Awesome / Conan the Destroyer

• The wizards duel. It may have had no special effects save one involving the steam, and only lasted for a few moments but damn in those few moments. Akiro was a true badass wizard.
  • If you watch closely, you can see how much effort the wizards exert in the duel; smoke comes out of The Leader's nose at one point, and at the end, it looks like steam is coming off of the victorious - and visibly exhausted - Akiro. Hardly any visual effects in that scene, but it's the acting of Ferdy Mayne and Mako that make it work.
  • The scene is a Moment of Awesome for the characters, but also for the actors, who clearly depict exactly what the wizards were doing - without need of any running commentary for the fight.^note  Akiro first uses his magic to counter the Leader's spell to open the door, and so tricks the Leader into using all his power to force open it, then switches from struggling for the door to attacking him directly, smoking his brains off.
  • Bonus points to the designers of the Leader's costume, for those amazing metal bracers, and to the sound engineer who produced the ringing tones when he clangs them together.
• The party coming across Zula chained and tormented by a mob of men. Jehnna is outraged by the unfairness - "There are six of them against her!" - so Conan rides into the fray and, after sharing a silent glare with Zula, breaks Zula's chains with his sword. Smiling back with glee Zula promptly beats up the men single-handed and then rides off to join the team.
  • It also expresses Conan's philosophy. He'll make it fair by not engaging with the men, but just unshackling Zula and just removing the unfairness of six people toying with someone who can't fight back.
• Conan's cunning and crafty defeat of the Guardian, the wizard Thoth-Amon, along with Awesome Music was pretty damn epic.
• Conan's brutal final fight against a raging Bombaata.
• Zula saves Jehnna's life by throwing her staff at the Grand Vizier who's about to sacrifice her, impaling him.
• Dagoth, the (semi) resurrected god of evil vs Conan: Conan wins. They needed an actor that was physically imposing enough to tower over Arnie, strong enough to move with giant layers of rubber costume on, AND still able to put up a convincingly choreographed fight? Who could do such a task? André the Freaking Giant. Who went totally uncredited for the role for years.

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