Criminal Minds/Awesome: Difference between revisions

== Jennifer Jareau ==

* JJ has one in "Revelations" when she fires three shots in the dark and takes down three attack-trained dogs.

* And yet another one, in "The Performer", where, after having been whacked upside the head with a shovel by [[Loony Fan|the UnSub]], JJ comes out of ''nowhere'' with her own shovel-to-the-UnSub's-head.

* JJ talking Billy Flynn into letting Ellie go by talking to him about what a parent should do and that she understands how bad his childhood was, and that even though she can't understand why he's doing what he's doing, she knows what a parent should do and that he should let Ellie go. She's not a hostage negotiator, so the fact that she did this was all kinds of awesome.

== UnSubs ==

* [[Magnificent Bastard]] Foyet's intricate and insane escape from custody in "Omnivore" puts a new meaning to the term "[[Crazy Prepared]]".

* The end of "Public Enemy" when the now imprisoned killer shivs his even bigger [[Complete Monster]] father to death in the lunch line, as the other inmates look on with disinterest (it's mentioned the father was ''really'' unpopular with everybody).

* Ian Doyle in general.

** 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.}}

* "100". It wound up not mattering in the long run, but U.S. Marshall Kassmeyer deserves some credit. Even after he's been shot in both legs and one foot, had a finger or two cut off, and given a serious beating by one of the most sadistic [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]] we've ever seen on the show, he does his job to the end. Not only does he not give up the Hotchners' location, but you can see him try to get up at least twice, presumably to go for his gun. Fairly badass, all things considered.

* "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 CMOA extends to the residents of the neighborhood, who turn up en masse to surround the home where the killer is brandishing guns, baseball bats and whatever other weapons they can improvise. "Even California has its moments", indeed.

* 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.