History Awesome / KingdomHeartsII

* [[http://www.mangareader.net/kingdom-hearts-2/58/2 Kairi is facing Saix]]; who plans on using her as TheBait to attract Sora. He tells her that all she needs to do is scream; and then has a Berserker rip the jail bars from its hinges and hurl it at her; to the point of cutting a bleeding wound on her cheek. [[http://www.mangareader.net/kingdom-hearts-2/58/4 She stares at her incoming death]], and keeping her eyes open, prays to Riku and Sora to give her strength and she [[http://www.mangareader.net/kingdom-hearts-2/58/5 never backs down]].
** Later, when she gets her own keyblade; she is much more proficient with it than in the game and [[http://www.mangareader.net/kingdom-hearts-2/61/22 rescues Sora from Xigbar later]]. Xigbar sneers at Sora for needing her help, and Riku states that its fine.

** On that note, just him being ThatOneBoss in general. He's generally presented as the weakest member of Organization XIII shown thus far, and far from threatening. Then you encounter him at Hollow Bastion. Just as you're thinking that this fight is going to go swimmingly...[[LetsGetDangerous "Silence, traitor."]] Cue one hell of a WakeUpCallBoss that ''will'' etch the phrase "Dance, water, dance!" into your mind.

* Sora and Riku's LimitBreak, [[YinYangBomb Eternal]] [[{{BFS}} Session]]. ''The'' coolest Limit Break of the game.

* In The Land of Dragons, Shan-Yu attacks the Emperor's palace riding [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons Storm Rider]], stopping Sora from reaching to Riku. As Shan-Yu is about to finish off the Emperor, Sora stops him. The Storm Rider? ''[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge Down in one hit]]''.

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* Tifa turns up. Sora, Donald and Goofy ''snap to attention, to terrified to disobey her.''

*** Even better was that [[Main/DevelopmentGag this was how Ursula was going to be defeated in her original film]].

* The Manga reveals that ''Mickey did turn up when his wife called for him!'' Minnie's love for her husband is powerful enough to ''transcend realms and the Darkness to bring her husband to her.''

* Magic in general is pretty awesome. But Reflega and Magnega take the cake!
* Pretty much any boss against one of the Disney villains. There's just something cathartic about beating up villains you remember from childhood, all while awesome music plays.
* The final Roxas vs Axel fight. Throughout the entire prologue, Roxas has been having enough trouble using the Keyblade as it is, and is using the same three-hit combos Sora did in the first game. Doesn't help we have no idea who the guy is at this point. Then he duels Axel, who gives the famous "I'm SO FLATTERED" quote. Roxas responds by pulling out ''two'' Keyblades, becoming the first person in the series to use two at once, and becomes a spinning maelstrom of destruction with long, powerful multi-hit combos that can drain a third of a health bar.
** Axel's line, Roxas dual-wielding, dueling in a ring of fire, dueling ''on'' the ring of fire, their conversation afterward... [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GUed8WYMPI the entire fight itself was a Moment of Awesome for both of them]].

* In The Land of Dragons, after Yao punches Sora to the ground, Donald makes sure he's okay, then pushes up his sleeves, and ''tackles Yao''. This shows that Donald and Sora have come a long way from when they first met, where they could just barely get along. And now, Donald is willing to attack someone just for knocking Sora down.
* The moment when ''Mickey Mouse'' shows why Xehanort acknowledges him as a worthy enemy and becomes ''fucking horrifying'' as he unleashes a can of literal and proverbial shit onto Heartless and makes even [[Franchise/StarWars Yoda]] look tame. ''Mickey. Fucking. Mouse.''
** When Goofy [[DisneyDeath "dies"]] and Mickey says ''[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge "They'll pay for this,"]]''; the way he throws off his cloak and gets his Keyblade is so epically awesome it's hard to describe - before that, Mickey's fists clench with sheer rage. One thing you ''do'' know however, is that the Heartless are, most definitely, completely and utterly screwed by one incredibly pissed off and furious mouse who has a reason to viciously and violently murder them. He ''does''.
** Then there was Donald. After Goofy 'dies', he breaks down sobbing. Then, out of rage and grief, he runs into the fight screaming with anger, arms flailing.

* Kairi up and jumping off a high balcony in the Castle That Never Was to rescue Sora from an onslaught of Heartless. If Let's Plays are any indication, many players were actually more impressed with ''that'' than they were her using a Keyblade afterward.
* Shang knocking Shan-Yu over and then taking the Emperor in to safety.

