Line #23 Awesome/TheBookOfLife


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''No retreat, no surrender!'']]
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7	!!Movie
8	* Manolo standing up to a giant living statue in the Land of the Forgotten. When the statue tries to crush him with its sword, [[NoSell the sword shatters around him as though hitting a force field.]]
9	** Made more awesome by the fact that the statue judges all who crosses the border between the Land of the Remembered and the Land of the Forgotten, and the sword shatters because ''Manolo's soul is stronger than it''. (This is Arguably because in childhood La Muerte blessed him with a heart that will always be pure and courageous...but he was already that way when she said that).
10	** Before meeting the statue, Manolo has to pass the statue's test - a giant labyrinth that tilts in any direction with three giant stone balls threatening to crush all who run the labyrinth. Manolo passes this by ''using his bullfighting skills'' to avoid getting crushed.
11	* During the climax, Chakal holds Maria hostage, and forces Joaquin and Manolo to surrender if they don't want her hurt. Roughly two minutes later, Maria flipkicks ''Chakal'', a guy who’s probably about twenty feet tall and proceeded to pull off a perfect landing. And mentions to Manolo and Joaquin that she learned kung-fu during her travels. [[AmazonChaser Manolo can't help but smile at the sight.]]
12	* Young Manolo subduing the boar early on in the film.
13	* La Muerte’s sheer fury when Manolo tells her about Xibalba’s cheating. The goddess gets so mad she glows brighter than the sun.
14	* Manolo's fight against a horde of large demonic skeletal bulls in a fiery arena. All the bulls merge to form a ''giant'' demonic skeletal bull that sets itself on fire and represents the rage of every bull his ancestors killed, and he has to kill that bull if he wants to survive and get his life back. Does he kill it? No. ''He sings a song asking for forgiveness.'' He wins. Even Xibalba is impressed.
15	* Maria gets a small but significant one when she tells Manolo that it'll take more than just a GrandRomanticGesture to win her over.
16	** Earlier, her shutting down the sexist soldiers at the party.
17	*** Joaquin also get a moment after Maria does her moment of awesome in this scene by punching one of his sexist soldier lackies for making an inappropriate comment about Maria. Plus, he doesn't act like misogynistic asshole and try to defend himself, and just listens to Maria's shutdown of his attitude.
18	* Manolo gets right up in Xibalba's face when he realizes that he cheated and tricked him. Xibalba tries to imtimidate Manolo with an impressive speech and by towering over him, and Manolo refuses to let the god intimidate him. Even after Xibalba tosses him across the room, Manolo's not cowed.
19	* When Manolo is granted life once again by La Muerte and Xibalba, shooting him up from the Land of the Remembered back to the living world. He ''smashes through the ground'', right before Chakal and the townspeople of San Angel, then takes the chance to give Maria TheBigDamnKiss, and not even letting Chakal ruin the moment.
20	* [[BattleCouple Manolo and Maria]] vs Chakal. With a FastballSpecial (and a big-ass bell).
21	* Manolo and all of the deceased Sanchez demonstrate they're a bad ass family.
22	** Made possible by La Muerte ''and'' Xibalba using the "leeway" they have on Day of the Dead to bring the Sanchez ancestors back to defend their home.
23	* Carlos's DyingMomentOfAwesome
24	** Note that when he hears the army is coming, he doesn't flinch, doesn't hesitate. He draws his swords and says "Who wants to go first?" When Chakal steps forward, he doesn't step back.
25	* Carmen Sanchez ''[[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu slapping]]'' Xibalba. ''Three times''.
26	** Bonus points to La Muerte for levitating Carmen to do so.
27	* The Sanchez Ancestors filling in as TheCavalry near the climax.
28	* The fact that the Adelita twins fought and won a revolution.
29	* Though not exactly a heroic or good moment, Xibalba manages to find Manolo's greatest fear just by ''looking him straight in the eyes''.
30	* La Muerte's SkywardScream after she found out Xibalba cheated. Crosses into NightmareFuel territory, but still pretty awesome, nonetheless.
31	* Mary-Beth managing to dodge the spitballs from the Detention Kids. With just a ''tour guide sign''. Though, that's not surprising, considering she's really La Muerte in disguise.
32	* Manolo's first bullfight at ''nine''. He makes it look so. ''Easy''.
33	* Joaquin's intended HeroicSacrifice.
34	* Maria's RousingSpeech to the town when Chakal arrives.
35	* The brief moment in which the town Priest grabs a hold of the Medal of Everlasting Life and proceeds to unleash Seven kinds of Hell upon the Chakal men with [[WrestlerInAllOfUs wrestling moves]] (including ''a mask'').
36	* Just about any moment that La Muerte [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech calls out]] Xibalba for his malicious and selfish ways. It's so ''satisfying'' and '''hilarious''' at the same time.
37	* Maria effortlessly stopping a fight, albeit a playful one, between Manolo and Joaquin.
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40	!!WordOfGod
41	* WordOfGod confirms that Carmen died saving baby Manolo from the war.
42	* [[WordOfGod According to Gutierrez]], Scardelita (one of Manolo's cousin who ''won'' in the war), lost her eye (and possibly her life) [[TakingTheBullet taking a bullet]] for her sister.

Context Awesome / TheBookOfLife