History Awesome / PrincessMononoke

-->'''San, The Mononoke Hime:''' ''(she dismounts and runs to her adoptive matriarch and [[EstablishingCharacterMoment immediately begins to suck the gunpowder out of the bullet wound in her mother's chest, along with a full mouthful of blood]] and expectorates founts of the poison without a care)''

* On the flip-side, Lady Eboshi manages to calmly take a on a girl who literally ran through her village's men like they weren't even there and took out her right-hand man with two blows, with a [[SmugSmiler Smug Smile]] on her regal face to boot.

* [[BattleCouple Lady Eboshi and Gonza]] having the [[NervesOfSteel sheer courage]] to stand still in the path of a charging [[BigBadassWolf Moro‑no‑kimi]] as she decimates their rice convoy. They let her get just close enough for Eboshi to plant a would-be-fatal bullet in her chest and Gonza to blast her over the cliff edge with his flamethrower.

-->'''Ashitaka:''' ''(emerges from his hiding place, taking off his kerchief to address them)'' MY NAME IS ASHITAKA. I'VE TRAVELLED FAR FROM LANDS TO THE EAST. ARE YOU ANCIENT GODS AND HAVE I AT LAST TO THE REALM OF THE SPIRIT OF THE FOREST?

-->'''Ashitaka:''' ''(emerges from his hiding place, taking off his kerchief to address them)'' My name is Ashitaka. I've travelled far from lands to the East. Are you ancient gods and have I come at last to the realm of the Spirit of the Forest?

* San gets attacked by a burly monk with a knife; she [[CheeryTapping effortlessly dodges his strikes]] and knocks him out with two jumping kicks to the noggin.

* Moro, having just used the last of her strength to pull San free from Okkoto and is being consumed by the death slime, opens her eyes when she hears Lady Eboshi's voice and just ''her head'' dives towards Eboshi and ''bites off her arm in revenge''.
* Toki showcasing leadership skills in the siege of Iron Town and when the Night-walker attacks.

-->'''Gonza:''' Stay back! ''(Ashitaka grabs the tip of the blade and begins to bend it back as if it's made of thin cardboard, all while the larger man sweats and puffs as he tries to resist the boy's unnatural strength)'' H-Halt!

* One for the fact that San and Ichi [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome survived the massacre of Okotto's tribe.

* She also survives a shot from Eboshi's new rifles. Keep in mind, these are the same match-locks meant to pierce samurai armour like paper and it shatters her mask made of clay but all it does is ''knock her out cold''.

* Our first sighting of the Night-walker.

-->'''Gonza:''' Stay back! ''(Ashitaka grabs the tip of the blade and begins to bend it back as if it's made of thin cardboard)'' Halt!
-->'''Ashitaka:''' ''(turns the sword into a loop of bent steel)'' Step aside.

-->'''Gonza:''' Villain! I knew you were one of them! ''(brandishes his [[BFS six foot Ōdachi]] at the oncoming boy)''

-->'''Gonza:''' Villain! I knew you were one of them! ''(brandishes his six foot Nodachi at the oncoming boy)''

* Ashitaka is just made of these. In particular, when he opens the great timber portcullis that takes the strength of ten men to lift, while carrying San and with a blood pouring from a gunshot wound through his torso.
** And then there's the part where he bends a sword in half like paper!

* Ashitaka's defining moment is breaking up the fight between Eboshi and San, while summing up the GrayAndGrayMorality of the film.

* San taking on Eboshi, who's armed with a much more far reaching sword and a needle in her off-hand; with a bone dagger. ''[[SuperReflexes And holding her own]]''.

* Ashitaka taking out the Tatarigami (Demon) that attacks his village, scoring a hit in its left eye with an arrow while mounted and travelling at full gallop is awesome enough, then he mortally wounds the deranged boar ''by driving the shaft of his first arrow even deeper with his second shot's pin-point accuracy''.

* Jigo telling San and Ashitaka about how everybody wishes for everything and he's finally going to get what he's wished for in an attempt to convince the couple to just let the Night-walker disappear and for him to get away with the head only to have Ashitaka quietly come to the end of his enormous tether and say: "please don't make me kill you." in an "I've tolerated your two-faced nonsense long enough" tone of voice.

* Nii jumping out of the trees about fifty feet downwards onto a dolmen while he and Ashitaka (who's on his back) race to save San, [[NotQuiteFlight then bounding outwards another thirty feet on the landing]].
* Ashitaka ripping through the demonic tendrils with his bare hands to save San, regardless of the cost to himself.

