History Awesome / RevengeOfTheSith

** Special mention must go to the four fireships that appear on either side of the burning forward half of the ''Invisble Hand''. They're so effective that they've completely extinguished the flames ''before the ship hit the ground!''
* The Legends novelization gives one to no else but Lorth Needa (the Imperial captain from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' that, after being fooled by Han, went to Darth Vader to take personal responsibility for the failure so the Sith Lord would spare his crew from his wrath, [[YouHaveFailedMe knowing he'd die for it]]), by showing why the ''Invisible Hand'' was where it was when Anakin and Obi-Wan boarded it and why the ''Guarlara'' then went and shot it down: a strike group composed by a ''Dreadnought''-class heavy cruiser and three ''Carrack''-class cruisers, that together didn't mass half of Grievious's ship, ''attacked the ''Invisible Hand'', pushed it into position and '''damaged the engines so it couldn't escape''''', at the cost of the ''Dreadnought'' and one of the ''Carrack'', and when contact was lost with Obi-Wan and Anakin, Needa, as the highest-ranking officer left in the strike group, went and [[DontMakeMeDestroyYou demanded Grievous's surrender on pain of death]]. Grievous obviously refused... And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qNKfKxvsUI we all know what Needa called in]].

'''Palpatine:''' (''Slowly stands, then pops his lightsaber out of his sleeve with a "shink!" sound, like he's revealing a shiv.'') [[PreAsskickingOneliner It's treason, then]]. (''Ignites his lightsaber with care, then suddenly lunges at the Jedi with bloodcurling scream'')

** Mace Windu has just been informed that Palpatine, the man who holds ultimate power over the Republic the Jedi serve, the man he sat across from multiple times without suspecting anything, is the Sith Lord. Does he shut down mentally, unable to process it? Does he hide in the Temple while he calls in an army of Jedi and clones? Does he call Yoda for guidance and reassurance? ''HELL NO!'' He marches into the Supreme Chancellor's office, without an ''ounce'' of fear, with just three other Jedi for backup, ignites his lightsaber, and proclaims that Palpatine is under arrest. Palpatine might have played him for a fool, in that moment, Mace declared ''no more!''

* Meanwhile, Yoda decides to do what he does best; kick ass, unleash all of the shit, and personally try to put a stop to Palpatine's reign of terror, starting off with a Force push so powerful that it ''[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere scares]]'' the Sith Lord, but Yoda won't have any of it.

* Anakin utterly destroys [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking Count Dooku]] in what quickly becomes [[CombatByChampion single combat]], and carries an unconscious Obi-Wan on his back like a rag doll.
** In [[Film/AttackOfTheClones the previous film]], Dooku had lopped off one of Anakin's hands. Here, Anakin delivers some literal LaserGuidedKarma on both of Dooku's hands before going in for the kill, albeit in a StartOfDarkness.

---> '''Palpatine''': "[[TheBadGuyWins At last, the Jedi are no more.]]"
---> '''Yoda''': "Not if anything to say about it, '''I have!'''"

** The fact that Obi-Wan ''wins'' this fight is a huge moment of awesome for him, despite [[WeUsedToBeFriends what it means for the two of them.]] Obi-Wan fights the Chosen One, and someone he's said before is stronger than he'll ever be, and ''wins''. It's true that Vader probably [[SanitySlippage isn't in the best state of mind]] to be fighting at full force, but it's still damn impressive.
*** What's more, Obi-Wan won so decisively that Vader [[AnArmAndALeg lost his remaining limbs]] and was slowly burning to death. Vader only survived by Palpatine's intervention.
** Meta: That's actually Creator/EwanMcGregor and Creator/HaydenChristensen throughout most of the fight, not their stunt doubles, with both having trained in the choreography until they could do it together ''at full speed''.

