History LetsGetDangerous / WesternAnimation

* ''TransformersAnimated'':

** Bumblebee and Bulkhead of the same series would also qualify for this as out of the main line-up they are the youngest and most comical of the Autobots. Particularly in the series' finale when they take on Shockwave, who is mostly owning them in the first part of the fight, until Bulkhead rushes him and floors the guy so hard that his chest smashes, his weapon is knocked away and he even has to resort to pleading for his life. And he did it ''with one punch''.

* Dib of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' is an almost perpetual ButtMonkey trying to tell a CassandraTruth, but under the right circumstances he's able to unleash his inner awesome and defend the Earth like never before. Like the time he ''[[Awesome/InvaderZim piloted Mercury]]''. Indeed, JhonenVasquez remarks in the DVD commentary that "Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom" is pretty much just an excuse to show Dib's [[Awesome/InvaderZim Crowning Moment Of Awesome]] as he leads Earth's defense fleet against the Irken armada and single-handedly brings down the Massive.

* ''TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack'' sees washed-up sailor Cap'n K'nuckles beating up a crew of pirates three at a time in "One Hundred Percensus": [[BookDumb "I can't count to four,]] [[PreAssKickingOneLiner but I can count to three."]]
* ''TheMightyHeroes'' seem like ineffectual stumblebums in the first half of an episode, but once they escape the DeathTrap and regroup, they are ''unstoppable''!

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', [[BewareTheNiceOnes goofy, silly Beast Boy]] occasionally gets pissed off and reminds both villains and viewers that he was capable of turning into any animal alive ''or that had ever lived''. In one episode, he thoroughly thrashes Slade [[spoiler:or rather a roboSlade, though the two were usually interchangeable]] - despite the fact that this was someone who regularly whooped the team's designated {{badass}}, Robin. This is especially evident in "The End", where he uses his "patented wet-willy maneuver" to ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu hurt Trigon more than anyone had ever managed before]].''[[note]]Trigon is a gigantic EldritchAbomination. Beast Boy's "patented wet-willy maneuver" consists of taking the form of a colibri, flying inside Trigon's ear, and becoming ''a whale''. Trigon starts immediately crying out in pain.[[/note]]

* Sewer Urchin of ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' is a semi-scatterbrained guy who talks like Rain Man and gets knocked around pretty often. However, this is because he's out of his element. In the sewers, he's BadAss to the bone, to the point where The City's sewer workers talk about him with hushed tones of awe.

** In episode 10, this is proven to be true of [[spoiler: all three of Tenzin's children. [[CuteBookworm Jinora]] sent the [[TheDragon Lieutenant]] [[WorfEffect flying]], [[MotorMouth Ikki]] took out a bunch of chi-blockers with her air-scooter, and Meelo [[{{Fartillery}} gassed]] the rest of them. Oh, and they did this to protect the series' token BadAss, Lin Bei Fong.]]

* Scooby in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryInc'' is the same loveable dog as in all canons. However, when a MonsterOfTheWeek actually tried to kill the gang for real, [[spoiler: he [[ForkliftFu pilots a forklift]] and beats the living crap out of it before dispatching it with one of the most BadAss lines ever uttered]]:

** Doubly so Fluttershy -- usually timid as anything, and unable to stand up for herself, but threatening ''others'' can make her angry enough to forget herself and suddenly have enough attitude for a grade-A BadAss, as well as a DeathGlare powerful enough to cow fully-grown dragons and win staring contests with ''cockatrices''. While normally a weak flyer, Fluttershy can also [[ImprobablePilotingSkills fly well enough to keep up with]] [[LightningBruiser Rainbow Dash]] when her friends are in danger.

* In ''[[HulkVs Hulk vs Wolverine]]'', after Logan gets a supreme ass kicking by the big green guy himself, he [[GoodThingYouCanHeal wakes up a few seconds later]] and goes "ok bub, lets try that again" and proceeds to own. This is actually embarrassing considering the other film has Thor getting pounded into oblivion. Course [[PopularityPower the son of Odin isn't to blame for lack of skill]]

Everyone there, including Peepers and the people whose planets he tried to conquer in Season 1 cheer for him.
All it took Hater to accomplish this was not being distracted by Wander's antics. So, whenever he is focuses, he is indeed the Greatest in The Galaxy.

