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  • Angela hacking Kendra's computer and forcing it to crash. The fact she counted down before "the cursing and screaming" implies she knew this was exactly how Kendra was going to react.
    • Kendra's reaction to her computer crashing is pretty damn hilarious, even if you can barely make out what she's saying.
    • When the IT worker arrives to work on Kendra's computer, he mimes shooting himself in the head as he walks past Angela.
  • When Trevor asks her for her name, Angela tells him to just call her Kovacs as her codename, which Trevor compares to his pet turtle, who is also named Kovacs. When Angela clarifies that she based the name off Arpad Kovacs, the scientist who ran "Architects of Tomorrow", Trevor tells her he's also a fan of him and named his turtle after him.
    Angela: Dude, why do you keep bringing your turtle into this conversation?!
    Trevor: Well... I-I just thought... ah, forget it.
  • To claim his AccessBadge, Trevor needs to block an AutoDroid inside the suite's bathroom, whereupon it starts complaining in its same Machine Monotone, whining "Noooo" and that it hates its life. If you let it out again afterwards, it happily greets "Ms. Lauren" and continues preparing the room.
  • Despite being a do-or-get-arrested situation, Angela rushing around her apartment to hastily hide all the evidence of her membership in Breakout feels like a teenager trying to clean her room before their parent loses patience and opens the door.
  • Near the end of Trevor's escape from the facility he was held captive in, he gets cornered by a few Interceptors and Marcus after the drones that were protecting him were suddenly deactivated. In a panic, Trevor tells Angela (using her codename) to "do something." At this point, Angela has to activate a hatch beneath Trevor and Marcus that sends them both falling. During the interview, Trevor says that Angela obviously knew that there wasn't a big drop underneath the hatch, which is why she opened it. It cuts to Angela's interview immediately afterwards and makes it apparent that this was never the case.
    Angela: What? He said "Kovacs, do something!", and I did the first thing that came into my mind!
  • The confrontation between Angela and Marcus in the latter's office goes from stress-inducing to downright hilarious in seconds the moment Angela holds Marcus at gunpoint with a taser.
    Angela: Do not come close! What does the failsafe button do?
    Marcus: Drop the gun, Miss Solano.
    Angela: Tell me! Tell me or I'll... I'll shoot you!
    Marcus: I know when someone has what it takes to pull the trigger just by looking in their eyes. And you don't have the guts, Miss Sol-
    Angela: (fires the taser)
    Marcus: AAAAAHHHH!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!! You weren't supposed to shoot me, you crazy bitch!!! Aaaaw!!! It HURTS!!!
    Angela: Hey... What happened to your Darth Vader voice, you freaking weirdo?
    Marcus: What? Wait I-I...
    Angela: Who the hell ARE YOU!?!?
    Marcus: I-I'm Terry Robinson. I'm just an actor!
    Angela: What the fu-
  • If you're a Twitch streamer or someone who frequently watches them, Trevor's final run to the Arcadia Spire is one long funny moment thanks to the AA Live! stream chat. They realistically spam emotes, wonder who the hell Trevor is, complain if he loiters somewhere too long, and reference every memetic phrase under the sun.
  • At one point in the wetlands, Trevor has to lure an Interceptor onto some unstable planks and make him fall down. Apparentely, this guy broke his leg as a few Interceptors comment about it in one of Angela's sections. Then, come Trevor's climb up the Arcadia Spire and Trevor mocks the Interceptors chasing him with this fact.
    Trevor: Hey! How is your buddy with the broken leg doing? Send him my regards!
    Interceptor 1: What did you just say, you asshole?
    Interceptor 2: Please, remember to adhere to official Interceptor terminology!
    Interceptor 1: Shut up! This is personal now!
    Trevor: Oh, now it's personal? Well gooood...
  • Trevor's nonchalant explanation of what he's doing during his second elevator ride with the tourist couple.
    Tourist: You're going to the restaurant too?
    Trevor: No, I'm going to the top of the Arcadia Spire to destroy the city.
    Tourist: O-oh... okay.
    Trevor: I guess I got a little bit tired of the good old '70s. But hey, you two enjoy your dinner.
  • At the end of the game, Vivian tells Trevor in private to make a public statement that his life was never in danger throughout the game. Before this happens, it cuts to Trevor in the present being asked by Angela why he did what he did in that very moment. You'd think Trevor did some despicable act, but no, what he did was a lot tamer and a lot funnier: he walks up to the podium, stares directly at the camera filming him and, in the most aggravated voice Yuri Lowenthal could muster, points at the camera and shouts:
    "LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!"
    • The sheer fact that this was because Vivian made a poor choice of words, which was to tell Trevor to not be a fool.
    • Even Vivian was taken aback by this, like this was the last thing she expected him to say.
    • The credits reveal that American Arcadia made merch off this very moment.
  • The end credits reveal a number of funny (and some Black Comedy) post-game developments:
    • A tabloid cover features a headline saying, "Reptilians kidnapped my grandpa!"
    • Terry Robinson goes on to star in a movie called Apocalypsaurus, with the tagline, "The final battle between man and dinosaur has begun".
    • Kendra created a tell-all book about her side of the story. The title? A Traitor Among Us.

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