Awesome / Tombstone

• Not the real Wyatt Earp, but how he's portrayed in movies, is best shown by the line in Tombstone: "You tell 'em I'm coming, and Hell's coming with me!"
  • The whole scene where the Earp posse cuts down Stillwell and sends Ike back with a message. This isn't law enforcement anymore. Now... Wyatt is going to hunt down and slaughter each of them without mercy.
  • Also when Earp wades across a river into a hail of gunfire to empty his shotgun into Curly Bill, and then go Guns Akimbo clearing out the remaining cowboys in the area, without getting so much as scratched.
    • That was the Crowning Moment of Awesome for the real life Wyatt Earp, too.
    • Summed up nicely in this quote from the film:
      Texas Jack: "You ever seen somethin' like that before?"
      Turkey Creek Jack Johnson: "Hell, I never even heard of something like that."
  • Notable in that even Doc Holiday acknowledges the sheer awesome of this act. In reply to someone asking where Wyatt is:
    Doc: Down by the creek. Walkin' on water.
• Who can forget the scene in the movie where Doc Holliday, while dying from tuberculosis, skillfully shoots and kills feared Psycho for Hire Johny Ringo in a tense duel? This scene made the line "I'm your huckleberry" famous.
  • This is, of course, a callback to an earlier scene, where a drunk Ringo tries to goad Wyatt into a fight...only to be intercepted by Doc. Doc calmy tells Ringo to say when, but Curly Bill comes and literally drags Ringo away before things escalate any further. While it's partially due to him not wanting an open war, it's also clear that Curly Bill knows that a drunk Ringo has no chance in hell of taking on Doc.
  • Better line: "Why, Johny Ringo, you look like someone just walked over your grave."
  • Or Doc Holiday defusing what would've been a brawl by twirling his drinking cup.
  • Or the line, "Maybe poker's just not your game, Ike. I know...let's have a spelling contest!"
  • Honestly, Doc Holliday's entire existence was just one long continuous Moment of Awesome. Aside from the above parts, there's also the scene where he has a gun pulled on an enemy as he's clearly fall-down drunk. "You're so drunk you're probably seein' double!" the enemy exclaims. Holliday then, without dropping his shot glass, pulls out a second gun and calmly retorts, "I have two guns, one for each of you." He then casually spins both guns mid-sentence, while holding the cup, in opposite directions.
  • Johnny Ringo has his own moment in his final showdown with Doc, at first looking afraid but then his expression shifts in defiance "Okay lunger, let's DO IT!"
• After Curly Bill accidentally kills the town marshal, Wyatt staves off a lynch mob, only for Ike Clanton to turn up with several other Cowboys and demand that Wyatt let Curly Bill walk away. It escalates, until Wyatt has the barrel of his gun pressed against Ike's forehead, with the other Cowboys surrounding Wyatt.
  Wyatt: You die first, get it? Your friends might get me in a rush, but not before I make your head into a canoe, you understand me?
  Billy: He's bluffing, let's rush 'em.
  Ike: [clearly terrified] No. He ain't bluffing.
  Wyatt: You're not as stupid as you look, Ike.
  • The way Wyatt says the first line, along with that icy cold Death Glare is as awesome as it is chilling. He's not a bit afraid, just extremely annoyed. He's not giving Ike a threat, he's calmly stating fact. Ike understands he really is a split second away from getting his brains blown out, and is (understandably) scared shitless.
    • It's also immensely satisfying to see Ike's bluster instantly evaporate. His bully swagger is gone and he sees Wyatt really will kill him without a second thought.
• "You're no daisy. You're no daisy at all!"
• The entire Earp Vendetta Ride. Even though done as a brief montage, it's an epic spectacle. The Earp posse just annihilates the Cowboy faction with ruthless fervor.
  • Ending with both sole survivors, Behan and Ike, fleeing for their lives in utter terror from these unstoppable avengers.

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