History Awesome / KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords

'''Exile:''' You are responsible for the murder of an entire planet.

** On the light-side path, saving Hanharr then forcing him to kneel, putting a berserker Wookiee whose idea of a life-debt is to kill the one he owes it to under her heel. Contrast with the relationship a ''dark side'' Exile can have with him: eventually they swear to become each others' [[BloodBrothers blood brother]].

-->'''Kavar:''' There is hope... It is faint, but it is growing stronger. I think my message was received.\\

-->'''Kavar:''' I think [[FromBadToWorse the situation has gotten even worse]].\\

* When Goto has captured the Exile, a plan is hatched to obtain access to Goto's ship by making the Ebon Hawk broadcast the ID of one of Goto's freighters. The only problem is, as Mira tells the others, those can only be found in a warehouse that's locked down and operated completely by droids. SmashCut to T3-M4 at the entrance of the warehouse, ''somehow'' ahead of everyone else as he is in the middle of a ruse of being sold to help operate the place.

** The first trial that greets you as soon as you enter makes the Exile relive the past Malak trying to recruit the Jedi to the Mandalorian War. Naturally, you are posed the question of what you would do, with the benefit of hindsight -- join Malak and Revan to end the war sooner, or stay loyal to the Council at the cost of a prolonged war? But for those not interested in the Light-Dark dichotomy, a third option is "I wouldn't do anything differently. My choices have made me the person I am today."

** The Restored Content mod implements an actual fight against said sisters, and guess what? Atris even cruelly comments upon it as it unfolds, expecting the poor Handmaiden to [[YouBastard kill her sisters]] and then shortly fall to the dark side that way. Fortunately, Handmaiden internally repeats a previous lesson about whether one wants to kill, then let their fury fly free, but to do the opposite and merely incapacitate them instead, one needs to properly apply only enough force to render them unconscious, with the TSLRCM mod making so that, if the Handmaiden lowers their HP enough, they'll simply remain stunned for the duration of the fight and vice versa.
-->'''[[LightIsNotGood Atris]]:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29PGIeMcxTs#t=29m45s We shall see what the Exile has taught.]] If she kills her sisters, then the [[TheDarkSide Dark Side]] will have its claim on her. Yet if she does not, then she will die. [[ForTheEvulz Such is sacrifice.]]
-->'''Handmaiden:''' (internally) The true test of battle is how much force to bring against opponents - if you wish to kill them, [[TheGlovesComeOff do not hold back.]] But if you wish to [[NonLethalKO stun them, incapacitate them]], then you must choose your attacks carefully, using just the right amount of force, just the right weapon, to stop them.

* The endgame of ''[=KOTOR=] II'' is a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for the Exile, who assaults an entire Sith academy, killing numerous Sith Assassins, Marauders, and Lords ''singlehandedly.'' Sit down, Palpatine, the Exile is the ''true'' master of Force Lightning.
** Or Force Wave. Tossing around entire rooms of Sith at the wave of a hand is ''awesome''.
** Death Field and Force Scream. Lightning does more pure damage than either, but Death Field makes you functionally invulnerable and Force Scream can hit huge areas even early on (it is infinitely hilarious to kill not only the people in your current room but the next one over).
** Another badass dark side way to clear Trayus is Insanity followed by Force Crushing everyone in the room. Sure its not very efficient, but nothing says "I'm more powerful than you can possibly imagine" like slowly killing your way through a room of opponents that can't do a thing about it.
** Or, using Force Enlightenment to turbo-boost yourself, then marauding through everyone with a lightsaber. [[DualWield Or two]].
* Killing Sion by actually TalkingTheMonsterToDeath. Particular when he questions how they had the strength to defeat him, when they were offered ultimate power after Malachor V, they instead ran away like a coward? The Exile replies that ''true'' strength is when offered ultimate power, choosing to walk away from it. To surrender to it only turns a person into its slave... like ''Sion'' is!

* One of the restored sequences involves Kreia teaching you how to fight. She does this by having you fight against Visas with increasingly difficult limitations: first, with one lightsaber, then with two, and then ''unarmed''. Note that you do all of this without items ''or'' Force powers, and Visas heals between each and every fight.
** The game is admittedly very generous with unarmed combat feats, and even when fully-leveled Visas has the weakest combat abilities of any party member. But still awesome from a story perspective.

* The Handmaiden's fight against her sisters on Telos is playable in the Restored Content Mod, and it's the perfect time to revel in your power if you've taken the effort to optimize her. However, you have to be careful if you only want to knock them out rather than kill them.

