History Awesome / TheShield

** In the Season 4 premiere, Acevada gives Vic a blistering TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how his CowboyCop shenanigans caused the Strike Team or fall apart and how he can't even do surveillance without causing chaos, calling him 'a joke.' ''He even gets the last word on Vic'', who [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness leaves The Barn in silence.]]

*** The awesomeness of this is dampened in Season 4, unfortunately. After Aceveda's threats against his rapist pass their expiration date, he attempts to blackmail Aceveda with the video. In response, Aceveda panics and makes a corrupt deal with Antwon Mitchell to have the rapist murdered in prison.

*** SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome happens the next morning when they return to check on them, and Kern gets his own moment of awesome:

** In the season two premiere Vic is at a low point after his wife left and took his kids and he's desperately trying to find them. In order to come up with the money to track them down(by paying a network of PIs), he goes into Mexico, kidnaps wanted fugitive Navaro and uses him as a ransom to get a bunch of money from the cartel, then instead of handing him over to the Cartel, he speeds off in the car with Navaro managing to lose them and manages to smuggle both Navaro and the money back into the states without anyone noticing. Even [[ObstructiveBureaucrat Laine]] is impressed at Vic's capture of Navaro.

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* Despite being tragic when it comes to the characters, Seth Rollins' shocking betrayal of the Shield on June 2, 2014 becomes this in a meta sense. Now that the company is preparing and positioning Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose into a key compelling storyline while playing to each individual's strengths, it's becomes clear that WWE believes in all three men as major players in its future.
** Dean Ambrose's reaction promo to the above event. His rage is nearly palpable, and not only does he tell Seth Rollins he plans to rearrange his face, but he does it in [[ToThePain graphic and grisly (and you could argue non-PG) detail.]] It was a heel promo being cut by an AntiHero face, and the crowd was absolutely eating it up.

'''Claudette:''' How does six months to a year sound?

'''[[spoiler:Ronnie]]:''' For what?\\
'''Dutch:''' ''The past three years.'' [[spoiler:(upon which Ronnie lets Vic have it with both barrels)]]

** And of course, she started off Vic's series-ending Main/HumiliationConga by [[spoiler:reading him Shane's suicide letter, then making sure Vic saw Ronnie getting perp walked away after learning he's taking all the weight for the Strike Team's crimes]]. If she can't nail him to the wall, she's made sure to have that failure come at maximum cost.

** No list of Claudette's finest moments would be complete without her performance in "Man Inside", in which she [[Main/PerpSweating perp-sweats]] a serial killer into confessing to his murders by convincing him that his beloved sister is dead - [[spoiler:''while she's practically dying of lupus at the interrogation table'']]. At one point she gets a nosebleed and Dutch insists that she leaves, but she simply says "No", slams the door in his face, and with her face covered in blood, goes back to work. The fact that she [[spoiler:collapses at the end of the episode]] makes her quiet determination so touching and tragic that it's tantamount to a Main/HeroicSacrifice.

** He gets a final one in his last appearance, as Vic confronts him in prison, accusing him of [[spoiler: having Lem killed.]] Mitchell mocks him for being desperate enough to bust in on him with no proof of anything, looking to scare a confession out of him. He tells Vic that he could've done it, but he didn't, because doing so would mess with the [[LuxuryPrisonSuite sweet setup]] he has going. As he says this, a ''prison guard'' comes in with a message for him, calling him "Mr. Mitchell." He sends Vic away with his tail between his legs without even getting out of his chair.

** And on RAW the following night, The Shield faced the team of John Cena, Daniel Bryan, and a returning Sheamus. In the closing minutes of the match, Cena locks Roman Reigns in the STF and instead of tapping out, Reigns rolls over so that they are both on their sides and actually ''forces Cena's hands apart''. [[spoiler: If The Wyatt Family had not chosen this moment to interrupt the match, Reigns probably could have broken out of the STF outright.]]

* Roman pulls a pretty damn good BatmanGambit, playing on Vickie's vanity and insecurities as Wrestling/TheAuthority's lackey, then spiking Stephanie's coffee, and all of it leading to [[VomitIndiscretionShot Vickie getting "doused"]] and Wrestling/TripleH having to take Steph to the hospital and leaving a enraged, puke-stained Vickie in charge. Cue Vickie being angry enough at the power couple to enter Roman in the MITB Battle Royal, [[spoiler: which he goes on to win]].

* Payback 2015: The Shield compete against each other for the first time a year after their last match together in a Fatal Four Way with Randy Orton. Midway through the match, Ambrose, Rollins and Reigns find themselves standing over a beaten down Orton. Rollins calls for his former brothers-in-arms to put Orton through the announce table, much to the surprise of Ambrose and Reigns. When Orton gets back up, all three men beat him back down before putting The Viper out of commision with a Triple Powerbomb! The crowd eats up the temporary reunion as The Shield get hyped up. While Ambrose and Reigns celebrate a bit with each other, Rollins decides to join in and calls for their fist pose. Understandably, the match gets back underway.

*** RealityEnsues the next morning when they return to check on them, and Kern gets his own moment of awesome: