History Awesome / KnightsOfTheOldRepublic

* Darth Motherfucking Revan preparing to throw down with three badass Jedi, right at the beginning of the game. Bastila may not think Revan can win, and Revan may not say a word in that cutscene, but it's obvious by the way he flourishes his lightsaber that he's about to disabuse some notions. [[MoodWhiplash At least, until Malak shoots him.]]

* On the Star Forge when Malak sends his entire army to attack you. This is an awesome moment because he admits that he isn't sending them at you out of any hope that they'll kill you, because he knows they don't stand a chance against you. He's only doing it to buy time for him to prepare for the final showdown.

* Choosing [[LittleMissBadass Mission]] for the Leviathan escape. She is a fourteen-year-old Twi'lek girl, sporting no special abilities other than a [[ArtfulDodger talent for survival]]. She's got the ''lowest'' hit points of your party. She's surrounded by Sith and stripped to her underwear. But she still mouths off to the guard, picks his pocket, then fights and/or sneaks her way through the deck of a Sith warship crawling with trained enemy soldiers to save a pair of Jedi and a Republic war hero. That, friends, is one {{Badass}} teenager!

* On the Star Forge when Malak sends his entire army to attack you. This is an awesome moment because he admits that he isn't sending them at you out of any hope that they'll kill you, because he knows they don't stand a chance against you. He's only doing it to buy time for him to prepare for the final showdown.

** While Jolee's escape is much [[FunnyMoment funnier]] than awesome, it's still awesome having an half-naked old man MindControl and {{Troll}} a guard for all he's worth and either take on other guards head on or [[CombatPragmatist sabotaged them]].
* In Korriban, you can choose to manipulate both sith masters against each other then kill them both. Afterward, proudly proclaim yourself as [[spoiler: Darth Revan]]. This is something that has to be seen to believe

** T3 can even[[labelnote:*]]Possibly only in the K1 Restoration mod?[[/labelnote]] the cell containing a group of crazed Rodians, then bait them down the hall and [[SetAMookToKillAMook into fully-staffed Sith trooper barrack room!]]

** One other satisfying example is sticking it with a fellow student in the Sith Academy. From the start you know you're not going to like him: he calls you "freak" and boasts of killing you, among other things. Then along comes the tomb of Ajunta Pall, which gives you three swords, of which one belongs to Ajunta Pall himself, and you have to figure out which is the real one. You're about to exit when this student comes along and tries to bully you into handing over the real sword, intending to get the credit of finding it for himself. Naturally, you can kill him, but that's not as satisfying as giving him one of the fake swords and returning to the Academy [[KarmicDeath to see Master Uthar Force-choking the student to death for failing to verify the sword's identity]]. And you get no Dark Side points from it! Sure, you do lose the sword, but there are better weapons out there.

