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Two men enter, one man leaves!
  • The duel between Max and Blaster in The Thunderdome itself. It's one of the best mano-a-mano fights in film history.
  • After Blaster is killed, it seems like Auntie's forces will also kill Max. Pig Killer quickly starts a "two men enter, one man leaves!" chant to save his life.
  • Max's "audition" for Auntie.
    Auntie Entity: Congratulations. You're the first to survive the audition.
  • The ending:
    Max: What are you doing? Kick 'er in the guts.
    Jedediah: Not gonna make it. There's not enough runway.
    Max: We haven't got any choice.
    Jedediah: Between them and us, there's not enough runway. (smiles, indicating with his fingers)
  • Savannah Nix stands up to the man she very literally thinks of as a Messianic Archetype — and convinces a sizable number of others to follow her. Misguided as she was, it was still an awesome moment.
    • Then Savannah becomes a Messianic Archetype all her own. One must wonder why it was her job to "do the tell" in the first place.
  • Pretty much every time Dr. Dealgood opens his mouth. Despite being a minor character, little more than Auntie Entity's mouthpiece, he not only has the most famous line in the entire series, but arguably one of the most famous examples of Memetic Mutation in movie history.

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