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-->[[spoiler: You may have created me, but you were ''never'' my father. Fathers are kind. Fathers protect you. Fathers raise you. I was protected by the monks of Azarath. I was raised by my friends. '''They''' are my family, '''this''' is my home, and '''you''' ''are not welcome here!'' Azarath Metrion ZINTHOS!]]

!!Comics

!!Animated series

* Robin and Slade during their EnemyMine moment in the ''TeenTitans'' season four finale, where they took down dozens of demons in perfect sync, showcasing their [[NotSoDifferent eerie similarities.]]

* Titan East passes [[AcendedFanboy Control Freak]]'s challanges with ''style'' in ''For Real''.

-->[[spoiler: You may have created me, but you were ''never'' my father. Fathers are kind. Fathers protect you. Fathers raise you. I was protected by the monks of Azeroth. I was raised by my friends. '''They''' are my family, '''this''' is my home, and '''you''' ''are not welcome here!'' Azeroth Metrion ZINTHOS!]]

!!Comics
* Beast Boy, a normally comedic character, once changed into one of the most poisonous snakes in the world and bit a villain he was fighting. He informed him that unless he turned himself in to the Titans, he would have no hope of getting an antidote.
* In the recent Teen Titans, Eddie Bloomberg/Kid Devil/Red Devil's CMOA was when, after being made powerless for a time, he saved San Francisco from being blown up, sacrificing himself by flying the living nuclear bomb guy into space. His last words were "Titans Together." While the series has come under a lot of scorn for constantly killing off Titans (the issue's cover even lampshaded it darkly), it was a great conclusion to Eddie's character arc. Even when things were at their worst for Eddie and the team seemed to be falling apart, Eddie stuck with the Titans and called them family. This speaks measures of his loyalty to the Titans, which was sorely in need of being a family after One Year Later, and his dedication to being a hero.


!!Animated series
[[AC:Starfire]]
* Given that it's the first battle of the series, it's no surprise she gets one in "Divide and Conquer," punishing Cinderblock for underestimating her with a well placed boot to the head, all in her cheerfully character-defining way.
--> Starfire (cheerful voice): "I'm sorry to disappoint you... (''eyes start burning green'') but ''I am stronger than I look!"'' '''BAM!'''
* The episode 'Haunted' provides a truly hardcore example of this trope. She, Cyborg, Raven and Beast Boy have been locked in the Tower's infirmary by a psychotic (albeit on an accidentally-inhaled hallucinogen) Robin, and though each is trying their best to batter through the walls and air ducts, nothing seems to be working. Raven, mentally linked to Robin, suddenly gasps out, "I can feel him...he's not going to make it!" Starfire looks horrified for a moment, then narrows her eyes and declares, "Then let us end this battle '''now!'''" as she swoops down, digs her nails into the inches-thick steel floor, and ''rips up a swathe of it like a can of beans''.
** Earlier in that episode she has a similar moment. Robin has just been confronted by his team, who are swearing that Slade--whom he thinks he's fighting--is not there. It reaches a peak when he snarls, "I have to stop him. I'm the only one who can. And I'll take down ''anyone'' who gets in my way!" Raven, Cyborg and Beast Boy stare at him in horror, but suddenly Robin is electrified by a flash of green. He yelps and topples forward... to reveal Starfire, her fist smoldering, having just shot not only her leader, but her love interest.
* In the origin episode "Go," it is revealed that Starfire escaped to Earth while en route from Tamaran, having been taken as a slave/trophy by the Gordanians. Her captors are so afraid of her that she is locked in the securest cell they have... which she proceeds to break out of. She then beats the crap out of the entire crew, blows up the ship, and jets off to Earth. But it doesn't end there: terrified and in literally alien surroundings, she battles Robin, Cyborg and Beast Boy simultaneously, to the point of ''picking up a sedan with her foot'' and flinging it at Robin, while wearing handcuffs that prevent her from firing starbolts. There's a lot of other badassery from her in this episode--chief among them kissing Robin to learn English, then pushing him to ground and growling, "If you wish not to be destroyed, you will leave. Me. Alone." [[BewareTheNiceOnes And she's the sweetest character on the show!]]
* Defeating Blackfire (amped up with the power of the Jewel of Charta) in a brutal one-on-one battle for the crown of Tamaran.
-->'''Blackfire''': You'll always be my little sister.
-->'''Starfire''': I am not so little anymore!
* The CatFight with Kitten and starbolting Fang in the face:
-->'''Starfire''': Keep your legs off my boy!
* A brief moment in "Betrayal", during the attack on the Tower: Starfire grabs a Sladebot by the arm, rips him apart, slams the remains into another robot, and continues to plow through at least three more, putting them all down in one hit. With her bare fists. In a matter of seconds.
* Heck, her very first episode with Blackfire had one. After being the passively long-suffering victim throughout the episode, Starfire watches at the end as Blackfire cheerfully flies off to make her getaway, and Robin tries reassure her that Blackfire won't get away with it. Cue Starfire's clenched fists and glowing green eyes right before she launches into the air like a missile to chase down her sister...
-->'''Starfire''': "No she will ''not''!"

