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Dude's still not a hero. Nowhere close.
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* Someone, later revealed to be Nicodemus, casts a continuous entropy curse, known as Barabba's curse at Harry. Harry and Susan manages to escape few accidents and get inside his apartment. The curse ''splinters like waves on beach against Harry's apartment wards'' with zero problem. Making it even better is that that curse has been killing people ''at least since the time of The Crucifixion'', needing a Knight of the Cross to perform a HeroicSacrifice in their place, but were worthless against Harry's protective magic. Nicodemus clearly has no idea what White Council's powerful members are capable of when prepared. Michael and the other Knights should have had more faith on him.
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* Someone, later revealed to be Nicodemus, casts a continuous entropy curse, known as Barabba's curse at Harry. Harry and Susan manages to escape few accidents and get inside his apartment. The curse ''splinters like waves on beach against Harry's apartment wards'' with zero problem. Making it even better is that that curse has been killing people ''at least since the time of The Crucifixion'', needing a Knight of the Cross to perform a HeroicSacrifice in their place, but were worthless against Harry's protective magic. Nicodemus clearly has no idea what White Council's powerful members are capable of when prepared. Michael and the other Knights should have had more faith on in him.
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* Gentleman Johnny Marcone in general. All the things on the TearJerker page and all of Marcone's actions here are what finally cement Marcone as the HeroOfAnotherStory.
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* Gentleman Johnny Marcone in general. All the things on the TearJerker page and all of Marcone's actions here are what finally cement Marcone as the HeroOfAnotherStory.an anti-villain and a total badass.
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* After Rudolph leaking info on them to other departments and keeps giving them problems, Harry gets the idea to turn it around on him, and tells Murphy exactly what to tell him. If the info is correct, they save people and are unharmed. If it is wrong, its Rudolph who gets roasted. Win-win.
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* After Rudolph leaking leaks info on them to other departments and keeps giving them problems, Harry gets the idea to turn it around on him, and tells Murphy exactly what to tell him. If the info is correct, they save people and are unharmed. If it is it’s wrong, its Rudolph who gets roasted. Win-win.
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** And as explained few books later, if Nicodemus calculated correctly, its a [[XanatosGambit win-win situation]]. If Harry picks it up and gets possessed, Nicodemus gets the most powerful wizard of the latest generation of White Council. If one of the Carpenter children pick it up, he's got a MachurianAgent in the house of one of the Knights of Cross. The only thing he didn't know and undid his plan was Harry's iron will, and more importantly, his good heart.
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** And as explained few books later, if Nicodemus calculated correctly, its a [[XanatosGambit win-win situation]]. If Harry picks it up and gets possessed, Nicodemus gets the most powerful wizard of the latest generation of White Council. If one of the Carpenter children pick it up, he's got a MachurianAgent ManchurianAgent in the house of one of the Knights of Cross. The only thing he didn't know and undid his plan was Harry's iron will, and more importantly, his good heart.
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* After Red Court Duke Ortega cheated in a duel against Dresden, Ebenezar [=McCoy=] [[spoiler: pulled a deactivated Soviet communications satellite ''[[ColonyDrop out of orbit]]'' and dropped it on the duke's mansion.]] Then remember: of the [[spoiler: seven senior members of the White Council]], Ebenezar is, according to Harry, the youngest and the least skilled.
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* After Red Court Duke Ortega cheated in a duel against Dresden, Ebenezar [=McCoy=] [[spoiler: pulled a deactivated Soviet communications satellite ''[[ColonyDrop out of orbit]]'' and dropped it on the duke's mansion.]] mansion. Then remember: of the [[spoiler: seven senior members of the White Council]], Council, Ebenezar is, according to Harry, the youngest and the least skilled.
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** John Marcone, pulling a drowning Harry out of the river [[spoiler: with ''the freaking Shroud of Turin'']]. And prior to that, Marcone takes on Nicodemus, and actually manages to drive him off with concentrated fire from an AK-47. Immediately afterward, when Harry explains that Nicodemus can't be killed and can probably run faster than the train they're fighting on, Marcone's only response to [[CasualDangerDialogue glance to Sanya and ask for more ammo.]]
** The "drive him off with concentrated fire from an AK-47" bit should be expanded on, as it's especially impressive. From the back of one moving train car to the next, he hits a moving target with three bursts from an AK he's never shot before, at night, [[spoiler: and avoids hitting the Shroud of Turin draped over his target's shoulders in the process.]]
** The "drive him off with concentrated fire from an AK-47" bit should be expanded on, as it's especially impressive. From the back of one moving train car to the next, he hits a moving target with three bursts from an AK he's never shot before, at night, [[spoiler: and avoids hitting the Shroud of Turin draped over his target's shoulders in the process.]]
