Awesome / Vampire: The Masquerade (Vault)

• Issue 1:
  • A group of Hunters annihilates a group of Nosferatu despite confronting them at night in their sewers. Indeed, they managed to get the drop on them, which is almost impossible for the Sewer Rats.
• Issue 3:
  • Cecily manages to single-handedly take down a bunch of supernaturally empowered hunters with the Wolves in Sheeps' Clothing. Despite the fact they've destroyed multiple vampires and captured another, she manages to destroy them all single-handed.
  • King Rat manages to cling to the back of a speeding Hunters' truck, free his fellow Anarchs, and save them. Big Damn Heroes indeed.
• Issue 5:
  • Cecily Bain shows just how dangerous a "dirty boot" she is by going after a pair of Anarch assassins there to collect a bounty on her head. She goes after one of them, Ms. Trinket, by impaling her with a golf club then taking the next Anarch, Lil Shiv before leaving him for the sun while in the shadow of a van. From there, she promptly uses tricks as well as attacks to get to the Prince to negotiate her freedom.
  • One particularly notable incident has her use a dummy inside her van, loaded with explosives, and a sniper rifle to destroy another group of vampires hunting her.
  • Cecily also lures a pair of vampires down into the sewers and proceeds to set them on fire with an incendiary trap then flushes them down the sewer system to the coastline.
  • Calder shows that he's a bigger genius than he seemed and not just a Smug Snake by revealing he's responsible for the Prince's death, he spread all the rumors about elements wanting to split the Twin Cities in two.
    "Always blame your enemies for what you want to do. I learned that from the Nazis. Also, the Republicans."
    • Unfortunately, it takes Cecily pointing out he's missed someone he planned to frame, Erin Runningbear, was actually really intending to betray him. He persuades her to spare both Cecily, her childe, and Erin to make himself Prince of both cities instead of just Saint Paul.
• Issue 6:
  • A random mortal gets one when he sees a Hunter attack Cecily and he tries to film it with his cellphone camera to turn over to the police (because he believes it's an innocent woman being mugged).
  • The revelation that Mitch is a veteran of the war against the Sabbat in 1999. Given what a screw up he is, the discovery he's stood against the Sword of Caine is shocking.
• Issue 7:
  • Ali manipulates Calder to help her rescue Cecily's nurse and they end up rescuing a child instead. Subverted when Calder orders her to kill the child after forcing Ali to Mercy Kill Cecily's nurse. Ali manages to save their life, though, and the child proceeds to kill a Primogen in retaliation because Calder is a Horrible Judge of Character.
• Issue 8:
  • Ali proceeds to backstab Cecily after managing to convince the former Anarch of her innocence despite the fact that the latter knows Ali is actually a double agent working for the Mortrician's Army.
  • Ian Carfax proceeds to eviscerate a mortal with blood magic who fails to show sufficient respect to his fellow Tremere.
• Issue 9:
  • Ali proceeds to tear through an entire team of hunters herself.
• Issue 10:
  • Ian Carfax destroys the entire of the Moritician's Army at once, thus reminding people while he is the Justicar of Clan Tremere.
  • Ali successfully points out that Cecily is the only person who can unite the Twin Cities but to do that, she has to kill her.
  • Erin Runningbear managing to convince Calder Wendt, the person she hates the most and vice versa, to spare her life.
  • Cecily becoming Prince of the City and ruling over Merrain's court.

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