Awesome / Resurrection: Ertuğrul

• Considering the heavy presence of swordfights in this series, it would be difficult to list all of them here, but there are some examples that do stand out.
  • The second to last battle scene in season 1 involves Suleyman Shah leading the alps to the Templars' stronghold via a damp cavern leading into one of the dungeons, then attacking as many of soldiers inside the edifice as possible and they even manage to hang the visiting officials from the Vatican on nooses, all before finally confronting a severely weakened Petruchio Manzini. The one who gets to deal the finishing blow: Turgut Alp, who had spent almost the whole season tortured and drugged by the Crusaders. They cap it off by torching the building from inside, presumably destroying it for good after heading back to the tribe.
  • The large-scale battle against Tekfur Vasilius at the end of season 3. While the final swordfights in the previous two seasons were skirmishes against a small group of competent opponents, this one is against an entire legion of Byzantine Crusaders, thus requiring the Cavdars and Kayis to gather every last alp in their clans to stand a chance against him.
  • A little ways into season 4, Ertugrul and his alps stage a rather, ahem, elaborate attack on Karacahisar: to start, the siege happens in the middle of a festival, during which Tekfur Ares would least expect to be attacked. Ertugrul, Bamsi, and Turgut then enter wearing hoods, claiming to be a group of templars who were supposed to initiate the festivities. Then after throwing their hoods off, Ertugrul gives a signal to the rest of his crew, and that is when the action starts getting good. Similar to season 1, they navigate the castle trying to dispatch every Crusader they come across and although Ares ends up narrowly escaping the chaos, the good news is that Ertugrul doesn’t attack any of the non-Crusader festival guests, knowing full well they’ll warm up to him once he explains his reasons for breaking into Karacahisar.

• This conversation at the end of season 5, between Ertugrul and Arikbuka immediately before the latter’s demise.
  Arikbuka: You think you’ll win by killing us. But we have thousands of Kiyats and thousands of Arikbukas. You’ll never defeat Hulagu Khan.
  Ertugrul: We have enough swords for every traitor and tyrant. I will personally convey the news Hulagu is expecting. The only thing he’ll learn from us is this: the truth came – and evil was beaten. [He then slashes Arikbuka’s throat, causing him to fall backward and giving Ertugrul one last victory].

• Prior to the above scene, Berke Khaan, the first Mongol khaan to convert to Islam, has effectively taken a stand against his people's quest for world domination. In response, a not significant number of his fellow Mongols, including his own vizir, have turned against at him for abandoning the Old Ways. When the Mongols claim that the Eternal Sky will punish him for his conversion he replies:
  Berke Khaan: The Earth and Sky have only one Master, my Lord Allah, in whom I believe. If you have a score to settle, He certainly has one to settle too.
  • And just prior to that, he also has this to say to Kiyat, his treacherous advisor.
  Berke Khaan: Once, you put your head beneath my sword and swore you would die for me. I'll hold you to that now.

• Young Gunduz in season 4 enters awesome territory after Ares captures him. Having remembered a story his father told him about a monster who was stabbed in the eye and weakened by the impact, he takes a cobble out of his pocket and jams the object into his captor's face. Even though this nearly gets the kid killed, his memory still really came in handy here.

• Of course, moments of awesome aren’t limited to violent clashes. Take, for instance:
  • Ibn Arabi at the end of season 3. After Sultan Alaeddin is poisoned during a visit to the Hanli Market, Ertugrul summons Ibn (Who is unexpectedly angry to hear about the attitudes being displayed toward Ertugrul within the sultan’s cabinet) to try and cure the monarch. When he gets there, the guards at the entrance (Hired by Sadettin Kopek, the man who poisoned him in the first place) prevent him from proceeding, suggesting that they let the palace medics do their work. After some hefty conversation with him and Ertugrul, the guards eventually let Ibn enter the premises, with Ibn keeping his composure the entire time. To cap it off, he miraculously succeeds in curing Alaeddin.
  • Probably the only significant course of action taken by a non-human, which occurs in season 4, counts as this. After grieving Ertugrul’s supposed death at the hands of the Byzantines, Halime releases her husband’s horse Aktogali into the wilderness, believing he would be nothing without his rider. Little does Halime know, Aktogali encounters Ertugrul after the latter escapes from the clutches of a slaver, then carries him back to the tribe, much to Halime’s delight.