On Her Majesty's Secret Service/Awesome

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  • The nerve-shredding safecracking sequence. It's Badass to begin with, but gets elevated to awesome status when Bond not only swipes the documents he was looking for, but also steals the poor guy's stash of Playboys. John Barry's motif for the heist sets the mood.
  • Bond finding himself in an allergy clinic/ski resort filled with beautiful women and seducing every last one of them.
  • Bond's big fight with Blofeld atop a speeding bobsled was pretty damn awesome. Lazenby doesn't get as much love as he should.
  • And picking just one moment for Fallen Princess Tracy? Cannot be done.
    • Tracy's fight with The Dragon, ending with her chucking him down the stairs and impaling him on a wall decoration.
    • Tracy's true moment of awesome is during the car chase scene. For the entire sequence, racing along icy mountain roads with a car load of mooks shooting at her, then ending up in a race/demolition derby with cars flying all over the place... and people still shooting at her, she's got an expression on her face that she's having the time of her life.
      • The best bit of that car chase is when one car makes a 180 degree flip... and the driver makes a slightly annoyed expression at Bond and Tracy.
    • "Thy dawn, O Master of the World, thy dawn..." Nope. Tracy quoting James Ellroy Flecker to distract Blofeld's attention from Draco's fast-approaching helicopters is her TRUE Moment Of Awesome. She judges his egotism perfectly (he even joins in!), outsmarting him with nothing more than poetry. THAT's cool.
      • And Tracy lures Blofeld to the top floor of Piz Gloria - the one with all the plate glass windows - to maximize the chance that he will be killed in the initial onslaught...placing herself in increased danger as well...
  • Back to Bond, when he fights Draco's henchman in the hotel.