History Awesome / Garfield

* The [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1999/02/02 strip]] where someone got rid of all of Jon's shirts except for one that says "I <3 Cats," with Jon assuming that the culprit is Garfield (and, to be honest, it ''does'' seem like something Garfield would do). After Jon sends Garfrield outside, who's there with an evil grin by the door in one of Jon's missing shirts? [[BewareTheNiceOnes Odie!]] [[TheDogBitesBack About time he got a little revenge for all of Garfield's abuse!]]

* In the prime-time TV special ''Garfield In the Rough'', an escaped panther threatens the life of Jon and Odie. Garfield, who ran up a tree in fear, has a sudden PapaWolf moment, dives from the tree '''onto the panther's back, clawing away at it''' yowling and snarling like, well, an enraged housecat. [[note]] This is actually one of the ''very'' few times Garfield makes real cat sounds. [[/note]] He doesn't actually defeat the panther, though he does buy park rangers some time to tranquilize it without anyone getting hurt. Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} that Garfield would actually risk his life for Jon and Odie, especially since a few of the jokes in the comics and animation are about Jon specifically asking Garfield if he would do just that, and getting turned down.

* Jim Davis not only giving the ''Webcomic/GarfieldMinusGarfield'' project [[ApprovalOfGod a thumbs-up]], but also creating Garfield Minus Garfields of his own.

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* The [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1999/02/02 strip]] where all of Jon's shirts are stolen except for one that says "I <3 Cats". Jon, naturally, concludes Garfield's guilty and sends him outside. Who's there with an evil grin by the door in one of Jon's missing shirts? [[BewareTheNiceOnes Odie!]] [[TheDogBitesBack About time he got a little revenge for all of Garfield's abuse!]]

* The [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1999/02/02 strip]] where all of Jon's shirts are stolen except for one that says "I <3 Cats". Jon, naturally, concludes Garfield's guilty and sends him outside. Who's there with and evil grin by the door in one of Jon's missing shirts? [[BewareTheNiceOnes Odie!]] [[TheDogBitesBack About time he got a little revenge for all of Garfield's abuse!]]

* [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2009/05/08 This spider]] not only wins against Garfield, but he also comes out completely unscathed.

* After Garfield accidentally foils Odie's chance to shove him off the table one week before, Odie gets some major revenge one week later. Garfield teases Odie with a dingle ball, expecting him to slip on some recently cleaned linoleum. Odie plows right through Garfield, and the final panel shows a victorious Odie with ice skates on his hind paws and [[https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2005/08/21 the dingle ball in his teeth]].

* [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/1981/ga810329.gif In this 1981 strip]], Garfield acts more cruel to Jon than usual, he smugly points out how he abuses Jon just enough to the point where he can humiliate him without Jon ever physically retaliating back at him. Garfield then humiliates Jon one last time. [[TheDogBitesBack Cue Jon immediately throwing Garfield through a closed window and into the yard.]]

* Jim Davis not only giving the ''Webcomic/GarfieldMinusGarfield'' project a thumbs-up, but also creating Garfield Minus Garfields of his own.

* The [[https://garfield.com/comic/1999/02/02 strip]] where all of Jon's shirts are stolen except for one that says "I <3 Cats". Jon, naturally, concludes Garfield's guilty and sends him outside. Who's there with and evil grin by the door in one of Jon's missing shirts? [[BewareTheNiceOnes Odie!]] [[TheDogBitesBack About time he got a little revenge for all of Garfield's abuse!]]

* [[https://garfield.com/comic/1993/06/15 In a Nermal-arc]], Nermal is dancing around Garfield while he's sleeping bragging "I'm cute and you're not," then Garfield [[NeckLift grabs]] Nermal and says [[IronicEcho "I'm feeling fine, and you're not."]]

* [[https://garfield.com/comic/2010/07/04 Garfield draws a pig]].

* In this [[https://garfield.com/comic/1981/06/12 strip]], Garfield sees a cat knocking Odie on the head. What does Garfield do? Punch the cat into the sky!

** Speaking of the animals, the animals he met at the pound and the city rally beside Garfield to take down Happy Chapman. He then rounds up the dogs, cats (off-screen), and rats to make the attack, and they dogpile Chapman in a [[Disney/TheLionKing hyenas-attacking-Scar]] style.

* In the prime-time TV special ''Garfield In the Rough'', an escaped panther threatens the life of Jon and Odie. Garfield, who ran up a tree in fear, has a sudden PapaWolf moment, dives from the tree '''onto the panther's back, clawing away at it''' with stock sound effects of an enraged housecat. He doesn't actually defeat the panther, though he does buy park rangers some time to tranquilize it without anyone getting hurt. Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} that Garfield would actually risk his life for Jon and Odie, especially since a few of the jokes in the comics and animation are about Jon specifically asking Garfield if he would do just that, and getting turned down.

* He does it in the sequel as well, and that time seemed even more awesome because the BigBad had Liz at gunpoint up until a few seconds prior. Also note that in both movies, Jon simply needs to deck the BigBad ''once'' to render him unconscious.

* In the Halloween Special, as Garfield and Odie jump into the lake to escape the evil pirate ghosts, Garfield almost immediately sinks under and is swept away by the current, as he can't swim. Odie immediately dives underwater to find him and pulls him to safety. This doubles as a {{Heartwarming Moment|s}}, because he could have chosen to just save himself, but he cares too much about Garfield. To add to the heartwarming, Garfield, who was originally going to take all of Odie's trick or treat candy, states that he can keep it and have half of his own. Garfield gave up some of his food as a thank you.

** Another moment between Garfield and Odie: two days after Garfield's 40th-birthday, Nermal (instead of insulting/making fun of Garfield's age and/or appearance) notes that Garfield actually looks pretty good, to which Garfield says, "Aging well is the best revenge."

* In one strip, Garfield acts more cruel to Jon than usual, he smugly points out how he abuses Jon just enough to the point where he can humiliate him without Jon ever physically retaliating back at him. Garfield then hits Jon one last time. [[TheDogBitesBack Cue Jon immediately throwing Garfield through a closed window and into the yard.]]

* In one strip, Garfield acts more cruel to Jon than usual, he smugly points out how he abuses Jon just enough to the point where he can humiliate him without Jon ever physically retaliating back at him. Garfield then hits Jon one last time. [[TheDogBitesBack Cue Jon immediately throwing Garfield through a closed window and into the yard.