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* BladeOnAStick: Lord Lan-ling's preferred weapon is a spear that ends in a long, deadly-looking curved blade.
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''"The most beautiful meadow of flowers are those who grows atop the dead."''
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* BladeOnAStick: Lord Lan-ling’s preferred weapon is a spear that ends in a long, deadly-looking curved blade.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Fei after the village battle scene when one of the two MookLieutenant land a lethal hit through his gut, before he passed out. Subverted that he regains consciousness and doesn’t die from his injuries, however.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Fei after the village battle scene when one of the two MookLieutenant land a lethal hit through his gut, before he passed out. Subverted that he regains consciousness and doesn’t die from his injuries, however.
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* BladeOnAStick: Lord Lan-ling’s Lan-ling's preferred weapon is a spear that ends in a long, deadly-looking curved blade.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Fei after the village battle scene when one of the two MookLieutenant land a lethal hit through his gut, before he passed out. Subverted that he regains consciousness anddoesn’t doesn't die from his injuries, however.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Fei after the village battle scene when one of the two MookLieutenant land a lethal hit through his gut, before he passed out. Subverted that he regains consciousness and
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* CapeSnag: Or Dress Snag, to be precise. While fighting Lord Lan's personal assassinin the forest battle, Princess Moon gets her long dress caught in some branches rendering her vulnerable for a few seconds.
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* CapeSnag: Or Dress Snag, to be precise. While fighting Lord Lan's personal assassinin assassin in the forest battle, Princess Moon gets her long dress caught in some branches rendering her vulnerable for a few seconds.
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* CoolOldGuy: Lord Moon, the Princess’ father, who can kick loads and loads of ass and kills a dozen assassins in all 3 minutes of his screen time (He’s played by Creator/ChangYi, a former Creator/ShawBrothers martial arts icon).
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* CoolOldGuy: Lord Moon, the Princess’ Princess' father, who can kick loads and loads of ass and kills a dozen assassins in all 3 minutes of his screen time (He’s played by Creator/ChangYi, a former Creator/ShawBrothers martial arts icon).
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* HeroicDolphin: Fei’s CoolPet is his orca, who helps him while he’s diving for fish. It’s probably no coincidence that this movie comes out 6 months after Film/FreeWilly.
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* HeroicDolphin: Fei’s CoolPet pet is his orca, who helps him while he’s diving for fish. It’s probably no coincidence that this movie comes out 6 months after Film/FreeWilly.
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* CoolHat: Xian wears a cool straw hat complete with transparent MysteriousVeil covering her face. It only makes her more beautiful than she already is.
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* CoolOldGuy: Lord Moon, the Princess’ father, who can kick loads and loads of ass and kills a dozen assassins in all 3 minutes of his screen time (He’s played by Chang Yi, a former Shaw Brothers martial arts icon).
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* CoolOldGuy: Lord Moon, the Princess’ father, who can kick loads and loads of ass and kills a dozen assassins in all 3 minutes of his screen time (He’s played by Chang Yi, Creator/ChangYi, a former Shaw Brothers Creator/ShawBrothers martial arts icon).
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* BodyguardCrush: Fei is the bodyguard of Princess Moon when they end up separated after an attempt at her life. Guess how it turns out.
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** Fei is a CaptainErsatz of Yang Guo, a character portrayed by Andy Lau in his earlier television series, Return of the Condor Heroes.
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** Fei is a CaptainErsatz of Yang Guo, ''Yang Guo'', a character portrayed by Andy Lau in his earlier television series, Return ''Return of the Condor Heroes.Heroes''.
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* ItsPersonal: Fei's vendetta against Lord Lan is now mano-on-mano because [[spoiler: Lord Lan ordered to LEaveNoSurvivors, culminating in Fei's entire village getting massacred]].
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* ItsPersonal: Fei's vendetta against Lord Lan is now mano-on-mano because [[spoiler: Lord Lan ordered to LEaveNoSurvivors, LeaveNoSurvivors, culminating in Fei's entire village getting massacred]].
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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks:
* ShieldBearingMook: Some of the enemy soldiers are armed with shields and pikes. To bypass them, Fei and Xian would either stomp on their shields and make them fall down, or summersault over their shields and attack from behind.
* ShieldBearingMook: Some of the enemy soldiers are armed with shields and pikes. To bypass them, Fei and Xian would either stomp on their shields and make them fall down, or summersault over their shields and attack from behind.
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* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks:
ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Happens more than once to various mooks in the movie, although subverted in the ImpaledPalm example above.
