Crowning Moment of Awesome

[MikDaTv]

Admiral Wedge Antilles can apparently prevent Jacen Solo from reading his mind through sheer determination.

F-15 Pilot: Sir, pull up! You've got one on your tail.
President James Marshall: Get him off my tail!
F-15 Pilot: Missile away. Air Force One, break left and climb!
Major Caldwell: Sir, we've lost countermeasures!
F-15 Pilot: This is Halo-2. They've lost countermeasures. I'm going in. [Takes the missile for Air Force One]

"Don't you worry, if they could get a washing machine to fly, my boy Jimmy could land it."

[Several technicians dump boxes containing the same equipment and tools that the astronauts have with them onto a table]
Technician: We've got to find a way to make this
[square CSM LiOH canister]
Technician: fit into the hole for this
[round LEM canister]
Technician: ... using nothing but that.

Doc shooting Marty down from Buford's attempt to hang him with his telescopic rifle definitely qualifies. "It'll shoot the fleas off a dog's back at 500 yards, Tannen — and it's pointed straight at your head!"

"How 'bout a magic trick? I'm going to make this pencil disappear.....TA-DA! Its gone!"

In Die Hard 4.0, John McClane just had to top his destruction of a helicopter with a tiny handgun and an electric cable in Die Hard With a Vengance when he killed a helicopter by crashing into it with a car while it was hovering in mid air.
"I was out of bullets."

Usul: do we have wormsign?
Stilgar: Usul, we have wormsign the likes of which even God has never seen!

The self-destruct override apparently failing only to kick in just before the timer reaches zero. Cue a moment of bewilderment for both characters and audience before Gwen hangs the metatextual lampshade: "It always stops at one on the show." Payoff!

"Kitten, I think what I'm saying is that sometimes shit happens, someone has to deal with it, and who ya gonna call?"

The Ghostbusters from the second movie bringing the Statue of Liberty to life with Mood Slime and The Power of Rock.

"Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown!"

Not to mention the intervention of the USS Dallas, drawing off Tupolev's torpedo and then blowing all its ballast tanks. "OK, Mr Thompson. Put us on the roof."...

Capt. Steven Hiller: "Wait 'til I get another plane! I'm gonna line ALL your friends up RIGHT beside you!"

General Gray: Is that glass bulletproof?
Major Mitchell (Adam Baldwin): No, sir!

Patton standing in the middle of the street during an air raid taking potshots at the fighters, defying them to hit him "right in the nose," and not even flinching when one of them nearly succeeds in strafing him. Didn't happen in Real Life, but still, it was typical Patton.

"Hello. My Name Is Inigo Montoya. You Killed My Father. Prepare To Die"

"I want my father back, you son of a bitch!"

"I aim to misbehave."

"Shepherd Book once told me, 'If you can't do something smart, do something right'."

when Kevin Flynn appears and turns the tide of the battle pretty much by just standing there. To elaborate further Flynn merely lays a hand on the floor of the club and everything just stops. The lights flicker off, the music comes to a grinding halt, the fighting abruptly stops, everything. Hell, even Castor is left speechless, simply looking upon him in horror.

[Zilfer]

>.> Bored?

[MikDaTv]

The Batman episode "Seconds" starred someone-totally-not-the-Clock-King-or-Chronos who could rewind time and relive a battle every time he loses, correcting any mistakes — the equivalent of emulator-Save Scumming. This power allowed him to fight Batman to a draw.

[Zilfer]

yep he's bored.

[MikDaTv]

In the battle, the USS Yorktown entered the theater with repair crew from the docks at Pearl Harbor still on board making repairs from the Battle of the Coral Sea. After taking several bombs during a Japanese airstrike, the damage control parties did such a good job, than when a second wave arrived with torpedoes, they thought they were attacking a whole new carrier. And the ship survived taking a pair of torpedoes as well. Yorktown finally went down after being attacked by a submarine while limping home with battle damage from no less than 3 Japanese airstrikes, all of which had failed to sink her.

[MikDaTv]

So your Cool Ship has an explosion literally halfway to the moon. Here's the plan:

1) Use a machine designed strictly for landing and taking off as a lifeboat, even though it will have to support three people when it was only designed to support two;

2) Shut down all electricity, subjecting your crew to near-freezing temperatures (not to mention the havoc the frost is sure to wreak with the electronics when you have to turn them back on);

3) Kitbash a working carbon dioxide filter out of whatever you have lying around because the ones in the lifeboat can't handle the workload;

4) Carry out course corrections with an engine unsuited for such fine maneuvering, using such high tech navigational methods as "placing your thumb over the Earth and lining it up with your window frame"

5) Literally invent a new procedure to restart all your electronics so as to not blow every fuse in the craft, thus stranding yourself in space.

