History Awesome / Literature

** The battle between [[BigBad Yorrick Kaine]] and [[Literature/AliceInWonderland The Cat]] involved bringing fictional characters into the real world to battle each other. Yorrick Kaine "cheats" and brings out the Kraken, which should win him the battle automatically. However, The Cat counters by bringing out [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} The Blue Fairy]], who turns him into "a real boy". This leaves Yorrick Kaine without any [=BookWorld=]]-based powers, sending the Kraken back into fiction and leaving him stranded in the real world: he lost the battle ''and'' his power in both the [=BookWorld=] and, by the end of the book, Britain.]]

* Edwin Windsor, protagonist(/antagonist, depending on your viewpoint) of ''Literature/HowToSucceedInEvil'' is nearly a walking Crowning Moment. The conclusion of the story is perhaps his defining moment of character, however, as he calmly speaks to the fallen Superhero Excelsior, showing him through words and pictures that his entire life as a Hero has been a sham and that he has caused far more death in the world than he has prevented and convinces him the only way to salvage his reputation would be to be buried alive under a million tons of concrete.]]

* [[Awesome/LiteratureNoToD No to D]]

* The climax of ''Sky Masters'', where [[spoiler: a satellite is crashed into a Chinese destroyer just as it is about to launch a nuclear missile]].

* This little-known (and highly underrated) disaster novel features an out-of-control nuclear reactor which, for various reasons, is creating a super-powerful magnetic field around itself. Cars, aircraft, ships - all are powerless to rescue the personnel from the island on which the reactor rests. Out of the blue comes their salvation, Dunkirk-fashion - [[spoiler:the Baton Rouge Yacht Squadron, sailing to the rescue.]]

* "[[spoiler:Admiral Benden]], sir. May I present the Dragonriders of Pern?" ([[spoiler:End of ''Dragonsdawn'']])
* "All the Weyrs of Pern hovered in the sky..." ([[spoiler:Robinton's funeral]])
* Lessa proving that yes, in fact, [[spoiler:queens can fly whenever they damn well please]]. Wouldn't you say?

* Mandrake's arrival. He barely enters the woods and he's already put three moles down with a single talon slash. He then makes his way into Barrow Vale and the elder's meeting by killing anyone in his path. He tops all that by coercing himself in the council with an ominous and almost impossible to understand speech(it's spoken in Siabod[[note]]It's based on Welsh[[/note]]). From there he [[VillainDecay gets worse]], until the great battle by the Duncton Stone, where he repeats the same feat (and apparently coming back from the dead), [[spoiler:before he's killed by Stonecrop]].

* In the first book, when [[spoiler:Achilleus fights Just John]], after beating the crap out of him, the former says, "And this is for you" and kisses the latter.
** There's the moment at the end when [[spoiler:Maxie walks out on David]]. David begins to threaten her with a load of bullets, but Ollie shoots him with a sling shot. Remember, this is just the first book!

* In ''The Amber Spyglass'', where [[spoiler:Mrs. Coulter ''lies to [[BigBad Metatron]]''. She convinces him she's turned against Lord Asriel and leads him to the edge of the great Abyss. When Asriel and Stelmaria ambush Metatron, Coulter and the Golden Monkey exchange glances and join forces with Asriel to wrestle Metatron into the Abyss, making it a suicide mission and taking him down with them.]]

* A bit more subtle: Pan - a [[{{Animorphism}} Shapeshifter]] - assuring Lyra that "we're only safe as long as we pretend". Lyra's application of his advice? [[spoiler: Introducing herself to the mad bear king Iofur as the incarnation of his rival Iorek's soul. Silvertongue indeed.]]
* Pantalaimon gets a crowning moment of his own - at one point in ''The Amber Spyglass'', [[spoiler:Mrs. Coulter's monkey daemon has pretty much a death grip on him, which Pan gloriously turns against the damn thing by changing into a ''porcupine''.]] The little guy might not have cast iron balls like some other characters, but he sure has wits aplenty.

