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  • Every segment goes out on a somewhat triumphant note:
    • "Father's Day": Nathan Grantham's Roaring Rampage of Revenge. After seven years of rotting in the ground, he has the strength to strangle and decapitate the greedy and conniving members of his family, not to mention that he apparently gained telekinesis, as seen when he manipulates his own tombstone to crush Hank.
    • "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill": In a sad sense, Jordy's suicide. Realizing that he'll soon end up meeting a horrific fate from the alien growth spreading all over his body, he decides to go out on his own terms via shotgun. It works perfectly, and for once in his life, Jordy's luck was in.
    • "Something to Tide You Over": After killing his wife and her lover without a shred of remorse, seeing Richard getting his comeupance from the pair's revenant corpses is nothing short of spectacular. Even if he can indeed hold his breath long enough, he's lost any sanity he had left from the encounter.
    • "The Crate": Henry's plan to kill Wilma goes off without a hitch, and he even manages to subdue and recapture Fluffy afterwards, locking the beast in its crate and throwing it in a quarry to be rid of it. Furthermore, unlike the other murderers in the film (besides Nathan, who died before the start of the movie), Henry never gets caught. If it weren't for the twist ending of Fluffy escaping (which wasn't in the original short story), this segment would be a straight up Happy Ending.
    • "They're Creeping Up on You!": Upson Pratt's Karmic Death via thousands upon thousands of cockroaches. After spending the whole segment comparing everyone else to them and belittling the grieving widow of the man he drove to suicide, seeing the insect swarm inducing a heart attack and bursting out of his body is a spectacle to behold.
    • Even the wraparound story goes out on a high note, as little Billy uses a voodoo doll from his comic book to kill his father as revenge for the abuse he's inflicted on him.

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  • In "Bad Wolf Down", Captain Talby and his remaing men have themselves become lycanthropes to fight back against the Nazi horde out for their hides. When Schmelzgerat and his men open fire on the transformed soldiers, to no effect, Talby rips off one of their heads with one swipe of his claws before unleashing a roar. What ensues is, in every sense of the word, a bloodbath.
    • Schmelzgerat himself faces his woefully low chances of survival like a badass, saying nothing and adjusting his cap as he and his men go down fighting.
    • Earlier, before Quist ditches his comerades, Rivers, the anxious young private he had been mocking and threatening all episode, punches him in the face to stop him from shooting the woman in the prison cell.
  • "The Man in the Suitcase" climaxes with the titular man turning into a wicked Djinn who forcefully stuffs Alex and Carla into their own suitcases when they almost kill Justin, the only member of their group who wanted to help him out of his suitcase from the very beginning.
  • The ending of "The Companion" has Harold controlling the scarecrow Brenner built via the old man's cane and commanding it to murder his abusive older brother. Beforehand, it's revealed that he stitched Billy's sheets to his mattress while he was sleeping, trapping him in the bed and leaving him completely unable to fight back.
  • An Offscreen Moment of Awesome makes up the majority of "Times is Tough in Musky Holler", as the citizens of the titular town successfully overthrew their crooked mayor and sentenced him to the same punishment he inflicted upon numerous others.
  • Henry managing to crush the giant leech that was trying to eat him under a vending machine in "Skincrawlers", regaining his self-esteem in the process.
  • Champ from "By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain" comes to Rose and Thomas' rescue by devouring Chet whole, as the sadistic man was inches from cutting them to pieces.
  • Though it's rendered moot in the end, Richard from "Survivor Type" manages to survive for at least 18 days stranded on a desert island with very little food. He also manages to stay alive after amputating and eating both of his legs, even pointing out that the shock trauma would've killed any other person.
  • The climactic battles between the therianthropes and Kringle's helpers at the climax of "Shapeshifters Anonymous". Special mention goes to Phyllis, the group's resident punching bag, personally killing Kringle via his chosen method of execution.
  • From "Model Kid", the Gillman and the Mummy joining forces to bisect the abusive Uncle Kevin under Joe's command.
  • The entirety of "Public Television of the Dead", which is a loving tribute/fan-film of both the Evil Dead franchise and the classic series of PBS, where Norm Roberts (an ersatz of Bob Ross) goes toe-to-toe with the Deadites when they invade the public access TV studio he works in. He also works together with his producer George and the station's manager Claudia to stop the Deadites before they read the Necronomicon itself to the hundreds of children watching the station so it can absorb their souls.
    Deadite!Bookberry: Who dares to interrupt the dark texts?!
    Claudia: (wielding an antique broadsword) I'm responsible for the program quality of Channel 13, and this show... does not meet WQPS standards.
    Deadite!Bookberry: And what are you gonna do about it?
    Norm: (bringing out an antique snowblower) We're gonna beat the Devil out of you.
  • When Pam goes nuts and kills Morgue in "Dead and Breakfast", Sam, finally having the upper hand over his domineering sister, strangles her to death with the noose from his costume so he can get revenge against her.
  • "Sibling Rivalry" ends with Andrew realizing that Grace is the vampire who bit his sister and goes to stop her. Lola bites him to give him a boost in strength, allowing the pair to dispose of Grace the very next day.
  • He may just be a plumber, but Linus from "Pipe Screams" shows that he's got strong standards, actively going against Victoria's blackmailing attempt and fighting off Cloggy with only his hands and his tools. He and Janet also team up to ensure Cloggy grows big enough to devour Victoria to get her out of the way.
  • After all the shit poor Zeller goes through in "Within the Walls of Madness", he gets the last laugh by completing Trollenberg's work and summoning the Old Ones himself, which go on to destroy humankind and the world.
