Sonic Adventure/Awesome

• The opening alone is just awesome and really gets you excited before you start playing. Open Your Heart really adds an extra layer of epicness to it, as well.
• Sonic Adventure 1, when Tails launches the Tornado I by making the palm trees bend over in what can only be a direct homage to Thunderbirds. Sonic's expression says it all.
  • Speaking of Tails in Sonic Adventure, who can forget him psyching himself up to fight Eggman alone... then doing it, saving Station Square all by himself? This seems to be the rare piece of Character Development in the franchise to stick too, as he does so a couple of times in the next game as well.
    • Nah, the most awesome part is that the city's effectively wrecked in two minutes anyway.
• There was Amy's story in Sonic Adventure. After spending most of the story getting kidnapped and running away from a Killer Robot, she finally snaps into Mama Bear mode as soon as said robot hurts the bird she was trying to protect and utterly demolishes it. This is especially awesome since she started off merely fawning over Sonic being her hero, but with this moment, she finally became a hero in her own right.
  • Add to that her mere reasoning with another Killer Robot into becoming her friend. Then, in a similar fashion to her 2006 moment, defending it from Sonic. She'll value Sonic over the world, but she cares enough about others to stand up to him.
• A mini moment of Awesome, but in E-102 Gamma's story in Sonic Adventure, the bot gets to fight and win against Sonic, a mere second from blowing his brains out point blank. Yeah it's an Anticlimax Boss, but it's the first and only point so far one of Eggman's badniks has managed to defeat Sonic one on one, and gives you an idea how dangerous Gamma may have been had it not been for his heart.