* In ''The Amber Spyglass'' when Will fights Iorek [[spoiler:and wins by slicing his helmet up with the subtle knife]].

** Inez Soto's confession to Ed Exley: [[spoiler: "The ''negritos'' who hurt me couldn't have killed the people at the Nite Owl, because they were with me the whole night. They never left my sight. I lied because I didn't want you to feel bad that you'd killed four men for me. And you want to know what the big lie is? You and your precious absolute justice."]]
** Exley, Vincennes and White putting together the truth - [[spoiler: the connections between the hooker killings, ''Fleur De Lis'', the smut books, Mickey Cohen's mob goons, Sid Hudgens' murder, the involvement of Dieterling and Preston Exley, and the kicker, "Captain Dudley Liam Smith for the Nite Owl"]] - and Exley's promise to White that if he keeps quiet about [[spoiler: Preston Exley's involvement]], he'll let White kill [[spoiler: Dudley]]. Scary Captain Ed, indeed.

* Oh, come on. How can you forget the very first chapter? [[spoiler: Buzz Meeks]] BackForTheDead last fight AND [[spoiler: Dudley]] walking through the fire in a fireman coat were pure awesome.

* The scene at the end of the book when the protagonist [[spoiler:finally manages to return to his village with the skeleton of the giant fish, proving that he actually did catch it, which means much more for his status in the village than the fish meat itself would have.]]

* At the end of the 5th book, Tommy explains to Harvey via case file comment who stole the case file, attached an origami [[Franchise/StarWars Princess Leia]] to it, and attached labels to it. He asks questions to get Harvey thinking, like "Who could make an origami Princess Leia that good? With hair buns and everything?" He answers these questions by saying, [[spoiler: "That's right... Dwight!"]]. And then, there's a label below Tommy's comment, [[spoiler: implied to be placed by Dwight: "That's [[InsistentTerminology Captain Dwight!"]]]]

** Atkins' defeat of [[spoiler: Xenophon]], and earlier, firing a weapon ''through the planet'' to kill a man standing on the other side of the world.
** Helios Prime's HeroicSacrifice: staying behind on the Array when even AIs fled and being burnt to death, but defeating a monster solar storm singlehandedly and saving [[spoiler: his son's life]] in the process.

** [[spoiler: Merlin]] revoking the powers of a PhysicalGod insisting that, contrary to all evidence, HumansAreBastards--and telling him to sit down and shut up until they're ready to deal with him.

* In Steve Alten's Literature/{{Meg}} series, in the first book, the protagonist Jonas Taylor is swallowed by a megalodon in a bathyspere. While in the meg's stomach, he uses a fossilized megalodon tooth that he keeps as a souvenir to ''cut through the meg's innards and then CUT ITS HEART OUT''.

* Literature/PhilipMarlowe taking out [[spoiler:Canino]] in ''Literature/TheBigSleep''.

* Pretty much everything Kissur [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy White]] falcon ever says or does in Yulia Latynina's ''Wizards and Ministers'' and ''Insider''. Literally: a few contemplative or romantic moments aside, he can't seem to be able to appear in a scene without doing something utterly awesome. But the finest has to be the culmination of "Wizards and Ministers", where, after failing to persuade the agents of the Federation of the Twelve to use their technology to bring about a quick end to the current civil war in the Empire of Veya (where the novels are set; at the moment he also happens to be the Prime Minister of Veya) he [[spoiler:stole one of their super-modern planes with the help of a countryman with very minor flying experience, waited for them to extract the Emperor of Veya from captivity as part of their {{plan}}, proclaimed that from now on, as a soldier in the Veyan army, he only followed the orders of Kissur and bombed the hell out of the rebel camp, destroying the main rebel army and the entire rebel leadership. Then he crash-landed the plane and moved as fast as he could to the capital, where he immediately gave ''everyone'' in the palace a BreakingSpeech. And then he committed suicide because he felt insulted by the Emperor's earlier mistrust, by throwing a knife in his chest with maximum precision after scaring everyone by seeming to threaten the Emperor. And ''then'', thanks to advanced Federation technology, he got better in time for the epilogue, during which he reaffirmed his bonds of friendship with the resident MagnificentBastard, to the explicit sheer horror of everyone else. Breathtaking.]]
** There is also [[TheChessmaster Counsellor]] [[KnightTemplar Arfarra]]. An outlaw from the Empire who plots to bring a kingdom conquered by a proud warrior race back to the said Empire (a militarily weak state without its own regular army). Using just his brain and some technology, that everyone else in this land sees as magic. That includes drugging and hypnotizing the royal court, so they see him walk in heaven and talk to gods; killing enemy soldiers with "demons" which happen to be poison gas; [[spoiler: building a dam stuffed with dynamite and blowing it up at the right moment, to flood a rebellious city and demonstrate the "wrath of the Golden Emperor."]]

