History Awesome / TalesSeries

* Tytree inviting Veigue to the beach to deliver GetAHoldOfYourselfMan through a series of sock-punching straight on the face, and Veigue retaliates the same. Eventually Veigue calms down, and Tytree has just made [[MobileSuitGundam Bright Noah]] proud. So awesome that Veigue repeats it on a Viva Tales Of segment, socking on Reid.

* Cless and Arche's aerial battle to save Midgard. Arche rides her broom, and Cless rides ''Pegasus'', lent to him by the Valkyrie.

* Speaking of the OVA, they managed to make Dhaos even more awesome. Two of his crowning moments are when he confronts Raisen, and the first time he confronts Cress.

* And then, there's the theme song. It's one of the game's CrowningMusicOfAwesome, but it counts as the game's, and indeed the SNES', CrowningMomentOfAwesome overall because it's the first game on the SNES to have a fully-voiced theme song. Prior to that developers thought it can't be done on the SNES due to various factors, among them the available memory of a SNES SPU, and train of thoughts then are that games that have a fully voiced opening theme can only be released on CD media and perhaps required use of co-processors. Team Wolf figured out that by breaking the vocals down to a thousand segments and switching them on the fly as needed, as well as encoding the rest of the song regularly, they could fit the song into a reasonably small footprint (never mind that the game used a 48Mbit cart, the largest cart size available at that time), and they didn't even need a co-processor. Too bad Namco did not appreciate their work.

