History Awesome / Fringe

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Zahs31V54&feature=g-u-u From the Pilot, Peter and Olivia chase down Richard Steig.]] Considering what he does to his brother and all those people on the plane, it's [[KickTheSonOfABitch enormously satisfying.]]

* Walter threatening Olivia's abusive stepfather ishe COOLEST thing he's ever done and it shows that he really did have a heart for the kids that were left in his care.

* Fauxlivia shows off her Olympic level marksmanship by counter-sniping a Shapeshifter. Who was on top of a building. Through a hole about a foot and a half in diameter. ''While he was running.''

* From the Comic-Con season 5 trailer. Which promises science based badassery from the Bishop family.
-->'''Peter:''' We need to keep those bald headed bastards occupied.

* Nina and Walter outplaying William Bell in the season 4 final. Nina uses her hinted at but previously unseen knowledge of mad science, that reassuring voice of hers and her resources at Massive Dynamic to track him down. Walter finds the loophole in the diabolical plan and ends up saving not only the two universes but Olivia as well.

-->'''Nina:''' Do you know why you [[QuizzicalTilt tilt your head]] in that way? It's an involuntary reflex in your physiology. It changes the angle at which sound waves hit the eardrum, allowing in more stimuli. Like a lizard. I've studied them, too. Intriguing character. Their brains have evolved over 320 million years yet for all their evolution, they form no bonds. Love does not exist for them. They are incapable of dreaming, of contemplating beauty, of knowing something greater than themselves, not unlike your kind. The experiments we conducted right here in this lab yielded a surprising result, because for all your years of evolution, you inadvertently developed and honed primitive instincts that we moved beyond long ago. So in reality, you're the animal.

** Fauxlivia also rescues herself in "Bloodline."

** On a meta level, the kids playing Olivia and Peter. Someone paid attention to all of the grown-up versions little mannerisms, and you can see some of them in the kids too.

** And one for Belivia himself... for pulling a stunt like that off.

* Mister [[TheChessmaster David Robert]] [[MagnificentBastard Jones]] gets one for breaking out of a high-security German penitentiary [[spoiler: using a teleporter assembled from parts stolen by having his goons walk through the walls of the safes and banks that stored them. Oh, and did we mention that the wall-passing machine used an equation solved by a [[PoweredByAForsakenChild hypnotized child savant]]?]]

* From "The Road Not Taken", the woman who is about to explode from the Cortexiphan she's been given. And Olivia is trying to get her to focus on controlling the reaction. She does -- by focusing on the man who kidnapped her, [[spoiler: Sandford Harris]]. and causing ''him'' to explode.

* Animated [[spoiler: Peter beating up a dozen lab coated zombies on top of Bell's WTC office and then escaping on a zeppelin]] It's that kind of episode.

* Olivia "turns on the lights" in ''The End of All Things'' [[spoiler: just like David Robert Jones wanted. She doesn't just turn on the little lightbox contraption. She turns on the other lights in the prison as well. And fries a mook like crispy bacon while she's at.]]

* Walter, in "Letters of Transit." [[spoiler: He kills an ''Observer'' and about half a dozen {{Mooks}}. How? By destroying the Massive Dynamic building.]] [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill With Antimatter]].
* [[spoiler: Olivia beats the crap out of Jones. While standing on the roof of a different building. [[PeoplePuppets By using Peter as puppet.]] There are days when it pays to have an ActionGirlfriend with psychic powers.]]

-->'''Peter:''' We need to keep those [[spoiler: bald headed]] bastards occupied.

* Nina and Walter outplaying [[spoiler: William Bell]] in the season 4 final. Nina uses her hinted at but previously unseen knowledge of mad science, that reassuring voice of hers and her resources at Massive Dynamic to track him down. Walter finds the loophole in the diabolical plan and ends up saving [[spoiler: not only the two universes but Olivia as well.]]
* Badassery is [[spoiler:hereditary.]]

