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* In "And the Eternal Question", Ezekiel and Jake fighting off three vampires ''with their hands tied.'' Then nine more vampires rush onto the scene, they're surrounded and about to die...and Jenkins shows up and singlehandedly massacres all twelve with a pair of iron swords!

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* In "And the Eternal Question", Ezekiel and Jake fighting off three vampires ''with their hands tied.'' Then nine more vampires rush onto the scene, they're surrounded and about to die...and Jenkins shows up and singlehandedly massacres all twelve with a pair of iron swords! Afterwards, he's not even breathing hard.
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* Flynn's EstablishingCharacterMoment in the show - he pops up out of nowhere, thoroughly confuses everyone present (Baird and a couple of terrorists), walks Baird through disarming a live and ticking nuclear weapon while he disarms a booby trap on an ancient magical artifact's containment case and she engages in a gun battle with the terrorists, manages to count the shots one of them fires from an automatic weapon, and then leaves before anyone can get any idea of what's going on.

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* Flynn's EstablishingCharacterMoment in the show - he pops up out of nowhere, thoroughly confuses everyone present (Baird and a couple of terrorists), walks Baird through disarming a live and ticking nuclear weapon while he disarms a booby trap on an ancient magical artifact's containment case and she engages in a gun battle with the terrorists, manages to count the shots one of them fires from an automatic weapon, and then leaves before anyone can get any idea of what's going on.on (disappearing while Eve's back is turned, naturally).
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** Eve's whole plan, playing the General, the rest of DOSA, and a millennia-old Egyptian god like chumps with absolutely zero apparent effort.

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** Eve's whole plan, playing the General, the rest of DOSA, and a millennia-old Egyptian god like chumps with absolutely zero apparent effort.effort.
** The fact that Flynn has apparently had the longest tenure as a Librarian ''in the history of the Library.''
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** And after the [=LITs=] release him and get him back to the Library, he damn near kills Eve in a fit of anger before she explains the FakeDefector bit that she and Flynn had cooked up. Not even a Guardian is a match for a truly angry Jenkins.

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** And after the [=LITs=] release him and get him back to the Library, he damn near kills Eve in a fit of anger before she explains the FakeDefector bit that she and Flynn had cooked up. Not even a Guardian is a match for a truly angry Jenkins.Jenkins.
** Jacob figuring out, with a bit of help from Ezekiel and Cassandra, the way to release Jenkins: There's no pictogram he can't solve, no math equation Cassandra can't figure out, no lock Ezekiel can't pick. So the answers have to be ''the exact opposite'' of what the Librarians would expect it to be.
** Eve's whole plan, playing the General, the rest of DOSA, and a millennia-old Egyptian god like chumps with absolutely zero apparent effort.
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** The reveal that DOSA planted Eve in the Library as a sleeper agent, putting out the information about the artifact Flynn retrieved all the way back in episode 1 so that they would meet and recruit her.
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*** It's also clear how much his fighting skills have improved in just a couple months; his strikes are much more precise, focused, and efficient. The choreography alone speaks to how much he's gotten better.
** Later, he ''snatches three moving darts in midair.''

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* In a combination of this trope and Heartwarming, Eve and the Librarians performing an intervention on Flynn to force him to remember that he's part of a team.

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* In a combination of this trope and Heartwarming, Eve and the Librarians performing an intervention on Flynn to force him to remember that he's part of a team. It involves handcuffing him to a chair, tying his shoelaces together, and long lists of his faults.


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* "And the Fatal Separation" has Flynn breaking himself and Stone out of a store cupboard with a bit of MacGyvering that would do the trope namer proud.
** Stone showing off his martial arts proficiency by fighting off a series of ninjas. Even when he gets hit with a blowpipe dart, he ''still'' manages to fight off a few more before falling into the water.
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* Jenkins singlehandedly massacres a dozen vampires with a pair of iron swords in "And the Eternal Question", pulling a BigDamnHeroes to rescue Jake and Ezekiel to boot!

