History Awesome / Pixar

[[AC:{{Up}}]]
* Following a {{Crowning Moment of Heartwarming}}, Carl realizes that all his beloved mementoes of his wife are just things, and as long as he has his memories of her that will be enough. This allows him to completely empty his house, making it light enough that the remaining balloons can lift it again and allow him to rescue his new friends. Hell, pretty much everything the guy does in the second half, considering he's in his late 70s.
* It doubles as a CMOH, but [[spoiler: seeing the house sitting next to the falls after we all thought it had been lost]] makes you jump up and cheer at the sheer ''rightness'' of it.
** Could also be a TearJerker if you realize that he won't ever know it got there.
* And another {{Crowning Moment of Heartwarming}}, when the house lifts off [[spoiler: and you see the pile of junk but then, right beside it, him and Ellie's armchairs carefully placed]]
* [[TheLoad Russell]] [[TookALevelInBadass gets one during the final battle]]. Five words: "YOU LEAVE MISTER FREDERICKSEN ''' ''ALONE'' '''!!"

[[AC:{{Ratatouille}}]]
* Remy, when he argues against his father's hopeless philosophy that nature cannot be changed with a profound statement about his hope to become more than what he is.
-->'''Remy''': ''Change is nature, Dad. The part that we can influence, and it starts when we decide.''
* Colette, in her [[TrainingMontage mentoring montage]] of Linguini (and inadvertently Remy) when she starts as intimidating, then moves to authoritative as a master of the kitchen and then irresistible when she thanks her protege for listening to her with respect.
--> "I'll make this easy to remember -- keep your station clear, or '''''I WILL KILL YOU'''''!"
* Linguini, at the climax when he has to be the sole waiter for the entire restaurant and in handling the role with lightning efficiency, realizes that Maitre'D is his true calling.
* Anton Ego, when he writes his review, putting his own role in perspective while praising Remy's culinary genius to the skies, knowing that he is likely sacrificing his career to do it.
** Ego's TearJerker flashback to his mother's kitchen is a CMOA for the filmmakers.
* Remy's dad gets a CMOA when he rallies the rat colony to replace the kitchen staff.
-->"We're not cooks... but we ''are'' family."
* Heck, even an IMAGINARY character gets one. Remy's figment of Chef Gusteau giving a motivational speech.

[[AC:ABugsLife]]
* Princess Atta finally standing up to Hopper:
-->'''Atta''': [[IronicEcho You see Hopper, nature has a certain order. The ants pick the food, the ants]] ''[[IronicEcho keep]]'' [[IronicEcho the food, and the grasshoppers]] '''[[IronicEcho leave]]'''.
* Not to mention Flik himself moments before:
-->'''Flik''': Ants are not meant to serve grasshoppers. I've seen these ants do great things, and year after year they somehow manage to pick food for themselves ''and'' you. So--so who is the weaker species? Ants don't serve grasshoppers! It's ''you'' who need ''us''! We're a lot stronger than you say we are... And you know it, don't you?
* As [[CompleteMonster horrible as Hopper is]], his rather impressive demonstration on the necessity of keeping the ants in line is pretty damn awesome.

[[AC:ToyStory]]
* "This isn't flying -- this is falling, with ''style!''" Call it what you want, it's ''awesome''.
* Woody's plan to save Buzz and help all of Sid's toys.
-->"From now on, you must take good care of your toys. Because if you don't, we'll find out, Sid. We toys can see ''everything''... So play '''nice'''."
* Using perfectly executed teamwork to get Sid's dog locked out of the house.
* Heck ToyStory in itself is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome. It revolutionized animation and cinema, put Pixar on the path to becoming a household name and a cinematic Seal of Approval - and it did so with wit and heart. [[WaltDisney Walt]] [[SoProudOfYou would be proud.]]
* Buzz saving Woody from Scud. Especially counts after Woody hopelessly saying "Take care of Andy for me!" while being dragged out of the moving truck.
* Shortly afterwards, Slinky attempting to pull Woody and Buzz up, at great risk to himself.
* ''''''CAN!''''''
* Also, [[ThisIsSparta YOU! ARE! A! TOOOOY!!!]]
* Is the entire concept that Woody, a cowboy, is just about as awesome as a SPACE RANGER incredibly awesome?

