History Awesome / TheLionTheWitchAndTheWardrobe

* Oreius, the centaur who serves as Peter's second-in-command, deserves special mention. He fights at his side for most of the battle, then he charges the White Witch alongside the aforementioned rhino. We have an amazing scene of them backing each other up as they charge toward her, demolishing any of her soldiers and guards who get in their way. He himself manages to take out Otmin and even trades a few shots with Jadis herself before getting turned to stone. Absolute badass [[DyingMomentOfAwesome to the very end.]] We salute you, General!

** To add to the above: Peter says that Edmund fought through ''three ogres'' to get to the Witch. Y'know, the huge, man-eating monsters of legend? Like ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' but murderous and evil? Friggin' ''THREE'' of them.

** He also has a serious BigBrotherInstinct moment. Peter is distracted fighting a Minotaur and the White Witch takes this opportunity to try to petrify him. [[https://youtu.be/nrUHFS6ipaw?t=78 Edmund gets to her first and breaks her wand, but gets stabbed for his troubles.]] Peter enters an UnstoppableRage, kills the Minotaur with a stab, charges the witch, [[OffhandBackhand slices the crap out of another Minotaur she orders to attack him]] and fights like...well, like this woman just killed his brother.

* The rhino charging the White Witch. He had to know he was about to die, but his king needed him, and he was damn well going to answer the call. This troper watched the scene most recently while on a treadmill and hit his maximum target heart rate four minutes into a cool-down!

[[caption-width-right:350:When Creator/CSLewis wrote [[HeManWomanHater the Devil as a woman]], he probably couldn't even have ''imagined'' the [[EvilIsCool awesomeness]] of Creator/TildaSwinton!]]

* A giant casually swinging away two Minotaurs with a single stroke.

* The centaur who serves as Peter's second-in-command. He fights at his side for most of the battle, then he charges the White Witch alongside the aforementioned rhino. We have an amazing scene of them backing each other up as they charge toward her, demolishing any of her soldiers and guards who get in their way. He himself manages to take out Jadis's Minotaur General and even trades a few shots with Jadis herself before getting turned to stone. Absolute badass [[DyingMomentOfAwesome to the very end.]] We salute you, Centaur!
** His name is Oreius! And he's the hero Narnia deserves! And gets restored by Aslan too, of course.

* Edmund is BoundAndGagged and being watched by Ginabrik. One storm later, Edmund is gone, and Ginabrik is taking his place!

* Susan may also have missed the battle, but when she sees Ginnabrik approaching the unconscious Edmund, out comes the bow, and down goes the dwarf in two seconds flat.

*** When the fox is distracting the wolves so they won't pursue the children and Beavers, Maugrim rushes past the fox and slips on the snow. The animators took extra steps like that to make it seem more like the CGI characters were really there interacting with their environment. When the wolf lets the fox go, there's a little puff of snow when he falls. The film looks all the better because of the work the artists and special effects artists did. The CGI artists also did an admirable job matching the CGI wolves' coats with the real wolves working in the film.
* No love for the red fox? He actually helps Aslan's war effort - and that includes lying to Maugrim's face, surrounded by wolves, about the human children's localization, ''while they are still around but hidden''.

* When Peter's horse is shot out under him and he crashes into the ground, Oreius immediately notices the look of panic on Edmund's face and immediately turns around to see his King's plight. He and a rhino nearby share a look and knowingly charge past Peter into the Queen's army in a suicide mission to buy him time to escape. The rhino ends up piledriving her army's front line before being cut down, enabling Oreius to inflict several critical casualties to the Queen's guard and nearly take her down himself.
* The rhino charging the White Witch. He had to know he was about to die, but his King needed him, and he was damn well going to answer the call. This troper watched the scene most recently while on a treadmill and hit his maximum target heart rate four minutes into a cool-down!

* The Professor gets Peter and Susan to at least start considering [[CassandraTruth Lucy's fantastic claims to be factual]] by pointing out that they themselves admit that Lucy is disinclined to lie or spin tales, that under any other circumstance, they'd believe her over Edmund and that there's no evidence proving her false (this is also in the film).
* Tumnus deciding to disobey the White Witches order and free Lucy TWICE - even though he knows what happens to people who get on her bad side. Then he runs into a pitched battle with no armor and no weapons as soon as Aslan frees him and reunites him with Lucy. He basically follows Edmund's same path only it's not focused on very much in the book.

