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* MeaninglessVillainVictory: All Ying Zheng achieves with all his atrocities? He finalizes his destiny, but is left alone and miserable, with his own courtiers not bothering to defend him from an assassination.
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* PyrrhicVillainy: All Ying Zheng achieves with all his atrocities? He finalizes his destiny, but is left alone and miserable, with his own courtiers not bothering to defend him from an assassination.
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* DeathOfAChild: BRUTALLY enforced. A young girl commits suicide, and all the children in the Zhao capital are BuriedAlive.
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* InfantImmortality - BRUTALLY averted. A young girl commits suicide, and all the children in the Zhao capital are buried alive.
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* BystanderSyndrome: When Jing Ke starts attacking Ying, everyone in the Imperial court just watches in shock (someone shouts to draw his sword, but only one court official helps him do so by grabbing the king's scabbard). After Ying fends Jing off and kills him, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments he herds the]] ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments entire]]'' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments court away]] by angrily yelling at them that not one of them tried to help him.
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* BystanderSyndrome: When Jing Ke starts attacking Ying, everyone in the Imperial court just watches in shock (someone shouts to draw his sword, but only one court official helps him do so by grabbing the king's scabbard). After Ying fends Jing off and kills him, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments he herds the]] ''[[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments entire]]'' [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments the ''entire'' court away]] away by angrily yelling at them that not one of them tried to help him.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Destined to be TheEmperor Ying Zheng and ProfessionalKiller Jing Ke both have crossed the MoralEventHorizon a long time ago, but they haven’t cross the DespairEventHorizon until the movie begins: When both of them attempt to PetTheDog, TheDogBitesBack by HeelFaceDoorSlam them, ensuring the emperor and the assassin get a HeelRealization.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Destined to be TheEmperor TheEmperor. Ying Zheng and ProfessionalKiller Jing Ke both have crossed the MoralEventHorizon lost hope a long time ago, but they haven’t cross the DespairEventHorizon until the movie begins: When both of them attempt to PetTheDog, TheDogBitesBack by HeelFaceDoorSlam them, ensuring the emperor and the assassin get a HeelRealization.
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* EmpathyDollShot - Subverted as Lady Zhao arrives at a ransacked Zhao capital too late and finds small drums and other children's toys littered across the ground. Upon further inspection, she proceeds to find the kids as well...'' [[MoralEventHorizon buried alive]]''.
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* EmpathyDollShot - Subverted as Lady Zhao arrives at a ransacked Zhao capital too late and finds small drums and other children's toys littered across the ground. Upon further inspection, she proceeds to find the kids as well...'' [[MoralEventHorizon [[BuriedAlive buried alive]]''.
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* ScheherezadeGambit: Realizing his target is watching him like a hawk, Jing Ke pretends to collapse in fear and confesses he's been sent to kill the Emperor. Ying Zheng is so overjoyed at this (it's exactly the pretext he needs to launch his invasion) that he lets his guard down.
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* ScheherezadeGambit: Realizing his target is watching him like a hawk, Jing Ke pretends to collapse in fear and confesses he's been sent to kill the Emperor. Ying Zheng is so overjoyed at this (it's exactly the pretext he needs to launch his invasion) that he lets his guard down.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity / ScheherezadeGambit: Realizing his target is watching him like a hawk, Jing Ke pretends to collapse in fear and confesses he's been sent to kill the Emperor. Ying Zheng is so overjoyed at this (it's exactly the pretext he needs to launch his invasion) that he lets his guard down.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity / ObfuscatingStupidity: Jing Ke fakes a stumble and pretends to break down in fear to make the royal court underestimate him before he strikes.
* ScheherezadeGambit: Realizing his target is watching him like a hawk, Jing Ke pretends to collapse in fear and confesses he's been sent to kill the Emperor. Ying Zheng is so overjoyed at this (it's exactly the pretext he needs to launch his invasion) that he lets his guard down.
* ScheherezadeGambit: Realizing his target is watching him like a hawk, Jing Ke pretends to collapse in fear and confesses he's been sent to kill the Emperor. Ying Zheng is so overjoyed at this (it's exactly the pretext he needs to launch his invasion) that he lets his guard down.
