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* IllGirl: Lei Tai’s daughter and only child, which have health issues and requires surgery in the United States (which is the catalyst for Lei accepting the mission).
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* KnifeNut: Sing, who uses throwing knives or machetes in more than one occasion.
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* MacheteMayhem: Luo and Sing both favors using machetes as melee weapons, especially Sing the KnifeNut. [[spoiler: In fact their final confrontation consist the two of them using their own machetes to hack each other to bits]]
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* MacheteMayhem: Luo and Sing both favors using machetes as melee weapons, especially Sing the KnifeNut.Sing. [[spoiler: In fact their final confrontation consist the two of them using their own machetes to hack each other to bits]]
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* BadassMoustache: Some of the mercenaries, such as Luo-Li and Lei-Tai.
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* BeautyIsBad: He Ying may be the evillest character in the entire movie, but she’s pretty easy on the eyes too. Being played by Hong Kong supermodel and ex-pageant Candice (On-On) Yu probably helps.
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* BeautyIsBad: He Ying may be the evillest character in the entire movie, but she’s pretty easy on the eyes too. Being played by Hong Kong supermodel and ex-pageant [[http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/gallery.asp?pid=1435&fid=2245&type=1&id=34065#pic Candice (On-On) Yu Yu]] probably helps.
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''Merceneries From Hong Kong'' is a 1982 Hong Kong (duh) action film with an EnsembleCast, starring Creator/TiLung, Lo Lieh, Michael Chan, Wong Yue and various Creator/ShawBrothers alumni as the titular mercenary team.
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''Merceneries From Hong Kong'' is a 1982 Hong Kong (duh) action film with an EnsembleCast, starring Creator/TiLung, Lo Lieh, Michael Chan, Creator/LoLieh, Creator/MichaelChan, Wong Yue and various Creator/ShawBrothers alumni as the titular mercenary team.
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''Merceneries From Hong Kong'' is a 1982 Hong Kong (duh) action film with an EnsembleCast, starring Creator/TiLung, Lo Lieh, Michael Chan, Wong Yue and various Shaw Brothers alumni as the titular mercenary team.
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''Merceneries From Hong Kong'' is a 1982 Hong Kong (duh) action film with an EnsembleCast, starring Creator/TiLung, Lo Lieh, Michael Chan, Wong Yue and various Shaw Brothers Creator/ShawBrothers alumni as the titular mercenary team.
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''Merceneries From Hong Kong'' is a 1982 Hong Kong (duh) action film with an EnsembleCast, starring Ti Lung, Lo Lieh, Michael Chan, Wong Yue and various Shaw Brothers alumni as the titular mercenary team.
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''Merceneries From Hong Kong'' is a 1982 Hong Kong (duh) action film with an EnsembleCast, starring Ti Lung, Creator/TiLung, Lo Lieh, Michael Chan, Wong Yue and various Shaw Brothers alumni as the titular mercenary team.
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* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler: Sing, formerly Luo’s best friend and most trusted ally, only to be seduced by Madam Ying’s promises of wealth and fame and turning on his allies]].
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* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler: Sing, formerly Luo’s best friend and most trusted ally, only to be seduced by Madam He Ying’s promises of wealth and fame and turning on his allies]].
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Curry may be a prankster and the team's comic relief, but wheb it comes to killing mooks he's damm good at taking names like the rest of the mercenaries.
* BoobyTrap: The jungle path to the guerilla village is littered with these, including pitfalls, spike traps, garottes and similar obstacles.
* BoobyTrap: The jungle path to the guerilla village is littered with these, including pitfalls, spike traps, garottes and similar obstacles.
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Curry may be a prankster and the team's comic relief, but wheb when it comes to killing mooks he's damm damn good at taking names like the rest of the mercenaries.
* BoobyTrap: The jungle path to theguerilla guerrilla village is littered with these, including pitfalls, spike traps, garottes and similar obstacles.
* BoobyTrap: The jungle path to the
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* ImpromptuTracheotomy: The guerilla leader is killed when Sing shoves the tip of an Uzi into his mouth and pulls the trigger while pointing at his throat. [[GoryDiscretionShot We didn’t see the aftermath however, just hearing the gunshots while the camera focus on Sing’s face]].
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* ImpromptuTracheotomy: The guerilla guerrilla leader is killed when Sing shoves the tip of an Uzi into his mouth and pulls the trigger while pointing at his throat. [[GoryDiscretionShot We didn’t see the aftermath however, just hearing the gunshots while the camera focus on Sing’s face]].