* HK-47 makes his way to Malachor V, [[BigDamnHeroes where he rescues Bao-Dur's remote from G0-T0]] who cornered it to prevent it from reactivating the Mass Shadow Generator. If the HK-51s were activated and turned to your side, two units arrive with HK-47 to confront G0-T0, who [[SmugSnake still believes that they're there to help him and not their predecessor unit and thus that he still has the upper hand]]. HK-57 OutGambitted a [[TheChessmaster scheming, manipulative crimelord]] who had been manipulating politics and criminal organizations on a galactic scale for years.

* If you have enough influence with your Jedi party members, they'll go to Trayus Academy and attack Darth Traya, menacingly threatening her as they surround her. She still ends up [[CurbStompBattle Curb-stomping]] them, but that they had the sheer ''balls'' to attack her, having a vague expectation of her powers and manipulativeness is pretty awesome.

* It's not often that the player gets to achieve a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome in dialogue, but the conversation with Atris in the return to the Telos Academy allows you to virtually dethrone her on the debating field- whatever way you please. Here's just one way in particular:

'''Atris:''' (Enraged) How ''dare'' you? The Mandalorian Wars should have been your grave and ''Malachor V is where you should have died!''\\

'''Atris:''' (Flustered) What? What do you mean?\\

* The cave where the Exile sees the visions of their past can be an awesome moment as well. And if going through a cave filled with monsters both real and of their memories was not enough, it all culminates against a fight against an image of Revan themself. The second trial puts the Exile at a situation where they lost a lot of soldiers to a mined-out chokepoint. You can opt to redeem this situation by going forward to disarm the mines, though it's also perfectly valid to just face-tank the mines yourself to clear the path for the soldiers' safety.

* The Handmaiden's fight against her sisters on Telos is playable in the Restored Content Mod, and its the perfect time to revel in your power if you've taken the effort to optimize her. However, you have to be careful if you only want to knock them out rather than kill them.

** The Restored Content mod implements an actual fight against said sisters, and guess what? Atris even cruelly comments upon it, expecting the poor Handmaiden to [[YouBastard kill her sisters]] and then shortly fall to the dark side that way. Fortunately, Handmaiden internally repeats a previous lesson about whether one wants to kill, then let their fury fly free, but to do the opposite and merely incapacitate them instead, one needs to properly apply only enough force to render them unconscious, with the TSLRCM mod making so that, if the Handmaiden lowers their HP enough, they'll simply remain stunned for the duration of the fight and vice versa.

** The Restored Content mod implements an actual fight against said sisters, and guess what? Atris even cruelly comments upon it, even expecting the poor Handmaiden to kill her sisters and then shortly fall to the dark side that way. Fortunately, Handmaiden internally repeats a previous lesson about whether one wants to kill, then let their fury fly free, but to do the opposite and merely incapacitate them instead, one needs to properly apply only enough force to render them unconscious, with the TSLRCM mod making so that, if the Handmaiden lowers their HP enough, they'll simply remain stunned for the duration of the fight and vice versa.

** The Restored Content mod implements an actual fight against said sisters, and guess what? Atris even comments upon it, even expecting the poor Handmaiden to kill her sisters and then shortly fall to the dark side that way. Fortunately, Handmaiden internally repeats a previous lesson about whether one wants to kill, then let their fury fly free, but to do the opposite and merely incapacitate them instead, one needs to properly apply only enough force to render them unconscious, with the TSLRCM mod making so that, if the Handmaiden lowers their HP enough, they'll simply remain stunned for the duration of the fight and vice versa.

-->'''Handmaiden:''' (internally) The true test of battle is how much force to bring against opponents - if you wish to kill them, [[TheGlovesComeOff do not hold back.]] But if you wish to [[NonLethalKO stun them, incapacitate them]], then you must choose your attacks carefully, using just the right amount of force, just the right weapon to stop them.

-->'''[[LightIsNotGood Atris]]:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29PGIeMcxTs#t=29m45s We shall see what the Exile has taught.]] If she kills her sisters, then the [[TheDarkSide Dark Side]] will have its claim on her. Yet if she does not, she will die. [[ForTheEvulz Such is sacrifice.]]

-->'''[[LightIsNotGood Atris]]:''' We shall see what the Exile has taught. If she kills her sisters, then the [[TheDarkSide dark side]] will have its claim on her. Yet if she does not, she will die. [[ForTheEvulz Such is sacrifice.]]

''(Turns to the Exile)'' And that is what I sought to understand. How one could turn away from such power, give up the Force…and still live. But I see what happened now. It is because you were afraid.\\