Awesome / Hot Wheels: Battle Force 5

• There're quite a few, but having the fate of the world hinge on a soccer match with a battle key against evil robots while in their tricked out cars is definitely up there.
• The rest of The Team's debut, where they take on three Zurk before they get their wheels, is pretty awesome too.
• Pretty much any time the Mobius Command Center, normally an Escort Mission on wheels, instead serves as The Cavalry is sure to cause plenty of cheers.
  • Doubly so when it makes a surprise appearance by proxy of its cloaking mode, since the only hint as to it even existing is the transparent purple outline that appears when its cloaking field is disrupted.
  • And triply so during the few moments the missile launchers are used.
• Equal parts awesome and funny is when the Mobi activates Onslaught Mode when it winds up on the Sark homeworld in Mobi 3.0: First, the command deck lifts up off the main body, then about a dozen missile launchers deploy from the command deck; then it starts firing missiles at pretty much everything save the Saber, including a direct hit on Zemerik's car that sends the poor bot tumbling so many times it makes him dizzy.
• The show has an entire Crowning EPISODE of Awesome in the "Shadow Zone".
• Rawkus gets one when he defeats the Red Sentients single-handedly. Krylox even tried to run away! Think about it, Krylox, who has recklessly charged headfirst into danger before, and is effectively immortal thanks to respawn technology, screams and drives off at full speed! He doesn't get very far, though, when Rawkus dispatches him by throwing Kyrosis's vehicle at him.
• In the episode "Gladiators", when Vert heavily damaged the big... laser turret... in Bullet Time. Words simply cannot capture the pure coolness of this scene.
• Agura vs. Kyburi in "Hunt for the Magmatrox". Get's even more epic when they get into a fist fight ending with Kyburi being thrown into lava!
• Only on the episode "Artifact Attack", Junkyard Dog-Bot versus Artifact Golem! Saturday! Saturday!! SATURDAY!!! Be there...
• "Behind Enemy Lines" is another crowner for Vert. He winds up on planet Vandal and Kalus hunts him down in the savage jungle he calls home. Let's just say Vert manages to make a monkey out of the big cat!
• Due to its Harsher in Hindsight implications, "Full Throttle" probably becomes twice heroic. Watching it after Dan Wheldon's death will bring you to noble, manly tears.
• In Blue Tide, Blue Sark army vs Red Sark army. Cue the parts flying!
  • From the same episode, when Kytren tried to convert the Blue Zurk to Red:
  Kytren: Conversion process... failed!?
• In "Grimian's Secret", the Enemy Mine with the Vandals against the Red Sentients. Epic is the only word that can describe it. The final showdown between Grimian and Kalus is also awesome.
• The climax of Rumble In The Jungle. Grimian's Vandals vs. Kalus' Vandals in a massive battle. Kalus gets a major one when the Red Sentients join in. Kalus singlehandedly rallies the Vandals, stopping the Enemy Civil War to unite his planet against the Red Sentients, sparking a massive battle between them. Kalus shows just how badass he is by fighting Krytus one on one and more than holding his own. In fact, if it wasn't for the bomb the Battle Force 5 set up to destroy all Sentient tech on the planet, Kalus might actually have defeated Krytus. Even though he's no longer a major threat in the war, Kalus takes this defeat gracefully and then finally decides to execute Grimian for treason.
• All of Unite And Strike! The finale in particular includes three Awesome Moments back-to-back:
  • As Vert is about to be destroyed by the Red Sentient 5, the following happens over about four seconds: First, we hear the sound of something going through a Stormshock portal, then immediately closing it by retrieving the Battle Key, then we hear the short trumpet tune that invariably heralds an Awesome Moment as a Mobi decloaks immediately prior to the massive vehicle getting big enough "air" off the chamber's entrance ramp to make a massive, room-shaking THUD upon landing. The operators? Tezz and AJ, with the latter pointing out that the apparent Stormshock was a shortcut. Immediately after this, the Mobi scoops up Vert, bulldozes two of the 5 Sentients' vehicles, then uses the Vehicle Accelerator to launch the Saber over Krytus and onto the central platform, completing the impromptu ritual that revives the Blue Sentients, and even resurrecting Sage in the process.
  • After Sage and Boralis reunite, they float into the air and use the fusion energy from the cars to fire a beam of blue energy that vaporizes the Red Sentient 5.
  • After Krytus reforms back on the Red Sentient homeworld, he tries to rally the Red Sentients to battle, only to discover that Sage and the Blue Sentients beat him there and made peace with the Red Sentients. Sage then banishes Krytus for good, ending his war once and for all.
• Awesome Music:
  • The show's main theme is sure to get the viewer hyped.
  • The theme of the Shadow Speeders is truly epic.
  • The Leitmotif of the Negative Battle Force 5. Add in a bit of Genius Bonus when someone with the right sound-editing software can discover that it's a musical palindrome!
  • Another leitmotif for the books: The short, triumphant trumpet tune that plays whenever the an "epic" moment occurs; such as when the Mobi's "Onslaught Mode" is activated in Mobi 3.0, when the Mobi makes a surprise appearance near the end of "Shadow Runners", and when Kalus, the Vandals, and Battle Force 5 team up against Grimian and the Red Sentient 5 in Grimian's Secret.
  • Not a leitmotif, nor even music per se, but if you keep an ear on the BGM, what appears to be a subtle, feedback-like whine occurs just before many "epic" moments; such as when Battle Force 5 rescues Sherman in Fusion Confusion, when BF5 escape the Red Sentient 5's ambush in "Shadow Runners", and pretty much every instance that's scored by the above-mentioned trumpet tune.