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The moment that was awesome which will be remembered forever, winning your eternal fannish loyalty.
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 x 56 (yeas:67 nays:11) Buffy
"Innocence" reminds this troper why he used to like this show.
x 51 (yeas:56 nays:5) Spike
Spike had more than his fair share, but that's what happens when you're the Bad Ass Longcoat.
x 46 (yeas:55 nays:9) Giles
Giles's return to Season 6: "I'd like to test that theory" had viewers cheering
x 46 (yeas:47 nays:1) Dawn
Dawn to Spike in the second episode of Season Seven:
x 44 (yeas:45 nays:1) Buffy
The episode "Checkpoint," where after a full episode of being made to feel inferior by the Zen Survivor Watcher's Council, the ditziest Big Bad ever to appear on the show, and a crazy Knights Templar army of WellIntentionedExtremists, Buffy gives a perfectly calm, almost deadpan set of demands to the council's lead Deadpan Snarker, punctuated by a thrown broadsword. This troper's roommates' ears are still ringing from his cheering.
The scene in all its awesomeness:
Quentin Travers: "We can begin the review at last. We'll skip the more obvious questions-"
Buffy: [places sword over his notes] "There isn't gonna be a review."
Quentin: "Sorry?"
Buffy: "No review. No interrogation. No questions you know I can't answer. No hoops, no jumps, [Nigel opens his mouth to speak, Buffy turns to him] and no interruptions. [begins pacing] See, I've had a lot of people talking at me the last few days. Everyone just lining up to tell me how unimportant I am. And I've finally figured out why. Power. I have it. They don't. This bothers them. ...Glory came to my home today."
Giles: "Buffy, are you-?"
Buffy: "Just to talk. She told me I'm a bug, I'm a flea, she could squash me in a second. Only she didn't. She came into my home and we talked. We had, what in her warped brain, probably passes for a civilized conversation. Why? Because she needs something from me. Because I have power over her. You guys didn't come all the way from England to determine whether or not I was good enough to be let back in. You came to beg me to let you back in. To give your jobs, your lives, some semblance of meaning."
Nigel: "This is beyond insolence-"
Buffy: [flings broadsword, which just barely misses him] "I'm fairly certain I said no interruptions."
Xander: [whispers] "That was excellent."
Buffy: "You're Watchers. Without a Slayer, you're pretty much just watching Masterpiece Theatre. You can't stop Glory. You can't do anything with the information you have, except maybe publish it in the Everyone Thinks We're Insane-O's Home Journal. So here's how it's gonna work. You're gonna tell me everything you know. And then you're gonna go away. You'll contact me if and when you have any further information about Glory. The Magic Shop will remain open. Mr Giles will stay here as my official Watcher, reinstated at full salary-"
Giles: [coughs] "Retroactive."
Buffy: "-To be paid retroactively from the month he was fired. I will continue my work with the help of my friends-"
Lydia: "I-I-I... don't want a sword thrown at me, but-but civilians, I - we're talking about children."
Buffy: "We're talking about two very powerful witches and a thousand-year-old ex-demon."
Anya: "Willow's a demon?!"
Phillip: "And the boy? No power there."
Buffy: "The boy has clocked more field time than all of you combined. He's part of the unit."
Willow: [whispers] "That's Riley-speak."
Xander: [whispers back, grinning] "I've clocked field time."
Buffy: "You all may be very good at your jobs. The only way we're gonna find out is if you work with me. You can all take your time thinking about that. But I want an answer right now from Quentin, 'cause I think he's understanding me."
Quentin: [clears throat] "Your terms are... acceptable."
x 41 (yeas:43 nays:2) Giles
Personally I'd consider Giles' crowning moment to be when he killed Ben/Glory. That was so ridiculously badass.
