History Awesome / MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy

* Elend, upon realizing the true depths of his father's depravity, his short-sighted pettiness, and how there is no way to negotiate with him, [[CallingTheOldManOut verbally tears into Straff,]] and keeps going even as Straff summons his soldiers to kill him.
--> '''Elend:''' "You are a pig, Father. A sick, disgusting man. You thought you were a brilliant leader, but you were barely competent. You nearly got our house destroyed—only the Lord Ruler's own death saved you! You may take Luthadel, but you'll lose it! I may have been a bad king, but you'll be a terrible one. The Lord Ruler was a tyrant, but he was also a genius. You're neither. You're just a selfish man who'll use up his resources, then end up dead from a knife in the back."
** What follows next is even better: Elend laughs in Straff's face for thinking he could possibly overpower and control Vin, and how she could slaughter him with ease. Then Vin--who had been waiting outside of the tent during the discussion--uses a huge burst of duralumin-boosted soothing to completely engulf and crushes Straff's emotions, leaving him near-catatonic until she stops.

** What follows next is even better: Elend laughs in Straff's face for thinking he could possibly overpower and control Vin, and then Vin--who had been waiting outside of the tent during the discussion--uses a huge burst of duralumin-boosted soothing to completely engulf and crushes Straff's emotion, leaving him near-catatonic until she stops.

* Elend, upon realizing the true depths of his father's depravity, his short-sightedness and how there is no way to negotiate with him, [[CallingTheOldManOut verbally tears into Straff,]] and keeps going even as Straff summons his soldiers to kill him.
--> '''Elend:''' "You are a pig, Father. A sick, disgusting man. You thought you were a brilliant leader, but you were barely competent. You nearly got our house destroyed—only the Lord Ruler's own death saved you! You may take Luthadel, but you'll lose it! I may have been a bad king, but you'll be a terrible one. The Lord Ruler was a tyrant, but he was also a genius. You're neither. You're just a selfish man who'll use up his resources, then end up dead from a knife in the back."

* Kelsier taking on a [[ImplacableMan Steel Inquisitor]], which have been built up as extremely deadly threats, in a seemingly hopeless fight to buy time for [[spoiler:the escaping prisoners]] in one of the most intricate and detailed fight scenes in the book. He wins.
* The Lord Ruler bitch-slapping [[spoiler:Kelsier]] so hard his face is left almost unrecognizable.
** Hell, this whole scene. Especially [[spoiler: Kelsier's]] last words to the Lord Ruler: "[[BadassBoast I am the one thing you cannot kill. I am hope.]]" And then the Lord Ruler slaps him so hard that his head explodes into a [[PinkMist red mist.]] Bonus points for pulling a massive ThanatosGambit, too.
** The IronicEcho, when Vin reuses Kelsier's [[spoiler:last words]] just before [[spoiler:killing the Lord Ruler]].
* Vin [[spoiler:rushing from the ball to stop Elend's assassination in the first book]], taking on two Mistborn and a few other Allomancers at once.
** Doubly awesome when she goes one-on-one with one of the Mistborn [[spoiler: Shan Elariel]], tricks her into thinking she's run out of atium, then turns it back on at the last second, grabs an arrow and shoves it into her chest.

* Vin managing to [[spoiler: use Allomancy on the Lord Rulers' armbands, despite them piercing his arm]], something until then ''everyone'' considered to be impossible.

* Vin manages to take out [[spoiler:four Inquisitors with only her Mistborn powers before getting overwhelmed.]]
* Marsh finally throwing off Ruin's influence enough to [[spoiler: take the earring out of Vin's ear]].
** This is then topped by the ensuing beatdown, including the total '''flattening''' of Kedrik Shaw. This is after firing off a Steelpush so powerful that it [[spoiler: launches her ''over the stormclouds'' to give her an unimpeded view of the night sky.]] To elaborate, Vin fights twelve [[ImplacableMan Inquisitors]] and kills them all.

* The culmination of Preservation's entire plan. Preservation, by his nature, could never attack Ruin. [[spoiler: But a human ''can'', and Vin does when Elend is killed.]]
-->'''[[spoiler: Vin]]''': ''You created the thing that can kill you, Ruin. And you just made one huge final mistake. You shouldn't have killed [[spoiler: Elend]]. [[TakingYouWithMe You see, he was the only reason I had left to live.]]''

*** And this while [[spoiler: his senses were so sharp he couldn't be in light without a blind fold.]]
** Hell, Spook is pretty much a walking CMOA all through ''Hero of Ages.'' He basically becomes a High Fantasy ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}, waging a vigilante war on The Citizen, then takes control of inciting a rebellion, and finally [[spoiler: overcomes and removes Ruin's influence on both him and The Citizen, and manages to repair most of the damage his own revolt caused, immediately before the world pretty much literally ends.]]

* When Elend gets desperate and runs out of ideas, he goes and [[spoiler: takes control of almost ''thirty-thousand'' koloss in preparation to destroy the city that holds his wife captive.]] Complications ensue and it ends up more or less backfiring on him toward the end, but ''still''.

* The {{Reveal}} that [[spoiler:Sazed is the Hero of Ages, and that he literally holds the fate of the world on his arms.]] Those religions that no one thought were relevant and Sazed himself ended up dismissing throughout the last book? [[spoiler:They're the ones that save the world through their collected knowledge of its original position, geography, flora and fauna, etc.]]

** The IronicEcho, when Vin reuses Kelsier's [[spoiler:FamousLastWords]] just before [[spoiler:killing the Lord Ruler]].

** Hell, Spook is pretty much a walking CMOA all through ''Hero of Ages.'' He basically becomes a High Fantasy ComicBooks/{{Daredevil}}, waging a vigilante war on The Citizen, then takes control of inciting a rebellion, and finally [[spoiler: overcomes and removes Ruin's influence on both him and The Citizen, and manages to repair most of the damage his own revolt caused, immediately before the world pretty much literally ends.]]

** Hell, Spook is pretty much a walking CMOA all through ''Hero of Ages.'' He basically becomes a High Fantasy {{ComicBooks/Daredevil}}, waging a vigilante war on The Citizen, then takes control of inciting a rebellion, and finally [[spoiler: overcomes and removes Ruin's influence on both him and The Citizen, and manages to repair most of the damage his own revolt caused, immediately before the world pretty much literally ends.]]

* The {{Reveal}} that [[spoiler:Sazed is the Hero of Ages, and that he literally holds the fate of the world on his arms.]] Those religions that no one thought were relevant and Sazed himself ended up dismissing throughout the last book? [[spoiler:They're the ones that save the world through their collected knowledge of its original position, geography, etc.]]