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--->'''Scorpius:"''' How did you know I was wearing body armor?

* Anything and everything Crichton did in the series-ending "We're So Screwed" trilogy. After walking into Scarran high-command with a thermo-nuclear bomb strapped and [[DeadMansSwitch attuned to his body and vital signs]], and giving an inspirational speech about being an all-American sellout while walking on top of the conference table, [[spoiler:getting away with nuking the place]] was just an encore. ''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EMO14pRRRk Welcome to MY COLD WAR!]]"''
** Same trilogy, different character: [[spoiler:Braca's grin after shooting the guard]] in part 2.
* Scorpius, being a particularly successful villain, has had several crowning moments of awesome, but probably the most notable was his little speech to [[spoiler: Crichton at the end of season 2, after taking the neurochip from him and leaving him paralysed and unable to speak coherently.]]
-->'''Scorpius''': You've cost me much, and I do not suffer disappointment well. I condemn you, [[spoiler:John Crichton]]... to live. So that your thirst for unfulfilled revenge... will ''consume'' you. (A slight pause) Goodbye. (He exits, leaving [[spoiler:Crichton]] screaming in impotent rage.)
** And he topped himself next episode by [[spoiler:''eating a chunk of Crichton's brain still attached to the neurochip'']], torturing a sleazy salesman by ''forcing him to eat two of his own fingers'', and ending the episode by faking his death and returning to his command carrier with the coveted wormhole information in tow.

-->'''Crichton''' Looks like our partnership is over.
-->'''Scorpius''' John Crichton. Commander John Crichton. Generations will know that name. Because of you, very soon the Scarrans will destroy us all.
-->'''Crichton''' One evil at a time, that's the best I can do.
-->All while the [[spoiler:Peacekeeper Command Carrier falls apart, stuff is being blown up dangerously close around them]] while the [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Chanting]] is in full force.

-->'''Aeryn''': Captain Crais. What are you doing in this chair?
-->'''Crais''': Who is that? Who's there?
-->'''Aeryn''': Well, I suppose I shouldn't expect you to recognize my voice.
-->'''Crais''': Did Scorpius send you? Release... me from this chair.
-->'''Aeryn''': Why? So that you can kill me the way you killed Lieutenant Teeg?
-->'''Crais''': Who are you?
-->'''Aeryn''': I am "irreversibly contaminated." Now do you know who I am?

-->'''Crais''': Aeryn ...Sun.
-->'''Aeryn''' ''(Leaning close)'': Does this contaminate you, Crais?
-->'''Crais''': As a Peacekeeper, you took a blood-oath to obey your commanding officer. Till death.
-->'''Aeryn''': Yes.
-->'''Crais''': I am still your commanding officer.
-->'''Aeryn''': But I am no longer a Peacekeeper.
-->'''Crais''': You are a Peacekeeper for life. On the oath you took--
-->'''Aeryn''': Your oath means nothing to me. You made sure of that. You destroyed everything. I lost everything because of you.
-->'''Crais''': Aeryn Sun!
-->'''Aeryn''': You know what I learned when I was away from you? Everything I lost isn't worth a damn. And I don't want to go back to your past.
-->'''Crais''': I order you--
-->'''Aeryn''': You ''order'' me? You will never order me again.

* For Rygel, in "Liars, Guns and Money 3: Plan B", when he walks in with [[spoiler:Durka]]'s head on a stick and cows everyone on board, including several hardened mercenaries, into behaving. Despite being only 2' feet tall.
--->'''Rorf''': What are you doing with that head?
--->'''Rygel''': He's an old enemy. I like that he doesn't talk back.

--->'''Scorpius''': How did you know I was wearing body armor?
--->'''Rygel''': I wasn't sure, but 131 cycles in Peacekeeper captivity teaches you a few things.
--->'''Scorpius''': What if you were wrong?
--->'''Rygel''': Huh! Not so bad for me either way.
* Crichton unleashing the wormhole weapon before both the Scarans and the Peacekeepers, showing them what it was capable of: [[spoiler:a blackhole]]

* Just about the entire crew [[spoiler: specifically, those that survived the film so far]] earn a crowning moment when the wormhole weapon is activated: Crichton gives his grand speech to the Peacekeeper and Scarran fleets; Aeryn refuses to succumb to Staleek's desperate goading; Stark prays for peace and Chiana joins in; Rygel proclaims that if the wormhole weapon ''does'' kill him, it'll be a death worthy of a dominar; and Scorpius just basks in the light, smiling mysteriously.
* Crichton. Combines [=CMoF=] with [=CMoA=]. [[spoiler: During an episode where he was forced to disguise as a woman, he says in a completely masculine voice "Excuse me ladies! Does anyone of you have one of these under your skirt!?" and proceeds to then hitch up his skirt and pull out two pistols and begin firing them across the nightclub as a distraction for Aeryn and Sikozu.]]