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* PeekabooCorpse: Upon reaching the guerilla village, the mercenaries are greeted by the rotting, skeletal remains of a victim impaled on a spike trap.
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* PeekabooCorpse: Upon reaching the guerilla guerrilla village, the mercenaries are greeted by the rotting, skeletal remains of a victim impaled on a spike trap.
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* BeautyIsBad: He Ying may be the evillest character in the entire movie, but she’s pretty easy on the eyes too. Being played by Hong Kong supermodel and ex-pageant Candice Yu probably helps.
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* BeautyIsBad: He Ying may be the evillest character in the entire movie, but she’s pretty easy on the eyes too. Being played by Hong Kong supermodel and ex-pageant Candice (On-On) Yu probably helps.
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When the opportunity for one last, massive paycheck from Madam Ho Ying - the rich heiress and only child of a recently-murdered Hong Kong tycoon - invites Luo to reassemble his gang for a mission to investigate her father's demise, the team is more than eager to accept it, either for financial reasons or as a chance to re-live their glory days. But after arriving in the hostile jungles of South-East Asia, they discover their mission isn't what it initially seems.
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When the opportunity for one last, massive paycheck from Madam Ho He Ying - the rich heiress and only child of a recently-murdered Hong Kong tycoon - invites Luo to reassemble his gang for a mission to investigate her father's demise, the team is more than eager to accept it, either for financial reasons or as a chance to re-live their glory days. But after arriving in the hostile jungles of South-East Asia, they discover their mission isn't what it initially seems.
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When the opportunity for one last, massive paycheck from He Ying - the rich heiress and only child of a recently-murdered Hong Kong tycoon - invites Luo to reassemble his gang for a mission to investigate her father's demise, the team is more than eager to accept it, either for financial reasons or as a chance to re-live their glory days. But after arriving in the hostile jungles of South-East Asia, they discover their mission isn't what it initially seems.
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When the opportunity for one last, massive paycheck from He Madam Ho Ying - the rich heiress and only child of a recently-murdered Hong Kong tycoon - invites Luo to reassemble his gang for a mission to investigate her father's demise, the team is more than eager to accept it, either for financial reasons or as a chance to re-live their glory days. But after arriving in the hostile jungles of South-East Asia, they discover their mission isn't what it initially seems.
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When the opportunity for one last, massive paycheck from Madam Ying - the rich heiress and only child of a recently-murdered Hong Kong tycoon - invites Luo to reassemble his gang for a mission to investigate her father's demise, the team is more than eager to accept it, either for financial reasons or as a chance to re-live their glory days. But after arriving in the hostile jungles of South-East Asia, they discover their mission isn't what it initially seems.
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When the opportunity for one last, massive paycheck from Madam He Ying - the rich heiress and only child of a recently-murdered Hong Kong tycoon - invites Luo to reassemble his gang for a mission to investigate her father's demise, the team is more than eager to accept it, either for financial reasons or as a chance to re-live their glory days. But after arriving in the hostile jungles of South-East Asia, they discover their mission isn't what it initially seems.
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* BaldOfEvil: Madam Ying's right-hand man and TheDragon, who doesn't bat an eye to follow her orders including [[spoiler: kidnapping a child]].
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* BaldOfEvil: Madam He Ying's right-hand man and TheDragon, who doesn't bat an eye to follow her orders including [[spoiler: kidnapping a child]].
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* BeautyIsBad: Madam Ying may be the evillest character in the entire movie, but she’s pretty easy on the eyes too. Being played by Hong Kong supermodel and ex-pageant Candice Yu probably helps.
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* BeautyIsBad: Madam He Ying may be the evillest character in the entire movie, but she’s pretty easy on the eyes too. Being played by Hong Kong supermodel and ex-pageant Candice Yu probably helps.
