The Dresden Files/Awesome: Difference between revisions

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* How about Marcone, Harry and the gang riding in to save the day in Marcone's helicopter? "All we need now is some Wagner..." and Gard presses a button and Ride of The Valkyries starts playing. Definitely awesome. {{spoiler|made hilarious in hindsight when we find out that Gard actually IS a Valkyrie.}} That and the other helicopters Marcone provides must be from Monoc security, because the "Ride of The Valkyries" -button seems to be a standart feature in all of them.

* Shiro's {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]].}}

* Harry, confronted with [[Smug Snake|Cassius]] and his attempt to loophole his way out of being slain by the Knights of the Cross by [[I Surrender Suckers|surrendering and sarcastically promising to repent]], responds to the mockery by [[Shut UP Hannibal|breaking his kneecaps with a baseball bat.]]

* Harry, confronted with [[Smug Snake|Cassius]] and his attempt to loophole his way out of being slain by the Knights of the Cross by [[I Surrender, Suckers|surrendering and sarcastically promising to repent]], responds to the mockery by [[Shut UP, Hannibal|breaking his kneecaps with a baseball bat.]]

{{quote| "Fortunately for you, [[Knight in Shining Armor|they [the Knights] are good men]]. Unfortunately for you, [[Dirty Harry|I]] [[Anti Hero|am not]]."}}

{{quote| "Fortunately for you, [[Knight in Shining Armor|they [the Knights] are good men]]. Unfortunately for you, [[Dirty Harry|I]] [[Anti-Hero|am not]]."}}

** Then he drops a quarter on the ground and tells the guy the nearest payphone is across the parking lot through broken glass. What Harry knows, and Michael later points out, is that phone calls no longer cost twenty-five cents.

* The Archive, slaughtering a half-dozen Red Court vampires using {{spoiler|a chunk of pure ''anti-life''}}. Then she comments that [[Little Miss Badass|it's past her bedtime.]]

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* Harry telling Mavra, in no uncertain terms, that if she ''ever'' tries to get to him through Murphy again, he will take her down with ''extreme prejudice'' is worth a mention, too.

{{quote| '''Harry''': "I've got a fallen angel tripping all over herself to give me more power. Queen Mab has asked me to take the mantle of Winter Knight twice now. I've read Kemmler's book. I know how the Darkhallow works. And I know how to turn necromancy against the Black Court. So once again, let me be perfectly clear. If anything happens to Murphy and I even ''think'' you had a hand in it, [[Precision F Strike|fuck]] right and wrong. If you touch her, I'm declaring war on you. Personally. I'm picking up every weapon I can get. And I'm using them to kill you. Horribly. Do you understand me?"}}

{{quote| '''Harry''': "I've got a fallen angel tripping all over herself to give me more power. Queen Mab has asked me to take the mantle of Winter Knight twice now. I've read Kemmler's book. I know how the Darkhallow works. And I know how to turn necromancy against the Black Court. So once again, let me be perfectly clear. If anything happens to Murphy and I even ''think'' you had a hand in it, [[Precision F-Strike|fuck]] right and wrong. If you touch her, I'm declaring war on you. Personally. I'm picking up every weapon I can get. And I'm using them to kill you. Horribly. Do you understand me?"}}

** [[Fridge Brilliance]] makes this more awesome. Mavra has not come back since.

* Oh, and speaking of the sidekick's one-man polka suit... Waldo Butters is a 5-foot-nothing, 98-pound weakling nebbishy coroner. He is not a trained cop like Murphy, he doesn't have a connection to the higher powers like the Knights, he doesn't even have the ability to turn into a wolf like the Alphas. But, after a very crappy day involving zombies, necromancers, and psychopaths who either want what he knows or want him dead, he finds the fortitude to save Harry from a knife wielding psycho in a fist fight. He didn't do a hell of a lot of fighting, but he always put himself between the guy with the knife and his friend.

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* Murphy facing down Tiny the Gruff in Mac's bar. Which Mac himself agrees is pretty awesome, as he then gives her one of the best beers he's ever made in recognition of the fact that she just saw off several tons of supernatural hitman.

