History Film / ShanghaiNoon

* MySisterIsOffLimits: Chon Wang acts like this when Lin and Roy starts getting along.

* KingIncognito: Pei-Pei is held prisoner without her identity to the railroad slaves being revealed. Wang blows her cover when he bows to her.

* KneelBeforeFrodo: When Wang finally gets to the imprisoned Pei-Pei, he bows to her and refuses to get up. This reveals her identity to the other railroad workers, who also kneel before her.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking:
** [[spoiler:Rathbone basically hands Wang his head.]]
** From the same film, [[spoiler:Rathbone's partner in regicide Wu Chow ''also'' hands Wang his rear.]]
** Princess Pei-Pei can kick some ass too.

* BeenhereShapedHistory:

** Lin is a very capable martial artist in the sequel.

''Shanghai Noon'' is a martial arts/{{Western}} comedy 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 Wilson), 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]].

''Shanghai Noon'' is a martial arts/{{Western}} comedy 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]].

* HilariousOuttakes: As the credits roll, just like in ''Film/RushHour'' (but actually a CallBack to Jackie Chan's Hong Kong movies, with outtakes of [[WrittenInInfirmity a more painful variety]]).

-->'''Jackie Chan:''' Ask me if I give a shit! ''[[[{{Corpsing}} corpses]]]''

* VillainHasAPoint: Van Cleef asking how Roy [[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy with his horrendous gunplay]] can survive in the Old West which isn't an invalid question. Especially considering Roy [[Lame Comeback doesn't have much of a response]].

* BuriedAlive: Roy is left stranded in a desert buried from the neck down. Chon Wang comes across him, interrogates him, and gives him a pair of chop sticks to excavate himself with... by using his mouth.

** Falling Leaves never engages in onscreen violence, but stealthily destroys a jail and sabotages a hanging to aid Chon and Roy using a few well-placed animals and one bullet.

* 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 DeletedScene "Falling Leaves Takes A Dip".

* TheArtfulDodger: Chon and Roy befriend a young street urchin in ''Knights'' who fits this trope to a T. He later reveals that his name is [[spoiler:Creator/CharlieChaplin]].

** [[spoiler:Rathbone basically hands Chon his head.]]
** From the same film, [[spoiler:Rathbone's partner in regicide Wu Chow ''also'' hands Chon his rear.]]

* BattleDiscretionShot: When Chon skirmishes with Roy inside the pharmacy:

* BigBadDuumvirate: Each film has a Chinese outlaw and a Westerner working together, so that both Chon and Roy have somebody to fight at the climax, although in ''Noon'', Lo Fong is more the BigBad while Van Cleef is TheDragon.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Chon towards Lin in ''Knights''.
* BigDamnHeroes: Chon and Roy fail at this whenever the RuleOfFunny calls for it, but succeed whenever the RuleOfDrama is in play. There's also all the times Falling Leaves shows up to pull them out of trouble such as when they're in prison or about to be executed.

* BlindObedience: Chon's character arc in ''Noon'' revolves around him learning how to think for himself and not to simply follow orders.

* BolivianArmyEnding: Subverted and parodied, as [[spoiler: [[BrickJoke the Indians Chon befriended earlier]] [[BigDamnHeroes show up to save the day]]]]. The shot is even matched.

* CatchAndReturn: When protecting Little Feather against a pair of angry rival braves, Chon catches their thrown tomahawks in midair and chucks them back, [[SubvertedTrope right into their waiting hands.]]

* ChekhovsSkill: Lord Rathbone was offhandedly mentioned to be a great swordman early by Doyle. Rathbone proceeds to effortlessly kick Chon's ass using said skill in the climax, forcing Chon to [[CombatPragmatist improvise]].

* CombatPragmatist: Usually utilised by the bad guys while Chon Wang is all about fighting honorably, however in the sequel [[spoiler: after he realises he can't defeat Rathbone in a swordfight, Chon cuts the rope supports on the platform they're both standing on, throwng him out the window.]]

