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In any given zombie film, there will come a time when the survivors gear up and kick ass. Train to Busan is no exception.- Generally, any time the civilians take action to fight against the zombies to save others.
- Seok-woo, carrying Su-an when the zombies first begin attacking and running through train cars, has a person change right ahead of him. Rather than slowing down, he shoulder-checks the zombie and keeps going.
- Sang-hwa is full of these, being the Determinator Papa Wolf that he is. Absolutely nothing will stop him from getting to his pregnant wife and their unborn child. The first time he encounters a zombie, he knocks it down with his fists. Just when Su-an is about to be attacked from behind by a zombie, Sang-hwa elbow-strikes him.
- Sang-hwa is trying to catch up to the train, but Seok-woo is still too far away. He slows down to grab a baton and riot shield to knock off some zombies, and then he boards.
- The baseball team is composed of brave, young men who use their bats to attack zombies and buy more time for the other civilians, especially Young-guk. Too bad none of them make it to the end of the film.
- Sang-hwa, Seok-woo, and Young-guk are in train car nine (the page picture). Their loved ones are in car thirteen, and car fifteen is the safe one. What follows is a short montage of the three men wrapping their arms in tape and belts to hide their fleshy forearms, preparing to fight their way through.
- Seok-woo and Young-guk are armed with a baton and riot shield combo and baseball bat, respectively. Sang-hwa's weapon of choice? His bare fists. When a zombie makes the mistake of biting his tape-wrapped forearms, Sang-hwa simply uses the momentum to slam the idiot into the train ceiling.
- Not to discount the other two. Sang-hwa is a tank wall of meat, and the others are a scrawny fund manager and teenager. They still all make it to train car fifteen. This also marks Seok-woo's shift from a father who can barely show up to his daughter's recital on time into a full-on Papa Wolf.
- Even though Sang-hwa ends up getting bit, he still manages to buy the others a few more precious seconds with his Heroic Sacrifice, even as he himself is on the verge of turning into a zombie. Hell, he even picks one of them up and holds it horizontally as a barrier while his eyes turn white, howling in rage all the while!
- The team advance from car 9 to 13 is full of amazing action, but the way the move past car 14 deserves a special mention too: having learn that the infected attack on sight and passage through tunnels disorient them, they use this knowledge to try and sneak past them. Except there are too many of them, blocking the corridor, so what can they do? Pass above them, of course, using the space reserved for luggage. Oh, but a luggage blocks their way: even better, they throw it to make noise so that the infected will follow it and clear the corridor. This leads to all of them but Seok-woo and the homeless man managing to leave the car in the two minutes of dark they have (keep in mind that the team includes a pregnant woman, an elderly woman and a child), and even Seok-woo and the homeless man aren't discovered, but manage to hide enough, and if it wasn't for the soda can on the ground they would have been able to make a run for it without issues. And even with the noise allerting the infested, they still manage to make it and would have made it to safety, had Young-suk not rallied the passengers against them.
- Young-guk wedging his arm into the sliding door and holding it there to keep it open even as he screams in pain against the force of three people trying to break it.
- Seok-woo punching Young-suk's face. Just a quick moment of catharsis before everything goes to hell once more.
- Disgusted by the other passengers' cowardice, Jong-gil decides to open the unguarded door and allow hordes of zombies to flood in and kill the paranoid passengers.
- Seok-woo and Seong-kyeong, despite both carrying children, manage to catch up to the train car in time.
- Despite being pregnant for the duration of the movie, Seong-kyeong tries to help Seok-woo in his fight against Young-suk. While he still ends up dying, her intervention gives him enough time to say goodbye to his daughter.
- Seong-kyeong also deserves mention for being surprisingly quick on her feet; she consistently helps other people along throughout the movie, despite being well into a pregnancy herself.
- The train conductor deserves a mention for his sheer dedication to bring the others to safety. After finding the tracks blocked, he just ventures looking for another train, but not before telling the survivors where to go to find him, so that they will have a chance. And after finding one and getting it running, he leaves when he sees one of the survivors struggling against the infected, to help him get on the train. Too bad said survivor is Young-suk, and he doesn't repay the kindness leaving the conductor to die.
