History Awesome / Bones

* [[spoiler: In the series finale, all of the remaining interns are forced to figure out what Bones' notes she was desperate to retrieve mean, since Bones herself has completely forgotten of her medical knowledge. They manage flawlessly.]]

* When Gordon Gordon returns to read over Sweets' notes to see if he can find something to clear Zack, he manages to find a body that has been buried and unlocateable for over a year (namely because the killer is now dead) with help from Hodgins. And this time, the evidence can't be thrown out.

** In the next episode with the Gravedigger ''The Boy With The Answer'' after she has had all the evidence found in the previous Gravedigger episode thrown out and they find out that Bones, Hodgins, and Booth can't both investigate and be plaintiffs they pin their hopes on a single case throwing out their own cases and it pays off when they find a dust mite between the victim's teeth. The look on Taffet's face of complete and other shock and the way she is rattled is totally satisfying considering she had spent the whole episode completely smug.

* In "The Doom in the Boom", Hodgins finds a ringing cell phone in the pocket of the VictimOfTheWeek. Aubrey puts [[BoobyTrap it]] together in seconds, hurls Hodgins away with one arm and [[HumanShield jumps on him]].

* 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

* In a Season 11 episode featuring a victim who was an escapologist (in line of Harry Houdini), Bones has spent the whole episode deriding magic tricks and seeing through any the team try to show off. Towards the end of the episode, Booth demonstrates a trick where he folds up an important paper, rips it to pieces, palms the pieces...and makes the perfectly-fine-aside-from-having-been-folded piece of paper appear in Bones' pocket. Bones can''not'' figure out how he did it.

** Later on, Booth is talking to the couple again before they are sent to jail and just as he's about to leave, he says that the only good thing about this is that he knows what they do to child abusers in prison.

* Greg Dored, the victim from episode "The Bond in the Boot", was an unassuming CIA analyst 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 retroactively made him an agent so that they could honour him with a star on their wall of unnamed fallen Agents.

-->'''Brennan:''' Booth, if this missing video game turns out to be the computer chip imbedded in the victim's sternum...

* Booth isn't someone to be messed with, especially if he's interrogating. When investigating the death of a former forgein ChildSoldier he came across a wanted war criminal. While he didn't get him to confess, it's later shown he didn't need to. As long as the suspect said even a word, Booth would have what he needs to identify him. There is a reason he is the best at his job, people!

* When it looked like a potential suspect was choking a professional hotdog eater, Bones immediately runs over and promptly ''throws him down to the ground''. [[spoiler:[[PregnantBadass While pregnant.]]]]
* The Season 9 finale. [[spoiler: Three, count 'em, ''three'' rogue Delta Force soldiers go into the Booth-Brennan household intent on killing Booth and anyone who got in their way. At the end of the night they leave in bodybags.]]

* In "The Future in the Past", when Booth places the murder weapon in front of Pelant. Seeing the light and smug jerkass attitude just ''drain'' out of the little shit was the most satisfying thing I've seen in a ''long'' time.
* In "The Signs in the Silence," booth is interrogating the couple who kidnapped a young deaf girl when she was three and had been abusing her. When the wife starts to crack and begins to confess, the husband loses it and slaps her in the face. What does Booth do? Slams the asshole against the wall and punches him in the face.

* 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 the leg]].

* In "The Future in the Past", when Booth places the murder weapon in front of Pelant. Seeing the light and smug jerkass attitude just ''drain'' out of the little shit was the most satisfying thing I've seen in a ''long'' time.

* The Season 9 finale. [[spoiler: Three, count 'em, ''three'' rogue Delta Force soldiers go into the Booth-Brennan household intent on killing Booth and anyone who got in their way. End of the night? Three bodybags leave.]]

* Booth finally shooting Pelant in the season 8 premiere. Ever since his introduction, Pelant's been walking away smelling like roses whenever he shows up. But this time, as he makes his getaway, Booth manages to line up a shot, and NAILS Pelant right in the head, complete with epic blood spatter and his getaway car careening out of sight. We later see Pelant's PlotArmor kick back in via AuthorsSavingThrow - Booth's shot misses everything vital, and Pelant just kills a vet during TheStinger to access medical supplies for stitching his face up - but seeing someone finally do [[ScarsAreForever permanent]] [[EyeScream damage]] to the SmugSnake VillainSue was absolutely cathartic.

* In "The Bones That Weren't," Sweets interviews a street performer who only speaks in Shakespeare quotes. He holds a conversation and gets information about the murder victim - entirely from memory, not consulting any reference works in the process.

