like hail and they're still outnumbered by the opposing Russians]] to "Take us up! If we're going down, we're taking those SAM sites with us!" when [[spoiler:the chopper your squad is riding in is critically damaged, instead of trying to limp away.]] But the most awesome aspect of this truly awesome individual is how he takes his soldiers through one nightmare scenario after another and somehow manages to keep his men together and motivated throughout, and continually puts [[strike:himself and his squad]] Ramirez on the line to defend others. [[spoiler:When a squad of Russians are bearing down on the weapons cache he's taken, and Command is telling him to get the hell out of Dodge, what does he say? "Forget saving ourselves, we're going to stay here and provide support for the fleeing civilians for as long as possible!" If Shepherd wanted to inspire the American people to stand up and fight, he should have just cloned a bunch of Sgt. Foleys and put them in command of every front-line unit;]] almost every moment in his presence is a Moment of Awesome.

** To elaborate, the goddamn tank blasted the enemy tank...by ''firing through a building!''

*** The exchange a little before that is rather inspiring:

-->'''Gaz''': "Enough sniping! Where is the informant?"
-->'''Kamarov''': ''(shouts in Russian)''
-->'''Gaz''': ''"WHERE IS HE?!"''
-->'''Kamarov''': "The house! The house at the northeast end of the village!"
-->'''Gaz''': "Well, that wasn't so hard, now was it? Now go sit in the corner." ''(knocks Kamarov out)''

* ''[[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Call of Duty 4]]''. "Game Over." [[spoiler:Cornered, surrounded, outnumbered, pinned on the bridge with an exploding gas tanker at your back. Enemy helicopters flying overhead, taunting you. Watching your squadmates killed one by one, executed by the BigBad himself, and then rolling over, seeing Captain Price sliding his sidearm out to you, giving you one last chance to kill the man he couldn't. And when the dust settles, the Loyalists arrive, and Kamarov is standing over you, frantically calling for aid and telling you "You are going to be alright, my friend!"]] So freaking badass.

* [[StormingTheCastle Raiding the]] [[ThatOneLevel Gulag]] is ''hardcore''. No, seriously. [[VideoGame/ModernWarfare Try it on Veteran.]]

* 'Crew Expendable' maybe the easiest mission bar the AC-130, but it's amazing - the setting on the horrible Bering Sea is brilliantly done, picking off the unaware and drunken crew, and that desperate escape from the sinking ship is pretty intense. Also sets up Price as the BadAss of the series, saving Soap twice in the space of two minutes.

--> ''"Five years ago, I lost thirty-thousand men in the blink of an eye, and the world just fuckin' watched. But, tomorrow, there will be no shortage of patriots, no shortage of volunteers. I know you understand."''

** [[spoiler:Until Price shoved exact same word up his ass in the ending.]]

** At the beginning of the mission: [[spoiler:''Objective: Kill Makarov.'']] At the end, [[spoiler:you've fought your way through hordes of Russians, lost Yuri to an armed Little Bird, duked it out with Makarov amid the wreckage of a helicopter, and now you're lying in the shattered hotel. The camera pans up, reveals Makarov's hanging corpse, the player gets a moment or two to hold their breath, and then...]]

* The battle for Paris is pretty awesome, as you get to call in a AC-130 at will. In ''Iron Lady'' you even get to switch back and forth between Frost and the AC-130. The ending is great also in seeing the Russian line by bombed, and knowing that Paris and most of France in under allied control.

* Yuri and Soap are stealthing through the Russian-infested streets of the city, dodging and weaving their way through patrols. Then, they encounter one 'impassible' patrol, which Soap decides to go through rather than around. As he prepares to take on the odds, the shadows in the rooftop above shift. One lone figure stands; Price. And he brought company as a dozen resistance fighters wail down on the Russians below.

* In ''Down The Rabbit Hole'': [[spoiler: Team Metal's last stand. As a wounded Yuri fires at the hostiles, Grinch rolls over to dodge an RPG. Grinch drops his empty M14 and pulls out dual pistols and fires them at different directions. An RPG round nearly hits Sandman as he continues to fire. One hostile runs towards Truck, but Truck throws him over his shoulder and kills him. Another hostile runs towards Sandman, who takes out his knife and stabs him, and then throws it at another incoming hostile. He is wounded on his right arm, so he just e draws out his pistol with his free left hand and resumes firing. The fact that they all die really sucks, but they went out like total badasses]].
* How the battle of New York ends. America pushes the Russians back into the harbor, and sends Team Metal to board the Russian command sub. Sandman and Frost board the sub and kill everyone on board, and then ''launch the subs missiles at the rest of the Soviet fleet.'' Even better, you get to race through the harbor as their fleet explodes around you. This pretty much ends the Russian invasion of the US.
** The previous level also feels incredible. Fighting Ivan as they swarm the streets with [[AwesomePersonnelCarrier BTRs]] and Hinds, just so you can get to the New York Stock Exchange and destroy a communications jammer the Russians have. And when that's done, you have to hold out against more Russians trying to kill you on the buildings across the street. With a [[DeathFromAbove Predator drone]] at your command, and a good trigger finger, you succeed, and a Black Hawk arrives for you to get aboard. Now getting on the minigun, you have to defend yourself against more Hinds who want your head on a stick. This level alone certainly reminds one why this series, despite the controversy it's suffered in recent years, is still so [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] awesome.
*** Did we mention this is ''the first level of the game''?
*** A bit of a CMOA for the chopper pilot at the end of the first level. After you shoot down the final Hind, the crashing Russian copter slams into your Black Hawk, which immediately starts spinning out, with alarms blaring and your character frantically trying not to get tossed out. But then, unlike every other example in this trilogy of a chopper you're in losing control, the pilot actually pulls the stricken Black Hawk out of its death spiral, stabilizes and flies you & your team out of the mission intact.
* The battle for Paris is pretty awesome, as you get to call in a AC-130 at will. In ''Iron Lady'' you even get to switch back and forth between Frost and the AC-130. The ending is great also in seeing the Russian line by bombed, and knowing that Paris and most of France in under allied control.
* Yuri gets a lot of disrespect, but he gets a CrowningMomentOfAwesome right before and during the [[spoiler: [[MoralEventHorizon "No]] [[KillEmAll Russian"]] flashback. He is being held by two Russian insurgents before Makarov pulls a gun on him. Yuri had [[HeelFaceTurn tried to tell as many authorities as possible]] what was going to happen at the airport, but Makarov found out and shoots him right before the airport massacre began.]] The CMOA comes in when Yuri, [[spoiler: with a .50 caliber bullet in his upper torso, ''[[HeroicResolve gets the]] [[HeroicSecondWind hell]] [[TheDeterminator up]]'' and ''limps'' after Makarov as fast as he can, with the mission objective being simply "Stop The Massacre."]] He is unsuccessful, but damn if he didn't try.

