History Awesome / StarWarsTheOldRepublic

* The final fight against Tenebrae himself. It mirrors the endboss in ''Shadow of Revan'' in that you get help from everyone who has been personally victimized by the former Sith Emperor from the beginning of the game...and even before that. That's right: Revan and [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords The Exile]] show up to help you in the last battle. This is on top of Satele Shan, Darth Marr, Kira, Scourge and Valkorion's family.

** The ending cinematic is also great. Once you've landed the final flow, Tenebrae and his echoes try to subdue the player character and their allies, but through sheer will they manage to stand. And as Tenebrae is condemned for the last time, the spirits of everyone whose lives he ruined ''from Chapter 1 onwards'' show up to stand in silent judgement. The royal family of Zakuul and their subjects he betrayed, the Children of the Emperor (including a cameo from Syo Bakarn, the First Son) he manipulated, and all the lost souls on Ziost that he devoured. It truly feels like every soul in the galaxy from rising up as one to kill Tenebrae once and for all.

** The ending cinematic is also great. Once you've landed the final flow, Tenebrae and his echoes try to subdue the player character and their allies, but through sheer will they manage to stand. And as Tenebrae is condemned for the last time, the spirits of everyone whose lives he ruined show up to stand in silent judgement. The royal family of Zakuul and their subjects he betrayed, the Children of the Emperor (including a cameo from Syo Bakarn, the First Son) he manipulated, and all the lost souls on Ziost that he devoured. It truly feels like every soul in the galaxy rising up as one to kill Tenebrae once and for all.

* ''Vaylin'' gets one right before the final fight. Valkorion tries to cage her mind again. She responds by ''unleashing Force Lightning'' on him, weakening him temporarily. And this is followed by the mother of all [[IronicEcho Ironic Echoes]]]]:

* The final fight against Tenebrae himself. It mirrors the endboss in ''Shadow of Revan'' in that you get help from everyone who has been personally victimized by the former Sith Emperor from the beginning of the game...and even before that. That's right: Revan and ''The Exile'' show up to help you in the last battle. This is on top of Satele Shan, Darth Marr, Kira, Scourge and Valkorion's family.

--->'''Player Character:''' No. In the end...''you are nothing.''

* The final fight against Tenebrae himself. It mirrors the endboss in ''Shadow of Revan'' in that you get help from everyone who has been personally victimized by the former Sith Emperor from the beginning of the game...and even before that. That's right: [[spoiler: Revan and ''The Exile'' show up to help you in the last battle. This is on top of Satele Shan, Darth Marr, Kira, Scourge and Valkorion's family.]]
** The ending cinematic is also great. [[spoiler: Once you've landed the final flow, Tenebrae and his echoes try to subdue the player character and their allies, but through sheer will they manage to stand. And as Tenebrae is condemned for the last time, the spirits of everyone whose lives he ruined show up to stand in silent judgement. The royal family of Zakuul and their subjects he betrayed, the Children of the Emperor (including a cameo from Syo Bakarn, the First Son) he manipulated, and all the lost souls on Ziost that he devoured. It truly feels like every soul in the galaxy rising up as one to kill Tenebrae once and for all.]]
* [[spoiler: Vaylin]] gets one right before the final fight. [[spoiler: Valkorion tries to cage her mind again. She responds by ''unleashing Force Lightning'' on him, weakening him temporarily. And this is followed by the mother of all [[IronicEcho Ironic Echoes]]]]:
[[spoiler: --->'''Vaylin:''' You presume limits to my power. ''There are none.'']]

* On Tatooine as a Light Side Jedi Knight, you can [[spoiler: convince [[AffablyEvil Lord Praven]] that everything he was taught about the Jedi was a lie, and [[HeelFaceTurn get him to apply to the Jedi Order]]]].

** Some of Gnost Daral's videos tell you of others during the war. For instance: Master Allusis and his badly outnumbered army (numbering about 4,000 including several dozen Jedi) caused a Sith army numbering about 50,000 a ''PyrrhicVictory'' to take the world, fighting to the last man. There's also Hylo Visz leading a fleet of other smuggler ships against a Mandalorian battle fleet and ''winning'' with help from Republic reinforcements.

** Alderaan is full of these moments. If you choose the Light Side path when dealing with Gesselle Organa you need to hold off an assault on one of her positions. When you arrive you find only a handful of soldiers led by a pathetic officer and a sergeant who is about to cut and run. This leads to a magnificent moment of badassery that is captured perfectly in the cutscene as the Warrior strides towards the enemy while activating their lightsabre.

