History Awesome / TheUnexpectables

* Although they don't really "win," per se, [[spoiler: their initial victory against Stillhavity, a demigod, forcing him to flee and lick his wounds]] is definitely a Crowning Moment.
** Doubly awesome is Panic ''flipping off'' [[spoiler: Stillhavity]] right as they cross into his domain, and living to tell the tale.
* In a crossover with SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}, [[spoiler: Panic, a Tiefling, convincing Helena, a cleric of the United Clergy Of Orun who was raised to see his race as utterly evil, that he and other dark-dwelling races are just as capable of good as sun-dwelling races are. He really ''can'' persuade just about anyone of just about anything, and bonus points for not having to raise his voice or trick her in any way; he just had an honest heart-to-heart with a person of differing beliefs and it ''worked''.]]
* After dreading it for two weeks, the drinking contest against Adric sees Panic pull off his greatest stunt possibly ''ever''; [[spoiler: Not only does he keep the mushroom down (allowing him to immediately succeed on a Crit 1) but Panic passes ''every single Constitution save'' against about twelve dwarves, plus Scarbles and Borky, winning him the drinking contest and a free stage! But that's not all, because as he's recovering from all the alcohol Panic finally meets Hammergnar (the aasimar of the dwarven god of alcohol), and ''successfully makes a pass at him and they both go to the Romansion for a drink and a talk!'']]
* The BigDamnHeroes moment by [[spoiler: Log]] after the Unexpectables get trapped by [[spoiler: Fleur de Mort]] was amazing, particularly because, since [[spoiler: Log is a non-living construct,]] the villain literally couldn't see it coming.
** The method used for the rescue veers into SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome territory: [[spoiler: Log summons a Celestial that is literally made of chainsaws, which then tears into the forest with abandon. Fleur du Mort gets a counter-awesome by eventually tearing said Celestial to shreds]].

* Credit where it's due; [[spoiler: For such a seemingly meek, sweet, and perennial DamselInDistress that Willow is, the reveal of her backstory turns her into a CouchingMoronHiddenBadass on an ''international'' scale, since she's the one the orchestrated the finding of the Silver King by Eltmur soldiers. This caused a domino chain of events that led to the death of the entire Eltmur royal family save herself (oh, she's ''also'' the Crown Princess of Eltmur) and the Silver King ascending to its throne. One meek girl who wanted to learn magic managed to topple a regime that had held power for centuries and manipulated a goddamn ''[[PhysicalGod Ancient Silver Dragon]]'' like it was nothing and got away with it essentially scot-free. Hell hath no fury, indeed.]]

* The party's investigation of the Romansion yields some pretty awesome moments, namely Panic rolling a nat 20 on an Investigation check to find [[spoiler:a hidden scrying spell inside one of the rooms that had been attached to an individual thorn on a rose held in an inconspicuous shrine in the corner of the room]] and Kay using Tenser's Floating Disk to great effect by using it to stop up a natural spring in the baths allowing the party to [[spoiler:follow the trail of an escort's apparent murderer.]] Though the latter was Monty invoking RuleOfCool.

* Willow [[spoiler: reminds us that she's royalty, as well as a master strategist by taking charge of the yugoloth situation. She commands the party to calm down when they're panicking, and manages to figure out most of the yugoloth's plan/motivations.]]

* Remy's gets the killing blow on the Arcanaloth. As he raises his sword to finish it, [[spoiler: the spectral form of Stendin appears behind him like he was Remy's [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Stand]], and they both thrust their swords down into the Arcanaloth's chest.]] It lets out a dying howl as it turns into a shriveled corpse, [[spoiler: finally avenging Stendin's death.]]

* Meta example: As a relative newbie to D&D introduced halfway through a very dense arc that was supposed to be one of the main character's big moment, Shenpai was fighting an uphill battle the moment she was added as a guest star. Despite all that though her decisions while playing Obby has led to the little construct being so loved by the community that it can be argued that he ended up overshadowing ''Task'' despite this being his personal big arc.
* A villainous example when it comes to Icarus's plans to [[spoiler: find the holders of the god fragments.]] which involves pulling out a weapon ''during a peace meeting'' counting on the fact that this would cause everyone in the council to pull out their weapons..... including [[spoiler: Task and Panic's porcelain weapons.]] This lets the UCO immediately identify their true targets and, if it wasn't for [[VillainousRescue Tiengo]], take them down by the end of the day.

* Seika manages to get a moment of awesome against [[spoiler: the myrmidon captain in the Elemental Plane of Air]]. The group is already fighting on the back of a roc, which is a giant predatory bird, and they need to periodically adjust their position as the roc dodges around obstacles. However, it's how Seika decides to end the battle that clinches him a Moment of Awesome: he kicks the last remaining enemy off of the roc's neck into an adjacent space, just in time for the enemy to slam into a tower of glass. It's particularly cathartic since Seika got two natural 1's in a row earlier in the same combat.

** The method used for the rescue veers into CrazyAwesome: [[spoiler: Log summons a Celestial that is literally made of chainsaws, which then tears into the forest with abandon. Fleur du Mort gets a counter-awesome by eventually tearing said Celestial to shreds]].

* In the final battle against Darkus, while the narrative is focused on Task, Obby continues to dominate combat by being CrazyAwesome, starting with successfully ''{{geas}}ing a dragon.'' He then goes on to outperform said dragon in fighting so completely that it converts to worshiping Oreyara instead of Insdroc.

