History Awesome / Brave

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The soundtrack features ''five'' songs, two sung by Julie Fowlis, who had another song first featured in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m09__wGfBmk this TV spot]]. Other performers include Birdy with Mumford & Sons, Creator/BillyConnolly, and Creator/EmmaThompson.

* At the end of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtrDBQ_qmlg "Family Legends" trailer]], Merida leaps in slow-mo to escape from Mordu as [[spoiler:Bear!Elinor]] holds a paw out to grab her hand and Mordu's claw swings toward Merida.
* [[spoiler:Bear!Elinor going into full MamaBear mode (no pun intended) and fighting Mordu as he attacks Merida, smashing him against a rock until it falls and crushes him.]]
** [[spoiler:Bear!Elinor throws off ''all'' 4 clans pinning her to the ground when Mordu attacks Merida. Mama Bear indeed]]
** Made even more awesome when you consider that, throughout the entire film, she has engaged in no violence at all, [[spoiler: seeing it as a lapse into her bear side. Mordu goes for her daughter?]] All bets are off.
* Merida fighting [[spoiler: her father, the Bear King himself, to make him realize that he will not kill Elinor. She more than held her own, so obviously he taught her well]].
** To put it into perspective, [[spoiler: Her father is seen sparring with a few of the boys of his clan, tossing them about effortlessly. One got his sword stuck on his peg leg and barely left a dent in it. Merida flips one of the guys over, [=KOs=] two more, blocks her father's overhead swing with little strain, and ''breaks the peg leg in half'' with one clean swipe, all without actually leaving a mark on him. Effective, but very precise rage.]]

* The way Merida tells her brothers [[spoiler:who are cubs]] what to do.

* Merida's arrow knocking her father's sword aside just when he was about to deliver a killing blow to [[spoiler: Bear!Elinor.]]

* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: there are ''over 100,000 hairs rendered'' on Merida's head.
** The average redhead only has 90,000 hairs ''in real life''.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The soundtrack features ''five'' songs, one sung by Julie Fowlis, who had another song first featured in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m09__wGfBmk this TV spot]]. Other performers include Birdy with Mumford & Sons, Creator/BillyConnolly, and Creator/EmmaThompson.

-->"[[RebelliousPrincess I am Merida, firstborn descendant of clan DunBroch,]] [[BadassBoast and I'll be shooting for]] ''[[BadassBoast my own]]'' hand!]]"

-->"[[RebelliousPrincess I am Merida, firstborn descendant of clan DunBroch,]] [[BadassBoast and I'll be shooting for my own hand]]!"

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/brave_merida_sword_copy.png]]

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bear_1.jpg]]
[[caption-width-right:350: Queen Elinor [[YouPutTheXInXY puts "bear" back in "Mama bear"]] ]]

* The teaser: Merida is faced with a gigantic bear, and doesn't flinch as she fires an arrow into its face. All while surrounded by perhaps the most gorgeous SceneryPorn Pixar has created to date.
** The newest teaser has Merida stepping up to the archery contest in defiance of the prize of her hand in marriage, striking every bulls-eye and then cleaving the winning arrow in ''half'' with amazing precision. All the while her mother is shouting at her to stop. The teaser ends with them glaring at each other. For a Disney/Pixar Princess, that's pretty badass.
-->"[[RebelliousPrincess I am Merida, firstborn descendant of clan [=DunBroch=],]] [[BadassBoast and I'll be shooting for my own hand]]!"

[[caption-width-right:350: Brings new meaning to the phrase "Mama bear" ]]

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: there are ''over 100,000 hairs rendered'' on Merida's head.

* AwesomeMusic: The soundtrack features ''five'' songs, one sung by Julie Fowlis, who had another song first featured in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m09__wGfBmk this TV spot]]. Other performers include Birdy with Mumford & Sons, Creator/BillyConnolly, and Creator/EmmaThompson.

* Merida fighting [[spoiler: her father, the Bear King himself, to protect her mother and make him see sense. She more than held her own, so obviously he taught her well]]
-->'''Merida''': [[spoiler: '''I'll not let you kill my mother.''']]