Lets Get Dangerous / Live-Action TV

Examples of Let's Get Dangerous! in Live-Action TV.

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• The occasionally idiotic and childish MC Bat Commander in The Aquabats! Super Show! delivers on his attempt to save the world in "Showtime!" — after witnessing the death of SuperMagic PowerMan and Lanolin Lady, as well as Space Monster M blowing up a nearby city with his mech body, the Bat Commander becomes overly determined and aggressively competent and successfully coordinates the entire team to take Space Monster M down.

• Howlin' Mad Murdock of The A-Team did this all the time. He'd be wonderfully zany and hilarious, and then near the climax, he'd pull out some sort of badass stunt, usually with a helicopter.
• Babylon 5:
  • In the first season, the planet's secret is revealed, a bomb is about to destroy the entire system, and a massive space battle over ownership of the planet is occurring all around, with missiles attacking anything that gets close to the planet. On board the station a small group discover how to put things right, if they can get down to the planet. In walks the comic relief, Londo Mollari, who was a soldier before he was a drunk and if he had to choose how to die it wouldn't be liver failure. They take a shuttle and head out through the chaotic battle outside.
    Ivanova: [in C&C] Whoever's piloting that shuttle must be a madman!
    Londo: [piloting the shuttle] Yes!!! Just like Fralis-12!!!
  • Also:
    Morden: So what are you going to do, Mollari? Blow up the island?
    Londo: [pulling out a Handy Remote Control] Actually, now that you mention it...
    Morden: NO!!!
    (boom)
  • Vir Cotto, Londo's assistant goes through a lot of Character Development throughout the series, eventually capable of pulling off impressive plans on his own and becoming the Emperor. Londo considers his Moment of Awesome to be when he violently retaliates against a Drazi merchant who kept pushing his Berserk Button.
  • Lennier, the meek assistant of Delenn, can lift people with one arm and can handle himself in a bar brawl. And that's before he joins the Rangers, becoming an ace pilot and even more formidable melee fighter.
  • Marcus Cole, early into Season 3. Shown to be a nice guy most of the time, people quickly learn not to make him angry. After Delenn gets captured he takes on an entire bar full of brawlers and assorted criminals to get the information he needs, stopping only after he's knocked everyone out and bemoaning that he now needs to wait for someone to wake up.
    Lennier: I see they trained you well back home.
    Marcus: Well, they said I was carrying around a lot of repressed anger.
    Lennier: And?
    Marcus: I'm not repressed anymore!
  • That's far from the only time he gets dangerous...
    '"I am a Ranger! We walk in the dark places no others will enter! We stand on the bridge and none may pass! We live for the One, we die for the One!"
• Battlestar Galactica (2003):
  • In Season 2 there is an episode where Baltar saves the day on Kobol by being better at strategic combat than a trained officer. That's partly because the trained officer in question has only training and no actual experience, but still, when Baltar can apply himself to a problem, he really is as smart as his reputation would have it.
  • Romo Lampkin has a moment of this in the fourth season. He stabs a guy during Tom Zarek and Felix Gaeta's attempted coup. With a Pen.
  • Adama in the miniseries. Sure he's a soldier, but his fighting days are long behind him and he's on the verge of retirement when we meet him. Yet he beats a Cylon to death with a flashlight.
  • When Cally, one of the deckhands, is threatened by a prisoner who wants to rape and/or kill her, she bites his frakkin' ear off!
• Batwoman (2019). Mary Hamilton-Kane shows off her Hidden Depths and Action Survivor abilities throughout Season 1, but even when she's officially made a Secret-Keeper she finds that no-one's willing to risk her in the field as she doesn't have the years of training that Kate Kane and Julia Pennyworth have. However in "If You Believe In Me I'll Believe In You", both women get captured while pulling The Caper on a mafia-run nightclub, and Mary is the only one with the right look and social contacts to go in and rescue them.
