History Awesome / Dollhouse

** Wendy!Caroline telling Echo!Crystal why it is a ''really bad idea'' to let Alpha do whatever he's about to do to her, in that speech of GenreSavvy and common sense I finally believed Caroline, who had annoyed me in all her other appearances, was Echo.

** The point where Adelle's MagnificentBastard status was realized, working everything in her favor in one single move.

* There's also one in the third episode, when Echo's current persona lectures the pop star she's guarding about [[spoiler:possibly letting a fan her crazy stalker is holding hostage die. Echo melts into the dramatic noir-ish lighting, prompting the pop star to look in that direction, thoughtful. Until Echo comes out of nowhere to smack her in the head with a folding chair.]]

* "There are three flowers in a vase. The third flower is green." Holy Shit. [[spoiler:Mellie is a doll!]]

** Echo asking [[spoiler:to be imprinted]] and later declaring that [[spoiler:she is not broken]]!
*** Also, [[spoiler:"Twenty seconds ago, you unsnapped your holster."]]
** [=DeWitt=] and [[spoiler: Roger/Victor]] fencing.
** [[spoiler: November]] "Paul, you cannot tell her."
** [=DeWitt=] [[spoiler:getting shot and shrugging it off better than a certain Terminator]] in the preceding show soon after [=DeWitt=] explained to [[spoiler:Dominic that he]] is expendable.

** "You'll tell them everything's all right, and then [[spoiler:we'll put you [[AndIMustScream back in your box]]]]."

** The sudden, brilliant shift [[spoiler: from Steven to Alpha]] was nothing short of ''jaw-dropping.''
*** And his [[spoiler:BatmanGambit]]. Holy crap.
** [[spoiler: His performance in Omega actually manages to top the previous episode, not only switching back-and-forth between personalities at an astonishing rate but also having convincing conversation and arguments with himself. Seriously, as if it weren't badass enough that he was playing five or six distinct characters, he's playing them while they're arguing with each other!]]
*** Coming from someone that [[spoiler:has DID]], I gotta say that how Alan acted is exactly what [[spoiler:my mind]] feels like at times. Alan gets ''major'' props.
* Creator/EnverGjokaj (Victor) being [[spoiler:Dominic]]. That was possibly the single most convincing imprint so far. It's already hard to change personalities like the dolls have to. Enver manages to be ''[[spoiler:a regular character that the audience knows]]''. And he pulls it off brilliantly, too.
** Yes but the icing on that performance is when later, after the wipe and [[spoiler:Ballard's infiltration of the Dollhouse]] he deadpans "Some people were fighting on me". Too bad [[spoiler:Alpha sliced his face (and possibly killed him)]] just as I realize how awesome he is.

** He's even better as [[spoiler: Terry.]] That he tops ''that'' with [[spoiler: Kiki]] is brilliant. That he tops ''that'' with [[spoiler: Topher]] makes him god of versatility.
*** And then he repeated [[spoiler:Topher]] so well that we knew who it was before we were told about it.
** Watching closely, it's more than just voice inflections or smaller but notable traits like [[spoiler: Dominic's accent, Topher's gaspy noise of excitement]] but the smaller microexpressions too. The way someone slightly squints or the emphasis on particular words or syllables and so forth. Even without characters naming who he is directly or what he's wearing, it's clear when he's different people. Of the relatively mundane and normal people he's played like Lubov or the art collector, even those come across as distinctive even though they're basically stock characters with no change or personality at all.
* Creator/AmyAcker should also join Gjokaj and Tudyk as awesome.[[spoiler: Every single imprint of hers, even though there were three + normal doll mode, is perfectly done, including that of Clyde, a man.]]
* Also pretty much everything in "Omega" from the moment [[spoiler:Echo has her composite event.]] ''Especially'' immediately afterwards when she makes like she's going to [[spoiler:attack the body containing Caroline's mind]] and then [[spoiler:turns on Alpha]] instead.
** Ballard's true [=CMoA=]? [[spoiler: Making the Dollhouse free November.]]
** Dr. Saunders. No freak out. [[spoiler: "I know who I am."]]

** And then Whedon turns around to add to the awesome by casting [[spoiler: Alexis Denisof and Creator/SummerGlau]] for the second season.

** And the other goons get theirs when they [[spoiler: turn on the pedophile simply because of what he was going to do to the little girl.]]

* [[spoiler:"No. Kids playing with matches and they burned the house down."]]
** Also, [[spoiler: Zone]] turning the tables on [[spoiler: Iris]].
* "That's perfectly fine. [[spoiler: Right now I'm having this same conversation in ten other bodies in ten other Houses across the country.]]"

