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The Comic Book
- Hal throwing Dinosaur Island into space.
- There are several Crowning Moments in New Frontier. Many of them belong to Hal Jordan.
- Near the end, with his saucer-shaped plane being overcome with red goop, the Guardians tell Hal Jordan how his power ring works. He then saves his friend by outrunning a nuclear blast.
- And, of course, the famous Wonder Woman scene: "There's the door, spaceman." In this scene, Cooke decided that she wouldn't just be called an 'amazon', and as a result, with both standing flat footed, she is actually looking down at Superman, if only by a few inches.
- Ace Morgan bails out of an undamaged plane to save Hal after his wingmate is shot down and is freefalling toward the ground while unconscious.
- Ted Grant's boxing match against a young Muhammad Ali, which he wins despite his older age and his opponent's skill by drawing on memories of his career as Wildcat (fighting with a collapsed lung, etc.) and determination to be a champion in the public's eye one last time.
- An unnamed reporter modeled after Edward R. Murrow gives The Klan an epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech on national television, exposing what they did to John Wilson and his family with biting contempt and cold logic, and giving many people a Heel Realization about their treatment of African-Americans.
- The newsreel of the Challengers of the Unknown working as a group and achieving fame as adventures that J'onn watches, and the description and images of what they can do (Badass Biker, triathlete, etc.), is very cool in and out of universe.
- The Final Flight of Johnny Cloud, a Taking You with Me grenade attack against a T-Rex. So awesome that even though the segment with The Losers was Adapted Out, they gave his death to Faraday in the animated feature.
- When Hal calls Kalmaku "Pieface", he's immediately and aggressively called out on his racism. A non-white laborer standing up to a white man with a military background in the 1950s shows that Kalmaku has some serious balls.
- Flash's crowning moment, after Captain Cold's freeze gun begins to malfunction in the water fountain.Captain Cold: Gah! What'd you do!?
Flash: I rewired it on the way down. * the gun explodes, freezing all the water in the fountain as well as Captain Cold* - Iris West managing to figure out Barry's secret identity on her own. She is an Intrepid Reporter after all (and Barry left his costume where she'd find it).
- "It took a seventy-thousand dollar sliver of meteor to stop the one in Metropolis. With you, all I need is a penny for a box of matches."
- Even after being mistreated by Earth and locked in Arkham, Adam Strange comes up with the plan to save Earth with Ray Palmer's unstable shrinking device.
- The shot of the military and the superheroes walking side-by-side.
- The ending montage, overcut with John F. Kennedy's speech.
- From the one-shot comic special prequel set shortly before the story, Wonder Woman breaking up the Superman and Batman fight, pointing out what idiots they are for coming to blows in the first place.Wonder Woman: Great Hera, look at you two. Ready to kill or die for something neither of you want.
The Animated Film
- Agent Faraday. One of The Center's mutant T-rex things grabs him with its tail, crushing his ribs and probably some internal organs as it drags him in. He manages to grab two grenades and get the pins out, and seconds after the T-rex eats him, its head explodes, making for an awesome Heroic Sacrifice. Making this even better is that it's a Shout-Out to the unfortunately-but-inevitably cut Losers opening sequence from the comic.
- The Amazons as a whole have one offscreen, when they hold off the Centre for some time before Diana is forced to retreat to warn the others.
- Diana has one in the final battle as well. She's been hospitalized after the Centre destroyed Paradise Island. The forces on the beach are getting overwhelmed by dinosaurs and other beasts... then suddenly, a bandaged Wonder Woman grabs a girder and starts swinging at anything in sight, rallying the guys. "Fight on! To the last breath, FIGHT ON!" You know she's going to...
- Hal's big moment is even better since the Centre tries to taunt him about it:The Centre: You won't be able to do it. It is the CENTRE that holds, not you!Hal: I can. I CAN!The Centre: You do not have the WILL!Hal: No? Watch! *flings*
- Aquaman's Establishing Character Moment? Rescuing Superman.