-->'''Peter:''' [[spoiler: That's my girl.]]
* [[spoiler:Etta's DyingMomentOfAwesome]] at the end of "The Bullet That Saved The World." That. Is. All.
* The Bishop family's raid on Penn Station. [[spoiler: Using the toxin from "Ability".]]

* Astrid [[spoiler: translating the Observers' language.]]
* [[spoiler: The Observer]] at the end of "An Origin Story" made a fantastic BreakingSpeech.
-->'''[[spoiler: Observer]]:''' I think of you as I would an ant colony as I pass by it. I don't care about the workings of the colony, why one ant is mad at or another or why one ant would kill another or not. To me, it is insignificant. And like an ant colony, you are oblivious to your limitations. You think the black over your head is dark skies... when it is really our shoe.
* [[PowerAtAPrice While all signs point to this ending very, VERY badly,]] [[spoiler:Peter]] getting used to his abilities, handing the [[spoiler:Observer]] his ass, teleporting behind him and then [[NeckSnap snapping his neck...]] was pretty damn cool.
** The trend continues onto the next episode with some pretty awesome and goddamn [[HeWhoFightsMonsters horrifying]] [[spoiler:Peter moments where he coldly tracks down each and every single one of Windmark's top lieutenants and murders them all by using amazing plans.]]. Now he's going for '''[[BigBad Windmark]]''' himself.
*** If you look closely at the trailer for "The Human Kind", you can see that he's predicted Windmark finding [[spoiler:the timelines in Etta's house]] and wrote "YOU ARE HERE 5:42" on the board, just to mess with him. It's good to know that he's retained the ability to {{Troll}}.
** [[spoiler:Peter versus Windmark.]] They proceed to beat the crap out of each other with moves right out of the Matrix. [[spoiler:Peter]] only retreats when another Observer injures him.

* The {{Dying Moment Of Awesome}} of [[spoiler:Nina Sharp. After giving Windmark a brutal {{The Reason You Suck Speech}} for his entire species, she kills herself to keep him from getting any information from her mind.]]

-->'''[[spoiler:Nina:]]''' Do you know why you [[QuizzicalTilt tilt your head]] in that way? It's an involuntary reflex in your physiology. It changes the angle at which sound waves hit the eardrum, allowing in more stimuli. Like a lizard. I've studied them, too. Intriguing character. Their brains have evolved over 320 million years yet for all their evolution, they form no bonds. Love does not exist for them. They are incapable of dreaming, of contemplating beauty, of knowing something greater than themselves, not unlike your kind. The experiments we conducted right here in this lab yielded a surprising result, because for all your years of evolution, you inadvertently developed and honed primitive instincts that we moved beyond long ago. So in reality, you're the animal.
** Her final words have a pretty awesome double meaning to it. "I know." [[spoiler:She knows the plan now. She knows that she won't live to betray Olivia and the Fringe Team. She knows that Windmark is totally screwed.]]

* Peter should get brownie points for listening to Olivia and [[spoiler:cutting that Observer tech out]]. "Be a better man than your father", indeed.
* Olivia [[spoiler:flattening Windmark with a ''fucking car''. She causes a ''black out''. Windmark tries to move out of the way and ends up a smear on the window.]]

* Olivia and Peter attacking [[spoiler:the Observers and Loyalists]] with most of the terrors from Season One.

* Walter devising a cure for a disease that wiped out the mammoths. [[CrazyAwesome With horseradish.]]

** TheEighties {{Retreaux}} intro from "Peter" (02x16) set in an {{Alternate|Universe}} 1985 are made to look like it was actually from that era complete with synth-pop music and concepts that were considered fringe science at the time like "in-vitro fertilization" and "personal computing". It's almost as if you're watching the "original" or the "[[TheEighties 80s]] revival" of the ''Fringe'' series.

** TheEighties {{Retreaux}} intro from "Peter" (02x16) set in an {{Alternate|Universe}} 1985 are made to look like it was actually from that era complete with synth-pop music and concepts that were considered fringe science at the time like "in-vitro fertilization" and "personal computing". It's almost as if you're watching the "original" or the "'[[TheEighties 80s]] revival" of the ''Fringe'' series.