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* HateSink: Madam Ying is the most despicable and irredeemable character in the entire story, arranging for her father’s assassination to usurp his wealth, and then hiring the team of desperate, down-on-their-luck ex-commandoes on a suicide mission to eliminate her competition only to have them killed off when they returned. She seduced [[spoiler: Sing]] to join her with money and promises of fame, and then manipulates the entire team of FireForgedFriends to kill each other. Additionally, Ying have NO qualms in subjecting her captives through ColdBloodedTorture, or ordering her mooks to LeaveNoSurvivors. She finally crossed the line by [[spoiler: arranging to have Lei’s daughter to be kidnapped to force Luo out of hiding]], only to ruthlessly [[spoiler: have the child killed anyways]]. She gets a [[spoiler: satisfying KarmicDeath when Luo fires a rocket launcher into her getaway vehicle, the same rocket launcher she supplied to him earlier in the film]]. Luo said it best near the end of the film:
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* HateSink: Madam He Ying is the most despicable and irredeemable character in the entire story, arranging for her father’s assassination to usurp his wealth, and then hiring the team of desperate, down-on-their-luck ex-commandoes on a suicide mission to eliminate her competition only to have them killed off when they returned. She seduced [[spoiler: Sing]] to join her with money and promises of fame, and then manipulates the entire team of FireForgedFriends to kill each other. Additionally, Ying have NO qualms in subjecting her captives through ColdBloodedTorture, or ordering her mooks to LeaveNoSurvivors. She finally crossed the line by [[spoiler: arranging to have Lei’s daughter to be kidnapped to force Luo out of hiding]], only to ruthlessly [[spoiler: have the child killed anyways]]. She gets a [[spoiler: satisfying KarmicDeath when Luo fires a rocket launcher into her getaway vehicle, the same rocket launcher she supplied to him earlier in the film]]. Luo said it best near the end of the film:
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* LockAndLoadMontage: The mercenary team have a rather impressive one after receiving their weapons cache from Madam Ying.
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* LockAndLoadMontage: The mercenary team have a rather impressive one after receiving their weapons cache from Madam He Ying.
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* ManipulativeBitch: Madam Ying, who tricks the entire mercenary team into killing each other after using them to kill off her competition. She also counts as a BitchInSheepsClothing.
* MutualKill: [[spoiler: Curry faces off TheDragon while Luo pursues Madam Ying. TheDragon manage to shoot Curry through the chest, but not before Curry impale his opponent through the gut. While TheDragon dies immediately, Curry on the other hand gets to have a DyingSmirk.]]
* NonActionBigBad: Madam Ying doesn't need to lift a finger to make her the greatest threat to the mercenaries' lives.
* OhCrap: Madam Ying have a really obvious one on her face (complete with VertigoEffect zooming in on her) when [[spoiler: Luo blasts that manipulative, double-crossing, sadistic bitch from hell back to where she belongs with a rocket launcher]].
* MutualKill: [[spoiler: Curry faces off TheDragon while Luo pursues Madam Ying. TheDragon manage to shoot Curry through the chest, but not before Curry impale his opponent through the gut. While TheDragon dies immediately, Curry on the other hand gets to have a DyingSmirk.]]
* NonActionBigBad: Madam Ying doesn't need to lift a finger to make her the greatest threat to the mercenaries' lives.
* OhCrap: Madam Ying have a really obvious one on her face (complete with VertigoEffect zooming in on her) when [[spoiler: Luo blasts that manipulative, double-crossing, sadistic bitch from hell back to where she belongs with a rocket launcher]].
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* ManipulativeBitch: Madam He Ying, who tricks the entire mercenary team into killing each other after using them to kill off her competition. She also counts as a BitchInSheepsClothing.
* MutualKill: [[spoiler: Curry faces off TheDragon while Luo pursuesMadam He Ying. TheDragon manage to shoot Curry through the chest, but not before Curry impale his opponent through the gut. While TheDragon dies immediately, Curry on the other hand gets to have a DyingSmirk.]]
* NonActionBigBad:Madam He Ying doesn't need to lift a finger to make her the greatest threat to the mercenaries' lives.
* OhCrap:Madam He Ying have a really obvious one on her face (complete with VertigoEffect zooming in on her) when [[spoiler: Luo blasts that manipulative, double-crossing, sadistic bitch from hell back to where she belongs with a rocket launcher]].
* MutualKill: [[spoiler: Curry faces off TheDragon while Luo pursues
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* OhCrap:
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* PlayingPossum: Madam Ying's [[TheDragon dragon]] does this more than once to get the drop on the mercenaries, in fact this is how he inflicted a [[spoiler: mortal injury on Lei]].
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* PlayingPossum: Madam He Ying's [[TheDragon dragon]] does this more than once to get the drop on the mercenaries, in fact this is how he inflicted a [[spoiler: mortal injury on Lei]].
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* TheVamp: Madam Ying managed to [[spoiler: convince Sing to turn on his friends with a combination of seducing and bribing him]].
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Madam Ying have one early in the film, long before her true agenda is revealed. This is probably the movie’s way to trick the audience into accepting her as this beautiful and completely innocent lady before surprising them with [[HiddenVillain the twist]].