* "Definition: Love is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope." Now this is a pretty cool line in and of itself, but what makes it awesome is when he clarified his metaphor ''and it makes sense'': "Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose... against statistically long odds."
* '''Everything''' in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic II'' after Peragus.
** Master Kavar sums it up nicely if you take the Light Side Path on Onderon: "An old student is returning. I don't think the Sith are going to know what hit them."
** How about the Dark Side equivalent? "An old student is returning. ''I fear for us all.''"
*** Those two lines are just precursors to the awesome of the Onderon War scene. Charging through entire ''armies'' of enemies and diffusing tons of traps that lie in your way between you and the Queen is what comes just after. And best of all, after basically an entire game of {{Mooks}} displaying SuicidalOverconfidence and trying stupidly to kill you for the bounty on Jedi, they ''finally'' begin to give you a Jedi's due respect and cower at the mere sight of your rampage.
*** Even the ''start'' of the return to Onderon is awesome. Remember those Basilisk War Droids that Canderous mentioned in the first game? Not only do you get to ride one down to Onderon, it's essentially a starfighter mixed with a drop-pod that blows up weapons emplacements as it plummets to the ground, shrugging off AA fire like raindrops. Bonus points for the fact that the last time anyone saw one of those was during the Mandalorian Wars, when ''hundreds'' of them would descend on a planet - which any Onderonian soldier would remember. And then [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Mandalore himself]] gets out, alongside a Jedi Master, and starts slaughtering every single soldier who opposes them. It's easy to imagine every single Onderonian soldier simultaneously crapping themselves.
** Peragus itself is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the HK-50s. Arriving on the station unprepared, a single assassin droid manages to improvise, in a matter of days, a way to quietly slaughter practically all organic life in the ''[[EverybodysDeadDave entire complex]]''.
--->''Mocking Query: Coorta? Coorta? Are you dead yet?''
*** Made more awesome when you consider that the droid did everything indirectly, managing to get everyone killed in ways where the blame was always placed on someone else. A [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] if ever there was.
* Preliminary reports indicate that [=KOTOR=] II will become ''even more awesome'' when The Sith Lords Restoration Project is finally finished. In the meantime, a few moments deserve special mention.
** Slaughtering a jungle beast that even Mandalorians try to avoid.
** An HK-50 droid gets one if you play through the prologue - even [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth's]] fire walk isn't this {{Badass}}.
*** Also, the combined [[RuleOfFunny hilarity]] and [[RuleOfCool sheer awesomeness]] of his interactions with the Exile are possibly the best reason to choose TheDarkSide in this game. Read the dialogue below and be awestruck (alternatively: horrified) at the way that a Dark-side Jedi Exile can spread enough suffering and misery to impress even a ruthless assassination droid. Keep in mind that this droid was built by [[spoiler:Darth Revan. ''Darth motherfucking Revan''. When he was a ''Sith Lord'']].
---->'''HK-47''': Statement: Master, I must say it is a pleasure working side by side with you.
---->'''Exile''': If you have a long-winded explanation for why, indulge me.
---->'''HK-47''': Statement: Just when I believe my photoreceptors have recorded the last potential aspect of your cruelty to my memory core, you commit a new atrocity that leaves me analyzing its impact for days.
---->'''HK-47''': You are like a delightful random cruelty generator, master, poisoning all you touch with your presence. You are a testament to all organic meatbags everywhere.
---->'''Exile''': Stick with me - you'll pick up a few things.
---->'''HK-47''': Statement: I have already learned a great deal, master, and I am anxious to learn more about lying, betrayal, and new ways to harm innocents.
*** It's a real shame that the HK-50 factory was cut from the game, because the whole thing was an incredible continuous moment of awesome for HK-47.
---->'''HK-50 #1''': Confused Query: Where are you going?
---->'''HK-50 #2''': Ineffectual Command: We command you to stop.
---->'''HK-47''': Statement: But you said so yourself. You have just admitted your own weakness. Conclusion: You have just shown me your soft, meatbag-like underbellies, and said, 'HK-47, please shoot me repeatedly there until I die.' Statement: You cannot stop me, you cannot harm me.
** Speaking of the prologue, T3-M4 jury-rigs the crippled Ebon Hawk and brings it in for a safe landing in deserted mining colony...after navigating through an asteroid field. ''By himself''.
*** Which is then completely disbelieved by his companions, when the droid attempts to explain how they all survived.
** When Hanharr is choking Mira, she looks right in his eyes and tells him that if he kills her, her rockets will blow them both right off the planet.
** As imperious as he can be, one cannot deny Master Vrook his sheer awesomeness when he's found captured by a band of mercenaries. When you show up to rescue him, this old man ''chews you out'' for screwing up his plan, which apparently involved his supposed capture.
** G0-T0 maneuvers his way to a powerful position in the Exchange without ever showing himself personally - all anyone ever sees are holograms. Get enough influence with him, and you can learn that this is because [[spoiler:he's just a droid. An ''accountant'' droid]]. Then there's his bit on Malachor V: "The galaxy will be reduced to anarchy within years. And if there's one thing I can't stand, it's an untidy galaxy."
*** "I prefer more predictable games, like galactic economics." That doesn't sound awesome until you think about it: this whole time, galactic economics have been a ''game'' to this guy.
*** It makes manipulating the normally un-manipulatable a little easier if you use methods like 'send twenty assassin droids to blow up this guy's house' at the slightest provocation.
** Bao-Dur ''and his remote droid'' both get this when Bao-Dur tries to save the day by ordering the droid to reactivate the Mass Shadow Generator and destroy Malachor V for good. Whether this succeeds will depend on which ending you choose.
** Darth Sion.
*** Killing Darth Sion. Killing [[spoiler: Kreia]]. Killing Darth [[spoiler: Nihilus]].
* The Dark Side ending to the first [=KOTOR=]. The main character [[spoiler:as the returned Darth Revan]] sending out an effectively infinite, invulnerable fleet of Sith ships to conquer the last remnants of the Republic, led by an apprentice who will guarantee victory in any battle, all to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDwl-31afEc a marching tune of Palpatine's theme]]. [[GalacticConqueror Galactic Conquest]] never looked so good.
* If you're light-sided, the ending is just as awesome! Standing with your TrueCompanions under a clear sky, everyone smiling, Dodonna and Vandar congratulating you. Your party waves to a cheering crowd... GoodFeelsGood!
* Kreia is practically a walking CrowningMomentOfAwesome. Let us count the ways.
** Burrowing into Atton's mind and holding his darkest secrets over his head. When the Exile finally gets him to spill the beans, he thinks it will free him from her. She practically mocks him as she tells him how she can make his life a living hell, then dismisses his laughable attempt at escape.
** Messing with the Disciple's head by standing right in front of him yet being invisible to his sight, apparently for no other reason than ''she can''. She also robs his memory of the end-game plot when he figures it out. Poor guy's brain is like a library no one returns books to.
** On the light-side path, saving Hanharr then forcing him to kneel, putting a berzerker Wookiee who's idea of a life-debt is to kill the one he owes it to under her heel.
*** Contrasted with the relationship a ''dark side'' Exile can have with him: eventually they swear to become each others [[BloodBrothers blood brother]].
** The mere fact that she is able to walk right next to all four masters and not a one of them ever notices unless it's pointed out to him.
** Kreia's [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]] for Light Side players, which also doubles as NiceJobBreakingItHero. After you gather the Jedi Masters on Dantooine, [[spoiler: they tell you that you are a liability, and must be cut off from the Force if the Jedi are to have any hope of survival. Once they have you in stasis, in walks Kreia, who is, SURPRISE, still fully Sith. Here's the awesomeness: she Force pushes all three back, pushes Vrook again when he tries to get up, she chews them out, and then kills all three of them at once with Force drain.]] Then she yells this.
--->'''Kreia:''' Step away! He/She has brought truth, and you condemn it? The arrogance! You will not harm him/her. You will not harm him/her ever again.(...) How could you ever hope to know the threat you face, when you have never walked in the dark places of the galaxy faced war and death on such a scale. If you had traveled far enough, rather than waiting for the echo to reach you, perhaps you would have seen it for what it was. There is a place in the galaxy where the dark side of the Force runs strong. It is something of the Sith, but it was fueled by war. It corrupts all that walks on its surface, drowns them in the power of the dark side, it corrupts all life. And it feeds on death. Revan knew the power of such places and the power in making them. They can be used to break the will of others, of Jedi, promising them power, and turning them to the dark side. The Mandalorian Wars were a series of massacres that masked another war, a war of conversion culminating in a final atrocity that no Jedi could walk away from save one. (Turns to the Exile) And this is what I sought to understand. How one could turn away from such power, give up the Force and still live. But I see what happened now. It is because you were afraid.\\

