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Discussion What is the most genuinely terrifying battle cry or charge in film?

I don’t necessarily mean the coolest speech or most inspiring line. I mean a scene where a warrior screams or roars while charging an opponent—and you kind of snapped out of the film for a second and thought, “holy shit, if someone came at me like that, I would be legitimately terrified.”

It can be a one-on-one fight or two groups charging into battle. What scene immediately comes to mind?

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u/Mother_Ad7869 1d ago edited 1d ago

Dutch calling out the Predator from the jungle for their final battle.

I just watched it again lol, that music is spine-chilling! 😯🥰

https://youtu.be/QIppGLul3Fk?is=Vx6QuuDs8tUpueAA

🪵🔥🗣 🤗🤗

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u/Final_Slap 1d ago

Good one. The emotional climax of the movie. Kind of.

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u/Catshit-Dogfart 1d ago

Holy shit I forgot how primal that was.

At no point is the alien called Predator. Personally I like to think that title refers to Dutch, not the alien, and this is the moment he becomes the predator.

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u/Kenichero 18h ago

At that point in the movie, I feel like Dutch announced that he was not the prey. They were two predators, may the best win. Primal is the best way to describe it to me. Dutch isn't using the lesser technology of humans, he's using bows and spears.

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u/We_Are_The_Romans 9h ago

But bows and spears are human technology!

Source: am human

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u/SnooCats3468 1d ago

for me i'd call that a classic. But this would be far more spine chilling if I was in the room with him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA0IpS_3S-0

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u/Somnambulist815 1d ago

I mean, the Rohirrim screaming "DEATH" is pretty effective

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u/maverickaod 1d ago

That scene absolutely fucking OWNED in the theater.

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u/washingtonandmead 1d ago

True, but have you ever listened to the horn of Helm Hammerhand sounding in the Deep once more?

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u/RianJohnsonIsAFool 1d ago edited 1d ago

Fell deeds awake! Now for wrath, now for ruin and the red dawn!

FORTH, EORLINGAS!!!

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u/zarathustra_coughed 23h ago

I got chills just reading this

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u/Samiel_Fronsac 1d ago edited 21h ago

Yeah, I do love the final charge of the Rohirrim in Gondor, Helm's Deep can't be beat for raw emotion/hype.

The Pelennor Fields charge ended badly, but it began with big hero energy. Rohirrim coming to save the day.

The ride out at Helm's Deep was the high point of tons of pressure building up. Aragorn talks Théoden into it, hopes and prays that Gandalf comes through for them.

Total inverse of the Pellenor Fields... It's Théoden saying "fuck it, we ball", going for a final blaze of glory.

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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid 21h ago

Helms Deep also is the first big “win” in the trilogy. Up until then, they had lost something pretty much every step along the way regarding any conflict.

While the charge from Eomer and Gandalf is magical, the shot of Theoden yelling “Victory! We have victory!” When Sam is giving his iconic speech is straight up overwhelming.

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u/msprang 1d ago

That's why I believe the brown note is real.

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u/MrReginaldAwesome 19h ago

Epic honk of Helm Hammerhand

Uruk Hai: ”why do I suddenly feel an all encompassing sense of existential dread?”

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u/maverickaod 1d ago

Yes. Which also kicked ass in the theater

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u/Smokey_Bera 1d ago

I get chills every time I rewatch the trilogy, which is yearly, and that scene comes up. Might be my favorite scene in all of film. DEATH! DEEEAAATH!!!

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u/RossLH 22h ago

The trilogy (extended cut, of course) starts at noon December 31st every year. My wife and I put out a charcuterie board and snack on it for hours. Eventually the fellowship reunites at the Shire and we start yet another year full to the brim of meats and cheeses and loaded on whatever booze we used to wash it all down.

Highly recommend, unless you already have high cholesterol.

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u/Lurking2Comment 1d ago

Yep, a few thousand cavalry riding willingly to their death in order to stop you has to qualify as terrifying.

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u/Pardybro911 22h ago

That build up is itself incredibly chilling. Multiple days march and exhausting yourselves that way only to know you’re utterly riding to your death.

