History Awesome / RazorsEdge

* After Tali has a grenade explode in front of her face, Shepard goes into TranquilFury mode and completely kicks the Shadow Broker's ass without weapons. BetterThanCanon indeed.

* During the suicide mission Shepard is pinned behind enemy lines with [[spoiler: Tali, Samara and Jack]], making his [[LastStand last stand]].

* [[spoiler: After Tali has a grenade explode in front of her face,]] Shepard goes into TranquilFury mode and completely kicks the Shadow Broker's ass without weapons. BetterThanCanon indeed.

* The epic conclusion of the BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind against Ghost!Saren. [[spoiler: Saren is DrivenToSuicide. [[CallBack Again.]] It's not every day you see a hallucination do that.]]

-->'''Saren''': "Maybe one human can. [[spoiler: Goodbye, Shepard."]]
-->[[spoiler: ''Saren turns the gun upwards, places it under his own chin, [[CallBack and pulls the trigger.]]'']]
* The [[spoiler:Rachni]] [[TheCavalry arriving at the battle of the Citadel]] and turning a slow loss into a CurbStompBattle.
* Just as Kai Leng is about to finish off Thane, in full view of the Council and most of the Normandy crew, Shepard makes his [[spoiler: triumphant return from the dead]] by disarming Leng, shattering his wrist, then using his fist and stabbing Kai Leng with an unheard of biotic power!
-->'''Kai Leng''': [[spoiler: You're dead, Shepard! I saw the reports! From your own crew...''you were dead''!]]

* Shepard's speech to the Citadel after his [[spoiler:return from the dead]], especially the last bit:
-->"My name is Johnathan Shepard. [[spoiler:Twice]] the galaxy has declared me dead, but I still endure. I fight for the future of not just the Council or the Alliance, but for all sapient life in this galaxy. The Reapers [[AGodAmI think of themselves as gods.]] They would have us submit to slaughter because they demand it. But I stand before you now to deliver a single message."

** Zaeed pulls off [[spoiler: a big time DyingMomentOfAwesome when he volunteers to be a sacrifice to clear out the hundreds-strong horde of Adjutants blocking the way to Afterlife by detonating an explosive that ruptures a plasma conduit and floods the whole area with superheated plasma. After, of course, making sure to down almost a dozen of them with [[ImprobableAimingSkills pinpoint shot from a pair of pistols.]] Even better is that this explosion kills all the Adjutants that were the cause of Nyreen's death in the game, so she survives the assault.]]

** Kai Leng's death is even better than it was in the game. [[spoiler: OffWithHisHead]]
* The final battle on Earth plays out rather differently than in the game, mostly due to the fact that the rachni and geth play a much bigger role in it. Perhaps the most impressive moment is the reworked scene from the Extended Cut when the ''Normandy'' comes to save Garrus and Tali from the rush to the Conduit: Harbinger is about to blow everyone away, [[spoiler: but the rachni queen's hiveship [[GunshipRescue shows up and hits Harbinger with a biotic blast so powerful it momentarily knocks it offline]], and eventually [[RammingAlwaysWorks smashes into Harbinger full force]], permanently putting the Reaper out of commission [[HeroicSacrifice at the cost of the queen's life.]]]]

-->"[[WorldOfCardboardSpeech I have seen gods die.]]"

** When they finally make it into Afterlife, General Petrovsky unleashes [[DidntSeeThatComing an experimental, hulking beast of an Adjutant]] that is [[LightningBruiser far stronger and faster]] than the hordes they've been battling. [[ShootingSuperman Gunfire tickles it.]] [[NoSell Biotics don't even make it flinch.]] It's unstoppable... except that Miranda knows the best weapon to use is ''physics.'' Specifically, reinforced alloy rods a quarter-inch thick, with biotically reduced mass traveling at a thousand meters/second, and said biotic field removed at the last moment = dead Adjutant.

** Javik takes on a wave of Adjutants on Omega with a [[{{BFG}} Revenant machine gun.]] No wait, with ''[[GunsAkimbo two of them.]]'' Then after their [[{{Overheating}} barrels have melted from the sustained fire]], he goes back to his [[FrickinLaserBeams Particle Rifle]] while declaring the Revenants were [[CulturalPosturing "sufficient."]]

** One standout that does not appear in canon is Shepard and crew being saved from a ZergRush of Geth by Kal'Reegar and a squad of Quarians [[BigDamnHeroes at the last possible moment]]. Reegar [[CarFu crashes his transport]] into a Geth dropship for added awesome. Even better, a scene very similar to this was actually found in the November 2011 ME3 script leak but it never made it into the game.

* Shepard fights Weyrloc Guld in a [[DuelBoss one-on-one match]] while Kasumi, Thane, and Mordin are busy [[LockedOutOfTheFight dealing with his lackeys.]] Shepard wins with the help of his still-untrained biotic powers. After seeing their boss die, the rest of the krogan pause and figure it's probably best to let [[{{Badass}} the guy]] who killed their leader [[KnowWhenToFoldEm take his friends with him and go.]]

** Kai Leng's death is even better than it was in the game. [[spoiler: OffWithHisHead]]

** One standout that does not appear in canon is Shepard and crew being saved from a ZergRush of Geth by Kal'Reegar and a squad of Quarians [[BigDamnHeroes at the last possible moment]]. Reegar [[CarFu crashes his transport]] into a Geth dropship for added awesome.