** If you take the darkside path [[spoiler: and kill the Jedi Masters yourself,]] Kreia sends you off to Dantooine to find the "Last of the Jedi." What you find instead is [[spoiler: an empty chamber, since you've just about driven them into extinction.]] Kreia then enters, explains the situation, and asks if [[spoiler: killing the Jedi]] calmed your rage. Your answer is invariably no. "Then you have failed me," she remarks coldly. "Completely and utterly." She then [[spoiler: ''drains the life from you, and chews you out for leaving nothing but death, destruction, and the end of everything in your wake.'' All you're left with is the hope that maybe you'll learn ''something''.]]
--->'''Kreia:''' I have taught you to feel the Force again, shown you the contrast, and yet ''still'' you do not understand! ''This'' is what you have wrought: countless murderers, slayers, assassins, born of war that has, as always, ''taught the wrong lesson.'' You showed them life without the Force -- and instead of showing them truth, power, all you showed them was how the galaxy may die. ''You'' are responsible for all of this; even now, events spiral towards destruction, and there is nothing that can be done because you refuse to listen, to ''understand!'' You have seen the effects you have on those close to you, heard the echoes scream across dead planets, and watched as your strength has grown, yet it is for nothing. To [[spoiler: have the Jedi Council brought low by such a failure]], there is no victory in that. You have not heard a thing I have taught, and for all I have said, you have never learned to listen.\\
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Vrook was right to come here, though he did not recognize the connection until too late. This place will hide you from the Sith for a time -- enough to do what must be done. (Bitterly) You were my last hope; the only one who could change what is to come. And now you have left me with nothing. I shall teach you no longer: our bond remains, but that is all.\\
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'''Kreia:''' Stay here and die, apprentice, among the wreckage of all that remains of the Jedi. It is a fitting grave, until the Sith come to end you... [[spoiler: to end everything]]. And as you lie here, I pray that you will listen... and finally awaken.
** [[spoiler:When you beat her as the final boss, you think you've won. Bam! She's now triple-wielding lightsabers with her mind!]]
** Better yet [[spoiler:She wins even if she loses. Her goal is not power but philosophy, to weaken the bounds of morality on the Sith and Jedi who have become narrow minded. Even when she dies, the only Jedi or Sith left are you and your disciples. Aka her disciple. Everything that follows in the entire Star Wars Galaxy is a result of her disciple.]]
** Kreia almost effortlessly [[HeelRealization convincing]] [[{{Hypocrite}} Atris]] that she's evil. Remember how HolierThanThou Atris is; Kreia's ''that'' good.
* The endgame of ''[=KOTOR=] II'' is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the Exile, who assaults an entire Sith academy, killing numerous Sith Assassins, Marauders, and Lords ''singlehandedly.'' Sit down, Palpatine, the Exile is the ''true'' master of Force Lightning.
** Or Force Wave. Tossing around entire rooms of Sith at the wave of a hand is ''awesome''.
** Death Field and Force Scream. Lightning does more pure damage than either, but Death Field makes you functionally invulnerable and Force Scream can hit huge areas even early on (it is infinitely hilarious to kill not only the people in your current room but the next one over). How invulnerable does Death Field make you? You can kill the final boss wearing the dancer's bikini if so you desire (as a female, obviously).
** Another badass dark side way to clear Taryus is Insanity followed by Force Crushing everyone in the room. Sure its not very efficient, but nothing says "I'm more powerful than you can possibly imagine" like slowly killing your way through a room of opponents that can't do a thing about it.
** Or, using Force Enlightenment to turbo-boost yourself, then marauding through everyone with a lightsaber. [[DualWield Or two]].
* Playing a "light side" character on the Sith homeworld of Korriban. After infiltrating the Sith academy and watching in bemusement as Master Uthar and his apprentice Yuthura attempt to use you as their pawn to betray each other, the player is given an ultimatum by both as to which one the player will support against the other. Answering, in effect, "I choose neither. I'm not a Sith, you idiots, I'm a Jedi." and then beating both simultaneously -- and then, as frequently as not, the entire rest of the Sith Academy -- ought to dispel any lingering questions about the ability of good guys to be badass. One of the most joyfully righteous and satisfying moments in [=RPGs=].
** Even better, side against Uthar and convert Yuthura [[HeelFaceTurn back to the light side]] if you talked to her earlier about why she joined the Sith in the first place. She runs off to the Jedi Academy on Dantooine [[spoiler: if it hasn't been blown up yet]], leaving you to kick the rest of the academy's collective ass. And that's not even counting the opportunities to mock and sabotage the Sith's efforts earlier on the planet. Basically, Jedi!PC on Korriban demonstrates why the Sith desperately need a Detect Good force power.
*** Fine, let's count the opportunities to mock and sabotage the Sith before. Converting Mekel, Dustil, Kel, and [[EvilChancellor Yuthura]] to the Light and the plain desertion of Dak. Killing off the rest of your class that you don't redeem. Facilitating the escape of defecting Sith students and a droid. [[MagnificentBastard Conning Uthar into giving you credit for exactly this.]] Redeeming effing [[SealedEvilInACan Ajunta Pall]] centuries after his death. And this is ignoring the students you kill beforehand and the fact that you wreck the entire academy top to bottom afterwards. Awesome indeed.
** One other satisfying example is sticking it with a fellow student in the Sith Academy. From the start you know you're not going to like him: he calls you "freak" and boasts of killing you, among other things. Then along comes the tomb of Ajunta Pall, which gives you three swords, of which one belongs to Ajunta Pall himself, and you have to figure out which is the real one. You're about to exit when this student comes along and tries to bully you into handing over the real sword, intending to get the credit of finding it for himself. Naturally, you can kill him, but that's not as satisfying as giving him one of the fake swords and returning to the Academy [[KarmicDeath to see Master Uthar Force-choking the student to death for failing to verify the sword's identity]]. And you get no Dark Side points from it! Sure, you do lose the sword, but there are better weapons out there.
* On the Star Forge when Malak sends his entire army to attack you. This is an awesome moment because he admits that he isn't sending them at you out of any hope that they'll kill you, because he knows they don't stand a chance against you. He's only doing it to buy time for him to prepare for the final showdown.
* It's not often that the player gets to achieve a CrowningMomentOfAwesome in dialogue, but the conversation with Atris allows you to virtually dethrone her on the debating field- whatever way you please. Here's just one way in particular:
-->'''Exile:''' Our teachings do not mean we should stand by and watch others die.
-->'''Atris:''' There was no guarantee that marching to war would have saved the Outer Rim. In fact, quite the opposite.
-->'''Exile:''' We could have waited, but defeating the Mandalorians after they had won would have been difficult.
-->'''Atris:''' There are victories other than physical ones: the real victory lay in th-
-->'''Exile:''' The triumph of the Jedi teachings is a cold thing when there is no one left alive to appreciate them.
-->'''Atris:''' You do not kno-
-->'''Exile:''' You are correct- I do not know. And neither do you.
-->'''Atris:''' (Enraged) How ''dare'' you? The Mandalorian Wars should have been your grave and ''Malachor V is where you should have died!''
-->'''Exile:''' Your anger... is it because you secretly wish you'd had the strength to follow me to war?
-->'''Atris:''' (Flustered) What? What do you mean?
-->'''Exile:''' I can see it in you - you wanted to fight by my side, but you were too scared to defy the Council.
** "Have you been reading the history of the ''blind''? [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Revan. Won. The. War.]]"
* When you convince Brianna to become a Jedi, Kreia uses the Force to send Atris a single word: '''''Betrayal'''''. It's chilling and awesome at the same time.
** Slightly more awesome is that the Exile can agree to teach her by using LoopholeAbuse in their favor. Brianna's vow to Atris states that she can never learn the ways of the ''[[ExactWords Jedi]]''. However, it says nothing about her being forbidden to learn the ways of the ''Force''.
* The battle of Dantoonie in the second game, especially if you have Tier 3 versions of stun, horror, or lightning. There's really nothing quite as satisfying as seeing an entire army spring up... then stopping them (quite literally if you use lightning) dead in their tracks. Of course, those three force powers are just awesome by themselves in any crowded room.
* In the first game, a PC that has embraced the Dark Side deep enough can actually beat Jorak on Korriban at his own little game by giving the right answer to a trick question he technically has no way of knowing.
-->Neither. A true Sith never dies.
* With The Sith Lords Restoration Mod now out, several very awesome things have been restored. One of them involves Kreia teaching you how to fight. She does this by having you fight against Visas with increasingly difficult limitations: first, with one lightsaber, then with two, and then ''unarmed''. Note that you do all of this without items ''or'' Force powers, and Visas heals between each and every fight.
* It's possible to actually ''turn HK-47 to the light side'' by performing Light-sided actions in front of him while still choosing enough Dark-sided actions to unlock his bonuses. Sure, he still acts the same, but seeing HK with a blue background on the party select screen is something to behold. The same applies for G0-T0.
* Choosing [[LittleMissBadass Mission]] for the Leviathan escape. She is a fourteen-year-old Twi'lek girl, sporting no special abilities other than a [[ArtfulDodger talent for survival]]. She's got the ''lowest'' hit points of your party. She's surrounded by Sith and stripped to her underwear. But she still mouths off to the guard, picks his pocket, then fights and/or sneaks her way through the deck of a Sith warship crawling with trained enemy soldiers to save a pair of Jedi and a Republic war hero. That, friends, is one {{Badass}} teenager!
* How badass is the Exile? There's this one scene when he/she's cleaning house and comes across a group of soldiers where he/she gets the option of saying exactly what the player is thinking.
-->'''Commander:''' Run! Run!
-->'''Exile:''' Finally someone has the right idea. Go ahead and run.
* The Exile actually manages to turns their own banishment into an awesome moment. After being ordered to relinquish their lightsaber, without saying a word, the Exile defiantly buries the blade into the centre stone of the Council Chamber, before turning around and walking out on them.
** Which becomes even better, as despite the Exile essentially telling them exactly ''where'' they can shove it, some of the Jedi Masters present appear to be both amused and impressed by this act of defiance.
* Killing [[spoiler: Sion]] by actually TalkingTheMonsterToDeath. Particular when he questions how they had the strength to defeat him, when they were [[spoiler: offered ultimate power after Malachor V]], they instead ran away like a coward? The Exile replies that ''true'' strength is [[spoiler: when offered ultimate power, choosing to walk away from it. To surrender to it only turns a person into it's slave... like ''Sion'' is!]]
* When Darth Nihilus attempts to feed on the Exile, [[spoiler: they prove to be TooSpicyForYogSothoth: a Force-void can't eat a Force-void, The attempt even leaves Nihilus doubled over and half-crippled from the pain, clearly wondering WhatTheHellAreYou]].
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** Also, choosing [[KillerRobot]] HK-47 is really awesome since you start right by the detention center and having a droid rescue you is pretty sweet. Even Carth comments saying you deserve a medal for what you did. Even more badass if you choose T3-M4, a freakin' utility droid rescuing war heroes and taking out an entire group of Sith Soldiers with two simple pistols!