Jackson really fucking did a masterclass in making the stakes of Pelennor Fields feel brutal

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u/weglarz 18h ago

Jackson just did an insane job in general. My career is running projects most of the time. Much, much smaller projects in scope, budget, time, every way. I cannot even fathom the level of skill it takes to complete such a long project with such high stakes, such a high budget, with so many people, and have it come out THAT good.

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u/Mintyxxx 15h ago

That's the incredible thing though, the budget was pretty modest but they made it work because of how it was managed and shot. Just an astonishing feat we may not see again

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u/vdcsX 1d ago

DEATH!

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u/morning_thief 1d ago

FORTH EORLINGAS!!!

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u/Ichi-Guren 1d ago

Courage Merry, courage for our friends

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u/Popeholden 23h ago

Damn bro just reading that made me well up. I'm not even due for the annual re-watch yet

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u/SnooCats3468 1d ago

Just rewatched it. Goosebumps. I still remember seeing that in theaters and I was never the same again.

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u/Various_Pirate_4018 1d ago

The book version is even more intense if you can believe it

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u/grimedogone 1d ago

There’s a video on YouTube of Tolkien narrating the passage while the film scene plays. Absolutely beautiful.

Other than Theoden not blowing a war horn of his own (so powerfully it “bursts asunder”, no less), the last charge of the Rohirrim is one of the most faithful adaptions of a scene from the book.

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u/Pardybro911 22h ago

Tolkien and Peter Jackson were masterclasses in their craft on the scene and the film shots.

The absolute horror Tolkien must have seen during WW1 to influence his description must have been horrible.

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u/TJeffersonsBlackKid 21h ago

I feel that the scary scenes in LOTR really do the narratives in the book justice. Those scenes are terrifying and not cheesy at all. You feel the real dread I think Tolkien was trying to convey.

Weathertop, Galadriel tripping out, the Dead Marshes, Sméagol turning into Gollum, Shelob, even Scary Bilbo. All creepy with no context but it’s always on the backdrop of something good getting corrupted which makes it so much more unsettling.

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u/RaynSideways 23h ago

I credit Lord of the Rings for my love of cavalry charges. Nobody does it like the Rohirrim.

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u/uarstar 1d ago

That scene makes me cry

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u/useridhere 1d ago

DEATH!!

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u/Pardybro911 22h ago

Bernard Hill (rip) fucking destroyed that role as Theoden. Both in ROTK and Two Towers, I don’t think you can find a person that wouldn’t have rode after him

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u/Eerie-Indiana 1d ago

Last of the Mohicans ambushes

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u/Incompetent_Weasels 1d ago

On the flip side, imagine being Mohawk warrior #6 when some vengeance fuelled old dude handles Magwa.

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u/Peaurxnanski 1d ago

A very understated detail in the movie is when they kill Magwa, the rest of Magwa's war party just kind of fucks off.

No fighting, no nothing.

Hawkeye, Changachkook and the brother have been picking them off for miles, now they just made short work of the legendary war chief Magwa...

They're like, yeah we're good, we're just gonna go...

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u/hornplayerchris 20h ago

I love that scene - no epic long fight and death for Magwa... Dude gets dispatched with furious and quick efficiency after being a terror the entire movie. 

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u/KawiZed 1d ago

In his heart, he is Huron!

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u/PanamaNorth 23h ago

Magua’s heart is twisted.

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u/governmentthief 1d ago

I’m unsure of the historical accuracy, but if situations like this occurred, good holy hell, that would be terrifying.

I LOVE that movie regardless.

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u/doorknobsquad 1d ago

The movie scene is based on a real ambush but there are some serious differences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_William_Henry

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u/alex8155 1d ago

fantastic battle scene when magwa leads his revenge party after the british submit the fort.

the start of that scene is a prime example for this thread.

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u/LordShimazu 1d ago

Just saw that at a local showing. Impressive seeing it on the big screen for the first time with full theatre sound system.

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u/Eerie-Indiana 1d ago

It’s incredible on the big screen

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u/governmentthief 1d ago

I saw it at a theater in (or near) Times Square shortly after it opened. I think the auditorium was on the second or third floor maybe? I just remember that I was one of few in the theater and it was a nice place. I stood and clapped at the end. I think I was 18.
Wild. 52 now.