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** John Marcone, pulling a drowning Harry out of the river [[spoiler: with ''the freaking Shroud of Turin'']].Turin''. And prior to that, Marcone takes on Nicodemus, and actually manages to drive him off with concentrated fire from an AK-47. Immediately afterward, when Harry explains that Nicodemus can't be killed and can probably run faster than the train they're fighting on, Marcone's only response to [[CasualDangerDialogue glance to Sanya and ask for more ammo.]]
** The "drive him off with concentrated fire from an AK-47" bit should be expanded on, as it's especially impressive. From the back of one moving train car to the next, he hits a moving target with three bursts from an AK he's never shot before, at night,[[spoiler: and avoids hitting the Shroud of Turin draped over his target's shoulders in the process.]]
** The "drive him off with concentrated fire from an AK-47" bit should be expanded on, as it's especially impressive. From the back of one moving train car to the next, he hits a moving target with three bursts from an AK he's never shot before, at night,
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** Let's talk a bit more about the "physical feats of badassery": there are four people facing Nicodemus and his goons, two of them are Knights of the Cross, one is a quite powerful wizard and the last one is our plain, vanilla Marcone. [[spoiler: Marcone is the only one who ends the fight unscathed, and not for lack of action.]] His impressive shooting has already been mentioned, but after that he finds himself fighting Nicodemus from close distance and he ducks his swords, throws a knife at his face, then produces another one and starts a short fight [[spoiler: ending with Marcone taking the Shroud from Nicodemus and jumping off ''a running train'' without even blinking.]] BadassNormal indeed.
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** Let's talk a bit more about the "physical feats of badassery": there are four people facing Nicodemus and his goons, two of them are Knights of the Cross, one is a quite powerful wizard and the last one is our plain, vanilla Marcone. [[spoiler: Marcone is the only one who ends the fight unscathed, and not for lack of action.]] action. His impressive shooting has already been mentioned, but after that he finds himself fighting Nicodemus from close distance and he ducks his swords, throws a knife at his face, then produces another one and starts a short fight [[spoiler: ending with Marcone taking the Shroud from Nicodemus and jumping off ''a running train'' without even blinking.]] blinking. BadassNormal indeed.
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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 HilariousInHindsight 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 standard feature in all of them.
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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 HilariousInHindsight when we find out that Gard actually IS a Valkyrie.]] Valkyrie. That and the other helicopters Marcone provides must be from Monoc Security, because the "Ride of The Valkyries" button seems to be a standard feature in all of them.
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* Shiro's [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice. He peacefully surrendered himself to his worst enemy, accepting to be viciously tortured, to save another's life. Also, the fact that he survived a torture so bad ''Nicodemus'' thought him to be dead along with the plague curse, silently enduring all that pain just to give one last advice to Harry and the others and overhearing details of his enemy's plan-B to boot.]]
** Not only that, it was an impressive BatmanGambit. [[spoiler:Nicodemus may well have had more to gain by keeping Harry out of the picture, but Shiro knew that he wouldn't be able to resist the bait of his longtime nemesis offering himself up.]]
** Shiro also got in a StealthInsult that way without even saying a word. [[spoiler: Nicodemus kept going on about his superiority to humans. By letting someone as versatile as Harry go in order to get at his ArchEnemy he fears, Nicodemus proved that he was no better than any human]].
* Also, Shiro [[spoiler: breaking into the Denarians' hideout to save Harry.]] With a BigEntrance opened by a goon sent flying in. The first thing Harry notices is that Nicodemus, who hadn't been impressed by anything so far, is terrified, and likewise for his Fallen. And is proven right to be when [[spoiler: Shiro takes out his goons and his daughter in a matter of seconds.]]
* Someone, [[spoiler: later revealed to be Nicodemus]], casts a continuous entropy curse, [[spoiler: known as Barabba's curse]] at Harry. Harry and Susan manages to escape few accidents and get inside his apartment. The curse ''splinters like waves on beach against Harry's apartment wards'' with zero problem. [[spoiler: Making it even better is that that curse has been killing people ''atleast since the time of The Cruxifixation'', needeing a Knight of the Cross to perform a HeroicSacrifice in their place, but were worthless against Harry's protective magic. Nicodemus clearly has no idea what White Council's powerful members are capable of when prepared. Michael and the other Knights should have had more faith on him.]]
** Not only that, it was an impressive BatmanGambit. [[spoiler:Nicodemus may well have had more to gain by keeping Harry out of the picture, but Shiro knew that he wouldn't be able to resist the bait of his longtime nemesis offering himself up.]]
** Shiro also got in a StealthInsult that way without even saying a word. [[spoiler: Nicodemus kept going on about his superiority to humans. By letting someone as versatile as Harry go in order to get at his ArchEnemy he fears, Nicodemus proved that he was no better than any human]].