** It's doubly awesome when you realise that Jadis is a tyrant who has ruled for a hundred years. The people in attendance have probably never heard anyone talk back to her. Aslan not only puts her in her place, but refuses to even call her a queen - reminding her that she's just a witch whose reign of terror is ending very soon.

* Lucy notices that after Aslan bargains with the witch, he looks sad. He wanders from the camp at night. She convinces Susan they need to investigate. While Aslan tells him that he needs to be alone, and they should head back to camp, he is touched by how much they care and can see how troubled they look. It's implied this is why he takes them along to rescue the victims of Jadis's stone curse.

* The four kids learn that Tumnus was arrested, and Lucy says ItsAllMyFault. What does Peter determine to do? Go on a rescue mission! The faun saved Lucy, and they must return the favor. When the Beavers intervene, Peter asks if there is a way to save Tumnus because they owe him and he's a good guy, and they could try a BavarianFireDrill. The Beavers have to tell them that rather than risk their lives, they should seek out Aslan.
* Mr. Beaver was prepared for the fact that Edmund would betray them to the witch. He orders the kids to start packing, and they'll go straight to the Stone Table.

* Edmund has an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome during the battle. At the beginning of the last chapter of the book, Peter recaps the battle to his sisters and explains how Edmund singlehandedly kept the battle from being lost until reinforcements arrived. Specifically, Edmund fought his way to Jadis and instead of trying to attack her, ''the mistake every other fighter was making'', he attacked her wand, shattering it and destroying her ability to turn people to stone, which gave the Peter's Narnians a fighting chance. This moment was so Badass that the Walden Media film put it on-screen for us to see...and it is ''glorious''!
** To add to the above: Peter says that Edmund fought through ''three ogres'' to get to the Witch. Y'know, the huge, man-eating monsters of legend? Like ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', but murderous and evil? Friggin' ''THREE'' of them.

* Edmund is BoundAndGagged, and being watched by Ginabrik. One storm later, Edmund is gone, and Ginabrik is taking his place!

* When we cut back to the battle, it appears the heroes have managed to hold their own against the first half of the Witch's army... only for the Witch to lead her remaining troops forward to finish the fight. Peter summons a phoenix which turns to flames and halts the Witch's advance. However, the Witch [[NoSell No Sells]] it and destroys the wall of flames, forcing the heroes to retreat.

* When Peter's horse is shot out under him and he crashes into the ground, Oreius immediately notices the look of panic on Edmund's face and immediately turns around to see his King's plight. Him and a rhino nearby share a look and knowingly charge past Peter into the Queen's army in a suicide mission to buy him time to escape. The rhino ends up pile driving her army's front line before being cut down, enabling Eoreius to inflict several critical casualties to the Queen's guard and nearly take her down himself.

* The centaur who serves as Peter's second in command. Fights at his side for most of the battle, charges the White Witch alongside the aforementioned rhino. We have an amazing scene of them backing each other up as they charge toward her, demolishing any of her soldiers and guards who get in their way. He himself manages to take out Jadis' Minotaur General and even trades a few shots with Jadis herself before getting turned to stone. Absolute badass [[DyingMomentOfAwesome to the very end.]] We salute you, Centaur!

* After Lucy gives Edmund the healing cordial - in contrast to the book, where Aslan has to remind her [[WhatTheHellHero that there are *other* wounded people on the field]] - she takes one look at it, realizes what she can do and eagerly rushes off to heal everyone she finds.

** Even more awesome in the film adaptation. Edmund is BoundAndGagged, and being watched by Ginabrik. One storm later, Edmund is gone, and Ginabrik is taking his place!
*** Shortly afterward, after Aslan negotiates with the White Witch for Edmund's life, there's this:
--->The Witch was just turning away with a look of fierce joy on her face when she stopped and said,
--->[[https://youtu.be/IwEke2WGgi8?t=187 "But how do I know this promise will be kept?"]]
--->"Haa-a-arrh!" roared Aslan, half rising from his throne; and his great mouth opened wider and wider and the roar grew louder and louder, and the Witch, after staring for a moment with her lips wide apart, picked up her skirts and fairly ran for her life.
* Tumnus deciding to disobey the White Witches order and free Lucy TWICE - even though he knows what happens to people who get on her bad side. Then he runs into a pitched battle with no armor and no weapons. This is better shown in the movie, but it's implied in the book too. He basically follows Edmund's same path only it's not focused on very much in the book.

