History Awesome / OnceUponATimeInWonderland

* The Knave of Hearts going all BigDamnHeroes on [[spoiler: the Cheshire Cat]] to save Alice. Sure, it's only because [[spoiler: he tried to use one of the wishes he stole from her and realized it doesn't work unless it's granted to him by Alice]], but it's still a cool moment for him.

* The Red Queen finally getting one over on Jafar by [[spoiler:getting her hands on Cyrus's bottle]], proving her worth as a co-BigBad.

* Alice [[spoiler: poses as the Knave's executioner, fights off the Queen's guards, and escapes with the Knave by using a freaking ''catapult'' to vault the pair of them over the outer wall of the Queen's courtyard.]] ''Badass!''

** Also, slapping the Red Queen across the face in hopes of getting her to [[GetAholdOfYourselfMan come to her senses]] and start listening to her heart, since she [[spoiler: obviously still cares about the Knave.]]

* Cyrus [[spoiler: cutting through his cage cell using a pair of razor sharpened wishbones]].
** That's not even the impressive part. [[spoiler: He'd earlier gotten caught using one of the wishbones and the guard threw it down the pit below Cyrus' cage, and Cyrus' plan seems thwarted. Until we learn that Cyrus was [[CrazyPrepared COUNTING on the guard catching him and throwing away his wishbone]], as putting the remaining wishbone to the cage's floor creates a magnet effect that brings the other wishbone back up from the pit and in exactly the position that Cyrus needs it to be in.]] ''Damn!''

** Young Jafar survived [[spoiler: his {{Jerkass}} father drowning him]] by sustaining his soul with pure rage, and forcing it back into his lifeless body after it was left unguarded. Jafar is a zombie sustained by rage! No wonder he wasn't scared of Amara killing him.

* The Red Queen completely outmaneuvering Jafar, topped off by her leaving behind "present" to him: [[spoiler: the treacherous Tweedle's head in a box.]]
** Jafar retaliates by [[spoiler: blowing up her castle]]. Sure, the effects looks like something out of ''Film/{{Birdemic}}'', but the fact that he was [[VillainousBreakdown pissed enough to go through with it]] is pretty cool.

* Will says that he expects Anastasia to [[spoiler: use her wishes]] to take the easy way out of the current situation, same as she always does. She promptly announces that she and Will are staying to help Alice and Cyrus [[spoiler: free Cyrus' brothers, who are also imprisoned in bottles.]] To top off her CharacterDevelopment, she even owns up to her previous bad behavior.

* How Alice tricks Jafar and wins, which is essentially a XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:if Amara dies and the water is returned to the Well, the curse is broken, the genies' power is lost, and so is Jafar's spell breaking the laws of magic. But if he takes the water from Amara to prevent it from being returned, he's become the one stealing from the Well and is thus cursed instead, which ''also'' frees the other genies and undoes Jafar's spell cast with their powers.]]

* Most people in the borogrove turn into calm, docile trees. Alice turns into the [[HarryPotter Whomping Willow]]. With a sword.

* The final flashback with Cora, the Queen of Hearts, who teaches the newly born Red Queen to channel her powerful magic into a brazier by exploiting her negative feelings.

* Jafar realizing that Alice and Knave are onto him, and immediately moving to phase two of his scheme.

** Young Jafar survived [[spoiler: his JerkAss father drowning him]] by sustaining his soul with pure rage, and forcing it back into his lifeless body after it was left unguarded. Jafar is a zombie sustained by rage!! No wonder he wasn't scared of Amara killing him.
** Adult Jafar storms Agrabah's palace singlehandedly.
* The Old man. Even if he is something of a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Retired]] [[AbusiveParents Monster]], given what we know of Jafar's torture methods so far, it's pretty [[{{Determinator}} awesome]] that he hasn't managed to give in and say what Jafar wants him to say. Especially because Jafar isn't doing this for closure, like OnceUponATime's other villains would. He's doing this just to humiliate him before he kills him, and the old man is staving off his execution by refusing to say the words.

* The Red Queen could apparently summon a [[ReturnOfTheJedi Sarlaac]] to Wonderland if she so chose.

* Jafar [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy realizing]] that Alice and Knave are onto him, and immediately moving to phase two of his scheme.

* The Old man. Even if he is something of a [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Retired]] [[AbusiveParents Monster]], given what we know of Jafar's torture methods so far, it's pretty [[Determinator awesome]] that he hasn't managed to give in and say what Jafar wants him to say. Especially because Jafar isn't doing this for closure, like OnceUponATime's other villains would. He's doing this just to humiliate him before he kills him, and the old man is staving off his execution by refusing to say the words.

* The Red Queen completely outmanuevering Jafar, topped off by her leaving behind "present" to him: [[spoiler: the treacherous Tweedle's head in a box.]]

* Cyrus and Alice stealing back the compass from the Catapillar. Cyrus distracts him while nonchalantly eating snacks and taking drinks from the barmaids around him while a shrunken Alice sneaks into the caterpillar's horde and drags the compass out.

* Jafar threatens to change Alice's past so that she and Cyrus never meet, unless she tells him where Amara is. She responds with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how he knows nothing about true love, how everything he has is an illusion, and how he'll never be able to destroy what she has with Cyrus, no matter what he does.

* Jafar threatens to change Alice's past so that she and Cyrus never meet, unless she tells him where Amara is. She responds with a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how he knows nothing about true love, how everything he has is an illusion, and how he'll never be able to destroy what she has with Cyrus, no matter what she does.

* Amara protecting Cyrus while still a staff.

* Cyrus and Alice stealing back the compass from the Catapillar.

-->'''Anastasia:''' I've been a terrible Queen. These people deserved better than what I gave them.

* Will says that he expects Anastasia to [[spoiler: use her wishes]] to take the easy way out of the current situation, same as she always does. She promptly announces that she and Will are staying to help Alice and Cyrus [[spoiler: free Cyrus' brothers, who are also imprisoned in bottles.]] To top of her CharacterDevelopment, she even owns up to her previous bad behavior.

* Alice and Cyrus as BackToBackBadasses in the beginning of the flashback.

** The Red Queen caught onto Jafar's game. And instead of trying to be subtle about it, instead of playing another game and trying out-trick him, she stops playing around and immediately evacuates her kingdom and declares a one woman war on him in the smuggest way she can manage. Jafar responds by reminding her why she's afraid of him, and blowing her castle up in a way that she can see from miles off.

* Cyrus is more than just a DamselInDistress. He breaks out of Jafar's magic-proof prison cells with a pair of sharpened wishbones and some acrobatic skills. And kills a dude on the way out.