Awesome / Rise of the Tomb Raider

• Konstantin, of all people, gets one early in the game for fearlessly striding forth and allowing Lara to press the barrel of her pistol against his flak-jacket, then intimidating the adventurer archaeologist just by raising his voice.
• Of course, this is immediately invalidated because Lara was merely faking being rattled so that she could pickpocket Konstantin's detonator for the charges his men had planted on the tomb's domed ceiling. She did this while at gunpoint from four other mooks!
• She then uses the aforementioned explosives to get Konstantin and his men to retreat when he makes to kill her, and brings down the whole set on the grave robbers.
• The scuffle in Richard's study between Lara and a clearly well-trained Trinity assassin. If Lara had had something sharp on hand to use as an improvised weapon, she would have sent the black-ops operative down to hell alongside her plus hundred man body-count.
• Lara's furious Death Glare to Konstantin after he backhands her for daring to attempt a Country Matters curse.
• Ana gives a sales-pitch to get Lara to join Trinity.
  Ana: We could use someone like you. You want a purpose in your life; we can provide that.
  Lara: You've got to be kidding. I've seen how Trinity operates!
  Ana: Is that a no?
  Lara: It's a NO FUCKING WAY!
• Immediately followed up with some more classic Lara snark.
  Lara: (smirks) Tell me - Ana. Were you recruited by Trinity before or after you started screwing my father.
• As soon as Ana goes for the trite villain cliché of infantilizing Lara and mocking how she can't walk in her father's big shoes, Miss Croft hawks and spits right in her dumb face.
• "This isn't over! BASTARD!"
• This meta exchange, one of the two times in the game where Lara actually smiles genuinely.
  Jacob: You won't get far without me.
  Lara: (laughing) You don't know how far I've come.
• Jacob going through Trinity mooks like a hot knife through butter, fitting, because that's all he's armed with against mercs with Kalashnikovs. Before even that, he seems to have been clearing a path for Lara unarmed!
• Then again when he saves Lara from another goon by hurling said ka-bar into her attacker's back from a hefty distance.
• Lara taking Ana hostage in the old cathedral when she's about to be caught by several squads, shooting the blasting caps causing the floor to cave in beneath them, then having a play on a suspended quasi Free-Fall Fight with Ana, where she ironically has to save both herself and her betrayer. Probably inspired a bit by the Siena cold open in Quantum of Solace.
• This.
  Ana: (shaken by her brush with death) Reconsider my offer, Lara! Before it's too late!
  Lara: (opens fire with her sidearm one-handed, completely eyeballing it and tags Ana on the arm with the first and only shot)
  It was too late the moment you betrayed my family!
• Jonah unfortunately gets hit with the Idiot Ball through most of his scenes in the second entry of the survivor trilogy, but he gets a great little moment of chuckling in the face of Konstantin's interrogation, snapping his manacle chains in half and disarming the madman when Lara distracts him.
• Lara's final battle with Konstantin. The first stage has him resort to using an attack chopper on Lara, which she can actually make short work of (either with a strategy involving Lara signaling Sofia to use a trebuchet at the right moment, or simply shooting bomb arrows at him). After crashing the chopper, a significantly more pissed-off Konstantin resorts to sneaking up on Lara, stunning her, and taking her bow and guns away before she manages to escape his sight. Konstantin tries to taunt Lara about how hopeless her situation is, but two stealth attacks later, you're treated to a short series of quick-time events where, if all prompts are executed right, Lara will straight up curb stomp his ass with just her climbing axe and combat knife. The son of a bitch makes it clear he's not taking this well at all.
  • He also jeers about her lack of weapons and allies. One, he's been brought down thanks to said allies and two, if you have some magnetite ore left, you can craft grenades from the chalices lying around and stun-lock him effortlessly.
  • You can give him the coup de grâce with your arrows, pistol, shotgun, rifle, even your ice axe if you don't have the requisite finisher skill unlocked, or...
• The fact that the Athanatoi, the Immortals or Deathless Ones, were able to soundly defeat Trinity's battalions of present day militia when they breach the glacier. Their undying nature is quite slow to assert itself, so it must be down to their discipline and sheer numbers that allow them to overwhelm a technologically superior force. Or Greek fire and chromitite alloy armour bests machine guns and ballistic fibers.
• Lara's resolve at the end of Blood Ties. The Croft name may be all but destroyed, but she'll do everything she can to restore both her ancestral home and her family's legacy to new heights.