History Awesome / MacrossFrontier

** ...which can be recreated in kit form as part of the Aoshima Valkyrie Fighter Girls line, complete with his VF-25G being the 'donor' fighter. Yes, they effectively released a scale model of Klan pretending to be a Valkyrie.

** Special note here needs to go to Canaria Bernstein, since she was the one who allowed for the previous moment of Awesome by destroying Galaxy's shield generator with her Koenig Monster. Awesome enough on its own, but the Koenig Monster has been in service since the original Macross series and is well over 50 years old, one can't help but marvel at either the strength of the machine's design, or the abilities of it's pilot.
*** Technically, the Koenig Monster design isn't 50 years old; the basic Monster is about 50 years old, but the Koenig Monster was designed later, and was in service around the time of the VF-X games, so it's about 20 years old at the youngest.

* The SING-OFF in the hospital atrium balcony between Sheryl and Ranka for Alto's attention/affections... This troper must have watched it 20 times in less than a week. It crowns the awesomeness not just of the characters, but the series and the franchise as a whole.
** Personally, I found that moment simultaneously totally awesome and [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments completely hilarious]]; Alto is obviously ''terrified'' of the two women fighting over him.

** The Macross Quarter, a [[HumongousMecha Humongous]] [[TransformingMecha Transforming]] Mecha almost twice the size of an aircraft carrier, ''SkySurfing [[CoolBoard a piece of space debris through the atmosphere]].'' It has to be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uULjjKgHPkE see to be believed.]] [[UpToEleven Even more awesome]] is the fact that it's ''NOT'' an {{IndyPloy}}. [[TheCaptain Captain Wilder]] simply gives the order for [[ShoutOut 'Big Wednesday Formation']] and the crew goes for it, the implications being that ''[[NoodleIncident this isn't the]] [[BadassCrew first time they've]] [[HeroOfAnotherStory done this]]!''

** [[Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses (PUNCH!)]]

* In the Grand Finale, for the Macross Quarter and Battle Frontier, after Battle Galaxy damages and destroys both ships' main guns. Combined with some SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic, the Quarter destroys Galaxy's gunship with a Macross Attack. As it explodes, Battle Frontier ''slices Galaxy in half'' with a punch! Giant mecha martial arts!

* Pretty much anything Sheryl does to assert herself, beginning with her amazing recovery in episode 1 when Alto crashes into her, and she incorporates it into her act (making him utter "You're incredible" in awed tones,) all the way to [[spoiler: singing "Diamond Crevasse" for the panicked refugees in episode 20, who were crying out for Ranka moments before]].
** [[spoiler:"Ranka ... if you are the songstress of hope, then I will try singing amidst despair."]]

* Michel/Mikhail at the end of episode 20. Also a [[spoiler:particularly heartbreaking HeroicSacrifice]].
** One could also call [[spoiler:Klan Klan's reaction a CMOA - rather than [[HeroicBSOD completely break down]], she straps on modular armor packs and the gunpod for the VF-25 like an oversized EX-Gear and proceeds to [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge go berserk on the incoming Vajra horde]], to include ''firing [[MacrossMissileMassacre Macross Missile Massacres]] from the modular packs.'']]

* In the Grand Finale, for the Macross Quarter and Battle Frontier, [[spoiler:after Battle Galaxy damages and destroys both ships' main guns. Combined with some SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic, the Quarter destroys Galaxy's gunship with a Macross Attack. As it explodes, Battle Frontier ''slices Galaxy in half'' with a punch! Giant mecha martial arts!]]
** [[MemeticMutation Because nothing says "Fuck you" quite like getting punched in the face by a battleship]] [[spoiler: except getting punched by TWO battleships.]]
** Special note here needs to go to Canaria Bernstein, since she was the one who allowed for the previous moment of Awesome by [[spoiler: destroying Galaxy's shield generator]] with her Koenig Monster. Awesome enough on its own, but the Koenig Monster has been in service since the original Macross series and is well over 50 years old, one can't help but marvel at either the strength of the machine's design, or the abilities of it's pilot.