* DisneyVillainDeath: Happens in Shanghai Knights when [[spoiler: Chon cuts the supports and sends Rathbone flying out the clock tower face. Rathbone falls to his death and even gets a Wile E. Coyote puff of smoke when he hits the ground.]] Subverted immediately after when [[spoiler: Chon and Roy fall off the clock tower as well, but survive after grabbing the flag and landing in the Queen's carriage]].
* DopeSlap: Lin gives one to Chon in ''Shanghai Knights''.
-->'''Chon:''' ''[confused]'' But I just saved you.\\

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Roy isn't entirely evil, but at the start of ''Noon'' he is disgusted that Wallace kills Chon Wang's uncle. He even outs Wallace for the crime when Chon confronts him about it.

* GentlemanThief: Roy is a particularly nice one of these as leader of his gang before meeting Chon, but has the unfortunately poor judgement of character to choose underlings who are cruel, stupid, AxCrazy and far too ambitious all at once.
* GilliganCut: In ''Noon'', after a very intense drinking game, Roy has gotten tired, but Chon wants another round. Roy tells Chon "No mas. No more drinking." Cut to them furiously playing again.
* GivenNameReveal: At the end of the film, Roy reveals that his name isn't really Roy O'Bannon but [[spoiler:Wyatt Earp]], much to Chon's amusement.

* 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.]]
* 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, "if you break her heart, I break your legs," to which Roy replies, "That's fair."

* ImprovisedWeapon: In typical Jackie Chan movie fashion Chon Wang employs them in every fight scene. Whether it's tree branches, a giant bear statue or a pair of moose antlers, if it can be picked up it's a lethal weapon in Chon's hands.
* IndianMaiden: While lost in the woods, Chon rescues a young Native American boy from a rival tribe, and finds himself married to the boy's older sister as a reward.

* InformedFlaw: It's never really made clear how Chon is considered such an inept embarrassment in China. When he gets to the United States he rampages through most of his opponents, only having trouble with two other highly trained martial artists, one of whom (Lo Fong) fought dirty at every opportunity.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: Roy changes his mind about Chon after the BarBrawl.
* InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike: WordOfGod describes this happening in ''Noon'', when the Indian chief tries to teach Chon to say the American Indian greeting "How", whereas in Chinese, "hao" means "good".
* InscrutableOriental: This trope comes to mind during the jail scene in ''Noon'', in which Roy keeps trying to get Chon to relax.
* InsistentTerminology: When Chon confronts Roy in the saloon after following Roy's directions to Carson City got him badly lost, he accuses Roy of giving him "bad directions". Roy, who Chon left buried up to his neck in sand with only a pair of chopsticks in his mouth to dig himself out with, calmly corrects Chon that he gave him ''wrong'' directions.

** Roy does this throughout the first film. After breaking out of jail, Roy says to Chon "You believe in karma over there, right?" and "I guess this is what your people call 'Sayonara'." [[IronicEcho Chon throws the latter line back at him]] because he overheard him telling Fifi that he isn't really his friend.
** In the second film, Chon goes undercover by dressing up as a Maharaja of India (of the province "Nehvaduh"), and Roy tells Chon to wobble his head to look more Indian. When Chon protests that he's Chinese, Roy says they're the same thing. It doesn't seem like anyone at the high-class British party notices anyway.

* 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 lead this trope to be played straight is that Roy is genuinely in love with Lin.]]
* KingIncognito: Pei-Pei is held prisoner without her identity to the railroad slaves being revealed. Chon blows her cover when he bows to her.
* KneelBeforeFrodo: When Chon finally gets to the imprisoned Pei-Pei, he bows to her and refuses to get up. This reveals her identity to the other railroad workers, who also kneel before her.
* LandInTheSaddle: Roy and Chon attempt to leap from the bordello balcony to escape Van Cleef. Roy is successful; Chon, who has never done this before and is drunk besides, lands on the horse backwards. [[ItMakesSenseInContext The horse is also drunk]], and falls over.
* LastNameBasis: Played with. Roy inadvertently uses this with Chon under the assumption that it's his given name when following classic Chinese naming structure it would have been Wang.

