Fire Emblem/Awesome

• When Hector is first introduced in FE7, he kills a guy just for being in his way.

Hector: Hey! What's going on over there? Looks like some rough business. You! Soldier! Are you just going to stand there watch?
Soldier: Who do you think you are? This is Santaruz. What occurs here is no affair of any foreign lordling!
Hector: I believe I'm going to have to disagree with you. You see, the man they're attacking happens to be a friend of mine.
Soldier: A friend? What? ...Urrrgh!!
Hector: Sorry, but I'm in a hurry.

• • He tops himself a few chapters later, when he catches Florina, and her Pegasus out of a freefall.
• Karel is a walking CMOA. His introduction, most of his supports, and in-game, this man truly earned the moniker "Sword Demon"
• Ike, the hero of Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn, one just before the final battle. When the judgement-hungry Knight Templar goddess Ashera refuses the Last Second Chance, he points Ragnell directly in the Bigger Bad's face and says:

Ike: Then we will fight... and we will save our people. Make your peace with whatever the gods worship. The end is near.

• • Soon after, he proceeds to (with good goddess Yune's power) deliver the final blow and kill a god. Complete with Asskicking Pose.
• My Geoffrey literally pulled a Foe-Tossing Charge on one of his maps. To my knowledge, the chances of Sol activating 7 times in a row is a bit ...
• I had one during Ike's final battle with the Black Knight, which is an epic battle in its own right for the whole Duel Boss thing. It was made even more so when said opponent walked up to Ike, swung his blade, missed with a 71% chance to hit, and then proceeded to let himself get ripped up by Ike rolling a 5% chance for a critical hit and removing 6/7 of the boss's HP in one round. Needless to say, the level ended the next turn.
  • Most players do have personal crowning moments of awesome at some point while playing Fire Emblem. For example, I once had Zihark (whose low Defense due to bad luck with the Random Number God made him a Glass Cannon) dodge an attack that would have killed him that had an 85% chance to hit and land a critical blow on the attacker...and then, in that same turn, trigger Vantage on yet another attack that would have killed him, and critical with it for the kill. This was all on 3-13.
  • On that selfsame 3-13, a 20/15/-- Edward goes down to face off with Ike -- dropping Soren with one hit. Ike attacks on his turn, grievously wounds -- but fails to kill -- Edward, who promptly activates Wrath and double-Criticals Ike, ending the battle on Turn 8.
  • If this isn't a Crowning Moment of Awesome, I don't know what is. For the uninformed: that sword is the Brave Sword, which normally caps at 4 attacks. Mia (the girl) triggers her Mastery Skill, Astra, which turns 1 attack into 5. Twice. Bear in mind that Astra has a 30% chance of activation at absolute maximum (it's usually significantly lower). Then she triggers Adept (which doubles one attack). And then criticals. To kill a dragon with 71 HP when in all right she should have done 20 damage, maybe 40 with a little luck.
  • If that's not a CMOA, then the sequel, where much the same thing happens, except it's on a dragon with more HP, and Mia should only be doing 4 damage on a hit, instead of 5 damage on a hit from the previous video, definitely is. And in both videos, she hits the dragon 14 times before it can even make its first attack on her! Not that it would've mattered. The dragon's chances of hitting Mia were so low as to be not worth mentioning.
• On chapter 4-5 I had brought Mia, Boyd, Ike, Nailah and Heather, all of whom were level 20/20 (except Nailah) Heather was an okay fighter at best throughout the game and she was mostly there for extra kills and treasure-looting. Then as Ike, Mia, and Boyd were approaching the final stairway to Oliver the bishop with a sleep staff hit Boyd. I would have continued had reinforcements not arrived slowing us down, which gave the sleep bishop the time to put Ike and Mia to sleep leaving them to get killed slowly in their defenseless state (Mia most of all). Nailah was able to rescue Mia but after saving her she started to get attacked and nearly died. I was out of ideas besides having Heather run up and try to defend them the best she could, although that would only have gone so far. Heather then proceeded to spam Bane and criticals and by the time everyone woke up all but Oliver and his bishops were dead.
• Nephenee. . .
  • destroys half of an army in one turn.
  • pulls a combo similar to Mia's.
• In Fire Emblem 7/Rekka no Ken, Nils the bard gets his own when he snaps his Brainwashed and Crazy sister Ninian out of her trance right in the middle of summoning a dragon, causing it to fall back into the Dragon's Gate and taking with it Ephidel, who had just two chapters prior his Complete Monster moment when he killed one of the second-tier (second only to Lords) character's girlfriend, who has gained a Fanon Badass standing in her own right.
  • Right after that, we have a fatally injured man dealing a BIG blow to the Big Bad that almost kills him right there. Okay, Lord Elbert, now THAT is going out with a bang. Even Nergal had to admit it was close.
  • What about in the final chapter before the final battle where Ninian, recently brought back to life, kills two out of three dragons that appear from the Gate and severely wounds the third, all the while apologizing to them? Remember, the one dragon that's still alive has been injured quite a bit but can still put up a fight against all your other characters. That puts the Fu in Waif Fu, IMHO.
    • Actually, imho Ninian's real Crowning Moment Of Awesome was telling Nergal "Take Me Instead!!" to protect Nils, intending to in-fight him and save her brother Nils from ending up as Nergal's slave. Considering that the kid is a still very weakened ice dragon forced to stay in human form to survive and aware that she is more likely than not facing death or imprisonment, doing that takes lots of courage.
  • Oswin, Hector of Ostia's Lancer, gets his own when Hector demands to be told if his older brother Lord Uther, who's had a quite weak health lately (Incurable Cough of Death included), is alive or not. Oswin refuses to say anything since he had sworn to his boss to not tell a word until it was all over, so Hector threatens to kill him right in the spot with his axe. Oswin's reply? A calm Do as you must, not even blinking. That's how Hector realizes that Uther is dead as a doornail.
  • Another character with the nerve of steel in this game was Raven, who managed to scare his prison guard to let him do whatever he wanted.

