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* Axel's got TONS of these, especially in ''Chain Of Memories''. "''Now'' you can tell me I don't respect my elders."
** [[MagnificentBastard "The stage is set and the players are ready.]] [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Now give me one hell of a show!"]]
*** That whole scene with Axel and Marluxia gives them both points for this trope.
--> Marluxia: So you only eliminated Vexen to gain proof of our plan...
--> Axel: THAT I didn't want to do, but it WAS your order. *summons weapons*
--> Marluxia: Oh... *says this while smiling in confidence*
--> Axel: Remember the order... "You must eliminate the traitor..." I always follow orders, Marluxia.
*** Remember during their fight?
-->'''Axel:''' [[LargeHam The Organization's betrayed, in that name I will annihilate YOU.]]
-->'''Marluxia:''' [[LampshadeHanging Er... That line's not you.]]
-->'''Axel:''' [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat Heh-heh. Well, had to try it once, you know.]]
** "You really do remember me this time? [[UnstoppableRage I'm so FLATTERED.]]"
** The way he offs Vexen in ''Re: Chain of Memories''.
---> '''Axel:'''' [[SayingTooMuch I came to stop you from talking too much,]] [[DeadlyEuphemism by eliminating your existence.]]
---> '''Vexen:''' [[OhCrap No! Don't do it!]]
---> '''''Axel:''' [[{{Foreshadowing}} We are just Nobodies who have no-one to be, yet we still are. But now you can be nothing, instead of just being a Nobody.]] [[FalseReassurance You're off the hook.]]
---> '''Vexen:''' [[AintTooProudToBeg No! Please don't!]] *[[OhCrap whimper]]* [[IDontWantToDie I don't want to-]]
---> '''Axel:''' Goodbye." *[[KillItWithFire Immolates Vexen with snap of his fingers]]*''
---> '''Sora:''' [[FamilyUnfriendlyDeath *winces*]]
*** The Japanese version of this scene contains, more or less, the same dialogue, but the feel of it is pure win. And the GBA script...
----> '''''Axel:''' "NOW you can tell me I don't respect my elders."'' as mentioned above and
----> '''''Axel:''' "I'd rather not fight you... but I do have a reputation to think of!"''
** And then there's 358/2.
---> Xion: "[[SuicideByCop Don't hold back, Axel. Promise?]]"
---> Axel: "[[WhatTheHellHero ...WHAT'S YOUR PROBLEM?! You both... think you can do whatever you want... well, I'm sick of it.]] [[ThePowerOfFriendship Go on, you just keep running! But I'll always be there to bring you BACK!]]"
** Once again, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJA495w41Ks Quinton Flynn]] shows how awesome he is. Do Disney and Square Enix get a Moment of Awesome for picking Flynn as Axel's voice actor?
* Roxas in the intro of ''Kingdom Hearts II''. The entire intro, he's been having enough trouble using the Keyblade as it is, and is using the same three-hit combos Sora did in the first game. Doesn't help we have no idea who the guy is at this point. Then he duels Axel, who gives the "I'm SO FLATTERED" Moment of Awesome above. Roxas responds by pulling out ''two'' Keyblades, becoming the first person in the series to use two at once, and becomes a spinning maelstrom of destruction with long, powerful multi-hit combos that can drain a third of a health bar.
** Axel's line, Roxas dual-wielding, dueling in a ring of fire, dueling ''on'' the ring of fire, their conversation afterward... [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GUed8WYMPI the entire fight itself was a Moment of Awesome for both of them]].
* ''Mickey Mouse'', of all people/rodents, took a page out of Yoda's book in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''.
** When [[spoiler:Goofy "dies"]] and Mickey says "They'll pay for this," the way he throws off his cloak and gets his keyblade is so epically awesome it's hard to describe.
* As discussed below, Auron of ''FinalFantasyX'' fame is awesome in the game he first appeared in, and continues this streak in KHII. Perhaps the best moment is, right after being brought to life by Hades, he proceeds to tell the big guy off:
-->'''Auron''': This is my story -- and you're not a part of it!
