Awesome / Scream 2

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• Maureen's death cry at the beginning.
• When Sidney is confronted by Mickey, he begins comparing himself to Billy, to which Sid replies "You're forgetting one thing about Billy Loomis — I fucking killed him!" She then hits him across the face with Derek's frat necklace.
• Randy Meeks gets a Dying Moment of Awesome by stalling the killer over the phone so Dewey and Gale can find him. It ends with him chewing out one of the first killers, Billy Loomis, as well as the killer, fully knowing it would kill him.
  • His "The Reason You Suck" Speech towards the killer and by extension, Billy and Stu also serves as a moment as well.
    Where's your innovation, huh?! Why copy two high school loser-ass dick heads? Stu was a pussy-ass wet rag! And Billy Loomis? Billy Loomis?! What the fuck?! Jesus! WHAT A RAT-LOOKING HOMO-REPRESSED MAMA'S BOY! WHY NOT SET YOUR GOALS HIGHER, HUH?! YOU WANT TO BE ONE OF THE BIG BOYS!? HUH?! MANSON, BUNDY, O.J., SON O- (attacked from behind by the killer and dragged into Gale's car)
• Cici doesn't put up the best fight of Ghostface's victims, but she doesn't go down easily either, throwing a potted plant at his head and shoving a bicycle lying in the hallway at him.
• Sidney shooting the (probably) already dead killer in the head with the deadpan remark "just in case".
• Ghostface gets one when he attacks Sidney and Hallie while they are under the protection of the local police detectives by quickly and brutally dispatching people trained to stop people like him.
  • One of the cops, Richards, gets some credit for remaining on the hood of the car for a while, and trying to get Ghostface to stop by pointing his gun at him.
• Ghostface again when he subverts Sidney's expectations and confronts her as soon as she goads him to quit hiding.
  Sidney: Why don't you show yourself, you fucking coward?
  Ghostface: My pleasure...
• Dewey's brutal "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Gale considering not only is she again trying to get more on Sidney's life instead of leaving her alone and her basic "demotion" of his character in her book. It actually shakes Gale, who's usually a Jerkass, into feeling bad.
• Joel, Gale's African-American cameraman, being shrewd enough to note, "Brothers don't last long in situations like this", leaving town... and surviving.
• It's easy to overlook, considering Gale's status in the first two movies as a Butt-Monkey, and especially on a first viewing where you don't know who the killer will be, but in this movie, Gale unknowingly goes toe to toe with the killer in arguments not once, but twice.
• Sidney's fight with Mrs. Loomis in the theater, where Sidney grabs the fire ax and uses her knowledge of the backstage works to her advantage - alternately hacking at the ropes to send the lighting rigs and other heavy objects down at Mrs. Loomis, and setting off the various effects (such as thunder, lightning, and fog) to disorient her and keep her from being able to fight back effectively against Sidney.

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