Line #3 Awesome/FinalFantasyIVTheAfterYears


1	* [[SpoonyBard Edward]] gets one early on. When Kain's dark side storms into his throne room, Edward not only has already cleared his whole castle to keep his people from harm, but he steadfastly refuses to give in to Kain's demand for the Crystal. A moment later, when Kain's troops rush in, Edward ''still'' refuses to bend, and opens up a small box holding a Carnelian Signet; the same item that wiped out Mist earlier in the previous game; and it wipes out the troops. It's a darn shame that Kain kicks his ass right after, but the whole incident shows [[TookALevelInBadass Edward grew some balls of steel since the first game]].
2	** Once you play his tale, it gets one better. He plants a whisperweed in fake-Cecil's throne room, so he can listen in on his plans, and that Carnelian Signet? ''Cecil gave it to him'' thinking he'd open it and let it wipe out his own troops. [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap Balls.]] [[TookALevelInBadass Of.]] [[SpoonyBard Steel.]]
3	*** This gets even better when Edward explains that his planting Whisperweed was a test - the real Cecil (as Edward strongly suspected had left the building) would have immediately recognized it. The fact that Cecil said nothing when Edward set the bouquet for him told him all he needed to know, let alone everything else that went on. Edward is probably the best politician in the game just for how shrewdly he gets the drop on the villains and a BrainwashedAndCrazy Cecil, all politely and without firing a single shot.
4	** ''EVEN before that'', Harley gets Desert Fever, and Edward travels (WITHOUT his three soldiers) back through the Waterway and the Antlion cave to get her a remedy. [[RuleOfThree BALLS OF STEEL]].
5	*** Not to mention that if you haven't been running from battle, by the time your party is back together, Edward is likely 5-9 levels higher than your swordsmen, has a turn bar that fills twice as fast, and is stomping everything. [[MusicalAssassin With]] a ''[[ImprobableWeaponUser harp]]''.
6	* Kain overcoming his own dark side in ''The After Years''. While Cecil merely had to take the blows as penance, Kain didn't have the same luck. He has to track down his dark side, which has been beating up his old friends and gathering the crystals, and beat the snot out of it. After the fight, he becomes a Holy Dragoon not by rejecting his dark past, but by accepting it's a part of him, and that he will move on from it.
7	* Again in ''The After Years'', The climax of Palom's tale. 'Nuff said.
8	-->'''Palom:''' "She may be a lousy epopt, but as my student, she passes with flying colors!"
9	--->Learned Particle Bomb Band!
10	** To clarify how awesome this is - for both Palom and Leonora - the climax has Palom turn himself to stone to protect the Earth Crystal and Leonora from the Mysterious Girl. Leonora has none of it and comes back to save him before the Girl shatters him. At this point, Palom declares the above and full on tackles the Mysterious Girl to initiate the fight. Even though he and Leonora get badly roughed up because the Girl's StoryBreakerPower, Palom and Leonora still don't go down without a fight.
11	*** Additionally, Palom's PreAsskickingOneLiner above initiates the game's very first instance of ''[[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic The Dispossessed Eidolons]]'', the ''excellent'' BossRemix of the Mysterious Girl theme.
12	* Ursula takes on Dark Kain, alone! And at a decent level she can easily hold her own.
13	* Should you so choose, Edge can finally have his one-on-one rematch with Rubicante in the first half of the final dungeon. Not only do you earn some great armor for winning, but can definitely see how much the two have come to respect each other. They definitely would have been friends had they not been enemies.
14	** And before that, you can fight with Edge against Dr. Lugae. Sure, Rubicante may be Edge's ArchEnemy, but it was Lugae who turned Edge's parents into monsters, and in the original game Edge never got a shot at the guy. Now he can.
15	* Close to the end of the True Moon, you face the Mysterious Girl, with Bahamut under her power. If you did everything right up to that point in re-gathering the Eidolons, Asura and Leviathan plead to him to return to his senses, and he Megaflares them without a word, appearing to be impassive to their pleas. Then, the Girl orders him to kill the party... and he turns around and hits her with Megaflare.
16	-->'''Mysterious Girl:''' [[BigNo No... No!]]\
17	'''Bahamut:''' You dared to believe you had rule over our Eidolons?\
18	'''Mysterious Girl:''' What?\
19	'''Bahamut:''' My Eidolons are much more than mere pawns of power! Does the true light reside within you? Bahamut, the Father of all Eidolons, shall deliver your final judgement!\
20	'''Mysterious Girl:''' [[VillainousBreakdown R-Reflect...]]\
21	'''Bahamut:''' [[CutscenePowerToTheMax ''You waste your breath!'']] '''Megaflare'''
22	** Bahamut preempting her attempt at defense is made even more awesome when you remember that [[FridgeBrilliance Reflect has an instant cast time in this game.]] Of course, ignoring such magic defenses is Bahamut's shtick throughout the series: In FFIV, he does it specifically by using reflect first to bounce the Mega Flare on himself.
23	* Earlier in the True Moon the party confronts The Dark Knight Cecil who berates Cecil for casting him aside. Eventually, he reduces your party to their last legs, and Cecil protects them as he tries to strike them down one by one in his weakened state.
24	** After this Golbez [[TakingTheBullet jumps in to save Cecil]] from a fatal blow, and potentially dying for real if Rosa and Ceodore are not present in the party at the time, which snaps Cecil out of his HeroicBSOD.
25	** If the party placement are correct beforehand Rosa is the first of the family to rescue Golbez from being killed, who immediately heals and defends her brother-in-law from Dark Knight Cecil, which is soon followed by Ceodore and Cecil, who give the Dark Knight a ShutUpHannibal when he berates them for siding with the man who cast him aside and tried to destroy the world before turning the scale of the CurbStompBattle a full 180.
26	*** Also, during the battle with this party placement, after Ceodore fights the Dark Knight, the faker uses Dark Fang on him, leaving him with only 1 HP, then, he does this another time, and prepares to unleash another one. It seems like he's going to get killed, but Cecil regains consciousness just in time and protects his son.
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28	* The new post-game bonus boss in the PSP version is Lost Babil, and has you form three parties to destroy it piece by piece.
29	** What makes it even more awesome is when you think about how it's broken up: Two teams take on the external parts while the third fights the core. It's a re-enactment of the fight against the Giant from the original game, only this time the player is in ''full control'' of the ''entire'' assault!
30	** It also makes for a nice parallel with ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', in which you build 3 parties to take three paths through TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, and each group has their own penultimate boss fight each against one of the three members of the Warring Triad before regrouping for the final boss.
31	* "Lunarian's Tale", after seeing the protagonists getting beaten by the Mysterious Girl every time she shows up, it's greatly satsifying to finally see her lose when Golbez and Fosoya run into her. Sadly that doesn't accomplish much since it's right this that it's revealed there's more than one of her.

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