History Awesome / ThunderCats2011

** Lion-O doesn't get much action in this one, but ''damn'' does he get good [[PreAsskickingOneLiner Pre-Asskicking One-Liners]]! This troper's favorite is when he infiltrates the slave auction hidden beneath a cloak and proposes a huge sum.

* In "Omens, Part 1"
** Lion-O's fight when sticking up for the brutalized lizard slaves.
*** Not just that but Tygra utilizing his ''classic'' cloaking technique while fighting the lynchers along with Cheetara is pretty friggin awesome.

** A meta example where Claudus leads his army to battle--Larry Kenney gets to say, "THUNDERCATS, HO!" one last time. Doubles as a (equally meta) [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Hearwarming Moment]].
*** Claudus taking on a traitor and kicking his technology-wielding ass with the Sword of Omens.

*** One of Cheetara's crowning moments of awesome is here when she saves Jaga's life during the battle leading to the fall of Thundera.

** Everything about [[BadassCrew the Clerics]]. The first time we see them in action, the members all use their [[SuperSpeed speed powers]] simultaneously and [[spoiler:save the royal family]]. They then proceed to HoldTheLine. Cheetara is a member, Jaga is the ''leader'' and his BattleCry is "Clerics, to the death!"

** The moment when Lion-O stops obsessing over revenge and [[spoiler:saves the crew of FishPeople]]. Followed by [[spoiler:him singlehandedly slaying the Ramlak by slicing it open ''after it already ate him''.]]

** Panthro makes his entrance [[spoiler:[[http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/08/08/thundercats-panthro-exclusive/ in the Thundertank!]]]] Then Panthro nunchuking a lizard as soon as he pops out. You know it's JustForFun/MadeOfWin when people ''still'' can't shut up about it even before it happened.
** To clarify how awesome this is. [[spoiler: It looks like everyone is about to die, when suddenly, things start exploding. Then, out of ''freaking nowhere'' a fusion of the [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batmobile]] and a tank starts blowing stuff up, riding through explosions, and turns the entire fight against the lizards into a CurbStompBattle. After doing some drifting and blowing up ''more'' giant lizard mechs, most of the lizards run away screaming, except for one. This one [[note]]henceforth referred to as "the unluckiest lizard of all time"[[/note]] tries to jump Panthro as he gets out of the tank, but Panthro just catches the lizard in one hand, and then ''nunchucks him in the face.'' Bad. Ass.]]
* In "Old Friends" Lion-O going up against Driller, who is ''three times his size'' with only the Sword of Omens. [[spoiler: ''He rips the top of its frickin' head off!'']] It was enough to finally earn him Panthro's loyalty.

** Props to Mumm-Ra for [[spoiler:his coffin]] now being a pimped out tank. That is so batshit insane that it becomes awesome. Its enough to make you want [[spoiler:to be buried in]] a tank.

** Jaga gets one [[spoiler:that doubles as a DyingMomentOfAwesome. To wit: he's got no body, his soul is stuck in an easily breakable SoulJar,]] he's been tormented by Mumm-Ra endlessly, and he was forced to lead Mumm-Ra to the Book of Omens. He casts a super powerful light spell [[spoiler:while just a soul]] and sends a ''OneWingedAngel'' Mumm-Ra packing. Yes, even [[spoiler:without a body]] Jaga kicks ass.

** Mumm-Ra has pretty much been upgraded into a [[spoiler:[[Series/StargateSG1 System Lord]].]]
** "This gauntlet can hold more than my sword". Cue epic [[spoiler:armor up sequence,]] and awesomeness beyond comprehension.

** During his second duel against the Duelist, Lion-O finally understands the Drifter's advice. Despite [[spoiler:his sword breaking on him]] just seconds beforehand, Lion-O instantly goes up another [[TookALevelInBadass badass level]] and proceeds to effortlessly weave around ''every single one'' of the duelist's attacks before disarming him and claiming victory.

** How about the Drifter [[spoiler: beating the Duelist with only ''a tiny piece of plant!]]'' Instead of the expected HeroicSacrifice, the Drifter [[spoiler:owned him like a piece of property!]] which delivered CharacterDevelopment for both Lion-O and The Drifter. Lion-O learned to not depend on the Sword of Omens while The Drifter found a sense of purpose.

* In "Sight Beyond Sight" Wilykit [[spoiler:saves the day]] with the power of music!
* In "The Forest of Magi-Oar", Lion-O's defeat of [[spoiler:Zig]] is suitably epic.

** The Wood Forgers looked awesome whenever they weren't getting their butts handed to them. [[spoiler:Even when it was revealed that they're the episodes bad guys]].

** The story behind Grune losing his right saber tooth. [[spoiler: ''He tore it out of his mouth to kill a gigantic spider with it.'']]
** Followed by Panthro taking his philosophy to heart [[spoiler: and sacrificing his arms to get rid of Grune.]]
*** What he says next, after, you know, [[spoiler: losing his arms]], adds to the coolness.

* The elephants [[spoiler: choosing to fight.]]
--> [[spoiler: "We rarely do. But when we do, we fight to ''win.''"]]
* Tygra [[spoiler:saving Lion-O after he knocked him in the pit]]. Also counts as a heartwarming moment.
* Lion-O claiming and using the Spirit Stone is not only powerful enough to [[spoiler:completely blast Mumm-Ra out of the Astral Plane]], it actually destroys the Astral Plane.
** Actually it's more that [[spoiler:the Spirit Stone was pretty much powering the Astral Plane, and it began to fall apart when it was removed]]. Still pretty epic though.
* Wilykat [[spoiler:taking out a lizard mecha with a freakin' rocket launcher TWICE HIS SIZE!]] Doubles as funny, especially since [[spoiler:he also inadvertently knocks out a group of lizards that were trying to sneak up on him while he was aiming the rocket launcher.]]
** He is also willing to [[spoiler: defend the entrance to the Astral Plane "to the end" even when facing down more lizard mechas preparing to fire. Cheetara telling him to run doesn't change his mind.]]
* On the introduction of Panthro's [[spoiler:Stretchy-Arms]], but you've got to admit that his showing up for the rescue at the end of "New Alliances" was pretty cool.

* Tygra's [[spoiler:father Javan proves he's just as awesome, and just as much a PapaWolf]] as Claudus was when it came to protecting his children. Let's hear it for the [[PapaWolf Papa Wolves]]!

** [[spoiler:Flicker overcomes the limitations of its own programming to sacrifice itself to save Tygra. This convinces Lion-O that technology isn't inherently evil. It also convinces the Soul Sever that maybe Flicker did have a soul after all.]]

** What, no love for the epic entry of the Elephants?
--> '''Slythe''': The Elephants? The Elephants never fight!
--> '''Elephant Elder''': Only rarely. But when we do fight... WE FIGHT TO WIN!

* In "Birth of the Blades," we see how far Lion-O has come when he's able to use his cunning and the environment to his advantage in order to take out and evade Addicus and Kaynar. And we get this exchange.

* Cheetara and Tygra's [[BigDamnKiss epic]] kiss amongst a shower of falling rocks from a cave-in. Meant to contrast the [[BattleCouple mutual admiration, egalitarian,]] and [[PowerOfLove loving]] quality of the Tygra/Cheetara relationship with the more [[SlapSlapKiss rancorous and tumultuous]] sentiments between Lion-O and Pumyra. Signals that something might be [[CameBackWrong amiss]] in the Lion-O/Pumyra relationship.

* Cheetara and Tygra's [[BigDamnKiss epic]] kiss amongst a shower of falling rocks from a cave-in. GenreSavvy fun. Meant to contrast the [[BattleCouple mutual admiration, egalitarian,]] and [[PowerOfLove loving]] quality of the Tygra/Cheetara relationship with the more [[SlapSlapKiss rancorous and tumultuous]] sentiments between Lion-O and Pumyra. Signals that something might be [[CameBackWrong amiss]] in the Lion-O/Pumyra relationship.

** Panthro makes his entrance [[spoiler:[[http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/08/08/thundercats-panthro-exclusive/ in the Thundertank!]]]] Then Panthro nunchuking a lizard as soon as he pops out. You know it's MadeOfWin when people ''still'' can't shut up about it even before it happened.

** That entire episode is just MadeOfWin, from the Thundercats having to use their own particular weapons and skills as a team to get to the tower to their first real battle with Mumm-Ra.

** To clarify how awesome this is. [[spoiler: It looks like everyone is about to die, when suddenly, things start exploding. Then, out of ''freaking nowhere'' a fusion of the [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batmobile]] and a tank starts blowing stuff up, riding through explosions, and turns the entire fight against the lizards into a CurbStompBattle. After doing some drifting and blowing up ''more'' giant lizard mechs, most of the lizards run away screaming, except for one. This one [[note]]henceforth referred to as "the unluckiest lizard of all time,"[[/note]] tries to jump Panthro as he gets out of the tank, but Panthro just catches the lizard in one hand, and then ''nunchucks him in the face.'' Bad. Ass.]]

** To clarify how awesome this is. [[spoiler: It looks like everyone is about to die, when suddenly, things start exploding. Then, out of ''freaking nowhere'' a fusion of the [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batmobile]] and a tank starts blowing stuff up, riding through explosions, and turns the entire fight against the lizards into a CurbStompBattle. After doing some drifting and blowing up ''more'' giant lizard mechs, most of the lizards run away screaming, except for one. This one [[note]]henceforth referred to as "the unluckiest lizard of all time,"[[/note]] tries to jump Panthro as he gets out of the tank, but Panthro just catches the lizard in one hand, and then ''nunchucks him in the face.'' [[{{Badass}} Bad. Ass.]]]]

