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** G'Kar, in "A Late Delivery From Avalon", jumps in to help a human who stepped in to defend a helpless woman, evening the odds in the fight significantly. G'kar observes, in a post-fight drink:

** In the season 1 episode "Signs and Portents", the station is seemingly overwhelmed by Raider ships, then suddenly Sinclair springs his trap when the supposed Starfury squadron the Raiders had lured away returned.
** In season 2 "All Alone in the Night", a fleet led by the EAS Agammemnon and flanked by Starfuries and Ambassador Delenn's Flyer, arrive in the nick of time to stop a Streib ship from making off with Captain Sheridan.
** The classic ''Babylon 5'' BigDamnHeroes moment is when the Minbari arrive in "Severed Dreams":

** Later in season 3's "Walkabout", just as the Shadow ships are closing in on the Whitestar, the Army of Light arrives led by the G'tok. Which was pretty impressive, given that the G'Tok's commander [[ChangedMyMindKid previously refused to participate in the mission]].
** Also in season 3's "Interludes and Examinations", the Brakiri were having their asses kicked by the rampaging Shadow fleet when suddenly, a Vorlon armada jumps in and proceeds to annihilate the enemy fleet and at the same time rally the League of Non-Aligned worlds into an alliance.
** In season 4's episode "Endgame", Clark had given a last "scorched earth" order upon his imminent defeat, setting one of Earth's defense platforms to fire on the planet itself. With many ships damaged and no other way to destroy the platform in time, Sheridan on the ''Agamemnon'' steers the ship to [[SuicideAttack ram the platform]]. Just before impact would have happened, General Lefcourt, who had commanded the Earthforce defense against Sheridan's advance on Mars and Earth, becomes a [[BigDamnHeroes Big Damned Hero]] for Sheridan when his ship ''Apollo'', which just recovered from extensive disablement in the battle of Mars, jumps in and fires on the platform, destroying it.

** In season 5's "A View from the Gallery", just as the station is about to be overrun by the unnamed invaders, the Whitestar fleet jumps in to save the day.

** Averted in ''Angel'''s "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E22NotFadeAway Not Fade Away]]" [[spoiler:when Illyria becomes concerned about Wesley and arrives just after he's been fatally wounded. She did take care of his opponent though.]]

* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': The trope name (and the quote) comes from this show, wherein Mal and the rest of the crew save Simon and River from being [[BurnTheWitch burned at the stake]] in the episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYeqDD96gLg "Safe"]]. The page photo for the trope, however, is from a different episode.
** Zoe, Jayne and Wash simultaneously blasting Adelai Niska off Mal in "War Stories" is arguably another example.

** [[spoiler: In "Blackwater", the combined Tyrell-Lannister army (commanded by Ser Loras Tyrell and Lord Tywin Lannister) comes riding to the rescue of King's Landing, which was under siege by Stannis Baratheon's forces, a straight example of TheCavalry, complete with triumphant Rains of Castamere over the credits]].
** [[spoiler: In "The Red Woman", Theon and Sansa have been found by the Boltons' men, who are about to drag them back to Winterfell to be subjected to even more of Ramsay's perverse tortures. Then, out of nowhere, Brienne rides in and manages to hack their pursuers to pieces, finally getting to pledge herself to Sansa's service]].
** In "Home" things look bad for Davos and the few remaining Nights Watch members who remain loyal to Jon. Thorne and his band are at the door and Davos and Co prepare for their final stand... cue [[spoiler: The Wildlings, led by Giantsbane and Wun-Wun the Giant bursting into the courtyard, ensuring that Jon's murderers will not escape justice. They may be the Free Folk but they are loyal to those that were loyal to them. Bonus points that the ones that stayed on Jon's side in the Nights Watch were the ones that fought at Hardhome... when they came to the Wildlings' aid]]

** Tyrion saving Catelyn from a mountain tribesman in "The Wolf and the Lion".
** Tyrion saving Sansa from Joffrey's physical abuse in "Garden of Bones".

