History Awesome / BakutenShootBeyblade

** Finally, Takao. When he arrives he's tired from the travel, but ''still'' wins his match, and was ''[[UpToEleven even faster than Kai]]''.

*** In the third game, Max plans to use the damaged rotating area to his advantage. News flash, Max: Gao's previous attack was a ''warm up'', and ''now'' [[UpToEleven he's going all-out]]. Gao's launcher ''explodes'', and the battlefield is quickly ''disintegrated'', burying Draciel under its remains. This feat, that left the Blader DJ speechless (so much that Gao had to call out to him) and apparently got Kiki to crap in his pants, wouldn't be equalled, let alone topped, until ''[[PersonOfMassDestruction Brooklyn]]''. One-nil for the White Tigers.

*** Maura has a fishing rod launcher to increase her beyblade's spinning speed (sort of what Takao did in his match with Hiruta, only UpToEleven), also making it incredibly fast. Rei has Driger outrun it ''without bit beast'', because he can.

* In season 1, the first match of the Asian Tournament against the Thai team due their CrazyAwesome gimmicks.

*** The gimmick was so CrazyAwesome that the DJ ''freaked out''. He ''never'' freaked out again, no matter what the bladers pulled.
** The final Thai representative was a Muay Thai practitioner, who literally ''kicked his beyblade into the field'' to make it spin faster, and Dragoon's Storm Attack was made useless by the field featuring a ''river'' that would be sucked in by the tornado and change the sand into mud, slowing it down. [[FromBadToWorse To make it worse]], the Thai beyblade could ''jump'' and use a GoombaStomp attack ''a dozen times in a row'' (thankfully it was nothing like Kai's). How to deal with this? Easy: ''[[CrazyAwesome jump in the river and generate the tornado mid-air]]''. There was no mud to slow Dragoon down (and the river's bed was in solid rock), and the tornado, made stronger by the water, threw the Thai beyblade out of the ring.

* Episode 24 is full of these, mainly due the Equador team. [[CrazyAwesome So strong and imprevedible]] (partly to them [[FriendToAllLivingThings being in perfect symbiosis with nature]]) that Emily, normally sure of the All Stars' ultimate victory, admits they could defeat them.

** Decisive set, Takao versus Bartolomeo. Whose beyblade and style are based on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_tortoise Galapagos tortoise]]. So the first attacks are [[NoSell deflected effortlessly]], and then Bartolomeo's beyblade suddenly attacks with overwhelming force (don't believe it? Just watch the males in the mating season, or try and attack them. They bite ''hard''). And to add psychological pressure, Bartolomeo noticed that Takao is irritated by the story of how he received the beyblade from a tortoise, and ''[[CombatPragmatist continues talking about it to make him lose focus]]''. Thankfully Takao gets thrown back to his senses by his grandfather explaining him how Bartolomeo was distracting him on purpose, and wins by having Dragoon enter the seawater area of the beyblade stadium based on the Hawaiian beaches and unleashing a storm attack there, with the water-filled tornado throwing the foe's beyblade out of the ring (and Ryu back to his newest InstantFanclub).

*** Maura tries her ace in the hole: DoppelgangerSpin plus ''[[DeathFromAbove gattai]]''. Rei dodges by having Driger ''run the whole lap of the racetrack-like field and attack from behind'', and then throws the opponent's beyblade ''into Maura's hands''. Because he can. And remember, this is the period where Rei was hit hard by TheWorfEffect...

*** Takao wins the first game with relative ease, using the environment and Dragoon's agility to dodge without Steve's Tryhorn being able to charge. We then get the second set... [[IAmNotLeftHanded And find out that Steve was holding back]] and, due his UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball gimmick, ''this is the best possible stadium for him, as the buildings are easier to dodge than opposing players''. He can even use the buildings to bounce and hit Dragoon with a ''[[GoombaStomp gattai]]''... And that's how he throws Dragoon out.
*** The third game is where they ''both'' pull all stops. After a failed attempt at matching Steve head-on, Takao (following Rei's suggestion) starts using Dragoon's ''still'' superior mobility to lead Tryhorn around and attack on a hit-and-run, with Steve getting mad and losing concentration. Then the PPB provides a new tactic, and Steve ''destroys the buildings of the stadium'': nowhere to hide, and now Tryhorn has the space for its Stampede Rush. Steve does just that, and Takao (following ''Kai''[='=]s suggestion this time) ''{{No Sell}}s it'' by the simple expedient of having Dragoon ''stay in contact without trying to resist'', thus surviving the attack and ''steal spin from Tryhorn''. At which point Steve finally loses it... And exposes himself to Dragoon's usual tornado. One-nil for the Bladebreakers.

