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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Justified, since most of the characters are police trainees, with the supervisors being played by veteran action stars kicking most of the ass when they're dragged into action.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: RankScalesWithAsskicking: Justified, since most of the characters are police trainees, with the supervisors being played by veteran action stars kicking most of the ass when they're dragged into action.
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* MartialArtsUniform: Worn by Inspector Wu and the recruits whenever practicing indoor close-range combat training. The fourth movie notably had Madam Lee and Madam Yang fighting each other in karate ''gi'' outfits.
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Moon Lee and Cynthia Khan regrettably shows up in only one of the movies, ''The Inspector Wears Skirts IV''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JDol59zAqY Their one-on-one fight]] is pretty much the most memorable moment of the entire series in general.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts is a series of movies revolving around a team of all-female police trainees, led by Inspector Wu (Creator/SibelleHu) and her American colleague and partner, Madam Law (Creator/CynthiaRothrock). Inspired by the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' series, ''The Inspector Wears Skirts'' and its sequels are close to a GenderFlipped remake with more emphasis on comedy and slapstick aspects, and with plenty of ActionGirl actresses - mostly familiar faces from late 80s and early 90s GirlsWithGuns movies, such as Creator/MoonLee, Creator/CynthiaKhan, Kara Hui, Creator/MichikoNishiwaki, and the like showing up in random installments of the (mostly short-lived) franchise.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts is a series of movies revolving around a team of all-female police trainees, led by Inspector Wu (Creator/SibelleHu) and her American colleague and partner, Madam Law (Creator/CynthiaRothrock). Inspired by the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' series, ''The Inspector Wears Skirts'' and its sequels are close to a GenderFlipped remake with more emphasis on comedy and slapstick aspects, and with plenty of ActionGirl actresses - mostly familiar faces from late 80s and early 90s GirlsWithGuns movies, such as Creator/MoonLee, Creator/CynthiaKhan, Kara Hui, Creator/KaraWai, Creator/MichikoNishiwaki, and the like showing up in random installments of the (mostly short-lived) franchise.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts is a series of movies revolving around a team of all-female police trainees, led by Inspector Wu (Creator/SibelleHu) and her American colleague and partner, Madam Law (Creator/CynthiaRothrock). Inspired by the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' series, ''The Inspector Wears Skirts'' and its sequels are close to a GenderFlipped remake with more emphasis on comedy and slapstick aspects, and with plenty of ActionGirl actresses - mostly familiar faces from late 80s and early 90s GirlsWithGuns movies, such as Creator/MoonLee, Creator/CynthiaKhan, Kara Hui, Michiko Nishiwaki, and the like showing up in random installments of the (mostly short-lived) franchise.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts is a series of movies revolving around a team of all-female police trainees, led by Inspector Wu (Creator/SibelleHu) and her American colleague and partner, Madam Law (Creator/CynthiaRothrock). Inspired by the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' series, ''The Inspector Wears Skirts'' and its sequels are close to a GenderFlipped remake with more emphasis on comedy and slapstick aspects, and with plenty of ActionGirl actresses - mostly familiar faces from late 80s and early 90s GirlsWithGuns movies, such as Creator/MoonLee, Creator/CynthiaKhan, Kara Hui, Michiko Nishiwaki, Creator/MichikoNishiwaki, and the like showing up in random installments of the (mostly short-lived) franchise.
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* GroinAttack: Doine by most of the ladies throughout the series. The first movie's opening scene notably had Inspector Wu kicking one of the ninja in his gonads, with his exposed eyes squinting to emphasize on how badly that hurts.
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* SlashedThroat: The ninjas in the first movie does this to a few security guards during the embassy assault scene.
* SuperWindowJump: Inspector Wu in the fourth movie, jumping out a window on the fourth story of a building after realizing it's booby-trapped with grenades.
* SuperWindowJump: Inspector Wu in the fourth movie, jumping out a window on the fourth story of a building after realizing it's booby-trapped with grenades.
