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  • The stack of receipts on Evelyn's desk is one in and of itself. While it's an effective Establishing Character Moment as to how hectic and overwhelming her life is, she also managed to keep track of every single transaction she's made over the past year, with documentation, and kept it fairly organized.
  • Alpha Waymond admits he's seen thousands of Evelyns, but despite this he is calm, friendly, and loving to every single Evelyn we see him interact with. He, and by extension every Waymond, truly loves her, no matter what choices she makes with her life.
  • Alpha Waymond easily beating up a quartet of security guards armed with only a fanny pack. The guards quickly go from annoyed with his noncompliance to outright fearful, especially when he adds a handful of aquarium rocks to the pack.
  • When Alpha Gong Gong encourages Protagonist Evelyn to kill her Joy so that there will be one less body for Jobu to inhabit, Evelyn instead frees her daughter.
  • Shortly thereafter, she begins jumping without direction solely so that she can find the skills she needs to protect her family from the Alphaverse jumpers. She immediately goes from a beleaguered housewife to a full-on Mama Bear, jumping into any universe she can latch her mind onto at random in an attempt to get any skills she can to protect Waymond and Joy.
  • When faced with the reality that almost every alternate reality exists without the conditions to even support life, she chooses to embrace Anti-Nihilist philosophy, using her newfound powers to add googly eyes to her own rock form and chase her daughter for a hug.
  • Evelyn putting a googly eye on her forehead, when she's spent the entire film complaining anytime she finds a mundane object that her husband or daughter have secretly stuck googly eyes onto, showcases her final acceptance of truth.
  • First she pilots Chad in the Raccacoonie verse, and then when he proves incapable of racing to catch a truck, she throws him on her shoulders and races after the truck taking away his friend before launching Chad onto it to rescue his raccoon friend.
    • And then she pilots Alphaverse Chad as part of his enlightenment in the Protagonist Verse, using him to enlighten her other opponents.
  • The climactic fight truly lives up to Buddhist concepts of enlightenment. Empowered by her omniprescence in the multiverse, and facing a veritable army of both Alphaverse jumpers and Jobu Tupaki's followers, Evelyn chooses to engage each one by sharing her enlightenment with them: she brings each one peace by reminding them of a moment of true happiness in their lives, to defeat the depression of nihilism and show them that life has no meaning save that what we give it and what makes us happy.
  • Gong Gong also continues to be a badass, with Alpha Gong Gong managing not only to turn his wheelchair into a high-speed vehicle that flies, but can even turn into a powered exoskeleton to offset Protagonist Verse Gong Gong's physical frailty and allow him to fight. And he does it using only basic office supplies.
  • Waymond proves Evelyn wrong at every turn and how his personality and attitude save her from plunging into dangerous nihilism and despair.
    • In the Protagonist Verse and the Return Home Verse, she continues to perceive him as a loser who makes everything worse, only becoming mildly intrigued (but still terrified) of Alpha Waymond when he showcases his physical capabilities. Despite this, in the Protagonist Verse he manages to push Evelyn into her enlightenment through his insistence that fighting isn't the answer, and in the Return Home Verse he manages to get her out of criminal assault and battery charges on top of felony tax fraud simply by talking things through with the IRS accountant investigating their business claims. Despite how Evelyn, and in fact everyone, regards the protagonist and return home Waymond as a doormat loser, his optimism and empathy ultimately proves to be his greatest strength, the greatest strength of everyone around him, and the very key for Evelyn to fully embrace her omnipresence without losing herself like Jobu Tupaki.
    • His multiverse selves aren't a slouch either. Despite having more skills and being more successful than main Waymond, his core traits are still there. Alpha Waymond is the Waymond who lost his wife and becomes hardened as a result, but he doesn't lose sight to do what is right and his faith towards Evelyn, while wavered initially, he ends up throwing his lot at main Evelyn as she gradually takes up the task to save her home verse and the multiverse, showing that while he can live without her, he prefers to live a life with her. And in the Movie Star Verse, he becomes a successful CEO, but never loses his optimism, empathy, or love for Evelyn, a fact he espouses to her when she collapses into despair over becoming omnipresent and seeing how meaningless the world is.
  • While it's played for a joke, Alpha Waymond also points out that it's precisely the sheer volume of choices that Evelyn has made and how they've all failed that makes her so powerful, as it puts her into close proximity with the largest sheer volume of available alternate realities to draw from.
    Alphaverse Waymond: I'm here to tell you every rejection, every disappointment, has led you here to this moment. Don't let anything distract you from it!
  • Evelyn managing to jump to a universe so different from our own that it's off the "map" the Alphaverse has of the multiverse because she was thinking of hot dogs.
  • Pinkie Weightlifter Evelyn. She puts Bruce Lee's One Inch Punch to shame, and has apparently trained her pinkies so much they've developed biceps of their own. She launches one jumper over ten feet in the air with a finger flick.
  • Singer Evelyn is both blind and has an enormous lung capacity, two things that are ideal when you need to engage a bunch of Gas Mask Mooks in a cloud of teargas.
  • Evelyn recognizing that her daughter needs her space, but also that she shouldn't give up on Joy or their relationship, first by standing up to her father, and then by admitting, whether it's just the Return Home Verse, or every universe, that there's nowhere she'd rather be than with her daughter.
  • Evelyn also tries to pull Jobu Tupaki out of the Everything Bagel. And then Waymond and Alpha Gong Gong join her.
  • Evelyn standing her ground and, with the full possibility that he might not have a good reaction to it, introducing Becky as Joy's girlfriend to Gong Gong.
  • Evelyn calling out her father on abandoning her just because she chose to marry Waymond before declaring she no longer needs his approval.
    Evelyn: It doesn't matter if you're not proud of me. Because I finally am.
  • Jobu Tupaki showcasing what it looks like when a Reality Warper decides to fight "fair." To wit:
    • She explodes a man's head into confetti with a Facepalm of Doom.
    • She transplants an opponent midair into his alternate self who's mid-pile driver, shattering his skull under her body weight on impact.
    • She turns bullet wounds into ketchup, rendering herself literally Immune to Bullets, while also turning her opponent into a salsa dancer to use as a Human Shield.
    • She beats a man twice her size bloody with a pair of ludicrously massive dildoes she conjured from an alternate reality.
    • She absolutely demolishes an entire van full of jumpers, apparently without ever even setting foot inside of it, killing Alpha Waymond and his entire crew in the process.

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