History Awesome / SaintsRow

* The mission where you kill Jessica in the second game was [[YMMV/SaintsRow controversial]]... and it's also the event Cyrus Temple references (leaving out the reasons the Boss did it, of course) in order to make his point as to why the Saints ''must'' be eliminated.

* In a second-act mission, you have a mid-air battle in a tank.

* The early mission "House Party". You need to acquire a new headquarters, and a large penthouse owned by the Syndicate would be perfect. How do you take it over? By parachuting out of a helicopter, landing on the roof during a pool party, and shooting the place up while making your way to the elevator to let your homies up. The kicker? You do all this ''while [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome "Power"]] by KanyeWest plays in the background.''

* [[BeyondTheImpossible How about the fact that it has a spot here without even being released yet!]]

** The final level of Fight Club has you fight off six guys at once. You have to finish each and every last one of them off by ''breaking their neck.''

* The end of each chapter in the first game, the only time that the protagonist speaks, generally saying kick ass things in a cool-sounding voice.
** "How are do you feel?" "I just got run over by a motherfucking truck, how do you think I feel?"
** A ShutUpHannibal moment to BigBad Alderman Richard Hughes. "Can we hurry this up? I want to go to Freckle Bitches."

--> Warren Williams: Girl, what the fuck are you doing?
--> Tanya Winters: *Holds gun* What does it look like?
--> Warren Williams: Bitch, you better not m--
--> Tanya Winters: *shoots Winters dead* Thanks for the advice.

''SaintsRow 2'' gets a couple good crowns in awesome.

* You fight a pitched gunbattle in Johnny Gat's living room. It's just the Boss and Johnny Gat against perhaps a dozen Ronin-and of the two, only the Boss has a gun, and even that is only a semi-auto pistol, while many of the Ronin have machine guns. The Boss manages to kill a dozen or more Ronin with his pistol and a stolen SMG while Johnny has a fucking sword duel with Jyunichi. It ends with Johnny being completely impaled by a katana-only to wind up whacking Jyunichi on both sides of the head and forcing him to release the sword he's currently got Johnny skewered on.

* Gat's "get up" sequence with Shogo Akuji at the cemetary.
** Specifically, [[spoiler: at his girlfriend's funeral]], Gat beats the hell out of the Ronin leader's son for [[spoiler: giving the order to kill Aisha]]. He finishes the kid off by [[spoiler: emptying a nearby casket and stuffing him inside, proceeding to bury him alive.]]

* The whole mission The Siege. You finally decide to cut the bullshit and go take down Maero and the Brotherhood in an attack on their compound at the docks and confront a minigun wielding Maero on the roof. The cutscene that follows is a brutal, relentless brawl between the Boss and Maero, which even if it isn't playable, is one of the most epic moments of the game, especially considering that both characters have extremely valid reason to hate each other's guts.

* Dane Vogel gets his when [[spoiler: Maero comes around a second time, trying to threaten him and demand more favours from Ultor. What does Vogel do? He calmly insults Maero (a man who had nearly dropped him out of the window and into his death in his prior visit) to his face, and then reveals that squad of heavily armed security have Maero in their sights. And just to put cherry to the top, he reveals that Ultor has hijacked shipment of Brotherhood goods Maero was expecting before practically shooing him away]]. The man can be [[SmugSnake annoying]], but that moment was full of awesome.

** The best part is that when you're stoned out of your mind, you actually PRETEND to be useless to get the villains to drop their guard long enough to escape. Yes, even when you're baked out of their mind, you're capable of being a MagnificentBastard.

* The ''Ultor Exposed'' mission may just be a vehicle for porn star Tera Patrick, but it has you face down a HUGE number of Ultor goons. The final battle has your character versus a fleet of military helicopters that he has to personally down with a rocket launcher.

SaintsRow the third may just flat our shatter the awesomeness meter when it hits stores in November.

