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* Nate's performance in "The Second David Job" certainly qualifies.
** Maggie gets hers in the same episode: "Screw therapy. That felt really good."
*** Echoed in "The Experimental Job", from one of the veterans after punching a mook.
*** Maggie also has the date with Eliot where she makes a series of disparaging comments about Nate before revealing that she knew he was watching the whole time, and when she calmly cons the museum director with her "Everyone knows it's a fungus" moment. For a character who appeared in only two episodes up to that point, Maggie manages to rack up impressive levels of awesome.
* In "The Three Days of the Hunter Job," Hardison convincing the soldier who's interrogating him as a ''terror suspect'' that he has a higher rank than the soldier does and completely turning the authority tables.
** Hardison is just filled with this trope. Seriously.
* An in-show example: in "The Bottle Job" the team managed to pull off a con that normally takes 3 weeks in an hour and a half. Hardison considers that their crowning moment of awesome.
* Eliot beating the crap out of Sterling in "The Zanzibar Marketplace Job" while Hardison bribes the [[Home Base|McRory's]] bartender not to call the cops and he and Parker look on in approval.
* In "The Three Strikes Job," {{spoiler|the last 30 seconds. "James Sterling... Interpol. Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?"}}
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*** Later:
{{quote|"My name is {{spoiler|Nathan Ford}}, [[Ironic Echo|and I am a thief.]]"}}
* A special meta-example. In "The Reunion Job," in order to protect someone, normally non-violent Sophie goes after a professional assassin, [[Took a Level
** And ''again'' in ''The San Lorenzo Job'', where she takes out a pair of guards with ''champaign bottles''.
* The mindhacking of [[The Mark|Duberman]] in "The Reunion Job." The team gets so deep into his head they are literally able to {{spoiler|make him set his computer passwords to a phrase they've selected.}}
* In "The Studio Job," Nate is alone with two huge guards and Eliot is indisposed. When we next see Nate, both guards are unconscious. He says later they "got into an argument," and that's all the explanation we get. Given Nate's previously demonstrated knowledge of psychology, mental programming, and hypnosis, we can safely assume that in ''five minutes'', he just ''talked'' two guys into knocking each other out.
* Some addicts have kidnapped a woman, forcing her husband and son to try to rob a bank for the ransom. Eliot makes the drop then gets a message that they need the money back, and beats up all three of them.
{{quote|'''Eliot''': What smells like crank and screams like a little girl?
'''Addict #1''': Huh?
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** This troper got a distict River Tam vibe from Parker navigating the laser field in "The Hot Potato Job."
* Behold the first part of the season 3 finale, "The Big Bang Job." Behold Eliot finally, finally, taking up a pair of guns to protect Nate. Behold Eliot utterly destroying an entire hit squad without taking a scratch, while the building blew up around him.
** Doesn't hurt that they play homage to every single gunplay trope from [[Improbable Aiming Skills]] to [[Concealment Equals Cover]] to [[Guns Akimbo]] to [[Bullet Time]] to [[Click. "Hello."]].
*** Likewise doesn't hurt that, since it's him, ''you never even question the above's validity.'' Ladies and gents, I give you Eliot Spencer, [[Badass]].
{{quote|'''Head mook in charge''': I thought you said you don't like guns?
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* The third season premiere, where a group of at least half a dozen men with guns burst into the doorway of the apartment -- and Eliot rushes ''toward'' them. Only Nate grabbing his shoulder stops him from attacking, and it says something that it's hard to tell who'd have won.
* The Season 4 finale. Quinn and Eliot kicking ass as a team, Maggie's return as a substitute grifter, Archie using cake to infiltrate the villains' headquarters, Chaos breaking into a system specifically designed to recognise Hardison but not him...it was just all around awesome.
* The season 4 finale, "The Last Dam Job," is full of these, but two of Nate's stand out. In the first, the villain has a gun pointed at him.
{{quote|'''Nate''': You were so focused, you forgot about the little details. *trigger is pulled, nothing happens* Like counting bullets. This one here, my father's gun? It has five bullets. I'm quite sure of that.}}
Then, later, the two villains have both been trying to convince Nate that he should kill the other one.
{{quote|'''Nate''': So the problem I'm having with all of this is if only one of you dies, the other goes free. I have ''five bullets.'' Who would like to go first?}}
* "Hey, Sterling. ''Get out of my house.''"
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