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The BAU is a team of [[Badass Bookworm
== Aaron Hotchner ==
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* "This morning, I decided to save your life." (Hotch to the Big Bad's [[Battle Butler]] in "Legacy".)
** Hotch walks into the room, tells the [[Battle Butler]] exactly what is going to happen, lays out why, and everything happens exactly as Hotch says it will, for the reasons that Hotch has layed out. It's probably one of the most intimidating scenes in the show; Hotch just deconstructed a man's entire life and personality and turned him against everything he'd done to that point with a two-minute monologue. ''And it seems completely realistic.''
* In "L.D.S.K.", when Hotch tricks the sniper into letting him kick the snot out of
* "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.
* Hotch, in court, is faced with a defense attorney who calls the whole field of profiling into doubt. Hotch proceeds to profile the LAWYER, with extreme accuracy, basically demolishing his case. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BlJ_MQNjY0\]
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'''Hotch''': If you don't see fear, maybe it's because I'm not afraid of you. }}
** "You know, I've been thinking about it, and in all the time I've known Hotch, I've NEVER SEEN HIM BLINK."
* And again in "Brothers in Arms", when he [[Xanatos Gambit
* In "100", he {{spoiler|beats Foyet to death with his bare hands and continues until Morgan pulls him off.}}
* 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."
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** Let's be clear here. He killed the sniper from the floor, while in handcuffs, after having the crap kicked out of him, in a room full of hostages. With a headshot. And then cracked a joke about it.
** Bear in mind, this still doesn't mean he has good marksmanship skills. That execution-style headshot? He was aiming for the UnSub's knee.
* Spencer
* Reid gets what is arguably one of the best in the entire series in the episode "Revelations". Despite having been beaten, tortured, drugged and having a revolver containing a single bullet pointed at his head by an UnSub with multiple personalities, Reid refuses to choose one of his colleagues to be the killer's next victim. He refuses ''several times'', barely flinching as the gun clicks to the next empty chamber, until (in what might be considered another, separate MOA) he has a flash of inspiration and "chooses" Aaron Hotchner,<ref>That said, considering the UnSub was using a revolver, it is entirely possible that Reid could see which chamber held the bullet from his vantage point, and waited until it was in the barrel to name Hotch, so the the UnSub's ultra religious personality would believe it was 'Gods will' that he chose Hotchner. This arguably makes Reid ''even more'' badass.</ref>
** Reid's first action upon seeing the team being to limp up to Hotch, wrap him in a hug and gasp out "I knew you'd understand!" also makes for a [[Heartwarming Moment]].
** It gets funnier/more awesome: the DVD commentary for that episode sets up Reid choosing Hotch to die as a counterpart to Hotch kicking the snot out of Reid in an earlier episode. "They have a very effective system of spite-based communication," was how one writer put it.
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== David Rossi ==
* Just Rossi's scene in "About Face," when he's preparing to return to the
* 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]]?
* In "Omnivore", after The Reaper has taken out an entire bus full of people in response to Hotch turning down a deal, Hotch is suffering from a severe crisis of faith and believes [[It's All My Fault|it's all his fault]]. What does Rossi do? [[Crazy Awesome|He holds out his gun to Hotch.]]
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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]]''.
** Though not as taken aback as when Reid proceeds to completely steal Hotchner's thunder by saying he can explain the killer's actions. He proceeds to do just that, filibustering for fifteen minutes on mental conditioning, damage, and the nature of how human failing is passed on and grows worse, possibly saving his and Hotch's life, and concluding that really, Hardwick never really had a chance. When the guards finally do arrive, the killer asks Reid if that's true. Reid says, "I don't know; maybe."
*** (And later, "I find I do some of my best work under intense terror.")
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* 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.
* "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
* "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?]]
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