History Awesome / Erfworld

* Here's a meta-moment for you- how many stories can you think of where the ''antagonists'' get that many moments of awesome? Not stories with {{Designated Hero}}es where the so-called villains are UnintentionallySympathetic, not moments of VillainousValour, not moments of {{Magnificent Bastard}}y, moments where you can cheer for the genuine awesome heroism of the antagonists even as they're trying to kill the protagonists? Despite the GrayAndGrayMorality of the series, Parson is absolutely ''not'' a VillainProtagonist, yet you can still cheer for Slately as well as him while the two are locked in battle to the death. That's a level of character writing few web comics can reach.

* Jack the Foolamancer seems to get one when, after the dwagon Stanley is riding is croaked, he grabs hold of Stanley, tells him to fly away with the Arkenhammer, and veils himself and Stanley so that Jillian and the Transylvito forces can't find them. His ''real'' crowning moment comes in the next strip [[spoiler: where we find that he successfully veiled Stanley's dwagon ''without anyone (even Stanley) noticing'', making everyone think it was croaked, before veiling the rest of the dwagons until they are safely beyond the enemy's movement range.]]

** And then....[[spoiler:[[http://archives.erfworld.com/Book%201/145 Parson obliterates 9/10ths of Ansom's army, by collapsing Gobwin Knob.]]]]

* In the summer updates, Parson gets one when he tricks ''Charlie'' into revealing [[spoiler: his Mathamancy bracelet can predict the future.]]
* A couple updates later, Bea, Queen of Unaroyal, [[spoiler: upon realizing she cannot defeat the Decrypted armies under Gobwin Knob's control, and knowing that this would result in her entire side's armies being taken over by Gobwin Knob after being defeated, chooses to take her own life - and thus, eliminating her entire side - instead of letting herself be controlled by Stanley.]]

* Parson exploiting an Erfworld mechanics loophole that allows him to [[spoiler: kill off all of his dwagons instantly by harvesting them for rations, drop them inside Jetstone's garrison, and then having Wanda decrypt them, bypassing Jetstone's walls ''and'' air defenses in one fell swoop.]]

* [[http://archives.erfworld.com/Book%202/157 This strip.]] All the more awesome because exactly why Wanda freaks out isn't readily apparent, but [[spoiler: Ossomer's heraldry changed back to Jetstone.]] That's right: [[spoiler: ''Ossomer apparently broke Wanda's Decryption!'']]
* Cubbins, Jetstone's Hat Magician, gets one in the very last page of Book 2. Using the last of Jenga Tower's juice, [[spoiler: he makes a HeroicSacrifice to deal a crushing blow to the remaining Decrypted Archons.]]
** The Hat Magician's [[spoiler: HeroicSacrifice]], Ossomer's [[spoiler: breaking of his decryption]], and King Slately [[spoiler: TakingALevelInBadass with help from the Hat Magician and the Dollamancer insures Jetsone's survival and will net them Charlies reward for taking out the decrypted archons despite the almost inevitable loss they were about to receive. They may even get enough money to promote Tramennis to heir.]]
--->'''Ossomer:''' Here they come. [[spoiler: Once more, for Jetstone.]]
*** Then [[spoiler: Cubbins survives the tower's collapse, then he is saved by Ace and is expected to survive, Ace kills Lady Sylvia who was deemed near impossible to kill due to Jojo's magic, AND Ace is still in good enough condition to command his golems to attack Parson.]]

* You have to admit, even though he's the BigBad, Charlie cornered and out-thought Parson and [[spoiler:forced him to try to cast the spell that would send him home. It would've have worked if fate didn't decide to drop a column on his head and knock him out.]]

* [[http://archives.erfworld.com/Book%203/121 Jack]] uses a baffle spell to trick Charlie's archons into seeing [[spoiler:Parson as a Gobwin Knob unit despite his turning to Charlescomm]]. The archons proceed to fire at Parson [[NoKillLikeOverkill with far more bullets than they actually need]]. Dozens of decrypted Gobwin Knob units are caught in the crossfire, which means that Charlie will have to compensate Gobwin Knob.
** It's actually much more than that. [[spoiler:In firing their tripods through the portal, Charlescomm's Archons killed a number of neutral Magic Kingdom casters. This violates the Magic Kingdom's neutrality agreement, and ensures that Charlescomm will be the first side to go to war with them, an outcome that Charlie himself earlier stated would be a large strategic mistake. With a single spell, Jack might have just caused more trouble for Charlescomm than any unit since... well, since Lillith.]]

