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Dylan doesn't believe in violence, but only in self-defence with martial arts.
  • After the opera concert was suddenly turned into a rock concert, Dylan singing his cover of "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks was pretty splendid. He even dances alongside Ermintrude since their share the same passion for music.
  • Mr. Rusty has his moment of awesome in the beginning when he tries to rescue Florence and the children who are on the Magic Roundabout, which was spinning rapidly out of control after Dougal accidentally crashed the sugar cart into it. He doesn't hesitate to jump onto the roundabout and tries to shut it down in the main controls.
    • Although he may have failed to stop the roundabout and getting trapped with Florence and the children when the roundabout freezes over, it was still awesome enough for Mr. Rusty, even for his age, to instantly come to the rescue as he cares more for the children's safety than the roundabout.
  • Brian immediately coming to Ermintrude's rescue when Zeebad pulls her by the tail to try and stop her from rescuing Dougal. He leaps in Zeebad's lair and bites Zeebad on the arm to make him let go. Though he faces Zeebad's fury by being grabbed by the scarf, he was instantly rescued by Dylan by pulling him to safety.
  • The battle between Zebedee and Zeebad, and even casting their respective beams of magic towards each other, until Zeebad defeats Zebedee and has him trapped in ice.
    • The moment when Dougal spots Zebedee trapped in ice, he and the gang don't hesitate to turn around and try and rescue him from Zeebad.
  • Brian standing up to Zeebad and defending Dylan when he demands Dylan to give him the map. Brian doesn't back down from Zeebad's wrath until Ermintrude steps in to defend Brian before giving the map to Zeebad just to get him out of the gang's hair.
  • Upon encountering the booby traps in the temple's entrance, Brian decides to go in first, unknowingly setting off all the booby traps. Despite this, he gets through unscathed. That is, when a large rock falls, seemingly crushing him, to everyone's shock. But it turns out that the rock landed in front of him as he came out from behind unharmed. Ermintrude's response about Brian going through the booby traps completely unharmed?
    Ermintrude: I never thought I'd say it, but... what a snail!
  • Dylan going into full badass mode with different forms of martial arts to take down the gang of ferocious skeletons who burst into the temple (due to Dougal accidentally tripping the laser beams with his gobstopper), and even succeed without even dosing off one bit.
    Ermintrude: I don't suppose anyone knows anything about martial arts.
    Dylan: Just the basics of, like, kung fu, karate, judo, kendo, tae kwon do, anything-you-can-do and... tai chi.
    Dougal: Ooh, do they come with egg-fried rice?
    Brian: Dylan, can you beat them up?
    Dylan: Sorry, I don't believe in violence. (He grabs a skeleton who tries to attack from behind and hurls him to a column, shattering him into pieces upon impact) Except in self-defence.
    • Ermintrude herself also helps Dylan out by tapping on one skeleton's shoulder where he was going to attack Dylan from behind and whacks her hoof into the skeleton's skull, sending him flying and shattering into pieces.
    Ermintrude: I'm not just another pretty face!
  • Dougal managing to defeat the combined skeleton in the temple by pressing a button on the throne which activates the trapdoor below the skeleton, causing him to fall through into the mines.
    Ermintrude: That was quick thinking, Dougal.
    Dougal: Yeah, well, if you keep your cool and don't run around like a headless chicken.
    • He activates the trapdoor again under Ermintrude's command to get rid of Zeebad and Solider Sam when they are advancing on the gang after Zeebad took the second diamond and demanding the whereabouts of the third diamond.
  • The usually laidback Dylan snapping (or as Media Hunter puts it, "breaking out of hippie mode") long enough to throw a snowball at Zeebad, which then leads into the final battle.
    Dylan: This guy... is SERIOUSLY... MESSING... with my... KARMA!! Eat THIS, you jumped-up jack-in-the-box! (UK dub) / This guy... is seriously... messing with... the wrong... BUNNY!! Eat this, you twisted jack-in-the-box FREAK! (US dub)
  • Bill Nighy voicing Dylan in the UK dub is awesome in general, as he really makes him one of the best characters in the movie.
  • Soldier Sam turning against Zeebad for leaving him for dead, and attempting to attack him. He fails, but kudos for trying.
  • Ermintrude using her singing at a high note to shatter most of the ice on the frozen roundabout under Dougal and Brian's request after the former discovered the way to free the children upon seeing a crack forming in the ice as a result of Ermintrude screaming loudly when Zeebad zaps her tail.
  • The final battle where the gang outsmart Zeebad by stealing back the two diamonds and place them in their respective slots.
    • When Zeebad has got hold of the third diamond once again and is about to reclaim his victory, Dylan tries to use the magic box, but it fails. Just as Zeebad is ready to secure his victory while mocking him on how Zebedee's toys won't save them now, Train suddenly shows up just in time and runs Zeebad over from behind, knocking the diamond free from his grasp, giving Dougal the chance to defeat the ice wizard once and for all.
    • Dougal bravely going after the third diamond as it flies in the air whilst dodging Zeebad's attacks, all in slow motion. He then leaps in the air and uses his head to knock the third diamond into its slot, activating its magic from the roundabout as they thaw the world and the sun back to normal whilst dragging Zeebad, who's trying to escape, back into his prison through the roundabout.
    Dougal: I'll get it! I got us into this mess and I'll get us out!
    • Even after spending the film being a bit of a Lazy Bum and did screw up a few times which caused Zeebad to go further ahead with his evil plan, Dougal nevertheless courageously goes after the diamond himself, wanting to re-imprison Zeebad to reverse everything that he caused after accidentally releasing him.

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