Crowning Moments of Awesome

[nute.livejournal.com]

Title taken from this article on www.tvtropes.org.

To summarize - there are occasionally those moments in a movie, TV show, book or comic that are what a character will be remembered for. The kind of stuff that gets people going "Hey, remember when...?" "That was AWESOME!" years later.

X-Project has had its fair share of these for a number of characters. So what comes to mind for specific characters when you think of their Crowning Moment of Awesome?

Example: Remy LeBeau destroying the last possible link to his true identity.

Comment!

Comments

[aliciam.livejournal.com]

Cain making the choice to save the kids in Thermopylae.

[deathpixie]

These aren't all of mine, but just a few. And I agree with the Remy scene from New Orleans Is Sinking. So awesome.

Manny being hit by the truck in "Bleeding".

Logan and Cain on the Brooklyn Bridge in "This Savage Land".

Pete and his coffee - "This Savage Land".

Marie-Ange smothering Ben De Roy - "Operation: Shaboom".

Clarice being stuffed down Fin Fang Foom's shorts - "X-Men Mission: Fin Fang Foom!!!"

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

I'm lousy at these for other people. I always forget someone.

But in general:

The X-Men stopping the tsunami. Team Psi and Team Elemental. (http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/1465654.html#cutid1)

[lady-cassidy.livejournal.com]

I know there are more, but off the top of my head:

Marius, Kyle, and Scott after Forge vanishes with Attilan. (http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/1900846.html)

Crystal and Nathan during Whiteout. (http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/1719127.html)


Character-driven stuff, not big action scenes, but that's the sort of thing I tend to remember.

When I think about Crystal's "big moments", I usually wind up thinking about what are actually her not-so-great moments: attacking Logan in the gym, ordering Forge brought into a room in Attilan and being a bit cruel to him, and deciding to and carrying out starving Maximus.

I really like this log: Crystal/Maximus and Blackagar, unnamed boy. (http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/1892029.html) This was The Sound of Silence log, the one I'd had in my head for more than half a year. I actually had very little to do with the writing of these logs. I was amazed at how well it turned out, but all of the credit there is due to Tap, Alan, and Alicia.


Also, I believe this is Marius's crowning moment of glory... Jennie spies Marius by the pool. (http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/1890755.html)

[nute.livejournal.com]

Throwing Logan through the doors is definitely Crystal's Crowning Moment of Awesome. Hell, there were people in- and out-of-character cheering that one.

A few more...

[deathpixie]

Remy telling Mark he'll be a good agent one day - "New Orleans Is Sinking"

Wanda and Amanda's entrance - "Dogs of War"

Josh's sacrifice - "Dogs of War"

Jubilee's reaction to M-A chopping up Warwolves - "Operation: Take A Bow"

Remy's fight against the Raven King - "Operation: London Calling"

Sarah coming back for Remy - "Operation: Cruel Country"

Sofia gets shot - "Operation: Cruel Country"

Sofia's Christmas gift - Christmas 2006

Re: A few more...

[nute.livejournal.com]

Remy v. The Raven King always reminded me of the Angel v. Hamilton fight in the Angel series finale. "Can you pick out the one word there you shouldn't have said?"

Re: A few more...

[deathpixie]

*grins* Exactly. And the scene at the end where he's feeding the birds and bleeding everywhere...

[silensy]

Okay first of all there are 76 entries tagged Thermopylae. Just saying.

But I'm going with Part 9 Nathan, Alison and Mick making a last stand.

It still gets me choked up.

[nute.livejournal.com]

There is not enough WORD for this one. One of the best moments in the game, period.

[silensy]

Now I'm sniffling at work, damnit.