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* NondescriptNastyNutritious: The scientists feed Mei nothing but a gray-colored gruel.
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* ScienceIsBad:

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* ScienceIsBad:ScienceIsBad: The scientists are ''not'' portrayed in a positive light.
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* IWantThemAlive: For a while, the scientists want to keep Mei alive, as they believe that she is the ''only'' shapeshifting human in existence. When she's more-or-less tricked into admitting that other members of her family are capable of transformation (although she doesn't tell him that most of them choose [[IJustWantToBeNormal to suppress their pandas in talismans so they can live normal lives), they decide that she's more useful to them [[TheyWouldCutYouUp dissected]].

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* IWantThemAlive: For a while, the scientists want to keep Mei alive, as they believe that she is the ''only'' shapeshifting human in existence. When she's more-or-less tricked into admitting that other members of her family are capable of transformation (although she doesn't tell him that most of them choose [[IJustWantToBeNormal to suppress their pandas in talismans so they can live normal lives), lives]]), they decide that she's more useful to them [[TheyWouldCutYouUp dissected]].

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* ThousandYardStare: Ming when she enters the hospital, covered in blood.

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* SuperhumanTrafficking: Mei, as the (now famous) shapeshifting red panda of Toronto, is kidnapped by poachers who want to sell her, and purchased by scientists so they can learn how her powers work.
* ThousandYardStare: Ming when she enters the hospital, covered in blood.blood after her [[KarmicDeath panda killed the scientists.]]
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* CatapultNightmare: Mei has these for a long time after she escapes her captors.


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* ForScience: According to the scientists, kidnapping a thirteen-year-old girl, isolating her, branding her, torturing her, stealing her appendix, and ''trying to dissect her'' is all justifiable if you do it in the name of scientific discovery.


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* IWantThemAlive: For a while, the scientists want to keep Mei alive, as they believe that she is the ''only'' shapeshifting human in existence. When she's more-or-less tricked into admitting that other members of her family are capable of transformation (although she doesn't tell him that most of them choose [[IJustWantToBeNormal to suppress their pandas in talismans so they can live normal lives), they decide that she's more useful to them [[TheyWouldCutYouUp dissected]].


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* PrecisionFStrike: When the lead scientist asks where in China her family is from, intending to target her cousins and other members of her family who can panda, Mei gives him this.


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* ThousandYardStare: Ming when she enters the hospital, covered in blood.
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* KidnappedForExperimentation: The catalyst for the story is Mei being kidnapped, then sold to an EvilutionaryBiologist.
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* ForeignCussWord: In chapter 4, after realizing they were too late and Mei was already gone, Abby releases a bunch of Korean curse words.
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* ForeginCussWord: In chapter 4, after realizing they were too late and Mei was already gone, Abby releases a bunch of Korean curse words.

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* ForeginCussWord: ForeignCussWord: In chapter 4, after realizing they were too late and Mei was already gone, Abby releases a bunch of Korean curse words.
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* ForeginCussWord: In chapter 4, after realizing they were too late and Mei was already gone, Abby releases a bunch of Korean curse words.

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* RealismInducedHorror: While exaggerated and some of the elements being fantastical, human trafficking and torture are very much things that actually happen and in RealLife, Mei being found as a corpse could very well be ''the best case scenario''...



* WouldHurtAChild: Meilin is injured several times [[spoiler: and almost ''killed'']] by the scientists.

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* WouldHurtAChild: Meilin is injured several times [[spoiler: and almost ''killed'']] by the scientists.scientists.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: All four of Mei's friends are quick to realise something's up when Mei doesn't show up at school

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All four of Mei's friends are quick to realise something's up when Mei doesn't show up at schoolschool or at home.
** In a rare case of an inanimate object (well, technically a spirit inside an inanimate object) doing this, Grandma Wu realises something is up when her talisman starts glowing, something it doesn't usually do.
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* GodzillaThreshhold: Ming unleashing her panda spirit after seeing just what Mei's captives have put her through serves as this, as it proves key to actually getting Mei out but it's clearly treated as a last resort and no one is happy with it.

