Awesome / Looking for Group

Richard

• Escaping a hole-in-the-ground trap, even with his magic blocked: "I don't pay the price for ''my own'' crimes!"
• What did he recently use to kill his enemies? A RickRoll. Or as he eloquently said in the last panel, "You got Dick Rolled."
• All the sequence in the Demon Court probably qualifies as well.
  "I accept the verdict. But I deny the sentence. I have a destiny."
  • Also, for being one of the bloodiest and most senselessly violent Pet the Dog moments in fiction.
• One word: Hail.
• "Good evening, this is a diversion."
• "I accept your challenge."
• "All life will fear me... even those under the sea."
• After being shrunk by Hctib's charm, Richard's emergence from the smouldering ruins of a house: "Rejoice. For very bad things are about to happen." He then makes short work of an entire group of powerful elementals.
• "The skeletons are on our team."
• "Kill them all?" "Kill them all."
  • And the subsequent page.
• Richard fwooshing away the apparition of Shora while Dorel holds the portals open.
• "Killing a blargh, killing a dragon."
• "No one puts Richard in a corner!"
• "I Have A Dream."
• There are no words that can describe the sheer awesome of this.
  • Followed by this.
• Richard smash!
• Being thrown into and incinerating a ship.
• Averting a massive flood.
• "And I can also do this."
• The portal scene.
• Richard gets a dragon.
• The sequence where Richard possesses the crown, and his entire gambit thereafter.
• Richard blows up a moon.
• Page 631. How Awesome is Richard? He produces his own paper and invents printing so he can whack an enemy with a rolled up newspaper. And it works.
• Using giant raccoon intestines as a hot air balloon.
• Page 666. An utter Big-Lipped Alligator Moment, but still.
• His rendition of "The Three Little Pigs".
• Benny has his hands bound, stopping his magic, but a few words from Richard makes her quickly back down
• Richard blasts the Archmage with a fireball that eats through his arcane shield. He then proceeds to block the resulting counter-blast with his bare hands and reveals that he brought the phares for backup. The Archmage puts him on the defensive soon after, but even then he continues to either endure or counter everything that's thrown at him until the Archmage gets a shot at his gem. Considering that we later learn that the Archmage absorbed and wields the magic of no less than 15 other mages and was able to easily defeat any single combatant that he himself could conjure up, Richard did not do badly against him in the slightest.
• Within minutes of learning why he seems powerless after fighting the Archmage, Richard figures out a loophole to restore his power at will.
• Taking advantage of his new method of power replenishment to take down two enemies in one move.
• It turns out that saving Cale gives Richard the greatest boost of all.
• "You're so &@!#ed."
• While his hands are tied, he sets his companions free by casting with his eyes.
• For the last several arcs, Richard has been remembering more and more about his past before becoming a warlock. In this strip, and the immediately following, he makes gardening awesome.
• Richard finally getting the better of the chachas by using his gardening skills. What makes this even better is that it comes on the heels of Benny snarkily remarking that he must be off doing something useful - turns out he actually was. Him getting his own backside on fire only barely detracts.
• Leena takes him out soon afterward, but his fight with Ray'd was still pretty impressive. Despite being surprised by Ray'd's new power to manifest a flaming axe, Richard still outmaneuvers him, then caps off the fight by sending Ray'd flying through a wall and tearing off his metal arm.
• Richard bursting out of his crystal prison and simultaneously killing two Knights of the Way. And it's not even his spell that kills the Knights; he impales them with crystal shards by the very act of breaking out.

Richard's villagers

• Richard: We call it "Pretty, Pretty Unicorn".
  • Richard: "Oh and Maikos? this is no time for masks."
  • Hell, the entire population of Pretty, Pretty Unicorn is a CMOA.
• Richard's army gets another by just showing up at Kethenecia.
• "You're on my hat."
• The entirety of "Great Pain, Greater Gain". From Maikos quickly figuring out that the village has become undead, to him going to fend off the Vulii on his own. And then the rest of the village joins in.

Cale

• "Pella? Krunch? I need a tree and a lift." Even Benny gives him credit for it.
• Cale gets another on page 241, in which he catches an arrow mid-flight right before it hits Benny in the face, and without skipping a beat, kills the dwarf archer by throwing his own arrow through his head.
  • He then proceeds to top that feat when Pella admits she's too uncomfortable to kill her own kin by telling Benny to stay out of the fight and killing the dwarves all by himself.
• "Do you yield?"
• If Cale sealing Tavor in a block of ice and flames doesn't count, then I really don't know what else does.
• Another moment displays why this guy is the world's best hope according to the Ancient Conspiracy. It's not action-heavy, there's no action at all, just the following brief exchange as the party prepares to abandon a village to be destroyed:
  Cale: "Stop."
  Benny: "The time has passed for us to be gone, Cale."
  Cale: "No. We will aid these people, no matter the cost and without personal gain. We are not mercenaries. We will do this because it is right."
  Benny: "That's not how the world works."
  Cale: No, it isn't. But it should. And it will again.
• Killing Aelloon with an entire volley of arrows.
  • ...Only for it to become a Pyrrhic Victory when A. Aelloon's death only ends up making him a martyr, making Legara even more devoted to destroying Kethenecia, and B. Benny bitterly dumps him because she's fed up with his Doom Magnet tendencies.
• Cale's reunion with Benny. After she'd blamed him for events out of his control and dumped him for being a Doom Magnet, Cale responds to her bitter greeting of "Elf" by completely ignoring her. Especially effective since he's usually the one on the receiving end of the cold shoulder.
• For Pony. After seeing Richard (apparently) killed by the Archmage, Cale stabs him in the skull and repeats Richard's war cry before cutting the Archmage down.
• He shows off some cool moves while battling the lizard-men.
• Right after the group suffers a Curb-Stomp Battle, he quickly frees himself and summons the aid of a giant.

