History Awesome / SchlockMercenary

--> Gripponan smart soles definitely qualify as force multipliers. With the right skills, they allow for amazing feats. And with the right intel, amazing feats become ''legendary ambushes.''

* Not only did Schlock realize that their disabled tank might kill thousands while crashing, he came up with a way of preventing it in the few seconds before escaping from the falling tank [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-12-12]], and did it in such a way that he got to create a giant explosion. Could double as a moment of heartwarming considering Schlocks usual disregard for collateral damage.

---> [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2008-12-04]]

---> '''Kevyn:'''You're arguing a lot more than you used to, Sergeant. Do these epaulets mean nothing to you?
---> '''Schlock:'''They mean you outrank me. You still don't get shot at enough. So there is a bomb the size of the whole world sitting on an annie-plant and we need to disarm it. And if we screw up, everybody dies. ''Fine.'' We'll take full loadouts of no-heat goober, DT stunners, cold-flash-bangs, and gas grenades, plus stun batons for up-close-and-personal work. But for that unexpected clump of stun-proof, shielded bogeys who plan to kill us before we can get close to our target we ''will'' be bringing the heavy stuff. Just in case. ''Sir.''

And now it hae been carried out=

* [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080427.html "Tagon's badassery with the pugil stick"]]
** [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030511.html "Don't forget the first time it happened."]]

** [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-11-09 Hell Already Slipped It's Leash, Mister Crunchy.]]

-->'''Tagon:''' Well, it was a '''really''' good threat. [[ https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-11-07 It'd be a shame not to deliver]].

* The Space Station Eina-Afa, aka the Can Full of Sky. That it was created in the first place in-universe is impressive enough (although, as noted in-comic, once you have a story beat about a literal Dyson Shell, engineering achievements lose their luster a bit). But the real credit goes to Howard for coming up with the inside of it, figuring out how the weather systems inside a giant, spinning can of sky might function without use of technobabble or SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale.

* A toss-up between [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20050530.html Kevyn annihilating a shielded tank with an epaulet grenade]] and [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20070426.html taking out an entire enemy fortress with his bare hands]].
** Or ''during'' the fortress-kill: "[[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20070424.html Hello again, commodore. I have a tank now. It's very shiny, but there's an ugly stain on the upholstery]]."
* Elf [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20060430.html proving she's beautiful]].
* Breya Andreyasn turning a Dyson Sphere into hash.
* Her ''charging a '''Battleplate''''' (the most powerful individual starships in existence, not counting the Fleetmind) ''with an unarmed diplomatic ship?'' And ''[[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20071216.html winning]]''.

* [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20050611.html The birth of Emperor Pius Dei]], or perhaps [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20050717.html the largest, fastest, and most bloodless military victory in known history]]
** Given that the losses run to 35% it's actually worse than Gettysburg.
*** But considering the kinds of weapons used, there probably wasn't a whole lot of blood left.

*** That is ''King'' Lota, [[strike:Longshoreman]] Long-gunner of the Apocalypse, thank you.

** LOTA [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20090201.html earns]] LOTA's [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080612.html name]].

** LOTA actually [[BatmanGrabsAGun using a pronoun]] at the start is [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness awesome enough]]. [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-01-25]]

* I would say Petey planning his first mission as an official officer of the crew as well as the resident AI was pretty awesome. Tagon's Toughs are no slouches at getting paid inventively but in his first attempt at a mission Petey managed to get them paid [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20020929.html "five times for a very easy job"]]. Then he just increased the scale of his plans from there.
* Even [[RedShirt John der Trihs]] gets not [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20051031.html one]], but [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20060101.html two]].

* While we occasionally hear that the clothing-like PoweredArmor bestows SuperStrength, we rarely get to see that feature come into play. Then we have the waif-like Ensign Ventura, surrounded by disabled comrades and an angry mob, and...[[http://schlockmercenary.com/d/20090124.html yikes]].

* Plenty of Petey references here already, but for this troper his finest hour is when the month of strips where we find out he isn't dead, starting [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20040801.html here-ish]]. Especially all of the P.D. puns...
* And there was the time when [[http://schlockmercenary.com/d/20020324.html Massey started a very brief firefight in a courtroom]].

* What, no love for Tag? [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080520.html Just]] as [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080521.html trigger-happy]] as the rest of the Toughs, and [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20080522.html not above joking about it too!]]
** And also [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20081017.html this]], though I suppose it counts more for CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming?

* I hereby award one to [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20100531.html Nick]].

* Tailor [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-10-31 confirms]] his [[TookALevelInBadass level of badassery]], originally implied [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-09-18 here]].
* [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-01-02 We don't run from the end of the world. We CHARGE! ]]

* This troper personally squee'd when a montage was apparently set to Still Alive.
** This troper did as well, which caused a problem since he was in school at the time.
* [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2010-05-27 Here.]]

* [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-03-17 Kathryn v.s. Schlock]]. Skinny Kathryn beats Schlock with nothing more than her wits and a little force multiplication.
** And Dr. Bunnigus [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2011-04-08 makes it even more awesome]].

* Captain Landon, Internal Affairs officer for the JSF. In an enemy stronghold, surrounded by heavily-armed officers, and he's the only one who hasn't been suborned by a nanite hack. Most people wouldn't survive such a scenario. [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2015-01-18 Most people aren't uplifted polar bears]].
* Kevyn teaches Schlock physics. [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-01-06 Schlock learns how to shoot around corners]].

--> "Schlock has no horse, no armor, and no sword, but even the mightiest Mongol horse warrior would see in him a fit heir"