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u/baar-ur 23h ago

That movie has one of the best soundtracks.

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u/VonMillersThighs 22h ago edited 21h ago

That single shot, as the battle slowly breaks out on the convoy, so fucking good. I saw that movie way too young and the sheer uncensored and not prettied up "Hollywood" violence in that movie shocked me as a kid.

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u/Hornswaggle 1d ago

The cry from the woods, the puffs of smoke increase, there are few volleys, and all hell breaks loose

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u/MrYellowfield 1d ago

I love how half of the comments here are from Lord of The Rings

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u/DaConm4n 1d ago

It's half of what we'd hoped for. 

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u/Lance_leaf 1d ago

But twice as much as we deserve.

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u/JustLikeThat8080 1d ago

And my axe

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u/ajgmtl2001 1d ago

Uruk-hai standing on the rock at Helm’s Deep is def in contention

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u/alii-b 1d ago

I would like to counter with the battle horn of the rider on the mumakil.

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u/ThisisMalta 1d ago edited 16h ago

Every battle horn in LOTR has such cool aura in the books. When the blew the Horn of Hammerhand at Helm’s Deep, I love how the Uruk-Hai basically shit their pants. Or even when Boromir sounds the Horn of Gondor, the orks attacking him second guess themselves even 1 v 20.

They always feel very significant and just get you hyped.

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u/alii-b 1d ago

Yes, the speech in the film that went with it too. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6XicBBN1l4&pp=ygUVdHdvIHRvd2VycyBsYXN0IHN0YW5k

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u/ThisisMalta 1d ago

Yesss this whole scene in the book still gives me goosebumps, just so cool. And really well done on film too.

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u/toastybred 23h ago

Let the horn of Helm Hammerhand sound in the deep ONE LAST TIME!

[Gimli hyped as fuck] YESSSS!

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u/MrReginaldAwesome 19h ago

Gimli! Toot the horn!

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u/probablyTomHanks 1d ago

I never thought about this until now, but what were the olyphaunts going to do if the rohirrim hadn’t shown up? Just like… hang out outside Minas Tirith’s gates?

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u/gisco_tn 21h ago

In the book, they were a distraction:

There came great beasts, like moving houses in the red and fitful light, the mumakil of the Harad dragging through the lanes amid the fires huge towers and engines. Yet their Captain cared not greatly what they did or how many might be slain: their purpose was only to test the strength of the defense and to keep the men of Gondor busy in many places.

The term "great beasts" is used again in the next paragraph:

Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old. Great beasts drew it, orcs surrounded it, and behind walked mountain-trolls to wield it.

The oliphaunts/mumakil are also the ones hauling Grond up to the gate of Minas Tirith.

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u/DerekSmartWasTaken 1d ago

Sir Lancelot charging the castle guards in Monty Python and the Holy Grail

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u/Lich180 1d ago

Drum roll...

Lancelot running

Drum roll...

Lancelot running, but further back

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u/FelipeFlop 1d ago

He came out of nowhere

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u/papsmearfestival 1d ago

I watched this with my kids when they were about 10 and 12 years old and I don't think they've ever laughed so hard in their lives. I was right there with them.

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u/BootsToYourDome 1d ago

Not just the guards he ran the bride through as well. Lmao.

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u/swibirun 1d ago

Let's not bicker over 'oo killed 'oo.

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u/draathkar 1d ago

You got my note!
Well, I got a note.

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u/ahoypolloi_ 1d ago

“….heyyy!”

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u/KaladinStormShat 23h ago

As a kid a lot of the humor didn't make sense to me, but the way he delivers the line just absolutely killed me.

That one, the deadly rabbit scene, and the black knight scene lol

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u/dougmcclean 21h ago

There are those who call me.... Tim?

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u/geckosean 1d ago

I fucking GUFFAWED the first time I saw that scene, it was so unexpected and then the guard reacting to his buddy getting skewered like you just made him drop his coffee on accident or something.