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* Jenkins singlehandedly massacres a dozen vampires with a pair of iron swords in In "And the Eternal Question", pulling a BigDamnHeroes to rescue Jake and Ezekiel and Jake fighting off three vampires ''with their hands tied.'' Then nine more vampires rush onto the scene, they're surrounded and about to boot!die...and Jenkins shows up and singlehandedly massacres all twelve with a pair of iron swords!
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* In a combination of this trope and Heartwarming, Eve and the Librarians performing an intervention on Flynn to force him to remember that he's part of a team.
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** Another bit of loophole abuse is that Cess states anyone trying to interfere with it will be killed...so who rescues the Librarians? Jenkins, of course.
-->'''Cess''': It cannot kill what's immortal!
-->'''Jenkins''': (winking) Now you're getting it.
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** When he's subjected to a series of questions from the head Jotun, trying to figure out which is the real Finkelstein, Stone does enormously well just going off what he's observed and his knowledge of mythology.
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* How do Eve and Flynn get back to the future? They get Shakespeare to use his magic pen one more time, turning them both into statues until they hear Cassandra's voice, and leaving a note in the door that won't be visible (thanks to oxidation) for four hundred years.
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* Prospero weaving Eve, Moriarity, Stone, Cassandra, and Jones into a narrative spell is awesome enough as it is. But what really takes the cake is when Flynn breaks all the others free...only for Eve to realize that ''he's'' under a spell too, but so subtle that he would never have realized.

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* Cassandra taking on a SerialKiller ''and winning''!

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* Cassandra taking on a SerialKiller a couple of centuries old ''and winning''!


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* Flynn awesomely outmaneuvers Prospero in "And the Broken Staff." Flynn tells Prospero that he'll never tell him which tree is the Tree of Knowledge... at which point Prospero feints in one direction, and Flynn reacts as if to stop him. Convinced he's found the Tree of Knowledge, Prospero snaps a branch off to forge into a new staff, but then Flynn flings Zeus' Lightning Bolt from his jacket and incinerates the tree. From Prospero's view, the Tree of Knowledge has been destroyed, so he takes his leave of the Library since there's nothing left for him to gain. Flynn then reveals that the ''actual'' Tree of Knowledge is a different one entirely.
** Eve snatched Prospero's pocket watch containing Ariel and dangles it over a cliff. When Moriarity claims that he can simply dive after it, she points out that Fictionals can still be defeated by something that happened in their story...and the other time he dove off a cliff didn't exactly end well for him. Moriarity can only concede the point, and tries a different tack.
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** Meta example for John Larroquette, as WordOfGod was that he handled most of the filming for that fight himself.
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* "And the Reunion of Evil". Stone manages to drive off Finkelstein in the ice cave and hold his own against Frost giants in a slew of games. Competing head to head with Jotun is something usually reserved for Gods and Epic heroes.

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!!Season 2




!!Season 3



** And after the LITs release him and get him back to the Library, he damn near kills Eve in a fit of anger before she explains the FakeDefector bit that she and Flynn had cooked up. Not even a Guardian is a match for a truly angry Jenkins.

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** And after the LITs [=LITs=] release him and get him back to the Library, he damn near kills Eve in a fit of anger before she explains the FakeDefector bit that she and Flynn had cooked up. Not even a Guardian is a match for a truly angry Jenkins.
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** Ezekiel taking the apple from under Flynn's very nose. He also deduces that it was [[spoiler: Drake]] who stole the pearl from the Eastern Dragons, thus preventing a draconic war from breaking out.

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** Ezekiel taking the apple from under Flynn's very nose. He also deduces that it was [[spoiler: Drake]] Drake who stole the pearl from the Eastern Dragons, thus preventing a draconic war from breaking out.



* Baird punching [[spoiler: Morgan Le Fay]] so hard, [[spoiler:her]] teeth get bloody.

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* Baird punching [[spoiler: Morgan Le Fay]] Fay so hard, [[spoiler:her]] her teeth get bloody.



* Dulaque and Jenkins' sword duel at the climax of "And the Loom of Fate". What makes this even better is that Dulaque's alterations to the Loom have de-aged him to his prime [[spoiler: as Sir Lancelot]], while Jenkins is still an old man...and he ''still'' holds his own, even beating Dulaque.

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* Dulaque and Jenkins' sword duel at the climax of "And the Loom of Fate". What makes this even better is that Dulaque's alterations to the Loom have de-aged him to his prime [[spoiler: as Sir Lancelot]], Lancelot, while Jenkins is still an old man...and he ''still'' holds his own, even beating Dulaque.



* Stone figuring out that the [[spoiler: primary]] portrait was a fake, realizing that the colors were too new looking at a moment's glance.

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* Stone figuring out that the [[spoiler: primary]] primary portrait was a fake, realizing that the colors were too new looking at a moment's glance.



