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5	!The original series
6	* One thing viewers may notice is that the amount of StockFootage this show has is relatively low. Many of the mecha battles are animated separately and don't rely on recycled scenes. For a 1980s anime, this is quite impressive.
7	* The first time Chirico gets an AT in working order in the first arc and utterly [[CurbStompBattle cleans house with]] [[AllBikersAreHellsAngels the biker gang]] terrorizing the city. An AT may be fragile compared to its counterparts from other [[MechaShow mecha shows]], but it is more than enough to take on a bunch of punks armed with bikes and machine guns.
8	* Chirico's assault on the police station when he [[AceCustom singlehandedly modifies a Scopedog]] and takes on a police army, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeljP3PhiM0&t=4m25s complete with]] an ''insane'' [[NoScope 1440 no scope]] that takes out almost a dozen targets effortlessly, 30 years before Major League Gaming would even popularize the term "no scope."
9	* In Episode 12, when the AT Battling team is prepared to ambush Chirico and Fyana in the elevator, he already anticipated their moves and rigged the lift with a directional bomb that [[StuffBlowingUp takes out nearly a dozen elite Battlers at once.]]
10	* The end of the first arc, when the Melkian army [[ItsRainingMen deploys an elite AT airborne unit]] to take down the [[CorruptCop corrupt police station]]. The MeleeATrois is a sight to behold as the cops, the army, and Chirico & his friends turn the show into a nonstop showcase of explosions.
11	* Chirico's insane magnum/shotgun hybrid deserves special mention. He can easily destroy light military ''vehicles'' and in a few cases ''full AT mechs'', by targeting their weak points with it.
12	* The Kummen Jungle Wars arc showcases some of the most awesome mecha combat in the series, possibly even the RealRobotGenre. The battlefields vary greatly, from dense jungle to raging rivers to rocky mountains, and Chirico has to employ real tactics and think on his feet to stay alive especially since the Veela army has a Perfect Soldier on their side. The battle in the lake may very well qualify as probably the most intense fight in the series.
13	%%* The final duel between Chirico and Ypsilon in Sunsa.
14	%%* In Episode 51, Chirico achieves his highest kill count in a single AT: ''37.''
15	* Fyana stealing an AT, following Chirico across the desert to keep him alive just long enough to demand a answer for what he was doing. If that wasn't enough, she told him that if it turned out he was following in the footsteps of Wiseman she wouldn't hesitate to shoot him no matter how much it would kill her to do so.
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17	!''The Last Red Shoulder''
18	* Baiman is the first to separate from the group staying behind to cover the others and leaving him with a large amount of Red Shoulder piloted [=ATs=]. At the end of the OVA however, after Gregor and Muza have been killed by Yipsilon and Chirico's Turbo Custom was destroyed and left at Pailsen's mercy, a half dead Baiman rolls in and guns him down with his Scopedog's machine gun before collapsing and dying in Chirico's arms being the one of the group that actually succeeded in getting their revenge. And Baiman did this with his metal arm (which he earlier showed could only move it's fingers very slowly so his trigger finger was severely handicapped) and in a Scopedog that was under gunned (he was the only one of the group to not have a missile launcher mounted, presumably because of their limited and poor quality part supply Muza was complaining about they could only salvage 3). And he managed to take out at least a dozen Red Shoulder's in more advanced units fighting his way to Chirico while in a heavily damaged AT with fatal wounds and then managed to get the jump on Pailsen despite that.
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20	!''Big Battle''
21	* The fight against Radaa Niva featured in ''Big Battle'', Balarant's first Perfect Soldier; a cyborg psychopath, and the first enemy that required the combined effort of the ''entire'' Chirico crew to kill. Two jeeps, a helicopter, and two standard VOTOMS versus a land battleship the size and height of a dozen city blocks with a super-prototype mecha at its core. It's one of the best-animated fights in the series.
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23	!''Roots of Ambition''
24	* Surprising crossover with heartwarming: the fact that Carson, despite his role as a spy, makes sure to keep an eye on Chirico out of camaraderie. It makes his death even more tragic.
25	* When Gregor, Bamian, and Muza get some alone time with Chirico, they proceed to beat him up on Liman's orders to see if he's a spy. He says nothing... [[OnlyAFleshWound and then casually takes a bullet in the shoulder.]] [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Granted he gets sent to sickbay,]] but let it be said he never so much as ''flinched''. No wonder he won the trio's respect afterward.
26	* The final battle. Chirico faces the wrath of the ENTIRE Red Shoulder battalion in the middle of a battle on Sunsa. Chirco survives ''everything'' Pailsen and Liman throw at him. Then when Liman [[VillainNoLongerIdle cuts the bullshit and decides to take matters into his own hands]], [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu he... defeats Chirico.]] Not by brute strength, but by employing decoys and a smoke screen. The smoke screen allows his wingman to nail Chirco's Scopedog with a sucker punch that FINALLY brings our hero down. For a normal human to take down the literal son of God with nothing but wits is quite impressive.
27	* This is bookended by parade scene, just...[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBDAvrP4UN0 the parade scene]] The combination of that march music along with Pailsen's [[VillainousBSOD priceless expression]] at seeing that Chirico's squad was there, was just great. And then Chirco then says something that makes the usually-cold Pailsen go have a VillainousBSOD.
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29	!''Brilliantly Shining Heresy''
30	* During the final fight between Chirico and a super-crazed Titania. Titania effortlessly destroys Chirico's Burglary Dog, thus causing him to eject out injured. Chirico, in a last-ditch effort, pulled out his trademark pistol and tried to pull off his classic "bullet to the cockpit trick". But, he suddenly collapsed from his injuries and misses. Then it ricochets, slips through a small hole in Titania's Order Buckler's armor, hist her auxiliary brain, and incapacitates her, rendering her unable to go on fighting. This has to go down as one of the luckiest shots in Votoms history.
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33	!''Armored Hunter Mellowlink''
34	* he titular character manages to consistently takes down [=ATs=] ''on foot'' using nothing but his basic equipment and his wits. One such victory involved him having to survive in prison after the warden, who is one of the men he's hunting for and recognizes him immediately, made sure to make his life absolute hell with daily beatings at the drop of a hat, only for our hero to reveal everything was going just as he'd planned thanks to equipment he got a group of performers to smuggle in and turn the situation around.
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36	! ''Pailsen Files''
37	* Behold, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0YO5YICIbc&feature=related the invasion of planet Monad]]. Imagine spending over 4.5 billion dollars every second during the battle which involves sending over 120 million Gilgamesh soldiers to invade a planet turned fortress by the Balarant forces, which technically makes it an unwinnable war. But in the eyes of Wockam, this was all an attempt to further test the Barcoff squad's survivability.

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