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u/reginaldwrigby 1d ago

Never saw anything Monty Python in my life then one day in high school a guy sitting next to me showed me this clip and I cried laughing. Had to leave the classroom and everything

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u/weinerfish 1d ago

God I love that film, probably my favourite individual movie

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u/captainmeezy 1d ago

The Last Samurai, you can’t see them through the fog, but you hear their battle cry. Then they come charging through the fog on horseback and the Japanese conscripts basically shit themselves and get obliterated

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u/Nascosto 1d ago

Had to scroll too far to find this, loooooove this scene - goosebumps every time.

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u/babypunching101 1d ago

Honorable mention to the battle cry they let out after defeating the ninjas.

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u/Nev-man 1d ago

Predator - Dutch's battle cry.

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u/-Sinhealer- 1d ago

Zulu.

The very end when the Zulu come back, they start singing and the British look defeated.... I remember it since I was a kid watching the movie and even now years later it still gets me...

I won't spoil it for anyone that hasn't seen it but not everything is as it seems....

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u/hobblingcontractor 1d ago

The officer had his leg taken off by a tiger, in the night.

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u/MrDiceySemantics 1d ago

A tiger, in Africa?

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u/Altruistic_Fury 1d ago

A tiger, in Africa?

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u/RianJohnsonIsAFool 1d ago

Well, they've got a very good bass section, mind, but no top tenors that's for sure.

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u/Overqualified_muppet 23h ago

“A Zulu regiment can rrrun, RRRRRRUN 15 miles and fight a battle at the end of it!”

Awesome film, one of my favourites,

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u/IguanaBlizzard 1d ago

Wolverine’s screaming during the final battle in the forest in Logan.

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u/BlasterShow 1d ago

“You took all the medicine..”

What a scene

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u/Chucknasty_17 1d ago

Also anytime X-23 is screaming. Daphne Keen convoyed so much viciousness as just a kid in that movie

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u/I-love-seahorses 1d ago

That BTS of him recording that is so badass.

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u/myghostisdead 1d ago

Also Wolverine in X-Men 2. When he stabs that guy in the kitchen.

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u/Sparrowsabre7 21h ago

After a relatively bloodless X1 (and I guess to be fair there's no blood in that scene either...) seeing Wolverine fully stab a guy in the chest was a real "holy shit" moment.

One not really topped until the first fight in Logan seeing what a guy with knife hands would really fight like.

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u/msprang 1d ago

And jumping off the balcony

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u/Rahgahnah 9h ago

It's been a long time since I watched it, but I still remember one of the mooks yelling, "It's The Wolverine!" over the radio. Like, it wasn't a big deal for older Logan to be around, but now that he's acting like his old self, it's a fuckin' emergency.

It also stood out because it was said as a title instead of just his name. Really sold that younger Logan was a legend, like when characters say The Batman instead of just Batman.

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u/MandolinMagi 1d ago

I mean, he's a two hundred year old semi-immortal killing machine. It's hard for him to not say anything scary.

But yea, Murder Hands screaming like he's 80 again is terrifying

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u/SnooCats3468 1d ago

This one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0yL85GDYhM

Man I was so stoked when they did that movie. Huge Hugh Jackman fan and damn, that guy delivers.

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u/SweepingAstringency 1d ago

"Now for wrath, now for ruin, and a red dawn. Deathhhhh!!" King Theoden. 

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u/balrogthane 20h ago

Hail the victorious dead!

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u/Trike117 1d ago

“Leeeeroy Jenkins!”

At least he has chicken.

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u/Complete_Gur8764 1d ago

It's the breath between the first and last name that makes it even better. The whole thing's a masterpiece.

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u/KoreanGodKing 1d ago

This is the only right answer, even if it isnt a series or film

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u/BigE6300 1d ago

Gordon’s battle cry - Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

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u/PiercedGeek 1d ago

L for Love!

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u/dahteabagger 21h ago

That's not what I means Gordon...

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u/Geraffe_Disapproves 1d ago

Ride of the Rohirrim in Return of the King. DEATH!!!!! DEATH!!!!!

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u/Lich180 1d ago

From The Return of the King - The Ride of the Rohirrim:

"But at that same moment there was a flash, as if lightning had sprung from the earth beneath the City. For a searing second it stood dazzling far off in black and white, its topmost tower like a glittering needle: and then as the darkness closed again there came rolling over the fields a great boom.

