History Awesome / WakingNightmares

* When the Masky Ponies have [[spoiler: Twilight, Spike, Spy, and Fluttershy]] BrainwashedAndCrazy, and they're overcoming the others, Medic [[DesperationAttack Ubercharges Applejack]]. She [[spoiler: temporarily turns into an alicorn, and unleashes a WorldHealingWave of Honesty that heals everyone and merges Heavy and Fluttershy into [=FlutterHeavy=].]]
* Mayor Mare standing up to Nightmare [[spoiler: Doctor]]. He's an alicorn with armor based off of Nightmare Moon's and has been effortlessly defeating the element bearers and [=BLU=]s that have challenged him. She has a lead pipe. [[spoiler: It's a CurbStompBattle, of course. But the fact that she didn't flee when she could speaks volumes about her courage.]]

* When the heroes are losing to Nightmare [[spoiler: Doctor]], Barricade (who's bleeding internally) says goodbye to her daughter, then ''charges'' the Nightmare with Soldier. They knew they had no chance and attacked anyway. When he's preparing to MindRape her, she [[DefiantToTheEnd spits in his face and yells "Celestia Regina!"]] It's an expression of loyalty to the throne.

* Whenever a battle involves one of the [[spoiler: fused forms facing down a Nightmare]], it will have at least one moment like this.
** [[spoiler:[=FlutterHeavy=]]] uses her weapon to pummel Masky Earth Pony with bullets, forcing it to retreat.
** [[spoiler:[=AppleDemo=]]] blasts away at Nightmare Grave while stickybomb jumping over the rooftops.
** [[spoiler:[=EngiRarity=]]] keeps [[spoiler: Nightmare Doctor]] on the defensive with some expert use of turrets.
** [[spoiler: Scoutie Pie]], with help of another fusion, zips right past a barrage of laser blast and takes down the powerful [[spoiler: Nightmare Harmonic.]]
* [=RED=] Medic, using [[CompanionCube Sa]][[GatlingGood sha]], [[spoiler: stops an avatar of Slenderman]] from reaching [=RED=] Heavy by [[spoiler:somehow tapping into the magic that is empowering both their BLU counterparts.]]

* During the [[spoiler: Quiet Sins]] arc, [[BigDamnHeroes Luna flies to Ponyville to defend it from the latest Nightmare attack]]. She effortlessly defeats [[spoiler: Barricade]]. who's BrainwashedAndCrazy, and then gives an ''epic'' speech to [[spoiler: Spike]], who's become a full-grown dragon.

* [[spoiler: Queen Chrysalis is now a good guy.]] Heck. Flipping. Yes.
* [[spoiler: Discord refusing to work with Slendermane. And would "rather become a Bastion of Order" than let him have his way.]]
* Slendermane's been [[spoiler: abducting foals across Ponyville.]] When the heroes arrive at Berry Punch's winery, they find Berry Punch ''riding Slendermane, stabbing it in the face with a broken bottle.'' It's like taking on an elephant with a paperclip, but regardless, Berry Punch took on an EldritchAbomination for her daughter.

* [[spoiler: Cheerilee getting herself out of Nightmare Gardener through sheer force of will (and help from the Doctor, Rainbow Sniper, etc.)]]
* [[spoiler: The Changelings' BigDamnHeroes moment, especially with Chrysalis pretending to be Slendermane.]]
* The [=RED=]s are missing [[spoiler: 3]] team members. The remaining members and Merasmus HoldTheLine against an army of robots, at one point destroying fifteen out of twenty giant scouts and two out of nine tanks, all of which were attacking at once, with Major Bomber and Sergeant Crits, two of Grey Mann's toughest robots.
* The second time Sniper takes on [[spoiler: [[EnemyWithin Christain Brutal Sniper]], he kicks him out of his head and takes control of his Nightmare - enhanced body.]]

** His attack then not only staggers [[spoiler: Vagineer, but his [=BLU=] counterpart, Nightmare Clockwork, through their link, and through him, all the Nightmares attacking Ponyville.]]
* Trixie [[spoiler:transferring BLU and RED Engineers memories of imprisonment (on the distant planet and the Australium mine, respectively) into herself]], thus not only relieving them of a collective 3000 years of pain and loneliness, but also having to shoulder them herself! Even better, she nearly goes Nightmare from the pain of it, and ''fights it off.''
* In Chapter 5, [[spoiler: BLU Sniper and BLU Scout getting Brickhouse, a rich JerkJock pegasus, fired from the weather factory by making Cloudsdale think Brickhouse is taking advantage of Rainbow Dash's blindness.]] To top it off, [[spoiler: Snowstorm, Dash's boss, bought the factory from Brickhouse's family, stripping him of influence among the employees.]]

* Trixie [[spoiler:transferring BLU and RED Engineers memories of imprisonment (on the distant planet and the Australium mine, respectively) into herself]], thus not only relieving them of a collective 3000 years of pain and loneliness, but also having to shoulder them herself! Even better, she nearly goes Nightmare from the pain of it, and ''fights it off.''

** His attack then not only staggers [[spoiler: Vagineer, but his [=BLU=] counterpart, Nightmare Clockwork, through their link, and through him, all the Nightmares attacking Ponyville.

** His attack then not only staggers [[spoiler: Vagineer, but his [=BLU=] counterpart, Nightmare Clockwork through their link, and through him, all the Nightmares attacking Ponyville.

--> '''Luna''': "KNOW THAT I WILL SHOW YOU MERCY, CREATURE. BUT I WILL NOWT ALLOW YOU TO HARM ANYPONY!! LEARN NOW WHY THE DRAGONS DARE NOT INVADE EQUESTRIA! HAVE AT YOU!!"