• Big Love's Bumbling Dad Bill has just learned that one of his mortal enemies, Alby, has been stalking his daughter Sarah. The next shot is of Bill, strolling down a walkway towards the door of a motel room. The only hint of the ass-kicking to come is that he's seen removing his watch. He knocks on the door, pushes his way in when Alby answers, and all we hear are the sounds of blows landing and Bill screaming, "Don't you EVER go near my daughter again!"
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • Xander Harris was usually the Plucky Comic Relief (and Joss Whedon's personal Chew Toy). The other characters universally got onto him about how he just wasn't as cut out for fighting demons as they were (Spike called him a glorified bricklayer once) but every once in a while...
    (after smashing Glory through a wall with a wrecking ball)
    Xander: And the glorified bricklayer picks up the spare!
  • Also, Giles. After his love interest is killed, he takes on Angelus and a bunch of vampires singlehanded and does rather well considering he's a librarian. And of course, blasting Dark Willow into a wall.
    • The first time Ethan Rayne shows up and Giles' rather dark past is brought up. Rayne may be a bit of a coward, but he damn near pisses his pants every time Giles glances at him. The audience is left to wonder what this peaceful librarian ever did to be so terrifying, and it turns out Rayne was right to be scared.
    • Not to mention murdering Ben in order to kill Glorificus, because it had to be done and he knew Buffy wouldn't.
• Community:
  • Pierce in the episode English as a Second Language. When the study group's grades are on the line he becomes surprisingly competent. He can really seduce someone if he really wants to. Like the replacement Spanish teacher.
  • The paintball episodes contain Let's Get Dangerous! moments for most of its principal cast, none of whom had previously displayed any level of badassness.
• Spencer Reid on Criminal Minds. He's the smart guy; basically a walking encyclopedia. He has been described in-universe as pipe cleaner with eyes. He even fails his gun qualification at the beginning of one episode. Basically, when it comes time for the action, Reid steps back and lets the big guys do their thing. Then he starts being forced into the dangerous situations... Sufficient to say, by later seasons, Reid is no longer being left behind when the team goes off to confront the unsub. (Except when he's recovering from the gunshot to the leg, but that's another story.)
• Dad's Army:
  • Captain Mainwaring and the Home Guard platoon were usually portrayed as incompetent bunglers, but even though they never really saw proper military action they nevertheless got a chance every so often to show that for all the clowning they had chops and were willing to use them to defend their homes and country.
    Nazi pilot: If you don't put that gun down, I will shoot you!
    Cpt. George Mainwaring: And if you don't put that gun down, I will shoot you!
    Nazi pilot: I give you one last warning!
    Cpt. George Mainwaring: And I give you one last warning!
    Nazi pilot: One!
    Cpt. George Mainwaring: One!
    Nazi pilot: Two!
    Cpt. George Mainwaring: Two!
    Nazi pilot: Three!
    Cpt. George Mainwaring: Three! If you shoot me, there are seven men to take my place!
  • And that's when you remember that several of the platoon are WWI veterans who know exactly what fighting in a war means. Such as quiet, mild-mannered Godfrey. When Capt. Mainwaring learns Godfrey had been a Conscientious Objector in the Great War he struggles to retain his respect for his private; unaware that, instead of fighting, the "damn Conshie" had been an ambulance driver, winning several heroism medals for rescuing wounded soldiers while under fire.
• Doctor Who:
  • The Doctor tends to have this effect on people, with both long-term companions and people who only encounter the Doctor once turning into people who are ready and willing to kick ass to save the universe.
    Rory Williams: You have no idea how dangerous you make people to themselves when you're around!
  • Several versions of the Doctor tended to be goofy and likeable and eccentric right up until the bad guys made it clear exactly how bad they were...at which point the charming smile and jelly babies went away, the recorder antics came to a dead stop, the Buffy Speak dried up, and the Oncoming Storm earned their name once again.
