Awesome / The Rise of Darth Vulcan

• Vulcan vs. Discord. It ends in a stalemate.
• Arguably, the entirety of chapter 10 is this. Vulcan, for reasons not yet known, is a prisoner to Celestia and Luna, yet he still manages to damage their psyche and confidence far more than they do with just words.
• Vulcan's entire escape from Canterlot in chapter 20.
• Chapter 39. Diamond Tiara shows off her strategy skills. It's enough to trigger Pinkie Sense over "a gamechanger" being brought into the fray.
• The entirety of Ted/Vulcan's heist plan from Chapter 42. From misguiding the Princesses and the guards with bogus info in Dodger's dreams to copy-pasting the entire library in a SD drive. Even if he didn't come out of it unscathed, it's nothing short of awesome.
• Leo Hart, who the Mane Six and the princesses thought was a dud when they summoned him as part of a multilayered plan to deal with Vulcan, proves his worth by saving Apple Bloom and Zecora from a maddened manticore by smashing a fallen tree trunk to its face.
• How does Vulcan get his new pirate fleet past a Royal Navy blockade? He has the Flim-Flams rig the ships with Magitek engines based on jet skis, which takes them right past the Equestrian ships.
  • Are we going to sell short the simple fact that while Darth Vulcan was conspiring against Equestria and winning every single engagement: the Equestrian Royal Navy was able to scrape together not only ships, but also Airships and Sea Ponies and use them to effectively halt all piracy before Darth Vulcan came to Port Royale? And do we even need to mention the simple fact that the Admiral who is leading and set up the Naval Blockade in the first place happens to be Prince Blueblood!?
• Leo beating the crap out of Vulcan in their fight. If it weren't for a last minute turn around, he'd probably have put an end to Vulcan then and there.