History Awesome / VideoGames

* Software Studios and Electric Dreams Software, for pulling off a fully playable, fully coloured, perfectly fluid conversion of ''VideoGame/RType'' and its AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield - on the Sinclair UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum, a machine with less memory than that used by the average Word document (48K), a slower processor than most washing machines (3.2MHz), and computing's most hilariously finicky display layout.

* ''VideoGame/ShadowComplex'', the [[SugarWiki/SoCoolItsAwesome fantastic]] downloadable game on UsefulNotes/XboxLiveArcade, gives its protagonist a moment near the end of the game. Up 'til this point, Jason seems like a guy thrown into the middle of things and is only fighting to get out and go home. Yet when he rescues Claire and takes her back to their jeep, he insists that she drive away and call for help, and leave him to deal with the villains himself.

* In ''VideoGame/XMenMutantApocalypse'' for the {{UsefulNotes/SNES}}, this happens the moment Gambit steps onto a motorized surfboard at the end of his stage. The epic boss music starts playing as the surfboard speeds up, all while the calm and collected Gambit just rides it without even staggering. Bonus points for the sound of the surfboard's motor roaring through the water and the sight (as well as sound) of the boss, a [[VehicularAssault tandem rotor helicopter]] flying in the background. With all these elements, it's one of the ''greatest'' parts of the game.

* Somehow Sony UK managed to put together a piece of advertising that pulled one of these. The goosebump-inducing [[https://youtu.be/yQh4iRMi5nE "double-life"]] ad for the original UsefulNotes/PlayStation tried to sell the value of gaming culture to viewers, to great success.

->[[AC:>KILL DRAGON]]\\
''WITH WHAT, YOUR BARE HANDS?''\\
[[AC:>YES]]\\
''CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE JUST VANQUISHED A DRAGON WITH YOUR BARE HANDS (UNBELIEVABLE, ISN'T IT?)''
-->-- ''VideoGame/ColossalCave''

* On the 15th of September, 2011, Sony put out a call on its site, asking for people to tell them, in their own words, why they were the ultimate [=PlayStation=] gamer. They didn't give much more info beyond saying it would have something to do with a new campaign. A dozen or so winners were selected. The first was then contacted about his collection and habits. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cfdbw9paC0 On October 5th, we saw all the characters Michael had helped over his years as a gamer, thanking him one by one.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTzHj-R9McA This trailer]] for ''VideoGame/WarThunder'' is a full three and a half minutes of interconnected action that looks like it could have been shot for a movie about the Eastern Front. It features some the heaviest degree of integration of physical effects work and CGI for a game trailer (that tanker climbing out of his commander's hatch? Real person, real tank hatches). It's also far and away Gamespot's most viewed trailer, at over 3.2 million views--three times as many as their next most viewed video.

* In the promotional videos, when they killed Solid Snake. Next Generation Special Forces couldn't do it. Dead Cell couldn't do it. The Kobra unit couldn't do it. The Beauty & The Beast Corps couldn't do it. Four army rejects did it. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h59k8_HhcOI It must seen to be believed.]]

* Titans cost over $10,000 total and take several months to build and to train pilots for. They had never been destroyed in real active combat. Until [[Website/SomethingAwful Goonfleet]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BbYvI2ELXM did it]].

* [[CuteWitch Lillet Blan]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJQxhCO242w ascending to]] {{Magnificent Bastard}}hood by making complete mockeries of ''VideoGame/GrimGrimoire'''s two {{Big Bad}}s, both of which had only been [[SealedEvilInACan sealed]] before since they were too powerful to defeat.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut46QsQtQwA Beating the game on Impossible]]. Make no mistake, this is one of the most impressive achievements in the history of gaming.

* Somehow Sony UK managed to put together a piece of advertising that pulled one of these. The goosebump-inducing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQh4iRMi5nE "double-life"]] ad for the original UsefulNotes/PlayStation tried to sell the value of gaming culture to viewers, to great success.

* The entire commercial for ''VideoGame/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesSmashUp'', seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBkRxztlZ3o here]].

* On the 15th of September, Sony put out a call on its site, asking for people to tell them, in their own words, why they were the ultimate [=PlayStation=] gamer. They didn't give much more info beyond saying it would have something to do with a new campaign. A dozen or so winners were selected. The first was then contacted about his collection and habits. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cfdbw9paC0 On October 5th, we saw all the characters Michael had helped over his years as a gamer, thanking him one by one.]]

* A meta-example revolving around a developer instead of gameplay: Creator/ArcenGames, a company that makes a business model out of PerpetualBeta, decided that ''VideoGame/AValleyWithoutWind'' had ended up too fundamentally divergent from their original plan to fit their ultimate vision for the project, so they ran one more stabilization update then declared the project done, and immediately announced they were working on the sequel. The awesome kicks in when they decided it wasn't the playerbase's fault the devs wanted a fresh start, so they also announced that everyone who owned the first AVWW would receive the sequel for free. Not discounted, for absolute free, with pre-version-1 beta access thrown in. Considering the company stays afloat solely from initial sales and expansion packs, the loyal playerbase considers this tremendously decent of them.
* While probably another Awesome/RealLife moment, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe_TPOfLcPI Reveal trailer]] for ''VideoGame/DuckTales'' at PAX East. Over a thousand fans are watching the beginning, which seems to be the start of some epic game... until the opening notes to the ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'' theme starts playing. A bunch of people shoot up from their seats in shock, then everyone stands up and ''starts singing along.''
** To be fair, the trailer out-and-out [[FollowTheBouncingBall prompts the viewer to sing along]].
* The fact that millions of gamers before and after Microsoft's E3 voiced their negative opinions to make them remove the DRM features and used game lock. That is a crowning moment of awesome by itself!
* ''Garakuta Doll Play'' from ''Maimai'' is already a ''very hard'', if not ''the hardest'' song at Expert difficulty, let alone in Master (which is one level above Expert and the highest difficulty level) difficulty. Yet a group of four Japanese players managed to perform a '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCdHliOIa00 4-person 100% Sync play]]''''', which requires them to get '''all perfect notes'''. That is certainly a display of the highest playing skill in rhythm games.