** Barristan shows up just in time to save Daenerys from an assassin in the Season 3 premiere "Valar Dohaeris".

** Jaime returns to Harrenhal just in time to save Brienne from the bear pit in "The Bear and the Maiden Fair".

** Stannis and his army coming to the rescue in "The Children".

** In "The Gift", Ghost turns up just when things are looking most grim for Sam and Gilly and scares off two asshole Brothers who were beating Sam to a pulp and clearly planning to rape Gilly.
** "The Dance of Dragons" is full of them. First, Jorah is saved from death in the pits by another opportunistic fighter, then he throws a spear to kill the Son of the Harpy behind Dany, and finally, a very angry Drogon arrives at the last moment to save Dany and her followers from being overrun after they are caught in an ambush orchestrated by the Sons of the Harpy. Most of the attackers wisely flee at the sight of him. The rest are not so lucky.

** In "Sons of the Harpy" Barristan saves Grey Worm from certain death by killing twenty two enemies single-handedly.
** In Season 8, Episode 3 "[[{{Recap/GameOfThronesS8E3TheLongNight}} The Long Night]]" [[spoiler: the living armies have been crushed, Jon Snow and Daenerys are struggling for their life, and the [[{{BigBad}} Night King]] is about to kill Bran Stark, when Arya jumps at him. He [[{{NeckLift}} catches her in midair]], but the show's resident [[{{LittleMissBadass}} Little Miss Badass]] drops her knife to her other hand and delivers the killing blow, destroying him and [[{{NoOntologicalInertia}} the entirety of his army]].]]

* ''Series/RedDwarf'': [[TheAce Ace Rimmer]] (What a guy!) is usually introduced in a BigDamnHeroes scene. In his first appearance, he flies in, saves the crew, then performs emergency surgery on the Cat while nursing a broken arm. The second time, he sweeps in, rescues a DistressedDamsel from a Nazi firing squad, surfs from a plane on an alligator, takes a bullet to the holodrive and still manages to have sex before seeking aid -- [[CatchPhrase what a guy]].
* In the second season of ''Series/ResurrectionErtugrul'', Geyikli manages to save [[spoiler: a weak-handed Ertugrul’s]] life from a Mongol soldier by piercing the attacker from behind with his wooden spear.

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': [[CombatMedic Doctor]] [[BadassAdorable John]] [[TheWatson Watson]] pulls this off in the first episode by [[spoiler:shooting the serial killer in the head right before Sherlock takes one of the pills. From the next building. Through two windows. [[ImprobableAimingSkills Over Sherlock's shoulder]]]].
** Sherlock pulls this one off in the episode "Blind Banker", when [[spoiler: John gets captured.]]

** Sherlock pulls one off at the end of "A Scandal in Belgravia", when it is revealed in flashback [[spoiler: that he was able to rescue Irene Adler from Muslim extremists.]]
** Sherlock does it again in the third episode of "The Empty Hearse" by [[spoiler: [[UndyingLoyalty saving John's life by physically getting into and pulling him out of a bonfire]].]] Wow. They do mean a lot to each other.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': Episode "Friday's Child" has Kirk, Spock, and [=McCoy=] unarmed, outnumbered, and surrounded by a Klingon force. "Too bad the cavalry doesn't come over the hill anymore," Kirk actually says just before Scotty and a security detail[[note]]''not'' a RedshirtArmy, security uniform notwithstanding![[/note]] beams down to save the day.

** Episode "Shattered Mirror". When [[spoiler:Mirror Bashir and Mirror Dax]] swoop in to save the day, you've ''almost'' forgotten that they were a part of the plan all along.
** In "Sacrifice of Angels", the ''Defiant'' is leading Starfleet against Dominion-Cardassian forces. Just as three Jem'Hadar are closing in on it, the Klingons finally arrive, decloaking from the direction of a star and smashing through the Dominion lines.
* ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery'': In "Such Sweet Sorrow Part 2", the ''Discovery'' and ''Enterprise'' are getting their asses kicked by Control and his fleet of Section 31 ships when two sets of this trope hits. The first is a fleet of Kelpian shuttles lead by Saru's sister Sarena followed by a ''Klingon cleave ship'' with High Chancellor L'Rell captaining it with L'Rell mentioning the battlecruisers are right behind her.

** In "Broken Pieces", Seven of Nine appears in the nick of time to rescue Elnor from the Romulans who are about to overpower him.
** In "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2", Captain Riker arrives in command of a vast Starfleet armada just in time to prevent the Romulans from destroying Picard's ship and wipe out the synths on Coppelius.

