History Awesome / Eyeshield21

*** A villainous example for Agon. After stopping the Fake Spike, Hiruma notes that there's no way he should have noticed the trick even with his incredible reflexes. There's only one explanation; he knew. Agon knew Hiruma would try and trick him just by watching him smirk, shich could have just as easily been a trap. Yes, Hiruma ''lost'' a battle of wits to Agon.

** More than that, he gets ''between'' them. Between a guy who singlehandedly forced a north-south game in almost every match because ''only one person in Japan can stop him'' and a guy with enough strength to weaken '''Mr. Don's''' punch with a karate chop.

* Rui Habishira. [[spoiler: After looking like a complete loser the entire series and being one of the few teams the Devil Bats defeated with ease, he secretly joins the Japanese World Cup team as the only person to make it past the Deimon-side try-outs. He hid his identity because he didn't want his teammates to think he was working too hard and would be too tired for the following season. As it turns out, as you can assume, being sent in to play actually motivated the team.]]

-->'''Hiruma''': Kekekekeke!!It can't be that you're going to let it end like that, right? "The best award isn't prizes, but the glory of victory itself." That's the very soul of American Football, and it comes from the very America-sama,right?

While it's only natural that a shonen sports manga would have these, ''Eyeshield21'' has several surprisingly memorable moments on and off the football field.

*** No, don't forget the process of that touchdown. It was started with Shinryuji on offense, putting a run from center. But it was an act, that started the Dragonfly strategy, that relies on quick, short passes that up until now, is unbeatable. The ball was backpassed to Agon, and at the same time, Sena, who up until now focused on Agon but didn't manages to stop him, ''manages to intercept the ball'' solely because ''he keep focusing on Agon, his body knows where the ball going hiked''. But it's getting better: Monta, who followed Sena, manages to ''chase the ball before everyone else'' (including all Shinryuji's player) solely because he had faith in Sena's ability. However, he got covered by Ikkyu, which is faster than him, but befeore he got covered completely, Kurita dives in and ''takes everyone with him''. That causing the ball goes wild, and recovered by Juumonji who using Delinguent Deathblow to get free from Shinryuji player, who then bring the ball to the endzone, even after got Agon tackled him, ''which he got to drag along''.

** This troper found Hiruma's crowning moment to be at the end of the Death March. The whole rest of the team is elated but absolutely exhausted after 40 days of TrainingFromHell. Hiruma, on the other hand is still perky enough to scream and shoot at them almost as if running (and screaming and shooting) from Houston to Las Vegas had no impact on him at all. It's only when he's alone in his room that the reader (and no one else...okay Cerberus, but he's not talking) sees that not only is Hiruma just as physically wasted as the rest of the Devil Bats, he pretended he was perfectly fine and kept up that front of invincibility for the entire 40 days.

*** Or, before that, purposely making fun of Agon abilities by having the team focused on sacking Unsui, and leaving no one to mark him. It succedeed.

** The Evil Cross Play. What do you do when your ace Running Back and Wide Reciever try a play and screw it up entirely? You turn the play into a complete MindScrew later on, that's what!

**** Doubles as a CMOF due the face of the Virgin mary

** Before then: Hiruma. Sena. Dragonfly. Heck, pretty much everytime Hiruma or Sena copies another player's previously unbeatable move.

** To put an exemple [[spoiler: Sena tackling Panther with the trident tackle (although it failed) and again with his head]]
* Chapter 331: After Hiruma forcing the game to tie, the commisioner decide to announce the game as tie, awarding both participant (USA and Japan) as winner. Since BOTH the team can't accept it, [[spoiler:they decide to go overtime regardless.]]

* Honjo Taka delivering something of a Shut Up Hannibal to Clifford, when Clifford fakes a run and launches a long pass, only to have Taka be all over the reciever and snap the ball over to Shin, who had just come back to the field. "I learned from Hiruma in the Christmas Bowl; whenever you seem to go for one play, I will defend as if it is the opposite!"

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*** More of a MissedMomentOfAwesome, really, considering that Riku even said it wasn't as good as his own, and Ishimaru didn't even get into enemy territory. He didn't even get tackled, he was forced to go out of bounds. This troper really felt that Ishimaru could have been developed a lot more and it was a little disappointing to turn him into a running gag.

** The Evil Cross Play. What do you do when your ace Running Back and Wide Reciever try a play and screw it up entirely? You turn the play into a complete mindf#$%, that's what!

** Juumonji also gets one during the game with Amino in the first game of the 2nd Fall Tournament. Back when they played Nasa, the sweep play they used had Juumonji telling Sena to find the small crack they would make and get through it, right? Well, the Amino game is post-Death March. And when Hiruma calls for the sweep this time, Juumonji has this to say;
"Sena... I won't give you any crap about slipping through the cracks this time. We'll open a wide road for you to advance!" Which they do. And Sena calls it the widest road he's ever seen.

** How about Yukimitsu [[spoiler: pushing Shin across the goal line in the dying seconds of the Deimon v. Oujou game, making it possible for the Devilbats to have the final, game-winning play]]?