History Awesome / HereticalEdge

** [[spoiler: Flick's cowardly ancestor ends up becoming Seller, another powerful and influential Heretic at Eden's Garden.]]

** As Flick breaks down after her encounter with Ammon's father, Asenath continues to be awesome by providing gentle yet firm comfort and a shoulder to cry on. And then she promises to help Flick [[spoiler: protect her dad and kill Ammon's father to save her mom]]. Bear in mind that they met only a few hours earlier, tops, and that Flick is a part of an organization that exists to kill supernatural beings like Asenath. She doesn't care. She just knows that this girl needs help.

* Details about [[spoiler: Joselyn Atherby]]'s revolution make it sound ''awesome.'' First off, it started more or less immediately after the founder left Crossroads Academy. Six years later, it was still small, containing a mere handful of Heretics even as they raided Crossroads to free Alter "research specimens." But the founder was Charismatic enough to pull Heretics ''and'' Alters to the cause. It ended up lasting over seventy years before it was finally ended. Over thirty of which were after the founder was imprisoned. And they didn’t actually ''lose'' either. The establishment Heretics had to resort to casting a worldwide memory spell to make the revolutionaries forget why they were fighting. [[spoiler: Fortunately, the spell wasn't quite as effective as the Heretics think.]]

* The flashback in Asenath's second interlude has her winning a ''vicious'' fight against a Heretic in the middle of a burning building to save the Alter children trapped in the room (and the human child, but the Heretic probably would have saved her). It ends when Asenath picks up his sword (which burns her hand as the anti-Stranger defenses kick in) and decapitates the bastard. [[spoiler: The moment becomes decidedly less awesome when it turns out the Heretics accomplished their goal, but the fight itself was solid.]]

* [[spoiler: Joselyn's faction managed to subvert the Heretical Edge itself. It's not supposed to work for Alter hybrids. The reason it does? They got a Djinn to wish into to doing so. Twenty years ''after'' Joselyn was imprisoned.]]
** [[spoiler: The Djinn then wished herself human, is made a Heretic, and is now in position as a teacher at the Academy to teach a less hardline stance while also being able to move to protect students, hybrid and not if anything goes wrong. Even after Joselyn's memory has been wiped, her work continues on.]]
* Baroness Gaia Sinclaire proves that she knows how to make an entrance when [[spoiler: she straight up hijacks the Meregan's alien teleporting tech from ''another planet'' and casually steps onto their ship.]]

* When Lincoln Chambers ([[spoiler:with assistance from Calafia and Gabriel Prosser]]) ''breaks through the Bystander Effect.''

** The context makes it even better. [[spoiler: The fight was between Gabriel Ruthers and Joselyn Atherby not long after they were both added to the Committee's power-sharing link. Unaware that she had received the same upgrade, Ruthers was expecting a CurbStompBattle. Watching him lose himself to his fury as Joselyn matches everything he does is ''very'' satisfying.]]

* Suspects 24-07: Flick and Roxa have their epic showdown against Lemuel and Pace. [[spoiler:Roxa survives being stabbed in the heart because she has an extra one, while Flick steals Pace's choker and tricks her into thinking it's been destroyed.]]
* Investigations 25-06: [[spoiler: The real Pace seizes control of her body back from Lies for long enough to keep Issac from killing a random pixie and very nearly kill Issac.]]
* Interlude 30: [[spoiler: Sariel Moon manages to toss a giant spanner into the Seosten's plans from halfway across the universe by showing Larissa Mason how to make people immune to Seosten posession, starting with Felicity Chambers.]]
* New York Minutemen 27-04: [[spoiler: To open the chapter, Flick figures out that Tabbris is on her side and completely trustworthy near instantly. To close it? She launches Charemeine in Columbus across a room with her staff after crashing through the window feet first.]]
* New York Minutemen 27-05: [[spoiler: The entire battle with Charmiene. Highlights below.]]
** [[spoiler: Roxa enters the fray, having saved Douglas and recovered Paul's body, exposing Fetch.]]
** [[spoiler: Avalon is set on fire ... and promptly punches Charmiene-in-Columbus in the head without slowing down, while on fire.]]
** [[spoiler: Flick forces Charmiene out of Columbus by getting Avalon to cage Columbus, predicting Charmiene would switch places with Roxa, and starting the attack run before the switch even happened.]]
** [[spoiler: Columbus recovers enough to launch Charmeine out a window with a eye beam while she's distracted by Flick explaining how it's all Charmiene's fault that Flick even knew to look for Seosten moles.]]
** [[spoiler: And Flick finishes Charmiene by jumping out after her and running her through in mid-air.]]