** But defied in the Season 4 finale, "Lucifer Rising": [[spoiler: when Ruby prevents Dean from getting into the room in time to tell Sam that Lilith is the final seal and killing her will release Lucifer]].
** Done to a hideously {{Narm}}-ish degree in the Season 5 finale when Dean shows up to interrupt the impending smackdown between Michael and Lucifer. And then hilariously subverted a few minutes later when Castiel appears and hits Michael with a Holy Hand Grenade (aka, a Molotov of anti-angel holy oil) only to get blown up a second later by Lucifer.

* ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'': [[DistressedDude Ianto Jones]] is about to have his throat slit by a cannibal with a meat cleaver, when good ol' Captain Jack breaks through the wall "in a ruddy great tractor" and starts shooting people. Cue [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MxPuN_LGoc theme music]].

** In "Død Kalm", Mulder and Scully are rescued by unknown people, probably the Norwegian Navy.
** In "731", X saves Mulder from an exploding train. Then he does the UnflinchingWalk and outwalks the fireball with Mulder in the OverTheShoulderCarry position.
** In "Field Trip", it's AD Skinner and bunch of other FBI agents who save the dynamic duo from caves with hallucinogenic mushrooms that were devouring them alive. Both are barely conscious, covered in mud and yellow substance.

** In "Absolute Candor", [[MasterSwordsman Elnor]] and his [[AbsurdlySharpBlade tan qalanq]] arrive just in time to rescue Picard from Tenqem. The thug [[OffWithHisHead loses his head]] when he ignores Elnor's warning to back down.
** In "The Impossible Box", Elnor and his sword show up in time to save Picard, Soji and Hugh from Romulan soldiers. Unlike the last time, however, Picard doesn't scold Elnor for killing their enemies, and he even thanks him for it.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': At the closing moments of "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E21TwoToGo Two to Go]]", Willow, on a black-eyed bender of murderous, bad-magic-is-bad fury, is mopping the Magic Box floor with the Slayer, the only one who might have been strong enough to stop Willow's skin-flaying rampage. With Buffy down, Willow crows her triumph, informing all present (at least those still conscious) that there is no one on earth who is powerful enough to stop her. Cue Big Damn Hero entrance in the form of Rupert Giles, hepped up on some serious magic of his own, to test Willow's theory.

** [[spoiler:Angel]]'s entrance in Season 7 also qualifies.

** Averted in ''Angel'' Season 5 [[spoiler:when Illyria becomes concerned about Wesley and arrives just after he's been fatally wounded. She did take care of his opponent though.]]

* In the ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' episode [[Recap/AgentsOfSHIELDS2E9YeWhoEnterHere "Ye Who Enter Here"]], when [[Comicbook/DaisyJohnson Skye]] is fighting Comicbook/{{HYDRA}} [[DarkActionGirl Agent 33]], Agent 33 gets the upper hand, only to be tackled to the floor by Lance Hunter.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': At the closing moments of Season Six's penultimate episode, Willow, on a black-eyed bender of murderous, bad-magic-is-bad fury, is mopping the Magic Box floor with the Slayer, the only one who might have been strong enough to stop Willow's skin-flaying rampage. With Buffy down, Willow crows her triumph, informing all present (at least those still conscious) that there is no one on earth who is powerful enough to stop her. Cue Big Damn Hero entrance in the form of Rupert Giles, hepped up on some serious magic of his own, to test Willow's theory.
** The season 6 finale when Xander confronts [[BigBad Willow]].

** The end of the episode "Double Or Nothing" when the team comes to save Gunn JustInTime.

* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'':
** Episode "Friday's Child" has Kirk, Spock, and [=McCoy=] unarmed, outnumbered, and surrounded by a Klingon force. "Too bad the cavalry doesn't come over the hill anymore," Kirk actually says just before Scotty and a security detail[[note]]''not'' a RedshirtArmy, security uniform notwithstanding![[/note]] beams down to save the day.

** ''Series/StarTrekDiscovery''
*** In "Such Sweet Sorrow Part 2", the ''Discovery'' and ''Enterprise'' are getting their asses kicked by Control and his fleet of Section 31 ships when two sets of this trope hits. The first is a fleet of Kelpian shuttles lead by Saru's sister Sarena followed by a ''Klingon cleave ship'' with High Chancellor L'Rell captaining it with L'Rell mentioning the battlecruisers are right behind her.

