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- The flaming truck (and barn, and house) scene. Don't question Rocky's logic!
- Put Viktor Vasko in a garage and throw some armed pig farmers into the mix. Awesome ensues.
- Freckle's murderous rampage. After he gets his hands on a gun, he fairly bounces off walls shooting pig farmers left and right, and saving the other members of the cast without breaking a sweat. One of the comics has him perched on a light fixture and swinging upside down to fire at the farmers — showing his impressive acrobatic skills.
- Also from the pig farmers' raid on Lackadaisy, one of them tries to finish off a wounded Viktor with a shotgun. Ivy walks in on this, and despite being very much out of her depth, lunges for the gun and manages to wrest the barrel away from Viktor long enough for the latter to get in close and lay the pig farmer out flat.Benjy: What're you doin'?! GIT OFF!Ivy: Don't you point that at him!
- Oh, and while the two are wrestling over the shotgun, Ivy kicks the pig farmer in the shins several times. Maybe not the most effective method of close combat, but points for trying!
- Ivy intimidating two bootleggers with a stolen pistol counts as this too, even managing to fire at them once or twice—especially considering what we've seen of her demeanor so far.Bobby: "I've never had anything that squeaky pull a gun on me before."
- Viktor and Mordecai's flashback raid
on the rival bootleggers, full stop. It starts with a bomb going off, then goes into non-stop ass-kicking on their part, and finishes with the whole place burning down. Especially awesome is that Mordecai kills a man with a broken part of the banister while being pulled down the stairs. - A reader suggested that something good should happen to poor Viktor. In a non-canonical chain of events, he enacted the Louisiana Purchase for himself. All in all, Viktor had a pretty good day.
- Mordecai and the Savoys' raid on Grombach's outfit neatly demonstrates just why these three are feared by everybody else in the St.Louis underground. First, Mordecai tricks Grombach into taking a disabled pistol off him, then Nico and Sera ambush Grombach's goons from two sides and cut them down in moments. Grombach himself, a hulking brute that Nico struggles with, is neatly taken down by Mordecai with a single cut from a scalpel.
- In chapter 3, Rocky and Freckle ambush Wes and Fish, forcing Wes to flee into the woods and Fish to cower behind his car.
Animated
- A few particular moments from the animated pilot:
- The opening scene, in which Rocky recites an absolutely gorgeous ode to the Mississippi River (that Tracy wrote) while playing the violin, all set to images of the city at night and the light on the water. It really sets the scene for what's to come.
- For a girl who didn't learn how to drive, Ivy does a pretty good job evading Nico and Serafine's assault.
- Once he slips past his anxiety, Freckle cuts loose with his Tommy gun on the Marigold car, causing it to crash.
- Mordecai gets out of the wreck, walks calmly to the center of the road, and points his handgun at the car. The sound of a clock ticking echoes over the scene as he takes careful aim despite the distance increasing between them... It's only thanks to Rocky making the car veer unexpectedly left that none of the occupants get shot, and even then, Mordecai snipes down the left rearview mirror.
- Freckle manages to last a while against Mordecai in a gunfight despite his tiny excuse for a gun, even using the quarry's structure to his advantage. When he sees Nico go after Ivy, though, and starts shooting in a panic to try and stop him, Mordecai keeps track of his shots, then once Freckle's gun clicks empty, he knocks him to the ground with a shot that grazes Freckle's forehead. If it weren't for Rocky's intervention, Mordecai would've had him dead to rights.
- On that note, Rocky pulls off an utterly insane move by commandeering a steam shovel and loading its top with dynamite. He then proceeds to ride the damn thing while dropping down sticks at random and spouting random couplets.Rocky: THE SUDDEN CIRCUS COMES TO TOWN!! THE BEHEMOTH AND THE TOP-HAT CLOWN!! Come gather, gather all around... SEE THEM RAIN THEIR FIRE DOWN!!
- Props to Serafine and Nico for trying to shoot him down despite the crazyness.
- Mordecai also gives chase, and it's notable that Rocky's plan is so insane that even Mordecai looks noticeably rattled by it.
- The Lackadaisy backerkit. One million dollars for a five episode season. They made that in a week. So the creators made two stretch goals, including two million for a Blu-Ray release and plushies of all the main cast. They got the needed funds with less than 15 minutes left. For an animated series that's wholly owned by the creators, with no funding from studios or streaming services, that's amazing.
