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* Each instance where Bullet Time is used in the first movie, in particular the scene where Neo dodges the bullets on the rooftop.
* Neo and Trinity shooting up the lobby.
{{quote| ''Neo walks through the metal detector and it goes off.''<br />
'''Guard''': Sir, could you please remove any metallic items you are carrying... keys, loose change...<br />
''Neo opens his trenchcoat to reveal enough guns to kill a small city.''<br />
'''Guard''': [[Oh Crap|Holy shit]]! }}
** This doubles as a [[Crowning Moment of Funny]].
** He also notably throws in a final scream for good measure.
* No love for Tank?
{{quote| "Believe it or not, you piece of shit, you're still gonna burn!"}}
* For this troper, Neo's Crowning Moment came after his resurrection, when he single-handedly fought off Agent Smith, with a look on his face suggesting he was even more bored than usual.
** To this troper his [[Dull Surprise]] actually helped the scene. It marked how Neo was now operating on a level so far above the Agents, he didn't even have to ''try''.
** ....This troper always just figured he actually was going to try and stop the falling chopper, I mean, hell, it's the Matrix, why not?
* Morpheus snapping his handcuffs to majorly heroic [[Crowning Music of Awesome]].
== The Matrix Reloaded ==
* "WE ARE STILL HERE!"
* The Burly Brawl.
* The fight in the Merovingian's chateau between Neo and the Merovingian's goons.
** Neo stopping a sword on the edge of his hand just to show off nearly matches Trinity's "Dodge this" moment from the first movie. That he bled a single drop of blood somehow made that moment even more awesome.
*** Especially that it makes the Merovingian raise an eyebrow, which doesn't sound like much, but it really completes the scene. Also, the [[Crowning Music of Awesome|bassline kicking in right after that.]]
* Morpheus fighting Agent Johnson on a moving semi. At first, he's only managing to hold his own with difficulty, at one point resorting to grabbing the Agent's tie to stay on the truck. He eventually gets knocked across the back of the truck, flat on his stomach, only to see his katana still stuck in the side after his [[Stepping Stone Sword]] earlier. Johnson fastidiously tucks his tie back in, with the most contemptuous look on his face, before moving in for the kill...at which point Morpheus leaps up, sword in hand. Johnson stumbles back, his tie cut neatly in two, while Morpheus performs his classic [[Bring It]] stance. The ''grin'' is what sells it.
** And that was after taking out the Twins (who were driving an Escalade SUV) with a katana and a Glock 18 in a slow motion maneuver that [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg_Cn3xfTIY has to be seen to be believed].
** That entire gloriously OTT sequence was a Crowning Car Chase of Awesome.
* ''Reloaded'' is arguably a long string of Crowning Moments...until it slammed to a screeching halt when [[Mind Screw|Neo met]] [[Mr. Exposition|the Architect]]. But then you've got Neo saving Trinity, Morpheus' line after the Nebucchadnezer is destroyed, Neo stopping the Sentinels...
* Neo "doing his Superman thing" so fast that everything he passes is either shattered or sucked down the street after him while flying to rescue Trinity.
* How this didn't make it here already I don't know, especially considering Morpheus is [[The Comically Serious]].
{{quote| '''Smith:''' I want what you want. I want everything.<br />
'''Morpheus:''' *instantly snaps his pistol to Smith's head* Would that include a bullet from this gun? }}
* Ah, but the most awesome moment of all is the most subtle. It goes to the unlikeliest of characters-- the nerdy Keymaker. Trinity's guarding him, and she needs to steal a ride...
{{quote| '''Trinity:''' I need a download to hotwire a motorcycle.<br />
'''Link:''' Not a problem, one crash course in motorcycle...<br />
'''Keymaker:''' *gives her exactly the key she needs*<br />
'''Trinity:''' Wait. Cancel that. }}
* The Twins were underused in this troper's opinion. Effortlessly avoiding almost every attack thrown at them and barely reacting when actually hit. The deadpan sells it. Shot many times in the arm? "Can we move this along?" Forced out of a moving vehicle on the freeway? "We are becoming aggravated." "Yes, we are."
== The Matrix Revolutions ==
* The Club Hell sequence.
* ''Revolutions'' has the battle [[Tropers/Enchanter 468|This Troper]] (and many others) had been waiting for since the beginning of ''Reloaded'': the soldiers of Zion (in [[Mini-Mecha|Mini Mechas]], no less) fighting ''thousands'' of Sentinels.
** The Sentinels forming into a massive tentacle to smash Zion's fortifications.
** Mifune facing the massive Sentinel tentacle and not only standing his ground but [[Screaming Warrior|defiantly screaming at them]] even while {{spoiler|they tore at his flesh, mortally wounding him}}.
** And speaking of Mifune, his speech before the Sentinels break through to Zion should count:
{{quote| "All right! This is it! Now you all know me, so I'm gonna say this as simply as I can. If it's our time to die, it's our time. All I ask is, if we have to give these bastards our lives...'''''we give 'em hell before we do!'''''"}}
* Niobe can ''freaking'' drive.
{{quote| "''Holy Christ'' I didn't know the ship could do that."}}
* Trinity and Neo fly above the clouds, and Trinity becomes the first human to get a fleeting glimpse of sunlight in ages.
* The final battle. After a long rant about human futility by Smith, Neo responds and tells the rogue Agent why he still persists: "Because I choose to".
** This troper gets chills just from reading that line. It is the ultimate comeback to Smith's endless nihilistic tirades, short, succinct and perfectly delivered. This is Neo's true victory - to keep fighting, no matter what, even if it {{spoiler|kills him}}, simultaneously proving the architect wrong by using free will to break the cycle of violence.
== The Animatrix ==
* The dojo sequence in ''Final Flight of the Osiris''; for [[This Troper]], it's one of the most erotic scenes of all times, period.
** [[Lazy Ninja|Seconded~!]]
* For [[Tropers/Stevie Will Show You|This Troper]], ''Beyond'' is one of the most stunning animated shorts of all time. The soundtrack alone is incredible in its own right.
** Don't forget the gorgeous animation, which is both extremely unusual and very natural feeling when the characters are in motion.
* ''A Detective Story'' should go here for combining two radically different genres, [[Film Noir]] and [[Cyberpunk]], smoothly and beautifully. The ending where the detective has his gun pointed at the Agents in pure defiance of their mind control/body hopping abilities counts too.
* The videogame ''Path of Neo'' was hyped as a playable version of the film trilogy in which certain scenes and plot points were altered for a better videogame experience; the actual plot alterations suit this concept well, even if the actual game design fell rather flat. But the Crowning Moment comes at the end, when the Wachowskis - as little 1-bit sprites in a Construct program (Larry as the pink one, naturally) - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TLJb9NZN0I interrupt the final fight] to explain that Neo's sacrifice would make for a terrible ending to a videogame, because gamers want a final boss fight, and they will therefore get one as Neo takes on "Mega Smith". The whole thing is a ''very thinly'' veiled [[Take That]] at everyone who started professing hatred for the movies as they started losing the pretense of being action flicks and became more openly cerebral, with thicker symbolism instead of direct dialogue.
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