** And at the end of the book, Murphy {{spoiler|drives of Deidre by drawing the Sword of Faith ''one inch'' out of its scabbard.}}

* [[Church Militant|Michael]] [[Dual Wielding]] a broadsword and a katana against an ancient demonic entity {{spoiler|and almost winning}}. And let's not forget his fight scene against the vampires in ''Grave Peril''.

* [[Church Militant|Michael]] [[Dual-Wielding]] a broadsword and a katana against an ancient demonic entity {{spoiler|and almost winning}}. And let's not forget his fight scene against the vampires in ''Grave Peril''.

** "I don't call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks."

** Not to mention he {{spoiler|singlehandedly cleans out an entire subway terminal filled with more than a hundred hobs.}}

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== Changes ==

* [[Precision F Strike|"Fuck]] [[Pre Ass Kicking One Liner|subtle."]]

* [[Precision F-Strike|"Fuck]] [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|subtle."]]

** [[Geeky Turn On|And]] it's part of a ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' reference!

* Harry Dresden sees a vampire: "A vampire, uh oh. Best be careful." The vampire sees Harry Dresden: "[[The Dreaded|Oh shit oh shit its Harry Dresden we're all going to die oh shit oh shit oh shit]]".

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* The final battle counts for {{spoiler|Murphy! She killed a [[Physical God]] with one hit-- ''after'' cutting her way through a crowd of vampires and elite half-vamps to get to him!}}

{{quote| ''False gods! Pretenders! Usurpers of truth! Destroyers of faith, of families, of lives, of children! For your crimes against the Mayans, against the peoples of the world, now will you answer! Your time has come! Face judgment Almighty!''}}

** A note on this...{{spoiler|''Murphy''}} isn't really the one saying that -- she comments later that something ''else'' was speaking through her. Considering the circumstances, that line above is probably a [[Pre Ass Kicking One Liner]] directly from a freaking ''Archangel''.

** A note on this...{{spoiler|''Murphy''}} isn't really the one saying that -- she comments later that something ''else'' was speaking through her. Considering the circumstances, that line above is probably a [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]] directly from a freaking ''Archangel''.

** {{spoiler|Fidelacchius bleached her clothes and Bob was circling around her head to protect her from the Lords of the Outer Night's psychic assault. So she <s>basically looked like</s> ''was'' an avenging archangel in holy white, with a glowing golden halo, laying waste with a frigging ''[[Katanas Are Just Better|katana]] of Jesus''.}} Good ''God''. Literally.

** [[Foreshadowing]]: {{spoiler|You know, exactly like she looks whenever Harry looks at her with the Sight?}}

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** "How did he ever win you?" "[[This Is My Human|He didn't. I won him.]]"

* Harry's duel with Arianna, culminating when he beats her using a combo of his own raw powers and the fact that Arianna has never been forced to fight with just magic (resulting in her trying the same trick twice, giving Harry the chance to nail her). After Harry overpowers her, Arianna just stares up and dumbly refers to him as cattle. Harry responds first by saying "Moo" then by saying "No one messes with my little girl" before blowing Arianna's head off.

* The entire final confrontation is basically a hundred and more pages of "Holy ''[[HSQ|shit!]]''" moments piled on top of one another. {{spoiler|Harry [[Gravity Master|gravity-pounding]] a Red Court horde. Harry calling out the Red King. Harry killing Arianna with a combination of Winter Knight [[An Ice Person|freeze-power]] and ''forzare''. Murphy and Sanya becoming [[Back to Back Badasses]], with Harry, Mouse, Molly, and Thomas on support. Lea summoning the [[Big Damn Heroes|Big Damn Grey Council]], which includes ''fucking Odin'' himself, who then summons an army of kenku. Ebenezar proving again why he's the Blackstaff by killing two hundred men with a gesture of the [[Artifact of Doom|Blackstaff]] itself. Murphy cutting through a Lord of the Outer Night like he's not even there. Susan holding off the entire remaining Lords of Outer Night and the Red King with the Sword of Love, aka ''Excalibur''. Martin's insane [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] to take out the Red Court at any cost.}} ''Everything.'' No exceptions.