* The Legends novelization gives one to no else but Lorth Needa (the Imperial captain from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' that, after being fooled by Han, went to Darth Vader to take personal responsibility for the failure so the Sith Lord would spare his crew from his wrath, [[YouHaveFailedMe knowing he'd die for it]]), by showing why the ''Invisible Hand'' was where it was when Anakin and Obi-Wan boarded it and why the ''Guarlara'' then went and shot it down: a strike group composed by a ''Dreadnought''-class heavy cruiser and three ''Carrack''-class cruisers, that together didn't mass half of Grievious's ship, ''attacked the ''Invisible Hand'', pushed it into position and '''damaged the engines so it couldn't escape''''', at the cost of the ''Dreadnought'' and one of the ''Carrack'', and when contact was lost with Obi-Wan and Anakin, Needa, as the highest-ranking officer left in the strike group, went and [[DontMakeMeDestroyYou demanded Grievous' surrender on pain of death]]. Grievous obviously refused... And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qNKfKxvsUI we all know what Needa called in]].
** Then FridgeBrilliance kicks in, and makes the whole situation more awesome for Grievous: according to Palpatine's plan he was supposed to get bogged down after kidnapping him so that Anakin and Obi-Wan could rescue him, except that Grievous' assault on Coruscant was so effective that it took a suicidal action that disabled his ship's engines to actually get that to happen.

** What's more, in ''Legends'', ''the Jedi knew of Order 66''. It was one of at least 150 [[CrazyPrepared contingency orders to the Grand Army issued for a number of specific circumstances]], with Order 66 being basically "I, the Supreme Commander (Chancellor), have proof the Jedi Order has mutinied, KillEmAll" and Order 65 being "The Supreme Commander (Chancellor) is unfit to issue orders, ''[[RefugeInAudacity arrest him and shoot him if he runs"]]''. And yet, they were caught flat-footed when Palpatine, using official channels (because he had to identify himself as the Chancellor and Supreme Commander), ordered their own soldiers to assassinate them.

-->'''Mace:''' In the name of the Galactic Senate of the Republic, you are under arrest.\\

'''Mace:''' [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Not. yet.]]\\
'''Palpatine:''' (''Slowly stands, then pops his lightsaber out of his sleeve with a "shink!" sound, like he's revealing a shiv.'') [[PreAsskickingOneliner It's treason, then]]. (''Ignites his lightsaber with care.'')

*** ''This is when Palpatine wins.'' Not when he issues that fateful order to the clones. Not when he makes himself Emperor. Not when he defeats Yoda, the Jedi Order's Grand Master. It’s here, when he’s corrupted the Chosen One to the Dark Side. In this moment, he is truly about to gain… '''unlimited power.'''

* [[FallenHero Darth Vader]] vs. [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Obi-Wan Kenobi]].

** And the starfighters fly straight into a [[BigBadassBattleSequence spectacular space battle]], with thousands of ships engaged in battle, [[MoreDakka lasers flying everywhere,]] and [[StuffBlowingUp explosions at every corner.]] Easily the biggest space battle in ''Star Wars'' since the Battle of Endor, and likely one of the biggest ever to be depicted on film.

* After Anakin has crushed most of the buzz droids on Obi-Wan's ship, the last one gets on board Anakin's ship and stands right in front of R2, drill spinning up. Then R2, [[being PintSizePowerhouse R2]], produces a taser from a hatch in his dome and shocks the buzz-droid twice, with enough power to leave it staggering. Obi-Wan tells R2 to aim for the center eye on the buzzdroid, which R2 does, and kills the buzzdroid [[CurbStompBattle without Anakin's starfighter suffering as much as a scratch]].

* After Anakin has crushed most of the buzz droids on Obi-Wan's ship, the last one gets on board Anakin's ship and stands right in front of R2, drill spinning up. Then R2, [[being Pint-SizePowerhouse R2]], produces a taser from a hatch in his dome and shocks the buzz-droid twice, with enough power to leave it staggering. Obi-Wan tells R2 to aim for the center eye on the buzzdroid, which R2 does, and kills the buzzdroid [[CurbStompBattle without Anakin's starfighter suffering as much as a scratch]].