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Madam Ying have one early in the film, long before her true agenda is revealed. This is probably the movie’s way to trick the audience into accepting her as this beautiful and completely innocent lady before surprising them with [[HiddenVillain the twist]].
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* TheVamp: Madam He Ying managed to [[spoiler: convince Sing to turn on his friends with a combination of seducing and bribing him]].
* WalkingSwimsuitScene:Madam He Ying have one early in the film, long before her true agenda is revealed. This is probably the movie’s way to trick the audience into accepting her as this beautiful and completely innocent lady before surprising them with [[HiddenVillain the twist]].
* WalkingSwimsuitScene:
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* WouldHurtAChild: Madam Ying and her henchman, who goes as far as to [[spoiler: kidnap and kill off Lei's daughter]].
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* WouldHurtAChild: Madam He Ying and her henchman, who goes as far as to [[spoiler: kidnap and kill off Lei's daughter]].
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* BewareTheSillyOnes: Curry may be a prankster and the team's comic relief, but wheb it comes to killing mooks he's damm good at taking names like the rest of the mercenaries.
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* PlayingPossum: Madam Ying's [[TheDragon dragon]] does this more than once to get the drop on the mercenaries, in fact this is how he inflicted a [[spoiler: mortal injury on Lei]].
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* IllGirl: Lei Tai’s daughter and only child, which have health issues and requires heart surgery in the United States (which is the catalyst for Lei accepting the mission).
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* IllGirl: Lei Tai’s daughter and only child, which have health issues and requires heart surgery in the United States (which is the catalyst for Lei accepting the mission).
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* BadassBeard: Some of the mercenaries, such as Luo-Li and Lei-Tai.
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* NonActionBigBad: Madam Ying doesn't need to lift a finger to make her the greatest threat to the mercenaries' lives.
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* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Madam Ying have one early in the film, long before her true agenda is revealed. This is probably the movie’s way to trick the audience into accepting her as this beautiful and completely innocent lady before surprising them with [[HideenVillain the twist]].
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* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Madam Ying have one early in the film, long before her true agenda is revealed. This is probably the movie’s way to trick the audience into accepting her as this beautiful and completely innocent lady before surprising them with [[HideenVillain [[HiddenVillain the twist]].
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* AttackHello: The first thing Luo and Sing did, after seeing each other for the first time in years ever since the war ended, is to whip out machetes and fight for a while until their battle reaches a stalemate, where they then discard their weapons and embrace each other in a hug. [[spoiler: It is subtle {{Foreshadowing}} of their eventual DuelToTheDeath near the end of the film]].
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* PuttingTheBandBackTogetherPuttingTheBandBackTogether: After accepting the mission, Luo seeks out all his friends and gathers them all for the assignment.
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* TroubledBackstoryFlashbackTroubledBackstoryFlashback: Each and every member of the commando team have a quick flashback of their days back in the war, mostly of them fighting and killing guerrillas, before segueing back to their normal, boring civilian lives.
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* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Madam Ying have one early in the film, long before her true agenda is revealed. This is probably the movie’s way to trick the audience into accepting her as this beautiful and completely innocent lady before surprising them with [[VillainReveal the twist]].
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* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Madam Ying have one early in the film, long before her true agenda is revealed. This is probably the movie’s way to trick the audience into accepting her as this beautiful and completely innocent lady before surprising them with [[VillainReveal [[HideenVillain the twist]].
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* KnifeNut: Sing, who uses throwing knives or hatchets in more than one occasion.
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* KnifeNut: Sing, who uses throwing knives or hatchets machetes in more than one occasion.
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* MacheteMayhem: Luo and Sing both favours using machetes as melee weapons, especially Sing the KnifeNut. [[spoiler: In fact their final confrontation consist the two of them using their own machetes to hack each other to bits]]
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* MacheteMayhem: Luo and Sing both favours favors using machetes as melee weapons, especially Sing the KnifeNut. [[spoiler: In fact their final confrontation consist the two of them using their own machetes to hack each other to bits]]
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* PeekabooCorpse: Upon reaching the guerilla village, the merceneries are greeted by the rotting, skeletal remains of a victim impaled on a spike trap.
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* PeekabooCorpse: Upon reaching the guerilla village, the merceneries mercenaries are greeted by the rotting, skeletal remains of a victim impaled on a spike trap.
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* RetiredBadass: The entire mercenary team, naturally. They consist of ex-soldiers and former commandoes, whom have left the battlefield years ago only to accept one last mission for a paycheck.