* The Professor gets Peter and Susan to at least start considering [[CassandraTruth Lucy's fantastic claims to be factual]] by pointing out that they themselves admit that Lucy is disinclined to lie or spin tales, that under any other circumstance, they'd believe her over Edmund and that there's no evidence proving her false (this is also in the film).

* Lucy too. You fully expect her claims of a freaking forest inside the wardrobe to meet scorn. You also expect the older siblings to take her side regardless. What you don't expect is for her to ''get her snark on'' when she's proven right.
--> "It's all right. [[IronicEcho Some children just don't know when to stop pretending.]]"

*** When the fox is distracting the wolves so they won't pursue the children and Beavers, Maugrim rushes past the fox and slips on the snow. The animators took extra steps like that to make it seem more like the CGI characters were really there interacting with their environment. When the wolf lets the fox go, there's a little puff of snow when he falls. The film looks all the better because of the work the artists and special effects artists did. The CGI artists also did an admirable job matching the CGI wolves' coats with the real wolves working in the film.

* No love for the red fox? He actually helps Aslan's war effort - and that includes lying to Maugrim's face, surrounded by wolves, about the human children's localization, ''while they are still around but hidden''.
** When the wolves figure they have been played and bring him to the White Witch, the fox begs his ruler to forgive him. When the witch refuses to, the fox coldly answers he wasn't talking to ''her'' - while looking at ''Edmund'' next to her.
* When the siblings realize that Edmund has gone off to join the Witch, Peter and Susan start arguing, blaming each other for what's happened. Lucy yells at them to stop and points out calmly that arguing isn't going to help anything. Not only does she keep a level head despite being the very youngest, she avoids siding with either sibling and furthering the argument and both Peter and Susan silently acknowledge that she is right.
* The design team gets points for how the appearance of Santa Claus in the original book was handled here. In the earlier animated adaptation, the character was simply merged with Aslan, but here? Santa gets a complete makeover that makes him more resemble an old warrior who wouldn't feel out of place in Narnia while at the same time retaining his basic design aspects.
* Father Christmas tells the Beavers and Pevensies that he's been driving a sleigh longer than the Queen.

* Jadis tries to assert her authority over Aslan when she's brought to his camp. Aslan delivers a massive ShutUpHannibal - [[https://youtu.be/IwEke2WGgi8?t=64 "do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written."]]
** It's doubly awesome when you realise that Jadis is a tyrant who has ruled for a hundred years. The people in attendance have probably never heard anyone talk back to her. Aslan not only puts her in her place, but refuses to even call her a queen - reminding her that she's just a witch whose reign of terror is ending very soon.
** Jadis also tries to have the last say, [[https://youtu.be/IwEke2WGgi8?t=187 snarking "how do I know your promise to be kept?"]] and Aslan responds by roaring at her. In the animated version, she ''runs away in terror'' and in the 2005 film she's shocked into sitting down in her litter.
* In the book we don't know exactly how Maugrim ambushed the girls but here we see that they snuck up on them while they were playing at the river. Susan deserves major props for keeping her head, distracting Maugrim by throwing a towel at him and immediately blowing on the horn. She also gets herself and Lucy to safety up the tree immediately - and they are completely unhurt when Peter arrives.
** You can also see that Lucy is higher up in the tree. Susan clearly made sure Lucy was safe first before worrying about herself. And ensuring that if the wolves jump up to try and get them, they might get her but they won't get Lucy.
* Susan may also have missed the battle, but when she sees Ginnabrik approaching the unconscious Edmund, out comes the bow and down goes the dwarf in two seconds flat.
* After Lucy gives Edmund the healing cordial - in contrast to the book, where Aslan has to remind her [[WhatTheHellHero that there are *other* wounded people on the field]] - she takes one look at it, realises what she can do and eagerly rushes off to heal everyone she finds.

* When Peter's horse is shot out under him and he crashes into the ground, Oreius immediately notices the look of panic on Edmund's face and immediately turns around to see his King's plight. Him and a rhino nearby share a look and knowingly charge past Peter into the Queen's army in a suicide mission to buy him time to escape. They end up pile driving her front line and nearly take her down themselves.