* Geoff Keighley, someone whose 'Gaming should be all-inclusive' mindset and his ability to shake hands and hang out with the big names of the industry has gotten him a reputation as a bit of a sell-out, made it perfectly clear at the 2015 Video Game Awards that the reason Creator/HideoKojima wasn't available to accept the award won by ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidV'' (which was accepted on his behalf by Kiefer Sunderland) was because [[ExecutiveMeddling the higher-ups at Konami forbid him from attending due to the spat that led to Kojima leaving the company.]] The [=VGAs=] are a means of recognizing the hard work and dedication that video game developers deserve so it's a massive slap in the face for Geoff's philosophy. In less than stellar terms, he basically told Konami that they weren't welcome for the way they treat the people who make their games, a move that would very much mean his being blacklisted by the company. [[ThePowerOfFriendship Because he considered Hideo Kojima a friend and chose to side with him instead.]] That takes balls...
* ''VideoGame/AmongUs'' winning both Best Mobile Game and Best Multiplayer Game at The Game Awards, beating out both ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'' and ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyWarzone'' in the case of the latter.

* The legendary gaming podcast Noobtoob started by Tobin Coziahr and Yuzo Watanabe. Few video game podcasts can make people cry, laugh and rejoice in the space of a single episode. Even fewer can build a following of more than 28,000 followers and a forum with more than 12,000 active members. Noobtoob was all of this and more. Here were two amateur enthusiasts from California, producing an hour long podcast that was consistently better than the content of most professional websites. These guys were making a top quality podcast years before Adam Carolla and the like. The setup seemed almost too simple; the pair would sit in front of a video camera at home, drink wine and review the latest games that they’d played that week. There was no professional editing and no distinct packages or features. Just simple, honest chat. The honesty of Noobtoob and the clear bond of friendship that Yuzo and Tobin have for one another captured the hearts of gamers everywhere. They were gamers, talking about games. They were one of us. A particularly awesome as well as funny moment would be the entire Noobtoob Army shaving the head of their fan Lucien Lachance at PAX 2009. Truly the greatest podcast ever. In a strange way, towards the end they felt like friends we really knew. Sharing jokes, producing crude swipes at one another and messing around with hilarious skits. Each episode flew by, never once becoming tired or stale. The end of Noobtoob was abrupt, but expected. Anyone could tell that the pair were struggling to produce an episode every week. The podcast became slightly shorter and many were pre-recorded back to back. They were growing up, moving into jobs with increasing responsibilities and starting families of their own. It was never going to last forever. Noobtoob finally ended in 2011 due to Tobin moving away to Washington and their dislike of Skype making continuing the show impossible. The finale was brilliant. It was a great chance for Tobin and Yuzo to look back on the show and answer many of the questions that they had avoided in the past. You never would have guessed that they used to work for Microsoft, especially on voice recognition projects such as Kinect. It’s a beautiful irony that shows just how connected with the video game industry they’ve become. Although it’s sad to see such a great production end, you can’t help but thank them for all of the stellar work that they’ve done. What other Youtubers with just 15000 subscribers would get recognized on a few occassions by random people? Youtube has never been the same without them and the podcasting world lost one of it's shining beacons. The chemistry that these two had with each other has simply never been anywhere near matched on Youtube since

* The intro video of ''VideoGame/ThePunisher''. It starts with Frank in a dark corridor, checking his magazine and remarking "Last bullet." As he narrates, a group of Yakuza quietly enter the area and begin creeping down the hall, looking for him. One steps on something and they all look down to find that the man is standing on an empty magazine. The Yakuza in lead turns back around just in time for the Punisher to blow him away. The other Yakuza freeze, unaware that the Punisher is out of ammo and unsure what to do. Frank suddenly flips his shotgun to one of them, who catches it out of reflex. Frank uses the distraction to stab him in the face and slash another man's throat, and when he takes their guns it turns into a massacre. After finishing them off, Castle continues narrating as he approaches the front of the building, only to eject the magazines from the pistols, raise them above his head, and step outside, where a massive police barricade is waiting [[BatmanGambit to take him to Ryker's]]...

* The legendary gaming podcast Noobtoob started by Tobin Coziahr and Yuzo Watanabe. Few video game podcasts can make people cry, laugh and rejoice in the space of a single episode. Even fewer can build a following of more than 28,000 followers and a forum with more than 12,000 active members. Noobtoob was all of this and more. Here were two amateur enthusiasts from California, producing an hour long podcast that was consistently better than the content of most professional websites. These guys were making a top quality podcast years before Adam Carolla and the like. The setup seemed almost too simple; the pair would sit in front of a video camera at home, drink wine and review the latest games that they’d played that week. There was no professional editing and no distinct packages or features. Just simple, honest chat. The honesty of Noobtoob and the clear bond of friendship that Yuzo and Tobin have for one another captured the hearts of gamers everywhere. They were gamers, talking about games. They were one of us. A particularly awesome as well as funny moment would be the entire Noobtoob Army shaving the head of their fan Lucien Lachance at PAX 2009. Truly the greatest podcast ever. In a strange way, towards the end they felt like friends we really knew. Sharing jokes, producing crude swipes at one another and messing around with hilarious skits. Each episode flew by, never once becoming tired or stale. The end of Noobtoob was abrupt, but expected. Anyone could tell that the pair were struggling to produce an episode every week. The podcast became slightly shorter and many were pre-recorded back to back. They were growing up, moving into jobs with increasing responsibilities and starting families of their own. It was never going to last forever. Noobtoob finally ended in 2011 due to Tobin moving away to Washington and their dislike of Skype making continuing the show impossible. The finale was brilliant. It was a great chance for Tobin and Yuzo to look back on the show and answer many of the questions that they had avoided in the past. You never would have guessed that they used to work for Microsoft, especially on voice recognition projects such as Kinect. It’s a beautiful irony that shows just how connected with the video game industry they’ve become. Although it’s sad to see such a great production end, you can’t help but thank them for all of the stellar work that they’ve done. What other Youtubers with just 15000 subscribers would get recognized on a few occassions by random people? Youtube has never been the same without them and the podcasting world lost one of it's shining beacons. The chemistry that these two had with each other has simply never been anywhere near matched on Youtube since* In ''[[VideoGame/YuGiOhTagForceSeries Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force]]'', Chumley talking about how momma koalas sometimes feed their own kids their feces, as an insane, WTF quotient of just how obsessed with koalas he is.

