Major Payne/Awesome

Payne may be a bit on the psychotic side, but he is also walking, talking awesome.

• Firstly, in the opening credits he storms an enemy compound singlehandedly, with no helmet, and gets everyone to surrender ASAP, in a Badass Establishing Character Moment.
• Then, there's Payne's devastating dressing-down of his cadets, which quickly evolves into one great big "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
• Tiger fears there's a boogeyman in his closet? No problem. Payne casually strolls up and fires five bullets into the closet door.

Tiger: MAJOR PAYNE JUST TERMINATED THE BAD MAN WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE!

• Then there's the biker hired by Alex to intimidate Payne, played by Bam Bam Bigelow who's nearly 400 pounds. Of course, the big guy gets his shit ruined in a manner of seconds and Payne throws in a Your Mom joke for good measure.
• And how does Payne get his revenge? By challenging the boys to retrieve a trophy from a rival school, and promptly contacting the school ahead of time to tip them off, leaving the boys to get some serious ass-kickings. While all that goes down, he tells Tiger a (slightly catastrophic) version of The Little Engine That Could, and then goes out dancing with Emily.
  • The Robot he busts out during this scene deserves its own entry.
• And one more for Payne: after all that conflict with the boys, he actually sticks up for Alex when Alex's drunk, emotionally abusive dad tries to cause trouble. For once, he does this without any violence or screaming whatsoever. By then, he and the boys have finally managed to achieve a level of respect for each other.