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** While it's never made clear if the hallucination of Carter was [=McKay's=] imagination or the nearby whale's telepathic abilities or partly both, the hallucination of Carter get's [=McKay=] to increase the time he will survive on his own for, points our issues with his plans and possibly distracts him from enacting a floored plan, which ultimatly keeps him alive long enough for the rescue team to reach him. If it was [=McKay=], then he does know and admits Carter is smarter than him and is able to conjure up a haluncination that saves him in the form of someone he knows he would listen to. If it's the Whale then it pretty much saved a human being acting as his guardian angel.
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** While it's never made clear if the hallucination of Carter was [=McKay's=] imagination or the nearby whale's telepathic abilities or partly both, the hallucination of Carter get's [=McKay=] to increase the time he will survive on his own for, points our issues with his plans and possibly distracts him from enacting a floored flawed plan, which ultimatly keeps him alive long enough for the rescue team to reach him. If it was [=McKay=], then he does know and admits Carter is smarter than him and is able to conjure up a haluncination that saves him in the form of someone he knows he would listen to. If it's the Whale then it pretty much saved a human being acting as his guardian angel.
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** Suprisingly the Whale in the episode essenitally saw the puddle jumper sink, follows it and tries to alert the rescue puddle jumper to it, which happens.
** While it's never made clear if the hallucination of Carter was [=McKay's=] imagination or the nearby whale's telepathic abilities or partly both, the hallucination of Carter get's [=McKay=] to increase the time he will survive on his own for, points our issues with his plans and possibly distracts him from enacting a floored plan, which ultimatly keeps him alive long enough for the rescue team to reach him. If it was [=McKay=], then he does know and admits Carter is smarter than him and is able to conjure up a haluncination that saves him in the form of someone he knows he would listen to. If it's the Whale then it pretty much saved a human being acting as his guardian angel.
** While it's never made clear if the hallucination of Carter was [=McKay's=] imagination or the nearby whale's telepathic abilities or partly both, the hallucination of Carter get's [=McKay=] to increase the time he will survive on his own for, points our issues with his plans and possibly distracts him from enacting a floored plan, which ultimatly keeps him alive long enough for the rescue team to reach him. If it was [=McKay=], then he does know and admits Carter is smarter than him and is able to conjure up a haluncination that saves him in the form of someone he knows he would listen to. If it's the Whale then it pretty much saved a human being acting as his guardian angel.
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* In the early fourth season, Dr. Weir invades the Replicator HiveMind, only she had been the one to initiate the MindProbe (she was part Replicator at this point) and tricked the Replicators into thinking that they had won over her while she was, in fact, still in control.
* "First I need something I can heal." Dr. Keller, moments before she shoots a guy in the leg just to get some measure of revenge without violating her oath.
* "Be All My Sins Remember'd" is more like a Crowning ''Episode'' Of Awesome, as it revolves around the ridiculously powerful Asgard beam weapons, capable of destroying '''Ancient''' warships in a matter of '''seconds''', the biggest spacefight ever in the entire Stargate Verse, and the elimination of the Asurans. Prior to that, the private confrontation Carter has with Colonel Ellis after the mission briefing over his blatantly disrespectful attitude toward [=McKay=]. Carter may have made her place in the universe through a combination of scientific ass-pullery and sheer asskicking, but with mere words she managed to put an ass in his place.
* Surprisingly, Richard Woolsey was given one, calmly telling disembodied Replicators to go ahead and destroy Atlantis because they'll doom themselves if they do.
* "First I need something I can heal." Dr. Keller, moments before she shoots a guy in the leg just to get some measure of revenge without violating her oath.
* "Be All My Sins Remember'd" is more like a Crowning ''Episode'' Of Awesome, as it revolves around the ridiculously powerful Asgard beam weapons, capable of destroying '''Ancient''' warships in a matter of '''seconds''', the biggest spacefight ever in the entire Stargate Verse, and the elimination of the Asurans. Prior to that, the private confrontation Carter has with Colonel Ellis after the mission briefing over his blatantly disrespectful attitude toward [=McKay=]. Carter may have made her place in the universe through a combination of scientific ass-pullery and sheer asskicking, but with mere words she managed to put an ass in his place.
* Surprisingly, Richard Woolsey was given one, calmly telling disembodied Replicators to go ahead and destroy Atlantis because they'll doom themselves if they do.
to:
* In "Rising", the early fourth season, Dr. Weir invades [[TheReveal revelation]] that the Replicator HiveMind, only she had Athosians are ''not'' the primitive society they initially appeared to be, but actually TheRemnant of an [[LowCultureHighTech advanced society]] that has been the one to initiate the MindProbe (she was part Replicator at this point) and tricked the Replicators repeatedly bombed back into thinking that they had won over her while she was, the stone-age by the Wraith.
* The Genii invasion of Atlantis infact, still "The Storm" and "The Eye", in control.
* "First I need something I can heal." Dr. Keller, momentswhich Sheppard goes [[Film/DieHard John McClane]] and [[TeleFrag TeleFrags]] most of the invasion force with a press of a button, and then hunts down the rest one by one.
-->'''Dr. Beckett''': ''(looking at a life-signs detector)'' These dots don't tell us much about who's who. How do we tell which one's the Major?\\
'''Lt. Ford''': He'll be the dot making the other dots go away.
** In "The Storm", when Sheppard goes to activate the final relay, senses a Genii ambush, then promptly massacres the ambushers. Bonus points for calmly picking up a communicator and telling Kolya how what he just did was bad on so many levels.
-->'''Sheppard''': Let me tell you what you did wrong, Kolya. A) You lost two more men. B) Your men damaged the switch beforeshe shoots a guy in I could separate the leg grounding rods, for which I'm sure you're gonna get an earful from [=McKay=]. and C), you just lost whatever credibility you had with me!
* "The Siege, Part 2".
** The Wraith hit Atlantis with a massive formation of darts, and we reply with a massive amount of [[MoreDakka dakka]].
** Weir is held hostage by the Genii, and manages toget some measure of revenge without violating negotiate not only her oath.
* "Be All My Sins Remember'd" is more like a Crowning ''Episode'' Of Awesome,own freedom, but two nuclear bombs as it revolves around well. While she's blindfolded & bound to a chair.
* The ''Daedalus'''s entrance during theridiculously powerful Asgard beam weapons, capable Wraith Siege of Atlantis. It's made aware early on that it's on its way to the Pegasus Galaxy and will be there in a while. Come next episode, it blows its way onto the scene by destroying '''Ancient''' warships in a matter of '''seconds''', at least three hive ships and managing to make it down to the biggest spacefight ever in the entire Stargate Verse, and the elimination of the Asurans. Prior to that, the private confrontation Carter has with Colonel Ellis after the mission briefing over his blatantly disrespectful attitude toward [=McKay=]. Carter may have made her place in the universe planet through a combination an entire fleet of scientific ass-pullery and sheer asskicking, but more.
* Weir vs. Landry & Caldwell in "The Intruder." Weir wins.
* The scene in "Critical Mass" where it's just been revealed that Col. Caldwell has been taken over by a Goa'uld. He's beamed into a conference room withmere words she managed Dr. Weir, Sheppard and Ronon. The following exchange occurs:
-->'''Caldwell (controlled by a Goa'uld)''': I should warn you, as a Goa'uld, I now possess the strength of many men. [Caldwell's eyes glow]
-->'''Ronon''': It won't be a fair fight then... [proceeds toput an take down Caldwell very quickly, then tosses his ass in his place.
''across the table'', where he gets tasered by Sheppard]
*Surprisingly, Richard Woolsey For a RedShirt who doesn't last five minutes, Griffin from "Grace Under Pressure" gets an incredible DyingMomentOfAwesome. When the window of the sinking Jumper starts to crack from the pressure, without even thinking about it, he pushes Rodney into the rear compartment and seals the hatch, seconds before the cockpit floods.