* In ''The Rosetta Key'' By William Dietrich, Ethan Gage, after being shot at with his own gun by his nemesis Najac, fights his way through an entire Napoleonic French Platoon with nothing but a metal bar in less then 60 seconds, and then surving as Najac fires on him at point blank range - with the ramrod still in the barrel. Gage survives and proceeds to use the ramrod in his chest to pierce the other mans heart - [[spoiler:Of course, the only reason he survived the ramrod was because it had hit a gold cylinder he had kept in his shirt.]].
* Roughly speaking, Creator/VernorVinge's novel ''Literature/ADeepnessInTheSky'' ends in two massive Crowning Moments of Awesome - first for Pham Nuwen, then for [[spoiler: the Spiders]]

** Two of Paksenarrion's scenes in that novel. The first comes after she's spent five days at the mercy of the priests of the god of torture and torment [[spoiler:in exchange for their releasing the true heir to the throne of a nearby country along with his squires]]. She's had pretty much everything done to her that it's possible to do to someone at a medieval tech level, in front of a crowd of hundreds of worshippers of said god. At the very end of it the priests haul her up and force her onto her (broken, burnt, bound) knees in front of the crowd, the following exchange takes place:

** Twice Born Prince Chezokin, a member of the breeding caste of a insectile race with an overdeveloped sense of family and for whom reincarnation is a very real possibility for the worthy, when told that he may not participate in the coming battle because he is too important to be sacrificed and because his mother forbade him to join the battle, rips off his own wings, effectively emasculating himself, and declares himself "a person of little consequence." Horrifyingly, the left wing is harder to tear off than the right.
** When leading the battle against the [[spoiler: psychotic psychic space weasel-badgers who regard mindrape as normal social interaction,]] his warrior children, armed with flamethrowers, are mind controlled to attack him. He walks through the resulting fireball like it was a summer breeze, emerging incandescent with heat on the other side, stabs the [[spoiler: psychotic psychic space weasel-badger]] that was controlling them, and says "I am the father of the blazing sun. My sons cannot hurt me, massaaku. But I? I can hurt you." shaking the [[spoiler: psychotic psychic space weasel-badger]] for emphasis.

** Later in the novel, after [[spoiler: she brings Acheron out of his prison in "[[Creator/EdgaeAllenPoe The Raven]]" in order to rescue her husband]], Thursday gets locked in a room without any writing whatsoever, so that she can't escape into the [=BookWorld=]. [[Literature/GreatExpectations Miss Haversham]] comes into the real world looking for her, and gets her out by reading the washing directions on the label of Thursday's pants.
** The battle between [[BigBad Yorrick Kaine]] and [[Literature/AliceInWonderland The Cat]] involved bringing fictional characters into the real world to battle each other. Yorrick Kaine "cheats" and brings out the Kraken, which should win him the battle automatically. However, [[spoiler: The Cat counters by bringing out [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} The Blue Fairy]], who turns him into "a real boy". This leaves Yorrick Kaine without any [=BookWorld=]]-based powers, sending the Kraken back into fiction and leaving him stranded in the real world: he lost the battle ''and'' his power in both the [=BookWorld=] and, by the end of the book, Britain.]]