* The legendary gaming podcast Noobtoob started by Tobin Coziahr and Yuzo Watanabe. Few video game podcasts can make people cry, laugh and rejoice in the space of a single episode. Even fewer can build a following of more than 28,000 followers and a forum with more than 12,000 active members. Noobtoob was all of this and more. Here were two amateur enthusiasts from California, producing an hour long podcast that was consistently better than the content of most professional websites. The setup seemed almost too simple; the pair would sit in front of a video camera at home, drink wine and review the latest games that they’d played that week. There was no professional editing and no distinct packages or features. Just simple, honest chat. The honesty of Noobtoob and the clear bond of friendship that Yuzo and Tobin have for one another captured the hearts of gamers everywhere. They were gamers, talking about games. They were one of us. A particularly awesome as well as funny moment would be the entire Noobtoob Army shaving the head of their fan Lucien Lachance at PAX 2009. Truly the greatest podcast ever. In a strange way, towards the end they felt like friends we really knew. Sharing jokes, producing crude swipes at one another and messing around with hilarious skits. Each episode flew by, never once becoming tired or stale. The end of Noobtoob was abrupt, but expected. Anyone could tell that the pair were struggling to produce an episode every week. The podcast became slightly shorter and many were pre-recorded back to back. They were growing up, moving into jobs with increasing responsibilities and starting families of their own. It was never going to last forever. Noobtoob finally ended in 2011 due to Tobin moving away to Washington and their dislike of Skype making continuing the show impossible. The finale was brilliant. It was a great chance for Tobin and Yuzo to look back on the show and answer many of the questions that they had avoided in the past. You never would have guessed that they used to work for Microsoft, especially on voice recognition projects such as Kinect. It’s a beautiful irony that shows just how connected with the video game industry they’ve become. Although it’s sad to see such a great production end, you can’t help but thank them for all of the stellar work that they’ve done.
* In ''[[VideoGame/YuGiOhTagForceSeries Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Tag Force]]'', Chumley talking about how momma koalas sometimes feed their own kids their feces, as an insane, WTF quotient of just how obsessed with koalas he is.

* The Killer Penguin from VideoGame/ZooTycoon. It can kill pretty much ''any animal'' in the game. Even those that were much larger than it. From lions, killer whales, even the TyrannosaurusRex. A penguin that can kill a friggin' T-Rex, talk about KillerRabbit.

* In ''VideoGame/YuGiOhGXTagForce'', Chumley talking about how momma koalas sometimes feed their own kids their feces, as an insane, WTF quotient of just how obsessed with koalas he is.

* In ''VideoGame/Contact'' for the DS, after The Professor ditches you/Terry for the final Power Cell, and Terry washes up on the Deserted Island just like the beginning of the game. He then proceeds to call out, and you realize that he's talking to ''you'', holding the DS and controlling his actions. Pissed off that he was being essentially used by you, he proceeds to ''attack your lower screen in rage'', causing your vision to dissolve further and further until you stylus-poke him into submission. Talk about FourthWall breakage.

* ''VideoGame/BattleMoonWars'' gives one hell of a [=CMoA=] to Kohaku from ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', when she not only survives but ''tanks'' a blast from Gilgamesh's Enuma Elish in Act 4. Keep in mind that this is an attack which rips apart time and space, and by all rights [[NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow should have atomized her]].
** Wait, that's not all! Play up to Stage 50 when the {{Franchise/Nasuverse}} army confronts the true enemy they've been fighting all along. Haruna delivers a speech so awe-inspiring and legendary that Aoko Aozaki herself steps in to join the battle... or so one can imagine. Then the stage's background music picks up. ManlyTears were shed.

* ''Guild Wars: Eye of The North'' has Kilroy's Punch-Out Extravaganza, a quest where you slip on a pair of Brass-Knuckles, and raid an enemy Dwarf base to beat the day-lights out of Irontoe, a Stone Summit Boss. The fact that you're beating up practically a small army of Dwarves that are using Swords and Bows with Brass Knuckles and ''winning'', is extremely satisfying, and unbelievably fun.

* ''VideoGame/MirrorsEdge'' features the parkour ninja cops that are rather good at chasing you down and beating you up in close range. However, if you can maneuver around them and disarm them from behind, you are treated to Faith chopping in the victim's larynx and turning his stungun on himself, [[VideogameCrueltyPotential causing him to convulse painfully into a heap.]]
* In ''VideoGame/PunchOut Wii'', all of the opponents get short showcase movies before their fights, as well as prefight taunts or introductions and such. These range from funny (Von Kaiser, Bald Bull), to very awesome.
** Don Flamenco's movie shows him calmly sniffing a rose, and then [[MegatonPunch sending a bull flying]] with a single punch while [[OffhandBackhand barely paying attention]].
** Great Tiger's kickass entrance.
** Piston Hondo's Title Defense movie shows him ''outrunning a train.''
** The one who takes the cake, however, is Mr. Sandman, who, in his movie, shows us exactly why he's the champ in a few seconds. What follows is a montage of him [=KOing=] all the opponents you're fought hard to defeat to get there, ending with him standing over a thoroughly defeated Super Macho Man.
*** Immediately followed by Little Mac's Crowning Moment: Sandman dramatically walks into the Stadium, glaring down at the ring. Doc Louis is definitely intimidated, but Mac, completely unfazed, just stands up and gets ready to fight.
*** The KO animation on Sandy, with Mac giving him not one, not two, but three back to back face punches as the big guy, who's as intimidating as Tyson in his heyday, FALLS DOWN FOR THE COUNT.
* Killing Myrkul in ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2: Mask of the Betrayer'' was quite awesome, doubly so because he was killed by the power he created to make him survive. The most evil ending might also count, since you become a god-killing abomination, and when several gods tried to kill you, they were reported to have returned, ''thinned in numbers''.
** This may seem a bit lame compared to the others on this page, but if your character is female, the first time you talk to Bishop he tells you that he doesn't want a prostitute right now and you should go back to the brothel. One of the possible responses is "Great idea. I'll say hi to your mother while I'm there, shall I?"
** There's another in the original ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'': the fight with Aribeth. Unless you bring along Linu, who just uses "Harm" and ends the battle in two seconds. And then there's the grand finale against Morag.
** ''Hordes Of The Underdark''. You can ''order'' the 2nd most powerful devil in the multiverse to ''drop dead!''
*** This one is more [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments funny]], but ordering the devil in charge of the ice quarry to be good for the rest of his days might count.

* ''VideoGame/{{GUN}}''. Protagonist Colton has tracked down a sunken boat on which a safe containing a MacGuffin was in, utilizing shifting water levels to find it. He has his companion Sopay open the safe, only for [[TheDragon dragon]] Reed, who was responsible for the circumstances that ended up killing your adopted father, as well as slitting the throat of your potential love interest, to show up, aim a gun at you, and thank you for saving him the trouble of opening the safe himself. Colton's response? Tossing the retrieved item back into the safe and slamming it closed. Not the best or most memorable game, but that moment ruled.
** Speaking of ''GUN'', "You were."

