History Awesome / ImperfectMetamorphosis

** How about the fact that Yuuka Kazami manages to, in what was supposed to be a one-on-one duel until Yukari cheated, laughingly curbstomp [[WindsOfDestinyChange Remilia]], [[PersonOfMassDestruction Flandre]], [[TimeStandsStill Sakuya]], [[KillItWithFire Orin]], [[MindOverMatter Satori]] and [[ILoveNuclearPower Utsuho]] using only a fraction of her power. She then goes on to bring three quaters of her power to bear against PhysicalGod [[RealityWarper Yukari]] and manages to put her out of comission so badly that she's been unable to take any real action for seven chapters. The only fight she lost was against [[AGodAmI Mi]][[EnsembleDarkhorse ma]], [[WaveMotionGun Mar]][[CuteWitch isa]], [[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth Yuyuko]] and [[MasterSwordsman Youmu]], and she had them on the ropes at the end of the fight, with Marisa having to use multiple [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Dangerous Forbidden Techniques]] that almost burn her out. Say what you want about her character, but damn if Yuuka isn't awe-inspiringly powerful. Awesome doesn't have to be good, after all.

** Notable as well is Marisa's usage of [[WaveMotionGun "And The Sun Rises Red"]]. And Marisa's trick with the manually detonated spell cards. And that one time with the missile- aww screw it, just everything that [[CrazyAwesome Marisa]] does in that fight.

** Rin survives being impaled by [[ForgedByTheGods Gungnir]] [[NoKillLikeOverkill and dismembered by said divine spear]], getting back in the fight shortly afterwards.]] This freaks Yuuka out so much that she loses control over her stolen weapons.

** Rin survives being impaled by [[ForgedByTheGods Gungnir [[NoKillLikeOverkill and dismembered by said divine spear]], getting back in the fight shortly afterwards.]] This freaks Yuuka out so much that she loses control over her stolen weapons.

*** Makes more sense when you consider that [[AdaptiveAbility Rin grows more resistant the longer she's exposed to something [[FridgeLogic and she's had the Shadow Youkai, whose powers are functionally the same as Mordite, in her since the beginning of the story.]]]]

* On a side note: Utsuho not only stays in the mansion during all of this to try and find Satori, but manages to do so despite the fact that the building is full of Yuuka's plants, all of which try to kill her, and how [[PersonOfMassDestruction Rin and [[EldritchAbomination Yuuka]] are throwing down in the same building.]]

** Finally, the very fact that Yukari managed to essentially MindRape an [[spoiler: [[EldritchAbomination Old God]]]].
** How about the fact that Yuuka Kazami manages to, in what was supposed to be a one-on-one duel until Yukari cheated, laughingly curbstomp [[WindsOfDestinyChange Remilia]], [[PersonOfMassDestruction Flandre]], [[TimeStandsStill Sakuya]], [[KillItWithFire Orin]], [[MindOverMatter Satori]] and [[ILoveNuclearPower Utsuho]] using only a fraction of her power. She then goes on to bring three quaters of her power to bear against PhysicalGod [[RealityWarper Yukari]] and manages to put her out of comission so badly that she's been unable to take any real action for seven chapters. The only fight she lost was against [[AGodAmI Mi]][[EnsembleDarkhorse ma]], [[WaveMotionGun Mar]][[CuteWitch isa]], [[ButterflyOfDeathAndRebirth Yuyuko]] and [[MasterSwordsman Youmu]], and she had them on the ropes at the end of the fight, with Marisa having to use multiple [[DangerousForbiddenTechnique Dangerous Forbidden Techniques]] that almost burn her out. Say what you want about her character, but damn if Yuuka isn't awe-inspiringly powerful. Awesome doesn't have to be good, after all.
* [[SpiderTank The Strutter]] vs [[HumongousMecha The Hisoutensoku]].