* It was revealed that Saints Row The Third has a sprint button, but the company calls it the Awesome button. Why, well, if you hold the button to hijack someone, you dropkick them out of the car. Yes, sprinting to the side of the car will have the player FUCKING DROPKICK THE DRIVER, SENDING SAID DRIVER OUT OF THE CAR THROUGH THE OTHER SIDE. Doing it in front has you HIJACKING FROM THE FRONT. Awesome indeed.
** And hey, if you get tired of that you can use one of the new weapons to control cars remotely JUST BY POINTING IT AT THEM! Even better, halfway through the story the army is called in... and they bring with them [[TankGoodness quite a few tanks...]]

* The Saints escape from the Syndicate by jumping out of a plane; with Boss catching Shaundi mid air, looks normal, until it comes around to attack them. Boss abandons Shaundi in freefall and jumps back onto the plane to stop it from killing them both, before again falling and catching Shaundi, proving his credentials as a [[MagnificentBastard fucking asshole]].

*** YourMileageMayVary. Gat's brutality was genuinely disturbing to some tropers. Which is completely understandable once you realize that [[spoiler: Aisha's casket was the one he emptied.]]
**** No it wasn't. [[spoiler: The person in the casket was some fat caucasian woman, and she didn't have her head cut off]]
**** [[spoiler: Actually, the exact body changes randomly. But it's never Aisha's. Plus, why would Johnny let trash like him rest in Aisha's coffin?]]

** You do this after [[spoiler: breaking out of a locked car trunk after being tied up and tossed in a lake. Unfortunately, you can't save Lin.]]
** Oddly, the revenge on [[spoiler: Sharp]] is spoiled for some posters as his final words are calling for his nephew.
** Not for me, I simply [[spoiler:pulled out my RPG and blew his ass away as his car drove by.]] Even with the time limit its fairy easy to do, just don't get in any cars and run all the way there.

* The Saints escape from the Syndicate by jumping out of a plane looks normal, until it comes around to attack them. Boss leaves Shaundi with a parachute in freefall and jumps back onto the plane for another one.

** And hey, if you get tired of that you can use one of the new weapons to control cars remotely JUST BY POINTING IT AT THEM! Even better, halfway through the story the army is called in... and they bring with them [[TankGoodness quite a few tanks...]]

**** No it wasn't. [[Spoiler: The person in the casket was some fat caucasian woman, and she didn't have her head cut off]]

* It was revealed that Saints Row The Third has a sprint button, but the company calls it the Awesome button. Why, well, if you hold the button to hijack someone, you dropkick them out of the car. Yes, sprinting to the side of the car will have the player FUCKING DROPKICK THE DRIVER, SENDING SAID DRIVER OUT OF THE CAR THROUGH THE OTHER SIDE. Doing it in front has you HIJACKING FROM THE FRONT. Awesome indeed.

* Benjamin King. What does he do when his entire gang betrays him and his former lieutenant tries to have him killed on the spot? Why, fight his way out of his own stronghold and hold off his gang until Playa can team up with him to kill the man who betrayed him.

--> Warren Williams: You better pray you don't miss.

*** YourMileageMayVary. Gat's brutality was genuinely disturbing to some tropers. Which is completely understandable, especially upon realizing that [[spoiler: Aisha's casket was the one he emptied.]]

*** YourMileageMayVary. Gat's brutality was genuinely disturbing to some tropers.
**** Being disturbed by this is understandable, seeing as how [[spoiler: Aisha's casket was the one he emptied.]]

**** Understandable, seeing as how [[spoiler: Aisha's casket was the one he emptied.]]

*** What takes it to the next level of gangsta brutality is the fact that [[spoiler: it was Aisha's casket he emptied.]]

*** She strongly implies s\he is, but then again she might just be spoiling for a fight.

** Specifically, [[spoiler: a this wife's funeral]], Gat beats the hell out of the Ronin leader's son for [[spoiler: giving the order to kill Aisha]]. He finishes the kid off by [[spoiler: emptying a nearby casket and stuffing him inside, proceeding to bury him alive.]]