* The last line you get to say before [[DuelBoss dueling Darth Malak]] on the Leviathan has the potential to be a crowning moment - you can (and probably will, if you're going Light Side) say "Your power is no match for the light!" Consider it: [[spoiler:TheReveal has just occurred - you were Darth Revan. You have every reason to flip out, because everything you know is wrong. And yet, in light of the universe lying to you, in light of discovering that ''you were a Dark Lord of the Sith'', you can still stand fast to your beliefs and proclaim that you now stand with the light, you will never fall into darkness again]]. That's pretty damn inspirational...
** There's an equally awesome line you can say to Malak if you've decided to go Dark Side: "[[spoiler:I am the TRUE Dark Lord of the Sith! [[KneelBeforeZod Now bow down before me]]!]]"
*** The above line actually can be used several times in the game, not just on Malak.
** And, in case you want to play it nicely neutral before going either way, as Malak starts gloating about his apparent victory, you have the option of saying "You seem to have forgotten that I'm still alive, Malak!" This line reminds one of Luke in ''Episode V'', where he cockily tells Vader that he's "full of surprises".
** Malak saying that expects that all his apprentices and the droids of the Star Forge will not kill Revan, but hopefully they will slow him down.
** Malak gets that with Revan in the light side ending along with a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming. Revan tells him he's sorry he led Malak to the Dark Side, Malak tells him that it's not Revan's fault, he chose to walk down that path and in the end "I am nothing".
*** "The apprentice has learned his final lesson."

