History Awesome / GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex

** It is never told [[spoiler: who, or what, put the information there when Aoi stumbled on it.]]

** It is never told [[spoiler: who, or what, put the file there when Aoi stumbled on it.]]

* And the famous scene where the Major kills a guy through a skyscraper window, then fades into the night, while in freefall.

* The opening songs for both seasons, and the closing songs. Yakko Kano for the former and oddly, an American singer giving you Jpop for the latter. Simply incredible.

** And later, at the end of 2nd Gig, The Tachikomas [[spoiler:hacking the thruster controls of their satellite, which contained all their personality data, and [[HeroicSacrifice ramming it into a nuclear missile]]. They make this more awesome by singing while doing it.]]

* Saito and the Major each manage to get a CMOA in the same episode, fighting against each other. The big point? They got their Crowning Moments simultanously.

---> "Section Nine's specialties are cyberwarfare and busting heads in."

** The Major actually has another moment. An earlier episode had a HumongousMecha chasing her, Batou, and a VIP that had info on the GovernmentConspiracy. She leads the mech away, and soon gets her ass handed to her, to the point of the mech blowing off her arm and attempting to ''squish her head into the pavement.'' Cue the cavalry with their BFG managing to stop the mech cold... then we get to see Motoko get up, take the giant gun, and proceed to unload the rest of the bullets on the fallen mech up close, singlehandedly (''literally''), all while the pilot is begging for mercy. She doesn't kill him, but a point is made: '''never''' piss off The Major.
*** What I got from the scene was that she did kill him, by denting the chestplate until he couldn't breathe anymore.
**** In the next episode, when they arrest Niimi, Aramaki mentions that Gayle (the aforementioned pilot) gave them recordings of his conversations with Niimi. So she probably didn't kill him.
*** I always thought Aramaki was lying.
**** Aramaki mentioned that Gayle was very cooperative afterward... Why? Because the Major scared him shitless once the tables were turned. So no, she didn't kill him.

** My personal favorite was episode 23 "Equinox". To elaborate: [[spoiler: The Major had posed as the Laughing Man and had an extended conversation with the head of Serano Genomics, the whole time, Serano was convinced she was the genuine article.]] "And I was never in a single school play either." ''indeed.''

* In this troper's opinion, Togusa's CMOA came near the end of the first season when he risks his life, and actually gets shot, finding a critical piece of evidence that (arguably) led to the solving of the Laughing Man case. What makes this particularly badass is the fact that you have to consider that he is one of the few members of Section 9 who doesn't have a large number of prosthetics, and the only one without military training. In other words, he was about ten times as vulnerable in this situation as anyone else on the team would have been, and his biggest concern was to just get the necessary info to the right people. Awesome.

* This troper would like to point out that the Laughing Man is in itself a Crowning Moment of Awesome. At the very least, it's an all-pervasive cultural phenomenon unintentionally started by someone who's possibly the world's most skilled hacker, [[spoiler:''accidentally'' inspires thirty-nine ''simultaneous'' assassination attempts on the same person]] and is quite probably [[spoiler:a sentient pure-data entity]] spontaneously spawned ''by pure injustice''. To top it all off, the Laughing Man is specifically stated, in-canon, to be an entity that's ''too cool to exist''. [[CrowningMomentofAwesome Awesome]].

** ...So the Laughing Man is [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group) Anonymous?]]

* Batou [[Spoiler: single handedly defeating a small group of professional soldiers and a ''powered armour suit'' with nothing more than a pistol, one grenade and one eye-hack]] in episode 24. This man can sure hold his ground.

* In an England-themed [[http://clip.vn/watch/Ghost-in-the-Shell-SAC-Ep-17,lls episode]] that demonstrated Aramaki was essentially MadeOfWin, the Chief racked up Crowning Moments like a pinball machine as he ''took charge of the group of inept bank robbers who had taken him hostage'' and turned the entire situation to his advantage after he realized they were all being set up. Repeat: the man is so BadAss a [[TheStrategist Strategist]] he can outmaneuver a SWAT team with a bunch of ''street punks!''

* After breaking his arm, Ishikawa ended up being held at gunpoint by one of Gohda's goons. Ishikawa promptly knocks him out ''with his cast.''

* Tachikomas [[spoiler:sacrificing themselves for Batou? Three weaponless Tachikomas against a full battle suit. So awesome that it convinced the Major that they'd grown ''souls.'']] Also qualifies as a TearJerker. What's particularly striking is that, when the Tachikomas are on the brink of despair over their [[spoiler: powerlessness to stop the armored suit without ammunition, the Major is the one to talk them out of it and inspire them to succeed. She does this by assuring them that their human-like curiosity and ability to experience feeling as people do, the very thing that originally convinced her they had become useless, is more empowering than their weapons would be.]] This is tantamount to the Major, of all people, admitting she was ''wrong.''
** And later, ''every'' Tachikoma deciding to [[spoiler: throw the satellite containing their personalities and memories at the rising nuclear missile, setting it off early]].
* Essentially anytime that [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Run Rabbit Junk]] plays one or more members of the team are [[LetsGetDangerous about to do something awesome]]

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* Essentially anytime that [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Run Rabbit Junk]] plays one or more members of the team are [[LetsGetDangerous about to do something awesome]]

* After breaking his arm, Ishikawa ended up being held at gunpoint by one of Gohda's goons. Ishikawa promptly knocks him out by punching him ''with his cast.''

* In an England-themed [[http://clip.vn/watch/Ghost-in-the-Shell-SAC-Ep-17,lls episode]] that demonstrated Aramaki was essentially MadeOfWin, the Chief racked up Crowning Moments like a pinball machine as he ''took charge of the group of inept bank robbers who had taken him hostage'' and turned the entire situation to his advantage after he realized they were all being set up. Repeat: the man is so BadAss a [[TheStrategist Strategist]] he can outmaneuver the SAS with a bunch of ''street punks!''

* In an England-themed [[http://clip.vn/watch/Ghost-in-the-Shell-SAC-Ep-17,lls episode]] that demonstrated Aramaki was essentially MadeOfWin, the Chief racked up Crowning Moments like a pinball machine as he ''took charge of the group of inept bank robbers who had taken him hostage'' and turned the entire situation to his advantage after he realized they were all being set up.

* Essentially anytime that [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Run Rabbit Junk]] plays one or more members to the team are [[LetsGetDangerous about to do soemthing awesome]]

** And later, ''every'' Tachikoma deciding to [[spoiler: throw the satellite containing their personalities and memories at the rising nuclear missile, setting it off early]].

* Tachikomas [[spoiler:sacrificing themselves for Batou? Three weaponless Tachikomas against a full battle suit. So awesome that it convinced the Major that they'd grown ''souls.'']] Also qualifies as a TearJerker.

* Tachikomas [[spoiler:sacrificing themselves for Batou? Three weaponless Tachikomas against a full battle suit. So awesome that it convinced the Major that they'd grown ''souls.'']] Also qualifies as a TearJerker.

* After breaking his arm, Ishikawa ended up being held at gunpoint by one of Gohda's goons. Ishikawa promptly knocks him out by punching him with his cast.