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* RetiredBadass: The entire mercenary team, naturally. They consist of ex-soldiers and former commandoes, commandos, whom have left the battlefield years ago only to accept one last mission for a paycheck.
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* TakeCareOfTheKids: [[The final words of the mortally-wounded Lei, before Luo is forced to deliver a MercyKill, is to take care of his cancer-stricken daughter by using his last paycheck to fund her operation in the United States. Sadly, that doesn’t happen]].
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* TakeCareOfTheKids: [[The [[spoiler: The final words of the mortally-wounded Lei, before Luo is forced to deliver a MercyKill, is to take care of his cancer-stricken daughter by using his last paycheck to fund her operation in the United States. Sadly, that doesn’t happen]].
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* HateSink: Madam Ying is the most despicable and irredeemable character in the entire story, arranging for her father’s assassination to usurp his wealth, and then hiring the team of desperate, down-on-their-luck ex-commandoes on a suicide mission to eliminate her competition only to have them killed off when they returned. She seduced [[spoiler: Sing]] to join her with money and promises of fame, and then manipulates the entire team of FireForgedFriends to kill each other. Additionally, Ying have NO qualms in subjecting her captives through ColdBloodedTorture, or ordering her mooks to LeaveNoSurvivors. She finally crossed the line by [[spoiler: arranging to have Lei’s daughter to be kidnapped to force Luo out of hiding]], only to ruthlessly [[spoiler: have the child killed anyways]]. She gets a [[spoiler: satisfying KarmicDeath when Luo fires a rocket launcher into her getaway vehicle]]. Luo said it best near the end of the film:
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* HateSink: Madam Ying is the most despicable and irredeemable character in the entire story, arranging for her father’s assassination to usurp his wealth, and then hiring the team of desperate, down-on-their-luck ex-commandoes on a suicide mission to eliminate her competition only to have them killed off when they returned. She seduced [[spoiler: Sing]] to join her with money and promises of fame, and then manipulates the entire team of FireForgedFriends to kill each other. Additionally, Ying have NO qualms in subjecting her captives through ColdBloodedTorture, or ordering her mooks to LeaveNoSurvivors. She finally crossed the line by [[spoiler: arranging to have Lei’s daughter to be kidnapped to force Luo out of hiding]], only to ruthlessly [[spoiler: have the child killed anyways]]. She gets a [[spoiler: satisfying KarmicDeath when Luo fires a rocket launcher into her getaway vehicle]].vehicle, the same rocket launcher she supplied to him earlier in the film]]. Luo said it best near the end of the film:
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SlashedThroat: More than one mook suffers this fate, and also [[spoiler: Sing]].
*StuffBlowingUpStuffBlowingUp: Loads and loads of explosions all over the place throughout the movie, but especially at the end of the guerrilla camp raid, when the mercenaries detonates every explosive they installed, turning the bunkers, barracks, and weapons cache into chains of explosions.
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* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkillThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Many in the film, but special mention goes to the guerrilla commander who gets an entire clip of Uzi fired into his throat.
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WorkoutFanservice: The movie opens with Luo-Li working out in his apartment. In a tight-fitting singlet that reveals his abs, and speedos.
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* BadassBeard: Some of the mercenaries, such as Luo-Li and Lei-Tai.
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* BatterUpBaldOfEvil: Madam Ying's right-hand man and TheDragon, who doesn't bat an eye to follow her orders including [[spoiler: kidnapping a child]].
* BatterUp: One scene had the mercenary team being cornered in a parking lot by a small band of gangsters. The mercenaries responds by taking out aluminum bats from the boot of Sing's vehicle and going crazy with them.
* BatterUp: One scene had the mercenary team being cornered in a parking lot by a small band of gangsters. The mercenaries responds by taking out aluminum bats from the boot of Sing's vehicle and going crazy with them.
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ChefOfIron: Sing works as a chef when he's not taking names and kicking ass.
*DeadManWriting:
DeadManWriting: Blanche, one of the mercenaries, is discovered strangled to death, and his last actions appears to be writing a blood message of the murderer's identity, which Lei thought was Curry. [[spoiler: Turns out it was Sing. Their names, in Chinese alphabets, starts with a rectangular symbol]].
*DiesWideOpenDiesWideOpen: [[spoiler: Sing managed a mournful gaze into Luo as he dies, from an artery slash from Luo]].
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KnifeNut: Sing, who uses throwing knives or hatchets in more than one occasion.
*LockAndLoadMontageLetsFightLikeGentlemen: The final DuelToTheDeath between Luo and [[spoiler: Sing]]. The latter have his machine gun trained at Luo, but considering Luo to be a WorthyOpponent, and for old time's sake, they promptly decide to duke it out with machetes instead.