* Ozma's burst of HotBlooded '''''[[UnstoppableRage UNSTOPPABLE RAGE]]''''' in episode 17. Further noteworthy for his [[spoiler:surviving his injuries, which were accompanied by a slew of references to Roy Focker's death in similar circumstances in the original series]]. Even the writers were [[spoiler:in on it, as the blatant scene had characters immediately commenting about how emotional everyone would be if that had happened, and Ozma looking ''directly at the camera'' when he delivers the line, "Didn't I tell you? I will never die."]]
** That description doesn't really do the scene justice. First, Ozma [[spoiler: tanks a beam cannon blast from a Large-type Vajra, an attack previously shown to be capable of [[OneHitKill one-shotting]] ships]], though not without damage. Then, he [[spoiler: purges his Armored Pack, tosses his gunpod aside, draws his knife, and proceeds to gut the Vajra like a fish, finishing it off with the head lasers. Where nukes didn't work, missiles and guns didn't work.]]

* Brera's EstablishingCharacterMoment in episode ten, where [[spoiler: he calmly gets a chunk of his arm torn off by a Hydra, then proceeds to FALCON PUNCH it across the area he's standing in. When it charges at him again, he cuts it in half with an arm blade and calmly walks off.]]
* The final battle went something like this in this tropers' mind [[spoiler:Holy crap there's SMS charging in guns blazing with the Battle Galaxy launching psycho Ghosts killing everything and the epic songstresses unite magic girl power with the Brera Alto epic Mecha RAAAH! charge killing everything that moves with blowing off super dimensional bugs heads and the super dual Macross DEADALUS ATTACKS!]] Yeah, it was awesome. Hardcore shippers on the other hand had a different reaction...
* Episode 20. One of the most dramatic moments in the entire second half, [[spoiler: where Sheryl overcomes her personal suffering to give hope to everyone trapped in the shelter. The fact that it's set alongside Michael's heroic death makes the trope apply doubly.]]
* This troper consider's Klein's crowning moment to be when, after her Queadluun-Rea is knocked out of action, [[spoiler:she comes back in Michael's VF-25G, piloting it in her micronized form.]] It just felt so...right.

*** Michel, seeing that his sniping position isn't good enough, flies out to an exposed position on the bridge and shoots the Vajra while Alto is grappling with it. Unfortunately, this enables another Vajra to come up behind him, reenacting an incident from the TV series... [[spoiler: but this time, he survives!]]

* Doubling as SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}, what the Vajra do when they realize that, unlike [[BeePeople them]], every human is an individual mind - just as a [[WaveMotionGun Macross Beam]] was being fired at a ship packed with several ''millions'' of humans...[[spoiler: They [[TakingTheBullet mass up in the beam's path and stop it]], saving the ship at the cost of ''who knows how many'' of them.]]

** The Macross Quarter, a [[HumongousMecha Humongous]] [[TransformingMecha Transforming]] Mecha almost twice the size of an aircraft carrier, ''SkySurfing [[CrazyAwesome a piece of space debris through the atmosphere]].'' It has to be [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uULjjKgHPkE see to be believed.]] [[UpToEleven Even more awesome]] is the fact that it's ''NOT'' an {{IndyPloy}}. [[TheCaptain Captain Wilder]] simply gives the order for [[ShoutOut 'Big Wednesday Formation']] and the crew goes for it, the implications being that ''[[NoodleIncident this isn't the]] [[BadassCrew first time they've]] [[HeroOfAnotherStory done this]]!''

* Episode 7 of ''Anime/MacrossFrontier'' at first appeared to be a crowning moment for the ''entire goddamned series''. It must be seen to be believed. However, a short while later, Episode 14 came along and comprehensively one-upped it. Little did anyone realise, of course, that the ''real'' awesome was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J_kvVCdGUU all being saved for the finale]], twenty five minutes of the most intense space combat and wildest emotions ever set to animation, in which every single character and mecha gets a personal CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

