History Awesome / LetTheGalaxyBurn

* Sam and Asha hand the Dornish Navy its first defeat of the entire war by luring them into a trap at New Barrel that is based on Dorne's own tactics.

* Justin Massey goes out like a hero. Despite being wounded by one of Mel's shadow assassins, he [[JustForPun single-handedly]] pilots his Behemoth towards a breech in the wall, intending to use it as a barricade. When that plan fails, he activates the self-destruct and takes over ''four hundred thousand'' enemies into the afterlife with him.

** The Battle of the Twins deserves special note. The Lannisters enter the system with four ships of the line, twelve battlecruisers, two armoured cruisers, twenty-four heavy cruisers, fifteen light cruisers, fifty scout cruisers, two fleet carriers, six light carriers, and twenty escort carriers; plus the transports carrying two entire armies (totaling roughly one-quarter of a million men). The Northerners (led by Roose Bolton) have one ship of the line, six battlecruisers, four armoured cruisers, thirteen heavy cruisers, about twenty light and scout cruisers, two light carriers, and nine escort carriers. The Lannister force is annihilated except for TWO heavy cruisers. The Boltons lose two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, seven scout cruisers, a couple auxiliary ships, and some fighters. Total casualties in terms of manpower: Lannister, c.380,000; Bolton, less than 17,000. For reference, that's a kill-death ratio of ''22-1'' in the Northerners' favor.

* Soon after the outbreak of the second war, [[spoiler: Varys disappears alongside ''the entire Crown Intelligence Agency''. He kills or incapacitates much of the Small Council on the way out, and publishes a holo-newspaper that reveals the decadence, corruption, and crimes of the Crown and those who support them. The result is massive unrest and outright insurrection in multiple sectors, including Faith uprisings who support the Sparrows, demon worshippers, and large numbers of Goldcloaks turning on the Crown]].

* Barristan Selmy getting two successive WhatTheHellHero[=/=]{{The Reason You Suck Speech}}es from Viserys and Sansa. The former criticizes him for squandering his chance to reign in Rhaegar, aiding him as he became a maniacal monster, and firmly stating that he doesn't want Barristan in the Kingsguard. When Barristan refuses to take the Black, Sansa then cuts into the comms mocks him for being nothing more than rape-accomplice, genocide maker and assassin in chief. Then she tells him to know that [[spoiler: she's going to kill the king]] and to know that he has utterly failed his duty before blowing up the war room.
* [[spoiler:A Northern strike team led by [[ActionGirl Sansa]] [[AdaptationalBadass Stark]] infiltrates the Red Keep in the middle of the chaos, captures and kills Arthur Dayne and finally puts an end to Rhaegar's reign.]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Sansa]]:''' [[spoiler:[[PreMortemOneLiner Lord Eddard Stark sends his regards]].]]
* Operation Cataclysm, the Battle of Fawnton. [[spoiler:Stannis gets a number of infiltrators to take over several defense stations, which they promptly turn against the Storm Lords allied to Jon Connington. In the middle of the chaos, Stannis and his allies jump in and attack the Connington allies. All of this, while, in the ground, Tysha Lannister summons R'hollor's demons, which kill the Conningtons and a good lot of the population - and then Richard Lonmouth takes his crippled spaceship and [[ColonyDrop has it accelerate to crash against the planet]], utterly ruining it and Tysha's plans, while killing everything else that was on Fawnton.]]

--> [[spoiler:THE KING IN THE NORTH!!!]]

** First, when he receives word that [[spoiler:Victarion Greyjoy]] has arrived in system, Lord Saltcliffe orders a general uprising all around the planet, succeeding in driving off the occupation forces.

** After that, [[spoiler:Victarion Greyjoy]] raises the dead in the planet, sending them against Corbray's fortress.

** [[spoiler:Victarion Greyjoy]] then commands [[spoiler:an undead kraken]] to open the fortress' gates, filling the outer grounds with an all-consuming darkness.

* Chapter 6, Part C will be remembered for one reason: [[spoiler:Sandor Clegane (with an assist from Ayric Sarring and Bronn) finally kills Gregor Clegane, taking revenge for his sister, his father and the millions of people Gregor has brutally murdered.]]