* When Artoo is cornered on the ''Invisible Hand'''s hangar by two [[EliteMooks super battle droids]], he squirts them with oil, engages his booster jets and ''[[KillItWithFire sets them on fire!]]''

* Still doesn't diminish what happens later: Obi-Wan Kenobi, alone, almost unarmed, jumps into a room full of battle droids and their commander, who [[MultiArmedAndDangerous splits his cyborg arms into four]] to ''[[DualWielding quadruple-wield]]'' ''[[UpToEleven lightsabers]]'' against Obi-Wan. The duel only ends when Obi-Wan pries open the armor covering Grievous's torso and shoots the remaining organs inside with a blaster, with the following BondOneLiner:

[[caption-width-right:350:''[[WeUsedToBeFriends A friendship]]'' ''[[BattleAmongstTheFlames in flames.]]'']]

* Speaking of Palpatine, he set up Obi-Wan's duel with Grievous at Utapau to not only [[UriahGambit off the latter for]] [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness outliving his usefulness,]] but also keep the former away while Anakin falls to the dark side.

* [[TheChosenOne Darth]] [[FallenHero Vader]] vs. [[IncorruptiblePurePureness Obi-]][[BigBrotherMentor Wan]] [[BigGood Kenobi]].

* After the opening crawl, a single Republic attack cruiser rolls across the screen, to the sound of lone drumbeats. Two Jedi Starfighters race over it to the most bombastic and cheer-inducing take on the Force theme ''ever'': we know exactly who's piloting those starfighters, what they're about to do, and in the space of a single scene, that this is the movie we'd been waiting twenty years for.
** And the starfighters fly straight into a [[BigBadassBattleSequence massive space battle]], with thousands of ships engaged in battle, [[MoreDakka lasers flying everywhere,]] and [[StuffBlowingUp explosions at every corner.]] Easily the biggest space battle in ''Star Wars'' since the Battle of Endor.

'''Palpatine:''' (''Slowly stands, then pops his lightsaber out of his sleeve with a "shink!" sound, like he's revealing a shiv.'' ) [[PreasskickingOneliner It's treason, then]]. (''Ignites his lightsaber with care.'')

* At one point, a lone clone trooper takes out two spider droids by jumping on their backs and [[MoreDakka unloading on them from above.]] It's easily missed since it happens just before Order 66 is carried out, but it's a great one.

* At long last, a Wookie army appeared on the screen.

* Yoda decapitating the clone troopers who were about to kill him in a single stroke - and this is ''after'' he's sensed his fellow Jedi being slaughtered through the Force.
* Credit must be given to the Padawans of the Jedi temple. Everything indicates that they [[DefiantToTheEnd went out fighting]]. One Padawan chops down several clone troopers who were barricading Bail Organa before getting gunned down, probably saving his life, and a couple of Padawans are seen temporarily holding off Vader with their lightsabers before being cut down. The latter cannot be understated, as two boys barely into their teens took on one of the most powerful Force users in the whole galaxy in a lightsaber duel and temporarily held their own.

'''Mace:''' Not yet!\\

---> '''Palpatine:''' ''[[EvilIsHammy POWER!]]'' '''''[[BadassBoast UN-LI-MI-TED POWER!!!!!!]]'''''

---> '''Palpatine:''' ''[[EvilIsHammy POWER!]]'' '''''[[BadassBoast UN-LI-MI-TED POWER!!]]'''''

** And then Anakin manages to crash-land the wreckage of the ''Invisible Hand'' on a Coruscant runway. To reiterate: he landed a 1080-m long dreadnought that was never designed for safe landing!

