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* "The Satan Pit". [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Three words]]: "Go to Hell." To ''the devil.''

* "The Satan Pit". [[TwoWordsObviousTrope Three words: "Go to Hell." To ''the devil.''

* Donna finally going through with [[spoiler:Rose]]'s plan at the end of "Turn Left"

** And the headmaster gets his own in turn when he subverts that usual image of WW1:
---> You forget boy, I was in South Africa, I used my dead mates for sand bags, I fought with my gun when the bullets ran out, and I will go back tomorrow for King and Country!

* Then there's Four's final CMOA, with his brutal fight with the Master on a satellite array, including stringing up his scarf to trip the Master.

* He gets a delicious CMOA in "Revelation of the Daleks" when he offers to shake the hand of the defeated Davros [[spoiler: (said hand had just been shot off)]]

* Pretty much every time that StevenMoffat writes a ''DoctorWho'' episode, a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the Doctor (or ''someone'', at least) can't be far behind. But these gems from "The Doctor Dances" stand out:

*** Speaking of Eccleston's acting (which is highly underrated, at least here in the States), the final third of "Bad Wolf" is certainly a CMOA for him as a performer, starting from the moment of Rose's apparent death. No amount of screaming or tears could possibly convey the amount of despair and loss in his eyes in that shocked, silent moment.
**** And then his [[Main/OhCrap Oh Crap]] look when he realises that there are a quarter of a million Daleks on Earth's doorstep.
* "The Parting of the Ways" is basically one forty-five minute long CMOA for the Ninth Doctor.

** His ultimate CMOA came near the end, when he reveals himself as the Doctor, and blows the Family's ship up.

* "The Doctor's Daughter" after [[spoiler:Jenny takes a bullet from General Cobb, the Doctor points a gun at Cobb's head... of course being the TechnicalPacifist he is he doesn't shoot but what he tells Cobb and the rest of the colonist descendants is definitely a CMOA worthy speech.]]

*** Sort of a Crowning Moment of His-Awesomeness-Precedes-Him, that one!

*** This could also count as a CMOA for the Eleventh Doctor (''[[TimeyWimeyBall even before he appeared]]'', as he uses the screwdriver that was later modified and given to River, so it was probably him doing the modifying (and devising the rescue-plan that goes with it).

* The Doctor gets his 16th gajillionth CMOA in "Planet Of The Dead". Three words: [[spoiler: ''BUS BITCH-SLAP.'']]

** Gadget! [[spoiler: The Doctor turning him into a super-scooter is cool, but the Crowning Moment comes when he un-boxes and remote-controls Gadget to fly the Tardis in to save them at LITERALLY the last second]] - complete with Crowning Music of Awesome in the background as it all unfolds.

*** That episode was shown live to a packed main hall of the 2010 BSFA annual convention, Eastercon (about 800 people, all serious SF fans of many varieties). That scene got unanimous cheers and applause. A CMOA in and of itself, I think.

* "Victory of the Daleks". [[spoiler: The Doctor bluffs the Daleks for a long while by convincing them that a ''jammy dodger'' (a jam-filled biscuit sandwich) is the self-destruct switch for the TARDIS. Also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny, especially when the Progenitor Daleks finally figure it out.]]

* Even Adric gets his [=CMoAs=], despised as he is. How about ''Warriors' Gate'', wherein, as Rorvik and his men are about to blow the Doc and Romana away, he calls to them from the doorway where he's covering them with the MZ Cannon, and advises them to drop their weapons..."Please!" Just awesome cool from the Alzarian nerd.

** Her Arthur Dent-ish costume in this episode is a crowning moment in itself.

* One from "City of Death": ''Duggan punching Scaroth in the face,'' which prevents the latter from [[spoiler: stopping his past self from blowing up his ship and giving the spark of life to the amniotic fluid from which all life on Earth will spring. In other words, ''that one punch allowed'' '''''life on Earth to happen at all.''''']] Immediately followed by the Doctor's [[CrowningMomentOfFunny CMoF]]:

** Especially given the popular fan theory that [[spoiler:she was evil and the one behind the Master's resurrection]].

* In "Family of Blood", when told black women will never be doctors, and she proceeds to list every bone in the human hand. Surely a CMOA for FreemaAgyeman simply for being able to do that, let alone Martha totally owning the stuffy matron.
* Martha's CrowningMomentOfAwesome has to be when, after two episodes of effortless pwning absolutely everyone (including the Doctor and the immortal Captain Jack), the Master has her imprisoned, kneeling at his feet... and she ''laughs'' at him.

* Mickey Smith spends most of his time as second-fiddle, but he's had a couple of [=CMoAs=]. My personal favorite is when you realize that he blew up Downing Street with a submarine missile from his apartment. When the Master talks about Downing Street being rebuilt? That's because it took the British Government two seasons to get over Mickey.

-->'''Queen Victoria:''' The correct form of address is "Your Majesty"! ''* BANG*''

* Romana has her CrowningMomentOfAwesome at the climax of "The Armageddon Factor", where she stops the Doctor from becoming a monstrous universal dictator ''by shouting at him''.

** This Troper always felt that Romana's CMOA came earlier in "The Armageddon Factor" when she refused to break under the Shadow's ElectricTorture.

** Plus one of the few times CMOA and NightmareFuel go hand in hand is when Colonel Mace orders the Doctor to put on a gas mask and he immediately turns to Mace and says, as a throw away line, [[ShoutOut "Are you my mummy?"]] Don't remind us of that sort of stuff without ''warning'', dammit!

* "The Pandorica Opens" gives some great material to [[spoiler: a lone Cyberman, practically getting the same amount of CMOA on behalf of his species as the title character from "Dalek" in just one scene. Broken into pieces, the human inside having long rotted to uselessness, and it manages to get quite far in trying to take down the Doctor and Amy while being damn scary in the meantime. Added awesomeness by this being the first appearance of an original Cyberman since 1988]].

* In "Remembrance of the Daleks", the Daleks themselves get at least three Crowning Moments of Awesome [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSD4RFEzRWs Here]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BuWFXYcDk4 here]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8G2TJqgRHc&feature=related at the start of this video]]

* The lone Dalek in the episode "Dalek" had a few Crowning Moments of Awesome on behalf of its entire species, but one in particular stands out from the rest. One word: "Elevate!" The episode was specifically written to subvert all the Dalek cliché weaknesses, and kill people doing it. A Dalek had already ascended stairs in "Remembrance of the Daleks", a Seventh Doctor story, although it wasn't as awesome.

** Also up as a potential CMOA in ''Dalek'' (as well as an absolute TearJerker) is its final death. The idea of a Dalek experiencing such emotions as this one did after forty years of canon establishing them as vindictive bastards is... quite something. As was its final use of its own world famous CatchPhrase ''against itself'' (after asking Rose to order it to destroy itself, because it can't do anything without an order).

** Another of the Daleks' best CMOA: when they can't break into the observation deck to kill Lynda, so instead they rise up through space to the observation window, and, although we can't hear it, their lights clearly flash to the scream of "EXTERMINATE!". They then blow the window open.

* "Journey's End" had a whole bunch of Crowning Moments of Awesome, but this troper feels that the most outstanding one- and shocking, no less- belongs to none other than Dalek Caan:

* You wouldn't think that a man in a wheelchair with one working arm could have a CrowningMomentOfAwesome. Then Davros comes along with his legendary "To hold in my hand..." speech from "Genesis of the Daleks".

* Davros' ultimate CMOA must come in [[spoiler:"Journey's End"]] when he unveils what the [[spoiler:Reality Bomb]] will do in typically Hitleresque fashion, increasing in volume with each word.

** It's also a [=CMOA=] for John Simm. If you just read the script you would think 'Wow!', but if you ''see'' him? ''Awesome!''

**** By this point, the Master needs his own CMOA page.

* Yvonne Hartman's CMOA in "Doomsday": [[spoiler:Even after being "upgraded" to Cyberman, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v-cETfhO5g she still defends Queen and Country]].]]

* A behind-the-scenes example: One of the darker chapters in the show's production history was TomBaker becoming incredibly difficult to work with in his final season. Recollections abound of him snoring in read-throughs at parts of the script he didn't like, verbally abusing the writers, having numerous shouting matches with co-star and [[RomanceOnTheSet brief-wife-to-be]] Lalla Ward, and caught in the middle of it all was new companion and PromotedFanboy Matthew Waterhouse, watching [[ArtistDisillusionment the image of his childhood hero shattering violently before his eyes.]] During one of Tom's "acting up and being rude" periods on the last day of filming for "Full Circle," Matthew (in full Adric get-up) finally put his foot down and told him to [[PrecisionFStrike "fuck off."]] And got away with it. And kept Tom quiet (aside form his lines, of course) for the ''whole rest of the studio day.'' The 2010 DoctorWhoMagazine interview described it as a "[[strike: Crowning]] coming-of-age moment."

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* While it's kind of a meta example, consider that Michael Grade was the only BBC controller never to be knighted. Consider that the Queen is a fan of Doctor Who. This troper gladly nominates Her Majesty for a very subtle, but very satisfying, [=CMOA=].[[hottip:*:By the way, troper who originally wrote this entry here. I'm American, by the way, but Brits? I still think your queen is damn awesome. Man, you guys are lucky.]]

* Really, with a show that has run for thirty seasons over forty-five years and counting, contains two [=CMoA=] ''goldmines'' in the Doctor and the Master, as well as many other characters with more than a few [=CMoA=] themselves (Daleks, Davros, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart) ''DoctorWho'' itself is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for [[TheBBC the BBC]].
** I don't think forty-five years can be considered a "moment", perhaps we should just say Crowning *Lifespan* Of Awesome.

* The Davies/Gardner production team have several [=CMoAs=] themselves, including:

* "Voyage of the Dammned": KylieMinogue and a forklift truck.

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW1x2TmIq8s&NR=1 Five, Don't let me eat pears...]]; that video of debatable canon, never seen in full in the episode, works because it is entirely consistent with what the Doctor ''would'' say.

* The Eighth Doctor only had [[TheMovie ninety minutes on television]], much of which received a lukewarm reaction from much of the audience. There are, however at least two moments which are largely agreed to have perfectly [[AdaptationDistillation captured the spirit of the series it was adapting]] and managed to cement the Eighth Doctor's awesomeness:

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And all of that? Scratching the surface. In effect, what we're talking about is a TV series that if there isn't some sort of [=CMoA=] in a story, the story is considered poor. And then there's the books, which give us just as many.

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* In ''The Also People'' super-sentient spaceships kilometers wide, made up by forcefields, armed with weapons that overload suns and who think that a picosecond is a long time, are worried about the presence of the Doctor. In fact, they're thinking that it might be wise to sterilise the entire planet just in case. What does the Doctor do?\\
He goes for tea and biscuits. And sets up his chair in the zero-g environs the ships live in (it can be seen here: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Also_People. He talks to them nicely and they decide either that he's not a threat or that even if he '''is''' a threat, it's not wise to cross him. Later in the same book he out thinks a ship, and blows up its higher functions with a small bomb that he kept in his mouth. And whistles "anything you can do, I can do better" all the while.\\
Bringer of Darkness? Destroyer of Worlds? Oncoming Storm? Pure. Unadultered. Awesome.
* ''Damaged Goods'' contains a scene where a pimp/drug dealer and his vacuous wife encounter the main antagonist. The antagonist is an N-Form wearing a human body: the N-Form is a giant metallic thing with tentacles, and its disguise is horrible. It holds a conversation with the drug dealer about distributing the cocaine that contains its engram (thus making it possible for the N-Form to emerge in the bodies of everyone who consumes it.) The pimp/dealer and his wife are so self-absorbed and dull that they fail to notice that they're dealing with something that clearly isn't human: they're only interested in the score. Even when the conversation is over, and the N-Form TELEPORTS AWAY, they still don't think anything odd about it.
* ''The Dying Days''. The last novel by then publisher Virgin Publishing. It's set up as a "anything can happen" novel that will segue into a "BerniceSummerfield Series" (Benny being the main companion of the Virgin era). So when the Doctor seemingly dies (and is thought of as dead by two people who know about regeneration) you think "crap, he's dead". So when three chapters from the end (about fifty pages) a quiet voice whispers "it ends now" to the villain of the piece your blood goes cold and you cannot say anything but "ohh hell YES". Given that said scene goes on to include the lines "the Daleks call me the Bringer of Darkness", "I'm the champion of life and time" "I make history better" and finally "each word louder then the last "I. Am. The. Doctor" and it was,". The Brigadier who's watching this sheds a tear.

