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 | Brenda: Hi, I'm Brenda. (is holding a gun) —Brenda and Paco ofBlue Beetle make a stand for Earth against the Reach. |  |
Superman.Wonder Woman.Green Lantern.The Flash.Justice League of America.
These people areBadass. Here's why.
Note that theDC Animated Universe has itsown article.
- Aquaman
- Batman
- Birds of Prey
- Blackest Night
- Blue Beetle
- Catwoman
- The Dark Knight Returns
- Elongated Man
- The Flash
- Gotham Central
- Green Lantern
- Hellblazer
- Invasion
- Justice League of America
- Kingdom Come
- Legion of Super-Heroes
- Lucifer
- The Question
- The Sandman
- Sinestro Corps War
- Starman
- Superman
- Teen Titans
- Wonder Woman
- Watchmen
- Young Justice
Examples of DC Universe/Awesome include:
- In "Countdown to Infinite Crisis," theBlue Beetle kneels in front of Max Lord during hisWe Can Rule Together speech with a gun to his head. His reply? "Rot in hell, Max."Max shoots him.
- While this editor found that moment to be rather lackluster, the arc inBooster Gold where Booster tries to save Ted more then made up for it. After Boostertakes the bullet for Ted, Ted loses it and beats the living crap out of Max. And he just gets better from there.
- Issue #24 of the new Blue Beetle series: In anInternal Homage to the scene above,the Reach Negotiatior has Jaime Reyes, without his armor, on his knees with a gun to his head. "Do you have any last words?" "Just two... Khaji Da!" (The original Blue Beetle'sPower-Up Phrase) Then again, Issues #24 and #25 are arguably a collectiveCrowning Moment of Awesome for theentire cast.
- I changed my mind.All four issue ofEnd Game were Crowning Moments of Awesome foreverybody involved. Including the creative team, guest stars, and even the Scarab.
- Then good news. I found them.The CMOA for just about EVERYBODY.
- I changed my mind.All four issue ofEnd Game were Crowning Moments of Awesome foreverybody involved. Including the creative team, guest stars, and even the Scarab.
- Infinite Crisis provides MANY a Crowning Moment of Awesome for a number of characters, that whole giant event. There's Tim Drake, the 3rd Robin, who POINTS AND YELLS AT SUPERMAN! It's evenlampshaded. Then there's Bart Allen, whobeats the living daylights out of Superboy-Prime AFTER he escapes from the Speed Force, taunting him by asking "Still got Flash-phobia?" There's also the two Supermen, whofly Superboy-Prime THROUGH A FIELD OFKRYPTONITE, a Red Sun (weakening ALL THREE OF THEM), and eventually knocking him out, not to mention the wall of pure willpower the Green Lanterns used to slow him down. And let's not forget to mention our good Kon-El, aka Superboy'ssacrifice to save not only Earth, but the UNIVERSE, in which he flies himself and Superboy-Prime into Alexander Luthor Jr.'s universe-control tower, killing himself and wounding Superboy-Prime in the process.
- Not to mention Batman's line to Superman: "The last time you inspired someone is when you were dead."
- Superman's line to Earth-2's Kal-L: "If you're from this world, it couldn't be perfect.Because a perfect world doesn't need Superman."
- The reappearance of Kal-L. He sets upon the villains who just took down Power Girl and scatters them like ten-pins. And with every second, thered sky grows brighter, until he's shown in a full-page spread, extending his hand to Power Girl against a sky of clearest blue.
- And Kid Flash's team-up with his late grandfather (not to mention Max Mercury) to trap Superboy-Prime in the Speed Force to begin with. Also couples as aTear Jerker.
- In the subject of the final battle against Superboy-Prime, don't forget how the three Supermen got powerless after falling in Mogo. With a ton of Kryptonite. Prime punched Kal-L and hit his back with heat vision, then fought against Kal-El, the main universe Superman. Who promptly kicked Prime's ass. In a field full of Kryptonite which only affected Kal-El himself. All while verbally beating Prime up.
| You'll never be Superman. Because you have no idea what it means to be Superman. It's not about where you were born. Or what powers you have. Or what you wear on your chest. It's about what you do... it's about action. | |
- Don't forget about Black Adam single handedly killing Amazo.
