10 Greatest "I'm Dead And I Know It" Moments From Stargate

3. Apophis - Enemies

There's a reason that Peter Williams kept returning to Stargate SG-1 - the man knew how to give a good death scene. Overall, Apophis must have died forty or fifty times, and each one was as much fun as the last. For this list, however, it's the official death of the character that is being counted.

In the first episode of the fifth season, Enemies, both SG-1 and Apophis's mothership have been flung to a far-off galaxy by the Replicators. This, in many ways, would be the beginning of the gradual change from the Gou'uld serving as the main antagonists, to the Replicators. Try as he might, Anubis never quite had the same presence as Apophis.

SG-1 manages to escape Apophis's ship, bringing a brainwashed Teal'c along with them, setting the vessel for a collision course with a nearby planet. The false god is unable to wrest control of his ship back and watches in horror as the planet gets closer. His personal shield may protect him from the swarms of Replicators covering almost every inch, yet it's not going to be enough to save him from what's coming.

Apophis knows this, and his screams of anger are both striking and incredibly cathartic to watch. Finally, this great enemy is taken out.

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