* ShieldBearingMook: Some of the enemy soldiers are armed with shields and pikes. To bypass them, Fei and Xian would either stomp on their shields and make them fall down, orsummersault somersault over their shields and attack from behind.
* ShieldBearingMook: Some of the enemy soldiers are armed with shields and pikes. To bypass them, Fei and Xian would either stomp on their shields and make them fall down, or
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* NoGoodDeedsGoesUnpunished: Fei saved the Prince's life and helped him reunite with the Princess as well as regain the royal seal for his throne. [[spoiler: He ends up getting a bounty on his head, where a legion of Lord Lan's assassins follows him back to the fishing village and kills everyone living in it]].
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* NoGoodDeedsGoesUnpunished: NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Fei saved the Prince's life and helped him reunite with the Princess as well as regain the royal seal for his throne. [[spoiler: He ends up getting a bounty on his head, where a legion of Lord Lan's assassins follows him back to the fishing village and kills everyone living in it]].
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* CoolHat: Xian wears a cool straw hat complete with transparent MysteriousVeil covering her face. It only makes her more beautiful than she already is.
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DarkActionGirl: Lord Lan's personal assassin and henchwoman. The audience doesn't know she's a lady when she first shows up trying to kill Fei and the Princess, until she reports of her failure back to Lord Lan and [[SamusIsAGirl we hear her speak]].
*DefrostingIceQueenDefrostingIceQueen: Princess Moon starts off a bit spoiled and over-pampered, before warming up to Fei eventually.
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* OneManArmyOneManArmy: Fei and Xian can fight scores of mooks on their own. Fei becomes one literally when [[spoiler: he's all alone trying to stop an army of assassins coming to kill everyone in his village. And failing]].
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* NoGoodDeedsGoesUnpunishedMuggedForDisguise: In one scene, many of Princess Moon's handmaidens wanders a bit too far to the corner of a field. A few seconds later the camera pans to show a dozen dead handmaidens, and a dozen assassins DisguisedInDrag with the handmaiden's scarves coming for the princess.
* NoGoodDeedsGoesUnpunished: Fei saved the Prince's life and helped him reunite with the Princess as well as regain the royal seal for his throne. [[spoiler: He ends up getting a bounty on his head, where a legion of Lord Lan's assassins follows him back to the fishing village and kills everyone living in it]].
* NoGoodDeedsGoesUnpunished: Fei saved the Prince's life and helped him reunite with the Princess as well as regain the royal seal for his throne. [[spoiler: He ends up getting a bounty on his head, where a legion of Lord Lan's assassins follows him back to the fishing village and kills everyone living in it]].
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* ActionGirl
ActionGirl: Xian'er, the Prince's personal bodyguard and most loyal warrior, who had no problem fighting hordes and hordes of mooks.
*ArcWords
ArcWords: The above page quote is spoken by Fei, when he and Princess Moon crosses a small meadow in which the mausoleum is located underneath. [[spoiler: It becomes an IronicEcho when, in the epilogue following a brief TimeSkip, an older Fei returns to the same meadow where Xian and Princess Moon had died in the mausoleum underneath, and this time the meadow is blooming entirely with beautiful flowers]].
*BackToBackBadasses:BackToBackBadasses: Fei and Xian during their first meeting, and later with [[BattleCouple Princess Moon]] when they're on their own in the woods.
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* CapeSnagCapeSnag: Or Dress Snag, to be precise. While fighting Lord Lan's personal assassinin the forest battle, Princess Moon gets her long dress caught in some branches rendering her vulnerable for a few seconds.
* DoomedHometown: [[spoiler: Fei's fishing village gets destroyed in the end of the movie, with all its inhabitants slaughtered. Even the children]].
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* EyeScream:
EyeScream: Lord Lan gets stabbed in both eyes in the climatic final battle.
*FauxActionGirlFauxActionGirl: Princess Moon. She can fight, and manage to kill three assassins coming at her with her hairpin darts, but one scene later she's seen squirming and whining because this is the [[TheseHandsHaveKilled first time she have killed]] and she's feeling very sick over it.
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* IAteWhat:
IAteWhat: During the campfire, Fei offers Princess Moon a bite of the meat he's roasting over a campfire. The princess takes a nibble and asks what meat it is. It's an anteater. Cue the princess doing a SpitTake.
*ImpaledPalmImpaledPalm: After getting wounded by Lord Lan's personal assassin, Fei, before passing out, tries throwing his sword at the assassin. He only managed to impale her through the palm.