** While Jolee's escape is much [[FunnyMoment funnier]] than awesome, it's still awesome having an half-naked old man MindControl and {{Troll}} a guard for all he's worth and either take on other guards head on or [[CombatPragmatist sabotaged them]].

** While Jolee's escape is much [[FunnyMoment funnier]] than awesome, it's still awesome having an old man MindControl and {{Troll}} a guard for all he's worth and either take on other guards head on or [[CombatPragmatist sabotage them]].

** How about choosing Canderous instead? The first time playing, this troper didn't realize that the equipment was right next to him in a bin, so Canderous took down two armored sword-wielding sentries ''bare-knuckled and wearing nothing but a pair of boxers.''

*** Fine, let's count the opportunities to mock and sabotage the Sith before. Converting Mekel, Dustil, Kel, and [[EvilChancellor Yuthura]] to the Light and the plain desertion of Dak. Killing off the rest of your class that you don't redeem. Facilitating the escape of defecting Sith students and a droid. [[MagnificentBastard Conning Uthar into giving you credit for exactly this.]] Redeeming effing [[SealedEvilInACan Ajunta Pall]] centuries after his death. And this is ignoring the students you kill beforehand and the fact that you wreck the entire academy top to bottom afterwards. Awesome indeed.

--> [[DarkActionGirl '''Lashowe''']]: "Do you know how many Sith there are here on Korriban?"
--> '''Jolee''': "Twelve! No, wait, Thirteen!"
--> '''Canderous''': [[ActuallyPrettyFunny "Nice one, old man."]]
--> '''Jolee''': "Thank you, it takes effort to be properly irreverent at my age."

* "Definition: Love is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope." Now this is a pretty cool line in and of itself, but what makes it awesome is when he clarified his metaphor ''and it makes sense'': "Love is knowing your target, putting them in your targeting reticule, and together, achieving a singular purpose... against statistically long odds."

* The Dark Side ending to the first [=KOTOR=]. The main character [[spoiler:as the returned Darth Revan]] sending out an effectively infinite, invulnerable fleet of Sith ships to conquer the last remnants of the Republic, led by an apprentice who will guarantee victory in any battle, all to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDwl-31afEc a marching tune of Palpatine's theme]]. [[GalacticConqueror Galactic Conquest]] never looked so good.

* The battle of Dantoonie in the second game, especially if you have Tier 3 versions of stun, horror, or lightning. There's really nothing quite as satisfying as seeing an entire army spring up... then stopping them (quite literally if you use lightning) dead in their tracks. Of course, those three force powers are just awesome by themselves in any crowded room.
* In the first game, a PC that has embraced the Dark Side deep enough can actually beat Jorak on Korriban at his own little game by giving the right answer to a trick question he technically has no way of knowing.

*** Fine, let's count the oppertunities to mock and sabotage the Sith before. Converting Mekel, Dustil, Kel, and [[EvilChancellor Yuthura]] to the Light and the plain desertion of Dak. Killing off the rest of your class that you don't redeem. Facilitating the escape of defecting Sith students and a droid. [[MagnificentBastard Conning Uthar into giving you credit for exactly this.]] Redeeming effing [[SealedEvilInACan Ajunta Pall]] centuries after his death. And this is ignoring the students you kill beforehand and the fact that you wreck the entire academy top to bottom afterwards. Awesome indeed.

** "Have you been reading the history of the ''blind''? [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Revan. Won. The. War.]]

