"Will you be a Psychonaut?" Good question, easy answer.
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- Razputin's literally dropping and then being psychically pulled into the story with a landing to boot.
- To elaborate, though an accident as first, courtesy of a loose branch, resulting in causing a panic, then being levitated by three high-ranking Psychonauts after managing to put up a considerate resistance, and unable to read his mind, then pulling off a cool landing, stating his name.
- Edgar finally getting over his issues by dumping the representations of the people who upset him in high school out of his mind.
- The metaphor behind it is especially satisfying to anyone who has had this kind of obsession before dropping them after realizing how worthless and pathetic those people are in reality.
- Also, there's a touch in Values Resonance when Raz comes to the (metaphorical) realization that the bull (Edgar) is not the bad guy, and the matador (the male cheerleader) is the true villain for tormenting him. His response is to remove the banderillas one by one, restoring bull!Edgar's health. And to make up for the misunderstanding, Raz sends the banderillas into the matador.
- Edgar gets one in his backstory. The most antagonistic of his former co-wrestlers, Cobra, was invincible while concentrated, and also the only one hostile to Edgar. However, judging by Raz's taunt while he has a minor identity crisis, Edgar still kicked his ass in the real world.
- Giving Jasper the much-needed and overly-due beatdown he deserves. The metaphor behind this is just as cathartic as this means Gloria can ignore the nagging voices of doubt and simply enjoy the happier parts of life.
- Also, the final Butcher fight. As it should be. The Butcher was the one who corrupted Oleander, and his attacks are powerful, but Raz still punches him hard in the face. The second time, despite Raz's own personal demon helping the Butcher, Raz can exploit Evil Augustus' projectiles to still hurt the other bastard, and Oleander's meat grinder tears him apart.
- In the boss fight of The Milkman Conspiracy level:Den Mother: "Enough! It's time for me to pluck out your eyes!"Raz: "Ha! You can't! That is the purpose of the goggles!"
- Right after the Den Mother is beaten, you see the fight between the Censors and spies on one side and the Rainbow Squirts on the other side. And the Censors and spies are '''winning''' until the Milkman himself arrives, so props to Boyd for his resistance to Oleander.
- "Oh, no. You DIDN'T just hit my boyfriend!" Ineffective, but awesome in its own right.
- And just a second before, what causes Lili's "boyfriend" to be hit in the first place: Raz sees a giant, horrific, hulking monster take hold of his friend, lift her up, and roar at her, and what's the first thing he does? Sprint right toward it in attack mode.
- "I am the Milkman. My milk is delicious." If you don't think that's awesome, you haven't seen the cutscene.
- Milla Vodello's Nightmare Room might be Nightmare Fuel of the highest caliber, but props to Milla for keeping TEN of the things under control. While it might be chalked up to Raz being a rookie, we get to see firsthand how dangerous Nightmares are later in the game, and that's facing them one at a time.
- Which, in turn, accurately represents a CMOA for her in real life: despite how traumatic it must have been to hear the dying screams as all the children she loved getting burned alive, she was somehow able to cope with it and move on with her life as a happy, laid back person. One has to wonder the kind of internal battle she had to fight to get that done...
- Tim Schafer stated that Milla's mind is how a sane mind should look like: representing your thoughts, with everything being in order, censors keeping your head clean while still having nightmares and dangerous thoughts, but in a controlled way (in contrast to the mutated Censor of Sasha from being too controlled).
- After helping Fred with his problems, he promises to strangle Crispin... after taking a nap, forcing Raz to go through with the Paper-Thin Disguise plan anyway. Once Raz gets into the Elevator however, Fred wakes up from his nap and proceeds to make good on his promise.Fred: Inmate Whitehead.
Crispin: Chief Orderly Bonaparte! You're... you're...
Fred: (no longer straitjacketed) [[PunArmed?]] - Ford near the end of the game, demonstrating exactly why he's a Psychomaster by pushing Coach Oleander - who was able to take on both Sasha and Milla at the same time - against the ropes by himself. And he enters the scene flying, to boot.Ford: The Psychonauts have a word for people who turn on their own!Oleander: Ha! I don't need the Psychonauts anymore! I'm making my own army! Got a word for that?Ford: Yeah. Gesundheit!Ford blows some of Oleander's weaponized sneezing powder into his face, making him sneeze out his own brain.
- This whole scene is made even more awesome by the fact that Cruller, fully coherent, has left his sanctum containing the only thing keeping him sane, and has done it in the most badass way possible.
- Mr. Pokeylope blasting Dr. Loboto out of the asylum tower with the psychic-powered tank - saving Sasha and Milla's brains and getting revenge on Loboto for using him as a hostage against Sheegor.Pokeylope: It's time to make the soup.
- Raz's dad in the final battle. It turns out he is nowhere near as abusive as Raz thinks, and he even enters his son's mind and personally defeats his own evil counterpart and destroys his son's fears with him.
- Then he gives his love to Raz and makes him so confident he becomes a giant. When the Two-Headed Dad Monster attacks, Augustus' love turns an otherwise hopeless fight into a fight that's still one-sided... but in Razputin's favor.
- After over a decade, a sequel is finally in the works!