* Lady Eboshi. She buys up the bond of every brothel girl she meets and gives them a new and better life in Iron Town. Also, she kills gods.
** How about taking a bunch of lepers and turning them into military engineers?
** Keep in mind, we have no idea who Eboshi was or why she decided to defend Iron Town. This woman just showed up with a bunch of warriors [[CrazyAwesome and started fighting off forest gods]]. All without breaking a sweat.

-->'''Ashitaka:''' Look everyone! This is what hatred looks like! This is what it does when it catches hold of you! It's eating me alive and very soon now it will kill me. Fear and anger only make it grow faster."

* Jigo telling San and Ashitaka about how everybody wishes for everything and he's finally going to get what he's wished for in an attempt to convince the couple to just let the Night-walker disappear and for him to get away with the head only to have Ashitaka quietly come to the end of his enormous tether and say: "please don't make me kill you." in an "I've put up with your nonsense long enough" tone of voice.

* When Ashitaka is trying to convince a now trapped Jigo to give the Forest Spirit his head back, Jigo still tries to make excuses... only to have San step in and ask (no, ''snarl'') "Why are you wasting your breath talking to him?" If you look closely, you notice Jigo makes a sheepish smile at her condemnation, as if to say: "yeah, listen to your woman, Ashitaka, she has a point."

* [[BattleCouple Lady Eboshi and Gonza]] having the sheer courage to stand still in the path of a charging [[BigBadassWolf Moro‑no‑kimi]] as she decimates their rice convoy. They let her get just close enough for Eboshi to plant a would-be-fatal bullet in her chest and Gonza to blast her over the cliff edge with his flamethrower.

->'''Yakul:''' ''(his ears perk up as his master lays down the two injured men he's dragged from the river)''
->'''Prince Ashitaka:''' ''(noticing his mount's wariness, he puts up his balaclava, rushes up behind a large boulder on the rapids and peeks through the branches of a fallen tree. His eyes widen as he sees three massive white wolves on the river's far side. The largest, the two-tailed Alpha-female is wounded but this is not what draws his attention, riding on the back of one of her cubs is a spry young girl clad in a pelt of her own)''
->'''San, The Mononoke Hime:''' ''(she dismounts and runs to her adoptive matriarch and [[EstablishingCharacterMoment immediately begins to suck the gunpowder out of the bullet wound in her mother's chest, along with a full mouthful of blood]] and expectorates founts of the poison without a care)''
->'''Moro, The Wolf Goddess:''' ''(who has remained silent and still as her daughter administers to her, growls lowly, she has picked up a stranger's scent)''
->'''San:''' ''(turns her head in a flash, her earrings chime and tingle as she locks gazes with the spying banished prince)''
->'''Ashitaka:''' ''(he can't break from her stare; he's been hit by a Sicilian Thunderbolt)''
->'''San:''' ''(rises, spits one last jet of crimson as a statement, before she wipes her mother's blood from her maw messily with the back of her hand)''
->'''Ashitaka:''' ''(emerges from his hiding place, taking off his kerchief to address them)'' My name is Ashitaka. I've travelled far from lands to the East. Are you ancient gods and have I come at last to the realm of the Spirit of the Forest?
->'''San and Ashitaka:''' ''([[HeldGaze they both gauge the measure of their hearts and souls]])''

* Lady Eboshi. She buys up the bond of every brothel girl she meets and gives them a new and better life in Irontown. Also, she kills gods.

* Ashitaka has just been shot and is bleeding heavily. Even so, he doesn't stop walking out of Irontown with San and Yakul.

* On the flip-side, Lady Eboshi manages to calmly take a on a girl who literally ran through her village and took out her right-hand man with two blows, all with a [[SmugSmiler Smug Smile]].

* When Ashitaka is trying to convince Jigo to give the Forest Spirit his head back, Jigo refuses... only to have San step in and ask (no, ''snarl'') "Why are you wasting your breath talking to him?" If you look closely, you notice Jigo makes a sheepish smile at her accusation, as if to say: "yeah, she has a point."

* Ashitaka taking out the Tartagami (Demon) that attacks his village, getting it in its left eye with an arrow while mounted at full speed is awesome enough, then he mortally wounds the deranged boar ''by driving the shaft of his first arrow even deeper with his second shot's pin-point accuracy''.

* Ashitaka taking out the Tartagami (Demon) that attacks his village, getting it in its left eye with an arrow while mounted at full speed is awesome enough, then he mortaly wounds the deranged boar ''by driving the shaft of his first arrow even deeper with his second shot's pin-point accuracy''.