- There's also the Spectre's resurrection. When he is resurrected, he ignores the Phantom Stranger, and instead looks at the Star Sapphire. After listing her many crimes, he simply blows her up and leaves.
- Barry Allen's death inCrisis on Infinite Earths:There's hope... there is always hope... Time to save the world! Time... back in time... Do what you have to... we must save the world... we must save the world. Also a first-classTear Jerker.
- To elaborate, he's running to destroy the Anti-Monitor's antimatter cannon, which was poised to destroy all remaining universes. He fought on, and on, and on, running as he ruined the cannon's systems... until heran himself out of existence... and into it, as he became the lightning that first empowered him.
- DC's weekly series52 had a bunch of them:
- Week #10: When Perry White questions his effectiveness and threatens to fire him, a de-powered Clark Kent takes a page from his wife's playbook and throws himself out the window to get an interview with Supernova.
- Week #15: A down on his luckBooster Gold makes a truly epic come-back as a true hero when he lifts a damaged nuclear submarine to save Metropolis.Then it explodes. Supernova flies up to save Booster and catches...a skeleton.
| Supernova:Kent, what's hedoing? | |
- Week #35: The "Reign of the Supermen", an example of just how petty and scary Luthor can be.He turns off the powers of almost everyone who'd gotten them from the Everyman Project, sending thousands of superheroes falling to their deaths just to spite Supernova (who he thinks is Superman).
- Which is then topped by Supernovasaving all of the bystanders byteleporting all of them to the city limits.
- Week #35: The "Reign of the Supermen", an example of just how petty and scary Luthor can be.He turns off the powers of almost everyone who'd gotten them from the Everyman Project, sending thousands of superheroes falling to their deaths just to spite Supernova (who he thinks is Superman).
| Reporter: "Supernova, Ami Soon, Channel Five! Is that your idea of saving the city--vaporizing ten thousandinnocent bystanders?" | |
- Week #37: The utterly amazingReveal of Supernova's true identity:it'sBooster Gold! Who was last seen 22 weeks ago, when hedied saving Metropolis from an exploding nuclear submarine. Which was aFaking the Dead plot usingTime Travel and his future corpse (something he'd rather not dwell on by the way). Whose fall-from-grace and rivalry with Supernova was an utterly brilliant display ofObfuscating Stupidity. Who has worked behind the scenes with Rip Hunter this entire time in order to stop "Skeets".
- And after thatSkeets, possessed byyou'll find out who later in the series,eats the Phantom Zone.
- Week #40: Steel's battle with Luthorwho had just beengiven the powers of Superman. Steel keeps on fighting even after his armor is destroyed and Luthor pierces him in the side with his own hammer! And it ends with Steelkicking Luthor's ass.
- "Only Luthor would be sick enough to make 'Look! Up in the sky!' a threat. And that is why he WILL be stopped."
- Week #42 isalmost (there are two pages of Renee Montoya) entirely dedicated to the conclusion of Ralph Dibny's mysterious spirit journey in order to resurrect his dead wife, guided by the helmet of Dr. Fate. His arc ends with him preparing the ritual to finally bring his wife back to life, when he suddenlyshoots the helmet off his head with a magic pistol, causing it to rebound of the wall and reveal its true identity as the evil sorcerer Felix Faust. Faust has spent months on aXanatos Roulette to get Ralph tosell his soul to Neron. And Ralph knew it,the whole time, and completelyOut-Gambitted Faust. Andthen he tops that when hepullsThantos Gambit on Neron, DC's resident Lord of the Underworld imprisoning Neron and Faust in the Tower of Fate for all eternity.
