History Awesome / TrueBlood

* [[OneSceneWonder General Cavanaugh of the U.S Army]] showing the Sanguinista-led Authority just how flimsy their plans for world domination are when he points out that: a) the Pentagon has been preparing for a vampire insurrection for a long time, b) the government knows that the Authority is responsible for the factory bombings, c) that weapons are being developed to systematically wipe out vampires from the face of the earth, d) humans still have the freakin' sun on their side, oh and e) there's multiple video footage of Russell Edgington and Steve Newlin massacring the frathouse that WILL be leaked to the Internet if anything happens to him. After six episodes of watching the vampires strut around like they already run the world, watching a human give them a healthy dose of SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome and seeing them squirm in response was satisfying. General, we hardly knew ye.

* Sookie has had quite a few: [[spoiler: decapitating Drew Marshall with a shovel, hitting Maryann with energy from her hand, and hitting Cooter with even stronger energy from her hand.]]

* Despite being human (and being perceived as stupid), Jason has quite a few CMOA through-out the show that fans rarely give him credit for. Examples include [[spoiler: helping to rescue Sookie from FOTS and shooting a gun out of Steve Newlin's hands, pretending to be "The God Who Comes" to stop Maryann's followers from sacrificing Sam, shooting Franklin when he was about rape and kill Tara, staking Felton from a tree, saving Jessica from walking into the sun, taking out the Authority guards who were sent to kill him, staking Warlow to save Sookie, and so on]] It's pretty amazing how brave he is as a human, how he's willing to go up against other supernaturals who are more powerful and dangerous than him, and how he's willing to risk his life for the people he loves. It's also impressive that despite not being as smart as other characters, he can improvise when the situation calls for it.

* Hate Jason Stackhouse all you want, but give him all the props in the world for [[spoiler: standing up for Sookie against the huge bully Gabriel of the Fellowship of the Sun in "Release Me".]]
* "Don't. You. ''Ever.'' Talk about my sister." Commence total absolute ass kicking of TheDragon. [[spoiler: Gabriel had to attempt to rape Sookie]] to make himself feel better about this, which only pushes him into deeper shit, with the arrival of [[spoiler: Godric]].

** Which was after [[spoiler: shooting the gun out of his hand with a paintball, and putting another one between his eyes for good measure]].
* Yet another one for Jason, when he teams up with Andy Bellefleur [[spoiler: to save Sam from being sacrificed to Bacchus by Maryann's zombies.]] Doubles as a [=CMoA=] for Andy.
* Jason taking back Bon Temps. With a chainsaw. [[spoiler: Sure, it wasn't successful. But it's Jason! With a chainsaw!]] Also, when he "vanquished" [[spoiler: Sam]] was pretty awesome, too.

* Hell, Sookie nailing a [[spoiler: Gun-wielding Lettie Mae]] in the head with a statue, knocking her down with one throw.

* Away from Sookie for less than an hour, Bill proceeds to have concurrent Crowning Moments of Awesome in the first two episodes of season three. [[spoiler: He escapes his werewolf captors, then eviscerates three of them while they're fully pumped on his own vampire blood, and then, upon seeing Lorena again, lights her on fire without hesitation.]]

** [[spoiler:Seducing and killing Talbot, inadvertantly saving Bill's ass in the process.]]
** Though the best of all may just be [[spoiler: staking Lorena, complete with destroying her {{Yandere}} motivation: "You wouldn't know what love was if it walked up and kicked you in the fangs!"]]

* Russell's [[spoiler: plan to get Sophie-Anne to marry him. [[BatmanGambit Bringing up her financial problems, holding Hadley hostage, having her most powerful vampire come to his side.]]]] "Mama couldn't be more wrong" indeed.
** The final scene of episode 3x09: [[spoiler:He breaks into a newsroom during a live broadcast, punches through the reporter's gut, and keeps hold of part of his spine as he destroys the relationship between humans and vampires by announcing himself as a true example of what vampires are like. Followed by jauntily turning things over to the weather girl.]]

* Jessica [[spoiler: is chased by a werewolf just after having much of her blood drained, so that she keeps stumbling trying to run at super speed. It sure looks like she's a goner, until the next time we see her having overpowered the werewolf, who's now begging for his life as she keeps biting his neck.]]

* [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing Many, many fans surely cheered themselves hoarse]] when Jason [[spoiler: killed Franklin for GOOD]] in "Everything Is Broken".
** Props also for Tara, for verbally [[MindRape mindfucking]] [[spoiler: Franklin into last season, and calling him out on his insanity and all the abuse he's put her through.]] He was ''crying'' afterwards.