[[AC:ToyStory 2]]
* "Woody's Finest Hour" escaping from the plane.
** The true crowning moment comes from Bullseye, who managed to keep pace with a ''jet liner''.
* Buzz talking some sense into Woody, reversing their roles in the first movie.
* Jessie's final scene where she demonstrates Buzz's favorite method of crossing the room (flying) just to open the door. And obviously has so much fun doing it.
** Buzz is so impressed, his [[SomethingElseAlsoRises wings pop up]].
* Woody's rescue of Wheezy.
* Buzz and the toys driving the Pizza Planet truck to rescue Woody.
* Buzz and co. blinding the Prospector with Cameras to save Woody, then proceding to dump ol' Pete in the backpack of an [[KidsAreCruel "artist".]]

[[AC: ToyStory 3]]
* The adorable little green aliens [[spoiler: [[BigDamnHeroes saving Woody and friends from a fiery fate with]] '''[[BrickJoke THE CLAWWWW!!]]''']]
* Barbie gets one as [[spoiler: she interrogates Ken to find out how to restore Buzz. Her method of interrogation: [[CoolAndUnusualPunishment forcing him to watch as she rips all his clothes]]. "No, not the Nehru Jacket!"]] Also counts as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
** Also, before it happens, she gets him into a lockdown and [[spoiler: snaps his neck. BARBIE.]]
* The intro sequence. [[spoiler: Basically it's Andy's playtime in the toy's eyes. In other words, '''''[[UpToEleven it's cranked up to eleven.]]''''' ]]
** Three Words: '''DEATH. BY. MONKEYS.'''
* Jessie's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler: "This isn't a family, it's a prison! You're a liar and a bully! And I'd rather rot in this dumpster than join any family of yours!"]]
** Which is then followed by Barbie's hilarious epic KirkSummation: [[spoiler: "Jessie's right! Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from threat of force!"]]
* The toys' plan for escape from TheAlcatraz.
* Big Baby channeling [[spoiler: [[ReturnOfTheJedi Darth Vader killing the Emperor]] ]] when throwing [[spoiler: Lotso]] into the dumpster was pretty hardcore.
** The audience burst into applause at that part.
** [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Not to mention the epic raspberry that followed.]]
* Andy [[spoiler: giving Woody to Bonnie]] at the end. Also counts as a TearJerker.
* A tad meta, but Pixar ''definitely'' deserves one for doing what many movie franchises have only dreamt of doing: creating a third movie that's as good as, if not better than, the second.
** Which is doubly awesome when you consider that the second movie is as good as, if not better than, the first, which is ''[[RuleOfThree trebly]]'' awesome when you consider that the first movie is considered a modern-day classic.
* Another meta-level one goes to director Lee Unkrich who spent the better part of the first few days after the movie's release on {{Twitter}} reading fans' reviews and in many cases, directly responding and thanking them for the support.
** To continue the meta-trend (and cross over with CrowningMomentOfFunny) is [[http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/06/18/armond-white-prevents-toy-story-3-from-becoming-the-best-reviewed-movie-of-all-time/ Unkrich's response]] to [[{{Troll}} White]] and [[MoralGuardian Smithey's]] reviews
-->[[TakeThat You are sad, strange little men. And you have my pity.]]
** How is that awesome? White is probably a {{Troll}}, but what about Smithey? He just said his opinion and unlike Unkrich didn't insult anybody.
* Yet two more meta-examples can be found in the film's box office performance. Yes, it sounds funny, geeky, and a bit stupid. Yes, we know filmmaking is more about entertainment than the money. But, Toy Story 3 becoming the ''highest grossing animated film of all time '''and''' the first to exceed one billion U.S. dollars'' is something that Pixar -- Pixar who we all know and love, and contributed so much to many people's childhoods -- really, really deserve, as their own [=CMoA=] isn't it? It's a perfect cap to the last fifteen years of win after win after win, and we all want to see Pixar do well because they are ''awesome''. Plus, the film just shows how brilliant they are. Don't deny it -- you were a little bit happy when you heard the news. After all, they've earnt it.
* Woody's ShutUpHannibal to [[spoiler: Lotso]] definitely counts.
--> '''Woody:''' She replaced YOU. And if you couldn't have her, no one could!
** Even more awesome when you consider that Woody's actions in the first film could have ended him going down the same path.
* While in a bit of a different theme than the other examples here, and to continue with the meta theme, Pixar gets another for their depiction of [[spoiler: [[FireAndBrimstoneHell the Incinerator]]]], which genuinely feels scary for both the toys and the audience. Pixar, by terrifying moviegoers, continues to prove that they know what they're doing when it comes to making movies.
* Another meta-example: realizing, halfway through the landfill scene, all the effort that went into building and rendering EVERY SINGLE piece of trash.
** A lot of the trash was probably built for Wall-E.
* The moment [[MysteriousInformant Chatter Telephone]] starts to speak through his receiver in his FilmNoir esque voice, you ''know'' he's the EnsembleDarkhorse of the movie.
* When Woody and Buzz [[spoiler: go back to save Lotso in the Garbage Magnet scene]]. But it's not just because they're successful at it and it's also [[UngratefulBastard definitely not because he lives]]. No, it's because [[spoiler: they actively ''knew'' at that point that he was the villain and he had tried to kill them, and yet they still risked their lives to save him with NO hesitation at all]]. That kind of heroism ''deserves'' a spot on this page.
** Woody and Buzz, full stop. Their [[TookALevelInBadass development]] over the previous two films culminates into two concentrated beings of pure awesome by the third.
* [[spoiler: Lotso.]] One person's CompleteMonster is another person's MagnificentBastard. And it's a [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome CMoA]] in itself that Pixar managed to make a [[spoiler: cute pink teddy bear]] of all things truly menacing.
* Spanish Buzz opening the garbage chute by running in circles up the corner of the wall, leaping to the handle, hooking it under his legs and then falling backwards, all in about five seconds.
** [[BeyondTheImpossible It's even better than that.]] The reason he did it? [[spoiler:He thought Woody was flirting with Jessie and he wanted to impress the Cowgirl.]] Give that man a cigar.
* Bonnie owned a [[ShoutOut Totoro]] doll. It highlighted that Bonnie's world would be [[{{Foreshadowing}} a good home for toys]]...
* Still another meta example: [[spoiler: Toy Story 3 is now the THIRD animated motion picture to get an Oscar nomination for BEST PICTURE!!!!!]]

