* Sabine freezing the entire world.
* Leven [[TookALevelInBadass becoming the Want]] at the end the fourth book.
* [[GrandFinale The final battle of the fifth book]]: To save the universe, Leven has to chop down the oldest tree in Foo with an axe, even though each strike causes him immense pain. And when the local Sycophant turns on Leven and Clover, Clover guts the other Sycophant like a fish with his newly revealed claws.