Line #9 Awesome/OutlawStar


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3	* Starting in the very first episode, whenever Gene fires the Caster Gun; it shoots fricking ''[[CoolVersusAwesome magic.]]''
4	* Episode 13 "Advance Guard from Another World" has one for Melfina, who stomps on and kills the evil mind-controlling cactus alien.
5	* Episode 17, Harry makes another advance towards Melfina with the attempt to kidnap her. He had her in his arms and then she slammed her fists into his back to make him let go of her. Later, in cyberspace, she force-feedbacked Harry's hacking attempt so damn hard that it ''blows out his arm.'' Considering how scared she was of Harry (its justified given how AxCrazy he is) it was awesome seeing her reject Harry and constantly refuse his advances.
6	* Episode 18, "The Strongest Woman in the Universe". Has Aisha handing Lady Iraga her ass, werecat-style.
7	** This is especially notable because Iraga basically and [[CurbstompBattle effortlessly]] off-screened Reiko, the four-time Strongest Woman in the Galaxy (though the scales weren't exactly fair since Iraga was a Ctarl-Ctarl too). Since Reiko made easy work of Gene, and the two fully-transformed Ctarl-Ctarl have a SuperSpeed fight that the camera doesn't even try to keep up with, it implies that Aisha is easily the strongest female in the entire series' cast when it comes to raw physical power.
8	* Suzuka completely emasculating Gene by nonchalantly nabbing a very dangerous and high-paying bounty out from under him the ninth episode. This was a response to Gene defeating her in her first appearance ([[DefeatByModesty grabbing her kimono belt and basically stripping her]] as the two ran for her sword).
9	* Suzuka slashing a bus ''in half'' with her wooden katana on the episode that introduced her.
10	* The Crackerjack episode "Final Countdown".
11	** A dual CMOA for Suzuka and Aisha when they track down and kick the ass of Crackerjack's crew while simultaneously tipping Gene off on his RedWireBlueWire dilemma, thus saving the entire city.
12	** Melfina gets one as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment\|s}} when she replies to Gene's goading of Crackerjack, utterly deadpan "You know, you really should not aggravate the terrorist."
13	** At the end of the same episode, Gene crashing the Outlaw Star right into the space station, jumping out and KO'ing Crackerjack with one punch.
14	* Basically everything Hilda did was awesome, but her last was probably her best: realizing that she was not going to make it, she immediately grabbed ahold of TheDragon, gave a badass FacingTheBulletsOneLiner, and then [[TakingYouWithMe blew the both of them up]] with a bomb she had hidden in her tooth. "Outlaws never go down easy," indeed.
15	** The first part of the first episode. Enemy fighters clamped onto your ship? All your weapons gone? Activate the Sub Ether drive (the Outlaw Star universe variant of Hyperspace) just as the bastards are getting cocky, and obliterate the fighters as she makes her escape.
16	* Episode 15, Shimi/Lei Fong effortlessly taking out Jim, Suzuka, and Aisha when they dare to get between him and his duel with Gene. It's made all the more awesome by him being the BadassNormal of the pirates and yet possibly the one who came closest to beating him.
17	* Episode 20, "Cats and Girls and Spaceships". Jim singlehandedly takes out a spacefaring malcontent... even though he killed his almost girlfriend who was that malcontent accidentally.
18	* Episode 22, using a special device, Gene and another prisoner escape from a prison planet with extra heavy gravity and a sadistic warden. They were, in fact, the first to ever escape from it. Extra awesome arises from Gene's repeated confronting of the Warden, an overweight fellow suspended in fluids and using robots as his muscle was too cowardly to face him directly.
19	* Episode 24- It's the penultimate episode and it manages to give all the fighters on the crew, a moment to shine.
20	** Gene is firing Caster after Caster shell that would normally one-shot a lesser Tao spell-caster, but Hamushi manages to shrug it off with her advanced skills. So Gene takes a gamble with his number 4, firing it at her. Hamushi assumed, takes the blow and suffers the effect of the number 4, [[CruelAndUnusualDeath getting violently pulled into a singularity]] while causing Gene life-threatening pain. Gene's humiliating journey at Tenrei had paid off in spades.
21	** Suzuka faces off against Hitoriga, the man who not only killed her family but also had the gall of wearing her face as a twistedly shallow means of reinforcing his one-sided lust for her. She takes the blow willing to suffer the same pain as those he's killed and then one-shots him. She manages to be entirely calm during the entire fight, which was all due to Gene's actions all the way back in episode 6, which cooled her temper as a prideful assassin and likely her mad desperation for revenge that would've seen her lose herself in a rage against Hitoriga, becoming his victim while he live to kill more using her face while doing as a final insult. In that moment, her revenge was second to Melfina's safety and it allowed her to have the clarity to see Hitoriga, not as the monster that took her family but as the pathetic, obsessive stalker that she had to put down to settle that aspect of her life.
