Discworld/Hogfather/Awesome


 * Mr. Teatime is a Badass Psycho for Hire Assassin, who maintains a baseline level of awesome that is so high that Crowning Moments Of Awesome are less likely to show up against the background. It could be argued that his entire appearance is a Crowning Moment of Awesome. Unless he's High Octane Nightmare Fuel Personified. Alternately, he could be both. Especially given his ability to find purchase on thin air and tickle someone with a knife through several layers of clothing.
 * The head Assassin calls for him at the start of the book. Then turns around to find him standing at the mantelpiece, petting the dogs. Teatime then scares the crap out of him over the course of the following few minutes. This sets your expectations for the character for the book, and he does not disappoint.
 * He kills Santa Claus (or a reasonable facsimile thereof), nearly kills Death (having planned it years ago), pulls a 'not quite dead' after being Deader than Dead, and also has what might be a magic artifact in his eye socket. Discworld magic.
 * Death.
 * Death.
 * Death's true Crowning Moment of Awesome comes in this book, at the very end, when, . What really makes this such a Crowning Moment of Awesome is that you never actually see him do it, you simply hear his speech to them and witness the final sequence when he seems to grow larger before them and utter, In his very most chilling monotone. I actually cheered. People on the bus must've thought I was out of my mind.
 * The film takes it another level by making it clear just how much Death is enjoying the moment. is infused with so much raw anger that you suddenly become very glad that he's on our side.
 * defies narrative tradition by saving the Little Match Girl, indeed. Albert then gets a small one by throwing snowballs at angels who come to take the girl to heaven.
 * Seen here in the Live Action Adaptation making it even more awesome when Death himself enjoys being able to save people for once...
 * When Susan . And what makes it even more awesome is that she scared the crap out of grandpa in the process, and she didn't even know for sure if it would work.
 * Earlier in the book, when she.
 * And slightly before that, where she encounters the Scissor Man, the nightmarish thing that children are told will cut off their thumb if they suck on it. It's described as looking less like a man and more of an ostrich or lizard made of blades. And she intimidates it.
 * explaining to Susan exactly why Humanity needs "small lies".
 * explaining to Susan exactly why Humanity needs "small lies".