** Made even more poignant for ''FinalFantasyX'' fans, who remember that one of Auron's mantras was "This is your story," speaking of Tidus and Yuna.
** It doesn't end there. Hades, understandably torqued, tells Auron "Do you know who you're talking to? I am the LORD OF THE DEAD!" Auron just smirks and says "[[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu No wonder nobody wants to die.]]" Truly, Auron is more {{Badass}} in death than most are in life.
*** [[http://ffproject.net/forumwiki/images/thumb/779px-055xcargeur.jpg Including himself]]. Which is still saying a lot.
* At Hollow Bastion, when fighting the gigantic army of Heartless, the interaction between Cloud and Leon shows just how awesome they both are:
-->'''Leon''': [[TheWarSequence Think you can handle this many?]]
-->'''Cloud''': [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Well... Might be tough if one more shows up.]]
-->'''Leon''': [[BashBrothers Then that'll have to be the one I take care of.]]
-->'''Cloud''': [[BadassBoast What, you're fighting too?]]
* The whole Battle of Hollow Bastion in KHII is pretty good, but Sora charging an entire army of Heartless, Keyblade ready, gives its name to TheWarSequence and is full of absolute win.
** It would have been cooler and that much more awesome if they had kept the [[http://img58.imageshack.us/my.php?image=suiciderushhx5.jpg original idea]], even if it would be NintendoHard with the two Behemoth-like Heartless.
*** It'd still probably be less frustrating than [[ThatOneBoss/KingdomHearts Demyx]], especially if you had Donald and Goofy's help. And oh, ''hell'' yes, it would have been awesome.
*** One must also consider the limitations of the hardware. Having one thousand enemies on screen at once was an impressive feat, but having to run 10 different AI's would likely have been too much for the system to handle.
*** Actually, there weren't really one thousand Heartless on the screen at one time. The way it worked was that if an enemy gets out of a particular range, it would go into some sort of moving "background" to make it look like there were that many there. In reality, there'd be, oh, maybe a hundred or so at a time around you. Doesn't mean it reduces the awesome, though.
*** The full picture actually had flying aviator heartless at the top, too. That's even more awesome.
*** Actually, the whole thing is one Moment of Awesome for popular demand. The game's creators intended that whole scene to be a cutscene, but there was such excitement at the idea of playing that fight when the trailer was unveiled that they HAD to make it playable.
*** Yeah, but what happened ''in between'' [[LetsGetDangerous Demyx]] and TheWarSequence has to count, too: Goofy suffers a DisneyDeath, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge causing Mickey to go all Yoda on]] TheHeartless, while Sora proceeds to THRASH waves of Heartless on his way to follow, while assisted by {{Final Fantasy}}'s own supply of {{Badass}}es, namely [[CuteBruiser Yuffie]] [[GlassCannon Kisaragi]], [[AntiHero Squall]] [[BrokenAce "Leon"]][[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon Hart]], [[ActionGirl Tifa]] [[RapidFireFisticuffs Lockhart]], and [[LimitBreak CLOUD]] [[BladeSpam FREAKING]] [[BigFuckingSword STRIFE]]!! Talk about {{Fanservice}}!
* Riku's declaration of "walking the Road to Dawn" at the end of Reverse/Rebirth. All the preceding tediousness of that story mode, not to mention the biggest ThatOneBoss of the game ([[spoiler:Riku Replica in Twilight Town]]) was almost made up for with that moment.
* Kairi jumps off a balcony to help Sora and is completely unharmed by it! To hell with getting her own keyblade afterwards, THAT was her Moment of Awesome.
** Well, that keyblade event ''was'' pretty nifty though....
*** Kairi restoring Sora to human form by hugging him when he's a Heartless. You can say it's cheesy if you want, but had that not happened, the story would be over, with Ansem[[hottip:*: actually [[spoiler:Xehanort's Heartless]]]] victorious and the universe screwed. Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.
