Awesome / Ultraman Leo

• Anytime Gen finishes whatever training he has to do to defeat the Monster of the Week (for as long as that concept lasted before being phased out); Training from Hell almost fails to describe what Dan puts Gen through, so it's always an excellent payoff when Gen succeeds and then is able to apply what he's learned to defeat his opponent.
• Among them, any appearances by Astra ((the first one in Ep.22) and the Ultra Smackdown (Eps. 38 and 39) are great!), Ultraman King; the most powerful Ultra of them all, the Ultra Brothers (minus Taro) and Anne from Ultraseven (Maybe...)
• Also, Ultraman Leo's smackdown vs Alien Magma and the Gillas brothers in Ep. 1.
  • Leo + Gillas brothers + Training from Hell + Kirimomi (=Spin) kick + Off with His Head! (for them) = Awesome moment.
• Ultraman King - he will take you to school and teach all 8 of your classes. In the series proper he pretty much solves anything just by willing it to. Leo is shrunken? He instantly grows him back to size. Leo and the Ultra Brothers are fooled by Babalou's disguise? He forcefully removes it without breaking a sweat and then scolds the Ultras for their infighting. Leo dies?! No problem, he literally puts Leo back together.
• Commander Black getting beat to death by the kids Gen trained. The kids fight smart: the first thing they do upon ambushing him is to knock the weapon out of his hand, and they go straight for his monster-summoning crystal. Black deserved every second of it.
• Leo's Big Damn Heroes moment saving Ultraman Zero, his student, in the Ultraman Zero Gaiden DVD special. There's a reason Zero is such a badass after training with Leo.
• Astra's Big Damn Heroes moment in Episode 46 was sweeter because it was the only appearance of his where he singlehandedly defeated the Monster of the Week. Leo was injured, so Astra pushed the kaiju away from his brother, shrank to human size, and flew in the mouth and out the back of it, blowing it up! He then picked up Leo and both flew away, with a slow version of Leo's own Big Damn Heroes theme from Episode 1 playing in the background, a human father and child looking on. Sadly, it was Astra's last appearance for over 30 years.
• From Episode 1, Dan and Gen swear to help each other out to eradicate alien attacks and invasions. The scene is set against the setting sun, after the storm that the Gillas Brothers created had dissipated.
• This scene from "A Farewell to Tears", all set to suspenseful music:

  (At the MAC Station, five MAC members line up one after the other)

  MAC Member: Captain, we're ready to move out!

  (Dan looks at each one in quick succession)

  Captain: Move out!

• From the same episode, Dan fought off Alien Tsuruk by himself. When Gen stepped in, Dan knocked him unconscious to prevent the alien from killing him. Then, Tsuruk ran off when Dan poked/stabbed him with his crutch!
• Leo's guest appearance in Ultraman Mebius, going from Gen showing his disapproval of Mebius to Gen changing his mind and smiling at the end once Mebius proved his mettle.

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