[[AC:Beast Boy]]
* In the episode "Betrayal," he holds his own quite well against Slade one-on-one. Slade had also regularly beaten Robin around in the previous season, despite Robin being shown several times to be the most competent fighter on the team.
** The REAL crowning moment is the look of shock and fear in Slades eye as Beast Boy doesn't back down.
* This troper cheered when after The Brain finished gloating and reciting his Speech Of Doom to the captured Robin, it cut to Beast Boy surrounded by fallen robots, who growls, "''Now'' try and follow me." and then proceeds to ''[[http://i52.tinypic.com/30be13t.jpg blow the remains to smithereens using his section of the T-Ship.]]''
* Taking out his anger at Terra on everything in his path in "Aftershock Part 2," starting with "a robot army and a giant Franken-thingy" and ending with Slade.
* During the fifth season, Beast Boy is taking on the Brain's right hand ape, Monsieur Mallah, while also using the form of an ape. After getting knocked around and insulted for a while, Beast Boy turns into a T-Rex and knocks Mallah out cold, even saying something to the effect of "Now who's dumb?"
* "The Beast Within."
** Because even when he's going crazy and out of control and is doubted by his team, Beast Boy remains a hero who WILL NOT let someone get away with attacking his friends.
* In "Calling All Titans", one second, he's screaming at the sight of Cardiac, and the next, Beast Boy glares and launches himself at the thing.
* Every single second of "Titans Together." Arguably one of the best episodes of the series.
* Going 'The Beast' when Slade comes for Raven in "The End"
* Using his lack of ShapeshifterBaggage as an attack against Trigon. [[spoiler: He does this by flying inside Tigon's ear as a hummingbird, then immediately transforming into a whale]].

