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This is the Top Five Meme; comment, and I'll give you five Fandom top fives to do. the_sun_is_up gave me these to do.
Avatar Kyoshi
The Avatar before Avatar Roku, this lady was 110% badass. She has only one major scene in the series, but in that scene she defeats a megalomaniacal warlord and then creates a brand new island to keep her people safe. Minor character, major impact.
The Cabbage Merchant
He only shows up for few minutes at a time in the first two seasons, and is mentioned in passing once in the third season, but his impassioned cries of "MY CABBAGES!!!" will never get old.
Koh the Face Stealer
The living manifestation of creepy. Like the Nightmare Fuel entry states, if he was someone that Aang had to fight, then he wouldn't be scary at all. The fact that Aang needed his help gives him room to exhibit an unsettling personality, and his noting that they will "meet again" is fodder for all kinds of fanfic.
Earth King Kuei
Dude hosts parties for his pet bear, who is just a bear and not say a playtypus-bear. Nuf said.
The Ember Island Players.
The entire crew gets a mention, but the standout would have to be the one who played Sokka, who uppon hearing that Sokka had some ideas responed "oh great, a fan with ideas." Signifying him as the one true mouth piece of the writers.
Iroh's Tale (Avatar)
Leaves from the vine
Falling so slow
Like fragile tiny shells
Drifting in the foam...
Little soldier boy
Come marching home
Brave soldier boy
comes marching home...
The Death of Nina (FMA)
Damn it, insufferably adorable little girls who were just introduced should not be able to tug at the heartstrings like that. They just shouldn't, damn it!
A Christmas Wish (Elite Beat Agents)
You wouldn't think that a game where you, among other things, go into an olympic athletes body and sing "La La" by Ashlee Simpson to help his immune system, personified as a naughty nurse, fight off a virus in time to win the 100 meter dash could possibly be moving. And yet, when a little girl learns, just before christmas, that her father was "in an accident and won't be coming home", and you hear her desperate cries that her father promised that he would be home in time for christmas, and you have to sing "You're the Inspiration" to help keep that promise, don't be surprised if the tears running keep you from clearing the song. In fact, there is a part of the song where the girl is chasing after her father in her dreams, and if you screw up, instead of him turning around, he just keeps walking away. Seriously, I'm tearing up just writing that last sentence.
Farewell, My Turnabout (Phoenix Wright Ace Attorny, Justice for All)
This is a case that takes "but thou must!" to its most horrible extremes. You are forced to defend a man tht you know is guilty, and in order to do so you must accuse an innocent woman of the crime. As you twist, turn, and manipulate the evidence against her, the in game audience commentary calls you a monster, and by that point I am not at all inclined to disagree with them. Then you are forced to make a choice, whether or not to declare that your client is not guilty, knowing that no matter which choice you make, an innocent person will die. Even after looking up a walkthrough and finding out that it doesn't matter in the end what you choose, I still had a hard time making my choice. I was to embedded in the situation to apply what I knew and move ahead. That, is truly something of note.
Nami's cry for help (One Piece)
One Piece has lots, and I mean LOTS, of tearjerkers, but this is the first real big one. When the straw hat crew gets to Nami's island, they learn that it has been taken over by the tyrannical fishman Arlong, who will not hesitate to kill anyone who does not pay, and will slaughter any marines that may come to rescue them. And Nami, in order to save her island, has made herself a member of Arlong's crew, creating maps for them to use. For eight years she's wandered the seas of East Blue, stealing from pirates who wouldn't hesitate to kill her if they caught, all to earn the one hundred million that she needs to buy her own island back from Arlong. At this time, she's managed to steal 93 million; she's almost reached her goal, and what happens? A corrupt marine who's more or less a lacky of Arlong's shows up and confiscates the money! She rushes to Arlong and demands to know how he could break his word. He grabs her face, and says to her in a cold voice "When did I break my promise? Tell me!" and then he and all his crew laughs at her. Then we shift over to the villagers, who secretly knew what Nami had been doing all this time and kept their heads down to give her the chance to save them, and they are outraged at Arlong's betrayal. Nami trys to stop them from attacking Arlong, which would be certain death, but they won't be stopped. Nami falls to her knees as everything crashes all around her, and as Arlong's laughter echoes in her ears, she stabs herself repeatedly in her shoulder, where the mark of Arlong was tatooed all those years ago. Then Luffy shows up, having pointedly avoided learning Nami's back story from her sister, and he grabs her arm to stop her. She demands that he leave the island like she'd been telling him to since they first arrived, and then Nami does what she couldn't do for eight years. "Luffy, help me" in a quiet little voice. Luffy puts his treasured hat on her head and shouts out "OF COURSE I WILL" And from that point on, it becomes crowning moment of awesome and heartwarming at the same time.
Yuugi and the othe Yuugi (Yugioh)
Mal and Zoe (Firefly)
Shinichi and Heiji (Detective Conan)
Tsukasa and Mimiru (.Hack//Sign)
Vyse and Aika (Skies of Arcadia Legends)
I may decide to expand on the last top five if someone asks, but I'm busy and need to finish the meme so I can catch up on my school work for tomorrow.