* Auron's role in Olympus Coliseum is somehow even more awesome than anything he did in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX''. He gets ''brought back from the dead'' by Hades to murder Sora, practically spits in his face in return, and goes off to team up with Sora and kick all kinds of ass.
** Not to mention some of the lines he says to Hades.
---> "[[ArcWords This is my story.]] And you're not part of it."\\
"[[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu No wonder no one wants to die]]"
** And even after he's teamed up with Sora, it doesn't end there. When Hades makes Auron his slave by brainwashing him and forces him to battle against Hercules, he doesn't only keep his stance. He is winning, only minutes away from wiping the floor with Hercules when Sora and the party storm in and free him from Hades' control. Auron not only survives a battle against a super strong demigod, but he's kicking his ass without breaking a sweat.
* Demyx's status as ThatOneBoss can distract people from one major feat he pulled off: He managed to sneak into Mt. Olympus to steal the Olympus Stone. This bears repeating: Demyx broke into a place where ''gods'' live and ''stole one of their relics with impunity from the gods''.
* Hades Paradox Cup: Round 49. Sora has to face off against Cloud, Leon, Tifa, and Yuffie, all by himself. Although very challenging, perhaps even more challenging than the Sephiroth fight, this is truly one of the most awesome boss battles in the game.
** Also, Hades Paradox Cup: Round 40. This fight only has Leon and Cloud, and although there's a time limit and although they both have HP up to Xemnas's health bar, this is made up for with very fast recharging magic, and being able to use the Drive Forms as much as you want. Casting Thundaga, Blizzaga, and Firaga in Master and Final Form has never been more satisfying.
* Though most of what she did in the first game was behind the scenes, Queen Minnie gets several crowning moment in this game:
** She shows some extreme guts to ''threaten'' [[BigBad Maleficent]] of all people.
-->'''Minnie:''' You better stop right now if you know what's good for you!
** Also not being a helpless escort during the Disney Castle mission and using her awesome but useful light attack, Faith, on Heartless in the Castle.
*** Well, there ''had'' to be a reason - other than the castle belonging to her anyway - that Mickey ''left her in charge''. He could have appointed ''anyone'' to look after the Castle ''and'' Minnie, but he didn't - he appointed ''his wife'', a tiny mouse who is ''also'' capable of kicking all of the arse if she needs too - she doesn't ''need'' protection as Mickey officially considers his wife capable of doing it herself; they're on ''equal'' footing here, the BattleCouple.
* Timeless River, sort of celebrating the past of Mickey Mouse before ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'' did.
* Being able to combo Past!Pete into Present!Pete to, in effect make him hit himself with a shockwave.
** Just having Past!Pete fight alongside you against Present!Pete is awesome by itself.

* Port Royal, as a whole, is an extremely wholesome experience. You fight the Undead pirates, blast other pirates ships, essentially get a retelling of the movie and a sort of continuation on the second visit, fight Barbossa and an Aztec Grim Reaper Heartless as bosses, and actually see blood- even if its just a cut on the hand. Jack Sparrow is as cool as he was in the movie, even being able to wield a Keyblade for a short time; and it is interesting to see the stylised, anime-ish, and realistic characters clash (particularly Pete conversing with Barbossa).
** The cutscene before the boss battle with Barbossa, where the heroes pull a BigDamnHeroes, there's a swordfight, and The Illuminator is introduced, letting Barbossa get a cool pose with it's GlowingEyesOfDoom.
* Any time you summon Genie, it usually ends up being very spectacular. Especially since he mimic's Sora's drive forms.
* The Prison Keeper in Halloween Town, which is the first boss to have above three health bars, [[ThatOneBoss and lord help you if you are underleveled]].
** Actually if you're proficient enough at Guard/Reflect (not that the game ever gives a [[GuideDangIt proper tutorial on them]]) Prison Keeper is very manageable even at level 1. Which makes the fight more awesome in that you'll be deflecting his attacks back at him!

* ''Pumbaa'' gets a quick one. On the second visit to Pride Lands, the ghost of Scar is haunting the land. While Timon is off getting Simba, Sora, and the others, Pumbaa is seen standing defiantly in front of Nala and staring down Scar's ghost ''alone'' in an attempt to protect her. Granted, he's shaking like a leaf and likely wouldn't have been able to do much, but it's still a pretty awesome moment.
* The Hostile Program, which is one of the few bosses that isn't a Disney or Square Enix character, isn't in the main cast, nor is it a Heartless, Nobody, Unversed or Dream Eater, is fought as the boss in the first[[note]]or second, depending on whether or not the brief return to Hollow Bastion counts as part of the SP visit[[/note]] visit to Space Paranoids, and after which is where the game starts to heat up a little (YMMV on opinion though).

