History Awesome / MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy

* Kelsier taking on a [[ImplacableMan Steel Inquisitor]] in a hopeless fight to buy time for [[spoiler:the escaping prisoners]]. He wins.

** Hell, this whole scene. Especially [[spoiler: Kelsier's]] last words to the Lord Ruler: "I am the one thing you cannot kill. I am hope." And then the Lord Ruler slaps him so hard that his head explodes into a [[PinkMist red mist.]] Bonus points for pulling a massive ThanatosGambit, too.

** Also a moment of awesome for Elend as well. According to [[WordofGod Word of Brandon]],burning Atium with Duraluminum allows you to see the full consequences of your actions. By doing this just before his fight with Marsh {who Ruin has reclaimed control over}, he realised that by allowing himself to die, he would cause Vin to sacrifice herself to kill Ruin - allowing Sazed to take up both Shards and fix everything. [[HeroicSacrifice He gave his life to save the world]]

** And before that, when he manages to save the group of people from a locked, burning building and make a rather flashy exit when forced to leap through a window. He even stops on the rooftop to give a pointed DeathGlare to the Citizen before making his escape despite the ensuing chaos, cloak still aflame.

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* Elend's chapter in ''The Well of Ascension'' where he goes, alone, to a koloss camp, calls out Jastes, walks out and then single-highhandedly attacks and kills a koloss in order to find out how Jastes controls them. All without Allomancy.

-->"''You know, [=KenParr=], I learned a few important things while wearing these bones a year ago. Humans, if you think about it, just aren't built for speed. Dogs, however, ''are."

* "You know, if you think about it, humans aren't really built for speed. But dogs ''are.''" [=TenSoon=], you brilliant kandra!

* "You know, if you think about it, humans aren't really built for speed. But dogs ''are.''" TenSoon, you brilliant Kandra!

** This is then topped by the ensuing beatdown, including the total '''flattening''' of Kedrik Shaw. This is after firing off a Steelpush so powerful that it [[spoiler: launches her ''over the stormclouds'' to give her an unimpeded view of the night sky.]]
** To elaborate, Vin fights twelve [[ImplacableMan Inquisitors]] and kills them all.

* In ''The Hero of Ages'', [[spoiler: Vin manages to take out four Inquisitors with only her Mistborn powers before getting overwhelmed.]]

* In ''The Well of Ascension'', at one point, Vin, a hundred pound 18 or 20 year old girl comes screaming down out of the sky wielding a sword longer than she is and cuts a man and his horse in half.
** Not just ''a man''- ''Straff Venture'', the BigBad of the book and probably the vilest human character in the whole trilogy, gets sliced in half. ''With style''.

* Elend's chapter in ''The Well of Ascension'' where he goes, alone, to a koloss camp, bitches at Jastes, walks out and then single-highhandedly attacks and kills a koloss in order to find out how Jastes controls them. All without Allomancy.

* Sazed punching a Koloss in the face. [[NonActionGuy Sazed]]!

* A minor one, in ''Hero of Ages'', is Telden. He's a minor character who was once one of Elend's noble friends, now living under Yomen's reign. When Yomen traps Vin in the underground cavern, he volunteers to go down to try to convince Vin to drink drugged wine so Yomen can transport her to a jail cell. If she won't, he can't come out, so best case scenario they both starve to death. Just to clarify, Telden is not a Mistborn or even a Misting, is unarmed, and presumably not even that good at fighting. And this is freaking [[OneManArmy Vin]]. Yes, he knew who she was. And how powerful a Mistborn she was. And what bits of pointy metal can do to your body. He went down there, alone except for a handful of similarly un-superpowered servants, counting on Vin being reasonable enough to drink the drugged wine and allow herself to be captured by Yomen since the alternative is starving to death, when he's no doubt heard horror stories about her and knows he's utterly helpless against her. The best part is how completely nonchalant he is about it. When Vin says that she can force him to get Yomen to let her out, he points out that Yomen will be able to tell if he's speaking under duress and won't open the door, and then they'll both starve. He goes on to say that he has no doubt she could break him easily, but he won't break his word to Yomen just because of threats, so she'll have to break a few fingers or something, and Yomen will hear his screams. And he says this completely calmly. Just the fact that he isn’t pants-pissingly terrified of Vin makes him a {{Badass}} in my eyes. It’s a shame he only shows up once.

