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The game
- When you choose your Flame Champion, you fight a fierce dragon to test your worth to pocess the True Rune.
- After two defeats which forced them to retreat, the Zexens and Grasslanders get together under the new Flame Champion and beat back the Harmonian army at Brass Castle.
- Geddoe's Shut Up, Hannibal! moment to Luc before the final battle basically boils down to "Finished yet, you little whiner?".
- After Franz is further mocked by his fellow Le Buque citizens for being Harmonia's lapdog (in order to gain full citizenship for the city), Geddoe slams the lead tormentor to the ground, declares that at least Franz is doing something and not sitting on his ass like his critics, and leaves with both Franz and Iku.
- And Thomas, handing out medical supplies, managing inventory and helping a lost boy find his mother as great heroes bustle about around him.
- Later in the story, once Thomas hears about the castle's dire finances, he comes up with an idea of leasing out land once Martha informs him that the castle is technically both Zexen and Grassland due to old treaties. This formal treaty is exactly why Budehec is perfect to set up the Fire Bringer's home base.
- Further, he (along with Salome working in the background) comes up with the next phase of the plan to trick the Zexen Councilor trying to seize the land: By selling the castle to Lucia for 500 potch, then entering a 500 year lease at 1 potch a year (something he can only do because Grassland has partial ownership). Percival then immediately points out that the councilor has no authorization to invade Grassland territory, and immediately orders the Knights to withdraw. This, coupled with some hidden aid for Geddoe's mercenary band, saves the castle and all the people within.
- Or the fact in Luc's side story in the game, after Luc easily blast away Sarasai in a duel. Thomas proves to be a determinator. He gets blasted back, and knocked off his feet no less then FIVE times, but kept getting up, more or less telling one of the most powerful Rune-users in the series that he would never give up, or run away - even though Thomas is one of the weaker characters in the game and is de facto Non-Action Guy.
- There's also that Thomas starts off as a rather timid young man who seeks acceptance. When he tells off the Zexan councilman who are chasing after Hugo, you want to cheer and hug him.Thomas: Did you come all the way here just to insult my guests? I didn't know that you had the free time.
The manga
The Suikoden III manga, fulfilling its role of concentrated fanservice, has a lot of these.
- Salome was a rather goofy looking character in the game and was fairly unpopular in the fandom, looking at the manga you can only guess that the author took pity on him. At one point, faced with political corruption that is hindering him from properly fighting the war against Harmonia he works for a political solution¦ right up to the point where they insult one of his friends and try to transfer him to a quiet spot where he can't cause trouble (Budehec Castle, which he effortlessly clears up by appointing Thomas as his minister). Then he proceeds, in easily the best divergence from the game's storyline, to mount a brilliantly executed coup dâ'etat and arrests the entire council. One of the councilors, astonished at this turn of events, wonders how Salome managed to find incriminating evidence that the councilor in question had personally destroyed. It's then revealed (though only to the readers) that Salome beat the council at their own corrupt game by forging the evidence of the councilors' treason. His superior later charitably describes this as reckless (and she doesn't even know just how far Salome went to accomplish his objectives), obviously forgetting to add ˜totally awesome".
- Dios, a non combat character in the original game, grabbing his injured superior and proceeding to break through the lines of his own, extremely confused, army.
- Geddoe misses out his crowning moment from the original game, punching a whiny NPC. In compensation he gets to punch the whiny main character. A fair trade. Also see any time him and Yuber are on screen/panel together. Game or manga.
- Chris effortlessly beating Hugo before completely demolishing his self indulgent revenge fantasies in true Warrior Therapist fashion.
- Goofy Kid Hero Hugo's first kill, after worrying about it for so long. No being sick, no long musing on the nature of life and death, just him covered in blood and hacking down men left and right in the chaos of battle. A little later on he tears a man's throat out before wordlessly moving on.