*** One for the PPB, for actually realizing Eddie's launcher... In a ''basketball''. And one for the anime's staff for not making it look ridiculous, especially when compared to the more plausible ones of his teammates (Emily has it on a tennis raquet, Steve has a hi-tech one in a football, and Michael has it attached to his arm to simulate launching a baseball).
*** Another for the PPB, for putting together a plan that Rei, who had SeenItAll, could not invent his way out: low gravity environment where Driger has trouble moving and using his usual SpeedBlitz, Trypio has an attack ring that both grants it superior balance (and thus the ability to move as usual even with low gravity) and the ability to ''fly'' and inflict ''gattais'' at will. The PPB brags of their ability of [[ToWinWithoutFighting put together tactics that guarantee victory]]... And Eddie inflicting two [[CurbStompBattle Curb-Stomp Battles]] in a row to ''[[SeenItAll Rei]]'' proves that they're not just braggarts. 1-1.

*** Third game. After running the data, the PPB team realizes that if nothing is done Max ''will'' overpower Michael again... So they do just that: [[IAmNotLeftHanded until now Michael has thrown with his off-hand, but now he will use his far stronger right]] (finding out this is enough to cause a MassOhCrap among the Blade Breakers). And when launched right-handed, Trygle ''is'' more powerful than before, enough that Draciel starts being pushed back... Then Max, through sheer confidence, gets Draciel to ''overpower Trygle again'', knocking it down and [[ExplosiveInstrumentation making the PPB computers shut down and discharge electricity as it overpowered their sensors too]].

** Ralf is first introduced looking at the matches between the children on the ship and getting challenged because he looked at the matches as if they were beneath him. Next we see him, he has accepted the challenge... And ''[[CurbStompBattle destroyed every single beyblade of the kids there]]''. Takao shows up just in time to see him [[OneHitKO one-shotting the last challenger]]...

** Takao challenges Ralf... And, even with the Bit Beast, gets at the wrong end of a CurbStompBattle (as Ralf has one of his own, and it's an aggressive one). That's right after winning the whole American tournament.

*** Both manga and anime have this scene, but the anime makes it more awesome: in the manga Kai is using the Master Dranzer, but in the anime he's using the improved Dranzer S, that would later proceed to [[CurbStompBattle mop the floor with]] ''[[CurbStompBattle international-level competition]]''. And the Chief, while curbstomped too, actually took more effort than any of Kai's opponents in the tournament.

* Takao's early victories in the manga. Why? Well, his beyblade there is the [[http://wiki.worldbeyblade.org/index.php/Ultimate_Dragoon Ultimate Dragoon (Spin Dragoon in international releases)]], that, while the first beyblade ever released, is completely outclassed by pretty much ''everything else'' (the only ones that don't completely outclass it are Makendo and Megaro Arm, that are Ultimate Dragoon with a different paintjob and weight disk). And yet, after some training, it took ''Kai'' to stop him.

* In episode 21, Antonio, a beginner beyblade, [[CurbStompBattle crushed]] ''Takao''. Sure, Kai, playing the TricksterMentor for Takao, had explained him how, but he was still a beginner who could barely launch straight, and his beyblade was what appeared to be a Makendo, AKA one of the three oldest beyblades, that was so outclassed by Takao's Dragoon S that it wasn't even funny.

** Followed by a FunnyBackgroundEvent: as the scene concentrates on Daichi and the referee's shock at the reversal, two staff members with extinguishers walks by and put off the fire.

