History Awesome / Monster

* The ending of Episode 1. Even knowing what it will lead to, after seeing Tenma's crisis of conscience and how he gets told all through the episode that lives aren't equal, it feels really good when he grows a spine and decides to save Johan. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2WEZngxDFQ The music that plays]] as he makes his decision really sells it.

* Tenma succeeded in particularly difficult brain surgery and safely removes bullets out of the victim's head ''twice''. Even after he has witnessed all the atrocities Johann inflicted, he still doesn't kill Johan.

* In ''{{Anime/Monster}}'', [[ImplacableMan Roberto]] mocks Tenma, saying he would never shoot him as doctor's job is to give life, not to take it. [[spoiler:He is then proven VERY wrong by the good doctor]].
** As for Roberto? His crowning moment comes when [[spoiler:he comes back from that. Think for a second: he took two bullets, fell off a balcony, and was left to die in a fire in a show where AnyoneCanDie and ''survived''. What's more is that he then signs up to be Tenma's ''defense attourney'' just to rub it in his face while he sits behind bars.]] That's why he's the ImplacableMan, folks
*** Well, the fact that [[spoiler:Roberto can't use his right hand anymore]] is a crowning moment all by itself.
* Also, the Inspector gets one when he tries to capture Tenma, is stabbed in the side by a murderer, heads after Tenma anyway, as Tenma locks the doors to his car. The Inspector ''smashes into the window'', and looks about to break in until he slides down. When Tenma lets him in? He handcuffs Tenma. (And refuses to unlock them, even though Tenma ''can'' save his life.)

** Inspector Lunge gets an even more awesome moment near the end of the series: [[spoiler:After a close range gunfight between the two, Roberto throws Lunge in a corner and begins strangling him. Just when it looks like Lunge is down for the count, the Inspector grabs Roberto and ''forces his thumb into his bullet wound'', letting him gain the upper hand and]] giving him the opportunity to make the bastard [[http://downloads.thespectrum.net/monster/monster_v18/monster_v18_135.shtml eat his pistol]]. Best. Fight. ''Ever''. It's like two [[MemeticMutation Falcon Punches]] colliding.

** Lunge is consistently awesome, even when his behaviour is downright despicable. Crowning moments of funny/awesomeness/cruelty incurred when Lunge [[spoiler:drives a suspect to suicide]], when he [[spoiler:doesn't even bat an eyelid when his wife and daughter leave him]] or even more so when he later [[spoiler:casually turns down the one opportunity to meet his daughter and new grandchild, just because he thought it might help him [[ToKnowHimIMustBecomeHim get into Dr. Tenma's mind set]].]] He rubs salt in the wound by actually ''smiling to himself'' afterwards for making such a decision.

* Dr. Reichwein demonstrating to two much bigger and younger thugs [[spoiler:(who have been hired by Roberto and, possibly Johan)]] to never disrespect your elders-''after'' said thugs have already [[KickTheDog beaten the crap out of him]]. Especially when said elder can ''break your nose with their skull''. This also qualifies the good doctor as a ''CoolOldGuy''.

** This particular crowning moment gets bonus points because [[spoiler:a very sympathetic character (Richard Brown) had just been killed by Johan. Reichwein's fight arguably gives the audience a brief outlet for any anger they might have over Richard's death.]]

** His EstablishingCharacterMoment in Episode 4 is CreepyAwesome to the max, capped off by following up [[spoiler: his execution of Junkers]] by calmly approaching Tenma [[DissonantSerenity with a grateful smile]].

** But the most impressive is likely [[spoiler:when, after orchestrating a huge fire in a public library during a ceremony that many of the areas most important businessmen (that he had a hand in organizing, of course) attended, killing a good few, Tenma corners him. At which point, Johan simply raises a finger and points to his own forehead, and smiles to him as he leaves through the smoke and flames, confident that he won't take a life. Even his.]]
** Another moment is when he kills SmugSnake [[spoiler:Blue Sophie/fake "Margot Langer." Okay, so technically the one who kills her was Roberto, but still it qualifies.]]