- Week #37: The utterly amazingReveal of Supernova's true identity:it'sBooster Gold! Who was last seen 22 weeks ago, when hedied saving Metropolis from an exploding nuclear submarine. Which was aFaking the Dead plot usingTime Travel and his future corpse (something he'd rather not dwell on by the way). Whose fall-from-grace and rivalry with Supernova was an utterly brilliant display ofObfuscating Stupidity. Who has worked behind the scenes with Rip Hunter this entire time in order to stop "Skeets".
| Faust:You... You knew it was me...? How...? | |
- This issue was mostly written byDan DiDio, it's a rare example ofExecutive Meddling that works. And as maligned as DiDio is (his nickname is "DiDiot") he got this right.
- Week #46: The battle between Black Adam and the mad scientist think tank. On one side, you have a superpowered mass murderer who'sroyally pissed after finding out thatthe mad scientists built the living weapons of mass destruction that killed his new family. He has also just killed every man, woman and child in the country of Bialya. On the other side, you have a bunch of nerdyMad Scientists with ridiculous inventions.The mad scientists win.
- Week #49: Dr. Will Magnus' role intaking the thinktank down: after his anti-depressants are confiscated from him, Magnus becomes one of the most hyper-productive members of the team.But because he's agoodMad Scientist, he uses the rebuilt Metal Men to undermine every evil mad scientist working there pretty much single-handedly. And hekills their leader, Chang Tzu.
| Will Magnus: "You shouldn't have taken away my meds. I told you I docrazy things without my meds." | |
- Week #50: The event that was dubbed in-universe "World War III". It can be summarized as: "Black Adam takes oneveryone". Both a CMOA forBlack Adam, who takes on pretty much every superhero in the DCU and foreveryone brave enough to go up against aPhysical God on aRoaring Rampage of Revenge.
- The true "moment" in this book occurs in a splash panel a little over midway through, where you literally seethe superheroes of the DCU coming at Black Adam from all angles, and Black Adam just standing there, in a pose of utter defiance. Pure, unadulterated awesome.
- Week #52: The gloriously comic-booky finish whereBooster Gold, his ancestor and Skeets savethe entire multiverse from a giant insect that eats time... with a football pass.
- There's alsoa ghostly Ralph Dibny appearing with a detectivish "Hmm..." expression on his face when he starts to solve a supernatural mystery, next to his amused wife ("Honey, your nose is twitching again..."), proving that not evendeath can stop a truly great detective.
- Week #50: The event that was dubbed in-universe "World War III". It can be summarized as: "Black Adam takes oneveryone". Both a CMOA forBlack Adam, who takes on pretty much every superhero in the DCU and foreveryone brave enough to go up against aPhysical God on aRoaring Rampage of Revenge.
- Hal Jordan's confrontation with Mongul inThe Return of Superman, after Mongulnuked Coast City and turned it into a giant engine so he and the Cyborg/Hank Henshaw can make Earth the new Warworld. Since Mongul is yellow, Hal can't just vaporize him. Solution? Take Steel's hammer and do what comes naturally.
- This comes after Mongul has given Hal a massive beatdown and broken his arm and leg. He boasts that he broke Hal's willpower, at which point Hal uses his ring to create a power suit for himself and reaches for the hammer.
- Grant Morrison'sSeven Soldiers of Victory event pulled off a doozy - take seven characters we'd never heard of (and may never see again), and over four issues make us care about them, then pit them against an army of time-travelling killer fairies. Naturally, there were a few moments...
- Shining Knight (after beheadingZombie Sir Galahad) -
| "Red am I in battle. Red the ravens that follow me at my heels.Gloriana, I am your death." | |
- Zatanna -
| "Yield, you omnipotent son-of-a-bitch!DLEIY!" | |
- Her father, Zatara, even got one when his magnus opum was revealed.