** Rupert's only real Moment of Awesome comes in Chapter 19 of ''[=TPoZ=]'', where he's standing on the battlements above the moat between the woman he has just tried to rape, who has a loaded gun, and the hero, who has a sword. The hero assumes Rupert has a choice between rushing the woman, risking that she'll succeed in shooting him, or backing off - in the hero's direction. [[spoiler: Rupert does neither: he bows to the woman, says "I can't kill where I've kissed" and jumps from the battlements into the moat]] - the only villain to escape and survive into the sequel.

* ''Earth Logic'': The [[spoiler:nigh-omnipotent G'deon]] Karis takes down a fortress singlehandedly, with a ball-pen hammer, with one strike. As one character puts it, after seeing the result (the stones continuing to fall and roll away from each other until not a single one is touching another) "Did you ''have'' to do that? Now this wall will ''never'' finish falling."
* After many Crowning Moments throughout his career, Creator/BruceWillis even managed to get one in a non-fiction novel. In ''[[Film/TheViewAskewniverse My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith]]'', Creator/KevinSmith tells the story of his being in ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' with Bruce. During which, he managed to talk down a group of Studio Executives simply by asking them [[spoiler:who their second choice to play John [=McClane=] was]]. Now, if only he could have used this magical power to get LFDH that R-Rating...

* Trisha [=McFarland=] has exactly one SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome in ''Literature/TheGirlWhoLovedTomGordon''. [[spoiler:She stares down and then throws a Walkman in the face of the God of the Lost.]]
* In ''Literature/FriedGreenTomatoesAtTheWhistleStopCafe'', despite there being any number of people both motivated and capable, the one who ends up killing the wife-beating, kidnapping rapist Bennett is [[spoiler: the sweet, unassuming grandmother Sipsey. With a five-pound skillet to the head, without even a hint of remorse. And then she cuts off his head and buries it in the garden. Her son gets one shortly thereafter when he butchers Bennett and feeds him to the inspectors investigating Bennett's disappearance as barbecue sandwiches.]]
** Reverend Scroggins gets one after years of being the butt of Idgie's pranks when [[spoiler: he organizes all the hobos she helped to pose as his congregation to testify to that she and Big George were at a revival meeting the night Frank went missing.]]

* The Heritage/Legacy/Inheritance trilogies (no, not THAT Inheritance Trilogy) by Ian Douglas are pretty much ever-escalating Crowning Moments for humanity and the Xul. First, the Xul manage to rule the galaxy for ''ten million years'' after obliterating the rulers before them. Humanity goes to war against them and manages to avoid being completely wiped out of existence. [[spoiler: Then humanity discovers that the Xul have a Dyson Cloud around the ''black hole at the center of the Milky Way''. Humanity's response is to ''hit it with a star''.]]

* The climax of ''[[Literature/TheDarkangelTrilogy The Darkangel]]'' by Meredith Ann Pierce. Aeriel [[spoiler: refuses to kill the darkangel and chooses instead to redeem him - by cutting out her own heart and placing it in his chest to replace the one that was coated in lead by the witch.]] The duarough gets one that follows up her romantic sacrifice with a Crowning Moment of Logical Thought. [[spoiler: He holds the lead heart over a lamp and melts the lead off it, then puts ''that'' in ''her'' chest to bring her back to life.]]

* ''Literature/TheLiesOfLockeLamora'': where to start? [[spoiler: Locke escaping from the Duke's spymaster while ten stories up a tower filled with secret police who know who he is? The brutal ToThePain he deals out to the Falconer? The final duel with the Gray King? Or hey, let's talk about how he pulled off a con by ''telling the mark exactly what was going on''.]] And to give someone besides Locke credit, there's [[spoiler: Jean killing the Berangias twins, two women who make their living fighting ''sharks''.]]
** I'm gonna go with [[spoiler: punching an old lady in the teeth.]] He had reasons, but really, the action just sorta stands on its own.
* No love for Gore's fight with [[spoiler:the Starflyer Assassin]] in Judas Unchained from the ''Literature/CommonwealthSaga''? [[spoiler:Brainwashed assassin]] plus angry papa/grandpapa-wolf, plus all the implanted high tech technology money can buy = one awesome fight sequence.

