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* The glorious sucker-punch cry of defiance that is "No, You Don't." It starts out with some fairly generic pain-doom-angst lyrics, then unexpectedly turns around. It is ''incredibly'' refreshing.
* Their performance at ''Woodstock '94'' is considered to be the highlight of the entire festival and the moment that catapulted Reznor to superstardom.
* "The Great Destroyer" from ''Music/YearZero'' has this line: ''"I hope they cannot see the limitless potential / living inside of me to murder everything / I hope they cannot see I am the [[LargeHam GREAT]] [[BigWordShout DESTROYERRRRRR]]..."'' Coming out of the guy who created ''[[CreatorBreakdown The Downward Spiral]]'' and wallowed in angst and depravity for much of TheNineties, this is kind of a triumphant moment for Trent Reznor.
* The Tension 2013 show can be described as one big long SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome moment.
* It must've taken ''insane'' amounts of balls to make the ''Broken'' music videos, knowing that they'd inevitably get backlash.
** Especially "Happiness in Slavery", which surely wouldn't get a single halfway normal network playing it even late at night (which was reportedly the case for the "Pinion" video).
* Nine Inch Nails [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehMqEXUspfs perform]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qlUFKFHNIU with]] Trent's teenage hero: Music/GaryNuman.
* The ending of "Ruiner" from ''The Downward Spiral''. While the album itself goes FromBadToWorse and [[HopeSpot this is a small victory if even that]], the narrator defying the "ruiner" that causes him all of his grief and pain can be seen as empowering.
---> ''You didn't hurt me.''
---> ''Nothing can hurt me.''
---> ''You didn't hurt me.''
---> ''[[ArcWords Nothing can stop me now]].''
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