History Awesome / Tenet

* [[TheDogBitesBack Kat killing Andrei]] purely to make sure his final moments aren’t happily thinking he won.

* The Protagonist's fight with the inverted man in Oslo. The way they both have to adapt to the other being affected by a causality in a completely different way that results in seemingly impossible moves. Doubly so when it is reveled that the Protagonist was fighting himself and we get to see the fight again from his new, inverted, perspective. Even more impressive when you learn that John David Washington did his stunt himself and that the movie used no CGI effects. It even took two months for them to practice. This must have been hell to choreograph.

-->'''Protagonist:''' I realized I wasn't working for you; [[WhamLine we've both been working for me. I'm the protagonist.]]

-->'''Protagonist:''' I realized I wasn't working for you; [[WhamLine we've both been working for me. ''I'm the protagonist.'']]

-->'''Protagonist:''' I realized I wasn't working for you; [[WhamLine we've both been working for me.]]

* The Protagonist saving the public of the Kiev opera from a terrorist attack by grabbing all the bombs and throwing them on the empty first floor's boxes, just in the nick of time.

** The tower that both red and blue teams fire rockets at at the same point in their 10-minute timeframe. From one perspective, the building's intact top half rises into the air as its bottom half reassembles itself, and just as that happens, the top half blows up. This was filmed from two perspectives, both of them appearing in the scene. One wonders how Nolan and the people at Syncopy pulled that off.

-->'''Protagonist:''' I thought I was working for you, when [[WhamLine we were both working for me.]]

* The Protagonist's fight with the inverted man in Oslo. The way they both have to adapt to the other being affected by a causality in a completely different way that results in seemingly impossible moves. Doubly so when it is reveled that the Protagonist was fighting himself and we get to see the fight again from his new, inverted, perspective. Even more impressive when you learn that John David Washington did his stunt himself and that the movie used no CGI effects. This must have been hell to choreograph.

* The Protagonist beating down the thugs Andrei ordered to beat him up.

* The Protagonist and Neil [[WeNeedADistraction need a distraction]] to break into the vaults of the freeport in Oslo. Enter Mahir, who hijacks a ''Boeing 747'' on the nearby tarmac and crashes it into the freeport's hangar, unloading the plane's gold bullion shipment on the tarmac as he goes.

* Kat killing Andrei purely to make sure his final moments aren’t happily thinking he won.

-->'''Protagonist:''' I thought I was working for you, when we were both working for me.
* The Protagonist's fight with the inverted man in Oslo. The way they both have to adapt to the other being affected by a causality in a completely different way that results in seemingly impossible moves. Doubly so when it is reveled that the Protagonist was fighting himself and we get to see the fight again from his new, inverted, perspective. Even more impressive when you learn that John David Washington did his stunt himself and that the movie used no CGI effect. This must have been hell to choregraph.

* The entire car chase which features an inverted car flipping itself in reverse. Shown OnceAgainWithClarity that it was the Protagonist was also inverted in the car.

* The Protagonist saving the public of the Kiev opera from a terrorist attack by grabbing all the bombs and throwing them on the empty first floor's boxes.
* The Protagonist beating down the thugs Andrei ordered to beat him up.

** And it was done ''for real'', the production really did buy an old 747 for the scene, it was apparently cheaper than using scale models.
* The entire car chase which features an inverted car flipping itself in reverse. The Protagonist was inverted in the car.

* Neil going to his death with a smile.

[[caption-width-right:350:When Christopher Nolan wants to have a plane crash in his movie, he crashes a plane.]]

* The Protagonist's fight with the inverted man in Oslo. The way they both have to adapt to the other being affected by a causality in a completely different way that results in seemingly impossible moves. [[spoiler: doubly so when it is reveled that the Protagonist was fighting himself and we get to see the fight again from his new, inverted, perspective.]] Even more impressive when you learn that John David Washington did his stunt himself and that the movie used no CGI effect. This must have been hell to choregraph.

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* The entire car chase which features an inverted car flipping itself in reverse. [[spoiler: The Protagonist was inverted in the car.]]

* The entire car chase which features an inverted car flipping itself in reverse.

* The Protagonist and Neil [[WeNeedADistraction need a distraction]] to break into the vaults of the freeport in Oslo. Enter Mahir, who hijacks a ''Boeing 747'' on the nearby tarmac and crashes it into the hangar, unloading the plane's gold bullion shipment as he goes.

* The Protagonist and Neil [WeNeedADistraction need a distraction]] to break into the vaults of the freeport in Oslo. Enters Mahir, who hijacks a ''Boeing 747'' on the nearby tarmac and crashes it into the hangar, unloading the plane's gold bullion shipment as he goes.

* The Protagonist saving the public from a terrorist attack at the opera of Kiev, by grabbing all the bombs and throwing them on the empty first floor's boxes.