Line #16 Awesome/TheAuthority


1	!! The ComicBook
2	* The first issue:
3	** The Authority showing up and immediately taking down Kaizen Gamorra's super soldiers with ease.
4	** Special mention to this moment when Midnighter confronts a soldier holding a child hostage.
5	-->'''Midnighter''': Put the child down.
6	-->'''Soldier''': No. I leave alone or it dies.
7	-->'''Midnighter''': Let me make this situation clear for you. I know what special abilities you have. I can see the enhancements. I can detect the increased electrical activity in your brain. I know what moves you're preparing to make. I've fought our fight already, in my head, in a million different ways, I can hit you without you even seeing me. I'm what soldiers dream of growing into. I'm what children see when they first imagine what death is like. I'm the Midnighter. Put the child down.
8	* Jenny singlehandedly facing down an entire aerospace fleet from a parallel Earth called Sliding Albion. (Two of her teammates: "Am I wrong to find her utterly terrifying?" "It just proves you're still human.")
9	** In the same arc, the Doctor wipes out the aliens' government by holding the Earth in stasis for a moment... and letting the ocean wipe out Italy.
10	* Jenny's PreAssKickingOneLiner before electrocuting MOTHERFUCKING '''"GOD."'''[[note]]No, not really. Not the Presence. Nonetheless a powerful cosmic entity that existed long before the Earth was born.[[/note]]
11	-->'''Jenny:''' ''YOU. I'm talking to you. I don't know if you can understand me. I don't even know if you have a language. You think the world belongs to you? Earth has a new manager. This world is '''mine.'''''
12	* The Midnighter destroying Kaizen Gamorra by driving the Carrier into his base; "I love being me". So very wrong, and yet awesome.
13	* In issue #14, The Midnighter defeats an ComicBook/IronMan {{expy}} with '''''a hug.'''''
14	* The Engineer's escape from the evil family she was imprisoned with when the team was replaced by Heroic Sociopath Captain Ersatz-es.
15	* Midnighter brutally murdering each and every member of the evil mirror team that replaced them.
16	** Hey, that Crowning Moment was just as much Apollo's. Having spent the mirror team's reign chained up, away from the light that powers him, being used as a novelty cigarette lighter and ''literal'' punching bag, [[GooGooGodLike Jenny]] slips him some sunshine. The results:
17	--->'''Last Call''': Light me, you lazy bastard.\
18	'''Apollo''': [[YourHeadAsplode My pleasure.]]
19	* The end of the ''Revolutions'' arc. After twelve issues (and, for the characters, several ''years'') of painful EmotionalTorque, seeing Midnighter rip out the BigBad's spine was cathartic to say the least.
20	-->'''Henry Bendix''': You have to admit, what I've done has [[NiceJobFixingItVillain made the world a better place.]]
21	-->'''Midnighter''': [[ShutUpHannibal Well then, I guess I just don't give a shit.]]
22	* In his own series Midnighter...
23	** ...kicks UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler in the groin.
24	** ...drops a space station on an evil mastermind.
25	** ...when told to kill one mook and leave the other alive? "[[LoopholeAbuse Didn't say what condition]]."
26	* Out of all their acts, including killing god there is one act which truly established the characters as a force to be reckoned with. An inter-dimensional corporation attacks the Carrier, threatens to strip mine Earth like thirty-two others before it, kidnaps Swift, and almost murders the infant Jenny. They then make the group an offer to join them. [[CurbStompBattle The Authority's response was suitably brutal. Within 24 hours every key member of its leadership and central infrastructure was gone.]]
27	* Midnighter giving Kev Hawkings a ''thorough'' dressing down for his homophobia while meeting with him in civilians clothes, pointing out that it's nothing as imaginative as religious conviction or even Gay Panic, Kev is just an unimaginative little turd who's based his entire idea of macho behavior on things he's seen in movies, and acts the way pop culture has told him tough guys act. In the final series, when Kev finds out one of his old squad mates is gay, he's forced to acknowledge this to be true.

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