In the hands of ordinary people, yes, it would be Crazy Enough to Work. In the hands of NASA's highly trained corps of Steely Eyed Missile Men, it came off as almost... commonplace.

[Zilfer]

^ real events?

[MikDaTv]

Apr 28, 2011 12:44:36 GMT -5 Zilfer said:

^ real events?

Apollo 13

[MikDaTv]

Do you have it?

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NickelodeonGuts

[MikDaTv]

Odan will probably like this one

The P-47 Thunderbolt was the largest single-engine fighter of World War II, known as the "Jug" on account of its shape. Gained 3,752 air-to-air kills (3,499 were lost to all causes). Seriously, seriously rugged.

One pilot, Robert S. Johnson, sustained serious damage to his aircraft over France on 26 June 1943—including a fire. Unable to open his canopy, he managed to regain control. He heads for the channel, then a German FW-190 fighter arrives and empties his entire machine-gun capacity at the American pilot, who tries to move around a bit, but doesn't really succeed. The aircraft still stays going and the German leaves, saluting him by rocking his wings.

Johnson gets back to the UK, lands safely and counts the bullet holes. After getting to 200 without even moving around the aircraft—he gave up. Seriously

[MikDaTv]

Got a couple good ones for the Empire in here, starting out with one of my favorites...

"Although you may win the occasional battle against us, Vorrik, the Empire will always strike back."

Vader: You have two standard minutes to recall your vessels, and to offer yourself into my custody.
Xizor: I will not! I will take this up with the Emperor.
Vader: He is not here. I speak for The Empire, Xizor.
Xizor: Prince Xizor!
Vader: You may keep the title. [Dramatic Pause] For another two minutes.

(R.I.P. Lusankya. you were one of my favorites.)
The Lusankya and its captain, Eldo Davip, get three CMOAs in Aaron Allston's New Jedi Order-era Rebel Dream and Rebel Stand.
---The first one occurs when the Lusankya screws up Wedge's plan... by being dragged out of hyperspace in the middle of the enemy fleet, and subsequently decapitating its command structure. Whoops.
---The second one, Operation Emperor's Hammer, involved luring the Yuuzhan Vong to beseige their base on Borleias, and then blasting them from orbit.
---The third one was called Operation Emperor's Spear. The Lusankya was systematically stripped of its weapons, fitted with an internal reinforced spear along its eleven mile length, and packed with explosives. Then Eldo Davip himself singlehandedly rammed it into the Vong worldship, before escaping in a Y-Wing made of spare parts for this purpose.

Gavin: Blackmoon Eleven, what did you think you were doing going after an entire squadron?
Wedge: My job.
Gavin: That's "my job, SIR".
Wedge: *grinning* My job, SIR.
Gavin: Son, if you develop piloting skills in proportion to your nerve, someday they'll call you the greatest pilot of all time.

Donos: "Pretty. What do we blow up first?"
Wedge: "Write that down. That should be the Wraith Squadron slogan."

Han: "That's not what the Empire would have done, Commander. What the Empire would have done was build a super-colossal Yuuzhan Vong-killing battle machine. They would have called it the Nova Colossus or the Galaxy Destructor or the Nostril of Palpatine or something equally grandiose. They would have spent billions of credits, employed thousands of contractors and subcontractors, and equipped it with the latest in death-dealing technology. And you know what would have happened? It wouldn't have worked. They'd forget to bolt down a metal plate over an access hatch leading to the main reactors, or some other mistake, and a hotshot enemy pilot would drop a bomb down there and blow the whole thing up. Now that's what the Empire would have done."

Jinzler: "I am an electronics technician, like my father before me."

Thrackan: "General Antilles, acting as Chief of State and Minister of War for Corellia, I hereby order you to communicate with your daughter Syal and do your genuine best to persuade her to follow whatever course of action I recommend to her. Is that clear enough?"
Wedge: "Go to hell."
Thrackan: "Antilles, you've refused a direct order given during a military crisis, and I have it on record. Should I choose to, I can have security agents haul you away right now. I can conduct your trial within the hour and have you executed by morning."
Wedge: "Of course you can. You could also have me assassinated in a time of peace for having nicer hair than you. If I worried about that sort of thing, I'd never get any sleep."

[MikDaTv]

Words can not describe how much i want a lightsaber chainsaw.

[MikDaTv]

"Though I fly through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil. For I am at 80,000 feet and climbing."

the creed of SR-71 pilots.