** Seriously, don't screw with the Cutie Mark Crusaders. When they've finally been pushed too far by [[TheBully Babs Seed]] the [[ShoutOut A-Team]] music plays, they build an entire motorized parade float in less than a night, fit it with a booby-trap (made from an ''egg timer'') that will send it careening off a cliff at ''precisely'' the right time, and lure Babs into stealing it with a BatmanGambit. They ''even plant a mattress to land on when she shoves them out of the way'', and the only reason it fails is because they have a sudden attack of conscience and save her (The plan itself works beautifully). Seriously, if only they'd realized their already existing talents or skills, they'd already have their cutie marks!

** In ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom Part 2]]'', Twilight spends most of the episode too afraid of her own power- and of Tirek absorbing it- to participate in the fight (helped by the fact that her mentor specifically told her to keep the alicorns' magic safe from Tirek). When Tirek finally confronts her, she is initially on the defensive, teleporting around at rapid-fire speed to avoid Tirek's attacks. Then one of those attacks destroys the library, at which point Twilight absolutely loses it; she ''immediately'' goes on the offensive, [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome delivering an anime-style beatdown that would not have been at all out of place in]] ''[[Anime/DragonBallZ]]''.

** In ''[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E26TwilightsKingdomPart2 Twilight's Kingdom Part 2]]'', once Tirek destroys the library, all bets are off and Twilight goes full throttle on him with her power.

* ''ClueClub'': In "The Walking House Caper," a mysterious monster figure locks Larry, Pepper and D.D. in a house. Larry uses his communicator to contact Dotty at home base in hopes she'll call the police. Dotty and the show's two dogs, Woofer and Wimper, take it upon themselves to lure the monster away from the house so they can rescue the others. And Dotty does have the foresight to call the police as well.

* The TropeNamer himself, WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck. He's goofy, grumpy, and has an ego the size of a small planet. But tick him off, and the guilty party will find itself on the receiving end of Quack-Fu and an intelligent, strategic brain that understands both chemicals and criminals. Simply put, he's Disney's equivalent of Franchise/{{Batman}}. Mess with him and you ''will'' lose.

* ''AmericanDragonJakeLong'':

* The TropeNamer himself, WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck. He's goofy, grumpy, and has an ego the size of a small planet. But tick him off, and the guilty party will find itself on the receiving end of Quack-Fu and an intelligent, strategic brain that understands both chemicals and criminals. Simply put: He's Disney's equivalent of Franchise/{{Batman}}. Mess with him and you ''will'' lose.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', [[BewareTheNiceOnes goofy, silly Beast Boy]] would occasionally get pissed off and remind both villains and viewers that he was capable of turning into any animal alive ''or that had ever lived''. In one episode, he thoroughly thrashed Slade [[spoiler:or rather a roboSlade, though the two were usually interchangeable]] despite the fact that this was someone who regularly whooped the team's designated {{badass}}, Robin. This is especially evident in "The End", where he uses his "patented wet-willy manouver" to ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu hurt Trigon more than anyone had ever managed before]]''[[note]]Trigon is a gigantic EldritchAbomination. Beast Boy "patented wet-willy manouver" consisted in taking the form of a colibri, flying inside Trigon's ear, and becoming ''a whale''. Trigon started immediately crying out in pain.[[/note]] "Titans Together", where the Titans, both organized and honorary, have been decimated, and it's up to Beast Boy to lead the handful that remain against the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Brotherhood of Evil]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'' featured an inter-grade dodgeball match, with one kid staying out of it. However, when the older kids nailed a kindergartner, this mild mannered boy showed up in a serape, calling himself "El Diablo." He proceeded to take down an entire GRADE in the span of 6 seconds. Said kid happened to be Gus, the mild meek kid of the gang.
** The awesomeness is heightened by the fact that the injured kindergartner was Hector, who hero-worships Gus so there was a ''hefty'' dose of BigBrotherInstinct thrown in there.
* Arnold's grandma in ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold''. Most of the time, she's a crazy and eccentric old woman. However, sometimes she takes matters into her own hands and solves problems when even Arnold can't; such as repairing the underground subway's wiring or stealing a bulldozer (on ''two'' occassions).

