Awesome / The Savior King, the Master Tactician and the Queen of Liberation

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• The Point of Divergence that kicks off the story. Dimitri overhears a Knight loosing his temper and goes to see what's happening. He comes across a virulent racist screaming abuse at Cyril and insulting Claude when the latter intervenes for him. Dimitri promptly steps in and chews him out; when the knight doesn't take a hint and calls Claude the son of a whore, Dimitri loses his temper and decks the guy hard enough to throw him into a wall and knock him out. Claude gains a whole new respect and understanding of him in that moment.
• During the battle with Black Beast Miklan, Claude straight up gets up on the monster's back in order to fire arrows directly into its neck. Byleth gets one of her own for pulling a Diving Save mixed with Taking the Bullet to push Claude out of the way of the beast's tail when its in its death throes.
• Chapter 15. The Death Knight has a distracted and fumbling Byleth on the ropes. Cue Claude and Dimitri arriving...and an enraged Dimitri catching the Scythe of Sariel in one hand and shattering it!
• Byleth pushing Divine Pulse to its limit to get every single one of her friends safely through the insane gauntlet of traps protecting the Chalice of Beginnings, even if doing so means losing her own life. Followed by Yuri achieving one of his own by successfully activating said Chalice, which the Apostles themselves failed at, in order to save her.
• When Edelgard is revealed to be the Flame Emperor and Dimitri has a violent breakdown in response, Bernadetta rushes straight to him despite Felix trying to pull her back and gives him a Cooldown Hug, drawing from her own experiences to comfort him. It works. Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment.
• The entirety of the Battle for Garreg Mach. Claude's tactics deserve a special mention, as even Seteth defers to him.
  • Ignatz using two jury-rigged ballistas to launch a broken Golem into the breach in the monastery gates, buying the defenders time to regroup.
  • Hapi getting into melee with The Death Knight/Jeritza to hit him with Banshee, slowing him down so Dimitri can force him to retreat.
  • Hilda using Freikugel for the first time, wiping out an alley full of opponents with Apocalypse.
• Marianne's magnificently understated Shut Up, Hannibal! moment against Hubert during the battle at Brigid.
  Marianne: I am no more a slave to Sothis than you are a slave to Edelgard.
• Linhardt calling out Edelgard's Fantastic Racism towards the Nabateans during parley before the siege of Enbarr, along with her ironclad belief that Humans Are Special.
• Felix's duel with Maximus von Varley during the Battle of Hrym. Felix utterly demolishes him with contemptous ease, dishing out a biting "The Reason You Suck" Speech about how Varley is a weak man who relies on his status to get away with hurting people who can't fight back, and finally swears he'll never hurt Bernadetta again before knocking him out. It's a well-deserved fate for Varley, given that he treated those under him just as badly as he did his own daughter.
  • Another moment that deserves mention is when Claude pulls a Simo Häyhä and kills NINETEEN foes with just one arrow.
  • Or just generally the fact that the battle against Maximus von Varley at Hrym is a stomp in the heroes' favor, with Varley and his army getting crushed for deciding to abuse and attack their own citizenry, and Byleth is able to save and re-recruit Ferdinand in the process.
• When Claude's Almyran parentage is revealed, Count Gloucester storms in with his people to attack him, threatening to cause a rift in the army and potentially endangering Claude's life by whipping up hatred towards him. Who comes in with a Big "SHUT UP!" to cut him off at the knees? Bernadetta!
  • Having mere months ago been so timid that she couldn't really function socially, Bernadetta unloads a blistering "The Reason You Suck" Speech not just on Gloucester but everyone who was supporting him. She calls them out on not appreciating what Claude has done to protect them, listing his virtues and pointing out that some of those very people had happily championed him until they found out his father as Almyran. This triggers the rest of the Golden Deer to step forward and support him as well, demolishing any momentum Count Glouescter had built up and making him look like a fool.
• Dimitri's flashback to a younger Edelgard's antics during her stay in Faerghus. She's portrayed fearlessly climbing on buildings to see the sky and saving a kitten when the knights wanted to kill it. It's a refreshing look at Edelgard's courageous, forceful, and compassionate nature that she demonstrated even at a young age.