* War of the Ten Warlords, Chapter 7's Epilogue. [[spoiler:Aegon's army assaults the Red Keep, and Aegon himself makes an appearance by killing Ser Baelor Staunton. That's not the awesome part: the awesome comes when ''Janos Slynt shoots Aegon in the neck''. He even has the time to shout "[[TheKingslayer I KILLED HIM! I KILLED THE KING!]]" before being killed himself!]]
* The first great battle between the North and the Others [[spoiler:ends up with victory for the North, as they manage to destroy most of their fleet, harm the ''Star Killer'' enough that the Others are forced to scuttle it and make the Enemy retreat.]]

* Adding to the roll of Northern victories in the south, the North is able to destroy 74% of the military power (warships and orbital defense) of House Wayn in just ''nineteen'' minutes.

* The CurbStompBattle Lord Serry inflicts upon the Greyjoy Fleet thorough the use of a missile network previously mocked by the Tyrell's delivers the "shield of Missiles and Lasers" promised by the chapter title.

* After an ice dragon crash lands (and gets killed by direwolves), the northerners discover a dragon egg. Which Eddard immediately plans to use, not against the Others, but against the Targs.

* The Second Battle of King's Landing, which marks the beginning of Viserys's coup. It's the first time two [[HumongousMecha Behemoth]] fight each other, and it shows. Both in awesomeness and in its terrifying firepower - which levels buildings ''as a secondary effect'' of firing their guns.
* Barristan Selmy getting two successive WhatTheHellHero/ TheReasonYouSuckSpeech's from Viserys and Sansa. The former criticizes him for squandering his chance to reign in Rhaegar, aiding him as he became a maniacal monster, and firmly stating that he doesn't want Barristan in the Kingsguard. When Barristan refuses to take the Black, Sansa then cuts into the comms mocks him for being nothing more than rape-accomplice, genocide maker and assassin in chief. Then she tells him to know that [[spoiler: she's going to kill the king]] and to know that he has utterly failed his duty before blowing up the war room.

--> '''Velaryon:''' The Old, The True, the Brave!
--> ''Velaryon stabs Victarion through the genitals, then is disarmed and seized in a chokehold [[MadeOfIron by the agonizing, but still able to fight, Victorian.]]''

--> '''Velaryon:''' [[DefiantToTheEnd " Not...like you...eunuch. My...men...are...going...to burn...Pyke.]]

* After being viewed as just another Targaryen lackey up until that point, Lucerys Velaryon gets a DyingMomentOfAwesome fighting with his men against Victorian Greyjoy and managing to castarate the pirate Admiral.
--> '''Victorian:''' (mockingly) It's not too late to surrender, High Admiral.

--> ''Velaryon stabs Victorian through the genitals, then is disarmed and seized in a chokehold [[MadeOfIron by the agonizing, but still able to fight, Victorian.]]''
--> '''Victorian:''' You are going to suffer for this, Greenlander.

* The Second Battle of King's Landing, which marks the beginning of Viserys' coup. It's the first time two [[HumongousMecha Behemoth]] fight each other, and it shows. Both in awesomeness and in its terrifying firepower - which levels buildings ''as a secondary effect'' of firing their guns.

* Gerion Lannister successfully screws with Tywin by giving Brightroar to Daeron using the argument that Joffrey gets a crown and Shiera gets a dragon. It's one thing for Tywin to demand the sword from his brother (and thus someone who is supposedly his vassel), it's an entirely different thing to demand it from one of the royal family.

* Sarring, Sandor, Asha and Bronn dueling the wight-possessed Victarion.

* Sarring, Sandor, Asha and Bronn dueling the wight-possessed Victarion.

* Norne Goodbrother taking the DefiantToTheEnd path when about to be executed by one of Victorian's men, relentlessly insulting him as a war criminal whose in the service of a cowardly pretender who any idiot could see is possessed by unclean magic who has doomed their planet to destruction. The fact that he continues to do this without showing any pain or fear as the executioner furiously stabs him again and again in vital body parts adds to the impressiveness.
* Sarring, Sandor, Asha and Bronn dueling the wight-possessed Victorian.

--> '''Velaryon:''' The Old, The True, the Brave! (He stabs Victorian through the genitals, then is disarmed and seized in a chokehold.

* Urrigon Greyjoy's HeroicSacrifice, summoning magic to drive back the Others invading the Iron Sector.

* Shiera Targaryen's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Oswell Whent, who she reliberately speaks to like a child hone he tries to recapture her, asking if he's really blind to the reality of what Varys' revelations mean for the already demented Rheager.
--> '''Shiera'': [[PunctuatedForEmphasis His. Reign. Is. Over.]]