    The Fifth Doctor: Not a very convincing argument actually, Stotz, because I'm going to die soon anyway, unless of course-
    Stotz: I'll give you to the count of three!
    The Doctor: Unless of course I can find the antidote! I owe it to my young friend to try because I got her into this! So you see; I'M NOT GOING TO LET YOU STOP ME NOW!
  • "Fugitive of the Judoon": Seemingly ordinary tour guide Ruth Clayton, when confronted by Judoon, reads a Trigger Phrase and suddenly becomes capable of taking down the entire squad with martial arts and a stolen rifle.
• The main character of Due South, Constable Fraser, spends most of the series as a decent investigator whose fighting skills don't get shown much since, living in Chicago, he's out of his jurisdiction. In one episode, however, he and his partner, Ray, are pinned down in the cargo hold of a Great Lakes freighter, which conveniently crosses over into Canadian waters at the high point of the fight. Ray throws him his gun, Fraser jumps to catch it, and while still flying through the air shoots the detonator the bad guy was holding.
  • With a smile and a polite "Welcome to the Dominion of Canada." Fraser was incredible.
  • It should also be noted that Fraser managed to kick a lot of ass even when he wasn't armed. He routinely fought opponents hand to hand, and the few times he was injured, he was either significantly outnumbered or was going up against an unrepentant murderer who killed any cop who got in his way. It was Fraser's mild-mannered and polite demeanor that threw people off. Very few expected the kindly Mountie who was polite to a fault to be able to take down opponents twice his size.
• Firefly:
  • Poor brain-fried River is a serious liability for most of the series, although there's a creepy savant-ish ability with a pistol in one episode, and intimidating cunning in another. In the movie, coming to terms with what caused her mental problems lets us see what she's really capable of. It's awesome in the classical sense of the word.
  • When Simon gets shot, River hands Reaver ass.
  • When Jubal Early sneaks on board and takes over the ship, River doesn't just evade capture; she rouses the crew and coordinates their actions like a general, unbreaks Kaylee, and convinces Early that she has become Serenity. A psychic Serenity, too.
  • And when he really needs to, Shepherd Book can apply some serious boot to ass, even if he won't kill. Case in point in the comic series Better Days, where he chops through a group of killer death robots, samurai style. There's also his bad-ass line in War Stories when asked if his religion forbids killing: "Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps."
  • In fact, Wash was one of the softest, gentlest people you could ever meet. Then he got captured and tortured by a crime-lord, but he completely ignored his torture as he carried on a conversation he had started before the capture about the nature of his wife's relationship with their Captain. Best summarized by his growling, "my ass" response to Zoe telling him Niska will prolong Mal's torture for days: "Bastard's not gonna get days." Do NOT piss Wash off.
  • He later flies the ship to the rescue and rams the station where Mal is being held-without crashing by coming to a stop right into the station's landing bay. The same episode has River shooting three assailants without even looking at them; Kaylee is a little freaked at how easy it was.
    • To be clear, he doesn't merely ram the space station. In order to hide their ship from the sensors, they have to approach with their engines off. So, from thousands of miles away, he accelerates, then shuts off the engines, letting the ship glide about 6000 miles, lining up perfectly with the station's airlock. That's not just throwing a dart and hitting the bullseye, that's throwing a dart from the other side of town and hitting the bullseye.
  • And let us not forget sweet, harmless little Kaylee's own 'Get Dangerous' moment which comes just after Simon gives her a Dying Declaration of Love. "To Hell with this, I'm gonna live!" watch out Reavers!
• Game of Thrones:
  • Sansa Stark, who needed to be rescued and has been toyed around with for five seasons by more powerful and savvy characters, has had enough. Beginning the first episode of Season 6, she has stopped taking people’s shit and instead, takes matters into her own hands: she starts by escaping her abusive husband, accepts Brienne's aid, finally finds safety when she is reunited with an actual loving family member (not Aunt Lysa) — her brother, Jon — and begins to come into her own. Sansa plans to march on Winterfell with a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits to make the North safe again for herself and their family. Together with Jon, they take back Winterfell to save their little brother and get their family’s home back from that abusive monster of a husband, Ramsay Bolton, restoring the Starks in the North. By the end of the season, Sansa is Lady of Winterfell, her brother Jon is crowned the King in the North, and the Starks are again a menace for the Iron Throne. Well done.