* Teyla uses her Wraith-psychic ability to pilot a hiveship. Considering that her abilities prior to that were mostly limited to being Wraith-radar, this is pretty badass.
* If there wasgiven one, calmly telling disembodied Replicators ever any doubt as to go ahead and destroy Atlantis because they'll doom themselves if why Ronon was made a Runner, we see why in "Sateda" as he makes the Wraith Hunters pay in blood for every step they do.take.
* The [=McKay=]/Carter Intergalactic Gate Bridge is all kinds of awesome in and of itself when one thinks about it.
* The Genii invasion of Atlantis in
* "First I need something I can heal." Dr. Keller, moments
-->'''Dr. Beckett''': ''(looking at a life-signs detector)'' These dots don't tell us much about who's who. How do we tell which one's the Major?\\
'''Lt. Ford''': He'll be the dot making the other dots go away.
** In "The Storm", when Sheppard goes to activate the final relay, senses a Genii ambush, then promptly massacres the ambushers. Bonus points for calmly picking up a communicator and telling Kolya how what he just did was bad on so many levels.
-->'''Sheppard''': Let me tell you what you did wrong, Kolya. A) You lost two more men. B) Your men damaged the switch before
* "The Siege, Part 2".
** The Wraith hit Atlantis with a massive formation of darts, and we reply with a massive amount of [[MoreDakka dakka]].
** Weir is held hostage by the Genii, and manages to
* "Be All My Sins Remember'd" is more like a Crowning ''Episode'' Of Awesome,
* The ''Daedalus'''s entrance during the
* Weir vs. Landry & Caldwell in "The Intruder." Weir wins.
* The scene in "Critical Mass" where it's just been revealed that Col. Caldwell has been taken over by a Goa'uld. He's beamed into a conference room with
-->'''Caldwell (controlled by a Goa'uld)''': I should warn you, as a Goa'uld, I now possess the strength of many men. [Caldwell's eyes glow]
-->'''Ronon''': It won't be a fair fight then... [proceeds to
*
* Teyla uses her Wraith-psychic ability to pilot a hiveship. Considering that her abilities prior to that were mostly limited to being Wraith-radar, this is pretty badass.
* If there was
* The [=McKay=]/Carter Intergalactic Gate Bridge is all kinds of awesome in and of itself when one thinks about it.
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* Have we forgotten our good friend, Todd the Wraith? His first fight scenes with the Genii troopers was distilled awesome, to say nothing of the subversion of his AlwaysChaoticEvil designation that followed.
** Oh, and this:
--->'''Sheppard:''' [About the Wraith Conference chamber's amenities] Fruit bowl - nice touch.
--->'''Todd:''' Well, we picked them up on our travels; I thought it would make our discussions more comfortable. I hope they prove as delicious as the farmers who grew them.
--->[A faint pause as everyone does their best to look away from the fruit bowl.]
** And in the same episode, when Todd is about to help transform Teyla into a Wraith Queen:
--->'''Todd:''' Can I help you?
--->'''Ronon:''' If '''anything''' happens to her... there won't be anywhere in the galaxy you can hide.
--->'''Todd:''' [Without dropping his smile] Is that all?
--->[He marches past Ronon and into the infirmary where Teyla is being prepared for surgery.]
--->'''Todd:''' [Cheerily] How's my patient?
** Let's face it, Todd is a walking Crowning Moment in his own right.
** Oh, and this:
--->'''Sheppard:''' [About the Wraith Conference chamber's amenities] Fruit bowl - nice touch.
--->'''Todd:''' Well, we picked them up on our travels; I thought it would make our discussions more comfortable. I hope they prove as delicious as the farmers who grew them.
--->[A faint pause as everyone does their best to look away from the fruit bowl.]
** And in the same episode, when Todd is about to help transform Teyla into a Wraith Queen:
--->'''Todd:''' Can I help you?
--->'''Ronon:''' If '''anything''' happens to her... there won't be anywhere in the galaxy you can hide.
--->'''Todd:''' [Without dropping his smile] Is that all?
--->[He marches past Ronon and into the infirmary where Teyla is being prepared for surgery.]
--->'''Todd:''' [Cheerily] How's my patient?
** Let's face it, Todd is a walking Crowning Moment in his own right.
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* Have we forgotten our good friend, Todd Who can forget Sheppard's final takedown of Kolya? Kolya goes through all this trouble to capture the Wraith? His first fight scenes team, using them to blackmail Sheppard into an [[ShowdownAtHighNoon old-west-style showdown]], and after a tense staring contest between the two (implying the [[FinalBattle epic battle to come]]), Sheppard gets the drop on him hands down, blowing him away in less time than it takes to type this.
* In the episode "First Strike", the SGC discovers that the Asuran Replicators are building a fleet of warships withthe Genii troopers was distilled awesome, which to say nothing attack Earth. Rather than mess around with covert sabotage ops or negotiations or quests for ancient alien superweapons, an Earth-built starship is sent out to use an Earth-built weapon system (codenamed "Horizon", basically a MIRV carrying six 230 ''gigaton'' bombs and a bunch of decoys) to blow an entire continent off of the subversion of his AlwaysChaoticEvil designation Asuran homeworld. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFlSIhyPb1k here]]. This is particularly impressive considering that followed.
** Oh, and this:
--->'''Sheppard:''' [About the Wraith Conference chamber's amenities] Fruit bowl - nice touch.
--->'''Todd:''' Well, we picked them up on our travels; I thought it would make our discussions more comfortable. I hope they prove as delicious as the farmers who grew them.
--->[A faint pause as everyone does their best to look away from the fruit bowl.]
** And ina decade earlier Earth had basically the same episode, when Todd is about to help transform Teyla into a Wraith Queen:
--->'''Todd:''' Can I help you?
--->'''Ronon:''' If '''anything''' happens to her... there won't be anywhere incapabilities as current-day real life and now they're laying the galaxy you can hide.
--->'''Todd:''' [Without dropping his smile] Issmackdown against extragalactic targets that all?
--->[He marches past Ronon and into the infirmary where Teyla is being prepared for surgery.]
--->'''Todd:''' [Cheerily] How's my patient?
** Let's face it, Todd is a walking Crowning Moment in his own right.have (literally) near-godlike technology.
* In the episode "First Strike", the SGC discovers that the Asuran Replicators are building a fleet of warships with
** Oh, and this:
--->'''Sheppard:''' [About the Wraith Conference chamber's amenities] Fruit bowl - nice touch.
--->'''Todd:''' Well, we picked them up on our travels; I thought it would make our discussions more comfortable. I hope they prove as delicious as the farmers who grew them.
--->[A faint pause as everyone does their best to look away from the fruit bowl.]
** And in
--->'''Todd:''' Can I help you?
--->'''Ronon:''' If '''anything''' happens to her... there won't be anywhere in
--->'''Todd:''' [Without dropping his smile] Is
--->[He marches past Ronon and into the infirmary where Teyla is being prepared for surgery.]
--->'''Todd:''' [Cheerily] How's my patient?
** Let's face it, Todd is a walking Crowning Moment in his own right.
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* In the fifth-season episode "Outsiders", normally unassuming (but well-loved) Dr. Carson Beckett gets one. Having been captured along with Dr. [=McKay=] by the Wraith, told to find an antidote for a drug that makes humans immune to Wraith feeding in order for the population of the planet he got snatched off of to be spared, and discovering that he himself is infected with it, he ''provokes the boss Wraith into feeding off him'', which kills it dead. BAD. FREAKING. ASS.
* In the episode "Search and Rescue," Shepherd's team has infiltrated one of Michael's ships in order to rescue Teyla. During the action, the ''Daedalus'' shows up, and the two ships start exchanging fire. Once Col. Caldwell gets word that the rescue was a success, he turns to his gunner and, in a very weary, bored tone, says, "Major Marks, please make that ship go away." About three seconds later, it's space dust.