See Awesome/TalesOfSymphonia

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' has a few.
** When Regal breaks the party out of a jail cell with a Hadouken.
*** Regal again, as he addresses an army of angels: "{{You shall not pass}}!"
** Sheena, in the temple of Volt, after the Summon Spirit goes berserk and ends up [[spoiler:killing Corrine]], Sheena stands up and screams "For the sake of everyone that risked their lives to protect me, ''VOLT! I DEMAND YOUR POWER!!"'' Cue the screen shattering. Cue [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome Fighting of the Spirit]]. Cue fight.
*** For this troper, the game got even more awesome. The fight was a tough, knock-down drag-out brawl that seemed rather touch-and-go at times...then, Volt whacked Sheena into [[LimitBreak Overlimit]]. At which point, Sheena stopped everything, summoned Undine, and proceeded to ''utterly thrash Volt.'' Fight over.
*** This troper had a similar experience, turning things around during the fight with Kuchinawa by summoning Origin.
*** This troper now makes it a point to summon Volt during the battle against Kuchinawa.
*** Sheena also has a hadouken moment in the basement of the Tower of Salvation, where she concentrates the energies of Tethe'alla's Summon Spirits into a beam of power from her hands.
*** She gets another awesome moment earlier, when she uses the Tethe'alla spirits to fire the Mana canon. The result is quite badass.
** When Zelos [[spoiler:shows up and reveals that he saved all of the seemingly doomed party members from their deathtraps and then proceeds to kick the crap out of Mithos with Lloyd and the rest of the party]].
*** Or alternately, [[spoiler: Zelos's final battle before his death where he gets those angel wings]] is absolutely awesome, [[spoiler: even if he did lose]]. This troper was madly pushing the RESTART button on her Gamecube afterward [[spoiler: to make him come back]].
** Kratos gets his when you beat Kvar. Largely because Kvar killed [[spoiler: his wife]], Kratos, is, needless to say, a bit peeved. So, we get the following: *stabs Kvar* "feel the pain..." *stabs him again* "of those inferior beings..." *stabs him one last time* "as you burn in hell." For this troper, who didn't really like Kratos much, that cemented his role as a pure {{Badass}}.
** Lloyd. "Rise, Giant Kharlan Tree!"
** [[AwesomeButImpractical I WILL SHOW YOU... DIVINE JUSTICE!!!!!]]
* The OVA gets some truly awesome moments.
** When Iselia is being attacked, Dirk joins Lloyd and Genis, and can be seen bashing up Desians with a [[{{BFS}} Big Friggin' Hammer]]
** When Sheena attacks the company in an AbsurdlySpaciousSewer, she opens up the battle by jumping at Lloyd's face, and slapping a card on his chest. The physical force of her strike sends Lloyd flying, and then the card ''explodes''. This troper had to rewind the video to confirm what he had just seen.
** Then, Kratos retaliates against Sheena. Diving at her, he jabs her in the stomach with the hilt of his sword, and then turns around and roundhouse kicks her in the stomach. Sheena does a couple ninja-flips backward, and then attempts to cast something (WHAT she was trying to cast is a mystery, at this point in the story). Kratos doesn't wait for her to cast, and instead fries her with a Lightning spell.
** In the next episode, the Kvar moment is given some new awesomeness. As Kratos ends Kvar, he delivers the same line, but instead of three stabs, it's one stab that ''impales Kvar and comes out the other side'', with plenty of blood. Awesome.
*** Oh, and just a bit later, the whole "we shouldn't be using Expheres" scene happens, and instead of the resolution that the game gives, the OVA shows that Lloyd and Genis went about battling the next Seal Guardian ''without their expheres.'' A feat that's flat out said to be impossible in-game.
** The Fourth Episode is Full of these.
*** Kratos: "Sacred Powers, Cast thy Purifying Light upon these corrupt souls! JUDGMENT!" (Cue lasers from the heavens and countless Dragon riders being erased from existence)
*** The Remiel Fight. It starts with unison attack from Genis and Raine (albeit one that isn't in the game). Then Remiel blasts a hole in the side of the Tower of Salvation with a huge ass laser beam. Lloyd tanks that, then proceeds to fire off a massive Demon Fang of Epic Proportions, that sends Remiel into a tree, which shatters from the impact.
* ''Dawn of the New World'', if one of the reasons you may not like it is because the original cast [[SpotlightStealingSquad seems overshadowed]], never fear: (story-wise, at least) they're still as awesome as ever. Lloyd, especially, proves this when, right before the fight with Brute, who just attempted to offer the party a SadisticChoice (hand over the [[MacGuffin Centurion's cores]] or he kills Regal), [[ContinuityNod repeats one of his most famous lines]] from the original game, saves Regal's ass, and proves once and for all that [[HeelFaceTurn he's on Emil's side]]:
-->'''Brute''': "It's obvious that you don't understand. Means and methods are insignificant in the eyes of justice!"
-->'''Lloyd''': "Don't even start spewing the word "justice"!"
* Emil going into "Ratatosk Mode" and attacking the Martel Knights surrounding Marta and knocks them out in three hits, then puts a foot on the the Martel Knight's neck that he just knocked out and delivers a glorious PreAssKickingOneLiner
-->'''Emil''': I'll teach you the true meaning of divine punishment!
:: Ownage ([[ThatOneBoss and one of the most difficult boss fights in the game]]) ensues.
** After beating [[ThatOneBoss Alice and Decus]] near the end of the game, the ensuing cutscene sees Marta go over to [[ChronicHeroSyndrome make sure they're okay]]. [[WhatAnIdiot Quite predictably]], Alice attacks her. Emil then attacks Alice, and [[MadLove Decus]] jumps in front of Emil's sword and is fatally wounded. After he dies, [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Alice admits that she loved Decus too]] and turns on Emil...and is promptly killed by Marta, who basically says that she doesn't care how much Alice hates her, but attacking Emil [[ThisIsUnforgivable is unforgivable]].
** The curse of the iron maiden. That is all.
** The [[BigDamnHeroes Big Damn Heroes]] moment in the Cape Fortress. Alice hits a new low threatening Seles, but the heroes hands seem tied. Then Sheena shows up. And punches Alice out. What Colette and Regal do to Decus afterwards is both awesome and hilarious.
** ''Richter''. OK, so in the Temple of Darkness, Ratatosk Mode Emil demonstrates a new attack, a ridiculously massive laser energy ball called Ain Soph Aur. It so happens to be an extension to his [[LimitBreak Mystic Arte]]. After hitting Richter with the move once, he tries it again, and Richter's response is to ''block and counter the mystic arte'', reflecting the energy right back into Emil's face. And he does this in-battle if you try Ain Soph Aur. He can ''block and counter'' a SuperMovePortraitAttack.
** After his jailer loses the key to his handcuffs, Regal just flexes and breaks the chain himself. He was apparently only staying in jail [[HonorBeforeReason to be polite]]. ''And then he recommends his company's brand of handcuffs to the jailer, because they're stronger.'' Doubles as a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
** [[ContinuityNod And once again,]] we get to see Dirk and his [[DropTheHammer BFH]] in action (against monsters this time). Dirk rules.
** No love for Alice?! How about Alice winning against Hawk in a such a brutal fashion that he's 'terrified' of her!? Or what about how it's implied that she drew it out because she loved the fight? And, as much of a KickTheSonOfABitch action it is, carving 'Alice's Pet' into his back is a pretty badass thing. Not to mention, had Marta not attack her 'from behind' Alice would have probably singled both Emil and Marta. Let's face it, girl is one of the biggest badasses in the game, and has plenty of awesome.

