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* CoolHorse: The Red Hare (like you wouldn't know). He even ''talked it over to his side''. And when he first mounted it, they both '''''[[MundaneMadeAwesome radiated awesomeness]]''''' ([[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v37/c306/17.html really]]). [[spoiler:A throwaway line in chapter 373 reveals that by the time of the Jing succession conflict Red Hare had died of old age but had had offspring.]]
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* CoolHorse: The Red Hare (like you wouldn't know). He even ''talked it over to his side''. And when he first mounted it, they both '''''[[MundaneMadeAwesome radiated awesomeness]]''''' ([[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v37/c306/17.html really]]).(really). [[spoiler:A throwaway line in chapter 373 reveals that by the time of the Jing succession conflict Red Hare had died of old age but had had offspring.]]
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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: At several points, including [[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v37/c306/16.html one panel from him first getting atop Red Hare]].
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* GlowingEyesOfDoom: At several points, including [[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v37/c306/16.html one panel from him first getting atop Red Hare]].Hare.
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* AddaptationalAttractiveness: In the novel (and historical anecdotes), Zhabg Fei is wild-eyed with a big head, unruly beard and jowls, usually portrayed as either pot-bellied and/or thickly muscled. This version is clean-shaven with fine features and an athletic build.
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* AddaptationalAttractiveness: AdaptationalAttractiveness: In the novel (and historical anecdotes), Zhabg Zhang Fei is wild-eyed with a big head, unruly beard and jowls, usually portrayed as either pot-bellied and/or thickly muscled. This version is clean-shaven with fine features and an athletic build.build.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Deliberately employed, and possibly the most radical example in the story. The historical Zhang Fei was reputed to be brutal and unpredictable, fiercely loyal and courageous but otherwise vicious. The classic novel goes much the same direction, albeit with some more noble traits, emphasizing his loyalty and brotherhood. Ravages of Time keeps many of his actions and decisions in line with his usual portrayal, but instead posits that his savagery and ruthlessness are coldly calculated for pragmatic reasons, rather than his poor impulse control.
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Deliberately employed, and possibly the most radical example in the story. The historical Zhang Fei was reputed to be brutal and unpredictable, fiercely loyal and courageous but otherwise vicious. The classic novel goes much the same direction, albeit with some more noble traits, emphasizing his loyalty and brotherhood. Ravages of Time keeps many of his actions and decisions in line with his usual portrayal, but instead posits that his savagery and ruthlessness are coldly calculated for pragmatic reasons, rather than his poor impulse control.
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* BladeOnAStick: Wields his iconic serpent spear. Most adaptations imagine the blade as wavy like a snake or forked like a snake's tongue, but in this version the shaft ends in two intertwined spikes that jut out in twin prongs.
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* FreudianTrio: The Id.
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* PowerTrio: The Id.
* FreudianTrio: The Ego.
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* PowerTrio: The Ego.
* FreudianTrio: The Superego ([[AlternateCharacterInterpretation and quite unlike]] [[DumbMuscle his more traditional portrayal]]).
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* PowerTrio: The Superego ([[AlternateCharacterInterpretation and quite unlike]] [[DumbMuscle his more traditional portrayal]]).
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[[folder:Wei Yan]]
A warrior who reports to Han Xuan, the administratior of Changsha. Defects to Liu Bei's side when Liu Bei takes over the four commanderies.
[[folder:Wei Yan]]
A warrior who reports to Han Xuan, the administratior of Changsha. Defects to Liu Bei's side when Liu Bei takes over the four commanderies.
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* BadassGrandpa: At the age of 60-70-ish, he's the only warrior in the series since Lu Bu to make Guan Yu break a sweat during combat.
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*OldMasterOldSoldier: At the age of 60-70-ish, he's the only warrior in the series since Lu Bu to make Guan Yu break a sweat during combat.
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[[folder:Huang Zhong]]
A veteran warrior under the command of Huang Zu (Liu Biao's top deputy) who, together with his brother-in-arm and protégé Gan Ning, have been guarding Jingzhou's borders for years yet without making a name for himself. After Liu Biao's death, while Gan Ning defects to the Sun clan, he continues to serve Changsha's administrator Han Xuan. When Liu Bei sets out to conquer the Four Commanderies, he turns to Liu Bei's side with some "persuasion" from Wei Yan.
