Awesome / Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

• Elena shows just where she spent the XP she earned in Drake's Fortune and punches Flynn in the face even though he's pointing a gun at her and her cameraman was just executed.
• Another one for Elena towards the end of the game, where she stands her ground against the Big Bad, who is not only about two heads taller than her, but also happens to be pointing his gun in Nate's face at the time. Nate has to actually talk her down.
  • The standoff itself is enough on its own, but then she charges Lazarević with an unflinching "BACK OFF!". She may be small, but she certainly packs a punch.
  • In the same standoff, both Elena and Chloe effectively tell Lazarevic to fuck off even as they know he's about to execute them both if Nate doesn't cooperate. They might not quite get along, but there's a damn good reason that they both ended up in Nate's circle.
• Nathan is fighting some sort of Yeti creature and can't win. What does Tenzin do? He jumps on the Yeti's back and repeatedly stabs it with his kukri until it's forced to retreat.
  • Tenzin in general. He's armed with a grapple hook and a kukri, and he jumps over slippery chasms and stabs yetis: he's pretty much Batman of the ice caves!
• Nate's battle with Lazarević. Lazarević has drunk the sap of the Tree of Life, making him virtually invincible. Does Nate run away in fear? No. He kicks his fucking ass.
• The Traintop Battle. As hard as it is, holy CRAP the traintop battle.
• From the developers — the point at which you realize that the opening scene takes place in the middle of the game, rather than towards the end.

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