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* GodzillaThreshhold: GodzillaThreshold: Ming unleashing her panda spirit after seeing just what Mei's captives have put her through serves as this, as it proves key to actually getting Mei out but it's clearly treated as a last resort and no one is happy with it.
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* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: All four of Mei's friends are quick to realise something's up when Mei doesn't show up at school
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* OrganTheft: To further their experiments, the scientists steal Mei's appendix.

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* BerserkButton: A shared one between the Lees and the Townies; threaten or hurt Mei? They're going to make you ''pay''.
* BigSisterInstinct: One of the reasons for Mei's DefiantCaptive attitude is because she's well-aware that if her captors get what they want out of her, not only will they go after the members of her family who are older enough to have already had their pandas awaken but her much younger cousins.



* GodzillaThreshhold: Ming unleashing her panda spirit after seeing just what Mei's captives have put her through serves as this, as it proves key to actually getting Mei out but it's clearly treated as a last resort and no one is happy with it.



* RealismInducedHorror: While exaggerated and some of the elements being fantastical, human trafficking and torture are very much things that actually happen and in RealLife, Mei being found as a corpse could very well be ‘’the best case scenario’’...

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* RealismInducedHorror: While exaggerated and some of the elements being fantastical, human trafficking and torture are very much things that actually happen and in RealLife, Mei being found as a corpse could very well be ‘’the ''the best case scenario’’...scenario''...


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* ScarsAreForever: Mei's brand is clearly going to be there for the rest of her life and to make matters worse, it's ''on her face'' so she'll see it every time she looks in the mirror.
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* ItIsDehumanizing: The smugglers and the scientists all refuse to refer to Mei as a person or ‘’even as female’’, calling her “it”, “beast”, “animal” and “RP1”.

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* ItIsDehumanizing: The smugglers and the scientists all refuse to refer to Mei as a person or ‘’even even as female’’, female, calling her “it”, “beast”, “animal” and “RP1”.“[=RP1=]”.

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* AuctionOfEvil: The event Mei is sold during, hosted by exotic animal smugglers who clearly had no issues or regrets about selling a young girl like a piece of meat.



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%%* * ColdBloodedTorture: Starts for Mei during the auction, with her being repeatedly shocked before being sold like an object and things quickly escalate once the auction is over and she’s turned over to the scientist who bought her, with him not only branding her but doing so while [[AndIMustScream she’s too paralyzed to even scream or whimper but fully conscious and aware of what’s happening]]...and that being just the start of her suffering at his hands…
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DamselInDistress: Mei.Mei. Despite having a decent showing in the original film as being a decently quick study at how to utilize her panda spirit to her advantage, Mei wound up jumped and quickly restrained, spending the rest of the fic with minimal at best opportunity to defend herself against her captors.


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* ItIsDehumanizing: The smugglers and the scientists all refuse to refer to Mei as a person or ‘’even as female’’, calling her “it”, “beast”, “animal” and “RP1”.


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* NotSoStoic: While she’s able to keep her cover, when Priya hears the lead smuggler refer to Mei as [[ItIsDehumanizing “it”]], she immediately wants to murder him and Tyler is no less furious despite keeping his own cover.
* RealismInducedHorror: While exaggerated and some of the elements being fantastical, human trafficking and torture are very much things that actually happen and in RealLife, Mei being found as a corpse could very well be ‘’the best case scenario’’...
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* ItIsDehumanizing: When Dimitri calls Mei “it,” Priya has to resist the urge to strangle him.
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* DefiantCaptive: Mei might be kidnapped, tortured, and scared out of her mind, but she's not giving the scientists ''any'' useful information (even resorting to BreakingPointSwearing at one point).

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* DefiantCaptive: Mei might be kidnapped, tortured, and scared out of her mind, but she's not giving the scientists ''any'' useful information (even resorting to BreakingPointSwearing a PrecisionFStrike at one point).
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* DefiantCaptive: Mei might be kidnapped, tortured, and scared out of her mind, but she's not giving the scientists ''any'' useful information (even giving a PrecisionFStrike at one point).

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* DefiantCaptive: Mei might be kidnapped, tortured, and scared out of her mind, but she's not giving the scientists ''any'' useful information (even giving a PrecisionFStrike resorting to BreakingPointSwearing at one point).



* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After Ming realizes Mei was branded, goes on this.]]

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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After Ming realizes Mei was branded, Ming goes on this.]]

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* BreakTheCutie: The normally confident and happy Mei is kidnapped, sold to unethical scientists, experimented on, [[spoiler: and ''almost dissected''. She's so badly traumatized by the event that she even considers giving up her panda spirit]].



* RelationshipUpgrade: Priya is dating the girl she danced with at Tyler's birthday party.

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* RelationshipUpgrade: Priya is dating [[NamedByTheAdaptation Heather]], the girl she danced with at Tyler's birthday party.

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%%* ActionSurvivor: Meilin's friends.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Mei is rescued, and the scientist are dead, but it's clear Mei has trauma and scars that will never heal.]]
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: While Ming pandaing out would ensure a victory, her red panda form is a Kaiju Red Panda. It might make saving Meilin more complicated.
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%%* ActionSurvivor: Meilin's friends.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Mei is rescued, and the scientist are dead, but it's clear Mei has trauma and scars that will never heal. Ming as well, as she had to see her daughter kidnapped and fighting for her life while also coming to terms with ''murdering dozens of people''.]]
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: While Ming pandaing panda-ing out would ensure a victory, her red panda form is a Kaiju Red Panda. It might make saving Meilin more complicated.
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* DefiantCaptive: Mei might be kidnapped, tortured, and scared out of her mind, but she's not giving the scientists ''any'' useful information (even giving a PrecisionFStrike at one point).
* MamaBear: Ming Lee was already a protective mother. But if you threaten her daughter's life, she's not afraid to release her kaiju-sized panda and make you ''pay''.



%%* MamaBear: Ming Lee to the fullest extent. ''Especially after they find Mei.''
%%* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After Ming realizes Mei was branded, goes on this.]]

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%%* MamaBear: Ming Lee to * RelationshipUpgrade: Priya is dating the fullest extent. ''Especially after they find Mei.''
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RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After Ming realizes Mei was branded, goes on this.]]]]
* WouldHurtAChild: Meilin is injured several times [[spoiler: and almost ''killed'']] by the scientists.
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* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Mei sings ''Nobody Like U,'' which was written by an in-universe band, to comfort herself in the cell.

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* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: MusicalWorldHypotheses: Mei sings ''Nobody Like U,'' which was written by an in-universe band, to comfort herself in the cell.
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* ActionSurvivor: Meilin's friends.

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* DamselInDistress: Mei.

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* MamaBear: Ming Lee to the fullest extent. ''Especially after they find Mei.''
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After Ming realizes Mei was branded, goes on this.]]

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* %%* MamaBear: Ming Lee to the fullest extent. ''Especially after they find Mei.''
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Mei is rescued, and the scientist are dead, but it's clear Mei has trauma and scars that will never heal.]]


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* ActionSurvivor: Meilin's friends.



* MamaBear: Ming Lee to the fullest extent. ''Especially after they find Mei.''

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* DarkFic: The movie is about friendship and accepting yourself. The fic? The cute red panda from the movie is experimented on and tortured.
* DiegeticSoundtrackUsage: Mei sings ''Nobody Like U,'' which was written by an in-universe band, to comfort herself in the cell.
* MamaBear: Ming Lee to the fullest extent. ''Especially after they find Mei.''''
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: After Ming realizes Mei was branded, goes on this.]]
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!!''The Great Red Panda Rescue'' contains examples of:

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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: While Ming pandaing out would ensure a victory, her red panda form is a Kaiju Red Panda. It might make saving Meilin more complicated.
* MamaBear: Ming Lee to the fullest extent. ''Especially after they find Mei.''
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''The Great Red Panda Rescue'' is a ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' fic by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/Arrow_of_ravenclaw/pseuds/Arrow_of_ravenclaw Arrow_of_Ravenclaw]]

Mei Lee finds herself the target of exotic-animal traffickers. It's up to a group of four townies and a concerned family of red pandas to save their friend before it's too late.

The fic can be found [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/40020591/chapters/100224336 here.]]

!!''The Great Red Panda Rescue'' contains examples of:

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