** Earlier in that episode, Teyla gives birth on a Hive Ship and [=McKay=] helps her. Definitely awesome.
* In the finale "Enemy At The Gate", we have the City Ship of Atlantis over Earth firing off drones, though you could say this was a Carson Beckett [=CMoA=] as he was in the control chair.
** Woolsey gets one, too. Atlantis only has enough power to do one of two things: fly or shoot. It's being pushed into the atmosphere by the force of the Wraith weapons, and is going to fall to the planet without moving. Which of these two things does Woolsey want done? The shooting.
* In the episode "Search and Rescue," Shepherd's team has infiltrated one of Michael's ships in order to rescue Teyla. During the action, the ''Daedalus'' shows up, and the two ships start exchanging fire. Once Col. Caldwell gets word that the rescue was a success, he turns to his gunner and, in a very weary, bored tone, says, "Major Marks, please make that ship go away." About three seconds later, it's space dust.
** Earlier in that episode, Teyla gives birth on a Hive Ship and [=McKay=] helps her. Definitely awesome.
* In the finale "Enemy At The Gate", we have the City Ship of Atlantis over Earth firing off drones, though you could say this was a Carson Beckett [=CMoA=] as he was in the control chair.
** Woolsey gets one, too. Atlantis only has enough power to do one of two things: fly or shoot. It's being pushed into the atmosphere by the force of the Wraith weapons, and is going to fall to the planet without moving. Which of these two things does Woolsey want done? The shooting.
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* In the fifth-season episode "Outsiders", normally unassuming (but well-loved) early fourth season, Dr. Carson Beckett gets one. Having Weir invades the Replicator HiveMind, only she had been captured along the one to initiate the MindProbe (she was part Replicator at this point) and tricked the Replicators into thinking that they had won over her while she was, in fact, still in control.
* "First I need something I can heal." Dr. Keller, moments before she shoots a guy in the leg just to get some measure of revenge without violating her oath.
* "Be All My Sins Remember'd" is more like a Crowning ''Episode'' Of Awesome, as it revolves around the ridiculously powerful Asgard beam weapons, capable of destroying '''Ancient''' warships in a matter of '''seconds''', the biggest spacefight ever in the entire Stargate Verse, and the elimination of the Asurans. Prior to that, the private confrontation Carter has withDr. Colonel Ellis after the mission briefing over his blatantly disrespectful attitude toward [=McKay=]. Carter may have made her place in the universe through a combination of scientific ass-pullery and sheer asskicking, but with mere words she managed to put an ass in his place.
** Also, as part of the above, [=McKay=]by the Wraith, told to find an antidote for built a drug replicator that makes humans immune to Wraith feeding in order for destroyed all the population of replicators on Asuras and in orbit. Then detonated the planet he got snatched off of to be spared, and discovering that he himself is infected with it, he ''provokes the boss Wraith into feeding off him'', which kills it dead. BAD. FREAKING. ASS.
* In the episode "Search and Rescue," Shepherd's team has infiltrated one of Michael's ships in order to rescue Teyla. During the action, the ''Daedalus'' shows up, and the two ships start exchanging fire. Once Col. Caldwell gets word that the rescue was a success, he turns to his gunner and, in a very weary, bored tone, says, "Major Marks, please make that ship go away." About three seconds later, it's space dust.
** Earlier in that episode, Teyla gives birth on a Hive Ship and [=McKay=] helps her. Definitely awesome.
* In the finale "Enemy At The Gate", we have the City Ship of Atlantis over Earth firing off drones, though you could say this was a Carson Beckett [=CMoA=] as he was in the control chair.
** Woolsey gets one, too. Atlantis only has enough power to do one of two things: fly or shoot. It's being pushed into the atmosphere by the force of the Wraith weapons, and is going to fall to the planet without moving. Which of these two things does Woolsey want done? The shooting.planet.
* "First I need something I can heal." Dr. Keller, moments before she shoots a guy in the leg just to get some measure of revenge without violating her oath.
* "Be All My Sins Remember'd" is more like a Crowning ''Episode'' Of Awesome, as it revolves around the ridiculously powerful Asgard beam weapons, capable of destroying '''Ancient''' warships in a matter of '''seconds''', the biggest spacefight ever in the entire Stargate Verse, and the elimination of the Asurans. Prior to that, the private confrontation Carter has with
** Also, as part of the above, [=McKay=]
* In the episode "Search and Rescue," Shepherd's team has infiltrated one of Michael's ships in order to rescue Teyla. During the action, the ''Daedalus'' shows up, and the two ships start exchanging fire. Once Col. Caldwell gets word that the rescue was a success, he turns to his gunner and, in a very weary, bored tone, says, "Major Marks, please make that ship go away." About three seconds later, it's space dust.
** Earlier in that episode, Teyla gives birth on a Hive Ship and [=McKay=] helps her. Definitely awesome.
* In the finale "Enemy At The Gate", we have the City Ship of Atlantis over Earth firing off drones, though you could say this was a Carson Beckett [=CMoA=] as he was in the control chair.
** Woolsey gets one, too. Atlantis only has enough power to do one of two things: fly or shoot. It's being pushed into the atmosphere by the force of the Wraith weapons, and is going to fall to the planet without moving. Which of these two things does Woolsey want done? The shooting.
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* The [=McKay=]/Carter Intergalactic Gate Bridge is all kinds of awesome in and of itself when one thinks about it.
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* In "The Kindred Part 1", Teyla is interrogating a guy about the whereabouts of her people, including the father of her unborn child, who had been kidnapped by Michael. The [=McKay=]/Carter Intergalactic Gate Bridge is all kinds of awesome in and of itself when one guy thinks it's hilarious that he's being threatened by this heavily pregnant woman. She proceeds to kick him across the room and into the wall.
* Various examples in the erased future depicted in "The Last Man";
** Rodney [=McKay=], the man who spent two decades inventing a new kind of math and creating a AI hologram of himself in Atlantis all so he could send Sheppard back to change the past. In the same episode, his montage aboutit.how everyone died at least gave some of the characters epic sendouts.
** Ronan forms a peasant army a la ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'' and starts kicking Wraith ass. During one mission, he unexpectedly teams up with Todd to blow things up. Cue BackToBackBadasses as they kill everything in sight, then draw their knives on each other at the climax ("force of habit"). Bonus points for Todd having managed to go for a kill-stab on Ronon just as quickly. Then they're pinned down again, so they blow themselves up with the building.
** Sam getting her own ship and blowing up hive after hive. When she's lured into an inescapable ambush, she takes the three hives doing the ambush down with her.
* In the episode "Search and Rescue," Shepherd's team has infiltrated one of Michael's ships in order to rescue Teyla. During the action, the ''Daedalus'' shows up, and the two ships start exchanging fire. Once Col. Caldwell gets word that the rescue was a success, he turns to his gunner and, in a very weary, bored tone, says, "Major Marks, please make that ship go away." About three seconds later, it's space dust.
** Earlier in that episode, Teyla gives birth on a Hive Ship and [=McKay=] helps her. Definitely awesome.
* Have we forgotten our good friend, Todd the Wraith? His first fight scenes with the Genii troopers was distilled awesome, to say nothing of the subversion of his AlwaysChaoticEvil designation that followed.
** Oh, and this:
--->'''Sheppard:''' [About the Wraith Conference chamber's amenities] Fruit bowl - nice touch.
--->'''Todd:''' Well, we picked them up on our travels; I thought it would make our discussions more comfortable. I hope they prove as delicious as the farmers who grew them.
--->[A faint pause as everyone does their best to look away from the fruit bowl.]
** And in the same episode, when Todd is about to help transform Teyla into a Wraith Queen:
--->'''Todd:''' Can I help you?
