History Awesome / RiversOfLondon

* During the climax, Peter outsmarts the [[MagnificentBastard Faceless Man]] during their RooftopConfrontation. The BigBad jumps off the soon-to-be-blown-up building, using a spell to soften his impact. Peter jumps him and clings on, knowing that to shake him off, the guy would have to stop chanting, thus laying them both out for a rather rough landing, after which Peter [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown goes to town on the guy]] [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown with his trusty size elevens]]. He would've been able to take the Faceless Man in too, if that hadn't been the moment where Lesley finally gets to use her taser...

* Peter taking down the tigerman in the stairwell by giving him a facefull of Doc Martens and then ''surfing'' down the steps on his back was pretty awesome too.

* Peter uses a magic cane on a {{unicorn}}. The unicorns were terrifying for pretty much the entire book until that point. After that confrontation, the unicorn flinched whenever Peter looked at it funny.

** So as not to spoil an awesome scene, but said battle between Nightingale and the Night Witch include him unzipping the front of a barn as a distraction so he can walk in the back, doing something that made a cottage look as if it had been hit by a freight train and one or other of the two lifting the entire roof off the aforementioned barn and then bringing it back down. All of this without even creasing Nightingale's suit. Suddenly it makes much more sense why Nightingale was on rearguard at Ettersburg.

* During the climax, Peter outsmarts the [[MagnificentBastard Faceless Man]] during their RooftopConfrontation. The BigBad jumps off the soon-to-be-blown-up building, using a spell to soften his impact. Peter jumps him and clings on, knowing that to shake him off, the guy would have to stop chanting, thus laying them both out for a rather rough landing, after which Peter [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown goes to town on the guy]] [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown with his trusty size eleven's]]. He would've been able to take the Faceless Man in too, if that hadn't been the moment where Lesley finally gets to use her taser...

* During the climax, Peter outsmarts the [[MagnificentBastard Faceless Man]] during their RooftopConfrontation. The BigBad jumps off the soon-to-be-blown-up building, using a spell to soften his impact. Peter jumps him and clings on, knowing that to shake him off, the guy would have to stop chanting, thus laying them both out for a rather rough landing, after which Peter [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown goes to town on the guy]] [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown with his trusty size eleven's]]. And then Lesley finally gets to use her taser...

* The magic battle on the rooftops between Peter and the Faceless Man: [[spoiler:He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him — that's the London way.]]

* Lesley [[spoiler: managing to produce a werelight at the end of the book.]]

* Although we don't get to see much of it, the battle between Nightingale [[spoiler:and the Night Witch.]]
** So as not to spoil an awesome scene, but said battle between Nightingale [[spoiler:and the Night Witch include him unzipping the front of a barn as a distraction so he can walk in the back, doing something that made a cottage look as if it had been hit by a freight train and one or other of the two lifting the entire roof off the aforementioned barn and then bringing it back down. All of this without even creasing Nightingale's suit.]] Suddenly it makes much more sense why Nightingale was on rearguard at Ettersburg.
* During the climax, Peter outsmarts the [[MagnificentBastard Faceless Man]] during their RooftopConfrontation. The BigBad jumps off the soon-to-be-blown-up building, using a spell to soften his impact. Peter jumps him and clings on, knowing that to shake him off, the guy would have to stop chanting, thus laying them both out for a rather rough landing, after which Peter [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown goes to town on the guy]] [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown with his trusty size eleven's]]. [[spoiler:And then Lesley finally gets to use her taser...]]

* One of the best has to be an off-screen moment. [[spoiler:Nightingale finally confronts the Faceless Man, who attempts to kill Nightingale with a booby-trapped apartment, which is massive underkill for a guy whose combat experience is open warfare against the German military. Nightingale bypasses them and though we don't see it, it's implied that the majority of their fight is the Faceless Man retreating away from him.]]
* [[spoiler:William of Tyburn gets one when he [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks hurls a sword]] from one building to another and nails a sniper right in the heart!]]

* Leslie [[spoiler: managing to produce a werelight at the end of the book.]]

* During the climax, Peter outsmarts the [[MagnificentBastard Faceless Man]] during their RooftopConfrontation. The BigBad jumps off the soon-to-be-blown-up building, using a spell to soften his impact. Peter jumps him and clings on, knowing that to shake him off, the guy would have to stop chanting, thus laying them both out for a rather rough landing, after which Peter [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown goes to town on the guy]] [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown with his trusty size eleven's]]. [[spoiler:And then Leslie finally gets to use her taser...]]

* Lesley [[spoiler: managing to produce a werelight at the end of the book.]]

* During the climax, Peter outsmarts the [[MagnificentBastard Faceless Man]] during their RooftopConfrontation. The BigBad jumps off the soon-to-be-blown-up building, using a spell to soften his impact. Peter jumps him and clings on, knowing that to shake him off, the guy would have to stop chanting, thus laying them both out for a rather rough landing, after which Peter [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown goes to town on the guy]] [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown with his trusty size eleven's]]. [[spoiler: And then Lesley finally gets to use her taser...]]

