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* [[TheReveal Four]] [[WhamLine words]] from John Harrison: My name is ''[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Khan]]''. Cue audiences freaking out.

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* [[http://ssbobpul.tumblr.com/post/56044204634 The Crew.]]
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome:
** The ''Enterprise'' hiding in the alien ocean during the opening away mission - particularly when it leaves said ocean.
** A starship crashing into the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco.
** TheReveal of the USS ''Vengeance''.

** Harrison decides to [[HollywoodTactics stand in one location, on high ground with no cover and a backlight, while he takes on a platoon of Klingons]]. He doesn't even seem to be breaking a sweat. [[spoiler:It's quite possible he was deliberately drawing aggro from our heroes.]]

* [[TheReveal Four]] [[WhamLine words]] from John Harrison: [[spoiler: My name is ''[[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan Khan]]''.]] Cue audiences freaking out.
* Villainous example. The first time the USS ''Vengeance'' shows up and how she proceeds to [[spoiler:chase the ''Enterprise'' down in warp and deliver an utter NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.]]
* Carol attempts to try to dissuade [[spoiler: her father from killing everyone aboard the ''Enterprise''. She fails as he beams her off the ship, but she did give it her all and slaps her father. She also manages to elbow one of her dad's mooks in the face.]]
-->'''Carol''': I am ''ashamed'' to be [[spoiler: your daughter.]]
* Scotty [[spoiler:saving the Enterprise by forcing the ''Vengeance'' to reboot, taking most of its systems offline in the process. Man's a miracle worker.]]
* The entire EnemyMine between [[spoiler:Khan]] and Kirk is awesome in itself, particularly when they're shooting across space to [[spoiler:enter Admiral Marcus' ship]].
* Kirk confronting [[spoiler: Admiral Marcus on the ''Vengeance''. Admiral Marcus is the head of Starfleet - he's not just Kirk's boss, he's Kirk's bosses' ''bosses' '' boss. He gives a long speech about how war is coming, and tells Kirk that Kirk will have to kill him before he surrenders. Kirk's response: "I'm not gonna kill you, sir. But I ''could'' stun your ass and drag you out of that chair."]]
* [[spoiler:Khan crushing Admiral Marcus' head]].
--> John Harrison/[[spoiler: Khan]]: '''YOU SHOULD HAVE LET ME SLEEP.'''
* For some reason, the scene with Spock Prime stands out as awesome. "I'm not allowed to interfere by giving you knowledge of the future. It could corrupt the timeline." And then as they look like they're getting bummed out about that, Spock Prime then goes "''That being said''..." and goes on to tell them all about [[spoiler:Khan]]. And it really says something that Spock considers [[spoiler:Khan]] the most ''dangerous'' thing that the original NCC-1701 ever faced, considering all the mad gods, the planet-destroyers, mutants, entire empires, and worse that they faced. And ''all of this'' is with the knowledge that for Spock, it's been something like one hundred and fifty years since he faced [[spoiler:Khan]], and in another dimension, and ''still'' it left a psychological scar on him, one that says "[[spoiler:Khan]] is involved. THINGS ARE DEADLY. SERIOUS."

** To clarify: [[spoiler: Spock does give Khan back the torpedoes, but without the cryotubes that Khan really wants. He had [=McCoy=] successfully remove all the cryotubes from the torpedos and keep them in the medbay. Spock then beams them over to the ''Vengeance'' and [[SomebodySetUsUpTheBomb sets off the automatic timer]]. You can ''bet'' that he's "laughing at the 'superior' intellect."]]