* In the "Wrath of Chaos" when the librarians [[spoiler: turn Apep into a human so he can be sacrificed instead of Flynn]]

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* In the "Wrath of Chaos" when the librarians [[spoiler: turn Apep into a human so he can be sacrificed instead of Flynn]]Flynn.
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** They then turn him to stone using Medusa's head, which is actually a testimony to just how dangerous they consider Jenkins. They have a large number of highly armed soldiers, and even they're afraid to JustShootHim, so they have to resort to turning him to stone.

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** They then turn him to stone using Medusa's head, which is actually a testimony to just how dangerous they consider Jenkins. They have a large number of highly armed soldiers, and even they're afraid to JustShootHim, so they have to resort to turning him to stone.stone.
** And after the LITs release him and get him back to the Library, he damn near kills Eve in a fit of anger before she explains the FakeDefector bit that she and Flynn had cooked up. Not even a Guardian is a match for a truly angry Jenkins.
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* In the "Wrath of Chaos" when the librarians [[spoiler: turn Apep into a human so he can be sacrificed instead of Flynn]]

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* In the "Wrath of Chaos" when the librarians [[spoiler: turn Apep into a human so he can be sacrificed instead of Flynn]]Flynn]]
* DOSA confronts Jenkins, with Colonel Rockwell describes him as "ornery".
--> '''Jenkins''': That's just for my friends. For you and your little back-up singers here, I'm willing to get downright '''nasty'''.
** They then turn him to stone using Medusa's head, which is actually a testimony to just how dangerous they consider Jenkins. They have a large number of highly armed soldiers, and even they're afraid to JustShootHim, so they have to resort to turning him to stone.
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** Meta example for John Larroquette, as WordOfGod was that he handled most of the filming for that fight himself.
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** BruceCampbell as Santa. Nuff Said.

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** BruceCampbell Creator/BruceCampbell as Santa. Nuff Said.
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* Jenkins singlehandedly massacres a dozen vampires with a pair of iron swords in "And the Eternal Question", pulling a BigDamnHeroes to rescue Jake and Ezekiel to boot!

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* Jenkins singlehandedly massacres a dozen vampires with a pair of iron swords in "And the Eternal Question", pulling a BigDamnHeroes to rescue Jake and Ezekiel to boot!boot!
* In the "Wrath of Chaos" when the librarians [[spoiler: turn Apep into a human so he can be sacrificed instead of Flynn]]
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* Stone figuring out that the [[spoiler: primary]] portrait was a fake, realizing that the colors were too new looking at a moment's glance.

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* Stone figuring out that the [[spoiler: primary]] portrait was a fake, realizing that the colors were too new looking at a moment's glance.glance.
* Jenkins singlehandedly massacres a dozen vampires with a pair of iron swords in "And the Eternal Question", pulling a BigDamnHeroes to rescue Jake and Ezekiel to boot!
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** Earlier, Baird takes on the Minotaur with nothing more than her guts and her handgun. She wins.
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* Flynn's EstablishingCharacterMoment in the show - he pops up out of nowhere, thoroughly confuses everyone present (Baird and a couple of terrorists), walks Baird through disarming a live and ticking nuclear weapon while he disarms a booby trap on an ancient magical artifact's containment case and she engages in a gun battle with the terrorists, manages to count the shots one of them fires from an automatic weapon, and then leaves before anyone can get any idea of what's going on.
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* Stone figuring out that the [[spoiler: primary]] portrait was a fake, realizing that the colors were too old at a moment's glance.

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* Stone figuring out that the [[spoiler: primary]] portrait was a fake, realizing that the colors were too old new looking at a moment's glance.
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* Baird pulls a bit of LoopholeAbuse in "And the Infernal Contract", turning the devil "Cess" into a human. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny for his double-take.

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* Baird pulls a bit of LoopholeAbuse in "And the Infernal Contract", turning the devil "Cess" into a human. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny for his double-take.double-take.
* Stone figuring out that the [[spoiler: primary]] portrait was a fake, realizing that the colors were too old at a moment's glance.
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* Baird pulls a RuleBreakingWish in "And the Infernal Contract", turning the devil "Cess" into a human. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny for his double-take.

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* Baird pulls a RuleBreakingWish bit of LoopholeAbuse in "And the Infernal Contract", turning the devil "Cess" into a human. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny for his double-take.
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-->'''Stone''': I know they're all you, so go ahead and bring on whoever you want!

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-->'''Stone''': I know they're all you, so go ahead and bring on whoever you want!want!
* Baird pulls a RuleBreakingWish in "And the Infernal Contract", turning the devil "Cess" into a human. Doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny for his double-take.

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