* The battle with Jafar certainly qualifies, as it serves as quantifiable proof of where Sora's [[TookALevelInBadass levels]] went. Consider, in the first game, Sora could only trap him in his lamp, a la the original movie. The second game adapts ''Return of Jafar,'' but instead of destroying the lamp to destroy Jafar, Sora just takes his keyblade and the carpet and kills him direct, with Jafar having taken a few levels himself, what with him ''throwing the city of Agrabah'' at Sora the whole time.

* Lock, Shock and Barrel call Maleficent an "old hag"... and ''don't die.'' Now, they may already ''be'' dead, given that they live in Halloween Town, but that's still something no-one else has done.

* Minnie has an escort mission... which is ''not'' annoying as Minnie is ''dangerous''.
* Axel manages to impress Luxord - Axel was a grifter (a con artist) until the end and Luxord, the gambler, the one who knows about conning and tricking, is ''impressed'' - by just how far he took it when he died.
** Speaking of which: Axel ''self destructs himself in an explosion'' to take out Nobodies.
* The Battle of Hollow Bastion has Cloud surrounded by Heartless. Cue Sephiroth pulling a BigDamnHeroes moment with his ''enormous thirty foot long katana'' murdering them all ''in one strike.''
* Stitch fights in the Battle of Hollow Bastion and shoots two Heartless. A third Heartless attacks him and he avoids the dodge by jumping away with an "excuse me, I am cute and fluffy! How dare you attack me!" look on his face... before ''shooting the Heartless in retaliation.'' The Heartless ''dies in one hit''. Stitch, we really hope you do ''not'' have those guns around Lilo.
* Normally touching a Heartless is a bad idea... unless, of course, you are Tifa or armed with weapons. Tifa fights ''six of them'' and wins and she has ''only'' her fists as weapons. She's that deadly that Heartless ''cannot harm her'' when she physically lays a hand on them.
* Rikku, Yuna and Paine fight a Heartless. It involves Rikku ''bopping the Heartless on the head'' and Yuna and Paine ''kicking it in the face to make it '''fall off a cliff.'''''
* Assuming Sephiroth is actually not Cloud's dark side - which is implied to be true in this game - then it means he's given into Darkness and ''does not'' have a Heartless or Nobody. Why isn't Xehanort using this man to conquer the worlds and start the Keyblade War? He's able to wield Darkness with no ill effects, which only Xehanort and Maleficent have previously managed...

** When Goofy "dies" and Mickey says "They'll pay for this,"; the way he throws off his cloak and gets his Keyblade is so epically awesome it's hard to describe - before that, Mickey's fists clench with sheer rage. One thing you ''do'' know however, is that the Heartless are, most definitely, completely and utterly screwed by one incredibly pissed off and furious mouse who has a reason to viciously and violently murder them. He ''does''.

* Tifa turns up. Sora, Donald and Goofy ''snap to attention, to terrified to disobey her.''

* "The Battle of 1,000 Heartless", in which Sora slaughters exactly one thousand Heartless all by himself. This particular battle had also given rise to TheWarSequence trope. [[spoiler:Even the reveal that [[UnwittingPawn destroying them was planned]] shouldn't dampen the awesomeness that much.]]

** Right before the battle, Sora runs down a ravine fighting Heartless without Donald or [[spoiler:the believed dead]] Goofy, but he isn't alone. [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Yuffie, Tifa, Cloud,]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Leon]] join in one at a time.

** When [[spoiler:Goofy "dies"]] and Mickey says "They'll pay for this,"; the way he throws off his cloak and gets his Keyblade is so epically awesome it's hard to describe - before that, Mickey's fists clench with sheer rage. One thing you ''do'' know however, is that the Heartless are, most definitely, completely and utterly screwed by one incredibly pissed off and furious mouse who has a reason to viciously and violently murder them. [[spoiler:He ''does''.]]
** Then there was Donald. After [[spoiler: Goofy 'dies', he breaks down sobbing.]] Then, out of rage and grief, he runs into the fight screaming with anger, arms flailing.
* Maleficent [[spoiler:letting the Nobodies attack her (and, to her credit, ''surviving their attack'') to give Sora, Donald, and Goofy some time to run away. And promising that WeWillMeetAgain.]] She'd been going against them the whole time, and then ''that''. Makes up for hanging around with Pete quite nicely.

