Awesome / Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles

• In the episode "Deep Trouble", Dizzy Flores single-handedly takes down multiple Arachnid warriors in a display of combat acrobatics and marksmanship to save one of her downed teammates. When it's over she hears clapping and looks up to see the rest of the squad, including their hard-nosed veteran commander, acknowledging the show.
• Five Words: Higgins with a Missile Launcher. The timid reporter even manages to nail a Hopper threatening Lieutenant Razak. Doubles as a Funny Moment.
  Higgins: THAT WAS SO COOL!!!
• In the final episode of the Hydora campaign, "Sole Survivor," Carl's Big Damn Heroes moment when he saves The Squad from the Brain Bug's army with dual triple-barreled rocket launchers. And then follows it up with a psychic duel with the Brain Bug, with impressive results.
• Rico and T'Phai's Batman Gambit in "And Then There Were Two", followed by them teaming up against the Giant Spider.
• The episode "D-Day" gives pretty much everyone a CMoA, but special mention goes to T'Phai, for killing three Warrior Bugs...with three bullets. Bear in mind that you normally need to put half a magazine into one of those things to take it down.
  • More proof of T'Phai's badassery. In "The Face of Truth", after he's freed from his Control Bug and the Roughnecks are storming the Xylon mine, they tell him to sit tight while they handle things. During battle, Lieutenant Razak is hit by constrictor spray. Higgins goes to help him, but a skinny is sneaking up on them from behind. Abruptly, the enemy is zapped with an X-ray blast. The Roughnecks look up to see T'Phai sitting on a ledge above them, holding a gun nonchalantly.
    T'Phai: I was bored.
• Carmen versus a Kamikaze Rippler in "Swarm". Her retrieval ship has machine guns mounted on the front, but nothing to shoot down the bug that's currently behind her...so she Wronski Feints it into a cliff.
  Carmen: *to her copilot, just before diving* Hope you didn't have a big lunch!
  • Said CMoA by Carmen is prompted by a Bug CMoA. Four Ripplers close in on two retrieval ships. One bug lands on a retrieval ship's right wing, and casually tears the engine off.
• CHAS's Heroic Sacrifice in the ending for "Of Flesh And Steel." A total subversion of A.I. Is a Crapshoot.
  CHAS: Roughnecks HO!!!
• In the Klendathu episode "The Mission," Lt. Razak is weakened by the atmosphere of the planet and the team is forced to leave him behind while hoping a hastily thrown-together antidote will cure him. Later, the team is pinned down by Zander and his swarm of Imposter Bugs. Just as Zander is lecturing Rico on how surprise is the greatest weapon, who else comes swinging in (literally!) but Razak himself, catching everyone off guard.
• The Bugs get a massive awesome moment when in "Trackers," the conclusion of the Klendathu campaign, they launch nearly a hundred Transport Bugs all in a massive Batman Gambit to provide decoys for their Queen to escape. SICON is completely fooled.
  • One for the Queen for surviving the Roughnecks tracking her down and nuke her. There's a reason SICON doesn't believe Carl when he claims she's still alive: it shouldn't have been possible.
• In "Hide N'Seek", the MI wipes out the Bug force that would have destroyed Buenos Aires.
  • For perspective, this is the only continuity where Buenos Aires survives: in the original novel Buenos Aires is raided and destroyed off-page after the Skinnies reveal Earth's location, in the OVA series the aliens attack New Buenos Aires and while the MI kills them the city is destroyed in the battle, and in the 1997 film it's hit by a meteor.
• Brutto's crowning moment comes during "Funeral for a Friend", when he kills a Warrior Bug with his wheelchair.
  • An earlier one comes in "Captured". The Squad has been taken prisoner by Skinnies, and six or seven of them enter the room to take Brutto and Jenkins for interrogation. Brutto snatches one of their shock sticks and beats down three or four of them before he's subdued. Made even better by his line as the Skinnies close in on him.
    Brutto: Come on! I'm just gettin' warmed up!
• In the final produced episode, Rico is angsting over the fact that he is not prepared to be Lieutenant and trying to hand off command duties to Sgt. Zim. But Zim isn't having any of that: he tells Rico both he and Razak saw a leader in Rico from his days in Basic training, and that if Rico has any respect for Razak, he will not be wasting time worrying over whether Razak would approve of him as a replacement. Showing the final bit of Character Development for Rico in this series, he gets it together and whips his squad into shape, putting together a plan to survive the Bug army besieging the outpost and destroying the facility to take the Bugs out. Later in orbit, Carl tells Rico that of all the MI squads evacuating Hawaii, "Rico's Roughnecks" held out the longest and took out the most Bugs. Too bad production problems killed the series there...