* "Home on the Remains" shows what Chiana is capable of if she's pushed too far. [[spoiler:When she confronts the man who killed two of her close friends and tried to make her into his sex slave, she melts his arm off with acid and leaves him to bleed out.]]
* Another acting moment, from the final scene of "Bad Timing": [[spoiler:D'Argo's grief-sticken howling as Crichton and Aeryn disintegrate is one of the most raw and powerful such performances ever done, to the point that it doesn't sound like a noise that a human throat would be capable of making.]]

-->'''Stark:''' MATTER? MATTER? I'LL TELL YOU MATTER! '''[[CrazyAwesome ANTI-MATTER-MATTER-MATTERMATTERMATTERMATTER!!!]]''' SCORPIUS KILLED 10,000 OF MY PEOPLE! 10,000 CAST INTO SPACE! 10,000 souls scream in my brain! The chair, the chair! Remember the chair!

* "Crackers Don't Matter", when the crew learns what happens when John Crichton, [[BewareTheSillyOnes the spatially displaced scientist]], is pressed too far, resulting in a full-blown CrazyAwesome rampage where he manages to disable or contain the entire crew (including a standoff with D'Argo and a full-blown gunfight and melee with Aeryn), all while dealing with a [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment BLAM]]-tastic hallucination of Scorpius in a Hawaiian shirt so loud they can hear it back on Earth. Everybody on the crew goes a little nuts from time to time, but Crichton ''[[CrazyAwesome thrives]]'' when he does so.

* Crichton. Combines [=CMoF=] with [=CMoA=]. [[spoiler: During an episode where he was forced to disguise as a woman, he says in a completely masculine voice "Excuse me ladies! Does anyone of you have one of these under your skirt!?" and proceeds to then hitch up his skirt and pull out two pistols and begin firing them across the nightclub as a distraction for Aeryn and Jool.]]

-->'''Aeryn:''' Go on, shoot her... You're an ''embarassment'', Zelkin. No, worse then an embarassment,you're an ''idiot''. There are 30,000 containers in the shadow depository filled with riches that you could have, but you'd rather point a gun at a girl!

--->'''Crichton''' Looks like our partnership is over.
--->'''Scorpius''' John Crichton. Commander John Crichton. Generations will know that name. Because of you, very soon the Scarrans will destroy us all.
--->'''Crichton''' One evil at a time, that's the best I can do.
--->All while the [[spoiler:Peacekeeper Command Carrier falls apart, stuff is being blown up dangerously close around them]] while the [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Chanting]] is in full force.

--->'''Aeryn''': Captain Crais. What are you doing in this chair?
--->'''Crais''': Who is that? Who's there?
--->'''Aeryn''': Well, I suppose I shouldn't expect you to recognize my voice.
--->'''Crais''': Did Scorpius send you? Release... me from this chair.
--->'''Aeryn''': Why? So that you can kill me the way you killed Lieutenant Teeg?
--->'''Crais''': Who are you?
--->'''Aeryn''': I am "irreversibly contaminated." Now do you know who I am?
--->''(Aeryn stands in front of Crais.)''
--->'''Crais''': Aeryn ...Sun.
--->'''Aeryn''' ''(Leaning close)'': Does this contaminate you, Crais?
--->'''Crais''': As a Peacekeeper, you took a blood-oath to obey your commanding officer. Till death.
--->'''Aeryn''': Yes.
--->'''Crais''': I am still your commanding officer.
--->'''Aeryn''': But I am no longer a Peacekeeper.
--->'''Crais''': You are a Peacekeeper for life. On the oath you took--
--->'''Aeryn''': Your oath means nothing to me. You made sure of that. You destroyed everything. I lost everything because of you.
--->'''Crais''': Aeryn Sun!
--->'''Aeryn''': You know what I learned when I was away from you? Everything I lost isn't worth a damn. And I don't want to go back to your past.
--->'''Crais''': I order you--
--->'''Aeryn''': You ''order'' me? You will never order me again.