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* BadassGrandpa: At the age of 60-70-ish, he's the only warrior in the series since Lu Bu to make Guan Yu break a sweat during combat.
* CombatPragmatist: Gan Ning learns the trick of using arrow in close combat from him. During the fight with Guan Yu, he pretends to lose stamina after shooting with a heavy bow too many times to lure Guan Yu into close range, at which he drops all pretension and continues to fire rapidly.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: He can shoot with lightning speed and terrifying accuracy. The most extreme example comes in chapter 536, where he kills an enemy scout, who was standing ''on a tower'', ''at night'', with a ''headshot''.
* SuperStrength: He uses the most powerful type of bow and shoots with the force of a small homing missile. His blade also requires ''two'' grown man to carry, yet he can swing it with relative ease.
* TheArcher: And the deadliest one in ''Ravages'' bar none.
[[folder:Huang Zhong]]
A veteran warrior under the command of Huang Zu (Liu Biao's top deputy) who, together with his brother-in-arm and protégé Gan Ning, have been guarding Jingzhou's borders for years yet without making a name for himself. After Liu Biao's death, while Gan Ning defects to the Sun clan, he continues to serve Changsha's administrator Han Xuan. When Liu Bei sets out to conquer the Four Commanderies, he turns to Liu Bei's side with some "persuasion" from Wei Yan.
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* BadassGrandpa: At the age of 60-70-ish, he's the only warrior in the series since Lu Bu to make Guan Yu break a sweat during combat.
* CombatPragmatist: Gan Ning learns the trick of using arrow in close combat from him. During the fight with Guan Yu, he pretends to lose stamina after shooting with a heavy bow too many times to lure Guan Yu into close range, at which he drops all pretension and continues to fire rapidly.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: He can shoot with lightning speed and terrifying accuracy. The most extreme example comes in chapter 536, where he kills an enemy scout, who was standing ''on a tower'', ''at night'', with a ''headshot''.
* SuperStrength: He uses the most powerful type of bow and shoots with the force of a small homing missile. His blade also requires ''two'' grown man to carry, yet he can swing it with relative ease.
* TheArcher: And the deadliest one in ''Ravages'' bar none.
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* AddaptationalAttractiveness: In the novel (and historical anecdotes), Zhabg Fei is wild-eyed with a big head, unruly beard and jowls, usually portrayed as either pot-bellied and/or thickly muscled. This version is clean-shaven with fine features and an athletic build.
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* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Tells Zhuge Liang not to go to war, because that would lead to many people dying. Zhuge Liang concluded that Liu Chan would grow up to be a humane and benevolent ruler.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: The Sun clan people thinks he's stupid and only knows to play around, but he can be quite discerning of people's nature like his father.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Tells Zhuge Liang not to go to war, because that would lead to many people dying. Zhuge Liang concluded that Liu Shan would grow up to be a humane and benevolent ruler.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Tells Zhuge Liang not to go to war, because that would lead to many people dying. Zhuge Liang concluded that Liu Shan would grow up to be a humane and benevolent ruler.
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* ChekhovsSkill: At the very beginning, many are quick to dismiss Liu Bei because he's been a shoemaker all his life. During the campaign of Huarong during which his army harasses the remnants of Cao Cao's army in a region suffering from a once-in-a-decade snow and rain period, Liu Bei makes a BoringButPractical contribution to his army's victories by designing and furbishing his men with waterproof boots which multiplies their survivability manifold.
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* ChekhovsSkill: At the very beginning, many are quick to dismiss Liu Bei because he's been a shoemaker all his life. During the campaign of Huarong during which his army harasses the remnants of Cao Cao's army in a region suffering from a once-in-a-decade snow and rain period, Liu Bei makes a BoringButPractical contribution to his army's victories by designing and furbishing furnishing his men with waterproof boots which multiplies their survivability manifold.
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* ChekhovsSkill: At the very beginning, many are quick to dismiss Liu Bei because he's been a shoemaker all his life. During the campaign of Huarong during which his army harasses the remnants of Cao Cao's army in a region suffering from a once-in-a-decade snow and rain period, Liu Bei makes a BoringButPractical contribution to his army's victories by designing and furbishing his men with waterproof boots which multiplies their survivability manifold.
