Elfquest/Awesome

Elfquest has a few Crowning Moments of Awesome, although they can be hard to pick out from the general awesome that is the whole series.

• Skot and Zhantee during the war for the palace shards. Anyone who's read it will know about the events to which I am referring.
• Redlance protecting the children alone after trolls attacked the Go-Backs' lodge, even though he hates fighting.
• Rayek learning not to be such a selfish brat.
  • Rayek's coolest moment was during the fistfight between him and Cutter. They aren't allowed to kill one another, but the fight isn't considered over until one of them calls for healing. After a pretty even start, Cutter gets the advantage and delivers a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown unto Rayek, telling him to "CALL!" Rayek, near death but still fighting back, refuses, "because you haven't had enough". It eventually dawns on our hero that this is Rayek's way of apologising for everything he's done - so he calls for him to be healed.
• Cutter forcing Door to open, even though before that only Strongbow was able to, out of sheer loyalty to Skywise.
• Vaya taking a third option between betraying her comrades and being slowly tortured by the troll King Guttlekraw. She grabs a mook's knife and goes for Guttlekraw's throat. The guards kill her before she can get him, but she still gets a much better and much easier death than she could otherwise have hoped for. It is Awesome.

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