--->'''Ronon:''' If '''anything''' happens to her... there won't be anywhere in the galaxy you can hide.
--->'''Todd:''' [Without dropping his smile] Is that all?
--->[He marches past Ronon and into the infirmary where Teyla is being prepared for surgery.]
--->'''Todd:''' [Cheerily] How's my patient?
** Let's face it, Todd is a walking Crowning Moment in his own right.
* Surprisingly, Richard Woolsey was given one, calmly telling disembodied Replicators to go ahead and destroy Atlantis because they'll doom themselves if they do.
* In the fifth-season episode "Outsiders", normally unassuming (but well-loved) Dr. Carson Beckett gets one. Having been captured along with Dr. [=McKay=] by the Wraith, told to find an antidote for a drug that makes humans immune to Wraith feeding in order for the population of the planet he got snatched off of to be spared, and discovering that he himself is infected with it, he ''provokes the boss Wraith into feeding off him'', which kills it dead. BAD. FREAKING. ASS.
* Various examples in the erased future depicted in "The Last Man";
** Rodney [=McKay=], the man who spent two decades inventing a new kind of math and creating a AI hologram of himself in Atlantis all so he could send Sheppard back to change the past. In the same episode, his montage about
** Ronan forms a peasant army a la ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'' and starts kicking Wraith ass. During one mission, he unexpectedly teams up with Todd to blow things up. Cue BackToBackBadasses as they kill everything in sight, then draw their knives on each other at the climax ("force of habit"). Bonus points for Todd having managed to go for a kill-stab on Ronon just as quickly. Then they're pinned down again, so they blow themselves up with the building.
** Sam getting her own ship and blowing up hive after hive. When she's lured into an inescapable ambush, she takes the three hives doing the ambush down with her.
* In the episode "Search and Rescue," Shepherd's team has infiltrated one of Michael's ships in order to rescue Teyla. During the action, the ''Daedalus'' shows up, and the two ships start exchanging fire. Once Col. Caldwell gets word that the rescue was a success, he turns to his gunner and, in a very weary, bored tone, says, "Major Marks, please make that ship go away." About three seconds later, it's space dust.
** Earlier in that episode, Teyla gives birth on a Hive Ship and [=McKay=] helps her. Definitely awesome.
* Have we forgotten our good friend, Todd the Wraith? His first fight scenes with the Genii troopers was distilled awesome, to say nothing of the subversion of his AlwaysChaoticEvil designation that followed.
** Oh, and this:
--->'''Sheppard:''' [About the Wraith Conference chamber's amenities] Fruit bowl - nice touch.
--->'''Todd:''' Well, we picked them up on our travels; I thought it would make our discussions more comfortable. I hope they prove as delicious as the farmers who grew them.
--->[A faint pause as everyone does their best to look away from the fruit bowl.]
** And in the same episode, when Todd is about to help transform Teyla into a Wraith Queen:
--->'''Todd:''' Can I help you?
--->'''Ronon:''' If '''anything''' happens to her... there won't be anywhere in the galaxy you can hide.
--->'''Todd:''' [Without dropping his smile] Is that all?
--->[He marches past Ronon and into the infirmary where Teyla is being prepared for surgery.]
--->'''Todd:''' [Cheerily] How's my patient?
** Let's face it, Todd is a walking Crowning Moment in his own right.
* Surprisingly, Richard Woolsey was given one, calmly telling disembodied Replicators to go ahead and destroy Atlantis because they'll doom themselves if they do.
* In the fifth-season episode "Outsiders", normally unassuming (but well-loved) Dr. Carson Beckett gets one. Having been captured along with Dr. [=McKay=] by the Wraith, told to find an antidote for a drug that makes humans immune to Wraith feeding in order for the population of the planet he got snatched off of to be spared, and discovering that he himself is infected with it, he ''provokes the boss Wraith into feeding off him'', which kills it dead. BAD. FREAKING. ASS.
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* The Genii invasion of Atlantis in "The Storm" and "The Eye", in which Sheppard goes [[Film/DieHard John McClane]] and [[TeleFrag TeleFrags]] most of the invasion force with a press of a button, and then hunts down the rest one by one.
-->'''Dr. Beckett''': ''(looking at a life-signs detector)'' These dots don't tell us much about who's who. How do we tell which one's the Major?\\
'''Lt. Ford''': He'll be the dot making the other dots go away.
* In "The Storm", when Sheppard goes to activate the final relay, senses a Genii ambush, then promptly massacres the ambushers. Bonus points for calmly picking up a communicator and telling Kolya how what he just did was bad on so many levels.
-->'''Sheppard''': Let me tell you what you did wrong, Kolya. A) You lost two more men. B) Your men damaged the switch before I could separate the grounding rods, for which I'm sure you're gonna get an earful from [=McKay=]. and C), you just lost whatever credibility you had with me!
* In the episode "First Strike", the SGC discovers that the Asuran Replicators are building a fleet of warships with which to attack Earth. Rather than mess around with covert sabotage ops or negotiations or quests for ancient alien superweapons, an Earth-built starship is sent out to use an Earth-built weapon system (codenamed "Horizon", basically a MIRV carrying six 230 ''gigaton'' bombs and a bunch of decoys) to blow an entire continent off of the Asuran homeworld. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFlSIhyPb1k here]]. This is particularly impressive considering that a decade earlier Earth had basically the same capabilities as current-day real life and now they're laying the smackdown against extragalactic targets that have (literally) near-godlike technology.
* Rodney [=McKay=], the man who spent two decades inventing a new kind of math and creating a AI hologram of himself in Atlantis all so he could send Sheppard back to change the past. In the same episode, his montage about how everyone died at least gave some of the characters epic sendouts.
* Ronan forms a peasant army a la ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'' and starts kicking Wraith ass. During one mission, he unexpectedly teams up with Todd to blow things up. Cue BackToBackBadasses as they kill everything in sight, then draw their knives on each other at the climax ("force of habit"). Bonus points for Todd having managed to go for a kill-stab on Ronon just as quickly. Then they're pinned down again, so they blow themselves up with the building.
* Sam getting her own ship and blowing up hive after hive. When she's lured into an inescapable ambush, she takes the three hives doing the ambush down with her.
* [=McKay=] built a replicator that destroyed all the replicators on Asuras and in orbit. Then detonated the planet.
* "The Siege, Part 2".
** The Wraith hit Atlantis with a massive formation of darts, and we reply with a massive amount of [[MoreDakka dakka]].
** Weir is held hostage by the Genii, and manages to negotiate not only her own freedom, but two nuclear bombs as well. While she's blindfolded & bound to a chair.
* Who can forget Sheppard's final takedown of Kolya? Kolya goes through all this trouble to capture the team, using them to blackmail Sheppard into an [[ShowdownAtHighNoon old-west-style showdown]], and after a tense staring contest between the two (implying the [[FinalBattle epic battle to come]]), Sheppard gets the drop on him hands down, blowing him away in less time than it takes to type this.
* The ''Daedalus'''s entrance during the Wraith Siege of Atlantis. It's made aware early on that it's on its way to the Pegasus Galaxy and will be there in a while. Come next episode, it blows its way onto the scene by destroying at least three hive ships and managing to make it down to the planet through an entire fleet of more.
* In The Kindred Part 1, Teyla is interrogating a guy about the whereabouts of her people, including the father of her unborn child, who had been kidnapped by Michael. The guy thinks it's hilarious that he's being threatened by this heavily pregnant woman. She proceeds to kick him across the room and into the wall.
* Weir vs. Landry & Caldwell in "The Intruder." Weir wins.