* Emma Honeywell's [[HeroicSacrifice last stand]] in ''VideoGame/TheLastRemnant''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5y8v3BMM1E Watch it here and see for yourself.]] After the Conqueror lures Rush, David, and the others to the Nest of Eagles to deal with his army, the Conqueror marches on Athlum alone, forces his way through the gate, and is opposed by Emma, who meets him sword to sword. Despite being outmatched by the Conqueror's strength, Emma manages to spill his blood before he strikes her down.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}} Gaiden'''s final stage, the first midboss, Booster Core, doesn't explode right away like most other bosses do when you defeat it. Instead, it starts to slowly dismantle, your ship starts to slow down, Booster Core continues flying at full speed past your ship and off the right side of the screen, and a few seconds later, you hear a satisfying "KABOOOOOOM", a white flash, and pieces of the boss go flying back in your direction. A few seconds later, you begin the next part of the stage, wtih [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZAYPPIgsQw this]] playing in the background.
** In the obscure Gradius title "Nemesis II/Gradius: The Interstellar Assault", the game begins with a large ship destroying several friendly freighters and chasing a rather helpless Vic Viper into an asteroid. Prior to the final battle of the game, Vic Viper chases the BigBad responsible for it through a graveyard of similar freighters, after said boss has lost his base, forces, and everything else to the eponymous starfighter. It's a revenge made even sweeter if you happen to have lasers and a few options.
* ''Gitaroo Man''. The cutscene before [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic the final song]]. FULL. STOP.

* Completing one of ''GHOST Squad'''s [[PressXToNotDie Hand-to-Hand Combat scenes]] yields a cutscene of your character beating the ever-loving shit out of his opponent. Perhaps notable is Mission 3's first Hand-to-Hand scene, in which your character ''[[GroinAttack punches a Mook in the nuts]]''.
* ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'': Like other [[FourX 4X]] games, it's mostly up to the player to come up with their own personal crowning moments of awesome. Some of the secret projects have cool (and [[NightmareFuel creepy]]) movies with them. But of particular note is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDgXQPxzY8E the Voice of Planet project]], the second to last project in the technological victory squence. In summary, it all boils down to a teacher helping a student to cram -- but the subject is '''all''' human knowledge, the teacher is '''all''' of humanity, the student is '''[[GeniusLoci planet-spaning]] HiveMind''' and by "cramming", or rather uploading all this knowledge straight into the planetmind with '''force of all of humanity's power plants'''. If you succed, [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence humankind]] [[AssimilationPlot merges]] [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence with the planetmind]]; if you fail, the planetmind [[KillEmAll will kill everybody and itself]]. All this while [[HardWorkMontage a montage of all previous secret project movies is played]].]] It's 45 seconds of awesomeness.
* ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheTwoThrones'' has one that sticks out and lends itself into a [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments heartwarming]] moment as well: In the ending, after the Prince has not only beaten back the Vizier, but also his Dark Prince alter ego, Farah, who has been suspicious of the Prince knowing her since the Prince's actions in both Sands of Time and Warrior Within erased their meetings from the timeline, finally calls him out on it. The Prince's response, bringing the story full circle:
-->''Most people think time is like a river that flows swift and sure in one direction. But I have seen the face of Time, and I can tell you they are wrong. Time is an ocean in a storm. You may wonder who I really am, and why I say this. Come and I will tell you a tale like none you have ever heard.''
* During ''VideoGame/LunarEternalBlue'', Lemina proves to be an annoying character throughout, useful only for the additional combat stats she brings to the party. Then she reverses it all and makes the player love her in one stroke, calling an annoying villain (the most powerful mage in the world) an "Oversized Fecal Factory".
** Hiro gets his own a little later. When being asked sincerely if Lucia (a woman from another world with immense magic powers) is The Destroyer, his flippant answer is "Only once a month."
* ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean'' had an awesome one at the [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone turning point]] of Kalas's character when he realizes what exactly he's doing as Melodia's, and thus [[EldritchAbomination Malpercio]]'s servant. Granted, [[IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight the party has to beat it into him first]], but when the BigBad starts threatening him to obey or else suffer the consequences, and starts using everyone's power to fuel the rebirth of the god, and orders him to slay his former friends...Kalas finally decides he's had enough: he reaches over his shoulder, to the wing that his FaceHeelTurn gave him, and ''bodily rips it off [[HeroicWillpower through sheer force of will,]]'' cementing his return to the forces of good and his place among the pantheon of badass RPG protagonists.

* Given all the awesome things you're capable of in ''VideoGame/InFamous'', it's far too easy to just call Cole a walking [=CMoA=]. Then you get the Lightning Storm ability. And then you whip it out for the first time. Two words: KillSat. That, my friends, is what pure awesometanium looks like. Cole's commentary following the second half of that mission only adds to the awesomey goodness.
--> '''Cole''': Ho ho, ''yes!'' Fry, you bastards!
** Cole can, among other things, throw around enough lightning to make [[StarWars Emperor Palpatine]] jealous, scale buildings as quickly as a [[Franchise/SpiderMan spider]], and ''grind on powerlines''. [[VideoGame/{{Prototype}} Alex Mercer]] [[DuelingGames may be able to beat him in]] [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny a fight]], but damned if Cole isn't just as awesome.
** The final battle, Cole vs. Kessler. Lightning god versus lightning god? ''Yes please.''
** And then you reach the ending of the sequel. Whichever ending you choose, you would feel like a God at your moment of action.