- Manhattan Guardian (when faced with the news that NY will suffer a blackoutand an invasion in the middle of a bloodyhurricane) -
| "Call out the Newsboys, Ed. We're taking it to the streets." | |
- Frankenstein got more than most. He... well, he fed one of the main series villains to the Flesh-Eating Horses of Mars. He did aPower Walk while a nuclear device went off in the background. Hestabbed a universe in the chest. And then he somehow travelled to the year One Billion to commit a giant terrorist bombing against the world-destroying fairies.
| "All in a day's work... for FRANKENSTEIN!" | |
- I, Spyder (during hisHeel Face Turn when he puts an arrow through theBig Bad's neck and punts her off a balcony)
| "Pinnacle of natural selection, my ass." | |
- The city of New York gets one:
| "This is the story of humanity's last stand... and of the brave men and women of this city, who stood together and proclaimed, "LAST STAND?WE DON'T THINK SO!" | |
- Bulleteer'sYou Can't Fight Fate moment counts as aCrowning Moment of Awesome for causality and prophecy itself. (Seriously,killing the time-traveling villain by knocking her off a balcony and then having her accidentally run over?Magnificent.)
- Mister Miracle escaped from the event horizon of a black hole. He shrugged off the Anti-Life Equation like it was Red Kryptonite. Hebefriended the Omega Sanction. And then he did a deal with Darkseid - MM gets put in a trap, and Darkseid calls off the impending apocalypse. Miracle was just that sure of his escape artistry. The trap consisted of himgetting handcuffed, bound, shackled,shot in the head, and buried. He still managed to escape. World's Greatest Escape Artist? Oh hell yes.
- Captain Atom #50 is pretty much oneCrowning Moment of Awesome after another. First, when Plastique defeats the Cambodian by tossing a grenade inside his indestructible armor, and then, after he manages to strip off his armor in record time, she tells him "Guess I forgot to pull the pin." Then she hits him over the head with a rock.
- Doctor Megala gets one too, albeit posthumously: "Wade Eiling wears combat boots."
- This is immediately followed by Cap getting his own moment, when he finally comes clean with the American public. It becomes aCrowning Moment of Heartwarming when Plastique finally agrees to marry him.
- Captain Atom also gets a whole bunch inCaptain Atom: Armageddon, but one deserves special mention: When Jack Hawksmoor sends Batman and Supermanpastiches Midnighter and Apollo to kill Cap,Cap tricks Apollo into flying too close to the sun so as to get enough power to finish Cap off quickly, only to then be given a near fatal dose of energy when Cap accelerates the reaction. The two of them then get back to earth just in time for Cap to save Nikola and Grifter by using Apollo's unconscious body to knock out Midnighter. At which point Grifter says: "That was surprisingly easy."
- Lex Luthor has one inOutsiders v3 #3. The Joker captures and tortures him at length for information. Finally Luthor offers to answer the Joker, but first he has a question of his own: "Does it bother you...that Batman likes Catwoman better?" Having left Joker stung and speechless (a rare occurrence), Luthor lets out anEvil Laugh and continues,"He'll never love you, sweetheart! You can keep screwing with his city, but he's never gonna take you to the prom!"
- When surrounded by a vast army of super-villains-
| Batman: Do you think we can take them? I think we can take them. | |
- And they do.
- Lord Havok gets so many... first, his revenge against his father, the Czar, for forsaking him andkilling his mother. He kills his father in cold blood, saying, "You see, father,I can take, too.", before destroying his homeland so completely that the Motherland would be forever barren and lifeless from then on.
- And, of course, his victory against the Americommando.
- Then he defeated the Monarch singlehandedly before setting his sights on other earths to conquer.
- And, of course, his victory against the Americommando.
- InCountdown to Final Crisis, Pied Piper, known the best for being Flash's ex-villain gay friend, endured weeks of being on the run from every superhero in the USA while chained to another guy, the death of his best friend (who happened to be the same guy), and having to trot through the desert carrying the friend's rotting corpse, only to find out that all of this was staged by the sadistic Desaad to break his spirit and force him to play the Anti-Life Equation on his flute. Piper's answer? PlayingThe Show Must Go On by Queen and, as a result, blowing up the entire planet of Apokolips.Music almighty like WHOA.
- Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds: Superboy Prime finds himself in the Superman Museum of the 31st century, and discovers that history remembers him as a no-name scrub who, as Superman villains go, is less notable than losers like Neutron. Then he goes toThe Alcatraz prison planet where the Legion of Super Villains is held and breaks them out, vowing to show the world who thereal Superboy is one more time. You know why it's awesome? Because Superboy Prime is the villain and it'sactually not dumb. What's more, you actually kind of root for him.Or maybe not.
- Nah, you want villains to root for? Then go readFinal Crisis: Rogues' Revenge. It's a crowningseries of awesome, especially issue #3. Highlights: the Roguesbeating the crap of the "replacements" Libra recruited, Inertiagoingholyshitcrazy/removing Zoom's powers/actually managing tohurt Libra (the freaking SPECTRE literally hurt himself badly after trying to touch him), and of course,his getting wtfpwned by the Rogues.
| Heat Wave:This isn't for Kid Flash. | |
- Final Crisis: Superman Beyond is one big crowning moment for Superman, particularlythe battle with Mandrakk, but there's alsoBilly Batson verbally pwning Overman, andMerryman's "LIMBO SAYS NO!".
- Some crowning moments fromFinal Crisis itself:
- Green Arrow versus the Justifiers in issue #4:
| Justifier: Destroy! Anti-Life justifies our actions! | |
- Barry Allen, the original Flash, returning home to Iris West, the love of his life, and doing the impossible by breaking Darkseid's Anti-Life hold on her.
| Iris Barry? Oh, God... Everything's going to be okay now, isn't it? | |
- Issue #5:Nix Uotan's apotheosis.
- Hal Jordan takes down a GOD with one punch. Without even having his ring on him.
- "You have 24 hours to save the universe.".
- Also:
- Hal Jordan takes down a GOD with one punch. Without even having his ring on him.
- Issue #5:Nix Uotan's apotheosis.
| Most Excellent Superbat:You have thoughtlessly gunned down a global megastar! How will you explain yourselves to this man's fans? | |
- Issue #6:Superman's arrival in Bludhaven.
- Tawky Tawny versus Darkseid's son Kalibak. "TAWNY BITES!"
- A close second is Tawky straightening his bow tie as he awaits his death at the hands of Kalibak's tiger soldiers... only to see them bow to him.
- If there's ONE thing Final Crisis did right, it was that they made Tawky Tawny AWESOME.
- Batman's decision to forgo his morals for the sake of themultiverse and uses Darkseid's own radion bullet to shoot Darkseid in the shoulder. This is the catalyst that allows the Flashes to lure the Black Racer to destroy Darkseid's physical body.Batman poisoned A GOD on the verge of total multiversal destruction as a swan song to his illustrious career.Bad. Ass.
- Issue #7:The arrival of the Supermen of the Multiverse.
- The climactic battle where Monitor Nix Uotan restores the humanity and powers of the Zoo Crew. There is just something so gratifying in seeing these characters who seemed all butthrown into DC's trash can at the horrificeditor-imposed ending of their mini-series suddenly rescued out of the blue and placed front and center alongside the greatest of the DCU's heroes.
- Let's just say that damn near everyone has had a crowning moment of awesome in FC or its spin offs.
- The climactic battle where Monitor Nix Uotan restores the humanity and powers of the Zoo Crew. There is just something so gratifying in seeing these characters who seemed all butthrown into DC's trash can at the horrificeditor-imposed ending of their mini-series suddenly rescued out of the blue and placed front and center alongside the greatest of the DCU's heroes.
- Issue #6:Superman's arrival in Bludhaven.
