History Awesome / Bones

* [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/BonesS1E4TheManInTheBear The fourth episode]] has Bones and Booth confront the killer, who attempts to make a FreudianExcuse speech about justifying why he was performing ritualistic murders and [[ImAHumanitarian partially eating them]], as Booth swiftly [[ShutUpHannibal tells him to stop with the rambling psycho speech]]. When he continues again, Bones subsequently grabs a bedpan off the nearby wall and clocks the perp upside the head from behind.

* Cam manages this against Pelant by being a SpannerInTheWorks. She is the only person who doesn't play his game, by doing her job instead of what she wants to do even as it's killing her and as is pointed out by Caroline, is the only reason people who have a chance at stopping Pelant are still on the case.
* Booth gets one in "The Proof in the Pudding" when a pack 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...
---> '''Booth:''' You know what, your job is to protect the president, ''mine's'' to solve murders. * ''heave''*
** He then leads Mr. White's thug squad on a merry chase through the lab, dispatching them with nothing but handcuffs and his own considerable skills. One GenreBlind agent thinks he has the upper hand...
---> '''Agent:''' (* ''arrogantly''* ) What d'ya got, Feeb?
---> '''Booth:''' * ''GroinAttack''* Good old American classic in my hometown. * ''cuff''*
** [[IconicItem "Cocky"]], indeed. The team is properly impressed:
---> '''Sweets:''' That was ''totally'' ninja!
** Andrew, sadly, misses his chance for BigDamnHeroes duty.
---> '''Andrew:''' Ten seconds earlier I would've been the hero, right?
* Bones and Hodgins finding ways to prolong their air supply and signal their location while buried alive in "Aliens in a Spaceship."
** Booth also gets one later on in the episode when he digs Brennan and Hodgins out of the ground with his bare hands!
*** Credit goes to the whole team digging through the dirt, Booth was just lucky enough to find them first.
* At the beginning of "The Mastodon 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 Brain'', 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.
--->'''Booth:''' *jumps the fence* I don't need a warrant. This land belongs to Seeley Booth.
** Complete with an epic OhCrap moment from Broadsky and equally epic cocky smile from Booth.
** Caroline gets one when she manages to help shake Sweets out of his HeroicBSOD.
* In ''The Hole in the Heart'', Booth and Broadsky's hide and go seek [[SniperDuel sniper showdown]]. Booth has pursued Broadsky to his base of operations, a dockyard maze of shipping containers where Broadsky is not only intimately familiar with the territory but armed with a customized precision rifle that insanely outperforms Booth's FBI-approved mass-production 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''': '''''[[GameBreakingInjury Broadsky's right hand is broken]]!'''''
-->Booth's eyes light up - With his hand in a cast, Broadsky can only rest the gun barrel on his arm and is incapable of gripping the barrel and aiming downwards.
-->'''Booth''': You may have just saved my life.
** Booth thus goes against his training and stays on the ground, while Broadsky follows that training, takes the high ground, and is left wide open when Booth shoots his ''other'' hand before he can change cover, resulting in the CMOA-
-->'''Booth''': ''[from out of nowhere]'' Drop your weapon or I'll blow your head off.
* The Human vs. T-Rex arm wrestling match in "The Hole in the Heart," made even more awesome by the fact that the human ''wins.''
* In ''The Body in the Bounty'' Dr. Benson Jude, the Science Dude wants Brennan to be on his show but she rejects him, believing his show and thus himself aren't true science. Cam offers to have him be her intern for the week. Brennan watches as he gags at the sight of the body and at first it looks like she was correct. But then Jude fights through the nausea and reveals a fact even Cam didn't know. By the end of the episode he has completely won Brennan over.
* The sheriff in ''The X In The Files'' stonewalling Booth and Brennan from taking the body away by showing that, despite appearing a bit dippy, he does know the law. Then shows how genre savvy he is by pointing out that if he lets the FBI ship what many believe is an alien to DC to have secret tests done it will only cause more problems.
** He later ends up helping Booth get a vital clue without needing a warrant by pointing out a sign the killer themselves put up that supersedes the need for one.
* 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, the chiropractor ended up as the killer, but it's nice to see Bones taken down a peg now and then.
* Booth's grandfather, Hank, revealing that when he walked in on his son beating Little Booth he snapped, forcing his son to leave his home and never return, and then stepping in to be Seeley and Jared's dad.
* In Finn's intro episode, everyone seems uneasy around him, believing that he may have murdered his stepfather who disappeared without a trace. Brennan operates on logic, trusting his skills for most of the episode before simply asking him for the truth. Then it turns out that he had considered murder [[AssholeVictim (since the stepfather was abusive of both Finn and Finn's mother)]] but then Finn found an article by Brennan and immediately decided A) he'd never get away with it with her around and B) he wanted to work for her.
** Finn manages to get 2 big awesome moments in his intro episode, one in present day and one in backstory. The backstory one involved him managing to scare off his abusive stepfather by threatening to kill him if the man ever touched Finn's mother again; it was a bluff but a good enough bluff to make the stepfather drop off the map completely. The present day one involves Finn endearing himself to Hodgins by using knowledge of snakes to save a snake that had swallowed evidence; using a combination of cold temperature to slow digestion and triggering an instinctive reaction in the snake that caused it to vomit up what it had swallowed to scare off a predator, Finn gets the evidence without harming a single scale on the snake, something that had been worrying Hodgins since the snake had come in.
* 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'''!!
* 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.