* An offscreen example happens when it's mentioned that the commander of the Varner Plains Garrison managed to drive away the invading Dornish fleet (who are incredibly high on victory and have little reason to be afraid of the Reach and its capabilities) with a ''bluff''.

** But Tywin does not get to escape... because Tysha Lannister comes into Tywin's flagship's bridge and proceeds to ''roast'' all the men within the ship, finally taking her long sought revenge on Tywin by sending demons to torture the Lannister patriarch for what seems to be a very long time.

* The first great battle between the North and the Others [[spoiler:ends up with victory for the North, as they manage to destroy most of their fleet, harm the ''Star Killer'' enough that the Others are forced to scuttle it and make the Enemy retreat.]]

* War of the Ten Warlords, Chapter 7's Epilogue. [[spoiler:Aegon's army assaults the Red Keep, and Aegon himself makes an appearance by killing Ser Baelor Staunton. That's not the awesome part: the awesome comes when ''Janos Slynt shoots Aegon in the neck''. He even has the time to shout "[[TheKingslayer I KILLED HIM! I KILLED THE KING!]]" before being killed himself!]]

* War of the Ten Warlords, Epilogue. [[spoiler:Aegon's army assaults the Red Keep, and Aegon himself makes an appearance by killing Ser Baelor Staunton. That's not the awesome part: the awesome comes when ''Janos Slynt shoots Aegon in the neck''. He even has the time to shout "[[TheKingslayer I KILLED HIM! I KILLED THE KING!]]" before being killed himself!]]

* Melisandre makes landfall on King's Landing and begins an arcane ritual to help breach the Walls of King's Landing said ritual backfires, killing most of her acolytes and essentially incapacitating her. The builder of said walls? Visenya Targaryen, the Sorceress-Queeen.

** The Battle of the Twins deserves special note. The Lannisters enter the system with four ships of the line, twelve battlecruisers, two armoured cruisers, twenty-four heavy cruisers, fifteen light cruisers, fifty scout cruisers, two fleet carriers, six light carriers, and twenty escort carriers; plus the transports carrying two entire armies (totaling roughly one-quarter of a million men). The Northerners (led by Roose Bolton) have one ship of the line, six battlecruisers, four armoured cruisers, thirteen heavy cruisers, about twenty light and scout cruisers, two light carriers, and nine escort carriers. The Lannister force is annihilated except for TWO heavy cruisers. The Boltons lose two heavy cruisers, three light cruisers, seven scout cruisers, a couple auxiliary ships, and some fighters. Total casualties in terms of manpower: Lannister, c.380,000; Bolton, less than 17,000. For reference, that's a kill-death ratio of 22-1 in the Northerners' favor.

* Justin Massey goes out like a hero. Despite being wounded by one of Mel's shadow assassins, he [[JustForPun single-handedly]] pilots his Behemoth towards a breech in the wall, intending to use it as a barricade. When that plan fails, he activates the self-destruct and takes over four hundred, ''thousand'' enemies into the afterlife with him.
* According to Joanna, the northern offense has enjoyed success beyond their wildest dreams, with their opponents so far inflicting less than one-tenth of those predicted by Northern analysts. And keep in mind, this is being done with only a small portion of the Northern fleet since the rest is bracing to fight the Others or garrisoning the planets of the Northern sector. Sansa is quite correct in saying that had the full Northern fleet been able to deploy against the south, the entire River Sector would probably be their by the current point (which is less than three weeks after the they began their offense).
** Joanna gets one on a personnel level when she takes up the sword Dawn and it glows in approval of its new mistress.

* According to Joanna, the northern offense has enjoyed success beyond their wildest dreams, with their opponents so far inflicting less than one-tenth of those predicted by Northern analysts.

* Justin Massey goes out like a hero. Despite being wounded by one of Mel's shadow assassins, he [[JustForPun single-handedly]] pilots his Behemoth towards a breech in the wall, intending to use it as a barricade. When that plan fails, he activates the self-destruct and takes over four hundred, ''thousand'' enemies into the afterlife with him.

* It's worth noting that is a few short weeks of competent rule, Viserys is able to almost completely secure the loyalty of King's Landing to the point that they're prepared to go down fighting against Aegon despite the likelihood of them being slaughtered due to having no orbital support.