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* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: Twice. {{spoiler|Lord Acquitaine dies a slow, lingering death, having executed the duties of his office with great dignity and relatively conscientious, selfless regard; partially because Ehren all but set him up to die so he wouldn't consider threatening Octavian.}} And the second time is more surprising: {{spoiler|the final Vord Queen herself, having shown an increasing fascination with human customs and mockingly called Tavi and Kitai her parents, admits before her certain death that she learned much from humans, that they were stronger than the Vord, and that her battle against them was never personal; she was just trying to do what she was supposed to do as a queen. She also asks if Tavi will make her suffer; he says no.}}
* [[Complete Monster]]: Generally one of these per book. Starting off with Kord, {{spoiler|who tries to kidnap Isana and [[Rape
*** Just to make things a bit worse, that girl he holds hostage to make her mother {{spoiler|serve as his spy and assassin}}? He also used the same girl as hostage against a prisoner's good behavior - a High Lady is too powerful to be credibly threatened by soldiers or gargoyles, so instead, if the High Lady made any escape attempt, the little girl would be the gargoyles' primary target. But anyway, that's not the part a bit worse. The part a bit worse is, {{spoiler|the girl is Kalarus's granddaughter through rape}}.
** It would probably not be unfair to speculate that Kalarus considers the day wasted if he hasn't found ''at least'' three [[Kick the Dog|dogs to kick or otherwise violate]] before lunch. It's up to the reader to decide where he finally crosses the [[Moral Event Horizon]], but he's undeniably beyond it by the time all is said and done.
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** Brencis Minoris. For the first 4 books, he does quite a few sinister things, but we didn't know how much of it was his father's influence and violent temper exerting control over him. Then in Princeps' Fury {{spoiler|we find out that he's responsible for enslaving hundreds of Alerans with discipline collars. When his former fiancee Flora begs him to let her out, he gleefully tells her how she's about to be turned into a mindless husk that will gleefully entertain new recruits for the rest of her life.}} What. A. Bastard.
* [[Crazy Awesome]]: Tavi. I mean, good lord. He stops in the middle of a battle to sit in front of the gates and play chess with the enemy commander.
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: [[Codex Alera
** Any and all of Tavi's tactics as captain in the third book, take your pick from {{spoiler|filling the city with sawdust and then setting it on fire when the invading army took it, dumping blood from the slaughterhouses into the river to attract sharks and the like from the sea, or having his Knights Aeris fly up and focus the air itself into a giant magnifying glass and proceeding to roast the enemies like ants.}}
*** Most of Tavi's actions in books three and four count, actually. Particularly when he {{spoiler|finally declares himself in front of his friends and enemies and challenges Arnos (and by extension Navaris) to a duel.}}
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*** And then High Lord Cereus tops Bernard by doing the same thing. {{spoiler|Except instead of using an arrow, he uses ''himself'' - literally hurling himself down the maw of the vordbulk and triggering a furycrafting that destroyed its entire head, taking himself along with it, to protect his daughter and grandchildren.}} [[Manly Tears]].
** [[Two Words|One word]]: {{spoiler|Catapults}}.
** On a Meta level, Jim Butcher for writing a series based on the concept of [[
* [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] - [[Codex Alera
* [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] - [[Codex Alera
* [[Evil Is Sexy]]:
** Brencis. When the person who you've kidnapped and are about to rape notices how handsome you are, I believe you fufill this trope (though the mind control collar helped).
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