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* This Troper is less than twenty pages in to ''Trading Futures'', and the Doctor has already blown up the BigBad's [[CoolBoat stealth hydrofoil]] using nothing but a parachute, a cricket ball, and a cup of water. {{MacGyver}} would be proud.

It's not just the books. The comics get in on it as well.

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* "The Flood". The Eighth Doctor goes full-on angry god against an army of future Cybermen, annihilating them utterly. Then he gives up the chance to achieve communion with the Vortex, becoming one with everything, to save his companion's life.
* "Wormwood". Specifically, TheReveal, where Eight reveals just how he's tricked the AncientConspiracy that's been screwing him over for the past couple of storyarcs.
* "The Glorious Dead" is a [=CMoA=] for [[spoiler:the Master. He changes the course of history so his forces end up ruling the Earth for centuries - by taking advantage of the Doctor's earlier meddling, something he's quite happy to point out to the Doctor in the course of a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech massive put-down]]. And that's just a distraction from [[CosmicKeystone what he's really after.]] ]]
* "Uninvited Guest": the Seventh Doctor, in full Oncoming Storm mode, takes down a group of Eternals who manipulated a world into destroying itself. The ''method'' by which he defeats them is the true source of the awesome. [[spoiler:He basically pulls a reversal of the punishment he'd later inflict on the Family of Blood and makes the Eternals mortal. He gave each of them the gift of a single, mortal life so that they'd understand the value of what they so callously destroyed.]]
* One for Majenta Pryce in the recent strip "The Crimson Hand".
-->'''Majenta''':[[spoiler:The face isn't listening. Talk to the hand. (Cue four huge, villain-defeating laser beams from the hand-shaped God Machine.)]]

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* "The Forgotten": [[spoiler:the ten Doctors facing off against the BigBad.]] [[http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y28/mrtonylee/comicpr/doctorwho_twopage.jpg Here you go.]]
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And even the audio adventures get in on the [=CMOAs=], too. And some of these can get quite insane, considering they're only limited by audio technology and imagination.

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* ''The Kingmaker'', a 5th Doctor tale, has the Doctor trying to write a book on the mysteries of history, lest he be killed by a robot forcing the Doctor to write said book. Somehow, this all ends up with Richard the III trying to kill ol' Bill Shakespeare for writing slanderous material based on him... but not before the robot winds up chasing after ''Shakespeare'' and demanding a new draft for TheTempest. Hilariously, the end result of all this is [[spoiler:that Shakespeare dies 100 years before he was born, forcing King Richard the III to take up playwriting in the 1600s.]] Oh, ''and'' we get numerous references to the Ninth Doctor and the Master. And it really works.
* ''The Brotherhood of the Daleks''. Six and Charley against... ''Communist Daleks.''
* ''...ish''. The Sixth Doctor uses his legendary SesquipedalianLoquaciousness to defeat a ''sentient word''.
* ''Davros'' is one long [=CMoA=] for you-know-who. He starts the story off ''freaking [[DeathIsCheap DEAD]]'', and by the end he's taken over the galaxy's biggest [[MegaCorp corporation]], pretended to be a {{Woobie}} to enlist the help of the CEO's [[UnwittingPawn wife]] in taking over the comapny, reduced the galactic stock market to a simple, foolproof equation and held the economy hostage by threatening to release said equation to ''everyone'', and dropped a '''nuclear bomb on the Doctor.''' [[hottip:*:Of course it doesnt work, but ''still.'']] [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent. Bastard.]]
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And let's not forget:

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** While it's a tough call, and the Doctor is ''not happy'', the Brig taking out the Silurian base in "Doctor Who and the Silurians" to protect Earth was quite badass.

* Midway through his career as the Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee put the ''Doctor Who'' theme to words in the form of "Who is the Doctor?", spoken more or less in-character. Among other things, the results stand as a powerful challenge [[ http://www.youtube.com/user/mareon2#p/f/8/x7tKAi-lDhMto the dominance of the VillainSong.]]

* Midway through his career as the Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee put the ''Doctor Who'' theme to words in the form of "Who is the Doctor?", spoken more or less in-character. Among other things, the results stand as a powerful challenge to the dominance of the VillainSong.

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* In part four of "Remembrance of the Daleks", the Doctor rewires a Dalek machine he had thoroughly fried earlier that day.
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* In "Remembrance of the Daleks", apart from her big moment, she also killed another Dalek by shooting it in the face with a rocket launcher.
--->'''The Doctor''': You destroyed it!
--->'''Ace''': I aimed for the eyepiece.
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* In "Remembrance of the Daleks", the Daleks themselves get at least three Crowning Moments of Awesome [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSD4RFEzRWs Here]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BuWFXYcDk4 here]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8G2TJqgRHc&feature=related at the start of this video]]
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* Ace also had this moment in "Silver Nemesis".
--->'''The Doctor''': Ace, I don't suppose you've totally ignored my instructions and secretly concocted any Nitro-9 have you?
--->'''Ace''': What if I had?
--->'''The Doctor''': Then of course you wouldn't do anything so insanely dangerous as carry it around with you?
--->'''Ace''': Of course not. I'm a good girl, I do what I'm told.
--->'''The Doctor''': Excellent. Blow up that vehicle.
** Earlier in that story, she jams the Cybermen's signal with ''CrowningMusicOfAwesome''.
* In ''Dragonfire'' it looks like she is about to mark herself with the coin that marks people as belonging to the BigBad -- and then she knocks it away and threatens him with Nitro-9.
-->'''Ace''': Do you want to argue with a can of deodorant that registers nine on the Richter Scale?

** He also pulls a [[DiscWorld Granny Weatherwax]] in "The Savages," transferring part of his personality and conscience to one of the bad guys and successfully saving the day. It is then implied that he [[XanatosGambit planned it all from the start.]]
** Bret Vyon (a pre-Brigadier Nicholas Courtney), meanwhile, gets one for being the only man in the universe to ever tell the First Doctor to "shut up" and get away with it.

** "Tomb of the Cybermen" gives the Second Doctor the moment when he baits the monomaniacal and increasingly delusional Eric Klieg into revealing just how power-mad he is - and then caps it with the perfect put-down:
---> Well, now I know you're mad. I just wanted to make sure.
* The Third Doctor not only manages to best the Master in a sword fight - he disarms him, holds him at swordpoint, ''steals his lunch'' for no real reason other than to prove that he can, and then ''gives the Master his sword back'' because he's having too much fun to stop. Oh, and then beats him again. Granted, the Doctor still ends up captured, but the entire sequence is pretty awesome.
* The Fourth Doctor has quite a few. His "Do I have the right?" speech from "Genesis of the Daleks", for example.
** The one I always remember is from the climax of "State of Decay"- he [[spoiler: launches the Great Vampires' rocket from the surface of the planet, only for it to run out of fuel and crash straight back down in an explosion that destroys all vampires]]. The Fourth doesn't arse about with any of that stake through the heart stuff...
*** What makes that particularly awesome is that [[spoiler: ''it is a stake through the heart'' -- the last Great Vampire (which is giant) is directly underneath the rocket when it falls...]]
** One from "City of Death": ''Duggan punching Scaroth in the face,'' which prevents the latter from [[spoiler: stopping his past self from blowing up his ship and giving the spark of life to the amniotic fluid from which all life on Earth will spring. In other words, ''that one punch allowed'' '''''life on Earth to happen at all.''''']] Immediately followed by the Doctor's [[CrowningMomentOfFunny CMoF]]:
-->'''The Doctor:''' "Duggan...that was probably the most important punch in history!"
** Leela deserves a mention:
--->Leela: I've worked out how to stop them.
--->4th Doctor: Oh.
--->Leela: Stab them in the neck!
*** And in the same episode, just after being told a Sontaran's weakness, throws a knife the full length of a decent sized room straight into a 5mm "probic vent".
** Then there's Four's final CMOA, with his brutal fight with the Master on a satellite array, including stringing up his scarf to trip the Master.

** Even Adric gets his [=CMoAs=], despised as he is. How about ''Warriors' Gate'', wherein, as Rorvik and his men are about to blow the Doc and Romana away, he calls to them from the doorway where he's covering them with the MZ Cannon, and advises them to drop their weapons..."Please!" Just awesome cool from the Alzarian nerd.
** How about Five killing the Cyber Leader by jamming Adric's star into the Leader's breathing vent? Also a TearJerker.

** He gets a delicious CMOA in "Revelation of the Daleks" when he offers to shake the hand of the defeated Davros [[spoiler: (said hand had just been shot off)]]
* The Seventh Doctor gets one in "The Greatest Show In The Galaxy" when he calmly walks away from a circus tent -- which proceeds to blow up very violently right behind him.
** Pretty awesome for Sylvester [=McCoy=] too: the explosion was somewhat bigger than the special effects crew were expecting, and it doesn't faze him at all.
*** He has said he was fully expecting to have scorch marks on his back afterward, but he knew there could be no second take so he simply went on with the shot.

** And in "Ghost Light," after [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Light]] has outlined his plan to end all life and evolution so that his catalogue of life will remain valid, [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath driving the godlike alien to suicide.]] So good it deserves to be quoted:
-->'''The Doctor:''' But you evolve too, Light.
-->'''Light:''' Nonsense.
-->'''The Doctor:''' Of course you do. You change, you adapt, all the time. Your attitude, your place, your mind... I mean, look at you now: you're no longer your original shape. And I don't think much of your catalogue- it's full of gaps.
-->'''Light:''' ''(suddenly alarmed)'' All organic life is recorded!
-->'''The Doctor:''' What about [[HereThereWereDragons the gryphons, the basilisks?]] You missed the dragons, the bandersnatches... then there are the slithy toves and the crowned Saxe-Coburg.
-->''(Strolling into the entrance hall, he casually clicks his fingers and Light immediately appears at the staircase)''
-->'''Light:''' ''(frantically reviewing his data screen)'' Where are these items?
-->'''The Doctor:''' I can't think how you missed them. You have to complete the catalogue before you destroy all life here.
-->'''Light:''' [[TheIgor Control?]]
-->'''The Doctor:''' She's no use to you, she's evolved as well.
-->'''Light:''' No! All slipping away...
-->'''The Doctor:''' All is change, all is movement. Tell me, Light, haven't you just changed your location?
-->'''Light:''' ''(Gritting his teeth)'' Not yet.
-->'''The Doctor:''' What's the matter, Light? Changed your mind?
-->'''Light:''' You are endlessly agitating, unceasingly mischievous, ''will you never STOP?!''
-->'''The Doctor:''' I suppose I could. It would make a ''change.''
-->'''Light:''' ''(desperate)'' Nimrod- I can rely on you! Assist me now...
-->'''Nimrod:''' I'm sorry, sir, but my allegiance is to this planet- my birthright.
-->'''Light:''' ''(Hysterical)'' Everything is changing! All in flux! Nothing remains the same!
-->'''The Doctor:''' Even remains change. It's this planet- it can't help itself.
-->'''Light:''' I... will not change... I'll wake up soon. No... change... dead... ''(trails off as he begins to evaporate)''
-->'''The Doctor:''' ''(To the data screen)'' Subject for catalogue: file under "imagination, comma, lack of."
** Seventh convincing the snipers in The Happiness Patrol to lay down their weapons probably counts, too.

