Awesome / Prehistoric Earth

• The latter half of the back at the park segment of 'The First Steps'. After Yolanda falls over the rail and into the aquatic holding pen the brontoscorpio are, being knocked unconscious in the process, and is at risk of either drowning or being attacked by the scorpions, Nikolai (remaining calm and unflappable) orders Mia to dive in and get her out, to which she obliges. When she becomes overwhelmed, In this moment, Leon takes his first level in badass. How? He snaps and acts in the heat of the moment on pure gut instinct to (despite Nikolai's asking what the heck he's doing) dive over the rail himself to Yolanda's rescue. And over what happens next, Leon shows considerable determination, strength, willpower, and bravery in keeping himself and Yolanda afloat while he and Mia simultaneously try their best to keep the brontoscorpio away and make it back to safety. Even as it seems that they're going to be overwhelmed anyway, they still don't back down or give up easily. To cap it all off, Hedetet, the giant female Pterygotus, comes right into the brontoscorpio holding pen (courtesy of Nikolai opening the gates to let her through) and scares away the brontoscorpio (her natural prey), giving Leon and Mia the time they need to get themselves and Yolanda safely out of the water.
• The fact that, despite all the drama going on in 'Life in Transition', Leon and Jack still manage to force aside their differences just in time to save Drew, and that Drew is able to survive against the dunkleosteus long enough for Jack and Leon to save him.
• Drew's "Arthropleura rodeo" in the midst of a swamp forest fire during the finale of Alien Empire.
• An 'offscreen' moment may or may not have occurred in that Jack and Leon were able to successfully handle the hyneria in spite of accidentally being given a husbandry manual that was in French instead of English and later found themselves forced to rely entirely on improvising and a Hell of a bit of Indy Ploys.
• Drew and Alice surviving a sandstorm in 'Passport to Hell'.
  • Jack's final idea for the dimetrodon feeding being put to use in the same chapter.
• Leon's daring chase by the therocephalians in 'Life and Death Promised'.
• Alice successfully holding her own against FOUR cymbospondylus in "Degrees of Greatness."
• Drew and Adrian's successfully preventing the adult female postosuchus from being killed and eaten by Coelophysis and Lilliensternus in "Degrees of Greatness."
• Surviving multiple encounters against Allosaurus in the first of the Jurassic period missions. If their luck keeps on staying with them, they should definitely stand a fighting chance at obtaining similar giant carnivores in the future.
• The clash between the Argentinosaurus and Giganotosaurus at the conclusion of Age of Giants. The entire pack of predators finds themselves against one of the largest dinosaurs to ever live, and it becomes clear that, in the Age of Giants, size matters.
• Ever since the rescue of the allosaurus group, Leon has been working his damndest to train the three younger males for the sake of added security to the park, not to mention to shake off his less than flattering reputation as "The Useless One". And while he still is far from getting full respect from anyone, he's certainly not about to give up.
• The final minutes of the mission in Feathered Dragons. Specifically, the gang managing to get an entire herd of borealosaurus to cohesively move through the portal even in the midst of the herd panicking from a release of deadly gas from a volcanic eruption.
• In Spirits of the Silent Forest, the borealosaurus herd are mysteriously let out of their enclosure, only to be thankfully rounded up safely back in.
• For a villainous moment, whoever was responsible for the sabotage managed to get into the park, completely avoid security, and reclaim the shutdown timer involved in the borealosaurus escape without getting caught before then successfully escaping.
• The rescue of the deinosuchus in Every Golden Scale.
• Credit where credit is due. One of the deinosuchus manages to put up quite a fight over the course of its capture. It even manages to bust through the blocked off second end of the trap before finally becoming exhausted enough to be safely led through the portal!
• Over the course of The Wavering Gulfs, the entire gang is able to come along. And they manage to rescue multiple dangerous prehistoric ocean animals. But most notably, they manage to rescue 7 tylosaurus...while said mososaurs are actively attacking the Ancient Mariner!
• Jack himself proves especially smart in just how he manages to get the tylosaurus group through the portal. Taking advantage of the environment, he uses a dead archelon carcass the gang had previously noticed beforehand as bait to lead the mosasaurs through the portal!
• In a notable scene during A Continent of Blight, the gang catches sight of three tyrannosaurus rex (a single mated pair and a single gigantic adult male) in the midst of a vicious battle.
• Drew manages to live through the KT Event!
• In Nightmare Labyrinthine, a massive number of the carnivorous dinosaurs mysteriously manage to escape. From there, the entire park staff get put through the ringer trying to round them all up, with Sharptooth naturally proving especially tough to deal with. But in the end, all ends well.
• And for more individual notes, the unofficial 'main trio' each manage to show off their own spectacular personal moment of awesome:
  • Drew: Realizes just how over-reliant he's become on his own luck, and subsequently very carefully plans out how to resolve the problem.
  • Jack: Talks down Red the Utahraptor into backing down and subsequently providing assistance.
  • Leon: Finally puts the trained Allosaur squad to extra good use in epic fashion. Needless to say, his days as "the useless one" are officially over.
• And to top it all off, Sharptooth fights an epic battle against both Zira and, of all creatures, Keehar the Ramphorynchus. Double points to the latter for living to tell the tale afterward!
• Near the end of Anthropomorphous Apes, Yolanda has ended up trapped in the vet facilities while they're on lockdown as a result of an animal escape when an escaped dinofelis has already ended up inside before the lockdown initiated. How does she survive? By first none other than SHARPTOOTH scaring the beast into fleeing, and then Leon arriving in time to tranquilize it while it's already running away from the T-rex, that's how!
• The mission team not only survives an attack on their boat by megalodon in "Beyond the Sea", but also get all the sharks through the portal relatively unscathed!