22	** Aisha immediately enters her tiger form and clashes with Jukai, which initially seems to be her defeat but Jukai then dies easily. She manages to defeat one of the top Anten Seven members with none of the difficulties Suzuka and Gene faced, with only an annoyed desire to sleep to follow it.
23	** After spending the entire series as unreachable and being insufferably smug about it while flaunting his superiority; in addition to causing the deaths of Gene's father and mentor/lover- Hilda with pragmatic disinterest, Gene faces Ron, for once, completely losing his cool, [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes in the midst of being torn over his brother's death]]. Firing a seemingly mundane counter strike like before, but this time Gene is using a Caster Shell that Ron wouldn't know about or get because it requires earning the trust of others and being willing to take risks on uncertain gambles- both going against Ron's amoral nature. This sends Ron flying into the distance, with the fall causing near-fatal injuries, as he's treated as an afterthought despite how highly Ron likely thought himself to be. compared to the risky gamble with Hamushi and the much more intense battle with Hazanko by Gene despite avenging his loved ones' being his primary goal in life to resolve this lingering regret, as he's got Melfina to worry about at the moment. It may have been a small moment in the chaotic frenzy that was the penultimate episode, but this is cathartic after everything Ron put through since Gene was a child.
24	* BigBad Hazanko gets one by simply bulldozing his way to the end of the Galactic Leyline. Nothing can stop him- not Harry's upgrades, not Gene's [[DeadlyUpgrade new caster shell]] that one-shotted a top Anten Seven member in Hamushi, not the ''final'' caster shell that killed Gene- although Gene gets points for surviving that long and almost finishing Hazanko off there.
25	** The Caster Shell that initially Gene starts off with as a pragmatic move, is the same one that one-shotted Hamushi with [[{{Anticlimax}} Hazanko seemingly unceremoniously dealt by being pulled into a mini singularity with after a series worth of build-up and his impressive defeat of Harry only to prove a disappointment even by the other villains' standards]], with Gene's potential final enemy being Gwen Khan to easily kill and get back Melfina. Then in the middle of their conversation, [[NotQuiteDead the same sphere that finished off Hazanko reappears, and a white demonic form pulls itself out of the singularity to reveal itself as Hazanko]]. [[RealityWarper Hazanko essentially came back from literal nothingness and defied the laws of physics and reality by simply being that good of a sorcerer compared to anyone outside of the Tendo King and Tempa Emperor]]. All while making a BadassBoast about it with Gene, not even intimidated, following it up with his own. Hazanko in that moment, managed to prove to truly an enemy far beyond everything the crew had faced before and a fitting FinalBoss.
26	* The final battle, with Gene and his crew battling a god-like Hazanko in both the realm of cyber-space and with their ships, the Outlaw Star and Geomancer both getting massive, giant-sized upgrades. It ends with the Outlaw Star back to normal size and Gene flying right through Hazanko's head like a bullet.
27	* Harry, despite being a normally reprehensible person, decides to face Hazanko for Melfina's sake, for once a truly noble act, even with selfish intentions, both to protect her from an utterly treacherous and power-hungry monster and through his selfishness, potentially stop Hazanko from using Melfina from using the Leyline to achieve godhood- making Harry in that moment, the unlikely savior of the universe. Using everything in his arsenal, including four-shoulder missiles, enhanced flurries of blows, and a palm machine gun. The latter of which, breaks part of Hazanko's mask- something that not even the Overseer and his fellow warriors- implied skilled warriors in their own right- were able to accomplish- and it's heavily implied only someone up to that point, only the Tendo King and Tempa Emperor could potentially harm him. This may have led to his nightmarishly CruelAndUnusualDeath and didn't even fulfill his intended goal, he managed to land the first blow on the BigBad and proved his humanity and valor against a man of truly evil ambition and malice. It's implied that had he not [[TheWorfEffect had the misfortune of being used as the means to showcase the superior might of Hazanko]], he would've defeated the Anten Seven members should he had faced them.
28	** He then [[DeathEqualsRedemption managed to prove his inner humanity despite being a complete cyborg at that point and uses his last moments while suffering from his fatal injuries to open the door to allow Gene to get to Melfina, knowing Gene could do what he couldn't and accepting him as the better man]].

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