** Don't forget in the episode "Battlefield", where knights Ancelyn and Mordred are engaged in a vicious swordfight... and the Doctor just walks calmly between them in the middle of their duel.
*** ''Lifting his hat to them as he strolls right between them.''
** In the filming of that episode, Sylvester [=McCoy=] arguably saved Sophie Aldred's life when he noticed a watertank was about to crack and pour water onto a floor covered in electrical cables.

** And the Master even gets one; before the above moment, he gets to display his cruelty, fear, and awesome all at the same time.
--->'''The Doctor''': You want dominion over the living, yet all you do is ''kill''!\\
'''The Master''': Life is ''wasted'' on the living!
* You wouldn't think that a man in a wheelchair with one working arm could have a CrowningMomentOfAwesome. Then Davros comes along with his legendary "To hold in my hand..." speech from "Genesis of the Daleks".
-->'''The Doctor''': Davros, if you had created a virus in your laboratory, something contagious and infectious that killed on contact, a virus that would destroy all other forms of life; would you allow its use?\\
'''Davros''': It is an interesting conjecture.\\
'''The Doctor''': Would you do it?\\
'''Davros''': The only living thing... The microscopic organism... reigning supreme... A fascinating idea.\\
'''The Doctor''': But would you do it?\\
'''Davros''': Yes; yes. To hold in my hand, a capsule that contained such power. To know that life and death on such a scale was my choice. To know that the tiny pressure on my thumb, enough to break the glass, would end everything. Yes! I would do it! That power would set me up above the gods! ''And through the Daleks I shall have that power!''
** A decade later, after having two mediocre-at-best appearances, Davros reminds us why he is feared throughout the universe in "Revelation of the Daleks" when he takes a page from the book of fellow MagnificentBastard [[StarWars Palpatine]] and ''shoots lightning out of his hand''.
** And more than two decades after that, Davros is reintroduced to the world in [[spoiler:"The Stolen Earth"]] by showing what he is willing to do to ensure his victory: [[spoiler:creating a new army of Daleks using ''his own flesh''.]]
** Davros' ultimate CMOA must come in [[spoiler:"Journey's End"]] when he unveils what the [[spoiler:Reality Bomb]] will do in typically Hitleresque fashion, increasing in volume with each word.
--->[[spoiler:'''Davros:''' Across the entire universe. Never stopping, never faltering, never fading. People, planets and stars will become dust. And the dust will become atoms. And the atoms will become.... nothing. And the wavelength will continue, through the rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade! Into every dimension! Every parallel! Every single corner of creation! THIS is my ultimate victory, Doctor! THE DESTRUCTION! OF REALITY! ITSELF!]]
*** For this troper, the speech itself was awesome, but what really won him over was that [[spoiler: this was exactly what he and the Doctor had talked about 30 years ago in Genesis of the Daleks. That Davros finally had within his grasp the universal removal of all non-Dalek life, and that this all-consuming CriticalExistenceFailure was stopped only by a series of fortunate events?]] Davros has always been a creepy, psychotic and excellent villain. This was the first time Davros had him honest to goodness scared. And it was awesome.
**** Wait a minute, doesn't that mean [[spoiler: reality is already doomed, as a new parallel is created everytime something happens, therefore there's a parallel where Davros succeeded, and Reality Bomb went off.]]
**** The episode even includes a wonderful little nod to that earlier scene. In the scene from ''Genesis'', Davros is holding up his hand with finger and thumb just parted, as though holding the imaginary vial of virus - and even before he actually exclaims "Yes! I would do it!", he brings the digits together as though crushing the vial. In the more recent episode, he unconsciously makes the same gesture, this time when he orders [[spoiler:the detonation of the Reality Bomb.]]
* And let's not forget Zoe ''beating the crap out of a comic-book superhero'' in "The Mind Robber".
* One from the new series:

** "The Parting of the Ways" is also a CMOA for Rose, when she [[spoiler: [[PhysicalGod becomes the Bad Wolf]]]]. "You are tiny. I can see the whole of time and space. Every single atom of your existence. And I divide them."
** Not to forget her speech to Jackie and Mickey back on Earth.
-->''"But it was.... it was a better life. And I don't mean the travelling, the seeing aliens and spaceships and thing, that don't matter. The Doctor showed me a better way of living your life. You know, he showed you too. That you don't just give up. You don't just let things happen, you make a stand, you say no. You have the guts to do what's right when everyone else just runs away, and I can't..."''
** Also a collective Moment for the Daleks: when an ''enormous'' horde of Daleks ''pours'' out of their ships and heads straight for the Game Station. This is later topped and combined with KickTheDog in [[spoiler:"The Stolen Earth" with their brutally efficient invasion of Earth, including the destruction of the Valiant]]. It says a lot when you can make the two most experienced alien fighters on Earth break down in tears just by announcing your arrival.
** Another of the Daleks' best CMOA: when they can't break into the observation deck to kill Lynda, so instead they rise up through space to the observation window, and, although we can't hear it, their lights clearly flash to the scream of "EXTERMINATE!". They then blow the window open.
** Jack's death (for the first time, anyway) in "Parting of the Ways." After fighting down to his last bullet, he coolly stands and faces a troop of Daleks, holding out his arms ready for the attack:
-->'''Dalek:''' EXTERMINATE!
-->'''Jack:''' I kind of figured that.
* Earlier in "New Earth", the Doctor puts himself in perspective for some Sisters.

** KylieMinogue and a forklift truck.
** The Doctor striding forwards after it, holding out his hands and being lifted up through the ship by a pair of angels. This Troper is not ashamed to admit she squee'd.
** Bannakaffalatta (the little red guy) taking down the Host with an EMP.
-->'''Bannakaffalatta:''' Bannakaffalatta PROUD! Bannakaffalatta CYBORG!

