History Funny / Turncoat

* [[invoked]] The Gatekeeper wonders aloud whether Harry Dresden is some sort of [[MagnificentBastard brilliant mastermind]] ...or really is just ''that'' [[CosmicPlaything unlucky and clueless]]. Harry looks at him, points at the bandage wrapped around his own noggin, and simply says "Dude." Cue the Gatekeeper being left in stitches from laughter. What makes it even better is when the Gatekeeper then makes a CallBack to Harry getting stuck in a tree upside-down in ''Summer Knight'' and both him & Harry find themselves dying of laughter as well.

* [[invoked]] The Gatekeeper wonders aloud whether Harry Dresden is some sort of [[MagnificentBastard magnificent mastermind]] ...or really is just ''that'' [[CosmicPlaything unlucky and clueless]]. Harry looks at him, points at the bandage wrapped around his own noggin, and simply says "Dude." Cue the Gatekeeper being left in stitches from laughter. What makes it even better is when the Gatekeeper then makes a CallBack to Harry getting stuck in a tree upside-down in ''Summer Knight'' and both him & Harry find themselves dying of laughter as well.

* [[invoked]] The Gatekeeper wonders aloud whether Harry Dresden is some sort of [[MagnificentBastard magnificent mastermind]] ...or really is just ''that'' [[CosmicPlaything unlucky and clueless]]. Harry looks at him, points at the bandage wrapped around his own noggin, and simply says "Dude." Cue the Gatekeeper being left in stitches from laughter. What makes it even better is when the Gatekeeper then makes a CallBack to Harry getting stuck in a tree upside-down in ''Summer Knight'' and both he & Harry find themselves dying of laughter as well.

** Which is doubly funny, given that Harry learned his WithGreatPower beliefs from Ebenezar... who, as the Blackstaff and former captain of the Wardens, has ''also'' spent the last few hundred years going up against creatures outside of his weight class.

* Listens-to-Wind notes that Toot-toot taking on Shagnasty was quite the sight, a little guy taking on a creature so far outside of his weight class.

-->'''Morgan''': [[ContinuityNod I admit, it's no donut.]]

** The whole scene is made even funnier when one realizes that it's all one extended ShoutOut to ''[[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium The Lord of the Rings]],'' where Gandalf tries the same ploy and gets away with it -- "You wouldn't part an old man from his walking stick, surely?" Harry being the PopCulturedBadass he is, it's probable that this was intentional.

-->'''Harry:''' There are ''monsters'' who I'd expect better behavior from once they'd accepted my hospitality. What's more, ''[[SacredHospitality I'd get it]].''

-->'''Luccio''': This is not how diplomacy is done.\\
'''Harry''': You're in America now. Our idea of diplomacy is showing up with a gun in one hand and a sandwich in the other and asking which you'd prefer.\\
'''Luccio''': You brought a sandwich?\\
'''Harry''': Who do I look like, Kissinger?

-->'''Murphy''': You've never really compromised your order for someone else's, which is why you drive the Wardens nuts. They have procedures, they have forms, they have reports - and you ignore them unless someone twists your arm to make you do it. Am I right?\\
'''Harry''': Still don't see how that's a problem.\\
'''Murphy''': It's a problem because you never learned how to adjust inside someone else's order. If you had, you'd realize what an incredible force you have working on your side.\\
'''Harry''': Series/TheATeam?\\
'''Murphy''': Bureaucracy.\\
'''Harry''': I would rather have the A-Team.

--> In stories, you read about characters running through a forest at night. It’s a load of crap. Oh, maybe it’s feasible in really ancient pine forests, where the ground is mostly clear, or in those vast oak forests where they love to shoot Robin Hood movies and adaptations of Shakespeare’s work. But if you get into the thick native brush in the U.S., you’re better off finding a big stick and breaking your own ankle than you are trying to sprint through it blind.
* Harry's DefeatMeansFriendship moment, if only because he punches something in the snout to establish dominance.

** The fact that Molly actually [[ActuallyPrettyFunny giggles]] at Morgan's comment is what makes the moment

* The Gatekeeper wonders aloud whether Dresden is some sort of [[MagnificentBastard magnificent mastermind]], or really is just that unlucky and clueless. Harry looks at him, points at the bandage wrapped around his own noggin, and says, simply, "Dude."
** It left the ''Gatekeeper'' in stitches too.
* Subtle but hilarious insight into Harry's mind. Harry recognizes one of the Wardens who shows up to the confrontation on the island but can't remember the man's name. Harry doesn't ask, and every time the Warden is mentioned, Harry labels him with another vaguely Scandinavian name and it gets more and more ridiculous.