It may be a bit morbid, but what Giles says to Ben at the end of "The Gift" (just before his Shoot The Dog moment) sticks out in this editor's mind for sheer badass content.]
x 39 (yeas:42 nays:3) Joyce
School Hard. Joyce Summers. Fire axe.
x 38 (yeas:41 nays:3) Sunnydale High, Class of 1999
The Season 3 finale, where the entire graduating class pulls out weapons and does a human wave attack on the Big Bad.
x 37 (yeas:40 nays:3) Xander
This commenter considers Xander's line "I like the quiet" from "The Zeppo" to be pretty awesome, but apparently the writers and fans largely disagree.
x 35 (yeas:38 nays:3) Xander
Xander at the end of season 6 confronting Willow
x 35 (yeas:36 nays:1) Giles
This editor cheered when Giles went after Angelus and company singlehandedly. With a flaming baseball bat. Remember that at this point, the Big Bad is a two hundred year old vampire who even the Master and the (literally invincible) Mayor were afraid of. And considering that Giles has no super powers, spends his days in a library and has pretty much been the Useless Mentor up until his girlfriend dies, that's saying a lot about his badass level. The Badass Scale officially exploded at this point, even if Angelus recovers a minute later.
x 34 (yeas:41 nays:7) Spike
Spike's deconstruction of Angel and Buffy's relationship in "Lover's Walk" needs to be quoted:
x 33 (yeas:37 nays:4) Anya
Anya's soliloquy in "The Body".
x 28 (yeas:33 nays:5) Buffy
Buffy vs Angelus in "Becoming, Part 2"
x 26 (yeas:31 nays:5) Giles
The frat house sealed Buffy and friends inside? Frat house, meet Giles. With a chainsaw.The main bulk of the Scoobies have been sealed inside a frat house where their worst fears are coming true (again). The doors and windows have vanished from the house, being replaced with solid (wooden) walls. Anya (who is outside) brings Giles in for help. Giles examines the wall.
x 24 (yeas:27 nays:3) Xander
"Killed by Death":
x 23 (yeas:26 nays:3) Spike
"Intervention". Spike gets tortured by a hellgod that no one has been able to beat, and the only thing he has to do to save himself pain is tell Glory where the Key is. And he doesn't do it. Because he couldn't hurt the real Buffy by betraying Dawn.
Not to mention he escapes -by himself-. When the scoobies show he just has to figure out how he's getting out the elevator, past the henchmen and to his crypt, in broad daylight. Notably the scooby gang showed up to -kill him before he could talk-.
x 23 (yeas:28 nays:5) Willow
I. Owe. You. Pain.
Even people who hate Dark Willow love this line.
x 22 (yeas:26 nays:4) Cordelia
Cordelia facing down Lyle Gorch in "Homecoming", where she delivers an absolutely unforgettable (and incredibly ballsy) monologue.
x 20 (yeas:20 nays:0) Spike
Though the "Fool For Love" episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer is a good latter-day attempt, Spike gets his in the final scene of "Lover's Walk" where, after a montage of every other character's brooding Wangst, you see him in his car streaking off into the desert sun to find Drusilla, rocking out to the Sex Pistols' version of "My Way".
x 20 (yeas:23 nays:3) Oz
Season 3, episode 4: "Beauty and The Beasts". Jealous boyfriend Pete confronts Oz, who's locked in the book cage, about Debbie. Oz tries to warn Pete away by saying that something is about to happen that Pete "probably won't believe", then Pete morphs into Hyde-Pete and lays a smackdown on Oz for several minutes. At one point, Oz manages to put a bit of space between them, and he looks out the window to see the sun dip below the horizon. Cue CMOA: "Time's up. Rules change." Were-Oz proceeds to unleash a full-fledged wolf-fu style asskicking that only ends, fortunately for Pete, when Oz gets distracted and tries to attack Willow and Faith.
x 19 (yeas:19 nays:0) Giles
Giles in the third-season episode 'Wish.' Taking most of his information by faith, he destroys Anyanka's power center in the belief that the other world "will be better. It has to be."
x 19 (yeas:21 nays:2) Willow
Willow got a Crowning Moment in the Season 5 finale, when Glory, noticing Tara (who had been driven insane by her) wandering around amongst her minions and contemptuously asking her "What are you doing here?", Willow calmly walks up beside her and replies in a tone somehow both deadpan and with barely suppressed rage "She's with me", before grabbing Glory's head and sucking away all of the energy keeping her mentally composed and redirecting it to Tara, thus simultaneously and instantly healing her lover and blasting a hellgod across a construction yard, significantly weakened.
