Awesome / Dora the Explorer

• Any time Swiper successfully swipes something is an awesome moment for him. Bonus points for him if he disappears for the rest of the episode after doing just that. Special mention goes to when he steals Azul's color-coded train tracks as they're approaching him.
• Dora becoming a true princess to save Sleeping Boots from the witch's spell.
  • Doubles as a Crowning Moment Of Heartwarming because Dora didn't pass the trials for fame, for glory, or to impress anyone. She did it to save her best friend.
• In "Boots's Special Day", Boots displays an unusually high level of confidence in order to deal with Swiper.
  Boots: He's not swiping on my Special Day! Say it with me!
• The Ice Witch's villain song in "Dora's Ice Skating Spectacular."
• In "Dora's Pegaso Adventure," Dora and her friends saved sentient constellations from a black hole by pulling really hard.
• In the climax of "Dora Saves King Unicornio", Dora, Boots, Unicornio, Rabbit, and all of the Enchanted Forest stand up to Owl, shaming him for all the unfair rules he has given, banning every creature from the forest when they didn't do anything wrong, and that the forest is for everyone and Unicornio is the true ruler.
• The Big Bad Wolf's villain song in "Dora Saves Fairytale Land."
• The Witch Took a Level in Badass between the first Fairytale Land adventure and the second. In the first movie she only tried to stop Dora at the very end, and was very ineffective. in the second, she takes over Sparkling Lake, sends multiple villains to stop Dora, and engages in a song battle where she summons a storm as strong as a hurricane to stop Dora.
• Diego in general can be so badass as an animal rescuer. No wonder he got his own spin-off.
• When Swiper is faced with his elderly self in "Dora's Christmas Carol Adventure", he, for the first time in the series (unless one counts him saying "Fifi/Sammy/Fomkah/Ying Ying, no swiping!" in "Dora's World Adventure"), gets to fire off the very phrase normally used against him. Sure, Older Swiper dismisses the phrase and swipes his present counterpart's cape anyway, but props to Swiper for trying.

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