Nikita (TV series)/Awesome

Nikita

In "One Way", she uses her resolve and polyglot-skills to get Michael arrested, thus saving his life by stopping him killing Kasim Tariq.
She breaks out of her chains and bursts out of Division, but not before taking out the whole training room full of recruits and guards in "All the Way".
In "Coup de Grace", she takes out two members of a Division assassination squad toting submachine guns with a sword. Bad. Ass.
In "Pandora" Nikita walks through the CIA's front door, convinces the receptionist to let her talk to someone, defeats a sleeper agent, stops the Director of the CIA, Ryan Fletcher and two other bigwigs from being killed by the nerve gas, and escapes the CIA.
She dislocated her own shoulder to escape Michael in "Kill Jill."
Though it slips into Nightmare Fuel a bit, Nikita's response to being tortured by Brant in "Wrath" is downright amazing. After she fails to talk him down rationally, her inner badass takes over and she rips him apart so badly that he is seen holding back tears by the end of her speech. The scene can be enjoyed here in all its terrifying glory. The crowning moment starts with the following opening quote.

Nikita: (mumbles) S-Sorry...
Brant: (comes close) What did you say?
Nikita: (lifts her head slowly) I'm sorry...I'm sorry I didn't take out your other eye.

When Nikita rescues Birkhoff from the CIA in 2x20, the following happens:

Birkhoff: What are you doing?
Nikita: I'm gonna save your ass so I can kick it later!

Infiltrating Division in "Crossbow" to shut down Percy's Kill Sat, which culminates in blowing the server room to hell. It's even more impressive than it sounds.
Remember that opening monologue we heard dozens of times about "the last word they breathe before the end will be my name"? Guess what Percy says right before Nikita drops his sadistic ass down a shaft to his death. "Nikita."

Michael

In "Clawback", Michael takes out several members of a Division strike team from a rooftop one building over, after being drugged by Nikita.
"Covenants": Single-handedly taking down all of Kasim's guards, saving Nikita in the process.
His Big Damn Heroes moment in "Guardians".
How he anticipates Percy, Carla and Division's actions during a prisoner swap; he had to work for it, but he threw a major spanner into the works and got the hostage out safely.
One of Michael's recruits came for a fight in 2x21 and made the mistake of referring to Nikita as "that ass." Michael then promptly broke the punk's neck.
In "Homecoming," he earns yet another moment by assuming the command center of Division armed with a grenade and an unshakable sense of logic.

Percy

Percy gets props for not flinching when she opens fire at him. Even though he knew the glass was bullet proof that was some serious nerves of steel.
In "The Next Seduction", he reveals the plot was a Batman Gambit he set up in order to get Nikita to do his dirty work for him. True, she then beats him anyway by playing Division and Gogol against each other, but he still gets credit for managing to Out Gambit her in the first place.
His Batman Gambit in "Betrayals." Biggest HSQ of the series so far.
- And it also secures his place as the series' biggest Magnificent Bastard by far.
In "Pandora", he shows he's not all talk, as he's able to go hand-to-hand with Michael for several minutes before being knocked out.
In "Looking Glass", he manages to make putting on a suit look badass, while a Theme Music Power-Up plays. "It's a start," indeed.
His Plan in "343 Walnut Lane", manipulating Amanda, Alex, and Nikita simultaneously, and resulting in getting Alex under his thumb.
His whole scheme in "Sanctuary" is quite impressive, but his true crowning moment in that episode is his "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Amanda. He nearly drive her to tears.
Waltzing into Division and taking it over again with some choice tidbits about Amanda's daliances with Ari. If there was ever a scene where you were completely rooting for him, it's this one.
His plan with the Crossbow Kill Sat, which effectively makes the President his bitch.

Alex

In "Resistance", Alex breaks out after being captured and tortured by "terrorists" in a training exercise. She then sustains running 9-minute miles for close to an hour- in the middle of the woods, barefoot, at night. Yes, running away can be badass.
Her My Name Is Inigo Montoya moment against the gangster who made her a sex slave. "And this is your reward."
- And in the following episode, during her Journey to the Center of the Mind, she has a confrontation with a dream version of Jaden and kills her. Considering Jaden's The Scrappy, lots of fans were cheering at that, while at the same time, wishing it had been for real.
In "Into The Dark", she manages to beat a supposedly unbeatable lie-detector. And she does it by technically telling the truth.
She gets a small one in "Betrayals" before the wham and HSQ kick in: Amanda has her strapped to a chair and has just electrocuted her. In walks Percy, wanting to know what's going on - and before Amanda can open her mouth, Alex calmly explains who she is and how Amanda figured it out, thus stealing her thunder. This causes Amanda to lose her cool for once and slap her.
All of Origins. She evades an assaination attempt, pulls a Click. "Hello." on Ari, and then shoots her way out with minimal backup from Division and Micheal.
"Homecoming": Alex guns down multiple Division agents, kills one with a pitchfork, and fights Roan hand to hand. Even when he breaks her arm she still keeps fighting. She kills Roan, who Nikita is scared of.

Jaden

"Old fashioned way." Congratulations, you've just been Rescued from the Scrappy Heap.

Amanda

In "Glass Houses", she lets Alex think she'll get away with killing Jaden and when she starts to leave she reveals she knows who Alex really is and that she's working with Nikita. Next moment Alex tries to fight her and escape and Amanda easily knocks her to the ground with just one blow.
In "Pandora", she reveals that her true loyalty is to herself when she stops Alex's heart with the electroshock chair, and then restarts it with an adrenaline needle, tricking her tracker/kill chip into not working anymore.

Birkhoff

In "Pandora" he frees Michael and decrypts the Black Box for him; not a coward indeed.
- Followed up by hacking the CIA in order to help Nikita escape from their headquarters.
Saving Nikita and Michael with a pair of remote controlled spy planes, followed by personally insulting Amanda after spending the episode insisting Division be told he's not working with Nikita.
Fighting off a trained Division agent with his bare hands and some computer parts. He loses, true, but he lasts longer than you'd expect.
While being tortured by Amanda in "Fair Trade" he does beg for his life, but he doesn't give up Nikita or the black box.
In Origins, Birkhoff tells Carla: "Give my hardware back. Now. Bitch."
In the next episode, he then shoots her when it's clear she won't stop betraying Nikita to Percy.
In "Shadow Walker" (S 2 E 20), he wins a truly brutal hand-to-hand fight with a Division agent, then shoots another to save Nikita. This after he froze up and got jer shot earlier in the episode.
In "Homecoming", Sonya asks him to help her with something and he marches right up to her, grabs her, and kisses the living daylights out of her. Go Birkhoff.

Ryan

In "Pandora", he finally grows a backbone by holding the director of the CIA at gunpoint in order to help Nikita escape despite knowing that he'll most likely go to jail for it.

In "Clawback", he shows he is indeed a genius analyst by figuring out how Oversight makes its money. By itself, not that impressive, but he does it from behind bars, with nothing else to go on than access to the TV news and some newspaper cutouts.

Minor characters

Guardian Dana Winters effortlessly takes out an entire strike team in under a minute for threatening her stepson.

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