Awesome / Jackie Chan Adventures

It's a show about Jackie Chan. Of course there are going to be more than a few awesome moments.

Season 1

The Dark Hand

• During Jackie's first encounter with the Enforcers, he shows a supremely masterful method of saving the vases that they knocked off of the shelves of the shop. They knock two, he dives onto his back and catches both of them in his hands. Then they drop a third. He uses his feet to grab a pillow and then launches it directly in the path of the falling vase to cushion it. Then he launches himself to his feet, catches the two vases again, and puts all three of them back. The looks on their faces: priceless.
  • Soon afterwards, Jackie first fought the Enforcers in a playground and defeated them with... windshield wipers. This was when the Enforcers realized how awesome Jackie was.
• Jade during her Establishing Character Moment: she somehow gets into Section 13 (a top-secret government facility) undetected, grabbed a motorized scooter and tried to "rescue" Jackie.
  • Later she grabs the Rooster Talisman from the shield, and Tohru has NO idea it was missing until he got back to the Dark Hand's HQ!

Project A, for Astral

• When Jackie runs along the top of a train that's going over a cliff and lands on solid ground, even the bad guys are awed.
  Ratso: "No way he's human."
• Valmont takes a lot of flak for not getting Shendu any Talismans. Then Shendu goes out in astral form, and Valmont has some impressive snark when he returns.
  Valmont: "Shendu! Back so soon? What, no talismans?"

The Rock

• Valmont's fight with Jackie at Mount Rushmore.
• Jade breaks into Section 13 again and steals all the Talismans, in order to bargain with the Dark Hand and save Jackie from the poison. This quote sums it all up.
  Captain Black: (Having seen Jade on the monitors) "She can be a secret agent when she grows up."

The Dog and Piggy Show

• Hak Foo's introduction was impressive. He even manages to defeat Jackie during their first fight (even if Hak Foo's track record gradually worsens later in the series).
  Hak Foo: I am Hak Foo, the last human you will ever lay eyes upon.
• But Uncle later kicks Hak Foo's butt in the climax (with some help from the Dog Talisman, but still).
  Hak Foo: (leaping into the air) Angry crow takes flight!
  Uncle: (leaping) Thank you for sharing, Angry Crow!
  (Uncle kicks Hak Foo)
  Jackie: Jade! Uncle just leaped twenty feet into the air!
  Jade: Go, Uncle!

The Tiger and the Pussycat

• Tiger and Pussycat, when they get their act together, beware.
  Shendu: "The Chans are in the building."

Day of the Dragon

• After Jackie is safe from falling to his doom, he fully jumps back in headfirst and says "Grab my legs" to the window-washer so he can save Jade from certain death. This move was a risky one and put both of their lives on the line.
• After being betrayed by Shendu and arrested by Section 13, Valmont escapes and goes off to Shendu's castle to steal the treasure he was promised. How does he accomplish this, you may ask? Simple, by tearing out one of his own teeth to reveal that it contains a remote-control for his high-tech cane (really a Japanese-style shikomizue) to hone in on his position, which in turn, leads to it clocking the guard outside the Dark Hand's cell upside the head, and knocking him out as it flies to Valmont's hand. Badass.
  Ratso: "What are you doing boss?
  Valmont: "Raising cane."
• Jackie's first battle against Shendu counts. Even though Jackie is an ordinary human, he demonstrates for the first time that he has enough balls to try and defeat a powerful demon overlord anyways. Which of course, he and allies continue doing every season.
• Jackie and Jade ultimately defeating Shendu by pulling out his Sheep, Dog, Dragon and Rat Talismans while he's attempting to tend to his Dragon Warriors. As he begins to swear vengeance upon them, Jade proceeds to use the Dragon talisman to blast his statue to pieces, destroying him and sending his spirit to the netherworld.

Season 2

The Mother of All Battles

• Uncle Chan and Tohru's mother are perfectly capable of beating up bad guys together despite their... unique relationship. Especially when Jackie's and Tohru's lives were in danger.

The Stronger Evil

• Hak Foo explained, in no uncertain terms, exactly why he wasn't using the Talismans he had been given:
  "The horse for healing? I am not so easily injured. The rooster for levitation? I already fly. The dog for immortality? There isn't a man alive who can vanquish me!"