* The Season 9 finale. [[spoiler: Three, count 'em, ''three'' rogue Delta Force soldiers go into the Booth-Brennan household intent on killing Booth and anyone who got in their way. End of the night? Three bodybags leave.]]

* When it looked like a potential suspect was choking a professional hotdog eater, Bones immediately runs over and promptly ''throws him down to the ground''. [[spoiler:[[PregnantBadass While pregnant.]]]]

* Even ''{{Bones}}'' had one: a subplot in "The Wannabe in the Weeds" had a stalker of the victim of the week transfer her affections toward Booth. At the end of the episode, [[spoiler:she shows up at the karaoke bar all the characters are at and prepares to shoot Brennan, whom she sees as an obstacle. Before she can, Booth stands up and reaches for his gun and the stalker accidentally shoots him. Brennan goes to him and when the stalker prepares to shoot her, too, Brennan, in one swift motion, picks up Booth's gun, shoots the stalker ''in the neck'', and goes back to Booth]].
* ''{{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.]]

* A veiled moment for Booth in the "Boy in the Time Capsule". Booth has to narrate a humiliating moment of his life to Bones. Long story short, he tells her about a boy in his high school who was... strange. Teen!Booth's friends hanged that boy upside down from a ladder and everyone laughed at him, including teen!Booth. Bones is confused as to why this is humiliating until he explains: that day, he could have stepped in and stopped all than. Instead, he stood and ''laughed''. Consider: the moment of his life he is most ashamed of is ''not'' him beating someone up or cheating on a girlfriend: it's him ltting someone suffer. Doubles as an {{EstablishingCharacterMoment}}

* Booth isn't someone to be messed with, especially if he's interrogating. When investigating the death of a former forgein ChildSoldier he came across a wanted war criminal. While he didn't get him to confess, it's later shown he didn't need to. As long as the suspect said even a word, Booth would have what he needs to identify him. There is a reason he is the best at his job, people!

* "The Pathos in the Pathogens" shows just how awesome the team can be when motivated by one of their own being in danger, when an accident sees Arastoo get infected with the same unknown virus that killed the victim of the week. Hodgins comes up with a way to slow the virus down just enough, Booth drags the killer into the lockdowned Jeffersonian in order to shove [[spoiler: his]] face very close to the victim's bones in order to try to get him to tell them where the cure is (which would be a confession), and, ultimately, Brennan ''stabs the killer with a needle that she says is full of the virus'' (which works, because as far as the killer knows, saying nothing would be a death sentence). Brennan was lying about the virus, but she flat-out tells Booth that if she ''had'' had a live virus syringe, she would have used it. Do ''not'' mess with anyone on this team.

* A Meta one for the writers of The Witch in the Wardrobe. We see a standard scene with ProductPlacement, in this case a Prius, showing off the "stay in your lane feature". . . which immediately gets Hodgins and Angela arrested and stuck in jail, thanks to some old bench warrants and a sheriff who takes his job very seriously. This leads to Hodgins and Angela reconnecting, leading to their wedding at the end of the episode (while still in jail). Yes ladies and gentlemen, these writers made mandatory ProductPlacement into an event that permanently altered the dynamics of the series.

* 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 customized precision rifle which well outperforms Booth's FBI-approved mass-produced 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 due to Booth's [[BlastingItOutOfTheirHands trick shot]] on Broadsky in their previous encounter...
-->'''Hodgins''': [[spoiler:Broadsky's right hand is broken!]]

** Resulting-

** Much later on, Pelant tries to get Booth to make a SadisticChoice while he's holding Brennan hostage. Brennan just tells Booth to shoot, and he nails Pelant square in the neck. He doesn't get back up. Booth ''finally'' wiped out that son of a bitch.

* Booth finally shooting Pelant in the season 8 premiere. Ever since his introduction, Pelant's been walking away smelling like roses whenever he shows up. But this time, as he makes his getaway, Booth manages to line up a shot, and NAILS Pelant right in the head, complete with epic blood spatter and his getaway car careening out of sight. We later see Pelant's PlotArmor kick back in via AuthorsSavingThrow - Booth's shot misses everything vital, and Pelant just kills a vet during TheStinger to access medical supplies for stitching his face up - but seeing someone finally do [[ScarsAreForever permanent]] [[EyeScream damage]] to the SmugSnake VillainSue was absolutely cathartic.

* In the first, 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]].