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While Breaking the Bank assured poor Henry that Failure Is the Only Option, the successful endings for all the succeeding games show that Henry is quite possibly the epitome of Crazy-Prepared and/or Success Through Insanity.


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    Escaping the Prison 
  • The "Sneaky Ending" / "SE (Sneaky Escapist) Ending": Henry uses the good-old fashioned "file in the cake trick" to saw open a bar on his cell door, then uses it to club two guards in rapid succession. Then, ducking into a closet, he crawls through the airducts to the roof, and uses a couple of plungers to sneak down the prison walls, before running off into the sunset.
    • If Henry FAILs to defend himself from series-wide Butt-Monkey Dave Panpa, the latter tases him and presumably gets his career off to a much better start.
  • The "Legal (or Lame) Ending" / "LU (Lawyered Up) Ending": Henry uses a cellphone to dial up Phoenix Wright himself (Felix White in the Collection), who's able to get his sentence cleared by dropping a Logic Bomb on the court - if Henry did plan to hide in the bag to get into the bank, how could he tie up the bag from the outside?note  He then uses this physics-breaking question (and the doctor's analysis of Henry's previous injuries) to frame Winston Davis, the bank truck driver's partner, as an attempted murderer, getting Henry declared "not guilty" by the court.
  • The "Badass Ending" / "BBO (Badass Bust Out) Ending" lives up to its name, and currently provides the page image. After drilling his way through the floor, Henry winds up on the main floor chased by the guards. After running across the floor, dodging shots left and right, Henry is able to get to the exit — but finds the door is blocked by Captain Roberts, and that the rest of the guards have him surrounded. As the Awesome Music from the classic Mexican Standoff scene of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly kicks innote , Henry tenses himself... and then doesn't just Dodge the Bullet, he dodges an entire magazine of bullets from an assault rifle!! And then, Henry blasts the Captain's gun clean in halfnote by catching one of the bullets, and throwing it right back! At this point, the cops let Henry go simply because he proved too badass to handle. Then, to add insult to the injury, Henry rides off in one of the cop cars.

    Stealing the Diamond 

    Infiltrating the Airship 
  • The "LQL (Lightning Quick Larcenist) 'Ending'" doesn't quite count on its own, because it's acknowledged as a fail. However, this is no fault of Henry's; he got in and out of the airship with a very large safe in two moves, and the only reason it didn't end well is because the aforementioned safe only held a teddy bear. If he had happened to grab something more incriminating, he would have easily made good on the title.
  • The "PBT (Pure Blooded Thief) Ending": Henry steals a huge ruby, crashes the airship with a suit of Powered Armor straight out of Fallout, and makes off with both the ruby and a second prototype armor. The agents who called him in were about to fire on him, but decided to let him go because his actions brought the Toppat Clan down anyways — in other words, he helped the good guys and got another big jewel.
  • The "GSPI (Government Supported Private Investigator) Ending": Henry makes his way through a huge labyrinth with Charles' help, acquiring enough evidence to get the Toppat Clan arrested in the process. He is now an official infiltrator.
  • The "RPE (Rapidly Promoted Executive) Ending": Henry breaks into the airship via cannonball, chases down the Toppat's leader and after taking down the Right Hand Man, the leader surrenders the airship to Henry. When siding with the Toppats, Henry fakes the agents out with a pair of dummies, and becomes the new leader of the Toppat clan. He is then shown stealing the bags of money he was trying to steal in Breaking the Bank.
  • The "RBH (Relentless Bounty Hunter) Ending": Similar to above, but Henry stays true to his promise with the agents, shoving the Toppat leader into a tank, driving it off the airship. On the ground, Henry hands him over to the agents, who give him his official pardon, and he rides off into the night. With a free tank.
  • The Right Hand Man gets his own Moment of Awesome in the above two endings, facing off against Henry twice to help the Toppat Leader escape and even directly fighting him. It doesn't end well for him, but still. And he gets more badass in Mission.

    Fleeing the Complex 
  • The "GI (Ghost Inmate) Ending": Henry manages to slip out of the Wall all by himself without anyone even knowing that he made it out in the first placenote . Since the Wall is meant to be very tough to escape from, Henry just gave a nice middle finger to those who imprisoned him.
  • The "CA (Convict Allies) Ending": Henry buddies up with fellow inmate Ellie to pull off a double escape, and they both cause a full-scale Prison Riot by pure accident, allowing them to bust out in the chaos, but not before having Grigori ran over by a truck and Ellie smack Dimitri in the face with a stop sign to rescue Henry.