* The ''Enterprise'' has been badly pummeled; its warp drive is down, the auxiliary power is failing, it's got multiple hull breaches, and it's losing orbit and about to crash into a planet. It dips below the clouds... [[spoiler: and then rises back above the clouds, its restored thrusters blasting at full power. It'll take more than gravity to take down the Enterprise!]]
** This incidentally happened because, with his ship falling out of the sky, Captain Kirk made [[spoiler:[[HeroicSacrifice the ultimate sacrifice]], giving his life where in another universe, Spock did the same.]]
** [[spoiler: Even if it exactly mirrored Spock's death from ''Wrath of Khan'' and even if it was only temporary, Kirk ''[[Film/StarTrekGenerations finally]]'' got a death worthy of him!]]
* When the ''Vengance'' has the ''Enterprise'' at gunpoint, Kirk attempts to bargain with [[spoiler: Marcus]], stating that the actions of his crew were at his orders, and offers to surrender on the condition that his crew be spared. It's at that exact second that Kirk fully knows the responsibility of sitting in the captain's chair.
** [[spoiler: He still manages to sacrifice himself for the still-living crew, by climbing into the radioactive chamber. The awesome comes in when Scotty said that they wouldn't even be able to make the climb before the radiation killed them, but not only did Kirk make the climb, he still had the ability to ''[[{{Determinator}} keep going]]'' until the damn reactor was fixed. And still have enough gas in his proverbial engine to crawl all the way back to the door.]]
** [[spoiler:And after all that he still manages to cling to life long enough to be put into stasis.]]
* [[spoiler: Spock saying The Line. [[SayMyName You know]] [[BigWordShout the one]].]]
* Villainous example that happens afterwards. [[spoiler: When Spock screams Khan's name, the camera then cuts to the ''Enterprise'' in the sky...and then we see the ''USS Vengeance'', piloted by Khan ''[[{{Determinator}} all by himself]]'', just almost ''brush'' past them as it continues to [[ColonyDrop plummet down to San Francisco below]]. Even though it's stated that the ''Vengeance'' can be piloted by one person, it's outright mindblowing how Khan is able to do all this despite the ''Vengeance'' being heavily damaged by the torpedoes. Then there's the fact that, despite the ''Vengeance'' being [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat outright totaled after it plows into the city]], [[NighInvulnerability Khan is able to walk out with just a scratch]]. It just goes to show how much of an [[ImplacableMan unstoppable]] badass Khan is.]]
* Spock vs. [[spoiler:Khan]].
** Spock managing to convey [[spoiler: "You're a dead man, Khan!"]] after [[spoiler: Kirk is killed]] without EVER speaking a word until afterwards.
** Spock hauls ass after [[spoiler:Khan]] in a marathon sprint, easily overcoming [[TryAndFollow every obstacle in his path]] - which includes a four-meter vertical leap and a ''thirty meter diagonal drop.'' Between speeding aircraft. The staccato beat of Spock's footfalls state his intentions quite clearly - "[[spoiler:Khan]], your scalp is mine, you're just too stubborn to save yourself the asskicking you ''have'' to ''know'' that I am about to give you by tearing it off yourself and handing it to me in advance."
** Even better, Spock wins the first phase of the fight by attacking [[spoiler:Khan]] where he's most vulnerable: his mind.
** Also [[spoiler:Khan]] shrugging off the Vulcan nerve pinch, painfully, but still successfully. Normal people just collapse into a boneless heap. Even in ''Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed'' one of Khan's fellow Augments succumbed instantly to the Neck Pinch. . . but apparently, Khan himself is made of sterner stuff.
** And then Uhura [[spoiler:beams in to save her boyfriend]] when Spock was being squeezed to death by Khan.
** [[spoiler: It's two superhumans/advanced beings in an InterestingSituationDuel. And it's done well.]]
** [[spoiler:Khan]] has spent half his time kicking the ever-loving hell out of every human he meets... and then he goes up against an extremely pissed-off Spock, and discovers Vulcans are a lot tougher than normal human beings.
*** Kirk punched [[spoiler:Khan]] repeatedly with literally no result, yet Spock [[spoiler:breaks his arm, flips him a couple of times, punches the tar out of him, and even assaults Khan's mind]]. Hell, if Uhura hadn't intervened, Spock would have successfully ''killed him''. BewareTheQuietOnes indeed.
*** [[spoiler:Hell, she managed to save both men from being beaten to death at each other's hands. Saving Khan as mentioned above, and saving Spock moments earlier, by distracting Khan by shooting several phaser blasts at him, all of which pretty much rolled off him like water balloons.]]
*** Spock's ImprovisedWeapon in the fight, where he just [[spoiler:tears a hunk of metal off of the vehicle they're on and knocks seven bells out of Khan with it.]]
*** [[spoiler: Spock breaking Khan's arm is also a nice little CallBack to an earlier taunt from Khan to Spock: "Intellect alone is useless in a fight, Mister Spock. You...you can't even break a rule. How can you expect to break ''bone?''"]]
** Spock has extra credit for winning that fight, considering that going by the old Star Trek canon, an enhanced human like [[spoiler:Khan]] is five times stronger than a normal human, whereas a Vulcan is only three times stronger. Thus he held his own against (though he was overpowered eventually), and defeated (although with some help) someone almost twice as strong as himself.
* [[spoiler:[[http://lucystillintheskywithdiamonds.tumblr.com/post/79570256223/stopped-it-there-because-it-gets-a-bit-too-much This commentary of when Spock truly beat the shit out of Khan]].]]
* We hear the origin of the show's famous OpeningNarration. [[spoiler:It turns out to be something Captain Pike said to Kirk.]]
* A GeniusBonus for some, [=McCoy=] broke his Hippocratic Oath [[spoiler: to bring Kirk back from the dead]], and did it without a second's hesitation. That's how deeply he cares for his friend and Captain.