* Eva gets one when she truly joins the hunt for Johan after [[spoiler:Martin's death.]] And another when she [[spoiler:shoots the ear off of Johan's acolyte, Christof.]]

* Don't forget Martin. [[spoiler:His gunning down The Baby's men so that Eva can escape definitely qualifies for this trope. When he finally gets that fatal shot in the stomach, his reaction is to call his assailant an idiot for not aiming for the head. Not just awesome, but badass as well.]]
* The Baby: [[spoiler:Threatened by Christoph, who has already killed at least four people and is roughly twice his size. His reaction: keeps his cool and threatens him right back; doesn't even change his stern facial expression while doing so.]]
* Grimmer's little speech to [[spoiler:Bonaparta]] about how [[spoiler:Kinderheim screwed up his life]] along with his insistence that [[spoiler:Bonaparta should live just so he can reveal the truth about the horrible, horrible things he did]] was pure awesomeness.
* Tenma succeeded in particularly difficult brain surgery and safely removes bullets out of the victim's head [[spoiler:''twice''. Even after he has witnessed all the atrocities Johann inflicted, he still doesn't kill Johan.]]

** Killing [[AssholeVictim Tenma's corrupt superiors]] with poisoned candy, while recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. It's also pretty cool FlawExploitation, since he predicted that they would steal the candy for themselves.

** Not to mention that basically every scene that focuses on Dieter is a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming, especially the scene where he decides to stay with Tenma.

** His EstablishingCharacterMoment in Episode 4 is CreepyAwesome to the max.

* Grimmer--when he doesn't make us sob like little child, that is.
* The people whom Tenma has helped, doing their damnedest to somehow help him. (This may also count as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.) It's heartening to know that even with all the people who make it a CrapsackWorld, there are still good people like Dr. Tenma. Hell, the fact that the manga even ''shows'' us the continuing lives of the people he's helped--as opposed to just helping them and moving on--is possibly a [=CMoA=] for the manga itself.

* Tenma goes to a neo-nazi bar. Four guys attack him. He grabs a ball point pen. He gets all the information he asks for.

* Tenma succeeded in particularly difficult brain surgery and safely removes bullets out of the victim's head [[spoiler:''twice''. Even after he has witnessed all the atrocities Johann inflicted, he still doesn't kill Johann.]]

* Tenma succeeded in particularly difficult brain surgery and safely removes bullets out of victim's head [[spoiler:''twice''. Even after he has witnessed all the atrocities Johann inflicted, he still doesn't kill Johann.]]
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** "Anna" taking out Jan Suk's bosses in Episode 43. Again, with poisoned candy... which "she" planted on the one cop who was trying to harass "her" at the bar. That [[PsychoticSmirk barely-perceptible smirk]] at the end seals it!

*** He had planned on her attempted blackmail days maybe even weeks ahead of time.
** Johan's reaction to stumbling upon and reading [[spoiler:"The Nameless Monster"]] once again.

* Dr. Reichwein demonstrating to two much bigger and younger thugs [[spoiler:(who have been hired by Roberto and, possibly Johan)]] to never disrespect your elders. Especially when said elder can ''break your nose with their skull''. This also qualifies the good doctor as a ''CoolOldGuy''.

* Johan has a bunch, though they could probably be better described as crowning moments of ''terror.'' But the most impressive is likely [[spoiler:when, after orchestrating a huge fire in a public library during a ceremony that many of the areas most important businessmen (that he had a hand in organizing, of course) attended, killing a good few, Tenma corners him. At which point, Johan simply raises a finger and points to his own forehead, and smiles to him as he leaves through the smoke and flames, confident that he won't take a life. Even his.]]
** [[spoiler:It might not be just confidence. By that point he was already planning his perfect suicide: he may have simply not cared if he died right then and there.]]
*** [[spoiler:Johan didn't plan his suicide, until a long time after the library burned down.]]
*** [[spoiler:Let's be fair. Being killed by Tenma would be too perfect and would likely drive Tenma mad. He told his acolytes, "Tenma would kill [him]." Johan likes to play Xanatos Speed-chess, he changes his plans.]]

