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1Describe {{Series/Dollhouse}} here: Creator/JossWhedon (and friends) being awesome after a five episode warm up period. Enjoy.
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3* Alpha gets one as part of his introduction, which is coupled with terrifying. He kills a man. In eight seconds. With surgically precise strikes. Yes, it's scary, but it's ''so cool''.
4* There's also one in the third episode, when Echo's current persona lectures the pop star she's guarding about possibly letting a fan her crazy stalker is holding hostage die. Echo melts into the dramatic noir-ish lighting, prompting the pop star to look in that direction, thoughtful. Until Echo comes out of nowhere to smack her in the head with a folding chair.
5** [[MeaningfulEcho "Friends help each other out."]]
6** Also being completely in control of the hostage situation, while she believes she's just a background singer who is good at beating people up. You don't mess with Echo in any form.
7* "Four brothers." *cocks gun* "None of 'em Democrats."
8* Boyd in The Target: "Everything's fine...except for the gun pointed at my head." *smack* *proceeds to kick his ass*
9* Ballard in the sixth episode... upon being blindsided and tazed he proceeds to beat up four armed security guards. This is also three episodes after being shot.
10* "There are three flowers in a vase. The third flower is green." Holy Shit. Mellie is a doll!
11** Adelle working everything in her favor in one single move.
12** Her ploy in 2x06 I think counts as well; the 'Oh Crap' moment happens... and it's followed shortly by 'The Reveal' that it's ''exactly'' how [=DeWitt=] planned things. Add Chessmaster to her list.
13* Ballard and Echo's fight in the kitchen was a masterpiece of sheer brutality.
14* Boyd's DynamicEntry. Followed by "[[MoodWhiplash That wasn't quiet.]]"
15* "Next one goes where your heart should've been."
16* The entirety of "Spy in the House of Love":
17** Echo asking to be imprinted and later declaring that she is not broken!
18*** Also, "Twenty seconds ago, you unsnapped your holster."
19** [=DeWitt=] and Roger/Victor fencing.
20** November "Paul, you cannot tell her."
21** [=DeWitt=] getting shot and shrugging it off better than a certain Terminator in the preceding show soon after [=DeWitt=] explained to Dominic that he is expendable.
22** The sequence with Sierra showing us the wonderful [=FutureTech=] of the Dollhouse universe.
23** "You'll tell them everything's all right, and then we'll put you [[AndIMustScream back in your box]]."
24* Alan Tudyk's acting.
25** The sudden, brilliant shift from Steven to Alpha was nothing short of ''jaw-dropping.''
26*** And his BatmanGambit. Holy crap.
27** His performance in Omega actually manages to top the previous episode, not only switching back-and-forth between personalities at an astonishing rate but also having convincing conversation and arguments with himself. Seriously, as if it weren't badass enough that he was playing five or six distinct characters, he's playing them while they're arguing with each other!
28* Creator/EnverGjokaj (Victor) being Dominic. That was possibly the single most convincing imprint so far. It's already hard to change personalities like the dolls have to. Enver manages to be ''a regular character that the audience knows''. And he pulls it off brilliantly, too.
29** Yes but the icing on that performance is when later, after the wipe and Ballard's infiltration of the Dollhouse he deadpans "Some people were fighting on me".
30** That he got the voice down too was pretty darn awesome.
31** He's even better as Terry. That he tops ''that'' with Kiki is brilliant. That he tops ''that'' with Topher makes him god of versatility.
32*** And then he repeated Topher so well that we knew who it was before we were told about it.
33** Watching closely, it's more than just voice inflections or smaller but notable traits like Dominic's accent, Topher's gaspy noise of excitement but the smaller microexpressions too. The way someone slightly squints or the emphasis on particular words or syllables and so forth. Even without characters naming who he is directly or what he's wearing, it's clear when he's different people. Of the relatively mundane and normal people he's played like Lubov or the art collector, even those come across as distinctive even though they're basically stock characters with no change or personality at all.
34* Creator/AmyAcker should also join Gjokaj and Tudyk as awesome. Every single imprint of hers, even though there were three + normal doll mode, is perfectly done, including that of Clyde, a man.
35* Also pretty much everything in "Omega" from the moment Echo has her composite event. ''Especially'' immediately afterwards when she makes like she's going to attack the body containing Caroline's mind and then turns on Alpha instead.
36** Ballard's true [=CMoA=]? Making the Dollhouse free November.
37** Dr. Saunders. No freak out. "I know who I am."
38** Wendy!Caroline telling Echo!Crystal why it is a ''really bad idea'' to let Alpha do whatever he's about to do to her, in that speech of GenreSavvy and common sense I finally believed Caroline was Echo.
39* The show overcoming TheFireflyEffect. The odds against a second season were astronomical, but apparently enough little factors clicked together and made it happen.
40** And then Whedon turns around to add to the awesome by casting Alexis Denisof and Creator/SummerGlau for the second season.
41* "God has a message for you. That message is ''move your ass''!"
42* Not to dwell on the pilot but "I think I'm a little old for you".
43** And the other goons get theirs when they turn on the pedophile simply because of what he was going to do to the little girl.
44* Ballard and Boyd's fight post-infiltration in Briar Rose. Up to and including Echo's assistance of Boyd in the fight.
45* "No. Kids playing with matches and they burned the house down."
46** Also, Zone turning the tables on Iris.
47* "That's perfectly fine. Right now I'm having this same conversation in ten other bodies in ten other Houses across the country."
