History Awesome / TheMagicRoundabout

!! The 2005 film
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[[caption-width-right:300:Dylan doesn't believe in violence, but only in self-defence with martial arts.]]
* After the opera concert was suddenly turned into a rock concert, Dylan singing his cover of "You Really Got Me" by the Kinks was pretty splendid. He even dances alongside Ermintrude since their share the same passion for music.
* Mr. Rusty has his moment of awesome in the beginning when he tries to rescue Florence and the children who are on the Magic Roundabout, which was spinning rapidly out of control after Dougal accidentally crashed the sugar cart into it. He doesn't hesitate to jump onto the roundabout and tries to shut it down in the main controls.
** Although he may have failed to stop the roundabout and getting trapped with Florence and the children when the roundabout freezes over, it was still awesome enough for Mr. Rusty, even for his age, to instantly come to the rescue as he cares more for the children's safety than the roundabout.
* Brian immediately coming to Ermintrude's rescue when Zeebad pulls her by the tail to try and stop her from rescuing Dougal. He leaps in Zeebad's lair and bites Zeebad on the arm to make him let go. Though he faces Zeebad's fury by being grabbed by the scarf, he was instantly rescued by Dylan by pulling him to safety.
* The battle between Zebedee and Zeebad, and even casting their [[BeamOWar respective beams of magic]] towards each other, until Zeebad defeats Zebedee and has him trapped in ice.
** The moment when Dougal spots Zebedee trapped in ice, he and the gang don't hesitate to turn around and try and rescue him from Zeebad.
* Brian standing up to Zeebad and defending Dylan when he demands Dylan to give him the map. Brian doesn't back down from Zeebad's wrath until Ermintrude steps in to defend Brian before giving the map to Zeebad just to get him out of the gang's hair.
* Upon encountering the booby traps in the temple's entrance, Brian decides to go in first, unknowingly setting off all the booby traps. Despite this, he gets through unscathed. That is, when a large rock falls, seemingly crushing him, to everyone's shock. But it turns out that the rock landed in front of him as he came out from behind unharmed. Ermintrude's response about Brian going through the booby traps completely unharmed?
-->'''Ermintrude:''' I never thought I'd say it, but... what a snail!
* [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Dylan going into full badass mode]] with different forms of martial arts to take down the gang of ferocious skeletons who burst into the temple (due to Dougal accidentally tripping the laser beams with his gobstopper), and even succeed without even dosing off one bit.
-->'''Ermintrude:''' I don't suppose anyone knows anything about martial arts.\\
'''Dylan:''' Just the basics of, like, kung fu, karate, judo, kendo, tae kwon do, anything-you-can-do and... tai chi.\\
'''Dougal:''' [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Ooh, do they come with egg-fried rice?]]\\
'''Brian:''' Dylan, can you beat them up?\\
'''Dylan:''' Sorry, I don't believe in violence. ''(He grabs a skeleton who tries to attack from behind and hurls him to a column, shattering him into pieces upon impact)'' Except in self-defence.
** Ermintrude herself also helps Dylan out by tapping on one skeleton's shoulder where he was going to attack Dylan from behind and whacks her hoof into the skeleton's skull, sending him flying and shattering into pieces.
-->'''Ermintrude:''' I'm not just another pretty face!
* Dougal managing to defeat the combined skeleton in the temple by pressing a button on the throne which activates the trapdoor below the skeleton, causing him to fall through into the mines.
-->'''Ermintrude:''' That was quick thinking, Dougal.\\
'''Dougal:''' Yeah, well, if you keep your cool and don't run around like a headless chicken.
** He activates the trapdoor again under Ermintrude's command to get rid of Zeebad and Solider Sam when they are advancing on the gang after Zeebad took the second diamond and demanding the whereabouts of the third diamond.
* The usually laidback Dylan snapping (or as WebVideo/MediaHunter puts it, "breaking out of hippie mode") long enough to throw a snowball at Zeebad, which then leads into the final battle.
-->'''Dylan:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis This guy... is SERIOUSLY... MESSING... with my... KARMA!!]] Eat THIS, you jumped-up jack-in-the-box! ''(UK dub)'' / This guy... is ''seriously''... messing with... the wrong... BUNNY!! Eat this, you twisted jack-in-the-box FREAK! ''(US dub)''
* Creator/BillNighy voicing Dylan in the UK dub is awesome in general, as he really makes him one of the best characters in the movie.
* [[HeelFaceTurn Soldier Sam]] [[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal turning against Zeebad for leaving him for dead]], and attempting to attack him. He fails, but kudos for trying.
* Ermintrude using her singing at a high note to shatter most of the ice on the frozen roundabout under Dougal and Brian's request after the former discovered the way to free the children upon seeing a crack forming in the ice as a result of Ermintrude screaming loudly when Zeebad zaps her tail.
* The final battle where the gang outsmart Zeebad by stealing back the two diamonds and place them in their respective slots.
** When Zeebad has got hold of the third diamond once again and is about to reclaim his victory, Dylan tries to use the magic box, but it fails. Just as Zeebad is ready to secure his victory while mocking him on how Zebedee's toys won't save them now, [[BigDamnHeroes Train suddenly shows up just in time and runs Zeebad over from behind,]] knocking the diamond free from his grasp, giving Dougal the chance to defeat the ice wizard once and for all.
** Dougal bravely going after the third diamond as it flies in the air whilst dodging Zeebad's attacks, all in slow motion. He then leaps in the air and uses his head to knock the third diamond into its slot, activating its magic from the roundabout as they thaw the world and the sun back to normal whilst dragging Zeebad, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere who's trying to escape]], back into his prison through the roundabout.
-->'''Dougal''': I'll get it! I got us into this mess and I'll get us out!
** Even after spending the film being a bit of a LazyBum and did screw up a few times which caused Zeebad to go further ahead with his evil plan, Dougal nevertheless courageously goes after the diamond himself, wanting to re-imprison Zeebad to reverse everything that he caused after accidentally releasing him.

