History Awesome / NicholasNickleby

-->'''Nicholas:''' Come near my sister again... and I shall '''''not''''' be so forgiving.

-->'''Nicholas:''' We knew no shame until we knew you, and the degradations we have endured, whether at Dotheboys Hall or in the dark box of a theater, all trace their poisoned roots to you. You did not want us when we came, and it shamed me to seek help from someone unwilling to give it. Now our only shame is the blood which binds our name to yours. Therefore, ''your brother's widow'' '''''and her children''''' '''''RENOUNCE YOU!''''' May every recollection of your life cast a terrifying darkness over your deathbed. How soon that day may come, I cannot know. But I do know, that in our life, '''''you live no more.'''''

--->'''Nicholas:''' The structures you raised all through your misspent life are crumbling into dust. This very day, 10,000 pounds of your hoarded wealth are gone in one great crash. Your day is done. Night is coming fast for you.

** Nicholas's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech moments to his Uncle Ralph. One particular example, is when Ralph's scheme in marrying Madeline Bray to Arthur Gride (Sir Mulberry Hawk in the 2002 film) fails, Nicholas' speech reeks of TranquilFury.

-->'''Nicholas:''' We knew no shame until we knew you, and the degradations we have endured, whether at Dotheboys Hall or in the dark box of a theater, all trace their poisoned roots to you. You did not want us when we came, and it shamed me to seek help from someone unwilling to give it. Now our only shame is the blood which binds our name to yours. Therefore, ''your brother's widow'' '''''and her children''''' '''''RENOUNCE YOU!''''' May every recollection of your life cast a terrifying darkness over your deathbed. How soon that day may come, I cannot know. But I do know, that in our life, '''you live no more.'''

* Nicholas gives Squeers [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown a taste of his own medicine]]. To make it all the more awesome, Squeers' wife and children attack him and try to pull him away, and Nicholas is so busy beating Squeers that he doesn't even notice them.

* Though a TearJerker, Lord Frederick Verisopht's RedemptionEqualsDeath counts as this. In death, he manages to not only ruin his creditors (Sir Mulberry Hawk and Ralph Nickleby, specifically) by making them lose large sums of money, therefore leading to their own demise (Hawk dies in debtor's prison, and Ralph hangs himself), but also forces Hawk to flee the country, therefore saving Nicholas and Kate from his revenge.

'''Kate:''' You can use force with me. I've no doubt you'd like too. \\

** When he learns of Sir Mulberry Hawk assaulting his sister, he attacks him in the finest moment of BigBrotherInstinct, resulting in him getting publicly humiliated just as he humiliated Kate. In the 2002 film, while he doesn't get Hawk injured in his attack, he does leave him with those words.

** When he learns of Sir Mulbery Hawk assaulting his sister, he attacks him in the finest moment of BigBrotherInstinct, and leaves him with those words.

** Nicholas's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech moments to his Uncle Ralph. One particular example, is when Ralph's scheme in marrying Madeline Bray to Sir Hawk fails, Nicholas' speech reeks of TranquilFury.

'''Kate:''' You can use force with me. I've no doubt you like too. \\

'''Ralph:''' [[TranquilFury Will you]] ''[[TranquilFury go?]]''

-->'''Kate:''' From the moment we came to London, you thought you can do as you like with us. Mama trusted you. We all did. We found you out now, and we are free of your charity! I'm not afraid of you!

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[BewareTheNiceOnes“I have a long series of insults to avenge and my indignation is aggravated by the dastardly cruelties practiced on helpless infancy in this foul den. Have a care, for if you do raise the devil within me, the consequences shall fall heavily upon your own head!”]]'']]

[[caption-width-right:350:''“I have a long series of insults to avenge and my indignation is aggravated by the dastardly cruelties practiced on helpless infancy in this foul den. Have a care, for if you do raise the devil within me, the consequences shall fall heavily upon your own head!”'']]

* John Browdie saving Smike by faking an illness and then taking the opportunity to rescue Smike and bringing him back to Nicholas. This scene alone proves John to be a valuable ally to Nicholas but also that he’s quite a GeniusBruiser.

-->'''Nicholas:''' We knew no shame until we knew you, and the degradations we have endured, whether at Dotheboy's Hall or in the dark box of a theater, all trace their poisoned roots to you. You did not want us when we came, and it shamed me to seek help from someone unwilling to give it. Now our only shame is the blood which binds our name to yours. Therefore, ''your brother's widow'' '''''and her children''''' '''''RENOUNCE YOU!''''' May every recollection of your life cast a terrifying darkness over your deathbed. How soon that day may come, I cannot know. But I do know, that in our life, '''you live no more.'''

* Any time that Nicholas taps into his BewareTheNiceOnes moments. He may be the oldest child in the family, but there is a reason he is named head of the family and he makes real good on it.

* Any time that Nicholas taps into his BewareTheNiceOnes moments. He may be the oldest child in the family, but there is a reason he is named head of the family and he makes real good on it.