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The Night of No Tomorrow

  • The kids decide to pull a Summon Bigger Fish on Venger, and sic Tiamat on him by opening the trapdoor she had been locked in.

The Eye Of The Beholder

  • Eric pulls a Han Solo during the climax when his friends all immediately rush from the portal home to try to protect Sir John from Venger. Eric has no intention of joining them ("I don't believe what I'm seeing!"), turns his back on the fight, prepares to jump through, stands there for a second... and turns right around ("I don't believe what I'm doing!"). He saves Sir John and his son from Venger's next attack just in time, Big Damn Heroes style.

The Hall Of Bones

  • A villainous one for Venger. He manages to disguise himself as a halfling with such convincing skill, not one of the kids suspect him. It helps that Frank Welker was Cast as a Mask.
  • No less so the heroes and heroines of the eponymous hall, who school Venger in battle.

Valley Of The Unicorns

In Search Of The Dungeon Master

  • Despite her Shrinking Violet tendencies, Sheila manages to evade capture, retrieve her friends' weapons, and free them.

Beauty And The Bogbeast

  • Hank and Sheila taking down the giant, animate statue in the jungle.

Quest Of The Skeleton Warrior

  • Despite being tortured by images of his friends in danger and being powerless to help them, Hank's the first to realize it's all an illusion and break the spell by facing his fear.
  • When Presto realizes the solution to Dungeon Master's riddle, he dashes out into the middle of the battle between Venger and Dekion to retrieve the Circle of Power, then calls for Hank to destroy it.
    Eric: Presto, are you crazy!?
    Presto: Probably...

The Garden Of Zinn

  • Bobby saving his team by singlehandedly fighting off the sea monster that surprises them, even getting almost lethally injured for his troubles.
  • Diana saving the boys from the giant worm.

The Box

  • Hank jumping into the abyss before defeating the giant wasps and getting himself and the others to safety may have been overly dramatic, but it was awesome to watch!

The Lost Children

  • Sheila's backing away from two Lizard Men, nervously telling them that if they don't leave her alone, they'd be sorry. Then she spots the laser tripwire she'd evaded earlier, and more confident, repeats her assertion. The Lizard Men charge her, and trip the trap, caging themselves. She then runs past them, mocking them, "She go bye-bye."

The Girl Who Dreamed Tomorrow

  • Bobby, Diana, and Eric come up with a Fastball Special technique to destroy the portal that Venger had been using to lure heroes to their deaths.
  • Eric once again rushes headlong into danger to save Bobby and Terri. Bobby calls this "the second-bravest thing I ever saw."
  • Hank's the only one who doesn't succumb to the maze's Hate Plague and is able to snap the others out of it with one of his arrow-fireworks displays.
  • Venger goes One-Winged Angel on the children.
    • Fighting this form, Presto summons a huge number of mousetraps that snap shut on one of Venger's spiked tentacles, actually causing him pain. Even Eric thought it was Actually Pretty Funny.

The Treasure Of Tardos

  • Hank flash-blinds Demodragon by smashing the talisman Venger gave them.
  • When Eric and Uni are caught by Demodragon, Eric actually remains Defiant to the End.
  • Attacking Uni ended up being Demodragon's undoing, as she was wearing a garland of Dragon's Bane, and the moment Demodragon touched it, he perished.
  • The others then bluff Venger by claiming it was Presto's magic that did in the monster.

City At The Edge Of Midnight

  • After Bobby is kidnapped, Eric is the first to stand up and insist they go on a rescue mission.
  • Ramoud tells Sheila she is very brave after she suggests that they might find his daughter more quickly if they allow themselves to be captured, adding that if any of the demons harm her, they'll regret it.

Day Of The Dungeon Master

  • In one of the rare one-on-one battles between one of the heroes and Venger, Eric attempts to pull a Heroic Sacrifice to get the others home. While they don't make it through the portal, he does save their lives.

The Dragon's Graveyard

  • This is basically the show's Crowning Episode of Awesome. Every single character is at the top of their game. Let's count the ways:
  • The kids get fed up with Venger always screwing with their plans to get home, and decide they need to kill him if they're to have a chance. They quickly realize that the only way to do that is to recruit Tiamat, and so they bully the Dungeon Master into telling them where Tiamat lives and how to convince her to aid them. Already in the first act, the kids are proving themselves to be hardcore.
  • Not to be outdone, Venger reaches the peak of his viciousness throughout the episode, from his death trap at the very beginning to his fury throughout the rest of it.
  • Tiamat is willing to listen, and her plan is simple: she will lure Venger to her home, where the kids' weapons will be super-powerful. Venger counters by resurrecting skeletal warriors with similar weapons, but Tiamat's plan is solid: the kids beat Venger in a fair fight. The weapons being powered up is every bit as exciting as advertised.
  • Hank spares Venger's life, as is to be expected, but tells Venger not to forget that they had him at their mercy. Venger's expression clearly indicates that the Badass Boast hit home.
  • The episode ends with a shot of Tiamat, looking majestic and her eyes twinkling.

Child Of The Stargazer

  • A subtle one early in the beginning. All of the kids are resting when they hear a rustle in the bushes. Without a word spoken between any of them, they're all up in an instant, weapons at the ready, surrounding the bush the noise came from.
  • From her role in the battle with Syrith's mooks, to escaping with Kosar from Syrith's laboratory via Super Window Jump, to making it to the platform of the temple in time to gain the power to defeat Syrith and end her reign of terror over the city, this episode is dedicated to showing what a badass warrior the Acrobat really is.
    Diana: Having us and holding us are two different things!
  • Eric of all people is the first to charge Syrith.
    Eric: I ought to have my head examined for doing this, but...here goes...

The Dungeon At The Heart Of Dawn

  • Bobby and Eric are snarking at each other as a massive tower collapses behind them. A massive stone falls, seemingly on top of Bobby from the viewpoint of the others, only for Bobby to nonchalantly smash his way through and keep up his snarking with Eric as if nothing had happened.

Citadel Of Shadow

  • After being tricked by Kareena, Sheila manages to get back at her, infuriating Kareena, who lashes out with her magic against the invisible Thief, until she accidentally reveals the hidden door. Sheila's snark after this as she steals the Ring of Power is classic.
    Sheila: Your magic is as reliable as your friendship.
  • Later, when Sheila goes back to save Kareena from Venger, she ends up using the two magic rings to imprison Venger. Since "Requiem" was never produced or aired, this is Venger's last appearance in the show, giving the impression that Sheila singlehandedly defeated the Big Bad once-and-for-all on her own.

The Winds Of Darkness

  • Per the executives' directive, Eric still disagrees with the rest of the team — with Hank captured and the rest of the team despondent and unable to figure out what to do, Eric's the only one who refuses to give up. He takes the lead for the rest of the episode, exhorting the team when things look hopeless, and insisting on going forward no matter how much their new ally tells them it's too dangerous and encourages them to give up. When they finally reach the Darkling's forest, Presto asks him in the most natural way, "What's the plan, Eric?" He then lays out the battle plan for the climax as if he's been doing this all his life. In short, the way he shines in the unplanned series finale truly does make up for how the writers were forced to treat him throughout all the episodes prior.

Requiem

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