History Awesome / IndianaJonesAndTheLastCrusade

* The ending ITSELF is an awesome moment. Watching the heroes ride off with the theme in full force leaves you feeling empowered! Also a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

* The ending ITSELF is an awesome moment. Watching the heroes ride off with the theme in full force leaves you feeling empowered!

--> '''Sallah:''' Drop your guns....please.

* [[RockBeatsLaser Indiana Jones on a horse vs. a tank and three trucks all full of Nazis]]. He tricks the tank into running over one of the cars, stuffs a rock down the side-cannon's barrel, jumps onto the tank, fights the Nazi Dragon, shoots three Nazis in one shot, throws the gun down to his dad so he can kill the Nazis in the tank and blow up the other truckload of soldiers (all while still getting beaten on), falls off of the tank into certain doom, gets back on anyway, chucks his best friend off the tank, saves his dad from being run over by the tank while the Dragon is still breaking ribs, manages to get his dad off of the tank, and manages to jump off himself just as it falls off a cliff taking the Dragon with it. And of course afterwards when everybody thinks he's dead, he climbs back up. Made even more badass awesome, by the fact that just before he realizes, "this tank is going off a cliff and I need to get the $#**% off", his trademark fedora gets blown off in the wind and we think "Oh no, is this the end?". Then when he gets back off the cliff, bruised, bleeding, and for crying out loud just plain exhausted, with a look on his face that says "Hey, you guys go on ahead and find the Holy Grail without me, I'm just gonna lie down and die", his fedora blows back onscreen, he gives it a look, and resolutely puts it on and goes to join the others. Maybe Hitler declaring war on him wasn't such of an overreaction after all.

* Those crazy Knight Templar's booby traps. When will they learn that you just can't get rid of Indiana that easy?

* This moment:
-->'''Vogel:''' Tell me about this miserable little diary of yours. The book is useless and yet you come all the way back to Berlin to get it. Why? ''(slaps Henry with his glove)'' Why? ''(slap!)'' What are you hiding? ''(slap!)'' What does the diary tell you that it doesn't tell us?
-->''(Henry catches Vogel's hand before he can slap him.)''
-->'''Henry:''' It tells me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try ''reading'' books instead of ''burning'' them!

-->''(Henry slaps him lighty)''

** Telling the Nazi colonel "It tells me that goose-stepping morons like yourself should try reading books instead of burning them!"

* The Leap of Faith, and the accompanying music.

* Indiana Jones on a horse vs. a tank and three trucks all full of Nazis. He tricks the tank into running over one of the cars, stuffs a rock down the side-cannon's barrel, jumps onto the tank, fights the Nazi Dragon, shoots three Nazis in one shot, throws the gun down to his dad so he can kill the Nazis in the tank and blow up the other truckload of soldiers (all while still getting beaten on), falls off of the tank into certain doom, gets back on anyway, chucks his best friend off the tank, saves his dad from being run over by the tank while the Dragon is still breaking ribs, manages to get his dad off of the tank, and manages to jump off himself just as it falls off a cliff taking the Dragon with it. And of course afterwards when everybody thinks he's dead, he climbs back up. Made even more badass awesome, by the fact that just before he realizes, "this tank is going off a cliff and I need to get the $#**% off", his trademark fedora gets blown off in the wind and we think "Oh no, is this the end?". Then when he gets back off the cliff, bruised, bleeding, and for crying out loud just plain exhausted, with a look on his face that says "Hey, you guys go on ahead and find the Holy Grail without me, I'm just gonna lie down and die", his fedora blows back onscreen, he gives it a look, and resolutely puts it on and goes to join the others. Maybe Hitler declaring war on him wasn't such of an overreaction after all.

** Taking out a Nazi fighter plane with [[ImprovisedWeapon an umbrella and a flock of seagulls.]] "I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne. ''"Let my armies be the rocks and the trees, and the birds in the sky!"''"

* Sean Connery is famous for playing James Bond in the sixties. ''Indiana Jones's father is James Bond.''

** This Troper views Indy's decision on the final trap - a ''literal leap of faith'' - to be a crowning moment when you see it for the first time, because you can't see how in the Hell Indiana can cross a vast chasm. The moment he lifts up that leg and prepares to leap off, you HAD to be on the edge of your seat thinking "How is going to survive THIS one?"

-->''(Henry slaps him hard)''

* Indy finally getting back the Cross of Coronado from Panama Hat after 26 years.

* Hey Indy, I bet you can't joust on a motorbike with a flagpo- NO WAY!!! Well, I bet you can't jam a flagpole into one of the Nazi biker's tire's and flip it ove- WHAT THE %$@*#!!! THE MYTHBUSTERS SAID THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE!!!
** [[MemeticMutation Indy rejects the ''[[Series/{{Mythbusters}} Mythbusters]]''[='=] reality and substitutes his own]]. How, you ask? ''By being INDIANA-FUCKING-JONES,'' that's how!

** [[MemeticMutation Indy rejects the ''Series/{{Mythbusters}}''[='=]s reality and substitutes his own]]. How, you ask? ''By being INDIANA-FUCKING-JONES,'' that's how!

** [[MemeticMutation Indy rejects the Mythbusters's reality and substitutes his own]]. How, you ask? ''By being INDIANA-FUCKING-JONES,'' that's how!

* Indy finally getting back the Cross of Coronado from Panama Hat after 26 years.
* Basically the fourth movie can have all the special effects it wants, but the third movie still owns.

** "I suddenly remembered my Charlemagne. ''"Let my armies be the rocks and the trees, and the birds in the sky!"''"
*** For context, Henry Sr. defeated a Nazi fighter plane with [[ImprovisedWeapon an umbrella and a flock of seagulls.]]

*** For context, Henry Sr. defeated a Nazi fighter plane with [[ImprovisedWeapon an umbrella]]

-->'''Indiana:''' Oh, Jesus Ch-..

*** For context, Henry Sr. defeated a Nazi fighter plane with [[BeyondTheImpossible an umbrella]]