* The centaur who serves as Peter's second in command. Fights at his side for most of the battle, charges the White Witch alongside the aforementioned rhino, takes out Jadis' Minotaur General and even trades a few shots with Jadis herself before getting turned to stone. Absolute badass [[DyingMomentOfAwesome to the very end.]] We salute you, Centaur!
** His name is Oreius! And he's the hero Narnia deserves! And gets restored by Aslan too, of course.

** He also has a serious BigBrotherInstinct moment. Peter is distracted fighting a Minotaur and the White Witch takes this opportunity to try to petrify him. Edmund gets to her first and breaks her wand, but gets stabbed for his troubles. Peter enters an UnstoppableRage, kills the Minotaur with a stab, charges the witch, [[OffhandBackhand slices the crap out of another Minotaur she orders to attack him]] and fights like...well, like this woman just killed his sibling.

* When the siblings realise that Edmund has gone to join the witch, Peter and Susan start arguing, blaming each other for what's happened. Lucy yells at them to stop and points out calmly that arguing isn't going to help anything. Not only does she keep a level head despite being the very youngest, she avoids siding with either sibling and furthering the argument and both Peter and Susan silently acknowledge that she is right.

* Jadis tries to assert her authority over Aslan when she's brought to his camp. Aslan delivers a massive ShutUpHannibal - "do not cite the Deep Magic to me, witch. I was there when it was written."

** Jadis also tries to have the last word, snarking "how do I know this promise will be upheld?" and Aslan responds by roaring at her. In the animated version, she ''runs away in terror'' and in the 2005 film she's shocked into sitting down in her litter.

--->"But how do I know this promise will be kept?"

** Otmin also makes a smart move in not necessarily leading from the front, since he knows that as the general, he's more valuable than the other foot soldiers, and he knows that Aslan's soldiers will be charing spear-first, so why put himself at immediate risk?

* A Meta example on the part of the CGI artists. When the fox is distracting the wolves so they won't pursue the children and Beavers, Maugrim rushes past the fox and slips on the snow. The animators took extra steps like that to make it seem more like the CGI characters were really there interacting with their environment. When the wolf lets the fox go, there's a little puff of snow when he falls. The film looks all the better because of the work the artists and special effects artists did. The CGI artists also did an admirable job matching the CGI wolves' coats with the real wolves that were running around in the scenes involving them. The same goes for making CGI Aslan look so detailed.

* In the middle of the final battle, the White Witch is using her wand to petrify most of the good Narnians. Edmund, a little boy with only a few days' worth of sword training, jumps down on her and smashes the wand himself.

** Even better, he's outright aiming for it. Edmund ''realizes'' the advantage that it gives her. By taking away the wands power, he's forcing her to rely on martial prowess instead of her magic, which only Aslan himself had the ability to counter. He's notably the only one shown outright trying to destroy the wand.

** He also has a serious BigBrotherInstinct moment. Peter is distracted fighting a minotaur and the White Witch takes this opportunity to try to petrify him. Edmund gets to her first, breaks her wand, but gets stabbed for his troubles. Peter enters an UnstoppableRage, kills the minotaur with a stab, charges the witch, [[OffhandBackhand slices the crap out of another minotaur she orders to attack him]] and fights like...well, like this woman just killed his sibling.

* A giant casually swinging away two minotaurs with a single stroke.
* The rhino charging the White Witch. He had to know he was about to die, but his King needed him, and he was damn well going to answer the call. This troper watched the scene most recently while on a treadmill and hit his maximum target heartrate four minutes into a cooldown!

* The centaur who serves as Peter's second in command. Fights at his side for most of the battle, charges the White Witch alongside the aforementioned rhino, takes out Jadis' minotaur General and even trades a few shots with Jadis herself before getting turned to stone. Absolute badass [[DyingMomentOfAwesome to the very end.]] We salute you, Centaur!

* Edmund has an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome during the battle. At the beginning of the last chapter of the book, Peter recaps the battle to his sisters and explains how Edmund singlehandedly kept the battle from being lost until reinforcements arrived. Specifically, Edmund fought his way to Jadis and instead of trying to attack her, ''the mistake every other fighter was making'', he attacked her wand, shattering it and destroying her ability to turn people to stone, which gave the Peter's Narnians a fighting chance.