History Awesome / Bones

* In the first or second episode, Booth and Bones are talking while Bones practices on a shooting range. At some point, she goads Booth into taking a shot with her gun, which ends up missing the bullseye by a significant portion. Just after Bones departs, [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Booth quick-draws his sidearm and puts three shots in the bullseye]].

* The second episode has one where Brennan confronts the killer, who is dousing a room with evidence in gasoline. When Brennan says she can't let him destroy evidence, he pulls out a lighter and does the whole "try and stop me and we both burn" thing. Brennan [[RealityEnsues immediately whips out her revolver and shoots him in e leg]].

** Made even better by Finn apologizing and ''thanking'' Arastoo for setting him straight.

* In ''The Hole in the Heart'', Booth and Broadsky's hide and go seek [[SniperDuel sniper showdown]]. Broadsky's on familiar ground, and has a rifle which well outperforms Booth's FBI-approved longarm. Booth, however, gets one game-breaking advantage - Bones and the Squints, who've been puzzling over some odd cracks in the skull of one of Broadsky's victims for the entire episode, realize that...

-->Booth's eyes light up - [[spoiler:Broadsky won't be able to quickly shift his aim vertically with his hand in a cast.]]

** And later-

-->'''Finn:''' Um … excuse me?

-->'''Arastoo:''' If he's not old enough to know, he's certainly old enough to learn. The Crusades, the Inquisition, are these events guided by a religion of peace? No, they were guided by self-important men who think they know more than the God they claim to worship. This was not the work of religion. It was arrogance. It was hypocrisy. It was hate. Those horrible men who hijacked those planes hijacked my religion that day, too. They insulted my God. So, no, this isn't too difficult. It's a privilege to be able to serve this victim, to show him the care and love that was so absent that day.

* In "The Passenger in the Oven", a woman is murdered on Booth and Brennan's flight to China. The plane is considered American soil until they land in China, so they have to solve the murder while the plane is still in the air or lose jurisdiction to the Chinese. Booth arrests the killer with literally ''seconds'' to spare.

* At the beginning of "The Mammoth in the Room", Brennan and Daisy are accosted by a group of armed guerrillas. Brennan's response? Beating the snot out of them with a shovel.
* In ''The Bullet in the Head'', Booth confronts his mentor, Broadsky, who has gone rogue and who is quite possibly the only sniper on earth as good as he is, on private property that his mentor bought under Booth's name, and stares him down cold. He stays on one side of the property line, telling Booth that if he wants the evidence that will prove it, he'll have to cross that line with a search warrant.

* Zack Addy had his own Crowning Moment in "The Wannabe in the Weeds", when he told Hodgins that he had taken singing lessons as a child. When Hodgins expressed doubt that Zack could sing, Zack started belting out "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing", drawing an audience from the other Jeffersonian staff members. Before leaving, Angela turned to Zack, mouthed "Wow!" and gave him a thumbs up.

* In ''The Hole in the Heart'', Booth and Broadsky's hide and go seek sniper showdown. Broadsky's on familiar ground, and has a rifle which well outperforms Booth's FBI-approved longarm. Booth, however, gets one game-breaking advantage - Bones and the Squints, who've been puzzling over some odd cracks in the skull of one of Broadsky's victims for the entire episode, realize that...

* Greg Dored, the victim from episode "The Bond in the Boot", was an unassuming CIA agent who managed to break his ankle twice trying and failing to complete an entry level obstacle course. However, when he picked up chatter about a plot to smuggle contraband into the country and his boss refused to act on his information, he went rogue on his own. By himself, he took down a Ex-Russian special forces soldier who was acting as a courier, hid the contraband and sent his girlfriend an encoded picture with the location so that it could be found after his death. He was then captured by the group who wanted whatever they had smuggled into the country. They bound his hands and feet together and hung him up in a position known as "the swallow". He then had over 24 holes drilled into his arm with a diamond cutting laser. Throughout it all he never talked and was eventually kept in the torture position so long that he asphyxiated and died. The CIA was so impressed by his loyalty and sacrifice they honored him with a star on their wall of fallen Agents.