* 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".

* In “The Baby in the Bough”, Brennan showing her first shades of just how much a MamaBear she can be long before becoming a mother herself when confronting the killer of that episode’s victim.
-->'''Brennan:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis There was. A]] ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis baby.]]'' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis In that car!]] You son of a bitch!

* There's one episode whose subplot has the team undergoing security evaluations. The agent in charge of the evaluations, Samantha Pickering, had been nothing but an annoyance to the entire staff during her time at the Jeffersonian. The last person she questions is Bones. Pickering asks her about [[NoodleIncident a certain incident]] in her past, which is considered to be highly classified. Bones picks up the phone and dials a number to report that someone was asking about the incident. Seeing Pickering by the end of the call is rather cathartic.
-->'''Bones:''' Hello? This is Brennan. you told me to call this number if anyone asks about...''him''.
-->Then she hands the phone to Pickering. By the time whoever's on the other end gets done, Pickering is looking rather disturbed.
-->'''Bones:''' Are we done?
-->'''Pickering:''' Yes. In fact. The entire review is suspended. I'm to stay here until someone comes to burn my notes.
* 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 honor him with a star on their wall of unnamed fallen Agents.
* In the episode "The Hero in the Hold", Brennan and Sweets are interrogating the Gravedigger. After she finds out where she hid Booth, Brennan starts to walk out, picks up a briefcase, turns around, and smacks the living HELL out of her, drops it, and walks off.
** 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 utter shock and the way she is rattled is totally satisfying considering she had spent the whole episode completely smug.
* In the episode "The Princess and the Pear", Sweets and Brennan are run off the road by a Black Knight. Sweets gets knocked out, and the Knight steals the Excalibur sword from their backseat. Brennan manages to get out of the car and proceeds to kick the Knight's ass and disarms him of the sword.

* 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, 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 Pain in the Heart": Brennan convincing Zack to give up Gormogon by pure logic. Logic which proves ''he's not a sociopath''.
* The pilot 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 [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome immediately whips out her revolver and shoots him in the leg]].

-->'''Judge Haddoes''': Silence, please. The witness will answer, or will find her in contempt.

-->'''Judge Haddoes''': There is no friendship in a homicide trial! This is he Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, United States of America! When this asks you a question, you answer, or you pay the ferryman.

* 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, she shows up at the karaoke bar all the characters are 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.

* 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, 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.

* There's one episode whose subplot has the team undergoing security evaluations. The last one is Bones. Pickering asks her about a certain incident in her past. Bones picks up the phone and dials a number.

** The victim deserves some praise too. A former soldier with PTSD reduced to live on the streets, on 9/11 was in front of the Pentagon shouting for his fallen squad-mates to get awarded with the Silver Star. When the plane came, a small piece of debris broke his rib, but he went into the building and saved three people trapped. He had to lift over 400 pounds, way more than what his body could handle, the strain caused his rib to completely break and puncturing his lung, causing his death ten days later. The Jeffersonian crew gave him back his identity and got a funeral with full military honors. NoOneGetsLeftBehind.

