History Awesome / RazorsEdge

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

* 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.

-->'''Saren''': "Maybe one human can. [[spoiler: Goodbye, Shepard."
-->''Saren turns the gun upwards, places it under his own chin, [[CallBack and pulls the trigger.]]'']]

* The conclusion of the epic 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. Goodbye, Shepard."
-->''[[spoiler: Saren turns the gun upwards, places it under his own chin, [[CallBack and pulls the trigger.]]'']]

-->''Doctor'': "I see. I didn't realize you were... [[FantasticRacism one of those]]. Spectre or not [[DudeNotFunny I resent patching up bedroom accidents in the middle of a crisis.]] Whatever perver-"

-->''Garrus'': "I do not give a damn about your opinions on anything, you backwater colonial [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]], other than on the current medical status of the woman you operated on! Do I make myself clear? If not, I have plenty more petty abuses of power I can get into starting with removing your face-plates with my talons!"

[[spoiler: -->''Saren turns the gun upwards, places it under his own chin, [[CallBack and pulls the trigger.'']]]]

* 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 [[KnowWhenToFoldThem take his friends with him and go.]]

* 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.
-->'''Queen''': If you consign our songs to silence in this place instead, then we cannot awaken our children to fight for you. But we can offer songs of long promised vengeance. Our daughters were sung to sleep with [[GeneticMemory memories]] of the dark-song destroyers. [[SealedGoodInACan They will sleep for thousands of years.]] Time enough for the destroyers to disappear into the void beyond once more. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge When they awake they will know a singular purpose. They will sing retribution-songs.]] They will find the Citadel. They will build and they will swarm. And when the dark-song destroyers return once more it will be to find that [[ZergRush it is our numbers]] [[IronicEcho that darken the skies of every world.]]

* After Tali gets shot, Shepard goes into TranquilFury mode and completely kicks the Shadow Broker's ass without weapons. BetterThanCanon indeed.

-->'''Queen''': We cannot see future-songs, only prepare for them as best we know. Our children sleep with dream-songs of war. [[TheLastDance This is our last promise if we must go into the silence]]: [[TakingYouWithMe the children of the Singing planet will send the dark-song destroyers into the silence as well.]]

-->'''Rachni Queen''': If you consign our songs to silence in this place instead, then we cannot awaken our children to fight for you. But we can offer songs of long promised vengeance. Our daughters were sung to sleep with [[GeneticMemory memories]] of the dark-song destroyers. [[SealedGoodInACan They will sleep for thousands of years.]] Time enough for the destroyers to disappear into the void beyond once more. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge When they awake they will know a singular purpose. They will sing retribution-songs.]] They will find the Citadel. They will build and they will swarm. And when the dark-song destroyers return once more it will be to find that [[ZergRush it is our numbers that darken the skies of every world.]]

-->'''Rachni Queen''': If you consign our songs to silence in this place instead, then we cannot awaken our children to fight for you. But we can offer songs of long promised vengeance. Our daughters were sung to sleep with [[GeneticMemory memories]] of the dark-song destroyers. [{SealedGoodInACan They will sleep for thousands of years.]] Time enough for the destroyers to disappear into the void beyond once more. [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge When they awake they will know a singular purpose. They will sing retribution-songs.]] They will find the Citadel. They will build and they will swarm. And when the dark-song destroyers return once more it will be to find that [[ZergRush it is our numbers that darken the skies of every world.]]

* Kaal'Reegar's line during Shepard's NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of [[GeneralRipper Han'Gerrel]]

-->"My name is Jonathan 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."

* 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 uses his fist and stabs him with an unheard of biotic power!
-->'''Kai Leng''': You're dead, Shepard! I saw the reports! From your own crew...''you were dead''!

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

* 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 triumphant return from the dead by disarming Leng, shattering his wrist, then uses his fist and stabs him with an unheard of biotic power!

* Just as Kai Leng finishes off Thane, in full view of the Council and most of the Normandy crew, Shepard makes his triumphant return from the dead by disarming Leng, shattering his wrist, then uses his fist and stabs him with an unheard of biotic power!

-->'''Kai Leng''': ''You're dead, Shepard! I saw the reports! From your own crew...''you were dead''!''
-->'''Shepard''': ''Death and I have established an equitable working relationship. (creates arm-length '''BIOTIC BLADE''') Why don't I introduce you.''

-->'''Kai Leng''': ''''You're dead, Shepard! I saw the reports! From your own crew...''you were dead''!''''
-->'''Shepard''': '''Death and I have established an equitable working relationship. (creates arm-length '''BIOTIC BLADE''') Why don't I introduce you.'''

-->'''Shepard''': ''''Death and I have established an equitable working relationship. (creates arm-length '''BIOTIC BLADE''') Why don't I introduce you.''''

* Shepard gets a brilliant moment with his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Miranda and Jacob in chapter three of ''Razor's Edge'', where he flat out states that the ''Normandy SR-2'' is '''''his''''' ship, '''''his''''' mission, and that if either of them tries to undermine his authority, he'll "Throw them in the airlock and see if The Illusive Man has enough bugs and failsafes to save them before he hits 'cycle'". Bonus points for delivering this speech [[TheStoic in a calm, cool and collected manner.]]