History Awesome / TheSalvationWar

* Leilah, in full dominatrix gear, goes after Yahweh [[WhipItGood with a whip]]. And hurts him.

-->'''General Sir [[NamesTheSame Michael Jackson]]:''' "I can honestly say that Her Majesty's Armed Forces have no covert operations groups stationed ''outside'' The Eternal City."

* Part 80: Progress cruise missiles are used to assassinate Satan, and then Abigor and a battalion of Marines charge into the throne room of Dis to take over control.

* Bill Clinton calmly taking an [[RareGuns AA-12]] fully automatic shotgun from a secret service SUV and gunning down a disguised succubus in broad daylight.

* The Gray Ladies' attack during the Battle of the Phlegethon River. Eighteen B-52s dropping bombs at regular intervals to create an accumulative shock wave that destroys everything it touches. By the time they have dropped the tenth bomb, "the blast wave was invincible"... and there are still [[UpToEleven seventy more bombs to come]].

** And later, kitten finally meets one of the soldiers she has been helping, who had only recently found out that she was [[spoiler:transgender]]. He pauses for a moment, then gives her [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments a hug]].

* The Demons get theirs in [[http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?t=117679&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=3350 Part 47: Sodom and Gomorrah Mk II]], although the later attack on [[spoiler:Detroit]] actually does damage to the human war effort -- despite both [[spoiler:Sheffield and Detroit]] being targeted on the basis of outdated information.
* Sander and Carl Levin foregoing an escape from [[spoiler:the besieged Detroit]] to [[HeroicSacrifice create a barrier for the lava]], [[FaceDeathWithDignity then not flinching as a building falls onto them]].

** Prior to that, (spoilered for mild NauseaFuel) [[spoiler:it is discovered that aborted and miscarried babies do in fact go to hell. Rove sees this as sufficient evidence to overturn Roe v Wade. Bush sees the possibility of this leaking as something legitimately horrifying, which would seriously damage any woman who had had an abortion, and orders the report classified hard, and warns Rove seriously about the consequences of leaking it.]]

* Part 80: Progress cruise missiles are used to [[spoiler:assassinate Satan]], and then [[spoiler:Abigor]] and a battalion of Marines charge into the [[spoiler:throne room of Dis]] to take over control.
-->''"[[spoiler:Satan is dead.]] Humans killed him with their weapons. With their weapons, not with magic for magic and superstition is powerless in the face of human science. We are powerless in the face of human engineering. They have won this war and nothing we say or do can change that. Hell is changed forever and nothing we can do will change that either. The humans have told me they wish me to be the new leader in Hell, answerable only to them. I have agreed. If you do not like the idea of me as your leader, don't tell me." (gestures to the Marines) '''"TELL THEM!"''' ''
** And [[spoiler:Abigor]] does this speech while holding a British 30mm [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RARDEN RARDEN]] modified as an ''[[{{BFG}} assault rifle]]''.

* Humanity serves up about the most ironic demise possible to [[spoiler: Uriel,]] killed by light and skewered on the Crystal Cathedral. In the City of Angels.

* Michael proves he's the master of XanatosSpeedChess when he [[spoiler: discovers the nuke]] loaded onto his latest cart of drugs and returns to sender.

* Michael makes it a little clearer what his endgame is when [[spoiler: he manipulates Yahweh into ordering on record that the angel conspiracies should be punished as they would be in Hell, thus giving every single angel plausible deniability that they were anything but forced into their actions by an insane ruler just like the demons.]]

* [[spoiler: Nuking]] the Angelic Host.

* As of chapter 76 [[spoiler:God is dead.]] And how did it happen? Michael and his allies lay off the constant barrage in favor of a series of supercharged bursts, timed to [[https://youtu.be/yvpnNa1nFWI John Barry's theme]] from ''Film/{{Zulu}}''.

* [[spoiler:Zacharael]], Ruler of Heaven. And it's ''still'' part of Michael's plan.
* [[spoiler:Elhmas]] revealing himself as a {{Magnificent Bastard}} to rival Michael as he first scares the crap out of him and making him think he's about to die, then handily sets himself up as {{The Man Behind The Man}}.

* Sander and Carl Levin foregoing an escape from [[spoiler: the besieged Detroit]] to [[HeroicSacrifice create a barrier for the lava]], [[FaceDeathWithDignity then not flinching as a building falls onto them]].

** To clarify for non-catholics, excommunication is by far the worst canonical punishment that the church can be give to a person : It makes them unable to receive the sacraments (Meaning that one is pretty much certain to go to Hell) and makes God directly responsible for the salvation of the sinner. the Pope basically said : "God doesn't have our mercy"...

