Awesome / Barbie in the Nutcracker

• Any of the dance sequences.
• The Mouse King can turn his staff into an axe, a sword, and a crossbow, and appears to be proficient with all of them.
• Clara saving her friends, who are trapped behind an invisible, soundproof wall, by realizing that if guards were posted at an empty room, there must be something in there.
• The Mouse King grows gigantic to deal with the Nutcracker in the finale.
• Clara calling out the Mouse King for hiding behind his magic and standing up to his giant form.
  Clara: No! You're nothing but a coward hiding behind a magic wand!
• When the shrunken Mouse King, riding on Pim, snatches Clara's locket and opens it, sending her home before the prince's eyes, one of the Gingerbread kids throws a snowball at the Mouse King and Pim. Despite the distance and its unexpected appearance (a few snow fairies literally conjured it out of thin air), she nails Pim hard enough to knock him out of the air on the first try.
• While searching for her captured friends, Clara comes face-to-face with a pair of guards. Not only does she talk her way out of it, she also convinces them to flee and leave the prisoners unguarded.
  Clara: Oh—! There you are! The King needs you right away in the courtyard. And he said if you didn't hurry, you'd spend the rest of your lives as houseflies. (Beat.) Or was it horseflies?
• One for Clara early on, when dealing with the Mouse King. "Hey! Up here!" Cue shoe to the head, and an instant K.O.
• Captain Candy and Major Mint's first act is to save Clara, the Nutcracker, and the Gingerbread kids from a troop of the Mouse King's soldiers, despite having no idea who they are.
• When the rock giant the Mouse King sent after the Nutcracker doesn't break through a thick sheet of ice, the Nutcracker turns around and charges back toward it in order to weaken the ice enough for it to break through.
  Nutcracker: Don't worry, wood floats.(stabs the ice, causing it to crack) Rock doesn't.
• The Gingerbread kids give Clara and the Nutcracker more trouble than any of the Mouse King's soldiers while armed with nothing but snowballs.
• At one point, Captain Candy is dangling over a deep ravine and is too far away for the other characters to reach down and help him. The Nutcracker's solution? He detaches his own arm and holds it out with his other hand, giving him the extra few feet he needs to pull the captain to safety.
• Despite having never heard of him before and only knowing him for a few days at most, Clara is the only one to figure out that the Nutcracker is really Prince Eric.
• Doubling as heartwarming, after Clara is sent home, Eric travels all the way back to her world to reunite with her.

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