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8	* After you rescue Kuo and see her for the first time, it's clear how badly she's been affected by what happened to her. While telling Cole's she's fine, she accidentally freezes part of Cole's face, leading to this exchange:
9	-->'''Cole:''' Ow, Dammit!\
10	'''Kuo:''' I, I'm really sorry I didn't... I don't-\
11	'''Cole:''' You've got to learn how to control your powers.\
12	Beat.\
13	'''Cole:''' Forget it. It's fine. You just need some time, alright. Believes me if anyone knows what you're going through it's me. More than anyone.\
14	'''Kuo:''' No you don't, [=MacGrath=], you don't know. We are not the same. You got your powers in an explosion. It was over in a flash. What they did to me was slow.\
15	'''Cole:''' And we are gonna make Bertrand pay for that, but if we're going to fight him together, you have to get control of your powers!\
16	'''Kuo:''' Don't yell at me! I don't know how.
17	* Towards the end, you encounter a shelter full of plague victims, all writhing in agony. Now, if you're playing as a Hero, your first instinct is to start resuscitating them all one by one...except you can't. No matter how many times you try, your powers have no effect whatever. Then the Beast arrives, and all the plague victims that weren't Conduits end up killed before your eyes.
18	* The fate of the Ice Soldier, a notably sane member of the Vermaak 88 whom later defected and made an alliance with Cole. He tries to use his powers to help Cole and fight the Corrupted to protect people, but eventually his powers mutate his body and mind. Despite not wanting to hurt innocent people, the Ice Soldier continued to deteriorate, losing all control and becoming increasingly dangerous before losing [[ThatManIsDead his mind entirely]]. He eventually goes on a rampage and Cole is forced to MercyKill him at the Ice Soldier's final request.
19	* The good ending. Cole not only kills himself, but every other Conduit in the world at the time. It stops the Beast and cures the plague, and Cole is finally hailed as a hero. Too bad he'll never hear a word of the praise.
20	-->'''Zeke:''' Who'd have guessed that the "Demon of Empire City" would become the "Patron Saint of New Marais".
21	** It doesn't help that the last scene in the game with this ending is Zeke narrating a comic book cutscene about all of this, emerging into a crowd of people at one point carrying Cole's now dead body. By the end of the scene, where he's standing on a boat, beside a coffin, as it drifts off into fog. "Sometimes, I hear folks talking about humans and Conduits like they're totally different. That's bullshit. Cause there ain't nobody with more humanity than Cole [=Macgrath=]. I love you, brother. And I'm sure going to miss you."
22	*** There's a minor Tear Jerker in the good ending that may be overlooked by most. Throughout the game, a phrase in bold white text will occasionally pop up at the top of the screen, telling you what your current objective is. During the final scene of the game, as an obviously very reluctant Cole stands in front of the defeated Beast, holding the RFI, the game instructs you to hold down all four shoulder buttons at once to activate it ([[CallBack The very action that started the first game]]). Once you've done so and the RFI is charged, the objective simply reads "Let go".
23	** Don't forget Kessler. While his methods were extreme, it is worth bearing that this was a man who ran away from The Beast to spend a few years with his family. And upon gaining time travel powers, he went back in time and was forced to murder the woman he loved so as to turn the man he used to be into the kind of person who could save the world. While there is no way to forgive him for what he did, it isn't hard to imagine that he would probably feel it was worth it. And from what we knew of Trish, she would likely feel the same way.
24	** A minor detail, and one you'll likely overlook, but in the middle of the final mission, Cole finds a horde of Militia who are shooting at the Beast, and despite the fact that Cole has spent the entire game beating the hell out of them and just days earlier killed their leader, they're still encouraging him on and won't shoot at him.
25	--->'''Militia 1''': Look, it's the Demon!\
26	'''Militia 2''': Go get 'em, Electric Man!
27	* Kuo and Cole's dialogue when he's about to use the RFI:
28	-->'''Kuo:''' Do it...\
29	'''Cole:''' It's OK.\
30	'''Kuo:''' It's not OK. You made the right choice. Hell, even Nix made the right choice. I was... I'm scared.\
31	'''Cole:''' I am too.
32	* Hell, even the ''evil'' ending is a huge tear jerker. First Cole has to kill Nix, whom he's been helping most of the game.
33	** And if that wasn't bad enough, Cole has to [[KickTheDog fight Zeke]] immediately afterward. After some [[DialogueReversal reiteration of what they said before]] about "half as long, twice as bright," Zeke basically acknowledges [[HopelessBossFight he has no chance of winning, but is going to fight Cole anyways]]. Zeke shoots Cole once, and the game [[PlayerPunch makes you zap Zeke with one basic attack, over and over]], until he stops getting up. The shout of anguish Cole makes as he smashes the RFI seals the deal.
34	*** The worst is the way the lines are delivered before that:
35	---->'''Cole:''' Half as long...\
36	'''Zeke:''' (sadly)...twice as bright. ''(raises his gun)'' I gotta try.\
37	'''Cole:''' I know.
38	*** Oh, and the final cherry on the depression sundae? The Beast, whom everybody had thought to be ChaoticEvil up until comparatively recently, finally gives in and admits that he can't live with what he's become and what he has to do, even if the destruction's in a good cause. And during this scene, the gigantic lava-skinned monster is leaning against the wall of the cathedral, hanging his head and looking every bit as tired as he claims. Yep, for just about everyone in the endgame, BeingEvilSucks almost as much as [[BeingGoodSucks being good.]]
39	* The evil ending: Cole becoming the beast makes all of Kessler's (Cole's) efforts to stop the beast and Trish's death in vain. A bit like the fall of [[Franchise/StarWars Anakin Skywalker]].
40	* Thanks to the magic of FridgeHorror and the incoming release of ''VideoGame/InfamousSecondSon'', the good ending now has even more of this trope heaped on it. Every one of Cole's efforts [[ShaggyDogStory has been in vain.]] While the people of New Marais may hail him as a hero, the destruction caused by the Beast and (unintentionally) [[DestructiveSavior Cole himself]] have resulted in the formation of [[KnightTemplar the]] [[PuttingOnTheReich Department of]] [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou Unified Protection,]] and the [[FantasticRacism violent suppression of all Conduits across the country.]] [[ShootTheShaggyDog Nothing Cole did to save humanity made a lick of difference- humans and Conduits are more divided than ever before.]]
41	* ''[[https://youtu.be/LsbxV7Y-trQ Fade Away]]'' is an incredibly sad song that perfectly captures the tone of the Hero Ending. If you weren't already teary-eyed just by playing the Hero Ending, you will be once this song starts playing over the credits. The same song plays during the Evil Ending too, but it hits ''a lot'' harder in the context of the Hero Ending.

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