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* Hale Caesar's BigDamnHeroes moment, saving the rest of the crew with his [[CoolGuns AA-12]] in the palace tunnels.

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* Hale Caesar's BigDamnHeroes moment, saving the rest of the crew with his [[CoolGuns AA-12]] AA-12 in the palace tunnels.
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* Lee Christmas vs the JerkJock posse - [[CurbStompBattle no contest.]]

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* Lee Christmas vs the finds out that his ex-girlfriend has taken up with a JerkJock posse - [[CurbStompBattle no contest.]]who made the mistake of bruising her face. He heads to the basketball court where he and his buddies are at before proceeding to hand ''everyone'' their asses.
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** Also a meta SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for Stallone, who saw a worker climb out of the hatch of the seaplane the day of filming, and came up with that sequence ''on the spot''.
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* The end of the car chase between Ross and [[spoiler:newly-turncoat Gunnar]]. Wham and BAM.
** The preceding hand to hand fight between Yin and [[spoiler:Gunnar]] is also very, very awesome, with both men making maximum use of their body types and the environment.

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* The end of the car chase between Ross and [[spoiler:newly-turncoat Gunnar]].newly-turncoat Gunnar. Wham and BAM.
** The preceding hand to hand fight between Yin and [[spoiler:Gunnar]] Gunnar is also very, very awesome, with both men making maximum use of their body types and the environment.



* The final fight between Toll Road and Payne, which ends with Toll [[spoiler:kicking Payne into an oil fire to kill him]].

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* The final fight between Toll Road and Payne, which ends with Toll [[spoiler:kicking kicking Payne into an oil fire to kill him]].him.
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--> "''Remember this shit at Christmas!''"
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* The whole movie is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome simply by existing. [[AllStarCast LOOK AT THE CAST!!!]]
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: Nowhere has the use of "The Boys Are Back in Town" been more appropriate.

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* The whole movie is a CrowningMomentOfAwesome SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome simply by existing. [[AllStarCast LOOK AT THE CAST!!!]]
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Nowhere has the use of "The Boys Are Back in Town" been more appropriate.
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* Lee Christmas vs the JerkJock posse - no contest.

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* Lee Christmas vs the JerkJock posse - [[CurbStompBattle no contest.]]
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** ''"Next time I'll deflate '' '''''all''''' '' your balls, friend"''.

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** ''"Next ''"[[FreudianThreat Next time I'll deflate deflate]] '' '''''all''''' '''''[[FreudianThreat all]]''''' '' [[FreudianThreat your balls, friend"''.balls,]] [[TranquilFury friend]]"''.

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These movies are '''full''' of [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome crowning moments of awesome]].