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Hong Kong's attempt at Film/TheWildGeese, with ALL the explosions.
''Merceneries From Hong Kong'' is a 1982 Hong Kong (duh) action film with an EnsembleCast, starring Ti Lung, Lo Lieh, Michael Chan, Wong Yue and various Shaw Brothers alumni as the titular mercenary team.
A band of former commandos from the Sino-Vietnamese war, the titular mercenery gang have since left the days of killing behind, living relatively normal lives in Hong Kong. Former Corporal Luo Li still works as a hitman, Sergeant Ruan Nam-Sing now works as a chef, Lieutenant Lei Tai struggles as a single father with a terminally ill child, the youngest Private "Curry" works in a mechanic workshop, while the rest of the crew have since disbanded.
When the opportunity for one last, massive paycheck from Madam Ying - the rich heiress and only child of a recently-murdered Hong Kong tycoon - invites Luo to reassemble his gang for a mission to investigate her father's demise, the team is more than eager to accept it, either for financial reasons or as a chance to re-live their glory days. But after arriving in the hostile jungles of South-East Asia, they discover their mission isn't what it initially seems.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Luo is the only named character left alive by the end of the movie]]. Keep in mind this is a film with an EnsembleCast of up to dozens.
* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: The assault on the guerilla camp starts with the mercenary team rushing out, guns-a-blazing, killing the first wave of guerillas… and then they promptly retreat into a nearby bunker when trucks containing guerilla reinforcements arrives.
* BadassBiker: In the opening action scene Luo gets ambushed by a team of bikers after executing a drug lord. Later on, the mercenary team can be seen favouring motorcycles as transports.
* BadassCrew: The entire mercenary team, who may be retired soldiers, but can kick all kinds of ass.
* BatterUp
* BeautyIsBad: Madam Ying may be the evillest character in the entire movie, but she’s pretty easy on the eyes too. Being played by Hong Kong supermodel and ex-pageant Candice Yu probably helps.
* BoobyTrap: The jungle path to the guerilla village is littered with these, including pitfalls, spike traps, garottes and similar obstacles.
* ChefOfIron:
* DeadManWriting:
* DiesWideOpen
* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler: Sing, formerly Luo’s best friend and most trusted ally, only to be seduced by Madam Ying’s promises of wealth and fame and turning on his allies]].
* HateSink: Madam Ying is the most despicable and irredeemable character in the entire story, arranging for her father’s assassination to usurp his wealth, and then hiring the team of desperate, down-on-their-luck ex-commandoes on a suicide mission to eliminate her competition only to have them killed off when they returned. She seduced [[spoiler: Sing]] to join her with money and promises of fame, and then manipulates the entire team of FireForgedFriends to kill each other. Additionally, Ying have NO qualms in subjecting her captives through ColdBloodedTorture, or ordering her mooks to LeaveNoSurvivors. She finally crossed the line by [[spoiler: arranging to have Lei’s daughter to be kidnapped to force Luo out of hiding]], only to ruthlessly [[spoiler: have the child killed anyways]]. She gets a [[spoiler: satisfying KarmicDeath when Luo fires a rocket launcher into her getaway vehicle]]. Luo said it best near the end of the film:
“You’re the sickest bitch I’ve ever laid eyes upon!”
* IHaveAFamily: Lei’s reason for taking on the mission, which is to fund his sick daughter’s cancer operation.
* IllGirl: Lei Tai’s daughter and only child, which have health issues and requires heart surgery in the United States (which is the catalyst for Lei accepting the mission).
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: The guerilla leader is killed when Sing shoves the tip of an Uzi into his mouth and pulls the trigger while pointing at his throat. [[GoryDiscretionShot We didn’t see the aftermath however, just hearing the gunshots while the camera focus on Sing’s face]].
* JadedWashout: Most of the mercenaries counts, which is the reason of their acceptance of the mission. Especially Sing, who still wishes he’s still back in the good ol’ days as a commando.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Lei’s daughter, the cancer-stricken innocent child doesn’t outlive the credits.]] [[spoiler: Curry, the youngest mercenary member, may also count, although he gets his own DyingMomentOfAwesome]].
* KnifeNut
* LockAndLoadMontage
* TheManBehindTheMan: Or The Woman Behind The Man, to be precise.
* MacheteMayhem
* ManipulativeBitch: Madam Ying, who tricks the entire mercenary team into killing each other after using them to kill off her competition. She also counts as a BitchInSheepsClothing.