* Also, Shiro [[spoiler: breaking into the Denarians' hideout to save Harry.]] With a BigEntrance opened by a goon sent flying in. The first thing Harry notices is that Nicodemus, who hadn't been impressed by anything so far, is terrified, and likewise for his Fallen. And is proven right to be when [[spoiler: Shiro takes out his goons and his daughter in a matter of seconds.]]
* Someone, [[spoiler: later revealed to be Nicodemus]], casts a continuous entropy curse, [[spoiler: known as Barabba's curse]] at Harry. Harry and Susan manages to escape few accidents and get inside his apartment. The curse ''splinters like waves on beach against Harry's apartment wards'' with zero problem. [[spoiler: Making it even better is that that curse has been killing people ''atleast since the time of The Cruxifixation'', needeing a Knight of the Cross to perform a HeroicSacrifice in their place, but were worthless against Harry's protective magic. Nicodemus clearly has no idea what White Council's powerful members are capable of when prepared. Michael and the other Knights should have had more faith on him.]]
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* Shiro's [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice. He peacefully surrendered himself to his worst enemy, accepting to be viciously tortured, to save another's life. Also, the fact that he survived a torture so bad ''Nicodemus'' thought him to be dead along with the plague curse, silently enduring all that pain just to give one last advice to Harry and the others and overhearing details of his enemy's plan-B to boot.]]
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** Not only that, it was an impressive BatmanGambit.[[spoiler:Nicodemus Nicodemus may well have had more to gain by keeping Harry out of the picture, but Shiro knew that he wouldn't be able to resist the bait of his longtime nemesis offering himself up.]]
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** Shiro also got in a StealthInsult that way without even saying a word.[[spoiler: Nicodemus kept going on about his superiority to humans. By letting someone as versatile as Harry go in order to get at his ArchEnemy he fears, Nicodemus proved that he was no better than any human]].
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* Also, Shiro[[spoiler: breaking into the Denarians' hideout to save Harry.]] Harry. With a BigEntrance opened by a goon sent flying in. The first thing Harry notices is that Nicodemus, who hadn't been impressed by anything so far, is terrified, and likewise for his Fallen. And is proven right to be when [[spoiler: Shiro takes out his goons and his daughter in a matter of seconds.]]
seconds.
* Someone,[[spoiler: later revealed to be Nicodemus]], Nicodemus, casts a continuous entropy curse, [[spoiler: known as Barabba's curse]] curse at Harry. Harry and Susan manages to escape few accidents and get inside his apartment. The curse ''splinters like waves on beach against Harry's apartment wards'' with zero problem. [[spoiler: Making it even better is that that curse has been killing people ''atleast ''at least since the time of The Cruxifixation'', needeing Crucifixion'', needing a Knight of the Cross to perform a HeroicSacrifice in their place, but were worthless against Harry's protective magic. Nicodemus clearly has no idea what White Council's powerful members are capable of when prepared. Michael and the other Knights should have had more faith on him.]]
** Not only that, it was an impressive BatmanGambit.
** Shiro also got in a StealthInsult that way without even saying a word.
* Also, Shiro
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* The Archive, slaughtering a half-dozen Red Court vampires using [[spoiler: a chunk of pure ''anti-life'']]. Then she comments that [[LittleMissBadass it's past her bedtime.]]
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* The Archive, slaughtering a half-dozen Red Court vampires using [[spoiler: a chunk of pure ''anti-life'']].''anti-life''. Then she comments that [[LittleMissBadass it's past her bedtime.]]
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* When faced with an enemy that is wearing Judas' noose, which makes him immune to any physical harm, what better course of action than to ''[[spoiler: strangle him with it?]]''
** Even better, [[spoiler:as far as Harry knows, he's the first one to realize that the noose won't protect Nicodemus from itself. [[WordOfGod And that means Nicodemus, leader of the Denarians and arguably the smartest and deadliest of all thirty, is afraid of Harry Dresden.]]]]
* Nicodemus gets one at the end of the book with a BatmanGambit of his own, [[spoiler: as after getting his main plan foiled, he waits in the street behind the backyard of the Carpenter House, and tosses in a Denarian coin where the children are playing, forcing Harry to pick up the coin before they do, to protect them from being possesed and thus Harry gets infected by a part of the essence of the Fallen Angel within]].
** And as explained few books later, if Nicodemus calculated correctly, its a [[XanatosGambit win-win situation]]. [[spoiler: If Harry picks it up and gets possessed, Nicodemus gets the most powerful wizard of the latest generation of White Council. If one of the Carpenter children pick it up, he's got a MachurianAgent in the house of one of the Knights of Cross. The only thing he didn't know and undid his plan was Harry's iron will, and more importantly, his good heart]].
