Sonic Adventure 2/Awesome

• This game is the first to give us TWO Super Hedgehogs.
  • Although the battle against Finalhazard is awesome, the moment is somewhat stifled by the fact that the two hedgehogs are fighting a giant bio-mechanical lizard with the nose of a massive Face Ship stuck up its ass.
• This cutscene from Sonic Adventure 2. It perfectly displays the character relationship between Sonic and Shadow and sets a mood that if Shadow isn't stopped here, Eggman will take over the world (Well when played from the Hero's side anyways...) The music just makes it all the more epic.
• About halfway through Sonic Adventure 2, after organising Shadow and Rouge to raid and detonate an entire island, and with six of the seven Chaos Emeralds in his possession, Dr. Eggman declares himself ruler of the Eggman Empire, announces to the entire world that they will surrender or die, and, just to prove he isn't fucking around, powers up the Eclipse Cannon and blows up half of the moon.
  • Personally, I vote for when, attempting to trick him with a fake Emerald, Robotnik completely pwned Sonic and the gang at their own game and shot our hero into space to certain death. The most shocking part? If it wasn't for a last minute Deus Ex Chaos Control, Sonic. Would. Have. Been. Dead. That is the true genius of a man with a 300 IQ.
  • You can add to this the moment when Eggman tricks Tails into revealing the emerald was a fake to begin with. After seeing a guy who we're constantly told has an IQ of freaking 300 do so many stupid things, it's nice to see him actually express his intelligence for once.

Tails: So... how did you know it wasn't the real one?
Eggman: Heh, because You Just Told Me, Fox-boy.

• • • Even better, playing both parts of the game reveals that Eggman had already deduced Tails had a fake emerald long before that encounter, so not only did he pwn them at their own game and rub their faces into it, but he screwed with their minds by lying about how he knew, making them out to be even bigger idiots than before. Awesome.
    • Not quite, since he couldn't know which one of the two was the real one, so he trapped Sonic without knowing and then Tails told him.
    • No, he obviously knew. People aren't just handed 300 I.Q.'s you know.
    • In one of the cutscenes in the Dark Story, Eggman detects two Chaos Emeralds, knowing that Sonic and the others would try to trick him by giving him the fake one. In other words, he knew that it was a fake as soon as Sonic and his group arrived on the Ark.
  • Also, Sonic—who had never before used Chaos Control and only ever seen it being performed once—manages to pull off Chaos Control using a FAKE Emerald. Even Shadow was impressed.
• The opening level of Sonic Adventure 2 is pretty awesome. It's not everyday you see someone freefall out of a helicopter and then board down the side of San Francisco with a part of the wing.
  • While performing sick air tricks and shit.
  • Heck, what about Eggman's first level? The Dark story opens with him charging Prison Islands, guns blazing and his theme triumphantly flaring.
• What about the encounter in the jungle? "I found you, FAKER!". Heck, Shadow tells him the Sonic is the faker, and then telling him that he's not even good enough to be his fake, while Sonic answers back with an epic "I'LL MAKE YOU EAT THOSE WORDS!" and, if you're playing as Shadow:

Sonic: You can't get away this time! There's only one. Real. SONIC!

• Shadow had a very overlooked moment of awesome. He fell to Earth, from SPACE, and SURVIVED. Come on, ultimate lifeform or not, that's gotta count for something.
  • One of my favourite Shadow moments, and moments in general, is in Sonic Adventure 2, during the Last story. While everyone (including Eggman) is racing around trying to stop the Space Colony ARK from falling to Earth, Shadow just stares down at Earth, claiming that he doesn't need to help because it's useless anyway. After Amy gives him a speech about how, even though Humans Are Bastards, they can be good too, Shadow finally remembers Maria's true final words: "Give them a chance to be happy!" and quickly runs off to the cannon's core. Meanwhile, Sonic and Knuckles are preparing to do battle with The Biolizard, when suddenly they hear; "Leave this one to me." Shadow walks towards his prototype, calm determination etched into his face, while Sonic and Knuckles stare at him bewildered. Shadow whirls around, declares "I'll take care of this, while you run to get the Chaos Emeralds!", trashes The Biolizard in an epic one-on-one battle, and finishes with "GET OUT, YOU UGLY PROTOTYPE!"
• Try running around Chao World with Sonic. Now do it with Eggman (who goes without his Walker). Notice something? THEY RUN AT THE EXACT! SAME! SPEED! Just the fact that they remembered that even for something as small as Chao World says something! It may be a small detail, but This Troper was in awe when he ran around Chao World with Eggman for the first time and saw how fast he was running.
• Let's not forget Amy's actions in Sonic Adventure 2, where it was her that triggered the events that saved the world (via reasoning with Shadow). Who says the power of heart is useless?