* MutualKill: [[spoiler: Curry faces off TheDragon while Luo pursues Madam Ying. TheDragon manage to shoot Curry through the chest, but not before Curry impale his opponent through the gut. While TheDragon dies immediately, Curry on the other hand gets to have a DyingSmirk.]]
* OhCrap: Madam Ying have a really obvious one on her face (complete with VertigoEffect zooming in on her) when [[spoiler: Luo blasts that manipulative, double-crossing, sadistic bitch from hell back to where she belongs with a rocket launcher]].
* PeekabooCorpse: Upon reaching the guerilla village, the merceneries are greeted by the rotting, skeletal remains of a victim impaled on a spike trap.
* PluckyComicRelief: Curry, the TagalongKid, the youngest and most hilarious mercenary member who likes pranking his teammates and crack jokes every now and then to ease the moment.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether
* RedHerringMole: We are supposed to believe Wen is TheMole because of him being reluctantly forced to join the mercenary team, but later on he [[spoiler: gets killed by an unseen assailant, which is revealed later to be Sing, the real mole]].
* RetiredBadass: The entire mercenary team, naturally. They consist of ex-soldiers and former commandoes, whom have left the battlefield years ago only to accept one last mission for a paycheck.
* SlashedThroat
* StuffBlowingUp
* TakeCareOfTheKids: [[The final words of the mortally-wounded Lei, before Luo is forced to deliver a MercyKill, is to take care of his cancer-stricken daughter by using his last paycheck to fund her operation in the United States. Sadly, that doesn’t happen]].
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill
* TraitorShot: A few of these are focused on [[spoiler: Sing]]. Keep in mind this is before his teammates (or the audience) are aware of his true identity as a traitor, it’s a deliberate form of foreshadowing from the movie itself.
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback
* TheVamp: Madam Ying managed to [[spoiler: convince Sing to turn on his friends with a combination of seducing and bribing him]].
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Madam Ying have one early in the film, long before her true agenda is revealed. This is probably the movie’s way to trick the audience into accepting her as this beautiful and completely innocent lady before surprising them with [[VillainReveal the twist]].
* WorkoutFanservice
* WouldHurtAChild:
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Hong Kong's attempt at Film/TheWildGeese, with ALL the explosions.
''Merceneries From Hong Kong'' is a 1982 Hong Kong (duh) action film with an EnsembleCast, starring Ti Lung, Lo Lieh, Michael Chan, Wong Yue and various Shaw Brothers alumni as the titular mercenary team.
A band of former commandos from the Sino-Vietnamese war, the titular mercenery gang have since left the days of killing behind, living relatively normal lives in Hong Kong. Former Corporal Luo Li still works as a hitman, Sergeant Ruan Nam-Sing now works as a chef, Lieutenant Lei Tai struggles as a single father with a terminally ill child, the youngest Private "Curry" works in a mechanic workshop, while the rest of the crew have since disbanded.
When the opportunity for one last, massive paycheck from Madam Ying - the rich heiress and only child of a recently-murdered Hong Kong tycoon - invites Luo to reassemble his gang for a mission to investigate her father's demise, the team is more than eager to accept it, either for financial reasons or as a chance to re-live their glory days. But after arriving in the hostile jungles of South-East Asia, they discover their mission isn't what it initially seems.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: Luo is the only named character left alive by the end of the movie]]. Keep in mind this is a film with an EnsembleCast of up to dozens.
* AttackAttackRetreatRetreat: The assault on the guerilla camp starts with the mercenary team rushing out, guns-a-blazing, killing the first wave of guerillas… and then they promptly retreat into a nearby bunker when trucks containing guerilla reinforcements arrives.
* BadassBiker: In the opening action scene Luo gets ambushed by a team of bikers after executing a drug lord. Later on, the mercenary team can be seen favouring motorcycles as transports.
* BadassCrew: The entire mercenary team, who may be retired soldiers, but can kick all kinds of ass.
* BatterUp
* BeautyIsBad: Madam Ying may be the evillest character in the entire movie, but she’s pretty easy on the eyes too. Being played by Hong Kong supermodel and ex-pageant Candice Yu probably helps.
* BoobyTrap: The jungle path to the guerilla village is littered with these, including pitfalls, spike traps, garottes and similar obstacles.
* ChefOfIron:
* DeadManWriting:
* DiesWideOpen
* EvilFormerFriend: [[spoiler: Sing, formerly Luo’s best friend and most trusted ally, only to be seduced by Madam Ying’s promises of wealth and fame and turning on his allies]].