* Tiny examples but the alternate intros are pretty cool:
** TheEighties {{Retreaux}} intro from "Peter" (02x16) set in an {{Alternate|Universe}} 1985 are made to look like it was actually from that era complete with synth-pop music and concepts that were considered fringe science at the time like "in-vitro fertilization" and "personal computing". It's almost as if you're watching the "original" or the "'80s revival" of the ''Fringe'' series.

* Olivia and Peter attacking [[spoiler:the Observers and Loyalists]] with most of the terrors from Season One.

* From "The No-Brainer": Broyles giving Sanford Harris the verbal beatdown the man deserved. After two episodes of harris abusing his new position to get revenge on Olivia, Broyles not only commends her for completing a case with Harris breathing down her neck, but then blasts Harris for trying to take down Olivia for transparently petty reasons. He then follows it up by out and out telling harris that if he keeps harrasing Olivia, he will have to deal with broyles and that "All the red tape in the world won't stop me".

* From "Over There, Part 2": In all honesty, [[BadassGrandpa Belly]] ''did'' try to tell the Alternate Fringe division agents about the new [[StuffBlowingUp features]] of the Model 77.

* Olivia breaking out in "Bound". Making it finally clear that this introverted and low-key woman is in fact a BadAss after all.

* [[{{Badass}} Badassery]] is [[spoiler:hereditary.]]

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GtnzC9w0_0 September versus the jewellery thieves.]] One for September. Because he's a {{Badass}}. [[TheDeterminator Arguably, one for the thief who attempts to fight back despite the fact that September catches bullets.]] [[ShootingSuperman Either that or he's an idiot.]]

* [[spoiler: The Observer]] at the end of "An Origin Story" made a fantastic HannibalLecture.

** The trend continues onto the next episode with some pretty awesome and goddamn [[HeWhoFightsMonsters horrifying]] [[spoiler:Peter moments where he coldly tracks down each and every single one of Windmark's top lieutenants and murders them all by using probabilities and some gambits that would make Xanatos proud]]. And now he's going for '''[[BigBad Windmark]]''' himself.

* [[spoiler: The Observer]] at the end of "An Origin Story" made a fantastic BreakingSpeech.

* [[spoiler: The Observer]] at the end of "An Origin Story" made a fantastic HannibalLecture.

* [[BadassDamsel Olivia gets captured in "The Human Kind".]] She proceeds to cut her bonds, ''build a gun'' and shoot her captor in the head with "The Bullet that Saved the World." She then takes his gun and shoot her other captor in the head.

* Walter in "The Bishop Revival". [[IngloriousBasterds Killin' Natzis]].

* [[spoiler: The Observer]] at the end of "An Origin Story" made a fantastic BreakingLecture.

* Olivia breaking out in "Bound". Making it finally clear that this introverted and low-key woman is in fact a BadAss ActionGirl after all.

* Walter threatening Olivia's abusive stepfather is pretty much the COOLEST thing he's ever done and it shows that he really did have a heart for the kids that were left in his care.

* [[spoiler: The Observer]] at the end of "An Origin Story" made a rather fantastic HannibalLecture.

* The Bishop family's raid on Penn Station. [[spoiler: Using the NightmareFuel toxin from "Ability".]]

* Olivia and Peter attacking [[spoiler:the Observers and Loyalists]] with most of the NightmareFuel from Season One.

* Olivia and Peter attacking [[spoiler:the Observers]] with most of the NightmareFuel from Season One.

* Olivia and Peter attacking the Observers with most of the NightmareFuel from Season One.

* Olivia [[spoiler:flattening Windmark with a ''fucking car''. She causes a black out. He tries to move out of the way and ends up a smear on the window.]]

-->'''Broyles:''' The feeling is mutual.

* Olivia [[spoiler:flattening Windmark with a ''fucking car''. She causes a black out. He tries to move out of the way and ends up a smear on the window.]]

* Peter should get brownie points for listening to Olivia and [[spoiler:cutting that Observer tech out]]. "Be a better man than your father", indeed.