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- Every single confrontation between Tetsuo and the military, the incident on the carrier being of particular note.
- Kaneda's motorcycle is practically the embodiment of awesomeness, and is of crucial help to its driver through all the death and destruction unfolding across Neo-Tokyo. For maximum awesome points, it survives to the end of the film!
- The page picture to the right shows Kaneda doing a supremely badass slide with the bike after taking down the leader of the Clowns. This shot, originally a piece of background in a panel of the original manga, was executed to perfection by the animators, and became iconic enough for homages to make it into countless anime and western animation series over more than 3 decades since
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- The page picture to the right shows Kaneda doing a supremely badass slide with the bike after taking down the leader of the Clowns. This shot, originally a piece of background in a panel of the original manga, was executed to perfection by the animators, and became iconic enough for homages to make it into countless anime and western animation series over more than 3 decades since
- The Colonel gets his when he's arrested by the Supreme Executive Council:Colonel: Enough! Open up your eyes and look at the big picture; You're all puppets of corrupt politicians and capitalists. Don't you understand, it's utterly pointless to fight each other.
- In the first English dub, the Colonel gets in this wondrous gem as the army sets out after Tetsuo.
Colonel: Men, we're going to the Olympics! - Kaneda's very first fight with Tetsuo. After the latter literally ran through an army, Kaneda fought him and nearly won.
- How Kaneda nearly wins is impressive as well. Using nothing more than his wits, the environment around him, and a Laser Rifle scavenged from the destruction Tetsuou leaves in his wake, he manages to get his opponent into a prime position for a killing blow. If not for the battery running out just as he made the final shot, Kaneda absolutely would have killed his opponent.
- He gains the upper hand again in their final confrontation, and seemingly has Tetsuo at his mercy before the later begins to horribly mutate.
- Seeing Possessed!Kei take on Tetsuo was pretty awesome, even if it only lasted for a few seconds.
- When the army has been obliterated, when the ace-in-the-hole SOL satellite has been knocked out of orbit, and when Tetsuo's powers are reaching godlike proportions, does Colonel Shikishima give up? No, instead he goes to Tetsuo to try to convince him to surrender, and when that fails shoots him with a pistol. It fails, but the sheer audacity of trying that on Tetsuo when the Colonel knows exactly what he is capable of is just astounding.
- At the end of the Manga, the survivors of Tokyo are so completely fed up with corruption, the military, drug addicts, and crazy cultists that they form their own nation. They accept humanitarian aid, but under their own terms, telling the aid workers that they won't be subjugated by outside powers.