* Kairi up and jumping off a high balcony in the Castle That Never Was to rescue Sora from an onslaught of Heartless. If Let's Plays are any indication, many players were actually more impressed with ''that'' than they were [[spoiler: her using a Keyblade afterward.]]

** And even after he's teamed up with Sora, it doesn't end there. [[spoiler:When Hades makes Auron his slave by brainwashing him and forces him to battle against Hercules, he doesn't only keep his stance. He is winning, only minutes away from wiping the floor with Hercules when Sora and the party storm in and free him from Hades' control. Auron not only survives a battle against a super strong demigod, but he's kicking his ass without breaking a sweat.]]

* No matter what the player thinks of Atlantica, the scene of [[spoiler: Donald and Goofy rescuing Sora after he gets [[BoundAndGagged captured]] by Flotsam and Jetsam during "Ursula's Revenge"]] shows [[TrueCompanions how far they will go to protect him]], no matter the danger.
** For that matter, the climax of the battle with Ursula when [[spoiler:the Trident falls at Eric's feet in his boat.]]

'''Eric:''' All right then -- you can have it! *[[spoiler:hurls the Trident through Ursula and destroys her]]*

* [=DiZ=] [[spoiler:a.k.a. Ansem the Wise]] delivering a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Xemnas as well as admitting his mistakes before his [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice of damaging Xemnas's Kingdom Hearts]].

* Sora and [[spoiler:Riku]]'s LimitBreak, [[YinYangBomb Eternal]] [[{{BFS}} Session]]. ''The'' coolest Limit Break of the game.
* Before the final boss fight, there's [[spoiler:Sora in his solo fight against Xemnas, where he pulls a Roxas and RUNS UP A SKYSCRAPER (and depending on the proper use of action commands) proceeds to KICK ASS.]]
* The final battle with [[spoiler:Sora and Riku vs. Xemnas. Especially the part where Sora beat Xemnas senseless dual-wielding his and Riku's Keyblades.]]
** [[spoiler:Special mention goes to the very end, with how Sora and Riku are able to coordinate their actions with very little words exchanged. That's the definition of BashBrothers.]]

** Sora and Riku [[spoiler:cutting buildings in half and ''throwing them at Xemnas'']]. Really, the whole multi-fight sequence was just one Crowning Moment after another.
** [[spoiler:Also Sora and Riku ''reflecting the seven zillion lasers that Xemnas threw at them''.]]

* The optional battle against Lingering Will, AKA [[spoiler: Terra]]. Despite being nothing but a suit of armor and a keyblade, he gives Sora was is easily the most difficult, heart-pounding fight in the entire game that takes no less then perfected skill to win such an epic fight. [[spoiler: Serves as a moment of awesome for Terra as well, showing that even after over a decade of being nothing but a will possessing armor, he's only gotten stronger from his rage towards Xehanort.]]

* Sora taking out a Magnum Loader after Donald accidentally grabs onto it while playing with a Light Cycle. Sure, everyone else enters a HeroicBSOD [[spoiler: due to the required piece of data needed for the trio to escape is destroyed]], but seeing Sora taking action before that is pure badass. [[spoiler: Not to mention that he uses his Keyblade to repair the broken data.]]

* Stitch fights in the Battle of Hollow Bastion. A Heartless attacks him and he avoids the dodge with an "excuse me, I am cute and fluffy! How dare you attack me!" look on his face... before ''shooting the Heartless in retaliation.'' The Heartless ''dies in one hit''.

** On Luxord's end, ambushing Sora's friends (Including Riku, who's currently empowered by Xehanort's Heartless -- the LiteralSplitPersonality of Luxord's boss!) with his RealityWarping Cards. If not for his FairPlayVillain status, he might've reached StoryBreakerPower territory!

* [[http://www.mangareader.net/kingdom-hearts-2/58/2 Kairi is facing Saix]]; who plans on using her as TheBait to attract Sora. He tells her that all she needs to do is scream; and then has a very large Dusk rip the jail bars from its hinges and hurl it at her; to the point of cutting a bleeding wound on her cheek. [[http://www.mangareader.net/kingdom-hearts-2/58/4 She stares at her incoming death]], and keeping her eyes open, prays to Riku and Sora to give her strength and she [[http://www.mangareader.net/kingdom-hearts-2/58/5 never backs down]].

*** Beast ''smashes open the door to the bridge of his castle to get to the man who has kidnapped Belle.'' This door was built '''''too keep out advancing enemy armies...''''' so just how powerful ''is'' Beast?

** During the attack, all the good guys join in. We get to see scenes like Stitch in the middle of the Heartless army firing his guns and the Gullwings kicking a Heartless off a ledge.