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'''Annie''': Too late for compliments.

-->'''Abed''': ...Jeff and Britta made out while you were gone.

-->'''Abed''': What? You did it ''right in front of me''. I'm not a piece of furniture.

[[folder: Shirley]]

** Really, the whole season 3 finale is a crowning moment of awesome for Troy. First, he not only figured out how the Vice Dean of the AC repair school was murdered, but he then challenged the murderer to an air conditioning duel where the opponents were locked into the Sun Chamber. In separate chambers the two had to fix their own air conditioners while the temperature continued to gradually rise. During the duel, Troy acted completely calm even while the murderer was frantically trying to fix his own air conditioner. Troy then fixed his in less than thirty seconds and sat back while his opponent was slowly overcome by the heat. Finally, Troy fully embraced his role as the Truest Repairman and now seems to control the entire AC repair school which is incredible considering how much influence the AC repair school seems to hold (at least over Greendale).

** On a meta level, this is likely one of the only mainstream portrayals of Batman by a non-white actor, and he gets to be AWESOME.

!Meta
* One for the fans for getting Dan Harmon back for Season 5. Even if you liked Season 4, you had to have cheered.
* The fact that the Season 2 two-part paintball finale got Creator/TheRussoBrothers noticed by Creator/KevinFeige, which led to their involvement in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and eventually them helming ''[[Film/AvengersEndgame the highest grossing film of all time]]'' (without inflation).
* Also one to show how dedicated the fanbase was- after some ''abysmal'' ratings throughout the years and God knows how many times the show was nearly cancelled, ''Community'' lasted '''five whole seasons''' before NBC killed it. Raise a glass to that fanbase, fellow Tropers- never again shall we see a fandom so dedicated to their baby.
** And just to prove the show's invulnerability, [[https://tv.yahoo.com/blogs/tv-news/community-season-6-yahoo-204612640.html it was then picked up as an online series from Yahoo!]]
* There's just something so incredibly petulant & awesome that ([[ScrewedByTheNetwork albeit unintentionally]]) the last thing ''Community'' aired on NBC was a TakeThat to the network's habit of greenlighting terrible television shows.

* Bat-Abed's speech after rescuing [[spoiler:Jeff and Pierce from being crushed by desks]].
** Not to mention [[spoiler:the rescue itself]].

* His inspiring speech on how [[spoiler:he's completely comfortable with himself]].

* [[spoiler:Being the only one in the group to pass a sanity test (though Jeff had admitted to filling his out randomly).]]

* [[spoiler: Pulling himself out of a HeroicBSOD by making up a Jeff speech in his head]]!

-->'''Annie''': [[spoiler:I take out my HUGE member!]]

* Bailing Jeff out after he [[spoiler:accidentally drunk dialed his girlfriend instead of Britta]].

* Plowing his way through the Hunger Deans, especially his tango with the Dean [[spoiler:where he even pieces together the Dean's plan to prevent him from graduating.]]
* Season 5 gives us Jeff beating the ever-loving crap out of [[spoiler:Alan]] to the point that the latter is on the ground whimpering like a child. This is preceded by [[spoiler:a chilling half-monologue about Poking the Dragon which he decides to cut short because Alan isn't worth one]], showing us just how much of a badass he can be.

-->''[[spoiler:I have no closing statement because I'm throwing the case.]] No, no, it's okay. It's fine...don't worry. [[spoiler:My client, Shirley Bennett, my friend of three years-]]she told me it was okay. She said what I want is more important. She's right...right? I mean, guys like me will tell you there's no right or wrong, there's no real truths...and as long as we all believe that, guys like me can never lose. Because the truth is, I'm lying when I say there is no truth. The truth is-the pathetically, stupidly, inconveniently obvious truth is-helping only ourselves is bad and helping each other is good. Now, I just wanted to get out of here, pass Biology and be a lawyer again instead of helping Shirley-that was bad. [[spoiler:And my former colleague wanted so badly to keep his rich client happy that he just asked me to roll over in exchange for my old job.]] So, I guess we all walked in here pretty bad. But now Shirley's gone good. Shirley's helping me. It's that easy: you just stop thinking about what's good for you and start thinking about what's good for someone else...and you can change the whole game with one move. Now if you like this idea, you can make it true by doing something good for everyone here: [[spoiler:throw this case out of court.]] It's dumb. That is all.