* '''Everything''' in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic II'' after Peragus.
** Master Kavar sums it up nicely if you take the Light Side Path on Onderon: "An old student is returning. I don't think the Sith are going to know what hit them."
** How about the Dark Side equivalent? "An old student is returning. ''I fear for us all.''"
*** Those two lines are just precursors to the awesome of the Onderon War scene. Charging through entire ''armies'' of enemies and diffusing tons of traps that lie in your way between you and the Queen is what comes just after. And best of all, after basically an entire game of {{Mooks}} displaying SuicidalOverconfidence and trying stupidly to kill you for the bounty on Jedi, they ''finally'' begin to give you a Jedi's due respect and cower at the mere sight of your rampage.
** Peragus itself is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the HK-50s. Arriving on the station unprepared, a single assassin droid manages to improvise, in a matter of days, a way to quietly slaughter practically all organic life in the ''[[EverybodysDeadDave entire complex]]''.
--->''Mocking Query: Coorta? Coorta? Are you dead yet?''
*** Made more awesome when you consider that the droid did everything indirectly, managing to get everyone killed in ways where the blame was always placed on someone else. A [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] if ever there was.
* Preliminary reports indicate that [=KOTOR=] II will become ''even more awesome'' when The Sith Lords Restoration Project is finally finished. In the meantime, a few moments deserve special mention.
** Slaughtering a jungle beast that even Mandalorians try to avoid.
** An HK-50 droid gets one if you play through the prologue - even [[FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth's]] fire walk isn't this {{Badass}}.
*** Also, the combined [[RuleOfFunny hilarity]] and [[RuleOfCool sheer awesomeness]] of his interactions with the Exile are possibly the best reason to choose TheDarkSide in this game. Read the dialogue below and be awestruck (alternatively: horrified) at the way that a Dark-side Jedi Exile can spread enough suffering and misery to impress even a ruthless assassination droid. Keep in mind that this droid was built by [[spoiler:Darth Revan. ''Darth motherfucking Revan''. When he was a ''Sith Lord'']].
---->'''HK-47''': Statement: Master, I must say it is a pleasure working side by side with you.
---->'''Exile''': If you have a long-winded explanation for why, indulge me.
---->'''HK-47''': Statement: Just when I believe my photoreceptors have recorded the last potential aspect of your cruelty to my memory core, you commit a new atrocity that leaves me analyzing its impact for days.
---->'''HK-47''': You are like a delightful random cruelty generator, master, poisoning all you touch with your presence. You are a testament to all organic meatbags everywhere.
---->'''Exile''': Stick with me - you'll pick up a few things.
---->'''HK-47''': Statement: I have already learned a great deal, master, and I am anxious to learn more about lying, betrayal, and new ways to harm innocents.
*** It's a real shame that the HK-50 factory was cut from the game, because the whole thing was an incredible continuous moment of awesome for HK-47.
---->'''HK-50 #1''': Confused Query: Where are you going?
---->'''HK-50 #2''': Ineffectual Command: We command you to stop.
---->'''HK-47''': Statement: But you said so yourself. You have just admitted your own weakness. Conclusion: You have just shown me your soft, meatbag-like underbellies, and said, 'HK-47, please shoot me repeatedly there until I die.' Statement: You cannot stop me, you cannot harm me.
** Speaking of the prologue, T3-M4 jury-rigs the crippled Ebon Hawk and brings it in for a safe landing in deserted mining colony...after navigating through an asteroid field. ''By himself''.
*** Which is then completely disbelieved by his companions, when the droid attempts to explain how they all survived.
** When Hanharr is choking Mira, she looks right in his eyes and tells him that if he kills her, her rockets will blow them both right off the planet.
** The Exile gets lured into a trap at the Jekk Jekk Tarr, a bar which very air is lethal to humans. However with Kreia's timely help the Exile proceeds to get back up and go about slaughtering dozens of hostiles. Even if your light-sided [[BloodKnight Hanharr]] will start [[WorthyOpponent singing your praises]] to the BigBad as he watches you go. The Exile can't die and she can't be stopped.
** As imperious as he can be, one cannot deny Master Vrook his sheer awesomeness when he's found captured by a band of mercenaries. When you show up to rescue him, this old man ''chews you out'' for screwing up his plan, which apparently involved his supposed capture.
** G0-T0 maneuvers his way to a powerful position in the Exchange without ever showing himself personally - all anyone ever sees are holograms. Get enough influence with him, and you can learn that this is because [[spoiler:he's just a droid. An ''accountant'' droid]]. Then there's his bit on Malachor V: "The galaxy will be reduced to anarchy within years. And if there's one thing I can't stand, it's an untidy galaxy."
*** "I prefer more predictable games, like galactic economics." That doesn't sound awesome until you think about it: this whole time, galactic economics have been a ''game'' to this guy.
*** It makes manipulating the normally un-manipulatable a little easier if you use methods like 'send twenty assassin droids to blow up this guy's house' at the slightest provocation.
** Bao-Dur ''and his remote droid'' both get this when Bao-Dur tries to save the day by ordering the droid to reactivate the Mass Shadow Generator and destroy Malachor V for good. Whether this succeeds will depend on which ending you choose.
** Darth Sion.
*** Killing Darth Sion. Killing [[spoiler: Kreia]]. Killing Darth [[spoiler: Nihilus]].

* Kreia is practically a walking CrowningMomentOfAwesome. Let us count the ways.
** Burrowing into Atton's mind and holding his darkest secrets over his head. When the Exile finally gets him to spill the beans, he thinks it will free him from her. She practically mocks him as she tells him how she can make his life a living hell, then dismisses his laughable attempt at escape.
** Messing with the Disciple's head by standing right in front of him yet being invisible to his sight, apparently for no other reason than ''she can''. She also robs his memory of the end-game plot when he figures it out. Poor guy's brain is like a library no one returns books to.
** On the light-side path, saving Hanharr then forcing him to kneel, putting a berzerker wookiee who's idea of a life-debt is to kill the one he owes it to under her heel.
*** Contrasted with the relationship a ''dark side'' Exile can have with him: eventually they swear to become each others [[BloodBrothers blood brother]].
** The mere fact that she is able to walk right next to all four masters and not a one of them ever notices unless it's pointed out to him.
** Kreia's [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]] for Light Side players, which also doubles as NiceJobBreakingItHero. After you gather the Jedi Masters on Dantooine, [[spoiler: they tell you that you are a liability, and must be cut off from the Force if the Jedi are to have any hope of survival. Once they have you in stasis, in walks Kreia, who is, SURPRISE, still fully Sith. Here's the awesomeness: she Force pushes all three back, pushes Vrook again when he tries to get up, she chews them out, and then kills all three of them at once with Force drain.]] Then she yells this.
--->'''Kreia:''' Step away! He/She has brought truth, and you condemn it? The arrogance! You will not harm him/her. You will not harm him/her ever again.(...) How could you ever hope to know the threat you face, when you have never walked in the dark places of the galaxy—faced war and death on such a scale. If you had traveled far enough, rather than waiting for the echo to reach you, perhaps you would have seen it for what it was. There is a place in the galaxy where the dark side of the Force runs strong. It is something of the Sith, but it was fueled by war. It corrupts all that walks on its surface, drowns them in the power of the dark side—it corrupts all life. And it feeds on death. Revan knew the power of such places… and the power in making them. They can be used to break the will of others… of Jedi, promising them power, and turning them to the dark side. The Mandalorian Wars were a series of massacres that masked another war, a war of conversion… culminating in a final atrocity that no Jedi could walk away from—save one. (Turns to the Exile) And this is what I sought to understand. How one could turn away from such power, give up the Force… and still live. But I see what happened now. It is because you were afraid.\\