* The scene in "Critical Mass" where it's just been revealed that Col. Caldwell has been taken over by a Goa'uld. He's beamed into a conference room with Dr. Weir, Sheppard and Ronon. The following exchange occurs:
-->'''Caldwell (controlled by a Goa'uld)''': I should warn you, as a Goa'uld, I now possess the strength of many men. [Caldwell's eyes glow]
-->'''Ronon''': It won't be a fair fight then... [proceeds to take down Caldwell very quickly, then tosses his ass ''across the table'', where he gets tasered by Sheppard]
* Teyla uses her Wraith-psychic ability to pilot a hiveship. Considering that her abilities prior to that were mostly limited to being Wraith-radar, this is pretty badass.
* For a RedShirt who doesn't last 5 minutes, Griffin from "Grace Under Pressure" gets an incredible DyingMomentOfAwesome. When the window of the sinking Jumper starts to crack from the pressure, without even thinking about it, he pushes Rodney into the rear compartment and seals the hatch, seconds before the cockpit floods.
* In "Rising", the [[TheReveal revelation]] that the Athosians are ''not'' the primitive society they initially appeared to be, but actually TheRemnant of an [[LowCultureHighTech advanced society]] that has been repeatedly bombed back into the stone-age by the Wraith.
* If there was ever any doubt as to why Ronon was made a Runner, we see why in "Sateda" as he makes the Wraith Hunters pay in blood for every step they take.
-->'''Dr. Beckett''': ''(looking at a life-signs detector)'' These dots don't tell us much about who's who. How do we tell which one's the Major?\\
'''Lt. Ford''': He'll be the dot making the other dots go away.
* In "The Storm", when Sheppard goes to activate the final relay, senses a Genii ambush, then promptly massacres the ambushers. Bonus points for calmly picking up a communicator and telling Kolya how what he just did was bad on so many levels.
-->'''Sheppard''': Let me tell you what you did wrong, Kolya. A) You lost two more men. B) Your men damaged the switch before I could separate the grounding rods, for which I'm sure you're gonna get an earful from [=McKay=]. and C), you just lost whatever credibility you had with me!
* In the episode "First Strike", the SGC discovers that the Asuran Replicators are building a fleet of warships with which to attack Earth. Rather than mess around with covert sabotage ops or negotiations or quests for ancient alien superweapons, an Earth-built starship is sent out to use an Earth-built weapon system (codenamed "Horizon", basically a MIRV carrying six 230 ''gigaton'' bombs and a bunch of decoys) to blow an entire continent off of the Asuran homeworld. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFlSIhyPb1k here]]. This is particularly impressive considering that a decade earlier Earth had basically the same capabilities as current-day real life and now they're laying the smackdown against extragalactic targets that have (literally) near-godlike technology.
* Rodney [=McKay=], the man who spent two decades inventing a new kind of math and creating a AI hologram of himself in Atlantis all so he could send Sheppard back to change the past. In the same episode, his montage about how everyone died at least gave some of the characters epic sendouts.
* Ronan forms a peasant army a la ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'' and starts kicking Wraith ass. During one mission, he unexpectedly teams up with Todd to blow things up. Cue BackToBackBadasses as they kill everything in sight, then draw their knives on each other at the climax ("force of habit"). Bonus points for Todd having managed to go for a kill-stab on Ronon just as quickly. Then they're pinned down again, so they blow themselves up with the building.
* Sam getting her own ship and blowing up hive after hive. When she's lured into an inescapable ambush, she takes the three hives doing the ambush down with her.
* [=McKay=] built a replicator that destroyed all the replicators on Asuras and in orbit. Then detonated the planet.
* "The Siege, Part 2".
** The Wraith hit Atlantis with a massive formation of darts, and we reply with a massive amount of [[MoreDakka dakka]].
** Weir is held hostage by the Genii, and manages to negotiate not only her own freedom, but two nuclear bombs as well. While she's blindfolded & bound to a chair.
* Who can forget Sheppard's final takedown of Kolya? Kolya goes through all this trouble to capture the team, using them to blackmail Sheppard into an [[ShowdownAtHighNoon old-west-style showdown]], and after a tense staring contest between the two (implying the [[FinalBattle epic battle to come]]), Sheppard gets the drop on him hands down, blowing him away in less time than it takes to type this.
* The ''Daedalus'''s entrance during the Wraith Siege of Atlantis. It's made aware early on that it's on its way to the Pegasus Galaxy and will be there in a while. Come next episode, it blows its way onto the scene by destroying at least three hive ships and managing to make it down to the planet through an entire fleet of more.
* In The Kindred Part 1, Teyla is interrogating a guy about the whereabouts of her people, including the father of her unborn child, who had been kidnapped by Michael. The guy thinks it's hilarious that he's being threatened by this heavily pregnant woman. She proceeds to kick him across the room and into the wall.
* Weir vs. Landry & Caldwell in "The Intruder." Weir wins.
* The scene in "Critical Mass" where it's just been revealed that Col. Caldwell has been taken over by a Goa'uld. He's beamed into a conference room with Dr. Weir, Sheppard and Ronon. The following exchange occurs:
-->'''Caldwell (controlled by a Goa'uld)''': I should warn you, as a Goa'uld, I now possess the strength of many men. [Caldwell's eyes glow]
-->'''Ronon''': It won't be a fair fight then... [proceeds to take down Caldwell very quickly, then tosses his ass ''across the table'', where he gets tasered by Sheppard]
* Teyla uses her Wraith-psychic ability to pilot a hiveship. Considering that her abilities prior to that were mostly limited to being Wraith-radar, this is pretty badass.
* For a RedShirt who doesn't last 5 minutes, Griffin from "Grace Under Pressure" gets an incredible DyingMomentOfAwesome. When the window of the sinking Jumper starts to crack from the pressure, without even thinking about it, he pushes Rodney into the rear compartment and seals the hatch, seconds before the cockpit floods.
* In "Rising", the [[TheReveal revelation]] that the Athosians are ''not'' the primitive society they initially appeared to be, but actually TheRemnant of an [[LowCultureHighTech advanced society]] that has been repeatedly bombed back into the stone-age by the Wraith.
* If there was ever any doubt as to why Ronon was made a Runner, we see why in "Sateda" as he makes the Wraith Hunters pay in blood for every step they take.
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* In the finale "Enemy At The Genii invasion Gate", we have the City Ship of Atlantis in "The Storm" and "The Eye", in which Sheppard goes [[Film/DieHard John McClane]] and [[TeleFrag TeleFrags]] most of the invasion force with a press of a button, and then hunts down the rest one by one.
-->'''Dr. Beckett''': ''(looking at a life-signs detector)'' These dots don't tell us much about who's who. How do we tell which one's the Major?\\
'''Lt. Ford''': He'll be the dot making the other dots go away.
* In "The Storm", when Sheppard goes to activate the final relay, senses a Genii ambush, then promptly massacres the ambushers. Bonus points for calmly picking up a communicator and telling Kolya how what he just did was bad on so many levels.
-->'''Sheppard''': Let me tellover Earth firing off drones, though you what you did wrong, Kolya. A) You lost two more men. B) Your men damaged the switch before I could separate say this was a Carson Beckett [=CMoA=] as he was in the grounding rods, for which I'm sure you're gonna get an earful from [=McKay=]. and C), you just lost whatever credibility you had with me!
* In the episode "First Strike", the SGC discovers that the Asuran Replicators are building a fleet of warships with which to attack Earth. Rather than mess around with covert sabotage ops or negotiations or quests for ancient alien superweapons, an Earth-built starship is sent out to use an Earth-built weapon system (codenamed "Horizon", basically a MIRV carrying six 230 ''gigaton'' bombs and a bunch of decoys) to blow an entire continent off of the Asuran homeworld. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFlSIhyPb1k here]]. This is particularly impressive considering that a decade earlier Earth had basically the same capabilities as current-day real life and now they're laying the smackdown against extragalactic targets that have (literally) near-godlike technology.