Raven : Hey, you. Let me out of here.
Soldier : What?
Raven : Marquess Ostia's brother is among your enemy, right? Let me out, and I'll help you. But I must have the brother. I've a score to settle with house Ostia.
Soldier : Do you think me a fool? You work for house Caelin! I cannot trust your word!
Raven : Then I'll have to break down this door and go through you. You were using Lucius as a hostage, but now he's here with me...
Soldier : Uh...
Lucius : No, Lord Raven! You musn't! You cannot betray your debt to Marquess Caelin.
Raven : Shut up, Lucius. You think me foolish, but you don't understand... How about it?
Soldier : Very well. You! Get out! Remember, if you betray us, your companion dies.
Raven : I see. Just remember, if that happens, you die next.
Soldier : Urr...

• My alltime favorite Fire Emblem quote came from Path of Radiance. Marcia, whose older brother Makalov's debts, gambling, and general Scrappyness had caused her to quit her job, fight pirates, and fly all over the country to try to find him. And what does she say to him when she finally finds him and he pathetically tries to talk his way out of it? "STUFF IT, SPONGE-BRAIN!!! NO MORE LAME EXCUSES!!! FOLLOW ME!!! NOW!!!"
  • One could argue that most scenes involving Marcia are CMoA. My particular favorite is the scene where she intends to fight off an entire troop of wyvern knights by herself to protect Elincia, Leanne and Nealuchi (a queen, princess, and princess' royal retainer respectively), and spouts a constant stream of insults at them the entire time. She even manages to yell at Haar in the midst of the battle to make him help her.
  • And while we're on the subject of Makalov, his drunken line in Radiant Dawn was seen by this editor as his CMoA: "Hey, who put that chair there? It could've killed me!" Unbelievably silly, yes, but severely awesome.
• And while I'm talking about characters from Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn, allow me to list off all of them in my opinion. These are just off the top of my head.
  • Ike: Ike has many Crowning Moments of Awesome. My favorite, however, has to be the first time you see him perform Aether.
  • Elincia: Having the confidence to lay down her weapon in between two warring armies just to prove a point.
  • Kieran: Just...Kieran.
    • "I just need to pull this axe out of my head here... Whooo, that's sharp!"
  • Tormod: "What have you done!? You scurvy traitor! You grew! Too tall!"
  • Devdan: Nadved and Danved. That's really all that needs to be said.
  • Naesala: He quite literally sold his best friend. Evil, yes. But still very awesome.
    • To say nothing of his first appearance in PoR, or saving Leanne and Nealuchi from Skrimir...
  • Black Knight: He is a Crowning Moment of Awesome in and of himself.
  • Mia: Her support conversations with Rhys in Path of Radiance.
  • Ilyana: Enacting vengeance upon the prison guards who captured her and Aimee, for feeding her nothing but scraps. "I must have vengeance!"
  • Ranulf: Every time he opens his mouth.
  • Stefan: Any time he gets a conversation with a boss, he sounds more like he should be the boss instead.
    • To the boss of Chapter 19: "If that's all the skill you have, sheathe your blade. You're not ready to challenge me." (cue total ownage)
    • Radiant Dawn, chapter 4-3:

