Awesome / Gotrek & Felix

WARNING: Unmarked spoilers ahead!

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• In the very first story of the series, while the characters were still on the level of your average Warhammer characters, Gotrek wades into a mass of cultists to save a baby, Felix at his side. At one point, the cultists are described as having piled on to the slayer, leaving Felix alone. Rather then break and run, Felix continues the fight with every intention of dying heroically, which buys the time for Gotrek to break free. It may sound minor, but it was the first time that Felix showed the heroism that would come to define his partnership with Gotrek.
• Gotrek destroys an entire Black Ark, which is essentially a floating Dark Elf Fortress just with his axe and a cursed harp after being threatened by Dark Elves. His response: You are threatening a slayer? I'm taking you all with me.
• Gotrek finishing off the Bloodthirster of Khorne who just thrown him aside and left him for dead. The best part is what he says in doing so. "Oi! You! I'm not finished with you yet!"
• According to the Dwarfs, Felix's entire journey with Gotrek is a CMOA... Though specifically picking up the Hammer of Fate, something no human has ever done, and never will since, after invoking the names of the Dwarf Gods and throwing it at the demon, which is why the Bloodthirster turned its attention to him in the first place. He'd managed to hurt it enough to distract it from something as tasty as Gotrek.
  • Felix begs help from the gods, picks up an artifact weapon that only a dwarf should be able to lift, smiles at a charging Bloodthirster and hits it right between the eyes.
• Gotrek, using basic physics and his long-ago earned engineering skills, escapes a near-inescapable death trap.
• The entire second half of Elfslayer. Even by the standards of the series up to this point their previous adventures have nothing on their revenge against the Dark Elves and Skaven.
• Gotrek beheading a Chaos Warlord who is famed for the strength of his armor like it was made of rotten cheese.
• Gotrek scaling a giant, sinking his axe into its brain, then PULLING OUT ITS EYE AND RAPPELLING DOWN ITS BODY USING ITS OPTIC NERVE!
• The skilled but incredibly overshadowed Felix goes berserk in Dragonslayer and stabs a dragon that is the size of a small castle repeatedly in the head. Of course, it was his sword giving him fury and skill so that it can be used to fulfill its purpose, but still.
• The short story "In the Valley of Death" is one for Felix, cementing that he's not, as some might think, The Load who depends on Gotrek's skills to survive — instead, completely on his own, and implicitly before he's even met Gotrek, he survives a trip deep into monster-infested wilderness in search of a lost necromancer's tower, slaying several Wights and then escaping, alone, back to civilisation after confronting the lich residing there.
• Felix finally earning a kill that even Gotrek would envy during the End Times in Kinslayer; the champion of Tzeentch Aekold Helbrass. Yeah that's right, the guy who broke down the Auric Wall, smashed the combined armies of Kislev and conquered Praag, and who sent Vlad von Carstein running after a duel, and Felix Motherfucking Jaeger KILLED HIM!
• Gotrek started the series by killing a Troll. How does he really begin the End Times? By killing the goddamn Troll King! The mightiest, smartest and most skilled of all the Troll race, a being blessed by the entire pantheon of Chaos, and Gotrek killed him.
• Gotrek spending god only knows how many months in the blizzard filled wilderness of Praag with millions of Chaos warriors slaughtering each other across the snow. He survived all of that, alone with barely any food, and killed so many Chaos followers that they all believed that a mighty Daemon had been sent to punish them.
• And, the crowning moment of awesome? He survived centuries in the realm of chaos, until the Gods of chaos...just LEFT HIM ALONE. He claims they were bored. It's more likely they were terrified.
• He finally, after far too long, has a new miniature. It can one-round kill Nagash. It can kill an entire unit of Goblins in one round. It can slay four daemons of Chaos in hand to hand combat.
• The appearances of the Godbeasts in Realmslayer. Each is a truly monstrous figure, so impressively massive that even Gotrek is forced to concede to Broddor that, for all his faults with the Eight Realms, he does admire their ability to produce truly impressive monsters.
  • Of course, Gotrek gets his own awesome moment each time; he stares down the godbeast magmadroth, causing it to slink back into its lava pit rather than face him, and then is actually excited to get into a fight with the second one, despite the fact its teeth are longer than he is tall.
    • When he's staring down magmadroth, Gotrek delivers an absolutely amazing Badass Boast telling the godbeast exactly who he's facing. The audiobook version takes it one further with the spectacular delivery from BRIAN BLESSED!!!!!.
  Gotrek: "I've fought chaos dragons, and lich kings! I've fought greater demons, and the gods themselves! I bled Be'lakor, the prince who would be king! I crossed axes with Grimnir, and walked away! I swore to die in battle, but outlived a world! Come, try me, beast! Maybe you'll have better luck than every beast I've ever slain 'til now! Maybe we both will!"
• Thanquol, of all people, gets a villainous one at the end of Realmslayer: Blood of the Old World. The rat gets into a one-on-one duel with Gotrek, completely straight, with no outside interference. And he very nearly wins, coming closer to killing Gotrek than any enemy he's met since entering the Mortal Realms has, by using his undeniably powerful magic. It's only by drawing on the Master Rune, something Gotrek has been adamantly refusing to do for most of the story up to that point, that he's able to fight off the swarm of magically summoned rats and turn the tide, forcing Thanquol into retreat.