** Lunge is consistently awesome, even when his behaviour is downright despicable. Crowning moments of funny/awesomeness/cruelty incurred when Lunge [[spoiler:drives a suspect to suicide]], when he [[spoiler:doesn't even bat an eyelid when his wife and daughter leave him]] or even more so when he later [[spoiler:casually turns down the one opportunity to meet his daughter and new grandchild, just because he thought it might help him get into Dr. Tenma's mind set.]] He rubs salt in the wound by actually ''smiling to himself'' afterwards for making such a decision.

--->Calculations?!...T hose calculations don't add up in my head.

* Even Dieter has his [=CMoA=], when he walks into a bar full of guys. They mock him for being a kid and one orders an alcoholic drink for him (possibly a martini, given the fruit in it). Dieter takes it, drinks it in one shot, puts the olive in his mouth, raises his hand is a cool fashion and silently walks out. Unbeknownst to the speechless men in the bar, he vomits outside and is disgusted by the drink.

*** [[spoiler:Let's be fair. Being killed by Tenma would be too perfect and would likely drive Tenma mad. Note that he told his acolytes, "Tenma would kill [him]." Johan likes to play Xanatos Speed-chess, he changes his plans.]]

*** It's a perfect example of one being able to be both a MagnificentBastard AND a CompleteMonster at the same time as he had planned on her attempted blackmail days maybe even weeks ahead of time.

*** It's a perfect example of one being able to be both a MagnificentBastard AND a CompleteMonster at the same time as he had planned on her attempted blackmail days maybe even weeks ahead of time.

** As for Roberto? His crowning moment comes when [[spoiler: he comes back from that. Think for a second: he took two bullets, fell off a balcony, and was left to die in a fire in a show where AnyoneCanDie and ''survived''. What's more is that he then signs up to be Tenma's ''defense attourney'' just to rub it in his face while he sits behind bars.]] That's why he's the ImplacableMan, folks
*** Well, the fact that [[spoiler: Roberto can't use his right hand anymore]] is a crowning moment all by itself.

** Inspector Lunge gets an even more awesome moment near the end of the series: [[spoiler: After a close range gunfight between the two, Roberto throws Lunge in a corner and begins strangling him. Just when it looks like Lunge is down for the count, the Inspector grabs Roberto and ''forces his thumb into his bullet wound'', letting him gain the upper hand and]] giving him the opportunity to make the bastard [[http://downloads.thespectrum.net/monster/monster_v18/monster_v18_135.shtml eat his pistol]]. Best. Fight. ''Ever''. It's like two [[MemeticMutation Falcon Punches]] colliding.
-->Calculations?!...Those calculations don't add up in my head.
** Lunge is consistently awesome, even when his behaviour is downright despicable. Crowning moments of funny/awesomeness/cruelty incurred when Lunge [[spoiler:drives a suspect to suicide]], when he [[spoiler:doesn't even bat an eyelid when his wife and daughter leave him]] or even more so when he later [[spoiler: casually turns down the one opportunity to meet his daughter and new grandchild, just because he thought it might help him get into Dr. Tenma's mind set.]] He rubs salt in the wound by actually ''smiling to himself'' afterwards for making such a decision.

* Dr. Reichwein demonstrating to two much bigger and younger thugs [[spoiler: (who have been hired by Roberto and, possibly Johan)]] to never disrespect your elders. Especially when said elder can ''break your nose with their skull''. This also qualifies the good doctor as a ''CoolOldGuy''
** This particular crowning moment gets bonus points because [[spoiler: a very sympathetic character (Richard Brown) had just been killed by Johan. Reichwein's fight arguably gives the audience a brief outlet for any anger they might have over Richard's death.]]