* 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]].
* Also, [[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]]:

* In “The Baby in the Bough”, Brennan showing her first shades of just how much a MamaBear she can be [[spoiler:long before becoming a mother herself]] when confronting the killer of that episode’s victim.

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

* In the episode "The Hero in the Hold", Brennan and Sweets are interrogating the Gravedigger. After she finds out where [[spoiler: she]] hid Booth, Brennan starts to walk out, picks up a briefcase, turns around, and smacks the living HELL out of [[spoiler: her]], drops it, and walks off.

* Bones and Hodgins finding ways to [[spoiler: prolong their air supply and signal their location while buried alive]] in "Aliens in a Spaceship."

-->'''Hodgins''': '''''[[spoiler:[[GameBreakingInjury Broadsky's right hand is broken]]!]]'''''
-->Booth's eyes light up - [[spoiler:With his hand in a cast, Broadsky can only rest the gun barrel on his arm and is incapable of gripping the barrel and aiming downwards.]]

** [[spoiler:Booth thus goes against his training and stays on the ground, while Broadsky follows that training, takes the high ground, and is left wide open when Booth shoots his ''other'' hand before he can change cover,]] resulting in the CMOA-

* 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.'']]

* 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.

-->'''Booth:''' Where'd you lose the cartridge, [[spoiler: Eli]]? ''(to Caroline)'' We got forensic corroboration. The moment this plane touches down, I lose jurisdiction!

-->'''Booth:''' [[spoiler: Eli Bilbrey]], I am placing you under arrest for the murder of Elizabeth Jones. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law, because this is the United States of America!

* "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.

* When it looked like a potential suspect was choking a professional hot-dog 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 body-bags.]]

* The pilot 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 Body in the Bounty'' Dr. Benson Jude, the Science Dude wants Brennan to be on his should and she rejects him, believing his show and thus himself aren't true science. Cam offers to have him be her intern for the week. Brennan watches as he gags at the sight of the body and at first it looks like she was correct. But then Jude fights through the nausea and reveals a fact even Cam didn't know. By the end of the episode he has completely won Brennan over.

* 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 aftermath of the explosion in the finale ep has plenty of awesomeness with Booth disarming the bomb, then desperately searching for Bones in the rubble after the other bombs go off. It’s followed by Hodgins getting his own moment as he talks Booth out of blowing open an exit with the remaining bomb and possibly causing more damage. You could feel Jack’s emotion as he reminds Booth, who’s worried for Brennan, that he just saw his pregnant wife thrown against a wall.

* Booth finally shooting Pelant in "The Corpse In The Canopy." 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.

* [[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 all of her medical knowledge. They manage flawlessly.]]

* In “The Baby in the Bough”, Brennan showing her first shades of how much a MamaBear she can be [[spoiler:long before becoming a mother herself]] when confronting the killer of that episode’s victim.

---->'''Angela''': I've got nothing to say.
---->'''Caroline''': You're under oath as a material witness, Ms. Montenegro.
---->'''Angela''': I swore to tell the truth, and the truth is that I am not saying anything.
---->'''Caroline''': Judge Haddoes, could you ...
---->'''Judge Haddoes''': The witness will answer.
---->'''Angela''' No, the witness will not.
---->'''Brennan''': Angela, answer!
---->'''Judge Haddoes''': Silence, please. The witness will answer, or will find her in contempt.
---->'''Angela''': (to the judge) Is there any way that I could talk you out of that?
---->'''Judge Haddoes''': Why would you call a witness you knew wouldn't answer?

---->'''Caroline''': I figured once she got up here and saw your scary face she'd rethink her options.
---->'''Angela''': I'm taking the Fifth.
---->'''Caroline''': Chérie, the Fifth refers to the Fifth Amendment, which protect you from being forced to incriminate yourself.
---->'''Angela''': Okay, alright, well, the First Amendment protects freedom of association, right? Which means that it protects friendship. So I'm taking the First. Which, is even better than taking the Fifth.
---->'''Judge Haddoes''': There is no friendship in a homicide trial! This is he Federal District Court for the District of Columbia, United States of America! When this asks you a question, you answer, or you pay the ferryman.
---->'''Angela''': It ain't gonna happen.

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

** 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 utter shock and the way she is rattled is totally satisfying considering she had spent the whole episode completely smug.