Two undeniable ones for Micki occur in "Dr. Jack" where she electrocutes the villain with a defibrillator and "Bedazzled" where she uses a mirror to reflect the burning light of the lantern back at its owner. She's overall clever and resourceful throughout the latter unusual Hostage Situation episode, whether in feigning ignorance, stalling for time while looking for the entrance to the vault (twice!), lying in wait to hit the villain over the head as soon as he opened the vault again, arranging to shock the villain by wrapping exposed lamp wires around the lantern, and having Richie throw it over the railing to make the villain fall. There's also her using the flash of her camera to disable the "Shadow Boxer", which she must have thought of right on the spot because they didn't know the form of the curse yet. Finally overcoming her fear of the Coin of Ziocles and bashing the zombie cop to death (again) with the shovel in "Bad Penny" is also quite awesome. And even if it occurs under the influence of an artifact (and leaves her traumatized at episode's end), it's still rather awesome seeing her slash up Serial Killer Alex Dent in "Mightier Than the Sword".
Ryan's would have to be: using the jumper cables to ground the villain's charge in "The Electrocutioner" so he electrocuted himself through the radiator pipes; knocking Reverend Josiah out the window by letting go of the Quilt of Hathor; tricking the villain of "Tails I Live, Heads You Die" into bringing Micki Back from the Dead; getting the cursed pocket watch from "13 O'Clock" away from Reatha right as the clock reached one; strangling the werewolf from "Scarlet Cinema" with silver-nitrate-coated movie film; and taking the stake for Christina in "The Prophecies".
As for Jack: tricking Lady Die out of the cup in "A Cup of Time"; going apeshit on the villain of "Brain Drain" after he used the trephinator on his Old Flame; refusing Uncle Lewis's Final Temptation in "Bottle of Dreams" so as to save Micki and Ryan; and setting up a small weapons arsenal to use against "The Butcher", then taking him out with his own barbed wire after removing the Thule Amulet (after he had taken out all of Jack's Band of Brothers).
Guest Star Birdie in "A Cup of Time" deserves one; the first person to gain possession of an artifact, knowing what it does and that she could honestly benefit from what the object offers. She's about to make use of the object, not knowing the inevitable cost to herself, when she stops, and decides that being young again isn't worth killing someone else. note Other characters have possessed objects without using them, but are nearly always ignorant of the curse, because these people are never in need of what that particular object offers. For example, a teenager would not be vulnerable to the Swapper's Ivy Cup. Birdie is the first, probably only person in the show to consciously choose not to use an object for their own gain.
Even Johnny gets a few throughout the third season: his usage of the Yin-Yang pendant in "The Long Road Home" to switch bodies with the villain who was about to kill him, then play the role so as to fool the villain's brother until he can get Micki alone (and prove his identity), then escape with her, is inspired and even gets his broken leg healed in the bargain when he switches back; he saves the day in "Jack-in-the-Box" by smashing a chair through the pool's glass door so they can get inside and keep Megan from using the artifact on herself Just in Time; he not only saves one of the eponymous "Tree of Life"'s victims from its strangling root system but manages to cut the cursed Cernunnos idol free so as to kill the tree and open a way out of the ground for them; and he even manages to hold his own in a swordfight with the Marquis de Sade in "The Charnel Pit".
One for the whole third-season team occurs in "Stick It In Your Ear"—after they break out of a backstage dressing room (thanks to Jack's lockpicking skills), the villain Adam Cole is trapped by them onstage before a live studio audience. And rather than allowing him to read their minds with the cursed hearing aid, Jack, Micki, and Johnny just bombard him with their thoughts and their knowledge of all those he killed instead of giving him questions to "answer", while Jack insinuates (thanks to his Stage Magic background) that Cole is using the hearing aid to receive prompts from a plant in the audience. Between this and the audience's cascade of thoughts as his refusal to remove the hearing aid convinces them he's a charlatan, and he is eventually overwhelmed, wrenching the artifact out as his brain fatally hemorrhages.
Another guest star, the invalid Lili Lita in "Femme Fatale", shows off her badassery in a different way. First, after managing to overhear enough to figure out her husband is doing something terrible involving their old film (which happens because she either didn't drink her sleeping-draught tea or fought off its effects), she shows off the Chekhov's Skill her husband had praised of her amazing acting ability by Faking the Dead after he tried to smother her with a pillow. (Her One-Liner "Death scenes were always my forte" is beautifully-delivered and quite applause-worthy.) Then she holds him and her younger film self at gunpoint (this from a woman who had needed a wheelchair or someone to lean on to get around earlier; now she manages it with just a cane), and when she learns what he has been doing and why, she scathingly calls him out for never really loving her, just the "slut" character he created for her to play all those years ago. A struggle for the gun ends up resulting in her scummy husband getting shot, not her, and then to save Micki from the film she makes a Heroic Sacrifice, facing death with dignity ("I've been away too long") instead of dying in bed of her illness. Whether she suspected that would destroy her younger self or not, it was still a very brave thing to do for someone she'd never even met. Never Mess with Granny, and prime Tear Jerker material. (But then she was played by the inestimable Kate Reid.)