* Uprising 29-06: Flick needs a distraction while the [[spoiler: slaves the team freed from a Seosten empire labor camp]] escape. What does she do? Sneak in and [[spoiler: possess one of the Seosten, then blow up the comms array.]] They're then too busy panicking over having their own trademark power used on them to focus on the escapees.
* Uprising 29-09: The team has control of the [[spoiler: bridge of the starship they're hijacking and is ready to escape when Radueriel's battleship shows up. They haven't a chance of fighting the thing, and surrender is worse than death. Their response? Flick tells Jokai to go ahead and try to ram it, so they all die free and fighting.]]
** [[spoiler: Then Larissa Mason teleports in and teleports the entire mile-long asteroid mining ship to another system.]]
* After standing alone in the jungle and screaming for TheConspiracy to take a free shot at her only to be met by a wandering [[GenkiGirl Harper Hayes]], Avalon notices a small bit of blood on a tree, implying that [[spoiler: Harper/Guinevere/Lancelot]] dealt with another very real attempt to murder her. [[spoiler: And then the chapter's tags confirm that implication.]]
--> '''Tags''': [[spoiler: Considering The Number Of Enemies ‘Harper’ Had To Put Down Without Letting Avalon Hear Or Notice Anything – Leaving One Spot Of Blood Was Impressive.]]
* A Different Kind of Hunt 31-06: [[spoiler: Radeuriel]] cuts off Flick's escape route and effortlesses crushes her hand when she attacks him. It looks Flick is going to end [[spoiler: on Radeuriel's vivisection table after all]] ... and then [[spoiler: Athena]] breaks her cover in one of [[spoiler: Radueriel's]] mooks and punches him across the room.
* A Different Kind of Hunt 31-07: [[spoiler: Athena]] versus thirty of [[spoiler: Radeuriel's puppeted troops.]] One [[spoiler: Seosten goddess of war]] versus thirty elite soldiers fighting with absolutely perfect coordination. Should be a good fight, right? Actually, no, [[spoiler: Athena]] effortlessly slaughters them all.

** Avalon executes [[spoiler: her abusive father]]. It's not a fight. Not even a curbstomp. She activates a sonic stun gadget she built and leaves him flopping on the ground while she delivers a crushing speech, then cuts his head off.
* The ending to Hoc Est Bellum 34-08: [[spoiler: Sariel's free and ready to kick ass. She starts by putting glass shards through the eyes of a telekinetic who had been stomping on Flick, Vanessa, and Tristan.]]
* The first section of Hoc Est Bellum 34-09: [[spoiler: Sariel wipes at least a dozen Seosten soldiers and sends the rest running in terror in a matter of seconds - while freshly out of stasis.]]
* Desperate Measures 37-08: [[spoiler: Sariel kills Manakel via possession suicide.]]
* Exodus 44-06: [[spoiler: Gaia and Flick destroy the Revolution Eraser. Joselyn's War is back on!]]

* [[TheNecromancer Fossor]] is ''evil''. There can be no question about that. He alone is dangerous enough to justify a lot of Crossroads' xenophobic stance against Strangers. A list of his deeds will horrify pretty much anyone. He's a monster, but he's just so ''good'' at it. There's some dark corner of your mind that can't help but be impressed you hear about him conquering worlds and pushing entire races to the brink of extinction more or less single handed.

* ''Deveron's'' BigDamnHeroes moment, saving Flick and Avalon from an outside-their-weight class Heretic by coating himself in Instant Armor, [[PlayingWithFire throwing the assassin's own fireball back at him]], and engaging in a rapid-fire exchange of blows that Flick compares to TheMatrix.

** The werewolf has Flick pinned to the ground, and Pace taunts Flick, saying that it's time for her to say bye-bye. Flick [[PreMortemOneLiner starts saying bye-bye]], snaps her fingers to [[Summon To Hand summon]] her [[KryptoniteFactor silver]] knife, and [[OneHitKill kills the werewolf pinning her down]], [[BondOneLiner all before she finishes saying bye-bye]].

* Desperate Measures 37-08: [[spoiler: Sariel kills Manakel via possession suicide.]]

* Roxa is cornered, weaponless and alone, by a werewolf that's both stronger and faster than she is... She actually manages to fight him off with nothing but her bare hands and a big rock. She might have been able to get away if not for his packmates showing up to rescue him.

* The first section of Hoc Est Bellum 34-09: [[spoiler: Sariel wipes at least a dozen Seosten soldiers and sends the rest running in terror in a matter of seconds - while freshly out of stasis.]]

* The ending to Hoc Est Bellum 34-08: [[spoiler: Sariel's free and ready to kick ass. She starts by putting glass shards through the eyes of a telekinetic who had been stomping on Flick, Vanessa, and Tristan.]]