x 19 (yeas:20 nays:1) Dawn
Toward the end of season 7, Buffy sends Dawn off, out of town, getting Xander to pretty much kidnap her to keep her away from the apocalypse. This happened, and Buffy leaves a touching letter with Xander for Dawn, she reads the note and we hear Buffy narrate what's written on the note - then the narration cuts off midway through, as Dawn tosses the note aside, knocks Xander out, takes control of the car and turns right around to go back and fight the evil. And later surprised Buffy turns around to see angry Dawn(who's literally just walked up behind her). She stares at Dawn for a moment, then Dawn kicks her in the shin.
x 18 (yeas:22 nays:4) The Scoobies facing down Tara's family in "Family".
x 15 (yeas:17 nays:2) Cordelia
Cordelia snaps at Harmony in "Bewitched, Bothered and Bweildered":
x 14 (yeas:15 nays:1) Spike
Another great Spike moment: in season 4 when rogue slayer Faith wakes up from her coma, the group goes searching for her. Giles and Xander run into Spike, and describe the situation, and Faith. Spikes response "Tell you what I'll do then. I'll head out, find this girl... tell her exactly where all of you are and watch as she kills you". When Xander tries to retort that Spike doesn't even know what Faith looks like, Spike calmly recites Xander's physical description: "Dark hair, this tall, name of Faith, criminally insane. Like this girl already." as he walks off. Xander and Giles are left behind, utterly dumbstruck, until all Xander can say is "We're dumb."
x 14 (yeas:17 nays:3) Willow
Willow's rant to Faith in "Choices":
x 14 (yeas:16 nays:2) Tara
Tara is captured by Glory, who threatens to turn Tara insane unless she tells her who the Key is. Glory describes in great detail what insanity will be like. Tara is obviously scared to death, but she still says nothing.
x 14 (yeas:15 nays:1) Giles
In season 3, when Giles walks into Snyder's office, giving him a speech about how he'll make life a living hell for him if he doesn't let Buffy back into school. Then...
x 13 (yeas:16 nays:3) Buffy
Buffy confronting Jenny in "Innocence". Having just recovered from her Heroic BSOD, Buffy walks into school, goes straight to Jenny's classroom, grabs Jenny by the neck and slams her down onto her desk in front of Giles and the entire class.
On the DVD commentary, Joss' comment for this scene is "I love how violent this is."
x 13 (yeas:15 nays:2) Spike
Spike gets one at the end of "I Only Have Eyes For You", after (evil)Angel has dissed him for the thousandth time (and having sex with Drusilla) while he's been crippled, Spike waits for Angel to leave, stands up out of his wheelchair and kicks it aside. He follows that by promising to bide his time and wait for the right moment to royally fuck Angel up. Makes good on it in the season finale when he beats Angel with a tire iron. It's a bad idea to piss Spike off, even if you're the season's Big Bad.
x 13 (yeas:15 nays:2) Xander
Xander when comforting Dawn at the end of Potential.
x 13 (yeas:18 nays:5) Willow
Willow in "The Dark Age":
x 12 (yeas:16 nays:4) Spike
The episode "Fool for Love" is Spike's Crowning Moment. An entire episode of Spike taunting and jeering as he explains his history, and tells Buffy in extensive detail how he brutally killed two of her predecessors.
x 11 (yeas:13 nays:2) Xander
Or how about Xander being brave enough to go after Buffy and bring her back to life in Prophecy Girl? Even more awesome when he had to convince Angel, Buffy's soulmate, to come with him. All his brave moments in the early seasons just make his later Butt Monkeydom even sadder.
x 10 (yeas:15 nays:5) Spike
Even if you weren't a Spuffy shipper you have to admit Spike being willing to go up in flames even when he knew she didn't return his feelings to save the day is awesome.
x 10 (yeas:15 nays:5) Spike, Angel(us), Drusilla, Darla
Spike just killed a slayer, Angel(us) is bored of a rebellion, and the 4 deadliest vampires in all of Buffyverse history walk in formation with flames in the background, Spike leading the way. If that's not epic badass, I don't know what is.
x 9 (yeas:14 nays:5) Giles
Giles' "Exposition Song" in "Restless", aided by ASH having a really good singing voice.