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* MighteyWhitey: Madam Law is depicted as this in entries of the movies whenever she shows up, being an American Inspector and specialist who's in charge of "whipping the trainees to shape". Inspector Wu's superiors often emphasizes on her seniority and experience as a leading enforcer of the States' police department as well, as did the trainees who stops goofing around whenever Madam Law shows up.
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* ActionGIrl: The police recruits spends much of the franchise training to be elite officers, but right at the start of their respective movies, the seniors (played by veteran B-grade Action Queens Sibelle Hu, Cynthia Rothrock, Moon Lee and the like) are already capable ass-kickers and fighters.
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* FakeOutOpening: The first movie opens with an assauly by ''machine-gun wielding ninjas''. After a lengthy shootout with Madam Law and Inspector Wu taking out all of the ninjas, the movie then moves into the corny comedy-drama it actually is.
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* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The second movie inexplicably had the pervy mess cook of the police precint being punished by taking his bath in a tub... ''outdoors''. In front of maybe twenty of the female trainees.
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* ShoutOut: The opening scene of the fourth movie is a reference towards ''Film/PoliceStory'', with Inspector Wu chasing after a double-decker bus and trying to get inside. There's also a fight later inside a multi-storey shopping mall much like in the other Jackie Chan movie.
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* ShoutOut: The opening scene of the fourth movie is a reference towards ''Film/PoliceStory'', with Inspector Wu chasing after a double-decker bus and trying to get inside. There's also a fight later inside a multi-storey multi-story shopping mall much like in the other Jackie Chan movie.
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* TakingYouWithMe: The last ninja attacker in the first movie's opening scene tries to blow up the embassey with grenades on both hands after being shot, but Inspector Wu and Madam Law prevents him from doing so, with Wu throwing a rope around him and Law grabbing and pulling the other end of the rope. The ninja ends up being hoisted into mid-air and exploding harmlessly on his own.
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* TakingYouWithMe: The last ninja attacker in the first movie's opening scene tries to blow up the embassey embassy with grenades on both hands after being shot, but Inspector Wu and Madam Law prevents him from doing so, with Wu throwing a rope around him and Law grabbing and pulling the other end of the rope. The ninja ends up being hoisted into mid-air and exploding harmlessly on his own.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts is a series of movies revolving around a team of all-female police trainees, led by Inspector Wu (Creator/SibelleHu) and her American colleague and partner, Madam Law (Creator/CynthiaRothrock). Inspired by the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' series, ''The Inspector Wears Skirts'' and its sequels are close to a GenderFlipped remake with more emphasis on comedy and slapstick aspects, and with plenty of ActionGirl actresses - mostly familiar faces from late 80s and early 90s GirlsWithGuns movies, such as Creator/MoonLee, Creator/CynthiaKhan, Kara Hui, Michiko Nishiwaki, and the like showing up in random installments of the (mostly short-lived) franchise.
Sibelle Hu is the only actress who showed up in ALL entries of the main installment, while Cynthia Rothrock shows up alongside Hu in the first two movies.
Moon Lee and Cynthia Khan regrettably shows up in only one of the movies, ''The Inspector Wears Skirts IV''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JDol59zAqY Their one-on-one fight]] is pretty much the most memorable moment of the entire series in general.
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!!The series contains the following movies:
* The Inspector Wears Skirts (1988)
* The Inspector Wears Skirts II (1989)
* Inspector Wears Skirts 3: Raid on Royal Casino Marine (1990)
* The Inspector Wears Skirts IV (1992)
* Operation Pink Squad (1988) - spinoff
* Operation Pink Squad 2 (1990)
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!!Tropes applicable to the series:
* ActionGIrl: The police recruits spends much of the franchise training to be elite officers, but right at the start of their respective movies, the seniors (played by veteran B-grade Action Queens Sibelle Hu, Cynthia Rothrock, Moon Lee and the like) are already capable ass-kickers and fighters.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Justified, since most of the characters are police trainees, with the supervisors being played by veteran action stars kicking most of the ass when they're dragged into action.
* BadassCrew: The trainees, with the senior inspectors (usually Inspector Wu) being in charge.
