Tamora Pierce/Awesome


 * Alanna, in the first Tortall books, Epicness.
 * Not to mention her
 * About half of what Alanna does counts, honestly. The girl's a walking Action Girl and Determinator that doesn't let anyone defeat her. Ever.
 * About half of what Alanna does counts, honestly. The girl's a walking Action Girl and Determinator that doesn't let anyone defeat her. Ever.


 * Daine managing to had roughly the same effect.
 * Not to mention when she,
 * Don't mess with Numair. He'll

"Kel: "If we take this as pages, what about when we are knights? Do we say, Oh, now I'm going to be nice to the weak and the small? Or do we do as we learned when we were pages? I don't mean to lecture. You can laugh and say I'm a silly girl - but when I see anyone big pick on someone small, well, there's going to be a fight. Joren and his friends are out there looking for someone to hurt. I want to stop them."
 * Keladry managing to was also the moment when people in the story began to take her seriously. This and the fact that she's the only non-magical protagonist in Pierce's Tortall series just made it more awesome.
 * Let's clarify the "take control of the disorganised squad" scene, assuming it's the one I'm thinking of. Kel and her fellow pages are out on a summer training camp in the hill country. Her group is sent out to map the area and catch some game for food. They How old is Kel when she does all this? Twelve.
 * And don't forget that, in order to maintain a defensible position.
 * In the climax of that same book, she  Again,
 * Keladry's mother has one in the first book of that quartet - in a flashback, she saves her very young daughter and the two sacred Yamani swords from Scanran raiders. By killing them all with a glaive. By herself. When the guards finally come, they all bow low. Badassery is clearly genetic.
 * Kel training her Shrinking Violet maid in self-defense and finally having it pay off.
 * Kel's explanation for why she's all but declaring war on hazing, and her friend's response to it.

Neal: [...] "You're the oldest ten-year-old I've ever met. [...] It means I'm trying to justify to myself the fact that the best lesson I ever had on chivalry came from someone five years younger than me. When you put it that way, well, I guess I'd better help.""


 * the whole last half of Lady Knight, really. Kel and a little army of friends- ( around 20 trained warriors, 4 very weary knights, a page, a few civilians, a cat, some dogs and a few sparrows) rescue all of the children that have been kidnapped. this involves fighting an army of 150, plus a rather powerful mage, AND his killing devices on the way. they wipe out every last one of the enemy, and only lose a horse, a few dogs, and 4 of the warriors.


 * Then there's Sarai and Dove, the girls Aly is protecting. They each get one:  while Dove, (at thirteen),   And not to forget Aly herself - her mother was the favored of gods. Aly   Badassery. Genetic.
 * How about Sarai  Just generally badass, these three girls.


 * In Street Magic, Briar Moss, among other things, At the end of "Briar's Book",  Even the head of the Circle goes "Yeah...nobody here can tell anyone about this."
 * And how Briar.
 * Daja Kisubo at multiple points during Cold Fire walks through burning buildings to rescue victims, and earlier on in Daja's Book creates a living tree made of metal by accident.
 * Trisana Chandler is, most of the time, a walking Crowning Moment of Awesome, what with being able to control storms and all.
 * This troper is disgusted that Sandry did not get a specific mention from the first two quartets. Honestly, tropers. First of all, while untrained, she ; then, when   Literally. And her power works with thread.
 * When Sandry heard her uncle had a heart attack before Magic Steps, she wove several people's clothes into cocoons just to get to him, and then held her uncle's soul to his body while the healers saved him.
 * The Will of the Empress was an ever escalating series of Crowining Moments of Awesome for all four of the protagonists. It included: