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''The Bride With White Hair'' is a 1993 {{Wuxia}} film directed by Ronny Yu, starring Creator/LeslieCheung and Creator/BrigitteLin. Based on Liang Yusheng's novel ''Baifa Monü Zhuan'' (''Legend of the Lady With White Hair''), but mixed with elements of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', the film tells the forbidden love story between a swordsman and the mystical titular character, and it's consequences on both of them.

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''The Bride With White Hair'' is a 1993 {{Wuxia}} film directed by Ronny Yu, starring Creator/LeslieCheung and Creator/BrigitteLin. Based on Liang Yusheng's novel ''Baifa Monü Zhuan'' (''Legend of the Lady With White Hair''), but mixed with elements of ''Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet'', the film tells the forbidden love story between a swordsman and the mystical titular character, and it's its consequences on both of them.
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trope is renamed Prefers Going Barefoot. Dewicking old name


* DoesNotLikeShoes: Ni-chang is barefoot in most of her scenes, either indoors or outdoors. She ends up suffering AgonyOfTheFeet during the walk of shame montage.


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* PrefersGoingBarefoot: Ni-chang is barefoot in most of her scenes, either indoors or outdoors. She ends up suffering AgonyOfTheFeet during the walk of shame montage.
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Zhuo Yi-hang (Cheung) is a swordsman of the Wudang Sect, who is raised to battle an evil cult. One night, Yi-hang happens to stumble across a mysterious woman, Lian Ni-chang (Lin), who is raised in the wild before, unbeknownst to him, being adopted by the very same cult he's sworn to destroy. Despite their first meeting going off on a rocky start, Ni-chang and Yi-hang eventually starts developing feelings for each other, until their allegiances gets in the way.

Has a sequel, ''The Bride With White Hair 2'', which is ''also'' released in 1993, just 4 months later. The sequel depicts the aftermath of Yi-hang's meeting with Ni-chang, and his desire to wait for her return decades later.

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Zhuo Yi-hang (Cheung) is a swordsman of the Wudang Sect, who is raised to battle an evil cult. One night, Yi-hang happens to stumble across a mysterious woman, Lian Ni-chang (Lin), who is raised in the wild before, unbeknownst to him, being adopted by the very same cult he's sworn to destroy. Despite their first meeting going off on a rocky start, Ni-chang and Yi-hang eventually starts start developing feelings for each other, until their allegiances gets in the way.

Has a sequel, ''The Bride With White Hair 2'', which is ''also'' released in 1993, just 4 four months later. The sequel depicts the aftermath of Yi-hang's meeting with Ni-chang, and his desire to wait for her return decades later.
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By TRS decision Whip It Good is now a disambiguation page. Moving entries to appropriate tropes when possible.


* PrehensileHair: Ni-chang, the titular bride, whose hair can be [[WhipItGood used as a whip]] or as RazorFloss. The movie never explains how she combs her hair every morning, not that it needs to.

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* PrehensileHair: Ni-chang, the titular bride, whose hair can be [[WhipItGood used as a whip]] whip or as RazorFloss. The movie never explains how she combs her hair every morning, not that it needs to.
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* ThatManIsDead: A GenderFlipped version: [[spoiler:After Yi-Hang betrays Ni-Chang, and she confronts him by holding a sword at his throat, he calls out her name, to which she replies, "She is dead."]]
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* DeathByChildbirth: The mother of the couple Yi-Hang and Ni-Chang try to help dies while giving birth to her son. The husband is understandably distraught, so Yi-Hang reminds him he still has a son, gives him a jewel, and tells him to start a business.
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* EpicFlail: Before having her hair turned white, Ni-chang primarily uses a flail as her WeaponOfChoice.

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* EpicFlail: Before having her hair turned white, Ni-chang primarily uses a flail as her WeaponOfChoice.weapon.
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* RapunzelHair: Ni-chang's hair is already past her waist level even in the first movie (before her walk of shame scene), but it goes UpToEleven after she becomes the titular bride, her hair simply growing to beyond hundreds and hundreds of meters and razor-sharp in the process.

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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: In the early part of the {{Flashback}} that makes up the bulk of the first film, we first see Yi-hang as a boy fleeing with a lamb that was about to be killed, which shows his essentially kind heart.



* PetTheDog: Though Ni-Chang is established as a killer early on in the first film, when she sees Yi-Hang trying to help out a pregnant woman and her husband caught in the crossfire of a battle between the clans and the evil cult, she stops to help Yi-Hang deliver the baby, which shows her HiddenDepths.



* RaisedByWolves: Part of Ni-chang's backstory involves her being abandoned in the woods and raised by wolves, which is the reason behind her feral nature and preferance of going barefoot everywhere.
* RapunzelHair: Ni-chang's hair is already past her waist level even in the first movie (before her walk of shame scene), but it goes UpToEleven after she becomes the titular bride, her hair simply growing to beyind hundreds and hundreds of meters and razor-sharp in the process.

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* RaisedByWolves: Part of Ni-chang's backstory involves her being abandoned in the woods and raised by wolves, which is the reason behind her feral nature and preferance preference of going barefoot everywhere.
* RapunzelHair: Ni-chang's hair is already past her waist level even in the first movie (before her walk of shame scene), but it goes UpToEleven after she becomes the titular bride, her hair simply growing to beyind beyond hundreds and hundreds of meters and razor-sharp in the process.process.
* RescueRomance: Though Yi-Hang has long been attracted to Ni-Chang for a while, it's likely she falls in love with him when he sucks the poison out of her from an arrow Lu Hua shot into her.

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