Awesome / Fire Force

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A Devil to the rescue.

Season 1

• Episode 2: Maki spars with Shinra and then Arthur, and demonstrates how a second-generation pyrotechnic can ruin their day. She extinguishes Shinra's Devil Footprint propulsion and then transforms Arthur's Excalibur into more of her familiars, leading up to a giant version that unnerves them. Even in hand-to-hand combat she dominates and unleashes this killer line at Arthur.

  Maki: A knight should kneel before a princess. You're not obeying the code of chivalry.

• Episode 4: After her subordinates capture the sapient infernal, Princess Hibana utterly shuts down Shinra with just a glance. He falls down, unable to move. In a later episode, she reveals that this is Heat Syncope, a technique which uses heat to mess with liquid in a person's head and induce heat stroke and dizziness, which means that this is the first episode to show what Playing with Fire can really do, beyond straight-forward combat.
• Episode 5
  • Company 8 raids Company 5's HQ. Hinawa demonstrates his control over bullets by making them curve around corners, over cover and doing exactly as much damage as he wants when they inevitably reach their target.
  • Arthur's big moment is fighting an Elite Mook created by one of Company 5's scientists, and only has trouble because he didn't realize he was using his non-dominant hand. One switch and the losing fight becomes a Single-Stroke Battle.
• Episode 6
  • Princess Hibana goes all out, creating a ceiling-height Sakura tree made of fire and trapping Shinra with a firestorm of petals.
  • Shinra shows classic Heroic Resolve by powering through Princess Hibana's Long-Range Fighter combat style and punching her in the face. He is a hero who saves people, and that includes Princess Hibana herself.
• Episode 9
  • During his fight with Rekka, Shinra notes that he is, at best, equal in sheer power to Rekka. So what does he do? Recognize that they're fighting in a building perfect for high-speed maneuvers, jump around like that golden ball from Men In Black 1 and land a devastating kick to Rekka after maneuvering the lunatic into the air.
  • Karim Flam deals the decisive hit on Rekka by attacking In the Back. Since his powers work by converting flames and heat into ice, all he had to do was stand there and look disappointed. Rekka cocooned himself in ice by trying to power through the existing ice with more fire, which turned into more ice.
• Episode 12
  • Captain Benimaru takes on Company 8 and defeats them all without trying hard. Hand-to-hand, third generation, second generation, nothing works on him; he freezes Hinawa's bullets, grabbles Arthur, and then unfreezes the bullets so they strike the wanna-be knight instead. Maki is overpowered by him just as he outmaneuvers Shinra and Tamaki into running into each other.
  • Only Captain Akitaru can stand against Benimaru. Clad like a modern knight, he charges into battle and no-sells the opposing captain's attacks. No powers to his name and yet he's the only one to draw blood from this man the Great Flame of Fire blessed twice.
    Akitaru: Don't talk to me about Second Generation or Third Generation. I train every day.
• Episode 15: How good an inventor is Vulcan? He built a holo-projector that works fine outside in a post-apocalyptic world. From scratch.
• Episode 16: Giovanni gets the drop on Shinra and absolutely dominates him—seriously. The main character isn't even able to fight back and gets his ass summarily handed to him, and the guy follows it up by having the good sense to restrain him.
• Episode 19: This episode showcases why you do not mess with the women of fire force company 8, as they all proceed to beat their opponents soundly and taking very little damage in the process.
  • Maki is heavily outnumbered (5 to 1) yet her opponents never stood a chance. With the mobile pile drivers Vulcan made for her, she and her familiars clobber all of them senseless.
  • Tamaki is very agile when her Lucky Letcher Lure isn't acting up, and even that contributes to victory.
  • Even Iris, the Nice Girl Good Shepherd, sneaks up behind an enemy with a crowbar.
• Episode 20
  • This is a showcase of power for Hinawa, the pyrotechnic gunner of Company Eight. He gets into a Sniper Duel with Arrow, who has better concealment than him and greater knowledge of the terrain. How does he even the odds? By using his secong-gen powers to overclock his rifle and thereby transform it into the main cannon of a tank. He doesn't need to aim, just the shockwaves injure Arrow. He ruins the barrel of his rifle but he has extras, which he slots into place. He grabs victory by overclocking himself to trap Arrow's final shot and use it to amplify his own.
  • Arthur shows off the fruit of his training with Benimaru in the follow-up fight with Mirage. No longer fooled by his illusions, he only strikes the real deal. Even additional trickery doesn't deceive him. He only needs one stroke.
• Episode 21:
  • Giovanni reacts to Lisa's defeat by constricting her throat with burning wire, and says that Vulcan has to either shoot Obi or watch her die. The thing is, though it's all very dramatic and you think he's actually gonna do it...he does. And it doesn't matter, because he upgraded their protective armor before even coming here.
  • How strong is Akitaru Obi? Strong enough to rip a section of steel railroad tracks off its pegs and beat you to death with it. He even uses it for an impromptu ladder and elbow drops the shit out of Giovanni. Though Giovanni escapes, it's pretty clear he had nothing left to counter Obi. And this is from a man who is nothing but pure Badass Normal!
• Episode 22: The sheer scale of how outmatched Shinra is by Sho becomes clear when it's revealed his opponent can stop time due to basically being connected to Lucifer. So what does Shinra do? Tap into his link to Sho to grab some of that power for himself—which promptly allows him to move at speeds faster than light, disassemble his subatomic particles and re-assemble them, and counter fiction's most broken power.

