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• Clint Eastwood proving why he's the first one.

"Your spurs."

• The three-way Mexican Standoff at the end.

"How did you know I wouldn't shoot?" "I took the bullets out of your gun."

• One of Tuco's One Liners, following him subverting a Just Between You and Me moment by shooting his would-be assailant:

"If you're gonna shoot, shoot, don't talk!"

• Or the part where he sacrifices his Nakama in order to pull a Click. "Hello." on Blondie - with his spurs. Simultaneously an instance of dog-kicking and an awesome moment for the character.
• The amazingly rousing music, courtesy of legend Ennio Morricone.
• Tuco gunning down his old nemesis after being caught in the tub. "When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."
• "Were you gonna die alone?"
• Blondie, who has been an unapologetically cynical and cruel person throughout the entire film, finally lives up to his label of "The Good" when he comforts a dying soldier in an unpretentiously spontaneous moment of kindness, lighting the boy One Last Smoke and warming him with his coat in his final moments.
• Another touching moment is between Tuco and Blondie after the fight between Tuco and his brother. Tuco doesn't know that Blondie saw the fight, and tries to convince Blondie, if not himself, that his brother loves him and looks up to him, and we see the underlying sadness in how lonely he is and how his only "brother" is Blondie. Made much more sad when one thinks of the ending.
• One of the best parts is Blondie's "and after a good meal, there's nothing like a cigar". He may be cold and pragmatic throughout most of the movie, but this little gesture of friendship and willingness to play along with Tuco's lie shows that he feels compassion for him, at least a little.
• Not immediately obvious, but the final scene. Sure, Blondie leaves Tuco tied up, almost kills him and leaves without as much as a word. But think about it - he lets Tuco leave, lets him keep the gold, and indirectly tells him (by shooting the rope) that their score is settled. For a tough gunslinger, that's as close to explicitly making peace with Tuco as it possibly could be.
• Angel Eyes' introduction. It's so damn evil it crosses the line into awesome.
• Tuco trying to find the grave that the gold is buried in. He runs through the graveyard, searching every headstone, but as the shot continues, with Tuco running through an endless forest of headstones, one begins to get a sense of perspective, of just how insignificant these three men and their petty struggle is compared to what is happening in the world everywhere they turn. Hundreds of thousands of men are dying in this war, and three vagabonds fight over a pile of money.