History Awesome / Thunderbolts

* The team end up on a mission with Hyperion and the entire issue deals with fighting him. Hyperion is basically an evil expy of {{Superman}}, with everything that implies. He regards the other Thunderbolts as completely worthless, especially Ghost, and proceeds to burn Man-Thing, break Juggernaut's legs, and drown Moonstone. He's later beaten up by Juggernaut (and actually breaks his hand trying to cave Juggs' head in), blasted by Moonstone, paralyzed by Ghost, and, after a good CurbStompBattle on him, burned by Man-Thing.

* The team end up on a mission with Hyperion [[spoiler: and the entire issue deals with fighting him. Hyperion is basically an evil expy of {{Superman}}, with everything that implies. He regards the other Thunderbolts as completely worthless, especially Ghost, and proceeds to burn Man-Thing, break Juggernaut's legs, and drown Moonstone. He's later beaten up by Juggernaut (and actually breaks his hand trying to cave Juggs' head in), blasted by Moonstone, paralyzed by Ghost, and, after a good CurbStompBattle on him, burned by Man-Thing.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Moonstone''': "Coward. Can't have one of these on the team. You shouldn't know fear, Hyperion. Because. Whoever knows fear..."]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Juggernaut''': "...burns at the touch of '''the Man-Thing'''."]]

* Deadpool finally realizes at the end of the mission to assassinate the Paguero crime family why he's been obsessing over a small pizza place he knows in New York, where the pizza isn't even that good. [[spoiler: The Pagueros own the joint and use it as a hide out, and Deadpool recognized the Pagueros from their photos on restaurant's wall. He promptly guns down all three of the family's heads when they stumbled into the joint, casually outdoing years of the Punisher's work.]]

** [[spoiler:Ultimately backfires on Sterns at the end of the series. Mephisto approaches with a new contract in hand while he is trapped in the Penace Stare. He immediately signs it to escape the Stare, and is escorted to Hell where he will suffer all the tortures Mephisto's twisted imagination can fathom.]]

* '''"[[ThirdPersonPerson TROLL]] [[HulkSpeak HAVE]] [[InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons DRAGON]]!"'''

* During a mass break out attempt on the Raft Luke Cage finally meets the Purple Man, who has beaten teams of Avengers before, and years ago [[MindRape mind-raped]] Jess, Luke's wife. [[http://4thletter.net/2010/08/stop-jockin-jay-z-thunderbolts-147/ Check out what happens here.]]

--> "Let me EXPLAIN something, Zemo. Let me tell you why [[TheStarscream I undermined your leadership at every turn]]. I've got a pretty simple philosophy of life. You want to hear it? It's this: [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Don't. Get. CAUGHT!]] Oh, I was stupid at first - [[SmugSuper I thought my powers made me invincible]]...so I ended up getting a record, getting caught. [[ChronicVillainy I was willing to ride it out, serve my sentence and start anew - but you press-ganged me into your scheme, and there went that]]. Still, it was a good scheme - posing as heroes - and we made it WORK. [[VillainWithGoodPublicity We had it all - public support, adulation - the perfect cover to pull any NUMBER of scams]] - and [[NiceJobFixingItVillain you went and blew it over just ONE]]! ''Who CARES about [[WorldDomination ruling the world]]?! Who wants to do that much '''[[AndThenWhat WORK]]?!''''' [[PragmaticVillainy We could have run this con out for YEARS before it got old]]! But no, [[VillainBall you couldn't be smart]] - not when you could play Hitler like your idiot father!"

* During the Secret Empire arc, a villain attacks Jolt from behind and shocks her with his electricity-based powers, snarking that he is "giving her a jolt". All he really does is piss her off, resulting in the following reaction:
-->'''Jolt''': You call this a jolt? ([[CurbStompBattle sends him flying in a single attack]]) ''This'' is a jolt.

* The Leader comes up with a plan to take out the entire team when they're on a road trip in the Battle Van. He borrows a lighter from Ross, then would use his ability to radiate gamma rays to overload and knockout him out. Leader would then the lighter set Deadpool aflame, scaring away the Venom Symbiote, and throw Ross into the blaze, having hidden the fire extinguisher. Finally when the Punisher and Elektra in the front seats are forced to stop and help, Leader would fall out then throw the team's grenades into the blaze. But even more impressively the Leader abandons this plan, as he realizes [[GenreSavvy his dwindling super-intelligence cannot account for every facet of this violent plan nor unpredictable human nature]], and that such a plan is worthless if Mercy simply vaporizes him.