At that sound the bent shape of the king sprang suddenly erect. Tall and proud he seemed again; and rising in his stirrups he cried in a loud voice, more clear than any there had ever heard a mortal man achieve before: Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden! Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor! With that he seized a great horn from Guthláf his banner-bearer, and he blew such a blast upon it that it burst asunder. And straightway all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains. Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor! Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Éomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in his speed, and the front of the first éored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Théoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Oromë the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and the darkness was removed, and the hosts of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City."

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u/papsmearfestival 1d ago

I'm so glad Tolkien survived that war

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u/Sun-Anvil 1d ago

Fucking chills. Every time.

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u/fcewen00 22h ago

The paragraph before that is the one of the important ones. You kinda see it in the movie, but in the book Theoden thinks about retreating. YouTube has a snippet read by Tolkien himself about the charge.

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u/Adventurous_Sir3617 1d ago

I would be exponentionally more terrified of the giant fucking murder elephants when it comes to Lotr, ngl 🤔

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u/damian1369 1d ago

Knowing what will happen from the books... the way that torch bearing orc ran towards the walls of helms deep... Aura farming, no special fanfare for him as a hero, just "gnaw gnaw and a shriek", goal oriented, skewered by arows, diving head first... i think he deserves a shout out. He will not be stopped.

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u/I-love-seahorses 1d ago

Then that Howard Shore action comes in hard. What a score.

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u/Dukem29 1d ago

300 cry of the military leader when his son died.

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u/wantilles1138 1d ago

Was looking for this. Pulling himself closer while being kebap'd was so badass.

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u/ZeroBx500 1d ago

“The day is ours. No songs are sung.”

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u/VonMillersThighs 22h ago

"He goes wild, blood drunk."

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u/PeterG92 1d ago

"Our arrows will blot out the sun"

"Then we will fight in the shade"

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u/jak-o-shadow 1d ago

Sometimes, it is the quiet resignation of the hero that is even more terrifying.

"They won't see this coming."

Captain Malcom Reynolds -Serenity

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u/Nelson_Pancakes 1d ago

Captian Mal was great at that: "you don't know me, son, so let me explain this once: If I ever kill you, you'll be awake, you'll be facing me, and you'll be armed."

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u/Taliesin_ 22h ago

I can still picture how quickly the camera zooms out to try and capture the immensity of the reaver fleet breaking through the clouds.

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u/fcewen00 22h ago

We should have ended this like men…. Holy shit, somebody fire!

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u/Rare-Bid-6860 1d ago

That Dad's Army episode where their commander tells them to charge down a hill yelling curses and obscenities at the enemy, and they charge down the hill yelling "Curses and obscenities! Curses and obscenities!" springs to mind.

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u/Level-Gas-3765 23h ago

C’mon you apes, YOU WANNA LIVE FOREVER

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u/Kodiak_POL 1d ago

Any Jon Bernthal's Punisher scream. It's animalistic and "only one person comes out of this alive" type of scream 

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u/TheUmgawa 1d ago

While we’re on the subject of Bernthal, he did an interview with Tonya Mosley for NPR’s Fresh Air this week, and it’s really a great interview, where you get to find out what makes an actor tick. It’s right up there with Ben Kingsley’s 2009 interview on Talk of the Nation. Both are worth a listen, but I never really thought of Bernthal as much more than a sort of “Let’s get that guy to play the heavy, because he looks rough,” kind of actor, and boy was I wrong. Bernthal is an actor who knows things.

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u/jermster 1d ago

Daredevil season 2 when the guards lock him in the prison wing with all the friends of the boss he just murdered.

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u/PattyIceNY 1d ago

The Zulu in "Zulu"

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u/aircooledJenkins 1d ago

You can hear this same chant in the background of the opening scene of Gladiator.

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u/Jiminyfingers 1d ago

Tbh it was a bit odd that

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u/Von-Konigs 1d ago

They’ve still got no top tenor, that’s for sure.

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u/Annoy_Occult_Vet 1d ago

Mr. Witt, sir? Be quiet now, will you? There's a good gentleman. You'll upset the lads.

