History Awesome / SuperDimensionFortressMacross

** Ranka [[BadassDamsel willingly using herself as bait for the Vajra]]. When she's captured, this leads to moments for Alto and Michel:

* Episode 26: Kinryu has a massive[[spoiler: HesBack moment as [[MagicMusic he's revived by Basara's song energy]] just as Battle 7 is being assaulted by Gepelnitch. He jumps straight out of bed after being bedridden by a Protodevlin attack earlier in the series, taking an armored mech out into space all while [[ThemeMusicPowerUp singing Totsugeki Love Heart]], and he kicks ass, even getting his old subordinate Gamlin to join in with a MacrossMissileMassacre. He rounds it off by [[RuleofCool breaking out of his armor]] and blowing into the enemy battleship just as it's about to fire its guns at Battle 7. His mech becomes incapacitated after [[SelfDestructiveCharge diving straight through the ship innards]] stopping just short of the core, but after [[SuperRobotWars casting]] [[HotBlooded Hot Blood]] on himself [[HeroicResolve he gets it moving through sheer force of will]] then singlehandedly destroys its cannons from inside while yelling "[[RuleofCool Here's your Love Heart!]]" Gepelnitch is unable to fire his cannons, leaving Battle 7 with the advantage and saving the day. Unfortunately, this also qualifies as a HeroicSacrifice.]]

** Special note here needs to go to Canaria Bernstein, since she was the one who allowed for the previous moment of Awesome by [[spoiler: destroying Galaxy's shield generator]] with her Koenig Monster. Awesome enough on its own, but the Koenig Monster has been in service since the original Macross series and is well over 50 years old, one can't help but marvel at either the strength of the machine's design, or the abilities of it's pilot.

** This is more of a FridgeLogic [=CMoA=], but the time Max managed to use his Valkyrie to [[MuggedForDisguise mug a Zentraedi guard and steal his uniform]]. The ''{{Robotech}}'' novelization devotes an entire EncyclopediaExposita {{Epigraph}} to lampshading exactly how many impossible things this involved, and just how awesome that was. And Max ''Sterling'' had a mental interface to help out[[hottip:*:[[InternetBackdraft at least in the novels]].]] -- Max ''Jenius'' had to improvise all of this with manual controls clearly not designed for this kind of thing.

* Misa, gets her tactical moment, coinciding with the Macross' super robot moment in Ep 06 "Daedalus Attack". After the main gun fails to fire due to the interference from the pin-point barrier system, Misa gets the pin-points to concentrate on the bow of the Daedalus (right arm) and punch through the bow of Zeril's battleship. The Daedalus opens up and all 587(!!!) destroids open fire into the innards of Zeril's ship. No other anime has this and no other should.

* For all of her undeserved fame as TheObstructiveLoveInterest, Minmei actually earns one that crosses into CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when she ''does'' acknowledge in the end that Misa and Hikaru are in love, [[IWantMyBelovedtoBeHappy and wishes them well]]... while acting ''way'' more mature than [[DieforOurShip the whiny fans]].

* Breetai gets thrown into space in the episode where Hikaru boards his ship. Breetai manages to walk across the ship to another airlock and then beat down two Valkryries with a pipe.
* For all of her undeserved fame as TheObstructiveLoveInterest, Minmei actually earns one that crosses into CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when she ''does'' aknowledge in the end that Misa and Hikaru are in love, [[IWantMyBelovedtoBeHappy and wishes them well]]... while acting ''way'' more mature than [[DieforOurShip the whiny fans]].

* Ozma's burst of HotBlooded '''''[[UnstoppableRage UNSTOPPABLE RAGE]]''''' in episode 17. Further noteworthy for his [[spoiler:surviving his injuries, which were accompanied by a slew of references to Roy Focker's death in similar circumstances in the original series]]. Even the writers were [[spoiler:in on it, as the blatant scene had characters immediately commenting about how emotional everyone would be if that had happened, and Ozma looking ''directly at the camera'' when he delivers the line, "Didn't I tell you? I will never die."]]

** It's worth noting that they share the same seiyuu.

*** In one of the ''Robotech: The Sentinels'' novels, he and his daughter Dana fight. The fight is interrupted before it concludes, but it's implied that she ''may have managed to beat him'' if they'd fought to the finish.

** Also notable in ''Macross 7'' for absolutely stealing the spotlight from [[spoiler: Gamlin's 'death']] by folding directly into the middle of a stalemated battle, outflying every single ace in his space-force (despite being in his 50s), shooting down just about all the enemy [=VFs=], flying down a tunnel while being shot at with lasers, and bulls-eying the BigBad in his secret lair, all within about 30 seconds and without anyone understanding who had just shot down the entire enemy force (ThisTroper recalls a pilot asking out loud what had just happened).

** Oh, and the jaw-dropping dogfight with Milia, both in the series and TheMovie (but in this troper's opinion, the movie sequence was better). Max came out on top in both cases, proving that by beating the best Zentradi fighter pilot (a female no less), he's technically the best pilot in all the Macross universe.

