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A Time Master knocking out a soldier with his newly manifested Time Dash. Time is power, indeed.
  • The first time Jack gains and immediately uses his newfound Time Powers:
    • Time Dodge: Jack bursts into a room, finding himself between two Monarch soldiers. Right before one of them opens fire, Jack ducks away with Time Dodge, letting the bullets hit the other Monarch soldier.
    • Time Shield: Jack runs into a room filled with Monarch soldiers holding Will hostage with their guns trained on him, instinctively create a Time Shield around him, and see all the bullets being deflected.
    • Time Blast: Jack fires his first Time Blast on three unsuspecting Monarch mooks who hit his Berserk Button by disrespecting Will's death.
    • Time Dash: a Monarch soldier is shutting an automatic door that Jack needs to get through. Jack activates Time Dash, running right past the mook's bullets; gets through the door before it shuts; and, while grabbing his rifle, punches the Monarch soldier out of commission.
    Jack: That one will hurt in the morning.
  • The stutter moments, in general, but the most breathtaking are the "stutter setpieces".
    • Jack navigating the decommissioned freighter vessel as it smashes itself into the ground.
    • There's also later in the game, when a stutter "fast-forwards" a cargo ship, smashing it into the the bridge leading into Riverport—with Jack still on top of the structure. And then Jack has to navigate through the destroyed bridge, avoiding constantly stuttering debris with his time powers.
    • Every single firefight in a stutter environment is amazing, especially with Monarch Strikers and Juggernauts, with the cherry on top being the corpses of the dead Monarch soldiers are seen suspended in midair, or blasted away spectacularly if their Chronon Harness is shot.
  • The fact that Monarch has prepared for the End of Time for 22 years is a CMOA in its entirety, developing Chronon Harnesses that allows Monarch soldiers to move during stutters, cutting edge weaponry that is able to fire in a zero-state environment, Chronon Dampeners to nullify Shifters, whose powers allow them to plow through soldiers during a stutter with ease, and the Lifeboat Protocol that shelters Monarch from being destroyed during the End of Time. Hell, the Lifeboat Protocol could've worked if it weren't for Hatch's machinations and Jack's intervention as he found out that the centerpiece of the Lifeboat Protocol is the Countermeasure.
  • The boss fight against Paul Serene in its entirety. Being a Flunky Boss, he would sic some Mooks with Chronon Harness to you. In the meantime, Jack must dodge his Time Blasts, which is able to engulf the entire Swimming Pool area.
    • The fact that Jack Joyce is able to kill Serene's men and beat Serene himself, emphasizing him as a definitive One-Man Army.
    • After the fight, he and Will then used the Countermeasure to fix the fracture by jumpstarting it with Chronon energy. And it works, despite the sheer effort it took, which isn't small, as the scale of the fracture is universal.
      Jack: It's like I'm pushing against... the entire goddamn universe!

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