Line #14 Awesome/CatsEye


1	!! As a Moments subpage, spoilers are off. You have been warned!
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3	!!The Stephen King film
4	* In "The Ledge", Norris manages to actually make it around the ledge. Despite what Cressner hoped, he upheld his end of the bargain. [[SoreLoser Too bad the same can't be said about Cressner]].
5	** [Norris pays back Cressner for all the adversity he put him through (not to mention killing the woman he loved) by forcing ''him'' to walk all the way around the ledge like he did. Needless to say, [[LaserGuidedKarma Cressner doesn't share Norris's luck]].
6	* General slaying the Troll that tried to take Amanda's breath. Complete with 'Every Breath You Take' by Music/ThePolice.
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8	!!Manga & Anime
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10	For the girls' awesome moments in ''Anime/CityHunterShinjukuPrivateEyes'', see [[Awesome/CityHunterShinjukuPrivateEyes here]].
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12	* Every time Toshio and the police get the drop on Cat's Eye. Some examples:
13	** The very first manga chapter had Hitomi trying to steal a gem, only for Toshio to pop out from under the gem's stand and grab her before she can realize what the hell is happening (Hitomi only escaped because Toshio was too stunned to keep her there once he accidentally groped her).
14	** Hitomi was committing an unannounced heist, and as soon as she grabbed the painting she found a letter from Toshio asking for a meeting with Cat's Eye. At the meeting, Toshio explained her he noticed part of Cat's Eye pattern: they steal Cranaff paintings with a particular variant of the signature (he didn't know that particular signature identified them as their father's works with the signature replaced, but nobody other than Cat's Eye, Nagaishi and the Cranaff Syndicate had the knowledge to find out).
15	*** Doubles as NiceJobFixingItVillain: in one occasion an art smuggler who had captured Toshio and was being chased by the Japanese police, his own country's police ''and'' Cat's Eye wondered if the latter had noticed he had a Cranaff painting, with Toshio's face showing he finally understood something that was bugging him before then.
16	*** Later he found a Heintz painting targeted by Cat's Eye ''before Cat's Eye did'', and ''without even realizing Cat's Eye targeted Michael Heintz paintings only''. How? Easy: between Cat's Eye targeting those Heintz's pantings that were wrongfully attributed to Cranaff, him being Heintz's main apprentice and Cat's Eye having already targeted some rightfully attributed paintings of Heintz, he realized that Cat's Eye would have probably targeted what was Heintz's most famous painting.
17	** In one occasion Cat's Eye targeted a painting in a museum surrounded by a cliff on three sides with the sea in the end. Hitomi as Cat's Eye grabbed the painting, ran to the cliff to jump (with a backpack glider to slow the fall enough to survive)... And found that Toshio was there, who had realized she would try and escape from there and checked the area for whatever device she planned to use.
18	** At one point in the manga Hitomi started dying herself blonde and wearing green lenses during the heists due the police having noticed her resemblance with the subject of a painting targeted by Cat's Eye (the subject being [[IdenticalGranddaughter Hitomi's blonde grandmother]]). It worked for a while... Then Toshio ''realized Hitomi and the blonde Cat's Eye were identical''.
19	** Thanks to both the resemblance between the blonde Cat's Eye and the painting mentioned above and a comment about Heintz having painted a group of a mother with her two daughters that could help identify Cat's Eye (Ai wasn't born yet at the time), Toshio realized that Cat's Eye were Heintz's two daughters, and, after Cat's Eye roped him in destroying the painting, found the place where its draft was kept ''before the sisters''. And the only reason Cat's Eye found out about that draft is that Toshio told Hitomi because he wanted to see the draft with her...
20	** For a heist in a restaurant set in a rotating platform above an hotel, the girls placed sleeping gas emitters in the bottles of a particular liquor and Hitomi had it given to the undercover cops set there. By Toshio's orders, all the cops had gas masks, forcing the girls to act on their much crazier plan B (accelerating the rotation to the point the cops would be pressed on the windows).
21	** In one occasion, the target painting was being kept in a closed room that could be opened only with a code and from the inside, with Toshio staying in it. The girls used a fake live tv program to try and make him believe that the time of opening the room had come so that Hitomi would get the painting from Toshio's own hands... But an earthquake (that, of course, wasn't mentioned by the program Toshio was watching as it wasn't live) made Toshio realize what was happening, so when Hitomi arrived disguised as Asatani Toshio changed the code, opened the room and ''pulled Hitomi in before re-sealing the room'', making Hitomi's use of sleep gas on Toshio useless for the escape. Had the girls not been CrazyPrepared enough to anticipate this and prepared a hiding place in the room to make Toshio believe she had escaped anyway, Hitomi would have been caught.
22	** At one point the team assembled to catch Cat's Eye moved out of the police station. Where? In a skyscraper ''with a perfect sight of the Cat's Eye Cafe'' (courtesy of Mitsuko, of course). And when Hitomi showed up to place some bug she discovered there was a device to detect them already in place and more would be placed in the whole building, not just the police office, and they were placing homing cameras to check for intruders. They prevented Cat's Eye moves to spy them ''before the girls even thought about them''.
23	*** In the end this became a CMOA for the girls, because ''they still managed to place a bug to listen their plans'': [[RefugeInAudacity the bug was on the pole on which the team had placed their flag with Cat's Eye sign crossed out]], out of the detectors' range.
24	* Mitsuko had one when she got out of [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe having to marry the son of a]] CorruptCorporateExecutive [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe to save her father's company]]. Once she knew she didn't had to go on she did not call off the marriage, but when they were to exchange vows she said "I don't" and hit the groom with a pie.
25	* Most of Cat's Eye's heists where Hitomi grabs solo. Why? Easy: she always escapes the most dangerous possible way. Among her escapes we have her jumping down of a cliff into water (and, averting SoftWater, it had been explained that a jump from that height would have ''killed'' a jumper. Sure, she had a backpack glider, but it was still dangerous as hell) and jumping out of the window of a skyscraper ''using a rope with a weight acting as pendulum to reach her escape way'' (a small error with the timing and she would be dead).
26	* Once Toshio was supposed to go at Ai's school on the day of the lesson with the presence of the family, but there was an hostage situation keeping him busy. How did Hirano solve it? When the hostage taker left the building he was in, he [[KnifeOutline shot near the criminal's head five times]], aimed the last shot at his head, and proclaimed [[BadassBoast "See? Even with an hostage, I can easily kill you"]]. The [[OhCrap terrified]] and possibly [[BringMyBrownPants soiled]] criminal dropped his gun in fear, and let the hostage go even before realizing he was disarmed.
27	* In one occasion, the loot was inside an apparently impregnable bank vault: time lock, the external gate being 20 cm of steel, the middle gate being a grate in a special alloy, and the final gate being 50 cm of the same special alloy. Once they found a way to dupe the police in letting them operate (namely making it look like a child had been accidentally closed in and risked being killed by the vault being emptied of air to preserve its contents), Hitomi and Rui destroyed all the gates in ''exactly ten minutes''. It would have been seven minutes and eight seconds, but when they blew up the hinges of the final gate the void sucked it back in, and it took a while to grab and arm the ''bazooka'' and have the cops stop hammering the door and get to cover.
28	* Near the end of the manga, the girls were leaving for the US searching for their father after revealing their identities to Toshio. It seemed the end of the love story between Hitomi and him... Then Toshio, who had just resigned from the police, arrived to the airport and, seeing the plane was about to take off, ''[[CrazyIsCool ran on the top of the gangway connecting it to the terminal to tell her he'd follow her to end of the world]]'' and gave her their engagement ring.

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