- The glorious sucker-punch cry of defiance that is "No, You Don't." It starts out with some fairly generic pain-doom-angst lyrics, then unexpectedly turns around. It is incredibly refreshing.
- Their performance at Woodstock '94 is considered to be the highlight of the entire festival and the moment that catapulted Reznor to superstardom.
- "The Great Destroyer" from Year Zero has this line: "I hope they cannot see the limitless potential / living inside of me to murder everything / I hope they cannot see I am the GREAT DESTROYERRRRRR..." Coming out of the guy who created The Downward Spiral and wallowed in angst and depravity for much of The '90s, this is kind of a triumphant moment for Trent Reznor.
- The Tension 2013 show can be described as one big long Visual Effects of Awesome moment.
- It must've taken insane amounts of balls to make the Broken music videos, knowing that they'd inevitably get backlash.
- Especially "Happiness in Slavery", which surely wouldn't get a single halfway normal network playing it even late at night (which was reportedly the case for the "Pinion" video).
- Nine Inch Nails perform
with Trent's teenage hero: Gary Numan. - The ending of "Ruiner" from The Downward Spiral. While the album itself goes From Bad to Worse and this is a small victory if even that, the narrator defying the "ruiner" that causes him all of his grief and pain can be seen as empowering.
- You didn't hurt me.Nothing can hurt me.You didn't hurt me.
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