Awesome / Witches Abroad

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• The scene that proved that despite having plenty of raw power, it's her grasp of headology that makes Granny Weatherwax really dangerous:
  Granny Weatherwax: Are you watching, Mrs Gogol? Are you watching real close?
  • In short: Gogol threatens Granny with a Voodoo Doll of her, and Granny responds by shoving her arm in a brazier, causing the doll to burst into flames, while she's unhurt.
    Granny: That's headology. It's the only thing that matters. Everything else is just messin' about.
  • When Saturday protests that he wanted revenge on Lilith, Mrs Gogol says that there will be revenge, and underlines just how impressive the above was.
    Mrs Gogol: Lilith has been fighting me for twelve years and she never got through.
    This one didn’t even have to sweat.
• Granny and Lilith are imprisoned in Lilith's mirrors. Lilith faces exactly the same choice as Granny does below. "She ran on through the endless reflections." But Granny has a better grip on her identity:
  Granny Weatherwax: Where am I?
  Death: Inside the mirror...
  Granny Weatherwax: When can I get out?
  Death: When you find the one that's real.
  Granny Weatherwax: Is this a trick question?
  Death: No.
  Granny Weatherwax: This one. [points to herself]
• Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.
  • Also, Greebo scaring the living crap out of the "mousie" and the transformed horses.
• Granny reveals the root of her entire sinister, rude, bullying, pessimistic, disdainful personality in one sentence to Lily: "When you left, I had to be the good one."
• After Nanny lost the rest of their money and her broomstick, Granny went to go get it back with interest.
• Human Greebo. Need I say more? He stops a carriage by himself and later it’s revealed he still has his claws and is able to take on a bunch of guards all by himself!
• Magrat always gets an Awesome Moment per book - in this case, when she's apparently cornered by two malevolent women that are actually transfigured snakes.
  And the trouble with small furry animals in a corner is that, just occasionally, one of them’s a mongoose.
• Magrat at the ball is awesome for two reasons. First, Granny has hypnotized her to be full of confidence- and therefore Magrat Garlick, of all people, ends up being the haughty, charming belle of the day, flirting with all the men there and having them compete to fulfill her wishes. Second, despite Granny's considerable prowess in hypnosis, deep down there is piece of Magrat that remains true, and worries about standing between mirrors and giving herself away, and the moment the clock ticks twelve and the spell is lifted, she immediately recognizes the Duc for what he is and tries to run away.
• Witches, utterly drunk on absinthe, dealing with bulls charging on them. Granny gets up and smacks lead bull, Magrat pushes her way through the raging animals and gets the rosette from a bull's horns, and Nanny is laughing and stops Greebo from massacring any of the bulls. As a result the village held a flower festival next year, and no-one ever talked about the Thing with the Bulls ever, ever again. At least, not in front of the men.

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