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* ReverseMole: Yeung Kwan pretends to be a minion of the White Lotus Society, but is actually one of the good guys on the same side as Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
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A third movie, titled ''Drunken Master III'', was released in 1994, but without Jackie Chan's involvement. Instead, Willie Chi gets to play Wong Fei-Hung instead, also starring Creator/AndyLau as a gunsligner and Simon Yam as a homosexual villain.
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!!''Drunken Master III'' provides examples of
* GroinAttack: How Simon Yam's gay assassin gets defeated in his final scene. He didn't die, but he's not shown again after landing sharply on his nuts.
* TheGunslinger: Yeung Kwan is a marksman with his Mauser, which he use to take down several gangsters.
* LighterAndSofter
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* KarmaHoudini: We never see what happens to the English ambassador that masterminded the smuggling racket.
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* TrainingFromHell: The usual methods apply here, like scooping water from a bucket with teacups only to fill another bucket while upside down. It's worth noting that the training wouldn't ''be'' so hellish if Fei-Hung wasn't trying to weasel his way out of it. In the teacups instance, he makes to fill the bucket directly with the other while Beggar So is taking a nap. However, So is one step ahead of him and when an [[BlatantLies obviously winded]] Fei-Hung announces he's completed his task, So tells him to now empty that bucket out with teacups roughly the size of shot glasses.
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* SurpriseIncest: Fei-Hung tries to hit on a girl that visits his town, only to be attacked by her mother. He later learns that the girl is his cousin and that he fought his aunt.
* TrainingFromHell: The usual methods apply here, like scooping water from a bucket with teacups only to fill another bucket while upside down. It's worth noting that the training wouldn't ''be'' so hellish if Fei-Hung wasn't trying to weasel his way out of it. In the teacups instance, he makes to fill the bucket directly with the other while Beggar So is taking a nap. However, So is one step ahead of him and whenan [[BlatantLies obviously winded]] Fei-Hung fakes being tired and announces that he's completed his task, So tells him to now empty that bucket out with teacups roughly the size of shot glasses.
* TrainingFromHell: The usual methods apply here, like scooping water from a bucket with teacups only to fill another bucket while upside down. It's worth noting that the training wouldn't ''be'' so hellish if Fei-Hung wasn't trying to weasel his way out of it. In the teacups instance, he makes to fill the bucket directly with the other while Beggar So is taking a nap. However, So is one step ahead of him and when
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* SurpriseIncest: Fei-Hung tries to hit on a girl that visits his town, only to be attacked by her mother. He later learns that the girl is his cousin and that he fought his aunt.
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* SurpriseIncest: Fei-Hung tries to hit on a girl that visits his town, only to be attacked by her mother. He later learns that the girl is his cousin and that he fought his aunt.
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* ObviousStuntDouble: Whenever Beggar-So does anything that requires fast movements or acrobatics, his hair covers his face and he becomes skinnier. His actor, Siu Tin Yuen, is doubled by his sons, Cheung-Yan Yuen and director Yuen Woo-Ping, for those shots.
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* HardHead: Fei-Hung fights a thug who specializes in using his head to fight. While it can break wood easily, his head can resist being hit with a hammer, which gives him {{Cranial Eruption}}s.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: Yan Ti San is most likely called Thunderleg in the English dub because he relies heavily on a slower fighting style that emphasizes power over speed, punctuated with lethal kicks. In the final fight with Fei-Hung, he reveals a hitherto-unseen style; The Shadowless Hand, a punching technique so fast that the human eye can't track it.
* IAmNotLeftHanded: Yan Ti San is most likely called Thunderleg in the English dub because he relies heavily on a slower fighting style that emphasizes power over speed, punctuated with lethal kicks. In the final fight with Fei-Hung, he reveals a hitherto-unseen style; The Shadowless Hand, a punching technique so fast that the human eye can't track it.
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* HardHead: Fei-Hung fights a thug who specializes in using his head to fight. While it can break wood easily, his head can resist being hit with isn't hard enough for a hammer, which gives him {{Cranial Eruption}}s.
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* IAmNotLeftHanded: Yan Ti San is most likely called Thunderleg in the English dub because he relies heavily on a slower fighting style that emphasizes power over speed, punctuated with lethal kicks. In the final fight with Fei-Hung, he reveals a hitherto-unseen style; The Shadowless Hand, a
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* BoozeFlamethrower: What happens when Fei-Hong spits a mouthful of alcohol at his foe, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard who's coming at Fei-Hong with a superheated metal rod]].
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* BoozeFlamethrower: What happens when Fei-Hong spits a mouthful of industrial alcohol at his foe, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard who's coming at Fei-Hong with a superheated metal rod]]. When he tries this again, he accidentally chokes on alcohol, but discovers its intoxicating properties.
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* {{Bowdlerize}}: International releases of the movie cut out a scene at the end of the movie where Fei-Hung pretends to be mentally retarded as a result of alcohol poisoning. Unfortunatally, some cuts go so far as end the movie right after the final fight.