* Chapter 42, [[spoiler: Reimu argues with Yukari over Rin Satsuki, and ''convinces her to give Rin a chance.'']]
* Chapter 57, [[spoiler: my goodness. Yuuka challenges Marisa to a duel over Marisa managing to escape unscathed in The Storm chapters. Marisa forces Yuuka to break promises and break the rules she herself agreed to. And still wins. Except, Marisa decides that killing Yuuka would damage her soul, and lets her go. This doesn't work out for the best.]]
* Chapter 66, [[spoiler: After being smacked around by Yuuka the entire fight thus far and unable to do anything but run, Rin turns the tables in a truly epic fashion after [[FusionDance absorbing Flandre]] (at her request). This gives her such an immense boost in power that Yuuka goes from effortlessly blocking Rin's attacks with one hand to lying in the rubble of a wall with a shattered arm and wondering what just happened.]]
* Chapter 67, [[spoiler: Rin makes very good use of Flandre's [[SelfDuplication Taboo: Four of a Kind]], laying a magical and physical beatdown on Yuuka that leaves the latter spitting up blood.]]
** How do you deal with [[spoiler: a fragment of an Outer God that has just abandoned it's human form and become a formless mass of darkness?]] [[spoiler: If you're Rin, incinerate it with [[KillItWithFire phoenix fire.]]]]
** [[spoiler: How does Yuuka counter Rin's clones?]] [[spoiler: Make some of her own.]]
** [[spoiler: Rin survives being impaled by [[ForgedByTheGods Gungnir]] [[NoKillLikeOverkill and dismembered by said divine spear]], getting back in the fight shortly afterwards.]] [[spoiler: This freaks Yuuka out so much that she loses control over her stolen weapons.]]
* Chapter 68, [[spoiler: Rin reenacts a game of whack-a-mole [[GrievousHarmWithABody with Yuuka as the hammer.]]]] Doubles as a CMOF
** Adding on to Rin's already ridiculous list of survival feats: [[spoiler: she gets stabbed by the [[ArtifactOFDoom mordite knife]] that Marisa used against Yuuka and manages to not only survive, but recover and resume fighting immediately afterwards.]] [[spoiler: Something that Yuuka herself, a fragment of an outer god, very explicitly could not have done.]] Even [[spoiler: [[FallenAngel Shinki]] is stated to need a couple weeks to recover after a similar wound and is unable to even move after the injury.]]
*** Makes more sense when you consider that [[spoiler:[[AdaptiveAbility Rin grows more resistant the longer she's exposed to something]] [[FridgeLogic and she's had the Shadow Youkai, whose powers are functionally the same as Mordite, in her since the beginning of the story.]]]]
** [[spoiler: Yuuka takes advantage of the pain the knife causes and invades Rin and Flandre's minds, trying to break them with their worst fears, only to spill the beans about Marisa's death and [[UnstoppableRage piss off Flandre]] enough that she breaks the illusions, grows to giant size, and together with Rin throws Yuuka right out of their head.]] [[spoiler: Made better by Yuuka perceiving it as them throwing her out of the spotlight and shattering her delusions of main-characterhood.]] [[spoiler: This was also where the above example comes from: despite having been stabbed with the knife immediately before the attempted [[MindRape mindrape]], there's no damage after Rin and Flandre kick Yuuka out.]]
** And finally, [[spoiler: Rin crushes Yuuka's [[ShatterpointTap Eye]], reducing her body to dust.]] [[spoiler: Though Yuuka survives this, she's left with two fragments of her remaining, each only a sixteenth of her power, both reduced to emaciated husks, and both the prisoner of someone who they looked down on (Yukari and Mima). To top it all off, she can still hear the readers laughing at her defeat and is so broken that she can only laugh with them.]] Rin doesn't just beat [[spoiler: Yuuka]], she utterly destroys her.
* On a side note: [[spoiler: Utsuho not only stays in the mansion during all of this to try and find Satori, but manages to do so despite the fact that the building is full of Yuuka's plants, all of which try to kill her, and how [[PersonOfMassDestruction Rin]] and [[EldritchAbomination Yuuka]] are throwing down in the same building.]]

* The friggin' [[spoiler:[[{{VideoGame/Starcraft}} Zerg]]]] make a cameo appearance. It's every bit as awesome as it sounds.
* Kaguya's (imaginary) second trial in the Lunar court. [[spoiler:The way she utterly ''demolishes'' her arrogant and homophobic father is a ''absolutely spectacular''.]]
* Also, a few chapters later, [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/StarcraftII Kerrigan herself]] appears for a scene, as the embodiment of Kaguya's subconscious]]. Oh, Kaguya. Never change.
* Mokou sticking it to the [[spoiler:avatar of the Angel of Death]] herself, telling her that she ''can't'' die, and her puny [[spoiler:angel of death]] powers don't change that. [[spoiler:Yagami]]'s reaction is a complete FreakOut, and the ''first'' time in the story when we see her genuinely shocked and afraid.

** Adding on to Rin's already ridiculous list of survival feats: [[spoiler: she gets stabbed by the [[ArtifactOFDoom mordite knife]] that Marisa used against Yuuka and manages to not only survive, but recover and resume fighting immediately afterwards.]] [[spoiler: Something that Yuuka herself, a fragment of an outer god, very explicitly could not have done.]] Even [[spoiler: [[FallenAngel Shinki]] is stated to need a couple weeks to recover after a similar wound and is unable to even move after the injury.]] [[spoiler: In other words, Rin is quite possibly the toughest (read: most durable) character in the story given that Shinki is on par with [[TheDreaded Aza]][[TheGrimReaper zel]], who is so dangerous that Yukari considers his avatar the biggest threat even with the likes of [[EldritchAbomination Yuuka]], [[EvilSorcerer Mima]], and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Rin]] running around.]]
*** Makes more sense when you consider that [[spoiler:[[AdaptiveAbility Rin grows more resistant the longer she's exposed to something]] [[FridgeLogic and she's had the Shadow Youkai, whose powers are basically the same as Mordite, in her since the beginning of the story.]]]]

