Crowning Moment Of Awesome

[galactapuss]

I've been reading through tvtropes.org, where I found this entry:

Here's the first bit from tvtropes' Crowning Moment Of Awesome:

Here's a tip: if you really must kill a character, make sure it is their Crowning Moment Of Awesome. The instant where the readership looks at that character and says "Oh, that is the most Bad Ass thing I have ever seen!"
— Linkara

The moment when a fictional character does something for which they will be remembered forever, winning for them the eternal loyalty of fans, an a Moment culminant d'Awesome.

Sometimes occurs just before the character dies. But usually it doesn't. If there's a long gap between the last Crowning Moment Of Awesome and the death of the character, the period with the crowning moment may become that character's Glory Days.

Here is my submission for Scrooge McDuck's Crowning Moment Of Awesome.

It's a panel from The Life And Times Of Scrooge McDuck. I'll include the text for the panels that follow this one.



Accounts vary widely as to what exactly transpired that day in Dawson City...

Metal fatigue! That's how they explained it later! Those smokestacks must have had weak spots in their bases! Both of them! It was a bit more difficult to explain what caused the concert grand piano to go sailing through the imported stained-glass window! But it wasn't too hard to account for the fire that broke out! What else would one expect when a cast-iron stove crashes through three bulkheads? Some said Slick's riverboat was demolished by a freak tidal wave from the Bering Sea- Twelve hundred miles downriver! The whole incident was probably exaggerated in the many retellings that followed. Possibly, it didn't actually happen at all! But this was the era of the birth of legends, and the non-stop life of Dawson paused that day to watch a new character enter the story-books alongside Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bil...

Scrooge McDuck, the King Of The Klondike!