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* Mitsuru Kirijo, the [[Lady of War|merciless]] and [[Fate Worse Than Death|downright terrifying]] [[Badass Bookworm]] of the game, {{spoiler|defiantly [[Rousing Speech|tries to shout down]] an [[Eldritch Abomination]] in the final battle. ''While said Eldritch Abomination is on the verge of bringing about [[The End of the World As We Know It]] and everybody else including the Main Character has been stomped flat by its power.''}} That sort of thing takes ''guts''.
{{quote| '''Mitsuru''': {{spoiler|We have come this far...! ''[[This Is Sparta|I WILL NOT SUBMIT!]]''}}}}
* Likewise, in the true last battle of the game, the Main Character {{spoiler|having completed the tarot journey, [[David Versus Goliath|stands up against the]] [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] [[David Versus Goliath|of]] '''[[David Versus Goliath|death itself]]''', alone -- as everyone else is being crushed by the raw power emanating from the boss. The attack is coming from the moon, so he calmly levitates into outer space with the ''sheer power of his psyche''. Facing the thing behind the end of the world, he gets blasted with an attack designed to wipe out life on Earth itself -- it does 9999 HP damage in a game with a 3 digit HP cap -- repeatedly. [[Determinator|Each time he stands back up]]. [[Nakama|His friends]], [[Dead Ex Machina|including one who died during the game]], [[The Power of Friendship|cheer him on]], their cheers [[Combined Energy Attack|healing his wounds]] as he goes from [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now|barely surviving the attacks]], to dodging the attacks, to outright [[Shooting Superman|ignoring the attacks]]. In the end, fully healed, he reaches out and [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|wipes the entire thing and himself out of the sky]] (by pointing at it with one finger no less). Cue the panic as they think he's dead, only for him to come back a few minutes later.}} Of course, this being a game by the [[Shin Megami Tensei]] team, {{spoiler|[[Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu|this is mercilessly subverted]], as Persona 3 FES explains.}}
* And prior to this, if you've leveled up the Main Character enough, you can get his ultimate persona, the Messiah. Yes, ''the'' Messiah. He can be created to use instant-kill light ''and'' dark magic, comes with one of the most powerful physical attacks (Hand of God, no less), plenty of resistances, and can learn the full-party perfect healing spell and - in tasty irony - become [[Immune to Bullets|immune to piercing attacks]]. Holy shit.
** To quote the epic [[Let's Play]] of the game:
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* [[Team Pet|Koromaru]] gets one when he stops {{spoiler|Ikutsuki}} from {{spoiler|using Aigis to kill the members of SEES on top of the observatory}} Especially awesome when you realize he had to run straight through the building to get to {{spoiler|Ikutsuki}}. Someone get that dog some steak.
** Even better, in [[P 3 P]], if you play the girl, not only does {{spoiler|Mitsuru's father tell Ikutsuki to shut the hell up on his [[Motive Rant]], when Ikutsuki pulls out a gun and shoots him, ''he pulls out his own and shoots him right back''.}} That's one [[Dying Moment of Awesome]].
* During the later ranks of Mitsuru's social link she tells him/her how important the main character is to her, only to be confronted by her jerkass fiance. He proceeds to berate the main character with insults and telling Mitsuru that she's only to be his obedient wife. Mitsuru decides she's had enough of that crap and delivers a delightfully awesome [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|speech]] to her fiance and causes him to ''run away in terror''. (In Portable, this happens whether you play as the male character or the female character.)
* In the penultimate rank of the Hermit Social Link in the female protagonist's route, the PC gets fed up with the way everyone is treating Saori and encourages her to clear things up - by hijacking the school's PA to share her thoughts with the whole school. While Saori is making her announcement, the PC guards the door and refuses to let Mr. Ekoda to get in to stop the broadcast. Then Ms. Toriumi and Ms. Ounishi show up and proceed to completely stonewall Ekoda, clearly enjoying every minute of it. After sending him on his way, they cheerfully admit that they see nothing wrong with the stunt and have no intentions of punishing the girls for it. It's a small thing compared to facing down an [[Eldritch Abomination]], but damn if it's not incredibly satisfying all the way around.
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