[[AC:Raven]]
* Slade is the unfortunate victim of Raven's truly brutal [=CMOA=]. After Slade tells the other captured Titans, "This won't hurt a bit," Raven announces herself with a BadAss "Wanna bet?", bowls him over like a speeding train, cuts off his escape with an icy "This time, ''I'' have a message for you...", and then mercilessly flings him about the room like a rag doll. Good thing [[spoiler:he's already dead]], because there's no way he wouldn't have been after that.
* Raven [[spoiler: denouncing Trigon as her father]] in "The End Part Three". And then proceeding to [[spoiler: completely wipe the floor with him.]]
* In Season 1's "Nevermore," Raven loses her temper after being taunted and tossed around by Dr. Light. She commands him, "Don't come any closer." After another taunt from the good doctor, she lets her demonic side loose, towering over Dr. Light and dragging him toward her with writhing tentacles of shadow. She pulls him into her cloak, despite his cries of surrender, and when he emerges a moment later, his suit is ripped up and he's mumbling about the traumatizing darkness. Creepy? Yes. MoralDissonance? Possibly. Awesome? Intensely.
--> '''Raven''': ''What's the matter? '''Afraid of the dark'''?''
** This is even given a ContinuityNod in a later episode - when Dr. Light fights the Titans again, all Raven has to do is show up in front of him with tentacles and say "Remember me?" to get him to ''beg to be taken to prison''.
* In "Nevermore," she fuses with all her personality sides to become a white-clad giantess and takes out the demonic version of her own anger rampaging in her mind.
* What [[MailerDaemon Malchior]] did to Raven in ''Spellbound'' was [[MoralEventHorizon absolutely]] [[KickTheDog awful]]; I think we're all agreed on that. Which is what makes Raven's comeback in the climactic battle of that episode even more awesome than it already would have been to begin with. I wonder if Malchior ever realized that in giving her the tool to let him out, he also gave her the power to put him right back where he came from. Cue [[IronicHell Ironic Hell]] for [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bastard]] [[MailerDaemon Mailer Daemon]].
* In ''Switched'', when Raven and Starfire are, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin switched]], Raven can't use Starfire's powers because they're linked to powerful emotions Raven usually represses. The starbolts, for example, are powered by "righteous fury". Even during the finale battle with Puppet King, she can't get them to work. And then he tries to destroy the puppets containing the spirits of the other Titans. ''Blam.''
* How about Kid Raven in The End Part 3 kicking Robin in the shin? For this troper, she had been waiting for such a moment to happen after "Haunted", when he took all his frustration out on Starfire before the commercial break. I cheered. May also double as a [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moment Of Funny]].

[[AC:Robin]]
* Defeating Slade in the first season finale by using his ArchEnemy's greatest weakness -- [[PickOnSomeoneYourOwnSize his obsession with himself]]: "New deal, Slade -- I lose my friends, and you lose your apprentice. And I know how you hate to lose."
** To clarify, [[spoiler:the only reason Slade had any say over what he could do was because he had infected the other Titans with nanites that would eat them from the inside out. If Robin didn't do what Slade wanted, he would activate the nanites until he complied. To get around this, Robin ''infected himself with the same nanites'' to force Slade to back off for good.]]
* This exchange:
-->'''Slade''': Who knows... I could become like a father to you.
-->'''Robin''': I already have a father. (cue bats and Batman music)
* Robin pulling out a ''sword'' in "The End Part Two" and using it to thoroughly slice up Trigon's flame demon minions. Awesome.
* His ColossusClimb assault on Brushogun in TheMovie is particularly badass.
* "Lady, you are ''not'' my mother." Oooh BURN!
* In "Masks," Robin emerges from the opening of a tunnel cut into the side of a cliff, jumps off said cliff, fires off a grapple line to rescue Starfire (who's unconscious and falling beneath him), ''twists around in midair'' and then sends ''another'' grapple line to snag the Sladebot flying ABOVE him (trying to escape with a stolen disk).
* The lengths to which he goes for Starfire in "Betrothed" are pretty impressive. Highlights include climbing up to her top story balcony by scaling the wall with bird-a-rangs and later fighting off dozens of armed Tamaranian gaurds in the way of his [[WeddingSmashers timely interruption of her wedding.]]

[[AC:Cyborg]]
* Cyborg gets a pretty awesome moment in "The End Part One," when he leaps in front of Slade and a horde of flame demons trying to storm the Tower, declares that [[YouShallNotPass "No one's getting in here!"]], punches a button in his arm and turns himself into a freaking ''tank'' with huge versions of his sonic cannon on both arms. And then blasts away at the whole swarm. [[spoiler: It doesn't do a thing to slow Slade down but it was a worthy effort anyway.]]
* His first confrontation with Brother Blood, which involved [[FakeDefector fake defection]] and sacrificing the chance to be fully human again.
* The end of the episode ''Only Human''. That was when he proved to himself just how far he could go.
** The best part of which is this moment: "Sorry. I got new friends.... PSYCH!"
** His FinalBattle with Brother Blood, when they both realize that it's not a mechanical brain but just a BadAss strength of spirit that allows Cyborg to resist his MindControl.
*** And then he proceeds to hack into ''Blood'''s mind, hijack his PsychicPowers, and reconstruct himself by tearing apart the Cyborg-Copy robots that had been surrounding him.
* "Cyborg The Barbarian" - killing hordes of green slimy bug-things with his sonic cannon is standard procedure. Killing the same amount with a goddamn ''sword'' thus being BadassNormal is what makes this his crowning episode of awesome.
** In the same episode, Cyborg grabs an incoming sword attack between his palms and ''snaps it in half.'' Note that this is ''with'' one his hands heavily crippled and exposed to the air, thus making this at least a ''[[IncrediblyLamePun partial]]'' BarehandedBladeBlock.