*** Heartless Sora in general, once you think about it. His heart was so powerful even the power of absolute darkness couldn't suppress him. This is an achievement only the BigBad was ever willing to previously make, showcasing just how well-suited Sora is as TheHero.
*** Oh come on now, no listing of Kairi examples on this page would be complete without mentioning that she wrote the "One Sky, One Destiny" poem. If that wasn't awesome enough as it were, the poem [[spoiler:actually saves Sora and Riku from death by darkness at the end of Kingdom Hearts II, as it restores the hope in Sora's heart, which opens a doorway out of the realm of darkness into the realm of light.]] Cue Happy Ending.
*** That poem is a Moment of Awesome for Disney/Square Enix, for referencing it in the FIRST Kingdom Hearts. Seriously, bust out your PS2, stick in KH, and wait a while on the title screen. A cutscene starts playing, featuring the poem at the beginning and an orchestral version of Simple And Clean/Hikari. Same thing happens in ''Kingdom Hearts II''.
*** It's also in the first Kingdom Hearts's instruction book, so it might be a sort of tag line for the whole series.
* The last and second-to-last battles really are Riku and Sora's Moments of Awesome, especially the part where [[spoiler:Sora beat Xemnas senseless dual-wielding his and Riku's keyblades.]].
** Not to mention a level of physics-defying action that, even in SquareEnix games, [[GameplayAndStorySegregation is usually only seen in cutscenes.]]
*** I don't think I've even seen that level of "fuck physics, this is the RuleOfCool" in ''a DevilMayCry game.''
** [[spoiler:Sora and Riku ''reflecting the seven zillion lasers that Xemnas threw at them'']] right before that.
*** And before that, [[spoiler:cutting buildings in half and ''throwing them at Xemnas'']]. Really, the whole multi-fight sequence was just one Crowning Moment after another.
* Before that boss fight, there was [[spoiler:Sora in his solo fight against Xemnas, where he pulls a Roxas and RUNS UP A SKYSCRAPER (and depending on the proper use of action commands) proceeds to KICK ASS.]]
* The Beast gets one in the second game, after Sora talks him out of having [[HeroicBSOD a pity-party for himself:]]
-->'''Beast''': I know one thing... This is ''my'' castle! Xaldin will ''never'' be welcome here!
** And then Belle proves her awesomeness by elbowing Xaldin in the solar plexus, taking the rose, and running.
** Beast's entire script in ''Chain of Memories'' is one big Moment of Awesome.
*** Hell, Beast's entire ''presence'' in the original KingdomHearts was a huge Moment of Awesome. With [[spoiler:your party members temporarily leaving and you stuck without your weapon, the Beast is truly a lifesaver.]] Which only ''adds'' to the fact that [[spoiler:he was only there to help in the first place because he ''ripped his way through the dimensions through sheer force of will''.]]
* In the first game, Sora's speech, just before [[spoiler:getting his keyblade back from Riku, was pretty awesome. He knows that the guy could kill him with a single hit of this baby, but he keeps standing there, saying something along the lines of: "I know now I don't need the Keyblade. I've got a better weapon. My heart." Probably, the keyblade thinks the same as him, since that speech actually "persuades" it to ditch Riku and return to Sora.]]
** I found that to be possibly the worst scene in all of Hollow Bastion, but [[spoiler:Sora stabbing himself with the Dark Keyblade to get Kairi's heart back]] was awesome.
*** And he gives Donald and Goofy a reassuring grin. He stabs himself in the chest and his biggest concern is his buddies worrying.
* Let's not forget that, moments before Sora's speech, Goofy and DonaldDuck [[spoiler:who had been ordered by King Mickey to follow the Key Bearer, which was Riku at that time, wholeheartedly ''turned against Riku'' to protect Sora. The high point of the moment is when Riku throws a Dark Firaga against an unarmed Sora, and Goofy immediately jumps in from of him, blocking the fire with his shield.]]
** Goofy's shield, by the way, is barely the size of Riku's fireball.
** The Goofster's lines net him some bonus points.
-->'''Goofy:''' Sora ain't gonna go anywhere!
