Line #12 Awesome/Shatterpoint


1	Basically, ''all of it'', largely due to copious amounts of [[Creator/SamuelLJackson Mace Windu]]. To give you some perspective, imagine [[Film/PulpFiction Jules Winnifield]] got ''really'' Zen, shaved his head and his face, and then someone handed him a lightsaber. Roughly four hundred pages of [[BeamMeUpScotty rich, Corinthian]] '''Win''' ensue.
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3	* The spy in the opening sequence is made retroactively awesome when Mace realizes what he must've done. He mentally compares the little man's strength to his own. It occurs to him that he might not have been able to do it.
4	* Mace [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomping]] the {{Dirty Cop}}s--while [[FullFrontalAssault naked]]--is this crossed with SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment\|s}}. He didn't even need to use his lightsaber.
5	* Geptun, who's not yet gotten Mace's measure, tries to barter with him. Mace just shoots him down flat by ''raising'' his prices. Geptun asks if he knows how bargaining works. Mace responds by raising his price again.
6	* Breaking the hand of a guy who tries to punch him simply by ''bowing his head''. No Force involved.
7	* Mace taking out a gang of men trying to ambush him. There are six of them, armed to the teeth, his lightsaber doesn't work, and he's trapped in a dead end. Nick and his gang come to his rescue, but they imply that Mace probably would've won on his own.
8	* Mace Windu, two lightsabers, and an akk vs three gunships. It's a CurbStompBattle-for the poor sods in the gunships.
9	* A few children are trapped in a 'crawler which (unknown to them) is climbing an active volcano, which is about to erupt, and the crawler will be buried under a wave of dirt. What does Mace do? He surfs down that wave, climbs to the top of the crawler, encourages one of the girls to lead the others back up, maintains a stable grip on the side of the mountain, and figures out a way to get a young man who doesn't trust him to come out. ''All at the same time.''
10	* Mace Windu is arguably the greatest swordsmaster in the galaxy, and certainly one of the most dangerous hand-to-hand combatants. Kar Vastor beats the snot out of him. Not, however, without serious effort. Mace hasn't slept in a day and a half, is older, much shorter, physically and (possibly in the Force) weaker than his opponent. But he still puts up one heck of a fight.
11	** And then we find out that Mace ''planned his own NoHoldsBarredBeatdown'' as part of a BatmanGambit.
12	--->'''Mace''': Kar Vastor is not the most dangerous man in the Highlands.
13	--->'''Nick''': You only say that because you don't really know him.
14	--->'''Mace''': [[BlaseBoast I only say that because he doesn't know me.]]
15	*** This isn't an idle boast, either: From this point onwards, until Depa's FaceHeelTurn, he plays the ''lor pelek'' like a chump.
16	* Depa's BatmanGambit is also worth noting: She tells Vastor to hang on to Mace's lightsaber for her, and he (naturally) wears it as a trophy. Mace can't pick out Vastor in the Force amongst the general darkness of the jungle; it'd be like searching for a grain of sand in a sandstorm. His lightsaber, on the other hand, which has been established as being practically an extension of his own mind and body...
17	* Depa Billaba is both stated and shown to be as good a swordsfighter as Mace, if not better. That in itself is pretty darn awesome.
18	* Mace ends a generations-long genocidal war in a matter of ''weeks.'' Heck, once he really gets started, he ends it in a matter of ''days.''
19	* The Battle of Lorshan Pass, and the clones' capture of the spaceport.
20	** The beginning of that battle especially. First, while armed with two lightsabers, Mace captures a gunship hundreds of feet in the air by basically executing a FastballSpecial. After Depa Billaba captures another gunship, he ''attacks'' the remaining hundred or so enemy ships before tricking the droid fighters into attacking their allies, leaving the clones alone.
21	** How does he do this? He orders the clone transports to stop firing on the droid starfighters, then he and Depa use the captured gunships to launch a series of missiles at the droid fighters. While relatively few of the missiles hit, the droids' threat-recognition algorithm now views all of the gunships as threats. And the clones have stopped defending themselves, meaning that the droids are no longer paying attention to them. Result? Droid starfighters and enemy gunships are now locked in combat as the clones slip down to safety.
22	* Chalk takes a mortal wound, and doesn't say a word -- in fact, she doesn't even make a ''sound'' -- because [[TheDeterminator she's too busy fighting for the people she loves.]]
23	* One for Geptun, when Mace realizes [[MacGuffinDeliveryService just how well he's been played.]] And again later: "I keep forgetting that he's smarter than I am." And then: "Move over, young man, I'll drive."
24	* Nick taking on and killing three Akk guards, with assistance from some dying clone troopers and then [[InterruptedSuicide interrupts Depa's suicide by lightsaber]] before she can press the trigger while his guts are ripped out definitely counts.
25	** He didn't just interrupt her suicide. He shoots the lightsaber from her hand as she lifts it to her head. From several feet away, in a darkened room, '''as he's bleeding out from a vibroshield directly to the guts.'''
26	** The fact that he survives is another [=MoA=].
27	* Exhausted, facing an enemy younger, stronger, and with weapons that can't be defeated by a Jedi lightsaber, he incapacitates Vastor with a telekinetically thrown shield, having previously (with the help of the clones and Nick) killed all Vastor's EliteMooks. Depa is down and catatonic. Nick Rostu is down and badly wounded. Mace remarks, "Looks like I'm the last one standing."

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