10. Steve's Reunion With Peggy - Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Reappropriating a scene which had originally been intended for The Avengers, this was a moment that was always going to hit the audience right where it hurts. Super-soldier Steve Rogers has returned to the modern world having been frozen in ice, presumed dead, since 1943; and now, looking not a day older, he reunites with his 'best girl' Peggy Carter, now a bed-ridden 90-something. While the moment is marred ever-so-slightly by the ageing make-up applied to Hayley Atwell (curious that, for all the advances in visual FX, filmmakers still struggle to convincingly make actors look older), it was always going to be a poignant reunion, and Atwell and Chris Evans perform it beautifully. Just seeing the two together again is sad enough, but it's almost too much to bear when, midway, the ailing Peggy forgets the entire conversation and relives the shock that the man she loved, and thought dead for 70 years, is sitting beside her looking exactly the same as he did back then.