  • Despite being a chubby little squire, Pod saves Tyrion's life by driving a spear through the back of Ser Mandon's skull.
• In Get Smart, Maxwell Smart is usually The Fool, but when it's do or die, nothing can stop Smart from saving the day.
• How I Met Your Mother: Marshall Eriksen refused to fight and was mocked constantly by Ted and Barney, even though he said he had been in plenty of fights with his brothers before. They had an Imagine Spot of him and his brothers doing a lot of silly, harmless roughhousing. But after Ted got punched out by a really big guy, Marshall beat the living pulp out of the guy who punched out Ted with a single punch. Turns out that the aforementioned (in-universe and on this entry) fights with his brothers (who are taller than him, he's "only" 6'4" (1.93 m) after all) were like something out of Fight Club.
• iCarly:
  • Gibby in "iPsycho". He rams down the front door of Nora's house and when Nora seems to get the upper hand in their fight, Gibby removes his shirt and resumes the battle.
  • Mrs. Benson and T-Bo in "iStill Psycho", when they save the gang (plus Spencer) from Nora and her just-as-crazy parents. They burst in with a motorcycle, T-Bone delivers an offscreen Curb-Stomp Battle to Nora's father while Mrs. Benson uses her fencing skills to take down Nora and her mom (who mind you were trying to kill her with fireplace forks).
• JAG: In "Desert Son", Captain Reed lights up his cigar just before ordering his artillery battery to fire.
• In Lois & Clark this was Clark's entire M.O. To wit, when Superman is threatened that his Daily Planet colleagues will be killed if he is seen in the East Side, Clark goes undercover as a cop to take on Intergang.
• You knew Al Bundy was going to start kicking ass and taking names on Married... with Children when either he said "Let's rock", or when "Bad to the Bone" started playing.
  • Actually all of the Bundys are like this. They all fight and seem to hate each other, but if someone starts attacking one of them they'll all come together and beat the crap out of anyone they meet in-universe.
• Happened often in the early seasons of Merlin. Merlin's default state, even to those who knew he had magic, was a clumsy, silly moron who was just as likely to screw things up as make them right. But threaten his friends, and you won't last five seconds. Of course, as he grew more into his role as Arthur's future advisor, this became normal and the moron was the rare thing to see.
• Abby from NCIS does this at least twice, very notably in "Frame-Up" (3.09) when her assistant Charles reveals himself as the guy who set Tony up. So, we have Perky Goth Lab Rat Abby, unarmed, with no (apparent) combat skills, versus a knife-waving guy who seems intent to kill her. Gibbs and the others race into the lab to find the place completely torn up, and Abby sitting with her back to them in a chair.
  Gibbs: Abby?
  Abby: (turning and pointing to Charles, who is tied up on the floor with his mouth taped shut and attempting to shout through the tape) Now can I Work Alone?
  • There's a later episode where Abby is abducted by the guy who has been stalking her all episode. Gibbs chases him down, finds a locked van with high-pitched screaming from the inside... and pulls open the door to find the screaming coming from the stalker, as Abby has him trussed up and is shocking the hell out of him with a taser.
    Abby: And don't look up my skirt!
• Dwayne Pride from NCIS: New Orleans is a fairly reasonable man who'll usually try to talk you down by appealing to either your common sense^note if you're a criminal or your better angels ^note if you're about to be a criminal. That is, unless it occurs to him that you can't be reasoned with or, worse, that you don't have any better angels, and then he will bring you down by any means necessary. If you're dumb enough to provoke him, the easiest way to do it is by attacking New Orleans and/or someone he loves.