[[AC:Terra]]
* When she makes her HeelFaceTurn in "Aftershock Part 2," declares to Slade "YOU CAN'T CONTROL ME ANYMORE!", and proceeds to blast him into a freaking volcano, which actually kills him... for a while at least.
** Ironically, ThisTroper thinks her FaceHeelTurn contained a lot of wicked awesomeness, namely forming what amount to Earth Elementals to fight the Titans, as well as the simple fact that she fought all five Titans at once...and ''won.''
* Also, her "surfing on rocks" performance in "Titans Rising," even if she was just doing it to show off, it [[RuleOfCool looked so awesome!]]
* Her sacrifice at the end of Aftershock part 2 using all of her powers to stop the volcano from destroying the city, complete with [[CrowningMusicofAwesome Crowning Music of Awesome]] too.

[[AC:Slade]]
* Robin and Slade during their EnemyMine moment in the ''TeenTitans'' season four finale, where they took down dozens of demons in perfect sync, showcasing their [[NotSoDifferent eerie similarities.]]
* In the episode "Birthmark," Cyborg rips a huge metal pillar off the wall and swings it at Slade. Slade burns through it
--->'''Cyborg''': Whoa!
--->'''Slade''': "Whoa"? That's it? No clever comment? I was looking forward to that.
* In "The End Part 3," where he travels to the Underworld to get his body and soul back from Trigon. Perhaps the best bit comes from his confrontation with Trigon's giant demonic guard, who tells Slade that he "cannot hope to defeat pure evil!" Slade's response? "Actually, [[MagnificentBastard I'm not such a nice guy myself.]]" He then proceeds to activate a bomb that blows the guard to smithereens.
** the bit immediately afterwards, where Slade takes his soul, as well as the guard's giant flaming ax, and just before leaving, pauses to toss the guard's severed head a BondOneLiner: "Don't get up. I'll let myself out." ''BadAss.''
** Later in the same episode, Slade gets to confront Trigon himself and tell him off.
--->'''Slade''': For the record, I'm ''nobody's'' servant.
* This little exchange in "The End Pt. 2" might just be '''the''' Crowning Moment of Awesome for Slade ''and'' the writers of this show. Truly underrated.
--->[[spoiler:'''Cyborg''': We already tried fighting him (Trigon). Look where it got us!]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Slade''': I don't expect you to win. I don't even expect you to live. Only endure.]]

[[AC:Red X]]
* His BigDamnHeroes moment in "X".
* Kung. Fu. On motorcycles. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LkNjPNJNCQ I kid thee not]]. 4:40 in, and watch as Red X takes [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] to a new level.
* Not to mention how he [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI54tQgB0xo single-handedly defeats all the rival racers]]. Said rival racers being ''nine'' villains in their tricked-out cars. And Red X does it in ''[[BeyondTheImpossible forty seconds]]''.
--->'''Gizmo''': Whose side are you on, barf brain!?
--->'''Red X''': [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Mine]]!
* Sort of a FridgeBrilliance [=CMoA=]. In "X", Red X essentially invites Robin to chase him through an obstacle course full of laser triplines or whatever. He does it ''backwards'', ''without looking'', and dodges ''every single one''. While Robin is chasing him. And Robin ''still'' doesn't manage to catch him.
* Red X himself is essentially a Crowning Character of Awesome.