*** Also, Wilf coming out of his stall to shake his fist at the sky turned this troper into an instant fan- and that was long before Donna came into the picture.
* "The Sound of Drums" was the Master's Crowning Moment of Awesome, especially a certain [[InsultBackfire thumbs up]]. The only thing that could possibly compete with it is the last 12 minutes of ''Utopia''.
** More specifically, there's this conversation:
--->'''The Master''': Why don't we [[JustBetweenYouAndMe stop and have a nice little chat]] while I tell you all my plans and you can work out a way to stop me, [[GenreSavvy I]] ''[[GenreSavvy don't]]'' [[GenreSavvy think]]!
--->'''The Doctor''': I'm asking you really, properly, just stop! Just ''think''!
--->'''The Master''': Use my name.
--->'''The Doctor''': Master... I'm sorry.
--->'''The Master''': ''Tough!''
---> He then proceeds to leave the Doctor stranded. At the end of the universe. With a horde of cannibals about to break in. ''Awesome''.
** There's also his moment at the end of "The Sound of Drums", where he effortlessly overcomes the Doctor's plan to defeat him, kills the US President, and guns down Captain Jack, with the quip:
--->'''The Master''': And the good thing is, he's not dead for long. ''I get to kill him again!!''
*** Not to rain on the awesomeness parade but this incredible awesome moment rapidly becomes rather ''un''awesome later, when you consider the fact that he's had Jack, an immortal who ''cannot die no matter what you do to him'' locked up in that place for a year. And you start to wonder exactly ''how'' the Master has probably been taking advantage of this ''during'' that year...
**** And that's the FridgeLogic that launched a thousand slash fics.
** Followed almost immediately by summoning six billion robotic beach balls Of Doom to decimate (bonus points for the correct usage of "decimate") the Earth, blowing a [[FoeYay good-bye kiss]] to the Doctor, all the while dancing to "Voodoo Child". [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9aT_SdF6_I EPIC. EVIL. WIN.]]
** He then ends the episode, with himself in control, the Doctor aged to senility, Martha stranded, Jack collapsed on the floor and 10% of the population dead, with the following speech.
--->'''The Master:''' And so it came to pass that the human race fell, and the Earth was no more. And I looked down upon my new dominion, as Master of all, and thought it... good.
** This troper liked the exchange after the Master opened his Chameleon Arch and remembered who he was.
---> '''Chantho:''' [[VerbalTic Chan,]] [[MeaningfulName Professor Yana,]] [[VerbalTic tho?]]
---> '''Professor Yana:''' That is not my name.
---> '''Chantho:''' Chan, wh-what is it, tho?
---> '''Professor Yana:''' [[ThisIsSparta I. Am. The MASTER!]] [electrocutes Chantho]
** Another CMOA would be at the end of "Last of the Time Lords" where [[spoiler: the Master dies in the Doctor's arms, refusing to regenerate, and just laughing at the Doctor's pain at being the only Time Lord in existence once more. Even though the Doctor foiled his plans, he has the last laugh. As he puts it himself - "I win!"]]
** "What's the mask for?" "The gas." "What gas?" "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDn1PLzQvGo This gas!]]"
*** And in the ''next'' episode, busting out more funky dance moves to the tune of "I Can't Decide", while he capers about the ''Valiant's'' command deck, snogs his wife, pours coffee on Martha's mom, and rings a bell to call out the Doctor, whom he has living in a tent and eating from a dog bowl. And starts spinning him around in a wheelchair. Oh Master, you bastard... why do I love you so much?
---> [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcSZ7gr-Eso Oooh I can't decide / Whether you should live or die... / You'll probably go to heaven / please don't hang your head and cry...]]
** It seems that when the Master has his iPod on, awesomeness is never far behind.
* Please, these barely qualify. The Master had a lot more Crowning Moments of Awesome when he still had a beard. Like in "Logopolis", when he held the ''entire universe'' for ransom.
** Check out "Frontier in Space" for proof of this, and the wonderful observation that "rocket fire at long range - somehow it lacks that ''personal'' touch."
* In a sort of reaction to the above comments, ''Martha's'' CrowningMomentOfAwesome has to be when, after two episodes of effortless pwning absolutely everyone (including the Doctor and the immortal Captain Jack), the Master has her imprisoned, kneeling at his feet... and she ''laughs'' at him.
** [[spoiler: "A gun? A gun in four parts? You ''really'' believed that?"]]
** And ''then'', she reveals that she has just saved the entire world, ''even the bits the Master already killed'' (except the President, but he was a jackass), by ''telling people a story''. NeilGaiman must love that.
** Speaking of "Last of the Time Lords", Tom Milligan's [[spoiler: attempt at a HeroicSacrifice with his pistol, even though he knew that both the Toclafane and the Master were [[NighInvulnerable invulnerable]] to bullets, to try and save Martha, a woman that he's known less than a day...in a word, awesome.]]
** Don't forget the Doctor in that scene:
--->'''The Doctor:''' Tell me the human race is degenerate ''now''. When they can do ''this''. [[CatchPhrase I'm sorry. I'm]] ''[[CatchPhrase so]]'' [[CatchPhrase sorry.]] Because you ''know'' what happens next.
** [[spoiler: All the while he is glowing and floating towards the Master, invincible and unstoppable.]]
* The lone Dalek in the episode "Dalek" had a few Crowning Moments of Awesome on behalf of its entire species, but one in particular stands out from the rest. One word: "Elevate!" The episode was specifically written to subvert all the Dalek cliché weaknesses, and kill people doing it. A Dalek had already ascended stairs in "Remembrance of the Daleks", a Seventh Doctor story, although it wasn't as awesome.
** It had another moment earlier on...
--->'''Red Shirt Soldier''': What are you going to do, sucker me to death?
--->''(The Dalek immediately crushes his skull with its plunger.)''
** Also up as a potential CMOA in ''Dalek'' (as well as an absolute TearJerker) is its final death. The idea of a Dalek experiencing such emotions as this one did after forty years of canon establishing them as vindictive bastards is... quite something. As was its final use of its own world famous CatchPhrase ''against itself'' (after asking Rose to order it to destroy itself, because it can't do anything without an order).
--->Rose: ...Do it.
--->Dalek: Are you frightened, Rose Tyler?
--->Rose: Yes.
--->Dalek: So am I. ''Exterminate''.
** It also managed to do something other Daleks rarely do: stun the Doctor into silence with ''words''. Namely ... 'You would make a good Dalek.' Done as the Doctor is foaming at the mouth and screaming at it to DROP DEAD. And that isn't exaggeration at the scene. (Incidentally, nice job, Chris--seriously.)
** Continuing the love with the moment it meets [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Henry Van Statten]]. It advances on him, demanding to know why it was tortured:
--->Van Statten: I'm sorry, I'M SORRY! I just wanted to hear you talk!
--->Dalek: * stops its advance* Then hear me talk now. EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINAAAAAAATE!
** No mention of its actual escape? Breaks its chains, murders a man with its plunger, downloads the entirety of the internet and drains power from the entire west coast of the US to repair itself. And THEN screams:
---> The Daleks survive in MEEEEEEE! * Shoots stuff*
* The Imperial Daleks from ''Remembrance of the Daleks'' deserve a mention here, for sheer awesome firepower. After their landing party starts being beaten back by renegade Dalek forces, the Emperor orders the Special Weapons Dalek into action - and onto the screen trundles an extraordinary machine: Basically a Dalek chassis topped by an independently-swivelling turret. No eye-stalk, no plunger arm, just a [[MoreDakka massive cannon version of the Dalek gun]], and the whole thing scarred and grime-stained as though it had been through dozens of battlefields. It rolls up to take aim on a pair of opposing Daleks, and fires - once. The resulting massive explosion wipes out the renegade Daleks completely. The Special Weapons Dalek fires its weapon exactly twice more in the episode - once to totally demolish the gates of the renegade Daleks' compound, and once to annihilate the remaining renegades. Each time, it's awesome.
** It's worth noting that the BBC special effects team went seriously overboard with the explosions for these effects. The first one got them into trouble after police and fire brigade were summoned, because they hadn't told the authorities they were going to be using pyrotechnics on that scale. The second shot, of the gates exploding to reveal the Imperial Daleks behind them, had to be cut short during editing to end before too much of the smoke had cleared, because the force of the explosion had blown several hemispheres off the Daleks' skirts.
* ChristopherEccleston packed a ''lot'' of awesome into his single season as the Doctor. This speech from "Rose":
-->Do you know like we were saying, about the earth revolving? It's like when you're a kid, the first time they tell you that the world is turning and you just can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's standing still. I can feel it-the turn of the earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour. The entire planet is hurtling around the sun at sixty seven thousand miles an hour. And I can ''feel'' it. We're falling through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world. And, if we let go... That's who I am. Now forget me, Rose Tyler. Go home.
* Romana has her CrowningMomentOfAwesome at the climax of "The Armageddon Factor", where she stops the Doctor from becoming a monstrous universal dictator ''by shouting at him''.
** Then there's the "despicable worm" scene and a good part of "The Horns of Nimon".
** Or, for that matter, opening the puzzle box in "City of Death"?
** ThisTroper always felt that Romana's CMOA came earlier in "The Armageddon Factor" when she refused to break under the Shadow's ElectricTorture.
** Hell, her '''''first scene.'''''
* The series itself became awesome when the Daleks made their first appearance.
** For the record, that was the second story.
* While her [[TheLoad portrayal]] in [[CharacterDerailment later episodes]] prevented her from being endlessly adored by the fans, Peri looked ''very'' promising as a companion after verbally owning ''the Master'' of all people in this memorable exchange:
-->'''The Master''': You will obey me. I am the Master!
-->'''Peri''': So what? I'm Perpugilliam Brown, and I can shout as loud as you can!
* It is a bit modulated by the silly voices, but Cyberman Krang's response to Polly when she challenges him about not caring that people are going to die in "The Tenth Planet":
-->'''Krang''': Care? No, why should I care?
-->'''Polly''': Because they're people and they're going to die!
-->'''Krang''': I do not understand you. There are people dying all over your world and you do not care about them.
* "Doomsday" may have had more than a few Dalek Moments of Awesome, but the Cybermen also get to verbally own the Daleks in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBSOhODoch0 this]] exchange of insults (around 2:13):
-->'''Cyberman''': Our species are similar, though your design is inelegant.
-->'''Dalek Thay''': Daleks have no concept of elegance!
-->'''Cyberman''': This is obvious.
** The Daleks get vengeance (at 2:53 in the above video):
--->'''Cyber Leader''': Daleks, be warned. You have declared war upon the Cybermen.
--->'''Dalek Sec''': This is not ''war''. [[ThisIsPestControl This is]] ''[[ThisIsPestControl pest control!]]''
--->'''Cyber Leader''': We have five million Cybermen. How many are you?
--->'''Dalek Sec''': Four.
--->'''Cyber Leader''': You would destroy the Cybermen with four Daleks?
--->'''Dalek Sec''': We would destroy the Cybermen with ''one'' Dalek! You are superior in only one respect.
--->'''Cyber Leader''': What is that?
--->'''Dalek Sec''': You are ''better'' at ''dying''.
*** Just a minute later, Rose points out to the Daleks why the Doctor owns them both.
---->'''Rose''': Five million cybermen? Easy. One Doctor? ''Now'' you're scared.
** The ending of the episode before, Army Of Ghosts, also counts. Right when the Cybermen had emerged, and creating a cliffhanger ending of how the Doctor would defeat them, the Sphere opens and out come the Daleks. This troper also had no clue of this happening until they actually appeared on screen.
*** This troper had in fact been spoiled that the next episode was going to be Cybermen vs. the Daleks, and even HE didn't see it coming! Although that could have just been his stupidity at work...
* One of the first companions, Barbara Wright, had several: verbally bitchslapping the Doctor in "The Edge of Destruction", running down Daleks with a truck, holding an Aztec priest at knifepoint, destroying the Animus, being the first person to have the "let's slap somethin\g on the Dalek's eye" idea, successfully fast-talking at least one villain into temporarily sparing their lives... essentially, the first two seasons could have been renamed The Why Barbara is Awesome Show, and no one would have noticed. She strode through time in sensible shoes, wearing the Bouffant of Doom...
** Her co-companion, Ian, gets at least one himself when he knocks the Aztec warrior unconscious.
*** Ian got quite a few, actually; creating fire, passing himself off as a Dalek, and hauling Ping-Cho home with all the assorted problems ''that'' escapade caused jump to mind, and that's just the first four stories.
** Don't forget The Crusades, when Ian spends three episodes trying to get to Barbara to rescue her, and by the time he finally meets up with her she's already rescued ''herself'' and is on her way home.
** Or [[spoiler:smashing the Brains of Morphoton]] in ''The Keys of Marinus''.
** Then there was the time in ''The Dalek Invasion of Earth'' that she dredged up every bit of history she could call to mind to make the Daleks think the entire human race was in revolt, worldwide, and get them in a panic.
* The denouement of "Family of Blood." The Doctor didn't disguise himself as a human for months because he was afraid of the Family. He hid because ''he knew [[FateWorseThanDeath what he'd do to the Family]]''.
** His ultimate CMOA came near the end, when he reveals himself as the Doctor, and blows the Family's ship up.
-->''Oh, I think the explanation might be that you've been fooled by a simple olfactory misdirection. It's a little bit like ventriloquism of the nose. It's an elemantary trick in certain parts of the galaxy. But it has got to be said. I don't like the look of that hydrokilominator. It seems to be indicating that you're got energy feedback all the way through the retro-stabilisers, feeding back into the primary heat converters. OOH! 'Cos if there's one thing you shouldn't have done. You shouldn't have let me press all those buttons. But, to be fair, I will give you one word of advice. RUN!''
* TheBrigadier, in "Battlefield":
-->"Get off my world!"
** How about:
--->'''The Destroyer:''' "Pitiful. Can this world do no better than you as their champion?"
--->'''Brigadier:''' "Probably. I just do the best I can." (Opens fire.)
** Really, the Brig was just an inherently awesome fellow. Another high point of his comes when he greets the Master in "The Five Doctors"
--->"Nice to see you again." * punch*
** And again in "The Daemons". Complete, unflappable, pure win when faced with an animated gargoyle: "Chap with wings, five rounds rapid"
** Lampshaded in the New Adventures novel ''No Future'' in which the Brig indicates an alien standing next to Paul [=McCartney=]: "Chap with 'Wings', five rounds rapid!"
* "The Poison Sky": [[spoiler: Colonel Mace before introducing two bullets to a Sontaran's head:]]
-->"You will face me, sir!"
** And before that:
--> '''Col. Mace:''' The Sontarans might think of us as primitive, as does every passing species with an axe to grind. They make a mockery of our weapons, our soldiers, our ideals, but no more. From this point on it stops. From this point on, the people of Earth fight back. And we show them, we show the warriors of Sontar what the human race can do.
** Not to mention the entire last 15 minutes of that episode for the whole of UNIT, after 40+ years of playing the RedshirtArmy they finally get [[spoiler: to kick some Sontaran arse]].
** [[spoiler: And who could forget Rattigan's final "Sontar-HA!"?]]
*** Especially since it took something that had been pure {{Narm}} up until that point and actually made it ''work''.
** Or [[spoiler: the Valiant on the start of the attack run]]? Even the Doctor is impressed.
*** Plus one of the few times CMOA and NightmareFuel go hand in hand is when Colonel Mace orders the Doctor to put on a gas mask and he immediately turns to Mace and says, as a throw away line, [[ShoutOut "Are you my mummy?"]] Don't remind us of that sort of stuff without ''warning'', dammit!
** Donna Noble knocking out a Sontaran. "Back of the neck!"
*** The Doctor doing the same with ''applied squash''. To the enemy ''commander'' no less.
** Three words: Sky. On. [[IncendiaryExponent Fire]].