Numida: Wh-who are you?
Stefan: I am the desert, and I brook no intrusion. Make peace with your goddess.

• • Bastian: OutGambitting Ludveck, whose gambit was the entire focus of Part 2.
  • Sanaki: Her conversation with a certain subordinate near the end of the game...
    • "You are my subordinate, after all. I've decided that leaving one's empress to die is punishable by drowning in a pool of rancid butter...I hope you're a strong swimmer."
  • Leanne is the cause of one when she arrives in Crimea in Part 2 of Radiant Dawn. Paraphrase from the narration: "The Crimean nobles don't like how Elincia welcomes the Heron Princess to court so readily, but they know that if they say anything Tibarn and Naesala will tear them apart, so they shut up about it."
• In FE 8, Genki Girl and Lord Error-Prone L'Arachel has a CMOA by talking Eirika out of an Heroic BSOD up over Lyon being completely consumed by Fortmortiis and how he tricked her into giving up her nation's Sacred Stone. Same happens in Ephraim's path, when the one who pulls him outta his own Heroic BSOD is the other Genki Girl of the team and Eirika's best friend, Tana.
• Again in Radiant Dawn, Soren gets a couple:
  • Repeatedly mouthing off at the battle-thirsty lion laguz general and future king of the beast tribeSkrimir, knowing that the latter respects him and can't win the war without him.
  • When Aimee, the shop girl with a crush on Ike, offers the Greil Mercernaries a discount if Ike tells her he loves her, Ike is about to comply (purely for business reasons). Soren rushes in and warns Ike that if he tells Aimee this, she'll spread the "news" around, ruining Ike's reputation. Soren proceeds to put his own, apparently dormant, charisma into effect, sweet talking getting the discount for Ike. Short, dark, introverted Soren turns out to be a ladykiller. LOL.
    • Made even more awesome if you think he didn't even change the tone of his voice. Yes, Soren just monotoned his way into a lady's heart.
  • Best yet, if he fights Micaiah during Part 3, chapter 7, he outright insults her. Note that everyone she meets loving her within moments of first talking to her, or at least treating her with much more sympathy than her actions ellicit, and he Meteor her. In the face. Usually twice. Best yet, performing this CMOA is one of the steps to unlocking a secret ending scene.
    • Actual excerpt from the conversation: "Do not presume to understand me, you ridiculous girl."
    • Just in Radiant Dawn? Think about it - Soren essentially makes all the strategic decisions in relation to Ike's army, which means he has a direct hand in bringing down Ashnard, his own father.
• In FE7, when Nino finally stands up to Sonia. "You're no perfect being! You're a monster in human form! No mercy! No forgiveness!!!
  • The funny thing is, it turns out that she really wasn't a human.
  • I dedicated that mission to getting Nino up to level 20, then promoting her to Sage, just so I could have her take Sonia down with a minimum of assistance. It was satisfying, to say the least.
  • Even more badass was Jaffar's lines with Sonia in that same chapter. What does an emotionless ex-assassin have to say to the woman who put his Morality Pet through fourteen-ish years of anguish and is currently trying to kill him and his newfound allies? Three words: "Here I come."
• In FE 8, chapter 15 can be considered two revenges, because after you weed out the mooks you can have have Josh and Cormag face the bosses. Joshua generally kills Caellach in two turns, and Cormag finishes in three.
• When Leanne and Reyson restore the forest by singing
• Speaking of Reyson, who could forget his most awesome scene where he punches his captive Oliver, despite being a pacifist Heron! You literally can hear the "Smack" his punch makes during the dialog.
  • And to make this scene even more awesome? His comments about the event to Ike later in the game in their Level B Support conversation:

Reyson: When I bashed Duke Tanas's face, he only suffered a bloody nose, but it cracked the bones in the back of my hand.
Ike: Holy...
Reyson: Indeed.
Ike: ...But it felt good, right?
Reyson: Oh, yeah.

