History Awesome / SkulduggeryPleasant

** [[spoiler: Another moment worthy of note is that when Skulduggery tells Scapegrace he ''has'' to win against the Warden if they want to have a chance of defeating Darquesse, Scapegrace, though obviously scared, doesn't once try to back out or change his mind. In fact, he's pretty damn brave considering.]]

* Omen [[spoiler: saves Auger and attacks Tancred with a crowbar]].

* Omen, in a beautiful mix of suicidal courage and RefugeInAudacity, managing to [[spoiler: hitch a ride with Nero, a Teleporter, directly to the Neoteric's base of operation WITHOUT Nero even noticing (which would have quickly resulted in Omen's death)]]

* Valkyrie trolls her interrogators into [[spoiler: chopping off her thumb so she can escape the cuff]].

* Valkryie is still tormented by hallucinations of Darquess. As it turns out, [[spoiler: they're not hallucinations, it's a small shred of Darquesse lingering in our reality that only she can see.]] What does she do with this information? [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Punch her in the face.]]

* [[spoiler: Good Tanith]] ''finally'' kills the damn [[spoiler: Black Cleaver, Formerly the Grey Cleaver, formerly the White Cleaver]], by making it follow the rules of conduct in a circle duel. You have to remove your armor, you can't exit the circle. (Which restricts its wide attacks.)

** To clarify, China knows the first part of valkyries given name and uses it against her so she doesn't go to help Skulduggery. Valkyrie then chooses her name, kicks down the door to china's room (To find ghastly's address), defies China making her lose composure, and then triumphantly telling china her name before leaving. Not long after that, she gathers enough help to rescue skulduggery from serpine, all without proper magic.

* Lord Vile and [[spoiler:Melancholia]] team up in ''The Dying of the Light.'' [[spoiler:They beat the crap out of [[AGodIAm Darquesse]] and very nearly kill her.]]

** To clarify, China knows the first part of valkyries given name and uses it against her so she doesn't go to help Skulduggery. Valkyrie then chooses her name, kicks down the door to china's room (To find ghastly's address), defies china openly making ehr frwak out, and then triumphantly telling china her name before leaving. Not long after that, she gathers enough help to rescue skulduggery from serpine, all without proper magic.

** To clarify, China knows the first part of valkyries given name and uses it against her so she doesn't go to help Skulduggery. Valkyrie then chooses her name, kicks down the door to china's room (To find ghastly's address), defies china openly making ehr frwak out, and then triumphantly telling china her name before leaving. Not long after that, she gathers enough help to rescue skulduggery from serpine, all without proper magic.

Mr. Bliss is the most powerful mage in the books until we see darquesse and he effortlessly gets ripped apart by a hosted faceless one with no more than a flick of a hand

* Sanguine showing up to fight [[spoiler: the Black Cleaver]], starting with him whistling [[TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly Ennio Morricone]]. And then in the ensuing battle Sanguine manages to completely outmatch his opponent, [[CombatPragmatist using his powers to stay out of reach and attack unpredictably]]. And when he's eventually disarmed and cornered he doesn't even miss his stride, diving straight ''through'' his opponent to tear them apart using his tunneling power. granted [[spoiler: the cleaver promptly recovers and kills him]], but it's an impressive display of his skill all the same, and puts him on par with a lot of powerful individuals.

* In ''Last Stand of Dead Men'', we get to see what it's like fighting a Teleporter. No wonder they were so baffled in ''The Faceless Ones''.

** ''The Dying of the Light'' has China gleefully abusing her power to screw with Eliza.

* Sanguine showing up to fight [[spoiler: the Black Cleaver]], starting with him whistling [[TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly Ennio Morricone]]. And then in the ensuing battle Sanguine manages to completely outmatch his opponent, [[CombatPragmatist using his powers to stay out of reach and attack unpredictably]] and when eventually disarmed and cornered doesn't even miss his stride, diving straight ''through'' his opponent to tear them apart. granted [[spoiler: the cleaver promptly recovers and kills him]], but it's an impressive display of his skill all the same, and puts him on par with a lot of powerful individuals.

* [[spoiler: Good Tanith]] ''finally'' kills the damn [[spoiler: Black Cleaver, Formerly the Grey Cleaver, formerly the White Cleaver, by making it follow the rules of conduct in a circle duel. You have to remove your armor, you can't exit the circle. (Which restricts its wide attacks.)]]

* How do you kill someone who kills gods? Who treats killing everything, including Eldritch Abominations, as a goal? Who will not die no matter what you do? Oh, Darquesse will take hits, but she always avoids the [[WeaponOfXSlaying God Killer weapons]] and regenerates everything else. Well....[[spoiler: You get four of the most powerful Sensitives to make a ''very'' powerful illusion spell that told her that she won. That she killed everything in the universe and absorbed their LifeEnergy, and there was nothing left but to cross over to where the [[EldritchAbomination Faceless Ones]] live and challenge them with the power from killing everything. She does cross over...but she doesn't have the power needed to fight them all.]] Weaponizing AndThenWhat.

* How do you kill someone who kills gods? Who treats killing everything, including Eldritch Abominations, as a goal? Who will not die no matter what you do? Oh, Darquesse will take hits, but she always avoids the [[WeaponOfXSlaying God Killer weapons]] and regenerates everything else. Well....[[spoiler: You get four of the most powerful Sensitives to make a ''very' powerful illusion spell that told her that she won. That she killed everything in the universe and absorbed their LifeEnergy, and there was nothing left but to cross over to where the [[EldritchAbomination Faceless Ones]] live and challenge them with the power from killing everything. She does cross over...but she doesn't have the power needed to fight them all.]] Weaponizing AndThenWhat.

* How do you kill someone who kills gods? Who treats killing everything, including Eldritch Abominations, as a goal? Who will not die no matter what you do? Oh, Darquesse will take hits, but she always avoids the [[WeaponOfXSlaying God Killer weapons]] and regenerates everything else. Well....[[spoiler: You get four of the most powerful Sensates to make a ''very' powerful illusion spell that told her that she won. That she killed everything in the universe and absorbed their LifeEnergy, and there was nothing left but to cross over to where the [[EldritchAbomination Faceless Ones]] live and challenge them with the power from killing everything. She does cross over...but she doesn't have the power needed to fight them all.]] Weaponizing AndThenWhat.