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Gameplay

  • Some of Double's supers could count as moments of Creepy Awesome for her.
    • One of them involves summoning a legion of decapitated Fortune heads and siccing them on the opponent.
    • Another involves her transforming into every playable character in the game AND THEN SOME, using her various forms and their attacks to juggle her opponent around the room... all by herself. She can either teleport or she's just that fast.
  • There was uproar when the 'Soviet Announcer' pack was removed. But there was much rejoicing in February 2024, when the Soviet Announcer made a triumphant return, now voiced by none other than Gary Schwartz!
    • Doubles as funny, naturally.

Story

  • Peacock gets two during her ending. Destroying the Skullheart, while it attempts to give her a Hannibal Lecture, and proceeding to eliminate the Medici Mob.
  • In Squigly's story, Bloody Marie turning her undead horde into a pair of giant hands to stop a building from falling on New Meridian, and then throwing the building at a fleeing Lorenzo Medici.
    • Also in Squigly's story, Fillia and Samson saving Squigly from Double's sneak attack, and then joining forces with her to destroy Double, in the game's first instance of the player getting a tag-partner in story mode.
    • And just before that, Double tries to turn Squigly against Filia, claiming that she has Medici blood in her veins. Squigly's response?
      Squigly: I'll let her actions speak for her. Not you!
    • Leviathan incinerating Double after learning of its hand in Squigly's death.
  • Ms. Fortune's ending. The Skull Heart is right in front of her and she's ready to use it to resurrect her old friends...but at the last moment, she sees the Skull Heart for the Artifact of Doom that it is. Instead of making her wish and possibly becoming corrupted, she chooses to destroy it so that it can never tempt anybody to The Dark Side again. Even though the Skull Heart seems confident that it will return, it's still awesome.
  • In Fukua's story, the final boss is a souped-up Filia, who starts the fight with a full tension gauge, has about 3 times the defense compared to you, and plays much harder than her AI should be for her difficulty. Winning despite having the odds stacked against you makes this one for the player.
  • Eliza absolutely breezes through her story mode, never once seeming even mildly challenged. Cerebella dies, Ms. Fortune is turned into a snack/slave, Squigly, Double and the Skull Heart all die, Filia and Samson are wrapped in a blood sarcophagus. Eliza then proceeds to have what is basically a Kaiju fight with Bloody Marie. Not bad for a lounge singer.
  • Beowulf comes out of retirement and beats down some of Skullgirls' best —including Valentine and Big Band— without a scratch, showing why he was a hero back in the day. Taken even further when it turns out he was never a hero. And upon finding out Grendel was drugged when he beat him, what does Beowulf do? He beats Double masquerading as him and announces to the people anyway that his glory was all a lie, without caring what it might mean for him. He swears to them that he'll defeat the Skullgirl. Even ending up with Grendel's arm turned against him and getting tag teamed by Marie and Double, he ends up making good in the end, becoming the true hero he'd always wanted to be.
    • Beowulf gets some serious Magnetic Hero points where he manages to make a confession that his best-known fight was rigged and he didn't really win into a Badass Boast.
    • Double points, pardon the pun, in continuing to fight after being Swallowed Whole by Double and it appears she can pull a Majin Buu by endlessly regenerating from her flesh. Beowulf doesn't care, he's not even intimidated despite how stupidly outclassed he is. To wit, everyone else at this point is helplessly trapped in her body, including some of the cast's most powerful, and this is more or less just an athletic guy with a folding chair. Badass Normal doesn't even begin to describe this.
    • All of that is even better. His intro states that since the last Skullgirl, he hasn't fought since his last fight with Grendel. This isn't just some guy with a chair, this is a guy who's been lazing on the couch for a good few years... And he still kicks ass.
  • While minor, Annie's story mode opens with one: Robo-Fortune, in her first canon story appearance!
  • At the near end of Annie's Story mode she's been wounded both mentally (via Double pulling a Break Them by Talking) and physically (Double attacking her when Annie's guard was down) and Double looked ready to kill her when who should save her? Aileen, who performs a Diving Save and is able to avoid being skewered with both Big Band and Florence standing in front of the two girls ready to protect them. When Annie tells them to forget her and run, Aileen gives a strong Rousing Speech, which gives Annie her Heroic Second Wind.
    Aileen: We won't leave you to die. You and Sagan came down here to fight the Skullgirl and this monster all by yourself. You did it so the rest of us wouldn't get hurt. But you don't have to fight alone! We all want to help you, Annie. Because you inspired us to be better. To do better. To persevere against monsters like that! So please, you have to get up!
  • Painwheel finally breaking completely free of Brain Drain's control and regaining her old personality in Umbrella's story with some help from Umbrella's unique Skullgirl blood. For added karma, it's implied that Painwheel severing their mental link was very painful for Brain Drain.
  • Umbrella gets one when she manages to overturn Parasoul's story-mode ending by refusing the Skull Heart's temptations and destroying it (with some help from her sister).
  • Black Dahlia's story mode is practically a non-stop train of Villainous CMoAs. Let's put it like this: it starts with her going after and handily defeating Marie and refraining from destroying the Skull Heart because (A), its pleas to allow its continued existence such that Dahlia might eventually find a worthy wish amuse her, and (B), letting word spread of the Skull Heart's exact location allows bodies for Dahlia's pile - most notably her other target, Ms. Fortune - to strut right on into her den. And things only escalate from there.
    • By the end of her story, Dahlia has killed/destroyed/re-killed Marie, Squigly, Valentine, Painwheel, Robo-Fortune, Vitale, Lorenzo, Fukua, somehow in this timeline by way of Divine Intervention, and Eliza, who, to remind everyone, is a nigh-immortal being with supernatural powers. She also manages to nearly kill Brain Drain, who only evades death because of a failsafe that lets him to pull a Villain: Exit, Stage Left. And this is just all the major characters we see her fight or murder on-screen — her causing Marie to drop the piece of Medici Tower she was holding up killed thousands of innocents, and who knows if any of the other fighters happened into her den offscreen!
    • The fact that Dahlia, of all characters, is the first to make a truly pure wish on the Skull Heart. "Pure" never necessarily meant "good", after all, and while New Meridian is in shambles following her rampage, the Skull Heart is gone, which means no more Skullgirls. ...Hooray?
  • The introduction of Marie as a playable character implies that her will and/or The Power of Friendship with Peacock is so strong, she's able to survive even after the Skull Heart is destroyed.
    • Better yet, Marie's inclusion means we now have all of the "Essential Three" required for a canon story mode. And it only took one season of DLC.
  • One of Marie's teasers shows her declaring that she'll be the last Skullgirl. Thousands of years of Regularly Scheduled Evil, and Marie wants to end it all. Our girl's looking bigger than just wiping out the Medicis...