* Crichton unleashing the wormhole weapon before both the Scarans and the Peacekeepers, showing them what it was capable of. [[spoiler:a Blackhole]]

* "Talyn... ''Starburst''!"[[note]]Crais: "We won't [meet up with you]. [[FasterThanLightTravel Starburst]] in a confined space... will be the hero's death that Talyn deserves.[[/note]]

--->'''Aeryn:''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Shooting makes me feel better!]]

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** The use of [[ImplacableMan himself as a human shield]] to defend Crichton. Also, given the [[CrowningMomentOfFunny puns being thrown around]] this also counts as a moment for Crichton.

** Eventually, though, Chrichton convinces her to give him the gun. This in spite of her serious misgivings given his history with her favorite gun. To his immense credit, with his wife and to-be-born child on the line, Crichton for the first time actually handles the gun competently and helps HoldTheLine.

** Shooting while giving birth. Transformation from {{Pregnant Badass}} to {{Mama Bear}} through a large amount of deaths.

* Anything and everything Crichton did in the series-ending "We're So Screwed" trilogy. After walking into Scarran high-command with a thermo-nuclear bomb strapped and [[DeadManSwitch attuned to his body and vital signs]], and giving an inspirational speech about being an all-American sellout while walking on top of the conference table, [[spoiler:getting away with nuking the place]] was just an encore. ''"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EMO14pRRRk Welcome to MY COLD WAR!]]"''

* "Crackers Don't Matter", when the crew learns what happens when John Crichton, the spatially displaced scientist, is pressed too far, resulting in a full-blown CrazyAwesome rampage where he manages to disable or contain the entire crew (including a standoff with D'Argo and a full-blown gunfight and melee with Aeryn), all while dealing with a [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment BLAM]]-tastic hallucination of Scorpius in a Hawaiian shirt so loud they can hear it back on Earth. Everybody on the crew goes a little nuts from time to time, but Crichton ''thrives'' when he does so.

* '' "Talyn... ''Starburst''!"[[note]]Crais: "We won't [meet up with you]. [[FasterThanLightTravel Starburst]] in a confined space... will be the hero's death that Talyn deserves.[[/note]]

* Anything and everything Crichton did in the series-ending "We're So Screwed" trilogy. After walking into Scarran high-command with a thermo-nuclear bomb strapped and [[DeadManSwitch attuned to his body and vital signs]], and giving an inspirational speech about being an all-American sellout while walking on top of the conference table, [[spoiler:getting away with nuking the place]] was just an encore.
''"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EMO14pRRRk Welcome to MY COLD WAR!]]"''

* '' "Talyn...''Starburst''!"[[note]]Crais: "We won't [meet up with you]. [[FasterThanLightTravel Starburst]] in a confined space... will be the hero's death that Talyn deserves.[[/note]]

* Anything and everything Crichton did in the series-ending "We're So Screwed" trilogy. After walking into Scarran high-command with a thermo-nuclear bomb strapped and [[DeadManSwitch attuned to his body and vital signs]], and giving an inspirational speech about being an all-American sellout while walking on top of the conference table, [[spoiler:getting away with nuking the place]] was just an encore. ''"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EMO14pRRRk Welcome to MY COLD WAR!]]"''

--->'''Scorpius''': You've cost me much, and I do not suffer disappointment well. I condemn you, [[spoiler:John Crichton]]... to live. So that your thirst for unfulfilled revenge... will ''consume'' you. (A slight pause) Goodbye. (He exits, leaving [[spoiler:Crichton]] screaming in impotent rage.)

--->All while the [[spoiler: Peacekeeper Command Carrier falls apart, stuff is being blown up dangerously close around them]] while the [[OminousLatinChanting Ominous Chanting]] is in full force.

-->(Sighing irritably, Tauza turns away... and as she does so, Scorpius gets to his feet and[[EyeScream plunges the two halves of the coolant rod into her eyes]].)

--->'''Crais''': Did Scorpius send you? Release...me from this chair.

--->'''Crais''': Aeryn...Sun.

