History LetsGetDangerous / Fanworks

* ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/237978/how-trixie-somehow-saved-hearths-warming How Trixie (Somehow) Saved Hearth's Warming]]'': Trixie is her normal hammy, bragging self and just manages to skirt by in the situation she's gotten herself into (namely saving Hearth's Warming) by being MistakenForBadass. However, after [[BalefulPolymorph being turned into a nutcracker]] by [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the Rat King]], she goes into a HeroicBSOD until [[spoiler:she finds out Vixen was desperately trying to finally stand out among the rest of Santa's reindeer and is having a HeroicBSOD as a result of their capture. Trixie quickly realizes this means the two of them are not so different, both feeling OvershadowedByAwesome by somepony else and just wanting to stand out]]. This realization causes Trixie to snap out of it and devote everything she has to getting them through this. [[spoiler:She ultimately stages a prison break and defeats the Rat King via quick thinking and plenty of IndyPloy, saving not only the two of them but all the Rat King's slaves.]] Even Trixie is surprised.

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11157943/1/ I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For]]'': [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry]] has what is implied to be a large number of standing rules about what Dobby is and isn't allowed to do in defense of him and his ship, created over the course of a very long time in response to a large number of [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incidents]]. Given that he has previously unleashed a horde of transfigured animals in a bar and reduced several enemies who pissed him off into [[ChunkySalsa rather small bits,]] we can only imagine what sort of horrors he's forbidden Dobby from enacting on his enemies. However, when he and his crew encounter a group of [[BerserkButton slaver ships]] making a raid on the planet of Kashyyk and he doesn't have time to stop both the ships on the planet and one that's leaving orbit himself, he sends Dobby to stop the leaving ship with the following order:

** Harry, who had previously been presented mostly as a kid being kept away from the action by his understandably protective father, Thor (he was incarnated as James Potter), is kidnapped by the Disir, horrors that took an Allfather to banish, at the end of chapter 33. He then spends chapter 34, aptly titled 'Fool's Gambit', he pulls IndyPloy after IndyPloy to get himself and the other kids kidnapped with him away from them and to somewhere they can call on Heimdall. They get away without taking a scratch. Thereafter, Harry tends to demonstrate that when under stress, he can get ''scary''. And when at the end of the first book, an occasional tendency towards UnstoppableRage is ameliorated to TranquilFury, combining all that rage with cold-blooded ruthlessness, a knack for (in the sequel) XanatosSpeedChess, and a twisty minded talent [[BatmanGambit for]] [[ManipulativeBastard manipulation]], he becomes extremely dangerous. Even leaving out [[spoiler: the Dark Phoenix]], there is a reason that his godmother later describes him as "one of the most powerful people on the continent."

* In ''Fanfic/MementoVivere'', a VideoGame/FinalFantasyX fanfiction, Jecht finally gets his sword-fighting act together during the battle on [[spoiler: Mushroom Rock]].

* In ''Fanfic/SupermanAndMan'', ComicBook/LexLuthor is beating Franchise/{{Superman}} up easily when Superman suddenly catches his punch and glares. That's when Luthor realizes his enemy is done playing around.
-->Luthor saw a new expression on Superman's face, now. Grimmer, more resolute, more vengeful. The Big Blue Bumpkin was finally getting down to business. In that, Luthor felt a bit of pride.
* In ''Fanfic/TheWizardInTheShadows'', at the final battle of the Black Gate, all seems lost. [[spoiler:Harry]], the most powerful weapon in the arsenal of the Light, is dead, the Sword of Gryffindor that allowed him to draw on impossible amounts of power is inert, and the forces of good are sorely outnumbered. Then Ginny -- up until this point merely quite powerful -- picks up the Sword and says a LittleNo. The Sword responds. Cue three giant tornadoes of fire and a whole world of hurt being laid on Mordor's forces.
* ''Fanfic/RiseOfTheGaleforces'': [[BadassFamily Everyone.]] [[BigDamnHeroes Just...]] [[TheCavalry everyone.]] [[spoiler:Special mention goes to Violet in particular, since her finally being allowed to cut loose and demonstrate to the bad guys what she is truly capable of is pretty much the ''reason'' the fanfic itself manages to outlast all the hell it gets put through.]]
* In the ''FanFic/TamersForeverSeries'' [[spoiler:Terriermon drops his goofy attitude right before opening up a can of whoop-ass on [[BigBad Dae]][[HeroKiller mon]]]].
* In the ''FanFic/PonyPOVSeries'' [[BadFuture Dark World]] timeline, Derpy Hooves has spent a thousand years cursed to walk around [[EvilOverlord Discord]]'s castle until she does it enough times to earn her children's freedom from their own curses, all while being constantly attacked by a murder of blackbirds that are trying to eat Dinky (who's been [[AndIMustScream turned into a muffin]]). She does this without a single complaint, staying focused on her task... until Twilight and the other [[HeelFaceTurn redeemed]] Elements of Harmony convince her to help fight against Discord in order to save Dinky and Sparkler without abiding by Discord's fixed rules. Derpy then proceeds to prove her worth as the new Element of Loyalty by helping to fight the blackbirds, playing a key role in defeating them.