-->'''Riku:''' You'd betray your king?
-->'''Goofy:''' Not on your life! But I'm not gonna betray Sora, either, 'cause he's become one of my best buddies after all we've been through together.
* "There's no way you're taking Kairi's Heart!"
* A tad meta, but the [=FMVs=] at the start of Sora's story and at the end of Reverse/Rebirth in ''Chain of Memories'' could be considered a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for the Game Boy Advance. These are full-blown [=FMVs=], at ''least'' PS1 quality, with character models that could almost have been taken directly from the other KingdomHearts games. All this from the equivalent of a slightly more powerful hand-held SNES with poorer sound quality.
** Videos do require far less rendering than 3D graphics (this is why {{Myst}} was created.)
*** Still, it's something other games at the time couldn't boast.
*** Poorer sound quality? The end credits contains the full [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Simple and Clean]] song with nearly the original quality, all from a "hand-held SNES".
* Most people think Naminé's a wussy little girl. They tend to forget that despite threats, isolation, and manipulation, she managed to stand her ground in the face of Larxene and Marluxia. Then in the second game, she [[spoiler:slips under the radar and helps Roxas regain his memories while piecing together Sora's]], eludes capture and extermination from two separate parties throughout most of the course of the game, [[spoiler:busts Kairi (and Pluto) out of prison]], and did all of the above while being the only character lacking the advanced skills of her fellow nobodies OR a keyblade.
* Most Reaction Commands in Kingdom Hearts II are basically designed to make you go ''wow, that was awesome.''
** Here, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-pn9U2ZGUY see some for yourself.]]
** The "Slicer" reaction command in the first part of the 4-part final battle, it makes Sora cut through a rising wall of skyscrapers, cutting each one into SIX PIECES!
* Demyx, of all people, gets one in his second encounter with Sora, Donald, and Goofy. At first, he acts like TheDitz that he has been while the heroes treat him more like an annoyance than an actual threat. It is then when they resolve to rub salt in the wound by telling him that he [[BetaTestBaddie has no heart]], that Demyx ''snaps'', telling Sora to shut the hell up and summoning his sitar in a incredibly [[MundaneMadeAwesome epic fashion]]. Cue one of the [[ThatOneBoss hardest boss fights in the game]]. You can still be grinning all the while getting his ass handed over to him. Wow, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Demyx]].
*** That interactive scene during the fight where Sora is behind Demyx... if you screw up, Demyx smacks you out of the spotlight with his sitar.
* Jack Skellington in the first game certainly qualifies. Most other worlds live in fear from the Heartless. When they start to appear in Halloween Town, Jack tries to find a way to ''control'' them to use them in his Halloween celebration! Some people run and hide from the Heartless - Jack wants to dance with them!
** And when he got the message that the Heartless are in an alliance with his death enemy Oogie Boogie, he proceeded to rip them apart with his ''bare, boney hands'' alone.
** Don't forget that technically, he, along with most of Halloween Town's residents, are not "living" and don't have the literal heart that the heartless are looking for. The only people in the town who were under any threat by them were Lock, Shock, and Barrel, and they don't look exactly human either. The heartless probably thought that Jack was one of them and went along with his antics for fun. Which makes him even more awesome for controlling heartless by entertaining them.
* Might not count for just being Hi-Res cutscenes, but the Another Side, Another Story: Deep Dive and Birth By Sleep secret endings were just awesome. The first showcases Roxas the DualWielding OneManArmy tearing through an army of Heartless, with Oathkeeper and Oblivion in glorious Hi-Res. The second is a pretty cool swordfight, but is truly awesome because it's basically a glorified magic-fest with both sides firing spells flashier than Sora could ever hope to pull off without his Drive forms (directed Keyblade tornado anyone?) The magic spells are made that much cooler by being in Hi-Res. Both are extreme cases of CutscenePowerToTheMax.
** The original "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_GDKiNQeN0&feature=channel_page Another Side Another Story"]] was pretty awesome as well, but the expert reward sucks. [[spoiler:Riku was way cooler with the blindfold on and Roxas wasn't much better. The reward screen shows the cast making faces at you.]]
