Awesome / Ape Escape

• Capturing Specter in the first game is accompanied with a cool Triple Take.
• In Ape Escape 2, Red Monkey's boss battle includes him casually beating up a dinosaur as one of his attacks.
• The protagonists of all three main games should definitely qualify for one of these, if just for the sheer absurdity of their situation. Within the first few levels of 3, you will crash a Monkey Wedding, fight a Robot Dragon, fight a monkey with a chainsaw and battle another monkey using Humongous Mecha.
  • The cutscene before the fight against White Monkey's robot dragon in particular has a subtle bit of badassery from Yumi/Sayaka's end. Said dragon launchers a massive burst of flame to destroy the bridge behind your chosen character; if you're playing as Kei/Satoru, he visibly tenses up and gasps in surprise as he dodges the flames. Yumi simply leans to one side, letting the flames zip past her, after which she immediately orders White Monkey to step aside.
  • The battle with Doctor Tomoki has you pit your mecha against his.
• Specter's plan in 3: chop the Earth in half. With a giant hand. It's that simple kind of supervillain insanity you really have to appreciate.
  • Of note, the core premise of 3 is that most of the world population has been immobilised by Specter TV so he can do this unimpeded. Not only does he open with succeeding where he failed in the last game, but taking over Earth is somehow just his opening act. Villain Decay? That's bananas!
  • Dr. Tomoki sacrificing himself to destroy the space station controlling the Karate Chop. The explosion is silent, and suitably dramatic. And amazingly, he somehow survives.
• The sheer scale of the battle against Specter aboard his space station. Take the old scene of King Kong scaling the skyscraper while batting away planes only this time its Specter inside a giant gorilla robot and you’re on the Flying Turtle airship flying around attacking the robot. And does Specter give up after King Gorillak goes down? Of course not! He even has an attack where he telekinetically smashes Gorillak’s head onto the floor making shockwaves. Give the the evil genius credit, he doesn’t go down without a fight.