Awesome / Big Fish

• Edward's Combat Pragmatist moment at a North Korean theater.
  • Also the implication that behind the fabricated parts of the story, he was in the war, he became MIA, he managed to get back and help two twins escape to the USA.
• The funeral at the end: everyone from Edward's stories shows up. And we find out that he never embellished a thing to make himself look better, but to make everyone else around him just a little more extraordinary.
• Edward is determined to marry Sandra, but she also makes him promise not to hurt her Jerk Jock fiancee. So he doesn't. He gets floored repeatedly but keeps getting back up, smiling.
  • Even better than that, because Don beats Ed for trying to "steal his girl", Sandra sees that he's a brute, gives back his engagement ring and says she will never marry him. She adds that Ed's practically a stranger and she prefers him to Don. Edward's winning (and bloody) smile to Don is just the icing on the cake, triumphant as he passes out.
    • Adding to that, Ed gets another win as the moral victor, as Don's physical stress from beating Edward makes a congenital defect of his heart push him over the edge, leading to him having a heart attack on the toilet (as he had foreseen in his vision in the witch's eye).
• Young Edward willingly asks to look into the witch's Eye that can show you your own death, because he alone among the other boys realizes, "It could kind of help you, couldn't it? Because you'd know that everything else you can survive."
  • Most people look at their own death in horror of how they will die. Edward actively uses the vision of his own death as a source of hope to survive and come through situations that would lead most other people to despair.
  • Fridge-Awesome: For all he knew, the future he was about to see would've depicted him living a short life just like Don. But Edward was still prepared to make the most of his life, whether he had five or ten years tops. And ultimately, this attitude was rewarded by giving him a full lifetime, bestowing Edward a big opportunity to live a long and fruitful life.
• Edward saving Spectre from financially dying out by buying it at the auction for $50,000. And how did he get the money when he himself wasn't a rich man? He looked to the people he helped in the past who he made rich in their own ways.
  • Jenny herself frames it as such when she mentions just how Edward convinced these people to save Spectre. They themselves had never even set foot there, so what was it to them if an obscure little town died out? But Edward, storyteller he is, used his stories to paint Spectre as the gorgeous paradise it once was, convincing them it was still a place worth saving. That's right: Edward's tall tales saved an entire town!