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* ItsPersonal:ItsPersonal: Fei's vendetta against Lord Lan is now mano-on-mano because [[spoiler: Lord Lan ordered to LEaveNoSurvivors, culminating in Fei's entire village getting massacred]].
* OneManArmy
* PiggybackCute: A rare, gender-inverted example, but in the forest battle after Fei gets stabbed by Lord Lan's personal assassin, Princess Moon had to carry Fei on her back out of the forest while pelading for him to wake up.
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* SkewedPriorities
SkewedPriorities: Princess Moon, after surviving her first assassination attempt and barely escaping with her life, before stumbling into the forest alone with Fei. The first thing she did is to complain about the blood on her dress from a dead assassin who fell on her...
*StepIntoTheBlindingFightStepIntoTheBlindingFight:
** The confrontation between Fei and Princess Moon, and Lord Lan's personal assassin, happens late at night, where they pursue each other into a dark cavern lit by a dim torch.
** The climax takes place in an underground mausoleum where visibility is rather poor, combatants have to rely more on their hearing instead of sight.
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** The confrontation between Fei and Princess Moon, and Lord Lan's personal assassin, happens late at night, where they pursue each other into a dark cavern lit by a dim torch.
** The climax takes place in an underground mausoleum where visibility is rather poor, combatants have to rely more on their hearing instead of sight.
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* YouHaveFailedMe
YouHaveFailedMe: Lord Lan, who is a BadBoss, have no qualms executing or abusing his failed minions, including his personal assassin which he spanks repeatedly after she failed to deliver the princess.
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[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/moon_2.jpg]]
''"The most beautiful meadow of flowers are those who grows atop the dead."''
--> ''"Fei''' (portrayed by Creator/AndyLau)
''Moon Warriors'' is a 1993 {{Wuxia}} MartialArtsMovie directed by Creator/SammoHung, starring Creator/AndyLau, Creator/MaggieCheung, Kenny Bee and Anita Mui.
Fei (Andy Lau) is a simple fisherman living in a rural Chinese village in the Ming Dynasty, who saved the life of a Prince during an assassination attempt. Fei is immediately hired by the Prince as a guide to reach the Prince's fiance, Princess Moon, and he is tasked with leading both the Prince and his loyal bodyguard Xian-er (Maggie Cheung) across the wilderness where assassins awaits at every turn. But Fei ends up becoming more involved in the quest than he imagined when he ends up stranded alone with the beautiful Princess Moon (Anita Mui).
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* ActionGirl
* ArcWords
* BackToBackBadasses:
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Princess Moon starts warming up to Fei after they were stuck together in the wilderness while being pursued by enemy assassins. Little did she know their relationship would gradually develop into romance.
* BeneathTheEarth: Much of the climax takes place in a series of underground tombs and mausoleums, filled with the graves of the past emperors and warlords. [[spoiler: It also collapses after the finale, leaving no survivors except Fei]].
* BladeOnAStick: Lord Lan-ling’s preferred weapon is a spear that ends in a long, deadly-looking curved blade.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Fei after the village battle scene when one of the two MookLieutenant land a lethal hit through his gut, before he passed out. Subverted that he regains consciousness and doesn’t die from his injuries, however.
** [[spoiler: Princess Moon moments before her death, before her AnguishedDeclarationOfLove to Fei]].
* CapeSnag
* CloseKnitCommunity: The fishing village where Fei resides, home to less than a hundred people in its relatively small community of fishermen. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, the entire village’s inhabitants get massacred in the ending with Fei as the SoleSurvivor]].
* CoolHat:
*CoolOldGuy: Lord Moon, the Princess’ father, who can kick loads and loads of ass and kills a dozen assassins in all 3 minutes of his screen time (He’s played by Chang Yi, a former Shaw Brothers martial arts icon).
* DarkActionGirl
* DefrostingIceQueen
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Princess Moon succumbs while looking lovingly at Fei, him being the last person she sees before expiring]].
* TheDulcineaEffect: While Fei gets involved into the plot after saving the Prince from assassins, he doesn’t get actively integrated into the quest until Princess Moon steps into his life, at which point he’s hopelessly dedicated to her… [[spoiler: this would eventually result in assassins after him coming into his village to kill everyone in it]].
* {{Expy}}:
** Fei is a CaptainErsatz of Yang Guo, a character portrayed by Andy Lau in his earlier television series, Return of the Condor Heroes.