* The entire final confrontation is basically a hundred and more pages of "Holy ''[[HSQ|shit!]]''" moments piled on top of one another. {{spoiler|Harry [[Gravity Master|gravity-pounding]] a Red Court horde. Harry calling out the Red King. Harry killing Arianna with a combination of Winter Knight [[An Ice Person|freeze-power]] and ''forzare''. Murphy and Sanya becoming [[Back-to-Back Badasses]], with Harry, Mouse, Molly, and Thomas on support. Lea summoning the [[Big Damn Heroes|Big Damn Grey Council]], which includes ''fucking Odin'' himself, who then summons an army of kenku. Ebenezar proving again why he's the Blackstaff by killing two hundred men with a gesture of the [[Artifact of Doom|Blackstaff]] itself. Murphy cutting through a Lord of the Outer Night like he's not even there. Susan holding off the entire remaining Lords of Outer Night and the Red King with the Sword of Love, aka ''Excalibur''. Martin's insane [[Xanatos Speed Chess]] to take out the Red Court at any cost.}} ''Everything.'' No exceptions.

** What especially stands out is Harry grabbing the Red King's sword arm mid thrust, impaling, than setting his eyes on fire, before freezing his right forearm and breaking it off. DAMN

* Harry pulls some ''insane'' new tricks in this one. Notable examples: Freezing a would-be hitman's gun. Tapping into an earth ley-line to crush ''hundreds'' of [[Mooks]] against the floor with gravity. Using tiny fireballs to "bomb" cars as a distraction. Draining the heat from a target and using that heat to power a fireball, then [[Literally Shattered Lives|shattering]] the vamp-sicle. Lots and lots of [[White Magic]]-laced silver fire. Borrowing Luccio's tactics and '''slicing a monster in half''' with, basically, a magical laser cutter. Intentionally causing a cave-in over both him and his opponent, then opening a dimensional portal directly above himself. And then there's Molly and her "One Woman Rave," complete with ''Thomas [[Dance Battler|break-dancing]]'' while decapitating bad guys with a sword and shooting them with a machine gun.

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** Vadderung is rather insistent that Harry have some coffee and a doughnut. Since he likely realizes that Harry is on a suicide mission, {{spoiler|Father Odin does the modern equivalent of having Harry drink Odin's Mead, giving our hero one more way back from death, as an Einherjar.}}

* They {{spoiler|blew up a pyramid}}.

* [[Pre Mortem One Liner|"Moo."]]

* [[Pre-Mortem One-Liner|"Moo."]]

* Martin gets one which was, [[The Nondescript|appropriately]], almost impossible to notice. In fact, {{spoiler|no-one would ever have known he was anything but [[The Mole]] if Harry's soulgaze hadn't revealed his [[Thanatos Gambit]] to wipe out the entire Red Court while he lay dying}}.

* Harry managing to impress the Erlking ''again'', this time through some [[Politeness Judo]]. {{spoiler|When he and Susan, escaping some Red Court vampires, drop in on his domain, he semi-sarcastically calls them his "guests," which Harry [[Exact Words|uses to claim]] [[Sacred Hospitality]].}}

** The best part is that the rest of the goblins present are angry at what they think is a misuse of {{spoiler|the rules of hospitality}}, but the Erlking thinks it is ''clever'', equating Harry to a wily fox.

* When Harry meets with Mab {{spoiler|to accept the Winter Mantle}}, she gloats that he has no other options...but [[Shut UP Hannibal|he interrupts her]] by listing his options, from least evil to most evil, all the way from accepting her offer up to activating the Darkhallow, ''consuming the raw lifeforce of the entire city and [[A God Am I|becoming a necromantic god]]''.

* When Harry meets with Mab {{spoiler|to accept the Winter Mantle}}, she gloats that he has no other options...but [[Shut UP, Hannibal|he interrupts her]] by listing his options, from least evil to most evil, all the way from accepting her offer up to activating the Darkhallow, ''consuming the raw lifeforce of the entire city and [[A God Am I|becoming a necromantic god]]''.

** Which he would actually do if it meant saving {{spoiler|Maggie}}.

** And not-so-subtly threatens Mab in the process, which takes a pretty large set in itself.

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* 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."

* Molly fighting a flying zombie worm aboard ''[[Star Trek the Original Series|Enterprise]]'', complete with a crew of Molly lookalikes [[Fan Service|wearing uniform miniskirts]]. Also [[The Kirk]]!Molly fights [[The Spock]]!Molly over a [[Self Destruct Mechanism]] ({{spoiler|and [[The Kirk]] wins, of course}}).

