Awesome / White House Down

• While Cale and a bad guy are struggling with each other, President Sawyer, the Barack Obama Expy, busts into the room, takes a moment to put on his glasses, and guns down the bad guy.
• Donnie, the freakin' tour guide, coming out of nowhere and quite literally clocking a mercenary to death. And then he leads the hostages out, armed with a shotgun and, in a true badass fashion, saying "Tour's over."
  Donnie: (between swings) STOP! HURTING! MY! WHITE HOUSE!
• "I choose the pen!"
• How do you get a Car Chase worked into a "Terrorists take over a building" movie? By having it on the White House lawn.
  • With the awesome armor-plated limos.
  • The limo in question is also called "The Beast."
• Cale killing Stenz by putting a ring of grenades around his neck and pulling the pin. "No jail for you, you little bitch!"
  • Also, Cale bursting into the Oval Office in an armored car, pinning Martin against the wall just in time to stop him from launching a nuclear strike and then emptying an entire minigun clip into him.
• Emily gets one when she grabs a flag from the destroyed Oval Office and waves it on the White House lawn to stop the jets from blowing it up. Emily Cale is a FUCKING BADASS, okay?? That took some MAJOR guts.
  • To a lesser extent when Emily manages to record the faces of the enemy on video and upload online to expose the incident as not by foreign terrorists, but traitors.
  • She had an earlier one when she stared down Stenz after being hit and threatened with a gun.
    Emily: Get away from me.
• When Walker threatens to kill Emily as a way to force President Sawyer to activate the nuclear football, both Sawyer and Emily immediately recognize that Walker cannot be trusted and refuse to cooperate rather than be a party to the nuking of the capitals of the Middle East.
• The Rush Limbaugh Expy going from being a sobbing mess to being the only one to stand in the way of Stenz when he comes to take Emily. Gets wounded for his trouble.
• Despite receiving direct orders from the President and Joint Chief's the Raptor pilot flat out refuses to continue with his mission when he sees all the civilians in the blast zone.
  • Espically when he sees a little girl there.
  Raptor One: I'm not doing this, guys! Break off now!