[[AC:FindingNemo]]
* We've seen everything everything Marlin goes through in the movie. Nigel relays the story to Nemo, it sounds like something akin to The Odyssey.
* '''''Swim down.'''''
* The part where Gill saves Nemo from Darla.

-->'''Flick''': Ants are not meant to serve grasshoppers. I've seen these ants do great things, and year after year they somehow manage to pick food for themselves ''and'' you. So--so who is the weaker species? Ants don't serve grasshoppers! It's ''you'' who need ''us''! We're a lot stronger than you say we are... And you know it, don't you?

* We've seen everything everything Marlin goes through in the movie. But when this troper hears Nigel relay the story to Nemo, it sounds like something akin to The Odyssey.

* Remy's dad gets a CMOA when he rallies the rat colony to replace the kitchen staff. Always brings a tear to my eye.

* It doubles as a CMOH, but [[spoiler: seeing the house sitting next to the falls after we all thought it had been lost]] made this troper want to jump up and cheer at the sheer ''rightness'' of it.

* And another {{Crowning Moment of Heartwarming}}, when the house lifts off [[spoiler: and you see the pile of junk but then, right beside it, him and Ellie's armchairs carefully placed]] * Sniff*

* The adorable little green aliens [[spoiler: [[BigDamnHeroes saving Woody and friends from a fiery fate with]] '''[[BrickJoke THE CLAWWWW!!]]''']] [[ThisIsSparta That. Is. All.]]
** This troper's theater ''burst into applause'' when that scene happened.
** So did mine!
** Ditto. It seems to have been a common occurrence.
** Are you sure you all didn't all happen to be at the same theater?
** Worcester, MA troper's theater had applause and audible sobbing at this point, even weeks after the premiere.
*** I need to go to your thearators. Thankfully, a Heart with stone is not ''ALWAYS'' Bad.