* In ''Flinx Transcendent'', Creator/AlanDeanFoster[='=]s final novel in the [[Literature/HumanxCommonwealth Flinx and Pip]] series, the titular hero singlehandedly convinces the [=AAnn=], centuries-long enemies of mankind, to suspend all hostile activity in the face of the oncoming UltimateEvil, [[spoiler:by brazenly walking into their seat of government in disguise and sending the Emperor and his entire council on an [[ExpositionBeam astral projection]] without their consent]].

** The first use of the Battle Calculor [[spoiler: and then, much later, the defeat of the Alspring knock-off]]
** Zarvora Cybeline's real plan - [[spoiler: First, she becomes Highliber. Next, she uses the calculor's abilities to take control of Rochester, and then more or less the entire south of Australia, so she has the resources to put together some working rockets. With them (and the Calculor), she tricks the ancient orbital battlestations that EMP any electronics they detect on the ground into firing on the sunshade being assembled around the planet by ancient NanoMachines, cutting it to pieces.]]
*** and then [[spoiler: Mirrorsun gets a Crowning Moment of its own when it repairs itself over the next few weeks, plays around with lenses, and then melts, pulverises or blows up each and every one of those battlestations. Which allows the librarians to reinvent radio, call it up and politely ask it to please stop freezing the planet. And send some toys from its lunar nanofactories.]]

* Edwin Windsor, protagonist(/antagonist, depending on your viewpoint) of ''Literature/HowToSucceedInEvil'' is nearly a walking Crowning Moment. The conclusion of the story is perhaps his defining moment of character, however, as he [[spoiler:calmly speaks to the fallen Superhero Excelsior, showing him through words and pictures that his entire life as a Hero has been a sham and that he has caused far more death in the world than he has prevented and convinces him the only way to salvage his reputation would be to be buried alive under a million tons of concrete.]]
* Towards the end of Stephen King's ''Literature/TheStand'', Glen Bateman--an old, cynical sociology professor--[[spoiler:laughs at Randall Flagg. In his face. His line is basically, "THIS is what we've been afraid of all this time?!" Later, Glen is shot by Flagg's right-hand man, and his last words are, "That's okay, son. You don't know any better." And this contributes to Flagg's utter meltdown in the end of the book.]]

* Since no one's mentioned anything by L.E. Modesitt, Jr., in ''Darknesses'', Alucius, [[spoiler: after beating two ifrits and wrecking their Tables, and after being discharged from the military, has twenty assassins sent after him. He realizes they're there, rides right into the trap, and kills them all]].

* In Frank E. Peretti's ''This Present Darkness'', the angel Guilo gets one at the end when his captain [[spoiler:allows him to sound the victory in his place]].
** Marshall has a few good ones, but toward the end, he runs into Shawn, [[spoiler:the guy who had led his daughter into a cult and had been helping the others try to force her to ceremonially kill herself.]] Marshall doesn't say a word, just [[spoiler:punches the little bastard's lights out then and there.]]

* The second ''Literature/EmpireFromTheAshes'' book has several, such as Colin's BigDamnHeroes scene, where he saves the Earth from the brink of destruction at the hands of alien invaders with an awesomely brief CurbStompBattle, which he follows up with not long afterward by '''[[spoiler:[[RememberWhenYouBlewUpASun blowing up a sun]]]]'''. Dahak gets his own at the end of that book, when he [[spoiler:disobeys Colin's direct order to save himself (revealing his ability to disregard his core programming), turns down the enemy AI commander's WeCanRuleTogether offer, and hacks it into total system failure, [[HeroicSacrifice sacrificing himself]] ([[EmergencyTransformation sort of]]) to stop the invasion for good]].

