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[[folder: Original film ]]

* Joe's fight with the cowboys near the start of the film. [[IgnoredExpert Crawford]] turned out to be right after all.
--> '''Crawford''': You can't rope a gorilla!
* 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.
* 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.
** Joe rescuing the children from the burning orphanage. Doubles as a Heartwarming Moment.
* 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!
* 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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[[folder: 1998 Remake ]]

* 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.
* Joe saving Jason from the burning Ferris wheel.
* 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.
* Like Ray Harryhausen before them, the special effects team in the remake did nothing short of astounding work. Almost all of Joe's appearances on screen were done by an extremely lifelike animatronic and suit, which are often regarded as the best practical ape in film even two decades later. The [=CGI=] Joe, while more sparingly used, also holds up very well and holds regard. Unlike the scaly dinosaurs of ''Film/JurassicPark'', the effects teams had to make Joe's hairy body look real in 1998 and pulled it off wonderfully.