Awesome / NieR

• The super-powered finishers Nier does at the end of every boss fight.
  • Special mention to the final fight with the Knave of Hearts, when Nier stops playing around and kills it, once and for all, by strangling it with Dark Hand.
    • The post-timeskip rematch with the Knave of Hearts counts in its entirely. The Knave is more aggressive, but Nier's attacks tear through the beast's health. It does a great job of highlighting how much stronger Nier has gotten in the past five years.
  • Ending the fight against Wendy. First, Nier creates a massive Dark Lance, and Emil bores a hole through Wendy's tentacle armor. They both put everything they have into this attack...which culminates in dozens of Dark Lances skewering Wendy from the inside out. Then the waterfalls of blood happen.
• When the player finally gets to see in-game the scene that goes along with Kainé's dialogue at startup.
  Kainé: [to Weiss] Now pull your head out of your goddamn ass and start fucking helping us!
• Father Nier's reaction when he sees the Knaves of Hearts tearing the door down.
  Weiss: Dear lord, what is that thing?
  Nier: Something that's gonna die.
• Sechs, King of Façade, turns into a walking Moment of Awesome in the second half of the game.
  • Leading a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against the wolf pack living in the desert.
  • Personally spearing Roc, the Shade-possessed wolf.
  • His out-of-nowhere Big Damn Heroes moment in The Very Definitely Final Dungeon, which culminates in him doing what even Nier and company couldn't do: killing the Nigh-Invulnerable Mother Goose.
• Emil gets one near the end of the game, when Popola goes murderously insane after Devola dies and tries to kill everyone with one final attack, he splits the shield bubble he and his friends were in in two to save them from it, and just as it seems the black Sphere of Destruction is going to shatter his bubble and kill him, Emil goes berserk once more and obliterates it with his own, incinerating Popola and reducing what remained of her home to a crater. As Ending B and NieR: Automata would reveal, Emil survived and went on to live far longer than anyone else.
• Ending E from the remaster has Kainé defeat her memory of Hook, overcome her traumas, and return Nier from his Cessation of Existence all while asserting that she's the only one who decides what her life is worth and she's bringing Nier back whether he likes it or not.
  Nier: ...iné... ...Don't... ...go back... Don't...
  Kainé: Shut up, shut up, shut up! I already made up my mind! Nobody tells me what to do! I swore I would be a sword! I swore I would be YOUR sword! Do you hear me!? So I am going to get you back, and I don't care what it takes! Who the FUCK do you think you are to just up and disappear like that, huh? I'M the one who gets to decide what my life means to me. It's MY life and I'll do whatever I want with it! So quit wasting time like a brainless fuckwit and GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE NOW!

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