** As mentioned in HeroicDolphin, Fei’s pet orca is likely inspired by the titular character of Film/FreeWilly.
* EyeScream:
* FauxActionGirl
* ForbiddenRomance: The love story between Fei and Princess Moon, who cannot be fulfilled because Fei is a simple fisherman and Princess Moon is… a, uhm, [[CaptainObvious princess, I think]]. Eventually what separates them is the fact [[spoiler: that Princess Moon doesn’t outlive the credits]].
* HeroicDolphin: Fei’s CoolPet is his orca, who helps him while he’s diving for fish. It’s probably no coincidence that this movie comes out 6 months after Film/FreeWilly.
* HighPressureBlood
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Lord Lan tries to kill Fei in a last, desperate TakingYouWithMe move by throwing his spear towards Fei. While he managed to wound Fei with his throw, he failed to kill his opponent, and instead knock over a section of the cavern causing a chain reaction leading to a massive tombstone falling right on top of him]].
* IAteWhat:
* ImpaledPalm
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
** Right in the opening scene, we have a band of the Prince’s bodyguards getting trapped and assailed by bamboo poles, many of which ends with pointy parts going into flesh with loads and loads of HighPressureBlood.
** [[spoiler: Fei gets impaled by Lord Lan’s flung spear in the ending fight, but through the shoulder. He survives the movie]].
* ItsPersonal:
* OffWithHisHead: Lord Lan executes a henchman who failed his mission in this manner. Using a bow (The bowstring is apparently made of RazorFloss).
* LongHairedPrettyboy: The main character and TheHero, Fei. Given the Ming Dynasty setting its expected, but in several scenes the camera seems to focus a lot on his long, flowing hair.
* LudicrousPrecision: Downplayed, but in the end Fei’s RoaringRampageOfRevenge is for the [[spoiler: 89 villagers killed by Lord Lan’s assassins]].
* NoGoodDeedsGoesUnpunished
* OneHitPolykill: Fei battling the two MookLieutenant leading the wave of soldiers hell-bent on killing everyone in his village ends when Fei manage to impale both of them, one at a time, on his sword, although he gets wounded in the process.
* RescueRomance: Princess Moon starts falling for Fei after he saved her from the legion assassins sent after her.
* SquashedFlat: [[spoiler: The BigBad Lord Lan dies this way, getting crushed by a collapsing tombstone]].
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks:
* ShieldBearingMook: Some of the enemy soldiers are armed with shields and pikes. To bypass them, Fei and Xian would either stomp on their shields and make them fall down, or summersault over their shields and attack from behind.
* SkewedPriorities
* StepIntoTheBlindingFight
* TheUsurper: The BigBad Lord Lan is after his brother the Prince’s throne, and is willing to hire elite assassins which serves to make life difficult for the good guys.
* WireFu: Most of the leaping stunts and summersaulting moves throughout the film are achieved with this effect. The characters likes to jump everywhere.
* WouldHurtAChild: The assassins sent to massacre the village leaves literally no survivors. Not even children! In fact, one shot lingers a little too uncomfortably long on a dead little girl whose throat was slashed open…
* YouHaveFailedMe
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''"The most beautiful meadow of flowers are those who grows atop the dead."''
--> ''"Fei''' (portrayed by Creator/AndyLau)
''Moon Warriors'' is a 1993 {{Wuxia}} MartialArtsMovie directed by Creator/SammoHung, starring Creator/AndyLau, Creator/MaggieCheung, Kenny Bee and Anita Mui.
Fei (Andy Lau) is a simple fisherman living in a rural Chinese village in the Ming Dynasty, who saved the life of a Prince during an assassination attempt. Fei is immediately hired by the Prince as a guide to reach the Prince's fiance, Princess Moon, and he is tasked with leading both the Prince and his loyal bodyguard Xian-er (Maggie Cheung) across the wilderness where assassins awaits at every turn. But Fei ends up becoming more involved in the quest than he imagined when he ends up stranded alone with the beautiful Princess Moon (Anita Mui).
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!!This movie contains examples of:
* ActionGirl
* ArcWords
* BackToBackBadasses:
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Princess Moon starts warming up to Fei after they were stuck together in the wilderness while being pursued by enemy assassins. Little did she know their relationship would gradually develop into romance.
* BeneathTheEarth: Much of the climax takes place in a series of underground tombs and mausoleums, filled with the graves of the past emperors and warlords. [[spoiler: It also collapses after the finale, leaving no survivors except Fei]].
