History Awesome / HorizonZeroDawn

* If you spare Olin, he doesn't just drop off the face of the earth. Sometimes you can find him wandering around; this means it's possible -- unlikely, but possible -- for him to show up when Aloy is being swamped by tons of machines. [[BigDamnHeroes He'll stick around to give a helping hand,]] [[TheAtoner showing he's every bit as good as his word.]]
** Earlier, when Aloy finds Olin at the Eclipse dig site, when Sylens shuts down the Eclipse Focuses (including Olin's), Olin immediately turns on them. As soon as they could no longer see through his eyes and he could freely act against them, he does so with a ''vengeance'', clearly intent on exacting retribution for making him an accessory to their crimes. On top of that, his form of betrayal involves picking up his hammer and wading into melee against ''two Corruptors''.

* If you spare Olin, he doesn't just drop off the face of the earth. Sometimes you can find him wandering around; this means it's possible -- unlikely, but possible -- for him to show up when Aloy is being swamped by tons of machines. [[BigDamnHeroes He'll stick around to give a helping hand,]] [[TheAtoner showing he's every bit as good as his word.]]

*** General Aaron Herres, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and head of USRC; He absolutely made sure that the decisions he had to make and orders he had to give would be remembered. Even after everyone agreed he wasn't at fault, he wanted future generations to learn. Contrast that with Ted Faro who did his best to hide his actions from future generations.

-->'''Amendment to the Record of Redmaw by Inquiring Jandiniman, Historial-in-Residence at the Hunter's Lodge''':
"In time, all creatures fall, all legends fade away. Such it was with Redmaw, deadliest of Thunderjaws. In the summer of the third year of the reign of the Sun-King Avad, Sunhawk Ahsis received word of a sighting and set out after the beast. Talanah, Hawk of the Lodge, went soon after, quickly followed by her Thrush, Aloy of the Nora. Fearing Talanah might take Redmaw first and thus supplant him as Sunhawk, Ahsis resorted to treachery, laying a trap for the Hawk. Nine mercenaries ambushed her, but aided by her Thrush, Talanah defeated them all (six shot, three blasted).
Hawk and Thrush continued after Redmaw, arriving just as the legendary monster took Sunhawk Ahsis out of the fight (lash of the tail). Working together, the two women finally defeated Redmaw in a fight for the ages. Alas, the wounds that Ahsis sustained were mortal (crushed internal organs, [[BringMyBrownPants evidence of bowel failure]]) and he did not live to see Talanah take his place as Sunhawk.
So ends the Record of Redmaw, most murderous of machines."

-->'''Amendment to the Record of Redmaw by Inquiring Jandiniman, Historial-in-Residence at the Hunter's Lodge''':"In time, all creatures fall, all legends fade away. Such it was with Redmaw, deadliest of Thunderjaws. In the summer of the third year of the reign of the Sun-King Avad, Sunhawk Ahsis received word of a sighting and set out after the beast. Talanah, Hawk of the Lodge, went soon after, quickly followed by her Thrush, Aloy of the Nora. Fearing Talanah might take Redmaw first and thus supplant him as Sunhawk, Ahsis resorted to treachery, laying a trap for the Hawk. Nine mercenaries ambushed her, but aided by her Thrush, Talanah defeated them all (six shot, three blasted).Hawk and Thrush continued after Redmaw, arriving just as the legendary monster took Sunhawk Ahsis out of the fight (lash of the tail). Working together, the two women finally defeated Redmaw in a fight for the ages.Alas, the wounds that Ahsis sustained were mortal (crushed internal organs, [[BringMyBrownPants evidence of bowel failure]]) and he did not live to see Talanah take his place as Sunhawk.So ends the Record of Redmaw, most murderous of machines."

* Meta: it seems unbelievable that Creator/GuerrillaGames - most well known as the ''VideoGame/{{Killzone}}'' guys -- decided to make (of all things) an open-world action-RPG hybrid. Just play the game and see for yourself how far the team has come.

-->'''Rost:''' So it's ''not'' just a plaything...

* At the beginning of the game, it's made clear just how dangerous the machines are. And yet Aloy, a SIX YEAR OLD, doesn't hesitate to sneak among a group of hostile machines in order to rescue a boy from a tribe that considers her a curse. Notably, Rost has, up to this point, dismissed Aloy's Focus (the device that lets her scan machinery) as a toy. When she uses it to effortlessly sneak around an entire herd of machines, he changes his tune.

* At the beginning of the game, it's made clear just how dangerous the machines are. And yet Aloy, a SIX YEAR OLD, doesn't hesitate to sneak among a group of hostile machines in order to rescue a boy from a tribe that considers her a curse.

** This really needs to be put in perspective. Your main protagonist is essentially a Native American huntress armed with little more than a bow and a spear, fighting a rhinoceros that can manipulate gravity to throw huge rocks, a giant mole that can tunnel underground like it's swimming through water, a eagle the size of a stealth bomber that can control lightning, and a T. Rex armed with as much firepower as a Navy destroyer. ''And she still wins.''

[[caption-width-right:350: [[CoolVsAwesome A little girl with a bow versus a giant robot hawk that controls lightning. Who wins? The answer might suprise you.]]]]