Avatar Kyoshi
The Avatar before Avatar Roku, this lady was 110% badass. She has only one major scene in the series, but in that scene she defeats a megalomaniacal warlord and then creates a brand new island to keep her people safe. Minor character, major impact.
The Cabbage Merchant
He only shows up for few minutes at a time in the first two seasons, and is mentioned in passing once in the third season, but his impassioned cries of "MY CABBAGES!!!" will never get old.
Koh the Face Stealer
The living manifestation of creepy. Like the Nightmare Fuel entry states, if he was someone that Aang had to fight, then he wouldn't be scary at all. The fact that Aang needed his help gives him room to exhibit an unsettling personality, and his noting that they will "meet again" is fodder for all kinds of fanfic.
Earth King Kuei
Dude hosts parties for his pet bear, who is just a bear and not say a playtypus-bear. Nuf said.
The Ember Island Players.
The entire crew gets a mention, but the standout would have to be the one who played Sokka, who uppon hearing that Sokka had some ideas responed "oh great, a fan with ideas." Signifying him as the one true mouth piece of the writers.
Iroh's Tale (Avatar)
Leaves from the vine
Falling so slow
Like fragile tiny shells
Drifting in the foam...
Little soldier boy
Come marching home
Brave soldier boy
comes marching home...
The Death of Nina (FMA)
Damn it, insufferably adorable little girls who were just introduced should not be able to tug at the heartstrings like that. They just shouldn't, damn it!
A Christmas Wish (Elite Beat Agents)
You wouldn't think that a game where you, among other things, go into an olympic athletes body and sing "La La" by Ashlee Simpson to help his immune system, personified as a naughty nurse, fight off a virus in time to win the 100 meter dash could possibly be moving. And yet, when a little girl learns, just before christmas, that her father was "in an accident and won't be coming home", and you hear her desperate cries that her father promised that he would be home in time for christmas, and you have to sing "You're the Inspiration" to help keep that promise, don't be surprised if the tears running keep you from clearing the song. In fact, there is a part of the song where the girl is chasing after her father in her dreams, and if you screw up, instead of him turning around, he just keeps walking away. Seriously, I'm tearing up just writing that last sentence.
Farewell, My Turnabout (Phoenix Wright Ace Attorny, Justice for All)
This is a case that takes "but thou must!" to its most horrible extremes. You are forced to defend a man tht you know is guilty, and in order to do so you must accuse an innocent woman of the crime. As you twist, turn, and manipulate the evidence against her, the in game audience commentary calls you a monster, and by that point I am not at all inclined to disagree with them. Then you are forced to make a choice, whether or not to declare that your client is not guilty, knowing that no matter which choice you make, an innocent person will die. Even after looking up a walkthrough and finding out that it doesn't matter in the end what you choose, I still had a hard time making my choice. I was to embedded in the situation to apply what I knew and move ahead. That, is truly something of note.
Nami's cry for help (One Piece)
One Piece has lots, and I mean LOTS, of tearjerkers, but this is the first real big one. When the straw hat crew gets to Nami's island, they learn that it has been taken over by the tyrannical fishman Arlong, who will not hesitate to kill anyone who does not pay, and will slaughter any marines that may come to rescue them. And Nami, in order to save her island, has made herself a member of Arlong's crew, creating maps for them to use. For eight years she's wandered the seas of East Blue, stealing from pirates who wouldn't hesitate to kill her if they caught, all to earn the one hundred million that she needs to buy her own island back from Arlong. At this time, she's managed to steal 93 million; she's almost reached her goal, and what happens? A corrupt marine who's more or less a lacky of Arlong's shows up and confiscates the money! She rushes to Arlong and demands to know how he could break his word. He grabs her face, and says to her in a cold voice "When did I break my promise? Tell me!" and then he and all his crew laughs at her. Then we shift over to the villagers, who secretly knew what Nami had been doing all this time and kept their heads down to give her the chance to save them, and they are outraged at Arlong's betrayal. Nami trys to stop them from attacking Arlong, which would be certain death, but they won't be stopped. Nami falls to her knees as everything crashes all around her, and as Arlong's laughter echoes in her ears, she stabs herself repeatedly in her shoulder, where the mark of Arlong was tatooed all those years ago. Then Luffy shows up, having pointedly avoided learning Nami's back story from her sister, and he grabs her arm to stop her. She demands that he leave the island like she'd been telling him to since they first arrived, and then Nami does what she couldn't do for eight years. "Luffy, help me" in a quiet little voice. Luffy puts his treasured hat on her head and shouts out "OF COURSE I WILL" And from that point on, it becomes crowning moment of awesome and heartwarming at the same time.
Yuugi and the othe Yuugi (Yugioh)
Mal and Zoe (Firefly)
Shinichi and Heiji (Detective Conan)
Tsukasa and Mimiru (.Hack//Sign)
Vyse and Aika (Skies of Arcadia Legends)
I may decide to expand on the last top five if someone asks, but I'm busy and need to finish the meme so I can catch up on my school work for tomorrow.