History Characters / Sifu

* MachoMasochism: The final step of the Burning is Sean scorching scars into his new recruit's arms. Sean's bandages imply he also does it on himself.

* VillainRespect: Towards the Student, to an extent. Should you make it to his second phase (and not [[TalkToTheFist interrupt him]]), Sean sounds impressed and calls the Student "almost as good as Yang". Sean also follows this up by saying he thought Yang was unchallenged and calls Sifu an "old bastard", suggesting he sees the Student as a better fighter than their own master.

* TheDragon: To Yang. She's the fourth of the 5 you meet, and according to her title is the CEO of [[Fiction500 some ambiguous philanthropic company.]]

* SinisterSilhouettes: A lot more explicit for him in his Club. He often appears before the student and teases him by promptly leaving before the big fight. Several of his silhouettes are prominent throughout the club, and one of them is a BaitAndSwitchSilhouette where you fight one of Sean's disciples instead.

* TheSocialDarwinist: He disdains physical weakness and one of the core tenets of his school is that it is the natural order for the strong to purge the weak from existence, something his disciples have taken to heart. [[spoiler:By sparing his life after completely besting him physically, The Student will defy this toxic worldview, humbling him into giving up.]]

* WalkingShirtlessScene: Rather common attire among men in The Squats and the later portions of The Club. For the prior, it can be justified by it being a rougher, more destitute part of town, as well as mid-day with the sun beaming down. For the latter, [[BloodKnight Sean's followers]] don't seem to wear much clothes in the first place, presumably so that it won't get in the way of their fighting skills.

* MightMakesRight: Wude combined with martial arts excellence should theoretically allow a warrior to end life-or-death fights without killing. This is the [[spoiler:key to unlocking the True Ending]].

* TokenEvilTeammate: Among the group's three Chinese members, and shared with Fajar for the group as a whole. While Yang and Jinfeng both have sympathetic motives and claimed to want to use their powers for benevolent purposes (healing and philanthropy, respectively), Sean only values physical prowess and was willing to [[spoiler:wipe out The Guardians (including his own father) and steal the talismans]] simply to make himself a more powerful fighter.

--> Sean: You're almost as good as '''''[[BigBad Ya]][[TheAce ng]]'''''. I thought he was unchallenged at that old bastard's school.

The second of the Student's five targets. The [[TheBrute biggest of the Dawn Group, and effectively the muscle]]. Has a [[TheSocialDarwinist Philosophy that only the best can succeed.]] Owns a club which is actually a Dojo the further you get into it, and runs a FightClub-esque cult known as '''''The Burning.'''''

* KickChick: The "Flashkicks" as they're called in the Credits: [[LeanAndMean Slender women]] always wearing some variant of platform shoes that use their legs a lot, and one of their most powerful moves is a hammer kick as pointed out by the Student in their notes. A pair of Flashkick minibosses dressed as Geishas in The Museum incorporate [[ArmedLegs sickles on their footwear]] for that extra bit of [[UnblockableAttack unblockable lethality.]]

* WellIntentionedExtremist: Jinfeng and Yang profess that the group took the power of the elemental talismans to use for the common good. In practice, the claim is a little more dubious. Fajar used his talisman to become a drug kingpin, Sean runs a FightClub-esque cult, Kuroki only began to run a Museum with an Art Gallery to vent out her grief for her sister, and Jinfeng became one of the wealthiest people in the world with an [[Fiction500 ambiguous and rather unknown though philanthropic mission statement]]. Yang is the most outwardly benevolent of the five, but people are still said to occasionally "disappear" from his clinic.

* AxCrazy: Based on the few Junkies in the Squats willing to speak to the Student, Fajar apparently has the reputation of being something of a lunatic. Admittedly his first response to noticing ''someone'' was simply walking into his room while he was tending to his plants, is to immediately chuck a gardening tool at them with deadly precision and without any sort of warning.
* AmbiguousDisorder: He is sick with ''something'', but the condition is never named.

* BossArenaIdiocy: A very mild case; While his bamboo forest is primarily for his advantage it also means that you can find Bamboo sticks to beat him with.

* WouldHurtAChild: Almost willing to slit the throat of a defenseless 12-year old with a machete because they were a witness to their murder of the Sifu. ''Almost'' because he's seen flinching and averting his gaze as he kills them.

* ReformedCriminal: Unlike Fajar and Sean before her, Kuroki has long since renounced her life of violence, and has instead become a very successful modern artist with her own gallery. [[RetiredBadass This doesn't mean she's gotten rusty since she left Yang's group]], and she can easily kill you if you are unprepared. Despite leaving a life of violence and bloodshed behind, [[ReformedButNotTamed it's implied that Kuroki is still in touch with the Dawn group.]] One of the notes on the student's investigation board in Kuroki's files, reveals Sean's warning them of the Student's arrival, which explains Kuroki's security showing up at the start of the level with weapons with an intent to corner and kill the Student. [[spoiler:When you reach one of the gallery rooms on the second floor, one of the enemies will recognize the student as the one that killed Sean and threatens to kill the Student for that.]]

* TheUnapologetic: To an extent. Kuroki feels remorse for her own RoaringRampageOfRevenge and retired to a peaceful life, but never goes as far as apologizing to the Student for the role she had in their father's death. Her redemption is selfish, concerned more with her inner peace than it is with making amends to those she has wronged. The focus on water and rain reinforces this; she believes she can wash away her past sins without ever attempting to really atone for them.

