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• Chapter 148: After training on Greed Island, Killua goes back to take the Hunter's Exam. 1489 people including himself joined that year. The goal of the first trial is to take five tags from five other participants, and present them to the Hunter in charge of the first trial. Within one and a half hours, Killua takes ALL of the tags from every participant, resulting him him passing the Hunter's Exam within record time.
• First. Comes. Rock.
• Leorio's return to the spotlight. He publicly calls out Ging for refusing to visit his hospitalized son. Words don't seem to have an effect, so he flips him off and sends him flying with an uppercut, courtesy of his brand new Nen ability. In-universe it's acknowledged as awesome enough for a standing ovation and enough votes for him to take over as hunter chairman to rocket him from an unknown to third place.
• Even before Nen was introduced as a power, the series had a high amount of awesome. During the final fight of the Hunter exam for example, Gon displays his Determinator skills in his fight against Hanzo -- by fighting on even after the guy breaks his arm.
• Also notable are a few moments from the third part of the Hunter Exams. The heroes face off against a group of former criminals, each of which trying to challenge them in a different way.
  • Kurapika and Killua both curb-stomp their respective opponents.
  • Gon tricks his opponent into defeat.
  • And Leorio uses his skills as a doctor to force Kurapika's opponent (who was playing dead) to give up.
  • And Tompa gets one for being a bastard full of Schadenfreude and getting away with it. At least up until the next part of the exams.
• Killua proves once again that he is capable of curb-stomping just about anyone during his fight against a triplet of rival aspiring hunters in the fourth part of the Exams. He defeats all of them without getting a scratch.
  • Also Gon escapes a cave full of poisonous snakes and sleeping gas. By stopping to breathe. For nine minutes. While carrying his friends.
  • Killua gets another one in the second Hunter Exam he takes. Out of 1498 candidates, he's the only one who managed to pass the exam. Because he defeated everyone else in the first phase within one and a half hours.
• Silva's Dynamic Entry during the Chimera Ant arc consists of him coming down from the sky with enough force to squash a commander-level Chimera ant like the insect that it is.
  • And before that, Zeno turns his Nen into a dragon.
• Netero not only displays Nen skills no other Hunter in the series had ever shown before, he also blows hismelf up in a NUCLEAR EXPLOSION to finish the Chimera Ant King.
  • Which, by the way works in the end.
  • How it works is a CMOA in and of itself for Togashi. Typical Shounen series would do one of two things. The villain would be vaporized or would survive. The villain survives, and is soon restored back to full health plus some by his underlings (typical shounen) only to have it revealed he and several others who survived nearby are still dying because of radiation poisoning.
• Chapter 334 when Pariston explains his and Ging's modus operandi.