** The Thunderkittens deserve some credit too. They're willing to step up and defend the KO'd [[{{Badass}} Panthro]] from [[BigBad Mumm-Ra]] [[LargeHam THE EVER! LIVING!]]. This is two eight-year-old kids demonstrating that they will stand up to the setting's version of ''Satan.''

** The Wood Forgers looked awesome whenever the weren't getting their butts handed to them. [[spoiler:Even when it was revealed that they're the episodes bad guys]].

* Nevermind that Soul Sever is already a badass, intelligent WellIntentionedExtremist who looks like a robotic grim reaper with twin scythes on his back, but he's voiced by [[Creator/JeffreyCombs Jeffrey]] ''[[HeyItsThatVoice freakin']]'' [[Film/ReAnimator Combs]]!

** How about the Drifter [[spoiler: beating the Duelist with only ''a tiny piece of plant!]]'' It looks more awesome than it sounds.
** "Mileage may very", hell! It ''is'' awesome! Instead of the expected HeroicSacrifice, the Drifter [[spoiler:owned him like a piece of property!]] which delivered CharacterDevelopment for both Lion-O and The Drifter. Lion-O learned to not depend on the Sword of Omens while The Drifter found a sense of purpose.

** Mumm-Ra has pretty much been upgraded into a [[spoiler:[[{{Stargate}} System Lord]].]]

* Nevermind that Soul Sever is already a badass, intelligent WellIntentionedExtremist who looks like a robotic grim reaper with twin scythes on his back, but he's voiced by [[Creator/JeffreyCombs Jeffrey]] ''[[HeyItsThatVoice freakin']]'' [[ReAnimator Combs]]!

** We finally get to see Mumm-Ra do the classic transformation after being teased during the pilot, and it was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASwJVLTevCM EXCELLENT.]]

* In "The Duelist and the Drifter"
** Right in the beginning when Lion-O enters the village only to be confronted with LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces after seven episodes of basically nothing but Cats and Lizards? The effect is similar to the first time [[StarWars Luke enter the Mos Eisley Cantina.]] You finally get the impression of just how vast the world is and so far you've only seen a very small part of it.

* Lion-O takes a sucker punch from Rataro, but replies back with a punch that [[SuperSmashBrothers Captain Falcon]] would be proud of, KungFuSonicBoom included.

* In "Old Friends" Lion-O going up against Driller, who is ''three times his size'' with only the Sword of Omens. [[spoiler: ''He rips the top of its frickin' head off!'']]

** To clarify how awesome this is. [[spoiler: It looks like everyone is about to die, when suddenly, things start exploding. Then, out of ''freaking nowhere'' a fusion of the [[Franchise/{{Batman}} Batmobile]] and a tank starts blowing stuff up, riding through explosions, and turns the entire fight against the lizards into a CurbStompBattle. After doing some drifting and blowing up ''more'' giant lizard mechs, most of the lizards run away screaming, except for one. This one [[note]]henceforth referred to as "the unluckiest lizard of all time,"[[/note]] tries to jump Panthro as he gets out of the tank, but Panthro just catches the lizard in one hand, and then ''nunchucks him in the face.'' {{Badass}} Bad. Ass.]]

** To clarify how awesome this is. [[spoiler: It looks like everyone is about to die, when suddenly, things start exploding. Then, out of ''freaking nowhere'' a fusion of the Batmobile and a tank starts blowing stuff up, riding through explosions, and turns the entire fight against the lizards into a CurbStompBattle. After doing some drifting and blowing up ''more'' giant lizard mechs, most of the lizards run away screaming, except for one. This one [[note]]henceforth referred to as "the unluckiest lizard of all time,"[[/note]] tries to jump Panthro as he gets out of the tank, but Panthro just catches the lizard in one hand, and then ''nunchucks him in the face.'' {{Badass}} Bad. Ass.]]

** To clarify how awesome this is. [[spoiler: It looks like everyone is about to die, when suddenly, things start exploding. Then, out of ''freaking nowhere'' a fusion of the Batmobile and a tank starts blowing stuff up, riding through explosions, and turns the entire fight against the lizards into a CurbStompBattle. After doing some drifting and blowing up ''more'' giant lizard mechs, most of the lizards run away screaming, except for one. This one [[hottip:*: henceforth referred to as "the unluckiest lizard of all time,"]] tries to jump Panthro as he gets out of the tank, but Panthro just catches the lizard in one hand, and then ''nunchucks him in the face.'' {{Badass}} Bad. Ass.]]

* Nevermind that Soul Sever is already a badass, intelligent WellIntentionedExtremist who looks like a robotic grim reaper with twin scythes on his back, but he's voiced by [[JeffreyCombs Jeffrey]] ''[[HeyItsThatVoice freakin']]'' [[ReAnimator Combs!]]

* The kitten arriving with a bag full of TheCavalry in "What Lies Above, part 2".

*** One of Cheetara's crowning moments of awesome is here when she saves Jaga's life during the battle leading to the fall of Thundera.