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  • The entire opening sequence, which is just one massive Mythology Gag to the movie.
    • Firstly, in an Offscreen Moment of Awesome, one of the mooks mentions that someone was standing guard at the elevator Spike comes in on, meaning he took someone out before he takes these guys out.
    • Spike nonchalantly walks in, flips a coin with a cocky smirk, and kicks it into the lead guy's eye.
    • Jet drops in from the ceiling and knocks a mook down.
    • One of the mooks causes an extended decompression, which leads to a beautiful shot of the outside of the casino's space station.
    • The heist ends with Spike telling an old woman (who had been held hostage) who asks who he and Jet are, "Just a humble bounty hunter, ma'am." Cue the opening.
  • Spike tracking Vicious with a sniper rifle, unaware to him, and giving him a literal warning shot, causing Vicious to lose his shit.
  • Faye doing an Extended Disarming of a notorious wanted man while dancing the Tango, which she demonstrates while dancing holding Ein. Spike is visibly awed.
  • Jet and Faye save Spike from the LONDES simulation with a triumphant example of Chekhov's Gun: a railgun that everyone wrote off as a scam, firing a hairpin fast enough to penetrate ballistic shielding.
  • Vicious' plan to depose the Elders and the other Capos. He plans to have Mao and Santiago "capture" him and bring him to the Elders in fake handcuffs. He knows they'll betray him and put him in real handcuffs so he uses a holographic face mask to switch places with Santiago and gag him. After Mao executes Santiago, Vicious takes his sword and slaughters everyone in the room.
  • Fearless wiping out the entire Neptune Cartel by himself.
  • Faye's Big Damn Heroes moment when she shows up to the church in her ship and starts machinegunning Vicious' thugs.
    "WELCOME TO THE OUCH, MOTHERFUCKERS!"
  • Julia shoots both Vicious and Spike and imprisons Vicious. Since Vicious is an Elder now, nobody is allowed to see him meaning Julia can serve as his Mouth of Sauron while secretly running everything.
    • Her Russian Roulette torture of him is also pretty awesome in its own right after all the abuse he's put her through, and in a way even more effective than physical torture.

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