* LetsGetDangerous: As Lo Fong corners a weakened Chon, Princess Pei-Pei springs into action (even as she's injured herself) and kicks Lo Fong's ass long enough for Chon to get the upper hand for good.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: Chon initially has to fight off an Imperial Guard in the climax before they realize Pei-Pei's in danger and must confront Lo Fong.

* MadeOfIron: Chon and Roy take a ton of punishment over the course of the movie and neither of them seem seriously or permanently hurt. Chon takes a twenty foot fall down church bell tower hitting multiple ropes on the way down and is able to get back up relatively quickly. Roy is shoved across the entire length of a bar into a giant table full of sharp glass and pretty much just walks it off.
* MasterSwordsman: Lord Rathbone, who is called 'the finest swordsman in England'. And shows it by effortlessly defeating Chon.

* MickeyMousing: In Shanghai Knights, part of the market fight scene is choreographed to Film/SingingInTheRain, an homage to one of Jackie Chan's favorite scenes in film.
* MightyWhitey: Inverted by Chon, who comes from China to the Wild West and immediately gains recognition in both Native American and white circles through his martial arts skills.

* MilitariesAreUseless: The three Imperial Guardsmen - described as the bravest of the Emperor's guards - accomplish very little in the first film. In the final confrontation two of them are easily taken out by Lo Fong and Van Cleef, and the third wastes time fighting Chon instead of saving the princess before being incapacitated. They never once win a single fight.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Roy claims to have dug himself out of the hole we was trapped in, using only the chopsticks Chon gave him.

** [[TheDragon Wu Chow]] has this expression right before [[spoiler: he explodes]]. Rathbone also gets an ... off-putting look on his face when Chon cuts the support ropes.
** In the first film, Lo Fong gets a brief one [[spoiler: before the rope hangs him skyward]]. Chon gets a comedic one when an Indian catches his thrown axe.
** During the bar fight in the first film, [[PassThePopcorn Roy stands by and excitedly watches like a spectator]] as Chon beats the tar out of a bunch of thugs, only to start with the OhCrap faces when he realizes the fight is ''heading his way'' -- and that Chon is still pissed at him.

* ParasolOfPain: Chon has a memorable umbrella fight in ''Shanghai Knights'', complete with a {{Homage}} to ''Film/SinginInTheRain''. Directly in front of Creator/CharlieChaplin. Can you read the subtext?
* PlotMandatedFriendshipFailure: In both movies, Chon and Roy are split when one overhears the other saying they're not really friends; Roy tells a woman he's not friends with Chon in ''Noon'' and Chon tells Lin that Roy isn't really his friend in ''Knights''. They get better.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: 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.
* PortraitPaintingPeephole: Chon thinks that he sees the eyes in a painting move, while Roy, engrossed in a book about the Kama Sutra, dismisses him -- until he sees it for himself and freaks out. It turns out that Chon's sister has been hiding "inside" the painting.

* PreMortemOneLiner: Chon to Lo Fong: "Adios, partner!"
* PrepareToDie: Lo Fong to Chon at the end of the first: "Now it is time for you to die." Cue Chon's PreMortemOneLiner.

* ProducePelting: One of the spectators when Roy and Chon are about to be hanged.

* ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: Chon is in the middle of a fight with several Crow warriors, and picks up a bone to use as a weapon, which seemingly causes them to panic and run off. After putting down the bone in disgust, he looks behind him to see an army of Sioux on the hill that really scared them away. Fortunately, Chon just saved the Sioux chief's son, so he's quickly put in their good graces.

** In the first film, before almost being hanged, the hangman says to Chon and Roy "Nothing personal, boys," just like in [[Film/BlazingSaddles another western comedy]].
** In the first film, Roy says "I don't know karate, but I do know crazy", which is a line from the Music/JamesBrown song "Payback".
** 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 how in ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', 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.
* ShutUpKirk: When Lo Fong chastises Chon for his blind obedience, Chon retorts "At least I still have my honor." In response, Lo Fong holds a dagger in front of Chon, saying "Slaves have no honor," [[TraumaticHaircut and cuts Chon's queue off]].
* ShutUpKiss: At the end of the first movie, Chon's utterly silent Indian wife (from an AccidentalMarriage) performs this on a babbling Roy, then delivers her only English line in the film: "Shut up, Roy; you talk too much."

