History Awesome / YoungWizards

** Dairine organizing and leading a team of alien wizards to fix the Earth's Sun without any guidance or input from Senior wizards, closely followed by Roshaun's SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, stepping out of the protective wizardry and ''into the center of the Sun itself'' to tweak it on the molecular level, risking his own life for a star that wasn't his own. Good thing he's a master of star-based wizardry.
** Nita telling off the Lone Power, then forcing it to do what she says.
** Roshaun, when he leaves the protective wizardry bubble to walk into the ''heart of the sun'' to fix it, in order to save the planet he claimed he didn't even like (Earth). Coupled with his regal calm, the scene becomes pure Moment of Awesome.

** Upon meeting her protegee's emotionally abusive aunt, who rattles off a long list of wizards she's descended from, Dairine shuts the other wizard down in epic fashion: By first using the Speech equivalent of "miss" (in other words, saying she's nothing special), noting that her mother walks with the Transcendent Pig, that she's the Mother of Mobiles through her own wizardry, and that she knows people (specifically, Roshaun) with a ''much'' longer and more noble pedigree who don't make nearly as big of a deal about it. Oh, but don't bother kneeling to her, it would be a shame to get those jeans all soggy.

* The climax of ''So You Want to Be a Wizard'':
** Nita reads of the Book of Night with Moon to keep all of New York (and the world, and the universe) in existence, and [[TakeOurWordForIt the coming to life of all the trees and statuary in the city]], including Prometheus of Rockefeller Center and the lions from the Public Library steps. ...and it's all frickin' incredible.
** Nita finds the Lone Power's name in the Book that controls and sustains the universe...and ''edits'' it. This redeems the Lone Power.
%% ** Fred's sacrifice.
* ''Deep Wizardry'':
** The battle of the krakens and, y'know, everything during the reenactment in the underwater canyon.
** Ed the Master Shark oozes raw awesome. Especially at the end of the book when he sacrifices himself in place of Nita by ''physically attacking the Lone Power'', which results in the gathering of many many sharks which proceed to rip the avatar of the Lone Power into shreds.
-->'''Ed:''' "LONE POWER, I ACCEPT YOUR GIFT!"
** ''So rage, proud Power, fail again, and see my blood teach death to die!''

%%** Ronan in ''Wizards at War''. Three words: "''But I would!''"
%%* Anytime someone says "Fairest and fallen, greetings and defiance", you are pretty much assured that a Moment of Awesome is coming.
* Almost all the wizards in Ireland, wielding four legendary weapons (including a spear they forged by channeling the heart of a star) marching to war in the Lone Power's alternate world based on Irish mythology. When one of the weapons is destroyed and it seems like they've lost, they're given a chance to win by a tiny white kitten getting up and calling the Lone Power out with epic poetry.

** Ed the Master Shark oozes raw awesome. Especially at the end of the book when he sacrifices himself in place of Nita, which results in the gathering of many many sharks which proceed to attack the avatar of the Lone Power.

%%* ''Deep Wizardry'':
%%** And then the sharks came.
%%** Ed: "LONE POWER, I ACCEPT YOUR GIFT!"
%%** ''So rage, proud Power, fail again, and see my blood teach death to die!''

* Nita in ''A Wizard Of Mars'' ''turning back a flood'' and then kicking the ass of the person who tried to kill her.
She lays out and fuels the Gibraltar Passthrough, a transoceanic passthrough designed and used by the famous hydromage Angelina Pellegrino. She then proceeds to control two ''huge'' snakelike structures of water and threaten to wipe her rival's city off the face of Mars "like dog poop down the driveway"! Then she engages in what's supposed to be mortal combat with Aurilelde, tells off Aurilelde and "explains" to her the real meaning of love, and then yanks the kernel out of 'Lelde ''after Aurilelde had become the "war goddess" of Mars,'' and proceeds to calm down Mars, tell off the "Martians," and decide to save Aurilelde's life instead of following through with the prophecy.