* Things are looking good for Transylvito and bad for Gobwin Knob in the wake of [[spoiler:the disaster in the Magic Kingdom]]. They have [[spoiler:Parson, Jack, and Maggie all held prisoner]] and Don King is looking forward to bending Stanley over a railing for [[spoiler:their ransom fees]]. Caesar is standing by when Don smugly calls Stanley to negotiate, silently admiring how good Don is at manipulating other rulers, despite considering Stanley an easy mark, getting him wound up until he's expected to cut off the call in a rage after [[spoiler:hearing Don's apparently ''ludicrous'' ransom price of 2 million schmuckers]] so he can work him for even more when he calls back next turn. But instead of cutting off the call... [[spoiler:Stanley just says "OK, we'll take it"]] because Transylvito has absolutely ''no'' idea how incredibly ''rich'' Gobwin Knob actually was after [[spoiler:receiving a good chunk of Charlescom's treasury]]. And then just to put the cherry on it, Stanley starts ''patronising Don about how he needs to learn how to run a side better'' until Don is forced to hang up on him instead!

* Jack's at it again. [[spoiler: Contacting Jillian covertly and deducing that the Haffaton ruler is in the city they were in.]]

* Lady Chains of Homekey fighting a force that outnumbered her by four to one, and had her outgunned even worse, to an effective draw [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice at the cost of her own life]]]].

* Prince Axe Bodyspray interpreting his Duty to his side in such a way as to allow him [[spoiler:to beat his father to a bloody pulp]] in order to convince him that Lord Crush's plan is the one they need to go with. Also, he solved a Sudoku that his father couldn't showing his HiddenDepths. A Warrior Prince with intelligence with an Intelligent Prince who is good at waging war. Dangerous combo.

-->'''Ossomer:''' Here they come. [[spoiler: Once more, for Jetstone.]]

-->'''Slately''': Warlord.\\

* Things are looking good for Transylvito and bad for Gobwin Knob in the wake of [[spoiler:the disaster in the Magic Kingdom]]. They have [[spoiler:Parson, Jack, and Maggie all held prisoner]] and Don King is looking forward to bending Stanley over a railing for [[spoiler:their ransom fees]]. Caesar is standing by when Don smugly calls Stanley to negotiate, silently admiring how good Don is at manipulating other rulers, despite considering Stanley an easy mark, getting him wound up until he's expected to cut off the call in a rage after [[spoiler:hearing Don's apparently ''ludicrous'' ransom price of 2 million schmuckers]] so he can work him for even more when he calls back next turn. But instead of cutting off the call... [[spoiler:Stanley just says "OK, we'll take it"]] because Transylvito has absolutely ''no'' idea how incredibly ''rich'' Gobwin Knob actually was after [[spoiler:receiving practically all of Charlescom's treasury]]. And then just to put the cherry on it, Stanley starts ''patronising Don about how he needs to learn how to run a side better'' until Don is forced to hang up on him instead!

* Things are looking good for Transylvito and bad for Gobwin Knob in the wake of [[spoiler:the disaster in the Magic Kingdom]]. They have [[spoiler:Parson, Jack and Maggie all held prisoner]] and Don King is looking forward to bending Stanley over a railing for [[spoiler:their ransom fees]]. Caesar is standing by when Don smugly calls Stanley to negotiate, silently admiring how good Don is at manipulating other rulers, despite considering Stanley an easy mark, getting him wound up until he's expected to cut off the call in a rage after [[spoiler:hearing Don's apparently ''ludicrous'' ransom price of 2 million schmuckers]] so he can work him for even more when he calls back next turn. But instead of cutting off the call... [[spoiler:Stanley just says "OK, we'll take it"]] because Transylvito has absolutely ''no'' idea how incredibly ''rich'' Gobwin Knob actually was after [[spoiler:receiving practically all of Charlescom's treasury]]. And then just to put the cherry on it, Stanley starts ''patronising Don about how he needs to learn how to run a side better'' until Don is forced to hang up on him instead!