Awesome / The King Nobody Wanted

• Pretty much everything Tytos Clegane does, nonstop. He escapes a Reach ambush, builds up a guerrilla army, saves a Damsel in Distress from five rapists, and even takes over one of the biggest castles in the Reach. And that's not even considering his backstory of killing a Ninepenny King during the final Blackfyre Rebellion and being Always Second Best to Barristan Selmy in a series of tourneys that includes a time the two settled a match by wrestling after Barristan lost his sword.
• Unlike his brother in the main timeline, Stannis does not pardon the murderers of Rhaeger's family and orders Gregor and Amory's arrests and executions (although Gregor escapes).
• Davos Seaworth sails to Braavos, gets an audience with a hostile Sealord, and nonetheless makes such an impressive speech about Stannis that he's given the resources to sail back home with enough ships to curb-stomp Lord Velaryon's blockade fleet.
• Jon Connington liberates Alliser Thorne and a lot of other Night Watch-bound prisoners, who then fight and trick their way past various guards and pursuers (with the Crabb brothers in particular getting some Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass moments) before many of them make it to Darry.
• After Tywin has to step down as Hand of the King and leave King's Landing, the common folk let him know exactly how they feel about this by playing "The Rains of Castamere" as he rides off.
• A slaver from Volantis interrupts the merchants of King's Landing during an important ceremony in order to regain some runaway slaves and ends up getting slugged, Covered in Gunge, and chased out of the room.
• Drogo's companion Glarus may seem like a foppish figure, but that impression rapidly changes the moment he encounters some men who robbed him in the past, cusses them out, and then wins the ensuring duel to the death within seconds.
• Janos, Tommen, and their peers petition for a city charter and a merchant militia to do the work that the Goldcloaks won't, and also unflinchingly call out the brutality and corruption of Baratheon allies like Tywin that have made them determined to get more than mere promises of a better future. Even Cersei feels chastised and thoughtful after they leave.
• Garth Tyrell casually tends his garden during a visit by Oberyn and Tyene, then, in a scene that is equally impressive and terrifying, shows them how every single plant in the garden is poisonous and that he has spent decades putting them to good use against the Reach's enemies without ever being suspected.
• Garth Tyrell calls Oswell for a private meeting, then abruptly punches him, reveals that he knows all of Oswell's dirty secrets, and gives him a vicious and fully accurate "The Reason You Suck" Speech about his failures as a Kingsguard.
• Mountain Clansman Blut's Not So Similar Shut Up, Hannibal! speech to Victorian.
  Blut: We are nothing alike, ironman. You demand more than your due, and glory in the taking of it. We ask only what we are owed as men. You are bullies and thieves and slavers. And like every slaver, you are at the bottom of you a slave. We are free men, and we hated for we demand to be treated as such.
• When the Ax-Crazy Aegon "Bloodborn" Frey threatens Janos and his son, Janos keeps his cool and gives Aegon a cold speech about all of the consequences he will deal with from the other merchants if he does anything stupid, making Aegon back down. Then, rather than ignore all of his concerns about the suspicious people gathering at the Frey-Rollingford wedding, Janos asks one of his friends, who is staying behind, to keep his eyes open for anything suspicious for the rest of the proceedings.
• Qohorik warrior Belthus is a walking moment of awesome who tells off Vargo Hoat for being such a monster and has had a song written about his exploits that one of his friends pays a musician to play as Belthus is about to get into another fight. The second that song makes Belthus's opponent realize who he's facing, he desperately apologizes and then flees the premises.
• After Ned makes an It's Probably Nothing comment about how the Smallfolk worry needlessly about the likelihood of a big battle, Impoverished Patrician Country Cousin Hendry Bracken silences him with a calm point about Wisdom from the Gutter.
  If you will not listen to your cobbler, be not surprised if your boots bloody your feet.
• Malora "The Mad Maid" Hightower is introduced by revealing that she is Obfuscating Insanity while conducting important meetings and being one of the shot callers for her house behind closed doors. She trash-talks Lord Tarly and his appointment as Hand, anticipates and denies a request to move the royal court to Oldtown, gives Garth Tyrell a What the Hell, Hero? rebuke for how his actions are prolonging the war and endangering the country, then pulls a Stealth Hi/Bye.