* Most of the major characters get one at some point, but one standout is Dairine in High Wizardy. [[spoiler: She's going head to head with the Lone Power and trapping it within the darkness of her soul, which she does by stopping the expansion of the universe, causing all of the photons trapped in the expanding space-time to suddenly get wherever it was they were going much faster]]
** Nita's mom in ''Wizard's Dilemma'':
--->[[spoiler: "This is my universe, and ''I'' say what goes here, and ''she does not have my permission''.... My daughter and I are fighting the same battle. Maybe I do it in more ordinary ways. But we're on the same side. And you, if I recognize you correctly, are no friend of mine. ''Get off my turf!''"]]
** Kit has a BigDamnHeroes moment in this same book, where he [[spoiler: turns up right when Nita has pretty much given up her wizardry, bringing along the old version of Neets's name, before she had made her DealWithTheDevil, fixes it into the spell with the glede or "dragon's eye" and blows all the cancer right out of Nita's mom's system.]] Unfortunately [[spoiler: this isn't enough to save Betty . . . ]]
* Nita in ''A Wizard Of Mars'' [[spoiler: ''turning back a flood'' and then kicking the ass of the person who tried to kill her]]
** More specifically, laying out and fueling the [[spoiler: Gibraltar Passthrough, a transoceanic passthrough designed and used by the famous hydromage Angelina Pellegrino.]] She then proceeds to [[spoiler: control two ''huge'' snakelike structures of water and threaten to wipe her rival's city off the face of Mars "like dog poop down the driveway"!]] Then she engages in what's supposed to be [[spoiler: mortal combat with Aurilelde, tells off Aurilelde and "explains" to her the real meaning of love, and then yanks the kernel out of 'Lelde ''after Aurilelde had become the "war goddess" of Mars,'' and proceeds to calm down Mars, tell off the "Martians," and decide to save Aurilelde's life instead of following through with the prophecy.]]
* Nita's BigDamnHeroes moment in [[spoiler: ''A Wizard Alone'']] where she [[spoiler: pops into Darryl's universe ''with'' the kernel (which she's fixed so that nobody can mention Darryl being an abdal,) explodes all the glass windows with her energy weapon and manipulates the Lone Power into letting Kit and Darryl go.]]
* Dairine [[spoiler: organizing and leading a team of alien wizards to fix the Earth's Sun without any guidance or input from Senior wizards]] in ''Wizard's Holiday'', closely followed by Roshaun's SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome, [[spoiler: stepping out of the protective wizardry and ''into the center of the Sun itself'' to tweak it on the molecular level, risking his own life for a star that wasn't his own. Good thing he's a master of star-based wizardry.]]
* In the ''Feline Wizards'' book ''Book of Night with Moon'', the main characters [[spoiler:become incarnations of the PowersThatBe, with Ith enacting the role of the Bright Serpent, to fight the Old Serpent.]]
* [[spoiler: And then the sharks came.]]
** Ed: [[spoiler: "LONE POWER, I ACCEPT YOUR GIFT!"]]
*** [[spoiler: ''So rage, proud Power, fail again, and see my blood teach death to die!'']]
* Nita and Kit in the very first book [[spoiler: reading out of the Book of Night with Moon AND making all the statues in NYC come to life]] and Fred's [[spoiler: sacrifice]]. Oh, and Nita [[spoiler: ''redeeming the Lone Power'' by changing its nature with her enchanted pen. She literally changes reality by writing in the Book of Night with Moon, which defines it!]]
* In DW, it's the battle of the krakens and, y'know, everything during the [[spoiler: reenactment in the underwater canyon]].
* Nita takes several magical blasts from [[{{Satan}} The Lone Power]] without even flinching in Diane Duane's ''High Wizardry''.
** And then she reveals that she's powering that shield with [[spoiler:''a year of her life per shot''.]]
* The climax of ''So You Want to Be a Wizard'' falls under this trope, especially Nita's reading of the Book of Night with Moon to keep all of New York (and the world, and the universe) in existence, and [[TakeOurWordForIt the coming to life of all the trees and statuary in the city]], including [[spoiler:Prometheus of Rockefeller Center and the lions from the Public Library steps]]. ...and it's all frickin' incredible.
** And ''then'' Nita finds the Lone Power's name in the Book that controls and sustains the universe...[[spoiler:and ''edits'' it]]
* Ed the Master Shark from ''Deep Wizardry'' oozes raw awesome. Especially at the end of the book when [[spoiler: He sacrifices himself in place of Nita, which results in the gathering of many many sharks which proceed to attack the avatar of the Lone Power]].
* Dairine had hers in ''High Wizardry'' when [[spoiler: she stops the UNIVERSE EXPANDING to provide more light!]]
* In ''A Wizard Alone'' Darryl manages to [[spoiler: trick the Lone Power into being trapped in a universe he created himself!]]
* Ronan gets his own Moment of Awesome in ''Wizards at War''. Three words: "''But I would!''"
* [[spoiler: Nita's mother]] in ''The Wizard's Dilemma''.
* Anytime someone says "Fairest and fallen, greetings and defiance", you are pretty much assured that a Moment of Awesome is coming.
* Almost all the wizards in Ireland, [[spoiler: wielding four legendary weapons (including a spear they forged by channeling the heart of a star) marching to war in the Lone Power's alternate world based on Irish mythology. When one of the weapons is destroyed and it seems like they've lost, they're given a chance to win by a tiny white kitten getting up and calling the Lone Power out with epic poetry.]]
* While ''Wizards at War'' is so full of Moments of Awesome that ''everyone'' gets at least one, ''Ponch the dog'' gets one near the very end. [[spoiler: Ponch had been growing in intelligence and general power throughout the series because he hung out with Kit and Nita so much. After all of the wizards on earth (excluding the adults who had all become powerless thanks to spreading darkness) were unable to stop the spread of the Pullulus (the darkness), he starts howling and in doing so gathers the strength of every dog in the world, and grows into a gigantic Dog-shaped shadow full of stars. He then proceeds to lay a smackdown on the Pullulus while fulfilling a previously mentioned prophecy: "The Hound taking His old enemy by the throat and throwing him down, yelping, against the floors of heaven."]]
** Please note that the above takes place on [[spoiler: the damn MOON.]]
** And of course, it turns out that he wasn't just a dog. He was [[spoiler: the Dog Who Is God]].
* Nita telling off the Lone Power in ''Wizard's Holiday'', then forcing it to do what she says.
* Roshaun in ''Wizard's Holiday'' when he leaves the protective wizardry bubble to walk into the ''heart of the sun'' to fix it, in order to save the planet he claimed he didn't even like (Earth). Coupled with his regal calm, the scene becomes pure Moment of Awesome.