* Molly fighting a flying zombie worm aboard ''[[Star Trek the Original Series|Enterprise]]'', complete with a crew of Molly lookalikes [[Fan Service|wearing uniform miniskirts]]. Also [[The Kirk]]!Molly fights [[The Spock]]!Molly over a [[Self-Destruct Mechanism]] ({{spoiler|and [[The Kirk]] wins, of course}}).

** Don't forget about the [[Star Trek (Franchise)/Recap/S2 E1 Amok Time|highly recognizable fighting soundtrack]] playing as this occurs.

** 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:

* 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:

{{quote| '''Sir Stuart''': Oh, my. I can see why you'd come to her for assistance.<br />

'''Harry''': Damn skippy. }}

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*** Bob's Evil twin who was composed primarily of the knowledge of death and destruction collected by the pre-bob spirit of intellect when he worked for one of the worst dark wizards in history and was arguably much stronger in the ass-kicking department than Bob by himself, which ups the awesome factor.

* Mortimer Lindquist's [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment as he comes at {{spoiler|Corpsetaker}} with all the {{spoiler|wraiths that she had left behind in the pit with him.}}

** Complete with [[Pre Ass Kicking One Liner]]:

** Complete with [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner]]:

{{quote| '''Mortimer''': But it seems to me, you half-wit, that you probably shouldn’t have left a freaking {{spoiler|''ectomancer'' a pit full of wraiths}} to play with.}}

** ''Ghost Story'' will forever be remembered as "The Book Where Morty [[Let's Get Dangerous|Got Dangerous]]".

* The ending, where Harry tells {{spoiler|Mab herself}} that his soul is his own. {{spoiler|The Winter Queen}} can hurt him, but {{spoiler|she}} will never ''own'' him, and he's taking care of the job ''his'' way. The delivery, coupled with the sheer obstinate defiance that is Harry Dresden's trademark, makes it the [[Shut UP Hannibal|most epic telling-off]] since Harry sending Mavra scurrying away in ''Dead Beat''.

* The ending, where Harry tells {{spoiler|Mab herself}} that his soul is his own. {{spoiler|The Winter Queen}} can hurt him, but {{spoiler|she}} will never ''own'' him, and he's taking care of the job ''his'' way. The delivery, coupled with the sheer obstinate defiance that is Harry Dresden's trademark, makes it the [[Shut UP, Hannibal|most epic telling-off]] since Harry sending Mavra scurrying away in ''Dead Beat''.

** Complete with [[Badass Boast]] about just what he'll be up to {{spoiler|as the Winter Knight}}:

{{quote| '''Harry''': {{spoiler|I will be the Winter Knight. I will be the most terrifying Knight the Sidhe Courts have ever known}}. I will send your enemies down in defeat and make your power grow. But I do it my way. On my terms. When you give me the task, I’ll decide how it gets done — and you’ll stay out of the way and let me work. And that’s how it’s going to be.}}

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== Short Stories ==

* {{spoiler|Uriel}}, at the end of ''The Warrior'', going through all of Harry's lesser actions throughout the story and saying how each one makes the future that much brighter.

* Also in ''The Warrior'', when Michael who had been crippled for a year and needs a cane to run defeats the army trained priest who wields the not working, but still sharp Fidelacchius, with his old sword and a baseball bat. Throughout the entire fight he delivers a [[The Reason You Suck Speech]] calling the man out on his actions and lack of faith.

* Also in ''The Warrior'', when Michael who had been crippled for a year and needs a cane to run defeats the army trained priest who wields the not working, but still sharp Fidelacchius, with his old sword and a baseball bat. Throughout the entire fight he delivers a [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] calling the man out on his actions and lack of faith.

* By the way, if anyone is wondering how Harry met Murphy? She leapt onto the back of a troll, and tried to choke it to death with her nightstick. Murphy rocks.

* ''Even Hand''. Put it this way: remember how awesome it was that Murphy stood up to "Tiny" the Gruff and stopped him dead with a legal ultimatum? Marcone does the same thing to someone ten times meaner and more powerful, and doesn't break a sweat.