*** In the second game, Mao and ''Kai'' snap Rei out of his funk... And Rei wins with a single attack. Also for Mao: they hit at the same time, and for a moment it looked like Driger would stop spinning before Galux.
*** The third game is so awesome that, in-universe, their respective {{Instant Fanclub}}s start cheering both their beloved ''and'' the opponent. Highlights include Galux tearing down the Forbidden Mansion plastic with a GoombaStomp that Rei dodged and Driger connecting with a GoombaStomp while ''Galux was mid-air''. And, before launching their decisive attacks, [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove Mao declared her love for Rei]], [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments and Rei replied he knew and reciprocated]]. Still, we have to get a winner, and it's Rei, so 1-1.
** For the third set we have Takao versus Lai on a sandy-rocky battlefield meant to invoke Gansu province:
*** The first game starts well for Takao, and Dragoon quickly brings Lai's beyblade Galeon on the edge of a sandy area that would slow down any beyblade unfortunate enough to end in it. [[OneHitKO One Tiger Claw later, Dragoon is out of the ring]]. Bonus point for Lai using his ''actual'' special move to power up his Tiger Claw and make it ''ten times as powerful as Rei's''.
*** In the second game it's Lai who has the initial advantage, with Takao bringing Dragoon on the sandy area ''on purpose''. An error? Nope, he's just following Kai's advice to use the battlefield to his advantage, and when Galeon moves for the finish Dragoon's Storm Attack causes a sandstorm that defeats Galeon. This is when Lai stops insulting Rei and [[LetsGetDangerous actually concentrates on beating Takao]].
*** In the third game Lai whips out the [[ShockAndAwe Dark Lightning]], ''before'' summoning his Bit Beast. When the Bit Beast shows up, Dragoon gets thrown away... And lands inside. Takao replies in kind, and after the battle of the Bit Beasts, both beyblades lands out of the ring. It's a tie.
** To resolve the match, the organizers order an extra set of a single game, on a standard field as they have no special fields anymore. The White Tigers obviously send Lai back in, but the Bladebreakers deploy Rei:
*** Rei gets one even before going in for sheer courage and calming the Chief, who was worried due Lai's frightening power.
*** As soon as the match starts, Lai attacks with the Bear Axe, ''Gao's attack''. While he whips out all the team's special moves, Mao explains that they are ancient attacks that have been taught to their tribe's best beybladers, so Lai had the chance to read how to do it and ''learn them all''.
*** Some for Mao, as she's the only one of their team to [[CallingTheOldManOut stand up to Lai and his hate-filled madness]].
*** Still, it seems that Lai will win... And then Rei, after some encouragement, launches a Tiger Claw that comes close to match ''Gao's destructive power'' and rings out Galeon, also breaking through Lai's hate.

* Takao defeating Hiruta in the first episode. Hiruta appeared undefeatable, even with Takao doubling the length of the launcher's ripcord to increase his beyblade's spin and thus the power... And then, literally overnight, comes up with a way to [[DifficultButAwesome ring-out Hiruta's defence-based beyblade]].
* Kai in the second episode. It looked like he would be punished for beating up Hiruta (itself a punishment for getting his ass handed to him by Takao) by being at the receiving end of a CurbStompBattle... Cue the [[GoombaStomp Spinning Fire Bomb]], so awesome that, for the entire run of all the three seasons of the original series, a beyblade pulling some sort of attack from above (called ''gattai'' in the [[TabletopGame/{{Beyblade}} actual game]]) became the sign its blader was a serious contender.

** Second set: this time Kai doesn't even bother with normal attacks and goes directly for the Spinning Fire Bomb. Too bad that Max made Protoshell spin left, so when Dranzer hit Protoshell not only resists, but the opposite rotations end up ''stopping Dranzer and making Protoshell spin right''. 1-1, and the ''only'' time a connecting ''gattai'' attack is completely defeated (every other time it usually has at least some effect).

** Still, Kai's second Spinning Fire Bomb left its mark: Protoshell's bit protector ''exploded'' right after the end of the set, and Max has to repair it. But with what? Easy: with a bit protector from his mother that ''contains a Bit Power''. Goodbye, Protoshell. Welcome, Draciel.

* In season 1, the first match of the Asian Tournament against the Thai team due the CrazyAwesome gimmicks of the Thai team.
** In the first set, the Thai representative had an absurd extensible beyblade three times as powerful as Driger... So Rei used the georama-like field to ''drop a mountain on it''.

** The final Thai representative was a Muay Thai practitioner, who literally ''kicked his beyblade in the field'' to make it spin faster, and Dragoon's Storm Attack was made useless by the field featuring a ''river'' that would be sucked in by the tornado and change the sand into mud, slowing it down. [[FromBadToWorse To make it worse]], the Thai beyblade could ''jump'' and use a GoombaStomp attack ''a dozen times in a row'' (thankfully it was nothing like Kai's). How to deal with this? Easy: ''[[CrazyAwesome jump in the river and generate the tornado mid-air]]''. There was no mud to slow Dragoon down (and the river's bed was in solid rock), and the tornado, made stronger by the water, threw the Thai beyblade out of the ring.

* In episode 12 of season 1 we have a match between Rei and Takao: if he wins, Rei, who is depressed for his Bit Beast leaving him, will be free to leave the Bladebreakers and return to the White Tigers as Mao was trying to convince him to do, otherwise he'll have to stay with the Japanese team. So, Rei and the Driger without Bit Beast versus Takao and the Dragoon S ''with'' Bit Beast that had already inflicted them a CurbStompBattle at the Japanese National Tournament... And Rei, who Mao had reminded was practically undefeatable back at the village even before receiving his Bit Beast, ''wins''. He still stays with the Bladebreakers.

