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2* Cosmo gets one when one of his Skrull friends is hurt.
3-->'''Cosmo''': That does it. That enough. No more Mr. Nice Dog. [[NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech Now Cosmo will hurt]] '''[[NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech everyone.]]'''
4** [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome "One massive telekinetic blast later..."]]
5* Groot versus the Monster of the Badoon. CurbStompBattle for the zombie cyborg, when Groot takes its head off in one punch.
6-->'''Groot:''' I AM GROOT!
7* An OffscreenMomentOfAwesome for the Kree during ComicBook/SecretInvasion. Peter Quill goes to warn them about the Skrulls, who've upgraded their shapeshifting technique and are more dangerous than ever, with all the potential superpowers of Earth at their command. Peter infiltrates Hala, and finds… that the Kree have already seen through the Skrull's infiltration and killed them all. For Earth, the Secret Invasion was a world shaking event. For the Kree, who've been fighting the Skrulls for millennia, it's just another day at the office. They didn't even think it was worth telling anyone, it was that routine.
8* Phyla rescuing Moondragon from the Dragon of the Moon, and then slicing her way out of its stomach. Just for reference, said dragon is several ''miles'' high.
9* Mantis versus Karnak of the Inhumans. He can detect any weakness in anything, and she fights defensively. He predicts that he will find a way past her technique in a few minutes. Mantis' response? Point out that he needs to be conscious to do that, and lays him out with a mind-whammy.
10* Drax slicing off Maelstrom's arms, and the Quantum Bands that were connected to said arms. Regrettably, it doesn't shut Maelstrom up, but it does at least take away his most useful weapon, as well as giving Quasar the means to help ComicBook/{{Nova}} over in his own title.
11* The rescue of Moondragon (oh, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Cynosure]]) from the Church. The Guardians bring Knowhere itself as a rescue vehicle, while the Luminals bring every single member they ever had. The Luminals, by the way, have enough members to make the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes look tiny.
12* Gamora, Mantis, Major Victory, Cosmo and Phyla fighting against an entire world's worth of the Church of Universal Truth soldiers, and ''winning''. Until Phyla finds [[OhCrap Thanos]].
13* Another OffscreenMomentOfAwesome, when Thanos lays waste to Sacrosanct. Despite the world-wide devastation, and the fact that everyone else died, Mantis, Major Victory, Gamora, and Cosmo all survived unharmed, despite everything in their arsenal failing to so much as scratch Thanos.
14* How tough is Captain America's shield? Even a completely invulnerable Thanos can't dent it. This is after it's established that Gamora's sword, which was designed to kill gods, already broke on him. Nothing like the old school.
15* Jack Flag, one of the many people to rotate through the team, lead a crew of human criminals, most of them powerless, in holding off an alien army of super-murderers. From a wheelchair. Jack only lost because one of his crew betrayed him.
16* The Guardians & Tony Stark (Not Iron Man - he had been stripped of his armor) taking a Spartax warship through sheer force after being arrested for the crime of… heading to Earth to stop a Badoon invasion.
17* The final issue of the Brian Michael Bendis run has a very amazing one - the Brood, Badoon and Annihilation Wave are set to trample over Thanos and destroy Earth. However, the Brood Queen doesn't respond - Angela does. She gives a masterful BadassBoast which she promises to unleash the Ten Realms on their asses if they even disturb a speck of dirt and as they lie broken and beaten, she will kill them one by one with her Asgardian brethren laughing at them. They wisely decide to turn tail and run and later Annihilus and the Badoon leader decide Earth just isn't worth it.
18* The start of new issue has the team needing to rob a bank planet, how did they do so? They use a Galactus-shaped rocket, which for the most part worked!

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