* Having the where-with-all to [[spoiler: make sure everyone in the group passed Spanish, by sleeping with the teacher.]]
* His stint as a {{Magnificent Bastard}} in Dungeons & Dragons, [[spoiler:enslaving the {{Big Bad}} dragon of the story and ambushing everyone else, then freezing them all.]]
* He wins the second paintball game by [[spoiler: faking a heart attack. Twice.]]

* He gets to stick it to his father some more while playing a video game for his inheritance, riding a ''[[Film/DrStrangelove nuclear bomb]]'' into his father's {{One Winged Angel}} form. "LOOK AT ME NOW, DAD!"
* In-universe, he considers having sex with Eartha Kitt in an airplane bathroom to be a moment of awesome for himself. He'll take any excuse to brag about it, no matter how flimsy. [[spoiler: It would be more awesome if it happened...]]

* The entire last act of "Epidemiology," where he [[spoiler:escapes the library, but goes right back inside to save everyone from brain damage, even pushing through his own impending zombiehood after he's bitten, complete with a bunch of {{Bond One Liner}}s.]] A very good showing considering his falling victim to {{Black Dude Dies First}} in "Modern Warfare."

** Really, the whole season 3 finale is a crowning moment of awesome for Troy. First, [[spoiler: he not only figured out how the Vice Dean of the AC repair school was murdered, but he then challenged the murderer to an air conditioning duel where the opponents were locked into the Sun Chamber. In separate chambers the two had to fix their own air conditioners while the temperature continued to gradually rise. During the duel, Troy acted completely calm even while the murderer was frantically trying to fix his own air conditioner. Troy then fixed his in less than thirty seconds and sat back while his opponent was slowly overcome by the heat. Finally, Troy fully embraced his role as the Truest Repairman and now seems to control the entire AC repair school which is incredible considering how much influence the AC repair school seems to hold (at least over Greendale).]]

* [[spoiler:The fakeout about his death]] when the gang started Spanish 102.
--> [[spoiler: I am a man who can ''never die''.]]

* His epic return to power. No really. Season 1: Insane Spanish Teacher who tormented the group. Season 2: HumiliationConga turning Chang into a whimpering loser who couldn't even kill anyone in the paintball game. Season 3: [[spoiler: Becomes security guard for the school. Hires child soldiers as his personal weapons. [[TookALevelInBadass Took over the entire school, replaced the dean, and expelled the study group]].]] He came back far higher than he ever had before.

* In "Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design," Professor Garrity [[spoiler:coming out on top of the GambitPileup the third act devolves into, with the help of his cop friend.]]
* Fat Neil [[spoiler:rolling a natural 19 to win the group's Dungeons & Dragons campaign]] and [[ShutUpHannibal putting Pierce in his place.]]

* Gilbert from "Digital Estate Planning" has one every time he shows up, first as a {{Magnificent Bastard}} villain who would have won halfway through the episode if Britta hadn't accidentally made a poison instead of a strength potion, and then [[spoiler:being the one to take his horrible father down after his {{Heel Face Turn}}]].

** Confronting [[spoiler:FinalBoss Dean Pelton and, after painting up his office, shooting him in the head, Film/DieHard style]].
** [[spoiler:Winning.]]

** His intro, complete with Chinese CherubicChoir music, in an obvious shout-out to Chow Yun-Fat, before pulling out [[spoiler:his fully automatic paintball gun]].

* Pierce [[spoiler:taking out the Black Rider by faking a heart attack.]]
** And then, in the finale [[spoiler:he pulls the same trick to beat the stormtroopers.]]

-->'''[[spoiler: Stormtrooper:]]''' Who are you?\\
'''Pierce:''' Your mother's lover! *shoots the last two [[spoiler: stormtroopers]]*