Awesome / Mass Vexations

• When Shepard gets a particularly bad hand injury, Art volunteers to pilot the Mako. There's a great sense of accomplishment when he gets them to the Conduit without failing. It also helps that said crowning moment of awesome is the cap of Art's development into a valuable asset on Shepard's team.
• He gets another one when he gives a combined Dare to Be Badass Do Not Go Gentle speech to Saren. Even more so when he doesn't lose his nerve over it.
• Tali's Loyalty mission is one giant CMOA for Art. After a very bad case of Poor Communication Kills with Tali, he, Thane and Kasumi steal the shuttle, fly over to the Alarei on their own, fight through all the Geth there, SAVE RAEL'ZORAH, and then come back to verbally tear the admirals a new one in an even more awesome speech than the one in the game.
• During the Rite, Grunt kills the Thresher Maw with a shotgun, much in the same way he does in one of the HD trailers for the game.
• At the end of Project Overlord, Art gets to live a personal fantasy of all of us who played it and beats the shit out of Gavin, the director of the whole thing. In canon, not even the Renegade option would allow us to do that!
  • Especially because Art has an autistic brother, Augie, and the thought of anyone doing such a horrific thing to their own brother makes him both furious and horrified (that, and David apparently looks a bit like Augie- it's no wonder Art snapped).