History Awesome / WolfensteinIITheNewColossus

* BJ returns home and kills his abusive father, Rip, for turning his mother in to the Nazis and helping his other like-minded neighbors turn in all the other Jews, non-whites and homosexuals. It goes without saying that Brian Bloom's performance was fantastic in this scene.

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* BJ returns home and kills his abusive father, Rip, for turning his mother in to the Nazis and helping his other like-minded neighbors turn in all the other Jews, non-whites and homosexuals.

* You may have heard and yes, it is true, late in the game you get a chance to kill Hitler with a single stomp to the head while he's curled up on the floor taking a nap. It gets you an achievement and a NonstandardGameOver, but ''[[KickTheSonOfABitch Christ almighty, does it feel good]]''.
*** Many players have admitted to killing Hitler multiple times, and wished it was the Canon ending to the game, with B.J's HeroicSacrifice in ''ending the Third Reich''.

-->'''BJ''': Was a time I was scared of you. Was a time I would piss myself having a gun pointed at my head. [[NotAfraidOfYouAnymore You know what I feel right now?]] *[[TooDumbToLive Rip cocks the gun]]* ''[[TranquilFury Not a god damned thing]]''.

** Sigrun goes on to tell Bombate point blank to his face that she intends to "use his body from time to time for [[ADateWithRosiePalms my own personal pleasure]]." [[AmazonChaser Bombate seems fine with it.]]

-->'''Set:''' (having just disintegrated a group of Nazis with his microwave trap) Auf wiedersehen, you piece of dreck.

'''Sigrun:''' ([[ArmorPiercingSlap slaps Grace so hard she falls over and then]] [[NeckLift chokes her out]]) ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Don't! Ever! Call me! A Nazi! Again!]]'' I am NOT a Nazi! You do not have the right to label me as something I am not! As someone less than yourself, as someone less than human! ''SAY IT! SAY I'M NOT A NAZI!''\\

* [[CallBack Fighting]] [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Laser Space Nazis]] [[UpToEleven on VENUS!]]

* B.J.'s exploits in the New Order have earned him the nickname of "Terror Billy," the [[Franchise/JohnWick Wick-ian]] boogyman who kills Nazis by the thousands.

-->'''BJ''': Was a time I was scared of you. Was a time I would piss myself having a gun pointed at my head. [[NotAfraidOfYouAnymore You know what I feel right now?]] *[[BullyingTheDragon Rip cocks the gun]]* ''[[TranquilFury Not a god damned thing]]''.

** A minor villain moment for Rip is that he shows his cunning by managing to give away his son's location to Engel before dying leading to BJ getting captured and executed. [[spoiler:But then it becomes AllForNothing when BJ is rescued and given a new powerful body.]]

-->'''BJ''': Was a time I was scared of you. Was a time I would piss myself having a gun pointed at my head. [[NotAfraidOfYouAnymore You know what I feel right now?]] *Rip cocks the gun* ''[[TranquilFury Not a god damned thing]]''.

** Special mention needs to go to BJ's short, but ''incredibly'' cathartic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech against Engel, after axing her in the head. After all the shit she put BJ through especially what she did to Caroline in the beginning, this is the icing on the cake.

** A minor villain moment for Rip as he shows his cunning by managing to give away his son's location to Engel before dying leading to BJ getting captured and executed. [[spoiler:But then it becomes AllForNothing when BJ is rescued and given a new powerful body.]]

* The contraptions are so satisfying to use especially the Ram Shackles which allow you to ''run at Nazis and bodyslam them so hard they explode!''

* The ending: After covertly capturing the Ausmerzer, the resistance infiltrates the ''Jimmy Carver Show'''s set, where Frau Engel, believing that BJ is dead and that she has effectively crushed all resistance in America, is giving an interview. BJ proceeds to split open Engel's head on national television giving her the most ironic and humiliating yet satisfying death. The resistance then uses their new platform to urge all of America to rise up against the Nazis.

** Special mention needs to go to BJ's short, but ''incredibly'' cathartic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech against Engel, after axing her in the head. After all the shit she put BJ through, this is the icing on the cake.

-->'''BJ''': Was a time I was scared of you. Was a time I would piss myself having a gun pointed at my head. [[NotAfraidOfYouAnymore You know what I feel right now?]] ''[[TranquilFury Not a god damned thing]]''.

