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** Bandos gets a moment of awesome in possessing Zanik for the first time to kill [[KickTheSonOfABitch Sigmund]].

* From Fate of the Gods:

'''Player:''' Zaros.

** Remember back when this quest was about a plague and some [[ObstructiveBureaucrat annoyingly inefficient public officials]]? The writers of the quest sure do, and they resolve the fate of the people of West Ardougne in the most satisfying way: revolution. The player breaks the truth of the plague and the Death Guard to the people, and they storm the Mourner Headquarters along with all of the [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] from the early quests and kill the Mourners.

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* The [[MakeWayForTheNewVillains Dragonkin arriving and]] [[spoiler: [[CurbStompBattle effortlessly thrashing Lucien]], who was established to be borderline on godhood]].
* Although it happens after [[spoiler:[[TearJerker Guthix's death]]]], watching [[spoiler:Saradomin]] [[NoSell fail]] to teleport you, demonstrating your new [[spoiler:anti-god]] ability was very awesome at the end of [[WhamEpisode The World Wakes]].
** More impressive in that the teleportation spell flawlessly [[spoiler: whisked [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Nex]], [[PlayingWithFire Char]], and several renewed strong Mahjarrat ]]. [[spoiler: Saradomin]] has good reason to be surprised.

** Furthermore, at the end of the Graardor fight, the rules of the tournament say that the loser becomes the winner's lieutenant in the army; meaning Graardor now answers to Zanik. The bandosians respond by [[spoiler: bringing Zanik into the arena and forcing you to kill her to prove you are a worthy warrior; but you can choose not to. The result of sparing her is that se becomes the leader of all Bandosians and resolves to move them to their home plane of Yu-bi'usk.]]

* Almost everyone knows by now that Sliske is a manipulative sadistic sneaky narcissistic god-killer who is just pitting every god against one another for his own amusement. [[spoiler:Except in ''Kindred Spirits'' the World Guardian discovers that his plans have been in motion for '''years'''. Ever since a ship bound for the Eastern Lands was marooned and its crew scattered; with one crew member admitted to an asylum for speaking of a person who doesn't exist. Sliske interrogated the man for this information, and its apparent connection to the Gods. He soon finds out that the person the sailor was speaking about was you, the adventurer, who hadn't even been born. In addition, Sliske is not the man in charge, but is working for another party, one with a vested interest in the World Guardian. When he finds out that you know of these discoveries, he is NOT happy.]]

* Whatever one [[BestLevelEver may]] [[ThatOneLevel think]] of "Sliske's Endgame", getting to actually [[spoiler:'''''kill Sliske''''']] at long last [[CatharsisFactor makes it all worthwhile]].

* The end of Rune Memories. The soul fragments of the order masters and their apprentices verbally tear down [[spoiler:Wizard Ellaron]] as they're siphoned out of Ariane, even the two wizards of the Red Order [[spoiler:to whom Ellaron swore allegiance to]]. Finally, they tell the Adventurer to make [[spoiler:Ellaron]] their new host, before forcefully teleporting him to the Abyss where he will inevitably explode from being unable to contain their power, leaving the Tower unharmed. Doubles as a Heartwarming moment, as their last moments had them breaking apart due to conflict that killed all of them save for Perien and Kelavan and destroyed the original Tower - but despite everything, they still considered themselves friends and teamed up to take down the "false Red Wizard" and save the Wizards' Tower.

* In the Shadow Reef, your final battle against the Ambassador culminates in him summoning a horde of Crassains to try to overwhelm you... only for [[spoiler: Seiryu to appear and [[BigDamnHeroes boil all the crassians, and restore the players to full health]]. And it's a good thing too-- the Ambassador isn't dead ''yet''.]]
** Curse of the Black Stone, which ties into the Elite Dungeons as a whole, qualifies. It's the first canonical sequel to [[GrandFinale Sliske's Endgame]], and it delivers-- you travel across the world, from the Arc to the Heart to the Wilderness and back, gathering allies such as [[spoiler:Hannibus, his daughter Vindicta, her dragon Gorvek, the ''King Black Dragon'', and an army of black knights]] in order to take on The Ambassador and stop a ritual that will turn the world into a Corpse Ocean.

-->Player: You know what, Zanik, I am sick of people telling me I am insane to follow Bandos. Bandos represented strength. The strength I gained following his ideal helped me save your people. The strength I gained from following him helped me save the world more than once. Yes, he is dead, but his message remains. It echoed loud and clear when Armadyl took up his mace; the strong rule and the weak fall. If I am insane it is because, rather than use my strengths for myself all the time, I use it to shield the weak. Maybe in doing so I am trying to justify the mountain of bodies I have climbed to get this strong. Maybe I do it because it pits me against stronger foes. Who knows? All I know is that I am sick to my back teeth of hearing that being Bandosian is terrible from someone whose entire race would be rotting in their graves if I hadn't chosen to use my strength to protect them.