* "Vows" (2-01) features [[spoiler: Ballard realizing that Echo's personalities have started recurring, so he gets her out of a sticky situation by slapping her around until her "Man on the Street" assassin chick kicks in and kicks butt.]]
* Priya [[spoiler: killing the man responsible for her becoming a doll]]. It also counts as one for Topher, who [[spoiler: made it possible by uploading her real personality before sending her off to him]].
*** Also, Boyd, for [[spoiler: calmly and casually arranging for Topher to dispose of Nolan's body, and then fabricating a plausible cover of lies to protect the both of them.]]

* Echo overcoming Bennett's programing to [[spoiler: use her arm and save herself]]

* Doubling as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}, when Adelle's DC counterpart believes he has her on the ropes, [[spoiler: she fakes seducing him until she can give his groin a nice hard twist.]] She can make being awesome look effortless.

* And in "The Left Hand," Topher [[spoiler: punching out Bennett]].
* Topher didn't need to prove that he was a genius in his field, but [[spoiler: when he, on his own, figured out Rossum's plans and created the blueprints for "Epitaph One"'s world of insanity within the space of two months,]] that proves his brain is awesome.
** His reaction to the stolen blueprints is made of awesomeness as well - he dared to [[spoiler: call MagnificentBastard Adelle a bitch to her face. He deserved that slap, but the line was perfect.]]

*** Hell, the shot of [[spoiler: Echo walking back into the Dollhouse against Adelle's speech about never letting anyone else challenge her authority, one of the coolest shots in the series.]]
* Alpha, in season two. Just as Topher was assuring [[spoiler: Alpha's assumed target]] the camera cuts to Adelle, who says: "We need to find a nearby five star hotel. Where a security detail could be discreetly accommodated." Then [[spoiler: Alpha walks right out of her bathroom and says: "Try the Franklin. I hear the view is wonderful this time of year. Also, you're out of paper. (pause) So tell me... how's the suit?" He not only managed to sneak in so discreetly everyone thought they were safe, he managed to use Adelle's private office bathroom first.]]
* [[spoiler: Turning the dolls into Butchers.]]
* [[spoiler: [[TheIgor Ivy]] giving Topher the method for reviving Ballard, thereby outsmarting Topher in his own field of expertise.]]

* Echo [[spoiler: disarming a troop of soldiers with her minds. [[TookALevelInBadass All forty-plus of them along with the skills she was given just for that mission.]]]]

** Chief among them: [[spoiler: Adelle, Topher, and Echo's plot to get into the Attic and find out Rossum's secrets.]]
** [[spoiler: Dominic basically frees himself from an inescapable nightmare loop in order to chase a [[NightmareFuel Nightmare Fuel]] assassin through the minds of others, conquering their fears along the way. Then he stays behind to help those others gain consciousness. And then to top it off, he frees himself from the Attic all by himself.]] Definitely candidate for the biggest badass of the show.
* "Getting Closer". Apparently we have dueling [[TheChessmaster chessmasters]] between Caroline, Adelle, and [[spoiler: Boyd!]]
* MagnificentBastard incarnate, [[spoiler: Boyd Langton]].

* Boyd's [[spoiler: GambitRoulette is undone by Topher's BatmanGambit. A complex {{plan}} spanning the whole series and earlier, undone by Topher's realization that Anthony and Priya would return, topped off with a smiley face. Topher is full of [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments Of Awesome]] in 2x12.]]
* Mellie gets a few as well, first when she convinces Paul to take the sneaky easy way to Rossum's mainframe, then again when [[spoiler: she overrides her sleeper programming through her love for Paul and [[TearJerker commits suicide to save him from her]].]]
* Top moment in the series: [[spoiler: [[KarmicDeath Topher turns Boyd into a doll, who Echo rigs up with a suicide vest]] in order to [[KillItWithFire destroy the Rossum mainframe]].]]
* In The Hollow Men during [[spoiler: Boyd's I Am Evil speech]], Adelle can be heard to reply in a hoarse pained voice, and it is clear that she is on the verge of tears. Spectacular acting from Olivia Williams.
** There's also the moment when he [[spoiler: points a gun at her head and orders her to trigger Mellie]]. Adelle doesn't bat an eye.
* In 2x11, Topher facing down a guy with a highly powered rifle at point blank range by saying "I have imprinted myself with many useful skills," [[spoiler: in order to protect Echo while she was being imprinted]]. This, five minutes after [[spoiler: Bennett was shot through the head right before his eyes]].

* "There are three flowers in a vase. The third flower is green." {{HSQ}}. [[spoiler:Mellie is a doll!]]

* "The Attic". HSQ, the horror, the works.