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* RagsToRoyalty: Liu Bei began as a lowly shoemaker with a tenuous blood connection to the Imperial line. However, with the help of his sworn brothers and no small amount of politicking, he manages to be officially recognized by the court as an Imperial Uncle and become a prominent warlord in his own right.
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* GeoEffects: Zhang Fei is a master at using terrain to his advantage. Thanks to his secret identity as an artist, Zhang Fei is able to travel incognito and hide his studying of the terrain behind his painting activity.
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Guan Yu is the first of Liu Bei's sworn brothers. Guan Yu is a supreme warrior, easily on par with Lu Bu. He is also honorable to a fault, usually acting as the voice of conscience for the three brothers.
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Zhang Fei is the second of Liu Bei's sworn brothers. Wearing peculiar face paint, Zhang Fei is publicly known as an alcoholic brute of great strength. However, this is merely a persona and Zhang Fei is also a renowned artist and a cunning strategist.
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Liu Bei is an imperial uncle, meaning he's a relative of the Emperor's dynasty. Alas for him, no one but his two sworn brothers Zhang Fei and Guan Yu are willing to listen to him. During the course of the series, Liu Bei rises to become a prominent warlord through glorious interventions in battle, making him look like a virtuous savior of China and the Imperial Han. In truth, Liu Bei is very honorable for a warlord but his patience wears thin after being the victim of successive ploys and his methods become darker.
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-->'''Lu Bu''': The face-painted man was right...the stronger I am, the more beneficial it is to them...
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-->'''Lu Bu''': The "The face-painted man was right...the stronger I am, the more beneficial it is to them..."
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-->'''Lu Bu''': The face-painted man was right...the stronger I am, the more beneficial it is to them...
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* TheWorfEffect: Invoked in-universe, as his get-famous-quick plan for the trio is basically "take on Dong Zhuo's best fighters (Hua Xiong and Lu Bu) and try not to lose", this is even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Lu Bu himself.
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[[folder:Liu Chan]]
Liu Bei's son, the Ah Dou that was rescued by Zhao Yun during the retreat from Xinye, and who would eventually inherit the Kingdom of Shu.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Tells Zhuge Liang not to go to war, because that would lead to many people dying. Zhuge Liang concluded that Liu Chan would grow up to be a humane and benevolent ruler.
* InnocentProdigy: Somehow knew Zhuge Liang to be a "bad guy" even at his age.
[[folder:Liu Chan]]
Liu Bei's son, the Ah Dou that was rescued by Zhao Yun during the retreat from Xinye, and who would eventually inherit the Kingdom of Shu.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Tells Zhuge Liang not to go to war, because that would lead to many people dying. Zhuge Liang concluded that Liu Chan would grow up to be a humane and benevolent ruler.
* InnocentProdigy: Somehow knew Zhuge Liang to be a "bad guy" even at his age.
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** Zhang Fei's face paint actually offers a touch of {{FridgeBrilliance}} for the modern reader. In Chinese opera, popular stock characters, such as heroes from the Three Kingdoms, typically have universal mask designs for actors to wear so that the audience can immediately identify the character or personality being portrayed. Look for the Zhang Fei opera mask, and you'll notice something familiar...
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* '''''{{Badass}}'''''
** BadassBeard: Even if it's the shortest out of almost any depiction of him that isn't ''[[Creator/DonnieYen The Lost Bladesman]]''.
** BladeOnAStick
** CoolHorse: The Red Hare (like you wouldn't know). He even ''talked it over to his side''. And when he first mounted it, they both '''''[[MundaneMadeAwesome radiated awesomeness]]''''' ([[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v37/c306/17.html really]]). [[spoiler:A throwaway line in chapter 373 reveals that by the time of the Jing succession conflict Red Hare had died of old age but had had offspring.]]
** CurbStompBattle: Of Lu Bu-level curbstomping; whenever he fights someone not named Lu Bu, expect his opponent to turn HalfTheManHeUsedToBe in one page.
** GlowingEyesOfDoom: At several points, including [[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v37/c306/16.html one panel from him first getting atop Red Hare]].
** OneManArmy: On the same level with Lu Bu.
** SuperStrength: Can't engage in [[GoodOldFisticuffs good ol' fisticuffs]] with Lu Bu without this! Before that, Zhang Liao found out the hard way when he tried jumping Guan Yu and got sent flying with a punch to the face.