* Though it is only a small moment Peter finally managing to produce ''Lux'' is pretty awesome.
* 'Moon Over Soho' the magic battle on the rooftops: [[spoiler:He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way.]]
** Taking down the tigerman in the stairwell by giving him a facefull of Doc Martens and then ''surfing'' down the steps on his back was pretty awesome too.
* an In-Universe example, this is Peter's reaction to Nightingale describing how he took on ''two'' Tiger Tanks in WWII by himself...and blew them apart.

* Lesley [[spoiler: managing to produce a werelight at the end of book two.]]
* Although we don't get to see much of it, the battle between Nightingale [[spoiler: and the Night Witch in the fourth book. The same book also features Peter outsmarting the Faceless Man and ''almost'' capturing him.]]
** So as not to spoil an awesome scene, but said battle between Nightingale [[spoiler: and the Night Witch include him unzipping the front of a barn as a distraction so he can walk in the back, doing something that made a cottage look as if it had been hit by a freight train and one or other of the two lifting the entire roof off the aforementioned barn and then bringing it back down. All of this without even creasing Nightingale's suit.]] Suddenly it makes much more sense why Nightingale was on rearguard at Ettersburg.
* During the climax of Broken Homes, Peter outsmarts the [[MagnificentBastard Faceless Man]] during their RooftopConfrontation. The BigBad jumps off the soon-to-be-blown-up building, using a spell to soften his impact. Peter jumps him and clings on, knowing that to shake him off, the guy would have to stop chanting, thus laying them both out for a rather rough landing, after which Peter [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown goes to town on the guy]] [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown with his trusty size eleven's]]. [[spoiler: And then Leslie finally gets to use her taser...]]
* ''Foxglove Summer'' has Peter using a magic cane on a {{unicorn}}. The unicorns were terrifying for pretty much the entire book until that point. After that confrontation, the unicorn flinched whenever Peter looked at it funny.

* ''The Hanging Tree'' has more than a few but one of the best has to be an off-screen moment. [[spoiler: Nightingale finally confronts the Faceless Man who attempts to kill Nightingale with a booby-trapped apartment, which is massive underkill for a guy whose combat experience is open warfare against the German military. Nightingale bypasses them and though we don't see it, it's implied that the majority of their fight is the Faceless Man retreating away from him.]]
** [[spoiler: William of Tyburn gets one when he hurls a sword from one building to another and nails a sniper right in the heart!]]

* Despite Peter himself not liking rap, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXW2-qbSKpA this music video]] is pretty awesome.

* ''Foxglove Summer'' has Peter using a magic cane on a {{unicorn}}. The unicorns were terrifying for pretty much the entire book until that point. After that confrontation, the unicorn flinched whenever Peter looked at it funny.

* During the climax of Broken Homes, Peter outsmarts the [[MagnificentBastard Faceless Man]] during their RooftopConfrontation. The BigBad jumps off the soon-to-be-blown-up building, using a spell to soften his impact. Peter jumps him and clings on, knowing that to shake him off, the guy would have to stop chanting, thus laying them both out for a rather rough landing, after which Peter [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown goes to town on the guy]] [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown with his trusty size eleven's]]. [[spoiler: And then Leslie finally gets to use her taser...]]

** So as not to spoil an awesome scene, but said battle between Nightingale [[spoiler: and the Night Witch include him unzipping the front of a barn as a distraction so he can walk in the back, doing something that made a cottage look as if it had been hit by a freight train and one or other of the two lifting the entire roof off the aforementioned barn and then bringing it back down. All of this without even creasing Nightingale's suit.]] Suddenly it makes much more sense why Nightingale was on rearguard at Ettersburg.

* Both of Peter's first and last encounters with Tyburn in the first book could count as this [[spoilers:In the first, she almost manages to make him drink from a fountain in her garden, which would place him under her complete control.]] It probably would have worked too [[spoilers:if he didn't use magic to blow it up]] The last meeting between the two involves Peter basically giving Ty a speech about how he's the wrong man for her to be fucking with.]] Keep in mind of how power all of the goddesses of the river actually are [[spoilers:and Peter is in Mama Thames' home at the time...surrounded by all of them.]]...now that takes some serious balls

* Although we don't get to see much of it, the battle between Nightingale [[spoiler: and the Night Witch in the fourth book. The same book also features Peter outsmarting the Faceless Man and ''almost'' capturing him.]]

* Lesley [[spoiler: managing to produce a werelight at the end of book two.]]

* an In-Universe example, this is Peter's reaction to Nightingale describing how he took on ''two'' Tiger Tanks in WWII by himself...and blew them apart.