Awesome / Mega Man (Classic)

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• Mega Man's original crowning moment of awesome was defeating the six robot masters and Dr. Wily for the very first time. To make it even more awesome, this was before Energy and Weapon Tanks. Mega Man was, like his sister Roll, originally designed as a housekeeping robot.
  • All throughout, the final stages test your observation skills regarding the weapons you collected in order to showcase Mega Man's tenacity. As one example, when seeing a lack of obvious entry ways into the Wily Fortress that he can access by foot, Mega Man responds by using Super Arm to tear the fortress walls open with his bare hands.
  • Beating the Yellow Devil without the Thunder Beam.
  • The Dev Team (which consisted of six people) had their own moment of awesome; first, Keiji Inafune for designing almost all of the characters and then all of the sprites by himself, and then the team managed to squeeze the entire game into a 1-Megabit cartridge. To put it in perspective, that's only 125 KB of memory. The one game that eventually launched Capcom’s landmark franchise and made millions for them is smaller than a few JPGs on your computer! (And, yes, this is a feat on par with the hyper-economical file-size of Super Mario 64.)
• The intro for 2.
• 3 words, Super. Adapter.Mega Man.
• Beat being able to take down everything with ease in 5 and 6^note well, almost everything; 6 gave all bosses complete immunity to Beat (he couldn’t even target them), but he still completely shredded mooks, so much so that his function was completely changed from 7 on.
• In the ending of Mega Man 5, Wily's Fortress begins to collapse as Mega Man frees Dr. Light. When the ceiling starts to cave in on them, both doctors panic. What does our favorite robot do? He holds up the entire freaking mountain-sized fortress with pure strength and willpower alone! When there wasn't a large enough gap left for Dr. Light and Rock to escape, we hear a certain iconic whistle before a hole is blasted through the fortress for the two to escape through. If that isn't awesome, I don't know what is.
• In Mega Man 7, if you time it right, you can defeat Turbo Man and Spring Man with Noise Crush as their health bars begin to fill up.
• Mega Man: I am more than just a robot. DIE, WILY!
  • The Japanese version of 7 goes quite differently. In both versions, Wily reminds Mega Man/Rockman that, as per Asimov, robots can't harm humans. In the English version, Mega Man says the above line. In Japanese, he obediently powers down to silently question himself, making this Wily's Moment of Awesome instead.
  • Bass trumps them both right afterward by compressing a Breaking Speech into a single phrase:
    Bass: He who hesitates is lost!
  • After that is Mega's badass Unflinching Walk home from Dr. Wily's self-destructed fortress. Sadly cut out of the Anniversary Collection due to emulation issues.
• The moment in 8 where Duo takes out a huge mech Wily built singlehandedly, made even better when he cuts the freaking robot's face off, was awesome in its own right. Keep in mind that this robot was busy electrocuting a helpless Mega Man when Duo showed up, and had punched Rush into a wall when he tried to stop it.
• In Mega Man & Bass, Proto Man gets a moment when, after being chopped in half in the opening level, and then getting his own laser shot back at him, takes off the kid's gloves and shoots King with a Hadouken. Eat your heart out, X.
  • The Hadouken was a translation joke, it's still badass and awesome, of course.
    • The real name of his attack is even more so: Big Bang Blast.
    • To make things a bit more awesome — this scene is a direct Shout-Out to Big Bang Punch.
• 8 has the helper robots show up to help you in the two aerial stages. Eddie drops bombs. Beat does a bird missile. Auto, the item maker, shoots a freaking bazooka. And you can have them all on the screen at once, with Rush and Mega himself shooting their own brand of plasma goodness. And one of these is in a Wily Stage, where you even face a boss with this possible setup.
• Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters has Mega Man's ending, where Wily drives him into questioning his motives and existence by calling him a hypocrite who destroys robots to bring peace. He's in such a state of navel-gazing that this is what lets Wily escape.
  • The same game has Bass's ending, where Wily reveals his ultimate creation, Zero.
• Wily has a CMoA in Mega Man 9 when he talks Light's robots into rebelling. Yes, you read that right, he talks Light's own robots into rebelling against humanity, simply by giving a very valid and true argument about their being arbitrarily destroyed after a set time despite still being very much useful as human servants. It's a shame Capcom didn't follow up on it, because it would've been an awesome twist to the entire Mega Man series.
  • However, it should be clarified: Wily did not convince them to rampage. He convinced them that they were still useful, and that they should let him repair them so they could continue helping people. Presumably, while he was "repairing" them, he installed their murderous programming. Still, Wily does get major points for even that subtle rebellion, since they are 3-Laws robots, and second law was in effect.
• Mega Man himself gets one in 9 upon defeating Wily, with the Mad Scientist begging at his feet once again. He then proceeds to use Rush to show him a montage of all the times he's had to beg for mercy in the previous games as a brutal Humiliation Conga. Doubles as a Funny Moment.
• Wily's plan in Mega Man 10 was to infect robots with a virus, banking on Mega Man coming down with it just before he could stop him. It was ultimately derailed by Roll.
  • The moment in question where Roll gives her medicine to Mega Man for him to take and be able to stop Wily counts as a Heartwarming Moment.
• Wily has another CMoA at the end of Mega Man 10 as he leaves enough of the anti-virus for every infected robot in his hospital room before he escapes as thanks to Mega Man for saving his life showing that for all his evil Wily still retains some morals and never forgets to pay his debts.
• The introductions of Wily's castles have never been as awesome as the one seen in Mega Man 10. The castle gradually emerges from the darkness as the screen slowly pans it into view. It just makes storming it all the more epic.
• This playthrough of Mega Man 10's Mr. Perfect Achievement on Hard Mode.
• As of September 30th, 2022, Mega Man 11 is now the best-selling game in the series' 35-year history, having reached 1.60 million units across all platforms, breaking Mega Man 2's record of 1.51 million units.

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