History Awesome / FinalFantasyXIVShadowbringers

** The secret weapon of the Legion has gotten loose and gone haywire. Even with the fight to defeat it, it charges up one last suicide attack that even the Warrior of Light can't stop. But someone else can: Misija, having been visited by Gunnhildr's spirit and reminded that there can be no Bozja without the Bozjans, arrives via teleportation thanks to Save the Queen and uses the last of its power to transform again and destroy the Allagan weapon, at the ultimate cost of her life.

* Emet-Selch's overall plan on a meta example of how Ascians are always playing XanatosSpeedChess. Previous information notes that if too much darkness or light were to overpower a world, that shard will implode and be worthless to their plan to resurrect Zodiark, as what happened when the Thirteenth Shard imploded and became the World of Darkness. Because of this Emet-Selch reworked their methods by still allowing the First to be engulfed by a Flood of Light, but at the same time cause a similar catastrophic event on the Source. By doing this the conditions would be met that would allow a Rejoining to occur without the risk of the First imploding like the Thirteenth did.

* 5.3's continuation of the Sorrow of Werlyt story features a solo boss battle against the Sapphire Weapon. To take on this warmachina, Cid decides to fight fire with fire and sends you into battle piloting ''your very own HumongousMecha''! Not only is it [[InstantAwesomeJustAddMecha absolutely badass]], but it's basically a lore-friendly Franchise/{{Gundam}}, right down to its name: "G-Warrior"!

** Though the technology does overload and shut down completely, G'raha concentrates on the screen that stays for mere seconds and ''memorizes the formula'' before the data is lost. Dorky as he is at times, he's an Archon for a reason.

** Not to mention just how they managed to concoct said cure: thye required a form of Allagan magick long lost and forgotten, so how do they recreate it? By cobbling together a ''literal magitek supercomputer'' out of Ironworks Terminals so as to run countless simulations and recreate said magick.

-->'''Urianger''': What sayest thou, Master Matoya? We may accept this fate, or defy it...but we cannot deny it.\\

* The first time that you kill a Lightwarden. The fact that you managed to save many lives by purging the monsters destroying a village and avenged the lives of those that fell would be good enough...But then your character absorbs the light from the Lightwarden. After just a moment of thought, your character raises their weapon aloft, channels their power skyward, and ''obliterates the eternal light from the sky.'' This is the moment that really hammers the point home: There's still hope for this world.

--> '''Emet-Selch:''' "[[EvilGloating How can you hope to defeat me alone?]]"\\

--> "'''''Herein I commit the chronicle of the traveler. Shepherd to the stars in the dark. Though the world be sundered and our souls set adrift, where you walk, my dearest friend, fate shall surely follow. For yours is the Fourteenth seat—the seat of Azem.'''''"

* In all other expansions, no matter how hopeful things looked in the future, it ended up for the worst for the Scions: A Realm Reborn ended with them scattered and betrayed, paving the way for [=Heavensward=], said expansion ended with Papalymo having to sacrifice himself to stop Shinryu marking the start of the Ala Mhigan war, [=Stormblood=] ended in the most depressing note yet, with the Scions in a coma and the Warrior of Light completely alone. How would 5.55 top this? ''It didn't'', [[BittersweetEnding bittersweet as it was]], [=Shadowbringers=] ends with the Scions victorious and ready to confront Zenos and the Telophoroi. It's message is clear, [[TraumaCongaLine the journey has been dark and difficult]] and [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt it's going to be even harsher still]] but ''hope is not lost'', the DarkestHour is close to it's end [[EarnYourHappyEnding and the dawn is coming]].