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• Spike of Cowboy Bebop has many such moments:
  • Another worthy moment is in the 5th episode, where Vicious killed Spike's onetime mentor and took teammate Faye hostage. One of the mooks stands behind Faye with a gun to her head, telling Spike to drop his gun. Spike doesn't even hesitate, and without bothering to reply he puts a bullet right in the middle of the mook's forehead while the mook is in the middle of threatening him.
  • "Pierrot le Fou." The whole episode. An all out Immune to Bullets Super Villain in a fairly realistic show vs. ordinary Badass Spike. They have a fight. Spike wins. Spike's the man.
    • How Spike wins deserves mention: He threw a knife at him. Only the dumbest of people would think to try that. But it never occurred to the smartest of the mad scientists behind Pierrot's creation that someone would.
    • It gets better. The reason that Spike was able to pull this stunt? Spike has a fake eye that is a different color from the real one, similar to the cat (which had heterochromia) that was in the room with Pierrot during his traumatic experimentation (and was the reason that he was so afraid of cats), causing him to freeze up at a crucial moment.
  • And of course, everyone remembers the final scene. Bang.
• Ed and Ein also have their day, chasing down a mushroom smuggler. Although admittedly this is after Ed has tricked the rest of the crew into eating some of the bad mushrooms and getting completely spaced out on them.
  • Ein gets another one in Brain Scratch by subtly implying what a Data Dog can really do.
• Doohan's surprise launch of a re-built space shuttle Columbia is even more impressive considering this is his only appearance.
• The episode Toys in the Attic features the most awesome failure to light a cigarette in the history of mankind. Spike's facial expressions through said failure just make it more awesome.
  • I think that the refrigerator in this episode deserves its own place here for having an entire ecosystem inside it.
  • The whole episode could be considered one; from Faye cheating Jet out of all of his clothing in a game of dice, to Spike cooking with a flamethrower, to the lobster scene and beyond; for an episode that's out of the norm for Bebop, it's amazing how well everything works.
  • ...and then there's the ending, which is too awesome for words.
    • Well, except for a few:
    "...and what was the real lesson?
    Don't leave things in the fridge."
  • Adding the dubbed version of that scene, because honestly, the dubbing just carries so much more weight.
    "...and so they all passed away. It was a short series, but thanks for your support..."
• Faye holding a gun to a perp's head in Waltz For Venus. Specifically, the gun on her spaceship.
  • Earlier she shows off her Improbable Aiming Skills by shooting the gun out of the hands of half a dozen goons in a dimly lit Bad Guy Bar.
• Spike's showdown with Andy in Cowboy Funk definitely qualifies.
• The animation team should get one just for "Ask DNA". How many series put that much effort opening sequence to the movie? And it seems to have been rotoscoped, no less.
• When Spike calmly enters the enemy's base, while they're all searching like mad for him, drops a grenade, and kicks it at them.
• Ed vandalizing South America. That's right, the continent.
  • Earlier that episode, she hacked into a ship's computer and controlled its flight to crash about a mile away. Nice character introduction.
  • At the end, she hacks into the Bebop and lands it perfectly, just because she wants to join.
• The Movie has at least six:
  • Spike and Jet defusing a hostage situation in a gas station robbery.
  • Spike and Electra's method of escaping from a prison cell.
  • Spike's aerial chase where he shakes off three other ships, crashes in the middle of a traffic jam on a bridge, then hops out and yells "Taxi!"
    • In this troper's opinion, that scene has the best music in the movie and show. It's also combined with the longest, most stunt-filled aerial battle in Cowboy Bebop. Truly awesome stuff.
  • The three old men taking to the skies in an antique biplane.
  • Faye taking over the weather control dome to save the inhabitants of Mars from Vincent's terrorist attack.
  "Me? I'm just a gun-totin' weather girl!" (fires her machine gun into the roof)
  • Spike's final showdown with Vincent.
• Vincent during the train fight. He performs the moment of all martial arts moves when he grabs Spike's ribcage bones with his fingers through his skin and slowly begins to twist it. Then he detonates a grenade in the palm of his own hand.
• Faye gets one when she shoots out tires while thugs are chasing Julia. Seeing her take down car after car with little effort made this troper sure she was a walking action girl.
• Rocco flipping a guy on his ass in the middle of a big gunfight using the skill that Spike taught him was pretty awesome. Especially considering the technique is all about keeping a calm mind and that particular situation was the exact opposite of calm.
• Vicious deserves major props for taking on a gun-wielding Badass like Spike Speigel with nothing but a katana. Just try saying being that skilled and effective in a post-modern setting with a sword isn't cool.
• How about the fact that the show debuted on September 2, 2001, on the very day that adultswim did, and it's STILL BEING SHOWN TODAY, having recently celebrated it's 10TH ANNIVERSARY! Not too shabby for a 26 episode series!