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Those white robes are about to get some red on them.

Lincoln Clay's Roaring Rampage of Revenge is something that includes ample opportunities for him to have awesome events. After all, he's taking on not only The Mafia but the entire corrupt system of New Bordeaux. Later, the DLC will expand his adventures to include some almost superhero-esque achievements.

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    Main game 
  • The Federal Reserve Heist is one of these. It's A Simple Plan which goes awry in a variety of ways but Lincoln and Giorgi roll with the punches throughout.
    • The actual plan itself was pretty good with a substitute security guard team going down to the vault, stealing all the money within, and then escaping through a hole drilled in the vault. They would then escape in a sinkhole.
    • When Giorgi accidentally triggers an alarm, they steal guns from the armory to shoot out with the security force.
    • When they need to escape, Danny Burke attempts to blow a bigger hole in the vault and accidentally creates a sinkhole which absorbs the entire structure.
    • After a boat chase with the police, they try to lose themselves in Mardi Gras. Failing, Lincoln Clay shoots a gun in the air and brings down the entirety of the New Bordeaux police force down on his head to allow his friends to escape. He then manages to get away and rejoin them.
    • The villains celebrate their heist to "I Fought the Law." They even sing along with it. Too bad it all goes horribly-horribly wrong from there.
  • The climax to taking over Delray Hollow requires Lincoln to go to an Amusement Park of Doom, go through a small army of gangsters, and then finally ''lynch'' the gang boss who murdered his brother.
  • Most of the missions to upgrade loyalty involve Lincoln going to rob the Dixie Mob. There's just something satisfying about the fact Lincoln continues to screw with them, long after he has driven them from Delray Hollow.
  • Lincoln Clay's assault on The Royale Hotel in order to take down Tony Derazio. He can either go through the front door, shooting up the place, or steal Tony's car so he can sneak in through the basement to the penthouse. The place is guarded by a massive number of mobsters and can easily turn into a shoot-out similar to the final level of Max Payne. When Lincoln gets to Tony? Tony fires a rocket launcher at him and then attempts to hold Lincoln off with a machine gun. This results in Lincoln dealing with the Defiant to the End Tony by tossing him out of the penthouse window onto a car below in full view of the city before shooting/sneaking out past Tony's army of reinforcements.
  • Rescuing Enzo Conti from the quarry from a veritable army of thugs is badass enough but it's also stated that Enzo's entire organization is here at Sal Marcano's orders. Enzo not only fights alongside Lincoln Clay the entire way but he helps rig up all of the quarry's dynamite to explode, wiping out the entirety of his branch of the New Bordeaux mob. They then escape in a 1960s Hummer down the train tracks, leaving Enzo as one of the few Marcano lieutenants to get away from Lincoln's Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
  • It is immensely satisfying to burn Remy Duvall, leader of the Southern Union on his own flaming cross. The fact it's exactly what he intended to do to you also helps.
    • Even better, you can massacre the Ku Klux Klan members in the meeting and it's more equally awesome that you're playing as a black guy, the people those racist pricks oppress.
    • Hell all of the Southern Union missions are awesome in their own right, from busting up a meeting in a market where Haitians are being auctioned off as slaves to sneaking into a mansion to confront Olivia by disguising yourself as "the help" and drugging everyone and then saving Remy's nephew.
  • Lincoln Clay if he chooses to stay as the ruler of New Bordeaux with his lieutenants. Having finally taken down Sal Marcano, Lincoln now has all the wealth and power he could ever want as well as people to share it with. The fact it's cost him his soul is a matter of opinion, too, since he was always a gangster. However good comes out of it too, whether it's a case of Villain with Good Publicity is up to opinion, but hospitals and schools get funded, charities get donations and new neighborhoods are built for those left destitute after hurricanes.
  • Equally good is if Lincoln Clay chooses to go. Having killed, stolen, and rampaged across New Bordeaux for his vengeance, he has the opportunity to become Sal Marcano. Lincoln can choose to walk away from all that power and wealth to regain his soul, though. This proves Father James right that Lincoln still had his humanity. He may have lost everything but he proved the better man.
  • We learn from Vito what happened to Joe after the end of the previous game. He knocked the teeth out of one of the hitmen and got away, lay low in Chicago for a while and survived for maybe a few years more. His final fate is more appropriate for the Nightmare Fuel category, but just knowing that Joe wouldn't go down without giving the mafia a serious headache fits perfectly with what we know of him.
    • Then again, the possibility that Joe appears as The Cameo in the end as Leo's driver shows he's still alive, which would be a welcome relief for those fearing for his safety.
  • The post-credits scene: Donovan reveals on live television that he helped Lincoln on his rampage because Sal was a conspirator to the JFK assassination and he proceeds to reveal that the senator grating on him for his involvement with Clay was also a part of JFK's death, then Donovan shoots him in the chest and head with a silenced pistol; as he walks out, he declares that he's going to kill everyone involved in JFK's assassination.
    Donovan (walking away calmly) Gentlemen.
  • One of the shotgun melee kills is grabbing the enemy by the neck, spininng him around and shooting him in the ass. Do this to a KKK member and you got a badass moment to remember and tell your friends.