* DarkIsNotEvil: The uniform of his school is black with orange colored belts and his own attire on the day of his death is dark gray trousers and a red dress shirt. Yet as far as we can tell, he was a caring father to the student and a diligent, honorable man.

* DarkIsNotEvil: The uniform of his school is black with orange colored belts and his own attire on the day of his death is dark gray trousers and a red dress shirt. Yet as far as we can, he was a caring father to the student and a diligent, honorable man.

* AmbiguousSituation: Their fate at the end of the game is rather murky. [[spoiler:In the true ending, they either died for good since they did not have the Talisman on their person, or they were revived after their death like at the start of the game.]] Switching outfits or modding the game implies [[spoiler:the latter - when a new student runs in and greets the Sifu, the game represents the Sifu with the player character's model]].

* AmbiguousSituation: Their fate at the end of the game is rather murky. [[spoiler:In the true ending, they either died for good since they did not have the Talisman on their person, or they were revived after their death like at the start of the game.]] Hacking the final cutscene implies [[spoiler:the latter - when a new student runs in and greets the Sifu, the game represents the Sifu with the player character's model]].

* FinalBossPreview: Of a sort. The tutorial that takes place simultaneously with the TitleSequence has The Student face off against shadowy apparitions based on the Dawn Group's appearance during the raid on the Sifu's home. With the exception of Fajar's shadow using the fighting style of generic mooks, they're all using the same moves that they use during the actual boss fights against them later in the game. This is most noticeable with Kuroki and Jinfeng's shadows whose complex attacks and patterns would be pretty dangerous if it wasn't a tutorial where The Student can't even die.
* FiveManBand: Yang, Jinfeng, Kuroki, Sean, and Fajar are 5 highly skilled and extremely dangerous martial artists, who once teamed up to murder an entire school of innocent martial arts students, their sifu, and a ''12-year-old child'' to try and steal and seek vengeance for a magical talisman.

* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Fajar doesn't appear to be well liked by his own gang, as they openly consider him a crazy freak and seem to only value him (or at least his botanical powers) as a tool for producing their drugs. The only person in the Dawn Group other than Yang who acknowledges him, Sean, only refers to him as "The Mute" during the second portion of his fight with the Student implying he didn't care much about Fajar either. About the only one who seems to care about him as a person is Yang, who is the only one allowed to visit him for treatment.

* FiveManBand: Yang, Jinfeng, Kuroki, Sean, and Fajar are 5 highly skilled and extremely dangerous martial artists, who once teamed up to murder an entire school of innocent martial arts students, their sifu, and a ''12-year-old child'' to try and steal and seek vengeance for a magical talisman

* WreathedInFlames: In the second phase after smashing his cigarette and burning up his dojo. They don't actually do much beyond the RuleOfCool.

* PeekABangs: She has to had these during the assault on the Dojo, obscuring both eyes. In the modern day she parts her bangs.

[[caption-width-right:350:The Dawn Group, 8 years prior.[[note]]From Left to Right: [[NeverMessWithGranny Jinfeng,]] [[BloodKnight Sean,]] [[BigBad Yang,]] [[WildMan Fajar,]] and Kuroki.[[/note]]]]

* FiveManBand: Yang, Jinfeng, Kuroki, Sean, and Fajar are 5 highly skilled and extremely dangerous martial artists, who once teamed up to murder an entire school of innocent martial arts students, their sifu, and a ''12-year-old child'' to try and steal and seek vengeance for a magical talisman. The list:

[[caption-width-right:350:The Dawn Group, 8 years prior.[[note]]From Left to Right: [[NeverMessWithGranny Jinfeng,]] [[BloodKnight Sean,]] [[BigBad Yang,]] [[WildMan Fajar,]] and [[DarkChick Kuroki.]][[/note]]]]

* DarkChick: A woman who's beautiful but has angst over losing her twin sister. She's the third of the 5 you meet, and apparently has history with someone.

* StockNinjaWeaponry: Starts the fight using a 3-section staff with [[BladeOnAStick blades on both ends]], but switches to the kunai in her second phase. During the raid on the Sifu's dojo, she used a more standard 3-section staff without blades.

* KickChick: The "Flashkicks" as they're called in the Credits: [[LeanAndMean Slender women]] always wearing some variant of platform shoes that use their legs a lot, and one of their most powerful moves is an axe kick. A pair of Flashkick minibosses dressed as Geishas in The Museum incorporate [[ArmedLegs sickles on their footwear]] for that extra bit of lethality.

* CostumeEvolution: Their outfits inexplicably age with them after Talisman resurrections.

* FlechetteStorm: In her second form, Kuroki is prone to tossing out fans of Kunai to play keepaway with the player.

* MakingASplash: Possibly downplayed? Trying to fight her second phase outside of her BossRoom either through mods or the in-game training mode and will show that she has water effects accompanying her movements even when the floor isn't covered in water like it is during said fight. While possibly just an oversight that doesn't really need correcting, the animation of her high jump into a kunai throw does give the impression of the water propelling her into air similar to a trick [[GreenThumb Fajar]] uses in his second phase with bamboo trees.

* StockNinjaWeaponry: Starts the fight using a 3-section staff with [[BladeOnAStick blades on both ends]], but switches to the kunai in her second phase.