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The Magicians

  • Quentin and Alice acing the fourth-year Ultimate Final Exam by walking to the South Pole. Naked. With only their magic to protect them. And out of the entire class of that year, they're the only students that actually earn Mayakovsky's respect.
    • Even more so in Alice's case, as she ended up refusing the bag of ingredients that would have allowed her to easily progress through the exam and instead improvised a spell that allowed her to shield her from the elements - a spell that would have fried her alive if she'd gotten it wrong. And she beat Quentin to the South Pole by two days. The Comic-Book Adaptation even provides a "No More Holding Back" Speech for her as she strides across the ice:
    Watch me burn, world. Step aside and watch me burn.
  • Janet surprising everyone by bringing a gun to Fillory and just shooting an opponent.
  • Josh conjuring up another Unrealistic Black Hole that effectively wipes out his opposition.
  • The final battle with the Beast - from the Beast managing to tank just about everything thrown at him, the Physical Kids teaming up to pelt him with magic, Quentin releasing his cacodemon with a shout of "say hello to my little friend!" and Alice going toe-to-toe with the Beast in a virtuoso display of all the magic she's learned in her studies - completely with Voluntary Shapeshifting, and a neat verbal skewering of her opponent's limitations in combat. Finally capped off with Alice managing a One-Winged Angel transformation that works by making herself into a Niffin and tearing the Beast apart.

The Magician King

  • Quentin finally getting to show off his hard-won magical power and take on an army of mooks, to the point that he's essentially untouchable in combat.
  • Poppy defying expectations and diving into battle with Nerves of Steel, prompting Quentin to speculate that she grew up fighting dingoes.
  • Julia saving Quentin from the afterlife and completing her transformation into a demigod, well and truly earning her happy ending in the process.

The Magician's Land

  • Janet taking on the Prince of the Mud with ice magic and humbling it on its own turf.
  • The heist mission goes horribly wrong when the group's prize is stolen by a mysterious third party on a flying carpet. Quentin asks Pushkar is there's anything in the area that can fly after them. Pushkar just looks around and remarks "yes." Next chapter, the entire Caper Crew leaves on a fleet of flying objects - two leather club chairs, a prayer rug, a penny farther, and a pool table - all enchanted in record time by Pushkar.
  • Betsy taking down Lionel when he tries to double-cross the crew, then setting off to make use of the god-killing knife - finally revealing her true identity with a single parting one-liner:
    The name's Asmodeus, bitches. And if you see Julia, tell her I've gone fox hunting.

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