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* The Expendables, minus their heavy weapons, are pinned down by a small army of the Sangs, including a T-72 tank. They're running low on ammo for their smaller weaponry, the enemy is closing in on all sides...and then the Sangs start dropping left and right, mowed down by an unseen attacker. The tank is destroyed by a missile, and the Expendables emerge, dumbfounded, before turning to see [[spoiler: Booker, played by Chuck Norris, striding through the smoke like the living personification of pure badass]].
** Best part of it? His entrance is backed by Music/EnnioMorricone's [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome theme]] to ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''.
** There's also Barney's line to the rest of the team, which might as well be directed to the audience, too: "Don't freak out."
* In the first film, Stallone, Willis, and Schwarzenegger appeared on screen together for the very first time. How do they top that for the sequel? Having all three grab guns and blast dozens and dozens of terrorists into bloody chunks. It took close to thirty years, but we finally got to see three of the biggest action stars of all time finally join forces in a shootout, and that alone makes it one of ''the'' greatest things ever seen in an action film.
** Arnold + [=AA12=] with drum magazine + a hundred Sang goons = pure epic.
** The scene where 3 panels of tinted glass shatter from gunfire behind them, revealing Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Willis to be the ones standing behind the said panels, side by side, guns blazing, would have put every fan of any of the three action stars in Euphoria. Making that shot last any longer would have caused major heart attacks in the theaters.
* The first fifteen minutes of the sequel alone is worth the price of admission. From [[DynamicEntry the Expendables' entrance]], to their ''[[ThereWasADoor other]]'' entrance to the escape on the plane, to all the other awesomely-crazy stuff in between, it's probably the single most badass sequence in all of action movie history. It says something that, during this sequence of awesome, that launching a motorcycle at an attack helicopter, which would be ''the'' crowning moment in the other, saner, and lesser action movies, is barely mentionable.
** Within this scene, Jet Li manages to get his moment to shine when, finding out he has run out of bullets, proceeds to use [[ImprobableWeaponUser two frying pans]] as melee weapons and beat the utter crap out of five {{Mooks}}.
** Billy the Kid's first scene involves him sniping half a dozen goons in seconds, and afterward he's calmly plugging enemy soldiers on moving boats from miles away, sometimes blasting through multiple targets with a single shot.
* The fight scene when they take on the Sangs raiding the village, but especially the fight within the church, with Christmas pretending to be a priest, and making an incredibly lame pun sound ''badass''.
--> "I now pronounce you man and knife."
* The team's rescue of the enslaved villagers, seconds before they were to be executed. One moment, the Sangs are readying their weapons as the terrified men and boys pray for their souls, and following one sharp whistle to get their attention, every last Sang has been swiftly blown to Hell in a quick spray of gunfire.
* The entire airport battle at the end, with all of the Expendables, plus Church, Trench, and [[spoiler: Booker]] showing up to mow down hundreds of the worst kind of East European militia scum in increasingly badass moments.
** One notable moment of the whole thing is Christmas' fight with TheDragon, ending with him [[spoiler: beating the crap out of him with his brass knuckles before punching his face through the tail rotors of a helicopter]].
** The movie's crowning moment goes to the [[CoolVsAwesome final fight between]] SylvesterStallone and Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme. Van Damme gets his moment to shine when he [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh takes several of Sly's attacks without showing much damage]] and then proceeds to beat Sly down with his iconic Helicopter Kicks (giving Sly two for good measure), and even engages in some EvilGloating as he demands Sly get up and be a WorthyOpponent, before throwing Sly over a railing. However, Sly eventually turns the tables, and beats Van Damme with a chain, and then [[spoiler:kills him with the same knife that killed Billy.]]
* On that note, how [[spoiler: Villain kills Billy]] is suitably over the top as well. Rather than simply [[spoiler: stabbing him]], which would be too boring, Villain has his lieutenant [[spoiler: ''hold the knife out so he can roundhouse kick it right into Billy's chest''.]]
** [[spoiler:Billy]] himself gets one for choosing to FaceDeathWithDignity. Despite having a lot to live for and being so close to walking away from the mercenary business for good, he shows no hesitation in urging his teammates not to cooperate with Vilain.
* ''Can't beat a classic.''
* Two words: "[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill ONE MORE!!!"]]
** [[BondOneLiner Rest in pieces.]]
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[[folder:The Expendables 3]]

