Irredeemable/Awesome


 * You gotta admit.
 * For a mild and villainous example, just... just look at the expressions on the minor villains' faces when they come across the Plutonian warming a cup of coffee.
 * Incorruptible #23. Max manages to hold his own despite being sorely outclassed by the Plutonian.
 * showing up to beat the crap out of the Plutonian.
 * Set up in-universe. There's a terrible invasion by an alien race so technologically advanced that even The Plutonian (when he was still a good guy) can't stop them. It winds up being stopped by The Hornet, a Badass Normal who managed to make peace with the enemy race and get them to turn around and leave. It's his own personal Crowning Moment of Awesome and shut the mouths of everyone who doubted what a man with no powers could do on a team of superheroes. Then you find out what he had to do to pull it off. The comic is so devoted to deconstructing every comic book Trope that they even got this one.
 * Irredeemable #37: