History Awesome / TheDCU

* ''Showcase #100'' unites 60 DC characters who made their debut or had a magazine spin out of Showcase, from the Metal Men to Fireman Farrell, as they try to stop an alien from pulling Earth out of its orbit. While the Phantom Stranger and the Spectre help stop the initial invasion with help from everyone's memories, Lois Lane and Angel O'Day crawl through increasing amounts of radiation and pain to stop the alien machine and tear at its wires until it shorts out. Angel cries tears of joy and remarks that she's never been so ''happy'' about breaking something before.

* ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'': Issue 50 of the first series sees Travis Morgan pursuing his arch foe, Deimos, across frozen plains. Deimos has, over the first 49 issues of the series, caused absolute hell for Travis, culminating in forcing Travis to kill his own son or so Travis believes, but now Deimos is depowered and fleeing on horseback from the vengeance-crazed Travis. At the end of the chase, Travis finds Deimos unconscious and being savaged by a pack of wolves. Travis drives the wolves back, builds a fire to keep them away, and then tends Deimos' wounds. When Deimos finally recovers, Travis kicks out the fire and walks away without a word as the very same wolves return to tear Deimos apart.

--->"[[DeTerminator Red am I in battle]]. Red the ravens that follow me at my heels. [[BigBad Gloriana]], I am your death."

* ComicBook/LexLuthor has one in ''[[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders Outsiders]]'' v3 #3. The Joker captures and tortures him at length for information. Finally Luthor offers to answer the Joker, but first he has a question of his own: "Does it bother you...that Batman likes Catwoman better?" Having left Joker stung and speechless (a rare occurrence), Luthor lets out an EvilLaugh and continues, [[VillainousCrush "He'll never love you, sweetheart! You can keep screwing with his city, but he's never gonna take you to the prom!"]]

* ''Awesome/IdentityCrisis''

** Frankenstein got more than most. He... well, he fed one of the main series villains to the Flesh-Eating Horses of Mars. He did a PowerWalk while a nuclear device went off in the background. He ''stabbed a universe in the chest''. And then he somehow traveled to the year One Billion to commit a giant terrorist bombing against the world-destroying fairies.

* Issue 50 of ''ComicBook/TheWarlord'' (first series) sees Travis Morgan pursuing his arch foe, Deimos, across frozen plains. Deimos has, over the first 49 issues of the series, caused absolute hell for Travis, culminating in forcing Travis to kill his own son or so Travis believes, but now Deimos is depowered and fleeing on horseback from the vengeance-crazed Travis. At the end of the chase, Travis finds Deimos unconscious and being savaged by a pack of wolves. Travis drives the wolves back, builds a fire to keep them away, and then tends Deimos' wounds. When Deimos finally recovers, Travis kicks out the fire and walks away without a word as the very same wolves return to tear Deimos apart.

** ''Awesome/{{Huntress}}''
** Awesome/TheJoker
*** ''Awesome/{{Joker}}''

** ''Awesome/{{Justice}}''

* Awesome/AmethystPrincessOfGemworld

* ''Awesome/{{Invasion}}''

* ''Awesome/TheSandman''

* ''Awesome/{{Starman}}''

*** ''Awesome/Robin1993''

** ''Awesome/GrantMorrisonsJLA''

* In "Countdown to Infinite Crisis," the ComicBook/BlueBeetle kneels in front of Max Lord during his WeCanRuleTogether speech with a gun to his head. His reply? "Rot in hell, Max." [[spoiler:Max shoots him.]]
** Issue #24 of the new Blue Beetle series: In an InternalHomage to the scene above, [[spoiler:the Reach Negotiatior has Jaime Reyes, without his armor, on his knees with a gun to his head. "Do you have any last words?" "Just two... Khaji Da!" (The original Blue Beetle's [[ByThePowerOfGreyskull Power-Up Phrase]])]] Then again, Issues #24 and #25 are arguably a collective SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for the ''entire cast''.

* ''ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis'' provides MANY a Crowning Moment of Awesome for a number of characters, that whole giant event. There's Tim Drake, the 3rd Robin, who POINTS AND YELLS AT SUPERMAN! It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]]. Then there's Bart Allen, who [[spoiler: beats the living daylights out of Superboy-Prime AFTER he escapes from the Speed Force, taunting him by asking "Still got Flash-phobia?"]] There's also the two Supermen, who [[spoiler: fly Superboy-Prime THROUGH A FIELD OF [[GreenRocks KRYPTONITE]], a Red Sun (weakening ALL THREE OF THEM), and eventually knocking him out, not to mention the wall of pure willpower the Green Lanterns used to slow him down]]. And let's not forget to mention our good Kon-El, aka Superboy's [[spoiler:sacrifice to save not only Earth, but the UNIVERSE, in which he flies himself and Superboy-Prime into Alexander Luthor Jr.'s universe-control tower, killing himself and wounding Superboy-Prime in the process]].
** Not to mention Batman's line to Superman: "[[spoiler:The last time you inspired someone is when you were dead]]."
*** Eh... that line's kinda stretching since [[spoiler: when he died it was actually a pretty traumatic experience for everyone involved and Bruce did kind of live in denial after it.]]
** Superman's line to Earth-2's Kal-L: "[[spoiler: If you're from this world, it couldn't be perfect. '''Because a perfect world doesn't need Superman''']]."

** To elaborate, he's running to destroy the Anti-Monitor's antimatter cannon, which was poised to destroy all remaining universes. He fought on, and on, and on, running as he ruined the cannon's systems... until he [[spoiler: ''ran himself out of existence... and into it, as he became the lightning that first empowered him''.]]