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* {{Bowdlerize}}: International releases of the movie cut out a scene at the end of the movie where Fei-Hung pretends to be mentally retarded and passing it off as a result of alcohol poisoning. Unfortunatally, Unfortunately, some cuts go so far as end the movie right after the final fight.
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* RealityEnsres: Fei-Hung becomes blind at the end as a result of drinking industrial alcohol. The mental retardation is actually him just pretending, however.
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* AddictionPowered: Of course, seeing how his mastery is ''drunken''. The negative consequences of this are explored in the second movie.
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* ButNowIMustGo: Beggar Go leaves his home after Fei-Hung defeats Ceoi King-Tin, the staff-wielding master, and leaves a letter for him, saying that he has completed his training and that he should go back home.
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* IHaveNoSon: Subverted. After hearing all of Fei-Hung's misdeeds, his father, Kei-Ying, is understandably disgusted with his son, and verbally disowns in the UK dub. However, he later decides to have Fei-Hung disciplined by Beggar So. By the end of the film, the two manage to reconcile.
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* IHaveNoSon: Subverted. After In the UK dub, after hearing all of Fei-Hung's misdeeds, his father, Kei-Ying, is understandably disgusted with his son, son and verbally disowns in the UK dub.him. However, he later decides to have Fei-Hung disciplined by Beggar So. By the end of the film, the two manage to reconcile.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/SnakeInTheEaglesShadow'', sharing the same actors for Fei-Hung, Yan Ti San, and Beggar-So in very similar roles.
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* SignatureMove: Yan Ti San's double-legged flying kick, which he uses to finish off his opponents.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/SnakeInTheEaglesShadow'', sharing the same actors for Fei-Hung, Yan Ti San, and Beggar-So in very similar roles. Fei-Hung even uses Snake Kung Fu in a few fights.
* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/SnakeInTheEaglesShadow'', sharing the same actors for Fei-Hung, Yan Ti San, and Beggar-So in very similar roles. Fei-Hung even uses Snake Kung Fu in a few fights.
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Later, there was a sequel of sorts in the form of ''Drunken Master II'', released in North America as ''Legend of Drunken Master''. Wong Fei-Hung accidentally comes into possession of several valuable Chinese artifacts, which smugglers are trying to sell to {{Evil Brit}}s. In 2005, Time Magazine declared this movie one of the 100 best movies of all time, and Creator/RogerEbert rates the climactic foundry fight as probably the best fight scene ever committed to film.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/SnakeInTheEaglesShadow'', sharing the same actors for Fei-Hung, Yan Ti San, and Beggar-So in very similar roles.
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* AccidentalPervert: While Fei-Hung was just trying to impress his friends by making advances on a young woman, things just get worse when she's revealed to be his cousin whom he'd never met before. Yikes.
* EveryoneHasStandards: While Fei-Hong's aunt humiliates him by revealing to his father that he made advances on his own cousin, Wong Kei-Ying is understandably pissed off. However, when he's ready to attack him, she immediately stops him, shocked that Kei-Ying that he would actually kill his own son.
* IHaveNoSon: Subverted. After hearing all of Fei-Hung's misdeeds, his father, Kei-Ying, is understandably disgusted with his son, and verbally disowns in the UK dub. However, he later decides to have Fei-Hung disciplined by Beggar So. By the end of the film, the two manage to reconcile.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: When Freddy finds a bully picking on an old man and his son, he's quick to defend them and gives the bully a good thrashing… only to learn that he's the son of his town's most influential man, which gets him into even ''deeper'' trouble with his father.
* NotWorthKilling: Even though he could kill him easily, Yan Ti San expresses that killing Fei-Hung would just hurt his reputation. Naturally, this prompts Fei-Hung to resume his training with Beggar So to become a better fighter.
* NotWorthKilling: Even though he could kill him easily, Yan Ti San expresses that killing Fei-Hung would just hurt his reputation. Naturally, this prompts Fei-Hung to resume his training with Beggar So to become a better fighter.
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* LargeHam: Ling, Fei-Hong's stepmother, especially when she is trying to fool her husband.
* LargeHam: Ling, Fei-Hong's stepmother, especially when she is trying to fool her husband.
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* BoozeBasedBuff: The main character's a drunken boxer, so this is a given. Taken UpToEleven during the final battle when Fei-Hong decides to booze up with ''industrial-grade alcohol'' from a foundry.
* BoozeFlamethrower: What happens when Fei-Hong spits a mouthful of alcohol at his foe, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard who's coming at Fei-Hong with a superheated metal rod]].
* BoozeFlamethrower: What happens when Fei-Hong spits a mouthful of alcohol at his foe, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard who's coming at Fei-Hong with a superheated metal rod]].