* The Vanguard's moveset in general is ''hillarious'' comeuppance to any sith in the general vicinity. See that sith over there hurling force lightning? Introduce him to your [[FoeTossingCharge Shoulder]], [[PistolWhipping Rifle Butt]], [[BladeBelowTheShoulder Armblade]], and finally [[LightningGun the business end of your rifle]]. Sith coming at you with lightsaber? [[FoeTossingCharge come at him first]], and proceed to beat him to a pulp. Brute Force > The Force.

* The forging of your first lightsaber. After questing through Tython and [[spoiler:defeating your Master's treacherous former Padawan]], you get a cool cutscene of your lightsaber being put together piece by piece accompanied by music from ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi''. It's a pretty awesome payoff. (For those who know where in the film that piece comes from, it's a little jarring in the scenic dissonance, but the music itself is still pretty badass.)

** In a flashback, Senya takes on a squad of Knights of Zakuul to save Vaylin. She effortlessly kills them all and only gets captured because she is shocked at Vaylin's refusal to escape with her.

** The entire flashpoint can be considered this for imperial players. As said by the Republic guy at the end of it:
-->"Killran sent you , no ? He's the only one crazy enough to attack a destroyer with a cargo. And win"

* [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Your first target in the entire game]] is a seven-time champion quick-draw artist... who also turns out to be an obnoxious braggart who boasts that he can draw so fast he'll shoot your ears off before you can hear the blast. The Bounty Hunter can then coolly murmur in a [[BadassBaritone chilling]] [[ContraltoOfDanger voice]]: [[BringItOn "''Show me''."]] The Bounty Hunter then draws so fast they blow his pistol out of his hand, and stand over him glaring triumphantly as he clutches his wrist in pain. That's right: a small-time gun-for-hire nobody has even heard of effortlessly out-draws a galaxy-acclaimed, seven-time, quick-draw ''champion''. And that's just their first target in the game!

* Many wondered why neither Kira nor Scourge appeared in the Fallen Empire-Eternal Throne duology despite how heavily their backstories involved the Emperor, and we finally get our answer. It turns out that while the Outlander was fighting Valkorian, Kira and Scourge were on their own quest to find and destroy Tenebrea's original body to ensure his FinalDeath. ''And they succeed'', their destroying the Emperor's body coinciding nearly exactly with Valkorian's final defeat.

* Republic-side, the Maelstrom Prison Flashpoint is fairly epic, for a number of reasons - [[spoiler: not only do you save Revan from his AndIMustScream fate, but the final boss is Grand Moff Kilran himself, who has been a looming threat ever since the very first Flashpoint. ''Finally'' killing him in battle is suitably impressive.]]
** The Imperial-side counterpart to that, The Foundry, is also epic. [[spoiler: It starts off decent enough, with you fighting into the foundry and speaking to its mysterious administrator. Then you hear a very familiar voice over the intercom, speaking in a very familiar way... and by the time you realize WHO it is, you're fighting HK-47 himself. But that's not the best part. After a rough battle where HK shows why he's a great assassin droid (using a sniper rifle to take out huge chunks of health) you fight your way to the final boss of the flashpoint... Revan himself. And the battle is EPIC, complete with Revan leaping about with a violet lightsaber at everyone, calling lightning down, becoming "More powerful than you can possibly imagine" through channeling the Force, and when near death, raining massive chunks of rock down on the party that can take out a quarter of a party member's health in a single hit, if you don't avoid it. And when he's finally defeated, he makes a sad comment to his dead former apprentice, and disappears in an explosion of light. A worthy final battle, to one of the most powerful and influential Force-Users in the history of the Star Wars Galaxy.]]

* AT the end of the Imperial storyline, you find one of your associates who [[spoiler: has been tortured nearly to death]]. WHen you complete the final mission, she stumbles in and her reaction, [[spoiler: as she dies]] can be summed up as 'Totally worth it!'. Now that is dedication.

Three of the Force User classes get their old titles and jobs back. The Warrior can be the Emperor's Hand again, this time to Acina or Vowrawn depending on who is alive. The Inquisitor can kill Darth Anathel, who took their seat on the Dark Council, and regain it by rejoining the Empire (and the Alliance serving as part of the Emperor's Hand), and the Jedi Consular properly joins the Jedi Council.

* On Imperial Hoth, the Ortolan plant supervisor Ooren Tai gets one. First the little guy stands up to a Republican soldier who is pointing a blaster at him, then, cool is ice, he starts to negotiate a new contract with the Imperial player (particularly impressibe when you play a Sith). All while he is alone, unarmed and surrounded by hevaily armed soldiers from both sides.