Criminal Minds/Awesome: Difference between revisions

* In "L.D.S.K.", when Hotch tricks the sniper into letting him kick the snot out of Reid—which gives Reid access to the gun strapped to his ankle.

* "Riding the Lightning". Jacob is in the electric chair, just about to be executed, and Hotch comes storming into the room. He slams a recent picture of Jacob's son Riley onto the glass and says "You lose", proving that Jacob didn't kill his son, and neither did Sarah Jean.

** This scene is the origin of the term "Hotchalanche" - wherein Aaron Hotchner is ''made of awesome''.

* Hotch, again, in "Nameless, Faceless", staring down the barrel of {{spoiler|Foyet's}} gun and not even ''blinking'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq6EJaFksFM when the bullet comes within an inch of his shoulder]:

* Hotch facing down the barrels of four rifles in "Exit Wounds" is told that the UnSub is coming with the angry townsfolk. His reply is a simple "Not happening."

* Hotch going toe-to-toe with British superspy Clyde Easter in "Lauren", talking Easter into helping the team and pulling an [[I Never Said It Was Poison]] to do it.

* In "Psychodrama" a killer was holding up establishments just to order people to undress, and get sons to have "control" of their mothers (slapping them repeatedly) while carrying a MAC-10. He murdered a bank employee, as well as a fourteen-year-old child, which disgusts Hotch, and fills him with stoic rage. When they eventually track the guy down, Hotch blows a hole in his chest with his gun and then tells the paramedics not to give him any painkillers. Oh, and all the while, this guy is detoxing off of crystal meth. Hotch gives the guy exactly what he deserves.

 

* Just Rossi's scene in "About Face," when he's preparing to return to the BAU—might not have seemed as cool when we were first watching it, but seeing it again later, knowing Rossi, seeing him get ready to return to the job with the CM background music (DUNDUN DUN DUN!)... it's simply awesome.

* Rossi's [[Shut UP, Hannibal|response]] to Rothchild's [[Hannibal Lecture]] in "Masterpiece" about destroying Rossi's ego and killing his "family" and that he was going to get away with it: ''"Did you get all that, Garcia?"''. Followed by Rossi offhandedly mentioning that the confession will make "a good teaching aid" - oh, wait, did he forget to tell Rothchild that he [[Lying to the Perp|teaches interrogation at Quantico]]?

{{quote|'''"Well here, use mine. You've convinced me. No, no, you hung up on him, you practically killed them yourself. Go ahead, get it over with. Don't worry about us, we'll get this guy without you... Look, if you want to end up like Shaughnessy, like Gideon, blaming yourself for everything, you go ahead. But that voice in your head? It's not your ''conscience'', it's your ''ego''."''}}

* Rossi gets another one in "Exit Wounds" - Hotch, Reid, and the Alaska sheriffs are facing off with a virtual lynch mob over the UnSub. Hotch and Reid are trying to defuse the situation, and the leader of the mob wants to know who Hotch thinks has the high ground.

* In "It Takes A Village", Rossi does what no one else in the team does: he gets the Senator on the committee to shut up, with just one question:

{{quote|'''Rossi''': Was it wrong for Agent Morgan to want Ian Doyle dead?}}

* Driving a bomb-laden ambulance out of the city and jumping out seconds before it explodes ("Mayhem").

* Morgan taking care of Ellie Spicer after the events of "Our Darkest Hour" and "The Longest Night". Doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]], too.

* Morgan walking into a Congressional candidate's fundraiser in "25 to Life" and ''accusing him of murder'' after repeatedly being told by [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|Strauss]] that his job is on the line if he so much as looks at the man wrong. Morgan - with Rossi and Prentiss for backup - strides right up to the guy and [[Guile Hero|baits the guy into confessing]] in front of a ballroom full of guests, then handcuffs him and leads him out.

* In "Lauren," he arguably saves [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|a grievously injured Prentiss]] (at least until the paramedics can get there) by [[No One Gets Left Behind|forcing her to stay conscious]], despite her [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|entreaties to let her slip away]]. His plea of "if you can hear me, just squeeze my hand" doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|CMOH]].

 

== Multiple Team Members ==

{{quote|Hardwick: There won't be anyone to open that door for at least thirteen minutes. '''holds up a photograph of one of his victims, a horrifically mutilated woman''' and it took me less than five to do this.

