Just because the majority of the herd is from a bright, wacky Sugar Bowl doesn't mean they aren't capable of crushing the skulls of their enemies like the war horse who joins them.
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Season One
"Hello Rainbow Road"
- Less than five minutes in, Horse and Rider establish themselves as a combat duo who have eluded the invaders' grasp up until now. Both of them kick Invader butt and hold their own.
- Singing may not be Horse's forte, but it takes guts to step outside your comfort zone. Despite being a war horse, Horse sings in order to convince Wammawink's herd to leave the valley. Ultimately, "Hello Rainbow Road" even convinces the reluctant Wammawink herself to lift the barrier and accompany Horse on her quest.
"What You Need"
- Pissed off about about the trees not even comforting a young Wammawink after her village was razed to the ground, Horse comes back and enlists Ched in kicking the bigger tree.Horse: I'll give you what you need.
"It's Hidin' Time"
- A sleeping Wammawink hears her herd's screams of fear and knocks out the beartaur threatening them with a watery fist while still half-asleep.
"The Rift: Part 2"
- Despite her sinister nature, the mysterious woman establishes herself as a genuine threat to the herd, ranging from her powerful song to the herd about the dangers of opening the portal to confronting the Nowhere King.
- Blink and you'll miss it, but you can actually catch the exact moment Glendale swipes the Key off of the woman as she's being telekinetically thrown about.
- The battle against the Nowhere King might be ridiculously funny but the fact that the Herd and Waterbaby are ready to sacrifice their lives to save Horse and Rider shows that they are willing to die just to keep the worlds safe. Heck, they took on the king without much training at all!
Season Two
"Horsatia Wighair Beansz"
"All Herd All The Terd"
- Zulius using his showmanship and powers of manipulation to get the birdtaurs to join the fight.
"My Tummy, Your Hurts"
- Glendale using her anxiety to help the Coldtaurs get over their fears and not pledge to the Nowhere King.
"The Ballad of Becky Apples"
- Becky Apples proves herself to not just be stubborn, but immovable when it comes to any situation, including war, unless she's the one moving. She can scale high walls on her own, Minotaurs start running in terror at the sight of her after she's had her run of the place, and moves so fast she can make it from the camp to the Nowhere King's castle and back in a single night, again by herself.
"The Last Lullaby"
- Horse, using her Backstory magic, performs what she's sure will be a Heroic Sacrifice to neutralize the Nowhere King and his minotaurs to buy time for everyone to think of something, charging head-first into the titanic abomination.
- Fridge-Awesome: When one stops to think about it, the reason Horse has to sort through the Nowhere King's backstory even more than anyone else on this show is because he has by far the most complex and longest backstory imaginable. Even if one were to view the memories in the correct sequences of events, it's still a rather long and complicated history starting with a simple elktaur with self-esteem issues and ending with his ascension into the Big Bad of the series, many years in the making.
- When the time comes for war, everyone in Centaurworld proves their mettle and how much they've grown and accepted themselves and each other, using combat tactics that are both awesome and still goofy at heart.
- Glendale uses her Portal Tummy to perform a Flechette Storm of weaponry, ending with dropping a tugboat on the Minotaurs
- Ched uses his childhood dream of being a Tulip Stepper as his strength, using a jousting lance and his small size to cut down a squad of Minotaurs, and earns the respect of another Tulip Stepper he idolized.
- Durpleton and Stabby use a Fastball Special via Stabby's child harness, flinging him like a mace as he slices them down. Later on, Stabby personally saves Rider and offers to give her back her knife as a sign of respect.
- Zulius and Splendib ride next to each other with parasols, using Hot Goss to rain down showstoppingly painful gossip from above.
- Wammawink uses her shield as both a protection tool and a bludgeon, flying across the battlefield to protect her family and disrupt the minotaur army.
- Comfortable Doug (Or rather, Flat Dallas) calls in a literal cavalry of tiny versions of the herd as well as the messenger birds he's adopted to overwhelm more of the Minotaurs.
- The Flock drop a payload of rocks onto the Minotaurs, and eventually manage to take Bayden out of the fight by reminding him of his true self off-screen.
- Although painfully tragic, "The Last Lullaby" is a lesson in severing ties that aren't healthy for you. It's not easy for the Mysterious Woman, as she seems enraged and remorseful in turns, but both she and Elktaur come to terms that his execution is for the best.
- Symbolically, their song starts out as a somber duet, but when the Woman sing "Quiet" to the Elktaur, it's her way of reminding herself not to pity him, given the atrocities he's committed.
- "When I see the light leaving your eyes..." There's something oddly awesome about that lyric, as though reflecting that the Mysterious Woman has become just as legendary as the very (former) Nightmare King she's about to take down.