* ''Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter''. The setting: Plaza del �ngel. The situation: Captain Mitchell and his Ghosts pinned down in the smoking remains of the [=US=] Embassy, defending the gaggle of surviving dignitaries and the "nuclear football" from a seemingly endless onslaught of insurgent forces. The threat: is that [[OhCrap a stolen Abrams tank in your radar]]? Is that its cannon rotating directly towards you? Cue the telltale whirl of rotor blades. Cue the tank ''vaporizing''. Cue the GunshipRescue.
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' is freaking awesome normally. But after being infected by a parasite that negates most of your powers and finally curing it, Alex reveals TWO new forms (both of which are probably the most powerful forms available in the game) and just says to himself.
--> ''"I'm Back."''
** Also, the entire first level. The entire game is a flashback, the first level is after all of this happens, when Alex has complete control over all of his powers. EVERYTHING DIES.
** On the last level on the Air Craft Carrier, the CMOA comes from the bridge crew, who despite knowing there is a nuke onboard their ship, tells the rest of the crew to abandon station, and they'll remain at their stations until the end. Now that is dedication to their duty.
** [[Webcomic/PennyArcade You can do a karate kick on a helicopter.]] You can ''elbow drop'' a helicopter. You can throw cars at helicopters. You can throw ''tanks'' at helicopters. You can throw ''[[VideoGameCrueltyPotential people]]'' at helicopters. You can throw ''other helicopters'' at helicopters.
*** You can also use the whip thingie to fly from helicopter to helicopter. See how many you can get before you have to touch the ground. Race your friends!
** Grabbing an enemy soldier, running to the very top of the Empire State Building, and ''powerbombing'' him ''all'' the way down to street level.
* In the ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'' series, his CMOA comes in ''[[Videogame/CrashBandicoot3Warped Warped]]'' where, after you beat the fourth boss, Crash gets a bazooka. Admittedly, it fires fruit instead of missles, but it pretty much kills every enemy in the game, excluding bosses, and makes it a lot easier to get through some of the tougher areas.
** Speaking of the ''Crash Bandicoot'' series, the final confrontation in ''Videogame/CrashTwinsanity'' gives us a moment in which your respect for Cortex might (temporarily) shoot through the roof, thanks to the voice acting.
-->'''Cortex''': [[CallBack PLAYTIME IS OVER! VICTOR! MORITZ! BACK IN YOUR CAGE!]]
** Another great moment in ''Warped'' is where we first meet Uka Uka talking with Cortex. Up to this point, Cortex had been the BigBad but Uka Uka makes him cower with fear immediately. Uka Uka's last line in the speech is particularly awesome thanks to voice acting.
-->'''Uka Uka''': This time... this time the great UKA UKA WILL MAKE SURE YOU DO IT RIGHT!
** In ''VideoGame/CrashBash'' it's actually possible for Uka Uka to WIN the game. Playing the Adventure Mode as an evil character gives you a bad ending where Uka Uka gets hold of all of the crystals, "AND ALL OF THE POWER!" exiling Crash and Coco into hiding and putting Aku Aku into a HeroicBSOD.
-->'''Uka Uka:''' There is nowhere to hide from the wrath of the mighty UKA UKA! [[EvilLaugh WAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!!!]]
** This is especially notable if you play the game with a good and evil player, giving you access to extra deathmatch where the two of you fight to determine the ending. As much as you may like Crash, it's a rather cathartic experience to be able to [[TeamRocketWins kick his ass as Dr Cortex]].
* In the first ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}}'' game, Rick is forced to kill a monster that's inhabited his girlfriend Jennifer's body. In the second game, he finds out that her soul can be saved and she can be brought back to life...but only if he can bring it back from the depths of Hell itself. So what does Rick do? He goes through a second possessed mansion to reach a gateway to Hell, uses said gateway to travel to Hell, frees Jennifer's soul from the monsters guarding it, and reemerges from Hell to defeat the latest incarnation of the Evil One and bring Jennifer back to life. HE LITERALLY WENT THROUGH HELL TO GET HIS GIRLFRIEND BACK. Now that's love.

* The Yakuza games tend to be realistic when it comes to fighting. That is, except THAT level in the second one where Sega went "fuck it." So some high-rank yakuza kidnapped Haruka and dared Kazuma to rescue her. [[PapaWolf Bad idea]]. Kazuma arrives at the bad guy's castle... Which opens up for letting a golden replica takes its place. Then, Kazuma climbs up the castle, avoiding traps and beating up samurais and ninjas bare fisted, then with a fixed machine gun. ''And finally, he ends up beating up two feral tigers with his bare hands, finishing them by punching their skulls so hard he cracks them as the beasts were trying to jump on him.'' Holy. Shit.
* In the DS Spaceship RPG ''VideoGame/InfiniteSpace'', Niall Eremon, commander of a huge Lugovalian starship fleet, batters Mogilek Novikov's flagship, and him, in an effort to bring down Eremon with him, attempts to ram the carcass on Eremon's ship just to bounce off and explode, and later having Eremon killing Nia Lochlain, Yuri's (the protagonist's) mentor and love interest, finds himself facing him 10 years later, and Yuri gets his revenge on him by shooting his ship down to scrap metal, forcing Eremon to ram his ship onto Yuri's ship just to bounce off much like Novikov did with him, dying in the most humilliating way possible with the game's voiced theme song playing in the background during all the battle, is one of the most epic CMOA in all of history.
** A rather minor one compared to the event above, but the GreatEscape sequence in the beginning of Act 2 can qualify. Especially when Yuri shot through the plasma storm of the planet, revealing it was man-made all along.
* In the trailer for the upcomming videogame Vanquish, there are two notable [=CMoAs=]:
** The charater dashes to cover, runs up the wall and kicks an enemy on top of the wall so hard that he goes flying off.
** At the end, the character is attacked by a HumongousMecha. After dodging a MacrossMissileMassacre, he jumps over it, catches a missile larger than he is, and turns it 180 to slam it into the launcher.
* The ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' series has plenty of crowning moments, one line from ''[[VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift Continuum Shift]]'' stands out:
-->''Restriction 666 released! Dimensional interference field deployed! Now engaging the ''Idea Engine''! It's time I showed you...the TRUE...power of the Azure!''
** Bang Shishigami taking on Hakumen in mortal combat while the whole place is collapsing into a singularity around them. He actually survives.

* [[StormingTheCastle Raiding the final dungeon]] in ''Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals'' when Maxim's team charges headlong at Doom Castle in their blimp-like airship. The Sinistrals actually manage to shoot it down by destroying the balloon with a laser. The ship begins to drop when it suddenly sprouts glider wings and reaches the entrance to the castle in a spectacular crash landing.]]

* The intro video to the 2004 Punisher video game is an extended SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome. It starts with Frank in a dark corridor, checking his magazine and remarking "Last bullet." As he narrates, a group of Yakuza quietly enter the area and begin creeping down the hall, looking for him. One steps on something and they all look down to find that the man is standing on an empty magazine. The Yakuza in lead turns back around just in time for the Punisher to blow him away. The other Yakuza freeze, unaware that the Punisher is out of ammo and unsure what to do. Frank suddenly flips his shotgun to one of them, who catches it out of reflex. Frank uses the distraction to stab him in the face and slash another man's throat, and when he takes their guns it turns into a massacre. After finishing them off, Castle continues narrating as he approaches the front of the building, only to eject the magazines from the pistols, raise them above his head, and step outside, where a massive police barricade is waiting [[BatmanGambit to take him to Ryker's]]...

