The Dresden Files/Awesome: Difference between revisions

** And then the elevator falls all the way back down to the ground floor, where some very surprised paramedics are waiting.

* We can't forget the fact that Harry {{spoiler|channels the power of a fucking ''thunderstorm'' to banish a demon.}} While [[Full-Frontal Assault|naked.]]

 

== Fool Moon ==

* "[[Shout-Out|How about]] [[The Wizard of Oz (film)|a little]] [[Kill It with Fire|fire]], [[Scary Scarecrows|Scarecrow]]?"

* 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.

* Harry vs. the Merlin {{spoiler|: at Molly Carpenter's trial}}.

** There's also Ramirez {{spoiler|[[Calling the Old Man Out|calling the Merlin a senile bastard]] ''to his face.''}}

* Thomas's [[Big Damn Heroes]] moment.

{{quote|'''Thomas''': "Howdy."}}

{{quote|'''Maeve''':“Tell me, mortal. When was the last time flesh, new and strange to your hand, lay quivering beneath you, hmm? When was the last time you could taste and feel some little lovely’s cries?”

'''Harry''': "Technically? When I killed Aurora." }}

*** Not only that, but he uses an absolutely painless attack that causes beautiful flowers to grow in the wounds, which can give the impression that Eldest killed Magog using ''[[The Power of Love|love and peace]]''.

** It was a particular testament to Harry's awesome when the Eldest Brother Gruff informs Harry that among the Fae, stories of his exploits are their equivalent of the Billy Goats Gruff story.

* Low-key in comparison, but Kincaid killed two fallen angels ''with the same bullet''.

* "Lasciel's shadow doesn't live here anymore." {{spoiler|Followed by Harry supremely pwning Nicodemus}}.

* 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.

* 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.

* A couple of vampires have {{spoiler|thrown a Molotov cocktail at Harry's apartment building, and the whole place is burning down. He managed to haul his elderly landlady out of bed to safety, but the upstairs neighbors are also old and unable to make it out on their own. Harry tries to rescue them, but can't due to a badly-timed explosion knocking him off the ladder.}} The old lady yells "Oh God in Heaven, help us!"... ''[[Big Damn Heroes|and he does]]''. {{spoiler|Best-timed entrance ever, [[Paladin|Sanya]].}}

** The woman also sleeps with a pistol and considers an army of ghouls pounding on her door as not worth waking up for.

*** Oh, come on. You don't live under the same roof as [[Doom Magnet|Harry Dresden]] for ten years without learning to sleep through a little thing like that.

* 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}}.

* What, no love for Leanansidhe? She kept a relatively low profile but besides summoning the Grey Council she:

# infiltrates Red King's posse of Lords of Outer Night (using a very high level wail)

{{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]]".

** 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.}}

** It's badass because {{spoiler|Harry set up his own murder with Kincaid before making the deal with Mab. Kincaid, a centuries old, half-human and half something very bad assassin also known as The Hellhound, is less badass than the mortal who's probably only in his mid-30s. To paraphrase [[Pulp Fiction]], Kincaid is a race car in the red, while Harry is a mushroom cloud laying motherfucker, motherfucker.}}

* Daniel's knife fight with Aristedes. A normal human boy lacking the faith powers of his father and the magic of his sister goes toe to toe with a magically fast sorcerer {{spoiler|he loses, but that doesn't detract from the fact that it took balls and the fact that he actually hurt the guy}}

{{quote|"That sound you just heard was your lateral collateral ligament and anterior cruciate ligamate tearing free of the joint. It's also possible that your patella or tibia was fractured. Get rid of the knife, or I start on your cranium."}}

* "Be." <ref> Harry gathers all of his magic to allow himself to manifest, which only works for the ghosts who are either insane or insanely motivated. Whether Harry is a lunatic or just incredibly determined, ''it works.''</ref>

* {{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.

* ''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.

** Nevermind that, how about the fact the entire Mag incident turns out to be {{spoiler|a dry run on how to kill Harry Dresden}}? Which ''succeeded''. {{spoiler|Which also makes it something of a meta [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] for Harry as well, considering that Marcone wasn't sure that would be enough to kill him until it worked on Mag.}}