Awesome / Banshee

• Lucas Hood is a living, breathing CMOA. Anna certainly counts as well. Hell most of the main characters count. They all have their fair share of awesome in almost every single episode.
• Hood's fight with Damien Sanchez is a definite moment. After seeing what Sanchez really is, seeing Hood applying his full Combat Pragmatist arsenal and mauling Sanchez is spectacular as he literally ended his career, while also sending a message to Proctor that he will not be bought off like his predecessors.
• In the season one finale, you have to give due respect to Lotus dealing with the guy with the RPG. He could not possibly have intended that result, but goddamn if it wasn't awesome.
  • The Season 4 finale brings this full circle with the introduction of the Brockzooka and an extremely intended result.
• From season 3, episode 3, "A Fixer of Sorts," we have Clay Burton vs. Nola Longshadow, which seems almost on track to become a Signature Scene: it's been easily the most widely youtubed clip from the show so far.
  • Over the course of Fixer Lucas is arrested by a shady FBI agent, captured, together with said agent, by Jason Hood's former boss, and tortured by said boss's sadistic henchman. By the end of the episode, he's killed most of his captors and has the one he didn't under the gun. Because he's just that badass.
• Job beating the shit out of a bunch of homophobic idiots in a highway dinner was pretty damn impressive.
• Hood getting free of the handcuffs when he realises that Deva is in danger by RIPPING OFF THE SIDE OF THE BED POST.
• Hood, or rather John Smith, outsmarting the cop in Banshee Origins: Interrogation
• Any time Hood flouts regulation or issues a threat.
• Props must be given to Colonel Stowe who, in the wake of the Camp Genoa heist (a CMOA in its own right) pretty much sherlocks his way through the how, allowing him to figure out the who, and subsequently turn the tables on the gang.
• Hood's rescue of Rebecca from Alex Longshadow is this for both Hood and the Kinaho security. Hood very much does not look invincible here, getting more tired and beat up with every fight, but he still perseveres, even though by the end he's running on fumes and pure anger. For their parts the guards, who in every other show would be Mooks for the hero to plow through, are allowed to be badasses who give Hood all the fight he might want and then some. Here's hoping Alex Longshadow managed to give them all raises before Rebecca shot him.