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1	* The first half of the first episode. Tens, if not hundreds of thousands of mecha fighting aliens in outer space? Check. Coordinated operations? Check. Opening Wormhole to directly attack Hideauze's nest? Check. No one is considered a one-man army in that like Macross or Gundam and ability of every surviving pilot is marginally equal? Check. They failed the mission, but even so, it's an all-out war sequence.
2	* Episode 2 has Ledo and Chamber destroying the pirate ships and eliminating the pirates' asses from this universe. Literally.
3	* In the third episode, he does it again ''without'' killing anybody. His dispatching of the pirate leader is noteworthy for consisting entirely of Chamber screaming at her to surrender while spinning her around, a funny contrast to the previous "vaporize everything" approach that shows that Ledo is willing to think outside of the box.
4	* In the fifth episode, Ledo has to deal with his fair share of pervy creeps when venturing into a shadier part of town, but he manages to deal with them two more times in order to retrieve Pinion's mysterious box. By the end of it, his shirt is in tatters, he's covered in lipstick, and he's utterly confused by what happened, but he singlehandedly [[MundaneMadeAwesome saved what might have been a bland barbeque]].
5	* Episode 7 has a great one. Laser weapons are "inefficient" underwater? Use your bare robot hands.
6	* A minor but notable example: When Ledo gains strong evidence that Hideauze are capable of sentience and not necessarily monsters, he immediately refuses to continue destroying them as he'd previously spent his whole life doing. Ledo throws off a lifetime of brainwashing and grudges through basic moral integrity; badass. A sign of his change is when he called them - or the babies at least - "Whalesquid" instead of "Hideauze".
7	* Most of episode 12, the glorious battle between Ledo/Chamber, Pinion and Lukkage against Kugel/Striker and his cult. Props goes to Pinion using the "primitive" (by Galactic Alliance standards) rail gun as support fire, one time even hitting Striker and allowing Ledo/Chamber to get the drop on them.
8	** Ledo defeats Striker by body-slamming her into a smokestack at full speed!
9	** Without Striker, the Cult is honestly [[CurbstompBattle curbstomped]] and reduced to wreckage in short order with zero losses on the allied side. A lot of which is due to Lukkage going ham, grabbing several Yunburos and [[GrievousHarmWithABody spinning them at full speed against the others]].
10	** Melty nearly kills herself trying to get warning to Gargantia. She said she wasn't sure if she could do it, but she tried it anyway.
11	* Episode 13, as befits the finale of a series, is ''phenomenal''.
12	** Amy acting as a spotter for Gargantia's mass driver artillery strikes, flying her fragile little surf-flier well within visual range of a full-on Machine Caliber battle, with all the firepower this entails. That takes ''guts''.
13	** Chamber's last words, that also double as a PreAsskickingOneLiner:
14	--->'''Chamber:''' (''to Striker'') Response to final warning: Go to hell, tin can!
15	* The ending of the second OVA. It might have been part of the beginning of Kugel's anti-Hideauze cult, but one can't deny how cathartic it was to have him to see through Aleria's false attempts to be the new high priestess and give the monster '''[[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice exactly]]''' [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice what she deserved.]]
16	-->'''Kugel''': (''impales Aleria with his Alliance sword'') [[BondOneLiner Sacrifice your life, as a priestess.]]
17	* Another one, humanity survived TheEndOFTheWorldAsWeKnowIt on two ways. 1. Staying in the Ice Age era for a looong time as ice melted. 2. Select few of them and send them to outer space. Both Survived.
18	** The Earth inhabitants survived and transitioned from ice age dwellers to seafarers. That transition had to be dangerous, given icebergs, rapidly-changing conditions, and more as all that ice melted... yet they still managed.
19	** Space maybe have an Orwellian government, but they survived and have many cool-looking mecha, complete with technology that can generate wormholes and more.

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