History Awesome / TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly

* Tuco's EstablishingCharacterMoment, where he is accosted by a trio of {{Bounter Hunter}}s. The bounty hunters kick down the door of the saloon where he's dining. We hear gunshots and [[ThereWasADoor see Tuco dive out the window]] with a pistol in one hand and a chicken leg in the other. As Tuco flees, the camera pans to the tavern's entrance where we see two dead bounty hunters and the third seriously wounded.

* Tuco getting revenge on Corporal Wallace by throwing him off the train with him, killing him and then severing the cuffs via an oncoming train.

* Having been left behind by Blondie in the middle of nowhere, Tuco makes it back to town by having to walk day and night through a scorching desert, ''through sheer force of willpower alone''. We see him at the end of his journey and he's dehydrated and absolutely exhausted. You can only imagine what he had to go through to finally reach town.

* Having been left behind by Blondie in the middle of nowhere, Tuco makes it back to town by having to walk day and night through a scorching desert, ''through sheer force of willpower alone''. Though he's exhausted by the end of his journey, you have to admire him for that.

-->'''Blondie''': I'll... sleep better... knowing... my... good friend... is by my side.

-->"How did you know I wouldn't shoot?"
-->"I took the bullets out of your gun."

* Tuco getting revenge on Corporal Wallace by throwing him off the train with him, killing him and then severing the cuffs via a train track.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6tR78d0cmA The three-way MexicanStandoff at the end.]] [[SincerityMode Three guys eyeballing one another for five minutes straight has never been so breathtaking.]]

* The three-way MexicanStandoff at the end.

* The very fact that Eli Wallach came out of filming alive after all the dangers and misfortunes he faced filming.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubVc2MQwMkg Tuco trying to find the grave that the gold is buried in.]] He runs through the graveyard, searching every headstone, but as the shot continues, with Tuco running through an endless forest of headstones, one begins to get a sense of perspective, of just how ''insignificant'' these three men and their petty struggle is compared to [[TheAmericanCivilWar what is happening in the world everywhere they turn.]] Hundreds of thousands of men are dying in this war, and three vagabonds fight over a pile of money.

* Tuco trying to find the grave that the gold is buried in. He runs through the graveyard, searching every headstone, but as the shot continues, with Tuco running through an endless forest of headstones, one begins to get a sense of perspective, of just how ''insignificant'' these three men and their petty struggle is compared to [[TheAmericanCivilWar what is happening in the world everywhere they turn.]] Hundreds of thousands of men are dying in this war, and three vagabonds fight over a pile of money.

-->"If you're gonna shoot, ''shoot'', don't talk!"

* The amazingly rousing music, courtesy of legend EnnioMorricone.

* Tuco gunning down his old nemesis after being caught in the tub. "When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."

* Blondie, who has been an unapologetically cynical and cruel person throughout the entire film, finally lives up to his label of "The Good" when he comforts a dying soldier in an unpretentiously spontaneous moment of kindness, lighting the boy OneLastSmoke and warming him with his coat in his final moments.
* Another touching moment is between Tuco and Blondie after the fight between Tuco and his brother. Tuco doesn't know that Blondie saw the fight, and tries to convince Blondie, if not himself, that his brother loves him and looks up to him, and we see the underlying sadness in how lonely he is and how his only "brother" is Blondie. Made much more sad when one thinks of the ending.
* One of the best parts is Blondie's "and after a good meal, there's nothing like a cigar". He may be cold and pragmatic throughout most of the movie, but this little gesture of friendship and willingness to play along with Tuco's lie shows that he feels compassion for him, at least a little.
* Not immediately obvious, but the final scene. Sure, Blondie leaves Tuco tied up, almost kills him and leaves without as much as a word. But [[FridgeBrilliance think about it]] - he lets Tuco leave, lets him keep the gold, and indirectly tells him (by shooting the rope) that their score is settled. For a tough gunslinger, that's as close to explicitly making peace with Tuco as it possibly could be.

* Or the part where he sacrifices his {{Nakama}} in order to pull a ClickHello on Blondie - with his spurs. Simultaneously an instance of [[KickTheDog dog-kicking]] and an awesome moment for the character.

* The amazingly rousing music, courtesy of legend EnnioMorricone.