** In ''Kitty Goes to Washington'', Kitty, radio talk show host and werewolf, is [[spoiler: [[VanHelsingHateCrimes kidnapped by a military scientist and a fundementalist Senator]] to finally capture proof of the supernatural on tape. She calls in a favor and makes a deal with some of the people filming it, and she turns it into an ''interview'', which gets broadcast on her show, humanizing people like herself, incriminating her kidnappers and incidentally getting a lot of publicity for her show]]. She later compares the experience to [[RapeAsDrama being raped]], but in the end she points out that her kidnappers are on the run or at least discredited while she's gone public, so it's definitely a victory.
** In ''Kitty's House of Horrors'', [[MagiciansAreWizards Odysseus Grant]] gets one. The [[spoiler: [[VanHelsingHateCrimes fight with]] [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame the hunters]] has come down to the final survivors]], and Grant [[spoiler: takes a stake meant for a vampire, and survives it by slowing his heartbeat by meditation]]. This guy, a necromancer responsible for putting SealedEvilInACan, is equally capable of solving problems with stage magic and real magic, and we never know which he'll choose, and it is awesome.
* The short story "The Man At the Table" by C.B. Gilford features a wonderful Awesome Moment. Byron Duquay is sitting at a card table, preparing for guests, when an escaped killer, Rick Masden, enters his home. Duquay convices Masden to sit at the opposite end of the table for a drink. Masden demands money and the keys to Duquay's car. Duquay says he will give Masden neither, and then proceeds to tell him that if Masden attempts to get up with his knife, Duquay will upend the table on him and grab his own, larger knife. Masden is a clearly less muscular than Duquay, and at a disadvantage in a physical fight. Masden quickly realizes that Duquay was expecting company, and that Duquay is trying to delay him until help can arrive, which Duquay admits calmly. They reach an arrangement where Masden will leave his knife behind and leave empty-handed. It is just then that the other guests arrive, and Masden is apprehended. [[spoiler: [[BatmanGambit we learn that delaying Masden wasn't Duquay's real gambit. Bluffing him into thinking that he could and would fight Masden was. Duquay was paralyzed from the waist down, unable to stand. His wife had placed him in the chair earlier so he would feel like less of an invalid when playing cards with his friends.]] ]]
* In the David Brin novella Thor versus Captain America, the protagonist taunts Odin to the point of intolerable rage, grabs Gugnir out of the air and SNAPS IT OVER HIS KNEE (it broke his leg, but they were executing him in a minute anywat) when it is thrown at him.

-->[[spoiler:"Let there be light!" And there was light.]]

What do you mean, "books aren't awesome?" Reading [[MomentOfAwesome these parts]] just might change your mind.

** Daphne Tercius getting over her own trauma and inferority complexes, and [[PercussiveMaintenence rebooting]] Phaethon from his HeroicBSOD. Also a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

* Trisha [=McFarland=] has exactly one CrowningMomentOfAwesome in ''Literature/TheGirlWhoLovedTomGordon''. [[spoiler:She stares down and then throws a Walkman in the face of the God of the Lost.]]

** Arguably, the whole battle against the Chechens and others is one big CrowningMomentOfAwesome for all the Keldara.

** Lasko, the Keldara designated hunter and sniper of [[ImprobableAimingSkills nigh supernatural skill]] makes a truly stupendous shot, killing a target at 2782 meters, ''live on international television''. However, he himself acknowledge that it was as much luck as skill at that range. His ''real'' CrowningMomentOfAwesome comes in the next book, ''A Deeper Blue''.\\

* In ''Literature/NightWatcher'': Grey is a dog whose master was killed by vampires. He runs away in fear, then figures out how vampire mental powers work (and how to counter them by making vampires think he's scarier than them)... and goes on awesome vampire-hunting rampage. In a city that's crawling with them. [[HumansAreBastards In the middle of a brutal stray dog-shooting campaign]]. He's actually quite disappointed with how easily the small fry go down, until he runs into a vampire pack leader, who is to vampires what vampires are to humans. Cue ''another'' CrowningMomentOfAwesome as Grey is rescued - after holding his ground on his own quite well, mind you! - by Igor Dolinsky, who then becomes his new master.