* During the final battle, Lee Christmas goes on a rampage where he kills about a dozen bad guys by himself - ''in under a minute''.
* Drummer getting into a midair dogfight with a pair of helicopter gunships, in just a Huey. ''And winning.''
* Barney vs Stonebanks. [[spoiler: Barney wins by channeling his inner [[Film/{{Rocky}} Rocky Balboa]], street fighting-flavor]].
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[[/folder]]
[[folder:The Expendables 2]]
* The Expendables, minus their heavy weapons, are pinned down by a small army of the Sangs, including a T-72 tank. They're running low on ammo for their smaller weaponry, the enemy is closing in on all sides...and then the Sangs start dropping left and right, mowed down by an unseen attacker. The tank is destroyed by a missile, and the Expendables emerge, dumbfounded, before turning to see [[spoiler: Booker, played by Chuck Norris, striding through the smoke like the living personification of pure badass]].
** Best part of it? His entrance is backed by Music/EnnioMorricone's [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome theme]] to ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly''.
** There's also Barney's line to the rest of the team, which might as well be directed to the audience, too: "Don't freak out."
* In the first film, Stallone, Willis, and Schwarzenegger appeared on screen together for the very first time. How do they top that for the sequel? Having all three grab guns and blast dozens and dozens of terrorists into bloody chunks. It took close to thirty years, but we finally got to see three of the biggest action stars of all time finally join forces in a shootout, and that alone makes it one of ''the'' greatest things ever seen in an action film.
** Arnold + [=AA12=] with drum magazine + a hundred Sang goons = pure epic.
** The scene where 3 panels of tinted glass shatter from gunfire behind them, revealing Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Willis to be the ones standing behind the said panels, side by side, guns blazing, would have put every fan of any of the three action stars in Euphoria. Making that shot last any longer would have caused major heart attacks in the theaters.
* The first fifteen minutes of the sequel alone is worth the price of admission. From [[DynamicEntry the Expendables' entrance]], to their ''[[ThereWasADoor other]]'' entrance to the escape on the plane, to all the other awesomely-crazy stuff in between, it's probably the single most badass sequence in all of action movie history. It says something that, during this sequence of awesome, that launching a motorcycle at an attack helicopter, which would be ''the'' crowning moment in the other, saner, and lesser action movies, is barely mentionable.
** Within this scene, Jet Li manages to get his moment to shine when, finding out he has run out of bullets, proceeds to use [[ImprobableWeaponUser two frying pans]] as melee weapons and beat the utter crap out of five {{Mooks}}.
** Billy the Kid's first scene involves him sniping half a dozen goons in seconds, and afterward he's calmly plugging enemy soldiers on moving boats from miles away, sometimes blasting through multiple targets with a single shot.
* The fight scene when they take on the Sangs raiding the village, but especially the fight within the church, with Christmas pretending to be a priest, and making an incredibly lame pun sound ''badass''.
--> "I now pronounce you man and knife."
* The team's rescue of the enslaved villagers, seconds before they were to be executed. One moment, the Sangs are readying their weapons as the terrified men and boys pray for their souls, and following one sharp whistle to get their attention, every last Sang has been swiftly blown to Hell in a quick spray of gunfire.
* The entire airport battle at the end, with all of the Expendables, plus Church, Trench, and [[spoiler: Booker]] showing up to mow down hundreds of the worst kind of East European militia scum in increasingly badass moments.
** One notable moment of the whole thing is Christmas' fight with TheDragon, ending with him [[spoiler: beating the crap out of him with his brass knuckles before punching his face through the tail rotors of a helicopter]].
** The movie's crowning moment goes to the [[CoolVsAwesome final fight between]] SylvesterStallone and Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme. Van Damme gets his moment to shine when he [[PunchPunchPunchUhOh takes several of Sly's attacks without showing much damage]] and then proceeds to beat Sly down with his iconic Helicopter Kicks (giving Sly two for good measure), and even engages in some EvilGloating as he demands Sly get up and be a WorthyOpponent, before throwing Sly over a railing. However, Sly eventually turns the tables, and beats Van Damme with a chain, and then [[spoiler:kills him with the same knife that killed Billy.]]
* On that note, how [[spoiler: Villain kills Billy]] is suitably over the top as well. Rather than simply [[spoiler: stabbing him]], which would be too boring, Villain has his lieutenant [[spoiler: ''hold the knife out so he can roundhouse kick it right into Billy's chest''.]]
** [[spoiler:Billy]] himself gets one for choosing to FaceDeathWithDignity. Despite having a lot to live for and being so close to walking away from the mercenary business for good, he shows no hesitation in urging his teammates not to cooperate with Vilain.
* ''Can't beat a classic.''
* Two words: "[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill ONE MORE!!!"]]
** [[BondOneLiner Rest in pieces.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Expendables 3]]

* During the final battle, Lee Christmas goes on a rampage where he kills about a dozen bad guys by himself - ''in under a minute''.
* Drummer getting into a midair dogfight with a pair of helicopter gunships, in just a Huey. ''And winning.''
* Barney vs Stonebanks. [[spoiler: Barney wins by channeling his inner [[Film/{{Rocky}} Rocky Balboa]], street fighting-flavor]].
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* During the final battle, Lee Christmas goes on a rampage where he kills about a dozen bad guys by himself - ''in under a minute''.

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