History Awesome / Turncoat

*** And as Harry notes, makes it very clear to Lara that Ebenezar [ColonyDrop]] McCoy is not nice like Harry, superior to him in every way possible, and '''is someone she couldn't hope to do anything to''', and is more than capable of carrying out his early threat and would eagerly do it. She can only mumble "I won't forget" in response.

*** And as Harry notes, makes it very clear to Lara that Ebenezar ColonyDrop McCoy is not nice like Harry, superior to him in every way possible, and is someone she '''couldn't hope to do anything to''', and is more than capable of carrying out his early threat and would eagerly do it. She can only mumble "I won't forget" in response.

** Shagnasty tore through the White King's personal domain with no effort, and almost made Harry [[GoMadFromTheRevelation go bonkers just looking at it through his Sight]]. Listens-To-Winds kicked his ass.

*** As Joe said:[[DoubleMeaning "Little guy like that, taking on something so far out his weight class. That was a sight to see."]]

* A subtle one, more of a callback than anything, but when Harry [[spoiler:gets half the Senior Council to come to his island for the big showdown]], Ancient Mai orders the Wardens to arrest him, and all ''five'' of them proceed with caution. Harry then goes over some of his previous victories, and realizes that while ''he'' knows he's just a plucky smartass with a lot of luck, who the five wardens would have no trouble taking down, the others don't see it that way. They see ''him'' as a badass wizard who rides zombie dinosaurs into battle and kicks the crap out of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s on a semi-annual basis. In other words, they regard him the same way we do. Harry Dresden is his own 'verse's MemeticBadass.

* A TearJerker-inducing CrowningMomentOfAwesome for Morgan: [[spoiler: The actual mind-controlled killer was Luccio, who he found standing over [=LaFortier=]. His response was to ''take the blame and cover for her'' because even after all that time, he still loved her.]] For someone like Morgan, that is incredibly powerful.

** This becomes ten times more awesome after the revelations in ''Cold Days.'' Demonreach's GeniusLoci is able to take on [[spoiler: ''twenty Fae,'' two of whom are the Summer and Winter Lady]], and resist. But Harry Badass Copperfield Dresden is able to punch it into submission.

* Ebenezar's BadassBoast after Lara socks Harry, unaware the two are working together.

** And before that, he was able to telepathically forumulate a battle plan amidst the chaos of the attack. While it was pitch-black. While he was fighting a powerful supernatural entity. In under three seconds.

** To make things better he even ''thought'' a mental chalk board outline of the battle plan to people so they could more easily see what to do. And he realized that anyone that called forth light in the black would immediately be a target. Many humans in the Dresdenverse die by making that mistake. They light themselves up (as supernatural creatures are seldom bothered by the lack of light) and become targets. And then dead.

* A villanous one for Shagnasty who, when told to "fuck off" by Harry responds with this;

** Another one for Shagnasty. You know how at the top of the page, his kind are called, for good reason, a "highly intelligent shape-shifting demigod of sadism?" Well, unlike a lot of monstrous villains, he actually proves his intelligence. When Harry has him on the ropes with his soulfire... rope, you'd expect an enemy that strong to pull a DiabolusExMachina by simply overpowering the spell or revealing it doesn't affect him. Shagnasty? Shagnasty does what pretty much no-other villain in the series does: remember the basics and draw a circle. Basic magic, basic logic, and it saves his own life and nearly wins him the day.

** And Harry Dresden, the man who has snarked Fallen Angels, Vampires of all shapes and sizes, Faerie Queens and evil Necromancers, has no comeback. Perhaps Shagnasty should be teaching the other Dresden-universe villains how to threaten someone.

* Harry [[spoiler:[[ThrowingDownTheGauntlet setting up a showdown]] on the aforementioned island between himself, the White Court, the White Council, the skinwalker hunting the wounded Morgan and the traitor in the Council.]]

---> "Lady Raith,"? Ebenezar said, [[TranquilFury calmly]]. "[[PapaWolf Touch that boy again and the only things left for your kin to bury will be your five-hundred-dollar shoes]]."

** Shagnasty tore through the White King's personal domain with no effort. Listens-To-Winds kicked his ass.

*** As Joe said:" Little guy like that, taking on something so far out his weight class. That was a sight to see."

---> "Lady Raith,"? Ebenezar said, calmly. "Touch that boy again and the only things left for your kin to bury will be your five-hundred-dollar shoes."

** Shortly before that, Madeline comes on to Harry, and he says she reminds him of [[WhoFramedRogerRabbit Jessica Rabbit]], "all shiny and overblown and obvious", and then changes his mind to "the evil princess from Buck Rogers". He caps off the insult by telling the vain, hyper-sexualised AlphaBitch (who has some sort of rivalry with Lara) that "Lara does more for me just sitting in a chair than you did with your whole entrance."

---> One bloody and spectacular mess, coming up.

** To make things better he even ''thought'' a mental chalk board outline of the battle plan to people so they could more easily see what to do. And he realized that anyone that called forth light in the black would immediately be a target. Many humans in the Dresdenverse die by making that mistake. They light themselves up(as supernatural creatures are seldom bothered by the lack of light) and become targets. And then dead.

** This is followed up closer to the end of the book by an offhand comment from Rashid, the Gatekeeper, regarding [[spoiler:the aforementioned very powerful and scary GeniusLoci]]. Said comment? That Rashid wouldn't [[spoiler:set foot on the island]] because "It holds a grudge." The Gatekeeper apparently came out on top when [[spoiler:fighting an entity that's been around for ''tens of thousands of years'']].
*** Yet even so, he'd rather not face it again if he doesn't have to. But Harry tamed it.

** Shortly before that, Madeline comes on to Harry, and he says she reminds him of [[WhoFramedRogerRabbit Jessica Rabbit]], "all shiny and overblown and obvious", and then changes his mind to "the evil princes from Buck Rogers". He caps off the insult by telling the vain, hyper-sexualised AlphaBitch (who has some sort of rivalry with Lara) that "Lara does more for me just sitting in a chair than you did with your whole entrance."

** Even better in hindsight. Shagnasty tore through the White King's personal domain with no effort. Listens-To-Winds kicked his ass.

*** They just turn and walk away...

* For Morgan, right near the end. He's on the cusp of being executed just to appease the White Council's political image. Then Harry unmasks the traitor, who promptly flees. Morgan, despite the injury that makes it life-threatening to even stand, ''sprints'' to catch up, and puts two bullets in the traitor's head [[BigDamnHeroes just in time to save Harry's life]]. Naturally, he'd tore open his injury, and was bleeding out. With his dying breath, he tells Harry to ''let'' the White Council paint him (Morgan) as a traitor - both to keep the White Council looking strong for outsiders, and to [[spoiler: keep Luccio from being discovered]]. In one fell swoop, Morgan turned the DownerEnding of an undeserved, politically-motivated execution... into going out fighting, taking out a traitor, and ensuring his death continues to serve the White Council even ''politically''[[spoiler: , while saving the woman he loves]]. In short, the absolute best death a KnightTemplar could ever, ''ever'' dream of.

* And Harry's [[spoiler: XanatosGambit to expose the traitor.]] Hurrah for subcontracting!