* Rodney [=McKay=], the man who spent two decades inventing a new kind of math and creating a AI hologram of himself incontrol chair.
** Woolsey gets one, too. Atlantisall so he could send Sheppard back only has enough power to change the past. In the same episode, his montage about how everyone died at least gave some of the characters epic sendouts.
* Ronan forms a peasant army a la ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'' and starts kicking Wraith ass. Duringdo one mission, he unexpectedly teams up with Todd to blow things up. Cue BackToBackBadasses as they kill everything in sight, then draw their knives on each other at the climax ("force of habit"). Bonus points for Todd having managed to go for a kill-stab on Ronon just as quickly. Then they're pinned down again, so they blow themselves up with the building.
* Sam getting her own ship and blowing up hive after hive. When she's luredtwo things: fly or shoot. It's being pushed into an inescapable ambush, she takes the three hives doing the ambush down with her.
* [=McKay=] built a replicator that destroyed all the replicators on Asuras and in orbit. Then detonated the planet.
* "The Siege, Part 2".
** The Wraith hit Atlantis with a massive formation of darts, and we reply with a massive amount of [[MoreDakka dakka]].
** Weir is held hostageatmosphere by the Genii, and manages to negotiate not only her own freedom, but two nuclear bombs as well. While she's blindfolded & bound to a chair.
* Who can forget Sheppard's final takedownforce of Kolya? Kolya goes through all this trouble to capture the team, using them to blackmail Sheppard into an [[ShowdownAtHighNoon old-west-style showdown]], and after a tense staring contest between the two (implying the [[FinalBattle epic battle to come]]), Sheppard gets the drop on him hands down, blowing him away in less time than it takes to type this.
* The ''Daedalus'''s entrance duringthe Wraith Siege of Atlantis. It's made aware early on that it's on its way to the Pegasus Galaxy weapons, and will be there in a while. Come next episode, it blows its way onto the scene by destroying at least three hive ships and managing is going to make it down fall to the planet through an entire fleet of more.
* In The Kindred Part 1, Teyla is interrogating a guy about the whereabouts of her people, including the father of her unborn child, who had been kidnapped by Michael. The guy thinks it's hilarious that he's being threatened by this heavily pregnant woman. She proceeds to kick him across the room and into the wall.
* Weir vs. Landry & Caldwell in "The Intruder." Weir wins.
* The scene in "Critical Mass" where it's just been revealed that Col. Caldwell has been taken over by a Goa'uld. He's beamed into a conference room with Dr. Weir, Sheppard and Ronon. The following exchange occurs:
-->'''Caldwell (controlled by a Goa'uld)''': I should warn you, as a Goa'uld, I now possess the strength of many men. [Caldwell's eyes glow]
-->'''Ronon''': It won't be a fair fight then... [proceeds to take down Caldwell very quickly, then tosses his ass ''across the table'', where he gets tasered by Sheppard]
* Teyla uses her Wraith-psychic ability to pilot a hiveship. Considering that her abilities prior to that were mostly limited to being Wraith-radar, this is pretty badass.
* For a RedShirt who doesn't last 5 minutes, Griffin from "Grace Under Pressure" gets an incredible DyingMomentOfAwesome. When the window of the sinking Jumper starts to crack from the pressure,without even thinking about it, he pushes Rodney into the rear compartment and seals the hatch, seconds before the cockpit floods.
* In "Rising", the [[TheReveal revelation]] that the Athosians are ''not'' the primitive society they initially appeared to be, but actually TheRemnantmoving. Which of an [[LowCultureHighTech advanced society]] that has been repeatedly bombed back into the stone-age by the Wraith.
* If there was ever any doubt as to why Ronon was made a Runner, we see why in "Sateda" as he makes the Wraith Hunters pay in blood for every step they take.these two things does Woolsey want done? The shooting.
-->'''Dr. Beckett''': ''(looking at a life-signs detector)'' These dots don't tell us much about who's who. How do we tell which one's the Major?\\
'''Lt. Ford''': He'll be the dot making the other dots go away.
* In "The Storm", when Sheppard goes to activate the final relay, senses a Genii ambush, then promptly massacres the ambushers. Bonus points for calmly picking up a communicator and telling Kolya how what he just did was bad on so many levels.
-->'''Sheppard''': Let me tell
* In the episode "First Strike", the SGC discovers that the Asuran Replicators are building a fleet of warships with which to attack Earth. Rather than mess around with covert sabotage ops or negotiations or quests for ancient alien superweapons, an Earth-built starship is sent out to use an Earth-built weapon system (codenamed "Horizon", basically a MIRV carrying six 230 ''gigaton'' bombs and a bunch of decoys) to blow an entire continent off of the Asuran homeworld. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFlSIhyPb1k here]]. This is particularly impressive considering that a decade earlier Earth had basically the same capabilities as current-day real life and now they're laying the smackdown against extragalactic targets that have (literally) near-godlike technology.
* Rodney [=McKay=], the man who spent two decades inventing a new kind of math and creating a AI hologram of himself in
** Woolsey gets one, too. Atlantis
* Ronan forms a peasant army a la ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'' and starts kicking Wraith ass. During
* Sam getting her own ship and blowing up hive after hive. When she's lured
* [=McKay=] built a replicator that destroyed all the replicators on Asuras and in orbit. Then detonated the planet.
* "The Siege, Part 2".
** The Wraith hit Atlantis with a massive formation of darts, and we reply with a massive amount of [[MoreDakka dakka]].
** Weir is held hostage
* Who can forget Sheppard's final takedown
* The ''Daedalus'''s entrance during
* In The Kindred Part 1, Teyla is interrogating a guy about the whereabouts of her people, including the father of her unborn child, who had been kidnapped by Michael. The guy thinks it's hilarious that he's being threatened by this heavily pregnant woman. She proceeds to kick him across the room and into the wall.
* Weir vs. Landry & Caldwell in "The Intruder." Weir wins.
* The scene in "Critical Mass" where it's just been revealed that Col. Caldwell has been taken over by a Goa'uld. He's beamed into a conference room with Dr. Weir, Sheppard and Ronon. The following exchange occurs:
-->'''Caldwell (controlled by a Goa'uld)''': I should warn you, as a Goa'uld, I now possess the strength of many men. [Caldwell's eyes glow]
-->'''Ronon''': It won't be a fair fight then... [proceeds to take down Caldwell very quickly, then tosses his ass ''across the table'', where he gets tasered by Sheppard]
* Teyla uses her Wraith-psychic ability to pilot a hiveship. Considering that her abilities prior to that were mostly limited to being Wraith-radar, this is pretty badass.
* For a RedShirt who doesn't last 5 minutes, Griffin from "Grace Under Pressure" gets an incredible DyingMomentOfAwesome. When the window of the sinking Jumper starts to crack from the pressure,
* In "Rising", the [[TheReveal revelation]] that the Athosians are ''not'' the primitive society they initially appeared to be, but actually TheRemnant
* If there was ever any doubt as to why Ronon was made a Runner, we see why in "Sateda" as he makes the Wraith Hunters pay in blood for every step they take.
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* "Echoes:" With a coronal mass ejections ready to toast the planet and with no other options left, Sheppard comes up with the insane plan to hook up their remaining ZPM to the ''Daedalus'' and use it's boosted shields to deflect the stream away from the planet. And it ''works.'' To put it another way, Sheppard played chicken with a star, ''and won.''
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** Except that one of the principles of medical ethics is nonmaleficience. Granted, it isn't stated in the Hippocratic Oath, but still, while this troper won't deny it was a [=CMoA=] it also had a touch of Values Dissonance for her.
* "Be All My Sins Remember'd" is more like a Crowning ''Episode'' Of Awesome, as it revolves around the ridiculously powerful Asgard beam weapons, capable of destroying '''Ancient''' warships in a matter of '''seconds''', the biggest spacefight ever in the entire Stargate Verse, and the elimination of the Asurans.
