Secret Wars/Awesome

Secret Wars
"Mr. Fantastic: "I see. Well, that's exactly the kind of self pitying mewling we've come to expect from you, Hulk. You're correct; you are a brute! So keep using your muscle! That's all you're good for!""
 * Doom's insane amount of Genre Savvy.
 * Secret Wars #4: Dr. Doom and the villains manage to destroy the heroes' base. The heroes retreat and Molecule Man, normally unaggressive compared to the others, gets his crowning moment when he decides to deliver a finishing blow by dropping an entire mountain range on them telekinetically. The Hulk gets his own crowning moment of awesome by catching the mountain and bracing it just enough to keep the heroes from getting smooshed. The cover featured the caption: "Beneath One Hundred and Fifty Billion Tons Stands the Hulk. And He's Not Happy!" Mr. Fantastic follows up with his own crowning moment of awesome. He quickly modifies Iron Man's armor and jerry rigs two power cables by cannibalizing Hawkeye's arrows and Spider-Man's web shooters while commenting on the genius of each. When the Hulk registers his annoyance:

"Nightcrawler: "His strength--! His speed--! Unbelievable! He is AWESOME!""
 * It's worth noting that after their escape, Reed explains that he was intentionally goading the Hulk, since the Hulk's strength increases the angrier he gets.
 * Later, after the heroes survive a fight with Galactus, Doctor Octopus leads a sortie and pronounces them easy pickings. Bulldozer replies "If that mountain didn't finish them off no way are they ever easy pickings!"
 * Spider-Man completely beating the crap out of the X-Men, including Colossus, Nightcrawler, Cyclops and freaking WOLVERINE HIMSELF! Sadly, Professor X made sure he'll never remember it.

"Nightcrawler: Galactus's bluff is better than a handful of aces, eh herr professor?"
 * New supervillainess Titania is feeling pretty good about herself after participating in a group beatdown of She-Hulk, and prepares to go after some other heroes-and then she runs into Spider-Man. Titania figures Spidey to be easy pickings, as he's a good deal smaller than she is. She's very wrong, as Spider-Man uses his superior intellect, speed, and experience to send her flying out the tower window into a mile-high fall, without getting scratched. The battle was so one sided it left Titania with a paranoid fear of Spidey that lasted for years afterward.
 * Titania's pretty badass herself, though, when she picks up a fifty-foot piece of metal junk and throws it at the fleeing heroes, who are five miles away.
 * And perhaps the crowning moment of awesome for Secret Wars is when Doctor Doom
 * That warrants a bit more exposition. Doom, after
 * For most villains, successfully stealing/duplicating the power of frikkin' Galactus would be considered the capstone of their careers. For Doom, it was step one in a master plan by which he would successfully hijack nigh-total omnipotence. And remember, this was before the Beyonder was retconned to not actually be such.
 * Not Doom's only moment. After Doom has taken the Beyonder's power and told the heroes that he carries no grudge against them and just wants to do his own thing with his new omnipotence, the heroes debate on whether they can and should take on someone that can annihilate in an instant. When the last of them, Colossus, agrees to fight back, . Hot damn.
 * Galactus himself has a subtle moment of awesome in his own actions. Rather than playing the Beyonders game, he attacks directly. This is to keep him out of the majority of the story, as once he gets up again and starts taking action, everyone has to drop what they're doing to deal with him, even though they can only guess and they can't risk doing nothing. As Nightcrawler puts it:


 * Last to earn a moment of awesome is good o'le Captain America. Doom,  slays the star spangled Avenger as soon as he bursts trough his inner sanctum. But reforms, and goes for Doom again. Despite being blown to smithereens every time Cap mysteriously comes back, and Doom goes insane, and.
 * In other words, Captain America refuses to stay dead aiding in putting down Doom.

Secret Wars 2

 * The Beyonder strips himself of his power to see what being a human is like. Mephisto is watching and attacks and there's nothing the Beyonder can do because he is a normal human.