History Awesome / Highlander

* Connor administering a lethal dose of LaserGuidedKarma to a Nazi officer who shot him InTheBack while he was carrying little Rachel to safety. At first, he offers the Nazi a chance to run away, but the smug bastard defiantly states in German that Connor will just have to shoot him, and Connor is just fine with the arrangement:
-->"Whatever you say, Jack; [[SarcasmMode you're the master race.]]" ''*DAKKA!*''

** Punching the creepy power-tripping beat cop in front of the same detective and getting away with it.

* Brenda attacking the Kurgan with a pipe also qualifies, given she knew she was attacking a six foot tall, immortal, madman wielding a broadsword.

* Subtle, but there's Connor coolly weaseling out of the policeman trying to get him to implicate himself. ''Twice''.
** Punching the creepy power-tripping beat cop in front of his captain and getting away with it.

* Say what you want about ''Endgame'', but [[spoiler: the Quickening Duncan gets from killing Jacob Kell is awesome]].
** As with ''Highlander 2'', say what you will about the film, but goddamn, Creator/MichaelIronside was just so awesome as the [[EvilIsHammy over the top evil]] Katana, you can tell that even with what he had to work with, he was having a ball.

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* We get a crowner for one of the few times a mortal scores a kill on an immortal, by [[spoiler:[[YourHeadAsplode shoving a live grenade]] [[HeroicSacrifice in their mouth.]]]]
* The film in general, not restrained to the limitations of the live-action movies, goes quite a bit in showing just how ''powerful'' long-lived immortals can be.
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** As with ''Highlander 2'', say what you will about the film, but goddamn, MichaelIronside was just so awesome as the [[EvilIsHammy over the top evil]] Katana, you can tell that even with what he had to work with, he was having a ball.

* The duel between Ramirez and the Kurgan. When SeanConnery is demolishing brick walls due to the impact of his sword, you know that Awesome is occurring.

* The film in general, restrained from the limitations of the live-action movies, goes quite a bit in showing just how ''powerful'' long-lived immortals can be.

* Conner defeating the Kurgan.
* The duel between Ramirez and the Kurgan. When SeanConnery is demolishing brick walls due to the impact of his sword, you know that Awesome is occuring.

* Say what you want about Endgame, but [[spoiler: The quickening Duncan gets from killing Jacob Kells is awesome]]
** As with "Highlander 2", say what you will about the film, but goddamn, MichaelIronside was just so awesome as the [[EvilIsHammy over the top evil]] Katana, you can tell even with what he had to work with, he was having a ball.

** As with "Highlander 2", say what you will about the film, but goddamn, MichaelIronside wasm of course, just so awesome as the [[EvilIsHammy over the top evil]] Katana, you can tell even with what he had to work with, he was having a ball.

Say what you want about Endgame, but [[spoiler: The quickening Duncan gets from killing Jacob Kells is awesome]]

* The Kurgan gets a DyingMomentOfAwesome. After his fatal wound and before his head topples from his body, he smiles at Connor and raises his sword in a salute.

The original Highlander movie more or less codified the Crowning Moment of Awesome with the Quickening (No, not the awful movie). What could we do to make a swordfight more awesome? Oh, how about when one of the guys takes the other guy's head, EVERYTHING EXPLODES!

* The gun nut who stumbles upon the end of a duel and opens fire on the Kurgan. No, it didn't work, but he still did better than just about anyone else who went up against the Kurgan.

* The Kurgan gets a DyingMomentOfAwesome. After his fatal wound and before his head topples from his body, he smiles at Connor and raises his sword in a salute.

* The Kurgan gets a DyingMomentofAwesome. After his fatal wound and before his head topples from his body, he smiles at Connor and raises his sword in a salute.

* The church scene in the original film. Never before has two men sitting down and talking been more badass.

The original Highlander movie more or less codified the Crowning Moment of Awesome with the Quickening (No, not the awful movie). What could we do to make a swordfight more awesome? Oh, how about when one of the guys takes the other guy's head, EVERYTHING EXPLODES!