** Back in the main timeline, the Crusaders do this during the Wedding Arc, in response to [[spoiler: Sweetie Belle and Spike getting brainwashed]] -- despite just being fillies, they manage to sneak past the Changelings, knock two out, [[spoiler: snap Spike out of it]], and then cover their escape by [[spoiler: ''summoning a water elemental'']]. Heck, the whole reason the adults let them help anyway is because they can tell by how determined they are to help that they'd do it even without permission anyway, plus, with the amount of stuff they get up to and survive on a regular basis, them taking things seriously makes them an actual threat.
* [[DirtyCoward Hobbes]] and [[HarmlessVillain Dr.]] [[BunglingInventor Brainstorm]] get a few of these moments during ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'', and when it happens, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome things tend to get serious with them.]]
* In the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' / ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' crossover ''FanFic/OriginStory'', Alex Harris (a Kryptonian trapped in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse) and her domestic partner Louise are attacked by the telepathic assassin Typhoid Mary. Mary knocks down Louise, then turns her attention to Alex and proceeds to use her mental powers (against which Alex has no defenses) to ''wreck'' Alex. Turns out ignoring the normal, untrained girlfriend was a mistake when Louise proceeds to clock Typhoid Mary from behind with a bottle of sparkling grape juice, then continues to beat the assassin with it until Mary is unconscious and bleeding on the floor.
* At the beginning of ''The Celestial Renegade'' in ''Sailor Moon: Legends of Lightstorm'', this is the reason Luna takes Sailor Moon to Lightstorm. Lightstorm causes this to happen with Sailor Moon over the course of a single afternoon. And that was before he came to Tokyo and began training the rest of the Scouts.
* In ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/237978/how-trixie-somehow-saved-hearths-warming How Trixie (Somehow) Saved Hearth's Warming]]'', Trixie is her normal hammy, bragging self and just manages to skirt by in the situation she's gotten herself into (namely saving Hearth's Warming) by being MistakenForBadass. However, after [[BalefulPolymorph being turned into a nutcracker]] by [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the Rat King]], she goes into a HeroicBSOD until [[spoiler:she finds out Vixen was desperately trying to finally stand out among the rest of Santa's reindeer and is having a HeroicBSOD as a result of their capture. Trixie quickly realizes this means the two of them are not so different, both feeling OvershadowedByAwesome by somepony else and just wanting to stand out]]. This realization causes Trixie to snap out of it and devote everything she has to getting them through this. [[spoiler:She ultimately stages a prison break and defeats the Rat King via quick thinking and plenty of IndyPloy, saving not only the two of them but all the Rat King's slaves.]] Even Trixie is surprised.
* Havoc does this in the Fanfic/ElementalChessTrilogy. Just like in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', he's a bit goofy and loves to make jokes, and has a powerful nostalgic streak. When things go south for his beloved commanding officers, however, he steps up and takes charge, reminding everyone just why he's one of Roy Mustang's most trusted subordinates.
* Chapter 13 of ''FanFic/TheCommission'' has Qrow intercept Ruby [[CurbStompBattle and kick her ass totally]]. This gets her desperate enough to [[spoiler:bust out her Spring Maiden powers ([[YouKillItYouBoughtIt complete with a flashback of her meeting the girl before killing her for it]]).]]

