History Awesome / Alphas

* [[BigBad Stanton Parish]] [[MagnificentBastard deserves]] to be mentioned here due to the sheer cunning he displays in the second season finale: His plan is to [[ApocalypseHow kill about a billion people]] with his flickering lights of doom. The team has no chance to stop him through conventional methods because he installed said [[CrazyPrepared lights months ahead of schedule]], so they have to shut down the power of a bunch of American cities. [[CrazyPrepared Except]] New York has a defense system against being shut down that way, so they have to go to [[GadgeteerGenius Skylar Adams]] to make a bizarre machine to shut down the power in NY. They manage to do it...[[SerialEscalation except]] Parish has a [[GambitRoulette BACK UP POWERING SYSTEM]] for all of New York. They go to shoot ''it'' down, but its systems are heavily protected ([[TheChessmaster Stanton Parish complicated things, just in case they managed to uncover his plan, shut down the power in half of America and reach that train station]]). They do manage to shut it down, BUT the station is hit by the lights, killing basically everyone in the station. Probably including [[TheHeroDies Doctor Rosen]]. Seriously, the guy could give Xanatos a run for his money.

* Rachel, coming out of nowhere during "Blind Spot" and [[spoiler: beaning the invisible Alpha upside the head a few times.]].
** In the same episode, [[spoiler: Dr. Kern shows he's a NotSoHarmlessVillain once he's built up enough sonic energy and starts absolutely wrecking the offices, along with anyone who tries to get close to him]].

** Hicks' LeParkour duel with another Alpha who has the same abilities as him. [[spoiler:Even if Hicks lost, it was a kickass fight scene.]]
** Gary going completely apeshit on a [=DoD=] soldier after [[spoiler: finding Anna's body]]. Also a Tearjerker.
** Rosen [[spoiler: performing an EngineeredPublicConfession ''on Congress'' in order to expose the Alpha situation to the general public]].

* In Gods and Monsters, Parish once more plays the Alpha Team like a violin despite all their efforts to stop him. and he does this ''without any thugs'' to protect him, using sheer psychological manipulation and cunning. [[spoiler: And then he [[MacGyvering MacGyvers]] his way out of a prison cell, kills two guards, sneaks out and enters in Jason's mind. [[TheChessmaster Good LORD]]]].
** In the same episode, Rosen and Parish have a long-winded verbal version of a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, both trying to twist each other's arguments at a ridiculously quick pace to convince a boy, a crowning moment for both of them. [[spoiler: And then it becomes Rosen's moment when he makes the battle physical in the mind, subduing Parish and taking a look at a good chunk of his memories.]]

** In the same episode, Hicks and Scipio have a pretty cool chase scene with some metal at the background, and eventually Hicks manages to crash Scipio's car with the craziest technique of all time [[spoiler: literally crashing onto him with his bike, jumping over the car and watching the car lose control]]. Badass.

** Rosen [[spoiler:torching the farmhouse Parish raised his first family in.]] Not to mention his rather scary speech in the elevator.

** One needs to note just how goddamn badass [[VillainousValor The Caretaker]] is: First he manages to shoot the car's four tires and its engine. [[ImprobableAimingSkills From a bridge]]. Then he jumps off, ''crashes into the car'' and is thrown away. ''[[HealingFactor He heals a broken neck within seconds]]'', shrugs it off, goes after Hicks and overpowers him. A truck comes to hit him, he is barely fazed and shoots at it. The truck ''hits him'', and he [[SerialEscalation survives]]. [[spoiler: [[RasputinianDeath Shame about the lake, though]].]]

* [[BigBad Stanton Parish]] [[MagnificentBastard deserves]] to be mentioned here due to the sheer cunning he displays in the second season finale: His plan is to [[spoiler: [[ApocalypseHow kill about a billion people]] with his flickering lights of doom. The team has no chance to stop him through conventional methods because he installed said [[CrazyPrepared lights months ahead of schedule]], so they have to shut down the power of a bunch of American cities. [[CrazyPrepared Except]] New York has a defense system against being shut down that way, so they have to go to [[GadgeteerGenius Skylar Adams]] to make a bizarre machine to shut down the power in NY. They manage to do it...[[SerialEscalation except]] Parish has a [[GambitRoulette BACK UP POWERING SYSTEM]] for all of New York. They go to shoot ''it'' down, but its systems are heavily protected ([[TheChessmaster Stanton Parish complicated things, just in case they managed to uncover his plan, shut down the power in half of America and reach that train station]]). They do manage to shut it down, BUT the station is hit by the lights, killing basically everyone in the station. Probably including [[TheHeroDies Doctor Rosen]].]]. Seriously, the guy could give Xanatos a run for his money.

** In the same episode, Hicks and Scipio have a pretty cool chase scene with some metal at the background, and eventually Hicks manages to crash Scipio's car with the most CrazyAwesome technique of all time [[spoiler: literally crashing onto him with his bike, jumping over the car and watching the car lose control]]. Badass.

** One needs to note just how goddamn {{Badass}} [[VillainousValor The Caretaker]] is: First he manages to shoot the car's four tires and its engine. [[ImprobableAimingSkills From a bridge]]. Then he jumps off, ''crashes into the car'' and is thrown away. ''[[HealingFactor He heals a broken neck within seconds]]'', shrugs it off, goes after Hicks and overpowers him. A truck comes to hit him, he is barely fazed and shoots at it. The truck ''hits him'', and he [[SerialEscalation survives]]. [[spoiler: [[RasputinianDeath Shame about the lake, though]].]]

** Rosen deserves a mention for [[TheDeterminator shrugging off a bullet wound in the gut]] just to get to Parish. While the authorities hunt him down. And he uses a SherlockScan to precisely deduce Parish's weakness and location. ''[[{{Badass}} while he is bleeding to near-death]]''.