Krunch

• Krunch's entrance.
• In an Unstoppable Rage from seeing his father die in front of him he rips the perpetrator's arm and head off with his bare hands, BRINGING THE GUY'S SPINE WITH IT.

Pella

• When Richard, a ridiculously powerful and insanely dangerous warlock, tells Pella that he applauds her (rather snarky) assessment of Cale, but that he doesn't take orders from dwarves, she promptly hacks off his hand and says "Applaud now." And then they laugh about it. And Richard wants to know if they can keep her.
  • Notably, that was the hand he placed on her shoulder just before. Seriously, don't touch what you can't afford.
• Pella slaughters dozens of dungeon guards, which is par the course for Looking For Group thus far. What sets it apart, though, is that she does so with a new custom-forged chainmail outfit, crossbow gauntlets with bladed cuffs, and to the tune of "Lean On Me."
  • On Christmas Day no less (the strip is from 25/12/2008)

Benny

• The priestess Benny, who as a healer and defensive spellcaster doesn't generally get to fight much, brings a man back from the dead just so she can kill him with her own hands.
• Benny summons enough willpower to break through the anti-spell wards around her prison. It blows up the caster's head.
• Sneaking past Aelloon's men and holding a knife straight to Aelloon's throat, as well as actually taking steps to try and negotiate peace with Legara.
• "He'll live. Bring him back outside. I'll get to him shortly."

Ray'd

• Ray'd gets a major one here, even though it doesn't last.
• Bloodrage morning star.
• "I'm not the warrior. He is."

Tah'vraay

• It's negated in the next page, but there's Tah'vraay (apparently) pulling one over Aelloon.
• "Because I cheat."
• "Why do people keep thinking it's a good idea to attack me so close to the shore? Everytime."
• Her tried-and-true tactic works on the chachas too.

Group CMoA

• Cale along with Sooba show that Mugging the Monster is a very bad idea. Especially awesome as this is the first time we've seen Sooba actually cooperating with Cale alone, even though we might infer that similar scenarios had happened before, way back when Sooba was Cale's sole companion.
  Bandit: Looks like you're all alone, friend.
  Cale: First Shora. Then Benny. But never completely alone.
• Now that's how you make an entrance!
• Pella's dungeon rescue scene when Richard and the others join in. Both the singing and the slaughter, which they keep up all the way to rescue Cale. It's a Heartwarming Moment, despite all the bloodiness.
  • Well, it is led by the two most bloodthirsty characters in the group. By Pella and Richard's standards this is barely more than a brisk work-out.
  • Also, if you wonder why they're singing that particular song, drop the first two letters of Cale'Anon.
• Benny's action afterward may have been the crowning moment, but Rojave's first death was also pretty awesome, with Pella and Cale scoring a teamkill and Richard lighting up his head for good measure.
• Pella and Sooba holding off the Knights of the Way on their own using trickery and guerrilla tactics. Eventually, too many reinforcements arrive for them to kill off, but they bought enough time for Cale to come around.

Other characters

• And Richard's bunny gets one here. Though, arguably a CMOF.
• "This is Sooba!"
  • Sooba comes in handy once again against another group of magic users, showing up out of nowhere to wreck the shit out of the chachas.
• Let's not forget "Commander Kickass," and the moment for which he is named.
  • "Some of them... are larger than others."
• The little green imps prove their worth.
• The Sisters and Sons managing to fight off the Legion on their own was quite awesome.
  • The Archmage's manipulation sucks, but the moment when the Sisters gain their powers and start going to town on the enemy is momentous.
• "In the morning, open your purse."
• Hctib finally getting bloody vengeance on his infernal boss, complete with throwing his words in his face.
• "I was never your favorite pupil; doesn't mean I wasn't your best." And she proceeds to prove it, casually stabbing the Master to death through his eye when neither of her peers had been able to land a single effective hit on him.
• Notan shows his berserker side.
• Charles gets in a three-way tussle with Scooter and the purse dragon. Charles wins.
  • Charles figuring out a way to break Richard from his crystal prison on his own.
• Dorel is faced with a giant during his first outing with the Bloodrage warriors. He is at a complete loss about what to do at first, but when the giant has Ray'd in its grasp, Dorel takes it down singlehandedly using only his defensive spells. "We defend" indeed.
• "CHICKEN"!
  Troll: That is the weirdest thing I've seen today.
• Stranger avenging the death of his mother with the help of his magical animals.
• The slave trader captain taking out three pursuing ships almost simultaneously, first by rigging her own ship so that it can sink underwater and cause two of the ships to fire at one another, then opening fire on the third ship from her kraken-shaped figurehead.