Trigun/Awesome


 * Vash ensuring there were no fatalities in a quick draw shooting contest by standing on the sidelines and flicking rocks into the bullets to change their trajectory to a nonfatal one.
 * Also, in his final fight with Knives, he throws five bullets in the air and then shoots them causing them to explode in unison all over Knives.
 * Actually, Knives was the one that did that.
 * The defining moment for Vash, where he is revealed to be something more than just a lucky moron, occurs in the second episode where he stands perfectly still as a gun is leveled at him and fired and then dodges several bullets.
 * Do any of these really top the reveal that he actually is Vash the Stampede in episode five?
 * You mean when he first fires his gun?
 * In this troper's opinion, the entire first five episodes are a collective crowning moment. Think about it. He never fires a shot for the first four episodes, and easily defuses several extremely dangerous situations. And when he does finally fire his gun, it's a single, quick moment that completely shuts down the enemy's ability to fight back. Bad. Ass.
 * "Total slaughter... total slaughter... I won't leave a single man alive..."
 * Turns into a Crowning Moment of Funny when the people he's trying to intimidate just remark on how corny the song is.
 * Vash has a missile headed straight towards him. His solution: kick that fucker out of the way.
 * This troper considers him stripping naked and barking like a dog to save someone's life to be particularly awesome. Hell--sure, he can but only a true badass can unashamedly beg to save someone's life.
 * Legato got a crowning moment of awesome when finally, after all the efforts of the Gung-Ho Guns to cause Vash pain had failed, he succeeded by.
 * In this contributor's opinion, Wolfwood's most awesome moment is . In the last episode, after Vash and Knives joust with their angel arms, leveling the terrain, Knives manages to get Vash's revolver and activate both angel arms while Vash is helpless and exhausted. With Wolfwood's voice urging him on, he lets his hand fall into the dust beside him...
 * Wolfwood ups the level of awesomeness to gratuitous amounts in volumes 9 and 10 of Trigun Maximum.  Crowning Moment of Awesome indeed!
 * One instance in the anime is when Millie fires her stun gun at Monev. He shrugs it off, but still, she's got ladyballs for attempting it.
 * Vash's fight with Gasback at the end of Badlands Rumble.