** Later in season 3's "Walkabout", just as the Shadow ships are closing in on the Whitestar, the Army of Light arrives led by the G'tok.

** In "Walkabout", there's a two-fer. When the ''White Star'' finds herself outmatched in a battle against a group of Shadow [[FanNickname battlecrabs]], a Minbari warcruiser jumps in to help, but it still won't be enough against four Shadow ships at once. Then the Narn cruiser ''G'Tok'' jumps into the system, heralded by G'Kar, who reveals they also brought a scratch fleet of assorted ships from the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, forcing the Shadows to withdraw.

** [[spoiler:Rory]] appearing to save Amy, Amelia and the Doctor from the stone Dalek in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang "The Big Bang"]].
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS32E2DayOfTheMoon "Day of the Moon"]], the unmistakable tones of the TARDIS materializing announce the arrival of The Doctor, Rory, and River Song, just in time to save Amy from the Silence.

** Without a doubt, Bulk and Skull's awesome moment was during the second season during "When is a Ranger Not a Ranger", when Lord Zedd likely came the closest he ever came to true victory with a MonsterOfTheWeek who managed to strip the Rangers of their memories ''and'' their powers (''all six'' of them). Bulk and Skull, were the ones who managed to rescue them this time; sadly, a side effect of the creatures powers caused them to forget that it happened, but that was for the best, because they also saw the Rangers unmasked.)

** One human-led BigDamnHeroes moment occurs in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory of the Daleks"]], when right as the Doctor is about to be killed because his self-destruct mechanism is revealed to be [[ItMakesSenseInContext a jammie-dodger]], he is saved by three hastily constructed ''[[SchizoTech space Spitfires]]''

** Subverted in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars "The Waters of Mars"]]. [[spoiler:The Doctor tries to alter history to save Adelaide Brooks and her remaining crew, but [[NiceJobBreakingItHero nearly broke time itself instead]]; this was averted only through Adelaide's self-sacrifice.]]

* ''Series/MurderSheWrote'': The police force was this for Jessica, whenever the unmasked murderer attempted to add her to their body count.

** Earthforce pulled a huge ([[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome and pretty awesome]]) example of this in the Dilgar War. The [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Dilgar]] were kicking the collective asses of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, while the Narn had been scared into looking the other way and the Centauri decided to do nothing. Earthforce entered the war and crushed the Dilgar despite a massive technological disadvantage, and in doing so not only won a cache of Dilgar technology to bring humanity up to speed but also won a key ally in the political sphere.

** In a two-part episode of the 2004 reimagining of the show, called "Exodus", the titular ship is attacked by three Cylon Baseships while attempting to help colonists on the planet New Caprica escape. The ship is severely damaged, and somber music plays while the camera zooms out as the Baseships pummel ''Galactica'' to death in the cold darkness of space...until a missile, then ''more'' missiles, fire off the edge of the screen, and the {{Battlestar}} ''Pegasus'' hurtles to the rescue, just in the nick of time. This is just the high point to [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome heroic events]] which kicked off with a [[CasualDangerDialog deadpan]] [[PreAssKickingOneLiner "Prepare for turbulence."]]

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': At the closing moments of Season Six's penultimate episode, Willow, on a black-eyed bender of murderous, bad-magic-is-bad fury, is mopping the Magic Box floor with the Slayer, the only one who might have been strong enough to stop Willow's skin-flaying rampage. With Buffy down, Willow crows her triumph, informing all present (at least those still conscious) that there is no one on earth who is powerful enough to stop her. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Cue Big Damn Hero entrance in the form of Rupert Giles, hepped up on some serious magic of his own, to test Willow's theory]].

** His stepson, Sam, in "Sam's Missing". Sam had been resigned to becoming the "adopted son" of a man bitterly grieving the death of his own son ... and when the SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome arrives he shouts out "Mr. D!!!!"