* Harry's just revealed to Lara Raith, her sisters, Injun Joe, Ebenezar, and Ancient Mai that he called the [[BigBad skinwalker]] earlier to meet him there, without warning anyone else, in order to force a fight and thereby a temporary alliance between the White Court and the White Council. It should be arriving in anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes.

---> Peabody may not have seen the man turn into a grizzly, but he was bright enough to know that Injun Joe was getting set to adjust another ass-to-ears ratio.

* Harry has taken to using some very amusing metaphors to describe injuries and disorientation.
-->''I tried to push myself to my feet, but someone had set the hallway on tumble dry, and I fell down again. I kept trying. Whoever had made the hall start acting like a Laundromat dryer had to run out of quarters eventually.''

-->''Oh.''\\

* A little bit of black humour:

"Harry," he said politely. Bill was always polite with me. He saw me do [[ColdBloodedTorture something scary once]].

-->'''Harry''':"Because your balls are in a vise and I'm the only one who can pull them out. *{{Beat}}* [[HoYay Okay. That came out a little more homoerotic than I intended.]]"\\
'''Merlin''': "Indeed."

* Morgan gets a nice one when Harry realizes that he's [[spoiler:called in Titania's boon to throw off any attempts to magically trace him.]]

** Harry asks how the hell Morgan found out about it, and he explains the entire Seelie court have been laughing about it for months, making it an ''in-universe'' Funny Moment as well.

** Doubles as a ShoutOut to [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium Lord of the Rings,]] where Gandalf tries the same ploy and gets away with it-"you wouldn't part an old man from his walking stick, surely?" Harry being the PopCulturedBadass he is, it's probable that this was intentional.

* Harry greeting the woman who sent a PI to spy on him (on the [[spoiler:White Court]]'s orders) with "Hi, cuddles."
* Every time Harry comes home, he finds some form of MexicanStandoff taking place between Morgan and Molly (and later Luccio), with Mouse being the only one keeping it from escalating into deadly violence each time. The first time he's surprised. The second time he's annoyed, and even goes over and gets a drink before sitting down and sorting things out.

-->'''Harry''': There are ''monsters'' who I'd expect better behavior from once they'd accepted my hospitality. What's more, ''[[SacredHospitality I'd get it]].''

* Harry's just revealed to [[spoiler:Lara Raith, her sisters, Injun Joe, Ebenezar, and Ancient Mai that he called the [[BigBad skinwalker]] earlier to meet him there, without warning anyone else, in order to force a fight and thereby a temporary alliance between the White Court and the White Council. It should be arriving in anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes.]]

** The fact that Ebenezar seems to recognize this reference implies that he's familiar with Wile E. Coyote. That in itself is kinda funny.
** Later, Harry reveals that [[spoiler:the entire fight was [[ThePlan so that he could get pictures of the traitor]].]]
--->'''Molly:''' [[spoiler:"Then...that entire scenario on the island...the meeting, the fight...the entire thing was a ploy?"]]\\
'''Harry:''' "[[SugarWiki/MomentofAwesome Wile E. Coyote," I said wisely. "Suuuuuuper Genius."]]
* Even Listens-to-Wind gets his funny on in this book. After meeting [[EldritchAbomination Shagnasty]], the skinwalker seems to know it's in for a fight. The old man simply scoops up a handful of dirt, and says "Mother says you have no place here." There's a flash of lighting without the boom of thunder. Listens-to-Wind looks to the sky, looks to the skinwalker, and reports "Father says you are ugly."
** Gets better. Shagnasty claims that since Injun Joe isn't a holy man and doesn't follow the Blessing Way he has no power over it. Joe simply says "I don't plan on binding or banishing you, old ghost, [[PreAsskickingOneLiner I'm just gonna kick your ass up between your ears."]]
*** Alternatively, that was just part of his BadassBoast.
** Harry's description of his expression once he realizes what [[spoiler: Peabody]] had done.
---> [[spoiler: Peabody]] may not have seen the man turn into a grizzly, but he was bright enough to know that Injun Joe was getting set to adjust another ass-to-ears ratio.

-->'''Harry:''' Easy there, [[Series/TheAvengers Steed]].\\