History Awesome / DegrassiTheNextGeneration

* The end of Season 13's "Unbelievable." Zoë sees her rapist, Luke, flirting with a girl on the Power Squad. She whispers, "Hell no," shoves Luke away from the girl, and announces to everyone that he was her rapist. When she starts attacking him, Becky holds her back and announces that she has proof to back up Zoë because she has Luke's phone, which has more videos of him and Neil raping Zoë. When Luke tries to retrieve his phone from his sister, ''six guys''--Miles, Drew, Dallas, Tristan, Principal Simpson, and a cop--physically keep him away from the two girls. Finally, although both Becky and Zoë are crying, Becky hugs the younger girl and whispers words of reassurance as she takes her away from the scene and three more cops join the scene. Keep in mind that Becky didn't even know who Zoë was and she knew very well that outing her brother would destroy her family, but in the end she chose to do the right thing.
** Zoe's actions are even more awesome when you consider it was possibly Frankie Luke was flirting with (her face was not fully shown), who had abandoned Zoe earlier and told her she was asking to be sexually assaulted.

* Marco punches out Linus after being berated with homosexual slurs.
** Keep in mind that Marco is usually a MagicalQueer.
* Spinner tries to make amends with Marco after the former's ex-friend drops a slur against him. Jimmy begins to prevent Spinner from speaking to him, and Spin finally snaps, "Shut up, Jimmy." This troper thinks that Jimmy kind of had that coming for attempting to interfere with Marco and Spinner's friendship. It's also when that Marco begins to see Spinner has been actively trying to change since the shooting.

* In the second part of Chasing Pavements, Anya telling off Owen is particularly cathartic, especially after all of the abuse he put Zane, Riley, and Adam through. And Alli also gets one when she manages to save Principal Simpson's job ''and'' earn the students a dance simultaneously.

** Also, Fiona herself is one walking moment of awesome in Chasing Pavements for being strong enough to stand trial and deal with her alcoholism simultaneously.

** Zoe's actions are even more awesome when you consider it was possibly Frankie (her face was not fully shown), who had abandoned Zoe earlier and told her she was asking to be sexually assaulted.

* Drew putting his MMA skills to good use [[spoiler: and kicking Vince's ass.]]
** Later, he also insists that he follow Bianca, who [[spoiler: is planning to kill Vince both for Adam and for herself.]] Katie, without hesitation, goes with him, no matter what the danger.

* Firestarter, Pt. 2 has one for the Hollingsworth siblings. [[spoiler: Miles, Frankie, and Hunter are able to finally stand together against their father and call him out on his abusive and selfish tendencies. Miles has been on the receiving end of both verbal and physical abuse for awhile now, Frankie was going to be used as a scapegoat for the Degrassi Nudes scandal to save the election, and Hunter finally saw firsthand how cruel their father could be when he was nearly injured in a fit of rage.]] This act definitely doubles as SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming|Moments}}.
* A small moment, but after [[spoiler: Zig cheats on Maya, with Zoë, and tries to get back together,]] there's this exchange:

* Lola (with Yael's help) making a video about [[spoiler: her having an abortion, not regretting it, and encouraging other girls in similar situations that it's okay not to]].
* In turn, Yael (with Lola's help) discovers [[spoiler:their genderfluidity]] and brings it to life. Hunter sadly has a hard time coming to grips with it, but [[BadassBoast Yael refuses to go back for anyone, even him]]. Lola even calls [[spoiler:them]] a badass.

* Snake, in the series premiere, telling Emma's Internet stalker that if he moves, he will break his neck after the latter lured Emma to a hotel room and tried to hurt her.

* In Season Fourteen, after getting fed up with Damien sexually harassing and bullying her and the other former cheerleaders, Zoë pranks him, and he reacts by getting aggressive and violent, raising his fist right next to Zoë’s face as if to strike her. Zoë is completely unintimidated, merely staring right back down at his glare and then his fist until he backs down.