x 9 (yeas:11 nays:2) Giles
The first time Ethan shows up, we haven't really seen much evidence of Giles' Former Teen Rebel self. So when he shows up in Ethan's shop and proceeds to absolutely kick his ass— in a state of Tranquil Fury no less— it is both unexpected and amazing.
x 8 (yeas:9 nays:1) Anya
"Where The Wild Things Are" was probably the worst episode of the season, but Anya was well and truly awesome and we saw what she would do when Xander was in danger. She charged up the stairs telling the screeching poltergeists who want to kill her to, "Shut up, repressed crybabies!" They responded by making a vine [don't ask] go straight through the palm of her hand, so she pulled it out without even a second of hesitation, and continued fighting her way up to bathroom to stop them drowning her boyfriend.
x 8 (yeas:9 nays:1) Riley
Riley arresting Ethan Rayne in the middle of his Hannibal Lecture.
x 8 (yeas:9 nays:1) Willow
In the episode Tough Love, after Glory destroys Tara's sanity, Willow goes on a Roaring Rampage Of Revenge, complete with Black Eyes Of Evil. Her entrance alone would make this page, floating a few inches above the floor, calling on several destructive gods, casting a spell on Glory, and telling Glory with rage dripping from her voice, "I...OWE...YOU...PAIN!"
And it gets more awesome from there. But between Willow's brand new level in baddass, her spells, her bag of knives, etc, the cherry on the Moment(s) of Awesome is when Willow spits in Glory's face.
You Squeed and you know it. Search your feelings, you know it to be true.
View the whole scene here. 
x 8 (yeas:10 nays:2) Willow
Cordelia is slating Buffy to Harmony and half the IT Class and telling them that she (Buffy) is a psycho:
x 8 (yeas:8 nays:0) Xander
In "The Gift", after Spike had called him useless, a "glorified bricklayer" and Anya defended him saying he was good at bowling, the next scene Xander commandeers a wrecking ball and hits Glory with it at the last second to save Buffy for a moment.
" The glorified bricklayer picks up a spare." I know I Squeed.
x 7 (yeas:8 nays:1) Willow
Another great Willow moment was in the previous episode, "The Weight of the World". With Dawn kidnapped by Glory, Buffy catatonic, and Tara having lost her mind, Willow's finally had enough when Xander and Spike start fighting. After forcing them apart with magic, she takes charge, berating them. The entire time her voice is nearly deadpan, but containing a fury that leaves even Anya and Spike afraid to piss her off.
x 7 (yeas:11 nays:4) Willow
In the finale, Willow using her magic to unlock all the Potentials' powers, complete with white-haired glowing Willow, "Oh. My. Goddess.", and an appropriate summation when the spell is over and Willow flops to the floor, exhausted: "That was nifty."
x 7 (yeas:8 nays:1) Jonathan
In "Two to Go": Jonathan's little speach to Andrew when Andrew is holding the sword to Xander's throat and Jonathan has a sword to Andrew's.
x 7 (yeas:13 nays:6) Drusilla
Drusilla taking out Kendra The Vampire Slayer with a swipe of her fingernail in "Becoming: Part 1".
x 6 (yeas:9 nays:3) Buffy
"I walk. I talk. I shop. I sneeze. I'm gonna be a fireman when the floods roll back. There's trees in the desert since you moved out, and I don't sleep on a bed of bones. Now give me back my friends!"
x 6 (yeas:7 nays:1) Buffy
Buffy's little look from side to side when asked where Caleb is after she cuts him in half from the groin up.
x 6 (yeas:7 nays:1) Buffy
Buffy's speech at the end of "Bring On The Night", made all the more epic by the fact that when she makes this speech, she's battered and bruised, and manages to look the stronger for it.
x 6 (yeas:6 nays:0) Buffy
How about the season 4 opener "The Freshman"? Buffy punches the vampire that earlier kicked her ass across the room with her broken arm, before turning around to casually chat to her friends, throwing a stake over her shoulder and straight into its heart - all because Sunny (the vampire) had broken her 'Class Protector' trophy.
