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• The real moment where the film not only lives up to its title but goes above and beyond comes at the climax. Let's just say it involves a bazooka and the words:

Dave: Hey! Why don't you pick on someone your own size?

• Hit-Girl. Knife. Gun. Wires. Perhaps the single coolest thing ever done by a prepubescent girl in film history.
  • Hit-Girl overall is Crazy Awesome (well she has to be somewhat crazy at least to happily be so violent when only 11).
  • Or at least a contender. But then there's Mathilda...
    • The fact it's done to "Bad Reputation" makes it even more awesome.
      • At one point she reloaded without touching the clips
• Okay, so Big Daddy is obviously a total nut, but come on, him taking down all the mooks at the warehouse with ease, and then burning the warehouse down(!) was pretty awesome.
  • That scene was genius. Suddenly we saw what it would be like if Batman didn't have his one rule... and it was terrifying. And AWESOME. It must be seen to be believed.
  • Lest we forget, the actress playing Hit-Girl did many of her own stunts. And this is not Dawson Casting - there really is an eleven-year-old doing this.
• Dave going Apocalypse Now on the gangsters. With a chain-gun equipped jetpack. The Oh Crap look on their faces when they saw him FLYING IN ON A FREAKING JETPACK was priceless.
  • I cried from the awesome. I've never cried at a movie before.
  • Dave and Hit-girl's subsequent jetpack flight through the city- the Crowning Music of Awesome helps.
• We can't forget about Kick-Ass beating three thugs mugging a helpless man.

Thug: Fuck off, man. It's none of your business! Kick-Ass: ...Yes it is!

• • What made that especially awesome to this troper was the little hesitation he had in going in. Here's a kid with no fighting skills, no experience, no reason to care, and yet he charges in to help the guy anyway. And wins!

Thug: What the fuck is wrong with you, man? You'd rather die for some piece of shit, that you don't even fucking know? Kick-Ass: 3 assholes laying into one guy while everyone else watches... and you wanna know what's wrong with me?! Yeah, I'd rather die! NOW BRING IT ON!

• • • Except he doesn't win. Like he points out, there's three thugs & and he's the only one standing up to them... But there's a cafe full of witnesses if they kill him & the guy they were attacking - SOMEONE would identify them, so the better decision is to just leave.
    • The "one guy" he mentions is probably the guy getting mugged, not himself. Besides, he set out to save the guy from death, which he did. Doesn't really matter how. If you want physical results, I think he broke one of their wrists. At least, there's a loud crack and he's nursing the hand the rest of the scene.
  • The icing on the cake is that the mugging victim, bloodied but alive turns to Kick-Ass, and thanks him.
  • Also, a little detail that only recently caught this tropers attention - At the beginning of the fight, they basically ignore Kick-Ass, even when he's hitting them, prefering to go for their victim. But as the fight continues, it goes from one guy fighting him, to two, to all three once they realise he isn't going to give up.
• Big Daddy coordinating Hit Girl while being set on fire. He may be a nutjob, but he's one hell of a Determinator.
  • What about Hit-Girl in that scene? Those strobe lights were mental!
    • "Show's over, motherfuckers."
    • Made gold by the looks on the faces of the D'Amico boys.
• The final line of the movie, in an absolutely perfect Shout-Out to the '89 Batman film:

Red Mist: Well, as a great man once said...wait'll they get a loada me.

• How about the music? The Prodigy's Stand Up just perfectly captures the whole "Why not?" theme behind the Kick-Ass series.