* The Ram Shackles - you can ''run at Nazis and bodyslam them so hard they explode!''

* The ending: After covertly capturing the Ausmerzer, the resistance infiltrates the ''Jimmy Carver Show'''s set, where Frau Engel, believing that BJ is dead and that she has effectively crushed all resistance in America, is giving an interview. BJ proceeds to split open Engel's head on national television. The resistance then uses their new platform to urge all of America to rise up against the Nazis.
** The end credits imply that anarchist/anti-Nazi militias rise up ''en masse'' all over the US and drive the Nazi regime from the nation entirely after ''a single night'' of glorious Nazi slaying.

'''Wyatt''': [[PatrioticFervour You were born in the land of the free! You fought the kings of old and broke them!]] You gave your lives... for the simplest, but most essential truth of all: [[GiveMeLibertyOrGiveMeDeath Give me liberty, or give me death.]]\\

-->'''Grace''': My brothers and sisters of the United States of America... don't listen to that lying ''bitch!'' These Nazi fucks are all gonna get what's comin' to them. ''Tonight.'' We are ''not.'' Gonna ''take it''. Anymore. ''[turns to Wyatt]'' Go on...\\
'''Wyatt''': Americans... Americans, wherever you are. I wish I had words of comfort to give you. Like the warm winds that this Nazi general sent down from above. But from me, you will not get comfort. [[BrutalHonesty Only the cold... agonizing... truth]]. And the truth is, this great nation... has been raped, and pillaged, by [[ThoseWackyNazis the greatest enemy of our time]]. They ask you to sell your liberty, to purchase your safety... to kneel to the new order, to submit to the winds of change, but my fellow Americans -- [[AsTheGoodBookSays they that sow the wind... shall reap the whirlwind]]!\\

'''Wyatt''': [[PatrioticFervour You were born in the land of the free! You fought the kings of old and broke them!]] You gave your lives... for the simplest, but most essential truth of all: [[GiveMeLibertyOrGiveMeDeath Give me liberty, or give me death]]!\\

'''Wyatt''': In your veins runs the blood of revolutionaries! So tonight, brandish your guns, your knives and your fists! Seek out your oppressors wherever they are and tell them: [[NotAfraidOfYouAnymore We don't want nothing. Not a thing from you.]] [[DareToBeBadass Tonight, we show those that sow the wind that]] ''[[DareToBeBadass we...]]'' [[DareToBeBadass we are the]] ''[[DareToBeBadass whirlwind]]''.

-->'''Horton''': Oh Lordy, look at you. [[BreadAndCircuses Just... stuffin' yer faces... fulla bratwurst as ya sittin' in front of yer Natzi television boxes. Just laughin'. Laughin' at all the lies they've been feedin' ye. Laughin' 'til ye's chokin'!]] Well, it ends tonight.

-->'''Horton''': Oh Lordy, look at you. [[BreadAndCircuses Just... stuffin' yer faces... fulla bratwurst as ya sittin' in front of yer Natzi television boxes. Just laughin', laughin' at all the lies they've been feedin' ye. Laughin' 'til ye's chokin'!]] Well, it ends tonight.
-->'''Grace''': Oh yeah, it ends tonight. My Brothers and Sisters of the United States of America, tonight, we the free people of the resistance, ask you to become one of us.
-->'''Horton''': They's a-lyin'. They's a-lyin' and they's a-threatenin', they's a-torturin', they's a-killin', they beat you into submission ('''Grace''': They beat you!) They've... they made yer, yer very thoughts a crime. But iffen tonight... ye gather... speak freely from yer heart ('''Grace''': Yes.) Oh, ye is one of us.
-->'''Grace:''': Right on. And if tonight we see you on the streets with a knife or a brick. Or just your clenched fists, fightin' the powers that be, then you ''are'' one of us.

-->'''Grace''': Did you forget? They brought this war to our shores. ('''Horton''': Yeah, sister.) And then they beat us. They ''murdered'' us; they ''executed'' us. But guess what? Tonight, they also find out that ''they fucked with the wrong country.'' My brothers and sisters of the ''United States of America'', when we stand together, ain't ''nothing'' and ''no one'' can take ''our'' country from us. Tonight... they burn. Tonight... you... are one of ''us''.