* A brief moment, but at one point, Bones and Booth consult the chiropractor of the victim. After helping them, Bones thanks him, even though he's not a medical doctor. He immediately fires back that she isn't either. Of course, [[spoiler:the chiropractor ended up as the killer]], but [[{{YMMV}} it's nice to see Bones taken down a peg now and then]]

* Booth gets one in "The Proof in the Pudding" when a pack of fascistic {{MIB}}s, led by the SmugSnake "Mr. White", commandeer the lab and refuse to let the team do their work properly. Booth decides that WeNeedADistraction. He starts off by cuffing Mr. White to a rail and flipping him over it...

-->'''Bones''': [[spoiler:Broadsky's right hand is broken!]]

* Angela refusing to testify in "The Verdict in the Story."

* Booth gets a big one in the episode "Two Bodies in the Lab" when he risks his life to rescue Brennan from a murderer, despite having just barely survived '''a freaking explosion'''!!

* A brief moment, but at one point, Bones and Booth consult the chiropractor of the victim. After helping them, Bones thanks him, even though he's not a medical doctor. He immediately fires back that she isn't either. Of course, [[spoiler:the chiropractor ended up as the killer]], but [[{{YMMV}} it's nice to see Bones taken down a peg now and then]].

---->'''Caroline''': Chérie, the Fifth refers to the Fifth Amendment, which protect you from being forced to incriminate yourself.

* "The Pain in the Heart"; [[spoiler:Brennan convincing Zack to give up Gormogon by pure logic. Logic which proves ''he's not a sociopath'']]

-->Then she hands the phone to Pickering. By the time whomever's on the other end gets done, Pickering is looking rather disturbed.

* A brief moment, but at one point, Bones and Booth consult the chiropractor of the victim. After helping them, Bones thanks him, even though he's not a medical doctor. He immediately fires back that she isn't either. Of course, [[spoiler:the chiropractor ended up as the killer]], but it's nice to see Bones taken down a peg now and then.
** YMMV

* In ''The Bullet in the Head'', Booth confronts his mentor, who has gone rogue and who is quite possibly the only sniper on earth as good as he is, on private property that his mentor bought under Booth's name, and stares him down cold. He stays on one side of the property line, telling Booth that if he wants the evidence that will prove it, he'll have to cross that line with a search warrant.
--->'''Booth:''' I don't need a warrant. This land belongs to Seeley Booth.

* In ''The Hole in the Heart'', Booth and Broadsky's hide and go seek sniper showdown. Made all the more awesome when [[spoiler:Booth takes him down]].

* A brief moment, but at one point, Bones and Booth consult the chiropractor of the victim. After helping them, Bones thanks him, even though he's not a medical doctor. He immediately fires back that she isn't either. Of course, [[spoiler:the chiropractor ended up as the killer]], but it's nice to see Bones taken down a peg now and then.

[[indent:40:Then she hands the phone to Pickering. By the time whoever's on the other end gets done, Pickering is looking rather disturbed.]]

** ''{{Bones}}'' had more than one. [[spoiler: In order to keep her father from being convicted of murder and probably receiving the death penalty, Brennan ''implicates herself'' in the murder in order to give the jury plausible deniability. It works.]]
*** Angela has her own in that episode, when she refuses to testify against [[spoiler:Brennan's father]]:

** Bones and Booth have been questioning a gang leader, who, true to form, has been hitting on Bones the entire interview. While they're waiting by the elevator, Bones provokes the guy into grabbing her arm in an aggressive manner, which is technically assault. She then proceeds to beat the snot out of him in "self-defense". Booth: "Feel better?" Bones(breathing heavily): "I think I do, yeah." At the end of that episode, [[spoiler:said gang leader has put a hit on Bones. Booth tracks him down, shoves a revolver into his mouth, and orders him to take the hit off, or he'll kill him.]]

* The Human vs. T-Rex arm wrestling match in "The Hole in the Heart," made even more awesome by the fact that [[spoiler: the human ''wins.'']]

* In ''The Hole in the Heart'', Booth and Broadsky's hide and go seek sniper showdown. Made all the more awesome when [[spoiler:Booth takes him down]].

--->'''Booth:''' I don't need a warrant. This land belongs to Seeley Booth.

* In ''The Bullet in the Head'', Booth confronts his mentor, quite possibly the only sniper on earth as good as he is, and stares him down cold.

* At the beginning of "The Mammoth in the Room", Brennan and Daisy are accosted by a group of armed guerrillas. Brennan's response? Beating the snot out of them with a shovel.