** Zaeed pulls off [[spoiler: a big time DyingMomentOfAwesome when he volunteers to be a sacrifice to clear out the hundreds-strong horde of Adjutants blocking the way to Afterlife by detonating an explosive that ruptures a plasma conduit and floods the whole area with superheated plasma. After, of course, making sure to down almost a dozen of them with [[ImprobableAimingSkills pinpoint shot from a pair of pistols.]]]]

** When they finally make it into Afterlife, General Petrovsky unleashes [[DidntSeeThatComing an experimental, hulking beast of an Adjutant]] that is [[LightningBruiser far stronger and faster]] than the hordes they've been battling. [[ShootingSuperman Gunfire tickles it.]] [[NoSell Biotics don't even make it flinch.]] It's unstoppable... except that Miranda knows the best weapon to use is ''physics.'' Specifically, reinforced alloy rods a quarter-inch thick, with biotically reduced mass traveling at a thousand meters/second, and said biotic field removed at the last moment = dead Adjutant.

* Shepard calms Grunt down from his blood rage by standing his ground when Grunt charges him, flipping Grunt over him and slamming Grunt into the floor. Shepard then jams a pistol into Grunt's neck and stares him down until Grunt cools off.

* After meeting the Rachni Queen on Utukku, Shepard must make the choice of whether to spare her or kill her. However, the Queen has [[CrazyPrepared prepared]] for both eventualities, and offers Shepard her own choice: let her live and she will stand with the combined galactic forces and unleash the full might of the rachni against the Reapers... or kill her, and set in motion a massive ThanatosGambit that will guarantee the Reapers' destruction in the next cycle.

-->'''Reaper''': "'''[[NothingCanStopUsNow You cannot stop us, small machine]]. [[NoSell Your attacks cannot harm us]]. [[HannibalLecture You are merely an anomaly]].'''"

* After the Cerberus siege of the Citadel has been repelled, Garrus goes frantically searching for Kasumi, who was badly injured by a bomb. Once he tracks her down to the hospital she was taken to, he identifies the turian doctor who was operating on her and asks how she's doing. Said doctor assumes her injuries are the result of [[DestructoNookie rough sex]] and has a less than approving opinion of InterspeciesRomance. Garrus puts him in his place:

** One standout that does not appear in canon is Shepard and crew being saved from a ZergRush of geth by Kal'Reegar and a squad of quarians [[BigDamnHeroes at the last possible moment]]. Reegar [[CarFu crashes his transport]] into a geth dropship for added awesome.
* After being ignored by the other admirals, then nearly killed on Rannoch and forced to abandon his men, then faced with Han'Gerrel's stubborn refusal to back down in the face of death, [[RageBreakingPoint Zaal'Koris has had enough]].

** When they finally make it into Afterlife, General Petrovsky unleashes [[DidntSeeThatComing an experimental, hulking beast of an Adjutant]] that is [[LightningBruiser far stronger and faster]] than the hordes they've been battling. [[ShootingSuperman Gunfire tickles it.]] [[NoSell Biotics don't even make it flinch.]] It's unstoppable... except that Liara knows the best weapon to use is ''physics.'' Specifically, reinforced alloy rods a quarter-inch thick, with biotically reduced mass traveling at a thousand meters/second, and said biotic field removed at the last moment = dead Adjutant.

** Zaeed pulls off [[spoiler: a big time DyingMomentOfAwesome when he volunteers to be a sacrifice to clear out the hundreds-strong horde of Adjutants blocking the way to Afterlife by detonating an explosive that ruptures a plasma conduit and floods the whole area with superheated plasma. After, of course, making sure to down almost a dozen of them with [[ImprobableAimingSkills pinpoint shot from a pair of pistols.]]

--> '''Zaal'Koris''': "If (Shepard won't destroy you,) then I will, Gerrel! You have called me a coward, a suit-wetter, a sympathizer! But I am ''Admiral'' and I have not forgotten that our first duty is to our people! With that power and responsibility I am ordering you to stand down or by the Ancestors I will be the one that orders your ship turned to scrap! This war is ''over''!"

** One standout that does not appear in canon is Shepard and crew being saved from a ZergRush of geth by Kal'Reegar and a squad of quarians [[BigDamnHeroes at the last possible moment]]. Reegar [[CarFu crashes his transport]] into a geth dropship for added awesome.

* The fight against the Reaper on Rannoch is just one awesome moment after another.

--> *Summons '''''[[ZergRush every single one of it's programs...]]*'''''

-->'''Legion''': ''"[[ShutUpHannibal We are not an anomaly.]]"

-->"[[PreMortemOneLiner We are Legion.]]"''

--> *Summons '''''[[ZergRush every single one of it's programs...]]'''''
"[[PreMortemOneLiner We are Legion.]]"''

-->'''Legion''': ''"[[ShutUpHannibal We are not an anomaly.]]" "[[PreMortemOneLiner We are Legion.]]"''

-->'''Daro'Xen''':"Should you not be defending your Admiral, marine?"
-->'''Kal'Reegar''':"I only see four Admirals in this room. And one stupid gen'ro'sa that pissed off the only non-quarian that's given a damn about us in the last three hundred years," the marine responded coolly. "Ma'am."