Awesome / Outlast

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• Miles Upshur is a man with no special abilities, no combat training, and no weapons. He faces sights that would drive men insane, he's tossed through windows, he has several fingers cut off, and he's hounded by psychotic maniacs who would like nothing more than to tear him to pieces and eat him.
  • After dodging Trager and making it to the elevator, Trager corners Miles as soon as he activates it. Miles has no choice but to grapple with Trager. Miles manages to knock him back, and Trager has his torso crushed between the floor and the descending elevator.
  • He makes it through the asylum and into the underground facility where the Morphogenic Engine is located, the machine that's caused all the chaos and suffering. Once there, he's tasked with shutting down the machine keeping alive Billy Hope, who the Walrider is using as a host. And despite being chased by him, a super-powered nano-machine being, Miles manages to shut down all three segments of the machine, surviving a nearly lethal beating in the process. And despite all the abuse he's been through, despite being barely able to stand, Miles gets up and limps out of that room. And when greeted by a group of soldiers, even being shot isn't enough to finish Miles off. It takes half a clip of ammunition to fully put him down.
  • Not only does Miles survive, and eradicate Wernicke's squad, he has taken control of the Walrider. We repeat — the Walrider is under Miles' control. Miles now has the control of an all-mighty force that can rip men to shreds with ease, and he uses this power to put down the people that deserve it, and not just the execution squad who tried to kill him. As Waylon is limping out of the asylum, Blaire uses the last of his strength to try to stab him to death, but who comes to Waylon's rescue? Miles, who flings Blaire into the air, tosses him around for just long enough to hear him scream in terror, and utterly eviscerates him from the outside out, showering the floor in a tidal wave of blood. Even when he's fused with the Walrider, he still cares about justice, and knows that Waylon deserves to get out alive.
• Waylon not only manages to escape the havoc of the nonstop slaughter of the asylum, and Murkoff being out for his guts, but recovers the whistleblower email in the process — everything he wanted to do. Yes, Murkoff will not rest until he is dead or incarcerated, but thanks to him, they are not going to be able to avoid their karma.
• In a way, Chris Walker getting eradicated by the Walrider. Seeing that relentless, frightening brute of a man completely helpless before you is a sight to see, although Miles is sympathetic. Not that it or the one below are anything but Gorn, so it's still probably a bit scary.
• By the same token, Blaire also getting eradicated by the Walrider and screaming out of sheer horror the entire time. After suffering through the torment that he ultimately caused, both indirectly and personally, it's so damn satisfying to see him get a well-earned gruesome death. This time, Waylon is not sympathetic at all.
• After being forced to watch him butcher at least three inmates in incredibly brutal ways, and almost having it done to you, there's a lot of catharsis in watching Eddie Gluskin get killed from the same equipment he tried to kill you with.
• In Whistleblower, a security guard can be briefly seen tackling an inmate to the ground, before strangling him to death and escaping into his cell. Even though most of the guards were killed, this proves that at least some of them still have a will to get out of the asylum alive.
• As in the Heartwarming section, there's an inmate who warns you about Eddie. Theory is he's also the one who punches him out later on right as Waylon's penis is about to be cut off, risking life and genitalia to help a stranger. He didn't need to do any of that. He doesn't even appear again, so either he fled or died during the rescue.
• Credit where it's due to Father Martin. If you're going to go out, self-immolating while simultaneously being crucified is certainly one way to do it.

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