48* From "Man on the Street," when Tanaka is mocking Ballard, Ballard puts him in an armlock and slams him against the wall. Tanaka taunts him with "What's the matter Ballard, did I hit a nerve?" To which Ballard responds "Yeah. It felt like ''this''." ''(cue cries of pain)''
49* "Vows" (2-01) features Ballard realizing that Echo's personalities have started recurring, so he gets her out of a sticky situation by slapping her around until her "Man on the Street" assassin chick kicks in and kicks butt.
50* Priya killing the man responsible for her becoming a doll. It also counts as one for Topher, who made it possible by uploading her real personality before sending her off to him.
51*** Also, Boyd, for calmly and casually arranging for Topher to dispose of Nolan's body, and then fabricating a plausible cover of lies to protect the both of them.
52** And [=DeWitt=]'s casual explanation to Nolan as to just what she thinks of him.
53-->''I would no sooner allow you one of our other Actives than I would a mad dog near a child, given that you're a raping scumbag one tick shy of a murderer. I can't recall, do you take sugar?''
54* Echo overcoming Bennett's programing to use her arm and save herself.
55** And in Stop Loss/The Attic, he turns into pre-Doll Victor. This one wonders if Enver has military training or just learned really well because Victor/Tony acts and moves like a soldier down to his firing stance when watching/protecting everyone else and stepping in and out of cover.
56* Doubling as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}, when Adelle's DC counterpart believes he has her on the ropes, she fakes seducing him until she can give his groin a nice hard twist. She can make being awesome look effortless.
57* Echo in 'The Public Eye':
58->"You just woke a lot of people up, and they all think ''you're a bitch''."
59* And in "The Left Hand," Topher punching out Bennett.
60* Topher didn't need to prove that he was a genius in his field, but when he, on his own, figured out Rossum's plans and created the blueprints for "Epitaph One"'s world of insanity within the space of two months, that proves his brain is awesome.
61** His reaction to the stolen blueprints is made of awesomeness as well - he dared to call MagnificentBastard Adelle a bitch to her face. He deserved that slap, but the line was perfect.
62*** And then Adelle's speech to him afterward was pure SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
63*** Hell, the shot of Echo walking back into the Dollhouse against Adelle's speech about never letting anyone else challenge her authority, one of the coolest shots in the series.
64* Alpha, in season two. Just as Topher was assuring Alpha's assumed target the camera cuts to Adelle, who says: "We need to find a nearby five star hotel. Where a security detail could be discreetly accommodated." Then Alpha walks right out of her bathroom and says: "Try the Franklin. I hear the view is wonderful this time of year. Also, you're out of paper. (pause) So tell me... how's the suit?" He not only managed to sneak in so discreetly everyone thought they were safe, he managed to use Adelle's private office bathroom first.
65* Turning the dolls into Butchers.
66* [[TheIgor Ivy]] giving Topher the method for reviving Ballard, thereby outsmarting Topher in his own field of expertise.
67** And he knows it, too, given his PetTheDog line in "Getting Closer" where he [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments points out her brilliant mind]] and tells her to leave so that she doesn't "become [him]".
68* Echo disarming a troop of soldiers with her minds. [[TookALevelInBadass All forty-plus of them along with the skills she was given just for that mission.]]
69* "The Attic". Holy Crap, the horror, the works.
70** Chief among them: Adelle, Topher, and Echo's plot to get into the Attic and find out Rossum's secrets.
71** Dominic basically frees himself from an inescapable nightmare loop in order to chase a NightmareFuel assassin through the minds of others, conquering their fears along the way. Then he stays behind to help those others gain consciousness. And then to top it off, he frees himself from the Attic all by himself. Definitely candidate for the biggest badass of the show.
72* "Getting Closer". Apparently we have dueling [[TheChessmaster chessmasters]] between Caroline, Adelle, and Boyd!
73* MagnificentBastard incarnate, Boyd Langton.
74* Victor is confused that the new skills he's been uploaded with don't seem to have kicked in, then he takes down two Rossum soldiers in about three seconds.
75* Boyd's GambitRoulette is undone by Topher's BatmanGambit. A complex {{plan}} spanning the whole series and earlier, undone by Topher's realization that Anthony and Priya would return, topped off with a smiley face. Topher is full of [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning Moments Of Awesome]] in 2x12.
76* Mellie gets a few as well, first when she convinces Paul to take the sneaky easy way to Rossum's mainframe, then again when she overrides her sleeper programming through her love for Paul and [[TearJerker commits suicide to save him from her]].
77* Top moment in the series: [[KarmicDeath Topher turns Boyd into a doll, who Echo rigs up with a suicide vest]] in order to [[KillItWithFire destroy the Rossum mainframe]].
78* In The Hollow Men during Boyd's I Am Evil speech, Adelle can be heard to reply in a hoarse pained voice, and it is clear that she is on the verge of tears. Spectacular acting from Olivia Williams.
79** There's also the moment when he points a gun at her head and orders her to trigger Mellie. Adelle doesn't bat an eye.
80* In 2x11, Topher facing down a guy with a highly powered rifle at point blank range by saying "I have imprinted myself with many useful skills," in order to protect Echo while she was being imprinted. This, five minutes after Bennett was shot through the head right before his eyes.
81* Echo's first 'date'. It includes a motorcycle race that ends ''through'' a hotel, night clubbing, and at the end of the night she gets a nice necklace from the hot guy she initially agreed to have no strings attached with. Who wouldn't want to be her?

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