Season 2

• Episode 1
  • Just in case you needed a reminder of how amazing Company 8, they demonstrate their ability a colossal infernal. It has five cores. So Captain Obi assigns a core to everyone and they bring it down. They cripple it, immobilize it, and then Shinra strikes the killing blow.
  • Lict is in the field, analyzing the fiend and providing intel.
  • Vulcan drives the matchbox, providing support and equipment to those who were on their day off at the time.
  • In the words of Captain Obi, "I train every day, so I can do this!" He tosses his shield like a disc and cuts through one of the infernal's tree-trunk thick legs.
  • Arthur's Single-Stroke Battle is becoming a trademark.
  • Maki pummels her assigned core with her familiars in their pile drivers. It didn't stand a chance against a gorilla cyclops!
  • Even Tamaki demonstrates her competency by using her nekomata ability to hold a limb in place, and without her Lure tripping her up.
• Episode 9: Ogun's fight against the forest Demon, temporarily powering up to Captian Burn's level.
• Episode 12:
  • Joker's brightly colored special fire attack that is shaped like a jester.
• Episode 17: Charon, determined to protect the pillars even at the cost of his very life, pushes his absorption powers to their limit to redirect a nuclear attack by Nataku — that's powerful enough to destroy all of Tokyo — onto the moon, leaving a huge crater on the moon's surface.
• Episode 20: Juggernaut overcoming his fears and withstanding multiple injuries to finally put down a white clad who had killed a Company 2 comrade and nearly killed Tamaki. And not with a simple attack or smack or two - no, he dunks a ballistic fire missile into her face so hard that her eye pops before flattening and obliterating her in one fell swoop. Literally losing An Arm and a Leg in the process didn't even stop him one inch.
• Episode 22:
  • Arthur managing to evade detection from Giovanni and hitting him with a solid attack, by making his mind blank.
  • Maki manages to redirect the fires of a massive explosion into the earth for geothermal dissipation, saving Tokyo from destruction.

Manga

• Arthur's final battle against Dragon. His wildest dreams of being King Arthur are fully validated here, as the new, mad universe allows him to bust out every powerful move he has in his arsenal. And when it seemed like he was cut down for good, he equips a "Star Ring" and gives one last mighty attack, taking Dragon out but getting blown in half in the process. That last attack not only kills Dragon for good, but also slashes clean through the Earth and manages to destroy the fixture.
• How about Shinra kicking the moon, sent down by Faerie to obliterate the world, back into orbit?
• Chapter 281: Tamaki's Big "SHUT UP!" to the woman insulting her while she was trying to fight, and in essence, giving one to people who are upset at Tamaki's status as a Reluctant Fanservice Girl.
  Tamaki: Just shut the hell up you fucking bitch!! I'm trying to defeat this fake Assault over here!! I don't need your goddamn commentary on every single thing I do, so stay quiet!!
• Any fight scenes with Benimaru Shinmon are suitably epic but the one that takes the cake is his fight against his own Doppleganger which is envisioned as the World's Strongest Man by the people of Asakusa and nearly destroys the Earth. Benimaru destroys it in a single strike, proclaiming despite how strong his people imagine he is, his true strength is even higher than that!
• Chapter 300: How does Shinra stop Haumea from feeling despair in the recreated world? By making death more intimate by turning the world into that of Soul Eater. And to make sure that it sticks, he calls in Charon to cheer her up.

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