Awesome / Housepets!

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• Spot the superdog's first appearance in the Pridelands Imaginate crossover here, as a muscular figure crucified on a cross, is a memorable stunner — as is his ferocious subsequent beatdown of his adversaries.
• King standing up to Pete in The Celestial beings' game room is admirable and then some. It's worth noting that Pete is as powerful as a god, as are his pals at the table. Being able to confront Pete in front of his friends, courageously pointing out his wrongdoings and being recognized for them, is a strong sign that King knows how to confidently handle himself.
• The introduction of Spirit Dragon is awe-inspiring, showing her to be a huge, imposing (and angry) being. It's even Lampshaded by King.
  King: "This would be so awesome if I didn't wet myself."
• Sporting Cool Shades, avoiding certain defeat, and affecting an Unflinching Walk as done by Grape, Zach, and Peanut away from a gigantic water balloon bomb splash here? Yeah — awesome.
• Fox making a diving save to catch King's stopwatch qualifies as major-league impressive. His somewhat reconciliatory dialogue afterwards doubles as a Heartwarming Moment.
• Grape, when she was two years old according to Word of God, fearlessly beats up a kidnapper armed with a gun... using just a broom. Plus she single-handedly vanquishes the kidnapper's pet, an alligator, by jamming the broken end of the broom handle between its jaws.
• Jerkass Bino receives a couple of fully satisfying beatdowns courtesy of Bailey in this webcomic. He had it coming both times.
  • In this strip Bailey punches Bino so hard she nearly caves his face in when he angrily interrupts her argument with King over a trivial matter.
  • Some time later, she sinks Bino three times on a carnival dunking booth after he impatiently tells Bailey to throw the ball and quit stalling.
• Jata, a leopard who's ripped and in his prime, versus the elderly and well-worn wolf Uncle Deadeye. Surely that's a recipe for a curbstomp battle, right? Actually, things do not turn out well at all for Jata in this case, as he gets unceremoniously thrown fully dazed (notice the leopard's spiral eyes here) into a pool — or as an offscreen character puts it, "Wow, I didn't know cats could bend like that." Uncle Deadeye's knowing smirk when he grabs the leopard's paw is utterly priceless.
• Fox's thrashing of Joel here is stunning, especially given that the former is normally a reserved and quiet character. He has just discovered that his friend King is actually the canine incarnation of Joel, a human PETA worker who kidnapped and tried to kill Fox earlier. Joel's refusal to fight back is just as awesome, as he knows full well he was in the wrong and stoically accepts the beating. When Fox finally breaks down and tearfully hugs Joel, the scene morphs into a Heartwarming Moment.
• When King, Bailey, Sabrina, and Tarot decide to stop fighting for Spirit Dragon and Pete here, thus making Kitsune end the game, it's a memorable moment indeed and leads to several subsequent ones.
  • Awesome points for Kitsune who decides to give Pete and Spirit Dragon exactly ten minutes to convince the four to resume playing here. He might be a god-like entity like the others, but he certainly knows that neither of them stand a chance of persuading the foursome to continue.
  • More awesome points for Pete taking a well-deserved strawberry milkshake to the face from Bailey along with King's little Shut Up, Hannibal! speech here.
  • Sabrina and Tarot standing up to Spirit Dragon and telling her where to stick it when Spirit Dragon tries playing the moral high ground is a nice, if understated, moment. Dragon's face in the last panel shows she knows exactly how little hope she has of success.
  • Kitsune continues his awesome Batman Gambit here and even manages to give Pete a powerful Villainous Breakdown here. He exposes Pete’s manipulative cruelty and cluelessness in playing the game and gets him to break down in front of those he has harmed, rendering him unable to continue play and allowing him to embarrass himself thoroughly.
• In Temple Crashers 2 Res dives into Pete's mana pool and turns himself into a demigod. He then overpowers The Forgotten, using the limitless power of Pete's mana pool to blast it and Euodant back through the portal before closing it, saving Keene and Breel in the process with style.
  Keene: Excellent use of a Ghostbusters reference.
  Res: It was either that or a Star Trek V allusion.
  Keene: You made the right call.
• King and Bailey want a day of rest from parenthood by going on a date — just the two of them — but they encounter problems trying to find someone suitable to babysit their puppies. When it looks like they've run out of options, it turns out that the last to offer their services are Grape and Peanut. It's especially relevant since this combo of characters has had little to no interaction at all, despite being recurring protagonists.