** The {{Robotech}} novelizations turn the Destroids dying horribly in Khyron's assault on the earthbound SDF-1 into an awe-inspiring heroic last stand as the Destroid pilots try to buy time for the [=VFs=] and MAC/Monsters to arrive; they also include a scene of the Destroids marching out to back up the SDF-1's turrets in the final battle against the Zentradi fleet that was not in the anime, describing it loving detail and crediting them with tripling the SDF-1's short-range firepower for the last battle. [[{{Night}} This Troper]] blames his Destroid fixation on that.

* The SING-OFF in the hospital atrium balcony between Sheryl and Ranka for Alto's attention/affections... This troper must have watched it 20 times in less than a week. It crowns the awesomeness not just of the characters, but the series and the franchise as a whole.

* The final battle went something like this in this tropers' mind [[spoiler:Holy crap there's SMS charging in guns blazing with the Battle Galaxy launching psycho Ghosts killing everything and the epic songstresses unite magic girl power with the Brera Alto epic Mecha RAAAH! charge killing everything that moves with blowing off super dimensional bugs heads and the super dual Macross DEADALUS ATTACKS!]] Yeah, it was awesome. Hardcore shippers on the other hand had a different reaction...

* This troper consider's Klein's crowning moment to be when, after her Queadluun-Rea is knocked out of action, [[spoiler:she comes back in Michael's VF-25G, piloting it in her micronized form.]] It just felt so...right.

* In the Grand Finale, for the Macross Quarter and Battle Frontier, [[spoiler:after Battle Galaxy damages and destroys both ships' main guns. Combined with some CrowningMusicOfAwesome, the Quarter destroys Galaxy's gunship with a Macross Attack. As it explodes, Battle Frontier ''slices Galaxy in half'' with a punch! Giant mecha martial arts!]]

* All the dog fight sequences in Episode 5. Thrust vectoring taken BeyondTheImpossible.

** [[AtopTheFourthWall (PUNCH!)]]

** [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses (PUNCH!)]]

** Also notable in ''Macross 7'' for absolutely stealing the spotlight from [[spoiler: Gamlin's 'death']] by folding directly into the middle of a stalemated battle, outflying every single ace in his space-force (despite being in his 50s), shooting down just about all the enemy [=VFs=], flying down a tunnel while being shot at with lasers, and bulls-eying the BigBad in his secret lair, all within about 30 seconds.

* Hikaru's moment comes during the epic [[strike:"Force of Arms"]] "Love Slips Away" episode, which starts with [[spoiler:the near-destruction of Earth]] and ends with the destruction of the main Zentradi fleet. He finally tells Minmei off, and while his Valkyrie disintegrates, returns to Earth to rescue Misa.

* The atmospheric entry sequence in ''MacrossPlus'', set to Yoko Kanno's "Information High." Shortly followed by the final Isamu/Guld dogfight, the duel with the Ghost fighter, and Isamu rejecting Sharon's "Faster! Faster!" illusion, the last half hour or so of MacrossPlus is a giant CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

** Ranka using herself as bait for the Vajra. This, of course, leads to her getting captured, which in turn leads to moments for Alto and Michel:

* Breetai gets thrown out an airlock in the episode where Hikaru boards his ship. Breetai manages to walk across the ship to another airlock and then beat down two Valkryries with a pipe.

** And then comes ''Encore 3'' when he [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tYeweTvfiM turns an entire fleet of bloodthirsty Meltrandi into screaming fangirls]]. Plus the great surprise that Exedol is NotSoStoic.

* Hell, Basara is a walking, [[ThePowerofRock rocking]] CrowningMomentofAwesome.

** Don't forget their marriage either. Remember the scene at high-profile marriages where a line of guys cross their swords above the couple? ''Macross'' does it with '''Valkyries in Battroid mode and their guns'''.

* This is more of a FridgeLogic [=CMoA=], but the time Max managed to use his Valkyrie to [[MuggedForDisguise mug a Zentraedi guard and steal his uniform]]. The ''{{Robotech}}'' novelization devotes an entire EncyclopediaExposita {{Epigraph}} to lampshading exactly how many impossible things this involved, and just how awesome that was. And Max ''Sterling'' had a mental interface to help out[[hottip:*:[[InternetBackdraft at least in the novels]].]] -- Max ''Jenius'' had to improvise all of this with manual controls clearly not designed for this kind of thing.

* Misa, gets her tactical moment, coinciding with the Macross' super robot moment in Ep 06 "Daedalus Attack". After the main gun fails to fire due to the interference from the pin-point barrier system, Lisa gets the pin-points to concentrate on the bow of the Daedalus (right arm) and punch through the bow of Zeril's battleship. The Daedalus opens up and all 587(!!!) destroids open fire into the innards of Zeril's ship. No other anime has this and no other should.