** From the same episode-
--->'''Jenny:''' [[spoiler: "Whatcha you going to do? Tell my dad?"]]
*** Jenny making it through the beams via epic gymnastic skills also counts.
** Another from the same episode, delivered after relocating the shoulder of a Hath soldier under gunpoint-
--->'''Martha:''' [[spoiler:"Now then, I'm Doctor Martha Jones. Who the hell are you?"]]
* K9 Mark III's {{Heroic Sacrifice}}: "You bad dog!" "Affirmative."
** Even more awesome because K9, as always, sounds so damn ''smug.''
* Pretty much every time that StevenMoffat writes a ''DoctorWho'' episode, a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the Doctor (or ''someone'', at least) can't be far behind. But these gems from "The Doctor Dances" stands out:
** The Doctor turns up for dinner. ("Thanks miss!")
** "Go to your room!"
** The Doctor identifies Jack's weapon:
--->'''The Doctor''': Sonic blaster, 51st Century -- Weapon factories at Villengard?
--->'''Jack''': Yeah. You've been to the factories?
--->'''The Doctor''': Once.
--->'''Jack''': They're gone now, destroyed. Main reactor went critical. Vaporised the lot.
--->'''The Doctor''': Like I said. Once.
** The banana bit.
** The Doctor saves the day:
--->'''The Doctor''': "Everybody lives, Rose. Just this once, ''EverybodyLives''!"
** Nancy deserves one in that episode as well for verbally bitch-slapping the guy whose house she broke into. "Oh look, there's the sweat on your brow."
** Jack gets a couple CMOA at the end of the episode. First, stopping a German bomb seconds before it plows into the rest of the cast, then saying his farewells while straddled atop it (popping back once to compliment Rose on her shirt). Later on his ship, on learning the bomb's detonation (and his death) is pretty much unavoidable, he nonchalantly orders himself a martini and reminisces in what appear to be his last moments. Then to top it all off, the camera pulls away from him, past the bomb...''and through the TARDIS doors.'' WIN.
* Speaking of StevenMoffat, surely ''The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances'' would be ''his'' CrowningMomentOfAwesome!
** How about Sally Sparrow in "Blink"? She had several, but the one I love the most is the following conversation:
--->'''Sally Sparrow''': I love old places. They make me sad.
--->'''Kathy Nightingale''': What's so great about sad?
--->'''Sally Sparrow''': It's ''happy'' for deep people.
* Both the Doctor and Reinette got Crowning Moments of Awesome in "The Girl in the Fireplace".
** The Doctor rides a horse through a mirror, then there's the following exchange when he's introduced to Louis XV.
--->'''Reinette:''' This is my lover, the King of France.\\
'''Doctor:''' Yeah, well, I'm the Lord of Time.
** Also, this line:
--->'''Reinette:''' "What do monsters have nightmares about?"\\
'''Doctor''' "Me!"
*** The above line is right after... well, TelevisionWithoutPity said it best: "He totally beat up the ''literal monster under her literal bed.'' That's a keeper right there. I won't be crude, but that's services rendered, in my opinion."
** Don't forget Reinette telling the entire Royal Court of Versailles to get a hold of themselves, while facing down unstoppable killer clockwork robots:
--->'''Reinette''': "Would everyone just please calm down. Such a commotion, such distressing noise! Kindly remember that this is Versailles. This is the royal court, and we are French. I have made a decision. And my decision is no. I have seen your world, and I do not desire to set foot there again."\\
'''Clockwork Droid''': "We do not require your feet."
** And the Doctor [[spoiler:pretending to be three sheets to the wind so he can get close enough to a clockwork robot to destroy it.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Clockwork Droid''': She is compatible.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''The Doctor''': Compatible? If you believe that... you probably believe this is a glass of wine.]]
-->[[spoiler:''* Pours said glass over the top of its head* '']]
** Or the Doctor, leaving through the rotating fireplace and telling a stunned courtier:
--->'''I'm the Doctor- and I just snogged Madame du Pompadour!'''
* And again in "Forest of the Dead": [[spoiler: The Doctor tries to get the Vashta Nerada to back down. The Vashta Nerada won't back down. The Doctor tells the Vashta Nerada to read all the files on him in The Library. The Vashta Nerada back down]].
-->[[spoiler:"Don't play games with me. You just killed someone I liked, that is not a safe place to stand! I'm the Doctor, and you're in the biggest Library in the universe. * pauses* [[ThisIsSparta Look. Me.]] ''[[ThisIsSparta Up.]]''"]]

* [[spoiler:Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister]] gets hers in "The Stolen Earth", when [[spoiler:she's about to die.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Harriet Jones:]]''' [[spoiler:Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Dalek:]]''' Yes, we know who you are.
-->'''[[spoiler:Harriet Jones:]]''' Oh, you know nothing of any human, and that will be your downfall.
** Later in the episode, [[spoiler:Ianto and Gwen]] get their own with this dialog.
--->'''[[spoiler:Ianto: (after being handed a gun by Gwen)]]''' [[spoiler:Those don't work against Daleks.]]
--->'''[[spoiler:Gwen:]]''' [[spoiler:Yeah? I'm going out fighting. Like Owen. Like Tosh. How about you?]]
--->'''[[spoiler:Ianto:]]''' [[spoiler:Yes ma'am.]]
** Rose's first appearance in "The Stolen Earth": following scenes with every other surviving major character of both the series itself and its two spinoffs, Rose teleports into the middle of the street with a huge gun. Then her {{Unflinching Walk}} a bit later on. The latter is even more impressive since let's face it, if before this episode you were to figure what characters on the show would be able to pull off the {{Unflinching Walk}}, Rose would probably be pretty low on the list.
*** Once [[spoiler:the Earth is taken by the Daleks]] she walks past a shop being looted by two goons. She points the gun at them and orders them to leave with the classic line "Do you like my gun?"
* "The Stolen Earth" bagged not only the show's highest ever Appreciation Index (AI) figure of 91/100, it got one of the highest of all time for any mainstream (i.e. not an American import shown on SkyOne or something similar) show ''and'' reduced ITV1 to its lowest audience share in history. To quote Donna Noble - back of the neck!
** The fourth season finale, "Journey's End", managed to top this, becoming the most watched UK TV program of the week - the first time a ''Doctor Who'' episode has managed this - * and* getting another AI of 91/100. For * any* program to get both of these together is virtually unheard of.
** "The Stolen Earth" only got beaten to the top spot by 60,000 viewers. By a international football final. Any other show would've been ''decimated''.
* "Journey's End" had a whole bunch of Crowning Moments of Awesome, but this troper feels that the most outstanding one- and shocking, no less- belongs to none other than [[spoiler: Dalek Caan:]]
-->[[spoiler:"I saw the Daleks, what we have done throughout time and space. I saw the truth of us, creator, and I decreed: ''[[ThisIsSPARTA No! More!]]''."]]
** If that's not the best CMOA in the episode, then that title certainly belongs to Martha. [[spoiler:She not only blackmails Davros by holding the destruction of Earth (and all Davros' plans) in her hands, but while she's doing that, she tells the Doctor to shut up]]. When even Rose is impressed, you know you're Crowned With Awesome.
** [[spoiler: Wilf takes on a Dalek. With a paintball gun. Then the Dalek vaporises the paint from its eyestalk with the line "MY VISION IS ''NOT'' IMPAIRED."]].
*** [[spoiler: About five seconds later, this is proven untrue as Rose shoots it in the back of the head (i.e from ''behind it'')]].
** And what about Sarah Jane Smith? Her speech to [[spoiler: Davros]] is one of the best "surrender now to keep your ass intact, good sir" speeches that this troper's ever heard. Not to mention a CMOA for Elisabeth Sladen in Stolen Earth: she achieved levels of fear with a tiny little tremble and a pale face that would take screams on a King Kong level from lesser actresses.
*** Lis Sladen reaches those levels on an insanely regular basis - not that it's a bad thing. Back in her original run on the series, Sladen's reaction to [[spoiler:Sontaran general Styre]] in ''The Sontaran Experiment'' was enough to have the director leaping up and down with joy - actually running up the Welsh equivalent of a mountain to congratulate her on the scene. And these moments are only added onto with the second season premier of TheSarahJaneAdventures when [[spoiler: Sarah Jane sees a Sontaran space pod, and knows exactly how screwed they are]]. This troper can't wait to see the inevitable run in with a Dalek in that series.
*** Another one just for the fact that Davros still remembers Sarah Jane after thousands of years from his point of view. Maybe that counts for RTD as well for remembering that Sarah Jane was in ''Genesis of the Daleks'' and managing to cram in that nod to it.
* In ''The Androids of Tara'' [[spoiler:, the Doctor pwns Count Grendel, the best swordsman on the planet. Meanwhile, Romana and Princess Strella stop Grendel's goon with a needlework loom and a pitcher.]]
* In ''The Talons of Weng-Chiang'', Leela taking on [[spoiler:Magnus Greel]].
* Bah. Most of these are as nothing compared to Yvonne Hartman's CMOA in "Doomsday". [[spoiler:Even after being "upgraded" to Cyberman, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v-cETfhO5g she still defends Queen and Country]].]] (Although, as the next item notes, the "fightin' hand" is also hella cool.)
* The Christmas episode between season 1 and 2 of the new series... the Doctor, his hand just chopped off in a way that would have made George Lucas proud: "As it happens, I'm within the first fifteen hours of my regeneration, allowing me to do this." (regrows hand) "And you know what? It's a ''fightin''' hand!"
** "[[PowerWalk No second chances. I'm that sort of a man.]]"
* In ''The Shakespeare Code'', [[spoiler:the Bard completely OWNS the Carrionites, with words.]]
** And HarryPotter gets a reference [[spoiler: (The Doctor cried while reading Book 7)]]
*** If she was watching that episode, J.K Rowling probably would have jumped up and cheered. A word from ''her series'' got used on ''national television'' to help save the world! And the Doctor COMPLIMENTS her!
----> "Good old J.K!"
* Elizabeth Sladen deserves one for saying, upon seeing a man wearing a gas-mask, "Are you my mummy?" in the commentaries for ''Genesis of the Daleks''. The new series isn't canon my arse!
* The DJ in ''Revelation of the Daleks'', when he [[spoiler:blasts Daleks with [[BrownNote his music as an intense sonic beam.]]]]
** As he himself put it:
--> '''DJ:''' ''This'' is a [[spoiler: highly directional, ultrasonic beam of ''[[ThePowerOfRock ROCK! AND! ROLL!]]'']]
* It's not a "shiver down the spine moment" like "I'm coming to get you" or "[[spoiler: Why would I give her my screwdriver?]]" but it's classic. In "The Fires of Pompeii" the Doctor holds off the attacking alien menace with... ''a water pistol''. At first you think it's just a bluff and he treats it as such, but then you remember that these are lava monsters and actually, that kinda stings. How often do you get a character who can seriously hold off the bad guys with a water pistol?
-->'''Donna:''' You fought her off with a ''water pistol''?! I bloody love you!
* Zoë [[spoiler:makes the International Electromatics computer work itself to "death"]] in ''The Invasion''.
** Later in that same serial, she [[spoiler:reprograms a handful of missiles to shoot down the Cybermen's entire invasion fleet.]]
--->'''Zoë''': Here. Feed this into your computer.
--->'''Branwell:''' You'd better be right.
--->'''Zoë''': I am.
* Ben, Polly and Jamie [[spoiler:blasting the Cybermen with various solvents]] in ''The Moonbase''.
* In ''The Three Doctors'', Two and Three [[spoiler:are able to use [[ChekhovsGun that recorder]] in a XanatosGambit to get them out of Omega's world.]]
* In ''Robot'', Sarah Jane delivers a killer ice burn to the Scientific Reform Society.
-->"I'm sure I can find room for you ... between the flying saucer people and the Flat Earthers."
* Jo Grant gets one in ''Frontier in Space'', when she responds to the Master's attempted hypnotism first by [[PsychicStatic shouting nursery rhymes at him]] and then by [[NotAfraidOfYouAnymore sheer force of will]]. And she's still so ''polite'' about it.
** Jo owns the Master again in "The Time Monster". He's completely failed to hypnotise the Atlantean king and is being led away by guards. His one consolation is that at least he's killed the Doctor. So when the Doctor and Jo show up, he's literally speechless. And Jo prompts him "How about 'Curses! Foiled again!'?"
* ''The Next Doctor'' [[spoiler: HumongousMecha trampling Victorian-era London]]. [[spoiler: The Doctor uses [[WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway the power of good]] in a hot air balloon to defeat it]].
** The Cybermen got one in that episode too.
-->[[spoiler:'''Miss Hartigan:''' But you promised me! You said I would never be converted!]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Cyberleader:''' [[ILied That was designated: A lie]].]]
** Hartigan gets one back [[spoiler: when it turns her mind is too strong to be cyberised and she promptly takes over the entire Cyberman operation with her willpower.]]
** There's also the scene after they first encounter Miss Hartigan. The two Doctors turn to run. Rosita ''decks her in the face.'' The Doctor's impressed, but can't admit it:
--->'''Can I just say... that was completely inappropriate!'''
** The scene at the funeral where the Cybermen are pwning ''everyone'', and Miss Hartigan is [[DissonantSerenity just standing there and watching serenely]]. It also helps that it's ''amazingly'' shot, and the Cybermen looming out at their victims through the [[SnowMeansDeath falling snow]].
** The Next Doctor himself [[spoiler:aka Jackson Lake]] also had a really awesome moment as well. [[spoiler:Suffering from mental trauma from finding out he's ''not'' the Doctor, that the Cybermen killed his wife ''(and did something else he can't remember)'', he straps on a bandoleer of fancy thumbdrives (called 'infostamps') and charges into battle, using them to destroy the Cybermen and rescue the Doctor]]. Sweet Jesus, for someone who [[spoiler:wasn't the Doctor, Lake really is a massively awesome BadassNormal.]]
** But the highlight of the episode (and we do mean ''high'') has to be the Cyber King. Oh, dear sweet silicon heaven, the Cyber King. [[spoiler: Steampunk Giant Robot attacking London, anyone?]]
*** The Doctor counters this, by borrowing the Next Doctor's TARDIS... [[spoiler: a hot air balloon]]. You have to admit, that takes balls.
** [[spoiler: Jackson Lake]] leading the crowd in cheering the 10th Doctor after he saves the day.
* ''Family of Blood.'' Let's look at the evidence, shall we? One, John Smith, the Doctor's alternate personality, is brave enough to sacrifice himself for the greater good of a cause he knows next to nothing about (although he probably realized it was the only way to stop the psychotic aliens). Two, having done this he uses [[ObfuscatingStupidity Obfuscating Humanity]] to fool the Family into thinking he's a harmless stupid human, falling over a lot and landing on the buttons in their ship... they REALLY shouldn't have let him press all those buttons. Four, No... wait a minute... Three. BewareTheNiceOnes. Four, AFateWorseThanDeath [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW1x2TmIq8s&NR=1 Five, Don't let me eat pears...]]; that video of debatable canon, never seen in full in the episode, works because it is entirely consistent with what the Doctor ''would'' say.
** As well as Martha's CMOA when told black women will never be doctors, and she proceeds to list every bone in the human hand. Surely a CMOA for FreemaAgyeman simply for being able to do that, let alone Martha totally owning the stuffy matron.
** Got to give matron a crowning moment here. When the Doctor is all "come with me" she calls him on the way death and destruction follows in his wake. "If you hadn't come here, would anyone have died?" Instead of being oh so dazzled by his awesomeness, she spoke up for the people who get left behind (like Harriet Jones tried to before). It's fine that he was trying to be kind to the Family of Blood and all, but by saving them (rather than just giving them a quick death and being done with it) how many more people ended up dead?
** Speaking of the Family of Blood, Baines/Son Of Mine claims his own crowning moment with his grand HannibalLecture against the headmaster.
---> Do you think they will thank the man who taught them it was glorious?
** And the headmaster gets his own in turn when he subverts that usual image of WW1:
---> You forget boy, I was in South Africa, I used my dead mates for sand bags, I fought with my gun when the bullets ran out, and I will go back tomorrow for King and Country!
** Oh, and Lucy Cartwright/Daughter of Mine earns one by casually entering the barricaded schoolyard, disintegating the headmaster, and ''daring'' the boy soldiers to shoot her.
** This troper thought probably the best moment of the entire episode was when [[spoiler: John Smith raises a rifle, looks down the sights... Then realizes he can't do it. The Doctor is THAT opposed to using guns that he won't use them when he can't even remember who he is!]]
* Midway through his career as the Third Doctor, Jon Pertwee put the ''Doctor Who'' theme to words in the form of "Who is the Doctor?", spoken more or less in-character. Among other things, the results stand as a powerful challenge to the dominance of the VillainSong.
-->''As fingers move to end mankind, metallic teeth begin to grind''\\
''With sword of truth, I turn to fight the satanic powers of the night!''
* In ''The Daleks' Master Plan'', [[spoiler:Ancient Egyptians stop a BadAss Dalek by blocking its way with rocks]].
* The Doctor gets his 16th gajillionth CMOA in ''Planet Of The Dead''. Three words: [[spoiler: ''BUS BITCH-SLAP.'']]
** Two more: [[spoiler:flying bus.]] That, and [[spoiler:UNIT]] not playing the RedshirtArmy to [[spoiler:stingrays with metal shells.]]
* Queen Victoria got one in "Tooth and Claw" when she pulled a pistol out of her handbag and shot the leader of the monks.
-->'''Monk:''' Oh, I don't think so, woman.
-->'''Queen Victoria:''' The correct form of address is "Your Majesty"! ''* BANG* ''
* [[spoiler:Pex's HeroicSacrifice]] in ''Paradise Towers''.
* [[spoiler:Fewsham's]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath sacrificial redemption]] in ''The Seeds of Death''
-->"''Every word has been heard on Earth''."
* The episode ''The Idiot's Lantern:''
-->'''[[AbusiveParents Eddie Connolly:]]''' "I AM TALKING!"
-->'''The Doctor:''' "AND I'M ''NOT LISTENING!''"
* Captain Jack Harkness producing a concealed laser pistol ''[[AssPull while completely naked]]'' and destroying the makeover droids.
** And then a little after when he figures out the Daleks' plan:
--->'''Jack:''' Doctor, ''Rose is still alive!''
* Am I the only one giving props to the [[strike:[[MemeticMutation Dalek Fred]]]] Dalek from the last few minutes of ''The Stolen Earth?'' Shooting the Doctor mid-MeadowRun might be horrifying to some, but this troper was busy laughing from the awesome.
** Hey, he made the Doctor Donna. Can't get much better than that.
* Waters of Mars:

