Awesome / Limbus Company

Canto 1

• In the prologue, Vergilius firmly establishes himself as Limbus Company's resident badass by single-handedly curb-stomping all three of the foes that had just finished wiping the forest floor with the Sinners.

Canto 2

• After losing all but a single small Wishpower sticker, Rodion sweeps the whole table without using it once. In fact, she uses the idea of the sticker solely as a bluff that she takes advantage of to permanently eject one of the contenders for the Golden Bough from the running with a side-bet.

Canto 3

• As brutal and flashy as it is, Siegfried shows off why he's definitely one of K Corp's top Fixers. After arriving on the scene, he finishes off all the Sinners in less than 50 seconds, and still has time to stop and give Don Quixote an autograph after she and the rest are revived.
• Sinclair proves his credentials as a Determinator as after Kromer wipes out almost all of the Sinners, he still crawls forward even with all of his limbs melted, just to kill her. Dante also gets points, as when Sinclair's determination begins to flag, they're able to give him a speech to inspire him to keep going and see through Kromer.
• Demian, full stop. He floats down from the sky, talks to Sinclair while completely ignoring Kromer, and then proceeds to One-Hit Kill her. He simply waves a hand, and with a flash of blue light, Kromer is bisected, and her upper half is completely vaporized.

Canto 4

• A villainous example but Dongrang doing what was unheard of until now and reversing a Distortion into an E.G.O. He even mentions Carmen by name and rejects her. Sure he might be The Sociopath but he sure stuck to his convictions to the end.
• The whole stand off between Yi Sang and Dongrang, punctuated by Yi Sang using his Crow's Eye View E.G.O. to finish him as he voice his resolution.
  Yi Sang: "I'll break the cage then... Fly freely"
  • The scene of Yi Sang's final attack on Dongrang also counts as this, as Yi Sang completely takes over the background of the battle, replacing Dongrang's fields of golden wheat with his room full of mirrors, and as the Battle Theme Music swells to a climax to contrast its previous subdued sounds, wings of mirror shards sprout behind both Yi Sang and Dongrang - Yi Sang's wings are perfect and filled with images of the League of Nine, while Dongrang's wings are broken and empty.

Canto 5

• While it's nightmarish just how freakishly powerful Ricardo is, there's no denying that Ricardo is a badass who utterly trounces all of the Sinners in a single blow, once he's done toying with them all for kicks.
• Right after finishing watching the Sinners get their rears handed to them by a Big Brother of the Middle, none other than the color fixer, the Indigo Elder, appears on the scene, and completely destroys Ricardo's shoulder with a single throw of a harpoon. Then casually encourages him and his companions to get out of there and not bother them anymore. And he complies immediately.
• Ishmael finally takes her revenge at the end of the fight with Ahab, but when Snagharpoon is ready, Dante talks her out of it, cancelling the turn start button... and a new, empty coin slot appears on the Pallid Whale's heart. She doesn't kill Ahab, she does one better. She rips the second heart of the Whale out herself, killing the whale and rendering all of Ahab's efforts pointless. Ahab, predictably having her life's goal snatched away, loses it and desperately tries to convince herself the whale and her crew is alive. And it is satisfying watching the gaslighting captain fall to pieces, because while she still lives, she probably wishes she just had Ishmael kill her.
  • Related to the above is Ishmael's line with Snagharpoon after Canto 5's completion, originally the line was her assuring herself that Ahab was still alive, now she makes it clear that her ex-captain has no hold over her anymore.
  Post-Canto 5!Ishmael: "This is how I will chart my own path..."