** One human-led BigDamnHeroes moment occurs in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E3VictoryOfTheDaleks "Victory of the Daleks"]], when right as the Doctor is about to be killed because his self-destruct mechanism is revealed to be [[ItMakesSenseInContext a jammie-dodger]], he is saved by three hastily constructed ''[[SchizoTech space]] [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Spitfires]]''

* ''Series/{{Life on Mars|2006}}'': Occurs very frequently in this show and in its {{Sequel}} ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' where Gene Hunt storms in to take down the perp with no hesitation whatsoever. The Pilot of Ashes to Ashes is the most memorable, where the entire 3rd act is one extended BigDamnHeroes moment to rescue [[spoiler: Shaz]] - particularly when [[OldFashionedCopper Gene and his deputies]] re-arrive and are speeding towards [[spoiler: Shaz]] and Alex [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome on a boat,]] [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome under tower bridge,]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Bridge_2_5708.jpg while Gene totes his own sub-machine gun,]] to the tune of [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic ''The Strangler's: No More Heroes'']] (which is the [[Quotes/AntiHero perfect song to represent Gene's persona.]])

** Without a doubt, Bulk and Skull's [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome CMOA]] was during the second season during "When is a Ranger Not a Ranger", when Lord Zedd likely came the closest he ever came to true victory with a MonsterOfTheWeek who managed to strip the Rangers of their memories ''and'' their powers (''all six'' of them). Bulk and Skull, were the ones who managed to rescue them this time; sadly, a side effect of the creatures powers caused them to forget that it happened, but that was for the best, because they also saw the Rangers unmasked.)

* ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'': [[CombatMedic Doctor]] [[BadassAdorable John]] [[TheWatson Watson]] pulls this off in the first episode in his first SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome by [[spoiler:shooting the serial killer in the head right before Sherlock takes one of the pills. From the next building. Through two windows. [[ImprobableAimingSkills Over Sherlock's shoulder]]]].

** Sherlock does it again in the third episode of "The Empty Hearse" by [[spoiler: [[UndyingLoyalty saving John's life by physically getting into and pulling him out of a bonfire]].]] [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Wow. They do mean a lot to each other.]]
* ''Series/SignedSealedDelivered'': [[SugarWiki/BetterThanItSounds The premise of the show revolves around the main characters delivering lost mail at the time that the recipient (or sender) needs it most.]] There are a few episodes in the series that said lost mail leads to the main characters becoming Big Damn Heroes to something bigger.

* ''Film/{{Endeavour}}'': In "Degüello", Morse is standing alone in a deserted quarry, facing off against a DirtyCop and a gang of local thugs. As the cop tells Morse that he is going to die alone, a police car rolls into the quarry and out step Thursday, Bright and Strange and take their place behind Morse, saying they don't abandon their own. Even as the the DirtyCop is saying he can kill all of them and get away with it, there is the wail of police sirens approaching. Bright calmly announces that while he might have some influence over uniform and CID, his reach does not extend into traffic division.

** [[spoiler: In "The Red Woman", Theon and Sansa have been found by the Boltons men, who are about to drag them back to Winterfell to be subjected to even more of Ramsays perverse tortures. Then, out of nowhere, Brienne rides in and manages to hack their pursuers to pieces, finally getting to pledge herself to Sansa's service]].

*** When Horatio is about to be told that he's flunked his exam, a fire ship appears and is about to destroy the "Indy". Hornblower and his examinators try to avert the event, and Hornblower and Captain Foster board the ''freaking'' fire ship -- and change her course, saving the "Indy" and her men. Captain Pellew is impressed[[note]]As a result of exemplary gallentry in the fire ship attack on Gibraltar, an opinion confirmed by three captains, no less - captains who would not normally agree even on the colour of an orange. His promotion was confirmed in the last dispatches. He is now commissioned Lieutenant Hornblower.[[/note]].

-->'''Napoleon Solo:''' Next time, try not waiting til the last minute.\\

** Played awesomely straight in [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride "The Runaway Bride"]]. Donna is kidnapped by a Robot Santa Taxi Driver and is being driven down a motorway. She looks out of the back window, screaming for help, just in time to see the TARDIS swoop down from the sky and underneath a bridge. It then approaches the taxi at speed, spinning wildly, after taking a sizable chuck out of the tarmac and nearly flattening some of the traffic. Donna's reaction sums it up to the whole audience:
--->'''Donna:''' You are ''kidding'' me.

* ''Series/AceLightning'': Tends to end its series with BigDamnHeroes moments, usually in the form of a PowerTrio.

