Awesome / The Last Starfighter

• Somewhat Fridge Awesome, but when Alex "busts the record," note that he has an important conversation with Otis about his future, then another with Maggie. Alex is barely paying attention to the game, not even looking at the screen roughly a quarter of the time. He's just so "in the zone" he's creaming a Nintendo Hard game on autopilot. Little wonder Centauri said he could be "the greatest Starfighter ever."
• The unveiling of Centauri's Star Car. As a car alone, it still looks like a plausible DeLorean from the near future, but then it shows off its real abilities...
• When Beta steals Jack Blake's truck and blows it up in order to prevent the Xandoxan from warning Xur about Alex.
  Beta: You owe me one Alex.
  • Also a bit of a tearjerker, because #1) He dies and #2) when Alex shows up again later, he only mentions Beta briefly as an afterthought due to not knowing of the duplicates Heroic Sacrifice.
• "Death Blossom", weapon of last resort.
• Watching the Ko-Dan warship crash into the green moon of Galan and explode, very awesome.
  Kodan Officer: We're locked into the moon's gravitational pull! What do we do?
  Commander Kril: We die.
• After Grig plots a course back to Earth to take Alex home, Alex stops him and tells him that there may be a Starfighter left after all.
  • The buildup. Alex and Grig are bonding, talking about their homes and families, and Alex mentions playing hide and seek in caves, which gives him the idea to hide in the asteroid, wait for the Ko-Dan fleet to pass, then ambush them. Grig calls it a commendable plan, "too bad there are no Starfighters left to carry it out," clearly leaving the implication open for Alex. A few moments of reflection, and Alex decides to embrace the call.
• There is also the GunStar's initial attack on the Command ship. With a quick pass, it destroys the ship's vital communications turret and disengages while launching a quad salvo of guided missiles that strike the ship with a perfectly tight box formation.
• Grig's Big Damn Heroes moment, restoring power to the Gun Star at the last second before the Command Ship can ram it, not to mention his Pre Ass Kicking One Liner and all that follows.
  Grig: The patterns on! We have them now! Fire!! FIRE!!!
• While hilarious, this line is also pretty badass:
  Alex: (on taking on the armada alone, without backup) It'll be a slaughter!
  Grig: That's the spirit!