* From the end of "Fresh Blood": [[spoiler: Eric, perfoming {{HeroicSacrifice}} to kill Russell by sunlight]] - ''Be brave. [[TakingYouWithMe We'll die together]].'' Also counts as {{TearJerker}}.
* Sookie [[spoiler: tossing Talbot's remains down the garbage disposal and laughing about it to spite Russell.]]
* Bill [[spoiler: handcuffing Eric and throwing him into the wet cement.]] After three seasons of getting dicked around by everyone, especially Eric, it's refreshing to see Bill get the drop on someone. [[spoiler: Shame it doesn't last.]]
* Eric heads to Sookie's house fresh from [[spoiler:being dug out of a concrete grave]], and spills the beans on [[spoiler:how Bill's been manipulating her from the beginning and let the Rattrays beat her to a pulp.]]
* Sookie finally finding out about Bill's dirty secrets [[spoiler: (i.e. that he was sent by Queen Sophie Anne to procure her, and that he allowed the Rattarays to beat the shit out of Sookie so he could drug her with his blood and use that to manipulate her),]] and throwing him out of her house in disgust. After spending most of the show defending Bill no matter what he did, it is '''DEEPLY SATISFYING''' to see Sookie call Bill out while making it clear to him that she's done with his bullshit.

-->'''Sookie:''' Don't ever come here. Don't ever call me. Don't ever talk to me. Ever! You [[spoiler: manipulated me into falling in love with you!]]

* Tara's reintroduction in season 4, [[spoiler:beating her girlfriend in a cage match and giving a {{The Reason You Suck Speech}} to a guy who treats them like prostitutes.]]

* The flashback to the {{Crazy Prepared}} way that Bill [[spoiler:killed Sophie Ann.]]

* Tommy [[spoiler:killing his abusive parents, then thinking on his feet and turning into an alligator to keep Andy from finding the bodies in his van.]]

** Sam kicking the crap out of Marcus, followed by [[spoiler: Alcide killing Marcus and dumping Debbie.]]

** Eric ''finally'' shutting up Roy...[[spoiler: By ripping out his heart, sucking the blood out of the aorta like a juicebox with a straw right in front of Marnie's face.]]

* Antonia [[spoiler: finally rejecting Marnie for good after she intentionally kills an innocent human being.]]
* Antonia being the one to [[spoiler: finally put an end to the cycle of revenge by encouraging Marnie to move on to the next life, and helping to save Eric and Bill from being burned to death.]]
* [[spoiler:Adele (Gran)]] ripping Marnie's soul out of Lafayette.
* Bill and Eric [[spoiler: killing Nan and her bodyguards in a nanosecond.]]

* Sookie [[spoiler: killing Debbie.]]

* Russell's {{plan}} to [[spoiler:take over the Authority]]. The return of the show's true {{Magnificent Bastard}}, ladies and gentlemen.

** Props also go to Abuelo's young wife for [[spoiler: taking him by surprise and stabbing him repeatedly, before he could do to her unborn child what he did to Jesus.]]
* Admit it: you too cheered when Alcide [[spoiler: challenged J.D for the role of Packmaster, and doing it not because he wants the power, but because he doesn't want the pack to be ruined by in the influence of V]]
* Sam [[spoiler: shooting Junior - the owner of the anti-vampire weapons' store and one of the humans who killed his friends - with a crossbow.]]

* Sam's BigDamnHeroes moment when [[spoiler: he rescues Sookie from the hate group and proceeds to kick all their asses. They're armed men with guns (and in one's case, a hook). He's 'nude']]
* Jason and Andy managing to figure out that [[spoiler: Bud Dearbone]] is the Dragon who's leading the hate group by recognizing [[spoiler: his boots in the video that were given to him in season 3]] and by Jason recalling that [[spoiler: Bud's wife]] owns a pig farm out at Kickapoo.
* Sheriff Bellefleur [[spoiler:shooting Bud Dearborne]]
** Followed by Sam telling Andy that [[spoiler:he's not the worst sheriff Bon Temps has ever had.]]
* And finally, [[spoiler:Luna chasing Sweetie down and beating the tar out of her.]]
* Terry doing what is right...[[spoiler:and shooting Patrick in the head.]]