** After the above, when Adelaide realizes [[spoiler: the Doctor won't recognize that he's gone too far,]] she [[spoiler: ''kills herself'' to fix the timeline in place. Watching the Doctor's [[WhatHaveIDone sudden realization]] of what he just did is ''very'' satisfying, after his [[AGodAmI prior speech.]]]]

* You just ''know'' that "The End of Time" will be packed with awesome.
** And it is. Part One. That. Last. Scene.
** Two words: Master Race. If anything could top what the Master pulled off in ''The Sound of Drums'', it's that.
** It's also a [=CMOA=] for John Simm. If you just read the script you would think 'Wow!', but if you ''see'' him? ''Awesome!''
*** [=BTW=] Whomever wanted him to GrowTheBeard up here in this page, I hope you are happy now.
** Lucy Saxon. Yes, that moment: [[spoiler: "TILL DEATH DO US PART, HARRY!"]]
*** Especially given the popular fan theory that [[spoiler:she was evil and the one behind the Master's resurrection]].
** Minnie the Menace groping the Doctor. This Troper fully plans to be that awesome when they are old, hopefully this will include the opportunity to grope David Tennant.
** And in part 2? [[spoiler: The Master gets revenge on ''Rassilon'' (it's sort of timey wimey. Yay, time war! Rewriting canon since 2005!) for putting the drums in his head. "ONE! TWO! THREE! FOUR!"]]
*** "You did this to me! All of my life! ''[[ThisIsSparta YOU MADE ME!!!]]'' "
** Even [[spoiler: Rassilon ''himself'']] gets a moment: the Master taunts the [[spoiler: Lord President,]] calling him ancient and decrepit, gloating that he will [[spoiler: turn every last one of the Time Lords into a genetic copy of himself.]] Response? [[spoiler: Rassilon undoes the Master's handiwork on the ''entire human race.'' ''With a flick of the wrist.'']] '''Awesome.'''
** The Doctor points out a small but significant detail to the Master: [[spoiler: "That guard is one inch too tall." * Male Vinvocci cold-cocks the Master with his rifle* ]]

** Wilf further cementing his BadassGrandpa status by piloting an anti-missile turret and saving the entire ship.
** "Get out of the way". No, not when [[TakeAThirdOption the Doctor says it]], but when the Master says it.
*** Seconded. This Troper cheered the Master... and then cursed him for [[spoiler: [[AlasPoorVillain walking into his own death]].]]
**** What, you really think [[JokerImmunity he's going to stay dead?]]
**** By this point, the Master needs his own CMOA page.
** [[spoiler:The 11th Doctor is born as the Tardis burns around him, laughing joyfully while it's exploding, and a ''kick-ass guitar riff plays in the background'']].

*** Prior to that moment, this troper had been on the fence about MattSmith taking the helm. Now? I'm giddy with anticipation for the next season. ''Behold, the power of awesome.''
*** Bear in mind [[spoiler: we've just had a massive TearJerker so that moment comes across as MoodWhiplash too.]]

* While it's kind of a meta example, consider that Michael Grade was the only BBC controller never to be knighted. Consider that the Queen is a fan of Doctor Who. This troper gladly nominates Her Majesty for a very subtle, but very satisfying, [=CMOA=].[[hottip:* :By the way, troper who originally wrote this entry here. I'm American, by the way, but Brits? I still think your queen is damn awesome. Man, you guys are lucky.]]
* Back in the 1980s, Sylvester [=McCoy=]'s era was scheduled against UK soap ''CoronationStreet'', and got clobbered, getting some of the lowest ratings in Who's history. Fast forward twenty years: "The End of Time" Part Two was scheduled against ''Coronation Street'', and ''won'' (10.4 million to Corrie's 8.6 million on overnights). For those of us who lived through that time, it felt like justice had been done.
* ''The Satan Pit''. Rose and the Tenth Doctor ''kill {{Satan}}'' (or at least a being with a good claim to inspiring the legend). By dropping it down a black hole. 'Nuff said.
** The speech the Doctor gives just before he does was pretty awesome too.
--->"So that's the trap, the great test, the final judgement, I dunno. But if I kill you, I kill her. But that implies, in this big grand scheme of gods and devils, that she's just a victim. Well, I've seen a lot of this universe. I've seen fake gods and bad gods and demi-gods and would-be gods. I've had the whole pantheon. But if I believe in one thing... just one thing... I believe in her!"
* Mickey Smith spends most of his time as second-fiddle, but he's had a couple of [=CMoAs=]. My personal favorite is when you realize that he blew up Downing Street with a submarine missile from his apartment. When the Master talks about Downing Street being rebuilt? That's because it took the British Government two seasons to get over Mickey.

* "The Beast Below". Amy [[spoiler:one-ups the Doctor in AwesomenessByAnalysis, subverts the Doctor's plan to TakeAThirdOption, manhandles the Queen of England, saves ''everyone'', and restores the Doctor's faith in humanity]], all in her first time off-planet and while wearing her nightie.
** Her Arthur Dent-ish costume in this episode is a crowning moment in itself.

** Two [=CMoAs=] mentioned without mentioning the eponymous pepperpots? They manage to manipulate the Doctor, of all people, into restoring his greatest enemy, and then manage to pull off a SadisticChoice on the guy who is ''known'' for TakingAThirdOption.
*** There's also the fact that what the Daleks start chanting when they're found out is actually ''right'' for once. "Victory! ''Victory!'' '''''VICTORY!'''''"
**** Dalek: TARDIS self destruct non existant!
Doctor: * Eats biscuit* Alright, it's a jammy dodger! BUT I WAS PROMISED TEA!
* ''The Time of Angels'':
** River Song opened the hatch door and blew herself into space just in time to be saved by the Doctor. Yes.
** Amy figuring out how to deal with the Angel that was threatening her. Even the Doctor and River were impressed.