- Tim Drake got one in the last issue of his solo series. In it, he gets a note challenging him to a duel to the death from Lady Shiva, the woman who trained him andthe single deadliest assassin in the world. He spends the issue narrating about "What would you do if you might die tomorrow?" before confronting her. They banter a bit, there's aSingle-Stroke Battle, and Tim has three broken ribs, and is stumbling, while Shiva stands confidently.Then, Tim stands back up and Shivacollapses. Tim reveals that he knew she was coming before she ever left Hong Kong, and he spiked the hotel chocolates that Shiva was seen eatingwhile she was writing the note with a paralytic poison, activated by a rising heart rate. Batman is a hell of a good teacher, it seems.
- At the conclusion of theCrossfire Arc, the city of Keystone is being looted by Rogues under Blacksmith's control. Flash is on the ropes. The villainess tells him she's pulling out every stop and throwing ever single villain in her organisation at him, and that he doesn't have the stamina to take it. The next page is a splash of the blue-collar workers of Keystone charging the rioters en masse with bats, lead pipes, nail guns, etc as Union leader Goldface shouts, "This is our city! We make it run, Rogues! Not you!" The whole city got a crowning moment right there.
- While it started off slow,The Flash: Rebirth is rapidly starting to pick up with these. The final third of issue 4 is an entire crowning moment in-and-of-itself. Let's start a list:
- Bart punching Professor Zoom in the face and ACTUALLY GAINING THE UPPER HAND FOR A MOMENT (if only a short one);my personal favorite. Why? Cause that's a villainous ancestor he just punched out!
- "MAX?!" The expression on Bart's face isadorable.[1] This is why a great deal of Impulse fangirls don't care about the Speed Force retcon, which overshadowed all other discussion - we just wanted our favorite characters back, and the creators delivered!
- "I'm back, Thawne. But this time it's on MY terms."
- Golden Age Flash and Kid Flash here to kick some ass!
- Suicide Squad #22: Rick Flag is going to kill a corrupt senator in full public view. Amanda Waller orders Deadshot to stop Flag from killing the senator by any means necessary.Deadshot kills the senator.
- The titular team, through the machinations of alovestruck technician, a formerly amnesiacAx CrazyBlood Knight goddess, and Poison Ivy, got transported to Apokolips. They survived with very heavy casualties... and then they have to faceDarkseid. Long beforeBatman did, Amanda Waller, infuriate, with half her squad dead, stranded without hope in Hell, surrounded by Parademons and the Fatal Furies, decided she had had enough, and threatened the God of Evil with her handgun.
- And of course, effortlessly brushing off Batman's warnings to shut down the Squad, sensibly pointing out that if he does go public with the info he gathered,so will she.
- The resurrection of the Squad. Amanda's been in jail for a year for pulling theLone Wolf act for too long, having irritated too many people in power. Sarge Steel comes in, offers her a pittance and a diminutive job, a probably unique chance she won't ever have again. She laughs him off and asks him only to return when he really wants to negotiate. Turns out, there's a massive Eastern Europe crisis and Steel was trying to rope her in for her unique talents. He has to go back later and fully give in her terms, utterly humiliating himself.
- The Janus Directive crossover. Every governmental agency's at war with each other, with Checkmate, Captain Atom Project, and the Suicide Squad ready to tear each other apart. It's actually Kobra's plan so he can fire his microwave cannon unmolested. To ensure maximum disruption, he targets Waller for assassination by a double in her apartment. She kills the doppelganger, takes her place in Kobra's plans, and pulls the same gambit he was hoping to play.
- One night, Amanda was returning from her job at Belle Reve, on a moment her future was being jeopardized by a rogue subordinate and the aforementioned senator, having hallucinations and getting more irritable, and upon almost entering her apartment, she noted the matches she put on the door have been moved... it's her daughter. When the clearly irritated Waller asks why she was there, she began making a scene about how she got in a row with her husband. Waller then tried to convince her to got back more or less gently, and then said husband entered - a massiveScary Black Man. Amanda was not impressed. She then convinced them to go back together -by threatening to quit her job and go live with them. Having fixed the situation, she then realized shecould deal with it all, and mentally dared her subordinate totry and take the Squad from her.