These comics are shown as flashback of [[spoiler:Khan]] through his statements at his trial, [[UnreliableNarrator so we can't say how accurate they are]], but as it is, they are awesome
* [[spoiler:Khan]], way before becoming a super soldier, when he was just [[spoiler:Noonien Singh]], a crippled young man with only one leg. When another boy starts bullying him for no reason, and punches him across the face, [[spoiler:Noonien]] curbstomps him with his crutch. Maybe the bully should've left him alone instead of [[BullyingTheDragon provoking him unnecessarily]]

** [[spoiler:Noonien]] digging a tunnel out of the facility where he and the other Augment children were being kept.

** [[spoiler:Noonien]] stabbing himself with his sword to see the limits of his HealingFactor. He almost died, but he doesn't care.
** The Augment children progressing at a much faster rate than the world outside was noted by the scientists. [[spoiler:Noonien]] then shows how much they've come when he requests the head scientist to come to the courtyard, then gives him a box full of the implanted chips, revealing that they had removed the chips by performing brain surgery on themselves, before crushing his skull

** [[spoiler:Noonien taking up the name Khan.]]
** [[spoiler:Khan]] admitting the reason that he became the most just ruler among among Augment rulers was not out of compassion but pride, i.e., hsi pride refused to let his be as selfish as his fellow Augments.
** [[spoiler:Khan]] barehandely curbstomping another Augment ruler, who tried to invade his kingdom in personal combat, while his opponent was armed with a knife, showing that simply having equal strength and speed won't cut it, all the while revealing he foresaw his opponents plans and let him advance to until they are overconfident enough Khan's army would have and advantage, and thus they are now crushing his opponent's forces.

** Another one of [[spoiler:Khan's]] companion rulers admitting that it was their arrogance that defeated them before dying.

** [[spoiler:Khan]] using his skills to outmaneuver every computer expert in the Section 31 facility.

** [[spoiler:Khan]] gets one the next second revealing that he had an escape plan in case things went south.

* A GeniusBonus for some, [=McCoy=] broke his Hippocratic Oath [[spoiler: to bring Kirk back from the dead]] , and did it without a second's hesitation. That's how deeply he cares for his friend and Captain.

* [[TheReveal Four]] [[WhamLine words]] from John Harrison: [[spoiler: My name is ''Khan''.]] Cue audiences freaking out.

** Also [[spoiler:Khan]] shrugging off the Vulcan nerve pinch, painfully, but still successfully. Normal people just collapse into a boneless heap. Even in "Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed" one of Khan's fellow Augments succumbed instantly to the Neck Pinch. . . but apparently, Khan himself is made of sterner stuff.

** Also [[spoiler:Khan]] shrugging off the Vulcan nerve pinch, painfully, but still successfully. Normal people just collapse into a boneless heap.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome:

* Kirk confronting [[spoiler: Admiral Marcus on the ''Vengeance''. Admiral Marcus is the head of Starfleet - he's not just Kirk's boss, he's Kirk's bosses' ''bosses' '' boss. He gives a long speech about how war is coming, and tells Kirk that Kirk will have to kill him before he surrenders. Kirk's response: "I'm not gonna kill you, sir. But I ''could'' stun you and drag your ass out of that chair."]]

* For some reason, the scene with Spock Prime stands out as awesome. "I'm not allowed to interfere by giving you knowledge of the future. It could corrupt the timeline." And then as they look like they're getting bummed out about that, Spock Prime then goes "''That being said''..." and goes on to tell them all about Khan. And it really says something that Spock considers Khan the most ''dangerous'' thing that the original NCC-1701 ever faced, considering all the mad gods, the planet-destroyers, mutants, entire empires, and worse that they faced. And ''all of this'' is with the knowledge that for Spock, it's been something like one hundred and fifty years since he faced Khan, and in another dimension, and ''still'' it left a psychological scar on him, one that says "Khan is involved. THINGS ARE DEADLY. SERIOUS."

