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  • During the big Space Battle in Episode 4, Captain Spikes takes command of eight Venators and manages to destroy a dozen Imperial warships, securing a small victory for the Republic in what was otherwise one of their worst military defeats in galactic history. The way he does it is incredible. First he uses his ships' tractor beams to fling a massive piece of space debris from the wrecked Atlas of Steel at the dozen Imperial ships as they attempt to ram the eight Venators, causing catastrophic damage to each Imperial ship. Spikes then has the Venators' starfighter complements and turbolasers finish off what's left of the Imperial ships.
  • Gaphin, a fourteen-year-old Padawan, holding his own against a Skywatch Space Marine near the end of Episode 5 as he buys time for Shina to make it to the escape pod. This is the same Marine who previously killed Gaphin's Jedi master offscreen and was using his master's stolen lightsaber to attack him, the sight of which only strengthens Gaphin's conviction to fight.
  • Just as Anakin is about to be overpowered by Brother Hastus in Episode 8, Wrecker comes to the rescue, picking up the fully-armored Space Marine and chucking him into a wall while yelling "Wrecking time!"
  • Crosshair has one when Hastus slices off his leg while he has his guard down. Instead of panicking, Crosshair reacts by merely grunting in pain before immediately shooting Hastus in the face with his sniper rifle.
  • The end of Episode 10 contains an awesome moment for the Jedi Order showing that they are ready to unleash hell on the Imperials occupying Axum. Anakin leaps on top of a stack of crates inside a crowded space station filled with thousands of War Refugees. However, when the Chosen One raises his activated lightsaber above his head and calls out his Battle Cry, every single one of those refugees reveals themselves to be disguised Jedi who then proceed to follow Anakin's lead.
  • Episode 12 gives us a glimpse of just how terrifyingly effective the Jedi can be when they fight together in large groups against more conventional enemies. Obi-Wan's strike force of 50 Jedi alone is able to carve through hundreds of naval armsmen defending the Hellsmasher with ease using teamwork and the Force. And the ship's crew are throwing everything they've got at the Jedi from Rotor Cannons to plasma guns. The armsmen even use sound tactics like setting up ambush points at the corridor intersections and around the corners of hallways. None of that is any good against the Jedi, who breeze past all of it without taking so much as a single casualty. Curb-Stomp Battle doesn't even begin to describe it.
  • Aayla single-handedly taking down a trio of Wyrdvane Psykers in Episode 16 after the latter had just killed hundreds of clone troopers with their Warp powers.
  • Saphran, the Crimson Razors Librarian stationed aboard the Hellsmasher, manages to singlehandedly defeat Obi-Wan's strike force consisting of fifty experienced Jedi Masters and Knights including Cin Drallig, Serra Keto, Taron Malicos, and Cere Junda. This is also after Saphran had previously ambushed and wiped out Luminara's similarly-sized strike force.
  • Count Dooku making short work of Brother Araknus at the end of Episode 24 after having singlehandedly wiped out Araknus's entire Space Marine squad offscreen beforehand. It's just nice to see the Separatists finally eek out a small win after spending the majority of the series getting curb-stomped by the Imperium.
  • Mace Windu, Jaro Tapal, and Depa Billaba all managing to not only hold their own but even seemingly defeat Saphran, a Librarian who had already bested around a hundred Jedi by himself.
  • In "Episode 28: Warriors, War Machines, WAR", Anakin reveals just how powerful a Force User he truly is when he grasps a psy-boosting "Blackrock" implant whilst trying to temporarily alleviate the Anti-Magic field of the secret Inquisitorial prison he is in. The resultant flood of psychic energy is so powerful it innundates the entire ship; many of the prison's elite guard of Blanks and Sisters of Silence die on the spot as they overload on pure psychic energy and their heads burst like rotten eggs with even the survivors falling to their knees in sheer pain, the facility's Power Nullifier spontaneously combusts, the ship's Astropathic Choir are deafened and the ship's Navigator starts weeping Tears of Blood from his Warp Eye. Even Khayon, a 10,000 year old Chaos Sorcerer of Tzeentch so powerful he served as a Herald of Abaddon and who once managed to best his own Primarch, Magnus the Red, in a psychic duel is left awestruck, with a reaction that is just a few shades away from being What the Hell Are You?.
  • Sando managing to take down three power armored Sisters of Battle in Episode 29 through some quick thinking and luck, even killing the last one by stabbing her through the chest with her own power sword.
  • The true Grievous manages to hand the Crimson Razors their first defeat in the series, destroying the entire battlegroup sent to Exterminatus Hypori before then proceeding to hunt down the few Space Marines who survived the battle like animals. All in all, the true Grievous succeeds in killing three squads of Space Marines in total, including a Force Captain and a Librarian.
    • Give credit to Force Captain Vordran, he refuses to give into despair and fights the True Grievous to his last breath.
      Vordran: For the glory of the Emperor.
      True Grievous: For the memory of the fallen.
