Awesome / Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn

• When the judgement-hungry Knight Templar goddess Ashera refuses the Last-Second Chance, Ike points Ragnell directly in the Greater-Scope Villain's face and says:
  Ike: Then we will fight... and we will save our people. Make your peace with whatever the gods worship. Your end is near.
  Ashera: My end...is near?
  Ike: In every battle that mattered in my life, I've always been the one left standing, no matter how slim my chances. This battle means more than any of the others, because it's for the life of every person that I've ever cared about. I will win this fight.
  • Soon after, he proceeds to (with good goddess Yune's power) deliver the final blow and kill a god. Complete with Ass Kicking Pose.
• At the top of the Tower of Guidance, when the Big Bad goes on his Motive Rant and explains that the heroes will have to go through him to get to the Greater-Scope Villain, what is Ike's response?^note He only delivers this line if you have not viewed Ike's memory. If you did view the scene, Ike will instead demand that Sephiran tell him more about the time he and Zelgius helped Ike's father.
  Ike: I don't need to hear anything else, then. [points Ragnell in Sephiran's face, and this starts playing] I'm going to make your death as painful as I know how.
• Ike also gets a good Shut Up, Hannibal! against Lekain, pointing out how the so-called mastermind knows less about what is going on than the heroes trying to stop him, and that he's an Unwitting Pawn to Sephiran.
• Marcia rushing to fight off an entire troop of wyvern knights by herself to protect Elincia, Leanne and Nealuchi (a queen, princess, and princess' royal retainer respectively), and spouts a constant stream of insults at them the entire time. She even manages to yell at Haar in the midst of the battle to make him help her.
• Elincia has the confidence to lay down her weapon in between two warring armies just to prove a point.
• The Black Knight is a Moment of Awesome in and of himself, especially when he joins Micaiah's party early on as a playable character, making for one hell of a Wham Episode.
• Ilyana enacting vengeance upon the prison guards who captured her and Aimee, for feeding her nothing but scraps. "I must have vengeance!"
• Ranulf surviving two fights with the Black Knight.
• Sanaki's conversation with a certain subordinate near the end of the game... Doubles as a Funny Moment.
  Sanaki: You are my subordinate, after all. I've decided that leaving one's empress to die is punishable by drowning in a pool of rancid butter.
  Sephiran/Lehran: Of course it is, my empress.
  Sanaki: I hope you're a strong swimmer.
• Leanne is the cause of one when she arrives in Crimea in Part 2. Paraphrasing the narration: "The Crimean nobles don't like how Elincia welcomes the Heron Princess to court so readily, but they know that if they say anything Tibarn and Naesala will tear them apart, so they shut up about it."
• Ike gets one in the early segments of Part 3 if you let him fight Rommit. The boss, being under the impression it was the laguz attacking them, will react with confusion, as he's never heard of laguz using beorc weapons before. Ike simply responds with "You underestimate them." Ike feels no need to correct him, because he sees laguz as no different than himself or any other beorc and is proud to be among them.
• Kurthnaga's Big Damn Heroes moment at the end of 3-13, levelling a castle with a single attack to provoke a ceasefire.
• Soren gets a few:
  • Repeatedly mouthing off at the battle-thirsty lion laguz general and future king of the beast tribe Skrimir, knowing that the latter respects him and can't win the war without him.
  • When Aimee, the shop girl with a crush on Ike, offers the Greil Mercernaries a discount if Ike tells her he loves her, Ike is about to comply (purely for business reasons). Soren rushes in and warns Ike that if he tells Aimee this, she'll spread the "news" around, ruining Ike's reputation. Soren proceeds to put his own, apparently dormant, charisma into effect, sweet talking getting the discount for Ike. Short, dark, introverted Soren turns out to be a ladykiller. Crosses over with Funny Moments.
  • If he fights Micaiah during Part 3, chapter 7, he outright insults her. Note that, while Micaiah is not evil, everyone treats her with much more sympathy than her concrete actions elicit, and he Meteors her. In the face. Usually twice. Best yet, performing this Moment of Awesome is one of the steps to unlocking a secret ending scene.
