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Original Series

  • Episode 2, Nanoha sealing a Jewel Seed for the very first time shows her immense abilities.
  • Episode 4, Nanoha and Fate's first confrontation is when the story shows it's not just another textbook magical girl anime.
  • Episode 5, Yuuno simultaneously maintains a phase shift barrier over roughly a kilometer area, throws up a defensive barrier that stops barrier-buster familiar Arf in her tracks, and then a short-distance teleport in the space of about ten seconds.
  • Doubling as a bit of a Tear Jerker considering how desperate she seems at the time, and what her mother does to her afterwards, Fate managing to subdue an out-of-control Jewel Seed by herself, after Bardiche is damaged in her fight with Nanoha, at the start of episode 7 is pretty damn impressive.
    • Chrono's interruption of Nanoha and Fate's battle for the recently awakened Jewel Seed.
    Chrono: (catches Raging Heart and Bardiche mid-strike) Stop it now! A battle here is just way to dangerous to allow.
  • Episode 9, watching Nanoha, Fate, Yuuno and Arf all working together to capture the Jewel Seeds controlling the ocean.
  • Episode 11, Fate firing off a Macross Missile Massacre with Photon Lancer, Phalanx Shift. Only to see Nanoha is ready to Divine Buster her, which is then followed up with Starlight Breaker.
  • Episode 12, Chrono destroying Precia's welcoming committee.
    Chrono: "You don't need to waste your time on enemies of this level."
    • The moment when Fate does her Heel–Face Turn in the first season and joins Nanoha against her Evil Matriarch mother definitely qualifies. She summons her cape from thin air over her head, and it proceeds to drop perfectly into place on her shoulders in mid-transformation without her moving an inch. And all of it set to Take A Shot.
    • Fate's Thunder Rage gets Nanoha gaping at her awesomeness.
    • Chrono's speech upon making his entry to Precia's lair. Bleeding from the head, he nevertheless proceeds to tell her just exactly why she's a lunatic. This becomes much more of a Tear Jerker after you realize next season that Chrono speaks from the experience of losing his father.
    Chrono: "The world... is always filled with things that were never meant to be!"

The MOVIE 1st

  • Chrono's entrance, binding both Nanoha and Fate in an instant.
  • The upgraded version of the Starlight Breaker. It leveled an entire city in one shot (which would put her on par with Reinforce in the main series). Complete with an Oh, Crap! from Fate.
    • Nanoha only placed a bind on three of Fate's limbs, leaving one of her hands. The scale of the attack was so massive that if Fate didn't have the ability to cast a shield, it would have completely wrecked her.
      • Fate casts five shields to defend herself. They hold for a total of a few seconds before being smashed in rapid succession, knocking Fate out and sending her straight into the ocean.
    • It's not just Fate's reaction. Chrono also looks on with awe at the sheer scale of it. Combined with the music, it feels more like an act of god (or a devil) than an attack.

The MOVIE 1st: The Comics

  • Strike Smasher: An open-handed beam attack at point-blank range that can't be dodged or blocked easily.

Precia Testarossa

  • Precia is the first Nanoha character shown with an SS rank in the power scale. Nanoha and Fate are both AAA rank in the first season and that is the highest rank before the scale was updated. By the third season, adult Nanoha and Fate are specialized S rank mages and still nowhere near Precia's ranking. Also, unlike Hayate who boosted her way up the power scale by assimilating the Book of Darkness/Tome of the Night sky, Precia's power is entirely natural implying Precia is, at least, in the same league as Reinforce Eins.

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