Don't forget to mind the '''spoilers''', Tropers!

* Despite being known better for writing FunnyMoments rather than Moments of Awesome, there ''is'' a notable example in ''Nicholas Nickleby''. [[BoardingSchoolOfHorrors After weeks of observing and enduring countless abuses]], our titular character finally loses his temper and intervenes when a crippled, possibly mentally stunted and horribly abused runaway is about to be flogged. He then promptly gives [[SadistTeacher Headmaster Squeers]] the most well-deserved beating of his life, stopping only ''after his arm gets tired.''

* ''[[Literature/PeterPan Peter Pan in Scarlet]]'' has one near the end: [[spoiler:Right after a CrowningMomentofHeartwarming between Wendy and Captain Hook, Peter Pan tries to banish Wendy to Nowhereland for helping his enemy.]]
->[[spoiler:'A french window for me, if you please!' said Wendy defiantly, and Peter, taken aback, made the door into a pair of french windows instead.]]
->[[spoiler:'Wendy Darling, I banish you to Nowhereland for giving succour to the enemy! Go now!']]
->[[spoiler:'The door jambs are not straight,' said Wendy, and folded her arms. ... Wendy did not look very punished. She did not even look very banished, standing there on the far side of the door with her arms crossed. 'Stand away, please,' she said sharply, and the boys stepped smartly backwards--Even Peter Pan. Then Wendy bent down, picked up an imaginary boulder, and hurled it through the imaginary french windows. There was the most tremendous smash of breaking glass. 'Bosh and tosh!' she said, stepping through the wreckage of glazing bars and locks and bolts, being careful not to tear her pirate-flag dress on the jagged glass. 'Sometimes, Peter, you are ''such'' a ninny!']]

* Similarly, the reveal scenes in Stephen Fry's ''The Star's Tennis Balls'' (''Revenge'' in America). Although, these were somewhat more bittersweet, and frankly, kind of scary. But still, the computer screen flashing the phrase 'Ned Maddstone sends you to Hell' was just brilliant.

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* Any of the scenes where Dantes [[NoDoubtTheYearsHaveChangedMe reveals himself to his enemies]] after destroying them.
** "One!"
** Similarly, the reveal scenes in Stephen Fry's DarkerAndEdgier modern retelling of it ''The Star's Tennis Balls'' (''Revenge'' in America.). Although, these were somewhat more bittersweet, and frankly, kind of scary. But still, the computer screen flashing the phrase 'Ned Maddstone sends you to Hell' was just brilliant.
* [[AffablyEvil Prettyboy turned villain]] Benedetto's [[spoiler: death sentencing hasn't been mentioned.]] Essentially, he [[spoiler: reveals, in court, that he is the son the judge (Villefort) attempted to bury alive at birth. This is struck down by the other members of court, who even excuse Villefort's stupefied reaction, however, it does nothing to stop the villain's descent into what can only be described as insanity.]]
* "Madame, where do you keep the poison that you habitually use?"
* Monsieur Noirtier. Just sort of generally. Highlights include saving his granddaughter from an unhappy marriage by [[spoiler: informing the groom who killed his royalist father years ago; him, of course, in an epic duel, figuring out not only that the household was being poisoned, but also the method by which he could ensure that Valentine would be immune and other such feats of badassery]]. [[HandicappedBadass All while being paralysed from the nose down.]]

* The ''entire novel''. It was so awesome that, by being published right as Italy was being unified, it ''defined the Italian language as it is'' as the dialect of Firenze simply by virtue of having been written into it.

* Literature/FatherBrown in his first appearance. At the beginning of the story [[spoiler: he is seemingly kidnapped by Flambeau, the biggest criminal in Europe who is after a blue jewelled cross that Father Brown is transporting. At the end of the story, Father Brown reveals that not only is he not carrying the cross (he switched parcels so it is now winging its way in safety to Rome) and not only did he purposely orchestrate events of the story in order to allow the police to follow them but also that Father Brown knows every villainous trick that Flambeau knows and then some from just listening to criminals in confession. The story ends with a pre-Wayne's World moment of 'we are not worthy' from not only Flambeau but also France's leading detective]]

* Creator/JamesPatterson's ''Cat and Mouse'': "Look at this can of Coke. Ordinary can of Coke. ''Your'' Coke, Simon."