** [[spoiler: He still manages to sacrifice himself for the still-living crew, by climbing into the radioactive chamber. The awesome comes in when Scotty said that they wouldn't even be able to make the climb before the radiation killed them, but not only did Kirk make the climb, he still had the ability to ''[[DeTerminator keep going]]'' until the damn reactor was fixed. And still have enough gas in his proverbial engine to crawl all the way back to the door.]]

** Spock has extra credit for winning that fight, considering that going by the old Star Trek canon, an enhanced human like Khan is five times stronger than a normal human, whereas a Vulcan is only three times stronger. Thus he held his own against (though he was overpowered eventually), and defeated (although with some help) someone almost twice as strong as himself.

These comics are shown as flashback of Khan through his statements at his trial, [[UnreliableNarrator so we can't say how accurate they are]], but as it is, they are awesome
* Khan, way before becoming a super soldier, when he was just Noonien Singh, a crippled young man with only one leg. When another boy starts bullying him for no reason, and punches him across the face, Noonien curbstomps him with his crutch. Maybe the bully should've left him alone instead of [[BullyingTheDragon provoking him unnecessarily]]

** Noonien digging a tunnel out of the facility where he and the other Augment children were being kept.

** Noonien stabbing himself with his sword to see the limits of his HealingFactor. He almost died, but he doesn't care.
** The Augment children progressing at a much faster rate than the world outside was noted by the scientists. Noonien then shows how much they've come when he requests the head scientist to come to the courtyard, then gives him a box full of the implanted chips, revealing that they had removed the chips by performing brain surgery on themselves, before crushing his skull

** Noonien taking up the name Khan
** Khan admitting the reason that he became the most just ruler among among Augment rulers was not out of compassion but pride, i.e., hsi pride refused to let his be as selfish as his fellow Augments.
** Khan barehandely curbstomping another Augment ruler, who tried to invade his kingdom in personal combat, while his opponent was armed with a knife, showing that simply having equal strength and speed won't cut it, all the while revealing he foresaw his opponents plans and let him advance to until they are overconfident enough Khan's army would have and advantage, and thus they are now crushing his opponent's forces.

** Another one of Khan's companion rulers admitting that it was their arrogance that defeated them before dying.
** Khan single-handedly infiltrating Kronos, and placing a bomb in their moon Praxis which would cause a chain reaction epowerfu lenough to destroy it
** Khan using his skills to outmaneuver every computer expert in the Section 31 facility.

** Khan gets one the next second revealing that he had an escape plan in case things went south.

* [[spoiler: Spock saying William Shatner's famous line from Star Trek II. You know which one.]]

--> '''Kirk:''' Let me explain what's happening here: You are a ''criminal''. I watched you murder innocent men and women. I was authorized to ''end you''! And the ''only'' reason why you are ''still'' alive is because I am allowing it. So ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Shut. Your. PunctuatedForEmphasis Mouth.]]''

--> '''Kirk:''' Let me explain what's happening here: You are a ''criminal''. I watched you murder innocent men and women. I was authorized to ''end you''! And the ''only'' reason why you are ''still'' alive is because I am allowing it. So ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Shut.]]'' ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Your.]]'' ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Mouth.]]''

* Heck pretty much the entirety of his tie-in comics is a long list of CMOAs

** The humans developing a biological weapon which targets only the Augments, forcing them to flee the planet itself since ''it was too complex for the Augments to devise a cure in time, despite their technological and intellectual superiority.'' A CMOA for human potential if there ever was.

* Villainous example that happens afterwards. [[spoiler: When Spock screams Khan's name, the camera then cuts to the ''Enterprise'' in the sky...and then we see the ''USS Vengeance'', piloted by Khan ''[[{{Determinator}} all by himself]]'', just almost ''brush'' past them as it continues to [[ColonyDrop plummet down to San Francisco below]]. Even though it's stated that the ''Vengeance'' can be piloted by one person, it's outright mindblowing how Khan is able to do all this despite the ''Vengeance'' being heavily damaged by the torpedoes. Then there's the fact that, despite the ''Vengeance'' being [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat outright totaled after it plows into the city]], [[NighInvulnerability Khan is able to walk out with just a scratch]]. It just goes to show how much of an [[ImplacableMan unstoppable]] BadAss Khan is.]]