  • The "PD (Presumed Dead) Ending": After tackling Grigori and making a run for it through the halls, then stabbing a guard and hijacking a truck, Henry pulls off one hell of a Batman Gambit by making Dimitri think that he was in said truck as it was pushed off a cliff. Turns out he slipped out of the truck and out of sight, allowing him to later get on a plane and out of the country (in the remake, Henry instead heads off into the night).
  • The "IRO (International Rescue Operative) Ending": Henry calls upon the aid of his old ally Charles to get him out of the Wall. With a little teamwork, the two manage to recreate the old days and pull off a damn near flawless operation.
  • The "TB (The Betrayed) Ending": It's more of a Tear Jerker, but there's an awesome moment for Henry and Reginald. Henry busted out riding the same scooter from Diamond and Reginald actually manages to kill Henry!
  • There's also the fact that, as mentioned by Dimitri right before the Presumed Dead ending, Henry is the first person ever to successfully escape The Wall. It makes every single ending even more awesome (yes, even The Betrayed). In addition, right before the Convict Allies ending, he mentions that there hadn't been a single incident at The Wall in the past 50 years, but Henry managed to cause a massive riot the same day he was brought into the Wall.
  • Even a Red Shirt/Mook gets one in Fleeing the Complex if you choose the "Grenade" and "Crossbow" option. Henry throws a grenade while Ellie fires the crossbow, pinning the grenade to a guard's eye. Realizing he has a live explosive on his face, the guard proceeds to charge at Henry.
  • Another guard, Colby Phelps, manages to figure out that Henry and Ellie are disguised inmates if they choose to 'Blend In'; After asking the supposed new guards which floor they transferred from, Ellie responds with "the eighth floor". Colby then doubts this and pulls a gun on both of them since that floor is the cafeteria. Even the game is impressed.
    Guard: From the cafeteria? (Dramatic Gun Cock) Nice try inmates!
    FAIL Screen: What, is that guy a detective or something?

    Completing the Mission 
  • Executive/Allies route. Ending: TK (Toppat King): Henry rescues Reginald from the Government, prevents a bomb from destroying the rocket and fends off more Government soldiers alongside the Right Hand Man. After taking down Major Panzer via delivering an uppercut that knocks Panzer out of his Power Armor, he uses an abandoned tank to blast up to the rocket, where Reginald catches him... and helps him up, having earned the former Leader's respect and loyalty. The Clan succeeded in their mission, Ellie became Henry's right hand, and Henry remains leader of the Toppat Clan.
    FAIL Screen: The Toppats will always remember you as a hero.
  • Bounty/Ghost route. Ending: FM (Free Man): Henry escapes his imprisonment on board the Toppat's orbital station, tears apart several pursuing Toppats with one of their own weapons and does battle with the vengeful Right Hand Man Reborn, using a drop pod to both escape him and cripple the Toppat's satellite at the same time as a nice middle finger to them. Henry is free once more to do whatever he wants, and the ending shot is Henry relaxing on the beach for a well deserved break.
  • Government/Rescue route. Ending: SBO (Special BROvert Ops): Charles and Henry are sent in to prevent the rocket's launch. With Charles' help, Henry sneaks onto the rocket, cripples the engine and defeats the new Toppat leader, seizing the rocket and locking everyone inside. The entire Toppat Clan are arrested and Henry and Charles are promoted to special covert ops agents, going on a lot more missions together, and the ending shows Charles in his helicopter with Henry on its wing, both of them having the time of their lives.
  • The Government/Allies route ending: TT (Triple Threat): Henry, Ellie and Charles work together to break into the rocket and try to prevent its launch. Despite some... hiccups, most notably when Henry and Ellie break into a cafeteria flooded with Toppats, they make it past them and manage to divert the rocket, and all the Toppats on it, into the Wall, where they more than likely belong. Cue the ending card, with Henry, Ellie and Charles in victory poses.
    • The last scene also features a subtle one for Charles, who has to pick them up after they evacuate the rocket, but the helicopter blades would make that difficult. So he shuts down the helicopter for long enough for them to get in and manages to get it flying back before they hit the ground.
      • There's another layer of Genius Bonus: when you are falling at terminal velocity, landing on a helicopter that is standing still will have the same effect as landing on the ground. To land safely, you need to decelerate gradually. So what does Charles do? He shuts down the helicopter and makes it fall in order to almost match the speed of Henry and Ellie; then, after the two safely board the vehicle, he makes sure to gradually slow down the fall until they come to an halt. This means that Charlie had to calculate the exact trajectory and speed of everyone involved. There is a reason why Charles is one of the most experienced pilots of the Government.