* HateSink: Madam Ying is the most despicable and irredeemable character in the entire story, arranging for her father’s assassination to usurp his wealth, and then hiring the team of desperate, down-on-their-luck ex-commandoes on a suicide mission to eliminate her competition only to have them killed off when they returned. She seduced [[spoiler: Sing]] to join her with money and promises of fame, and then manipulates the entire team of FireForgedFriends to kill each other. Additionally, Ying have NO qualms in subjecting her captives through ColdBloodedTorture, or ordering her mooks to LeaveNoSurvivors. She finally crossed the line by [[spoiler: arranging to have Lei’s daughter to be kidnapped to force Luo out of hiding]], only to ruthlessly [[spoiler: have the child killed anyways]]. She gets a [[spoiler: satisfying KarmicDeath when Luo fires a rocket launcher into her getaway vehicle]]. Luo said it best near the end of the film:
“You’re the sickest bitch I’ve ever laid eyes upon!”
* IHaveAFamily: Lei’s reason for taking on the mission, which is to fund his sick daughter’s cancer operation.
* IllGirl: Lei Tai’s daughter and only child, which have health issues and requires heart surgery in the United States (which is the catalyst for Lei accepting the mission).
* ImpromptuTracheotomy: The guerilla leader is killed when Sing shoves the tip of an Uzi into his mouth and pulls the trigger while pointing at his throat. [[GoryDiscretionShot We didn’t see the aftermath however, just hearing the gunshots while the camera focus on Sing’s face]].
* JadedWashout: Most of the mercenaries counts, which is the reason of their acceptance of the mission. Especially Sing, who still wishes he’s still back in the good ol’ days as a commando.
* KillTheCutie: [[spoiler: Lei’s daughter, the cancer-stricken innocent child doesn’t outlive the credits.]] [[spoiler: Curry, the youngest mercenary member, may also count, although he gets his own DyingMomentOfAwesome]].
* KnifeNut
* LockAndLoadMontage
* TheManBehindTheMan: Or The Woman Behind The Man, to be precise.
* MacheteMayhem
* ManipulativeBitch: Madam Ying, who tricks the entire mercenary team into killing each other after using them to kill off her competition. She also counts as a BitchInSheepsClothing.
* MutualKill: [[spoiler: Curry faces off TheDragon while Luo pursues Madam Ying. TheDragon manage to shoot Curry through the chest, but not before Curry impale his opponent through the gut. While TheDragon dies immediately, Curry on the other hand gets to have a DyingSmirk.]]
* OhCrap: Madam Ying have a really obvious one on her face (complete with VertigoEffect zooming in on her) when [[spoiler: Luo blasts that manipulative, double-crossing, sadistic bitch from hell back to where she belongs with a rocket launcher]].
* PeekabooCorpse: Upon reaching the guerilla village, the merceneries are greeted by the rotting, skeletal remains of a victim impaled on a spike trap.
* PluckyComicRelief: Curry, the TagalongKid, the youngest and most hilarious mercenary member who likes pranking his teammates and crack jokes every now and then to ease the moment.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether
* RedHerringMole: We are supposed to believe Wen is TheMole because of him being reluctantly forced to join the mercenary team, but later on he [[spoiler: gets killed by an unseen assailant, which is revealed later to be Sing, the real mole]].
* RetiredBadass: The entire mercenary team, naturally. They consist of ex-soldiers and former commandoes, whom have left the battlefield years ago only to accept one last mission for a paycheck.
* SlashedThroat
* StuffBlowingUp
* TakeCareOfTheKids: [[The final words of the mortally-wounded Lei, before Luo is forced to deliver a MercyKill, is to take care of his cancer-stricken daughter by using his last paycheck to fund her operation in the United States. Sadly, that doesn’t happen]].
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill
* TraitorShot: A few of these are focused on [[spoiler: Sing]]. Keep in mind this is before his teammates (or the audience) are aware of his true identity as a traitor, it’s a deliberate form of foreshadowing from the movie itself.
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback
* TheVamp: Madam Ying managed to [[spoiler: convince Sing to turn on his friends with a combination of seducing and bribing him]].
* WalkingSwimsuitScene: Madam Ying have one early in the film, long before her true agenda is revealed. This is probably the movie’s way to trick the audience into accepting her as this beautiful and completely innocent lady before surprising them with [[VillainReveal the twist]].
* WorkoutFanservice
* WouldHurtAChild:
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