History Awesome / AndTheGiantAwoke

* The IncitingIncident that starts things off, as Tyrion fights Gregor Clegane himself, and wins by making a shield out of toffee that Gregor's sword gets stuck in, letting Tyrion get inside his range and kill him with a few well-placed strikes. After all the embarrassing nicknames he's endured, this one gets him immortalized as The Giant of Casterly Rock.

* The ForWantOfANail situation that starts things off, as Tyrion fights Gregor Clegane himself, and wins by making a shield out of toffee that Gregor's sword gets stuck in, letting Tyrion get inside his range and kill him with a few well-placed strikes. After all the embarrassing nicknames he's endured, this one gets him immortalized as The Giant of Casterly Rock.

* The comeuppance of Littlefinger from start to finish. First Tyrion throws a drink in his face and threatens to geld him, with not one person coming to his defense. Then Olenna reveals that she's been poisoning him ever since they made their alliance against Joffrey, and the time has finally come to be done with it. And then we even follow him into the afterlife, where he's treated to a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from Ned that's all the more powerful from his not even taking any pleasure in it and just being regretful that it had to come to this. And the final hurrah is given to Ros and all the other whores who met their deaths by his arrangements, who are going to torture him until he genuinely regrets everything he did, possibly forever. ''Damn''.

* Oberyn's rescue of Daenerys. First Nymeria beats the Dothraki leader in a whip fight, and then they fight off the rest of the khalasar by terrorizing the horses with ''fireworks''. Oberyn also shows some impressive CharacterDevelopment, having realized the folly of mindless revenge and now wanting nothing more than to kill Tywin.

** When it turns out Cleon actually is going to attack, Jorah distracts the army with some very convincing dragon kites while the Unsullied slip around and take them from behind. And with the army gone, Oberyn promptly offers control of Astapor to the Sons, letting them and Daenerys both get out of each other's hair with no more cost to anyone.

-->'''Lord Harald Karstark''': ''It is rumored that Lord Tywin shits gold. But his son, the Imp? All he has to do is touch something and it turns to gold.''

* The Battle at the Wall. Gendry's flaming spearheads, dragonglass blades and arrowheads, huge flaming clubs with dragonglass spikes, spider repellent, Valyrian steel swords, '''suicide bombers'''... all wielded by a MultinationalTeam of religious warriors, Wildlings, Black Brothers, soldiers, sellswords, bannermen, levies and more, led by Tyrion Lannister. Not only do they hold up against the White Walkers and wights, [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu they force the Night King to retreat!]]

* Tywin gets a DyingMomentOfAwesome for the ages, sacrificing himself to sate Oberyn's lust for revenge and ensure the Lannisters have the best chance he can give to survive the war with Daenerys. And in the meantime he also makes sure the family holds on to Casterly Rock, even if it's through the hated Tyrion, and Tyrion's marriage to Sansa and Myrcella's to Trystane give them a foothold in the North and Dorne as well. He plays everything so perfectly he's able to smile despite the severity of the fatal blow, leaving Olenna to realize only afterwards how much he won in the end.

* Bronn shows how much he's learned from Tyrion's ingenuity by pinpointing one more literature niche waiting to be filled now that the printing press is around, and making his own fortune with erotica.

* Arya unhesitatingly killing a bookie refusing to pay up on her new friend Ally's horse.

* Tyrion's assault on the Twins. First he makes use of Hallyne's newly invented smoke/tear gas grenades, then takes down the door with a phallus-shaped battering ram, all while a Faceless Man disguised as Jaime takes out the Frey generals on the inside. And then he cuts off Walder's attempt at FamousLastWords with a crossbow bolt to the groin like he didn't get to do to his father this time, sending him off with one last jab at his hated nickname. Oh, and in the middle of it all, Arya tracked down Black Walder and got some very painful revenge for her mother's death at his hands.

** To expand upon the second point, Olenna Tyrell visits him on his deathbed and briefly reflects upon just how miraculous Tyrion's "godswine" (the iodine) is as a medicine - he managed to live eight days when the poison should have killed him in ''three''. The poison was administered in two halves - the second of which was inhaled via Littlefinger's ''[[Discworld/FeetOfClay candles]]''. The story of the first half, however, shows just how prepared and dangerous Olenna is - it entered his body via his expensive Highgarden ''soaps''.