Skulduggery Pleasant/Awesome

""Well done, Val. You share the emotional range of a dead man.""
 * Valkyrie forcing her way into the Faceless One's dimension to rescue Skulduggery in the fourth book. Determinator at its finest.
 * Valkyrie kills a God in book 3 and owns the others with Necromancy. Which she had never studied before.
 * "Get away from my ex-girlfriend, you moany little whinge-bag."
 * Fletcher is generally good at chewing people out. His What the Hell, Hero? to Valkyrie was equally awesome.

"I wouldn't stay like this. I like being me."
 * Villainous example. Eliza Scorn  When she says "Finished with you? I haven't even started." she bloody well means it.
 * Desmond. Throwing Moore into a pharmacy window.
 * Skulduggery at the end of Death Bringer, tossing off his  casually to throw off   Hannibal Lecture.

""That is not. This is."
 * Skulduggery somehow manages to make giving in to his  seem awesome.

"Vengeous: Only a heathen brings a gun to a swordfight. Skulduggery: Only a moron brings a sword to a gunfight."
 * Another Skulduggery example, from Playing With Fire. The infamous 'swordfight/gunfight' one. Skulduggery is facing down Baron Vengeous, and proceeds to snark all over the Honor Before Reason trope.


 * Even in the first book, Stephanie's declaration that "my name is Valkyrie Cain". I cheered.