History Awesome / SpaceBattleshipYamato

* In what is generally considered the entire series' greatest CMOA ever, Dessler, the original BigBad of the series decides to...[[spoiler: pull a HeelFaceTurn and spare Kodai after Yuki tends to him. He spent the whole second series stalking the ''Yamato'' for payback and finally decides to make peace with his old enemies. From that point on, Dessler was the Earth's most reliable ally.]]

* Even the live-action movie has several ones including [[spoiler:Yuki doing a MisguidedMissile maneuver]] but the best one is at the very end, when Kodai is [[spoiler:flying the Yamato on a kamikaze run]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyncwLEcEzA a remastered version of a track quite familiar to all Yamato fans]] starts playing in the background as the Yamato is being shot to hell around him. It's a major TearJerker moment but ''damn'' if it isn't AWESOME.

* We would be remiss if we did not mention the Moment of Awesome in ''Final Yamato''. The earth fleet has been wiped out and the planet Aquarius is on a direct collision course with our home. The only thing that can stop this disaster is the power of the Wave Motion Gun, set to a wide angle dispersal. The Yamato has been filled with a volatile explosive and gets underway to get into position to fire the gun and stop Aquarius -- but the enemy fleet (with a vested interest in destroying Earth) moves to stop the Star Force. They can't fight back -- the Wave Motion Gun is off line. They can't warp -- there's not enough time. If the enemy engages the Argo, there's a good chance the ship will be destroyed before it ever reaches its target! As the enemy fleet prepares to fire, suddenly the flag ship explodes as Dessler and a Gamilas fleet (who haven't been seen all movie up 'till then) come charging in for the rescue. The Yamato's one time mortal enemy does a complete HeelFaceTurn and saves the day! Although, [[spoiler: Dessler already pulled that a HeelFaceTurn towards the end of the second series while the Yamato was at his mercy.]]

* The ''Yamato'' against the Desslar Mines (Desslar didn't name them): the ''Yamato'' was surrounded and couldn't escape, and the mines slowly moved toward her due the control signal. How did they survive that? Analyzer, while simulating the effects of drunkenness, found the control mine and deactivated it, stopping the approach of the other mines, and then the crew broke out the jetpacks and manually removed the mines. Desslar himself acknowledged this moment of awesomeness, and [[WorthyOpponent sent Okita a message congratulating him for this victory]].

* We would be remiss if we did not mention the Moment of Awesome in ''Final Yamato''. The earth fleet has been wiped out and the planet Aquarius is on a direct collision course with our home. The only thing that stop this disaster is the power of the Wave Motion Gun, set to a wide angle dispersal. The Yamato has been filled with a volatile explosive and gets underway to get into position to fire the gun and stop Aquarius -- but the enemy fleet (with a vested interest in destroying Earth) moves to stop the Star Force. They cant fight back -- the Wave Motion Gun is off line. They can't warp -- there's not enough time. If the enemy engages the Argo, there's a good chance the ship will be destroyed before it ever reaches it's target! As the enemy fleet prepares to fire, suddenly the flag ship explodes as Dessler and a Gamilas fleet (who haven't been seen all movie up 'till then), come charging in for the rescue. The Yamato's one time mortal enemy does a complete Heel-Face turn and saves the day! Although, [[spoiler: Dessler already pulled that a Heel-Face Turn towrds the end of the second series while the Yamato was at his mercy.]]

