The Dresden Files/Awesome: Difference between revisions

* Toot-Toot and his brigade of pixies {{spoiler|killing the Summer Lady with box cutters}}. "In the name of the Pizza Lord! CHARGE!"

* Harry's battle-cry: "I don't believe in faeries!"

* Fix, a relatively small, frightened man, {{spoiler|beating the crap out of the Winter Knight, one of the most horrible beings in the Winter Court (and, in fact, the whole series), with a wrench.}} All because he hurt his friend.

* Harry not only resisting the temptations of the Winter Lady (by pouring ice water on his crotch) but also verbally bitchslapping her by saying that she couldn't have murdered the Summer Knight because not only is she not powerful enough, but she's also an immature, impulse-driven child.

 

== Proven Guilty ==

* Dresden entering the movie theater with yet movie another reference:

* [[Mama Bear|Charity Carpenter]] at Arctis Tor. "You will never touch my daughter again!", indeed.

** A Moment of Awesome is also awarded to Daniel Carpenter, for attacking the phages {{spoiler|that show up at the Carpenter home}} with nothing more than a fire poker and sheer balls. That it was ultimately futile does not diminish this in the slightest, particularly in light of the psychic beating he took on behalf of his family.

* Harry leading a platoon of insane killer ghosts to storm the Omaha Beach protected by Bob's Nazi [[Evil Twin]]. That is effing all.

** Here is a quote anyway, just to give a taste: "The enemy fought at first, and those who did died swiftly. As more and more hideous things dealt with the wolfwaffen, their morale faltered and they began to run. Those that did died horribly. And, toward the end, overwhelmed by terror, a handful of the enemy could only stand, staring in horror, and screaming high and piteously. Those last few died indescribably."

** Dresden also compliments Molly on how weird her brain is.

* During a meeting between Murphy and her various allies, their White Court contact learns that {{spoiler|Murphy is now custodian of two of the Swords}}. She makes Murphy an offer so that the White Court won't "learn" about this: [[Les Yay|let her feed on Murphy.]] Murphy [[Shut UP, Hannibal|presents her counter-offer]]: {{spoiler|a [[Pistol-Whipping]], followed by smashing her face against her coffee table, and leveling a gun at her and ''promising'' to kill her if anyone from the White Court so much as ''blinks'' at the Swords}}. Needless to say, the vampire agrees with the terms. The icing on the cake is Harry and Sir Stuart's commentary at the end:

* And one for Uriel, with his {{spoiler|seven whispered words}}.

{{quote| '''Uriel''':{{spoiler|Lies. Mab cannot change who you are.}}}}

{{quote| ''{{spoiler|[[Chronic Hero Syndrome|That wasn't right.]]}}''}}

** There was even a building on fire and everything!

* A Servitor is approaching a weakened Molly, whose illusions have all been disbelieved. Harry taps into her and casts a wall of fire in front of the servitor, who assumes that it's just another illusion and walks right into it. Harry reminds everyone that, for the most part, he sucks at subtle stuff like holomancy.

 

 

* A ''lot'' of what Murphy does in "Aftermath," but two in particular: first, her severe beatdown of a slimebag apartment superintendent in front of all of his tenants, then her raid along with Billy and one of the other Alphas on a minor-talent human-trafficking ring. Run by ''Fomorians''.

* Not in any short story, but Jim has said that the Gatekeeper is the one who took down Abdul Alhazred, and that he is the most dangerous wizard on the entire council.

*** [[Continuity Nod|...The Gatekeeper seized him and devoured him horribly ... in broad daylight in the central market of Damascus?]]

*** Nah, he took down whatever [[Eldritch Abomination]] [[The Corruption|you get turned into]] by being seized and devoured, horribly, [[Comical Precision|in broad daylight in the central market of the city of Damascus.]]