** In episode 10 of the [[spoiler: all three of Tenzin's children. [[CuteBookworm Jinora]] sent the [[TheDragon Lieutenant]] [[WorfEffect flying]], [[MotorMouth Ikki]] took out a bunch of chi-blockers with her air-scooter, and Meelo [[{{Fartillery}} gassed]] the rest of them. Oh, and they did this to protect the series' token BadAss, Lin Bei Fong.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsCloneWars'', Yoda spends most of the time offscreen in the Jedi Temple. When the Separatist invasion of Coruscant begins, he heads to the front lines and starts forcepushing colossal troop carriers.
* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGalaxyRangers'', Walter "Doc" Hartford spent most of the series as a DeadpanSnarker and "computer guy" who was nowhere ''near'' the other three when it came to a fight. But when a EvilChancellor steps in and threatens to kill the king they're trying to ally with? Doc picks up a sword, brawls him, and hands said evil adviser his ass. All the while admitting that [[MinoredInAssKicking he learned fencing from "Miss Abercrombie's Charm School!"]] This came up again when he was back on Tarkon and took down the show's nastiest villain ''singlehandedly'' using stuff he picked up in "charm school." Which has led a great many fanfic authors to wonder just what ''kind'' of Charm School Miss Abercrombie was running in the first place.
* WesternAnimation/DuckTales:

** Fenton Crackshell should be mentioned as well. While he was ''smarter'' than Launchpad, he still had a tendency to screw things up. But he was the superhero Gizmoduck, and he occassionally showed that he was heroic and could save the day even without the Gizmo suit.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': Isabella is already competent as it is, but the kid's gloves come off if Phineas is in danger of being hurt.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Family Guy}}'': When Quagmire plots to kill Jeff, Joe refuses to go through with it, since it would be murder. But once he hears Jeff abusing Brenda next door, Joe responds with this... Let's waste this dick.

* WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}} is a lazy, conniving, greedy prankster. But while "Ghost With the Most" may well be a name he gave himself, he does have the power to back it up. Don't mess with his human MoralityChain, or he will prove it.

* The TropeNamer himself, WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck. He's goofy, grumpy, and has an ego the size of a small planet. But tick him off, and the guilty party will find itself on the receiving end of Quack-Fu and an intelligent, strategizing brain that understands both chemicals and criminals. Simply put: He's Disney's equivalent of Franchise/{{Batman}}. Mess with him and you ''will'' lose.

* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
** Isabella is already competent as is, but the kid's gloves come off if Phineas is in danger of being hurt.

* WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents:
** When the usually idiotic Cosmo finds his wife and godchild in danger, he gets serious to the point of becoming '''GODZILLA'''.

* ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'' will very often swing around into this trope, due to his status as the ButtMonkey, despite being the main character of the show. However, when push comes to shove, he will face off against any threat that comes his way. In fact, he once took on a [[{{Gonk}} rather hideous]] EvilKnockoff of himself that threatened him and [[{{Sadist}} pushed him around repeatedly]] while he was experiencing a streak of bad luck.

* Mabel from ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' may be a girly-girl CloudCuckoolander, but she can be dangerous when provoked (especially if you threaten her brother Dipper). In the pilot episode alone, she [[spoiler: defeats an army of gnomes with ''a leaf blower''.]]

* In ''StarWarsCloneWars'', Yoda spends most of the time offscreen in the Jedi Temple. When the Separatist invasion of Coruscant begins, he heads to the front lines and starts forcepushing colossal troop carriers.

* ''ThePowerpuffGirls'':

** Seriously, don't screw with the Cutie Mark Crusaders. When they've finally been pushed too far by [[TheBully Babs Seed]] the [[ShoutOut A-Team]] music plays, they build an entire motorized parade float in less than a night, fit it with a booby-trap (made from an ''egg timer'') that will send it careening off a cliff at ''precisely'' the right time, and lure Babs into stealing it with a BatmanGambit. They ''even plant a mattress to land on when she shoves them out of the way'', and the only reason it fails is because they have a sudden attack of conscience and save her (The plan itself works beautifully). Seriously, how do these kids not have their cutie marks yet?

* The TropeNamer himself, WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck. He's goofy, grumpy, and has an ego the size of a small planet. But tick him off, and the guilty party will find itself on the receiving end of Quack-Fu and an intelligent, strategizing brain that understands both chemicals and criminals. Simply put: He's Disney's equivalent of {{Batman}}. Mess with him and you ''will'' lose.

* ''{{Metalocalypse}}'''s Charles Foster Ofdensen, Dethklok's mild-mannered manager/lawyer/accountant. Hints are given throughout the first season that Ofdensen is more than what he seems, but we don't see this full until the finale, which manages to be Crowning Moments of both [[CrowningMomentOfAwesomeWesternAnimation awesome]] and [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming heartwarming]]. A somewhat unique example, in that the villains make a point of taking his awesomeness into account in season 2 and adjusting accordingly.