[[AC:Group]]
* Robin and Starfire prove their worthy status as a BattleCouple in "Stranded" by taking out the MonsterOfTheWeek together. Twice.
* The other four Titans' [[spoiler: BigDamnHeroes moment]] in "Apprentice Part 2", starting with [[spoiler: Starfire announcing their presence by blasting Slade with a starbolt]] and made even more awesome by the accompanying dialogue:
--->[[spoiler:'''Robin''': Get out of here! Go! You don't know what those beams did to-]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Beast Boy''': Dude.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Raven''': We know.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Cyborg''': And we don't care.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Starfire''': We are your friends Robin. We are not leaving without you.]]
** Then after Slade deactivates his probes keeping the Titans from being destroyed he is so ticked at Robin he tries to kick him while he is down, but then Robin grabs his leg, Slade is all WTF?, Robin knocks him back and he and the once again complete Titans beat the crap out of him. First Beast Boy goes tiger and slashes at his chest, Cyborg and Starfire blast him with a sonic cannon beam and starbolts, Raven psychic grabs him by the feets and slams him to the ground and Robin finishes the job with a mean kick that breaks with off the eye-less half of his mask. After the beating Slade is covering the exposed part of his face, and he's like 'did that just happen?!' This Troper will say he was cloud nine when he first saw this.
* The entire final battle in the second-to-last episode "Titans Together" was one big [=CMOA=] for ''everyone''...
** Specifically, [[spoiler: when Beast Boy rallies together the remaining four Titans and crashes The Brotherhood of Evil's headquarters and proceeds to challenge ''all'' the villains from every episode (except for Slade and Brother Blood)... after having seen that nearly all the other Titans are frozen. And then, when the "presumed dead" Titans also come crashing in.]]
--->[[spoiler: '''Cyborg''': Lesson number one: Never throw me down a hole unless you make sure I ''stay'' there!]]
--->[[spoiler: '''Starfire''': The lesson two: We never give up!]]
--->[[spoiler: '''Raven''': Lesson three: Your secret lair isn't very secret.]]
** After the BattleRoyaleWithCheese (a very, very well done one by the by) we cut to Dr. Light robbing a bank. The camera turns around to the five members, watching him rob the bank. Cyborg says, "Maybe we ought to show him who he's up against." and the camera tilts upward to show ALL THE OTHER TITANS.
--->'''Robin''': Titans, GO!
* It's a comedy episode, and it's a CrowningMomentOfFunny episode at that, but the ActionPrologue in "Employee of the Month" might be the single best one in the entire series. The panning, zooming effect as the farmhouse couple's revealed to be Robin and Starfire in disguise, the music that starts playing as Cyborg leaps out of the fake cow with a "moo yeah" to ambush the flying saucer and continues through the scene, the shapeshifting animation effect where Beast Boy changes from a pig to a hovering, diamond form and then expands out into a T-rex, the team's aerial pursuit of the saucer... it's odd that such an epic battle sequence is the cold open to a comedy episode, but it truly is epic.

