Favorite single scene in a movie

This is more a favorite because it gets quoted by my family at every opportunity

 

The entirety of Monty Python and the Holy Grail could go here (except the last scene), but I'm partial to this one:

 

Hans Gruber. Best villain ever.

 

Second choice:

 

This scene is the very essence of the 1980s.

 

Right down to the table full of cocaine.

 

The portals scene in Avengers: Endgame.

The train station scene in Tombstone ("Hell's comin' with me!"); in fact, tacking on the following montage where Wyatt and the Gang extract their pounds of flesh from the Cowboys makes it even better.

The campfire scene in Blaz...
No, I think the Camptown Ladies scene in Blaz...
No, probably the outlaw registration scene in Blaz...
On second thought, the sheriff's arrival in Blaz..
Ah, hell, I can't pick just one scene in Blazing Saddles.

 

Seems corny now, but this is a pretty iconic scene.

 

The first round of the fight in Rocky.

Everyone is treating Rocky as a joke. Jergens tells him he’s sure he’ll put on a good show. Apollo is dancing around and hitting him at will. The broadcasters are talking about Apollo putting on a show for the fans. Then all of a sudden, Rocky ducks a punch, nails Apollo and down he goes. Jergens raises his eyebrows, Apollo looks like he doesn’t know what hit him, Rocky’s bar goes nuts with the bartender throwing down his towel and you just know, no matter what, Rocky just earned everyone’s respect.

 

Every time I see the portals/Avengers assemble scene when Endgame is on TNT, I have to stop and watch. And every time it makes me appreciate the Herculean feat they pulled off to get to that point with a decade of storytelling. If you could go back in time and just make that one scene an end credits stinger on the first Avengers movie, and say, "THIS! THIS is what we're building to seven years from now!" the entire geek world would have shit its pants.

And Tombstone ... so many damn great scenes in that movie.
"Go ahead. Skin it. Skin that smoke wagon and see what happens."
"You gonna do somethin'? Or just stand there and bleed?"

 

The Rocky training montage where he runs up the steps is bad-ass too.

 

I am the same way with the entire final battle in Endgame. Even though I can watch it any time I want on Disney+, I am still compelled to watch it any time I find it on television. Really, it is two scenes, the portals and Captain America wielding Mjolnir.