* StockClockHandHang: 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.

* TakingYouWithMe: At the climax of ''Shanghai Knights'', [[spoiler:Chon Wang is clearly outmatched by Lord Rathbone, so he cuts the ropes supporting the platform they are both standing on and sends both of them through the glass face of Big Ben. Chon is caught by Roy O'Bannon, who was knocked through the same glass a little earlier.]]

* TrainingMontage: From the first film, as Roy and Falling Leaves teach Chon how to be a cowboy, with Music/KidRock's "Cowboy" as soundtrack no less.
* TraumaticHaircut: The first movie has Chon lose his queue when Chon and Roy are captured by the princess's kidnapper, Lo Fong; he cuts Chon's hair off, knowing exactly what this means for him if he should try to return to China. (Death and dishonor, to be brief; see the RealLife example on that page for the significance of this act.)
* TheTropeKid: Chon is listed on a wanted poster as "The Shanghai Kid." His partner notes, "That's a really cool nickname, too." Jackie's character immediately complains that [[ComicallyMissingThePoint he's not really from Shanghai.]]

* UnwillingSuspension: Chon and Roy are left hanging from the clock face of Big Ben in the finale of ''Knights''.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Chon and Roy are at each other's throats throughout ''Noon'' due to their initial conflict but become good friends by the end.

* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: In ''Shanghai Knights'', Roy tries to sell Jackie Chan's character, a Chinese cowboy named Chon Wang (say it out loud and see [[Creator/JohnWayne who it sounds like]]) on the idea of the then-new "moving pictures", even going so far as to suggest "You could do your own stunts." In an aversion, Chon nods and replies:
-->'''Chon:''' Chon Wang, movie star? It could work.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Chon [[TraumaticHaircut losing his queue]] means that he can't return to China.

** Chon uses this at the end of ''Knights'' when [[spoiler: he plans to take Rathbone with him off of Big Ben]].

* IconicSequelCharacter: ActionGirl extraordinaire Lin is neither seen nor mentioned in the first movie, but is pretty memorable in the second one. The same could also be said of swashbuckling EvilBrit Lord Rathbone from the sequel's BigBadDuumvirate.* 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, "if you break her heart, I break your legs," to which Roy replies, "That's fair."

* BarBrawl: When Chon Wang meets Roy again in a saloon after getting married by accident, he unwittingly exposes Roy's cheating in cards. Chaos ensues.

* 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, "if you break her heart, I break your legs," to which Roy replies, "That's fair."

* TheArtfulDodger: Chon and Roy befriend a young street urchin who fits this trope to a T. He later reveals that his name is [[spoiler:Creator/CharlieChaplin]].

** Lin, is a very capable martial artist in the sequel.

%%* TheArtfulDodger: Creator/CharlieChaplin

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: They didn't start their relationship yet at that point, but when Lin beats up Rathbone's goons, Roy likes her even more.

* WhoWouldWantToWatchUs: In ''Shanghai Knights'', Roy tries to sell Jackie Chan's character, a Chinese cowboy named Chon Wang (say it out loud and see [[Creator/JohnWayne who it sounds like]]) on the idea of the then-new "moving pictures", even going so far as to suggest "You could do your own stunts." In a aversion, Chon nods and replies:

** In the first film he initially wants revenge on Roy for killing his uncle, although he accepts Roy's excuse that it was actually done by Wallace, an uncontrollable idiot rookie from his gang (who had already betrayed him).

* EpicFail: The fact that Roy loses control of his gang to Wallace -a buffoonish idiot who had ''just joined it.''

* 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 right into their waiting hands.]]

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

* NormalFishInATinyPond: Chon Wang is considered incompetent and embarrassing in China and was sent to America to keep his uncle company and to get rid off him, in America and Britain he's a OneManArmy.

* VitriolicBestBuds: Chon and Roy are at each other's throats throughout ''Noon'' due to their initial conflict but become good friends by the end..