Canto 6

• After defeating Mirror!Heathcliff after what was likely a grueling battle, Heathcliff subjects him to a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown with Bodysack, shrieking with rage and hitting him so hard that not only do the damage numbers escalate endlessly until turning into random symbols, but he actually changes the Affinity of the skill to Wrath partway through, a feat that hasn't been seen on any E.G.O. before. Although made significantly less awesome and more distressing once Heathcliff fully hits the Despair Event Horizon as a result, turning into a Distortion.
• Five words: The Red Gaze becomes available.
  • Dante and the Sinners are on the back foot against the Erlking's Wild Hunt summoning endless iterations of their previous foes. As the battle seems hopeless, Heathcliff is struck by a mortal blow from one of the evolved Peccatula...only for a familiar voice to chime in, a barrier of blood to block the hit, and the Peccatulum being shredded into a pile of gore in an instant. Cue the Leitmotif of Leviathan kicking in and the Red Gaze finally showing himself in the flesh.
    Verglilus: When you lose sight of your path, when you no longer know which road to take...the guide shall show you the way, Dante.
  • The player can use Vergilius in battle. From then on, the battle goes from a seemingly endless slog to a glorified cutscene as Vergilius finally shows off just why Colors are so feared - he can single-handedly wipe out the entire encounter with zero effort.
  • Everything about Vergilius' stats and skills scream Purposefully Overpowered in the most cathartic way possible after the likely pain you've just been through with the Boss Bonanza of Canto VI. All of his stats and even sanity mechanics are obfuscated as question marks, his skills have a simple "Unobservable" note while not actually telling you any information besides their damage types and number of coins, and they hit the Wild Hunt so hard that the game can only render the damage numbers as more question marks. The few things that actually are visible are even more ridiculously overkill, from a passive that completely neuters enemies for existing, all his attacks inflicting a stacking Percent Damage Attack Damage Over Time, a Cast From Hitpoints ability that completely neutralizes its own downside by healing him for massive amounts on kill, a special Sanity mechanic that makes him always flip heads, and the ability to stack even more damage buffs just by existing. The enemies that previously gave you trouble? Gone in seconds.^note Internally, Vergilius is level 90, with 5500 HP, a speed range of 30-40, and skills that can casually hit three-digit rolls naturally and have coins that are individually stronger than most E.G.O. attacks.
  • Not only does Vergilius have some of the flashiest and most elaborate attack animations of any character to date, he's also like Ricardo in the sense that he loses no momentum at all when clashing, further emphasizing the sheer gap between him and the Sinners.
  • A small detail is that when Vergilius grants the Sinners his blood barriers, you can see from the size of the shield bar that it absolutely dwarfs the Sinners' actual health, with full-HP Sinners with 200+ HP only having their HP visible as a small sliver at the very end. On Vergilius? It's the shield bar that's barely visible.
  • On top of said endlessly refreshing blood barrier making Sinners effectively invincible, he also goes the extra mile and makes them literally invincible, with no player-sided character being able to go below 1 HP for the fight. Considering that the elite Peccatulum Irae that the Sinners were fighting before had a propensity to drown Sinners in high-power moves and Burn, it's immensely cathartic to see your Sinners taking upwards of 99 Burn damage and multiple attacks each turn, while knowing damn well that it isn't going to make a difference.
  • Even better? Partway through the "fight", Vergilius decides that it's not enough and manifests E.G.O. for the first time since Leviathan, prompting a triumphant reprise of the Leviathan theme while making his attacks even stronger and turning several of them into unconditional mass attacks that obliterate entire waves of enemies in a single use. This culminates in Vergilius impaling the hordes of the Wild Hunt on a practical sea of bloody spears, before hurling a bloody javelin into them and instantly reducing all of them into a fine red mist.
  • Faust reminds Vergilius that directly intervening is a breach of his contract and will result in him losing some of the things that Limbus Company had promised him. His response is just to wave it off as if it were a minor annoyance. Keep in mind that Vergilius has long put up with a job he clearly hates and followed the company's demands without a complaint, because he's convinced it'll all be worth it in the end. Yet he ended up compromising his chance at achieving his singular goal, just because the Ring's experiments pissed him off that much.
• When chasing Erlking Heathcliff up the rooftop, he's too fast with his horse, and is about to get away. Dante then asks Faust if they can do other stuff with their time abilities besides undoing deaths. Cue two epic splash screens as Dante creates a field of slowed time that excludes the Sinners, letting them catch up. What's even more awesome is a tutorial on the Durante button, now available, pops up on the start of the ensuing fight, and the screen that shows up when you select this is an incomplete Tree of Life, meaning not only is this available in fights, but there is definitely more to come.
• A minor example, but when Erlking Heathcliff is about to escape to the rooftop after their first proper battle, Meursault takes initiative and casts Chains of Others in the middle of a cutscene to imprison the Erkonig and stop him from getting away, without any input on Dante's part. The only reason the Erlking is able to survive this is because Nelly betrays them and frees him from it.
• Dante continues to show how much they're growing out of their initial role of the bumbling punching bag of a Manager they used to be, taking initiative and directing the Sinners to victory with far less doubt than before. Just like how they rescued Ishmael, they're able to rescue Heathcliff from the Despair Event Horizon not just once, but multiple times without fail, even reversing his Distortion when he succumbs to the Voice at first.