* Happens with Flash in ''[[JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]''. Twice. The first time has him destroying his [[EvilTwin robot double]] by punching through its chest and then making it ''explode'' by vibrating his arm super-fast, and ''then'' [[spoiler:taking down a Brainiac/Lex Luthor fusion by drive-by getting a run up for each punch so quickly he travels around the world (multiple times) and then PUNCHES EVERY MOLECULE OF BRAINIAC OUT OF LUTHOR while he screams in agony]]. The second time comes in the next season, when [[FreakyFridayFlip his mind has been swapped with Lex Luthor]], who does the vibration trick on some walls and threatens to do the same to someone's head. (Flash doesn't make a habit of this due to the property damage it tends to cause, thus proving that despite appearances, he is more conscientious than pretty much the rest of the Justice League.) Another moment of The Flash Getting Dangerous would be when he sabotaged Luthor's plans for the robbery of the century, kept any innocent bystanders from getting killed... and to top it off, thoroughly cuckolded the completely oblivious Luthor with Tala, to the point that the only one unhappy with the mutual restoration was Tala herself.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', [[BewareTheNiceOnes goofy, silly Beast Boy]] would occasionally get pissed off and remind both villains and viewers that he was capable of turning into any animal alive ''or that had ever lived''. In one episode, he thoroughly thrashed Slade [[spoiler:or rather a roboSlade, though the two were usually interchangeable]] despite the fact that this was someone who regularly whooped the team's designated {{badass}}, Robin. This is especially evident in "The End", where he uses his "patented wet-willy manouver" to ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthuhlu hurt Trigon more than anyone had ever managed before]]''[[note]]Trigon is a gigantic EldritchAbomination. Beast Boy "patented wet-willy manouver" consisted in taking the form of a colibri, flying inside Trigon's ear, and becoming ''a whale''. Trigon started immediately crying out in pain.[[/note]] "Titans Together", where the Titans, both organized and honorary, have been decimated, and it's up to Beast Boy to lead the handful that remain against the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Brotherhood of Evil]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', [[BewareTheNiceOnes goofy, silly Beast Boy]] would occasionally get pissed off and remind both villains and viewers that he was capable of turning into any animal alive ''or that had ever lived''. In one episode, he thoroughly thrashed Slade [[spoiler:or rather a roboSlade, though the two were usually interchangeable]] despite the fact that this was someone who regularly whooped the team's designated {{badass}}, Robin. This is especially evident in "The End", where he uses his "patented wet-willy manouver" to ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutChtuhlu hurt Trigon more than anyone had ever managed before]]''[[note]]Trigon is a gigantic EldritchAbomination. Beast Boy "patented wet-willy manouver" consisted in taking the form of a colibri, flying inside Trigon's ear, and becoming ''a whale'' "Titans Together", where the Titans, both organized and honorary, have been decimated, and it's up to Beast Boy to lead the handful that remain against the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Brotherhood of Evil]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'', [[BewareTheNiceOnes goofy, silly Beast Boy]] would occasionally get pissed off and remind both villains and viewers that he was capable of turning into any animal alive ''or that had ever lived''. In one episode, he thoroughly thrashed Slade [[spoiler:or rather a roboSlade, though the two were usually interchangeable]] despite the fact that this was someone who regularly whooped the team's designated {{badass}}, Robin. This is especially evident in "Titans Together", where the Titans, both organized and honorary, have been decimated, and it's up to Beast Boy to lead the handful that remain against the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Brotherhood of Evil]].

* Dib of ''InvaderZim'' is an almost perpetual ButtMonkey trying to tell a CassandraTruth, but under the right circumstances he's able to unleash his inner awesome and defend the Earth like never before. Like the time he ''[[Awesome/InvaderZim piloted Mercury]]''. Indeed, JhonenVasquez remarks in the DVD commentary that "Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom" is pretty much just an excuse to show Dib's [[Awesome/InvaderZim Crowning Moment Of Awesome]] as he leads Earth's defense fleet against the Irken armada and single-handedly brings down the Massive.
* Sewer Urchin of ''TheTick'' is a semi-scatterbrained guy who talks like Rain Man and gets knocked around pretty often. However, this is because he's out of his element. In the sewers, he's BadAss to the bone, to the point where The City's sewer workers talk about him with hushed tones of awe.

** Uncle seems like an eccentric weirdo who's too old to fight effectively, but when he wears the Dog Talisman, an artifact that gives its user the strength of youth, he shows off his martial arts skills by pulverizing a specially hired assassin who beat Jackie to within an inch of his life.

* ''{{Family Guy}}'': When Quagmire plots to kill Jeff, Joe refuses to go through with it, since it would be murder. But once he hears Jeff abusing Brenda next door, Joe responds with this... Let's waste this dick.