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** Mike's victory on the game show Jackpot, completely unaided despite Sam's attempts to help him cheat.

* On ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', Callisto is Xena's nemesis motivated by a desire for revenge for the suffering Xena has caused in her own dark past. Before Xena reformed, she was responsible for the death of Callisto's family when she had her army torch Callisto's village, thus causing a chain of events that lead her to become evil and insane. At the end of her journey she was a demon and was fighting archangel Xena; Callisto says "I will never stop hating you, Xena. Do you hear me, never. You killed my family, my soul, my reason to live and love, and I will spend eternity seeking revenge" and Xena simply says "No," and gives her light to her turning into what she would had become if Xena wouldn't had killed her family, effectively trading her place in Heaven for Callisto's spot in Hell to make up for it.

* Following three seasons of hearing about Benton Fraser's [[Informed Ability|skill at marksmanship without any demonstration]] (as he was unlicensed to use a firearm in the United States), the Mountie hero of ''[[Due South]]'' gets a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] at the climax of "Mountie on the Bounty, Part II" when the ship on which he is being held prisoner crosses into Canadian waters.

** The six minutes or so leading in to this are an extended [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]], as Benton, Ray and a crew of mounties overtake the ship with a small wooden ship, completely taking down the villain's crew. Came complete with [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]. "THIRTY-TWO DOWN ON THE ROBERT MCKENZIE!"

** Ray Vecchio on the same series got one in the first season; a mob boss with whom he had grown-up started terrorizing the city and put Benton into the hospital. So Ray challenged the mob boss to a game of one-on-one... but instead beat the ever-loving sh* t out of him, humiliating him so badly that he couldn't even tell his men to put a hit on Ray, out of sheer embarrassment.

** Not to be outdone, Ray Kowalski gets one in the third season: after Fraser and his mentor Quinn have been kidnapped by a jewel thief, members of the 2-7 reach the warehouse where they are being held. The thief tells Ray over the phone that if he doesn't get a car and a clear path away in the next thirty seconds, he'll shoot Fraser. Welsh tells Ray to wait for backup from the SWAT team, but rather than risk Fraser's life, Ray ''commandeers a police motorcycle and drives through a window,'' disarming the thief and arresting him before Fraser can even move.

** When Benton and Ray get locked in a bank vault that a heavily armed team of bank robbers is breaking into, Benton sets off the fire sprinklers inside the safe, resulting in a colossal wave once the robbers get it open that disarms all of them.

* The made-for-TV movie called ''The Vernon Johns Story'' was about a civil-rights campaigning Pastor, played by [[James Earl Jones]]. Johns' moment comes when he's forced by the church administration to perform the funeral of the town drunk, whose family gives a lot of money to said church.

{{quote|Michael Jones was a worthless drunk. He went around town daring somebody to slit his throat. Last week somebody finally obliged him. He lived like a dog, he died like a dog. ''Undertaker, claim the body!''}}