Awesome / Penguins of Madagascar

• In the beginning of the movie, the penguins break into Fort Knox. Not for the gold, but to get to one of the vending machines.'
• Everything Private does in the third act:
  • He utilizes the paperclip that he took from Rico and escapes being mutated by Dave.
  • He even gives Classified (and by extension, all of North Wind) a What the Hell, Hero? speech when they decide to go back to their headquarters instead of immediately rescuing the penguins.
    Private: Wait! Skipper, Kowalski, Rico! All those penguins! They're this way!
    Classified: So is a massive army of octopi, and as soon as we return to the North Wind Headquarters, grab fresh equipment, and work up a smashing new plan, we'll come speeding back [says dramatically] and take down Dave.
    Private: But the penguins are in danger! We have to go now!
    Classified: Again, huge army of octopi!
    Private: So because you failed once, you're just running away?
    Classified: [indignant] We did not fail and we are not running away! We're... just.. very sensibly regrouping.
    Private: Skipper wouldn't care, plan or no, fancy equipment or no! He'd never leave a man behind!
    Classified: Well, I suppose we can't all be penguins, can we?
    [North Wind begins to walks away. Private looks downcast, but responds.]
    Private: No...
    [North Wind stops and looks back at Private]
    Private: ... but maybe you should be. [walks away]
  • He becomes the antidote for saving the penguins by using his cuteness.
  • And when Dave breaks into the glass dome of the mutant-ray to get him, Private punches Dave in the face. WITH HIS BUTT-HAND! And Dave also loses a tooth because of it.
• The very beginning when the baby penguins sees Private's egg rolling. Skipper immediately races after it, even though the adults tell him to ignore it. From there the team faces a cliff, an army of leopard seals, and in the end blow up a ship! And keep in mind that they were babies when all this went down. To quote Kowalski.
  Baby!Kowalski: We are really... awesome at this!
• The introduction of the North Wind. Unfortunately, that's about as cool as they get in the entire movie.
• The Penguin's initial mission to capture Dave. It looks like another awesome success like all their previous missions until Dave escapes down a pipe.
• The entire sequence starting from when the penguins find out that they were in a box headed to Madagascar to them landing in the desert with a bouncy castle. It's done in one "shot", and it's amazing.
• Skipper shooting a Cheezy Dibble at the Medusa Serum remote! Dave and his minions’ reactions says it all.

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