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* A rather dark example, but Piper [[spoiler:taking revenge on Stella for stealing her money by filling her bunk with contraband. And then placing a tip in with the guards, ensuring that she gets sent to Max. It's a vicious and cold-hearted move and Piper's unemotional stare while showing her new "Trust No Bitch" tattoo really sells it.
-->Piper: I don't fuck around. Let the people know.]]

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* A rather dark example, but Piper [[spoiler:taking revenge on Stella for stealing her money by filling her bunk with contraband. And then placing a tip in with the guards, ensuring that she gets sent to Max. It's a vicious and cold-hearted move and Piper's unemotional stare while showing her new "Trust No Bitch" tattoo really sells it.
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-->[[spoiler:Piper:
I don't fuck around. Let the people know.]]

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* A rather dark example, but Piper [[spoiler:taking revenge on Stella for stealing her money by filling her bunk with contraband. And then placing a tip in with the guards, ensuring that she gets sent to Max. It's a vicious and cold-hearted move and Piper's unemotional stare while showing her new "Trust No Bitch" tattoo really sells it.]]

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* A rather dark example, but Piper [[spoiler:taking revenge on Stella for stealing her money by filling her bunk with contraband. And then placing a tip in with the guards, ensuring that she gets sent to Max. It's a vicious and cold-hearted move and Piper's unemotional stare while showing her new "Trust No Bitch" tattoo really sells it.it.
-->Piper: I don't fuck around. Let the people know.
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* A rather dark example, but Piper [[spoiler:taking revenge on Stella for stealing her money by filling her bunk with contraband. And then placing a tip in with the guards, ensuring that she gets sent to Max. It's a vicious and cold-hearted move and Piper's unemotional stare while showing her new "Trust No Bitch" tattoo really sells it.]]
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** Boo is pretty much made of Awesome in Season 3, especially the way she stands up for Doggett after [[spoiler: a guard rapes Pennsatucky]].
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1: She said this to a homophobic lunatic who wanted to use her \"conversion\" as propaganda to \"convert\" other gay people. 2: She neither physically assaulted him nor threatened to kill him.

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** From the same episode: "Suck my big, fat, [[NWordPrivileges DYKE]], DICK, YOU FUCKING, HATEFUL, PIECE, OF, SHIT!!!!"
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Physically assaulting and threatening to kill someone over a random insult isn\'t cool and isn\'t awesome.


** From the same episode: "Suck my big, fat, [[NWordPriveleges DYKE]], DICK, YOU FUCKING, PIECE, OF, SHIT!!!!"
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* Chang's character development. Until this season, we know her as the LadyLooksLikeADude introverted Chinese woman who occasionally opened her mouth to make crass remarks. Well: [[spoiler: she was a Chinese immigrant who spoke no English, was pushed around by her family too much- even to the point where ''her own family'' attempted to coerce her into an arranged marraige just for their own personal gain. She took to illegal sales with a friend of hers, and after one night of being ripped off, grew a fucking spine and made it her initiative to take no prisoners and fuck up whoever got in her way]]. BewareTheQuietOnes, indeed.
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* Norma finally asserting a degree of independence after a lifetime as a perpetual shrinking violet by [[spoiler: quitting her long-held position as Red's underling.]]

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* Norma finally asserting a degree of independence after a lifetime as a perpetual shrinking violet ShrinkingViolet by [[spoiler: quitting her long-held position as Red's underling.]]
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* Norma finally asserting a degree of independence after a lifetime as a perpetual shrinking violet by [[spoiler: quitting her long-held position as Red's underling.]]
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** From the same episode: "Suck my big, fat, [[NWordPriveleges DYKE]], DICK, YOU FUCKING, PIECE, OF, SHIT!!!!"
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!!Season Three:

* ''Finger in the Dyke'', when Carrie gives her father an epic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech for not accepting her as she is.
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* Piper scaring a girl straight without acting, exaggerating, or threatening her. All she does is give an honest, disturbingly calm assessment of what prison can do to your emotional well-being and sense of self-worth, and it's enough to render not just the girl she's talking to but all the other students, inmates, and staff members in the vicinity completely speechless.
---> '''Chapman''': I'm like you Deana. I'm weak too. I can't get through this without somebody to touch, without somebody to love. Is that because sex numbs the pain, or because I'm an evil fuckmonster, I don't know. But what I do know, I was somebody before I came in here. I was somebody with a life that I chose for myself. And now? Now it's just about getting through the day without crying. And I'm scared. I'm still scared. I'm scared that I'm not myself in here, and I'm scared that I am. Other people aren't the scariest part of prison, Deana. It's coming face to face with [[WhatYouAreInTheDark who you really are]]. Because once you're behind these walls, there's nowhere to run, even if you could. The truth catches up with you in here, Deana, and it's the truth that's gonna make you her bitch.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaO3WChCSio Piper scaring a girl straight straight]] without acting, exaggerating, or threatening her. All she does is give an honest, disturbingly calm assessment of what prison can do to your emotional well-being and sense of self-worth, and it's enough to render not just the girl she's talking to but all the other students, inmates, and staff members in the vicinity completely speechless.
---> '''Chapman''': I'm like you Deana. I'm weak too. I can't get through this without somebody to touch, without somebody to love. Is that because sex numbs the pain, or because I'm an evil fuckmonster, I don't know. But what I do know, I was somebody before I came in here. I was somebody with a life that I chose for myself. And now? Now it's just about getting through the day without crying. And I'm scared. I'm still scared. I'm scared that I'm not myself in here, and I'm scared that I am. Other people aren't the scariest part of prison, Deana. It's coming face to face with [[WhatYouAreInTheDark who you really are]]. Because once you're behind these walls, there's nowhere to run, even if you could. The truth catches up with you in here, Deana, and it's the truth that's gonna make you her bitch. (walks out)
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* ''Pornstache'' manages to score one, when [[spoiler:he is escorted out of the prison for getting an inmate pregnant (well, not really, but everyone thinks so): he is completely unmoved by the fact he's getting arrested, leaves the prison with his head held high and only cares about the woman he loves and "his" unborn baby, yelling in front of the staff and inmates that he is not ashamed of Daya, he loves her and will take care of her and the baby when he returns. Even better -- that was exactly what Daya wanted from Bennett, the actual father of her baby.]]
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* [[spoiler: Taystee, Poussey, Janae and Cindy all turning on Vee, berating her and letting her know that she is now in a prison full of people out to get her, with no one to back her up.]]

