Awesome / Survivor: Fan Characters

• Ellise flushing out the hidden immunity idols and Denise getting voted out by purple rock in one intense Tribal Council.
• Lilly's blindside of Marc. Just before Tribal Council, Lilly finds a "hidden immunity idol" under the tribe flag, which is actually fake and planted by Minerva's alliance, and plans to use it that night. When the time comes, she pulls out the idol and uses it (while Chaona face-palms, since she knows it's fake), but of course, it's fake and it looks like she's doomed... that is, until she suddenly reveals the real idol she found on exile and plays it, and blindsides the other alliance by voting out Marc. It changed the whole course of the game when Barney managed to flip Luke on his side afterwards.
• Lilly's bait and switch with the HII in Fans vs. Canons. She gives it to Barney at the last minute after promising it to Minerva. Minerva's face is pretty scary after that, but hilarious.
• Norman screwing over Sin with his own fake idol.
• Joe owning everyone, including Violet, at an individual immunity challenge. Bonus points for doing it via jokes and mind tricks only.
• Driz owning Skazzatrazz.
• The nuke flare in the SOS immunity challenge of Season 7.
• Kerauss voting out Russell in the course of a whole episode.
  Ker: When looking at you, I thought I saw what you needed to become to win the game, and I didn't want that. Thankfully you never won the game. So there is still hope for me to win this game without becoming anything close to you.
• Chrii blindsiding Ventious with a hidden immunity idol. One of the most unexpected and surprising moments of the season, both in-universe and out.
• Ker's immunity run to the finals. Even if you think it was contrived, you can't deny that her sliding underneath the bars to her second immunity win was cheer-out-loud awesome, especially with the This Cannot Be! reactions from her Corsona opponents.
• Ventious calling out his Corsona tribe-mates on their hypocrisy at the Final Tribal Council.
• Cherman blowing apart Prescilla/Bonnie's facade into teeny bits at the Final Tribal Council.
• Bonnie getting dumped in a pile of shit. Could double as a Funny Moment.
• Eli and Paine turning the tables against Crisco in an epic Tribal Council.
• Sunflower, when forced to choose between voting out a good friend or breaking her promise to her alliance, Takes A Third Option. She gave her word that she'd vote for Eli, but not that she wouldn't play her Hidden Immunity Idol on him. As a result, Flaithri is blindsided and the Hantz underdogs are in a powerful position when they seemed certainly doomed only a moment before.
  • And in the Tribal Council right after, she delivers a huge Shut Up, Hannibal! speech to Artemis before voting her out for good.
• Eli using Skippy to help him find the Hidden Immunity Idol.
• After Enter sweeps the floor with the fans in the second round of a challenge, Cleopatra single-handedly defeats him and gives him a nice "The Reason You Suck" Speech at the same time!
• Kim and the other heroes turn the tables on Enter. Kim figures out that one of his idols is invalid and uses a Batman Gambit to make him play it on his closest ally, Bowser. When Enter realizes what happened, he literally bluescreens.
  • It was a Xanatos Gambit, actually, on closer viewing. Once Enter played both his idols, either Bowser (if he didn't take the bait) or Yvonne (if he did) was going home. Either way, Enter's team continues to dwindle.
• In the very first comic of Season 13, Frost utterly owns Damon and Arnold in the very first challenge of the season.
• Iyzebel's comeback in Season 13. After having been on the verge of Rage Quitting until Alleio gave her some words of encouragement, she takes the reins for the next challenge and completely dominates it.
• Alleio, after admitting to sabotaging his tribe, doesn't use his idol, only get ONE vote and the very "traitor" he wanted gone, Annabelle is voted out in a 3-2-1-1-1 split.
  • Bonus point: The only vote he got was from Annabelle, none of the remaining players still in the game voted for him and he still has his idol.
• Jim successfully turning the tables on the seemingly omniscient Luna by carefully laying out exactly why her idol ploy won't work and making her so infuriated that her speech bubbles shake.
• "It's a game, bitch. Deal with it."
• Taro catches a shark.
• Daisuke goes against the plan of throwing the challenge and voting his best friend Marie out, even though he doubted in her sincerity.
• Brandi and Marie get a joint one here when they finally dismantle Cordelia's web of lies, sending her to the jury in the process.
• In the first challenge of Season 16, Bowser almost single-handedly makes up a big time deficit for his team and gives them a huge lead, guiding them to victory.
• Brandi and Thorne manage to team up and expose Bonnie's false identity as Sarah, sending her home in glorious fashion.
• Damon gives Lake a very thorough dressing-down after getting fed up with his selfish behavior and terrible parenting before a crucial vote. See it here.
• To keep Amadeus from dominating an immunity arena, Parmesan takes him on in a giant robot fight. And wins the fight, though not immunity.
• Mele defies her ruthless tribemates twice in one challenge. First she refuses to throw the challenge and let them eliminate Josh, then she gives Jeannie her ring back so she can regain her strength without Kade and Tony exploiting her.
• This challenge. All of it. The highlight is Atlas and Yessi defeating Kasai, who wields a metal pole.
• Atlas plays an idol proving that Ernest's is a fake made by Kasai. Not wanting to fall for Kasai's taunts, Ernest decides to be voted out with dignity rather than embarrass himself more. Except... his idol wasn't fake. Kasai reveals after Tribal Council that both Ernest's AND Atla's idols were real, and he had specifically doctored one of the real idols to look like a fake one beforehand. His taunts earlier were specifically meant to goad Ernest into NOT playing the idol. In other words, Kasai gave away two of his greatest weapons, specifically counting on his rival to decide to Face Death with Dignity. Batman would be proud.
• After being criticized for being a horribly indecisive swing vote (due to both options being involved in somebody he's been loyal to at some point), Frysk FINALLY manages to make his own decision - albeit, through a third option.
• Season 18's Final Tribal Council, in the INVERSE of Season 9's, Shin reveals that Kasai had told him ahead of time how the entire game would go down, and he followed his every instruction - with the exception of the Final Immunity, which he was supposed to throw to E.T. He then ends it by asking the jury NOT to vote for him, while Kasai has a complete meltdown trying to convince everybody that it's all part of his master plan.
• Montana not only managing to find true love on the season in Starr, but becoming the first two-time Sole Survivor in Survivor Fan Characters history.