* Chapter 66, [[spoiler: After being smacked around by Yuuka the entire fight thus far and unable to do anything but run, Rin turns the tables in a truly epic fashion after [[FusionDance absorbing Flandre]] (at her request). This gives her such an immense boost in power that Yuuka goes from effortlessly blocking Rin's attacks with one hand to lying in the rubble of a broken wall with a shattered arm and wondering what just happened.]]

** [[spoiler: Yuuka takes advantage of the pain the knife causes and invades Rin and Flandre's minds, trying to break them with their worst fears, only to spill the beans about Marisa's death and [[UnstoppableRage piss off Flandre]] enough that she breaks the illusions, grows to giant size, and together with Rin throws Yuuka right out of their head.]] [[spoiler: Made better by Yuuka perceiving it as them throwing her out of the spotlight and shattering her delusions of main-characterhood.]] [[spoiler: This was also where the above example comes from: despite having been stabbed with the knife immediately before the attempted [[MindRape mindrape]], there is no damage after Rin and Flandre kick Yuuka out.]]

* Chapter 21, when Byakuren gives [[JerkassGods Ka]][[CorruptCorporateExecutive na]][[KarmaHoudini ko]] a very much needed WhatTheHellHero for causing the events of Subterranean Animism. Doubles, after, as a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming when Kanako talks with Sanae, since it shows that while Kanako is jaded, rash and selfish, she has a heart, and she's capable of doing good.

*** Makes more sense when you consider that [[spoiler:[[FridgeLogic Rin grows more resistant the longer she's exposed to something and she's had the Shadow Youkai, whose powers are basically the same as Mordite, in her since the beginning of the story.]]]]

* Chapter 66, [[spoiler: After being smacked around by Yuuka the entire fight thus far and unable to do anything but run, Rin turns the tables in a truly epic fashion after [[FusionDance absorbing Flandre]] (at her request). This gives her such an immense boost in power that Yuuka goes from effortlessly blocking Rin's attacks with one hand to lying in the rubble of a broken wall and wondering what just happened.]]

** Adding on to Rin's already ridiculous list of survival feats: [[spoiler: she gets stabbed by the [[ArtifactOFDoom mordite knife]] that Marisa used against Yuuka and manages to not only survive, but recover and resume fighting immediately afterwards.]] [[spoiler: Something that Yuuka herself, a fragment of an outer god, very explicitly could not have done.]] Even [[spoiler: [[FallenAngel Shinki]] is stated to need a couple weeks to recover after a similar wound and is unable to even move after the injury.]] [[spoiler: In other words, Rin is quite possibly the toughest (read: most durable) character in the story given that Shinki is on par with [[TheDreaded Aza]][[AngelOfDeath zel]], who is so dangerous that Yukari considers his avatar the biggest threat even with the likes of [[EldritchAbomination Yuuka]], [[EvilSorcerer Mima]], and [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Rin]] running around.]]

** [[spoiler: Yuuka takes advantage of the pain the knife causes and invades Rin and Flandre's minds, trying to break them with their worst fears, only to spill the beans about Marisa's death and [[UnstoppableRage piss off Flandre]] enough that she breaks the illusions, grows to giant size, and together with Rin throws Yuuka right out of their head.]] [[spoiler: Made better by Yuuka perceiving it as them throwing her out of the spotlight and shattering her delusions of main-characterhood.]] [[spoiler: This was also where the above example comes from. Despite having been stabbed with the knife immediately before the attempted [[MindRape mindrape]], there is no damage after Rin and Flandre kick Yuuka out.]]

** [[spoiler: Yuuka takes advantage of the pain the knife causes and invades Rin and Flandre's minds, trying to break them with their worst fears, only to spill the beans about Marisa's death and [[UnstoppableRage piss off Flandre]] enough that she breaks the illusions, grows to giant size, and together with Rin throws Yuuka right out of their head.]] [[spoiler: Made better by Yuuka perceiving it as them throwing her out of the spotlight and shattering her delusions of main-character-hood.]] [[spoiler: This was also where the above example comes from. Despite having been stabbed with the knife immediately before the attempted [[MindRape mindrape]], there is no damage after Rin and Flandre kick Yuuka out.]]