* Grimmer- when he doesn't make us sob like little child, that is.
* The people whom Tenma has helped, doing their damnedest to somehow help him. (This may also count as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.) It's heartening to know that even with all the people who make it a CrapsackWorld, there are still good people like Dr. Tenma. Hell, the fact that the manga even ''shows'' us the continuing lives of the people he's helped - as opposed to just helping them and moving on - is possibly a [=CMoA=] for the manga itself.

* Johan has a bunch, though they could probably be better described as crowning momemts of ''terror.'' But the most impressive is likely [[spoiler: when, after orchestrating a huge fire in a public library during a ceremony that many of the areas most important businessmen (that he had a hand in organizing, of course) attended, killing a good few, Tenma corners him. At which point, Johan simply raises a finger and points to his own forehead, and smiles to him as he leaves through the smoke and flames, confident that he won't take a life. Even his.]]
** [[spoiler: It might not be just confidence. By that point he was already planning his perfect suicide: he may have simply not cared if he died right then and there.]]
*** [[spoiler: Johan didn't plan his suicide, until a long time after the library burned down.]]
** [[spoiler: Let's be fair. Being killed by Tenma would be too perfect, and would likely drive Tenma mad. Note that he told his acolytes 'Tenma would kill him'. Johan likes to play Xanatos Speed-chess, he changes his plans.]]
** Another moment is when he kills SmugSnake [[spoiler:'Blue Sophie'/'Margot Langer'. Okay, so technically the one who kills her was Roberto, but still it qualifies.]]

* Eva gets one when she truly joins the hunt for Johan after [[spoiler: Martin's death]]. And another when she [[spoiler: shoots the ear off of Johan's acolyte, Christof.]]

* Don't forget Martin. [[spoiler: His gunning down The Baby's men so that Eva can escape definitely qualifies for this trope. When he finally gets that fatal shot in the stomach, his reaction is to call his assailant an idiot for not aiming for the head. Not just awesome, but badass as well.]]
* The Baby: [[spoiler: Threatened by Christoph, who has already killed at least four people and is roughly twice his size. His reaction: keeps his cool and threatens him right back; doesn't even change his stern facial expression while doing so.]]
* Grimmer's little speech to [[spoiler: Bonaparta]] about how [[spoiler: Kinderheim screwed up his life]] along with his insistence that [[spoiler: Bonaparta should live just so he can reveal the truth about the horrible, horrible things he did]] was pure awesomeness.
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* In ''{{Monster}}'', [[ImplacableMan Roberto]] mocks Tenma, saying he would never shoot him as doctor's job is to give life, not to take it. [[spoiler:He is then proven VERY wrong by the good doctor]].

* Grimmer's little speech to [[spoiler: Bonaparta]] about how [[spoiler: Kinderheim screwed up his life]] and his insistence that [[spoiler: Bonaparta should live just so he can reveal the truth about the horrible, horrible things he did]] was pure awesomeness.

** Inspector Lunge gets an even more awesome moment near the end of the series: [[spoiler: After a close range gunfight between the two, Roberto throws Lunge in a corner and begins strangling him. Just when it looks like Lunge is down for the count, the Inspector grabs Roberto and ''forces his thumb into his bullet wound'', letting him gain the upper hand and]] giving him the opportunity to make the bastard [[http://downloads.thespectrum.net/monster/monster_v18/monster_v18_135.shtml eat his pistol]]. Best. Fight. ''Ever''.

** Lunge is consistently awesome, even when his behaviour is downright despicable. Crowning moments of funny/awesomeness/cruelty incurred when Lunge [[spoiler:doesn't even bat an eyelid when his wife and daughter leave him]] or even more so when he later [[spoiler: casually turns down the one opportunity to meet his daughter and new grandchild, just because he thought it might help him get into Dr. Tenma's mind set.]] He rubs salt in the wound by actually ''smiling to himself'' afterwards for making such a decision.