-->'''Horton''': Oh Lordy, look at you. [[BreadAndCircuses Just... stuffin' yer faces... full of bratwurst as you sitting in front of your Nazi television boxes. Just laughing, laughing at all the lies they've feedin' ye. Laughing til ye is chokin'.]] Well, it ends tonight.
-->'''Grace''': Oh yeah, it ends tonight. My Brothers and Sisters of the United States of America. Tonight... we the free people of the resistance, ask you to become one of us.
-->'''Horton''': They's a-lyin'. They's a-lyin' and they's a-threatenin', they's a-torturin', they's a killin', they beat you into submission ('''Grace''': They beat you!) They've... they made yer, yer very thoughts a crime. But iffen tonight... ye gather... speak freely from yer heart ('''Grace''': Yes.) Oh, ye is one of us.
-->'''Grace:''': Right on. And if tonight we see you on the streets with a knife or a brick. Or just your clenched fists, fightin' the powers that be, then you are one of us.
-->'''Horton''': And iffen tonight but ye look down upon your hands and they's soaked in the blood of your oppressors, then you.. is one of us.
-->'''BJ''': If tonight you hold your babies in your arms and swear they'll grow up to be free people then you are one of us.
-->'''Grace''': Did you forget? They brought this war to our shores. ('''Horton''': Yeah, sister.) And then they beat us. They murdered us. They executed us. But guess what? Tonight, they also find out that they fucked with the wrong country. My brothers and sisters of the United States of America, when we stand together, ain't nothing and no one can take our country from us. Tonight... they burn. Tonight... you... are one of us.

* BJ returns home and kills his abusive father Rip for turning in his mother the Nazis and helping his other like-minded neighbors turn in all the other Jews, non-whites and homosexuals.

'''Sigrun:''' '''GRACE!'''\\

* The ending: After covertly capturing the Aufmerzer, the resistance infiltrates the ''Jimmy Carver Show'''s set, where Frau Engel, believing that BJ is dead and that she has effectively crushed all resistance in America, is giving an interview. BJ proceeds to split open Engel's head on national television. The resistance then uses their new platform to urge all of America to rise up against the Nazis.

* The courthouse fight. After being sentenced to death, you break free from your shackles and tear through dozens of Nazis while Engel is commanding you to stand down and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVn510KDh-g the best music track in the game]] is playing, making you feel like a hero. Even the facts that this section is [[ThatOneLevel really hard]] and AllJustADrea] don't take away from how awesome it is.

* The way Fergus reacts to losing his arm definitely deserves mention. Captured by Frau Engel's men and having been forced to watch her [[spoiler: decapitate Caroline]], Fergus ends up next on the chopping block and has his arm cut off by Frau Engel. Rather than reacting with pain or horror, Fergus, now freed from the grip of the Nazi grunts, uses it as an opportunity to grab his gun and kill all four soldiers in the room, including the ones restraining B.J. And for the entirety of the ensuing level, Fergus never does anything more than tie his belt around the stump, yet somehow he [[HeroicWillpower doesn't die of]] [[ArtisticLicenceBiology blood loss]].

* BJ returns home and [[spoiler:kills his abusive father Rip for turning in his mother the Nazis and helping his other like-minded neighbors turn in all the other Jews, non-whites and homosexuals]].

* The courthouse fight. After being sentenced to death, you break free from your shackles and tear through dozens of Nazis while Engel is commanding you to stand down and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVn510KDh-g the best music track in the game]] is playing, making you feel like a hero. Even the facts that this section is [[ThatOneLevel really hard]] and [[spoiler: AllJustADream]] don't take away from how awesome it is.
** It has been suggested that [=MachineGames=] [[spoiler:couldn't decide how to resolve B.J's situation between the epic courtroom breakout or what really happens (him being tried and executed and then his head is placed on a Ubersoldaten body) so they just found a way to do both.]]
* The Kreisau Circle has snuck into [[spoiler:[[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome D.C. during B.J.'s execution, and set up shop right below the execution site to retrieve B.J.'s head before his brain dies]]]]! [[spoiler: B.J. gets his ''friggin' head chopped off'' and comes back stronger than ever to kick Nazi ass.]]