x 6 (yeas:9 nays:3) Willow
x 6 (yeas:7 nays:1) Willow
Driving a ten ton truck by standing on the roof of the cab and controlling the clearly terrfied driver. Evil/Not Evil is irrelevant, this is about the most badass thing she ever did.
x 6 (yeas:9 nays:3) Spike's Season 7 speech when Buffy is ready to give up: "You listen to me. ... You're the one."
x 5 (yeas:8 nays:3) Dawn
Season 6 finale, where Buffy and Dawn are fighting the earth monsters: Dawn takes a hit and goes down, losing her sword; Buffy sees her fall, but is unable to help. Then, just as the monster moves in for another attack on Dawn...she somersault-rolls past it (in a very Buffy-like move) and lands next to her sword—which she uses to decapitate the monster in a single stroke. Buffy can only stare in disbelief.
x 4 (yeas:9 nays:5) Buffy
The series finale: Buffy getting stabbed, collapsing onto the ground, taunted by The First Evil about the wound being mortal, then standing up and just ignoring it. "I want you to get out of my face." Incredibly Awesome Pun, anybody?
x 4 (yeas:8 nays:4) Cordelia
Cordelia driving to the library in the Season One finale.
x 4 (yeas:9 nays:5) Angel
Angel appearing out of nowhere to save Buffy at the last moment from Caleb.
x 4 (yeas:6 nays:2) Dawn
Dawn's speech to Amanda in "Potential", and the subsequent act of sheer guts when she hands over the stake to Amanda, while facing down a vampire and six Bringers.
x 4 (yeas:6 nays:2) Lily/Chantarelle/Anne
Lily got one when she pushed Ken off the ledge, in the episode Anne.
x 4 (yeas:5 nays:1) Buffy
Her response when Angelus points out she can't kill him.
x 4 (yeas:5 nays:1) Spike
All this, and no-one mentions he earned his own soul back, something no other vampire has done, or has had any motive to do? Bad tvtropes.
x 3 (yeas:5 nays:2) Buffy
Enemies. one of those moments that makes me complete adore her:
x 2 (yeas:13 nays:11) Spike
Crazy Spike embracing the cross.
x 2 (yeas:3 nays:1) Buffy
Vamp!Buffy in "Nightmares"
x 2 (yeas:3 nays:1) Dawn
In Conversations With Dead People, Dawn gets a visitation by what appears to be her mother, which is being supressed by...something. The supressor then tries to terrify Dawn, trashes the house, cuts her up, gives frightening visions - this sequence is basically just Nightmare Fuel Unleaded. But Dawn completely refuses to go, even when the door is help open, and stays complete resolute, because "she's my mother".
Then Dawn, a girl who's cast about 1 spell in her life, finds all the magical ingredients while the house is being destroyed, and exorcises the damn thing, not pausing while the thing mutilates her first, until the damn thing goes away.
Okay, the effect is sorta dampened by the fact it was probably just a Xanatos Gambit by the First, but still. It was frikkin' cool.
x 2 (yeas:3 nays:1) Harmony
I'm not sure this was intentional, but I and my inner feminist found Harmony's speech to Spike in Crush, coupled with her shooting him with a crossbow, pure, utter, awesome.
x 2 (yeas:4 nays:2) Riley
His speech to Buffy on his season 6 return, finally giving her the strength to start putting her life back together.
x 1 (yeas:6 nays:5) Buffy
Just come back to life and hunting down the Master, Buffy's Power Walk set to the theme song definitely counts too.
x 1 (yeas:4 nays:3) Buffy
In "Bad Eggs", when Buffy climbs out of the Mother Bezoar she has just killed, covered in goo, and gives Lyle Gorch a glare that sends him running.
x 1 (yeas:2 nays:1) Buffy
Buffy is attacked while ice skating. Angel saves her in a Big Damn Heroes moment. The assassin attacks Angel, so Buffy saves him by slitting the assassin's throat by kicking it with an ice skate.
x 1 (yeas:1 nays:0) Spike
Spike after ruining The Night of St. Vigeous by a pre-emptive attack on Sunnydale High;
0 (yeas:2 nays:2) Buffy
"Spike is going down. You can try to kill me, send assassins after me - that's fine. But no-one messes with my boyfriend.
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