History Awesome / RiseOfThePlanetOfTheApes

** What really makes it is the setup. Audiences have been known to either laugh or groan in response to the [[MythologyGag "damn dirty apes"]] line... until [[MoodWhiplash Caesar yells, "NO!"]] and they go ''[[StunnedSilence dead quiet]]''. It's a real CMOA when even the ''audience'' is thinking, "OhCrap" There's even a reaction shot of ''Buck the Gorilla'' in shock. It's also compounded by the fact that the movie itself goes silent right after. It really brings home the gravitas of that simple word.

* Buck gets one a DyingMomentOfAwesome by [[BigDamnHeroes ramming Caesar out of a chopper's line of fire]], '''JUMPING''' into said helicopter while being shot, and causing it to crash.
* Koba casually killing Jacobs by kicking the wrecked helicopter he's in off the Golden Gate Bridge. Also a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.

* Buck and Maurice stopping the police cars.
* Koba casually killing Jacobs via kicking the helicopter he's in off the bridge it's hanging on. Also a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
* Caesar suddenly appearing on top of that horse. The look on his face as he triumphantly rides forward is priceless.
** Especially since, mere moments before, the humans thought they were going to massacre the apes. But Ceasar saw through their plans, sent Maurice and Koba around to ambush the humans, and basically turned the table on their ambush in no time at all. While charging them on a horse he stole from one of the Mounties.
* The entire time of Caesar in the ape shelter. After being bullied by the biggest chimpanzee around, Caesar finds a way around it by freeing a [[AlwaysABiggerFish Buck the gorilla]], turning him into his ally, and using him to intimidate his aggressor (and all the other chimpanzees by proxy) into submission. Impressive, but that's merely the beginning, Caesar doesn't just look for a way to be on top, he looks for a way to give freedom to ''all the apes''. Special mention to him managing to sneak out in the middle of the night, go to his former home, steal vials of the ALZ 113 and give to his fellow apes in the span of one night ''completely unnoticed'', and then training them without being discovered.

* Buck gets one by destroying a police car by ripping up a parking meter and throwing it like a tomahawk. Then a DyingMomentOfAwesome by ramming Caesar out of a chopper's line of fire, JUMPING into said helicopter while being shot, and causing the chopper to crash.

** What really makes it is the setup. Audiences have been known to either laugh or groan in response to the [[MythologyGag "damn dirty apes"]] line... until [[MoodWhiplash Caesar yells "NO!"]], and they go ''[[StunnedSilence dead quiet]]''. It's a real CMOA when even the ''audience'' is thinking "OhCrap". There's even a reaction shot of ''Buck the Gorilla'' in shock. It's also compounded by the fact that the movie itself goes quielt right after. It really brings home the gravitas of that simple word.