    Soren: Do not presume to understand me, you ridiculous girl.
  • Again with Micaiah, if you are somehow able to get them to fight in 3-13 (next to impossible in regular gameplay, as Soren will not move unless attacked (which, considering he is likely far stronger than the Dawn Brigade at this point, is almost always a bad idea) and Micaiah cannot cross The Line), he will compliment her on the ruthlessness she showed in the preceding chapter. This likely hits her hard than any insult could have.
  Soren: Our last battle, in the valley. Was that your strategy?
  Micaiah: ...
  Soren: That was impressive. You killed thousands of beorc soldiers with your little ambush. Well done.
  Micaiah: I...
  
  • He gets a big one in his backstory. He manages to find someone he has only seen once in his life who didn't even stay in the same country, by himself, as a little boy. Both for the resolve to see it through, and the fact that it actually worked.
• Radiant Dawn also manages to do one via an elaborate bait and switch. The player spend most of the first two parts of the game controlling Micaiah's efforts with the Dawn Brigade and Elincia's attempt to keep ahold of her throne, respectively. And while a lot of familiar faces are seen, there's several questions at times about where Ike and the Greil Mercenaries are, as Elincia would ask for their help if she could find them. In the end, she deals with it on her terms, defeats and captures the traitorous Duke Ludvick, and imprisons him, only for him to try to talk his way out of it by trying to ransom off Elincia's foster sister and bodyguard Lucia, who he'd captured earlier, by literally presenting her ready to be hanged outside the walls of Elincia's castle. To accept is to doom her authority as Queen of Crimea for all time, but to refuse is to condemn Lucia, her closest friend, to death. Everyone knows this and even Lucia tells Elincia not to throw everything away for her sake. Elincia doesn't, and is about to watch Lucia die for her... when the Greil Mercenaries show up out of NOWHERE, save Lucia, proceed to trash Ludveck's remaining forces around the scaffolding, and generally remind everyone just why they were the badasses that helped win the last war in a brilliant introductory moment that wouldn't have worked half as well if they'd been there from day one.
  • The sequence as a whole is a Moment of Awesome for Lucia. The poor battered-looking young woman remains defiant to the end as she declares her loyalty to Elincia moments before she is to be hanged. Lucia's response to Elincia's decision to sacrifice her for the good of the country? "Hah!"
  • Similarly, the scene beforehand is a Moment of Awesome for Elincia as a queen, because she made the hard choice to let her beloved friend Lucia die not knowing all of this was about to happen.
  • And hiring the Greil Mercenaries to do this and then leaving Crimea to let it all happen was a major Moment of Awesome for Bastian. Since the majority of Part 2 focused on Ludveck's ability to strategize, seeing the whole thing get wiped out in one move by Bastian was astonishing, especially as Bastian's tactical prowess had until that point been an Informed Ability.
• In the climax of Chapter 3-E, Mist collapses from the overwhelming chaotic energy emitting from Lehran's Medallion, and she has to be escorted out of the battlefield. If Mist has an A-Support with Boyd and he's deployed into battle, Boyd immediately offers to clear the way for an unconscious Mist. I repeat: Boyd single-handedly clears a path for an unconscious girl when they are completely outnumbered. Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment since this shows how much Boyd loves and cares for Mist, as he's willing to risk life and limb to ensure her safety.
• Practically anything Haar does or says.
  Haar: Why couldn't you just stay on patrol? Saw a pretty little heron and just had to have her, is that it? I could never decide if you were more greedy or more corrupt. Stupid was never in the question, though.
  Zeffren: Who do you think you are?! You're a traitor, just like Shiharam! The dracoknights spit on your name!
  Haar: ... Do they now? Well, here's your chance to try the real thing.
  • Haar is so awesome that when he re-recruits Jill in the midst of a heated battle where they are on opposite sides, she's swooning near the end of his speech.