    • Also becomes awesome when you remember that one of the fails back in Complex involved Henry dropping down, only for Charles not to get him because they didn't plan it out. Now that they DID spend an extensive amount of time discussing the plan, Charles knows exactly what to do, and helps Henry and Ellie pull off a flawless plan.
    • One for a one-shot Toppat member, Kabbitz, in the "Fusion" FAIL. In the middle of the Toppat cafeteria, Henry and Ellie fuse into Ellry, which was pretty awesome on its own. But then Kabbitz comes forward and boasts that even fused they couldn't beat him and he proceeds to handily beat them down.
  • Thief/Dead route. Ending: SSR (Stickmin Space Resort): Henry storms the Toppat base via scooter and steals the entire Orbital Station. With nothing but a motorized scooter, a hammer and a rifle. One year later, he's turned it into the first ever space bound resort staffed by reformed Toppat members that were on the space station when Henry stole it.
    B. Hampton: You may wonder: Why did he steal a criminal clan's rocket and decide to turn it into a resort? We may never know… But hey, you wouldn't be here if that didn't happen. Enjoy your stay.
    • Special mention goes to the moment where Henry manages to smash a sniper shot in mid-air with a hammer. This creates a large enough shockwave for the glass ceiling below him to shatter, allowing him to commandeer the rocket.
      • He doesn't just smash the bullet; he sends it back and hits the sniper. Who was at the other side of the valley.
  • Thief/Ghost route. Ending: JB (Jewel Baron): Henry breaks into the orbital station via modified scooter. After making it to the Toppat's vault and taking the Emerald, not only does he kill the Right Hand Man, he also uses the Emerald to reflect the Toppat's orbital superweapon, Supreme Dominance, back at them, destroying the station and also killing Reginald when his escape pod crashes into Henry. Henry then escapes back to Earth using Reginald's escape pod and gets away clean with a third massive jewel that's likely worth hundreds of millions of dollars, which he proudly shows off along with the other two gems in the ending shot. At this point in the timeline, Henry is all but set for life.
  • Bounty/Dead route. Ending: LNE (Little Nest Egg): Henry rams the Toppat train with his tank, enters the money car, defeats the conductor of the train, Mr MacBeth by using a mirror to disintegrate him with his own Energy Weapon, and escapes with all of the Toppats' money via rafting the money cart down the river. He then stashes all of it in a hidden place only he knows about.
  • Thief/Allies route. After their escape, Henry and Ellie flee to the Toppat base with the Wall in pursuit... but the base is under siege. They manage to make it to the rocket despite interference from all factions. They are now cornered inside the rocket, and have to choose between Charles, the Toppats, The Wall or no one. Two choices lead to an ending.
    • Ending: PP (Pardoned Pals): The two team with Charles and take down the Toppat rocket (and Grigori and Dimitri by extension), earning themselves a pardon from Galeforce, with the two celebrating via drinking in the end screen.
    • Ending: TR (Toppat Recruits): Henry and Ellie decide to side with the Toppat Clan. They use a pair of AK-47s that Reginald and the RHM pass to them to gun down Grigori and Dimitri while the RHM fires at Charles's helicopter, forcing Charles to retreat. Dimitri, who survived getting shot, tries to kill Henry and Ellie, but is thrown to his death. For their gusto (and Henry's promise to return the ruby he stole), Henry and Ellie are recruited into the clan.
    • You gotta give props to The Wall. They’re able to chase two convicts on a motorcycle all the way to a jungle, with nothing but a few tanks. Pretty impressive when you consider they were all the way up in Canada, and the Dogobogo Jungle is somewhere in South America.
      • Special mention goes to Dimitri. He put up a good fight, and nearly won, if not for Henry quickly dodging his hit, which allowed him to grab Dimitri and throw him to his death. That dodge-and-throw itself is a moment of awesome for Henry.
  • Executive/Dead route. Ending: T4L (Toppat 4 Life): Henry sneaks onboard a Government helicopter bound for the staging area for the raid on the Toppat's jungle base. He then sneaks into the Government's camp and scrambles a MASSIVE red tank called "Big Boy", sending it on a rampage and causing enough chaos for the Center for Chaos Containment to take notice. Their solution, a massive egg-shaped mech dubbed the G.A.B.E.G.G.c causes so much panic among the Government forces that the general is forced to call for a full retreat. During the retreat, Henry hijacks a Government tank and drives it to the Toppat base where he passes a walkie talkie to Reginald while the general is still broadcasting his retreat order. With the proof that Henry protected the entire clan, he earns Reginald's respect which cements his position as Toppat leader.
  • Government/Ghost route. Ending: CeO (Cleaned 'em Out): Henry sneaks aboard the Toppat train, avoids death by tunnel and makes it into the rocket by hiding inside a beer box. With the aid of Gadget Gabe's inventions, he drives out of the rocket, escaping with EVERYTHING the clan has.
