Awesome / Splinter Cell: Blacklist

• At the start of Blacklist, Sam and Vic's helicopter is blown out of the sky. Instead of panicking, they adapt to the situation, grab some weapons and try find and disable the signal jammer which has rendered the Guam base defenceless. Later, Vic's fast enough to tackle Sam to the ground and save him from a grenade blast which puts him in a coma.
• In Blacklist Sam successfully breaks into the former US Embassy in Tehran, the Real Life base of Iran's feared Special Forces and lives. His escape just adds to the audacity of the infiltration with Grim providing cover with the UAV, blowing away hostiles as Briggs and Sam speed through Tehran with Iranian operatives on their tail.
  • Also when Sam breaks into none other then Guantanamo Bay and when he defies Caldwell's orders not to land in Denver and breaks into the Site F bunker, one of the most secure installations in the United States.
• Stopping the Blacklist attacks is each a Moment of Awesome.
• The train yard mission ends with two Engineers grabbing civilians and using them as Human Shields. You can throw a sleeping gas grenade at them and knock all four of them out. Or if you have a full Execute gauge, you can plug both Engineers in the head in the blink of an eye without harming a single hair on the hostages. It can be even more awesome if you do this without the Execute.
• The Louisiana mission where Sam traverses through a gas refinery which is burning down around him, re-activates the safety systems which prevent the massive fire from spreading to other refineries in the area and then is able to hunt down the Engineer leader overseeing the attack with Charlie causing the latter's getaway vehicle to crash by reactivating the entrance barrier.
• Kobin of all people gets one. When the engineers try to crash the Paladin with a computer virus, and one of the pilots is knocked out, Kobin keeps the plane up in the air while telling Sam how to purge the virus and restart the plane. Later, he's able to put these skills to use evading the air defences around Colorado to infiltrate Sam and Briggs into Site F.
• Sam escaping Sadiq's trap in Iraq when infiltrating their training camp. He runs through a burning building as a UAV bombards the place, rappelling up to the escape chopper barely in time as the building he's escaped from collapses.
• The Briggs missions. Preventing SVR's Voron division from stealing part of India's nuclear arsenal as the Blacklist attacks are going on.
• The gunfight with Voron operatives while recovering Kestrel from the abandoned city in Russia.
• Briggs being unmasked in the Colorado, subverting the initial belief that Sam got caught. At that point you know Fourth Echelon has finally caught up with Sadiq.
• Grim has to get an Obstructive Bureaucrat who is blocking access to the president out of her way:
  Aide: I'm sorry, the President is occupied with an urgent matter and won't be able to speak with you.
  Grim: Tell her it's Fourth Echelon.
  Aide: She knows. Sorry, Grim.
  Grim: Look, I know you think you're special because you sip lattes with the POTUS, but I have a lot of friends on Capitol Hill...
  Aide: Are you threatening me?
  Grim: No. Get me the President if you ever want to work in D.C. again. Now I'm threatening you.
  Aide quietly scuttles away
• EXERCISE FIFTH FREEDOM
  • Briggs killing the Secretary of Defense in order to ruin Sadiq's final plan. Up until this point, Sadiq's been completely unstoppable and unflappable, but he clearly begins to crack when Briggs denies him access to the classified information he's been after.
  • Sam's takedown of Sadiq. First, disguised as a base employee, he kills Sadiq's Mooks, then after sneaking up on him, fights him, cripples Sadiq by getting control of his knife and slashing an artery and at the end, he subverts his Roaring Rampage of Revenge and drops Vic's karambit in the snow, denying Sadiq a My Death Is Just the Beginning and causing a Villainous Breakdown. Seeing Sadiq afterwards, completely subdued and broken in prison makes it all the more sweeter.