History Film / ShanghaiNoon

* CatchAndReturn: When protecting the Sioux Chief's daughter against a pair of angry rival braves, Chon catches their thrown tomahawks in midair and chucks them back, [[SubvertedTrope both catch them with ease.]]

* CatchAndReturn: Unexpected, because it's done by a random Indian warrior to Chon Wang, the Chinese martial artist.

* ImprovisedWeapon: Chon Wang employs them in every fight scene.

* IndianMaiden: While lost in the woods, Chon rescues a young indian boy from a rival tribe, and finds himself married to his older sister as a reward.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Played with since Chon isn't a {{Jerkass}}. [[spoiler: In Shanghai Knights, Roy asks Chon to speak to Lin and put in a good word with her. Instead, Chon tells Lin of Roy's bad habits, including drinking, smoking, gambling, womanizing and tendency to lie. While this is undoubtedly stabbing Roy in the back, Chon does have a point. Despite being friends, Roy has often lied to Chon and has indulged in habits that make him unsuitable for marriage. What can caused this trope to be played straight is that Roy is genuinely in love with Lin.]]

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Despite the fact that both films are set in the 1890's, both films avoid the widespread racism of the era.
** In Shanghai Noon, none of the public ever once makes a racist comment about Chon, and they allow him to sit on a train despite the fact that racial segregation was fiercely enforced. Similarly, the Chinese railroad workers are treated fairly, despite the fact that many of the bosses in the actual were vicious racists who had a fierce WeHaveReserves mentality regarding the workers.
** In Shanghai Knights, with the sole exception of Chon, nobody ever seems surprised to see Roy showing romantic interest in Lin. In the 1890's in London, interracial marriage was explicitly seen as horrific, and the effects of British colonialism are largely unaddressed in the film, and is actually used for comedy at one point.

* BigDamnHeroes: Chon and Roy fail at this whenever the RuleOfFunny calls for it, but succeed whenever the RuleOfDrama is in play.

''Shanghai Noon'' is a comedy {{Western}} film starring Creator/JackieChan and Creator/OwenWilson. Chan plays a Chinese guardsman, Chon Wang, who travels to America to rescue the kidnapped Imperial princess Pei-Pei (Creator/LucyLiu), teaming up along the way with disreputable gunslinger Roy O'Bannon (played by Owen), a small time robber with delusions of grandeur. Together, the two forge through one misadventure after another. Directed by Tom Dey, it was written by [[Series/{{Smallville}} Alfred Gough and Miles Millar]]. The movie, set in Nevada and other parts of the west in the 19th century, is a juxtaposition of a western with a Creator/JackieChan MartialArtsMovie. It also has elements of comedy and the "Buddy Cop" film genre, as it involves two men of different personalities and ethnicities (a Chinese imperial guard and a Western outlaw) [[TheyFightCrime who team up to stop a crime]].

%%** Lin, in the sequel.

* BuriedAlive: At least from the neck down.
%%* CaliforniaDoubling

%%* EternallyPearlyWhiteTeeth: Wallace.

%%* EvilBrit: Lord Rathbone in ''Knights''.

%%* HandsomeLech: Roy O'Bannon.

* IHaveNoSon: At the start of the second movie, Chon's father has disowned him for abandoning the family for America. Chon does not take this very well when Lin informs him of this, especially since [[spoiler: his father said it shortly before he was murdered by Rathbone.]] However, [[spoiler: Chon is given a puzzle box containing a message from his father that he was indeed proud of him.]]

%%* StockYuck

%%* UnwillingSuspension: ''Shanghai Knights''.

--> ''(with a big smile on his face)'' She's going to fight my battles for me.
%%* VitriolicBestBuds: Chon and Roy.

* LineOfSightAlias: In ''Shanghai Knights'', Roy comes up with the pseudonym "Literature/SherlockHolmes" in this manner. No, not from seeing anything written by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle: In fact, he's the one who inspires Sir Arthur to use that name. Mangling "sure" and "clock" together, Roy ends up with "Sherlock" for a first name; he then notices the manufacturer's nameplate on the Grandfather Clock, "Holmes." He's put on the guest list as "Literature/SherlockHolmes." [[BeenThereShapedHistory Doyle was also in attendance, and asks Roy if he can use that name once things clear up.]]

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Pei-Pei does not wish to return to the Forbidden City, as she feels she can be a more involved ambassador in the States. She ends up burning the scroll that contains the Imperial Guard's orders to bring her back as an act of finality.

* LineOfSightName: In ''Shanghai Knights'', Roy comes up with the pseudonym "Literature/SherlockHolmes" in this manner. No, not from seeing anything written by Creator/ArthurConanDoyle: In fact, he's the one who inspires Sir Arthur to use that name.

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Princess Pei-Pei (played by Creator/LucyLiu) in the first movie.

** Lin, in the sequel.

* AllThereInTheManual: Although she's never properly identified and is credited as "Indian Wife", Chon's Indian wife is called Falling Leaves, as noted by the title of the Deleted Scene "Falling Leaves Takes A Dip".
* AnachronismStew: A major source of comedy.
* TheArtfulDodger: Creator/CharlieChaplin
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: [[spoiler:Rathbone basically hands Chon his head.]]

-->'''Van Cleef:''' What the hell is going on in there?
-->''[Roy is thrown through the front window out into the street]''

-->'''Roy:''' ''[missing wildly]'' Did I hit you?!
-->'''Van Cleef:''' No. But you're getting ''really'' close.

* EternallyPearlyWhiteTeeth: Wallace.

* EvilBrit: Lord Rathbone in ''Knights''.

* HandsomeLech: Roy O'Bannon.

* StoclClockHandHang: In ''Shanghai Knights'', the heroes find themselves in Victorian London. While Chon fights inside the Great Clock of the Palace of Westminster, Roy spends the time crawling on the giant hand of the tower clock. Chon and his opponent fall off the window. Roy manages to catch Chon's hand and they both hang for their lives.

* ToplessnessFromTheBack: When Roy catches Falling Leaves bathing in a Deleted Scene.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Chon and Roy.

* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: In the second movie, while [[spoiler: being captured by Rathbone]], after initially objecting to the idea of a relationship between his sister Lin and Roy, Chon accepts it, but adds, "Break her heart, I break your legs," to which Roy replies, "That's fair."

** In ''Shanghai Knights'', Chon and Roy jump from Big Ben, ripping the middle of the Union Jack hanging on the tower to slow their descent, like Film/JamesBond and Wai Lin jump from Elliot Carver's building, slowing their descent by ripping the middle of a wall photo of Carver. Wai Lin was played by Creator/JackieChan's friend and ''Film/{{Supercop}}'' costar Creator/MichelleYeoh.

* SwordFight: At the climax of Shanghai Knights.

In the sequel directed by David Dobkin, ''Shanghai Knights'', they travel to Victorian London to foil a plot against [[UsefulNotes/QueenVictoria the Queen]]. Also starring Singaporean actress [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fann_Wong Fann Wong]] as Chon Wang's sister, Chon Lin. In the 1880's, Chon Wang's father and keeper of the Imperial Seal has been murdered by Parliament and royal family member Rathbone, who steals the Imperial Seal, with Chon Wang's sister, Chon Lin, witnessing the murder. Chon Lin follows Rathbone to London to kill him, while sending Chon a letter telling him of the murder. Chon then travels to New York for Roy O'Bannon. Together they travel to England and meet up with Chon Lin to defeat Rathbone and get the Imperial Seal back.