Awesome / Miraculous Escalation

• Taylor using the Moth Brooch as it was intended:
  • Against Mama Mathers, she empowers a dying pastor as the Knight Of The Unbroken City, who in addition to sword, shield, and armor possesses the power to cut people off from Mama Mather's network. Better yet, he can empower others as knights, with the same ability.
  • Against Behemoth, she creates a champion who can transport people via bubbles. This champion evacuates the entire civilian population of L.A. (minus those who would rather take advantage of the chaos to loot the city) in minutes, then proceeds to medevac wounded heroes throughout the fight, keeping hero casualties under a dozen.
• Cat Noir using his Cataclysm to break Grey Boy loops.
• During the battle against the Fallen, Alya taps into the deeper powers of the Fox Miraculous to craft a song of inspiration, one that the entire city hears and that strengthens them to resist Mama Mathers' tortures - and she does it for hours, keeping up even when she begins to bleed from her eyes and suffers second- and third-degree burns.
• Right as the Fallen are about to overtake the defenders at Arcadia High, Nino wonders What is that buzz, and Regent starts laughing. Anyone familiar with Worm knows exactly who's about to arrive, and why she earned the Fan Nickname "the Queen of Escalation." Within seconds of Khepri's arrival, the Fallen attack is routed.
• Marinette has a plan to take down Mama Mathers, but she can't be sure it will work. So she calls Tagg, and tells him that her phone is about to go dark, that when it reappears she will be attempting her plan, and that if he doesn't hear from her within one minute the plan will have failed and he is to drop a missile bombardment on her location.
  • Her plan? Get up close to Mama with her transformation up, and then de-transform with clothing wrapped around her head to prevent Mama from using her powers on her. Then? Punch Mama in the throat with brass knuckles on, leading to a choking death for Mama and Imp going to town on the rest of the Fallen present.
  Imp: Don't fuck with the Bay.
• As Mama Mathers is dying, Tikki decides to give her one last punishment: A vision of the true nature of the universe, of exactly how utterly insignificant the Endbringers and Mama Mathers herself truly are.
• Kagami fighting a demo match against Alexandria. Alexandria wins, but Kagami held her own for a full two minutes and Alexandria would have taken some serious injuries herself if it had been a true fight.
• Cat Noir uses his Cataclysm to permanently destroy the Butcher shard, while leaving the latest Butcher alive to stand trial.
• Taylor's first move when the final battle against Scion begins? Akumatize the Endbringers. All of Them.
  • During her mental conversation with the Endbringers, Taylor tries to access Nooroo's memories to show them what Plagg truly is. She gets a momentary flash... and just remembering Plagg's true form causes every living thing within fifty feet of her to die.
    • This ends up scaring the Endbringers so badly, after the battle with Scion is concluded they build a portal to an alternate, empty universe and leave, reasoning that while Entropy exists everywhere, they had no reason to stick around somewhere It had taken a personal and protective interest in the local population.

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