Awesome / Willow

• When Fin Raziel confronts Bavmorda. These two mother f'ing sorceresses have been at war for a very long time. Despite the audience only having limited insight into their rivalry, when they finally face off Jean Marsh and Patricia Hayes act it to the hilt. This time, only one of them walks away.
  Fin Raziel opens the doors to the ritual chamber, accompanied by an icy wind that blows out all the torches and candles in the room.
  Bavmorda: Raziel.
• Ethna the Midwife, who smuggled the newborn Elora Danan out of Nockmaar Castle and went on what must've been a months-long nonstop trek caring for a newborn child before the Death Dogs caught up to her. She managed to push Elora to safety, and if you pay attention, when the dogs jump her she's turned to face them and is holding a walking stick to fight in order to keep their attention off Elora. She's the unspoken heroine of the entire movie.
• After the boastful Madmartigan finally gets his hands on a sword.
  Willow: You are great!
  • The awesome gets deflated (but in a funny way) when Madmartigan tries to flourish his sword and slips, falling on his ass as a result.
• Raziel's Badass Boast at Willow's Despair Event Horizon. Even when that line is coming from the lips of a goat, it makes it no less badass.
  Willow: We've come all this way and now Elora Danan's gonna die!
  Raziel: No, we can still defeat Bavmorda.
  Willow: She's too powerful, Raziel.
  Raziel: Transform me, and I will destroy her!
• Bavmorda defeats Raziel and finally notices Willow. Alone, trapped in a room with the evil Sorceress triumphantly barking orders at him, he takes a look at Elora...
  Willow: No!
  Bavmorda: NO?!
  Willow: You stupid hag!
  • Followed up with Willow; a Hobbit in all but name, staring down the nastiest sorceress in the universe, and coming up with an Indy Ploy / Badass Boast right on the spot by telling the witch he'll send the princess somewhere where evil will never harm her. The sorceress laughs it off, but Willow whips his cape and - poof - no baby. Bavmorda descends into a full-out Villainous Breakdown, and the ritual backfires on her. Afterward, his allies are blinking in awe. How'd the Hobbit manage to pull that off? He shrugs and pulls out the princess from behind a table. He bluffed the most powerful evil in the world with a third-rate sleight-of-hand trick - one that he had tried (and failed) to do earlier in the movie. Oscar Diggs would be proud.
• When Madmartigan first fights Kael, he doesn't fare so well due to his unfamiliarity with Arik's weapon, which he was trying to use to avenge his friend's death. Then he gets his hand on his own sword and starts Dual Wielding his and Arik's weapon together. In a single, roaring charge he parries Kael's attack, smacks him across the face to shatter his skull mask, and drops him. Sure, Kael gets up again moments late, but that attack, especially with Val Kilmer's scream, just sells that moment as being badass personified.
• When Kael rides off with Elora, an injured Willow stumbles after him, weapon still in hand. Think about that for a moment. Willow is basically a hobbit pig farmer, who just went up against Kael, probably the toughest, most dangerous male character in the film. And not only did he survive, but to protect Elora, he's going back for more.
  • Just before Kael gets Elora, two Nockmar soldiers break through the door Willow was by. Willow proceeds to charge with a discarded sword, stabbing one and propelling him back into the other with the force of it, sending the second soldier tumbling down the spiral stairs, knocking him unconscious. It's a small moment, but shows exactly how far Willow is willing to go to protect Elora.
• It's a small moment, but Fin Raziel taking advantage of her goat form to throw a soldier from a bridge is pretty awesome.
• Arik and the remnants of his army coming to the rescue, destroying the force Kael brought with him, with only Kael escaping (along with Elora).
• The whole of Madmartigan's One-Man Army defence of the castle, switching betwen ambushes and stand-up fights as situation demands, followed by riding a catapult to out-scare a troll, and finishing by singlehandedly killing a freaking two-headed dragon, must be seen to be believed. It's awesome on so many levels:
  • As an action scene for those watching the movie;
  • In-Universe, it's awesome for the characters, and made Sorsha fall in love with Madmartigan;
  • In Real Life, it even made Joanne Whalley fall in love with Val Kilmer! (agreed, there was more to it than that, but you can just see the chemistry betwen them in the kiss scene that ends the fight).
• During the final battle between Fin Raziel and Bavmorda, the two get locked in a physical tug-of-war over Cherlindrea's wand, letting out sparks of magic that explode parts of the ritual room. Face-to-face and with neither of them giving any ground, Raziel (who has before snorted at the idea of brute force) decides to cut the bullshit and punches Bavmorda square in the face three times. When the fate of the world is at stake, she's certainly not afraid to fight dirty.
  • At the same time, with spells flying wild, one of them brings a legged cauldron to life as Willow attempts to get Elora. Willow, after avoiding it for a bit, uses an abandoned pitchfork to knock its legs out from under it and then slides it out the window.
• Arik and the brownies turning Bavmorda's own siege weapons on her troops.
• Even though Sorsha is clearly terrified of her mother, she tells Bavmorda that she won't let her kill Elora, even defeating both of her armed priests.
• Sorsha consistently proved herself an able soldier and leader. Tracking down and capturing Madmartigan, and then Willow. Escaping capture. Even when she was captured, it was because she lead from the front.
• When Willow, Elora and Madmartigan are captured by Sorsha's army, that just leaves the brownies. It could be difficult to track the army, and even if they could, it would take days, especially by foot. Do they turn tail and return to their village? That's what one believed the other wanted to do. But nope, they both actually want to track them. Crosses into funny as well, because they want to do it rather than go home because "this is more fun!"
  • And guess what? That very night, they reach them! The brownies may not be bright, but they're nothing if not efficient trackers!
• A small one, but Willow returns to the village and finally does the dove spell before the High Aldwin, showing himself as a true wizard. Crosses into Funny territory when it craps on the face of the bullying village prefect Burglekutt (who had long taunted Willow for his lack of magical ability.)
  • What's more, the camera immediately cuts to the High Aldwin doing a magical gesture with a knowing smirk, implying that he caused the bird to leave its droppings on Burglekutt's face.

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