* The Inquisitors have a few moments like this in ''[[Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge All This Sh*t is Twice as Weird]]'', such as when they learn that some of their soldiers have been taken prisoner in the Fallow Mire and [[spoiler:when they're fighting to get out of the Fade]].
* ''Fanfic/AManOfIron'': When Tyrion arrives in King's Landing in ''A Crack of Thunder'' and sees just how screwed up a situation that Cersei and Joffrey have created, with the final straw being [[spoiler: "[[CameBackWrong Sansa]] [[HumanoidAbomination Stark]]]]" running around, he ditches his jovial and deadpan demeanor and makes it clear to his sister and the Small Council that he is running things now, and if they don't like it he'll just take their heads.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11157943/1/ I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For]]'', [[Literature/HarryPotter Harry]] has what is implied to be a large number of standing rules about what Dobby is and isn't allowed to do in defense of him and his ship, created over the course of a very long time in response to a large number of [[NoodleIncident Noodle Incidents]]. Given that he has previously unleashed a horde of transfigured animals in a bar and reduced several enemies who pissed him off into [[ChunkySalsa rather small bits,]] we can only imagine what sort of horrors he's forbidden Dobby from enacting on his enemies. However, when he and his crew encounter a group of [[BerserkButton slaver ships]] making a raid on the planet of Kashyyk and he doesn't have time to stop both the ships on the planet and one that's leaving orbit himself, he sends Dobby to stop the leaving ship with the following order:
--> "Dobby, that ship has bad people who are trying to make people slaves against their will. Your life is paramount, then the captives. For the duration of this mission, all other orders are rescinded. Don't let that ship escape."
* ''Fanfic/AbyssalPlain'': Victoria has spent most of her time in the Abyss trying not to hurt anyone too badly, even the monstrous Others, as she much prefers de-escalating conflicts and working things out. When she tries that with the Three Sisters, they immediately [[spoiler: steal her name]] and threaten her friends. Thoroughly pissed off, the gloves come off and her Fragile One literally begins to tear into one of the sisters with it's ''teeth''.
* ''Fanfic/PointMeAtTheSkyrim'': Sevitus throughout most of the two arcs has been a bumbling Imperial mook who even his father admits to not being the sharpest tool in the shed. But when faced with Bandits and a horde of Frost Spiders, he's more than willing to dive in sword swinging and Emperor's Voice at the ready.
* ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'': Loopers overall are mostly friendly jokers who are just looking for fun ways to curb their boredom without causing crashes. However, piss one of them off and prepare to see what happens when someone who has been alive for possibly ''eons'' is mad.
* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'':
** Cross is usually pretty easy going, [[CasualDangerDialogue even during battle]]. But when he's sufficiently pissed, such as when going after [=CP9=] to save Robin, targeting the slave trade in Sabaody, or retaliating for the fact that [[spoiler: [[InSpiteOfANail Ace is still scheduled for execution]]]], the kid gloves come right off and he uses his foreknowledge and the global reach of the SBS to thoroughly dismantle whatever's earned his ire.

** After being pushed to his RageBreakingPoint during Marineford and being exposed as part of Roger's crew, Buggy decides to show everybody just ''why'' he was a Roger Pirate. The result is enough that Mihawk, who barely paid attention to him in canon, is actually ''interested'' in him.

* In ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/237978/how-trixie-somehow-saved-hearths-warming How Trixie (Somehow) Saved Hearth's Warming]]'', Trixie is her normal hammy, bragging self and just manages to skirt by in the situation she's gotten herself into (namely saving Hearth's Warming) by being MistakenForBadass. However, after [[BalefulPolymorph being turned into a nutcracker]] by [[Theatre/TheNutcracker the Rat King]], she goes into a HeroicBSOD until [[spoiler:she finds out Vixen was desperately trying to finally stand out among the rest of Santa's reindeer and is having a HeroicBSOD as a result of their capture. Trixie quickly realizes this means the two of them are NotSoDifferent, both feeling OvershadowedByAwesome by somepony else and just wanting to stand out]]. This realization causes Trixie to snap out of it and devote everything she has to getting them through this. [[spoiler:She ultimately stages a prison break and defeats the Rat King via quick thinking and plenty of IndyPloy, saving not only the two of them but all the Rat King's slaves.]] Even Trixie is surprised.