  • Neurotic lab assistant Sebastian does this during one episode where he's kidnapped by two criminals who force him to break a third one out of prison. After the prison break, he jumps into the back of the criminals' getaway truck with his tablet so they can be tracked, causes an explosion as a diversion, and manages to incapacitate his kidnapper with a tree branch even though the other guy had an assault rifle. The confidence boost he gets from the experience encourages to carry the trope further and apply to NCIS as an agent.
• Odd Squad:
  • During Olive's story in "Training Day", Todd — now called Odd Todd — throws two pies at Oprah and Oscar, wounding them, as he walks away cackling all the while. Oprah, who is (seemingly) on her last leg, gives Olive a Dare to Be Badass speech that spurs confidence in the then-Shrinking Violet Olive, who fights the pienado on her own with a single Triangu-lator gadget and wins. The confidence manages to stick into the present day, to the point where Olive is a force to be reckoned with, and may God have mercy on your soul if you're a villain.
  • To say nothing of Oscar, who is a timid Genius Ditz with absolutely no experience with solving cases on the field. Regardless of that, however, "Trading Places" has him taking up the mantle in stopping Odd Todd and retrieving his Flip-Flop-inator back for the sake of Olive, who has gone through an Overnight Age-Up due to Odd Todd's antics with the gadget and is now an adult at 21 instead of a child at 12. Oscar is understandably terrified, since Odd Todd is Season 1's Big Bad and one of the toughest villains in Odd Squad history, but manages to work up the courage to take him down with nothing but No Sells from the gadget when fired at him, a bag of tomatoes, and a vest with 99 magnets on it to get the gadget back in his grip.
  Oscar: Go home, Todd. Tell your family ya love 'em.
  • In "Friends of Odd Squad", Hopkins, who has been portrayed as a frequent client of Odd Squad who is a very idiotic adult, gets a moment of badassery when he goes to stop the evil photocopiers along with their king. This is in contrast with Party Pam, Logan the Ogre and Mr. Fonts, who are fearful of the photocopiers.
• In Porridge, Fletch usually acts as a Loveable Rogue or put-upon Only Sane Man. However, on a few occasions, he demonstrates that he is very scary when angry, easily overpowering and intimidating much younger and seemingly fitter men. Which makes sense as Fletcher is a career criminal who spent most of his adult life in prison, even if he's a naturally personable guy he would know how to use violence when he has to.
• Power Rangers
  • Both heroes and villains alike throughout the franchise have their own version of this. For villains, whenever the Rangers gain the upper hand on the Monster of the Week, this Trope might as well be synonymous with another, as the Big Bad enlarges it to giant size. That's when the heroes use their own version of this Trope and break out the heavy artillery in the form of the Megazord, and the battle begins again on a far greater scale.
  • For individual cases, it happens numerous times throughout 'the early series, most often on the part of Bulk and Skull. For example, in Season 2, after the Rangers lost their memories due to the Monster of the Week, Bulk and Skull stand up to the monster. They fail miserably, but it was their first really notable act of heroism. Then there's two at the end of In Space. The first one involves Alpha 6 and DECA kicking Ecliptor's ass in "The Impenetrable Web". Secondly is, of course, the widely accepted Crowning Moment Of Awesome of the entire series: the I Am Spartacus scene at the end of "Countdown To Destruction Part 2", when Astronema demands that the Power Rangers show themselves, or the planet will be destroyed. When they don't appear, Bulk and Skull claim that THEY'RE the Power Rangers and soon, so does the rest of the citizens of Angel Grove. Frustrated, Astronema demands that everyone is destroyed. Bulk and Skull then proceed to lead the citizens into a fight with the endless Mooks, where they shockingly hold their own fairly well for powerless humans.
  • Ninjor, the Rangers ally in Season Three of the first series was usually a Deadpan Snarker type, but when fire appeared in his visor, you knew he was done with the jokes and about to assume his Super Mode.