** In the season 1 episode ''Signs and Portents'', the station is seemingly overwhelmed by Raider ships, then suddenly Sinclair springs his trap when the supposed Starfury squadron the Raiders had lured away returned.
** In season 2 ''All alone in the night'', a fleet led by the EAS Agammemnon and flanked by Starfuries and Ambassador Delenn's Flyer, arrive in the nick of time to stop a Streib ship from making off with Captain Sheridan.
** The classic ''Babylon 5'' BigDamnHeroes moment is when the Minbari arrive in ''Severed Dreams'':

** Later in season 3's ''Walkabout'', just as the Shadow ships are closing in on the Whitestar, the Army of Light arrives led by the G'tok.
** Also in season 3's ''Interludes and Examinations'', the Brakiri were having their asses kicked by the rampaging Shadow fleet when suddenly, a Vorlon armada jumps in and proceeds to annihilate the enemy fleet and at the same time rally the League of Non-Aligned worlds into an alliance.

** In season 5's ''A View from the Gallery'', just as the station is about to be overrun by the unnamed invaders, the Whitestar fleet jumps in to save the day.
** Deconstructed in Season 5's ''Learning Curve'', when a young Minbari Ranger steps in to protect a human being assaulted in [=DownBelow=]. [[spoiler: He gets his ass kicked and nearly dies because he's not yet experienced enough to handle himself in such a situation. The rest of the episode is about him regaining his confidence and exploring his own motives in joining the Rangers.]]

* ''Series/BattlestarGalactica2003'': In a two-part episode of the 2004 reimagining of the show, called "Exodus", the titular ship is attacked by three Cylon Baseships while attempting to help colonists on the planet New Caprica escape. The ship is severely damaged, and somber music plays while the camera zooms out as the Baseships pummel ''Galactica'' to death in the cold darkness of space...until a missile, then ''more'' missiles, fire off the edge of the screen, and the {{Battlestar}} ''Pegasus'' hurtles to the rescue, just in the nick of time. This is just the high point to [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome heroic events]] which kicked off with a [[CasualDangerDialog deadpan]] [[PreAssKickingOneLiner "Prepare for turbulence."]]

* ''Series/{{Community}}'': In the episode "[[Recap/CommunityS2E06Epidemiology Epidemiology]]" when Greendale is overrun by zombies, at the last moment Troy saves the day by cooling everyone down until the military arrived.

* ''Series/KaizokuSentaiGokaiger'': In the movie ''Film/GokaigerGoseigerSuperSentai199HeroGreatBattle'', it's revealed that the previous team, the ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'', were overwhelmed by the invading Zangyack Empire. Cue the arrival of the rest of the 199 Super Sentai, including dead Sentai and Extra Heroes!

* ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': In the first season, this always happened concerning SixthRanger Tommy - Rangers would get their asses handed to them, Zordon calls in Tommy, Tommy cleans up shop. One epic moment is Tommy's ImBack moment in "Return of the Green Ranger Part 2" when Tommy jumps in, repowered, and saves the Rangers with his Dragon Shield glowing brightly, sending the bad guy scattering. As one Website/{{Youtube}} viewer put it, "He saved everyone with the power of his ''awesome''!"
** Without a doubt, Bulk and Skull's [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome CMOA]] was during the second season during "When is a Ranger Not a Ranger", when Lord Zedd likely came the closest he ever came to true victory with a MonsterOfTheWeek who managed to strip the Rangers of their memories ''and'' their powers (''all six'' of them). Bulk and Skull, were the ones who managed to rescue them this time; sadly, a side effect of the creatures powers caused them to forget that it happened, but that was for the best, because they also saw the Rangers unmasked.)
** In ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger'' and its American adaptation ''Series/PowerRangersSamurai'', the female Red Ranger (whether you want to call her Kaoru Shiba or Lauren Shiba) saves the team after the normal Red Ranger (again, either Takeru or Jayden) is injured.
** In ''Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge'', Heckyl arrives just in time to save [[spoiler: Keeper and Ms. Morgan]] from [[spoiler:Snide]].

** Russia never being heroes and then in Contiunium "We have been expecting you. Good luck"

* ''Series/{{Merlin}}'': During the third season finale Gaius [[spoiler: saves Merlin from Morgause, using his magic for the first time in years.]]