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* Garcian: "This gun holds ''seven'' bullets."
* Dan: [[FinalSpeech "Trying to die with dignity?]] [[SubvertedTrope Give me a break, you sick old man!"]]
** [[ScrewDestiny "Let me ask you: what happens to your prophecy if I shoot you right now?"]]
*** And the beginning, after he shoots a Smile BEHIND him:
--> '''Dan:''' The bastards are breeding.
* Any time Harman is in the field, what he says could be a crowning moment on its own, but major points go towards dodging bullets ''in his wheelchair''.
** Hell, the first line we hear him speak is one of the coolest things ever.
-->'''Harman:''' Good night, child. It's past your bedtime.
* MASK de Smith gets one when he ''headbutts'' a bullet.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni1pcnQuLOU This Little Number]]. Mask isn't even the most badass character of the sydicate even. It somehow even makes the final line in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV6UtocSfQU this scene]] badass purely through association.
** "Yeah. I'm here to kill Mr. Fukushima."
* The single most awesome scene is this exchange between Kun Lan and Harman:
-->'''Harman:''' No matter how many times you try, the result will be the same.
-->'''Kun Lan:''' Ah yes. Like our chess games... you always seem to win.
-->'''Harman:''' Do you know why?
-->'''Kun Lan:''' You tell me.
-->'''Harman:''' ''(leans in)'' Because you're a bad player.
** This is immediately followed by Kun Lan grabbing a bullet fired at him, and riding it up to the top of the Space Needle.
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas''. The second half of the final mission. It all starts with one line: "Carl, you motherfucking piece of shit gangbangin' cocksucka!"
** Particularly the points near the end of the game, when the entire city is going bat shit crazy, including ''throwing Molotov cocktails at you''.
** The beauty of this game is that it's possible to rig up your own Crowning Moments of Awesome. Insane Stunt Bonus anyone?

* Every moment in ''Metal Arms: Glitch in the System'' where Glitch uses the Control Tether to hack in and take over enemy robots to blast the crap out of enemies. Also, this quote from him which pays homage to ''Film/FullMetalJacket'':
-->'''Glitch:''' Gimmie that chip, or I'll unscrew your head and empty my oil reserves in your optics!
* ''VideoGame/MetalWolfChaos'' has a bunch of these. One of the most insane is when a massive tank drives towards President Michael Wilson, he merely grabs hold of the front, picks it up and performs a Giant Swing while shouting '''How do you like me now?!'''
** Not to mention "Suck my missile punch!".
** While the above entries were indeed Moments of Awesome, there can really be no serious argument against the fact that Michael's ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning]]'' [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Moment of Awesome]] was when having gone into space, defeated his evil Vice-President, saved America, and blown up aforementioned evil Vice President's space station, he ''surfed down to Earth on a piece of the space station's hull on wings of fire''. In a ''HumongousMecha''.
*** Actually, It's more of powered armor then an actual HumongousMecha...but that only makes it all the more awesome.

* Each of the main characters of ''VideoGame/BeyondGoodAndEvil'' has their own distinct SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome:
** Jade, being the [[TheHero main character and all]], has several--like beating up a fully-armed guard [[WaifFu with only a stick]], but the awesome-est comes in the very end, when she kills what is aguably [[BigBad the most powerful alien in the galaxy by ''ramming her staff through his exoskeleton and wedging it into his brain'']]. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Hell yeah]].
** Double H initially comes off as rather... ''special'', but he proves himself to be [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass more competent than he looks]] when, before a boss, he comes ''sliding'' down an [[AirVentPassageway air vent]], does a flip, breaks through a grate, falls five or six meters to a ten-point landing on his feet, and proceeds to help you pound the boss into oblivion. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Sweet]].
** And Pey'j? The [[PluckyComicRelief amusing pig-man]] whose main talent is whipping up [[GadgeteerGenius weird gadgets]]? He's actually the leader of the galaxy's most powerful rebel organization, he's hiding a spaceship in his garage, and he's the biggest threat to the AlienInvasion yet. ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome DUDE]]''.
** Secundo el [[strike:Major Screwup]] Magnifico, otherwise serving as a [[ProjectedMan holographic AI]] of Jade's [[HyperspaceArsenal S.A.C.]], also gets one in the endgame when he saves the day by hacking the computer in the Alpha Sections base to allow the team to transmit their reports to the world ("Hello, General Secundo, at your service"), starting a revolution in the process.
* In ''Contact'' for the DS, after The Professor ditches you/Terry for the final Power Cell, and Terry washes up on the Deserted Island just like the beginning of the game. He then proceeds to call out, and you realize that he's talking to ''you'', holding the DS and controlling his actions. Pissed off that he was being essentially used by you, he proceeds to ''attack your lower screen in rage'', causing your vision to dissolve further and further until you stylus-poke him into submission. Talk about FourthWall breakage.

* ''VideoGame/GuitarHero'' - the [=FCs=] of [[BonusBoss implausibly hard bonus songs]] ''Jordan'' and ''Through The Fire And Flames''.
** For those who aren't familiar with the terminology, FC is short for "Full Combo" and refers to completing a song with 100% notes hit, without hitting any extra strums anywhere in the song--literally a perfect run.

* ''Dead Rising'' has Frank West, at the end of Overtime, ''[[RockBeatsLaser beat a tank with just a military Jeep.]] Of course, Brock decides to take manual control, smashes the Jeep over, and points the cannon at Frank... And after a conversation, it points at the incoming herd of zombies. Then, Frank gets up on the tank, and [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBros FALKAWN PUNCHES]] Brock ''in the face''. Naturally, they face off for a final confrontation. Frank wins, Brock gets eaten alive... And then we are treated to a planning shot around Frank, who then roars at the top of his voice to the sky, in wake of his victory. Epicly. He deserved it.
** And Sean gets one ''as his death scene''. The sword stabbed through the altar thing falls over, just as he asks for his "god's" power... And it goes ''right through his eye'' -- an eye is the ''very symbol of his cult''. If that isn't DeathByIrony, nothing is. It's also incredibly awesome.
* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'': Right in the middle of ''The MilkmanConspiracy'', if you're captured, the agents ask Raz "What is the purpose of [[RummageSaleReject the goggles?]]" [[ChekhovsGun Much later]], the Den Mother screams to Raz "Now I shall pluck out your eyes!" Raz responds: "Hah! You ''can't''! ''That'' is the purpose of the goggles!"
** Ford Cruller gets his in the showdown with the BigBad leading up to the last level:
--->'''Ford Cruller''': ''(flying down from the sky)'' The Psychonauts have a word for people who turn on their own.
--->'''Oleander''': Ha! I don't need the Psychonauts anymore! I'm making my own army! Got a word for that?
--->'''Ford''': Yeah. Gesundheit!
--->''Ford blows some of Oleander's weaponized sneezing powder into his face, making him sneeze out his own brain.''
*** This whole scene is made even more awesome by the fact that Cruller, fully coherent, has left his sanctum containing the only thing keeping him sane, and has done it in the most badass way possible.

