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Riou versus Luca Blight!
- Two moments in the escape from Kyaro.
- If the player manages, either through massive overleveling or exploits to beat Rowd, he becomes visibly 'terrified' of Riou and only captures the party by Zerg Rushing them.
- Either way, when Riou is rescued by Viktor and goes to save Namani, it turns out she didn't even need rescuing and plows through a half dozen soldiers like it's nothing while chasing the ones that run away screaming on her way to save him while all everybody can do is watch.
- Then there's the actual rescue of Riou and Jowy itself. Rowd is practically gloating about how he'll be greatly rewarded for bringing down the two "traitors" to Highland as they're beaten and preparing to be hanged in the background. As he's doing so, he looks at the sunset and tells them how it'll be their last sunset but it's just another sunset to him... and that's when Flik and Viktor jump into the fray, having killed all the soldiers in Rowd's convoy, cut the ropes around Riou's and Jowy's necks and cut their binds as well. Even though Rowd gets away, his Stunned Silence is worth it for all of the crap he's put our heroes through!
- Miklotov has put up with his master quite enough by the time he sees the carnage of Muse. He wishes to fight for the hero's army, but Gorudo orders him to stay within the borders and not fight (which he kept saying even as they saw refugees slaughtered personally by Luca Blight as they rushed to their capital). Enraged, Miklotov denounces his rank, as he is "a human first, and a knight second" and removes his emblem of the Matilda Knights. Gorudo orders Camus to arrest him, but he also removes his badge. He orders the rest of his knights to arrest both of them, but all the Blue and Red knights break their oath to join the hero's army.
- Jowy's about to kill Annabelle. She asks him if she could finish the glass of wine that Viktor brought for her before he goes through with it. When he agrees, she throws the glass at him, yells, "You dropped your guard, boy!", and fights back rather than die cowering. It's all for naught, but still, Annabelle solidifies herself as a badass before her death.
- The epic Climax Boss battle against Luca Blight, complete with his death speech.It took hundreds to kill me, but I killed humans by the thousands!!!! Look at me!!!! I am sublime!!!!!! I am the true face of evil!!!!
- Subtle, but inbetween all the Rasputinian Death, the final trap that lights Luca up and alerts your army to where Luca is; is the wooden amulet that Jowy and Riou bought for Pilika back in the beginning of the game.
- Riou and Jowy's entire fight against Gorudo and 5 other White Knights counts as this. Bonus points if this is the first time you've seen the final spell of the Black Sword Rune "Hungry Friend".
- Ridley standing up for Riou to Jess in Tinto can qualify for this. Ridley is usually very subdued compared to the other Stars, but he's the first person to challenge Jess's accusations against Riou.
- When you thought Chaco couldn't get more annoying, when the Highland finally launched their assault to Two River and cornered the humans, suddenly Chaco arrived bringing along Winglies reinforcements and start pushing back the Highland. His reasoning? Why, because he loves Two River, and he'll not let the Highlands take it over. This eventually inspired the Kobolds to not get outdone and request Ridley to join the fight too, he complies and the combined power of the three races drive away Highland. If this doesn't better your opinion on Chaco, nothing will.
- If the Random Number God is kind on you, Ridley gets one when he and his troops escape Radat on his own.
- If this happens, it's typically because Ridley's Critical ability went off more than a few times. For the uninformed, Critical inflicts two points of damage to a unit instead of the usual one, and two points of damage will take out any unit without the Heavy Armor ability, which is quite rare on the enemy side. And General Ridley seems to activate it MUCH more often than usual in this battle; if the enemy chooses to attack him a lot, it's not unusual to see him mow down 3 or 4 units in a single turn! Can you say Four-Star Badass?
- The Quick Draw duel during the climax of Clive's sidequest. It turns out that Elza's baiting of Clive has really been an elaborate Batman Gambit designed to ensure that she dies at his hand. Or not. With Elza, you can never really tell.
