Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain/Awesome

"BEHOLD! TODAY IS THE DAY WEAPONS LEARN TO WALK UPRIGHT!"
 * Mission 6 gives us Skull Face making one hell of an entrance . It can also be one for Venom, should he take down the Skulls.
 * The end of Mission 7 is one for Venom. You discover that Venom has been so effective at basically making Afghanistan his bitch they are calling in reinforcements. To put this in proper perspective, Venom is one man, and he's so badass an entire division of the Soviet Army is calling in reinforcements just to take him out.
 * Mission 9, provided you do really good at it, is another awesome moment for Venom, since he winds up pissing off the Soviets so badly they send a gunship and extra tanks, just to kill him alone. This is AFTER having taken out several tanks and other armored vehicles in under 15 minutes.
 * Mission 12 finally shows off Metal Gear Sahelanthropus in all it glory, complete with Skull Face giving it a bombastic introduction.
 * Mission 33 has the final confrontation with Sahelanthropus, which, in a first for the series, makes for an awesome battle where Afghanistan itself is the massive, open world battleground to take it down. However, the real awesome comes afterwards.
 * Practically every scene Quiet is in she's doing awesome stuff:
 * After her capture, she slips her handcuffs, Snake shrugs and resumes heading back to base. Then a Sea Harrier shows up to ruin his day, and she reappears to bail him out. In the process, she helps shoot down a missile, and in a scene that has Ocelot holy shitting himself later shoots the pilot through the skull while he's vectoring in for the kill while flying at Mach 2. Then she just sits back down, slips her handcuffs back on, leaving a stunned Venom to shrug again and roll with it.
 * Quiet tries to head out with Venom later, and while it doesn't pan out then, she does prove, courtesy of Ocelot lending her his revolver, that she can shoot between the blades of a moving chopper without hitting them once.
 * It's kinda Nightmare Fuel at the time, but the time when some Diamond Dogs got owned after giving her shit was pretty kickass, with her springboarding off their backs, then pinning one particular soldier to the ground and damn near ramming a knife down his throat..
 * Mission 45's first part is a long montage of awesome Quiet action. She gets captured, and some Soviet soldiers decide to slap her around and choke the shit out of her, then one asshole gets the bright idea to rape her, after having tried to drown her nearly dehydrated body. That guy suddenly finds himself ass over tea kettle as Quiet kicks the ass of every single one of his buddies, even Mike Tysons a guy's ear off, lethally shanking her would be rapist in the balls, throwing a soldier she laced a grenade to at another soldier and using his body as a shield, then appears out of the remains of the supply building that went nova in the process, sniper rifle in one hand, rocket launcher in the other (which she hands to you).
 * And then Part Two has Quiet and Venom getting a combined awesome moment as they go Back-to-Back Badasses on the now incredibly pissed off Soviet 40th Red Army. And win.
 * Eli got one prior to even being met. Pretty much written off and left for dead in the ass end of Africa, he managed to find a ragtag splinter group of child soldiers and turned then into a pants shittingly terrifying miniature army.
 * He gets another when you have to take him down. While it's possible to knock him and skip fighting him at all, if you are forced to fight him, he manages to be incredibly tough, shrugging off a ton of rubber bullets and tranq darts as well as being CQCed multiple times. For perspective, he's a scrawny teenager, Venom's a well trained, well equipped combat veteran, and it's still a tough fight.
 * Eli managed to screw over Venom and Skull Face at the same time. How, you ask?.
 * Eli proves to be a full on Magnificent Bastard by managing to outwit Miller, Ocelot, and Venom despite keeping a very close eye on him. With a little help from, he masterminds an attempted rebellion that is foiled, but this turns out to have been a massive smokescreen for his real plan: . It works so well Ocelot is downright scared of what Eli will do next.
 * Skull Face is a monster, but he does have some awesome moments:
 * His debut has him giving a disturbingly serene entrance while, and after a little polite smack talk does an Unflinching Walk into the same hands that captured Venom, leaving Venom to watch in horror as Soviet soldiers turn into Skulls as the Skulls themselves show up to ruin his day.
 * In what doubles as a Call Back to Coldman, Skull Face learns Huey betrayed him, throws him down some stairs, then tells the backstabber he might live in the dark, but he will not be judged by the standards of a man who keeps switching sides..
 * He gets another one when Sahelanthropus emerges in a total badass entrance, capped off with his bombastic boast:


 * He gets another moment of awesome that isn't all that obvious when you first see him in Nyozai da Badibulu. He stops by a dying victim of the parasites, tells him in his native tongue he'll bear the pain of the dying man himself, then Mercy Kills him, noticing Venom and calling the Man On Fire to go after him..
 * Skull Face gets quite a few when Venom finally catches up with him at OKB Zero. We learn he was the reason Operation Snake Eater went so well (EVA and weren't the only help Snake had at the time), he also implies he wrested control of Cipher away from Zero, reveals his disturbingly well thought out plan to plunge the world into a Forever War, and when we finally get to where he has Metal Gear Sahelanthropus, we find out the reason the Man On Fire obeys him is because . This last part gets a bit subverted in the next scene , but it's still awesome at the time.
 * Even after he's dead, we find out Skull Face was responsible for quite a LOT..