** If you take the darkside path [[spoiler: and kill the Jedi Masters yourself,]] Kreia sends you off to Dantooine to find the "Last of the Jedi." What you find instead is [[spoiler: an empty chamber, since you've just about driven them into extinction.]] Kreia then enters, explains the situation, and asks if [[spoiler: killing the Jedi]] calmed your rage. Your answer is invariably no. "Then you have failed me," she remarks coldly. "Completely and utterly." She then [[spoiler: ''drains the life from you, and chews you out for leaving nothing but death, destruction, and the end of everything in your wake.'' All you're left with is the hope that maybe you'll learn ''something''.]]
--->'''Kreia:''' I have taught you to feel the Force again, shown you the contrast, and yet ''still'' you do not understand! ''This'' is what you have wrought: countless murderers, slayers, assassins, born of war that has, as always, ''taught the wrong lesson.'' You showed them life without the Force -- and instead of showing them truth, power, all you showed them was how the galaxy may die. ''You'' are responsible for all of this; even now, events spiral towards destruction, and there is nothing that can be done because you refuse to listen, to ''understand!'' You have seen the effects you have on those close to you, heard the echoes scream across dead planets, and watched as your strength has grown, yet it is for nothing. To [[spoiler: have the Jedi Council brought low by such a failure]], there is no victory in that. You have not heard a thing I have taught, and for all I have said, you have never learned to listen.\\
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Vrook was right to come here, though he did not recognize the connection until too late. This place will hide you from the Sith for a time -- enough to do what must be done. (Bitterly) You were my last hope; the only one who could change what is to come. And now you have left me with nothing. I shall teach you no longer: our bond remains, but that is all.\\
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'''Kreia:''' Stay here and die, apprentice, among the wreckage of all that remains of the Jedi. It is a fitting grave, until the Sith come to end you... [[spoiler: to end everything]]. And as you lie here, I pray that you will listen... and finally awaken.
** [[spoiler:When you beat her as the final boss, you think you've won. Bam! She's now triple-wielding lightsabers with her mind!]]
** Better yet [[spoiler:She wins even if she loses. Her goal is not power but philosophy, to weaken the bounds of morality on the Sith and Jedi who have become narrow minded. Even when she dies, the only Jedi or Sith left are you and your disciples. Aka her disciple. Everything that follows in the entire Star Wars Galaxy is a result of her disciple.]]
** Kreia almost effortlessly [[HeelRealization convincing]] [[{{Hypocrite}} Atris]] that she's evil. Remember how HolierThanThou Atris is; Kreia's ''that'' good.
* The endgame of ''[=KOTOR=] II'' is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome for the Exile, who assaults an entire Sith academy, killing numerous Sith Assassins, Marauders, and Lords ''singlehandedly.'' Sit down, Palpatine, the Exile is the ''true'' master of Force Lightning.
** Or Force Wave. Tossing around entire rooms of Sith at the wave of a hand is ''awesome''.
** Death Field and Force Scream. Lightning does more pure damage than either, but Death Field makes you functionally invulnerable and Force Scream can hit huge areas even early on (it is infinitely hilarious to kill not only the people in your current room but the next one over). How invulnerable does Death Field make you? You can kill the final boss wearing the dancer's bikini if so you desire (as a female, obviously).
** Another badass dark side way to clear Taryus is Insanity followed by Force Crushing everyone in the room. Sure its not very efficient, but nothing says "I'm more powerful than you can possibly imagine" like slowly killing your way through a room of opponents that can't do a thing about it.
** Or, using Force Enlightenment to turbo-boost yourself, then marauding through everyone with a lightsaber. [[DualWield Or two]].

* It's not often that the player gets to achieve a CrowningMomentOfAwesome in dialogue, but the conversation with Atris allows you to virtually dethrone her on the debating field- whatever way you please. Here's just one way in particular:
-->'''Exile:''' Our teachings do not mean we should stand by and watch others die.
-->'''Atris:''' There was no guarantee that marching to war would have saved the Outer Rim. In fact, quite the opposite.
-->'''Exile:''' We could have waited, but defeating the Mandalorians after they had won would have been difficult.
-->'''Atris:''' There are victories other than physical ones: the real victory lay in th-
-->'''Exile:''' The triumph of the Jedi teachings is a cold thing when there is no one left alive to appreciate them.
-->'''Atris:''' You do not kno-
-->'''Exile:''' You are correct- I do not know. And neither do you.
-->'''Atris:''' (Enraged) How ''dare'' you? The Mandalorian Wars should have been your grave and ''Malachor V is where you should have died!''
-->'''Exile:''' Your anger... is it because you secretly wish you'd had the strength to follow me to war?
-->'''Atris:''' (Flustered) What? What do you mean?
-->'''Exile:''' I can see it in you - you wanted to fight by my side, but you were too scared to defy the Council.

