Awesome / Mega Man (Ruby-Spears)

• The Intro of this show will get you pumped up. The animation has that american 90s action cartoon glory along with the catchy and energetic tune playing in the background.
• In "Electric Nightmare", Mega Man steals Pharaoh Man's power. Instead of being cowed, he punches him in the face, and then tries to crush his head with a torn-off chunk of debris from a nearby fountain; making him one of only two Robot Masters — the other being Crystal Man, seen below — who actively and effectively fights back against Mega Man after having their power copied. He also received a seriously cool adaptation of his Pharaoh Shot from the games to go with it; taking the form of a chargeable, superheated blast that produces napalm-like explosions of flames. American Kirby Is Hardcore, par excellence.
  • He also makes one hell of a cool entrance; bursting in through a double door that lights up behind him to menacingly frame himself in shadow as he walks over, and vows to destroy Mega Man in a very chilling tone:
  Dr. Wily: PHARAOH MAN! (Pharaoh Man throws open the doors) Destroy Mega Man!
  Pharaoh Man: So you command. So it shall be done!
• Dr. Wily got a villainous one in "The Mega Man in the Moon". When a human girl, Tina, stows away on the rocket ship to see her father, Wily promptly holds her hostage. When Mega Man comes to save her, Wily physically grabs Tina and warns Mega to leave or else he'd activate her jetpack, which would blast her off into space. Mega is accordingly forced to retreat to avoid hurting an innocent, and Wily is free to continue his plan.
  • In the same episode, Crystal Man gets one for just generally being one of the most scarily competent Robot Masters. He knocks Mega Man several hundred feet to the ground from a high launch tower, scores arguably the most devastating blow inflicted on Mega across the series by shooting him with Wily's augmented laser cannon, and continues fighting back even when he has his power taken; only losing when he has Mega prone on the ground and ready to be stomped before being finally shot down by his own Crystal Eye. Even then, he's still conscious but badly-damaged, and swears to have his revenge one day.
• Roll got one in "Terror of the Seven Seas" when she successfully infiltrated Wily's base, defeated Cut Man, avoided Elec Man and Bomb Man, and got out safely. Given her track record in season one you might be waiting for her to get caught, but it doesn't happen, establishing her as a proper action girl.
• Near the end of "Mega-Pinocchio", Mega Man pretended to be evil to get close enough to steal Magnet Man's power. How did he accomplish this? By giving him a high-five.
  Magnet Man: Yeah, it sure is good to have you on the bad side, Mega Man.
  Mega Man: Alright, Magnet Dude! (holds up a hand) Give me five!
  Magnet Man: (he does so, only for Mega Man to copy his power as their hands touch) HE'S GETTING MY POWERS!
• Proto Man got one in "Bro Bots". When Mega Man found out that he was only pretending to be good, he was understandably angry. However, Mega couldn't act to stop him and Wily because of a 'scrambler chip' Proto had planted on him earlier. Proto Man offered to remove it if his brother would join him. When Mega refused...
  Proto Man: Whatever you say, bro. (shoots Mega Man, sending him flying into the wall)
• Proto Man got another one in "Showdown at Red Gulch". Wily had his robots powered up with meteorite fragments, and Proto warned Mega that he was out of his league. Mega Man ignored his warning and tried to get him anyway. Proto Man's response?
  Proto Man: I hate to say I told you so, but... (shoots him) ...I told you so!
• Eddie got one in "Mega-Pinocchio". When Mega Man jumped in front of Proto Man's shot to protect the statue of Abraham Lincoln, he was unable to move. Proto Man went to finish him off... and Eddie charged up the stairs, knocked Proto Man over, and gave Mega Man an Energy Can to power him back up.
• The mayor of the city got one in "The Big Shake". Dr. Wily invented an earthquake machine that, well, created earthquakes. After an attack on Light's lab, Wily believed he'd killed them all. Wily then threatened the mayor, telling him Mega and Light were out of commission permanently, to submit, and to be quick about it as he had other cities and countries to deal with. The mayor refused and told him to shake the city to the ground. They wouldn't surrender. He'd rule nothing.
• "Master of Disaster" was one of the series'... stranger episodes, but it did have an awesome moment from Proto Man. When Wily found a genie and ordered him to destroy Mega Man, he ignored the robots. After the genie tried and failed several times, Proto Man told him to stuff it and let the robots give it a shot. Granted, the 'bots failed as well, but he talked back to a genie.
• In "Ice Age", Ice Man defeated Mega Man, Roll, and Rush about three times in the span of a single episode; complete with kicking Rush while he's frozen, breaking him into pieces. And then there's him going rogue and forcing Dr. Light to help him build powerful "Ice Bots" after he's tricked into believing Dr. Wily is going to replace him with Air Man; commanding them to inflict a Curb-Stomp Battle on Proto Man, Guts Man and Cut Man and having Wily basically at his mercy before Mega Man gets involved.
  Ice Man: So, you thought you could freeze me out of the picture, huh? Now I'm king of the iceberg!
• Metal Man got one in "Future Shock". After pinning Mega Man under a pipe, he tried to saw his head off. Hardcore!
• "Mega X" was one for just about everyone involved, animators included, but special mention goes to Dr. Wily, who saved Vile and Spark Mandrill from X.
  • On the heroes' side of things, it had been shown that none of the present-day tech could affect Vile and Spark Mandrill; Mega Man experienced this firsthand. But it didn't stop him from standing in front of the time portal to stall them until X could get at them. When Vile retaliated, Mega and Rush pulled X out of the way of his shot, and when Spark Mandrill attacked them, Mega Man was able to stop his shot with a blast of his own.
  • Roll vacuuming up a plasma shot and firing it back out◊.
  • Vile and Spark Mandrill are completely unstoppable until X arrives to even the odds—and even he has trouble with them.
  • X was attacked by Cutman's Rolling Cutter. He caught the blade.
  • X copied Snake Man's weapon and destroyed Wily's superlaser with one shot.
• Roll got another in "Bot Transfer" when she beat up Snake Man — technically it was Mega Man in his body, but still — with a lamp.
• Rush got one in "The Strange Island of Dr. Wily," where he was instrumental in helping Mega fight the giant Stone Bot, even distracting him when Mega was briefly captured. As bonus points for those who didn't much like Rush, he stayed relatively silent during the fight.
• Dr. Light got one in "The Mega Man in the Moon" when he interrupted Wily by cutting into his transmission screen; generally Wily did that to the good guys.
• Light got another in "Cold Steel" when, after being freed of brainwashing, said this in response to Wily's tirade.
  Wily: Why!? Why am I surrounded by fools?
  Light: Maybe because that's all you know how to build, Dr. Wily.
• Proto Man got one in "Campus Commandos," as he donned a jetpack and silly-looking goggles to see Mega when he was in stealth mode. The resulting aerial fight had Proto doing a midair somersault while vaulting down the side of a building, shooting at Mega Man mid-roll.
• Any time Rush goes into jet mode by himself to save Mega Man.