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The One (movie)

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  • Roedecker gets one by being the first person in the movie to hurt Yulaw by running him over with a car leading to his capture at the beginning of the film. After seeing Yulaw utterly destroy the SWAT team in the opening sequence, this one moment lets the audience know that Yulaw is still far from invincible.
  • Yulaw introducing himself to Gabe. Doubles as Nightmare Fuel
    Yulaw: The good news? You're not crazy. The bad news...
  • Yulaw taking on an entire element of one universe's SWAT equivalent by charging into the middle of them and beating them senseless in real-time while they end up moving in utter slow motion. Made doubly awesome by the apt background music of "Bodies" by Drowning Pool.
  • The final showdown between Gabe and Yulaw. Especially when they bust out two similar (as in internal or chi-based) but fundamentally different (one being aggressive, the other more about redirecting and striking at the right moment) martial arts: Xingyi for Yulaw, and Baguazhang for Gabe. And as the Awesome MusicPapa Roach's "Blood Brothers" plays in the background
    • Gabe doing a full backflip kicking the fire axe out of Yulaw's hands and catching it leading to a tense moment of whether or not he's going to use it on Yulaw.
  • Yulaw using two motorcycles as clubs as seen here.
  • The ending. Good lord, the ending. Widely regarded as one of most badass sendoffs to a villain in an action film. The narrative switches to Yulaw, who has been sent to the only place the MVA thinks can even hold him anymore at his level of power: The Hades Dimension, a The Alcatraz type Penal Colony comprising an entire universe. He's greeted by some toughs who try to intimidate the new arrival. But Yulaw, being Yulaw, does not give the slightest damn about this place's pecking order and boldly insults them all, which unsurprisingly starts a row. The scene climaxing in A Oner, where the camera slowly zooms out as Yulaw lays out quite possibly the mother of all smackdowns on a literal horde of prisoners ascending up the platform to get a piece of him, with an army's worth of them shown to be slowly gathering at the base and what's assumed to be Hades' Law Enforcement flying in overhead, the wall in the background only shown to be more and more colossal the more the camera zooms back, a pretty on the nose metaphor for the nigh-insurmountable challenge Yulaw is now confronted with. All while the chorus and breakdown of "Last Resort" by Papa Roach blasts in the background. Dramatic Thunder. Smash to Black. Roll credits.
    Prisoner 1: Fresh fish!
    Prisoner 2: Got a pretty mouth.
    Yulaw: I AM YULAW!! I am nobody's bitch! You. Are MINE. (Smirks) I don't need to know you. YOU only need to know ME. I WILL BE THE ONE!!

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