** A somewhat more downplayed moment, but prior to that, the private confrontation Carter has with Colonel Ellis after the mission briefing over his blatantly disrespectful attitude toward [=McKay=]. Carter may have made her place in the universe through a combination of scientific ass-pullery and sheer asskicking, but with mere words she managed to put an ass in his place.
* "Be All My Sins Remember'd" is more like a Crowning ''Episode'' Of Awesome, as it revolves around the ridiculously powerful Asgard beam weapons, capable of destroying '''Ancient''' warships in a matter of '''seconds''', the biggest spacefight ever in the entire Stargate Verse, and the elimination of the Asurans.
** A somewhat more downplayed moment, but prior to that, the private confrontation Carter has with Colonel Ellis after the mission briefing over his blatantly disrespectful attitude toward [=McKay=]. Carter may have made her place in the universe through a combination of scientific ass-pullery and sheer asskicking, but with mere words she managed to put an ass in his place.
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** The impact is somewhat lessened when the Asurans recover pretty dang quick and make them pay for the attempt. This is rectified by the middle of the next season, and it was a pretty impressive show of force and how far things had come, but still.
** I nominate that sequence for Crowning Music of Awesome
* Rodney [=McKay=], the man who spent two decades inventing a new kind of math and creating a AI hologram of himself in Atlantis all so he could send Sheppard back to change the past.
** In the same episode, his montage about how everyone died at least gave some of the characters epic sendouts.
*** Ronan forms a peasant army a la ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'' and starts kicking Wraith ass. During one mission, he unexpectedly teams up with Todd to blow things up. Cue BackToBackBadasses as they kill everything in sight, then draw their knives on each other at the climax ("force of habit"). Bonus points for Todd having managed to go for a kill-stab on Ronon just as quickly. Then they're pinned down again, so they blow themselves up with the building.
*** Sam getting her own ship and blowing up hive after hive. When she's lured into an inescapable ambush, she takes the three hives doing the ambush down with her.
** I nominate that sequence for Crowning Music of Awesome
* Rodney [=McKay=], the man who spent two decades inventing a new kind of math and creating a AI hologram of himself in Atlantis all so he could send Sheppard back to change the past.
** In the same episode, his montage about how everyone died at least gave some of the characters epic sendouts.
*** Ronan forms a peasant army a la ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}'' and starts kicking Wraith ass. During one mission, he unexpectedly teams up with Todd to blow things up. Cue BackToBackBadasses as they kill everything in sight, then draw their knives on each other at the climax ("force of habit"). Bonus points for Todd having managed to go for a kill-stab on Ronon just as quickly. Then they're pinned down again, so they blow themselves up with the building.
*** Sam getting her own ship and blowing up hive after hive. When she's lured into an inescapable ambush, she takes the three hives doing the ambush down with her.
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* What about Zelenka? Apparently this troper was the only one impressed by the fact that not only was he the one person on Atlantis who evaded capture in Tabula Rasa, he ''took out a marine''.
** He didn't just take out one Marine. After we hear that he knocked out of one of Lorne's men, we see him again with a stunner. Either someone left their stunner just lying about, or he knocked out another marine and nicked it.
** He also single handedly saved Atlantis in Quarantine.
* "The Siege, Part 2". The Wraith hit Atlantis with a massive formation of darts, and we reply with a massive amount of [[MoreDakka dakka]].
** Also in "The Siege, Part 2". Weir is held hostage by the Genii, and manages to negotiate not only her own freedom, but two nuclear bombs as well. While she's blindfolded & bound to a chair.
** He didn't just take out one Marine. After we hear that he knocked out of one of Lorne's men, we see him again with a stunner. Either someone left their stunner just lying about, or he knocked out another marine and nicked it.
** He also single handedly saved Atlantis in Quarantine.
* "The Siege, Part 2". The Wraith hit Atlantis with a massive formation of darts, and we reply with a massive amount of [[MoreDakka dakka]].
** Also in "The Siege, Part 2". Weir is held hostage by the Genii, and manages to negotiate not only her own freedom, but two nuclear bombs as well. While she's blindfolded & bound to a chair.
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** He didn't just take out one Marine. After we hear that he knocked out of one of Lorne's men, we see him again with a stunner. Either someone left their stunner just lying about, or he knocked out another marine and nicked it.
** He also single handedly saved Atlantis in Quarantine.
** The Wraith hit Atlantis with a massive formation of darts, and we reply with a massive amount of [[MoreDakka dakka]].
**
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* In "Letters from Pegasus", [=McKay=] records a video to send to Earth containing his thoughts on the mission so far, and keeps getting wildly sidetracked from his topic before wandering back to it with "Where was I... oh yes... ''leadership''." All in the delivery.
* Another from that episode, when Zelenka records a video message enthusiastically recapping the rising of Atlantis in unsubtitled Czech. When he's finished, the cameraman asks, "You didn't say anything that would require security clearance, did you?"
-->'''Zelenka:''' [[OhCrap Security clearance?]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAIigNcwYLc Ronon and his gun.]] Sheppard's reaction is simply priceless.
* The RunningGag with [=McKay=]'s observations that Sheppard frequently has good chemistry going with [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Ascended and alien women]] is sometimes a floor-roller.
-->'''[=McKay=]:''' Oh my God, he ''is'' [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Kirk]]!
* Also, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yDmPwP26SA You shot me!]]"
-->'''Sheppard:''' Yes, and I said I was sorry.\\
'''Ronon:''' He shot me too.\\
'''Sheppard:''' I'm sorry for shooting everyone!
* Or when they're experimenting with the personal shield in season one.
-->'''Weir:''' I can't understand why you thought it as a good idea to test this device by having someone throw you off a balcony.\\
'''[=McKay=]:''' Believe me, it wasn't the first thing we tried.\\
'''Sheppard:''' ''(proudly)'' I shot him!\\
''(Weir makes a FlatWhat face)''\\
'''Sheppard:''' In the leg! ''(shrugs)''
* Hermiod.
** The dialogue between Sheppard, [=McKay=], and the passive-aggressive Asgard in the episode "Intruder". Sheppard's clear unease around Hermiod, and especially the delivery of "Is he supposed to be naked like that?!" are especially lol-worthy.
** Hermiod, by virtue of sharing most of his scenes with [=McKay=], is CMOF incarnate. He's basically the Asgard [=McKay=].
** He has several hilarious lines like "yay" in perfect deadpan, the famous "Crap, indeed." or his sassing of Kavanaugh: "Stop talking, please. Thank you."
* [=McKay=] levels a gun at the two Wraith that stunned his escorts and have him cornered, and yells "You want some of this, huh?!" Then hits the magazine release...
* When Sheppard is talking to the Wraith they've captured, early on in the first season:
-->'''Sheppard:''' I don't even know your name. That's assuming you people even have names. ''(pause)'' Wait. Let me guess. Is it... Steve?\\
'''"Steve" the Wraith:''' I am your death. That is all you ever need know.\\
''(long pause)''\\
'''Sheppard:''' I liked Steve better.
* Almost every time Todd is on screen. Here's his first encounter with Carter:
-->'''Todd:''' ''("feeding" hand extended and talking to Carter)'' I believe it is customary on your planet to shake hands as a sign of greeting.\\
''(every marine raises his rifle)''\\
'''Todd:''' ''(laughing)'' Just a little bit of Wraith humor.
* In "The Storm" Sheppard has to disconnect two inconveniently placed grounding stations.
-->'''Sheppard:''' Wait a second. Are these things even close to a transporter?\\
'''[=McKay=]:''' Elizabeth's is.\\
'''Sheppard:''' And mine?\\
'''[=McKay=]:''' It's a... brisk walk away.\\
'''Sheppard:''' And by "brisk" you mean "far"?\\
'''[=McKay=]:''' And by "walk" I mean "run."
* "Meredith?"
* From "Sateda":
-->'''[=McKay=]:''' ''(very very doped up on drugs and slightly slurring)'' Excuse me -- why am I lying here?\\
'''Carson:''' You have an arrow, Rodney. In your gluteous maximus.\\
'''[=McKay=]:''' Oh. Well, that sounds painful. ''(dopily muttering to himself)'' Gluteous... maximus. Glooteeous, maxi-- ''(with mild, drowsy surprise)'' Oh my god! That's my ass, isn't it?\\
'''Carson:''' ''(resignedly)'' Aye.
* This exchange:
-->'''Woolsey:''' That sounded like an explosion!\\
'''O'Neill:''' Yes. Yes it did.\\
'''Woolsey:''' What does that mean?\\
'''O'Neill:''' Something exploded.
* Same episode, after Woolsey asks another string of questions, and Jack finally points out that he's been sitting right ''next to'' Woolsey the whole time, so how does Woolsey expect ''him'' to know any more than he does?
* The episode "Brain Storm", where Rodney attends a scientific conference -- and is bullied by Bill Nye and Neil [=deGrasse=] Tyson ("from TV"). Also, the running gag of people assuming Keller is Rodney's sister.
* Pretty much that entire episode counts.
-->'''Creator/StephenHawking:''' We get it. It works. Shut it down. I'm starting to freeze to my chair.
* [=McKay=] to [[PlutoIsExpendable Neil deGrasse Tyson]]: "Hey, at least I didn't declassify Pluto from planet status. Way to make all the little kids cry, Neil. That make you feel like a big man?" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me3-r5rsUSI SO. GOOD.]]
* Harmony steals Shephard's chocolate, blames Rodney and pretends to cry.
* Sheppard: "Operation 'This Will Most Likely End Badly' is a go."
* The team are stranded on a prison island so they're stuck fighting off the prisoners. Teyla improvises eskrima sticks by breaking a sturdy branch in half across her knee. Sheppard tries the same thing, except his branch is much thicker and he just ends up badly bruising his knee. So he uses it to knock the wind out of an ambushing prisoner.
* It's a small one, but after Sam calls a end to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxgpYP2RHkM Ronon and Teal'c fight]], Sheppard is glowering as he takes his part of the betting pool and then hands one of the random money notes back to Chuck the technician, who just looks baffled.
* Another from that episode, when Zelenka records a video message enthusiastically recapping the rising of Atlantis in unsubtitled Czech. When he's finished, the cameraman asks, "You didn't say anything that would require security clearance, did you?"
-->'''Zelenka:''' [[OhCrap Security clearance?]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAIigNcwYLc Ronon and his gun.]] Sheppard's reaction is simply priceless.
* The RunningGag with [=McKay=]'s observations that Sheppard frequently has good chemistry going with [[GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Ascended and alien women]] is sometimes a floor-roller.
-->'''[=McKay=]:''' Oh my God, he ''is'' [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Kirk]]!
* Also, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yDmPwP26SA You shot me!]]"
-->'''Sheppard:''' Yes, and I said I was sorry.\\
'''Ronon:''' He shot me too.\\
'''Sheppard:''' I'm sorry for shooting everyone!
* Or when they're experimenting with the personal shield in season one.
-->'''Weir:''' I can't understand why you thought it as a good idea to test this device by having someone throw you off a balcony.\\
'''[=McKay=]:''' Believe me, it wasn't the first thing we tried.\\
'''Sheppard:''' ''(proudly)'' I shot him!\\
''(Weir makes a FlatWhat face)''\\
'''Sheppard:''' In the leg! ''(shrugs)''
* Hermiod.
** The dialogue between Sheppard, [=McKay=], and the passive-aggressive Asgard in the episode "Intruder". Sheppard's clear unease around Hermiod, and especially the delivery of "Is he supposed to be naked like that?!" are especially lol-worthy.
** Hermiod, by virtue of sharing most of his scenes with [=McKay=], is CMOF incarnate. He's basically the Asgard [=McKay=].
** He has several hilarious lines like "yay" in perfect deadpan, the famous "Crap, indeed." or his sassing of Kavanaugh: "Stop talking, please. Thank you."
* [=McKay=] levels a gun at the two Wraith that stunned his escorts and have him cornered, and yells "You want some of this, huh?!" Then hits the magazine release...
* When Sheppard is talking to the Wraith they've captured, early on in the first season:
-->'''Sheppard:''' I don't even know your name. That's assuming you people even have names. ''(pause)'' Wait. Let me guess. Is it... Steve?\\
'''"Steve" the Wraith:''' I am your death. That is all you ever need know.\\
''(long pause)''\\
'''Sheppard:''' I liked Steve better.
* Almost every time Todd is on screen. Here's his first encounter with Carter:
-->'''Todd:''' ''("feeding" hand extended and talking to Carter)'' I believe it is customary on your planet to shake hands as a sign of greeting.\\
''(every marine raises his rifle)''\\
'''Todd:''' ''(laughing)'' Just a little bit of Wraith humor.
* In "The Storm" Sheppard has to disconnect two inconveniently placed grounding stations.
-->'''Sheppard:''' Wait a second. Are these things even close to a transporter?\\
'''[=McKay=]:''' Elizabeth's is.\\
'''Sheppard:''' And mine?\\
'''[=McKay=]:''' It's a... brisk walk away.\\
'''Sheppard:''' And by "brisk" you mean "far"?\\
'''[=McKay=]:''' And by "walk" I mean "run."
* "Meredith?"
* From "Sateda":
-->'''[=McKay=]:''' ''(very very doped up on drugs and slightly slurring)'' Excuse me -- why am I lying here?\\
'''Carson:''' You have an arrow, Rodney. In your gluteous maximus.\\
'''[=McKay=]:''' Oh. Well, that sounds painful. ''(dopily muttering to himself)'' Gluteous... maximus. Glooteeous, maxi-- ''(with mild, drowsy surprise)'' Oh my god! That's my ass, isn't it?\\
'''Carson:''' ''(resignedly)'' Aye.
* This exchange:
-->'''Woolsey:''' That sounded like an explosion!\\
'''O'Neill:''' Yes. Yes it did.\\
'''Woolsey:''' What does that mean?\\
'''O'Neill:''' Something exploded.
* Same episode, after Woolsey asks another string of questions, and Jack finally points out that he's been sitting right ''next to'' Woolsey the whole time, so how does Woolsey expect ''him'' to know any more than he does?
* The episode "Brain Storm", where Rodney attends a scientific conference -- and is bullied by Bill Nye and Neil [=deGrasse=] Tyson ("from TV"). Also, the running gag of people assuming Keller is Rodney's sister.
* Pretty much that entire episode counts.
-->'''Creator/StephenHawking:''' We get it. It works. Shut it down. I'm starting to freeze to my chair.
* [=McKay=] to [[PlutoIsExpendable Neil deGrasse Tyson]]: "Hey, at least I didn't declassify Pluto from planet status. Way to make all the little kids cry, Neil. That make you feel like a big man?" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me3-r5rsUSI SO. GOOD.]]
* Harmony steals Shephard's chocolate, blames Rodney and pretends to cry.
* Sheppard: "Operation 'This Will Most Likely End Badly' is a go."
* The team are stranded on a prison island so they're stuck fighting off the prisoners. Teyla improvises eskrima sticks by breaking a sturdy branch in half across her knee. Sheppard tries the same thing, except his branch is much thicker and he just ends up badly bruising his knee. So he uses it to knock the wind out of an ambushing prisoner.
* It's a small one, but after Sam calls a end to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxgpYP2RHkM Ronon and Teal'c fight]], Sheppard is glowering as he takes his part of the betting pool and then hands one of the random money notes back to Chuck the technician, who just looks baffled.
