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--->'''Roman (laughing)''': "Your Zen?"\\
'''Crews''': "No." (crushes Roman's larynx with one punch) "Like ''that.''"

* In the series finale, Roman officially makes the jump from {{Smug Snake}} to {{Magnificent Bastard}} when he ''breaks through the fourth wall'', killing the cameraman and using the camera to make a ransom video.

!! Series.{{Life}} (Creator/{{NBC}} LiveActionTelevision series)

* The scene in "Powerless" where Dani, who's being held hostage, is forced to drink one of the biggest bottles of vodka you'll ever see. She's still lucid enough to give the bad guy a ShutUpHannibal speech, and when he looks away for a second as Crews and Stark are about to [[BigDamnHeroes bust down the door]], Dani [[spoiler: picks up the empty vodka bottle and ''hits the bad guy over the head with it.'' Hard.]] ''Awwwwwwwwesome.''
* In "Fill it Up," the last episode of Season One, Crews [[spoiler:brings in the guy who actually killed his friend and his friend's family, and everyone in the squad room applauds.]]
* In season two, Crews gets shot. [[spoiler:He takes the bullet, melts it down into a new bullet, and shoots the man responsible with it.]]

* In "Re-Entry", they bust through a door and find a bunch of geeks gathered around a solid yellow cube. Reese, Crews and the HAZMAT guy don't know what it is, so Crews cuts a corner off, puts it on the ground outside and sets fire to it. It makes a column of white flames that goes up to the sky… [[spoiler: ''Solid rocket fuel!'']]
* The hitman... woman... hitwoman from one episode basically has one in every single scene, showing off her mastery of {{Improvised Weapon}}s, including [[spoiler:taking down one cop with a ''cold pill''.]] Making it all the more awesome when Charlie manages to [[spoiler:[[HoistByHisOwnPetard outsmart her at her own game]] by disabling her truck with soda.]]

** And later, right before Ted is released, he's being taunted by the same inmate, who's mocking him for hiding behind his Charlie-assigned bodyguard. Ted tells the bodyguard to stand down and agrees to fight the guy. When told he doesn't have to, all he says is, "Yes I do." [[spoiler:He loses - [[CurbStompBattle badly]] - but keeps his dignity.]]

* And in the last scene, [[spoiler: Crews kills Roman with his bare hands in a car full of armed bodyguards. And then he convinces the guards to throw in with him by simple logic.]]
** This requires some elaboration: Crews asks Roman if he knew how [[spoiler: Crews lasted twelve years in prison.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Roman (laughing)''': "Your Zen?"\\
'''Crews''': "No." (crushes Roman's larynx with one punch) "Like ''that.''"]]
** [[spoiler: While Roman slowly asphyxiates in the seat beside him, Crews then calmly explains to the bodyguards, ''who have all pulled their guns on him,'' that whatever hold Roman had on them and their families died with him. Crews more or less walks out of the car and the bodyguards proceed to torch Roman's body and the car. Crews being Crews had also arranged for the whole matter to take place in an orchard he owned (not that anyone would really miss Roman).]]

* All of "Mirror Ball", really. That is one fantastic episode.

* In "Re-Entry", they bust through a door and find a bunch of geeks gathered around a solid yellow cube. Reese, Crews and the HAZMAT guy don't know what it is, so Crews cuts a corner off, puts it on the ground outside and sets fire to it. It makes a column of white flames that goes up to the sky… [[spoilers: ''Solid rocket fuel!'']]

* In "Re-Entry", they bust through a door and find a bunch of geeks gathered around a solid yellow cube. Reese, Crews and the HAZMAT guy don't know what it is, so Crews cuts a corner off, puts it on the ground outside and sets fire to it. It makes a column of white flames that goes up to the sky and is so wide...
-->''Solid rocket fuel!''

* All of "Mirror Ball", really. That is one fantastic episode.

* The scene in "Powerless" where after Dani gives the bad guy the "My life sucks way more than yours ever did, so don't you talk to me about that" speech, Crews and Stark are chatting, about to bust down the door, the bad guy looks away for a second and Dani [[spoiler: picks up the empty vodka bottle and ''hits the bad guy over the head with it.'' Hard.]]

* Ted gets one when he's sent to prison... by teaching the inmates about financial planning. One of the prisoners says he owes him a beating, to which Ted's "bodyguards" (sent by Crews to protect him) object. Ted holds them back... and takes the guy on, knowing he'll lose. He does, but keeps his dignity.

* Season two finale: [[spoiler: Crews kills Roman with his bare hands in a car full of armed bodyguards. And then he convinces the guards to throw in with him by simple logic.]]
** This requires some elaboration; [[spoiler: first he asked Roman if he knew how Crews lasted twelve years in prison.]]
--->[[spoiler:'''Roman(laughing)''': "Zen?"\\
'''Crews''': No. (crushes Roman's larynx with one punch)]]
---> [[spoiler:Crews then calmly explains to the bodyguards, while Roman slowly asphyxiates in the seat beside hime, that anything and everything that Roman might have done to their families for failing him, died with him. Crews more or less walks out of the car and the bodyguards proceed to torch Roman's body and the car. Crews being Crews had also arranged for the whole matter to take place in an orchard he owned (not that anyone would really miss Roman).]]
* In "Re-Entry" they bust through a door and find a bunch of geeks gathered around a solid yellow cube. Reese, Crews and the HAZMAT guy don't know what it is, so Crews cuts a corner off, puts it on the ground outside and sets fire to it. It makes a column of white flames that goes up to the sky and is so wide...

* The hitman...woman...hitwoman from one episode basically has one in every single scene, showing off her mastery of {{Improvised Weapon}}s, including [[spoiler:taking down one cop with a ''cold pill''.]] Making it all the more awesome when Charlie manages to [[spoiler:[[HoistByHisOwnPetard outsmart her at her own game]] by disabling her truck with soda.]]

** And later, right before Ted is released, he's being taunted by the same inmate, who's mocking him for hiding behind his Charlie-assigned bodyguard. Ted tells the bodyguard to stand down and agrees to fight the guy. When told he doesn't have to, all he says is, "Yes I do."

* "Powerless", where Dani is being held hostage and being forced to drink one of the biggest bottles of vodka you'll ever see. In the end, she waits for the guy to be distracted, and clobbers him with the empty bottle. ''Awwwwwwwwesome.''
* Roman Nebakov officially makes the jump from {{Smug Snake}} to {{Magnificent Bastard}} when he ''breaks through the fourth wall'', killing the cameraman and using the camera to make a ransom video.
** And then Charlie gets an extended one in the same episode, [[spoiler:once he's in the car with Nebakov. First, he gets under Nebakov's skin; then, he asks Nebakov "You wanna know how I survived twelve years in prison?" "Your Zen?" [Charlie crushes Nebakov's throat with a backhanded blow] "Like that." [Nebakov dies] And then talking his way out of said car, filled with Nebakov's gunmen by telling them that whatever Nebakov held over them or their families, it's gone.]]

---> [[spoiler:Crews then calmly explains to the bodyguards, while Roman slowly asphyxiates in the seat beside hime, that anything and everything that Roman might have done to their families for failing him, died with him. Crews more or less walks out of the car and the bodyguards proceed to torch Roman's body and the car. Crews being Crews had also arranged for the whole matter to take place in an orchard he owned (not that anyone would really miss Roman).]]