History Awesome / TheTransformersIDW

* Orion Pax taking on Senate goons in issue 23. With a hearty dash of CrazyAwesome, and CombatPragmatist.

* In issue 17, Optimus Prime meets the newly reformatted Megatron and Soundwave, holding Ultra Magnus prisonner. As Megatron boasts about how [[AGodAmI invincible he has become]], Optimus simply [[spoiler:shoots Soundwave ''in the head'']], much to Megatron's fury.

** Megatron's hypothetical three questions he had for the Senate, long before he turned to violence, which Orion repeats.

** Megatron's hypothetical three questions he had for the Senate, long before he turned to violence, which Orion repeats. They are; In whose interests do you exercise power? To whom are you accountable? And how do we get rid of you?!

* Megatron versus the [[EldrictchAbomination D-Void]], which has assimilated nearly every other Decepticon and made them fuse into one gigantic monster. He ignores it completely, and fights it one on one.

* In the International Incident Arc. Vortex proves his {{Badass}} Credentials. When the autobots show up and start fighting the combaticons, He gets shot up, and throw into a confusion through a smokescreen. Whirl pulls off a rotor (It's a sword, who knew), slashes Cliffjumper, dispells the smoke, and gets up into the air, taking on Jetfire, cutting off his wing, and sending him flying into Broadside (taking both out for the next few issues). He even pulls his boss out when they retreat.

** The Unnamed Senator gets a bit of mention as well, for saving Orion from the Senate's wrath as well, along with having him repaired and rebuilt with a compartment for the Matrix.

* Orion Pax taking on Senate goons in issue 23. With a hearty dash of CrazyAwesome.

* Spotlight Shockwave. Shockwave is very much AwesomeByAnalysis but here he takes it to the top, seeds other worlds, prepares them for natural energon creation, then the [[SpannerInTheWorks Dinobots come in]] and unleash hell, and for a moment it seems they have one finishing him off with missiles and setting him ablaze. Until... OutOfTheInferno comes a enraged Shockwave, and the collective look on all of them [[OhCrap says that they know they are screwed.]]
** Grimlock takes the moment back from Shockwave by [[spoiler: pre-emptively setting his ship to shoot at a nearby volcano, causing the magma to overtake the field, sealing Shockwave within the cooled magma just to make sure [[TakingYouWithMe he couldn't escape.]]]]

* Spotlight Shockwave. Shockwave is very much AwesomeByAnalysis but here he takes it to the top, seeds other worlds, prepares them for natural energon creation, then the [[SpannerInTheWorks Dinobots come in]] and unleash hell, and for a moment it seems they have one finishing him off with missiles and setting him ablaze. Until... OutOfTheInferno comes a enraged Shockwave, and the collective look on all of them [[OhCrap says that they know they are screwed.]]

* Sandra, a woman who betrayed Skywatch and the Autobots to the world because they had violated several laws, and had breached so many ethical clauses, gets captured. Pennington gives her the rundown, about how they are a unit, and she betrayed them. She counters that they were breaking an order from the president himself. Pennington gives her the speech that they are a unit and that the president never fought with them, Semper Fi, and all, and they should do illegal things, because they are a band of brothers. When he leaves, Ultra Magnus tells her that he agrees with what she did, she followed protocol, and stopped the people from breaking the law. It's such a swerve on genre, showing that it is not okay to run off half cocked, even if you have good intentions.

* Rodimus taking on an entire Decepticon base, all by himself in issue 13. And almost getting away without a scratch
** And Megatron's effortless take down of Rodimus is a Crowning Moment of Awesome for the villains as he sends Rodimus hurtling out of the base and into space with just one blast of his weapon.

* In the International Incident Arc. Vortex proves his {{Badass}} Credentials. When the autobots show up and start fighting the combaticons, He gets shot up, and throwin into a confusion through a smokescreen. Whirl pulls off a rotor (It's a sword, who knew), slashes Cliffjumper, dspells the smoke, and gets up into the air, taking on Jetfire, cutting off his wing, and sending him flying into Broadside (taking both out for the next few issues). He even pulls his boss out when they retreat.