[[AC:Other]]
* For Mumbo, the entire musical number in "Bunny Raven", particularly the ending. It manages to take a goofy and fairly harmless villain, and make him genuinely scary.
* Jinx vs. Madame Rouge, both times. That Madame Rouge is a good deal stronger than her counterpart in the comics makes it that much more awesome, since Jinx clearly isn't expending any real effort and still comes out on top (granted, she wasn't doing the actual fighting the second time, but still...). Special mention must also go to her HeelFaceTurn in "Titans Together", where she wipes out her former villain team with a single finger-snap (which creates a giant energy wave to hit them).
* Despite this troper's dislike of Kid Flash in "Lightspeed," he had to admit that all of his fights against the H.I.V.E. F.I.V.E. and his showdown with Madame Rogue were a joy to behold.
* Did we mention Madame Rouge? ''Every'' battle with her is filled with awesome moments. The two episodes that featured her as sole villain show her as being on a level of {{Badass}} just short of demon Slade. She even gets to [[TheTerminator T-1000]] her way through a fence. And she can stretch fast enough to beat ''[[TheFlash Kid Flash]] as he as moving at superspeed!'' An episode with her is in fact quite like one with the Terminator: the heroes spend most of the time on the defensive against an opponent that [[ImplacableMan just. Won't. Stop]].
* Brother Blood definitely gets his share. When his cyborg copys invade Teen Titans Tower East,the alarm systems are shut off so he's free to enter through the window into the main living area where Cyborg is. He then pulls off a Slow walk across the pool and proceeds to block all of Cyborg's blows and cut through to his heart/power generator with only two fingers!!!
** Just to be clear, he blocks punches that have taken out extremely superstrong baddies with only two fingers. And we all know how strong Cy is.
** Honestly, Blood is pretty much a walking CMOA whenever he busts out his full powers- another example would be his final battle with Cyborg, where he tears his opponent literally to pieces with his bare hands ''while simultaneously holding the rest of the core team and Titans East immobile with his telekinesis''. He's probably tied with Undead!Slade and Madame Rouge for being the most physically dangerous villain; its a pity he got stuck as BigBad of what was probably the weakest seasonal arc.
* Let's not forget [[EvilBrit Mad Mod]]. He manages to first capture the Titans in a fairly obvious way (by pumping knock-out gas into their tower), then proceeds to screw with their heads in a funhouse of Op Art illusions, Hypnoscreens and equally awesome Pop Culture references. He does all this despite [[spoiler:being a fairly old man.]]
** In ''Revolution'', Mod manages to hypnotise the population of the city, replace the whole city with newspaper cut-outs of British buildings, replaces the sky with the goddamn Union Jack, creates nigh-invulnerable robots ''and'' has the gall to attempt striking Robin with his cane. [[spoiler:He does this to trap Robin and transfer his youth into himself. Yes, that's right, an [[BadassGrandpa Old British guy]] manages to attack and steal the youth out of the Boy Wonder.]]

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** Because even going crazy and out of control and doubted by his team, Beast Boy remains a hero who WILL NOT let someone get away with attacking his friends.

* Season 4 ends with this as well: [[spoiler:Raven, who has been a child for the last two episodes, returns to her original age - and finally gets powerful enough to get use her white costume. Then proceeds to rip her father a new one]].

* This troper cheered when [[spoiler: after The Brain finished gloating and reciting his Speech Of Doom to the captured Robin, it cut to Beast Boy surrounded by fallen robots, who growls, "''Now'' try and follow me." and then proceeds to ''blow the remains to smithereens using his section of the T-Ship.'']]

* How about Kid Raven in The End Part 3 kicking Robin in the shin? For this troper, she had been waiting for such a moment to happen after "Haunted", when he took all his frustration out on Starfire before the commercial break. I cheered. Also doubles as a [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moment Of Funny]], though YMMV.

* The lengths to which he goes for Starfire in "Betrothed" are pretty impressive. Highlights include climbing up to her top story balcony by scaling the wall with bird-a-rangs and later fighting off dozens of armed Tamaranian gaurds in the way of his [[WeddingCrashers timely interruption of her wedding.]]

* How about Kid Raven in The End Part 3 kicking Robin the in the shin? For this troper, she had been waiting for such a moment to happen after "Haunted", when he took all his frustration out on Starfire before the commercial break. I cheered. Also doubles as a [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Moment Of Funny]], though YMMV.

* Kung. Fu. On motorcycles. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LkNjPNJNCQ I kid thee not.]] 4:40 in, and watch as Red X takes [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome awesome]] to a new level.
* Not to mention how he [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI54tQgB0xo single handedly defeats all the rival racers]].

--->'''Red X''': Mine!

--->[[spoiler:'''Starfire''': We are your friends Robin. We are not leaving without you.]]