Awesome / Summer Knight

• Toot-Toot and his brigade of pixies killing the Summer Lady with box cutters. "In the name of the Pizza Lord! CHARGE!"
• Harry's battle-cry: "I don't believe in faeries!" This becomes even more awesome when you remember that the more powerful fae in this setting hate being called faeries. That takes guts.
• Professional Killer - ghoul called Tigress attacks Murphy and Harry, and when Murphy shoots her, she mocks Murphy. Which only provides to piss off Murphy, who unloads magazine after magazine of her sidearm into Tigress, pushing her Healing Factor to its limits and forcing her to flee while begging for her life.
  • Earlier in the Action Prologue, her attempt to assassinate Harry were thwarted by Billy the werewolf. The next time he runs into her along with his pack, they maul her into Ludicrous Gibs.
  • Made even better by the fact that she apparently has hundreds of assassinations to her name, but Harry's friends reduced her to fodder.
  • Heck The Alphas through the entire book. Took a Level in Badass indeed.
• Murphy attacking a chloro-fiend with a chainsaw. That is all. Or it would be, if Harry hadn't scored another one in the same fight, by soaking a magic-resistant ogre in gasoline and lighting it on fire with a torch.
  • It's still awesome, but Murphy does lose some points when Harry realizes that the chlorofiend was incapable of fighting back against her due to being mortal.
  • Harry might have ended the ogre, but Murphy wounded him first with said chainsaw.
  • On the chlorofiend, Harry using telekinesis to bring down several debris on its head to disable if first, then again using Car Fu (which is a CMOA for Blue Beetle as well).
    • About the Blue Beetle, the cholorofiend attempts to hex it to uselessness, but it doesn't work, for the same reasons Harry lugs it around - pre WW2 technology is unaffected by magic.
• Harry's Unstoppable Rage after WK Lloyd Slate stabs Meryl In the Back, firing a lightning bolt which results in Talos being sent flying and ripping off the Winter Knight's arm
  • Fix, a relatively small, frightened man, beating the crap out of the Winter Knight, one of the most horrible beings in the Winter Court (and, in fact, the whole series), with a wrench. All because he hurt Fix's friend.
  • Plus Harry pistol whipping Talos unconscious after stunning him by shooting him in his armored chest point-blank. Which he accomplished by Playing Possum to allow him to get close.
• Harry not only resisting the temptations of the Winter Lady (by pouring ice water on his crotch) but also verbally bitchslapping her by saying that she couldn't have murdered the Summer Knight because not only is she not powerful enough, but she's also an immature, impulse-driven child.
• Although not shown, Simon Petrovich wiping out most, if not all, of the vampires that atttacked Archangel with his Death Curse.
• Meryl making a Heroic Sacrifice, Choosing to become fae so that, with a last burst of troll strength, she can take down the Lord Marshal Korrick and saves Harry, who in turn turns the tables on Aurora and saves Lily.
  • Even before taking her full troll form, she holds her own against Talos, someone who has centuries of experience over her, forcing Lloyd to stab her In the Back.
  • Her short and succint "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Ace counts as well.
• A stealth Moment of Awesome for the villains: when Harry jabs "Mr. Grum" in the arm with an iron nail, the undercover fae not only recovers from what must've been excruciating pain in a matter of seconds, but has the speed of glamour-casting and the presence of mind to adopt a second disguise before Harry can glance up at his attacker. Pretty fast save by Lord Talos, there.
  • It's more than that, actually. During the fight at the Wal-Mart "Grum" also gets hit with cold iron, and set on fire, in his "true" ogre form. But Talos doesn't drop the illusion that time. Which means Harry didn't disrupt his human disguise during their first encounter. Talos deliberately switched from his crude human illusion to his ogre illusion, because he knew that was the effect that a mortal wizard like Harry would expect. Which means he took that iron nail and endured the pain enough to not break his concentration.
• In a diplomacy-based example, seeing our first glimpse of how the Gatekeeper quietly and deftly steers the Senior Council onto what he knows is the right path, even if they don't have a clue what's going on, scores a big one.
• Also, it's stated that Langtry planned to offer the newest seat on the Senior Council to Schneider. Schneider unwittingly throws it back in his face by politely declining the offer in favor of Ebenezar, and as such possibly changes the entire course of the rest of the series.
• Morgan forces his way into Harry's apartment, and breaking through his wards effortlessly with a spell.
  • Harry, in fit of anger born of an argument over Susan's loyalty to him, nearly kills Morgan with his Sword Cane. Harry admits it's because his longer reach and lighter sword, but it's still impressive, especially since Morgan had his sword out and pointing at Harry. The only reason Morgan wasn't skewered was because Harry figured out his gambit.
  • As stated above, Harry realising Morgan was provoking him intentionally so that Harry would attack him and give him a reason to kill or imprison him, with another Warden nearby as witness, all under the Merlin's orders. Morgan is flabbergasted when Harry figures it out.
• Fridge Brilliance gives one to The Chessmaster Winter Queen Mab. She sends Harry and co. along the river which the Winter forces were barely holding. Since her forces knew Harry, they wouldn't attack him and his allies, but the same cannot be said about the fae of the Summer Court. She accurately calculated Dresden and co. have to and would punch a hole through the Summer Court's forces, which they did, allowing Maeve and her soldiers to push through.
  • Plus since Harry is her emissary and bound to her court, along with two changelings born to Winter Fae, it would still be her victory.
• One for Lea as well: Remember how Harry made her promise to stay away from him for a year and a day? She circumvents that neatly by selling her debt (that she'd promised Margaret to look after Harry) to Mab.