** Dougal charges his way to go after the third diamond as it flies in the air whilst dodging Zeebad's attacks. He then leaps in the air and uses his head to knock the third diamond into its slot. This activates the magic from the roundabout as they melt all the ice around the roundabout, the village, and the rest of the world along with the sun. Then, the magic grabs Zeebad, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere who's trying to escape]], and sucks him back into the roundabout before restoring it back to normal.

* [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass Dylan going into full badass mode]] with different forms of martial arts to take down the gang of ferocious skeletons who burst into the temple (due to Dougal accidentally tripping the laser beams with his gobstopper), and even succeed without breaking a sweat.

** Dougal charging his way to go after the third diamond as it flies in the air whilst dodging Zeebad's attacks. He then leaps in the air and uses his head to knock the third diamond into its slot. This activates the magic from the roundabout as they melt all the ice around the roundabout, the village and the rest of the world along with the sun. Then, the magic grabs Zeebad, [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere who's trying to escape]] and suck him back into the roundabout before restoring it back to normal.

* Florence, upon taking Zebedee's advice on to capture the stubborn and smelly Dougal, sets up a plan to lure Dougal in "Dougal's Bad Smell Day". She shows her plan to everyone where she will be leaving the trifle as bait for him and when he comes, the cage will drop on him. Everyone agrees to the idea (with Ermintrude calling her a genius) and they all work with her plan. It almost works, but they failed to capture Dougal (due to Dylan, who's holding the rope for the cage, drifting off to sleep).
** [[IWarnedYou Although Brian states that he knew the plan would end in failure]], Florence responds by saying "I'm not sure about that, Brian." which implies that Florence knows what is going to happen to Dougal afterwards. And it turns out that eating the trifle had made Dougal really sleepy and when he falls asleep, Florence and everyone else quietly take Dougal away and give him a bath when he wakes up.
* In "The Thingy", Dougal managing to find the titular object (that he buried after he foolishly took it from the roundabout) despite getting himself stuck in the hole. Florence can see that Dougal is in trouble and uses a vacuuming device to try and rescue him. Although Brian may have accidentally blasted him and the object all the way to Australia, Dougal manages to return to the gardens with the thingy just as Florence rescues him.
* In "Parcel Force", Dougal defends Ermintrude from the enchanted hair curling tongs (which was sent to Sam from his uncle) by placing it in a dustbin. Ermintrude shows her gratitude to Dougal and calls him a hero when Sam and Florence arrive.

* In "Read All About It!", Dougal immediately coming to Florence's rescue on Train after her planned dramatic situation goes horribly wrong [[note]]Florence was only acting to be in danger just to get Dougal an interesting story in the newspaper, when Train runs over a rock, making him go genuinely out of control and puts her in actual danger[[/note]]. He leaps onto Mr. Grimsdale's cart and they catch up to Train where Dougal jumps onto Train and applies the brakes. This what earns him a interesting story in the Enchanted Gardens' Newspaper.
* In "School's In, Out and Roundabout", Florence taking her role as a schoolteacher seriously is just awesome as she knows a lot of things when she helps Mr. Rusty solve his crossword paper earlier. While she teaches the lesson to her students and award them gold stars for their excellence, Florence does have to discipline Dougal for his behaviour and never hesitates to threaten him to keep him behind after school if he doesn't apologise to Brian for his insults.

* In "Emergency Measures", Dougal, Dylan, Brian and Train responding straight into an emergency when the Magic Roundabout is spinning out of control. They tie a rope at the end of Train's carriage to try and slow the roundabout down, but they fail and end up spinning with the roundabout. Very fortunately, Florence calls for Zebedee and he uses his magic to slow the roundabout down to a complete stop, as well as rescuing Dougal and his friends.

* In "Train Gets Lost", when Train is running out of control (due to being overheating as a result of his faulty heating system), Mr. Grimsdale bravely leaps onto Train and he gets into the cab with Zebedee's help where he closes down the water valve.

** Ermintrude herself also joins Dylan to take down the skeletons by tapping on a skeleton's shoulder and shatters the skeleton.

* Soldier Sam turning on Zeebad, and attempting to attack him. He fails, but kudos for trying.

* Florence immediately responding to Mr. Grimsdale's crash in "Emergency!" after he crashed into the Magic Roundabout whilst serving to avoid Brian due to Mr. Grimsdale getting distracted by talking to Dougal. The first thing she does is to turn off the engine on Mr. Grimsdale's bike before she helps a shaken Mr. Grimsdale back on his feet. Afterwards, everyone praises her for knowing what to do in an emergency.