** Following Gao's loss due distraction (as Mao had mentioned food), Mao ''has'' to win, but her foe, like Gao's, has a defensive beyblades covered by wool to NoSell a foe's attack. [[CurbStompBattle Mao cut it into pieces]].
** Captain battle: Lai versus Balto, the Mongolian captain. [[CurbStompBattle A Tiger Claw later, Balto's beyblade is shattered]], and most of the Bladebreakers are in full OhCrap mode at seeing Lai using Rei's attack.
** The Bladebreakers have to face the Indian team, whose gymmick is to have beyblades with a ten centimeters-wide attack ring for superior stability.
*** Takao starts with his usual tornado, but the foe's attack ring pushes enough air upward to stay on the ground. Takao's reply to this? Storm Attack with physically hitting the enemy's beyblade. Cue ring-out.

*** Rei has to face their captain. What does he do? He attacks with such fierceness that the following happens in quick sequence: the field's reproduction of the Great Wall of China starts being damaged ''hard'' as soon as Driger the beyblade hits it; Driger the Bit Beast returns to his beyblade; Rai goes in OhCrap mode and [[TheStoic Kai]] looks in awe; Rei starts the Tiger Claw, starting to demolish the Wall and sending his foe in OhCrap mode; the Tiger Claw doesn't fully connect with his foe's beyblade due the latter's run, so he demolishes ''the whole wall'' and scores a glancing hit that heavily damages the target and makes it stop spinning.
* An older entry mentioned that Kai's Dranzer S had [[CurbStompBattle curbstomped]] multiple world class opposition in Season 1. In episode 14 he finally fights against a member of the Maldives' team... And ''[[OneHitKO wins with one hit]]''. Granted, the Maldives' team was rather poor and had to scavenge parts to put together their beyblades, but given it was the semi-final of the Chinese Tournament, it wasn't supposed to be an easy opponent...
** Kai fought because, due Takao oversleeping and [[ItMakesSenseInContext Rei trying to wake him up with chili pepper]], only Max and him were available to fight from the start, with a landslide blocking the road. This paves the way for some non-beyblade related awesomeness: Takao and Rei ''climbed ten kilometers of mountain and cliff'' to reach the battlefield, and made it just in time. Oh, and Takao had Rei on his back for the final part of the climbing, as the latter had sprained his ankle to dodge a falling boulder...

** And let's not forget Max's new beyblade, capable of {{No Sell}}ing the attacks of a semi-finals worthy opponent. Max promptly christened it Draciel [[MeaningfulName Shield]].
*** Then his opponent, using a subpar beyblade, ''nearly overpowered him''.
** Finally, Takao. When he arrives he's tired for the travel... And ''still'' wins his match, and was ''[[UpToEleven faster than Kai]]''.

*** In the first game, Max is being overpowered by Gao's superior strength, estimated three times as Rei's Tiger Claw ''without special attacks''. How did he deal with that? He brought the battle to the rotating area, where Draciel's superior stability gave Max a decisive advantage over Gao's [[CripplingOverspecialization powerful but unstable Gallzly]].
*** Before the second game, Gao smiles, and Rei goes in OhCrap mode. Why? [[LetsGetDangerous Gao just stopped thinking about food and is about to go all out]]. As anticipated by Rei (and possibly {{Foreshadowed}} by his OhCrap face as soon as he learned they'd fight in three-games sets and not single-game sets), Gao wins through sheer power with the first attack to connect ([[GoombaStomp from above, no less]]), and heavily damages the rotating area of the battlefield with the ones that ''doesn't''. Oh, and those attacks... Most of them weren't actually attacks, Gallzly still bouncing after being shot in.
*** In the third game, Max plans to use the damaged rotating area to his advantage. News flash, Max: Gao's previous attack was a ''warm up'', and ''now'' [[UpToEleven he's going all-out]]. Gao's launcher ''explodes'', and the battlefield is quickly ''disintegrated'', burying Draciel under its remains. This feat, that left the Blader DJ speechless (so much that Gao had to call out to him) and apparently got Kiki to crap in his pants, wouldn't be equalled, let alone topped, by none but ''[[PersonOfMassDestruction Brooklyn]]''. One-nil for the White Tigers.
** Second set is Rei versus Mao:

* Episode 24: Kai's battle with Goki of the Psykicks. Kai's been struggling due to the fact that he's being haunted by an illusion of [[ItsAllMyFault Wyatt]] who had been driven to madness and death by the same beyblade Goki's using. Despite Tyson's encouragement, it looks like Kai's going to lose his Dranzer like Max lost his Draciel. Then Goki decides to [[BerserkButton make fun of Wyatt]] in front of Kai. Cue [[PreAssKickingOneLiner an epic line]] from Kai, and an epic [[CurbStompBattle thrashing]] which lasts for 30 seconds before ending with Goki's beyblade being obliterated.
--> '''Kai''': [[ItsPersonal How dare you. How dare you laugh at him!]] [[ThisIsUnforgivable Now you pay!!]]

* It's a bit of FridgeLogic with the [[TabletopGame/{{Beyblade}} actual game]], but every time the Chief beyblades, it's one for him. His beyblades with a spring base are not only [[DifficultButAwesome balance types]], but also [[AwesomeButImpractical very cool but near useless against normal beyblades]], yet:
** in the national tournament of season 1 he nearly passes the qualification round, getting in the top ten and surviving Kai's wrath in the battle royal until he actually focuses on him;
*** Both manga and anime have this scene, but the anime makes it more awesome: in the manga Kai is using the Master Dranzer, but in the anime he's using the improved Dranzer S, that would later proceed to [[CurbStompBattle mop the floor with]] ''[[CurbStompBattle international-level competition]]''. And the Chief, while curbstomped too, actually took more effort than any of Kai's opponents in the world tournaments.
** near the end of season 1, the Chief joins the rest of the team in challenging Kai, who has pulled his FaceHeelTurn and now is using Black Dranzer and going all-out. He's the first to be defeated... But still outlasts the ''entire American team'', who had earlier pulled an identical team effort against Black Dranzer and got wiped out in half the time;
** in season 2 he has a spar with Takao and makes him run into circles for a while. Note that Takao is the friggin' world champion by this point;
** in season 3 he takes part to the selection tournament with an improved jumping base and makes it to the semi-finals, only losing before facing Takao due an absurd opponent with a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] and [[PowerCopying ability-copying]] beyblade that pulls a surprise MirrorMatch to win (in the final Takao overpowers him in the MirrorMatch, and Hitoshi, who is selecting the team, shoots him down as a copycat and unfit to take part to an international tournament);
*** The Chief's performance in the tournament was so good that got him in the Japanese national team for the world championship.
** finally, in the world championship he faces Yuri, who is just too stupidly powerful for him. By playing it smart, he gives him such a desperate run for his money that Yuri has to ''use his Bit Beast'' to win. It ends with the Chief's beyblade [[NoKillLikeOverkill shattered]], but still props for forcing Yuri to go all out.

* The [=10bBistool=] custom beyblade. Why? Not only it was practically undefeatable in the plastic beyblade era, but it even showed up in the anime and inflicted a CurbStompBattle on a bully (the same bully had previously destroyed the original beyblade of 10Bistool's beyblader).

* Hiruta (Carlos in the US dub) has one in the manga, where he has two battles with Daichi. In the first match he immediately realizes that Daichi is immensely more powerful, admits it... And then [[CurbStompBattle easily]] ''[[CurbStompBattle annihilates]]'' [[CurbStompBattle him]]. ''[[OneHitKO With one hit]]''.
** The second time they fight is another one for Hiruta. Between the encounters Daichi TookALevelInBadass by perfecting his beyblade (now named Gaia Dragoon, or Strata Dragoon in the US) and acquiring some decent skill... And Hiruta ''still'' gives him a desperate run for his money.

--> '''Kai''': Kai. [[MyNameIsInigoMontoya That's my name.]] And I'm a Beyblader. And you might think you are but you're not. You learned from the best but you forgot a very important lesson. Beyblading isn't just about overpowering your opponent with fancy moves. That's only part of the game. There's more to it than that. Much more. That's why I have something you don't.I have learned from every battle I fought. Every friend, enemy and spectator always had something to offer me. And I'm a student to this game. And I always will be. With the hardships of training, competitions, the wins and the losses, they all taught me something. And I've taken that knowledge and used it to my advantage. That's why I can say, that I'm a true beyblader. That's what keeps me going. And that's my strength. I don't think you ever will (understand). Because you're not a true beyblader. You have the power and the skill but something is missing from inside you. You don't have the beyblading spirit! That's why I have to win this battle! Because beyblading means more to me than you could ever understand! ''[[SeriousBusiness IT'S NOT JUST A GAME TO ME! FINISH HIM NOW, DRANZER!]]''