** Then she's up, fighting (and leaping five metres feet) in twenty seconds of recovery time.
* On the flip-side, Lady Eboshi manages to calmly take a on a girl who literally ran through her village and took out her RightHandMan with two blows, all with a [[SmugSmiler Smug Smile]].

* Lady Eboshi. She buys up the bond of every brothel girl she meets and gives them a new and better life in Irontown. Also, she kills gods.
** How about taking a bunch of lepers and turning them into military engineers?
** "Now watch closely, everyone. I'm going to show you how to kill a god." Even if I didn't want her to succeed, I couldn't help to smile at the pure badassery of those words.
** Keep in mind, we have no idea who Eboshi was or why she decided to defend Iron Town. This woman just showed up with a bunch of warriors [[CrazyAwesome and started fighting off forest gods]]. All without breaking a sweat.
* Moro, having just used the last of her strength to pull San free from Okkoto and is being consumed by the death slime, opens her eyes when she hears Lady Eboshi's voice and just ''her head'' dives towards Eboshi and ''bites off her arm in revenge''.

-->'''Ashitaka:''' "Look everyone! This is what hatred looks like! This is what it does when it catches hold of you! It's eating me alive and very soon now it will kill me. Fear and anger only make it grow faster."

* Toki showcasing leadership skills in the siege of Iron Town and when the Nightwalker attacks.
* Jigo tries telling San and Ashitaka about how everybody wishes for everything and he's finally going to get what he's wished for in an attempt to convince the couple to just let the Nightwalker disappear and for him to get away with the head only to have Ashitaka quietly come to the end of his enormous tether and say: "please don't make me kill you." in an "I've put up with your nonsense long enough" tone of voice.
** Jigo putting up a fight with Ashitaka is also epic, especially with his small stature.
* Just when things are at their worst, San and Ashitaka raise the head of the Forest Spirit to return it and the clear green gloop the head is exuding accelerates the curse marks on both San and Ashitaka

* While the film was ultimately about how hatred and violence only leads to bad things, it's still great when Ashitaka steps up to fight, whether it's simply to break up a fight between San and Eboshi, or CATCH A DAMN ARROW AND SEND IT BACK.
* Moro, running on what little strength she has, [[spoiler: [[MamaBear fights a demonized Okkotto in order to save San]]]]. Also counts as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming and a TearJerker.
--> '''Moro''': "GIVE ME BACK MY DAUGHTER, YOU ''DEMON''!"
* San surviving a shot from Eboshi's new rifles. Keep in mind, these are the same rifles meant to pierce samurai armor like paper and it shatters her mask made of clay but all it does is '''knock her out cold'''.
* Ashitaka is made of these. In particular is when he opens the door that takes the strength of ten men to lift, while carrying San and with a blood pouring from a gunshot wound through his torso.

* Which was really just the final moment in a chain of awesome. Starting with tossing a massive beam of wood to keep the townsfolk from attacking a stunned San, and reaching a pinnacle as he plows through the crowd, all tranquil fury, to break up said fight. Like a boss.
* San busting into the village by herself, surviving getting ''shot in the face'' and taking on Lady Eboshi by herself is BADASS.
** On the flipside, Lady Eboshi was calmly taking a on a woman who literally ran through her village with a [[SmugSmiler Smug Smile]] on her face without breaking a sweat.

* Moro, [[spoiler: having just used the last of her strength to pull San free from Akoto and is being consumed by the death slime, opens her eyes when she hears Lady Eboshi's voice and just ''her head'' dives towards Eboshi and ''bites off her arm in revenge''.]]
* Ashitaka's defining moment is breaking up the fight between Eboshi and San, while summing up the GrayAndGrayMorality of the movie.

* Just when things are at their worst, San and Ashitaka raise the [[spoiler:head of the forest god to return it]]. Ashitaka's curse [[spoiler:spreads to San and covers both of them in seconds.]]

* Jigo tries telling San and Ashitaka about how everybody wishes for somethings and he's finally going to get what he wished for in an attempt to convince Ashitaka to just let the Nightwalker disappear and for him to get away with the head only to have Ashitaka just say "Please don't make me kill you." in a "I'm tired of your shit right now" kind of voice.

* "Look everyone! This is what hatred looks like! This is what it does when it catches hold of you! It's eating me alive and very soon now it will kill me. Fear and anger only make it grow faster."
** Ashitaka's defining moment is breaking up the fight between Eboshi and San, while summing up the GrayAndGrayMorality of the movie.