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** ''All'' of the loyal[note]Depending on your alignment, [[spoiler:Vhailor or Ignus]] will be turned against you, and the other won't receive a scene regardless]] characters get one as [[spoiler:the BigBad picks them off one by one - they would rather die than betray the Nameless One and their TrueCompanions. And none of them are even the ''slightest'' bit afraid of certain death,]] regardless of the airs they might put on.
---> [[spoiler:'''Dak'kon''':]] [[spoiler:"I may be bested in battle, but I shall never be defeated."]]

---> [[spoiler:'''Annah-of-the-Shadows''':]] [[spoiler:"''He means more t' me than my life.''"]] %%quotes look mismatched if the names aren't this long
---> [[spoiler:'''The Transcendent One''':]] [[spoiler:"THEN ''DIE''."]]
* The Mechanus Cannon spell. It shows a brief video sequence of a WaveMotionGun sized laser cannon firing a continous shot through a portal from the plane of Mechanus to wherever you happened to aim it. And it's utterly devastating in both looks and effects. The makers of FinalFantasy would love it. Most of the other high-level spells qualify as well.

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It is no surprise that a game as fondly remembered for its writing such as ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' holds many memorable moments.

* Depending on the path you play as the Nameless One, there are many things you can do. For example, you can talk the BigBad into defeat by [[spoiler:threatening to commit suicide]].
** Or by [[spoiler:willing yourself out of existance, preventing yourself from ending up in hell]].
** Also, if you get the "best" ending, you [[spoiler:merge with the BigBad, who is your own ''mortality'', raise all your deceased friends from the dead, and then go forth to stoically face your final death and judgment in the Hells, teleporting to a battlefield full of demons and picking up a weapon before wading into the fight, hearing the echoes of the game's central question: ''"What can change the nature of a man?"''.]]
*** As an addendum to the above, [[spoiler: the fact that, in getting the best ending, you answer the central question. The answer is belief. Belief changes the nature of a man. That a game could answer its ArcWords at all is stunning, to say the least, considering how rarely such questions get answered, but the way the hero says it- "I have seen belief move cities, change hearts, heal..."- is stunning, to say the least. He talks down a spirit of power incarnate and gets to go to his judgment- and through all this, despite the fact it could be a DownerEnding, it manages to be extremely upbeat. The last thing you see is the Rune of Torment, flapping in the wind, no longer a part of the hero. Death is no punishment for him.]]
--->[[spoiler: If there is anything I have learned in my travels across the Planes, it is that many things may change the nature of a man. Whether regret, or love, or revenge or fear - whatever you believe can change the nature of a man, can. I’ve seen belief [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve move cities]], [[TheDeterminator make men stave off death]], and [[HeelFaceTurn turn an evil hag's heart half-circle]]. This entire [[MindOverMatter Fortress has been constructed from belief]]. Belief [[KickTheDog damned a woman]], whose [[LoveMartyr heart clung to the hope that another loved her when he did not]]. Once, it made a man seek [[ImmortalityImmorality immortality and achieve it]]. And it has made a [[LiteralSplitPersonality posturing spirit]] think it is something more than a part of me.]]
** Fall-From-Grace's line to the Nameless One during the 'best ending': [[spoiler:"Time is not your enemy. Forever is."]]
** Not to mention the ending where you [[spoiler: '''will yourself out of existence''']]. If that isn't {{badass}}, nothing is.
*** Somewhat related is when [[spoiler:one of the Nameless One's incarnations convinces someone that they don't exist. And they ''immediately cease to do so''.]]
* The GrandFinale has quite a few of these.
** The Nameless One can potentially win a battle of wills with [[spoiler:the [[ManipulativeBastard Practical]] Incarnation.]]
** The Nameless One learns that he can actually [[spoiler:revive anyone he likes from the dead. There's also the possibility that he revives the people he came with to face off against the BigBad.]]
** ''All'' of the characters get ones as the BigBad picks them off one by one - they would rather die than betray the Nameless One and their TrueCompanions. And none of them are even the ''slightest'' bit afraid of certain death.
*** I may be bested in battle, but I shall never be defeated.
*** "''He means more t' me than my life.''" "'''THEN DIE.'''"

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