Line #2 Awesome/HeroesRise


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4	* After being [[ButtMonkey yanked around and told what to do by pretty much everyone the entire game]], the PC can ''finally'' stand up for themselves and TakeAThirdOption during Prodigal's second SadisticChoice: instead of killing her and becoming a murderer, or letting thousands of people die, they choose to use their Infini-Powers to stop the Death Wave in its tracks, saving the day without losing their morals. Bonus points for having just learned about said Powers.
5	* [[BadassNormal Jenny]] and [[NeverMessWithGranny your grandma]] holding their own against Prodigal's [[EliteMooks Pool Killers]] at the end of the first game. Keep in mind, these are machines that gave the PlayerCharacter and [[GameBreaker Black Magic]] a hard time.
6	* One of the challenges in ''The Hero Project'' pits you against [[OneManArmy The Crush]], who starts the fight by telekinetically flinging ''spinning wind turbine blades'' at you through the air, which you dodge and weave through like a badass. The PC even thinks that this has to be one of the most awesome sights ever filmed on the show.
7	* At the end of the second game, and at several points during the third, if the PC is strong enough, then their [[HowMuchMoreCanHeTake slug-out]] with [[FallenHero Rebellion]] becomes a CurbStompBattle instead. You completely wipe the floor with the ''number one hero in America'', and the PC's former idol to boot.
8	** The rematch during the third game even has an Achievement attached to it - "How the Mighty Have Fallen" - for winning "without breaking a sweat".
9	* If romanced, then during the third game Black Magic will somehow sense that the PC is in danger, literally force themselves out of their coma, and teleport halfway across the city to help out. And then they promptly own everyone there, despite, you know, just waking up from a coma.
10	* Using your Infini-Powers guarantees a small one in every battle, from throwing a train car at someone to reversing gravity and sending your opponents flying into orbit to setting off a ''miniature nuclear explosion''.
11	* Punching President Victon in the face at the end of the third game is as funny as when you do it [[RunningGag to his son]], but it also lapses into this for being so [[CatharsisFactor satisfying to do]], after everything the bastard put you through. Bonus points for punching the '''president''' in the face on national television.
12	* If you make the right choices, it is possible to completly walk throught the entire final battle, with your opponents being either beaten by your friends or ,if you made the good choices/have an Ideal stat high enough, betraying Victon to help you (like Scoundrel, Rebellion or even Jury).
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16	* The game ''[[EstablishingCharacterMoment starts]]'' with the PC and their partner [=StarSoar=] beating up Fistfull and Monk, two revered members of the Millenial Group, to get into the Hero Project.
17	* Being able to convert a DownerEnding to a BittersweetEnding by saving Miss Boss' life through the power of "cryptobiosis", which renders her comatose from a massive fall rather than straight-up dead, but simultaneously allows the PC to fulfill their end of the bargain with Loa, meaning she'll still give JK her final treatment. This one is [[GuideDangIt quite hard to achieve, though]].
18	* Early in ''Open Season'', Culic takes out The Voice (the guy responsible for Miss Boss's fate) entirely by himself by piercing his throat with his proboscis. Ouch.
19	* ''Open Season'''s finale is basically every hero from the series launching a massive attack on [[TrueFinalBoss Infinitum]]'s fortress. Highlights include:
20	** The protagonist practically one-shotting a BrainwashedAndCrazy [=StarSoar=].
21	** Prodigal committing GrandTheftMe on Processor's android body, complete with replicating her signature red stripe.
22	** Infinitum herself gets one when you reach her throne room: she doesn't even notice you at first, and when she finally does, she simply erects a massive stone wall around her throne so she can continue to wreak havoc on the Earth in peace. Your team's resident BigGuy then charges at said stone wall and breaks it, then proceeds to try and jump Infinitum, to which she responds by casually tossing him into a wall.
23	** In the final confrontation against Infinitum, if your Expertise stat is high enough, you finally master your powers and tap into Infinitum's eusocial network with Tarsiero. Infinitum is [[VillainRespect so impressed by this]] that she decides to just [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere leave the universe]].

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