** Action {{Jesus}} during the revolt of the angels. (Jesus on a chariot with a bow and arrow. .) His rebuff of Satan in ''Paradise Regained'' is pretty impressive too.

* In Guy Kay's ''Literature/TheLionsOfAlRassan'' the fanatical expy-Muslim Muwardi desert warriors have attacked an expy-Christian encampment. Their leader's first move is to bash in the skull of a thirteen year old boy. Then, for the next handful of pages, you think this is going to be a Crowning Moment of Heartbreak where we see the boy die because no-one has the skills to save him. Then - the expy-Jewish refugee doctor steps up to the plate and performs their world's first trepannation to relieve the pressure on the boy's brain. It's an operation no-one had believed possible, or dared to perform before this but this man ''knows'' he has the skills to pull it off. And he does and the boy lives. What makes this even more awesome is that he blind and dumb and performs the operation by momory, instinct and feel with his wife translating his instructions since she is the only one who can understand him. It is a scene to make you cry with joy and exultation.

* In Creator/MercedesLackey's novel ''The Chrome Circle'', the hero's kitsune friend Foxtrot Xray (no joke) launches himself at one of the novel's Big Bads in an (ultimately futile) attempt to let the guy go. Noted in that his fellow fox spirits recognized just how badass it was, and ''promoted'' him up from three tails to [[strike: four]] five. Yes, he was so badass that he was ''double-promoted''.
** In the same book, Tannim escaped from TheFairFolk by driving his guards insane - with TheyMightBeGiants lyrics.
** In ''Born to Run'' Tannim took out the big bad, who was a very powerful elf warrior/mage (and producer of child snuff pornography) by bitch-slapping him with a ''cold iron Ford Mustang''.
** Also in ''Born to Run'', Foxtrot X-Ray single-handedly routs an entire host of the Unseleighe, any single one of which could have disemboweled him with their toenails, by shapeshifting into the likeness of High King Oberon and bluffing out the entire mob.

* Creator/FrankHerbert's ''Literature/TheDosadiExperiment'' features one long one for hero Jorj X. McKie in it's last two chapters. The aliens known as Gowachin have an absurdly complex and Kafka-esque legal system, and despite McKie's extensive training in their practices, he's barely able to survive a meeting with a Gowachin attorney early in the book. By the end, his experiences have made him far more hardened and pragmatic, and upon entering a Gowachin courtroom he's able to play the whole system like a violin to see that the guilty are all punished, and set in motion some pretty big changes to come (unfortunately, AuthorExistenceFailure means we don't get to see those plans come to fruition).

* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''The Star Beast'', [[BadassBureaucrat Under Secretary Kiku's]] negotiations with the Hroshii.

* After many Crowning Moments throughout his career, Creator/BruceWillis even managed to get one in a non-fiction novel. In ''[[ViewAskewniverse My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith]]'', Creator/KevinSmith tells the story of his being in ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' with Bruce. During which, he managed to talk down a group of Studio Executives simply by asking them [[spoiler:who their second choice to play John [=McClane=] was]]. Now, if only he could have used this magical power to get LFDH that R-Rating...

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* After many Crowning Moments throughout his career, BruceWillis even managed to get one in a non-fiction novel. In ''[[ViewAskewniverse My Boring Ass Life: The Uncomfortably Candid Diary of Kevin Smith]]'', Creator/KevinSmith tells the story of his being in ''Film/LiveFreeOrDieHard'' with Bruce. During which, he managed to talk down a group of Studio Executives simply by asking them [[spoiler:who their second choice to play John [=McClane=] was]]. Now, if only he could have used this magical power to get LFDH that R-Rating...