• Were you expecting the megatherium to be helpless idiots like Sid? Well think again! For not only does Leon narrowly risk the wrath of one wary individual while on a solo mission in "Five To Midnight", but Drew and Adrian also get to witness a megatherium straight up KILL one of two smilodon brothers trying to attack it while sending the other one fleeing with its tail between its legs!
• And not only the megatherium either. Instead of being portrayed as cowardly scavengers like they were in the original Prehistoric Park, the phorusrhacos on display in this series are portrayed as the competent actively predatory hunters and good fighters that they were actually believed to be, and only flee from the smilodon pride in this continuity after the arrival of Broken Fang.
• In another villainous example, the fact that the mole has so far managed to last the entire story without getting discovered by the good guys... or even by the readers until finally being revealed to in fact be a completely minor character to boot!
• Despite being seriously wounded, scarred, and half blind, Baloo the cave bear still managed to win a battle between him and a cave lion (even going so far as to kill said lion). Points to the cave lion as well since, if it hadn't been for Alice and her team, plus the vets at Prehistoric Earth, Baloo would have ended up dying from his own wounds as well.
• Speaking of cave bears, Alice and her team manage to also send an entire sleuth's worth of them to the park after rescuing Baloo. The last one to be sent through the portal proves especially tough and puts up quite a fight.
• For the sake of keeping Martha safe in "Full Fathom Five", Alice, Will, Jack, and Raksha end up doing battle with an entire pack of cave hyenas.
• In the same mission, Drew and Leon manage to save a neanderthal from both an angry bull Mammoth and a territorial woolly rhino. In turn, said neanderthal later returns the favor by intervening just enough to allow them to survive against a mated pair of cave lions long enough for both of the lions to end up safely sent through the portal.
• In another villainous moment, the Novum black-ops team managed to bring back another adult female t-rex and use her as a distraction! They certainly know to go big when it comes to their plans.
• Despite spending the majority of the story out of focus due to his originally intended role being supplanted by Jack, ADRIAN is the one who manages to catch Duncan and the black-ops unit in the act of stealing the portal and subsequently sounding the alarm, and all despite getting tased by them in their efforts to stop him from doing exactly that!
• Nikolai's suspicions of there being sabotage involved in the mysterious events going on at Prehistoric Earth prove very much well founded in time for him to react in time to avoid getting tased and fed to Thanatos by Ed despite Ed having been completely silent in sneaking up on him. And even better, Ed himself ends up getting fed to Thanatos after a one-sided conflict between him and Nikolai (though not without Ed at least putting up a somewhat decent fight in the process).
• Much like Ed, Zander himself proves a Not-So-Harmless Villain by managing to successfully get the drop on Alice, Will, and Raksha. And from there, further awesomeness points are scored by the side of good when Zander's own subsequent overconfidence leaves him unable to resist the urge to toy with his victims while they're at his mercy instead of immediately killing them while he has the chance, resulting in Baloo noticing him threatening Will and subsequently pouncing on him before crushing Zander's head between his jaws!
• The animal that ends up finally allowing the gang to tranquilize the hostile t-rex that the smuggling operation had summoned as a distraction? None other than Martha. And more specifically, despite Martha and said t-rex never once coming to blows, the very sight of such an unfamiliar (in the rex's perspective) as Martha is enough to give the carnivorous dinosaur enough pause to get hit by a tranquilizer in time so that, by the time the t-rex does in fact decide to try to actually attack Martha, the tranquilizer drugs have already started taking effect, causing her to lose consciousness and leave Martha confused and unharmed.
• None other than Sharptooth himself proves responsible for killing (and EATING) Ursula and Duncan. Serves them right for parking right nearby his exhibit.
• In Isle of Noise, thanks to both the successful reclaiming of the stolen portal remote and neutralizing of the hostile t-rex, plus the deaths of Duncan and the Novum Black-Ops squadron, the park crew have just enough time to hurry over to where the smuggling operation's base is located and put a stop to their machinations.
• Von Grimm proves himself very much not an Orcus on His Throne by immediately coming to the park himself to make absolutely certain that no further problems unfold over the course of the smuggling operation's efforts at packing up what they have and getting out of dodge.
• After splitting into two groups, the Prehistoric Earth crew get successfully caught in the act of sneaking around the smuggling base and trying to foil their plans altogether by von Grimm, Frank, and their remaining underlings. And despite it looking very grim for the heroes, they manage to escape nonetheless. Drew's group manages to escape thanks to Leon managing to be quick enough to blow his whistle in time to call upon the aid of Drogon, Viserion, and Rhaegal the Allosaurus squad. Jack's group, meanwhile, manage to get out as a result of Jack keeping the enemy distracted by talking long enough for Keehar to surreptitiously fly over and claim the technology needed to remotely unlock all the cages within the area, to obvious unpleasant results for the enemy.
• Von Grimm further proves himself a competent big bad by turning out to be well aware of Frank's plans to serve as The Starscream; a fact that he reveals by saying as much out loud to Frank's face before then having one of his other underlings tase Frank unconscious and leave him for the Prehistoric Earth crew to deal with as he and the rest of his still living underlings successfully make their escape.
• An unwitting one occurs on the herbivorous dinosaurs' end when they manage, after getting spooked into a stampede by Frank while he's attempting to escape, to get him killed by managing to trample a port-a-potty he was trying to hide in during their stampede, causing him to get Squashed Flat in the process.
• For all his competence as a Big Bad, von Grimm ultimately turns out to be very much not a Karma Houdini. For after spending a good bit of time in hiding on a Central American island, Cynthia manages to eventually track him down, at which point he is found and subsequently brought to justice.
• At the very end of the story, the park is opened to the public, complete with the visiting press getting a full view of one of the Argentinosaurus.