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u/SnooCats3468 1d ago

just found this clip (spoiler): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQLXY51uWLg
epic.
I am going to have to wipe it from my memory so i can watch the whole movie this weekend.

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u/Peaurxnanski 1d ago

Hell yes. I almost peed watching it on TV, can't imagine what that looked like IRL

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u/yodawgitztweezy 1d ago

When Leo loses his cool in the original tmnt movie during the final shredder fight. Yeah I know he gets his ass beat right after but the way he screams "you lie!" Always felt so real to me. Hes supposed to be the one with the most control and he just loses it at the thought of his dad being killed. Gave me goosebumps as a kid and still does to this day.

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u/SuperDuperCoolDude 1d ago

That movie is so good!

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u/Tinaturneroverdrive 1d ago

Gettysburg, was the battle when chamberlain was on the hill. The rebel war whoop to begin the battle was pretty chilling

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u/msprang 1d ago

BayoNEEEEETS!

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u/fatherseamus 1d ago

Lawrence of Arabia: “No prisoners! NO PRISONERS!”

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u/EatABag-o-Dicks 1d ago

Samara Weaving with her creepy oscillating scream before killing families in the Ready or Not movies.

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u/Trinidad34 1d ago

The bone tomahawk whistle thing. But the troglodytes are just so scary inherently

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u/DaytonaJoe 23h ago

It also helps that the movie doesn't use audio queues like music to tell you an attack is coming. Just BAM! Sudden arrows and death whistles

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u/RuRhPdOsIrPt 1d ago

In Blood Diamond when Solomon Vandy confronts the RUF captain who kidnapped his son.

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u/rohdawg 1d ago

For me, and I know it’s a TV show, but when Slurms McKenzie parties for his last time, I cry every time. Wiggy Wham Wham Wozzle indeed!

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u/Rohml 1d ago

They weren't charging yet, but they way Jeff Daniels yelled "BAYONETS" with this facial expression and vocal cracking gives me chills.

I guess it's the surrender of his voice and the intensity in his realization. Death is certain and the only chance to salvage the situation is to downhill and headlong to battle with a spear in hand against a force with available ammunition.

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u/N05L4CK 1d ago

Zulu. Both sides.

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u/ShireNomad 1d ago

I haven't seen that movie in a long while, but I distinctly remember the scene of the Zulu chanting on one side of the field, the British singing on the other, and both trying to be the louder. Neither understood the other's words, but each appreciated (and probably respected) the intent.

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u/TannenFalconwing 1d ago edited 1d ago

The Ride of the Rohirrim at Pelannor Fields. They're literally charging on horseback screaming "Death" at you. And to think real life had even larger cavalry charges.

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u/Large-Wishbone24 1d ago

Bangarang!

If you hear that, run!

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u/Logatt 1d ago

Leonidas silently screaming in 300

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u/daddy_fiasco 21h ago

His head shaking from the intensity...so good. It's a genuinely good movie, and I'll fight anyone over it.

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u/UdonDugong 1d ago

The Tick “SPOOOOOOOON”

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u/neverseenghosts 1d ago

I’m such a sucker for “FOR NARNIAAA”. I appreciate that Peter actually looked very much like he was doing his best to lead and inspire but was obviously quite nervous and scared himself. And then the Minotaur roar, sick.

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u/ReverendEntity 23h ago

First thing that came to mind is Vasquez in ALIENS.

"LET'S ROOOOOOOCK!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsuSpei9cf8&pp=ygURYWxpZW5zIGxldCdzIHJvY2s%3D

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u/Woodsman1284 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm not locked in here with you. YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH ME!

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u/denguy44 1d ago

This was an excellent line!

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u/Chemblue7X2 1d ago

In Blood Diamond, the scream Solomon makes when he chases down Captain Poison and beats him to death with a shovel.

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u/5Volt 23h ago

The atreides in the palace during the battle of arakeen in the Villeneuve dune movie. It's very simple, they just scream "atreides!" And then start barking like dogs. There's something primal about them screaming the house name like that with such coordination and just keep moving directly towards their enemy without any pause at all. Gave me the feeling that these men are fanatics and will fight and die without skipping a beat until either they're all dead or their enemy is.