* Though it is (so far at least) a major win for the bad guys, one has to admit [[spoiler: the recently BrainWashedAndCrazy Bill utterly destroying Eric and Molly's plans to escape the Authority compound counts as one of these. Even more awesome in the way Eric seems so surprised that after his initial knee-jerk reaction of anger he just stares in shock and pretty much just allows himself to be lead away by the "gay stormtroopers".]]
* Though it also doubled as a Tearjerker for this troper, Molly's [[FaceDeathWithDignity subdued but calm accceptance of her excution]] counted as this, along with her telling the assembled Chancellors [[ReasonYouSuckSpeech just what she thought of their newfound fantatacism]].

* Sam and Luna [[spoiler: sneaking into the Authority compound to get Emma back. These are two shifters going up against the vampire government, most of which are easily hundreds of years old. For sheer balls alone...]]

* Russell finally doing what we've been we were all expecting him to do and [[spoiler: declaring his WildCard status to the council, bashing their Lilith-worship, and responding to [[ManipulativeBitch Salome's]] threat to re-seal him by TOSSING HER ACROSS THE ROOM. All this followed by a bored-sounding threat to kill them all before zooming out of the room to do some faerie-hunting on his own terms and no one else's.]] The Russell Edgington we've been waiting for has returned!

* [[OneSceneWonder General Cavanaugh of the U.S Army]] showing the Sanguinista-led Authority just how flimsy their plans for world domination are when he points out that: a) the Pentagon has been preparing for a vampire insurrection for a long time, b) the government knows that the Authority is responsible for the factory bombings, c) that weapons are being developed to systematically wipe out vampires from the face of the earth, d) humans still have the freakin' sun on their side, oh and e) there's multiple video footage of Russell Edgington and Steve Newlin massacring the frathouse that WILL be leaked to the Internet if anything happens to him. After six episodes of watching the vampires strut around like they already run the world, watching a human give them a healthy dose of SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome and seeing them squirm in response was satisfying. [[spoiler: General, we hardly knew ye]]
** Followed by Eric [[spoiler:completing his long con by killing the General and passing it off as a momentary loss of control. This gets the Authority to let him outside to help with the cleanup, at which point he promptly kills his guards with Nora's help and they both escape, leaving the Authority in one hell of a pickle.]]

---> '''Eric:''' God is a vampire. [[spoiler: ''(breaks his neck)'']]
*** Though it might not have been a good idea in the long run [[spoiler: considering that the General threatened that if he were to be killed, evidence of Russell's still being alive would be released worldwide, igniting a war against all vampires.]]

* In the fifth season finale, [[spoiler: Sam's VoluntaryShapeShifting way to kill Rosalyn by going into her mouth as a fly, then resuming human form. [[YourHeadAsplode Her body explodes and leaves Sam a bloody mess]]. For those of you keeping track at home, that is the SECOND centuries-old, infinitely-more-powerful being that Sam has taken down.]]
** Luna deserves a mention too. [[spoiler: She voluntarily shape-shifts into Steve Newlin, knowing what skinwalking eventually does to shifters, to get Emma out (which would have worked if Rosalyn hadn't intercepted her to start damage control on the real Steve and Russell's massacre). And when she gets too weak to keep up the facade, she uses her last bit of strength - ON A LIVE TELEVISION FEED - to tell the world about the Authority, its location and the humans that are imprisoned there for food. If Eric's actions on the last episode didn't guarantee an all-out war against vampires, then hers definitely will]]

* Bill [[spoiler: switching the blood from the vial, lacing that sample with silver and waiting for Salome to drink it as 'the chosen one.' He just sits there, watching her get sicker and sicker from drinking silver-tainted vampire blood, gives her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, and then stakes her.]]
* Salome [[spoiler: going out with dignity, serene that Lilith chose well and calmly nodding for Bill to stake her.]]
* At the beginning of the episode, [[spoiler: Eric finally takes out Russell Edgington for good, staking him from behind as he's gloating to the faeries about how he's going to eat them all.]]
* [[spoiler: Though it counts as a victory for the BigBad, Bill downing Lilith's blood and ultimately being 'reborn' in her image, covered in blood and naked and screaming hellishly. It bears repeating: Bill Compton goes from being a glorified delivery boy, to King of Louisiana, to Chancellor of the Authority, to the second-in-command after Salome, and finally ends up as THE LIVING INCARNATION OF THE GOD OF ALL VAMPIRES. All in the span of a few years.]] Is it any wonder that Eric's reaction is to get the hell out of dodge?