  • Bounty/Rescue route. Ending: MBH (Master Bounty Hunter): Henry and a squad of hand-picked soldiers are sent in on a special mission to eliminate the rebuilt Right Hand Man. Although the rest of the squad are KIA, Henry defeats the Right Hand Man once more and escapes with him in tow. The government cleans up most of the remaining Toppat members in the ensuing panic. Charles offhandedly comments on Henry’s bounty hunting prowess, giving him the idea to become a full-time bounty hunter, with the ending shot being Henry with a knife on his back and bullets around his body deciding his next target.
    • For a villainous moment, one of the potential FAILs has Henry rewire the Right Hand Man into helping him take down the Toppat Clan. They make it to Sven Svensson who, while confused about the sitation, reminds Right Hand Man that he's their leader and that Henry was the one responsible for Reginald's arrest. RHM promptly throws Henry out the window after giving him a rather menacing Death Glare.
  • Bounty/Allies route. Ending: CG (Capital Gains): Henry and Ellie use Henry’s tank to attack the Toppat’s transport train in a plan to make off with all of their cash. Despite the Right Hand Man’s interference, the two criminals team up on him in vein of the infamous Wombo Combo and ending with a dual Stickmin PAUNCH. Henry and Ellie get away with all the Toppat's money.
  • Even the routes that end in more bittersweet manners have this.
    • Government/Dead route. Ending: VH (Valiant Hero) has Charles save Henry from a desperate Toppat, sacrificing his chance of escape to allow Henry to get away and subsequently dying when the station explodes.
    • Executive/Ghost route, Ending: TCW (Toppat Civil Warfare) has not one but three for Ellie, as she not only broke out of the Wall herself, being the second person to do so (the first being Henry) and less than three days after Henry did, but also follows Henry stealthily to the Airship intent on exacting her revenge, providing the perfect opportunity for Reginald to discredit Henry in front of the Clan and retake his role as leader. Furthermore, the ending picture implies Ellie takes charge of the Clan after Henry and the loyalists (and Dave) accidentally took out Reginald and the Right Hand Man in their escape.
    • Executive/Betrayed route. Ending: R (Revenged): Practically everything. As the title implies, it's a route where Henry seeks revenge against Reginald and the Toppat Clan for betraying him in Complex, but it's also so hilariously over the top and Animesque that you can't help but love it. It starts with Henry becoming a cyborg and tracking the Toppat Clan down, and only escalates from there.
      • "Spirit Forme" leads into a fight scene that fits right in with JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. Both Henry and Right Hand Man battle with cybernetic Sta- er, "Spirits". Right Hand Man's Time In A Bottle slows the flow of time while Henry's "Reference" can swap with its user and punch people into alternate timelines. Henry eventually gains the upper hand by sending them into a timeline where the two have never even met each other, which is revealed to be a Hope Spot when Right Hand Man freezes time (as his Spirit isn't part of his cybernetics) and prepares to shoot Henry point-blank. It finishes with the famous "To Be Continued" meme. That's right, an epic fight scene like that was relegated to a Fail!
      • "Gun Forme" has Henry turn his arm into a gatling laser, which Right Hand Man dodges and tears through him with a Kamehame Hadoken.
        Right Hand Man: Nothin personal, kid.
      • "Blade Forme" predictably leads into the two turning their arms into swords but that doesn't make it any less awesome, especially when the two take the fight into air.
      • The fight eventually progresses to a point where Right Hand Man summons a large red energy sphere as his Finishing Move. Henry has three options, all of which are awesome to varying degrees. The correct option is Henry using a Y-type Move to completely rip through it. The baseball bat actually manages to repel the blast far enough that it goes around the planet. The "Absorb" option is this for both characters. For Henry, he actually manages to nearly absorb the whole blast and for Right Hand Man, this attack actually manages to be one of the few things to kill Henry in a serious manner.
      • There's even one for both Henry and Reginald. Henry singlehandedly takes down the rebuilt Right Hand Man for good this time and foils the Toppat's space station plan at the same time, bringing down the entire Toppat Clan and completing his mission of revenge. Reginald has his own by getting one last shot in, lethally wounding Henry and ensuring he doesn't escape unscathed from the crash.
      • One of the failures in the last choice involves Henry deciding to make absolutely sure that Reginald dies, even if it means dying in the process. How? By grabbing Reginald by the neck, flying to the Toppat rocket, and holding him in place until the airship crashes directly into them. Even the FAIL messages can't find it in themselves to snark about it; all it has to offer is Pogchamps.

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