* In ''Flesh and Stone,'' there were two in the same scene: "No, seriously, GET a GRIP!" and "I just don't think you understand the ''[[IncrediblyLamePun gravity]]'' of the situation!"

* [[HeroicSacrifice "We are Venetians!"]]
* From ''Spearhead from Space'':
--> '''Channing:''' You're too late.
--> '''The Doctor:''' On this planet, there is a saying that it is ''never'' too late.
* A little late here, but what, stand-out moments from every episode and yet no love for "Rise of the Cybermen" or "Age of Steel"? Let's start with Mr. Crane -- it almost seems wasted on someone so evil, but when he rips out his [=EarBuds=] ("Oh, no you ''don't!''") as Lumic tries to seize control, makes his way into his boss' central chamber, and mortally injures Lumic before the Cybermen restrain and "delete" him... you've got to admit that that was impressive.
* In ''The Poison Sky'', Col. Mace leads UNIT in a truly ''awesome'' attack on the Sontarans. But even that pales in comparison to this beauty he gives the Doctor after nothing but constant abuse: '''Thank you Doctor, thank you for your lack of faith but this time ''I'm not listening!'' ''' Considering the amount of criticism the Doctor has given UNIT or indeed any military force down through the years simply for ''doing their jobs'' that was '''hugely''' satisfying.
* The Doctor kicking ass at football in ''The Lodger'', complete with theme music blaring.
* A rare videogame example, from ''City of the Daleks'': The Doctor walks through a room full of Daleks who've just been blinded and are spraying gunfire nonstop to save Amy from being erased from time.
* From ''The Deadly Assassin'': Castellan Spandrell, the most sensible and wise of the time lords appearing in this story, is completely peaceful, collected and reasonable through the entirety of the serial... that is, until a guard who was under the Master's influence tried to kill the Doctor, at which point Spandrell shot him without skipping a beat.

** River Song's opening adventure in The Pandorica Opens. [[spoiler: She hears the Doctor may be in trouble, so she busts out of her prison, steals a painting, procures a Vortex Manipulator, writes the first words on the first planet in existence as a message to the Doctor, and then bluffs her way into a Roman camp by making the soldiers think she was Cleopatra. A little Hallucinogenic Lipstick goes a long way!]]
** The episode also gives some great material to [[spoiler: a lone Cyberman, practically getting the same amount of CMOA on behalf of his species as the title character from "Dalek" in just one scene. Broken into pieces, the human inside having long rotted to uselessness, and it manages to get quite far in trying to take down the Doctor and Amy while being damn scary in the meantime. Added awesomeness by this being the first appearance of an original Cyberman since 1988]]
*** [[spoiler: And then Rory gets one by killing it with a Centurion sword in a BackFromTheDead reveal.]]
* From ''The Big Bang'', River Song [[spoiler: getting a Dalek to beg for mercy. ''Three times.'' Not to mention this was one of the new, supposedly BadAss Progenitor Daleks.]] If anyone was unsure of River Song's awesomeness until now - and believe me I was one - [[PreAssKickingOneLiner check your records again.]]
--> Dalek: MERCY!
--> River: Say it again.
--> Dalek: MERRCCYY!
--> River: One more time.
--> Dalek: MERRCCCCYYYYYYYY!
** Just to reiterate, she became the only person in the history of the series other than the Doctor to inspire fear in a Dalek, getting it to ''beg for mercy,'' and then doesn't give it.
** Auton-Rory deploying his ArmCannon on a Dalek.
--> Dalek: INTRUDER-IS-UNARMED.
--> Rory: Oh, you think?
-->([[CowboyBebop BANG]]).
** Rory got a LOT of awesome in this episode, including [[spoiler: single-handedly DRAGGING the Pandorica out of a building that was just bombed by Germans]], [[spoiler: punching out the Doctor and getting COMPLIMENTED for it (since it proved his humanity)]], and, one more thing, [[spoiler: protecting the Pandorica all alone for just under two THOUSAND YEARS.]] Forget Amy, Rory is the best companion of this series.
*** That last part can't be overstated enough. [[spoiler: One thousand, eight hundred and ninety four years. Conscious, the whole time. Never sleeping. Never resting. Alone, stranded in time, and with no way of knowing whether he would even last until the modern day. Probably still wracked with guilt over shooting Amy in the first place, and tasked with keeping the Pandorica safe from ANYTHING, following it wherever it went, through dozens of civilisations and countries. No reassurances, no help, no instructions other than "protect Amy". No way of healing any damage if he gets hurt, and the only weapons he has when he starts are a sword and an ArmCannon. And he SUCCEEDS. Not only that, but when he shows up as the museum guard, ''there isn't a scratch on him.'' Not to mention the fact that he's now ''twice as old as the Doctor himself''. Yes, Rory is ''definitely'' {{Badass}}.]]
*** One more thing: [[spoiler: The Doctor indicated that if he took the slow path alone for that long, he'd very likely go insane. But did he? Nope, Rory kept it together for nearly two thousand years ''out of sheer dedication due to his love for Amy.'' If there's a poster child for ThePowerOfLove, it's that. The fact that Arthur Darvill is returning as part of the TARDIS team once more is just icing on the cake.]]

** "[[spoiler:That's my TARDIS burning up.]] That's what's been keeping the Earth warm." Even in death, [[spoiler:the TARDIS still keeps the Earth safe for as long as it can.]]
* A behind-the-scenes example: One of the darker chapters in the show's production history was TomBaker becoming incredibly difficult to work with in his final season. Recollections abound of him snoring in read-throughs at parts of the script he didn't like, verbally abusing the writers, having numerous shouting matches with co-star and [[RomanceOnTheSet brief-wife-to-be]] Lalla Ward, and caught in the middle of it all was new companion and PromotedFanboy Matthew Waterhouse, watching [[ArtistDisillusionment the image of his childhood hero shattering violently before his eyes.]] During one of Tom's "acting up and being rude" periods on the last day of filming for "Full Circle," Matthew (in full Adric get-up) finally put his foot down and told him to [[PrecisionFStrike "fuck off."]] And got away with it. And kept Tom quiet (aside form his lines, of course) for the ''whole rest of the studio day.'' The 2010 DoctorWhoMagazine interview described it as a "[[strike: Crowning]] coming-of-age moment."
* In ''The Crusade'', when Princess Joanna learns of her brother King Richard I's plan to [[spoiler:marry her off to Saphadin without her knowing beforehand]], she basically bites his head off. Remember, this is a medieval king she's bawling out in front of the men. Sister or no, that took guts.

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* Really, with a show that has run for thirty seasons over forty-five years and counting, contains two [=CMoA=] ''goldmines'' in the Doctor and the Master, as well as many other characters with more than a few [=CMoA=] themselves (Daleks, Davros, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart) ''DoctorWho'' itself is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for [[TheBBC the BBC]].
** I don't think forty-five years can be considered a "moment", perhaps we should just say Crowning * Lifespan* Of Awesome.
*** Here, here!
*** [[SpecialEffectsFailure I]] [[{{Camp}} respectfully]] [[DamselInDistress object]], but this show ''is'' packed to the brim with awesome moments.
*** In 2005, accepted wisdom in the British television industry held that the family TV genre was dead. The audience simply wasn't there; families didn't watch TV together anymore. Something like the revived ''Doctor Who'' wasn't going to last long.\\
''Doctor Who'' promptly proceeded to demolish all those assumptions. It regularly got ratings higher than those of most other dramas, its average audience staying stable in defiance of the general TV decline. It was repeatedly acclaimed by public, critics, and TV professionals alike. It quickly established itself as a centrepiece of the BBC's Saturday night schedule, heralding the revival of the family TV genre, and becoming a justification for the BBC's continued existence. ''Doctor Who'' became a crowning achievement for the BBC, and for British television in general.
* The Davies/Gardner production team have several [=CMoAs=] themselves, including:
** Bringing the show back to be one of the BBC's big hitters.
** Restoring the use of the CliffHanger as an art form.
** Using the BBC's rival network ITV to break the news of David Tennant's departure. Seriously, mega-cojones.
* The end of the first New Seris episode to feture the Cybermen(the name escapes me at the moment). The fact that as soon as The Doctor realized what was going on, he was scared. Real scared. His frantic screaming of "We surrender!" over and over again helps.

And all of that? Scratching the surface. In effect, what we're talking about is a TV series that if there isn't some sort of [=CMoA=] in a story, the story is considered poor. And then there's the books, which give us just as many.

[[folder:Books]]

[[AC:VirginNewAdventures]]
* In ''The Also People'' super-sentient spaceships kilometers wide, made up by forcefields, armed with weapons that overload suns and who think that a picosecond is a long time, are worried about the presence of the Doctor. In fact, they're thinking that it might be wise to sterilise the entire planet just in case. What does the Doctor do?\\
He goes for tea and biscuits. And sets up his chair in the zero-g environs the ships live in (it can be seen here: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Also_People. He talks to them nicely and they decide either that he's not a threat or that even if he '''is''' a threat, it's not wise to cross him. Later in the same book he out thinks a ship, and blows up its higher functions with a small bomb that he kept in his mouth. And whistles "anything you can do, I can do better" all the while.\\
Bringer of Darkness? Destroyer of Worlds? Oncoming Storm? Pure. Unadultered. Awesome.
* ''Damaged Goods'' contains a scene where a pimp/drug dealer and his vacuous wife encounter the main antagonist. The antagonist is an N-Form wearing a human body: the N-Form is a giant metallic thing with tentacles, and its disguise is horrible. It holds a conversation with the drug dealer about distributing the cocaine that contains its engram (thus making it possible for the N-Form to emerge in the bodies of everyone who consumes it.) The pimp/dealer and his wife are so self-absorbed and dull that they fail to notice that they're dealing with something that clearly isn't human: they're only interested in the score. Even when the conversation is over, and the N-Form TELEPORTS AWAY, they still don't think anything odd about it.
* ''The Dying Days''. The last novel by then publisher Virgin Publishing. It's set up as a "anything can happen" novel that will segue into a "BerniceSummerfield Series" (Benny being the main companion of the Virgin era). So when the Doctor seemingly dies (and is thought of as dead by two people who know about regeneration) you think "crap, he's dead". So when three chapters from the end (about fifty pages) a quiet voice whispers "it ends now" to the villain of the piece your blood goes cold and you cannot say anything but "ohh hell YES". Given that said scene goes on to include the lines "the Daleks call me the Bringer of Darkness", "I'm the champion of life and time" "I make history better" and finally "each word louder then the last "I. Am. The. Doctor" and it was,". The Brigadier who's watching this sheds a tear.

[[AC:EighthDoctorAdventures]]
* This Troper is less than twenty pages in to ''Trading Futures'', and the Doctor has already blown up the BigBad's [[CoolBoat stealth hydrofoil]] using nothing but a parachute, a cricket ball, and a cup of water. {{MacGyver}} would be proud.

[[AC:Past Doctor Adventures]]
* The first Doctor looks and acts like he's 60+ years old (he's actually about 400). So when he's challenged to a kung fu duel in ''The Eleventh Tiger'' you expect him to come up with something brilliant and avoid the fight. He doesn't. Instead he physics the arrogant thug into submission. He uses his momentum from an attack to flip him onto his back. To prove he's not a one hit wonder, he does it again. THEN when the thug pulls out his "breaks clay jars, and heads are softer then clay jars" kick, the Doctor stands in classic "bring it on" pose and catches the light with his sapphire ring, temporarily blinding the thug. The kick still connects. With the pole the Doctor was standing in front of. All the Doctor did was tilt his head. He then sets about tending the thug's wounds. Ian and Barbara are stunned into silence. If they weren't paragons of '60s virtue they'd have both said "ohh hell yes". As it is, they eventually respond by ''reciting the lyrics to Kung Fu Fighting''.