* [[spoiler: Billith single-handedly destroying the Authority's headquarters.]]

* Warlow [[spoiler: destroying Lilith by creating a hole for the sunlight to leak into her resting place, utterly annihilating her. This is after this [[HumanoidAbomination creature]] turned him into a vampire against his will, resulting in him destroying his home and killing all the fearies he knew. [[IHateYouVampireDad I Hate You Vampire Mom]] indeed!]].

* Jason infiltrating the vampire concentration camps to [[spoiler: rescue Jessica, and blackmailing Sarah to stay out of his way. He doesn't succeed, but he still gets major props from coming that far.]]
* Bill's assault on Burrell's house. After the guards' special bullets turn out to be useless, he telekinetically forces them all to shoot each other. [[spoiler:And then rips Burrell's head off.]] And all this is happening in the middle of the day.
* Sookie's combination TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech about how [[spoiler:she's going to become a vampire so she won't have to spend eternity buried with her parents.]] One of the most powerful pieces of writing in the whole show, and Anna Paquin knocks it out of the park.

** [[spoiler: Surprising the guards patrolling the vampire concentration camp in daylight and massacring all of them.]]
** [[spoiler: Getting revenge for Nora by ''ripping off Dr. Overlark's penis'' and leaving him to bleed out on the floor.]]
** [[spoiler: Throwing open the doors of every cell and telling the vampires to take their revenge.]]
** [[spoiler: ''Not'' killing the therapist for fucking Pam...but telling him that he'll let ''her'' do it, since she's earned the right.]]
** [[spoiler: Killing Steve Newlin by keeping him away from Bill's life-saving blood and holding him up to the sun to burn.]]
* Jason Stackhouse chasing down Sarah Newlin, giving her one ''hell'' of a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech by pointing out her religious hypocrisy...[[spoiler: and then not shooting her, saying that he's had too much blood on his hands, and not even hers is worth him getting more on them.]]
* In its own sad but uplifting way, [[spoiler: Terry's funeral, especially the song Big John Dixon sings at the end.]]

* While Warlow [[spoiler: turns out to be an awful person,]] there is something satisfying in seeing him put Bill in his place when [[spoiler: [[EpicFail Bill fails to get into Sookie's house to stake him after losing his powers.]]]] It's especially [[CatharsisFactor cathartic]] for fans who have come to view Bill as TheScrappy by this point in the show.
--> '''Warlow:''' [[spoiler: Don't you get it? No more Billith. No more access. Sookie doesn't even want you anyway. (''Proceeds to blast Bill out the doorway'')]]
* Jason and Niall [[spoiler: taking Warlow by surprise and killing him was very emotionally satisfying, especially considering Warlow had now shown his true AxCrazy {{Yandere}} colors and had become [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil an attempted rapist]] who was determined to take Sookie by force and [[YouBelongToMe make her his faerie bride against her will.]] It's also satisfying to see the faeries from the Nightclub (i.e. the ones who helped Sookie and Jason, and provided safe haven for Hadley and Hunter) get avenged.]]

* Jason jumping down from a tree and killing Felton with a makeshift spear.

* Jason and Niall [[spoiler: taking Warlow by surprise and killing him was very emotionally satisfying, especially considering Warlow had now shown his true AxCrazy {{Yandere}} colors and had become an attempted rapist who was determined to take Sookie by force and make her his faerie bride against her will. It's also satisfying to see the faeries from the Nightclub (i.e. the ones who helped Sookie and Jason, and provided safe haven for Hadley and Hunter) get avenged.]]

--> '''Warlow:''' [[spoiler: Don't you get it? No more Billith. No more access. Sookie doesn't even want you anyway. (Proceeds to blast Bill out the doorway).]]

--> '''Warlow:''' [[spoiler: Don't you get it? No more Billith. No more access. Sookie doesn't even want you anyway. (blasts Bill out the doorway).]]

--> '''Warlow:''' [[spoiler: Don't you get it? No more Billith. No more access. Sookie doesn't even want you anyway.]]

--> '''Warlow''' [[spoiler: Don't you get it? No more Billith. No more access. Sookie doesn't even want you anyway.]]

* While Warlow [[spoiler: turns out to be an awful person,]] there is something satisfying in seeing him put Bill in his place when [[spoiler: [[EpicFail Bill fails to get into Sookie's house to stake him after losing his powers.]] ]] It's especially [[CatharsisFactor cathartic]] for fans who have come to view Bill as TheScrappy by this point in the show.