History Awesome / GuardsGuards

* The dragon giving a ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Wonse and all of humanity when the dragon demands human sacrifice and Wonse tries to object:

* The wizards spend all night casting spells at the dragon after it takes over the city while almost everyone else is prepared to collaborate from the start. For its part, the dragon [[NoSale shrugs off every one of those spells.]]

** All that's on the outside is the lock ''[[spoiler:and Vetinari has the key!]]''

* Carrot arresting a dragon.
** ''For its own protection.''
** At the conclusion, when told to [[spoiler:throw the book at Lupine Wonse, he obliges. As it happens, the aforementioned book weighs several pounds, and causes the head clerk to tumble backwards, and fall several stories to his death]].

* Although the Dragon was a villain (sort-of), the Dragon becoming King [[spoiler:(or rather, [[SamusIsAGirl Queen)]]]] of Ankh-Morpork.
* The wizards spend all night casting spells at the dragon after it [[spoiler: takes over the city]] while almost everyone else is prepared to collaborate from the start. For its part, the dragon [[NoSale shrugs off every one of those spells.]]

* The swamp dragon Errol when he finally gets done rearranging his digestive tract. [[spoiler:The dragon kennels exploded. The windows blew out. The door left the wall ahead of a great billow of black smoke and sailed into the air, tumbling slowly, to plow into the rhododendrons... Now Errol’s flame was visible, so hot as to be almost blue. The landscape rolled away underneath him at an impossible speed, and he was accelerating.]]
** In short, [[spoiler:Errol turns himself into a jet engine.]]

--->'''Vimes:''' "You can't give me my job back. It was never yours to take away. I was never an officer of the city, or an officer of the king, or an officer of the Patrician. I was an officer of the law. It might have been corrupted and bent, but it was law, of a sort. There isn't any law now except: 'you'll get burned alive if you don't watch out'. Where's the place in there for me?"

** In short, [[spoiler:Errol turns himself into a rocket engine.]]

* While it ends sadly, and most people are too scared to follow them, Sergeant Colon and a RedShirt city-dweller [[PapaWolf concerned the dragon might want one of his daughters]] attempting to rally the crowd against the Dragon after hearing that it demands a VirginSacrifice.

-->''Anyway, what was there to be afraid of? He'd stared into the jaws of death three times; four, if you included telling Lord Vetinari to shut up.''

** In short, [[spoiler:Errol invents the rocket engine.]]

* Vetinari's speech to Vimes about the nature of men's souls and the sea of evil is a character-establishing moment for Vetinari.
--->'''Vetinari:''' "A person like you thinks that there are good men and bad men... There are, always and ''only,'' bad men - but some of them are on different sides."
** And Vimes' response is one for him.
--->'''Vimes:''' Do you believe all that, sir? About the endless evil and sheer blackness?
--->'''Vetinari:''' Indeed, indeed. It is the only logical conclusion.
--->'''Vimes:''' But you get out of bed every morning, sir?
--->'''Vetinari:''' Hmm? Yes? What is your point?
--->'''Vimes:''' I'd just like to know ''why'', sir.
** Better yet, ''Colon's and Nobby's'' unknown refutation of the whole idea, when they innocently ask for nothing more than a tiny raise and a new teapot as a reward for saving the entire city. Moreso, in that they're ''not'' black-and-white thinkers like Vimes, but just a couple of regular, flawed schlubs who couldn't be actual villains if they tried.