* During one of the festivals Borky ends up in a tournament fight against Quarion who's probably the worst opponent he could ever fight thanks to [[AdaptationalBadass Monty's interpretation of sneak attack]] allowing him to bypass Borky's rage resistances and his status as an inquisitive rouge giving him constant access to advantage rolls (and by extension sneak attack) what proceeds to happen is the most technical fight Borky's ever fought in as he utilizes almost all of his abilities to counter Quarion's own in a back and forth fight that ends with Borky winning by the skin of his teeth. [[SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration It was so good that Borky got an inflated prize thanks to how cool the fight was.]]

* A villainous example when it comes to Icarus's plans to [[spoiler: find the holders of the god fragments.]] which involves pulling out a weapon ''during a peace meeting'' counting on the fact that this would cause everyone in the council to pull out their weapons..... including [[spoiler: Task and Panic's porcelain weapons.]] This lets the UCO immediately identify their true targets and, if it wasn't for [[VillainousRescue Tiengo]], take them down by the end of the day.

* A villainous example when it comes to Icarus's plans to [[spoiler: find the holders of the god fragments.]] which involves pulling out a weapon ''during a peace meeting'' counting on the fact that this would cause everyone in the council to pull out their weapons..... including [[spoiler: Task and Panic's porcelain weapons.]] This lets the UCO immediately identify their true targets and if it wasn't for [[VillainousRescue Tiengo]] take them down by the end of the day.

* In the final battle against Darkus, while the narrative is focused on Task, Obby continues to dominate combat by being CrazyAwesome, starting with successfully ''{{geas}}ing a dragon.'' He then goes on to outperform said dragon in fighting so completely that it converts to worshiping Oreyara instead of Insdroc.

---> Taka: This is like watching a Dynasty Warriors character spam the Y attack.

* [[spoiler: Object 8 (AKA Obby) joined the party up at the top of the Mountain of Repetition. When they came down to the bottom, things went a little... awry with the initial negotiations, and things quickly turned heated, and the party soon became embroiled in a fight between all of them except Borky (who was preoccupied duelling the warlord of the Blood-axe tribe to prevent him from being able to send their forces up the mountain to raid the Silver Kobold tribe at the top) and the just over thirty warrior orcs that were following their warlord's orders. Those fire puns became quite literal, as Obby used their Forge Domain Cleric spells to quite literally pull a Thanos, burning through at least sixteen of the enemy combatants in just three separate attacks.]]

* [[spoiler: Object 8 (AKA Obby) joined the party up at the top of the Mountain of Repetition. When they came down to the bottom, things went a little... awry with the initial negotiations, and things quickly turned heated, and the party soon became embroiled in a fight between all of them except Borky (who was preoccupied duelling the warlord of the Blood-axe tribe to prevent him from being able to send their forces up the mountain to raid the Silver Kobold tribe at the top) and the just over thirty warrior orcs that were following their warlord's orders. Those fire puns became quite literal, as Obby used their AoE Forge Domain Cleric spells to quite literally pull a Thanos, burning through at least sixteen of the enemy combatants in just three separate attacks.]]

** Task, Remy, and Remy's griffon brigade dogfight an ancient white dragon, and send it crashing into a building, ripping off its wing.

** Greckles runs into a cult leader, and kills it in a swordfight on top of a dragon.

** Panic noticing that the dragons yield when they take enough damage uses his mantle of devilry to command the eldest son to yield, which makes the rest of the Silver King's kids surrender as well.

* After dreading it for two weeks, the drinking contest against Adric sees Panic pull off his greatest stunt possibly ''ever''; [[spoiler: Not only does he keep the mushroom down (allowing him to immediately succeed on a Crit 1) but Panic passes ''every single Constitution save'' against about twelve dwarves, plus Scarbles and Borky, winning him the drinking contest and a free stage! But that's not all, because as he's recovering from all the alcohol Panic finally meets Hammernar (the aasimar of the dwarven god of alcohol), and ''successfully makes a pass at him and they both go to the Romansion for a drink and a talk!'']]

* Remy's gets the killing blow on the Arcanaloth. As he raises his sword to finish it, [[spoiler: the spectral form of Stendin appears behind him like he was Remy's [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Stand]], and they both thrust their swords down into the Arcanaloth's chest.]] It lets out a dying howl as it turns into a shriveled corpse, [[spoiler: finally avenging Stendin's death.]]

* Remy's gets the killing blow on the Arcanaloth. As he raises his sword to finish it, [[spoiler: the spectral form of Stendin appears behind him like he was Remy's [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Stand]], and they both thrust their swords down into the Arcanaloth's chest.]] It let's out a dying howl as it turns into a shriveled corpse, [[spoiler: finally avenging Stendin's death.]]

* Remy's gets the killing blow on the Arcanaloth. As he raises his sword to finish it, [[spoiler: the spectral form of Stendin appears behind him like he was Remy's Stand, and they both thrust their swords down into the Arcanaloth's chest.]] It let's out a dying howl as it turns into a shriveled corpse, [[spoiler: finally avenging Stendin's death.]]

* Despite being severely underleveled for the fight, Kay manages to hold her own against the arcanoloth far better than anyone expected, including managing to counterspell a ''Finger of Death.''

** The Nycaloth is flying just out of reach, so Remy uses his shield to launch Greckles into the air. Greckles uses his holy water-coated Sunblade to slash it in the face and deal the killing blow, saving Kay from it as well.

* Borky nat20s on a Glabrezu, activating Ranfault's banishment ability. However, because the demons can no longer return to their plane of existence, it ends up getting ripped between dimensions and exploding from the sheer force of it all.

** Even though Kay is taken hostage by the Nycaloth, she manages to [[DefiantDamsel fight back]] with Shocking Grasp and by biting it's hand when it goes for a claw attack.

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