History Awesome / Holes

* Stanley stealing Mr. Sir's truck, accidentally driving it into a hole, and then running away. Also a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}. Sure, it didn't work, but it took guts for Stanley to even try it. Zigzag and Twitch even say it was awesome in a later scene in the book and movie.

* In a deleted scene, Stanley imagines his campmates [[TrueCompanions threatening the school bully not to mess with Stanley anymore]]. This was actually a part of what "happened" in the book.

* Stanley stealing Mr. Sir's truck, accidentally driving it into a hole, and then running away. Also a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}. Zigzag and Twitch even say it was awesome in a later scene in the book and movie.

* At the end, as Stanley and Zero are about to leave Camp Green Lake, the Warden desperately begs Stanley if she can see what was in the suitcase. Stanley's response is to throw her CatchPhrase right back at her: [[IronicEcho "Excuse me?"]]. He then refuses to even let her see out of well-deserved spite.

* For being a "no-good, dirty, rotten, pig-stealer", Elya Yelnats [[CharacterDevelopment demonstrates some serious self-respect]] when he decides for himself that [[TheDitz Myra Menke's]] hand in marriage isn't worth winning if she can't even choose [[TheHero him]] over [[FatBastard Igor Barkov]] of her own accord. Granted, it goes pear-shaped when he forgets his deal with Madame Zeroni, cursing him and his family for generations.

* For being a "no-good, dirty, rotten, pig-stealer", Elya Yelnats [[CharacterDevelopment demonstrates some serious self-respect]] when he decides for himself that [[TheDitz Myra Menke's]] hand in marriage isn't worth winning if she can't even choose [[TheHero him]] over [[FatBastard Igor Barkov]] of her own accord.
-->'''Elya:''' ([[TranquilFury quietly fuming]], throws his flower bouquet on the ground) Marry Igor! You can keep my pig as a wedding present. Granted, it goes pear-shaped when he forgets his deal with Madame Zeroni, cursing him and his family for generations.

-->'''Elya:''' ([[TranquilFury quietly fuming]], throws his flower bouquet on the ground) Marry Igor! You can keep my pig as a wedding present.

* Zero's confrontation with Mr. Pendanski in the movie which doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}:
--> '''Mr. Pendanski:''' ''(hands Zero a shovel)'' Take it, Zero, it's all you'll ever be good for. You might as well teach this shovel how to read. D-I-G, what's that spell?
--> '''Zero:''' ''(pauses, then [[TheDogBitesBack hits Pendanski in the head with the shovel]])'' [[ShutUpHannibal Dig!]]
* Stanley stealing Mr. Sir's truck, accidentally driving it into a hole, and then running away. Also a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}. Zigzag and Twitch even say it was awesome in a later scene in the book and movie.

* Kate was a killing machine, and by bad luck, Stanley Yelnats I encountered her. Yet he had the sense to hand over his trunk of stock fortunes and not put up a fight. It's not explained why Kate spared him, to dehydrate in the desert, but Stanley I instead found "God's thumb" and survived by seeking refuge there. Stanley IV realizes while stranded in the desert that God's thumb is actually a hill with water and an onion field -- the same field where Sam got his onions. In some twisted way, Kate allowed Sam to save both Stanleys, much as her peaches saved Hector.

-->'''Trout:''' No one says "no" to Trout Walker!
-->'''Miss Katherine:''' I believe I just did.

* When Walker tries to take the suitcase from Stanley, Zero reads the name on the suitcase, revealing it belongs to Stanley's family, clearing both himself and Stanley from any charges of theft. Those councilors certainly regretted calling him illiterate. (It actually occurs in the book as well, and the Warden is [[StunnedSilence stunned almost speechless]].)

* [[DyingMomentOfAwesome Kate's death]]. As sad as it is, she faces the end [[FaceDeathWithDignity with steely resolve and zero fear]]. After twenty years of robbing and killing, she comes back to Green Lake, now in ruins from the drought that started since Sam's murder. Trout Walker and his new wife Linda, a former student of Kate's who only married Trout for his money, find her and reveal that Trout's family fortune dried up with the lake and they figure Kate's accumulated wealth from robbing so many banks should get them back their former status. Kate won't tell them anything and stays DefiantToTheEnd, taunting them that they and their descendants could spend the next century digging up the land and never finding what she buried. And when Kate's bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard (randomly by accident in the book, deliberately in the movie), she tells Trout and Linda to [[FamousLastWords "start digging"]] and spends her last moments [[DiedLaughing laughing at them]] as they demand to know where she buried her loot.

* Zero's confrontation with Mr. Pendanski (in the movie):
--> '''Mr. Pendanski:''' ''(Hands Zero a shovel)'' Take it, Zero, it's all you'll ever be good for. You might as well teach this shovel how to read. D-I-G, what's that spell?

** Doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
* Stanley stealing Mr. Sir's truck and driving it into a hole (accidentally) and then running away. Also a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}. Zigzag even says it was awesome in a later scene in the film, while Twitch does in the book.
* For being a "no-good, dirty, rotten, pig-stealer", Elya Yelnats [[CharacterDevelopment demonstrates some serious self-dignity]] when he decides for himself [[TheDitz Myra Menke's]] hand in marriage isn't worth winning if she can't even choose [[TheHero Elya]] over [[FatBastard Igor Barkov]] of her own accord.
-->'''Elya:''' ([[TranquilFury Quietly fuming]], throws his flower bouquet on the ground) Marry Igor! You can keep my pig as a wedding present.
* Kate was a killing machine, and by bad luck Stanley Yelnats I encountered her. Yet he had the sense to hand over his trunk of stock fortunes and not put up a fight. It's not explained why Kate spared him, to dehydrate in the desert, but Stanley I instead found "God's thumb" and survived by seeking refuge there. Stanley IV realizes while stranded in the desert that God's thumb is actually a hill with water and an onion field-- the same field where Sam got his onions. In some twisted way, Kate allowed Sam to save both Stanleys, much as her peaches saved Hector.

* Kate goes through a TraumaCongaline in one night. Trout leads an angry mob and burns down the schoolhouse, all because Kate rejected him for Sam. She runs to get help from the sheriff, only to find out he's getting drunk and preparing to hang Sam for kissing a white woman rather than stopping the mob. Kate, who was that white woman, demands he hang her as well; the sheriff drunkenly says she's protected from the law, but he wants a kiss from her. Then Kate runs to the lake, only to see Trout murdering Sam who is rowing in his boat and minding his own business, too late to warn the onion picker. Cue her StartOfDarkness the next day while she's dressed to the nines and armed to the teeth:
--> "Good morning, sheriff. [[PreMortemOneLiner Do you still want that kiss]]?"

* The implication that ''God Himself'' caused the drought in divine retribution for Sam's murder, leaving Walker in the poor house. [[ExactWords "God will punish them," indeed.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNW-XETVjio "Start diggin', Trout."]] Kate is lounging by Sam's boat, hallucinating that he's by her side again. While caressing him, Sam looks up in warning and Trout appears. Trout is not in a good state, all weathered and in beat-up clothes. His wife, one of Kate's former students Linda Miller, looks similarly bedraggled. Kate considers killing them, but she tosses her gun away saying that she won't be the cause of Trout's death. When Trout demands the loot that she robbed from various banks, Kate tells him "[[ExactWords There ain't no loot]]" because she buried it, and it was Stanley I's trunk, not the banks she robbed. Before Trout and Linda can torture her, a yellow-spotted lizard appears. Kate grabs it and goads it to bite her since the venom is instantly fatal.

* At the end, as Stanley and Zero are about to leave Camp Green Lake, the Warden desperately begs Stanley if she can see what was in the suitcase. Stanley's response is to throw her CatchPhrase right back at her: [[IronicEcho "Excuse me?"]]
** And just before that, Zero reads the name on the suitcase, revealing it belongs to Stanley's family. Those councilors certainly regretted calling him illiterate. (It actually occurs in the book as well, and the Warden is [[StunnedSilence stunned almost speechless]].)

* In the book, the inmates mock Stanley for using Hector to dig holes for him. While [[JerkassHasAPoint Stanley knows they are right]], he privately reflects they would do the same thing if they could. It is a sign of how Stanley has gotten tough enough to not fall for their manipulation anymore.
* In a deleted scene, Stanley imagines his camp mates threatening the school bully not to mess with Stanley anymore. This was actually a part of what "happened" in the book.

* Stanley carrying Zero up the mountain, unknowingly breaking the curse on his family, as Zero is descended from the sorceress who cast it. In the movie, there’s a translucent image of Madame Zeroni [[SoProudOfYou looking on with a smile]] while Stanley does so despite both of the boys nearing dehydration, her original words echoing.
* At the end, as Stanley and Zero are about to leave Camp Green Lake, the Warden desperately begs Stanley if she can see what was in the suitcase. Stanley's response is to throw her CatchPhrase right back at her: [[IronicEcho "Excuse me?"]]
** And just before that, Zero reading the name on the suitcase, revealing it belongs to Stanley's family. Those councilors certainly regretted calling him illiterate. (It actually occurs in the book as well, and the Warden is [[StunnedSilence stunned almost speechless]].)
* In a deleted scene, Stanley imagines his camp mates threatening the school bully not to mess with Stanley anymore. This was actually a part of what "happened" in the book.

* "Good morning, sheriff. [[PreMortemOneLiner Do you still want that kiss]]?"
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNW-XETVjio "Start diggin', Trout."]]

** Made better by Sachar's ArmorPiercingQuestion to the reader: "Who did God ''really'' punish?"

* The implication that ''God Himself'' caused the drought in divine retribution for Sam's murder. [[ExactWords "God will punish them," indeed.]]

* Stanley carrying Zero up the mountain, unknowingly [[spoiler:breaking the curse on his family, as Zero is descended from the sorceress who cast it. In the movie, there’s a translucent image of Madame Zeroni [[SoProudOfYou looking on with a smile]] while Stanley does so despite both of the boys nearing dehydration, her original words echoing.]]

* Stanley carrying Zero up the mountain, unknowingly [[spoiler:breaking the curse on his family, as Zero is descended from the sorceress who cast it.]]

-->'''Elya:''' ([[TranquilFury Quietly fuming]], throws his flower bouquet on the ground) You keep pig as wedding present.

* For being a "no-good, dirty, rotten, pig-stealer", Elya Yelnats [[CharacterDevelopment demonstrates some serious self-dignity]] when he decides for himself [[TheDitz Myra Menke's]] hand in marriage isn't worth winning if she can't even choose Elya over [[TheGonk Igor]] [[FatBastard Barkov]] of her own accord.