*** For this troper, the game got even more awesome. The fight was a tough, knock-down drag-out brawl that seemed rather touch-and-go at times...then, Volt whacked Sheena into [[LimitBreak Overlimit]]. At which point, Sheena stopped everything, summoned Undine, and proceeded to ''utterly thrash Volt.'' Fight over. I don't care that Sheena's statistically the worst character and that summoning in that game is a waste, it was the most ''awesome'' thing I have ever seen in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia''.

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-->'''Stahn''': ''This is... the blade that will carve the path to our future!! '''[[ThisIsSPARTA ZAN!! KUU!! TEN!! SHOU!! KEEEEEENNNN!!!]]'''''

* YourMileageMayVary on the quality of the Wii sequel, ''Dawn of the New World'', but if one of the reasons you may not like it is because the original cast [[SpotlightStealingSquad seems overshadowed]], never fear: (story-wise, at least) they're still as awesome as ever. Lloyd, especially, proves this when, right before the fight with Brute, who just attempted to offer the party a SadisticChoice (hand over the [[MacGuffin Centurion's cores]] or he kills Regal), [[ContinuityNod repeats one of his most famous lines]] from the original game, saves Regal's ass, and proves once and for all that [[HeelFaceTurn he's on Emil's side]]:

* Pretty much everyone's Mystic Arte counts, especially Jade's-one of the most powerful on your first playthrough, and complete with an awesome incantation: "Oh admonishing melody, arise in the name of the Necromancer! Mystic Cage! Now know what true power is!". Still, Luke's comes at the end when [[spoiler:the party is fighting Van for the fifth time or so, Tear is singing the Grand Fonic Hymn, and Luke runs up, slashes Van a bunch, and then unleashes his Mystic Arte, Radiant Howl, finishing with the words "NOW YOU DIE!"]]
** Better: His SECOND Mystic Arte incantation.
--->'''Luke''': ''You're finished! Arise, resound, and become a blade of destruction!'' '''''[[CallingYourAttacks LOST FON DRIVE!!]]'''''
--->'''Tear''': ''O light that rains down on heaven and earth bring my enemies to their destined annihilation! [[CallingYourAttacks FORTUNE'S ARC!]] And grant us the divine protectine of thine brillance!''
--->'''Guy''': ''Prepare yourself for a blinding storm! [[CallingYourAttacks BRILLIANT OVERLORD!]] Never fight a battle you can't win.''
--->'''Jade''': ''I, who stand in the full light of the heavens, command thee who opens the gates of Hell. Come forth, divine lightning! This ends now! [[CallingYourAttacks INDIGNATION!]]''
--->'''Natalia''': '' Oh fragments of the Fon Verse, heed my call and become power incarnate. '''[[LargeHam I WILL FINISH YOU]]!''' [[CallingYourAttacks NOBLE ROAR]]!''
* Jade Curtiss is one of those people who is CrowningMomentOfAwesome incarnate, if just because you can be pretty much assured he has one ''[[DeadpanSnarker every time he opens his mouth.]]''
** For a story based example, [[spoiler: Jade removes the Fon Slot Seal by himself. Guy mentions that NO SINGLE PERSON IN HISTORY has ever done such a feat.]] Jade naturally jokes it off as nothing at all.
* One long, drawn-out word: ''[[spoiler:[[SayMyName REPLICAAAAAAAAAAA!!]]]]'' Not even mentioning the awesome boss fight that ensues.
* Being that he is a typical NonHumanSidekick with a squeaky voice, unbearably bright demeanor and looking like a demented Moogle, seeing Mieu getting kicked and/or told to shut up can be quite a moment to the jaded [=JRPG=] player.
* Can we add the final confrontation with the BigBad to the list? It's just too ''awesome'' (and funny) to watch everyone in your party verbally own him, [[strike:picking]] ''ripping'' apart the BigBad's logic piece by piece and throwing it in his face.
* The cameo team battle in TheArena against Reid, Mint, Philia, and Nanaly makes for easily one of the best fights in the entire game.
** Best fight in the entire game nothing. A full four on four battle with what could be a fully functional and deadly adventuring team were they in the players hands was the best fight in the series.
** Even though it can turn the tide of the battle and potentially wipe your party, Reid's Aurora Wall is very impressive. Equally awesome is the ThemeMusicPowerUp when a remix of Eternal Mind plays after Aurora Wall.
--->'''Reid''': ''We will not '''LOSE'''!''
** For this troper, the awesome got kicked up [[UpToEleven a few notches]] when she took on the cameo team for the first time with Luke, Tear, Jade, and Natalia (I normally play the game with Guy in her place). At the time, the only characters I knew were on the team were Reid and Mint, I had no idea about Nanaly. It was truly epic seeing the party face off against a team of counterparts, especially in a game about [[spoiler: clones and counterparts]].

