History Film / OngBak

* ImplacableMan: Ting. '''And how.'''

* AGodAmI: Komtuan thinks he is one. A very ironic case considering he is elderly, frail, paralyzed, and needs an electeolarnyx to speak.

* AxCrazy: Mad Dog.

* TheBrute: Big Bear

* HowDareYouDieOnMe: [[spoiler:Humlae dies and Muay spends her last lines of the movie cursing him for dying.]]

** Especially considering he made a comment about having non respect for religion.
* KickTheDog: Don forcibly O.D.s a girl named Ngek when she tells him she wants to give up coke.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The last mook Ting faces in the first movie during the weapon swapping scene prompt drops his sword and runs when it's his turn.
* ManOnFire: Ting kicks a man in the face while his legs are on fire. He then puts them out in a barrel of water. (Note: Tony Jaa did his own stunts. Damn.)

* OneManArmy: Ting.

* SmashCut: During the street fights scene, we get treated to one of Ting's opponents staring directly at the camera, flipping him off and screaming "FUCK Muay Thai!" [[spoiler: Next moment he's floored by a Muay Thai knee to the face.]]

* AGodIAm: Komtuan thinks he is one. A very ironic case considering he is elderly, frail, paralyzed, and needs an electeolarnyx to speak.

* BiggerBad: Bhuti reveals itself as one.

** The Australian guy is a boorish, unhygienic LowerClassLout who thinks all Thai women are hookers.

* MindScrew: The final battle in ''3'' can be somewhat confuse.

* JerkassVictim: Big Bear. Guys unnecessarily violent towards non fingers, pretty offensive towards women, and seems to like bad mouthing Thai people. Whilst all of the villains in the film are pretty much {{Jerkass}}'s, it takes someone as obnoxious as Big Bear to get Ting to finally put aside his buddhist/pacifist ways and get kicking.

* ManOnFire: Ting kicks a man in the face while his legs are on fire. He then puts them out in a barrel of water. (Note: Tony Jaa did his own stunts. [[{{Badass}} Damn.]])

* {{Badass}}: Tien makes Ting look like another mook.

Ting (Tony Jaa) lives in a small and peaceful village. One day, the head of a sacred Buddha statuette called Ong Bak is stolen from the village by a drug dealer working for an immoral businessman who sells it for exorbitant profits. It soon becomes the task of Ting to track the thief to UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}} and reclaim the religious treasure. Along the way, Ting uses his astonishing athleticism and traditional muay thai skills to combat his adversaries.

* {{Badass}}: Ting, so very '''very''' much.

* JerkassVictim: Big Bear. Whilst all of the villains in the film are pretty much {{Jerkass}}'s, it takes someone as obnoxious as Big Bear to get Ting to finally put aside his buddhist/pacifist ways and get kicking.

* CurbStompBattle: Ting's first opponent in the underground arena, Pearl Harbor, is set up as a dangerous opponent by soundly defeating an equally-fearsome opponent after a fierce battle, shortly before Ting enters the ring. [[spoiler:He then gets dropped with [[OneHitKO one kick to the chest]] before he can throw so much as a jab, just as the fight begins.]]

* CountryMouse: Ting; they even keep referring to him as "Country Boy".

Ting (Tony Jaa) lives in a small and peaceful village. One day a sacred Buddha statuette called Ong Bak is stolen from the village by an immoral businessman who sells it for exorbitant profits. It soon becomes the task of Ting to track the thief to UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}} and reclaim the religious treasure. Along the way, Ting uses his astonishing athleticism and traditional muay thai skills to combat his adversaries.

* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: While portrated more or less realistically, the art of muay thai/muay boran usually does not feature the aerial stunts Ting does in this film, to say the least.

* CurbStompBattle: Ting's first opponent in the underground arena, Pearl Harbor, is set up as a dangerous opponent by soundly defeating an equally-fearsome opponent after a fierce battle, shortly before Ting enters the ring. [[spoiler:He then gets floored with [[OneHitKO a single kick to the chest]] before he can throw so much as a jab, just as the fight begins.]]