** Really, pretty much everything Alto does in episode 14 is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* The "[[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Nyan Nyan Service Medley]]" ImageSong sequence in the GrandFinale --namely, a medley of all the most dramatic, or fast-paced songs in the series (including "Do you remember love?"!) that Ranka and Sheryl sing in duet while everyone, from the lowly NUNS pilots, to [[ActionMom Canaria]] in her Koenig Monster, to Klan Klan in [[TakeUpMySword Mikhail's Valkyrie]], to [[BackToBackBadasses Alto and Brera]] mount a final assault on the BigBad --backed up by the Macross Quarter and the Battle Frontier tossing [[MegatonPunch Macross]] [[RammingAlwaysWorks Attacks]] at the Galaxy forces. It's an honest go at outdoing Hikaru's [[TheMovie "Do You Remember Love?"]] attack run and [[{{God}} by Kawamori]] it works.

* In the Grand Finale, for the Macross Quarter and Battle Frontier, [[spoiler:after Battle Galaxy damages and destroys both ships' main guns. Combined with some CrowningMusicOfAwesome, the Quarter destroys Galaxy's gunship with a Macross Attack. As it explodes, Battle Frontier ''slices Galaxy in half'' with a punch! Giant mecha martial arts!]]

** Personally, I found that moment simultaneously totally awesome and [[CrowningMomentOfFunny completely hilarious]]; Alto is obviously ''terrified'' of the two women fighting over him.

* Doubling as HeartwarmingMoment, what the Vajra do when they realize that, unlike [[BeePeople them]], every human is an individual mind - just as a [[WaveMotionGun Macross Beam]] was being fired at a ship packed with several ''millions'' of humans...[[spoiler: They [[TakingTheBullet mass up in the beam's path and stop it]], saving the ship at the cost of ''who knows how many'' of them.]]

* Brera defending Ranka from the Hydra. Just as it's about to jump on her, he gets in front of it and it bites his arm. He then pulls his arm away and uses his other hand to ''punch the thing through a wall''. We [[RoboticReveal find out a couple of seconds later that he's a cyborg]], so the {{Badass}} factor is lessened somewhat, but it's still pretty frakking awesome.

** My first thought upon seeing that scene: "When the hell did [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann Kamina]] get here?"

* Doubling as HeartwarmingMoment, what the Vajra do when they realize that, unlike [[BeePeople them]], every human is an individual mind - just as a [[WaveMotionGun Macross Beam]] was being fired at a ship packed with several ''millions'' of humans...[[spoiler: They [[TakingTheBullet mass up in the beam's path and stop it]], saving the ship at the cost of ''who knows how many'' of them.]]

* Episode 7 of ''MacrossFrontier'' at first appeared to be a crowning moment for the ''entire goddamned series''. It must be seen to be believed. However, a short while later, Episode 14 came along and comprehensively one-upped it. Little did anyone realise, of course, that the ''real'' awesome was [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J_kvVCdGUU all being saved for the finale]], twenty five minutes of the most intense space combat and wildest emotions ever set to animation, in which every single character and mecha gets a personal CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
* Ranka in ''MacrossFrontier'', episode 12. She pierced the [[strike:heavens]] fold distortion with her [[strike:drill]] special fold engine, descended from space onboard a fighter plane sporting four huge-ass loudspeakers under its wings, landed in the middle of a battle between two [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever Zentradi]] armies, and proceeded to pacify them through the power of pop music. Not bad for an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent. Memo to [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Celestial Being]]: THAT'S how you stage an intervention.

* Alto's BigDamnHeroes moment in MacrossFrontier episode 14.
** Really, pretty much everthing Alto does in episode 14 is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* Yet another Grand Finale moment, Luca Angelloni fully unleashing all performance limiters on his Ghost drones, while shouting "Show us all why you were once called the '[[ContinuityNod Nightmare of]] [[MacrossPlus Macross City!]]'". The three Ghosts proceed to utterly ''rip apart'' a Vajra battleship in less than twenty seconds.

** During the final battle, a VF-19 in tan with black trim and using an upgraded Super Pack shows up, and we hear a VERY familiar [[{{MacrossPlus}} "YAHOO!"]]...

** During the final battle, a VF-19 in tan with black trim and using an upgraded Super Pack shows up, and we hear a VERY familiar [[{{MacrossPlus}} "YAHOO!"]]...