*** For this troper, the game got even more awesome. The fight was a tough, knock-down drag-out brawl that seemed rather touch-and-go at times...then, Volt whacked Sheena into [[LimitBreak Overlimit]]. At which point, Sheena stopped everything, summoned Undine, and proceeded to ''utterly thrash Volt.'' Fight over. I don't care that Sheena's statistically the worst character and that summoning in that game is a waste, it was the most ''awesome'' thing I have ever seen in ''TalesOfSymphonia''.

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* Emil going into "Ratatosk Mode" and attacking the Martel Knights surrounding Marta and knocks them out in three hits, then puts a foot on the the Martel Knight's neck that he just knocked out and delivers a glorious [[PreAssKickingOneLiner]]

* Better yet, beating Sekundes. Rather, beating him a specific way. If you get him down to half his HP (definitely no easy feat in itself), then somehow pass an Indignation spell, Keele or Meredy will recite the original Indignation spell in its entirety. Sekundes will then take 100000 damage, half his own maximum HP, and die gloriously with his signature ThisCannotBe ("sonna... ''sonna bakana!''") in a perfect reenactment of the opening of ''TalesOfPhantasia.''

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* ''TalesOfSymphonia'' has a few.

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* Much like TalesOfTheAbyss above, everyone's Mystic Artes are pretty jaw-droppingly awesome.
** At one point, the game actually rewards you with an achievement for pulling off a CMOA-worthy finish with a Mystic Arte: [[spoiler:Duke's second form in the final battle. Considering the wording of the achievement, it seems possible you can do it with anybody, but Yuri does it by, after his normal final slash of his Mystic Arte, jumping up in the air, shouting "This is it!" and hitting Duke with a super-sized Azure Edge.]]
** In particular, Yuri's Mystic Arte:
--->'''Yuri''': ''This ends now! Oh brilliant blade of coldest steel, rend the infinite darkness, and crush my enemies to nothing!'' '''''[[CallingYourAttacks SAVAGE WOLF FURY!!]]'''''
** Rita's Mystic Arte incantation is another favorite:
--->'''Rita''': ''Oh power that lies at the root of all creation, oh memories inscribed in ages past, hear my call and arise before me!'' '''''ANCIENT CATASTROPHE!!''''' (EarthShatteringKaboom) ''This'' is the fruit of my research.
* [[spoiler:Yuri]] gets a couple when he cements his status as a VigilanteMan, killing [[spoiler:both Ragou and Cumore]] in cold blood.
* [[CuteShotaroBoy Karol]] has one when proves himself quite a {{Determinator}} in the Blade Drifts of Zopheir, [[spoiler:going up against a huge monster ''by himself'' to save the rest of the party, culminating in the part where he's flipped into the air by the monster, grabs a conveniently-placed {{BFS}}, and stabs the monster hard enough so that the party can recover and join the battle in full.]]
* Yuri, Karol, Judith, and Rita, in succession, punching out Raven [[spoiler:after he returns to the party after fighting them as Schwann]]. This may also qualify for CrowningMomentOfFunny, especially Rita's line: "I didn't want to feel left out."
** Along the same lines, the rest of the party (but especially Repede, Karol, and Rita) get one when the latter two punch out ''Yuri'' for trying to go solo for a bit.
* Speaking of the post-Schwann boss fight, the entire scene is [=CMoA=]: [[spoiler: with Raven revealing himself to be an immortal DeathSeeker, then performing a ([[NotQuiteDead pseudo]]) HeroicSacrifice to get his friends out alive. It manages to be so awesome, in fact, the the resulting EasilyForgiven scene ''works'', purely due to the RuleOfCool]].
* Yuri and Flynn get a collective one when [[spoiler:they [[DuelBoss beat the shit]] out of each other to resolve things - not because they're actually trying to ''kill'' each other, but because they're HeterosexualLifePartners -- uh, friends, and that's how they work things out.]]