  • Haar's conversation with Levail in the Tower of Guidance gives Moments of Awesome for both of them.
    Levail: He is the last true knight. I will die for him.
    Haar: Yes, Levail. You will.
    Levail: How I dreamed of fighting a proper foe! I am honoured, Sir Haar! Have at you!
• Sothe getting promoted to Whisper by Yune. He seriously says he feels great- so great he could arm wrestle with Skrimir.
• Most of the boss dialogues in Part 4, especially against Izuka.
  • Zihark is a great example for those aware of his past.
    Zihark: …She always told me not to let anger and hatred get the best of me, not the let them guide my blade… This will be my only exception.
  • Bastian outright says he would dissect Izuka's brain to find a possible cure for Renning.
    Izuka: Y-you monster! What you suggest is unconscionable!
    Bastian: Exactly, yet you had no hesitation before doing worse to the laguz. I will speed you now to the afterlife, where you may contemplate your life's egregious mistakes.
  • Volke simply gets to the point.
    Izuka: You! You're...
    Volke: ...Under a new contract. Good-bye, Izuka.
    Izuka: Feral Ones! Kill him! Do it now!
    • This one is particularly notable because, in most of his other dialogues, Izuka either mocks them or calmly tries to talk them down, even to supreme badasses like Tibarn. Volke? Izuka is scared the fuck shitless, frantically and desperately ordering his Feral ones to kill him.
  • From other chapters, there's this gem from Stefan in 4-3:
    Numida: Wh-who are you?
    Stefan: I am the desert, and I brook no intrusion. Make peace with your goddess.
• Astrid gets a brilliant one if she's selected to fight Lekain or Hetzel. In Hetzel's case, Astrid cements her character development from being a pampered noble to a resplendent knight of Crimea by viciously calling out Hetzel's blind obedience. In Lekain's case, we learn that this was the man Astrid supposed to marry way back in Path of Radiance, and he forgot she existed. That's okay, though; Astrid tells him to his face marrying him would have been the greatest mistake in her life, and you can have her finish off the madman.
• It's a pity that Nailah rarely gets her moments to shine, but she has a lot of witty dialogue during boss conversations. One of the highlights is her conversation with Tibarn, but the other...
  Nailah: Who would’ve guessed that a madman on the other side of the desert would somehow threaten Hatari?
  Sephiran: Hatari. I’m sorry I didn’t get a chance to see it. The wolf tribe has survived all this time in the far corner of the world. Only the goddess could have known that.
  Nailah: Perhaps even she didn’t know it. Your goddess isn’t perfect, you know. Does an imperfect goddess have the right to judge imperfect beings?
  Sephiran: I see your point. Does the creator retain the right to destroy her creations when they are no longer what she envisioned? I imagine we could discuss this sometime… if only we had more time. I believe you alone might be able to sway my opinion on this, Lady Nailah, Queen of Wolves.
  Nailah: You have too many opinions. I’m done talking.
• The final battle between Ike and the Black Knight in Endgame-2 can be this if you deny the BK the satisfaction of having a sword duel and equip Urvan instead to kill him. At this point, weapon disadvantage barely matters. As one LP put it...
  Roffie: [as Zelgius] There's something awfully familiar about this...
  Rondie: [as Ike] There should be! This isn't really about who's the better swordsman. Really, there's more to it. This is about you bastard killing my dad. PREPARE TO DIE A LOT.
• Brom gets one in Part 1 of Chapter 2. After he, Nephenee and Heather kill Ludveck's subordinate Yeardley, they incapacitate two of the youths whom Yeardley had tried to recruit into the rebellion. When one of them calls Nephenee a "murderer," Nephenee is tongue-tied, but Brom agrees, pointing out that he and Nephenee went to war and killed a lot of people. He threatens to finish one of the youths with his axe, forcing the youth to beg for mercy, then concludes by saying that the youths "know spit about war," showing how foolish those backing Ludveck are.