** Hell, this whole scene. Especially [[spoiler: Kelsier's]] last words to the Lord Ruler: "I am the one thing you cannot kill. I am hope." And then the Lord Ruler slaps him so hard that his head explodes into a red mist. Bonus points for pulling a massive ThanatosGambit, too.

* Marsh finally throwing off Ruin's influence enough to [[spoiler: take the earring out of Vin's ear]].
** This is then topped by the ensuing beatdown, including the total '''flattening''' of Kedrik Shaw. This is after firing off a Steelpush so powerful that it [[spoiler: launches her ''over the stormclouds'' to give her an unimpeded view of the night sky.]]
** To elaborate, Vin fights twelve [[ImplacableMan Inquisitors]] and kills them all.
* In ''The Well of Ascension'', at one point, Vin, a hundred pound 18 or 20 year old girl comes screaming down out of the sky wielding a sword longer than she is and cuts a man and his horse in half.
** Not just ''a man''- ''Straff Venture'', the BigBad of the book and probably the vilest human character in the whole trilogy, gets sliced in half. ''With style''.
* Sazed punching a Koloss in the face. [[NonActionGuy Sazed]]!
* Elend and the atium-burning army out-gambitting Ruin by using the army of koloss as an excuse to use up the entire atium reserve to keep it away from Ruin.
* Elend's chapter in ''The Well of Ascension'' where he goes, alone, to a koloss camp, bitches at Jastes, walks out and then single-highhandedly attacks and kills a koloss in order to find out how Jastes controls them. All without Allomancy.
--> The koloss he'd attacked did not rise. Its companions stood, looking unconcerned, though their eyes were focused on him. They seemed to want something.
--> "[[BondOneLiner He ate my horse]]," Elend said, saying the first thing that came to his clouded mind.

* Vin figures out how to kill somebody burning [[CombatClairvoyance atium]] without having any herself, which was thought to be more or less impossible.
* In ''The Hero of Ages'', [[spoiler: Vin manages to take out four Inquisitors with only her Mistborn powers before getting overwhelmed.]]
* Vin [[spoiler: rushing from the ball to stop Elend's assassination in the first book]], taking on two Mistborn and a few other Allomancers at once.

* A minor one, in Hero of Ages, is Telden. He's a minor character who was once one of Elend's noble friends, now living under Yomen's reign. When Yomen traps Vin in the underground cavern, he volunteers to go down to try to convince Vin to drink drugged wine so Yomen can transport her to a jail cell. If she won't, he can't come out, so best case scenario they both starve to death. Just to clarify, Telden is not a Mistborn or even a Misting, is unarmed, and presumably not even that good at fighting. And this is freaking [[OneManArmy Vin]]. Yes, he knew who she was. And how powerful a Mistborn she was. And what bits of pointy metal can do to your body. He went down there, alone except for a handful of similarly un-superpowered servants, counting on Vin being reasonable enough to drink the drugged wine and allow herself to be captured by Yomen since the alternative is starving to death, when he's no doubt heard horror stories about her and knows he's utterly helpless against her. The best part is how completely nonchalant he is about it. When Vin says that she can force him to get Yomen to let her out, he points out that Yomen will be able to tell if he's speaking under duress and won't open the door, and then they'll both starve. He goes on to say that he has no doubt she could break him easily, but he won't break his word to Yomen just because of threats, so she'll have to break a few fingers or something, and Yomen will hear his screams. And he says this completely calmly. Just the fact that he isn’t pants-pissingly terrified of Vin makes him a {{Badass}} in my eyes. It’s a shame he only shows up once.