Nanoha blasts a hole through the spaceship in StrikerS

I like it how the magical girl basically goes limiters-released, safety-off, full-clip, friendly-fire-off, dispersal pattern beta, no-holds-barred approach with what is basically a MAGICAL SPLASH FLARE nuke.

Quattro...the only villian in this franchise to have the honor of having actually pissed Nanoha off...

Nanoha: “In summary, ears ringing, jaw fractured, three ribs cracked, four broken, ship devastated. Full physical recovery: 6 weeks. Full psychological recovery: unlikely. Ability to kidnap and brainwash my daughter: neutralised.”

I LOVE this moment. Nanoha has spent the whole time fighting Vivio, who is the embodiment of a living magical nuke, and holding her own. And when her Long Range Search finds Quattro, she realizes Nanoha has been HOLDING BACK the entire time, focusing on the search and the fight simultaneously. She sees Nanoha's magic charge up on her screen, and realizes she done f****d up making Nanoha of all people go full-on mamma bear. The casual binding of aforementioned magic nuke, blasting through many reinforced doors of a warship the size of a city (made better in the film version, where her stomp completely shatters the floor), using Divine Buster instead of Starlight Breaker means she's using her own reserves for the attack and not the residual magic in the area, while still holding the restraint to be non-lethal shows why you shouldn't try and fight the Ace of Aces.

"She can't get me, there's hundreds of doors and armed guards in-between me and her. How will she-" "Screw the doors, I'll just shoot my way through!"

For the first time in Nanoha franchise history the pink friendship beam of death was just a straight up pink beam of death.

裏社会での通称「エース・オブ・エース」「監理局の白い悪魔」

Remember: The shortest path between two points is always a straight line.

"It's that moment of dawning comprehension I live for." - Hobbes

And then the battleship was befriended.

1:07 That moment when the survival instinct finaly breaks through the shock and kicks in... but it's too late... ...it was too late from the very beginning.

13 years... its been a long time. nanoha is still a great series.

幼い頃の姿から成長し、其れは姿だけでなく魔法もまた。 ここは本当に格好良かったですねー！

高みの見物を決め込んで人を弄んだ外道に相応しい末路。

できるわけねえだろからの あっこいつはできるんや って察したときの絶望顔好き

to this day i just can't get over how cool this scene is. those AI voices and cool blasters and all.

Nanoha's magic is non-lethal, she only makes you unconcious before arresting you.

なつかしい、このシーンは３期で一番好きだった 足の踏み込みの部分で地面がえぐれないから、TVバージョンですね

From the TV Tropes page "Oh Crap" (which uses Quattro's freak out face as the god damn PAGE IMAGE): "Quattro tries to re-assure herself that she's safe within the ship. Then she remember WHO she is dealing with, WHAT said person is capable of, and panics at the knowledge she plans to take the shortest route there."

I've always loved the detail that Raising Heart runs through a whole clip of magic cartridges as she's firing.