-->''"[[spoiler: Satan is dead.]] Humans killed him with their weapons. With their weapons, not with magic for magic and superstition is powerless in the face of human science. We are powerless in the face of human engineering. They have won this war and nothing we say or do can change that. Hell is changed forever and nothing we can do will change that either. The humans have told me they wish me to be the new leader in Hell, answerable only to them. I have agreed. If you do not like the idea of me as your leader, don't tell me." (gestures to the Marines) '''"TELL THEM!"''' ''

** Becomes a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} in ''Pantheocide'', where General Lee is unable to adapt to modern military command and he calmly and rationally acknowledges that, is instead is given the option to use his well-known compassion for his troops to care for traumatized soldiers rescued from the Hellpit. When the command is proposed Lee replies, "I wish it with all my heart."

* The Gray Ladies' attack during the Battle of the Phlegethon River. Eighteen B-52s dropping bombs at regular intervals to create an accumulative shock wave that destroys everything it touches. By the time they have dropped the tenth bomb, "the blast wave was invincible"... and there are still [[UpToEleven seventy more bombs to come]].

--> “We have learned, beyond any shadow of a doubt that Hell and Heaven both exist but that the doors to the latter are closed to us. If we lose the fight in which we are now engaged, [[AndIMustScream the entire human race faces only a screaming eternity]]. [[ThisMeansWar Hell and Heaven both have, by both word and deed, declared their undying hatred of Mankind united, and as such we return it tenfold]]. As of this day, we find ourselves embroiled in a war, the war, [[TitleDrop Armageddon]] as it was never once dreamed in the worst nightmares of our forefathers, a war not between Heaven and Hell for our own salvation, but between Heaven and Hell and Humanity, a war we must win completely and utterly if we desire the slightest chance of sparing untold generations of future men and women a literal eternity of suffering. We claimed to be fighting in a 'WarOnTerror', [[EnemyMine now we find ourselves allied with our former enemies, they are our brothers in a wider struggle]], on all of those who would condemn humanity to an eternity of suffering.

* The Gray Ladies' attack during the Battle of the Phlegethon River. Eighteen B-52s dropping bombs at regular intervals to create an accumulative shock wave that destroys everything it touches. By the time they have dropped the tenth bomb, "the blast wave was invincible"... and there are still [[UpToEleven seventy more bombs to come]].
* Phil Phelan, an elderly and overweight mall cop, going after a baldrick with a ''baton'' to protect several teenage girls. An ''entire plain'' of Hell is named after him, and he will receive a lot of praise once he is pulled out of the pits.

* Al Bundy's sacrifice.

** Becomes a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming in ''Pantheocide'', where General Lee is unable to adapt to modern military command and he calmly and rationally acknowledges that, is instead is given the option to use his well-known compassion for his troops to care for traumatized soldiers rescued from the Hellpit. When the command is proposed Lee replies, "I wish it with all my heart."

-->[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming “So, you see Doctor, my blindness is nothing to be sorry for. What finer sight could I, Party Leader of Mai Xiao Village, treasure as my last than those ten old men saving our children by bringing down the monster with their bayonets?” ]]

** And later, kitten finally meets one of the soldiers she has been helping, who had only recently found out that she was [[spoiler:transgender]]. He pauses for a moment, then gives her [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming a hug]].

* Caesar paraphrasing the [[HenryV St. Crispin's Day speech]], with the effect of one great military leader taking inspiration from another far after his time, even with Shakespeare being the true intermediary.

** And when they win, the humans of Los Angeles celebrate by singing [[{{Queen}} "We Will Rock You."]]

* As of chapter 76 [[spoiler:God is dead.]] And how did it happen? Michael and his allies lay off the constant barrage in favor of a series of supercharged bursts, timed to [[https://youtu.be/yvpnNa1nFWI John Barry's theme]] from ''{{Zulu}}''.

* As of chapter 76 [[spoiler:God is dead.]] And how did it happen? Michael and his allies lay off the constant barrage in favor of a series of supercharged bursts, timed to John Barry's theme from ''Zulu''.

** To clarify for non-catholics, excommunication is by far the worst canonical punishment that the church can be give to a person : It makes them unable to receive the sacraments (Meaning that one is pretty much certain to go to Hell) and makes God directly responsible for the salvation of the sinner. the Pope basically said : "God doesn't our mercy"...

** Prior to that, (spoilered for mild NauseaFuel) [[spoiler:it is discovered that aborted and miscarried babies do in fact go to hell. Rove sees this as sufficient evidence to overturn Roe v Wade. Bush sees the possibility of this leaking as something legitimately horrifying, orders the report classified hard, and warns Rove seriously about the consequences of leaking it.]]

-->''"Sod off [[{{Blackadder}} Baldrick]]."''