** BadassBeard: Even if it's the shortest out of almost any depiction of him that isn't ''[[Creator/DonnieYen The Lost Bladesman]]''.
** BladeOnAStick
** CoolHorse: The Red Hare (like you wouldn't know). He even ''talked it over to his side''. And when he first mounted it, they both '''''[[MundaneMadeAwesome radiated awesomeness]]''''' ([[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v37/c306/17.html really]]). [[spoiler:A throwaway line in chapter 373 reveals that by the time of the Jing succession conflict Red Hare had died of old age but had had offspring.]]
** CurbStompBattle: Of Lu Bu-level curbstomping; whenever he fights someone not named Lu Bu, expect his opponent to turn HalfTheManHeUsedToBe in one page.
** GlowingEyesOfDoom: At several points, including [[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v37/c306/16.html one panel from him first getting atop Red Hare]].
** OneManArmy: On the same level with Lu Bu.
** SuperStrength: Can't engage in [[GoodOldFisticuffs good ol' fisticuffs]] with Lu Bu without this! Before that, Zhang Liao found out the hard way when he tried jumping Guan Yu and got sent flying with a punch to the face.
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* '''''{{Badass}}'''''
**BadassBeard: Even if it's the shortest out of almost any depiction of him that isn't ''[[Creator/DonnieYen The Lost Bladesman]]''.
** BladeOnAStick
** CoolHorse: The Red Hare (like you wouldn't know). He even ''talked it over to his side''. And when he first mounted it, they both '''''[[MundaneMadeAwesome radiated awesomeness]]''''' ([[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v37/c306/17.html really]]). [[spoiler:A throwaway line in chapter 373 reveals that by the time of the Jing succession conflict Red Hare had died of old age but had had offspring.]]
** CurbStompBattle: Of Lu Bu-level curbstomping; whenever he fights someone not named Lu Bu, expect his opponent to turn HalfTheManHeUsedToBe in one page.
** GlowingEyesOfDoom: At several points, including [[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v37/c306/16.html one panel from him first getting atop Red Hare]].
** OneManArmy: On the same level with Lu Bu.
** SuperStrength: Can't engage in [[GoodOldFisticuffs good ol' fisticuffs]] with Lu Bu without this! Before that, Zhang Liao found out the hard way when he tried jumping Guan Yu and got sent flying with a punch to the face.%%* BladeOnAStick
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** CoolHorse: The Red Hare (like you wouldn't know). He even ''talked it over to his side''. And when he first mounted it, they both '''''[[MundaneMadeAwesome radiated awesomeness]]''''' ([[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v37/c306/17.html really]]). [[spoiler:A throwaway line in chapter 373 reveals that by the time of the Jing succession conflict Red Hare had died of old age but had had offspring.]]
** CurbStompBattle: Of Lu Bu-level curbstomping; whenever he fights someone not named Lu Bu, expect his opponent to turn HalfTheManHeUsedToBe in one page.
** GlowingEyesOfDoom: At several points, including [[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v37/c306/16.html one panel from him first getting atop Red Hare]].
** OneManArmy: On the same level with Lu Bu.
** SuperStrength: Can't engage in [[GoodOldFisticuffs good ol' fisticuffs]] with Lu Bu without this! Before that, Zhang Liao found out the hard way when he tried jumping Guan Yu and got sent flying with a punch to the face.
* CoolHorse: The Red Hare (like you wouldn't know). He even ''talked it over to his side''. And when he first mounted it, they both '''''[[MundaneMadeAwesome radiated awesomeness]]''''' ([[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v37/c306/17.html really]]). [[spoiler:A throwaway line in chapter 373 reveals that by the time of the Jing succession conflict Red Hare had died of old age but had had offspring.]]
* CurbStompBattle: Of Lu Bu-level curbstomping; whenever he fights someone not named Lu Bu, expect his opponent to turn HalfTheManHeUsedToBe in one page.
* CurbStompBattle: Of Lu Bu-level curbstomping; whenever he fights someone not named Lu Bu, expect his opponent to turn HalfTheManHeUsedToBe in one page.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: At several points, including [[http://mangafox.me/manga/the_ravages_of_time/v37/c306/16.html one panel from him first getting atop Red Hare]].
