Awesome / Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures

Dr. Quest

• The end of "Other Space" is definitely is an awesome moment for the Doc. He saves the earth (and probably the entire universe) from hostile extra-dimensional aliens, inflicts heavy damage on whatever place they came from, and survives being at the ground zero of a massive nuclear blast using his inventions. Benton Quest may not look intmidating like Race, but if you mess with him and/or his family, he will mess you back with SCIENCE.
• In "Thoughtscape", knocking out the doppelganger of him who represented Jonny's worst fear with ONE punch.
  Dr. Quest: No one talks to my son that way!
• In "General Winter," the villains trick Dr. Quest into traveling to their lair in order to force him to complete a weapon that they're working on — an ice projector akin to Mr. Freeze's signature weapon. With his family being threatened, he has no choice but to comply, implementing their freeze technology into a cannon. When he offers to test it for them, the bad guys naturally refuse to let the captive scientist anywhere near it...
  Dr. Quest: Only one problem: That was just the decoy! (Grabs a nearby flashlight and switches it on, revealing that he built the freeze ray into THAT as he turns its power on the bad guys)
• In "More Than Zero," when the paranormal entity hijacks Quest World to begin abducting the family, Dr. Quest grabs an axe that it tried to kill him with via poltergeist activity, and shuts Quest World off manually.

Race Bannon

• In "Manhattan Maneater", he shuts up an obnoxious reporter by snatching his mic from his hand and slamming it in his open mouth.
  • He gets another one at the end of the same episode when a small mob gathers under a subway to kill the escaped tiger that's responsible for all the killings. Before it can be shot, Race hits it with a tranquilizer, takes the gun off the tough hunter, and bends the barrel with a huge hunk of metal lying around. When the slimy reporter waves a microphone in his face and angrily asks "Do you know what you did?", Race knocks the reporter over with said microphone and says "Sure, killed a great story!"
• In "To Bardo And Back", while fighting Surd in Questworld/the afterlife, Surd turns into a bull (Race's greatest fear) and tries to either run him down or force him across a mystic river that equals instant death if crossed. After being chased for a minute, Race catches Surd by the horns, then picks him up and tosses him into the river. This forces Surd to change back, then Race curb-stomps his ass before shoving him to the other side of the river. Only the quick thinking of Lorenzo saves Surd from dying.
• In "Night of the Zinja", Race goes Papa Wolf on an android that had attacked Jessie.
  Race: Protoypes are one thing, but that's MY DAUGHTER!
• "Mummies of Malenque" has Race beat the snot out of some hired goons multiple times to defend his daughter, then retake control of the Quest helicopter that the villain had commandeered, THEN survive a crash in said helicopter with nary a scratch.
  • He throws two of them in quicksand and uses them as stepping stones to effortlessly lift Jessie out of the muck to safety.
• In "Rock of Ages", Race manages to duck out of the line of fire of an assault helicopter, then, with one shot, creates a hole in the helicopter's canopy, which he then uses to enter and commandeer the vehicle. When the original pilot comes to and tries to wrest control from Race, Race simply bails while his opponent and the helicopter crash in the eponymous Golem.
• "Digital Doublecross" has Jonny and Jessie trapped in Questworld which has been infected by a virus created by Dr. Surd. If Jonny and Jessie are killed in the game, they die for real. Surd promises to give Race the access codes to save the kids if he breaks him out of prison. Race does so, but gets a call from Dr. Quest that Jessie has perished. When Race calls the deal off and prepares to take Surd back, prompting Surd to give him the access codes to save Jonny. Not only is Jessie revealed to be alright after all, but it turns out that the prison break was staged and the entire staff were in on it. Even Surd admits this was pretty clever on Race's part.

Hadji

• In "Manhattan Maneater", Hadji blasts that same reporter from Race's Awesome entry when he makes a blatantly racist remark about Hadji's turban.
  • in the same episode, Hadji calls out a pair of gang members when they make racist assumptions about Jonny and Jessie. One of the gang members then demands to know why Hadji is defending them, since he himself has brown skin. One of the gang members actually nods in agreement.
    Hadji: It is not simply skin that makes a brother. It is the soul within that skin.

