Percy Jackson & the Olympians/Awesome

"King Minos: You have no power over me. I am the lord of spirits! The ghost king! Nico di Angelo: No. (Nico draws his sword.) I am."
 * and Percy  in the beginning of book 2.
 * I'm sure HALF those things  said to Polyphemus in the last couple of chapters in The Sea Of Monsters qualifies as well.
 * There's a bit in that book, passed over in a single line, where Percy cuts arrows out of the air.
 * Percy's battle with  in The Lightning Thief?
 * Can you imagine the strength, skill and savagery it must take to do that?
 * And Ares wasn't even in the movie.
 * The part where Percy
 * From "Battle of the Labyrinth",


 * Clarisse.
 * "I AM CLARISSE, ! I will kill you ALL!"
 * And then getting.
 * Percy killing the Minotaur by ripping out its horn and shoving it into its ribcage.
 * . And then.
 * Poseidon and The Cavalry
 * Annabeth landing the Dare Enterprises helicopter. Without actually knowing how to pilot it.
 * Percy giving up the Nemean Lion's fur. More specifically, the way he looks at Zoe and says clearly, "I'm not Hercules." His newfound appreciation for what true heroism means is a turning point for his character. Plus, he was giving up a freaking ''bulletproof vest' with probably a bunch of other really cool features, just because he thought it was the right thing to do. That's epic heroism or nothing is.
 * Percy convincing the gods
 * How has  not gotten on here yet? Coming close was the moment in the battle for Olympus where
 * Zoe Nightshade is pretty awesome, but this troper gained a whole new respect for her after reading Battle of the Labyrinth. There, we learn that the nymphs in general still harbor a powerful grudge over Hercules rerouting a river to wash away centuries of horse...droppings. And then we remember Zoe's throwaway line from TC about water nymphs. "They've never forgiven me." Zoe had been helping Hercules all along. All those labors where he actually had to think, and not just pummel things? That was her.
 * And then he never even thanked her.
 * Speaking of Zoe, taking a quest knowing full well that you're going to die horribly (she knows how much her father hates her, and she must have known that if she was going to die by his hand, it wouldn't be pleasant) because your goddess needs you is pretty awesome/heartwarming on its own.
 * What, nothing for Nico?
 * The mortals in this series get all the best Moments of Awesome.
 * There's Rachel nailing Kronos in the eye with her hairbrush in Battle of the Labyrinth, and later her.
 * Percy's mom and stepdad get theirs in The Last Olympian. His stepdad, who can't even see through the Mist (the stuff that makes monsters and so on Invisible to Normals) grabs a sword and duels one of the monsters, and his mother blows one away with a shotgun... but what makes this truly awesome is that when Percy asks when she learned to fire a shotgun, she calmly responds, "About two seconds ago."
 * Four words for you: Frederick Chase, Sopwith Camel. That is all.
 * Annabeth stabbing her knife through a Laistrygonian giant's back, reveals herself with a gust of awesomeness and then punches Sloan in the nose.
 * "You're not going to hurt Zoe. I won't let you." Keeping in mind that Zoe has not really been all that nice to him at all, Percy's willingness to stand up to the Titan General to protect her more than qualify.
 * In The Last Olympian, Percy faces the Minotaur in a Duel to the Death. . He then charges the two-hundred plus army of monsters, all by himself.  . He then takes on Kronos, the Titan Lord himself.
 * Really, pretty much everything Percy does in The Last Olympian is a CMOA. Well, pretty much anything any hero does is a CMOA. . Also a major Tear Jerker.
 * Special mention should also go to Percy taking on another Titan, Hyperion by himself and pretty much stalemating with him for the whole fight. Keep in mind Hyperion is specifically mentioned as being second only to Atlas and Kronos in terms of power among the Titans. Grover also gets a moment here for
 * The Party Ponies . Whilst screaming insults at each other over who has the better chapter.
 * Chiron standing up to.
 * Hades' Big Damn Hero moment in The Last Olympian. It was about damn time one of Kronos' children got their own Calling the Old Man Out scene.
 * When Percy sends the Olympians Medusa's head knowing they'd be ticked off.
 * Special mention should also go to Percy taking on another Titan, Hyperion by himself and pretty much stalemating with him for the whole fight. Keep in mind Hyperion is specifically mentioned as being second only to Atlas and Kronos in terms of power among the Titans. Grover also gets a moment here for
 * The Party Ponies . Whilst screaming insults at each other over who has the better chapter.
 * Chiron standing up to.
 * Hades' Big Damn Hero moment in The Last Olympian. It was about damn time one of Kronos' children got their own Calling the Old Man Out scene.
 * When Percy sends the Olympians Medusa's head knowing they'd be ticked off.