* The Legends novelization gives one to no else but Lorth Needa (the Imperial captain from ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'' that, after being fooled by Han, went to Darth Vader to take personal responsibility for the failure so the Sith Lord would spare his crew from his wrath, [[YouHaveFailedMe knowing he'd die for it]]), by showing why the ''Invisible Hand'' was where it was when Anakin and Obi-Wan boarded it and why the ''Guarlara'' then went and shot it down: a strike group composed by a ''Dreadnought''-class heavy cruiser and three ''Carrack''-class cruisers, that together didn't mass half of Grievious' ship, ''attacked the ''Invisible Hand'', pushed it into position and '''damaged the engines so it couldn't escape''''', at the cost of the ''Dreadnought'' and one of the ''Carrack'', and when contact was lost with Obi-Wan and Anakin, Needa, as the highest-ranking officer left in the strike group, went and [[DontMakeMeDestroyYou demanded Grievous' surrender on pain of death]]. Grievous obviously refused... And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qNKfKxvsUI we all know what Needa called in]].

* During the Grievous confrontation, special credit should be given to Grievous' [[EliteMooks Magnaguards]] for briefly holding their own against Anakin and Obi-Wan. In a universe where droids are semi-comical CannonFodder, it's impressive to see some that can actually give two of the Order's strongest Jedi a decent fight. It isn't until [[Literature/FateOfTheJedi the Void Jumpers help take back the Jedi Temple]] that was see an average non Force-user fight against a Sith/Jedi so well again.

'''Palpatine:''' (''Slowly stands, then pops his lightsaber out of his sleeve with a "shink!" sound, like he's revealing a shiv.'' )[[PreasskickingOneliner It's treason, then]]. (''Ignites his lightsaber with care.'')

* At one point, a lone clone trooper takes out two spider droids by jumping on their backs and [[MoreDakka unloading on them from above.]] It's easily missed, since it happens just before Order 66 is carried out, but it's a great one.
** Also at Utapau, a clone trooper gets into a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KYSHYSSvb0 fist fight with a battle droid]] and WINS.
* Anakin, now Darth Vader, [[OdessaSteps marching up the steps of the Jedi Temple]], at the head of the 501st Legion, to kill some Jedi. Terrifying but still incredibly powerful to see.

** Conversely, if you're rooting for the Sith side, consider this: Palpatine was at least able to go toe-to-toe against a Jedi Master with ''800 more years'' of experience than he did (and before, several Jedi Masters who have had the past 3 years to hone their skills in active combat duty), while spending most of his time working a day job as a politician, and balancing a dozen other schemes. Sidious was both the smartest and most badass person in any room, equal to Windu as a warrior, equal to Yoda as a mystic, and yet neither was his chief job. His chief job was making those fights happen in the first place - making it so that the Jedi came to him desperate, disgraced, flatfooted, off-balance, and then as cherry on the cake, failing to eliminate him even in personal combat. In surviving and equalling Yoda, Palpatine has faced the most terrifying weapon of the Jedi Order, the epitome of all they were, and personally ''beat it back''.
** Sadly, the instance in which Yoda disarms Palpatine is not shown in the film (thought it is in the script and novelization), which makes it an OffscreenMomentOfAwesome. However, what we see onscreen actually makes Yoda even more badass: if Sidious still had his lightsaber on him by the point he stopped using it, it implies the whole reason he resorts to trolling Yoda by throwing stuff at him is because Palpatine has realized he cannot win in a direct clash and that, unlike Windu, Yoda is ''not'' going to get distracted in the task of butchering him.

* At the end, all it took was Vader taking one deep mechanical breath and every hair on your body stood on end, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6bEs3dxjPg followed by a heart-wrenching]] BigNo. Bonus points goes to Vader's first breath for the fact that, because of the haze in the room, not only does the viewer hear Vader's first breath, they '''''see it.'''''

''You can hear yourself breathing. It comes hard, and harsh, and it scrapes nerves already raw, but you cannot stop it. You can never stop it. You cannot even slow it down.''\\

* At long last, a Wookie army appeared on screen.

* Credit must be given to the Padawans of the Jedi temple. Everything indicates that they [[DefiantToTheEnd went out fighting]]. One Padawan chops down several clone troopers who were barricading Bail Organa before getting gunned down, probably saving his life, and a couple Padawans are seen temporarily holding off Vader with their lightsabers before being cut down. The latter cannot be understated, as two boys barely into their teens took on one of the most powerful Force users in the whole galaxy in a lightsaber duel and temporarily held their own.