* When you convince Brianna to become a Jedi, Kreia uses the Force to send Atris a single word: '''''Betrayal'''''. It's chilling and awesome at the same time.
** Slightly more awesome is that the Exile can agree to teach her by using LoopholeAbuse in their favor. Brianna's vow to Atris states that she can never learn the ways of the ''[[ExactWords Jedi]]''. However, it says nothing about her being forbidden to learn the ways of the ''Force''.

* With The Sith Lords Restoration Mod now out, several very awesome things have been restored. One of them involves Kreia teaching you how to fight. She does this by having you fight against Visas with increasingly difficult limitations: first, with one lightsaber, then with two, and then ''unarmed''. Note that you do all of this without items ''or'' Force powers, and Visas heals between each and every fight.
* It's possible to actually ''turn HK-47 to the light side'' by performing Light-sided actions in front of him while still choosing enough Dark-sided actions to unlock his bonuses. Sure, he still acts the same, but seeing HK with a blue background on the party select screen is something to behold. The same applies for G0-T0.

** How about choosing Canderous instead? The first time playing, this troper didn't realize that the equipment was right next to him in a bin, so Canderous took down two armored sword-wielding sentries ''bare-knuckled and wearing nothing but a pair of boxers.''
* How badass is the Exile? There's this one scene when he/she's cleaning house and comes across a group of soldiers where he/she gets the option of saying exactly what the player is thinking.
-->'''Commander:''' Run! Run!
-->'''Exile:''' Finally someone has the right idea. Go ahead and run.
* The Exile actually manages to turns their own banishment into an awesome moment. After being ordered to relinquish their lightsaber, without saying a word, the Exile defiantly buries the blade into the centre stone of the Council Chamber, before turning around and walking out on them.
** Which becomes even better, as despite the Exile essentially telling them exactly ''where'' they can shove it, some of the Jedi Masters present appear to be both amused and impressed by this act of defiance.
* Killing [[spoiler: Sion]] by actually TalkingTheMonsterToDeath. Particular when he questions how they had the strength to defeat him, when they were [[spoiler: offered ultimate power after Malachor V]], they instead ran away like a coward? The Exile replies that ''true'' strength is [[spoiler: when offered ultimate power, chosing to walk away from it. To surrender to it only turns a person into it's slave... like ''Sion'' is!]]
* When Darth Nihilus attempts to feed on the Exile, [[spoiler: they prove to be TooSpicyForYogSothoth. The attempt even leaves Nihilus doubled over and half-crippled from the pain, clearly wondering WhatTheHellAreYou]].
** [[spoiler:Actually, the real reason for this ''isn't'' TooSpicyForYogSothoth. Darth Nihilus is damaged by his attempt to feed on the Jedi Exile because he feeds on the Force, but the Jedi Exile is a wound in the Force. This "deafened" the Exile from feeling the Force, and only regained her Force sensitivity through proxy: she feeds off the Force of others by creating Force Bonds with practically everyone she meets (killing people she's bonded with increases her power). ''Darth Nihilus is a more powerful version of the Jedi Exile,'' a wound in the Force that devours the Force energy of entire populations, provided there are strong enough enough Force-sensitives among that population. But the Exile has no Force energy herself, which weakens the already starving Nihilus when he attempts to feed on the former Jedi.]]
* From the restored cut content of TSLRCM, if you have enough influence with your Jedi party members, they'll go to Trayus Academy and attack [[spoiler:Darth Traya after pulling off BadassBoast after Badass Boast. She still ends up Curb-Stomping them, but that they had the sheer ''balls'' to attack her, having a vague expectation of her powers and manipulativeness is pretty awesome]].
-->'''Mira:''' We've come a long way, [[spoiler:Kreia]]. Don't bother getting up.
-->'''[[spoiler:Kreia]]:''' Ah, the huntress. To come alone... you are braver than I thought.
-->'''Brianna:''' She is not alone. We stand with her.
-->'''Visas:''' [[BadassBoast And with her, stand all the Jedi.]]
-->'''Atton:''' [[CrowningMomentOfFunny And now I come in, saying something suitably heroic.]]
** Counts as an awesome moment for [[spoiler:Kreia]] as well, who counters their speeches and beats them all on her own, ''without even using a lightsaber''.
-->'''Visas:''' The Force runs strong in you, [[spoiler:Traya]], but in the howling of a storm, it is difficult to hear the whisper of the blade. You have forever been the blind one. You were given a gift few are ever given, and yet you let your gift of sight warp you, tw-
-->*[[spoiler:Kreia]] force chokes Visas*
-->'''[[spoiler:Kreia]]:''' You think your existence under your Lord was torture, Miraluka? ''I will make you see.''
** Also in the restored cut content, after [[spoiler:Atton escapes the Trayus Core]], he gets intercepted by Darth Sion and [[DuelBoss fights him in a duel]]. Atton is either [[spoiler: defeated by Sion and tortured to death, or manages to defeats him. Sure, he [[TechnicallyLivingZombie gets back up]] after Atton leaved, but he still would have ''defeated a Sith Lord'' in a duel if it weren't for the fact that Sion had to be [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath talked to death]].]]
-->'''Darth Sion:''' And I get the fool.
-->'''Atton:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Funny, that's just what I was thinking.]]

** The Exile gets lured into a trap at the Jekk Jekk Tarr, a bar which very air is lethal to humans. However with Kreia's timely help the Exile proceeds to get back up and go about slaughtering dozens of hostiles. Even if your light-sided [[BloodKnight Hanharr]] will start [[WorthyOpponent singing your praises]] to the BigBag as he watches you go. The Exile can't die and she can't be stopped.

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