** Even better, [[spoiler:as far as Harry knows, he's the first one to realize that the noose won't protect Nicodemus from itself. [[WordOfGod And that means Nicodemus, leader of the Denarians and arguably the smartest and deadliest of all thirty, is afraid of Harry Dresden.]]]]
* Nicodemus gets one at the end of the book with a BatmanGambit of his own, [[spoiler: as after getting his main plan foiled, he waits in the street behind the backyard of the Carpenter House, and tosses in a Denarian coin where the children are playing, forcing Harry to pick up the coin before they do, to protect them from being possesed and thus Harry gets infected by a part of the essence of the Fallen Angel within]].
** And as explained few books later, if Nicodemus calculated correctly, its a [[XanatosGambit win-win situation]]. [[spoiler: If Harry picks it up and gets possessed, Nicodemus gets the most powerful wizard of the latest generation of White Council. If one of the Carpenter children pick it up, he's got a MachurianAgent in the house of one of the Knights of Cross. The only thing he didn't know and undid his plan was Harry's iron will, and more importantly, his good heart]].
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* When faced with an enemy that is wearing Judas' noose, which makes him immune to any physical harm, what better course of action than to ''[[spoiler: strangle ''strangle him with it?]]''
it?''
** Even better,[[spoiler:as as far as Harry knows, he's the first one to realize that the noose won't protect Nicodemus from itself. [[WordOfGod And that means Nicodemus, leader of the Denarians and arguably the smartest and deadliest of all thirty, is afraid of Harry Dresden.]]]]
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* Nicodemus gets one at the end of the book with a BatmanGambit of his own,[[spoiler: as after getting his main plan foiled, he waits in the street behind the backyard of the Carpenter House, and tosses in a Denarian coin where the children are playing, forcing Harry to pick up the coin before they do, to protect them from being possesed possessed and thus Harry gets infected by a part of the essence of the Fallen Angel within]].
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** And as explained few books later, if Nicodemus calculated correctly, its a [[XanatosGambit win-win situation]].[[spoiler: If Harry picks it up and gets possessed, Nicodemus gets the most powerful wizard of the latest generation of White Council. If one of the Carpenter children pick it up, he's got a MachurianAgent in the house of one of the Knights of Cross. The only thing he didn't know and undid his plan was Harry's iron will, and more importantly, his good heart]].heart.
** Even better,
* Nicodemus gets one at the end of the book with a BatmanGambit of his own,
** And as explained few books later, if Nicodemus calculated correctly, its a [[XanatosGambit win-win situation]].
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** [[spoiler: Ortega was clearly winning and Harry barely holding on. [[BerserkButton Then he threatened Harry's friends.]] Ortega was instantly owned, forcing him to cheat]].
** As [[spoiler: Ortega prepares to kill Harry with a hidden bullet, a hidden sniper (Martin) caves in his chest and thigh, followed by Harry blasting at him. He would have been killed right there if not for his minions sacrificing themselves to rescue him]]
** Ortega [[spoiler: casually owning Susan with one hand [[HandicappedBadass despite having his chest and thigh caved in along with being blinded.]]]] He isn't a warlord for nothing.
** Kincaid [[spoiler: unleashing his arsenal on Red Court vampires, from handguns to shotguns with Dragonbreath rounds.]]
** As [[spoiler: Ortega prepares to kill Harry with a hidden bullet, a hidden sniper (Martin) caves in his chest and thigh, followed by Harry blasting at him. He would have been killed right there if not for his minions sacrificing themselves to rescue him]]
** Ortega [[spoiler: casually owning Susan with one hand [[HandicappedBadass despite having his chest and thigh caved in along with being blinded.]]]] He isn't a warlord for nothing.
** Kincaid [[spoiler: unleashing his arsenal on Red Court vampires, from handguns to shotguns with Dragonbreath rounds.]]
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** [[spoiler: Ortega was clearly winning and Harry barely holding on. [[BerserkButton Then he threatened Harry's friends.]] Ortega was instantly owned, forcing him to cheat]].
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** As[[spoiler: Ortega prepares to kill Harry with a hidden bullet, a hidden sniper (Martin) caves in his chest and thigh, followed by Harry blasting at him. He would have been killed right there if not for his minions sacrificing themselves to rescue him]]
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** Ortega[[spoiler: casually owning Susan with one hand [[HandicappedBadass despite having his chest and thigh caved in along with being blinded.]]]] ]] He isn't a warlord for nothing.
** Kincaid[[spoiler: unleashing his arsenal on Red Court vampires, from handguns to shotguns with Dragonbreath rounds.]]
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** Ortega
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