She may be a chicken, but she's no chicken.
- Robin Hood and Little John's robbery of Prince John's coach at the start of the movie. While Robin keeps the prince distracted, Little John swipes the jewels off Prince John's rings, steals the carriage's solid gold hubcaps on a whim, and empties the chest full of gold in broad daylight without the guards holding it even noticing. Just to top it off, Robin manages to literally steal the robes off John's back!
- The Sheriff attempts to trip up Robin during the contest, so he shoots another arrow into the air to spin it around and get back on target. Physically impossible? Yes. Awesome? Yes! Better still, not only does the arrow hit the bullseye, but it also splits the other arrow occupying the same area in half, causing it to disintegrate, and the crowd goes nuts!
- The film is particularly spectacular in how it showcases just how skilled Robin is: all of his shots are made with the most slapdash, least balanced and aerodynamic arrows ever made (one is broken in half and strung clumsily together with a bit of twine). He wins the tournament handily with a handicap.
- Alan-A-Dale and Friar Tuck successfully foil Sir Hiss's attempt to spy on and find Robin Hood by using Alan's lute as an impromptu bow to shoot the sneaky bastard out of the sky.
- Prince John seeing through Robin Hood's disguise. Said disguise wasn't paper thin, either. Even the way he unmasks Robin is awesome. In the middle of knighting him, he shoves the sword into the tunic he was wearing, and rips it open, not at all making it look like an accident.Prince John: And now, I name you the winner. Or, more appropriately... (destroys Robin's disguise, revealing his true self) ... the loser!
- Then he just sits there smugly and calmly orders, "Seize him..." like finding the infamous bandit in his own kingdom is no big deal to him.
- The whole thing is a great Batman Gambit that PJ came up with on his own, and if not for Little John's intervention, Robin would have died then and there.
- Marian appealing to Prince John in an attempt to secure Robin's life. Sure, it fails, but she's still willing to get on her knees and admit to being in love with Prince John's most hated adversary, and her intervention buys Little John just enough time to sneak up behind Prince John and threaten him into releasing Robin.
- Robin, hogtied and collared, still doesn't hesitate to spit defiance in Prince John's face: "Traitor to the crown?! That crown belongs to King Richard! Long live King Richard!" The crowd chanting along with Robin adds to the awesomeness.
- Note furthermore, this is the first time that John looks shocked. For the first time, the world has gone wrong for Prince John. Is it any wonder that he shrieks for Robin's head? He's losing control and he knows it.
- Little John at the end of the tournament. It looks like Robin's going to be executed, everyone's bawling their eyes out, Marian's begging Prince John to release him because she loves him, and what does the normally jovial Little John do? He grabs the prince by the neck, points a knife at his back and makes the prince set Robin free. This is the one who didn't want to rob the stagecoach and didn't think the jailbreak would work, and he's the one willing to growl in Prince John's ear, "Okay, big shot, now tell 'em untie my buddy or I'll..." Just before he has to stop and let Prince John go, Little John was starting to force him to declare Robin the winner and get the kiss from Marian.
- The Sheriff is successful in disrupting the proceedings, but Little John gets him back in a big way: with a super uppercut that sends him flying. Then he comes around front as everything is going to shit and tosses the Sheriff's sword to Robin.
- Robin proposing to Marian while fighting off Prince John's goons one-handed.
- That entire fight scene really. It's also a Funny Moment.
- Marian nailing Trigger in the face with a blackberry pie for trying to shoot Robin from behind.
- During the battle at the Archery Tournament brawl, Prince John orders his rhino guards to seize Lady Kluck. What does Kluck do? ''Singlehandedly dispatch and evade all of the guards NFL Style, set to the USC "Fight On" and "On Wisconsin". It’s as awesome as it is hilarious.
- Lady Kluck herself tells Marian, "Run for it, lassie! This is no place for a lady!" right before stabbing a guard in the ass with the golden arrow and judo-flipping the Sheriff, knocking him out cold while saying, "Take that, you scoundrel!"
- Seize the fat one!
- Friar Tuck's Rage Breaking Point when the Sheriff takes the one farthing they have out of the church's offering box. He shrieks, "Get out of my church!" and proceeds to attack him with his staff. The Sheriff is armed with a sword, but Tuck still has him so overwhelmed and in shock that he's hardly able to fight back. The Friar has the upper hand throughout the fight until the Sheriff manages to slice Friar Tuck's staff in half and the vultures pull Friar Tuck's hood over his head, blinding him.
- In an understated moment of awesome, not only does Friar Tuck preserve the sanctity of the church by taking the fight outside, he pushes the Sheriff out the door with belly bumps rather than lay hands him.
- The jailbreak in the climax is a monster-sized awesome moment. After Robin Hood recovers from his Disney Death, he and Skippy give Prince John an insult as the castle burns.A pox upon the phony king of England! Oo-de-lally! Oo-de-lally!
- Despite the fact that he's been in shackles for some time and probably isn't in great condition, Friar Tuck immediately gets to work helping Little John free the rest of the prisoners.
- The Sheriff of Nottingham's insane attack on Robin at the end, burning down the entire castle just to get at him.
- Escaping the burning castle is quite a feat as well.
- An understated one, but the Sheriff coyly seeing through all the civilian's hiding places for their money in the early parts of the film. He's a buffoonish jerk, but he still has a sharp eye on the town.
- When he confronts Friar Tuck it looks like he's talked himself into a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from the livid priest (see above). But from the point we see Trigger hiding and waiting, it is revealed to be a gambit. The Sheriff suddenly recovers and slashes Tuck's club in half (earning his first proper Oh, Crap! reaction) and the two quickly overpower and sentence him for a hanging, the starting sign that the Sheriff is a Not-So-Harmless Villain and the film's stakes are becoming a lot bleaker.
- King Richard is awesome. His pun about having "an outlaw for an in-law" is even cited with approval in a biography of the historical Richard The Lion Heart by the world's leading historical expert on his reign, John Gillingham!
- In the scrapped original ending, Robin hides in a church, injured from his escape from the castle, and Marian throws herself between him and a deranged John, which is when King Richard storms in, saving his niece and her love from certain death, and making John cower, beg forgiveness and hand over the crown. Both show the depths of Marian's courage and Richard as a powerful warrior-king.