-->'''Clare''': You're pathetic. I don't care about what happened with coach Carson or how hard your semester has been; as soon as things get rough, NeverMyFault you blame everyone but yourself.\\

* Clare in ''In Your Eyes''. After finding out that her ex, [[YourCheatingHeart KC]] cheated off of her final exam at [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Jenna's]] behest, she cuts them off. It reaches its peak at the end when KC tries to pin the blame on Jenna, but Clare ain't having it.

* Clare goes full-on badass in ''In Your Eyes''. After finding out that her ex, [[YourCheatingHeart KC]] cheated off of her final exam at [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Jenna's]] behest, she cuts them off. It reaches its peak at the end when KC tries to pin the blame on Jenna and she has to [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tell him about himself]].
-->'''Clare''': You're pathetic. I don't care about what happened with coach Carson or how hard your semester has been; as soon as things get rough, [[NeverMyFault you blame everyone but yourself]].\\

* Clare goes full-on badass in ''In Your Eyes''. After finding out that her ex, [[YourCheatingHeart KC]] cheated off of her at [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder Jenna's]] behest, she tells them both to never talk to her again. It reaches its peak at the end when KC tries to pin the blame on Jenna and she has to [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech tell him about himself]].

-->'''KC''': I-I just want us to be friends.\\
-->'''Clare''': You don't know what you want. See you in September, KC.

* In turn, Yael (with Lola's help) discovers [[spoiler:their genderfluidity]] and brings it to life. Hunter sadly has a hard time coming to grips with it, but [[BadassBoast Yael refuses to put back on [[spoiler:their]] old mask for anyone, even him]]. Lola even calls [[spoiler:them]] a badass.

* In turn, Yael (with Lola's help) discovers [[spoiler:their genderfluidity]] and brings it to life. Hunter sadly has a hard time coming to grips with it, but [[BadassBoast Yael refuses to put back on their old mask for anyone, even him]]. Lola even calls [[spoiler:them]] a badass.

* In turn, Yael (with Lola's help) discovers [[spoiler:their genderfluidity]] and brings it to life. Hunter sadly has a hard time coming to grips with it, but [[BadassBoast Yael refuses to put on [[spoiler:their]] old mask for anyone, even him]]. Lola even calls [[spoiler:them]] a badass.

'''Winston''': How come everyone jumped down Zoë for playing a geisha, but no cared that I was playing Japanese? Was it because I am Asian? [[IdenticalLookingAsians And there is only one kind of Asian]]? Because I can assure you that Korean and Japanese are not the same.

* Tinsley, of all people, has one for standing up to Bobby during the trial and telling the truth of what kind of a guy he really is. Without her, Bobby and his [[SmugSnake vicious bitch of a lawyer]] would probably have won the lawsuit, and Fiona would have been further vindicated as the crazy person she was not.

* Marco punches out Linus after being berated with homosexual slurs.
** Keep in mind that Marco is usually a MagicalQueer.

* Emma gets into a fight with Alex, and manages to make her bleed in episode 3x20.

* Paige reveals to JT that she was raped. He immediately storms into the gym in the middle of a game going on to attack the guy, while JT's still wearing his goofy mascot costume. Boycott the Caf informs us that clearly "JT" stands for Justice Time.

* Snake, in the series premiere, telling Emma's Internet stalker that if he moves, he will break his neck after the latter lured Emma to a hotel room and tried to hurt her.
** Also in the premiere, as soon as Emma knows her mom and Snake are there, she ''bites'' the stalker and vaults out of the room before he has a chance to react.
* Paige scaring away her rapist using the power of rock during season 2's battle of the bands.
* Jenna faking going into labor to trick Sav into getting a limo ride with Holly J.
* Caitlin threatening her fellow newscaster who is trying to interview a horrified Craig after Jimmy's been shot by Rick:
-->"Here's your story for you. Local insensitive reporter ''pummeled'' by famous colleague."
* Paige, whether or not she was aware of it, potentially saved lives by consoling Rick. Even if he shot Jimmy, he was convinced not to pull a gun on her or her friends. Also doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.

