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1[[AC:Original film]]
2* Joe's fight with the cowboys near the start of the film. [[IgnoredExpert Crawford]] turned out to be right after all.
3--> '''Crawford''': You can't rope a gorilla!
4* Watching Joe take on a dozen male lions to protect some random human ([[{{Irony}} admittedly, he was the one who set them lose in the first place]]) at Max's night club.
5* O'Hara gets one for refusing to help the police who've captured him get their car un-stuck from the mud. He helps again when they catch up to Joe and the others while their trying to help some children get out of a burning orphanage. One cop tried to shoot at Joe ([[WhatTheHellHero which was really stupid of him because it was obvious, Joe was helping some children escape a burning building]]) but O'Hara grabbed at the gun before he could fire.
6** Joe rescuing the children from the burning orphanage. Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment.
7* The whole nightclub rampage is an [=MoA=] for the then-young Ray Harryhausen. He was barely 29 years old, working on his first major film project, and doing a lot of very complicated stop-motion that ''still'' looks great!
8* O'Hara proving his BenevolentBoss credentials by stepping in to protect one of his cigarette girls from a bunch of loutish drunks.
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10[[AC: 1998 Remake]]
11* The chase sequence with Gregg O'Hara and his men trying to keep up with and capture Joe, who outpaces and uses his strength and smarts to total their vehicles.
12* Joe saving Jason from the burning Ferris wheel.
13* When Strasser prepares to shoot Jill, Jill smirks slyly and says "goodbye" as she sees Joe lurking behind him. Then Joe grabs Strasser and tosses him into a transformer, electrocuting him to death.

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