• Tohru, on the other hand, breaks that Badass Boast down using solely his wits; tricking Hak Foo into lowering his guard followed by taking advantage of his ignorance of each specific Talisman's power. There's a reason why the Big Guy has been up ahead alongside Jackie during the great Talisman hunt.
  Hak Foo: The power of balance. You will be unable to knock me - (Gets knocked down.)
  Tohru: Spiritual balance, Hak Fool.

And He Does His Own Stunts

• Not only does Jade's Bavarian Fire Drill work to great effect (among other things, like getting the portal map), she BEAT UP a S13 agent that had just given JACKIE trouble (though Jackie was trying to train him, admittedly).

Queen Of The Shadowkhan

• The second time when Finn and his friends try to steal the book counts. Finn enters as a wealthy art collector, while the others dig a hole to snatch back the book. The funny thing is that it works, no one see through the disguise and Ratso and Chow get the book. Only the unexpected arrival of Jade, who was controlling the Shadowkhan at the time, stopped them from getting away with the book.

The Lotus Temple

• Jackie and Jade rescue Xu Lin from the temple by placing her in a suit of armor and throwing her out, thus bypassing the magic barrier that should've kept her inside temple.
• Jackie matches the Monk step for step despite him being boosted by the magic symbol taught by the Scroll of Hung Chow. Jackie even manages to copy the power of the symbol halfway through the fight by pressing his palm against the Monk's and finishes the fight by summoning a mini tornado.
• Despite being used for evil, the secrets of the Scroll of Hung Chow are wicked cool. Basically boosting magical powers without the need for training and granting extra abilities like a palm blasting and the ability to animate inanimate objects like a suit of armor.

Tale of the Demon Tail

• Jade, with the aid of a couple of Talismans, besting the freaking Sky Demon in an aerial duel.

The New Atlantis

• Valmont managing to (temporarily) throw off Shendu's possession by touching the Pan'ku Box and knocking him out, despite the great pain this gave both of them.
• There's something unbelievably badass about how Tohru conducts himself when Valmont has to temporarily team up with the Chans to stop Bai Tza. Especially with how he gives Valmont this ultimatum, showing how far he has grown from The Brute who tried to cut Jade open to get the Rooster Talisman:
  Tohru: If Jade does not remain safe, I will turn you inside out.

The Eighth Door

• When Jade was trapped alone in the Netherworld, she was soon captured by the Demon Sorcerers. This would be a worst-case scenario for anyone, and how does Jade handle it? She reveals that their brother Shendu lied to them, and that only ONE being can exit through Shendu's portal. This sets off a fight that she uses to get to the portal herself and escape, while still having time to blow a mock kiss at the Sky Demon right before she leaps through the portal and it closes, causing him to crash face-first into a rock!
• Let's not forget all of the Chan family's efforts in bringing Jade back. Jackie is particularly more aggressive towards his enemies that he just shoves the Pan'ku Box right at Shendu, knowing full well the box would hurt the demon; And than there's the part where he sends Shendu back to his portal, basically sacrificing him for Jade's freedom. A proverb should be made following this episode: NEVER. EVER. MESS. WITH. JACKIE'S. FAMILY.
  • Then there's Uncle. He got so impatient in waiting that he knock out Hak Foo himself.

Demon World

• Shendu finally gets his wish to possess Jackie Chan, allowing him to set off an evil plan that actually works: he then rewrites reality so he and his brethren can reconquer the Earth, and he (temporarily) wins.
• Basically, everything Jade does in this two-parter. By mere luck, she and her memory of the real world are preserved when history is changed, ushering in the Demon World. She then has to reacquaint Jackie with his martial arts skill, tell Uncle about the spells needed to reseal the demons and steal Shendu's Talismans, and gather up the J-Team from around the world to make a last stand at the Book of Ages to rewrite history as it should be. And she succeeds!
  • When our heroes are about to banish the remaining Demon Sorcerers back to the Netherworld:
    Jackie: "Bad day — for demons."