The Webcomic

  • Episode 2 is one big moment of awesome for both Parasoul and Ms. Fortune. The cat thief manages to give the Egrets the slip throughout only for Parasoul to keep on her tail. To begin, Ms. Fortune escapes through a ceiling window only for Parasoul to follow by having Panzerfaust launch her out. Then Parasoul attempts to stop Fortune by running away by having Kreig set a wall of fire to block her path. Fortune responds by tossing the briefcase toward the fire so she can escape, and Parasoul manages to save the briefcase.
  • Episode 3
    • The comic opens up to an Egrets sparring session. Molly delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle to Adam.
    • Molly manages to hold her own briefly in a sparring match against Parasoul. She still loses, but even the way she is beaten is impressive.
  • Episodes 10-11 features the fight between Parasoul and Peacock.
  • Episode 14 finally shows us HOW the Fishbone gang steal the life gem and it is hilarious as it is awesome. Taking advantage of Black Dahlia and Cerebella's absence, most of the gang pretended to be the cleaning crew as there boss uses an inactive Ottomo to force Lorenzo to take a shower. Special props goes to Nadia as she is silent as a mouse but graceful, agile and balance like an actual cat, as she was able to remove the life gem off Lorenzo neck as he was taking a shower. He comes out of it, aging rapidly only to discover he's been burgled.
    Lorenzo: Ottomo, you fixed that bug of yours yet? Need your help looking for something. I think I lost... (see the state of his penthouse completely ransacked and Ottomo propped up as a makeshift statue holding knocked out Tom) ...I... I lost... EVERYTHING!

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