* FightClubbing

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Humlae
* KarmicDeath: The demise of [[spoiler:the crime boss Komtuan]] possibly epitomizes the concept of karmic death, as he is crushed under the falling head of a giant Buddha statue, which he was trying to remove and sell. You don't get much more karmic than that.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:While this is true for the girl who died because she confessed to wanting to give up coke, Humlae qualifies by returning to his Buddhist traditions to try to stop the smuggling ring.]]

The debut film of Tony Jaa, showcasing his "no-strings-attached'' (as opposed to WireFu) style of Martial Arts Cinema, and brought Muay Boran to the attention of Global Media.

Boonting (Tony Jaa) lives in a small and peaceful village. One day a sacred Buddha statuette called Ong Bak is stolen from the village by an immoral businessman who sells it for exorbitant profits. It soon becomes the task of Boonting to track the thief to UsefulNotes/{{Bangkok}} and reclaim the religious treasure. Along the way, Boonting uses his astonishing athleticism and traditional Muay Thai skills to combat his adversaries.

There is a prequel released, called ''Ong Bak 2: The Beginning'', which is far removed from the modern setting of the first and is essentially a Training Montage, a RoaringRampageOfRevenge, and closes with an considerable drawn out QuirkyMinibossSquad battle, involving Tony Jaa's character, called Tien, squaring off against every single "Ancient" Martial Art, developed in Asia.

Tropes Include:

** The prequel with Tien makes Ting seem like another mook.

* CurbStompBattle: In the first film, Ting's first opponent in the underground arena, Pearl Harbor, is set up as a dangerous opponent by soundly defeating an equally-fearsome opponent after a fierce battle, shortly before Ting enters the ring. [[spoiler:He then gets floored with [[OneHitKO a single kick to the chest]] before he can throw so much as a jab, just as the fight begins.]]
* DanceBattler: Ting fights a FunnyAfro Taekwondo stylist in the arena.

* GenreShift: The sequel/prequel is a historical Martial Arts Epic.

* IncendiaryExponent: Ting (played by Muay Thai expert Tony Jaa) kicks a [[{{Mook}} mook]] in the head with his legs on fire. Jaa did his own stunts.

** In the prequel: [[spoiler: Tien slits the throat of his adopted father with his sword, who murdered his actual father by slitting his throat with a sword. He even acknowledges this fact before Tien kills him]]

** In ''Ong Bak 2'' we see this demonstrated. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Twice]].

** ''Ong Bak 2'': Tien is cut and slashed a lot in the closing, and yet is able to still dodge 99% of the attacks from his enemies.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath
** [[spoiler:While this is true for the girl who died because she confessed to wanting to give up coke, Humlae qualifies by returning to his Buddhist traditions to try to stop the smuggling ring.]]
** [[spoiler: Also in the prequel. Tien's adopted father, who killed his real father, allows himself to be killed by Tien both to atone for killing his father and to ensure that the rest of his own family is kept safe.]]

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: One of the {{mook}}s in the climax of the first film, after witnessing Ting lay a beatdown on the others, tosses his sword aside and scampers away.

** In ''Ong Bak 2'' we see this demonstrated... Twice...

* FakeCripple: The throat thing is just for show. He does seem to be wheelchair bound.

* EvilCripple:The seller of Thailand's national treasures, who is wheelchair-bound and talks through a hole in his throat.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The last mook

* BottledHeroicResolve: TheDragon injected himself with some kind of drug in order to keep fighting the hero during the climactic fight scene, for all the good that did him in the end.

* CurbStompBattle: In the first film, Ting's first opponent in the underground arena is floored with [[OneHitKO a single kick to the chest]] before he can throw so much as a jab, just as the fight begins.

* DanceBattler: Ting fights a FunnyAfro TKD stylist at one point