Hardwick: So you planned to be locked inside with me, with no guns or weapons?

Hotch: I won't need a gun. Unfortunately for you, I'm not a five foot tall, hundred pound girl. All your life, you've gone after victims who couldn't fight back. And the rest of the time, you spent looking over your shoulder, worried about the knock on the door; scared that someone like me would be on the other side, waiting to put you away. At your core, you're a coward. '''Hotchner takes off his jacket and tie, rolls his sleeves, and is so obviously prepared to kick ass that Hardwick is taken aback.''' }}

** The best way to sum up the above is that Hotch [[Watchmen (comics)|is not locked in with]] Hardwick; Hardwick is locked in with ''[[Badass|Hotch]]''.

*** (And later, "I find I do some of my best work under intense terror.")

** It wouldn't surprise anyone to learn that before serial killers go to sleep, [[Memetic Badass|they check their closets for Aaron Hotchner]].

** His "hello, Lauren" to Prentiss in "Sense Memory".

** The reveal of just how far his organization reaches in "Valhalla".

* Ben killing the fuck out of his evil, [[Ax Crazy]] hallucinations in "With Friends Like These". Granted, it only gives him a temporary reprieve from them.

* The UnSub of Dorado Falls used his training to break into the FBI and get the jump on Rossi. Allow me to repeat- HE BROKE INTO THE FBI!

 

== Victims and Non-Team Members ==

** Made more awesome in that {{spoiler|he had raped them, none of them had reported it and when one woman fought back, he snapped and killed their mothers - i.e. he killed the mothers of his rape victims. }}

* Even the victims get them sometimes. Like the time the killers were brother [[The Hunter]]s, and would release their prey into the forest and hunt them over several days. {{spoiler|The initial intended victim ambushes one, stabs him repeatedly, and manages to get the drop on the other. Still needed BAU to save her, though.}}

* In another "victims fight back" example, in "Compromising Positions", one of the male victims, even though he is handcuffed and the murderer has a gun, manages [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|to kickbox the everloving shit out of him]] for several minutes before getting killed.

* "Mosley Lane". The female kidnapper {{spoiler|is about to cremate the kidnapped children, chasing down the middle child}} when the oldest, Charlie/David {{spoiler|pulls a gun, telling her to let them go}}. She laughs at him and says he's got to be kidding. {{spoiler|[[Killed Mid-Sentence|He wasn't]].}}

* In "The Longest Night" we get another one for one of the victims. In one night, Ellie Spicer has seen {{spoiler|her aunt raped and beaten (giving her injuries she later dies from), a cop who came to save her beaten up and tied up, and her father shot to death in front of her by a [[Complete Monster]] [[Serial Killer]]}}. Said [[Complete Monster]] then kidnaps her, and starts bringing her to houses where he's forcing her to be his "helper" with killing families. So what does she do when he tells her to go get the child of one family he's planning to do this to so he can experience this same thing? She finds that the family has two kids, and sends one brother out to tell the neighborhood that the guy is there so that the neighbors will find them and stop him. She totally isn't scared of the guy, and is going to do whatever it takes to survive and save as many people as she can. She not only calmly ''tells'' him what she's done, but that she's given the boy instructions to not stop going door to door, because there's no way he can possibly kill enough people to stop the alert from going out. [[Little Miss Badass|Did we mention she's only 8?]]

* The general from "Amplification" pulls one hell of a [[Batman Gambit]] to get the UnSub to surrender, promising him a position at Ft. Dietrich in exchange for his virus {{spoiler|which is killing Reid}}.

* Evan Abby from "Ashes And Dust" discovers that someone in his environmental group has been using it as a way of burning down homes and trapping families inside so he can watch them burn to death. Abby started the group after discovering he had terminal Leukemia and wanted his life to mean something. He lures the UnSub to an abandoned warehouse and spreads Benzine, a particularly flammable substance around. When the UnSub panics and asks Abby how he plans to escape, he merely says "I don't" and lights the place up.

* In Uncanny Valley, when the current victim finally gets the needle injecting her with the drug out of her arm, the first thing she says is:

{{quote|"We're leaving!"}}

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