* "Make The Moon" in ''VideoGame/KatamariDamacy''. Slowly but surely, the Prince has been rolling up nice-sized katamari for his dad, the King of All Cosmos, and he's managed to make ones capable of rolling up vehicles and small buildings. Then, as [[{{Leitmotif}} the main theme]] swells in an extended version, everything gets pushed into high gear as you start rolling up land masses, clouds, and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu even the god of lightning]]. Bonus points if you can understand the lyrics, which start taling about picking up things like t-shirts, and eventually progress to all of the large things the Prince picks up, and yet implying even more to grab (the last lines of the last verse, "Katamatte.. Katamatte!" roughly translate to "I'm rolling on").
** These get progressively more insane the further the franchise goes: ''Me & My Katamari'' lets you start from a 5cm. katamari and end with rolling up '''entire continents''' in its final level...and then there's the final stage ''We Love Katamari'', where the player is tasked with using the Earth to roll up '''the entire galaxy, including the sun'''.
* Every ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank'' game has a CMOA when you can finally afford to buy (or are able to assemble) that games version of [[InfinityPlusOneSword the RYNO]].
** On that note, Megaman Legends when you can finally assemble that arm-mounted howitzer.
** There's also that bit in the second game when you have to assault Thugs 4 Less HQ. There's a bridge, filled with tanks and thugs loaded for bear, followed by a series of buildings with another tank, two helicopters, and even more thugs, topped off by the CEO of Thugs-4-Less personally fighting you in his GiantRobot,]] and all you've got is an armour shop, a weapons shop, and a few crates. ''They don't stand a chance.''
* Anytime the enemy Fountain gets destroyed in ''DefenseOfAncients'' is one for the team responsible. Given that most Heroes cap out at about 6000 to 7000 hp, even with all item slots dedicated to the best health items, whereas the Fountain has 50,000 hp and ridiculous DPS, it is truly a feat to be proud of, even if [[InstantWinCondition it is completely optional.]]

* The NES version of ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'' has UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler / Master D's [[YourHeadASplode head explode]]. Yes, even in the American version. Even better is the same scene in the remake, which has the scene ''rendered in three dimensions''.
** Additionally, after Rad Spencer escaped from the enemy base in the end, he realises that he left behind Super Joe, who was ''the entire reason he went on his mission''. He runs back into the base, the commander starts getting impatient... Then the island explodes, and a helicopter emerges from the explosion, revealing that both Rad and Joe made it out safe and sound.
* ''Warhammer Online'' has one [[http://mythicmktg.fileburst.com/war/us/home/flash/WAR_cinematic_08.html severely awesome trailer.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'' contains several, but one of the most noticeable involves the villain, Id, in his giant mecha, nearly being crushed by a sand cruiser. It buries him, and a moment later he emerges while holding it up with one hand. "That was pretty interesting. But dropping a warship on me is cheating... Take it back!" After this awesome quote, Id proceeds to toss it at the mecha he was previously fighting, burying both said mecha and the ship in the desert.]]
* In the very first ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'' game, one of the later missions has you running up the barrel of a KillSat. As its preparing to fire. Dodging energy bursts as you go. All of this to prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt (again). Watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doxFXjsqvNw#t=2m15s Here!]]
** The mission immediately after that, which is the last mission, is also pretty cool. After finding out that the near-destruction of the world was orchestrated by the AI in charge of ''your own mercenary group'', you set out to destroy it. You then find yourself up against the near-mythical top-ranking Raven, and he's no pushover, but when you finally manage to destroy him, the AI realizes it cannot possibly win, ''and blows itself up''.]]
* ''Snatcher'' has one for the sequence in which Gillian's car was sabotaged and is rapidly running towards certain doom. Random pulls a BigDamnHeroes by racing along side the car, first catching [[RobotBuddy Metal Gear]] ([[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid no, not that kind]]), the music swelling as Random berates Gillian for cowardiance, Metal Gear counting down the time frame Gill has to jump out, then it passes and the car goes over. A cut shot revealed that Gillian jumped at the very last second, and is now hanging onto the rearend of the motorbike.
* ''VideoGame/WorldInConflict'': The previous coward Bannon gets his when he sacrifices himself to bind an overwhelming sovjet force in place for a tactical nuke.
** The entire Pine Valley mission qualifies for nearly everyone at different parts of the mission. The first cutscene has the resident ''ColonelBadass'', Colonel Sawyer, calmly continue to give his briefing as everyone around him ducks for cover from both a sniper and the multitude of shells landing amongst them. After taking the town of Pine Valley, you find yourself surrounded on three sides by the vastly superior - not to mention recently reinforced - Soviet forces and pushed up against the fourth side (the Ocean). The only support is a long way out or bogged down trying to get to you. You, and your AI allies, hole up in the center of town to make your last stand. After several minutes of ever escalating combat with the nearly endless Soviet forces, all looks lost....until out of the smoke and dust appears the ''USS Missouri'', guns (and patriotic music!) blaring as they calmly request that you give them target coordinates. Needless to say, the last stand turns into an absolute victory as the ''Missouri's'' guns pound the Reds into dust and your previously bogged down support un-bogs itself and rushes to your aid.

* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'' has many, most of the defined by the player. For huge awesomes in the narrative sense, there's Max taking on the murderous Trio, who he describes as vicious mad dogs that would hang the heads of their enemies on the fence outside the Punchinello manor if they could. ''Cops'' wouldn't touch the Trio. Max ''utterly destroys them''. Then, later in the first game, Max goes up against BigBad Nicole Horne and her impressively large group of well-armed, well-trained mercenaries. ''He kills them all'', but Horne manages to escape to her helicopter, which is waiting for the wind of a blizzard to die down so that it can use a minigun to rip Max to shreds. Max responds by ''dropping a radio tower on the helicopter'', smashing it into the helipad, which breaks and plummets a good fifty storeys before crushing the helicopter and killing Horne.
** Even More Awesome since Max '''knows''' Alfred Woden's going to pull major [[AncientConspiracy Inner Circle]] strings to get him cleared of the built-up charges, smirking while he's in the back of a cruiser hand-cuffed and being hauled away.
* ''Legend of Legaia 2'', Duel Saga, the moment where you meet the big bad for the very first time. No name as of yet, just 'the man with the golden eyes.' He's going to take a valuable MacGuffin from your village and thus cause it to die, and so you take sword in hand and engage. The guy just stands there, he lets you throw everything you have at him and with every single blow you land, HE DOESN'T MOVE ONE FUCKING MILLIMETER. It's like you're not even THERE. After this show of badassery, the inevitable autolose sequence is actually something of a letdown.

* ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny 2''. Finish the game twice, then on the third play through... do Judas' final Hi-Ougi. After much awesome monologue, he BREAKS HIS MASK revealing his identity as Leon Magnus, and does massive damage with said Hi-Ougi, as it IS the most damaging Physical Hi-Ougi of the game... creamed with awesome sauce.

* The ''VideoGame/TonyHawksProSkater'' series is designed in its entirety to allow players to pull off [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments of Awesome]] that would kill any skater who tried them in real life. A particular example that comes to mind is a section in ''Underground 2'' where you can ''grind a power line''.
** This is quite possibly capstoned, however, in ''Underground'' (1), where you ''jump over a fully operating helicopter''.
** Er-Hem. Jumping the Bridge. But yeah, Underground 2 has a better one: You have 5 SECONDS to escape Skatopia before it blows up. Also, you have to save dogs to do it.With a CAT ON YOUR HEAD.
** On the other hand, this is positively common in ''[[VideoGame/JetSetRadio Jet Grind Radio]]'', which also tops it by having you skate your way through a nightmarish vortex to ''spraypaint'' your way to victory against the BigBad and his ''epic'' SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic.
** ''VideoGame/TonyHawksUnderGround'' had an awesome one for the second go-round! Your character has just made it big after being kicked to the curb by SmugSnake Eric Sparrow and at the end, Eric appears, taunting your character with the video tape showing the aforementioned helicopter jump. In the first go-round, you have to chase him across your hometown to get it back. The second? You just punch the guy in the face.
* The ending of Irrational Games' ''VideoGame/FreedomForce'', where Man-Bot sacrifices himself by becoming the new power source for the Celestial Clock. The scene where he finally removes his helmet is a TearJerker.
** The ending of ''Freedom Force vs. The Third Reich'', where Alchemiss realizes the only way to permanently stop her evil alter-ego Entropy is to completely erase herself from the timeline. It's only marred by the fact that the cliffhanger at the very end will stay unresolved.
* Yoriko Anno of ''Forbidden Siren'' has one of these. After spending the game going from a frightened, somewhat whiny character to one who gradually toughens up, she has a moment in the ending where, after discovering her university professor and crush, Tamon Takeuchi, inside a house with his undead parents, proceeds to kick the door down, wearing a thoroughly pissed off facial expression, and take out the undead by whacking them around the heads with a baseball bat, before forcefully dragging Tamon out of there]].
** Spoiler-laden entry coming up: Two of the playable characters in the game are a little girl (who can't even be close to an enemy without causing a NonStandardGameOver) and her teacher, who is very protective of her. Well, by the end of the game, the teacher has been turned into a Shibito, but is ''still ready and willing'' to do whatever it takes to protect her, ultimately sacrificing herself to save her from the mutated principal of the school in the village, ensuring that the girl is one of the few survivors of the incident.
* Kai of ''VideoGame/HeavenlySword'' has one of these towards the end of the game. After going from a childlike, cheery (yet still very deadly) girl to becoming scared out of her wits due to a traumatic repressed memory (her mother's murder at the hands of Flying Fox) coming back to haunt her, and '''then''' being supposedly killed by Flying Fox after he hangs her by the neck from a great height, she suddenly and unexpectly wakes up partway through the ensuing boss battle between Nariko and Fox, and manages to fire a crossbow bolt right into the latter's forehead.
** King Bohan deserves a mention for when he attempts to make an inspirational BigBad speech to his troops before the final big battle and mentions that he's certain Nariko intends to bite off his genitals.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNmIl8DtJ30 This scene]] in ''Gundam Musou'' (Dynasty Warriors Gundam), with [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Domon Kasshu]] performing the "Undefeated of the East" speech with ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamZZ Puru]]'' and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Zechs]]''.
** And earlier, Puru [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJChDGcLmoA imitates Domon by summoning her Quebley Mk II]] just like he does his Gundam.
*** In Dynasty Warriors Gundam 2, there is an immensely satisfying scene that involves Master Asia giving a verbal and physical smackdown to SEED's Kira Yamato. When fellow SEED protagonist Athrun tries to interfere, Domon drops in quite literally to block him off. Then the two G Gundam character promptly engage in dramatic posing, ending with Master Asia demanding that Kira and Athrun [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fc9rthTYOI SHOWS HIM THEIR SKILLS.]]
* ''VideoGame/LostMagic'' plays the SquishyWizard rather well in its story, and justifies it, giving you MonsterAllies. However, if the right SadisticChoice was taken, you can get a powerful upgrade to your spellcasting, which allows you to call for the "[Element] Dance" spells, in which Isaac charges his wand with elemental energy, rushes up to an enemy and ''beats the shit out of them.''

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* At the end of the Emma Story Path for ''Front Mission 3'' The OCU and the USN are holding a press conference that will basically sweep the conspiracy that was the events of the game under the rug. Events that cost the player character (Kazuki Takemura) his father and his sister their lives, as well as countless other people. So what do our heroes do? They take a Space Shuttle into orbit and perform an orbital drop onto the grounds of the building where the press conference is held. There they mow their way through the USN Police Wanzers guarding the building and break in to reveal the truth. The Japanese Prime Minister attempts to stop you by getting into a Wanzer and opening fire but Kazuki uses his Wanzer to block the shots and, one step at a time draws closer and closer to the Prime Minister before one-punching his Wanzer into submission, thus allowing the truth to come out and the danger of the MIDAS superweapon to never be used again
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* Attacking the Pirate Ship while riding a rocket in ''VideoGame/{{Rayman 2}}'' was pretty badass.

* Software Studios and Electric Dreams Software, for pulling off a fully playable, fully coloured, perfectly fluid conversion of ''VideoGame/RType'' and its AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield - on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, a machine with less memory than that used by the average Word document (48K), a slower processor than most washing machines (3.2MHz), and computing's most hilariously finicky display layout.