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** This one is famous enough that it gets [[Homage|Homaged]] throughout the ''Gundam'' saga. In particular, ''[[Gundam F 90]]'' recreates the scene almost exactly, while ''[[Gundam Wing]]'' has an example in [[The Movie]] that doesn't outwardly resemble the classic version but is still called "Last Shooting". ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' got in on the homages with ''[[Super Robot Wars Z|Z2 Hakai-hen]]'', where the [[Chars Counterattack|Nu Gundam]]'s fin funnel attack ends with the Last Shooting.

* Osaka's little moment with the knife in ''[[Azumanga Daioh (Manga)|Azumanga Daioh]]''.

* [[Nisemonogatari|''Toothbrush'']].

* In ''[[Cowboy Bebop (Anime)|Cowboy Bebop]]'', {{spoiler|Julia getting shot, then falling to the ground in excruciating slow-mo}} is one of the most iconic moments in all of anime, not to mention a major [[Tear Jerker]].

* Superboy-Prime retconning reality with his punches in ''[[Infinite Crisis]]''.

* The death of Barry Allen in ''[[Crisis On Infinite Earths]]''.

* Rick Jones creating the Invaders to fight the Skrulls in ''Avengers: The Kree-Skrull War''.

* [[Judge Dredd]] [[Talk to The Fist|punching through the Judge Fear's head]] while shouting "Gaze into the fist of Dredd!"

* In ''[[The Death of Superman]]'', the full-page spread of Lois cradling the dead body of Superman.

* A similar scene for [[Captain America]]'s death: his bloodied body on the courthouse steps.

** HERE'S JOHHNY!

** Johnny frozen solid in the labyrinth.

* The final scene in ''[[Scarface (Film)|Scarface]]''. [[Memetic Mutation|"Say hello to my little friend!"]]

* ''[[Cabin Fever (Film)|Cabin Fever]]'''s [[Big Lipped Alligator Moment|infamous]] "Pancakes scene."

* The curb stomping scene in ''[[American History X]]''.

* [[Indiana Jones]] [[Indy Escape|outrunning the giant boulder]] in ''[[Raiders of the Lost Ark (Film)|Raiders of the Lost Ark]]''.

** Indy [[Combat Pragmatist|shooting the Swordsman.]]

 

== [[Theatre]] ==

** Also, strangely, [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|Hamlet with the skull]]: "To be or not to be..." - it's '''the''' signature Shakespeare moment, and [[Did Not Do the Research|it's just a mix-up of two different monologues in different acts]].

*** Thematically appropriate though, considering the speech is about weighing the options of suicide. Juxtaposing life and death and all that.

* ''[[Super Metroid]]'' battle with Mother Brain

* The Ferris Wheel ride with N in ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]''

* [[The Secret of Monkey Island|Insult swordfighting.]] "You fight like a dairy farmer!" "How appropriate...you fight like a cow!"

* Sonic running down the side of a building in [[Sonic Adventure (Video Game)|Sonic Adventure]].

* Call of Duty 4: [[Modern Warfare|Modern Warfare's]] nuke detonation at the end of "Shock and Awe."

* [[Knights of the Old Republic]]: [[The Reveal]]. Still considered one of the best twists in any video game ever.

* The Hydra fight from the first ''[[God of War (Video Game)|God of War]]'', the colossus fight and the Mount Olympus climb at the end of the second.

 

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