  • Used again a few generations later in Wild Force. Princess Shayla, the season's equivalent of Zordon, displays this late in the series (The Master's Herald, Part 1). Toxica, one of the series' two main recurring villains (the other being Jindrax), infiltrates the Animarium and attempts to kidnap Princess Shayla. The princess surprises Toxica by displaying a proficiency in martial arts that ultimately overwhelm Toxica...leaving aside the fact that the latter manages to pull off a victory at the last second due to a trick.
  • The next season, Ninja Storm, has Cam, ostensibly a "mere" Techno Wizard, serving as support for the rangers from their headquarters. It makes it easy to forget that he's the son of Sensei Kanoi, the season's Zordon; when he's shown fighting, his martial arts skills are at least on par with those of the other five rangers. But he only gets to show them off once or twice... before he becomes the Sixth Ranger, that is.
  • In Mystic Force, we have recurring character Phineas. A distinctly odd hybrid between a troll and a goblin, he always served as something of a comic relief, albeit one that always had useful advice for the Rangers. Then, near the end of the series, he helps The Apprentice and a reforming bad guy infiltrate the Underworld to retrieve Udonna's staff. They get swarmed by an army of Elite Mooks, and Phineas singlehandedly Curb-Stomps them.
• In episode 5.05 of Primeval, when all of the ARC's troops are out dealing with anomalies, an anomaly appears in the car park. Lester, the government official who runs the ARC, goes after a dinosaur solo (albeit armed).
  • It should be pointed out that said dinosaur had just pressed Lester's previously-undiscovered Berserk Button — it had threatened his Jaguar.
    Lester: OI! Have you ANY idea how much that thing cost?
  • Also towards the end of Season 2, resident Ditz Jenny Lewis showed off some surprising efficiency with a rifle.
    Jenny: Most of my friends loved the pony club, I preferred the clay pigeons.
• Red Dwarf:
  • The crew have, through some time travel shenanigans, ended up meeting and then falling foul of their future selves, who have become amoral, gluttonous bastards, using their time machine to eat every endangered species in history and having regular dinner parties with the Hitlers. As the Future!Dwarfers prepare to attack, Rimmer, the evergreen Dirty Coward, suggests that rather than run, they fight back:
    Rimmer: Better dead than Smeg!
• Sailor Moon: Usagi Tsukino is... well, anyone who's seen the Sailor Moon series knows she's an irresolute ditz. However, in the live-action series, she takes a level in bad-ass and becomes Princess Serenity. However, it's a very bad thing because Serenity used the Mystical Silver Crystal to destroy life on the Moon after Prince Endymion is killed and will destroy the Earth if the same thing happens again!
• In Selfie, Bryn is Eliza's hipster, floral-print wearing neighbor who seems about as soft and girly as a woman can be. Then she gets into physical (although mostly offscreen) fights with Charmonique, who probably has a hundred pounds on her, and holds her own-even spearing her at one point. Bryn herself lampshades that she acts nonthreatening so men will approach her, and Charmonique says she's stronger than she looks.

• Clark Kent from Smallville has, especially in the early seasons, a bad habit of wangsting a lot, rather than superheroing. However, it means whenever he stops whinging and starts acting like the superhero he will one day become, it's usually a Crowning Moment Of Awesome.
• Stargate:
  • As of Stargate Universe, O'Neill seems to have cast off the Flanderization he acquired during the last few seasons of Stargate SG-1 and gotten down to business.
  • Rodney McKay of Stargate Atlantis is not what most people would call an effective fighter. But as soon as he gets some enzyme in his system...
    Rodney: And that's what happens when you back a brilliant scientist into a corner!
• Quark in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine has personally killed no fewer than three Jem'Hadar soldiers.
