Lian-Chu, a Gentle Giant who knits, pulls a Big Damn Heroes — awesome. Lovable Coward Gwizdo pulling a Big Damn Heroes — and succeeding? Crowningly awesome.
The Series:
- In "A Fist Full of Veggies" the duo skillfully wins over a hammerleg who already killed many of their predecessors. Buying time for Lian-Chu pinned down by a huge conifer, tenacious Gwizdo avoids getting into the dragon's huge mouth, being thrown into the air by its stomping, as he manages, falling from a height of tens of meters, to cling to its teeth and to hide on his head immediately. He even finds on the dragon's back some weapons and uses them desperately to stop the hammerleg, while it comes for Lian-Chu. At this time, from under the tree Lian-Chu already finds the weak spot of the dragon and kills it with a single throw of the knitting needle. The fall of the giant carcass allows the tree to roll back and frees the big guy's legs.
- Zoria perfecting the Kiwajel Thrust.
- The duo get an awesome moment in "The Gland of the Mimikar". Gwizdo, Lian-Chu and Hector have been offered as human sacrifices to the Mimikar and are suspended on chains on a wooden frame. Lian-Chu, moved by the fact that Gwizdo tried to save him, uses the last of his strength to tear the frame in half, freeing everyone, and collapsing. Gwizdo tries in vain to wake Lian-Chu. Looking up with an expression of grim determination, he grabs a piece of the wooden frame, charges straight at the Mimikar and hurls it with all of his might so that it could be sharpened into a stake by the Mimikar's flames and pierce its gland. It works.
- In "The Orphan Farm", Gwizdo has one where he and the children break out of the mine. The moment doesn't last long, but it shows Gwizdo's cunning and resourcefulness.
- Moreover, on his own and with a single blow of his fist Gwizdo knocked out and threw back a few meters the ferocious, strong and club-armed enemy of his childhood, who was one and a half times taller than Gwizdo himself! Such an unexpected manifestation of power can be explained by the walks of Gwizdo and his team in places with unstable gravity when they were younger, according to the events of platformer for Nintendo DS (2008).
- Zoria saving Gwizdo and Lian-Chu from giant bees in "Can I See Your License Please?"
- In "Dragon In The Hearth", Plucky Girl Zaza defeating a dragon almost on her own while sick with a cold.
- In "Porkfester's Pigfarm Island" tiny puny Hector overcomes fear and saves all his friends and the whole farm from the creepy Lovecraftian dragon who is zombifying living creatures. This needs to be emphasized... Hector kills this dragon in an extremely heroic manner and does it himself from start to finish.
- In "The Stuff of Dreams", while drowning in the lake and already not hoping to swim out, Gwizdo cuts the Grimalock with Lian-Chu's lost sword just enough to knock it out, which is an awesome feat because as "Gland of the Mimikar" shows, Lian-Chu's sword is heavy.
- In "Combat Spores", while trying to make a salad dressing, Gwizdo invents an effective biological weapon against Dragon plants due to his poor cooking skills and eventually saves his friend while spraying this potion from the air.
- In "Draco Menta" Gwizdo defeats to the death the most dangerous mental dragon selflessly and mostly on his own by his quick wit and deftness. Right before this feat he successfully survives a fall into a rocky chasm while trying to save Lian-Chu's sword... and uses this heavy blade instead of a climbing pole to overcome a difficult multi-meter wall of rocks, that definitely says about some muscular progress of the little guy.
The Movie:
- The only fact that the old cripple Lord Arnold didn't lose his skills with handy blades, as well as his determination to destroy the World Gobbler even after being blinded and losing the ability to walk, shows his man as a phenomenally committed dragon hunter who still retained great fortitude. Even if he's an Anti-Hero.
- In order to help her uncle, ten-year-old Zoe runs away from home at least twice, while risking being eaten by dangerous dragons soon after. Even getting into terrible scrapes doesn't discourage this fragile young palace flower from becoming a dragon huntress in the future.
- Hector, although not a completely adult dog-like dragon, is able to quickly drive away a hostile armed crowd of farmers from his friends, just using his acting talents.
- Every single time when Lian-Chu defeats a tough dragon or a group of dragons in the course of the action. We remind you that in the movie he's still a fairly young warrior, whose main character traits are extreme shyness and soft-heartedness...
- His endurance in battle with the World Gobbler deserves a separate note after overcoming a panic attack and an insight about the only way to kill a dragon: to combine the energy pools of his eyes with the help of his mother's metal knitting needles.
- Gwizdo manages to save Zoe, Hector and himself with his modest own forces from the mighty suction into the mouth of the World Gobbler while Lian-Chu waits out a panic attack in hiding, being deeply morally traumatized in early childhood by the ravaging actions of that dragon.
- Later, Gwizdo expresses everything he thinks to the face of recovered Lord Arnold in order to single-handedly protect Zoe from her uncle's punishment... as a result, taking the painful punishment instead of her. And surviving.