* "Goalpost" has one for you if you can pull it off. As you come out of the parking garage a V-22 Osprey is seen getting chased by a Russian Havoc. If you still have the SAMW and are fast enough, you can shoot down the Havoc and save the Osprey.
** "Goalpost" is pretty awesome with you fighting through the city being supported by tanks, and then getting to use the tank's minigun. Later when pinned down by Russian soldiers an a T-90 advancing on you your allies scream for Rhino 1 (the tank), which then [[DynamicEntry crashes through the wall on top of the soldiers]] and promptly blows up the T-90.
* In "Scorched Earth", Sandman doesn't even let a ''building'' falling on him stop him.

-->'''Price''': "You still owe me for Pripyat. I'm calling it in."
-->'''[=MacMillan=]''': "Easy, son."
**** Technically, if you look up the position MacMillan held in [=MW3=], the guy is a major general by this point in charge of ALL UK special operations forces. Not bad for previously appearing in a couple of flashback levels two games prior.

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* IW's tradition of having a bonus scene playing in the background as the credits roll. In [=COD1=] you get a mostly-2D version of levels 2-3, in [=COD2=] you get a rather amusing video where they attempt to make a map using every single animation they have (and they still make it good!) and in [=COD4=] they have an [=AC130=] scene in which the devs demonstrate their awesome cheating skillz (semi-auto 40mm, follwed by a rap song from SSgt. Griggs.

* [[StormingTheCastle Raiding the]] [[ThatOneLevel Gulag]] is ''hardcore''. No, seriously. [[ModernWarfare Try it on Veteran.]]

-->"[[spoiler: Soap]] [[BerserkButton trusted you! I thought I could too! So ''why'', in the bloody hell, does [[spoiler: Makarov know you]]?!"]]

* Along the same lines as the venerable Reznov, Sgt. Foley puts the BadAss into AuthorityEqualsAsskicking and then some. To start he's voiced by [[WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}} Keith]] [[{{Halo}} Fucking ]] [[Franchise/MassEffect David]]. Then he's got a slew of awesome lines from "Get a grip, Corporal! Our weapons still work, which means we can still kick some ass!" when [[spoiler:the EMP starts dropping helicopters down around them like hail and they're still outnumbered by the opposing Russians]] to "Take us up! If we're going down, we're taking those SAM sites with us!" when [[spoiler:the chopper your squad is riding in is critically damaged, instead of trying to limp away.]] But the most awesome aspect of this truly awesome individual is how he takes his soldiers through one nightmare scenario after another and somehow manages to keep his men together and motivated throughout, and continually puts [[strike:himself and his squad]] Ramirez on the line to defend others. [[spoiler:When a squad of Russians are bearing down on the weapons cache he's taken, and Command is telling him to get the hell out of Dodge, what does he say? "Forget saving ourselves, we're going to stay here and provide support for the fleeing civilians for as long as possible!" If Shepherd wanted to inspire the American people to stand up and fight, he should have just cloned a bunch of Sgt. Foleys and put them in command of every front-line unit;]] almost every moment in his presence is a Moment of Awesome.

-->"[[spoiler: Soap]] [[UnstoppableRage trusted you! I thought I could too! So ''why'', in the bloody hell, does [[spoiler: Makarov know you]]?!"]]

-->"[[spoiler: Soap]] trusted you! I thought I could too! So ''why'', in the bloody hell, does [[spoiler: Makarov know you]]?!"

** The loading screen features Capt. Price calling Makarov, and telling him [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge he's coming for him]]. Makarov is seemingly nonplussed, telling Price "I've destroyed your world... It's only a matter of time before I find you". Price's response before hanging up? A cool, almost detached "You won't have to look far...." The mission ''immediately'' starts from there, with the implication that Price made that phone call ''from outside the building''. Stealth be damned, one way or another, Makarov's time is up.

* ''CallOfDuty 4.'' "Game Over." [[spoiler:Cornered, surrounded, outnumbered, pinned on the bridge with an exploding gas tanker at your back. Enemy helicopters flying overhead, taunting you. Watching your squadmates killed one by one, executed by the BigBad himself, and then rolling over, seeing Captain Price sliding his sidearm out to you, giving you one last chance to kill the man he couldn't. And when the dust settles, the Loyalists arrive, and Kamarov is standing over you, frantically calling for aid and telling you "You are going to be alright, my friend!"]] So freaking badass.

** The awesomeness starts right from the start of the mission.

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