  • The entire Federation gets one starting at the end of Season 5 (after an early preview of sorts during the Season 4 premiere) when they go to war with the Dominion and Cardassia. Seasons 6 and 7 show us the entire might of the Federation and the Klingons (and later the Romulans) squaring off against the nigh-unstoppable Dominion war machine. Not only do they eventually manage to hold their own, they end up getting the upper hand and even force the Dominion, Cardassia, and the Breen all the way back into Breen space and ultimately to Cardassia Prime itself.
• Star Trek: Voyager:
  • There's an episode where everyone but Kes, an innocent and upbeat young alien woman, is incapacitated by an evil alien. He tries to attack her too and gets promptly beaten to a pulp. Her race was previously revealed to have untapped but potentially god-like Psychic Powers.
  • Not to mention the time Kes was possessed by a brutal dictator who, at first, assumed she'd make an easily cowed Body Surfing host. Once he realizes how powerful she really is, he tries to keep her body and her powers. Unfortunately, he also winds up making her really mad, at which point she tears his mind apart from within while he watches. Do NOT ever get this woman angry at you.
  • Inverted in "Fury": An aged Kes attacks Voyager in a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, and it takes a holo-recording from her young and upbeat self to stop it.
• Supernatural:
  • In Season 2, all we knew about Bobby was that he was a gruff old junk dealer who knew a lot of arcane lore and had helped Dean fix the Impala. Probably too old to hold his own in a fight, especially against a huge guy like Sam, aka "Sasquatch." So when Sam turned incredibly Evil (and incredibly hot in the process), and paid Bobby a "friendly visit," the audience did a collective uh-oh and hoped Dean would get there in time to save the day. Turned out, Bobby casually slipped some holy water in the beer and easily knocked out Sam while he was choking on the floor. Bobby is made of Badass.
  • The first two times we see Castiel in a fight, he gets the crap kicked out of him. Then there's the first episode of Season 5, where he shows up after being thought dead, casually dispatches two other angels, and intimidates his former superior into running like a child pretty much by telling him to. From then on he kicks ass consistently.
  • There's also Chuck Shurley. A meek, cowardly, stammering prophet/author. He was speaking at a convention that just so happened to be haunted. He was charged with making sure people stayed put. Someone got tired of this and broke the salt line. Chuck smites a ghost with no effort and replaces the salt, commanding the entire convention to stay put. And they do. Of course, Chuck is God in disguise, so no one was ever in any danger anyway but it's still heartwarming to see this weak, powerless human go up against a mob of people and a ghost and win.
• James May on Top Gear is frequently the butt of jokes from co-presenters Clarkson and Hammond about how he can't drive fast. However, his taste runs to well-made cars that handle well, and on winding backroads he frequently leaves the other two behind.
  • On one episode, James May was being coached for a driving challenge by no less an authority than legendary racer Jackie Stewart. Stewart told May that he had the greatest potential as a driver of the three hosts.
  • James May disproved the whole "can't drive fast" bit when he took the Bugatti Veyron to the track. And pushed it to a jaw-dropping, record-breaking, Moment of Awesome 407.5 km/h (253.2 mph)
  • Jeremy Clarkson, after seeing the rear end of James May's car: "Is THAT Captain Slow?"
• Alex Cahill of Walker, Texas Ranger has her moments whether or not she's playing designated victim after picking up a few pointers in self-defense from Walker; examples include "Texas vs. Cahill" (contending with female inmates she previously prosecuted after being framed for murder), "The Soul of Winter" (punching out a Nazi during the final fight), "The Children of Halloween" (fighting Lucifer's girlfriend during the final fight), "On the Border"... just to name a few.

• Wolf Hall: Thomas Cromwell is by the fifth episode a gentleman (or near as counts) and his main role is as Henry's fixer in all matters fiscal and legal — busy, but as a lawyer. When Rafe rushes in to say that Henry has been killed in a jousting accident, however, Cromwell quietly slips a dagger up his sleeve before going to the scene, a reminder that he hasn't left his soldiering past entirely behind.

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