• Radiant Dawn also managed to do one via an elaborate bait and switch. You spend most of the first two parts of the game controlling Micaiah's efforts with the Dawn Brigade and Elincia's attempt to keep ahold of her throne, respectively. And while you see a lot of familiar faces, there's several questions at times about where Ike and the Greil Mercenaries are, as Elincia would ask for their help if she could find them. In the end, she deals with it on her terms, captures the traitorous Duke Ludvick, and imprisons him, only for him to try to talk his way out of it by trying to ransom off Elincia's foster sister and bodyguard Lucia, who he'd captured earlier, by literally presenting her ready to be hanged outside the walls of Elincia's castle. To accept is to doom her authority as Queen of Crimea for all time, but to refuse is to condemn Lucia, her closest friend to death. Everyone knows this and even Lucia tells Elincia not to throw everything away for her sake. Elincia doesn't, and is about to watch Lucia die for her...when the Greil Mercenaries show up out of nowhere, save Lucia, proceed to trash Ludveck's remaining forces around the scaffolding, and generally remind everyone just why they were the badasses that helped win the last war in a brilliant introductory moment that wouldn't have worked half as well if they'd been there from day one.
  • The sequence as a whole is a CMOA for Lucia. The poor battered looking young woman remains defiant to the end as she declares her loyalty to Elincia moments before she is to be hanged.
  • Similarly, the scene beforehand is a CMOA for Elincia as a queen, because she made the hard choice to let Lucia die not knowing all of this was about to happen.
  • And hiring the Greil Mercenaries to do this and then leaving Crimea to let it all happen was a major CMoA for Bastian. Since the majority of Part 2 focused on Ludveck's ability to strategize, seeing the whole thing get wiped out in one move by Bastian was astonishing, especially as Bastian's tactical prowess had until that point been an Informed Ability.
• The last sequence before the final chapter starts in FE7. Basically a CMOA for the entire army, but especially for the lords. Hector or Eliwood standing up against Nergal, complete with Unshakable Faith and then every unit delivering his/her personal, epic line before finally starting the battle. Clearly indicating that a certain Dark Druid's annoying grin will finally be wiped from his face.
• You know what? Pick a critical hit, any critical hit.
  • I choose Lyn's. Even in her first class. She pulls out her sword and promptly vanishes from sight. We see a bunch of Sword Lines, the classic critical hit explosion, and then Lyn reappears behind her (likely very dead) enemy.
  • From FE8, Amelia's is both this and a Crowning Moment of Funny. Ameilia, for those who don't know is a Trainee, a unique class in the game that's essentially a weak cavalier without a horse which gets much stronger upon promotion. Her animation? She gets ready to attack, DROPS HER LANCE, pants and picks it up again, and then runs slightly faster, dealing 3x damage.
  • While critical hits are indeed awesome, they can't really compare to mastery skills from 9 and 10. These range from Astra's five-hit combo in Bullet Time to the impossible jumping skills involved in Impale, Deadeye, and Aether.
• Have a unit take down a particular boss that has negative ties to them. (Example: Nino taking down Sonia, Cormag taking down Valter, ect.)
  • Especially in Fire Emblem 4. Arthur/Tinny taking down Hilda. This woman is so evil that it's not just one person that wants a piece of her. It's TWO.
    • Or if you count Amid/Linda, it's FOUR.
      • Don't forget pretty much any player.
  • From the same game, Leaf and Trabant. The vengeance coming from Leaf's mouth is just incredible.
  • Lachesis has one during one of FE 4's opening sequences.
• Practically anything Haar does or says. Could the man be any more awesome?

Haar: Why couldn't you just stay on patrol? Saw a pretty little heron and just had to have her, is that it? I could never decide if you were more greedy or more corrupt. Stupid was never in the question, though.
Zeffren: Who do you think you are?! You're a traitor, just like Shiharam! The dracoknights spit on your name!
Haar: ... Do they now? Well, here's your chance to try the real thing.