- And then she goes and finds the solution with a little gravedigging. Showing the evidence she'd fished up, said subordinate realized how badly screwed he was. Desperately, grasping at straws, he seriously considers killing her. Amanda tiredlyinvites him totry.
- Admit it. How many people can use the fact they're menopausic black females asthreats? Amanda Waller can.
- Wildcat. Had. Sex. With. Queen. Hippolyta. AKAWonder Woman's mom.Stifler, Finch, all you other horny bastards, bow down to your master.
- JSA #10: The rest of the team is off on a mission, with Wildcat staying at the mansion because he had his arm and both legs broken by an evilTime Lord. So, he's just taking a bath andhaving phone sex with Catwoman when the Injustice Society breaks in. Wildcat, an 80 year oldBadass Normal in a bath towel with three broken limbs, takes out seven supervillainsusing his own knowledge of the mansion. This includes driving a motorcycle over two of them, and dropping an ancient Druid tree god down an elevator shaft. When the rest of the JSA gets back, they find him using a chunk of said ancient Druid tree god as a toothpick. (By the way, there's a decent chance that two of the aforementioned supervillains are his illegitimate children.)
- Issue 50 ofThe Warlord (first series) sees Travis Morgan pursuing his arch foe, Deimos, across frozen plains. Deimos has, over the first 49 issues of the series, caused absolute hell for Travis, culminating in forcing Travis to kill his own sonor so Travis believes, but now Deimos is depowered and fleeing on horseback from the vengeance-crazed Travis. At the end of the chase, Travis finds Deimos unconscious and being savaged by a pack of wolves. Travis drives the wolves back, builds a fire to keep them away, and then tends Deimos' wounds. When Deimos finally recovers, Travis kicks out the fire and walks away without a word as the very same wolves return to tear Deimos apart.
- WhenSupergirl stands up to and defeats her absurdly powerful, abusive boyfriend, Powerboy.
| (after Supergirl is brutally beaten up by Powerboy, including having her facedragged down the side of a skyscraper, she wakes up in a bed next to aStalker Shrine devoted to her, bound in powerful, alien-tech restraints) | |
- "I'm your friend."
- Okay,Your Mileage May Vary on that, big time.
- Day of Vengeance: A team of magical characters who are,at best C-Listers, channel all the magical power of multiple dimensions intoCaptain Marvel to allow him to beatThe Spectre.
- FromSecret Six: Catman'sRoaring Rampage of Revenge on the kidnappers who took his son. Three of the most bloodthirsty hired killers around, two of them with superpowers versus a non-powered man only armed with a few knives whose claim to fame used to be being a cheesy Batman knock-off. And he ANNIHILATES them.
- From the same series Scandal Savage facing down a small army of well armed slave camp guards. She tells them they have a few seconds to either call their loved ones of pray for forgiveness. The leader of the guards takes one look at her and...takes out his phone to call his girlfriend and say goodbye. Scandal is THAT damn scary.
- Ragdoll is a walking CMOA and CMOF. But his take down of Mr Smyth stands out.
- From the same series Scandal Savage facing down a small army of well armed slave camp guards. She tells them they have a few seconds to either call their loved ones of pray for forgiveness. The leader of the guards takes one look at her and...takes out his phone to call his girlfriend and say goodbye. Scandal is THAT damn scary.
- TheJustice Society of America... Let's be honest. Any fight scene written by Geoff Johns, if it involves a speaking role for Hawkman, againstany villain more dangerous than a mugger, should be at least considered forCrowning Moment of Awesome.
- Atom Smasher ripping the Worlogog out of Extant's chest, then putting him on a crashing airplane in place of Al's mother. Notably, this is what starts his major character arc of atonement, instead of coming at the end of it.
- The "Princes of Darkness" arc. In its entirety. That is all.
- ↑Said expression was theexact appearance on Ethan Van Sciver's face when he drew the page (and the fangirls when we read it); his run onImpulse was his real breakout into comics, and so he holds a special place in his heart for Bart and Max
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