* OneManArmy: On the same level with Lu Bu.
* SuperStrength: Can't engage in [[GoodOldFisticuffs good ol' fisticuffs]] with Lu Bu without this! Before that, Zhang Liao found out the hard way when he tried jumping Guan Yu and got sent flying with a punch to the face.
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* '''''{{Badass}}'''''
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* PowerTrio: The Superego.
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* PowerTrio: The Superego.Superego ([[AlternateCharacterInterpretation and quite unlike]] [[DumbMuscle his more traditional portrayal]]).
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The Messiah has been disambiguated between Messianic Archetype and All Loving Hero. Bad examples and ZCE are being removed; if you disagree, please readd with sufficient context.
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* TheMessiah: Although since being ousted from Xuzhou by Lu Bu he's been showing traits of a DarkMessiah. Not that the populace adoring him notices.
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* GirlishPigtails: A rare male example.
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* LawfulGood: Irrefutably so; knowing this is part of why Cao Cao gave Red Hare to Guan Yu: .
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* LawfulGood: Irrefutably so; knowing this is part of why Cao Cao gave Red Hare to Guan Yu: .Yu.
* MadeOfIron: Enough so that when even Xiahou Yuan is knocked prone by a sudden surprise attack by [[spoiler:Zhang Liao]], Guan Yu is still standing and ready enough to mockingly asking him, "''Why have you fallen, you descendant of a famous general''?"[[note]]Xiahou Yuan's ancestry goes as far back as Xiahou Ying, a famous general from the time of the Han Dynasty's founding.[[/note]]... and then [[spoiler:slug Zhang Liao ''good'' for the insult of damaging the shirt that Liu Bei gave him]].
* MadeOfIron: Enough so that when even Xiahou Yuan is knocked prone by a sudden surprise attack by [[spoiler:Zhang Liao]], Guan Yu is still standing and ready enough to mockingly asking him, "''Why have you fallen, you descendant of a famous general''?"[[note]]Xiahou Yuan's ancestry goes as far back as Xiahou Ying, a famous general from the time of the Han Dynasty's founding.[[/note]]... and then [[spoiler:slug Zhang Liao ''good'' for the insult of damaging the shirt that Liu Bei gave him]].
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* OneManArmy: Fights Lu Bu to a standstill twice [[spoiler:before finally defeating him -- albeit after Lu Bu's already wounded, injured and exhausted]], whereas several of Cao Cao's best generals ''together'' fail to manage it even once.
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* OneManArmy: Fights Lu Bu to a standstill twice [[spoiler:before finally defeating him -- albeit after Lu Bu's already wounded, injured and exhausted]], whereas several of Cao Cao's best generals ''together'' fail to manage it even once.once[[note]]although they -- more specifically Xiahou Dun and Xu Chu -- are why he was wounded, injured and exhausted to begin with[[/note]].
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** AwesomenessIsAForce: [[spoiler:How he drove ''[[ImplacableMan Sun Ce]]'' away and his troops from Cao Cao when the former led a surprise strike against Cao Cao's troops near Shouchun[[note]]Though Sun Ce scapegoats his ''horse'' as the one too intimidated by the sight of Guan Yu atop Red Hare, it doesn't fool Lu Meng[[/note]].]]
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** AwesomenessIsAForce: [[spoiler:How he drove ''[[ImplacableMan Sun Ce]]'' away and his troops from Cao Cao when the former led a surprise strike against Cao Cao's troops near Shouchun[[note]]Though Sun Ce scapegoats his ''horse'' as the one too intimidated by the sight of Guan Yu atop Red Hare, it doesn't fool Lu Meng[[/note]].]]
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** PureAwesomeness: [[spoiler:How he drove ''[[ImplacableMan Sun Ce]]'' away and his troops from Cao Cao when the former led a surprise strike against Cao Cao's troops near Shouchun[[note]]Though Sun Ce scapegoats his ''horse'' as the one too intimidated by the sight of Guan Yu atop Red Hare, it doesn't fool Lu Meng[[/note]].]]
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** BadassBeard: Even if it's the shortest out of almost any depiction of him that isn't ''The Lost Bladesman''.
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** BadassBeard: Even if it's the shortest out of almost any depiction of him that isn't ''The ''[[Creator/DonnieYen The Lost Bladesman''.Bladesman]]''.