* In ''[[https://www.fimfiction.net/story/237978/how-trixie-somehow-saved-hearths-warming How Trixie (Somehow) Saved Hearth's Warming]]'', Trixie is her normal hammy, bragging self and just manages to skirt by in the situation she's gotten herself into (namely saving Hearth's Warming) by being MistakenForBadass. However, after [[BalefulPolymorph being turned into a nutcracker]] by [[Theater/TheNutcracker the Rat King]], she goes into a HeroicBSOD until [[spoiler:she finds out Vixen was desperately trying to finally stand out among the rest of Santa's reindeer and is having a HeroicBSOD as a result of their capture. Trixie quickly realizes this means the two of them are NotSoDifferent, both feeling OvershadowedByAwesome by somepony else and just wanting to stand out]]. This realization causes Trixie to snap out of it and devote everything she has to getting them through this. [[spoiler:She ultimately stages a prison break and defeats the Rat King via quick thinking and plenty of IndyPloy, saving not only the two of them but all the Rat King's slaves.]] Even Trixie is surprised.

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* ''Fanfic/PointMeAtTheSkyrim'': Sevitus throughout most of the two arcs has been a bumbling Imperial mook who even his father admits to not being the sharpest tool in the shed. But when faced with Bandits and a horde of Frost Spiders, he's more than willing to dive in sword swinging and Emperor's Voice at the ready.

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** Harry, who had previously been presented mostly as a kid being kept away from the action by his understandably protective father, Thor (he was incarnated as James Potter), is kidnapped by the Disir, horrors that took an Allfather to banish, at the end of chapter 33. He then spends chapter 34, aptly titled 'Fool's Gambit', he pulls IndyPloy after IndyPloy to get himself and the other kids kidnapped with him away from them and to somewhere they can call on Heimdall. They get away without taking a scratch.
** Harry, Diana, Uhtred, Carol and Jean-Paul do this in chapters 59 and 60, particularly the latter two, who haven't had any known combat training or combat experience. First, when trapped on a mountain (which just so happens to be a powerful and thoroughly pissed off GeniusLoci) and caught in a massive blizzard caused, in part, by [[spoiler: a terrified 11 year old Bobby Drake]], they manage to find the person in question by Uhtred's ScarilyCompetentTracker skills, despite the weather and attempts by one of the Slendermen [[TheFairFolk (Winter Fae mercenaries)]] to waylay them. Then, following a temporary PlotRelevantAgeUp, they take on all comers, primarily demonically enhanced werewolves to protect [[spoiler: Bobby]] who HYDRA are after, with Harry boring a hole in a mountain several miles away with a 'small' fireblast. And when HYDRA send in their trump card, [[spoiler: a copy of the Destroyer remotely piloted by Baron Zemo]], Diana winds up ''ripping it in half''.
** Harry does this again in chapter 70 when in his second real fight (the first was rather brief) when he isn't simply buying time to get away or given a temporary PlotRelevantAgeUp to his adult self, charging head on into a massive HYDRA assault force and tearing them to shreds. Unfortunately, he's a GlassCannon and runs up against [[spoiler: Daken]], who succeeds in [[spoiler: killing him. Briefly.]] After this final episode of BreakTheCutie, he remains consistently dangerous and faintly terrifying.
*** In the same chapter, Sean Cassidy has previously been seen as a light-hearted and quick-witted martial arts teacher, MentorArchetype and ReasonableAuthorityFigure with a FunetikAksent (albeit one that he can dial down), albeit with hints of a DarkAndTroubledPast. Then [[spoiler: Luna Lovegood gets killed.]] After that, he demonstrates why his codename 'Banshee' is intimately associated with death.
*** Also in the same chapter, Warren's spent most of the last 20 chapters moping over his RazorWings, and generally being dismissed as pretty, but useless, Sean's pet project and largely being the StraightMan to Sean's Wise Guy. In any case, it's sufficient to make the reader forget his earlier dismantling of multiple {{Dracolich}}es during the Battle of the M4. Then, when HYDRA attack Hogwarts, he reminds both readers and cast of how terrifyingly deadly he is by [[spoiler: unleashing a MookHorrorShow straight out of the gorier parts of the Old Testament and almost singlehandedly slaughtering the entirety of HYDRA's aerial attack force wearing only a pair of pyjama bottoms. The half-mad last mook standing explicitly compares him to an angel of death, and it isn't in the least unwarranted.]]
** The kids in general do this in chapter 75, with their elders mostly rendered comatose/captured by HYDRA. At the same time, Strange starts pulling out all the weapons in his ChekhovsArmoury and using them, at once.
** Similarly, at the end of the ''Forever Red'' arc in the sequel, ''Ghosts of the Past'', after undergoing unspeakable things at the hands of the Red Room, Harry finally snaps and decides to show what he's been holding back: [[spoiler: the Dark Phoenix.]]