* BladeOnAStick: Lord Lan-ling’s preferred weapon is a spear that ends in a long, deadly-looking curved blade.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Fei after the village battle scene when one of the two MookLieutenant land a lethal hit through his gut, before he passed out. Subverted that he regains consciousness and doesn’t die from his injuries, however.
** [[spoiler: Princess Moon moments before her death, before her AnguishedDeclarationOfLove to Fei]].
* CapeSnag
* CloseKnitCommunity: The fishing village where Fei resides, home to less than a hundred people in its relatively small community of fishermen. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, the entire village’s inhabitants get massacred in the ending with Fei as the SoleSurvivor]].
* CoolHat:
*CoolOldGuy: Lord Moon, the Princess’ father, who can kick loads and loads of ass and kills a dozen assassins in all 3 minutes of his screen time (He’s played by Chang Yi, a former Shaw Brothers martial arts icon).
* DarkActionGirl
* DefrostingIceQueen
* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Princess Moon succumbs while looking lovingly at Fei, him being the last person she sees before expiring]].
* TheDulcineaEffect: While Fei gets involved into the plot after saving the Prince from assassins, he doesn’t get actively integrated into the quest until Princess Moon steps into his life, at which point he’s hopelessly dedicated to her… [[spoiler: this would eventually result in assassins after him coming into his village to kill everyone in it]].
* {{Expy}}:
** Fei is a CaptainErsatz of Yang Guo, a character portrayed by Andy Lau in his earlier television series, Return of the Condor Heroes.
** As mentioned in HeroicDolphin, Fei’s pet orca is likely inspired by the titular character of Film/FreeWilly.
* EyeScream:
* FauxActionGirl
* ForbiddenRomance: The love story between Fei and Princess Moon, who cannot be fulfilled because Fei is a simple fisherman and Princess Moon is… a, uhm, [[CaptainObvious princess, I think]]. Eventually what separates them is the fact [[spoiler: that Princess Moon doesn’t outlive the credits]].
* HeroicDolphin: Fei’s CoolPet is his orca, who helps him while he’s diving for fish. It’s probably no coincidence that this movie comes out 6 months after Film/FreeWilly.
* HighPressureBlood
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: Lord Lan tries to kill Fei in a last, desperate TakingYouWithMe move by throwing his spear towards Fei. While he managed to wound Fei with his throw, he failed to kill his opponent, and instead knock over a section of the cavern causing a chain reaction leading to a massive tombstone falling right on top of him]].
* IAteWhat:
* ImpaledPalm
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice:
** Right in the opening scene, we have a band of the Prince’s bodyguards getting trapped and assailed by bamboo poles, many of which ends with pointy parts going into flesh with loads and loads of HighPressureBlood.
** [[spoiler: Fei gets impaled by Lord Lan’s flung spear in the ending fight, but through the shoulder. He survives the movie]].
* ItsPersonal:
* OffWithHisHead: Lord Lan executes a henchman who failed his mission in this manner. Using a bow (The bowstring is apparently made of RazorFloss).
* LongHairedPrettyboy: The main character and TheHero, Fei. Given the Ming Dynasty setting its expected, but in several scenes the camera seems to focus a lot on his long, flowing hair.
* LudicrousPrecision: Downplayed, but in the end Fei’s RoaringRampageOfRevenge is for the [[spoiler: 89 villagers killed by Lord Lan’s assassins]].
* NoGoodDeedsGoesUnpunished
* OneHitPolykill: Fei battling the two MookLieutenant leading the wave of soldiers hell-bent on killing everyone in his village ends when Fei manage to impale both of them, one at a time, on his sword, although he gets wounded in the process.
* RescueRomance: Princess Moon starts falling for Fei after he saved her from the legion assassins sent after her.
* SquashedFlat: [[spoiler: The BigBad Lord Lan dies this way, getting crushed by a collapsing tombstone]].
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks:
* ShieldBearingMook: Some of the enemy soldiers are armed with shields and pikes. To bypass them, Fei and Xian would either stomp on their shields and make them fall down, or summersault over their shields and attack from behind.
* SkewedPriorities
* StepIntoTheBlindingFight
* TheUsurper: The BigBad Lord Lan is after his brother the Prince’s throne, and is willing to hire elite assassins which serves to make life difficult for the good guys.
* WireFu: Most of the leaping stunts and summersaulting moves throughout the film are achieved with this effect. The characters likes to jump everywhere.
* WouldHurtAChild: The assassins sent to massacre the village leaves literally no survivors. Not even children! In fact, one shot lingers a little too uncomfortably long on a dead little girl whose throat was slashed open…
* YouHaveFailedMe
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