Jessie Bannon

• In "Expedition to Khumbu," the Quest team is looking for Benton, who went missing after an avalanche in Nepal. Through a series of missteps, they end up hanging off a cliff, with Jonny and Hadji locked in a cage at the bottom, Jessie hanging in the middle, and Race up at the ledge, keeping them from falling with a pickax and the strength of one arm. Seeing as her companions can't actually move, Jessie unlatches her belt from the rope, climbs all the way down to Jonny and Hadji, all the way around to the bottom of the cage so she can pull the lever that gets it open (her impossible risk is promptly lampshaded by Hadji). When it does open, she manages to hang on to Jonny's leg to avoid falling to her death. Then she climbs up over Jonny and Hadji and up the length of the rope until she reaches the ledge (much to Race's relief), where she promptly helps her father pull the two boys up. Jonny says it best:
  Jonny: Gotta hand it to her, Hadj—she's pretty cool.
• In "Thoughtscape", Surd uses Questworld to brainwash Jessie and torture the entire Quest family. In the end, she snaps out of it, temporarily gains full control of Questworld, and bestows an absolutely ruthless punishment upon Surd: She traps him somewhere in Questworld's depths in a digital body just as infirm as his real one.
  • Jennifer Hale's line read is simultaneously insanely awesome and absolutely chilling:
    Jessie: Nobody messes with my family. NO ONE. [Cut to Surd screaming a Big "NO!"]
• In "Assault on Questworld" Jessie displays her willingness to use, and skill with, firearms.
• In "Ezekiel Rage", believing that Rage had just killed Jonny with a nerve agent, she frees herself from his grip and triggers the fuel dump for his aircraft, then joins a very much alive Jonny in skydiving from the descending plane, just before it crashes into the canyon walls in a fiery wreck.

Jonny Quest

• In "Eclipse," Jonny jumps from his hoverboard to hang off a flying succubus-vampire-like monster in an attempt to save Jessie. While hanging off the monster's tail with one hand, he manages to pull out a silver bullet from his pocket and touch the monster with it, hoping it would be enough to kill it. It doesn't work, and Hadji's the one who eventually brings down the monster, but wouldn't Harrison Ford be proud?
• In "Night of the Zinja", Jonny uses an experimental speed-boosting device (worn sort of like an anklet) to run down first a motorcycle and then a plane as it's taking off.
• In "The Darkest Fathoms", Jonny tricks a bunch of thugs into wrecking their own boat by going Guile Hero and pretending to drown.
• He uses his Guile Hero tactics again in "Assault on Questworld" to trick Lorenzo into dropping his gun, then revealing that he'd held Lorenzo at bay with a fire extinguisher. An enraged Lorenzo is about to charge Jonny when he hears his gun cock behind him and then we move into Jessie's Moment of Awesome.
• In "Ezekiel Rage", he manages to hold his breath long enough to emerge from a cloud of toxic gas, slip aboard Rage's plane, and aid Jessie in her escape, already in progress.
• "Cyberswitch" has Surd use Questworld to pull a Grand Theft Me on Race. Although it's later reversed, he then tries to pull the same thing on Jonny... only to find out that Jonny is MUCH more skilled in cyberspace fighting than either Race or he. Jonny then proceeds to kick Surd's ass.
• In "Nuclear Netherworld", Jonny, his grandfather, and Hadji have been captured and are being escorted to a subterranean base. The Dragon tells them that it's the last sunlight they'll ever see. Jonny remarks that it's not the first time he's heard that one.

Ezekiel Rage

• Seriously, the guy could survive just about anything. And if "The Edge of Yesterday" didn't really kill him, Jonny might as well have called Scooby-Doo to lock the sucker up in the Chest of Demons. Because, otherwise, the guy can't be human!

Other

• "Nuclear Netherworld" features Jonny's Grandpa Doug, who was modeled after Jonny Quest creator Doug Wildey. Before getting kidnapped by the villains, he discovers his ranch hand had sold him out ("How much are they paying you Hank?" "...Enough."). Before they're dragged off, Grandpa Doug says "Sure, just as soon as I take care of something" and knocks his ranch hand to the ground with one haymaker to the face. He then puts his hands behind his head and says "Okay, NOW we can leave."
• In "Expedition to Khumbu", the Head Monk isn't fooled for one moment by the Big Bad of the episode, who had just attempted to frame Jonny and friends for stealing from the monastery.
• "Ndovu's Last Journey" has the titular elephant's Big Damn Heroes as he saves everyone from the Evil Poachers, knocking both men and causing them drop their guns before rearing up on his hind legs and crushing on. The leader of the duo he tosses onto the tusk of elephant's skeleton. Right after this Ndovu dies, indicating he was using his last bit of strength to save Johnny.

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