* The ''Yamato'' against the Desslar Mines (Desslar didn't name them): the ''Yamato'' was surrounded and couldn't escape, and the mines slowly moved toward her due the control signal. How did they survive that? Analyzer, while simulating the effects of drunkness, found the control mine and deactivated it, stopping the approach of the other mines, and then the crew broke out the jetpacks and manually removed the mines. Desslar himself aknownledged this moment of awesomeness, and [[WorthyOpponent sent Okita a message congratulating for this victory]].
* From the second season, the battle of wits between Kodai, who stole the ''Yamato'' to investigate what would be discovered being the Comet Empire, and Ryu Hijikata (Draco Gideon in ''Star Blazers''), commanding the super battleship ''Andromeda'' and with orders to stop the ''Yamato''. Between Hijikata neutralizing all the attempts of evading him (particularly awesome and funny the AsteroidThicket: the ''Yamato'' could fly at full speed through the asteroid belt thanks to Shima's skills, the ''Andromeda'''s computer couldn't fly the ship through the belt... So Gideon had his ship fly ''around'' the belt and wait for the ''Yamato'' on the other side), and Kodai's sheer confidence and courage, it was a true example of CoolVersusAwesome.
* Deslar revealing he was still alive to the ''Yamato'' crew. Why? Because it caused the crew a mass OhCrap moment and made them realize they could fail, while until that moment they were pretty confident they could win against the Comet Empire (especially after Sanada's latest trick), that was technologically superior to Gamilas.
* In episode 18 of 2199, the Yamato bum rushing a Gamilas fleet of over ''ten thousand ships'' and managing to complete its objective while hardly taking a single scratch while sinking multiple Gamilas ships (and a planet!).

* The Battle of the Rainbow Cluster.

* We would be remiss if we did not mention the Moment of Awesome in ''Final Yamato''. The earth fleet has been wiped out and the planet Aquarius is on a direct collision course with our home. The only thing that stop this disaster is the power of the Wave Motion Gun, set to a wide angle dispersal. The Argo has been filled with a volatile explosive and gets underway to get into position to fire the gun and stop Aquarius -- but the enemy fleet (with a vested interest in destroying Earth) moves to stop the Star Force. They cant fight back -- the Wave Motion Gun is off line. They can't warp -- there's not enough time. If the enemy engages the Argo, there's a good chance the ship will be destroyed before it ever reaches it's target! As the enemy fleet prepares to fire, suddenly the flag ship explodes as Desslok and the Gamalon Fleet (who haven't been seen all movie), come charging in for the rescue. The Star Force's one time mortal enemy does a complete Heel-Face turn and saves the day!

* The Battle of the Rainbow Cluster.

* In episode 18 of 2199, the Yamato bum rushing a Gamilas fleet of over ''ten thousand ships'' and managing to complete its objective while hardly taking a single scratch while sinking multiple Gamilas ships (and a planet!).

* The first firing of the WaveMotionGun. All these years later, and it's still majorly awesome.

* Deslar revealing he was still alive to the ''Yamato'' crew. Why? Because it caused the crew a mass OhCrap moment and made them realize they could fail, while until that moment they were pretty confident they could win against the Comet Empire (especially after Sanada's latest trick), that was technologically superior to Gamilas.

* From the second season, the battle of wits between Kodai, who stole the ''Yamato'' to investigate what would be discovered being the Comet Empire, and Ryu Hijikata (Draco Gideon in ''Star Blazers''), commanding the super battleship ''Andromeda'' and with orders to stop the ''Yamato''. Between Hijikata neutralizing all the attempts of evading him (particularly awesome and funny the AsteroidThicket: the ''Yamato'' could fly at full speed through the asteroid belt thanks to Shima's skills, the ''Andromeda'''s computer couldn't fly the ship through the belt... So Gideon had his ship fly ''around'' the belt and wait for the ''Yamato'' on the other side), and Kodai's sheer confidence and courage, it was a true example of CoolVersusAwesome.

* The ''Yamato'' against the Desslar Mines (Desslar didn't name them): the ''Yamato'' was surrounded and couldn't escape, and the mines slowly moved toward her due the control signal. How did they survive that? Analyzer, while simulating the effects of drunkness, found the control mine and deactivated it, stopping the approach of the other mines, and then the crew broke out the jetpacks and manually removed the mines. Desslar himself aknownledged this moment of awesomeness, and [[WorthyOpponent sent Okita a message congratulating for this victory]].

* In the third series Dessler has one when he's told the ship that was giving trouble to his forces and had just been captured was the ''Yamato'': without even raising his voice, his DeathGlare and the 'disappointment' at some of his best subordinates ''forgetting the direct and explicit order to stay away from Earth and its ships'' nearly caused a mass heart attack.

* In 2199 episode 4, the GunshipRescue by the Cosmo Nova.