* And who could forget Rhiow in ''The Book of Night With Moon''? "WHAT HAS BECOME OF MY CHILDREN?"

--> ''We're going to get my tree back. We're going to put things right.''

* And who could forget Rhiow in ''The Book of Night With Moon''? "WHAT HAS BECOME OF MY CHILDREN?"

* Dairine [[spoiler: organizing and leading a team of alien wizards to fix the Earth's Sun without any guidance or input from Senior wizards]] in ''Wizard's Holiday'', closely followed by Roshaun's CrowningMomentOfAwesome, [[spoiler: stepping out of the protective wizardry and ''into the center of the Sun itself'' to tweak it on the molecular level, risking his own life for a star that wasn't his own. Good thing he's a master of star-based wizardry.]]

* In DW, it's the battle of the krakens and, y'know, everything during the [[spoiler: reenactment in the underwater canyon]].

*** [[spoiler: ''So rage, proud Power,'']]//
[[spoiler: ''fail again,'' ]]//
[[spoiler: ''and see my blood'' ]]//
[[spoiler: ''teach death to die!'']]

*** [[spoiler: ''So rage, proud Power,'']]
[[spoiler: ''fail again,'' ]]
[[spoiler: ''and see my blood'' ]]

* Nita and Kit [[spoiler: reading out of the Book of Night with Moon AND making all the statues in NYC come to life]] and Fred's [[spoiler: sacrifice]].

* Most of the major characters get one at some point, but one standout is Dairine [[spoiler: going head to head with the Lone Power and trapping it within the darkness of her soul, which she does by stopping the expansion of the universe, causing all of the photons trapped in the expanding space-time to suddenly get wherever it was they were going much faster]]

* In DW, it's the battle of the krakens and, y'know, everything during the [[spoiler: reenactment in the underwater canyon]].
* HW is one big CMOA, thanks to Dairine (who, facing the Lone Power, casts a spell that ''[[spoiler: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers_paradox stops the expansion of the universe]])]]''.

* Nita and Kit [[spoiler: reading out of the Book of Night with Moon AND making all the statues in NYC come to life.]]
* Fred's [[spoiler: sacrifice]].

[[spoiler: ''teach death to die!'']]

** Ed: [[spoiler: "LONE POWER, I ACCEPT YOUR GIFT!"
*** ''So rage, proud Power,
fail again,
and see my blood
teach death to die!'']]

** More specifically, laying out and fueling the [[spoiler: Gibraltar Passthrough, a transoceanic passthrough designed and used by the famous hydromage Angelina Pellegrino.]] She then proceeds to [[spoiler: control two ''huge'' snakelike structures of water and threaten to wipe her rival's city off the face of Mars "like dog poop down the driveway"!]] Then she engages in what's supposed to be [[spoiler: mortal combat with Aurilelde, tells off Aurilelde and "explains" to her the real meaning of love, and then yanks the kernel out of 'Lelde ''after Aurilelde had become the "war goddess" of Mars,'' and proceeds to calm down Mars, tell off the "Martians," and decide to save Aurilelde's life instead of following through with the prophecy.]]

** Nita [[spoiler: ''turning back a flood'' and then kicking the ass of the person who tried to kill her in ''A Wizard of Mars'']]