* Emma pouring Purple Dragon all over Bruce The Moose when he starts creeping on her.
* Spinner tries to make amends with Marco after the former's ex-friend drops a slur against him. Jimmy begins to prevent Spinner from speaking to him, and Spin finally snaps, "Shut up, Jimmy." This troper thinks that Jimmy kind of had that coming for attempting to interfere with Marco and Spinner's friendship.
* Tinsley, of all people, has one for standing up to Bobby and telling the truth of what kind of a guy he really is. Without her, Bobby and his [[SmugSnake vicious bitch of a lawyer]] would probably have won the lawsuit, and Fiona would have been further vindicated as the crazy person she was not.

* Ashley slapping Craig across the face - onstage, in front of the entire school - after she finds out about his affair with Manny.

* Spinner in "Death or Glory". Angry from his cancer diagnosis, he stands up to the Lakehurst thugs that are making everyone miserable, including repeatedly punching Johnny in the face. A taping of the fight goes viral, and Johnny actually invites him to a second (staged) fight to improve both of their reps.

* After Principal Simpson shuts down all clubs that can't get a staff supervisor (which is most of them), along with blocking all social media sights and installing cellphone scramblers in the school, Chantay leads a rebellion. First she leaves an innocent post-it note of "Degrassi Sucks!" in the ladies room, and returns a day later to find ''dozens'' of other notes just like lamenting the loss of extracurriculars. This leads her to rallying the clubs together and covering Principal Simpson's car with similar notes, and finally working her way into his office to [[WhatTheHellHero let him know how]] badly the changes are effecting students.
-->'''Simpson:''' Look, I know you're frustrated, but this is no way to send a message.\\
'''Chantay:''' Then what is, talking to you? I tried that, remember.\\
'''Simpson:''' I told you, the school needs to mend it's image so we can't be as permissive as we used to be.\\
'''Chantay:''' So you keep saying, but you never say how that's supposed to work.\\
'''Simpson:''' This is Degrassi Community ''School'', emphasis on school.\\
'''Chantay:''' For some of us, the emphasis is on community. So when you take away our clothing and our clubs and our internet? We lose that community. You made all of these changes without talking to any of us about what might actually help. We didn't all bring knives to Vegas Night.

* The end of Season 13's "Unbelievable." Zoë sees her rapist, Luke, flirting with a girl on the Power Squad. She whispers, "Hell no," shoves Luke away from the girl, and announces to everyone that he was her rapist. When she starts attacking him, Becky holds her back and announces that she has proof to back up Zoë because she has Luke's phone, which has more videos of him and Neil raping Zoë. When Luke tries to retrieve his phone from his sister, ''six guys''--Miles, Drew, Dallas, Tristan, Principal Simpson, and a cop--physically keep him away from the two girls. Finally, although both Becky and Zoë are crying, Becky hugs the younger girl and whispers words of reassurance as she takes her away from the scene and three more cops join the scene. Keep in mind that Becky didn't even know who Zoë was and she knew very well that outing her brother would destroy her family, but in the end she chose to do the right thing.
** Zoe's actions are even more awesome when you consider the girl was actually Frankie, who had abandoned Zoe earlier and told her she was asking to be sexually assaulted.

* I don't get how these tropers forgot about Spinner in "Death or Glory". Not only does he actually DO something about the Lakehurst thugs, he repeatedly punches Johnny's face. Not to mention his epic scene. You know the one.

* Alli first trying to comfort Cam when he breaks down crying in "Bitter Sweet Symphony" is just a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming... And then she finds out that Dallas, who has a massive crush on her, is one of the reasons he's crying. Cue her ''[[TranquilFury verbally eviscerating]]'' him about how he's a bully and how he blew it with her.

* Firestarter, Pt. 2 has one for the Hollingsworth siblings. [[spoiler: Miles, Frankie, and Hunter are able to finally stand together against their father and call him out on his abusive and selfish tendencies. Miles has been on the receiving end of both verbal and physical abuse for awhile now, Frankie was going to be used as a scapegoat for the Degrassi Nudes scandal to save the election, and Hunter finally saw firsthand how cruel their father could be when he was nearly injured in a fit of rage.]] This act definitely doubles as CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

* Paige, whether or not she was aware of it, potentially saved lives by consoling Rick. Even if he shot Jimmy, he was convinced not to pull a gun on her or her friends. Also doubles as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

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