It's not just the books. The comics get in on it as well.

[[folder:Comics]]

[[AC:''DoctorWhoMagazine'' strips]]
* "The Flood". The Eighth Doctor goes full-on angry god against an army of future Cybermen, annihilating them utterly. Then he gives up the chance to achieve communion with the Vortex, becoming one with everything, to save his companion's life.
* "Wormwood". Specifically, TheReveal, where Eight reveals just how he's tricked the AncientConspiracy that's been screwing him over for the past couple of storyarcs.
* "The Glorious Dead" is a [=CMoA=] for [[spoiler:the Master. He changes the course of history so his forces end up ruling the Earth for centuries - by taking advantage of the Doctor's earlier meddling, something he's quite happy to point out to the Doctor in the course of a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech massive put-down]]. And that's just a distraction from [[CosmicKeystone what he's really after.]] ]]
* "Uninvited Guest": the Seventh Doctor, in full Oncoming Storm mode, takes down a group of Eternals who manipulated a world into destroying itself. The ''method'' by which he defeats them is the true source of the awesome. [[spoiler:He basically pulls a reversal of the punishment he'd later inflict on the Family of Blood and makes the Eternals mortal. He gave each of them the gift of a single, mortal life so that they'd understand the value of what they so callously destroyed.]]
* One for Majenta Pryce in the recent strip "The Crimson Hand".
-->'''Majenta''':[[spoiler:The face isn't listening. Talk to the hand. (Cue four huge, villain-defeating laser beams from the hand-shaped God Machine.)]]

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* "The Forgotten": [[spoiler:the ten Doctors facing off against the BigBad.]] [[http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y28/mrtonylee/comicpr/doctorwho_twopage.jpg Here you go.]]

And even the audio adventures get in on the [=CMOAs=], too. And some of these can get quite insane, considering they're only limited by audio technology and imagination.

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* ''The Kingmaker'', a 5th Doctor tale, has the Doctor trying to write a book on the mysteries of history, lest he be killed by a robot forcing the Doctor to write said book. Somehow, this all ends up with Richard the III trying to kill ol' Bill Shakespeare for writing slanderous material based on him... but not before the robot winds up chasing after ''Shakespeare'' and demanding a new draft for TheTempest. Hilariously, the end result of all this is [[spoiler:that Shakespeare dies 100 years before he was born, forcing King Richard the III to take up playwriting in the 1600s.]] Oh, ''and'' we get numerous references to the Ninth Doctor and the Master. And it really works.
* ''The Brotherhood of the Daleks''. Six and Charley against... ''Communist Daleks.''
* ''...ish''. The Sixth Doctor uses his legendary SesquipedalianLoquaciousness to defeat a ''sentient word''.
* ''Davros'' is one long [=CMoA=] for you-know-who. He starts the story off ''freaking [[DeathIsCheap DEAD]]'', and by the end he's taken over the galaxy's biggest [[MegaCorp corporation]], pretended to be a {{Woobie}} to enlist the help of the CEO's [[UnwittingPawn wife]] in taking over the comapny, reduced the galactic stock market to a simple, foolproof equation and held the economy hostage by threatening to release said equation to ''everyone'', and dropped a '''nuclear bomb on the Doctor.''' [[hottip:*:Of course it doesnt work, but ''still.'']] [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent. Bastard.]]

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** She also killed another Dalek by shooting it in the face with a rocket launcher.

*** It should be noted that in the new series, aiming for the eyepiece is the only way to defeat a Dalek by conventional means.
** In part four, the Doctor rewires a Dalek machine he had thoroughly fried earlier that day.
** Also in the same story, the Daleks themselves get at least three Crowning Moments of Awesome [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSD4RFEzRWs Here]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BuWFXYcDk4 here]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8G2TJqgRHc&feature=related at the start of this video]]

** Even Adric gets his CMoAs, despised as he is. How about ''Warriors' Gate'', wherein, as Rorvik and his men are about to blow the Doc and Romana away, he calls to them from the doorway where he's covering them with the MZ Cannon, and advises them to drop their weapons..."Please!" Just awesome cool from the Alzarian nerd.

* Mickey Smith spends most of his time as second-fiddle, but he's had a couple of CMoAs. My personal favorite is when you realize that he blew up Downing Street with a submarine missile from his apartment. When the Master talks about Downing Street being rebuilt? That's because it took the British Government two seasons to get over Mickey.

** Two CMoAs mentioned without mentioning the eponymous pepperpots? They manage to manipulate the Doctor, of all people, into restoring his greatest enemy, and then manage to pull off a SadisticChoice on the guy who is ''known'' for TakingAThirdOption.

* And all of that? Scratching the surface. In effect, what we're talking about is a TV series that if there isn't some sort of [=CMoA=] in a story, the story is considered poor. And then there's the books, which give us just as many.
** Case in point: The Dying Days. The last novel by then publisher Virgin Publishing. It's set up as a "anything can happen" novel that will segue into a "Bernice Summerfield Series" (Benny being the main companion of the Virgin era). So when the Doctor seemingly dies (and is thought of as dead by two people who know about regeneration) you think "crap, he's dead". So when three chapters from the end (about fifty pages) a quiet voice whispers "it ends now" to the villain of the piece your blood goes cold and you cannot say anything but "ohh hell YES". Given that said scene goes on to include the lines "the Daleks call me the Bringer of Darkness", "I'm the champion of life and time" "I make history better" and finally "each word louder then the last "I. Am. The. Doctor" and it was,". The Brigadier who's watching this sheds a tear.
** Another case in point: the first Doctor looks and acts like he's 60+ years old (he's actually about 400). So when he's challenged to a kung fu duel in "The Eleventh Tiger" you expect him to come up with something brilliant and avoid the fight. He doesn't. Instead he physics the arrogant thug into submission. He uses his momentum from an attack to flip him onto his back. To prove he's not a one hit wonder, he does it again. THEN when the thug pulls out his "breaks clay jars, and heads are softer then clay jars" kick, the Doctor stands in classic "bring it on" pose and catches the light with his sapphire ring, temporarily blinding the thug. The kick still connects. With the pole the Doctor was standing in front of. All the Doctor did was tilt his head. He then sets about tending the thug's wounds. Ian and Barbara are stunned into silence. If they weren't paragons of '60s virtue they'd have both said "ohh hell yes". As it is, they eventually respond by ''reciting the lyrics to Kung Fu Fighting''.
** Maybe a third case in point: In "The Also People" super-sentient spaceships kilometers wide, made up by forcefields, armed with weapons that overload suns and who think that a picosecond is a long time, are worried about the presence of the Doctor. In fact, they're thinking that it might be wise to sterilise the entire planet just in case. What does the Doctor do?\\

** This Troper is less than twenty pages in to "Trading Futures", and the Doctor has already blown up the BigBad's [[CoolBoat stealth hydrofoil]] using nothing but a parachute, a cricket ball, and a cup of water. MacGyver would be proud.
* It's not just the books. The comics get in on it as well.
** Take the ''[[DoctorWhoMagazine DWM]]'' strips:
*** "The Flood". The Eighth Doctor goes full-on angry god against an army of future Cybermen, annihilating them utterly. Then he gives up the chance to achieve communion with the Vortex, becoming one with everything, to save his companion's life.
*** Or "Wormwood". Specifically, TheReveal, where Eight reveals just how he's tricked the AncientConspiracy that's been screwing him over for the past couple of storyarcs.
*** "The Glorious Dead" is a [=CMoA=] for [[spoiler:the Master. He changes the course of history so his forces end up ruling the Earth for centuries - by taking advantage of the Doctor's earlier meddling, something he's quite happy to point out to the Doctor in the course of a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech massive put-down]]. And that's just a distraction from [[CosmicKeystone what he's really after.]] ]]
*** "Uninvited Guest": the Seventh Doctor, in full Oncoming Storm mode, takes down a group of Eternals who manipulated a world into destroying itself.
**** Oh, don't just leave it there. The ''method'' by which he defeats them is the true source of the awesome. [[spoiler:He basically pulls a reversal of the punishment he'd later inflict on the Family of Blood and makes the Eternals mortal. He gave each of them the gift of a single, mortal life so that they'd understand the value of what they so callously destroyed.]]
*** One for Majenta Pryce in the recent strip "The Crimson Hand".
--->'''Majenta''':[[spoiler:The face isn't listening. Talk to the hand. (Cue four huge, villain-defeating laser beams from the hand-shaped God Machine.)]]
** Or, from IDW's "The Forgotten", [[spoiler:the ten Doctors facing off against the BigBad.]]
*** Link, ''please''.
**** [[http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y28/mrtonylee/comicpr/doctorwho_twopage.jpg Here you go.]]
* And even the BigFinish audio adventures get in on the [=CMOAs=], too. And some of these can get quite insane, considering they're only limited by audio technology and imagination.
** The Kingmaker, a 5th Doctor tale, has the Doctor trying to write a book on the mysteries of history, lest he be killed by a robot forcing the Doctor to write said book. Somehow, this all ends up with Richard the III trying to kill ol' Bill Shakespeare for writing slanderous material based on him... but not before the robot winds up chasing after ''Shakespeare'' and demanding a new draft for TheTempest. Hilariously, the end result of all this is [[spoiler:that Shakespeare dies 100 years before he was born, forcing King Richard the III to take up playwriting in the 1600s.]] Oh, ''and'' we get numerous references to the Ninth Doctor and the Master. And it really works.
** The Brotherhood of the Daleks. Six and Charley against... ''Communist Daleks.''
** ''...ish''. The Sixth Doctor uses his legendary SesquipedalianLoquaciousness to defeat a ''sentient word''.
** ''Davros'' is one long CMoA for you-know-who. He starts the story off ''freaking [[DeathIsCheap DEAD]]'', and by then end he's taken over the galaxy's biggest [[MegaCorp corporation]], pretened to be a {{Woobie}} to enlist the help of the CEO's [[UnmwittingPawn wife]] in taking over the comapny, reduced the galactic stock market to a simple, foolproof equation and held the economy hostage by threatening to release said equation to ''everyone'', and dropped a '''nuclear bomb on the Doctor.''' [[hottip:* :Of course it doesnt work, but ''still.'']] [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent. Bastard.]]
* The end of the first New Seris episode to feture the Cybermen(the name escapes me at the moment). The fact that as soon as The Doctor realized what was going on, he was scared. Real scared. His frantic screaming of "We surrender!" over and over again helps.

** The episode also gives some great material to [[spoiler: a lone Cyberman, practically getting the same amount of CMOA on behalf of his species as the title character from "Dalek" in just one scene. Broken into pieces, the human inside having long rotted to uselessness, and it manages to get quite far in trying to take down the Doctor and Amy while being damn scary in the meantime.]]

** ... Why is this a good thing? Anyway, Baines shuts him up good and proper by terrifying the stupid bastard into running for cover.

** ''Davros'' is one long CMoA for you-know-who. He starts the story off ''freaking [[DeathIsCheap DEAD]]'', and by then end he's taken over the galaxy's biggest [[MegaCorp corporation]], pretened to be a {{Woobie}} to enlist the help of the CEO's [[XanatosSucker wife]] in taking over the comapny, reduced the galactic stock market to a simple, foolproof equation and held the economy hostage by threatening to release said equation to ''everyone'', and dropped a '''nuclear bomb on the Doctor.''' [[hottip:* :Of course it doesnt work, but ''still.'']] [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent. Bastard.]]

* Captain Jack Harkness producing a concealed laser pistol ''while completely naked'' and destroying the makeover droids.