* Crichton. Combines [=CMoF=] with [=CMoA=]. [[spoiler: During an episode where he was forced to disguise as a woman, he says in a completely masculine voice "Excuse me ladies! Does anyone of you have one of these under your skirt!?" and proceeds to then hitch up his skirt and pull out two pistols and begin firing them across the nightclub as a distraction for Aeryn and Jool.]] I was in hysterics.

** *sniff* But also, Crichton killing a Dreadnought by basically throwing the heart of a star at it. Also brilliant because [[spoiler:it was a really, really moving HeroicSacrifice, that somehow wasn't cheapened by the fact that there was a duplicate. Those chimes as Aeryn wept over him...*shiver*]]
*** Also, anything and everything Crichton did in the series-ending "We're So Screwed" trilogy. After walking into Scarran high-command with a thermo-nuclear bomb strapped and [[DeadManSwitch attuned to his body and vital signs]], and giving an inspirational speech about being an all-American sellout while walking on top of the conference table, [[spoiler:getting away with nuking the place]] was just an encore.
*** ''"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EMO14pRRRk Welcome to MY COLD WAR!]]"''
*** Same trilogy, different character: [[spoiler:Braca's grin after shooting the guard]] in part 2.

** Utterly humbling Captain Crais on board his own command carrier by hurling him across his office like a ragdoll.
*** "If you want to fight anyone... fight your executioner."

** Oh, and the use of [[ImplacableMan himself as a human shield]] to defend Crichton. Also, given the [[CrowningMomentOfFunny puns being thrown around]] this also counts as a moment for Crichton.

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* Another acting moment, from the final scene of "Bad Timing": [[spoiler:D'Argo's grief-sticken howling as Chricton and Aeryn disintegrate is one of the most raw and powerful such performances ever done, to the point that it doesn't sound like a noise that a human throat would be capable of making.]]

** Shooting while giving birth. Transformation from {{Pregnant Badass}} to {{Mama Bear}} through a large amount of deaths. "Shooting makes me feel better!"
** Same scene. When Aeryn is forced out of the fight (due to her labor getting complicated), Crichton offers to take up Aeryn's cherished pulse rifle. Thing is, every time he tried to use it in the past, he caused trouble, but forced into it, she gives him one more chance. And in a real "growing up" moment, Crichton finally uses it competently and helps HoldTheLine.

* '' "Talyn...''Starburst''!"

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' "Talyn...''Starburst''!"

* Chiana, Jool and Sikozu's epic ''CharliesAngels''-style moment when breaking themselves and Noranti free from imprisonment in part two of "What Was Lost". Chiana plugs Sikozu's ears while Jool uses her metal-melting scream to melt off their cuffs. Then the three of them turn, smile sweetly, as Sikozu seductively saunters past the guards... then the guards turn to face Chiana and Jool, who instantly and in-sync ''high-kick them in the face''.

** Shortly after (keep in mind, the Aurora Chair is a device that views its victim's memories and tortures them painfully): "I give you your life. *beat* I will make you ''watch'' your life." Followed by activating the chair at full power.
*** YMMV: This troper found that moment a horrifying MoralEventHorizon. For one of the good guys, no less.

* For this troper, just about the entire crew [[spoiler: specifically, those that survived the film so far]] earn a crowning moment when the wormhole weapon is activated: Crichton gives his grand speech to the Peacekeeper and Scarran fleets; Aeryn refuses to succumb to Staleek's desperate goading; Stark prays for peace and Chiana joins in; Rygel proclaims that if the wormhole weapon ''does'' kill him, it'll be a death worthy of a dominar; and Scorpius just basks in the light, smiling mysteriously.

* A crowning moment of ''acting'' surely has to be Season 2's "Out of Their Minds". Everyone in the regular cast except Virginia Hey gets to play someone else, and they all nail it. From BenBrowder and his hilarious Rygel voice, Creator/ClaudiaBlack completely shedding her Aussie accent for Aeryn-as-Crichton, Lani Tupu imitates D'Argo's rougher voice and speech patterns to a T, Gigi Edgely completely shifts gears for Pilot-as-Chiana, Anthony Simcoe's hilarious attempts to be seductive as Chiana-as-D'Argo, and even Jonathan Hardy gets in on the fun by switching up his vocal performance for Aeryn-as-Rygel. And then they switch *again* at the climax, and once more everyone hits it out of the park. It's a hilarious episode already, but add in the phenomenal comic acting and it's easily a series highlight for this troper.