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* [[spoiler: Taystee, Poussey, Janae and Cindy all turning on Vee, berating her and letting her know that she is she's now in a prison full of people out to get her, with no one to back her up.]]



* The KarmicDeath of [[spoiler:Arturo, Gloria's abusive boyfriend, who is trapped in a room after he knocks over a candle and is burned to death.]]
* Rosa's [[spoiler: final escape, ESPECIALLY getting to run down the big bad of the season]].

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* The KarmicDeath of [[spoiler:Arturo, Gloria's abusive boyfriend, who is who's trapped in a room after he knocks over a candle and is burned to death.]]
* Rosa's [[spoiler: final escape, ESPECIALLY getting to run down the big bad especially when she makes roadkill out of the season]].
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* In 'Tit Punch', even though it landed her in jail, Red punching the woman who made fun of her in her breast implant.
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* Piper ends up sharing a cubicle with Claudette, one of the oldest convicts there who is extremely strict about the conduct of her roommates. After having a bad day, Piper finally tells her to lay off. She launches into a tirade about all of the things she's had to deal with since coming to prison, and asks her to cut her some slack. As she walks off, Claudette slowly smiles to herself.
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* [[spoiler: Taystee, Poussey, Janae and Cindy all turning on Vee, berating her and letting her know that she is now in a prison full of people out to get her, with no one to back her up.]]
--> '''Black Cindy''': We about to recant our shit.

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* Morello cursing Vee to her face; "May you never have a moment of peace."

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* Morello cursing Vee to her face; face;
--->'''Morello''':
"May you never ''never'' have a moment of minute a' peace."
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* MusicOfAwesome : The theme by Regina Spektor. Doubles as an EarWorm.

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* MusicOfAwesome : [[AwesomeMusic The theme by Regina Spektor. Spektor.]] Doubles as an EarWorm.
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* When the prisoners meet the juvenile girls, Crazy Eyes quotes Shakespeare at them. It's amazing and terrifying.

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* When the prisoners meet the juvenile girls, Crazy Eyes Suzanne quotes Shakespeare at them. It's amazing and terrifying.
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Justifying Edit has a point, it\'s gross to call Sexual Extortion awesome.


* After two seasons of being pushed around by her, watching [[spoiler: Caputo get revenge on Figueroa is satisfying. It's a true KickTheSonOfABitch moment as he [[SexualExtortion manipulates her into giving him a blowjob so he won't tell the warden that she was embezzling money only to reveal he already did it after she finished up.]]]]
** YMMV on this being {{Awesome}} - some may argue there is nothing awesome in taking down a weak, heartbroken, vulnerable Figueroa, even after all she did. [[InsideJoke Staff, they're people too!]]
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** Adding to the CMOA is that Piper enlists [[spoiler:Polly and Larry into getting Alex thrown back into prison. Larry rightly guesses that part of Piper's motivation is to get Alex back in with her, and it's not quite a reconciliation between them, but Piper points out that it gives them a chance to screw over someone they don't like.]]



** On the other hand, Polly's deflection reflects an already-twisted message of the show: that we can't choose who we love and it just sort of happens (which, as we've already been shown, is true for [[spoiler:Piper and Alex]]). And [[CrowningMomentOfFunny her vagina ''did'' bounce back]].



* MusicOfAwesome : The theme by Regina Spektor. Doubles as an EarWorm.

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** YMMV on this being {{Awesome}} - some may argue there is nothing awesome in taking down a weak, heartbroken, vulnerable Figueroa, even after all she did. [[InsideJoke Staff, they're people too!]]
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* Morello cursing Vee to her face; "May you never have a moment of peace."
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** [[spoiler: It's more likely that Claudette was only arrested for running the illegal child labor operation and not the murder.]]
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* Piper's [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech verbal beatdown]] of [[spoiler: Polly and Larry]] pretty much said what the audience was thinking at that moment.

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* Piper's [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech verbal beatdown]] of [[spoiler: Polly and Larry]] pretty much said what some of the audience was thinking at that moment.
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* [[spoiler: It's more likely that Claudette was only arrested for running the illegal child labor operation and not the murder.]]

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* ** [[spoiler: It's more likely that Claudette was only arrested for running the illegal child labor operation and not the murder.]]
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* [[spoiler: It''s more likely that Claudette was only arrested for running the illegal child labor operation and not the murder.]]

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* [[spoiler: It''s It's more likely that Claudette was only arrested for running the illegal child labor operation and not the murder.]]
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* [[spoiler: It''s more likely that Claudette was only arrested for running the illegal child labor operation and not the murder.]]

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