History Film / MulanRiseOfAWarrior

* AnyoneCanDie: Beside Mulan and Wentai, no one is safe.
* ArcWords: "Emotion is decimating on the battlefield."
* ArchEnemy: Mulan has Mengdu, TheEvilPrince leading the armies against China.

* BattleCouple: Mulan and Wentai, although their relationship consists primarily of lots of {{UST}} and bottled-up feelings for each other.
* BeautifulDreamer: Wentai has a sequence like this when Mulan is recovering from her wounds and he is tending to her.

* CavalryRefusal: [[spoiler: The reason Mulan's DefensiveFeintTrap fails.]]
* DefensiveFeintTrap: Mulan plans one in the final battle. [[spoiler:It fails due to CavalryRefusal.]]

* DressingAsTheEnemy: Mulan does this to infiltrate the Rouran camp.

* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Wentai, who uses this to make sure Mulan hardens her heart whenever she fights in battle.]]

* GoodScarsEvilScars: Wentai get one after a battle with the Rourans.
* HeroicBSOD: Mulan has one after [[spoiler: Wentai is apparently killed.]]

* HeldGaze: Mulan and Wentai, especially in the final scenes.
* HonorBeforeReason: As this is a Chinese film, there are several moments that may look like this to the Western viewer.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Turtle was initially a spoiled brat, but when his uncle died, he stopped being one, [[spoiler: even going out to try to save Tiger before being killed by the Rourans.]]

* PlatonicLifePartners: Mulan and Tiger (although depending on you [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation interpretation]], this could be a case of Tiger being an UnluckyChildhoodFriend and Mulan being ObliviousToLove).

* RainOfArrows: Used by both Rouran and Wei army to great effect.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: Mengdu, the bloodthirsty Rouran prince, and [[spoiler: Wentai, seventh prince of Wei, deputy leader of the camp, later general.]]

* SecretKeeper: Mulan's friend Tiger (Xiaohu).
* SpoiledBrat: Turtle in the beginning. His uncle was the leader of the camp. When he found out his gem plate was missing, he threatened his companions with death sentences.
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler:Mulan and Wentai]].
* TheStarscream / {{Patricide}}: [[spoiler: Mengdu murders his father so he can take over leadership of the Rouran.]]
* SweetPollyOliver: Mulan

* WhatTheHellHero: After Mulan has her HeroicBSOD and neglects training the soldiers under her command, her old friend Tiger does this to snap her out of it.

* BlackVikings: The Rouran king has a white guy for a court musician, played by Russian-Latvian singer Music/{{Vitas}}. It's not ''too'' implausible given that Northern Asia and Eastern Europe are side by side.

* TheSociopath: Mengdu, a prince who's introduced killing prisoners for fun, starts a war to avoid punishment, and kills his own father to keep it going.

* WarIsHell: This iteration of Mulan goes into great detail how war is ''not'' a pleasant experience. Mulan herself questions how can her father glorify war during her lowest moments.

* ActionGirl: Mulan.

* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler: Wentai.]]

%%* WarIsHell

''Mulan: Rise of a Warrior'' is a 2009 Chinese film starring Creator/ZhaoWei as legendary heroine [[{{Mulan}} Hua Mulan]]. The Rouran tribes are invading Imperial China, so every family in Wei receives a conscription order requiring one male from each household to serve in the army. Hua Mulan (Zhao Wei) has no brothers, but she doesn't want her aging and sick veteran father (Creator/YuRongGuang) to go to war again, so she steals his sword and armor, and goes in his place, disguised as a man.

''Mulan: Rise of a Warrior'' is a 2009 Chinese film starring Creator/ZhaoWei as legendary heroine [[{{Mulan}} Hua Mulan]]. The Rouran tribes are invading Imperial China, so every family in Wei receives a conscription order requiring one male from each household to serve in the army. Hua Mulan has no brothers, but she doesn't want her aging and sick veteran father to go to war again, so she steals his sword and armor, and goes in his place, disguised as a man.

* GoodColorsEvilColors: Mengdu is often seen dressed in black while his sister is dressed in white. Take a wild guess who lives.

* ArcWord: "Emotion is decimating on the battlefield."

* ArcWord: "Emotion is decimating on the battlefield"

* LeeroyJenkins / NiceJobBreakingItHero: Upon hearing that Wentai's troops have been ambushed, but she has been ordered to stay and guard the baggage train, Mulan disregards the order and goes to help Wentai anyway, returning to find that the baggage train has been attacked in her absence. This is one of the things that kicks off her HeroicBSOD.

* BlackVikings: The Rouran king has a white guy for a court musician, played by Russian-Ukrainian singer Vitas. It's not ''too'' implausible given that Northern Asia and Eastern Europe are side by side.

''Mulan: Rise of a Warrior'' is a 2009 Chinese film starring Creator/ZhaoWei (aka Vicki Zhao) as legendary heroine Hua Mulan. The Rouran tribes are invading Imperial China, so every family in Wei receives a conscription order requiring one male from each household to serve in the army. Hua Mulan has no brothers, but she doesn't want her aging and sick veteran father to go to war again, so she steals his sword and armor, and goes in his place, disguised as a man.

''Mulan: Rise of a Warrior'' is a 2009 Chinese film starring Vicki Creator/ZhaoWei as legendary heroine Hua Mulan. The Rouran tribes are invading Imperial China, so every family in Wei receives a conscription order requiring one male from each household to serve in the army. Hua Mulan has no brothers, but she doesn't want her aging and sick veteran father to go to war again, so she steals his sword and armor, and goes in his place, disguised as a man.