*** Holy cowboy crap, I never knew Woody could be so badass!

** When Potato Head and Hamm shurgged after that, I burst into laughter. It's not as awesome as it is funny, to be fair.

** How is that awesome? White is probably a {{Troll}}, but what about Smithey? He just said his opinion and unlike Unkrich didn't insult anybody.
* Yet two more meta-examples can be found in the film's box office performance. Yes, I know it sounds funny, geeky, and a bit stupid. Yes, I know filmmaking is more about entertainment than the money. But, Toy Story 3 becoming the ''highest grossing animated film of all time '''and''' the first to exceed one billion U.S. dollars'' is something that Pixar -- Pixar who we all know and love, and contributed so much to our childhoods -- really, really deserve, as their own CMoA isn't it? It's a perfect cap to the last fifteen years of win after win after win, and we all want to see Pixar do well because they are ''awesome''. Plus, the film just shows how brilliant they are. Don't deny it -- you were a little bit happy when you heard the news. After all, they've earnt it.

* This Troper was impressed that Bonnie owned a [[ShoutOut Totoro]] doll. It highlighted that Bonnie's world would be [[{{Foreshadowing}} a good home for toys]]...

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: [[Awesome/{{Pixar}} Listed here.]]

-->Let's see that again, sha-a-a-a-al we?

[[AC:{{WALL-E}}]]
* [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/crowner.php/CrowningMomentOfAwesome/WallE See here]].

** Buzz is so impressed, his [[IfYouKnowWhatIMean wings pop up]].

** [[@/MacPhisto This troper's]] theater ''burst into applause'' when that scene happened.

** Ditto. It seems to have been a common occurence.

** How is that awesome? White is probably a Troll, but what about Smithey? He just said his opinion and unlike Unkrich didn't insult anybody.

[[AC:TheIncredibles]]
* Frozone and "I know, I know... freeze."
* Don't forget Mr. Incredible and Frozone during the BurningBuildingRescue.
* Dash gets his when he runs on water.
* Dash and Violet have one together when Violet forms her forcefield ball and Dash runs it along.
* Elastigirl's infiltration is an [[IncrediblyLamePun extended]] CMOA.
* The climactic fight scene in the city is one for the whole Incredible family.
* And Jack Jack gets one at the very end. In fact Jack Jack gets a whole short of awesomeness in the short movie [[PixarShorts Jack Jack Attack]].
* Edna reminding Helen who she is and slapping some sense into her when she breaks down like a helpless damsel:
-->'''Helen:''' ''(sobbing)'' What do I do, what do I do...
-->'''Edna:''' What are you talking about? You are ELASTIGIRL! My God... [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan Pull! Yourself! Together!]] "What will you do?" Is this, is this a question?! You will show him that you remember he is Mr. Incredible, and you will remind him who ''you'' are! Well, you know where he is. Go. Confront the problem. Fight! WIN! And...call me when you get back, darling. I enjoy our visits.
** Edna is a walking CMOA. When you're 3 feet tall and can flabbergast supers, you can't be anything else.
* Four words: [[ThisIsSparta Don't! Touch! My! SISTER!]]
* A behind-the-scenes example has to go to Holly Hunter for actually learning what the radio protocol for pilots actually meant. The result... an intense nail-bititng scene that doesn't feel scripted or acted, which for an animated film is truly mind-blowing.

* This Troper was impressed that Bonnie owned a [[ShoutOut Totoro]] doll. It highlighted that Bonnie's world would be [[{{Foreshadowing}} a good home for toys]]...

* The opening set piece. Holy cowboy crap, I never knew Woody could be so badass!

* When Woody and Buzz [[spoiler: go back to save Lotso in the Garbage Magnet scene]]. But it's not just because they're successful at it and it's also definitely not because he lives. No, it's because [[spoiler: they actively ''knew'' at that point that he was the villain and he had tried to kill them, and yet they still risked their lives to save him]]. That kind of heroism ''deserves'' a spot on this page.

** Ditto.

* As horrible as Hopper is, his rather impressive demonstration on the necessity of keeping the ants in line is pretty damn awesome.