  • When it becomes clear that there is no way to prevent the Imperial flagship from destroying the Republic dreadnaught he's aboard, Kuat of Kuat spends his last moments of life at his command chair, making sure to send footage of the effects that the Imperial Astropaths' psychic assault had on his bridge crew to Admiral Spikes so that the rest of the Republic fleet won't be caught unprepared like he was. He doesn't panic or try to escape the doomed ship others in his situation might.
  • The reveal that Spikes was promoted to being a full-fledged admiral in between the second and third season is a major accomplishment for him. For context, it is previously unheard of for clone troopers to be given such a high rank in the military. In the Clone Army, the highest rank a clone could ever hope to achieve was Marshal Commander, still subordinate to a Jedi General. Spikes managed to become an admiral commanding a prominent fleet in spite of these barriers thanks to his sheer skill and competence. Spikes also was handed command of Victory Fleet, the Republic's first fleet of the newly-made Victory-class Star Destroyers which in Legends scored decisive victories for the Republic during the Clone Wars.
  • Mace Windu taking on the Tempestus Scions in Episode 37 using nothing but the Force and his bare fists to unleash some Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs on them.
  • Farnus' speech in Episode 41 Part 1. Not for Farnus himself because of its contents, but rather the author himself, who voices the guardsman with such passionate emotion.
  • As Shadrick prepares to kill Captain Sternn in Episode 43, 1313 manages to break through his mental conditioning and declares Shadrick unfit for duty before shooting the corrupt commissar in the chest.
  • The Tempered Hands massacring an entire legion of clones and 500 Jedi with artillery tanks and the blade of their Chapter Master piloting a Redemptor Dreadnought.
  • A villainous example for Tahr Whyler in Episode 43, who easily defeats 400 Jedi all by himself barehanded. And this is just him when he's holding back...
  • Tahr Whyler has been curb-stomping Aayla and Quinlan's Jedi strike force and is about to finish off Quinlan when he is stopped by Aayla, who uses all her remaining strength to call upon the Force and telekinetically pin the Inquisitor to a wall. Again, Aayla (despite being wounded and exhausted) was able to telekinetically restrain a fully-realized Alpha-Plus psyker. Sure she wasn't able to hold him for long, but the fact that she even managed the feat at all is impressive.
  • At the end of Episode 43, Aayla and the Jedi prisoners have been defeated and are about to be taken captive once again by Tahr Whyler for his twisted experiments. Then, Tahr's villainous moment gets interrupted by his servant Omni-Kraiden, who informs his master that someone has slipped past their base's defenses and is headed their way. Suddenly, an unknown force levitates Omni-Kraiden into the air and chokes him to death. It's then that both the Inquisitor and the Jedi notice Darth Sidious entering the room, ready to face-off against Tahr Whyler, who he declares as his rival.
  • Just as it seems all hope is lost for Axum, Ishtara steps in and her faith is strong enough to destroy the Virus Bomb, saving the Imperials.
  • In Episode 44 part 1, Captain Fordo kills a Space Marine with a vibroblade to the face. This is after many, many Jedi have been killed trying to do the same.
  • In Episode 44, part 2, the duel between Darth Sidious and Tahr Whyler is epic on so many levels. Tahr Whyler had been presented as an unbeatable psychic juggernaut, effortlessly defeating nearly half a thousand Jedi all at once. And then Palpatine shows off what he can do, and Tahr Whyler slowly comes to realize that this is a fight he might very well lose. In fact, he would have lost if Omni-Kraiden hadn't turned out to be not quite dead and managed to teleport them both to safety.
    • Their initial duel causes so much subtle strain on the fabric of reality that the environment is described as visibly buckling and warping from the force.
    • At one point, their duel grows so intense they both withdraw to the Warp, battling in the psychic realm where they can fully unleash their mental might. Highlights include Tahr transforming into a hundred-handed dragon the size of an Imperial battleship, and Sidious weaving a fractal web of Force Lightning where every single bolt in the initial attack actually covers for two more coming from different directions.
    • Towards the duel's end, Sidious has Tahr in a Force Choke. Tahr breaks free with a desperate surge of raw telekinetic might, a feat that Sidious, with the knowledge of centuries behind him, believed was utterly impossible.
    • Tahr lashes out with all his telekinetic strength, attempting to crush Sidious like a bug. The floor on which he's standing shatters under enough psy-gravity to pulverize a Baneblade, but Sidious doesn't even flinch. Tahr just keeps pouring on the force, only to realize he's been tricked: somehow, Sidious created a psionic illusion of himself as a decoy and then slipped away invisibly without Tahr noticing before he even made his attack. At the very instant he realizes that he's been duped, Sidious grabs the Inquisitor Lord by the skull and forces him to the floor.
  • Tahr rejecting Sidious's offer to join him is awesome in itself as it shows that despite Sidious confidence that he planted a seed of a new apprentice, the Inquisitor Lord is still loyal to the Imperium despite all odds.

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