* TheGlassesComeOff: What [[NotSoHarmlessVillain John]] does while demonstrating himself to be Fei-Hung's FinalBoss - balancing on one leg to show off his kicking skills.
* PostVictoryCollapse: What happens to Fei-Hong after the climactic battle. [[spoiler: He beats his opponent, but collapses after consuming industrial alcohol to do so]].
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* WouldHitAGirl: That foundry manager who hits Ling in the face immediately earns the first big beatdown in the movie, and ''a face full of lit alcohol'' in the finale.
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* BadBoss: Anyone holding a position at the foundry, since they're putting all the workers through the grinder ''and'' just using them to cover a smuggling syndicate.
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* ThouShaltNotKill: The only time they do stay faithful to the taditional Wong Fei-Hong of history. Fei-Hong actually drags one of the BadBoss foremen out of the way before his foundry worker buddy can ''crush his head'' under a coal tipper.
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* EyeScream: Part of the final fight involves TheDragon shoving his square jaw into Fei-Hong's eyes, after which Fei-Hong shoves ''his nose'' into the bugger's eyes. There's no lasting damage, but unless you've trained in blindfolded boxing or something, you've got a problem.
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* KarmaHoudini: We never see what happens to the English ambassador that masterminded the smuggling racket.
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* LightheartedRematch: After Fei-Hong and Master Fu clear up their misunderstanding and get their bundles back, they drop whatever weapons they were using and go at it like gentlemen.
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* CallingYourAttacks: The Eight Drunken Gods style. Each of the 8 moves has ''its own verse.'' Played for laughs later when Fei-Hong, failing to master Lady Ho's ''kata'', makes up some bullshit moves and lines of his own.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: TheDragon actually looks concerned when he notices that Fei-Hong has started chugging ''industrial alcohol'' in the finale.
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* VomitIndiscretionShot: It's not till the final fight that we get one, which is a little odd considering how many times Fei-Hong drinks. Likely because it's treated as TheGlovesComeOff.
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* CombatPragmatist: Fei-Hong is not above kicking dirt in his opponents' faces, or whipping them with serrated splintered bamboo. The bad guys, being bad guys, naturally take it further by dropping coal tippers and ''lit alcohol'' on him in the finale.
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* ConvectionShmonvection: All over the place in the final battle in the foundry. ''And those fires are all real!''
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* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: EverybodyWasKungFuFighting in this time due to the spread of martial arts, though this girl from the marketplace who sells live animals like snakes has yet to sit down for formal lessons. She's shown doing badly at the end of the axe gang ambush, but when they start StormingTheCastle in the finale, everyone lends a hand while the girl... [[AbnormalAmmo throws live snakes at the guards.]]
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* AwesomeButImpractical: Fei-Hong fights with a massive bamboo that starts splintering from the impact into a mess of serrated edges that can cause genuine harm, not just to opponents but the person holding it. Long story short, you don't want to try this at home.
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* EpicFlail: One of the thugs in the foundry fight lights a chain on fire, and uses it on Fei-Hong.
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* SacrificialLion: Master Fu, the imperial officer and master martial artist who was just out to get back an imperial seal (and the closest thing to a BigGood in this movie), is shot dead by the bad guys before the final battle.
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* KungShui: The axe gang ambush. It's Jackie Chan so you fully expect him to use the tables and benches, but Law Kar-Leung as Master Fu takes this to destructive levels, from breaking off wooden railings for his own use to ''[[UpToEleven smashing an entire staircase!]]''
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* ShirtlessScene: When ambushed by an axe gang from all sides, Master Fu makes Fei-Hong take his shirt off, then covers him in oil to make it harder to grab him.
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* ContinuityNod: The return of the Eight Drunken Gods style, down to the whole thing with treating Lady Ho as the JokeCharacter.
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* SatchelSwitcheroo: The drama starts when Fei-Hong tries to recover a priceless ginseng at the same time that Master Fu is trying to recover an imperial seal - both of which are packaged in the exact same fashion.
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* SoLastSeason: Invoked and subverted - Fei-Hong breaks out the Eight Drunken Gods style relatively early in his first real fight with the villains, but TheDragon wasn't present for that one, and it doesn't matter anyway because Fei-Hong in the final fight just chains one move after another without CallingYourAttacks, to create one long NoHoldsBarredBeatdown.
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* TheCameo: Bill Tung, Jackie's longtime costar from the ''Film/PoliceStory'' movies, appears at the end [[ActorAllusion as a police chief.]]
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* TheQuisling: There's a lot of Chinese thugs working for the English ambassador in his artifact-smuggling racket.
* ShamefulStrip: The villains find Fei-Hong after he's OD'ed on alcohol and vulnerable, then beat him into the floor before stripping him naked and literally stringing him up to be found the next day.
* ShamefulStrip: The villains find Fei-Hong after he's OD'ed on alcohol and vulnerable, then beat him into the floor before stripping him naked and literally stringing him up to be found the next day.