* Hal Jordan's confrontation with Mongul in ''The Return of Superman,'' after Mongul [[spoiler:nuked Coast City and turned it into a giant engine so he and the Cyborg/Hank Henshaw can make Earth the new Warworld]]. Since Mongul is yellow, Hal can't just vaporize him. Solution? Take Steel's hammer and do what comes naturally.

** I, Spyder ([[spoiler:during his HeelFaceTurn when he puts an arrow through the BigBad's neck and punts her off a balcony]])

** Bulleteer's YouCantFightFate moment, for causality and prophecy itself. (Seriously, [[spoiler:killing the time-traveling villain by knocking her off a balcony and then having her accidentally run over]]? ''Magnificent''.)
** Mister Miracle escaped from the event horizon of a black hole. He shrugged off the Anti-Life Equation like it was Red Kryptonite. He [[spoiler:''befriended the Omega Sanction'']]. And then he did a deal with Darkseid - MM gets put in a trap, and Darkseid calls off the impending apocalypse. Miracle was just that sure of his escape artistry. The trap consisted of him [[spoiler:getting handcuffed, bound, shackled, ''shot in the head'', and buried]]. He still managed to escape. World's Greatest Escape Artist? Oh hell yes.

* Captain Atom also gets a whole bunch in ''Captain Atom: Armageddon'', but one deserves special mention: When Jack Hawksmoor sends Batman and Superman [[CaptainErsatz pastiches]] Midnighter and Apollo to kill Cap, [[spoiler:Cap tricks Apollo into flying too close to the sun so as to get enough power to finish Cap off quickly, only to then be given a near fatal dose of energy when Cap accelerates the reaction. The two of them then get back to earth just in time for Cap to save Nikola and Grifter by using Apollo's unconscious body to knock out Midnighter.]] At which point Grifter says: "That was surprisingly easy."

* Lord Havok gets so many... first, his revenge against his father, the Czar, for forsaking him and [[spoiler:killing his mother. He kills his father in cold blood, saying, "You see, father, ''I'' can take, too.", before destroying his homeland so completely that the Motherland would be forever barren and lifeless from then on.]]

* Nah, you want villains to root for? Then go read ''Final Crisis: Rogues' Revenge''. It's a crowning ''series'' of awesome, especially issue #3. Highlights: the Rogues [[spoiler:beating the crap of the "replacements" Libra recruited]], Inertia [[spoiler:going [[AxCrazy holyshitcrazy]]/removing Zoom's powers/actually managing to ''hurt'' Libra (the freaking SPECTRE literally hurt himself badly after trying to touch him)]], and of course, [[spoiler:his getting wtfpwned by the Rogues.]]

-->[[spoiler:The Rogues blast Inertia with their weapons, killing him.]]
* ''Final Crisis: Superman Beyond'' is one big crowning moment for Superman, particularly [[spoiler:the battle with Mandrakk]], but there's also [[spoiler:Billy Batson verbally pwning Overman]], and [[spoiler:Merryman's "LIMBO SAYS NO!"]].

** Issue #5: [[spoiler:Nix Uotan's apotheosis.]]

--->'''Most Excellent Superbat''': [[spoiler:You have thoughtlessly gunned down a global megastar! How will you explain yourselves to this man's fans?]]
** Issue #6: [[spoiler:Superman's arrival in Bludhaven.]]
*** [[spoiler:Tawky Tawny versus Darkseid's son Kalibak. "TAWNY BITES!"]]
*** [[spoiler:A close second is Tawky straightening his bow tie as he awaits his death at the hands of Kalibak's tiger soldiers... only to see them bow to him.]]

** Issue #7: [[spoiler:The arrival of the Supermen of the Multiverse.]]
*** [[spoiler:The climactic battle where Monitor Nix Uotan restores the humanity and powers of the Zoo Crew. There is just something so gratifying in seeing these characters who seemed all but [[PutOnABusToHell thrown into DC's trash can]] at the horrific [[ExecutiveMeddling editor-imposed ending]] of their mini-series suddenly rescued out of the blue and placed front and center alongside the greatest of the DCU's heroes.]]

* Tim Drake got one in the last issue of his [[ComicBook/Robin1993 solo series]]. In it, he gets a note challenging him to a duel to the death from Lady Shiva, the woman who trained him and ''the'' single deadliest assassin in the world. He spends the issue narrating about "What would you do if you might die tomorrow?" before confronting her. They banter a bit, there's a SingleStrokeBattle, and Tim has three broken ribs, and is stumbling, while Shiva stands confidently. [[spoiler:Then, Tim stands back up and Shiva ''collapses''. Tim reveals that he knew she was coming before she ever left Hong Kong, and he spiked the hotel chocolates that Shiva was seen eating ''while she was writing the note'' with a paralytic poison, activated by a rising heart rate]]. Batman is a hell of a good teacher, it seems.

* Issue 50 of ''ComicBook/TheWarlord'' (first series) sees Travis Morgan pursuing his arch foe, Deimos, across frozen plains. Deimos has, over the first 49 issues of the series, caused absolute hell for Travis, culminating in forcing Travis to kill his own son [[spoiler: or so Travis believes]], but now Deimos is depowered and fleeing on horseback from the vengeance-crazed Travis. At the end of the chase, Travis finds Deimos unconscious and being savaged by a pack of wolves. Travis drives the wolves back, builds a fire to keep them away, and then tends Deimos' wounds. When Deimos finally recovers, Travis kicks out the fire and walks away without a word as the very same wolves return to tear Deimos apart.

** ''[[Awesome/TheHiketeia Wonder Woman: The Hiketeia]]''

* ''Awesome/ForeverEvil''

* ''Awesome/YoungJustice''