• • how about the fact that once he becomes a dragonlord (which can happen on the last part of the second chapter) he ends up nigh on invincible. topped of with about a 30% chance of unleashing stun (3X damage and paralysis), plus huge strength, defence and killer axe, he kills all in seconds... whilst half-asleep.
  • Haar is so awesome that when he re-recruits Jill in the midst of a heated battle where they are on opposite sides, she's swooning near the end of his speech.
  • Haar's conversation with Levail in the Tower of Guidance gives CMO As for both of them.

Levail: He is the last true knight. I will die for him.
Haar: Yes, Levail. You will.
Levail: How I dreamed of fighting a proper foe! I am honoured, Sir Haar! Have at you!

• In Rekka no Ken (Fire Emblem in America), you meet Pent and Hawkeye in the middle of the desert, with the former surrounded by bandits. Seeing as it's one of those missions that's considered an automatic failure if either of them dies, and NPCs tend to throw themselves in harm's way, you'd think this would be a Scrappy Level, especially since Pent is a spellcaster. Wrong. Watch in amazement as Pent dodges everything, and torches all of the enemies alive with Elfire, one by one. Every enemy's turn, expect another 15 members of their army to bite the dust. You practically don't even need to fight, unless you want to get the Sidequest.
  • To clarify, in order to get the sidequest for that level, your total army must get at least 700 experience points. In order to get there, you'll still want to rescue Pent ASAP, but not because he's in danger; rather because he's hogging your kills and not getting experience for them. This has led some people to call him Pent The Experience Monster. It's no exaggeration to say that he and Hawkeye could take out the entire map by themselves, including the two bosses.
• While it was the enemy's, This Troper has had one case in Radiant Dawn he regards as one of the best moments in the game- on 3-Endgame, Tibarn, one of the Laguz royals- who's practically invincible on that chapter- killed Jill just before she could be turned by Haar. The response from the enemy? Laura puts the bastard to Sleep, and then Leonardo, who's low on HP after barely surviving an attack from Boyd, attacks Tibarn with his Resolve- and strikes a double Crit, killing him.
• Genealogy of the Holy War: Lakche vs. Yurius on Chapter 10: She has a Berserk Hero Sword with 98 Kill Stars and is attacked by him. Due to her attack power being halved, she doesn't do much damage. The fight:
  • Yurius: Miss
  • Lakche: Astra! x4 (a lot of hits were crits)Charge! Astra x2 (all Crits).
  • Yurius: Miss
  • Lakche: Astra! x2 (All Crits)
  • Yurius is defeated. Yeah. Astra crit stream to the Final Boss Preview going down.
• Eirika calmly telling the Demon King to shut his mouth, and that she is going to kill him.
• Early in Path of Radiance, I ended up with a wounded Soren (6 out of 18 HP with awful Defense) who was about to get taken out by the boss. He dodged the javelin that was thrown at him, and promptly followed up with a DOUBLE CRITICAL, instantly killing him.
• Endgame. My Michaia the Light Priestess gets attacked by a White Dragon. The Hit/Dmg/Crt reads 100/0/0 for Michaia and 64/18/0 for the dragon. Dragon misses. Michaia attacks next (me thinking it'll be No Damage!x2. Instead, her Corona ability pops. Twice. Down goes the dragon.
• One of the artists who drew the Seisen mangas earned a huge CMOA's with her storytelling. Nuts Fujimori manages the almost impossible task of making her version of Seisen funny. One of the bleakest, Darker and Edgier games in the franchise... now it's a wacky, silly and freaking entertaining comedy.
• The final battle of Fire Emblem Gaiden. For the last hit, Alm tosses away his shield, grabs his sword with two hands and impales Doma's eye. And this is the Famicom era, where moments like this are rare indeed.
• In this tropers Endgame of RD, he had Ike and Soren's support maxed, and had Soren fight Ashera. He deals a fair bit of damage...and then dodges Judgement!! That's it, when you dodge a fuckin' goddess' attack, you are officially awesome.(though, in fairness, Ike/Soren's support does boost Evasion by 30 soo...yeah).