History Awesome / TheWire

* The final interaction between [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91CpbRq9Tiw Avon and Stringer in a rooftop]], reminiscing about past days and so full of subtext. Just two friends who happened to grow up into the criminal world of West Baltimore. They can't barely hide that they have betrayed each other but they still genuinely love each other. One of the finest examples of [[NothingPersonal just business]] and EndOfAnEra in the whole show.

* Cris delivering a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to Michael's pedophile step-dad.

* After major fan of the show UsefulNotes/BarackObama was elected president, he jokingly asked if there was any way for it to come back. David Simon's response? "Do something about all the problems the show talked about, and you've got a deal."

* The fact that Michael Kenneth Williams got the part of Omar after ''one audition''.

* Snoop missing her targets on a drive-by (that O-Dog insisted on doing, instead of the usual way of killing on foot), then getting out of the car, irritated, taking aim and firing one single shot that hits her fleeing target in the head from at least 30 feet away, was pretty awesome to this troper.

* Michael outsmarting and killing Snoop.

-->'''Vinson:''' "You're just a kid"
'''Michael:''' "And that's just a knee"

'''Vinson:''' "You're just a kid"

* [=McNulty=] finally calling Levy out in "The Hunt", forcing him to let the police talk to Savino under threat of investigating Levy's shady business practices.

-->'''Judge Phelan:''' Not only will there be no bond pending sentencing, but as far as I'm concerned, the pre-sentencing report is a mere formality. Mr. Hilton has been found guilty of [[Recap/TheWireS01E01TheTarget killing a state's witness who testified in this very courtroom.]] He did so in cold blood, and for pay. Unless the pre-sentence report indicates that he is, in fact, the Messiah come again, he will very likely be sentenced to life, no parole, by a Baltimore judge who, for once in his life, gets to leave his office feeling that his job actually matters. Mr. Hilton, are you the [[SecondComing second coming]] of our savior?

* Omar could've done a lot of damage in the military. This is no more evident when he layed down a trap for Bubbles using a scrapped radiator. Complete with a casual-as-hell one-liner.

* The Greek's complete evasion of the Major Crimes Unit at the end of the season deserves a mention. He is always a step ahead of them, and escapes Baltimore on a plane just as they seem to be closing in on him and his operation. The best part? No one, not even criminal associates (outside of his own organization), know what he looks like or his real name. [[MagnificentBastard Magnificent Bastard]], indeed.

'''Omar:''' Just like you, man. I got the shotgun, you got the briefcase. It's all in the game though.

'''Marlo:''' "Some {{Spiderman}} shit there."

* The moment Butchie, Omar's blind friend and confidant, absolutely refuses to talk when Chris Partlow and Snoop torture him to find out Omar's whereabouts. Chris and Snoop offer to let him go without harm if he gives up Omar. He says no, even when Chris explicitly tells him that it will get messy if he doesn't talk. Snoop shoots him in the kneecap, and even screaming in pain, he refuses still. Then ''they shoot him in the'' ''[[GroinAttack groin]]'' and ''he still refuses.'' Chris and Snoop kill him, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome but they didn't get one shred of information out of him before they did.]]

* Omar proves that he's so awesome even jail can't stop him in season four. After making a phone call to Butchie when he's wrongly arrested, two enforcers meet up with the vigilante inside a Baltimore prison. They provide him with a weapon (a glass shank), rudimentary armor (thick history books taped tightly around his midsection) and a cell phone. Omar finds out that Marlo Stanfield took a bounty out on him, and takes out an inmate looking to collect on the reward. By shanking him in a ''very'' private part. As the inmate lies writhing in pain on the floor and riot cops rush in, Omar asks for the cell phone to dial the police. When his contact asks why, Omar responds, "Man owe me a favor."

* Lester, finally having caught [[ArchEnemy his nemesis Marlo]] by cracking the organization's supply code. Made all the more awesome by how Lester walks by all of the other mooks arrested next to Marlo and stands right in front of him, letting him know that he knows exactly who Marlo is and that he's been watching for awhile. The both of them simply trade cold stares, [[Characterization as befits both characters to a tee]].

** Even after all of their violent interactions, Mouzone gives Omar his beloved Walpther PPK in a demonstration of respect and trust. [[WorthyAdversary Mutual respect, to a tee]].

* After major fan of the show BarackObama was elected president, he jokingly asked if there was any way for it to come back. David Simon's response? "Do something about all the problems the show talked about, and you've got a deal."

* Lester remembering the squad that they do have a wire running, so they must be at their post to catch any information related to Kima's shooting. At first they tell him to go fuck himself, but they finally see Lester's wisdom.

** There's a hidden CMOA in there too. If you listen to the drug dealers as Marlo approaches, they're retelling the story of Omar's death. Except now it's a BolivianArmyEnding where Omar fought to the last bullet against a mob of gangsters with AK-47s, proving that his name will ring out much louder and longer than Marlo's.

* More of a [[Heartwarming/TheWire Moment of Heartwarming]], but damn if this troper didn't pump their fist when Wee-Bey allows Colvin to adopt his son Naymond as a way of giving the boy a chance to spare him of his father's fate in prison (or worse).

* Avon Barksdale walks across the recreation yard at the Jessup prison, and a baseball game in progress stops so that he can pass. ''There's dead silence as he walks across the field, and not a single person moves.''
* The [[GambitIndex gambit]] Tommy Carcetti pulls on Burrell. Establishes the character as someone not to be taken lightly.

* [=McNulty=] informs D'Angelo's mother, who had insisted D take twenty years in jail rather than turn evidence for the cops and cost [=McNulty=] the whole case in season one, of his investigation into D'Angelo's death... long after he informed D's girlfriend about it. She asks why he didn't come to her first: "Honestly? I wanted to talk to someone who cared about the kid."
* Pretty much anything with Bunny Colvin. Specially his telling Rawls "Get on with it, motherfucker" when Rawls is firing him or his epic "paper bag" speech and his vivid defense of the humble corner as the poor's man castle.

* More of a [[Heartwarming/TheWire Moment of Heartwarming]], but damn if this troper didn't pump their fist when Wee-Bey allows Colvin to adopt his son Naymond as a way of giving the boy a chance to spare him of his (real) father's fate in prison.

* More of a [[CrowningMomentHeartwarming Moment of Heartwarming]], but damn if this troper didn't pump their fist when Wee-Bey allows Colvin to adopt his son Naymond as a way of giving him a chance to spare him of his (real) father's fate in prison.

* More of a [[TheWire/Heartwarming Moment of Heartwarming]], but damn if this troper didn't pump their fist when Wee-Bey allows Colvin to adopt his son Naymond as a way of giving him a chance to spare him of his (real) father's fate in prison.