Final Fantasy V/Awesome

• Galuf's one-on-one fight with Exdeath certainly qualifies; every other playable character is powerless under the villain's Agony Beam, but the old geezer powers through it and inverts the Hopeless Boss Fight trope. Exdeath can't beat you in the following confrontation because he can still fight at 0 HP! That's pure badass there.
  • Who could possibly forget Gilgamesh, walking embodiment (and humorous subversion) of this trope. Everything from his first appearance to his Heroic Sacrifice to his theme song is TV Tropes Made of Win Archive, but his last words are the crowner;

Necrofobia: Enough of this. Die!
Gilgamesh: *snort* I believe that's MY line!!!

• • That whole fight is just TV Tropes Made of Win Archive the moment Gilgamesh shows up, especially when you see his sprite flip around and face Necrofobia!
  • ...and he's back to deliver more in later installments, appearing as a Summon in Final Fantasy VIII (see Seifer's entry below), rather disappointingly in 9 and 11 but back to his true form in 12. His grand entrances in both 8 and 12 are Crowning Moment of Awesome level in themselves.
    • In the Dawn of Souls remake of Final Fantasy I, you fight him as a Bonus Boss to regular boss music. But in the PSP remake, he comes complete with his theme music, but not before:

"Let's see how you handle the mighty me! And by me, I mean Gilgamesh!! And by handle, I mean DIE!!"

• • • • So they're gonna give him green hair?
• Krile blasting her way into the Ronka Ruins' Crystal Room to save the party in Big Damn Heroes fashion.
• The Four Braves of Dawn and King Tycoon holding back the Void long enough for the heroes to regroup and battle Exdeath.
  • Combined with the amazing main theme too.
• Hiryu has two Heroic Sacrifice Crowning Moments Of Awesome. Not only does he arrive and sacrifice himself to save Lenna from being possessed by Melusine, but even after that, he waits at the top of the Phoenix Tower and sacrifices himself to give you the Phoenix summon.
• The duel between the Great Sage Ghido and Exdeath. For nearly his entire appearance, Ghido has been this Deadpan Snarker turtle with a grim attitude and little patience for the naive heroes. Then Exdeath arrives, and Ghido shows he hasn't spent all his years chewing lettuce eating pizza.