* For all the trouble Fergus has with his mechanical arm, it's still terrifyingly useful: [[spoiler: he can detach the hand and control it, which he uses in New Orleans to [[Film/{{Alien}} facehug]] a patrolling guard to death]].
* You may have heard and yes, it is true, late in the game you get a chance to [[spoiler:kill Hitler with a single stomp to the head while he's curled up on the floor taking a nap. It gets you an achievement and a NonstandardGameOver, but ''[[KickTheSonOfABitch Christ almighty, does it feel good]]''.]]
*** Many players have admitted to [[spoiler:killing Hitler]] multiple times, and wished it was the Canon ending to the game, with B.J's HeroicSacrifice in ''ending the Third Reich''.
** Speaking of that scene, BJ's reaction to seeing [[spoiler:Hitler in person]] is also pretty awesome; [[spoiler:he outright ''refuses'' to stand up and yell "Heil Hitler!" at the top of his voice like everyone else present]].
* On Venus, you find a document detailing the ColdBloodedTorture of Dimitri Federov, who literally ''laughs'' and insults the Nazis while undergoing it. [[spoiler: Unlike most examples like this, you later get a mission to save him, and are able to get him to the sub alive and under treatment]].

** In Set's words, Anya is ''[[{{Determinator}} relentless]]'' - the [[spoiler: head transplant on Blazkowicz]] was her idea!
** At the climax of the game, [[spoiler: ''Anya saves BJ'' by tackling him out of the way of an ambush and dumping grenades at their feet in the process. When the Panzerhund launches fire at the two, Anya pushes B.J. into a nearby hole of sorts while shielding him. After getting up, Anya rips her burning jacket and top off and then she proceeds to kill the Panzerhund with dual assault rifles while [[FullFrontalAssault topless and screaming like a maniac]].]] All of this while still heavily pregnant. All B.J. can say is a stunned 'wow'.
* Sigrun Engel, the daughter of main antagonist Irene Engel, get a major moment near the end of the game. After spending years of being verbally, physically, and psychologically abused by her mother, fate finally throws her a bone when she is "rescued" by B.J. and allowed to join the Kreisau Circle as a defector. But despite her considerable knowledge of the Nazi war machine and its inner workings, her attempts to correct Grace Walker that she is no longer a Nazi when Grace keeps referring to her as one seem fruitless...[[spoiler:until ''Sigrun slaps Grace right in the middle of the meeting.''. Sigrun proceeds to put Grace in a chokehold tells Grace that she is not a Nazi, and Grace has no right to treat her as a lesser being.]] She then proceeded to call out Bombate for cheating on her.
--> ''[Sigrun has just finished explaining what the [[spoiler:ODIN codes]] are]'' \\
'''Grace:''' Well, alright! Now fuck off, Nazi. Now, like I was sayin', we are gonna [[spoiler:find that bitch and take her out]]...\\

** And to top it all off, Grace is so impressed [[spoiler: with Sigrun that she finally recognizes she underestimated her and invites her along on the mission!]]

* The ending: [[spoiler:After covertly capturing the Aufmerzer, the resistance infiltrates the ''Jimmy Carver Show'''s set, where Frau Engel, believing that BJ is dead and that she has effectively crushed all resistance in America, is giving an interview. BJ proceeds to split open Engel's head on national television. The resistance then uses their new platform to urge all of America to rise up against the Nazis.]]
** The end credits imply that [[spoiler:anarchist/anti-Nazi militias rise up ''en masse'' all over the US and drive the Nazi regime from the nation entirely after ''a single night'' of glorious Nazi slaying.]]
** Special mention needs to go to [[spoiler:BJ's short, but ''incredibly'' cathartic TheReasonYouSuckSpeech against Engel, after axing her in the head. After all the shit she put BJ through, this is the icing on the cake.]]
--> [[spoiler:'''Engel:''' [[ThisCannotBe You are dead!]] I severed your head from your shoulders! '''I killed you!''' [grabs her pistol, then screams as Blazkowicz severs her arm with a hatchet]]] \\
[[spoiler: '''Blazkowicz:''' [plunging the hatchet into Engel's face, cleaving it in half but leaving her ''just'' alive enough to hear what he has to say, and leaning in] Lady...that the best you got?]]\\
[[spoiler: '''Engel:''' [gurgling]]] \\
[[spoiler:'''Blazkowicz:''' [ignoring her] Then your best won't do. You're among ''wolves'' now. [whispering] '''''And these are our woods.''''' [splits Engel's skull open by twisting the hatchet, killing her]]]
** And if [[spoiler: Wyatt]] is alive, he's the one that [[spoiler:gives a speech to the masses telling them to rise up. For all his nervousness, it's quite obvious that if he'd gone into politics, like his father wanted, he'd have excelled. He sounds downright presidential.]]
-->'''Grace''': [[spoiler:My brothers and sisters of the United States of America... don't listen to that lying ''bitch!'' These Nazi fucks are all gonna get what's comin' to them. ''Tonight.'' We are ''not.'' Gonna ''take it''. Anymore. ''[turns to Wyatt]'' Go on...]]\\
'''Wyatt''': [[spoiler:Americans... Americans, wherever you are. I wish I had words of comfort to give you. Like the warm winds that this Nazi general sent down from above. But from me, you will not get comfort. [[BrutalHonesty Only the cold... agonizing... truth]]. And the truth is, this great nation... has been raped, and pillaged, by [[ThoseWackyNazis the greatest enemy of our time]]. They ask you to sell your liberty, to purchase your safety... to kneel to the new order, to submit to the winds of change, but my fellow Americans -- [[AsTheGoodBookSays they that sow the wind... shall reap the whirlwind]]!]]\\
'''Grace''': [[spoiler:''[whispering]'' ''Preach''...]]\\
'''Wyatt''': [[spoiler:[[PatrioticFervour You were born in the land of the free! You fought the kings of old and broke them!]] You gave your lives... for the simplest, but most essential truth of all: [[GiveMeLibertyOrGiveMeDeath Give me liberty, or give me death]]!]]\\
'''Grace''': [[spoiler:''[whispering]'' ''Right on'', Wyatt...]]\\
'''Wyatt''': [[spoiler:In your veins runs the blood of revolutionaries! So tonight, brandish your guns, your knives and your fists! Seek out your oppressors wherever they are and tell them: [[NotAfraidOfYouAnymore We don't want nothing. Not a thing from you.]] [[DareToBeBadass Tonight, we show those that sow the wind that]] ''[[DareToBeBadass we...]]'' [[DareToBeBadass we are the]] ''[[DareToBeBadass whirlwind]]''.]]
** The [[spoiler:end speech]] of the Fergus route is very impressive too. Horton, Grace and BJ [[spoiler:encourage the American people to take to the streets and drive out the Nazis. The wording alone is awesome, but the way they deliver it makes it sound like a sermon, which is appropriate for [[ReligiousBruiser Horton]]]]:
-->'''Horton''': [[spoiler:Oh Lordy, look at you. [[BreadAndCircuses Just... stuffin' yer faces... full of bratwurst as you sitting in front of your Nazi television boxes. Just laughing, laughing at all the lies they've feedin' ye. Laughing til ye is chokin'.]] Well, it ends tonight.]]
-->'''Grace''': [[spoiler:Oh yeah, it ends tonight. My Brothers and Sisters of the United States of America. Tonight... we the free people of the resistance, ask you to become one of us.]]
-->'''Horton''': [[spoiler:They's a-lyin'. They's a-lyin' and they's a-threatenin', they's a-torturin', they's a killin', they beat you into submission ('''Grace''': They beat you!) They've... they made yer, yer very thoughts a crime. But iffen tonight... ye gather... speak freely from yer heart ('''Grace''': Yes.) Oh, ye is one of us.]]
-->'''Grace:''': [[spoiler:Right on. And if tonight we see you on the streets with a knife or a brick. Or just your clenched fists, fightin' the powers that be, then you are one of us.]]
-->'''Horton''': [[spoiler:And iffen tonight but ye look down upon your hands and they's soaked in the blood of your oppressors, then you.. is one of us.]]
-->'''BJ''': [[spoiler:If tonight you hold your babies in your arms and swear they'll grow up to be free people then you are one of us.]]
-->'''Grace''': [[spoiler:Did you forget? They brought this war to our shores. ('''Horton''': Yeah, sister.) And then they beat us. They murdered us. They executed us. But guess what? Tonight, they also find out that they fucked with the wrong country. My brothers and sisters of the United States of America, when we stand together, ain't nothing and no one can take our country from us. Tonight... they burn. Tonight... you... are one of us.]]

* B.J.'s exploits in the New Order have earned him the nickname of "Terror Billy," the [[Film/JohnWick Wick-ian]] boogyman who kills Nazis by the thousands.