The Chosen One

• Jade fighting the three Dark Chi Warriors into a standstill solely with the Staff of the Chosen One.
• When it's revealed Tohru isn't the chosen one, he sits up and grins at the Dark Chi Warriors who spent the majority of the episode trying to destroy him. Jade even says "Guess that what means" as ominous music plays and Tohru utterly curbstomps the dark chi warriors.

Chi of the Vampire

• The Chan Clan fighting the Jiangshi while most of them had their own chi all mixed up counts.

The Good, the Bad, the Blind, the Deaf and the Mute

• Jackie, Jade, and Tohru all get one when they overcome the disabilities placed on them by Daolon Wong, saving Uncle and stopping Wong in the process.
  Jade: "Not handicapped... handicapable!"

Season 3

Re-Enter the J-Team

• Tohru wins a sumo wrestling contest against a man bigger than he is... which is saying something. It's also very meaningful because he was the only member of the J-Team to win his match.
  • To put this into perspective, the sumo wrestler Tohru went up against was easily twice his size! And he beats him by lifting him up off the ground! The sight was so amazing that there was a triple take of the J-Team, the spectators, and the ref!

The Powers Unleashed

• Scruffy standing up to Daolon Wong to save Jackie and Jade, glaring at the wizard to try and go through him. And this was before everyone was aware that he had the Power of Immortality!

Vivas Las Jackies

• He may have lost the fight, but seeing Uncle prepared for battle with Daolon Wong, and having a blast-off with the other wizard was great. He should really take the time to prepare combat spells more often.

Rabbit Run

• Jade actually "weaponizing" cheerleaders in giving Uncle an edge against Daolon Wong by having them chant Uncle's spell.
  Uncle: Go Jackalopes.

The Ox-Head Incident

• Uncle transfers the Ox's Talisman Power into the only place that could be safe. Himself. Daolon Wong could only gulp weakly, knowing that he's about to enter a world of pain.
  • His fight against Hak-Foo is so impressive. Hak Foo has been doing massive damage with his Dark Chi powers and he can't even land one hit on Uncle who only needs to send the man smacking into the walls with just one or two fingers.

Re-Enter the Dragon

• Shendu tearing through all of Section 13 with only three of his Talisman powers, and not breaking a sweat.
• Uncle's quick counterspell to stop Enforcers from attacking them and de-powering them.
  • A couple of seconds later, Uncle backs Doalon to the wall with just two fingers!
• Uncle, Tohru, Captain Black, and Section 13 recreate the same spell that Lo Pei first used to defeat Shendu, by turning him into a statue again, and dividing his powers into 12 Talismans once more.
  • Shendu briefly has a moment of No-Nonsense Nemesis and tries to attack Uncle and his group. Jackie, who had been getting his ass kicked by Shendu now, proceeds to nail Shendu, a humanoid dragon twice his size and now possessing the power of all talisman, with a surprise uppercut hard enough that it lifts Shendu off the ground and knocks him onto his back, stunning him.

Season 4

The Masks of the Shadowkhan

• The Enforcers get one when Jackie manages to get inside the Dark Hand jet that's taking off. Having been expecting him, they open the plug door, and Jackie is sucked outside while they're safely belted. Rarely do they get to outsmart him like this.
  • This is followed by Jade — having hid in the baggage compartment and equipped herself with a parachute — jumping after Jackie and reaching him so that they can both land safely with the parachute.

The Amazing T-Troop

• Eggbert, an otherwise normal rooster, using the Rooster Talisman levitation powers, facing off against Tarakudo and his telekinesis power and drawing him into a stalemate. That chicken was utterly badass. Making it even better, Tarakudo only won through a cheap shot, and was visibly struggling, while Eggbert didn't even FLINCH until Tarakudo fought dirty and nailed him!
  • Noble Rooster indeed.

Black Magic

• This episode finally gave Captain Black another chance to shine. Fighting and outwitting his Superpowered Evil Side was totally cool. Not to mention the fact that without the Oni Mask, his Dark Side didn't seem very dark at all. Even less than Jackie's, and he's the main hero of the show! In fact, his Dark Side had no complaints about rejoining with his Light Side, unlike Dark Jackie.

Fright Fight Night

• Even though he's often labeled as The Scrappy, you have to give Paco credit for removing his own Oni Mask. He's also the only mask wearer who actually does this.

