History Awesome / TheWitcher2AssassinsOfKings

* For a villainous example of awesome, Letho's MagnificentBastard and OneManArmy status through the game, playing several factions like the Lodge of Sorceresses like a fiddle, assassinating Kings and sowing chaos and war in the North, all while being consistently underestimated as nothing more than a big dumb brute thanks to how he looks and ObfuscatingStupidity. And even if Geralt decides to kill him, [[YouAreTooLate by the time]] he catches Letho TheBadGuyWins in his mission to prepare the North for invasion. On top of that there are his revelations to Geralt that he is a much more complicated and grey character than the straight up villain he looks like. His revelations include that he and his fellow Vipers fought the [[TheWildHunt Wild Hunt]] at [[WeUsedToBeFriends Geralt's side]] after leading him to them to repay him for [[IOweYouMyLife saving his life]], saved and protected Yennefer in his absence, and his motives are revealed not to be malevolent or genuinely loyal to the Emperor, but that he was [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse coerced]] into it with the promise he would be able to [[FightingForAHomeland restore the School of the Viper]] for his fellow oppressed southern Witchers [[AntiVillain all along]]. He can even potentially save Triss for Geralt by barging into a Nilfgaardian camp of their elite soldiers to take her from them, and protecting her from witch hunters.

* For a villainous example of awesome, Letho's MagnificentBastard and OneManArmy status through the game, playing several factions like the Lodge of Sorceresses like a fiddle, assassinating Kings and sowing chaos and war in the North, all while being consistently underestimated as nothing more than a big dumb brute thanks to how he looks and ObfuscatingStupidity. And even if Geralt decides to kill him, [[YouAreTooLate by the time]] he catches Letho TheBadGuyWins in his mission to prepare the North for invasion. On top of that there are his revelations to Geralt that he is a much more complicated and grey character than the straight up villain he looks like. His revelations include that he and his fellow Vipers fought the [[TheWildHunt Wild Hunt]] at [[WeUsedToBeFriends Geralt's side]] after leading him to them to repay him for [[IOweYouMyLife saving his life]], saved and protected Yennefer in his absence, and his motives are revealed not to be malevolent or genuinely loyal to the Emperor, but that he was [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse coerced]] into it with the promise he would be able to [[FightingForAHomeland restore the School of the Viper]] for his fellow oppressed southern Witchers [[AntiVillain all along]]. He can even potentially save Triss for Geralt by cutting his way through a Nilfgaardian camp of their elite soldiers to get to her.

** Just the sheer bromantic teamwork that Geralt and Vernon employ is nothing short of sheer awesome. As they assault the camp, Geralt tricks two guards towards the iron grating with the Axii sign and brains one against the bars with a tug, while Vernon pulls his close, steals his keys, unlocks the door before kicking it open into him, followed by [[CutscenePowerTotheMax Geralt deflecting an crossbow bolt away from the Blue Stripes Commander at a full-tilt run once the second pair of sentries spot them]], Roche then employs the aforementioned overhead double-handed throw of his Zweihander, impaling the second arbalist on the higher floor of the ruins. Geralt launches Vernon up to that level with a seamless boost and he in turn hip throws the reloading Kaedweni over the edge to slam at Geralt's feet and allow the witcher an easy kill of skewering him to the floor.