Awesome / Peter and the Starcatchers

• Black Stache's Establishing Character Moment has him marooning his two fattest sailors and dumping most of his water overboard to make his ship light enough to get downwind of the Wasp and motivate his crew to take the Wasp and get its water. Is his plan insane and ruthless? Yes. But it works.
• Preston and Harbuckle, the men Black Stache sets adrift, manage to untie themselves as their dory is sinking around them.
• After picking up Preston and Harbuckle, Slank quickly figures out that they aren't innocent castaways and exposes their deception by asking if a man who died 20 years went down with the ship they claim to have come from.
• During the sea chase, Leonard Aster suggests having an archer among the Wasp's crew put a flaming arrow through some of Black Stache's sails to slow his ship down. When this fails, Leonard puts himself adrift in a dory with what he thinks is the trunk of Starstuff. This nearly forces Black Stache to either abandon his pursuit of the Wasp (in which case Leonard will dump the trunk overboard) or let the dory escape to chase the Wasp.
  • Black Stache turns the tables when he throws a captive sailor overboard, knowing Leonard will go back to save the man and allowing him to harpoon Leonard's dory.
  • Bingham, the man Black Stache threw overboard to trigger Aster's Chronic Hero Syndrome, helps try to throw the trunk overboard, even though doing so could trigger Black Stache's wrath once they're back on his ship.
• Molly and Peter manage to send the trunk of Starstuff overboard just before Black Stache can get it by capturing the Never Land.
• Little Richard successfully fights off six of Black Stache's men during the capture of the Never Land before surrendering to keep Slank from being executed.
• Mr. Slank escapes from Black Stache's brig by tying a rope to a cow in the cargo hold and then improperly milking it to make the cow jerk the door off its hinges.
• Alf volunteers to face Mr. Grin in exchange for the boys' freedom. It doesn't work, but at least he tries.
• When Tinkerbell is captured and taken to an unscrupulous animal collector, she talks his other unwilling pets into attacking the guy.
• The mermaids attack first Slank and then Hook to keep them from getting the Starstuff, leaving the feared villains helpless throughout both scenes.
• George takes command of the flying ship in Secret of Rundoon, doing a good job despite his youth and leading a rescue mission to the palace.
• Peter and Tink essentially save all existence from the Others in Secret of Rundoon.
• As the escape from Rundoon concludes, Slightly takes the time to fire a cannonball at King Zarboff, the sadistic monarch who kept him as a slave and dangled the threat of being fed to a snake over his head. Zarboff dodges the cannonball, only to accidentally fall right onto his snake, which turns on him for a very Karmic Death.
• Shining Pearl and several pirates lure Mr. Grin the crocodile to attack members of the Scorpion Tribe after they conquer Mollusk Island.
• Mr. Grin's attempt to eat Hook in the climax of the third book [ruins Hook's attempt to escape with the Starstuff in a flying ship. Hook only escapes from the crocodile by tricking him into swallowing a clock and using his pants as bait.
• A priest entrusted with the tip of Charlemagne's sword resists physical torture from the Skeleton until the villains threaten to burn down the chapel he's devoted his life to.
• Fighting Prawn does a Sherlock Scan of some castaways working for The Others and realizes that they're lying about how long they were stranded at sea and how they survived.
• When George realizes that Superintendent Blake is probably involved in Molly's disappearance, he doesn't hesitate to stand up to the Dirty Cop's bullying in an impressive manner.
• The scouts The Others send to Mollusk Island in ''Sword of Mercy,' trigger a small volcanic eruption to signal their comrades at sea and then narrowly escape the lava flow by sliding downhill on a log.
• When Peter and his friends rescue the prisoners in Sword of Mercy, they find out that Molly and George (who overheard von Schatten talking about killing them all once the work is done) have been working to weaken the tunnel, preparing to bring it down on Von Schatten and his men the next time they came down.
• Magill and his bear Karl fight with The Skeleton (whose very touch causes pain) and two Giant Mooks for an extended scene in Sword of Mercy.
• In Sword of Mercy, an injured James sneaks up behind von Schatten during the fight and attaches a pair of electrified clamps to him, taking him out for a while.
• Wendy hurls a chest of Starstuff at von Schatten and The Skeleton (after they've said that if opened, the chest will kill everyone in the flying train car), then dives out the open door, gambling on Peter catching her. He does, and above them, they see bright lights flashing while the villains scream in agony.
• While rescuing a mermaid from a Circus of Fear in Escape from the Carnivale, several dolphins band together while covered in seaweed and other props to look like they're one giant sea serpent.
• When hundreds of bats go flying right at the pirates in "Cave of the Dark Wind,'' Hook stands his ground, pressing on as his men flee.
• In the Back Story of "Cave of The Dark Wind,'' several sailors washed overboard during a storm manage to find some floating barrels to grab onto and hold on long enough to be rescued by another ship despite being blind.
• While trying to retrieve a pirate treasure that makes anyone who looks at it go blind, Hook comes up with the idea of only looking at its reflection in their swords, hoping that not staring directly at the gold will avoid the blindness curse. And it works.

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