  • "Night of the Living Late Show" has the Immersopod, a state-of-the-art VR machine that can literally put its users inside a movie. Though its creator created it for his own selfish and perverted desires, the fact that he created this miraculous device by himself is astonishing.
    • Renee uses this very same machine to trick the adulterous and egotistical gold-digger she married into getting eaten alive by the ghouls from Night of the Living Dead (1968) after she nearly loses her mind via Horror Express' monster, as a means to get back at her for fulfilling her father's prophecies of how he'd blow through her money and make her look like an idiot.
  • From "Mums", after learning the truth about his mother's disappearance, Jack and the mother in question, now mutated into a monstrous-but-still-motherly mixture of plant and zombie, team up to lure Jack's abusive terrorist father, his accomplice, and his sidepiece into the latter's maw.
    • A couple scenes also have the trio planning to bomb a nearby government building in their ploy to "take back America", and since they're out of the way before they can follow up on these plans, Jack and his mother also save numerous lives without knowing it.
  • "Skeletons in the Closet" is a glorious tribute to the motion picture, with props, names, quotes, and homages of the world of cinema's greatest masterpieces, as well as the artisans responsible for bringing them onto the silver screen.
    • The climax of the episode, where just as it looks like Bateman's skeleton is about to skewer Lampini, the skeleton of his Pop, without any warning whatsoever, springs to life and battles his former rival in a classic stop-motion skeleton duel, ending with Bateman being decapitated and killed for good.
  • After burning the titular painting of "The Last Tsuburaya", Wade is put through an immensely deserved Humiliation Conga, where his girlfriend ditches him and he's similarly cursed into becoming a monster trapped in a painting after his death.
  • "Okay, I'll Bite"; Thanks to the anonymous sender of the scroll from Cairo (who may or may not be Sekhmet herself), Elmer gets to transform himself into a Giant Spider (his most favorite creature) and get bloody payback on the crooked guard who made his life hell, before he escapes the confines of Fiorina the next day.
  • In "Stranger Sings", Barry is the only person to question why Sara and Miranda want him specifically, an OB/GYN, to surgically swap their voice boxes. Despite the fact that he's the only person who brings this up, he manages to complere the operation perfectly, even with his lack of surgical training.
    • As a bonus, for giving Miranda what she's been desiring for millenia, she lives up to her promise to let Barry live and stabs the now-siren Sara to death, before becoming his new girlfriend.
  • Teresa from "Meter Reader" is a teenaged demon slayer who was highly trained by her Meter Reader father, able to decapitate the infected with very little hesitation, even if they're family. She ends of the episode inheriting her father's Meter and his immunity to the plague, and she takes his motorcycle to travel the Earth continuing his work full-time.
  • "The Things in Oakwood's Past" is fully animated, so the visual effects are astonishing, especially the ending, where the hordes of Hell viciously slaughter the town's populace.
  • "Drug Traffic" has Mai's mother proving herself to be a Badass Normal, swiping Beau's gun and firing at him to unlock her cuffs and bring her Mai's body.
    • Beau and Miller also work together to stop Mai after spending the whole episode bitching about their ideologies.
    • Mai's mother gets the last laugh by chopping her own head off so Mai can take her body into the USA.
  • The climax of "A Dead Girl Named Sue", where the dead girl in question is brought in to gruesomely kill the psycho who defiled her beyond all belief.
    • Throughout the first half of that episode, Chief Foster demonstrates a strong code of ethics and staunch support of the law. When he finds out what Cliven did to Sue, he throws away said ethics and turns his back on the law instantaneously so the sick bastard can get what he deserves.
    • At the very end of the episode, Foster, now fully supporting the concept of vigilante justice, rounds up his new posse to hunt down Cliven's father, who kept allowing his son's crimes to go unpunished, so he too can become ghoul food.
  • In "Twenty Minutes with Cassandra", Lorna keeps trying to keep the delivery people who come to her door away from the monster, and even fashions a makeshift weapon to fight back against it, even wounding it several times.
  • The near-end of "The Hat", where Jay learns about the parasite in Bachman's hat and that Nicole duped him into putting it on to get rich through him. He not only ends his partnership with her when he finds out, he gets sweet revenge by shoving the parasite's ravenous babies in her face, killing her.
  • The climax of "The Parent Deathtrap" has Lyle's ghostly parents finding out what Violet was up to all along, and though they're too late to stop her from poisoning their son, they express their rage via banshee wails powerful enough to cause Violet to die of fright.
  • Though it ends up being All for Nothing, Marcia from "To Grandmother's House We Go" fully accepts herself as Ruby's mother figure and stabs the werewolf who abducted her (Carla) to death with one of the knives from Ruby's picnic basket.
    Marcia: This is for screwing up our trip to Grandmother's house! And this is for trying to kill my FUCKING kid!
  • The climactic final battle of "Meet the Belaskos" has the vampiric Anna making incredibly short work of the specist Doug and his vampire-hunting friends. She even bites Doug and turns him into a vampire himself, allowing the son he forbade from running off with the love of his life to stake him through the heart.
  • In "Cheat Code", Reina comes over to Jeff's house to frantically tell him that Dave got himself sucked into Weird Wednesday and is dying with every life Jeff loses. What does Jeff do when he finds out? He enters the titular code and puts himself in the game, allowing for him and Dave to take down the final boss together and finally patch up their fractured bond.
  • Allison and Ryan from "Something Burrowed, Something Blue" turned out to be aware of what Frank was planning the whole time, since Ryan's family also guards a Minhocão, which they feed the abusive old bastard to.
  • "George Romero in 3-D!" is a glorious tribute to George A. Romero and his Living Dead films. What's even better is that a young Romero himself is a major character, being drawn from the pages of his unpublished zombie comics and helping Martin and his mother save the day from his ghouls.

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