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* BookEnds: Jun Bao begins and ends his story at the Shaolin Temple. He leaves a naive junior monk, returns as a master to teach Tai Chi.
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: The Eunuch Governor Liu-jin, just barely. He's still an evil and deplorable JerkAss villain, but his soldiers don't hate him like they do Tienbo. He also counts as a bit of a subversion of the trope because even though he isn't as psychotic or as unstable as Tienbo, he's still enough of a despicable HateSink character that when [[spoiler: Junbao and Siu Lin hold him hostage and when Tienbo kills him for good]], it's still a legitimate KickTheSonOfABitch moment.
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* ALighterShadeOfBlack: The Eunuch Governor Liu-jin, just barely. He's still an evil and deplorable JerkAss villain, but his soldiers don't hate him like they do Tienbo. He also counts as a bit of a subversion of the trope because even though he isn't as psychotic or as unstable as Tienbo, he's still enough of a despicable HateSink character that when [[spoiler: Junbao and Siu Lin hold him hostage and when Tienbo kills him for good]], it's still a legitimate KickTheSonOfABitch PayEvilUntoEvil moment.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Liu-Jin makes his first appearance by having his soldiers kill people in his way while "paying his respects to Buddha". [[ThouShallNotKill Not taking life]] is the first of the Five Precepts of Buddhism.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Tienbo when he [[spoiler: kills Liu-jin]]. Up to that point, the guy had spent most of the film being a SmugSnake with plenty of his own KickTheDog moments so it's hard to sympathize with him.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Tienbo when he [[spoiler: kills Liu-jin]]. Up to that point, the guy had spent most of the film being a SmugSnake with plenty of his own KickTheDog moments so it's hard to sympathize with him.
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* AThicketOfSpears: Tienbo's personal army are armed with spears, which they use to form an advancing spiked wall when forcing Junbo, Miss Li, and the rest of the resistance into a retreat. The final battle between Tienbo and Junbo sees them fighting amidst a row of soldiers with spears held upright, with Tienbo at one point stealing a dozen spears and trying to skewer Junbo with it; the battle ends with Junbo instead flipping his opponent so Tienbo lands [[HumanPincushion back-first]] [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice into his soldiers' spears]].
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: After [[spoiler: betraying the rebels]], Tienbo demands Junbao join him, promising great career opportunities in the military. [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules He doesn't take it]] so Tienbo decides to kill him.
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* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: After [[spoiler: betraying the rebels]], Tienbo rebels, Tienbo]] demands Junbao join him, promising great career opportunities in the military. [[ScrewTheMoneyIHaveRules He doesn't take it]] so Tienbo [[spoiler: Tienbo]] decides to kill him.
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* BareFistedMonk: Junbao and Tienbo, literally! Sometimes they'll use (often {{improvised|Weapons}}) weapons, but they mostly stick to just their fists.
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* BareFistedMonk: Junbao and Tienbo, literally! Sometimes they'll use (often {{improvised|Weapons}}) {{improvised|Weapon}}) weapons, but they mostly stick to just their fists.
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* ChasteHero: Junbao during the first half of the movie was actually scared of touching Siu Lin. He was raised to be a monk, so this is justifiable.
%%* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The scroll.]]
%%* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: The scroll.]]
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* ChasteHero: Junbao during the first half of the movie was actually scared of touching Siu Lin. He was raised to be a monk, so this is justifiable.
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* ChekhovsGun:[[spoiler: The scroll.]]scroll that Junbao's master gives him, from which Junbao discovers the foundation of Tai Chi.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Junbao accidentally spills his rice when seeing Siu Lin for the firs time.
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* DistractedByTheSexy: Junbao accidentally spills his rice when seeing Siu Lin for the firs first time.
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* HenpeckedHusband: The man married to the governor's niece turns out to be Siu Lin's ex-husband. Neither of them treat him with respect, especially after learning he abandoned Siu Lin.
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* HenpeckedHusband: The man married to the governor's niece turns out to be Siu Lin's missing ex-husband. Neither of them treat him with respect, especially after learning he abandoned Siu Lin.
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** Doubles as a case of RealityEnsues as [[TheNeidermeyer mistreating your soldiers only results in your soldiers betraying you.]]
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** Doubles as a case of RealityEnsues realism in film as [[TheNeidermeyer mistreating your soldiers only results in your soldiers betraying you.]]
