Awesome / Carpe Jugulum

• Perhaps Granny Weatherwax's finest moment: with a feedback effect — "I ain't been vampired: you've been Weatherwaxed."
  • Also doubles as Nanny Ogg's finest moment. She's the one who gave Esme the idea, with the comment about Weatherwaxes never being beaten - because it's "in the blood". Depending on your interpretation of Nanny Ogg's character, of course.
• Mightily Oats deciding to make a holy symbol of his axe.
  "An axe isn't a holy symbol, you stupid man."
  "Oh. Then let's make it one."
  • Another possibility is that he has realized that everything is holy, as long as you recognize it as such, and believe in it. In the same way the vampires realized that the holy symbols they'd taught themselves in order to guard against them could be seen in everything if they looked hard enough, because it was just a recognition of a pattern. It wasn't the symbol that made it powerful, it was the power of belief that symbol received.
  • Alternatively, Om was watching, and thought that it would make a terrific holy symbol.
  • On Discworld, what you believe comes true if you believe truly and honestly enough. That is literally the power behind all the gods. One believer, one person honestly believing that a god has helped him find a lost lamb is enough to start a religion. So, if you believe that an axe is a holy symbol, it is a holy symbol! Not to mention that other people watching want to believe, too. Why shouldn't exist a holy axe that cuts through evil (vampires)? They only had to see somebody swing it.
• When Magrat makes Nanny Ogg shocked with an innuendo.
• Perdita's Groin Attack on Vlad.
• The people of Escrow rebelling against the vampires that had held them all prisoner, particularly the mayor strangling the Count with a gold chain. It turns out later that the mayor was killed for his defiance—the Count basically snapped him in half without even trying—but striking against the monster who'd victimized you and the people you lead is one hell of a way to go. The fact that the Count was shaken by the experience makes it all the better. There's a line describing him touching a weal across his throat from the chain, astonished that a mere human could have been so strong...
• The male phoenix's revenge for the deaths of its sibling and mother at the hands of the Magpyrs - transform from unassuming Wowhawk into house sized bird of flame that promptly incinerates every vampire it can reach. As Granny remarks...
  He knows what they did. He was born knowing. Phoenixes share their minds. And they don't tolerate evil.
  • Connected to which, the ultimate confirmation that Granny, even having been bitten by vampires, is one of the good guys: she's in the wings of the phoenix and doesn't get burned.
• The Old Count's revivification reveals a Fair-Play Villain... who is also a Friendly Enemy, a fan of Contractual Genre Blindness and the Good Old Ways - and a villain who understands that Tropes Are Not Bad. See, a vampire who is a little goofy and has a lot of weaknesses the villagers can exploit is a fun adventure for the community once in a generation, but a vampyre who decides to be too smart and becomes a ruthless enslaver of humans just begs to be exterminated. Granny may not be having with vampyres, but this old vampire isn't so different from herself.
• The Old Count manages to shut up Lacrimosa, the Magpyr teenage daughter who has spent the whole book whining and whingeing, by snarling at her, frightening her so much that for the rest of the story she doesn’t speak a word. It's so damn satisfying to see her get her comeuppance.
• The greatest Ship Sinking since "Frankly, my dear, I just don't give a damn," comes from Agnes: "Vlad... I'd even hold their coats."
• Hodgesaargh, a humble figure introduced as a joke character back in Lords and Ladies, deduces nearly everything about the phoenix life cycle that scholars have been getting laughably wrong for centuries.
• Granny's battle against the darkness within herself, accepting it as part of her, and overcoming it.