- The entire Club Hell sequence, from start to finish, qualifies as one.
- Specifically, when the Merovingian tries to send our heroes on what can only be described as a fetch quest, Trinity is absolutely done with his shit. She immediately rearms herself and the others and promises that Merv can either give them Neo or all of them will die right there and then.
- After having a vision, Neo requests a ship to go to the Machine City. Roland goes on a rant about how it's suicidal, that Neo has lost his mind, that no ship has neared it in a century and that Neo will not waste ships if he wants to get himself killed. This culminates in the below exchange where Niobe verbally owns Roland:Neo: You have to believe me. I have to go.
Roland: Bullshit! I am the captain of this ship. I say where it has to go! And this ship will go to hell long before I let you take it anywhere.
Niobe: He can take mine.
Roland: You can't do that.
Niobe: Don't even think about telling me what I can or cannot do with my ship after that little speech.- Roland is left speechless after Niobe says this.
- Neo vs. Bane!Smith: in contrast to the stylized fighting in the virtual world it's a knockdown-dragout slugfest which mostly consists of the two punching the stuffing out of each other and taking turns ramming each other into pieces of machinery. And it's just as awesome.
- Niobe can freaking drive. Her ship, the Logos, is a Fragile Speedster. The Nebuchadnezzar is the Jack of All Stats. The Mjölnir is a Mighty Glacier. When she gets behind the last one's controls, she turns it into a Lightning Bruiser.Roland: Holy Christ, I didn't know this ship could do that.
- Then we have the soldiers of Zion—in Mini Mechas, no less—fighting thousands of Sentinels to protect Zion and everyone inside.
- The Sentinels forming into a massive tentacle to smash Zion's fortifications.
- Mifune facing the massive Sentinel tentacle and not only standing his ground but defiantly screaming at them while Shooting the Swarm, even while they tear at his flesh, mortally wounding him.
- Hours after the initial breach, and with thousands of Sentinels still swarming the docks, thirteen APUs were still fighting.
- Speaking of Mifune, his Rousing Speech before the Sentinels break through to Zion sure as hell counts:"All right, this is it! Now you all know me, so I'm gonna say this as simply as I can: If it's our time to die, it's our time. All I ask is, if we have to give these bastards our lives...we give 'em hell before we do!"
- The Mjölnir smashing through the hangar bay doors, then continuing to bulldoze its way through the hangar before blowing the EMP and stopping all the Sentinels. Sure, more show up later on, but that single ship managed to buy Zion some badly needed time, and in awesome fashion to boot.
- When Trinity and Neo fly above the clouds, Trinity becomes the first human in centuries to see the sun.
- Neo's confrontation with what is basically the collective consciousness of the Machines belongs here. Despite being blinded, powerless, and completely alone, Neo never raises his voice above a calm whisper in the face of the open hostility displayed by the Machines. Considering the first film's black-and-white view of the Machines-vs-humans conflict, it must have come as a surprise to the Machines when Neo expressed his only desire: not an end to the Matrix, or victory for the humans, but peace between both sides.
- When the machines break into the temple area and the sentinel army suddenly stops outside the temple and Morpheous puts down his Lightning rifle and approaches. Condsidering that that Machines and The Resistance haven't been able to be in close proximity to each other without ripping each other to shreds for the past 600 years.
- Then there is the exchange between Neo and Agent Smith at the end of their final battle:Smith: Why, Mr. Anderson? Why, why, why—why do you do it? Why? Why get up, why keep fighting? Do you believe you're fighting for something? For more than your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom or truth, perhaps peace? Could it be for love?! Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception! Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose! And all of them as artificial as the Matrix itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as love! You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson! You must know it by now! You can't win! It's pointless to keep fighting! Why, Mr. Anderson?! Why?! WHY DO YOU PERSIST?!
Neo: ...because I choose to.- Another subtle one at the end of the battle: Smith says that his vision of defeating Neo has come true, and he utters a line from earlier in the movie: "Everything that has a beginning has an end, Neo." When Neo stands up, Smith becomes increasingly unnerved. But when Neo turns around, Smith shouts, "GET AWAY FROM ME!" in a truly terrified tone. For three films, Smith has been nothing but a Smug Snake with occasional flashes of anger. This moment marks the first time he has ever shown fear.
- Also during that fight, for the first time, Neo makes Smith bleed despite his opponent being at the height of his power.
