Monster (manga)/Awesome

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"Calculations?!...T hose calculations don't add up in my head."
 * In Monster, Roberto mocks Tenma, saying he would never shoot him as doctor's job is to give life, not to take it..
 * As for Roberto? His crowning moment comes when That's why he's the Implacable Man, folks
 * Well, the fact that is a crowning moment all by itself.
 * Also, the Inspector gets one when he tries to capture Tenma, is stabbed in the side by a murderer, heads after Tenma anyway, as Tenma locks the doors to his car. The Inspector smashes into the window, and looks about to break in until he slides down. When Tenma lets him in? He handcuffs Tenma. (And refuses to unlock them, even though Tenma can save his life.)
 * Inspector Lunge gets an even more awesome moment near the end of the series: giving him the opportunity to make the bastard eat his pistol. Best. Fight. Ever. It's like two Falcon Punches colliding.


 * Lunge is consistently awesome, even when his behaviour is downright despicable. Crowning moments of funny/awesomeness/cruelty incurred when Lunge, when he or even more so when he later  He rubs salt in the wound by actually smiling to himself afterwards for making such a decision.
 * Nina gets one too when she literally scares the piss out of a Neo Nazi crime lord. "I'm going to need some new briefs."
 * This is quickly followed by some awesome Big Damn Heroism when she single handedly rescues Deiter and Otto from a burning building.
 * Said Nazi crime lord also gets one for keeping his cool throughout the whole scene with Nina, going so far as to completely deadpan his request for fresh underwear.
 * Let's not forget her Aikido submission of the gardener at the Heidelberg Castle.
 * Dr. Reichwein demonstrating to two much bigger and younger thugs to never disrespect your elders. Especially when said elder can break your nose with their skull. This also qualifies the good doctor as a Cool Old Guy.
 * This particular crowning moment gets bonus points because
 * And let us not forget his brilliantly executed escape from everyone's favorite Psycho for Hire Roberto. Best. Tea Making. Ever.
 * Followed by Tenma making his triumphant return after disappearing for four episodes in a row, shooting at Roberto just as he gets a bead on Reichweinn and allowing the doctor to escape.
 * Grimmer--when he doesn't make us sob like little child, that is.
 * The people whom Tenma has helped, doing their damnedest to somehow help him. (This may also count as a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming.) It's heartening to know that even with all the people who make it a Crapsack World, there are still good people like Dr. Tenma. Hell, the fact that the manga even shows us the continuing lives of the people he's helped--as opposed to just helping them and moving on--is possibly a CMoA for the manga itself.
 * Even Dieter has his CMoA, when he walks into a bar full of guys. They mock him for being a kid and one orders an alcoholic drink for him (possibly a martini, given the fruit in it). Dieter takes it, drinks it in one shot, puts the olive in his mouth, raises his hand is a cool fashion and silently walks out. Unbeknownst to the speechless men in the bar, he vomits outside and is disgusted by the drink.
 * I'd actually say that Dieter's CMoA is when he saves the Turkish district from burning down using Heckel's carpet.
 * Not to mention that basically every scene that focuses on Dieter is a Crowning Moment of Heartwarming, especially the scene where he decides to stay with Tenma.
 * And then there's his breaking through the conditioning Johan has put one of the orphans he's watching through, then saving him from falling off a roof.
 * Johan has a bunch, though they could probably be better described as crowning moments of terror. But the most impressive is likely
 * Another moment is when he kills Smug Snake
 * It's a perfect example of one being able to be both a Magnificent Bastard AND a Complete Monster at the same time as he had planned on her attempted blackmail days maybe even weeks ahead of time.
 * Johan's reaction to stumbling upon and reading once again.
 * Eva gets one when she truly joins the hunt for Johan after And another when she
 * Tenma goes to a neo-nazi bar. Four guys attack him. He grabs a ball point pen. He gets all the information he asks for.
 * Don't forget Martin.
 * The Baby:
 * Grimmer's little speech to about how  along with his insistence that  was pure awesomeness.
 * Don't forget Martin.
 * The Baby:
 * Grimmer's little speech to about how  along with his insistence that  was pure awesomeness.