DLC

  • The DLCs are this for Lincoln when you consider that in universe Lincolns rampage on Marcanos criminal rackets takes places over several months which means that over the course of that time Lincoln not only destroyed Marcano and his and allies criminal racket but also eliminated a demented dangerous cult, got a racist and murderous sheriff convicted, and foiled a potential global holocaust. Not bad for a small time ganagster.
    Faster, Baby! 

  • Lincoln takes a break from trying to take down Sal Marcano to help the Voice remove a crooked Sheriff through (mostly) legitimate means. Perhaps the biggest shock of all is that Lincoln succeeds and Sheriff Beaumont spends twelve years in prison for murder. The system actually working in Lincoln's world is a miracle in and of itself. He's assassinated after he gets out of prison, though, leading to a bit of a Broken Aesop.
    • Perhaps not so much a Broken Aesop as Sheriff Beaumont only gets twelve years in prison for multiple murders as well as many other horrific crimes. It's implied that a large reason for even getting that much is he overreacted and alienated his supporters by going after them in case they might talk.
  • Lincoln and Roxy have some truly epic car chases throughout the DLC. The opening one has them chased by the Sinclair Parish police force just for being black. Roxy solves the issue with some grenades, her Uzi, and scaring the hell out of Lincoln. Thankfully, this is also when Lincoln's skill with slow-motion driving comes into play.
  • Lincoln breaks into a police station in order to steal a bunch of evidence against its Sheriff. Its doubly awesome if Lincoln doesn't kill anyone on the way in or out.
  • Lincoln and Roxy proceed to steal back her pick up truck from the impound lot in order to tear up Sinclair Parish in order to distract the police department from their friend picking up some witnesses. It's a massive Smokey and the Bandit-esque ride that climaxes in cutting off the deputies by blowing up an entire junkyard.
  • Sheriff Beaumont actually gets one as he manages to sneak up on Lincoln, knock him out with rock salts, and prepare him for a Cruel and Unusual Death at the hands of the Southern Union. This leads to Lincoln reclaiming itself by freeing himself and going on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Roxy helps as a Cold Sniper the entire way. They end it by running down Beaumont and stuffing him in a trunk.

    Stones Unturned 
  • Lincoln has a history of fighting mobsters and taking them down. Stones Unturned ends up with him fighting a bunch of heavily-armed mercenaries as well as their Rogue Agent master, Connor Aldridge. It's so he can prevent the NVA from acquiring a nuclear weapon.
    • You even get to fight with Donovan not just as your Handler but as your co-op military partner.
  • Lincoln leads a two-man assault on a All Your Base Are Belong to Us situation where a CIA substation has been taken over by mercenaries. He manages to kill the entire group one-by-one alongside Donovan. This includes fighting a jeep-mounted machine gun on foot.
  • Lincoln and Donovan fight mercenaries who lead an assault on a department store in order to rescue a Cuban defector. It ends with an enormous car chase across New Bourdeux where dozens of mercenary technicals fight Lincoln while he shoots back.
  • Lincoln and Donovan launch a two man assault straight from Call of Duty against an island full of mercenaries. They not only kill Aldridge's entire army but manage to recover the nuke. They even have their final showdown with him in a submarine base that's straight out of The Spy Who Loved Me.
  • Donovan's confrontation with Aldridge is a Hannibal Lecture versus Shut Up, Hannibal!. Aldridge talks at length about how they aren't so different and that the US government has to pay. Donovan has no rebuttal to that but just points out that Aldridge was going to sell the nuke so any ideals he's motivated by are bullshit. He then puts him down.
  • Lincoln and Donovan personally finish off the last of Aldridge's army after they escape with the nuke. It's a satisfying denouement to a miniature war.

    Sign of the Times 
  • Lincoln proceeds to find himself facing down a Expy of Charles Manson's cult with the Ensanglante. It is something that he clearly finds beyond anything he's ever dealt with in fighting the mafia or possibly even Vietnam.
    • Lincoln proceeds to rescue a young woman from the cult and proceeds to take her back to Father James' place in order to try to deprogram her. Sadly, he fails. This is Lincoln at his most noble as he just wants to help this woman that has suffered so much abuse.
    • Lincoln investigates the cult's sinister activities and uses his brain rather than just brawn. He takes multiple photographs, collect clues, and gradually figures out where the cult's centers of activity are as well as what their belief structure is.
    • Lincoln eventually destroys the cult at the center of their religion and puts down its leader despite their numerically superior and fanatical membership. It is implied to have been responsible for hundreds of murders of black men and women over the years.
    • Lincoln also rebuilds Sammy's Bar at the behest of his Aunt. It requires a huge amount of wealth to do it but it helps heal one of the wounds that has been on Lincoln's soul. Sadly, it's a parking lot in modern times.

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