Awesome / Urusei Yatsura

• In the first manga chapter/first episode, Ataru saved the world from an alien invasion.
  • Also the defeated aliens were incredibly chill about it: they bore no ill will to the Human race, left their own princess to mingle with Humans and become Ataru's girlfriend and became good friends, if not outright allies, of humanity.
• The rescue effort by Ataru, Megane, and the rest of Lum's Stormtroopers after Lum crashes onto the Mendou estate, loses her memory, and Shutarou convinces her that she's his fiancee.
• Ataru gets one in the 2008 OVA when he fights off a giant sea snake and rescues Lum from drowning.
• Ataru often asserts his Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass status by being able to grope any female in the series. Doesn't seem like much of an accomplishment, but at least three have Super-Strength, one shoots lightning, another one is a walking blizzard and one is a badass Bare-Fisted Monk. Of particular note is how he managed to stop Benten and Ryunosuke from punching each other while Air Jousting… with a towel and bathroom supplies… in the air.
  • And in Asuka Mizunokoji's intro, while she's in the middle of some of her crazy training, the helmet of her oversized armor opens allowing Ataru to see there's a cute girl inside. He charges the field with one of Asuka's guards noting he did 100m in 7 seconds. For perspective, the world record is Usain Bolt's 9.58 seconds.
  • The manga states that Ataru has the same vitality of a cockroach. He may be a slacker, but when he's motivated he gets superhuman endurance and the ability to perform tasks that go beyond the human limits.
• Kotatsu Neko easily defeating Kenshiro.
• Inaba's debut story, animated as the third OAV, has a couple of notable moments.
  • Firstly, when the angry rabbits who run the Destiny Production Management Bureau capture Inaba, Shinobu, Lum and Ataru, Inaba tries to talk the rabbits into letting the others go safely, only for Shinobu to save them. This sequence is much better in the OAV version: Inaba is about to be boiled in oil, but he merely quietly assures Shinobu that he is okay with this, because at least he tried to help her for helping him. Shinobu bursts into tears... which then gives way to her characteristic Unstoppable Rage: she rips the cage she is trapped in open, then uproots a giant tree and tries to crush the rabbits with it before grabbing Inaba and fleeing to safety.
  • Ataru Moroboshi gets to see his dream future, where he has a harem made up of all the regular girls from the series that he hits on... Except for Lum, who divorced him and left that very morning. As Ataru eavesdrops, he learns that this future Ataru got his harem by selling all of Lum's clothing, forcing her to work like a slave, refusing to feed her, and making her sleep on the roof -- and he still blames Lum for leaving him. Hearing this incenses Ataru, who promptly screams that his alternate self deserved it before laying him out cold with a Hyperspace Mallet. Then he leaves the timeline and angrily rips the doorknob that created it from its door, hurling it into the void whilst declaring that a harem is pointless if it doesn't have Lum in it. It's somewhat undermined as, Ataru being Ataru, he can't help but try to justify his other self's actions, but this rare glimpse at Ataru's Hidden Depths shows just why Lum might be attracted to him in the first place.
  • Toward's the story's climax, the angry rabbits of the Destiny Production Management Bureau start destroying all of the potential futures currently available to Lum, Ataru and Shinobu. The teens couldn't care less at first... until Ataru accidentally falls through a door leading to a future where he and Lum get married. The same future that Lum had been searching for all story and whose apparent absence had driven her to a combination of the Despair Event Horizon and Rage Breaking Point. Upon seeing how happy the future Lum is at their wedding, Ataru starts fighting tooth and nail to keep this one future alive, something he doesn't try to do for his own harem future.
  • In the OAV's version of the ending, in an Awesome yet Heartwarming moment, Inaba discovers Lum's dream future doorknob — the doorknob creating a future where she and Ataru get married and live happily ever after, which was lost before she could use it — survived the chaos of the DPMB terminating all the doors. Inaba promptly attaches the doorknob to a spare door, thus ensuring that there is a chance for Lum to get her dream future.
• During the beauty contest arc in the manga, Sakura goes after Ryuunosuke's horrible dad when he starts interfering with the contest and exclaims he's an awful person for the way he treats his daughter. It's just about one of the only times someone steps in and tries to pummel the shit out of Mr. Fujinami for his hideous behavior.
  • During the beauty contest arc, the final match is a tag-team wrestling match between the female competitors — Lum, Shinobu, Sakura, Ran and Ryuunosuke — against the fiercest, nastiest animals from Tomobiki Zoo. The girls beat their bestial opponents handily.
• Sakurambo proving he does have the spiritual powers he often brags about by creating a ribbon that seals Lum's electricity and flight away as long as it's tied to her horns, and that can be removed only by whoever tied it. And he made it in just a few hours after Ataru asked him for exactly that.
• Rei is by far the stupidest character in the series... But even he had a few moments of brilliance:
  • In his second appearance Lum, knowing he's too stupid to string more than a couple words in a sentence, mockingly promised to get back with him if he managed to ask her with a long sentence. Cue Rei reading a request to cook for him. Ataru and the Stormtroopers had to get her out of that self-inflicted mess...
  • When Rei was visiting the school in his ox form, Mendo started insulting his looks, and declared there was no way he could have been Lum's ex boyfriend. Cue Rei turning back to his handsome normal looks, both to shut him up - and Mendo went into a crisis after seeing he was that much more handsome - and to charm the girls into giving him food.

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