** On that note, [[BadassGrandpa Master Xehanort]] pretty much owns the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFwNjWURDs0 secret video in Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix.]]
* Though most of what she did in the first game was behind the scenes, Queen Minnie had a crowning moment in the second game with her "Faith" attack. That attack was so useful! It looks epic, too.
* Maleficent [[spoiler:letting the Nobodies attack her to give Sora, Donald, and Goofy some time to run away. And promising that WeWillMeetAgain.]] She'd been going against them the whole time, and then ''that''. Makes up for hanging around with Pete quite nicely.
** Hey now, Pete himself gets to be {{Badass}} along with her when they pull a "BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork" moment in the final world. A huge swarm of Heartless is headed their way, and Pete yells "Bring 'em on!" before he and Maleficent rush into battle.
** Also, Riku, er Ansem, er [[spoiler:Xehanort's Heartless]] may have initiated it, but Maleficent becoming a dragon and ThatOneBoss is both a crowning moment for her, and for Sora and co. when they finally defeat her.
** She also turns into a dragon of her own will in ''Birth By Sleep'', complete with her "All the powers of HELL!" line from the original movie.
*** And then there's Maleficent [[spoiler:breaking the digital Sora's keyblade]] in ''Coded''.
*** [[spoiler:Which leads into a Moment of Awesome for data-Sora at the end of the area, where he gains his own keyblade. Not a data duplicate, a ''real'' keyblade. This facsimile not only gained his own heart over his travels, but it was strong enough to manifest a keyblade of its very own!]]
* In ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsCoded coded]]'', Donald and Goofy turn Sora's speech from the first game back around in reference to data Sora, declaring that he is their power and they're his. Data Sora follows this up with his own crowner, when he [[spoiler:manifests a real keyblade from nothing but sheer will and ThePowerOfFriendship]].
* Also in ''Coded'', Mickey proving that he hasn't lost any of his edge by wiping the floor with [[spoiler:Sora's Heartless's]] minions. Yes, it's somewhat mitigated by [[spoiler:him, Donald, Goofy, and Jiminy getting trapped in Mickey's office immediately afterwards]], but still.
* ''Pumbaa'' gets a quick one in the second game. On the second visit to Pride Lands, the ghost of Scar is haunting the land. While Timon is off getting Simba, Sora, and the others, Pumbaa is seen standing defiantly in front of Nala and staring down Scar's ghost ''alone'' in an attempt to protect her. Granted, he's shaking like a leaf and likely wouldn't have been able to do much, but it's still a pretty awesome moment.
* Tifa willingly taking on Sephiroth. One woman. Bare-handed. Against a guy who habitually carries a ten-foot-long katana.
** Sephiroth deserves one too. Even if you put all your effort into defeating him he simply brushes his shoulder and says, "Yeah you're pretty good." A far cry from when he was so simply defeated in the first game.
* [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Riku Replica]] gets an incredibly awesome BigDamnHeroes moment towards the end of the game.
-->'''[[BigBad Marluxia]]:''' "Once Namine breaks your heart, you can be remade more to my liking. You will become an empty shell... [[KickTheDog just like]]... Vexen's pathetic imitation of your Riku."
-->'''Riku Replica:''' "[[BigDamnHeroes TAKE ANOTHER GUESS]]!!" *[[DynamicEntry burst out of a Corridor of Darkness and nearly hits Marluxia]]*
** It's even better [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=jQUh6SB18M4 when you get to see it voiced!]]
* Sora is gone, leaving Kairi, Donald, and Goofy alone. In strolls [[BigBad Ansem]], ready to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness tie up loose ends.]] What's Donald and Goofy's reaction, you ask?
-->'''Donald''': [[YouShallNotPass Don't you make another move!]]
* The finishing move if you pull off the final Reaction Command in Luxord's battle: Sora pulls all the cards into his hand and sends them flying at Luxord ForMassiveDamage.
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