** "Dobby, that ship has bad people who are trying to make people slaves against their will. Your life is paramount, then the captives. For the duration of this mission, all other orders are rescinded. Don't let that ship escape."

** Harry, who had previously been presented mostly as a kid being kept away from the action by his understandably protective father, Thor (he was incarnated as James Potter), is kidnapped by [[spoiler: the Disir]], horrors that took an Allfather to banish, at the end of chapter 33. He then spends chapter 34, aptly titled 'Fool's Gambit', he pulls IndyPloy after IndyPloy to get himself and the other kids kidnapped with him away from them and to somewhere they can call on Heimdall. They get away without taking a scratch.
** Harry, Diana, Uhtred, Carol and Jean-Paul do this in chapters 59 and 60, particularly the latter two, who haven't had any known combat training or combat experience. First, when trapped on a mountain (which just so happens to be a powerful and thoroughly pissed off GeniusLoci) and caught in a massive blizzard caused, in part, by [[spoiler: a terrified 11 year old Bobby Drake]], they manage to find the person in question by Uhtred's ScarilyCompetentTracker skills, despite the weather and attempts by one of the Slendermen [[TheFairFolk (Winter Fae mercenaries)]] to waylay them. Then, following a temporary PlotRelevantAgeUp, they take on all comers, primarily demonically enhanced werewolves to protect [[spoiler: Bobby]] who HYDRA are after, with Harry boring a hole in a mountain several miles away with a 'small' fireblast. And when HYDRA send in their trump card, [[spoiler: a copy of the Destroyer remotely piloted by Baron Zemo]], [[spoiler: Diana]] winds up ''ripping it in half''.

* In ''Fanfic/TheWizardInTheShadows'', at the final battle of the Black Gate, all seems lost. [[spoiler:Harry]], the most powerful weapon in the arsenal of the Light ,is dead, the Sword of Gryffindor that allowed him to draw on impossible amounts of power is inert, and the forces of good are sorely outnumbered. Then Ginny -- up until this point merely quite powerful -- picks up the Sword and says a LittleNo. The Sword responds. Cue three giant tornadoes of fire and a whole world of hurt being laid on Mordor's forces.

* In ''Fanfic/MementoVivere'', a ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' fanfiction, Jecht finally gets his sword-fighting act together during the battle on [[spoiler: Mushroom Rock]].

** She does it again in the fight against [[TheStarscream the Valeyard]]. She spends most of the fight holding back due to the Valeyard being a Discorded [[Series/DoctorWho Doctor]], but when he eventually pushes her too far and she finds out he's actually the Doctor's SuperpoweredEvilSide, she then proceeds to go into a TranquilFury and ''[[spoiler:beat him to death]]'', ensuring that he'll change back into the Doctor.
** This is pretty much a major aspect of her character; when there's not a fight to be done, she's a kindhearted [[TheDitz Ditz]], but once her friends or children are in trouble, she gets serious and is more than capable of kicking flank.