Batman Begins/Awesome

From the beginning: Bruce getting attacked in the food line, which results in this exchange.

Chinese Prisoner: You are in hell, little man. And I am the devil.
Bruce: You're not the devil. You're practice.

- And so begins a beatdown of epic proportions, not just of the guy that attacked him, but every other prisoner that joins the fight. He even breaks a guy's leg!
  - Capped off when the guards come and drag Bruce away:

Bruce: I don't need protection!
Guard: Protection for them! *cue shot of the prisoners rolling about in the yard, screaming in pain*

"Actually, there were seven of them."
Ra's' line "If someone stands in the way of true justice, you simply walk up behind them...and stab them in the heart", said in a calm, cold voice.
To keep the SWAT team occupied, Batman summons a massive swarm of bats.
- The scene was originally taken from the comic Batman: Year One, and was itself just the capper on an entire Moment of Awesome sequence.
- I think my favorite thing about this scene is not simply that Batman outwits and outmaneuvers both a SWAT team and a gang of hostage-holding thugs simultaneously, it's the lengths he goes to make sure nobody gets hurt, and how thoroughly he succeeds in that regard. It's an unambiguously heroic moment in an age where it's popular to portray Batman as a grim anti-hero.
The scene with Falcone loading a shotgun in his car, where you can just imagine his panic. He then whispers "What the hell are you?" Cue a smash of glass and; say it with me now: "I'm Batman!"
One for a villain - Jonathan Crane is trying to destroy some evidence, when both of his mooks are taken out by an unseen assailant, who then reveals himself as the guy who singlehandedly took down a mob boss. So does he flee? Hell no! He dons his mask, releases his fear gas, and then sets Batman on fucking fire!

"Oh, having trouble? Take a seat. Have a drink. You look like a man who takes himself too seriously. You want my opinion? You need to lighten up.

- For Dr. Crane (and arguably, Cillian Murphy's entire career) up to this point: "Would you like to see my mask?"
- In the straitjacket, when he says "Scarecrow..."
This troper personally believes that the moment where Batman first appears in Batman Begins is not just one of the most Crowning Moments of Awesome in the character's history, but possibly the greatest moment in motion picture history ever. Not only does he manage to dispatch an entire crew of mobsters single-handedly and reduce their boss from an arrogant, bullying invincible crime-lord to a terrified old man cowering in the back of a limo with a gun (which Batman then proceeds to pull the crime-lord out of through the sun-roof), he even politely compliments an old homeless man on his coat (which Batman, years ago, actually gave to him) in the process. Oh, and he ties the mob boss to a spotlight, inventing the bat signal.
- Personally, I thought the best intro moment in that sequence was with the long-haired guy with the sub-machinegun:

Mook: (blasting away with gun) WHERE ARE YOOOUU?
Batman: (hanging upside down, coming into shot as we pan with the goon) Here.
Mook: Yaaahh-- (cut off as the black cape envelopes him)

The introduction of the bat-signal in approximately the middle of the movie. Jim Gordon shows up with a bunch of other police officers to the place where a group of Falcone's goons were. Another officer asked if they were Falcone's men, Gordon cynically remarked "does it matter? We'll never tie him to it anyway." Said officer responded "I wouldn't be too sure of that" and then nodded his head towards something that Gordon apparently didn't even notice beforehand; a searchlight pointed at the clouds, with Falcone chained to it such that his shadow formed a bat-silhouette in said clouds. It was a symbol of hope in a city that clearly needed it. It also helps that the music used in that scene has the same melody as was used earlier in part of "The Will To Act."
After snatching corrupt cop Flass from the alley below, dangling him over it by his ankles and interrogating him after visibly working himself up into the scariest interrogator in the universe:

Flass: I swear to God!
Batman: SWEAR TO ME!

Even Alfred gets at least one: "I hope you're not a member of the fire brigade," whilst rushing into the burning Wayne Manor to save Bruce. And the subsequent "You still haven't given up on me" / "Never!" exchange.
- And when he tries to help the pinned Bruce.

Alfred: What was the point of all those push-ups if you can't lift one bloody log?!

Loeb tells a desperate Gordon that "There's nobody left to send in!". Cue The Tumbler coming out of nowhere and jumping into the Narrows. Gets me every single time!
Liam Neeson chanelling Qui-Gon Jinn as in his last moment, Ra's calmly faces his death-by-train.
Fox's "Didn't you get the memo?".
"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me." Best identity reveal ever.
Batman finally defeating Ra's Al Ghul while saving all of Gotham from fear toxin. Topped off by his escape and gliding in the shape of a bat.
Also, Nolan rebooting the series from Batman and Robin to the awesomeness of Batman Begins; let alone making an even more popular sequel; is awesome.
Bruce Wayne confronting his fear of bats in the batcave definitely deserves mention.

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