Awesome / The Great Brain

• In book 5, when JD arranges to put Tom on trial for being a con man, and Harold Vickers, JD's choice for judge, proceeds to shoot down all of Tom's Insane Troll Logic and finally puts him in his place after 4 books of jerkassery.
• JD's epic takedown of Cal Roberts in Book 3, complete with a threat to shove a pitchfork through his face if he so much as blinks.