* Another Yuri/Flynn example: When they both plow through somewhere around 50 monsters to some of the game's best music to plant what amounts to a magic-nuke in the middle of a massive hoard, while having a casual conversation. The only down side is the fact that this is the only time you can have Flynn in your party.
** Well, that and the fact that Flynn is horrible to control.
*** He's much faster in the {{PS3}} version. [[spoiler:He'd have to be, he's a permanent party member now.]]
* Fighting [[spoiler:Dhaos, Shizel, Barbatos, and Kratos from, respectively, Phantasia, Eternia, Destiny, and Symphonia]] is pretty god damn awesome in its own right, especially with their [[LimitBreak Mystic Artes]]: [[spoiler:"Dhaos Laser!" or "Struggle against these holy chains! Shining Bind!"]]
** This gets even more epic in the PS3 version: [[spoiler:You now fight all 4 of them ''at the same time''.]] As if that weren't enough, once you beat them, [[spoiler:the rest of your playable characters all show up at once to fight you. They have boss-like stats and access to their mystic artes. How's that for an arena match?]]
* Who can forget the last fight with Zagi? Upon defeating him he asks whether he should [[spoiler:turn the rest of his body into a blastia as well.]] Yuri coldly replies with [[spoiler:"Do it in Hell." before slicing Zagi across the chest and pushing him off the cliff.]] And all without even a change in expression. I mean, damn.
* Fighting [[spoiler:Kratos]] on Unknown. [[spoiler:He]] is unquestionably the hardest fight in the entire game. Even the Fell Arms boss is nothing compared to how incredibly powerful this boss is. [[spoiler:He]] is incredibly fast, breaks out of combos with ease, and hits incredibly hard. When [[spoiler:Kratos]] goes into Overlimit, ''you have to run from him or he will slaughter you in the blink of an eye'' and then [[spoiler:Kratos will use Shining Bind; it hits for 30k damage.]] It's one of the most challenging fights in the TalesSeries, but it feels to great when you finally win.
** [[spoiler:Kratos]] on Unknown? Please. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBhltuBj9KI&fmt=18 Watch this Youtube user open a can of whoop-ass on said opponent]], [[DuelBoss with Yuri]], [[HarderThanHard on Unknown difficulty]], ''[[SelfImposedChallenge alone.]]'' If not a CMOA for Yuri himself [[spoiler:for dealing ''2.5 million damage'' in three minutes]], then definitely for the player.
* See that Sekundes point up above in the ''TalesOfEternia'' section? [[spoiler:Yup, in the {{PS3}} version, Rita can pull that off too. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CCMlHjtkjM It's every bit as epic as it sounds.]]]]
** Dhaos was killed in his own game by Indignation. Programmers thought it would be received well by the Fans if Rita's Indignation was an instant kill when used on him. Certainly a CMOA for the programmers themselves.
*** And it manages to one-up the Sekundes thing. Did you think that Indignation dealing one-hundred-thousand damage was cool? Were you impressed by a player using Yuri to deal 2.5 million damage in a few minutes? Then you'd better be impressed with Rita dealing one point short of ''ten-million damage'' in ''one hit''!
*** Oh, and to gain the Indignation attack, she has to basically reenact the opening to ''TalesOfPhantasia''. By going into overlimit 4 and using Thunder Blade on Dhaos, who appears in 200-man-melee, while he's at half health or less. She'll then spontaneously use Indignation (for the first time in that save file), and obliterate Dhaos in one final hit.

* Speaking of the post-Schwann boss fight, the entire scene is [=CMoA=]: [[spoiler: with Raven revealing himself to be an immortal DeathSeeker, then performing a ([[NotQuiteDead pseudo]]) HeroicSacrifice to get his friends out alive. It manages to be so awesome, in fact, the the resulting EasilyForgiven scene ''isn't'' a major WallBanger, purely due to the RuleOfCool]].

** Sheena, in the temple of Volt, after the Summon Spirit goes berserk and ends up [[spoiler:killing Corrine]], Sheena stands up and screams "For the sake of everyone that risked their lives to protect me, ''VOLT! I DEMAND YOUR POWER!!"'' cue fight.