-->World Guardian: Right! That's it! I've had enough! No more lying! No more biting my tongue! Do I take you for a fool? Yes I do! You are so paranoid about Neitiznot that you are running this island into the ground! Neitiznot is not going to attack Jatizso. I'll say it again to try and force it through your thick skull! Neitiznot is not going to attack Jatizso. They don't care about Jatizso. They care about the trolls and the Troll King who are the real threat to the island. You are so obsessed with your cousin, however, that you stick your head in the sand whenever it comes to the trolls. But I'm not sure it matters, since there's a good chance you will destroy this village long before the trolls get here! You do not have to dress in a jester's costume to act the fool, your royal crown is more than enough!
-->King Sorvott IV: I should have you beheaded.
-->World Guardian: I'd like to see you try.

** Curse of the Black Stone, which ties into the Elite Dungeons as a whole, qualifies. It's the first canonical sequel to [[GrandFinale Sliske's Endgame]], and it delivers-- you travel across the world, from the Arc to the Heart to the Wilderness and back, gathering allies such as [[spoiler:Hannibus, his daughter Vindicta, her dragon Gorvek, the ''King Black Dragon'', and an army of black knights]] in order to take on The Ambassador and stop a ritual that will turn the world into a Corpse Ocean.

-->Player: You know what, Zanik, I am sick of people telling me I am insane to follow Bandos. Bandos represented strength. The strength I gained following his ideal helped me save your people. The strength I gained from following him helped me save the world more than once. Yes, he is dead, but his message remains. It echoed loud and clear when Armadyl took up his mace; the strong rule and the weak fall. If I am insane it is because, rather than use my strengths for myself all the time, I use it to shield the weak. Maybe in doing so I am trying to justify the mountain of bodies I have climbed to get this strong. Maybe I do it because it pits me against stronger foes. Who knows? All I know is that I am sick to my back teeth of hearing that being Bandosian is terrible from someone whose entire race would be rotting in their graves if I hadn't chosen to use my strength to protect them.

* The [[FinalBoss Final Boss]] in [[AlternateTimeline "Dimension of Disaster"]]; for context: at the beginning of the quest you stumble upon an "Alternate Varrock" in a timeline where you never existed, which ended up allowing Zemouregal to [[TheBadGuyWins finally take over Varrock]], rename it "New Varrock" and kill all the heroes and other parties that tried to stop him. By the time you arrive, Zemouregal has [[VictoryIsBoring grown so bored over the years of unchallenged power]] that despite knowing of your presence he still allows you to roam free around the city while he waits for you to challenge him just to "be amused" and outright tells you to just go get Silverlight and the Shield of Arrav as an starting point... well, by the the end of the story, you DID retrieve Silverlight and the Shield of Arrav but here's the big plot twist: instead of you wielding them to fight Zemouregal, you give them to the zombified Arrav you just helped release so HE fights Zemouregal, that's right, finally, after so many years, we get to see Arrav getting payback on Zemouregal without any interruptions, result? Arrav not only wins, but outright kills Zemouregal

* The end of Rune Memories. The soul fragments of the order masters and their apprentices verbally tear down [[spoiler:Wizard Ellaron]] as they're siphoned out of Ariane, even the two wizards of the Red Order [[spoiler:to whom Ellaron swore allegiance to]]. Finally, they tell the Adventurer to make [[spoiler:Ellaron]] their new host, before forcefully teleporting him to the Abyss where he will inevitably explode from being unable to contain their power, leaving the Tower unharmed. Doubles as a Heartwarming moment, as their last moments had them breaking apart due to conflict that killed all of them save for Perien and Kelavan and destroyed the original Tower - but despite everything, they still considered themselves friends and teamed up to take down the "false Red Wizard" and save the Wizards' Tower.

* Whatever one [[BestLevelEver may]] [[ThatOneLevel think]] of "Sliske's Endgame", getting to actually [[spoiler:'''''kill Sliske''''']] at long last [[CatharsisFactor makes it all worthwhile]].

** More impressive in that the teleportation spell flawlessly [[spoiler: whisked [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Nex]], [[PlayingWithFire Char]], and several renewed [[{{Badass}} strong Mahjarrat]] ]]. [[spoiler: Saradomin]] has good reason to be surprised.

* Zaros [[CurbStompBattle beating the unholy tar out of]] Zamorak in "Children of Mah" is [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty justice several millennia in the making]]. Even before that, the cinematic cutscene of their original battle in the Second Age is no less impressive.

* Apparently, the World Guardian is so awesome, doing things such as [[OneManArmy defending Burthorpe from trolls singlehandedly]] or solving a mystery the royal guards can't crack is just another Tuesday for them. As one character points out in ''Kindred Spirits'', this makes [[TallPoppySyndrome them and their cohorts inferior by comparison.]]