History Awesome / Stargate

* In the scene where Ra is trying to torture Daniel to death with his hand device, Daniel instead ''grabs'' Ra's arm in order to make sure he can't pull away when the ring transporter activates. Ra ends up minus a hand for his trouble. Although the severed hand isn't seen, this ''is'' implied in the movie -- Ra yells in pain when the Daniel and Sha'uri are transported out, and moments before, Daniel clearly grabbed his hand and pulled it downwards. In every scene after the teleporter is activated, you can see he's cradling that arm against his body and you can never see the hand clearly.
** And to add insult to injury, teleported in Daniel's place is the severed head of his Anubis guard, whom Ra warned earlier not to fail him again. While he's grimacing in pain for losing his hand, he could also be growling in anger towards his guard [[YouHaveFailedMe for his failure]].

** Then he and Daniel beam up [[spoiler:[[DeusExNukina the atomic weapon]] on board the departing Goa'uld ship]] using the severed hand! JustInTime, too.

** And to add insult to injury, teleported in Daniel's place is the severed head of his Anubis guard, whom Ra warned earlier not to fail him again.

** And to add insult to injury, teleported in Daniel's place is Anubis' severed head, since earlier Ra warned him not to fail him again.

* The initial Stargate activation. Glorious music, building tension, and impressive special effects culminating in a wonderous result.

--->'''Jack:''' Hey. How you doing? ''[proceeds to [[HesBack blow guard away]]]''

* Jack has a spectacular, and vicious fight, with [[TheDragon Aubis]], ending Jack decapitating him via TeleFrag.

*** In a bit of FridgeBrilliance, O'Neil getting it together neatly steers the character's personality into Richard Dean Anderson's [[Series/StargateSG1 later, much-better-known, goofy wise-cracking take on him]].

* In the novelization, in the scene where Ra is trying to torture Daniel to death with his hand device, Daniel instead ''grabs'' Ra's arm in order to make sure he can't pull away when the ring transporter activates. Ra ends up minus a hand for his trouble. Although the severed hand isn't seen, this ''is'' implied in the movie--watch Ra in any scene after the teleporter is activated, and you can see he's cradling that arm against his body and you can never see the hand clearly.

* ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' the original movie has Jack TeleFrag a Jaffa guard.

--->'''Jack:''' Hey. How you doing? *[[HesBack blows guard away]]*

* In the novelization, in the scene where Ra is trying to torture Daniel to death with his hand device, Daniel instead ''grabs'' Ra's arm in order to make sure he can't pull away when the ring transporter activates. Ra ends up minus a hand for his trouble. Although the severed hand isn't seen, this ''is'' implied in the movie--watch Ra in any scene after the teleporter is activated, and you can see he's cradling that arm against his body and you can never see the hand clearly.

* Also from the original movie, Kasuf leading the villagers at the end to finally rebel against Ra's rule. I have no idea what the hell he's yelling on top of that hill, but ''damn'' if it isn't awesome.
** According to the novelization, he is reciting a prayer of praise for Ra in a tone that makes it clear he does ''not'' believe a word of it anymore.

* In the novelization, in the scene where Ra is trying to torture Daniel to death with his hand device, Daniel instead ''grabs'' Ra's arm in order to make sure he can't pull away when the ring transporter activates. Ra ends up minus a hand for his trouble. Although the severed hand isn't seen, this ''is'' implied in the movie--watch Ra in any scene after the teleporter is activated, and you can see he's cradling that arm against his body and you can never seee the hand clearly.

* In the novelization, in the scene where Ra is trying to torture Daniel to death with his hand device, Daniel instead ''grabs'' Ra's arm in order to make sure he can't pull away when the ring transporter activates. Ra ends up minus a hand for his trouble.

* The theme song. Perfectly captures the epic scope if the film, and would go on to be recycled in several spin-off series and [[RecycledTrailerMusic countless trailers for unrelated films.]]

** O'Neil has spent most of the movie depressed over the death of his son, [[RetiredBadass so he's been reluctant to really get into it.]] Thing is, he's played by ''Creator/KurtRussell'', so we spend the whole movie just waiting for him to bust out. Finally, during the third act, it happens. A caravan comes to Ra's temple, and the Horus guards are checking everyone, pulling back their hoods. We see villager after villager...and then one
of them turns out to be Jack, who points an [=MP5=] at the guard.

** O'Neil has spent most of the movie depressed over the death of his son, [[RetiredBadass so he's been reluctant to really get into it.]] Thing is, he's played by ''Creator/KurtRussell'', so we spend the whole movie just waiting for him to bust out. Finally, during the third act, it happens. A caravan comes to Ra's temple, and the Horus guards are checking everyone, pulling back their hoods. We see villager after villager...and then one of them turns out to be Jack, who points an [=MP5=] at the guard.

-->'''Ra:''' [[PrepareToDie We are no longer amused]]...!

** O'Neil has spent most of the movie depressed over the death of his son, [[RetiredBadass so he's been reluctant to really get into it.]] Thing is, he's played by ''KurtRussell'', so we spend the whole movie just waiting for him to bust out. Finally, during the third act, it happens. A caravan comes to Ra's temple, and the Horus guards are checking everyone, pulling back their hoods. We see villager after villager...and then one of them turns out to be Jack, who points an [=MP5=] at the guard.

** Then he beams up [[spoiler:[[DeusExNukina the atomic weapon]] on board the departing Goa'uld ship]] using the severed hand! JustInTime, too.

*** In a bit of FridgeBrilliance, O'Neil getting it together neatly steers the character's personality into Richard Dean Anderson's [[Series/{{Stargate SG-1}} later, much-better-known, goofy wise-cracking take on him]].

* I thought Daniel's getting Shau'ri to a sarcophagus and nonchalantly turning around to blast Ra with a staff weapon were pretty darn awesome, too, especially considering [[LetsGetDangerous where he started]] at the beginning of the movie. Dude doesn't lack bravery.
-->'''Ra:''' [[PrepareToDie We are no longer amused]]...!

*** In a bit of FridgeBrilliance, O'Neil getting it together neatly steers the character's personality into Richard Dean Anderson's [[Series/StargateSG-1 later, much-better-known, goofy wise-cracking take on him]].

*** In a bit of FridgeBrilliance, O'Neil getting it together neatly steers the character's personality into Richard Dean Anderson's later, much-better-known, goofy wise-cracking take on him.

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