The Shadow Eaters

• Jokes about their puniness aside, the Shadowkhan Hak Foo gets control of are both this and Nightmare Fuel given they're essentially land sharks that grow in size every time they eat a human shadow. One of which gets so big from eating an entire subway's worth of people it TOWERS OVER MOST OF THE BUILDINGS!

J2: Rise of the Dragons

• The last fight scene between Jade and Drago near the Golden Gate Bridge was pretty epic. Future!Jade grew to be pretty badass.
• Also Future!Jade beats Jackie in a fight. Keep in mind Jackie didn't know who she was, and she was likely holding back.

The J-Tots

• The J-Team has their first bout against their versions of The Psycho Rangers.
  • Just as it seems El Toro is about to go down, his counterpart make one slight critical error.
  El Toro: El Toro Fuerte never removes his mask.
  Bopper: (Eyes wide open before being body slammed.)
  • Tohru sends Helga tumbling down the stairs all the while maintaining his honor in not fighting women.

• Even though he is a small kid, Jackie is still just as capable as he lands a flying kick to Tommy Chung, his Chang Gang counterpart, who is also a child.
  Tommy: "Hey! We're not playing tag!"
  Jackie: "Then how about peekaboo?!"
  • Right afterwards, kid!Viper dodges kid!Phillip's fist, flips it, makes up a rhyme and punches her counterpart along to it.
  Viper: "Patty cake, patty cake, baker's man. Bake me a cake like Jackie Chan!"

Ninja Twilight

• El Toro Fuerte's stand against two Oni Generals.
  El Toro: "This bridge is closed."
• Tarakudo regaining his whole body, allowing him to beat down the J-Team! Even without his telekinesis, he's as dangerous as ever.
  Tarakudo: "Over my demon body!"
• Finally, Jade gets one by slamming Tarakudo's own mask into his face, causing not only himself but also all of the other Oni and Shadowkhan to be trapped inside the single mask for good.
  Jade: "Tarakudo, heads up!"

Season 5

It's All In The Game

• After being eliminated, Uncle came back to save Jackie by tying up the captain, driving the boat to Drago's direction and chanting the removal spell as the boat dangerously rocked back and forth. Note that the chi-o-matic has to be "bone-dry" or removal spell won't work, so Uncle had to be extra careful to make sure he didn't fall in the water.

The Demon Beneath My Wings

• Even Ms. Hartman, Jade's middle-aged schoolteacher, proves to be a badass. After accidentally absorbing the Sky Demon Chi, Hartman transforms into a scary winged monster. However, instead of turning evil like Jade feared, she uses her new powers to protect Jade from Drago. She even throws the "lizard boy" into the ocean at the end.

Clash of the Titanics

• Drago was able to get into the Chan Clan's sub, dodge Uncle's chi blast and launch him nearly 100 feet into the air. Yes Uncle was not in his best mood to fight because of his sickness, but it was still a sounding hit.
  Uncle: "Do you want piece of Uncle?" (throws chi blast at Drago, misses)
  Drago: "There'll be several pieces of Uncle when I'm through!"

Weight And See

• While Tohru is possessed by the Mountain demon chi, he's not completely gone as he comes back to fight Drago and the Ice Crew to protect Jade.
• Afterwards, there's a huge fight rocks v fire fight that even has Jade staying behind.

The Powers That Be

• When Jackie and Uncle knew there was no way they could immediately free themselves after being tied to the wooden post, they teamed up and traded that disadvantage for an advantage against Drago. Even if it was for a few seconds, they still were able to land a mighty smack on Drago that caused him to take some steps back in shock.
• The Final Battle of the series, with the Chan Clan and the J-Team making a last stand against Drago (who has all 8 Demon Chi's), the Ice Gang, and their demonic dragon minions from the Netherworld.
  • The heroes get some unexpected assistance from the former Enforcers, who help Uncle and Tohru summon Shendu, who agrees to help fight Drago for his own personal reasons. It eventually takes Shendu (with all 12 Talismans) to fight Drago (with all 8 Demon Chi's) to a standstill, allowing Uncle and Tohru to banish both demons to the Netherworld.