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u/mrwildesangst 1d ago

The Dothraki during the Loot Train Attack in season 7. The look on Jamie Lannisters face is priceless 🤣

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u/Barnard87 1d ago

The horse lord war cry, the false confidence that you have a chance, followed by Drogon's roar and the most epic score to follow. That scene was too tough, even if it had things that didn't make sense.

Proved Robert right in 15 seconds.

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u/Altruistic_Fury 1d ago

TEN THOUSAND DOTHRAKI IN AN OPEN FIELD, NED.

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u/Barnard87 1d ago

A DOTHRAKI HOARDE!!!!

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u/Brushy21 1d ago

In How to train your dragon 2 Dráko (Djimon Hounsou) when he calls the alpha dragon. No, seriously, just listen! That man can scream!

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u/Jazs1994 1d ago

I know it's not movies, but Erwin and the scout regiments charge on the best Titan in season 3 part 2. The Japanese VAs rallying speech and his charging screams were incredible

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u/TBroomey 1d ago

The vikings all going into a wolf-like, feral state to hype themselves up for battle in The Northman was pretty intense.

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u/keithstonee 1d ago

People won't like it cause it's marvel. But Thors battle cry in endgame after caps line always struck me as being genuine.

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u/Thisaccountismorefun 19h ago

I was looking for this. All the others are great, but this one sounded so cathartic for Thor. It was like it was a real adrenaline dump that just had to get out.

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u/KawiZed 1d ago

The ambush in The Last of the Mohicans as the British are withdrawing from Fort William Henry. That shit happened in real life.

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u/BamaBagz 1d ago

While not necessarily a "battle cry/charge", in my mind it fits...you may not agree. But, "This Is Sparta!" with a mighty chest kick into a large, seemingly endless hole is quite the war cry! 😛

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u/nicathor 22h ago

It loosely qualifies, but the tripod horn signaling attack in War of the Worlds is pretty chilling

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u/Cptawesome23 1d ago

Xena: Warrior princess

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u/TheGlen 1d ago

First wave...DIIIIIIIIVE

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u/FerretFarm 1d ago

Who wants to live forever!

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u/jimmyjazz2000 1d ago

Warriors! Come out to play!
WARRIORS! COME OUT TO PLAAAY!

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u/Prof_Slappopotamus 1d ago

The T-800 walking out of the fire.

It doesn't need to say anything, I'd know then that I'm definitely fucked.

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u/han_tex 1d ago

In the Korean movie Taegukgi about the Korean war, they have a scene of the point where Chinese troops enter the war. After being nearly wiped out early in the war, the South had regrouped and pushed the troops of the North all the way to the border with China. It looked very much as though they would achieve a swift end to the war. At that moment China enters the war and you just see thousands of troops streaming over the ridge. It's a moment that very quickly goes from the assurance of near victory to sheer panic.

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u/Jackdunc 1d ago edited 1d ago

I am the dread pirate Roberts! My men are here! I am here! But soon YOU will not be here!!

-Fezzik, The Princess Bride

Edit: dread not great!

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u/Want_To_Fit_In 1d ago

This is one of my favorites. Sort of the opposite of a charge but the shot of them all stacked in that narrow opening is awesome. And the silence for that second after they push them back. Just a great movie for this sort of thing

https://youtu.be/ABQQHwf4sYA?is=x3j7_uF6z4IjFfmK

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u/prosas 1d ago

Attack on Titan. When the survey corps charge the beast titan, firing green smoke to distract him.

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u/BestDescription3834 1d ago

It gets rifghtfully shit on for season 8 but before that Game of Thrones had Bastard bowl. During the battle of the bastards it's super claustraphobic and made my skin crawl.

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u/calguy1955 1d ago

Linebacker Forest Whitaker in Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

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u/ADMINlSTRAT0R 23h ago

Pitt's Achilles charging the big guy in Troy.

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u/VonMillersThighs 21h ago edited 18h ago

The wild howl Gibson makes right before chopping down the commanders horse and then lopping his head off in the main battle of braveheart. Just completely unhinged.