* BoyishShortHair: Madam Wu and Madam Law.
* EnsembleCast: For the entire series anyway, practically every ActionGirl actress of 80s and 90s Hong Kong cinema shows up in the franchise, including Sibelle Hu, Cynthia Rothrock, Moon Lee, Michiko Nishiwaki, Kara Hui, Ann Bridgewater, among others.
* FakeOutOpening: The first movie opens with an assauly by ''machine-gun wielding ninjas''. After a lengthy shootout with Madam Law and Inspector Wu taking out all of the ninjas, the movie then moves into the corny comedy-drama it actually is.
* GratuitousNinja: The ActionPrologue of the first movie, for some inexplicable reason, had ''ninjas'' attacking the embassey building, for some reason, which Madam Law and Inspector Wu had to thwart.
* GroinAttack: Doine by most of the ladies throughout the series. The first movie's opening scene notably had Inspector Wu kicking one of the ninja in his gonads, with his exposed eyes squnting to emphasize on how badly that hurts.
** In the fourth movie, during a training exercise the comic relief character gets shot in the dick by paintball pellets.
* HandCannon: Madam Law's preferred weapon is a Magnum which is almost as large as she is.
* JungleWarfare: The climatic final scene in the second movie has the recruits being pitted in combat against terrorists in a thick jungle region. With plenty of BoobyTrap and ambushes.
* MartialArtsUniform: Worn by Inspector Wu and the recruits whenever practicing indoor close-range combat training. The fourth movie notably had Madam Lee and Madam Yang fighting each other in karate ''gi'' outfits.
* MighteyWhitey: Madam Law is depicted as this in entries of the movies whenever she shows up, being an American Inspector and specialist who's in charge of "whipping the trainees to shape". Inspector Wu's superiors often emphasizes on her seniority and experience as a leading enforcer of the States' police department as well, as did the trainees who stops goofing around whenever Madam Law shows up.
** The first movie emphasizes this trope, with an extended scene where Madam Law plays a "terrorist" in a combat training exercise, and for the recruits playing the "police" attacking her all at once. Madam Law beats up every single recruit in under two minutes. Before berating them for being "inexperienced rookies".
* MilitarySalute: Happens throughout the series, in one of the movies Inspector Wu addresses a group of marching recruits with a salute, and the entire team of recruits - all 40 of them - salutes back simultaneously.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The second movie inexplicably had the pervy mess cook of the police precint being punished by taking his bath in a tub... ''outdoors''. In front of maybe twenty of the female trainees.
* RollerbladeGood: For some inexplicable reason, the first movie features the recruits in a rollerblading disco during their break night, where they end up performing an extended musical montage while rollerblading.
* ShootingGallery: Shows up in all of the movies, usually for the trainees to bond over shooting and showing off their skills.
* ShoutOut: The opening scene of the fourth movie is a reference towards ''Film/PoliceStory'', with Inspector Wu chasing after a double-decker bus and trying to get inside. There's also a fight later inside a multi-storey shopping mall much like in the other Jackie Chan movie.
*ShowerScene: In the second movie, with all of the recruits taking a shower in the same stall.
* TakingYouWithMe: The last ninja attacker in the first movie's opening scene tries to blow up the embassey with grenades on both hands after being shot, but Inspector Wu and Madam Law prevents him from doing so, with Wu throwing a rope around him and Law grabbing and pulling the other end of the rope. The ninja ends up being hoisted into mid-air and exploding harmlessly on his own.
* TrainingFromHell: Happens to the trainees in the first two movies, including a scene where the trainees had to run along a thick rope around a racetrack.... which is doused in gasoline, with Madam Law setting one end on fire and the trainees have to run like crazy before the flames end up roasting them.
--> '''Madam Law''': "I bet you’ve never run so fast all your life… Excellent."
* VacationEpisode: The third movie, which is largely set on a cruise ship. The trainees led by Inspector Wu had to infiltrate the vessel to investigate an arms deal taking place on board, but the situation quickly turns into [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on a luxury cruiser]] where the trainees have to save the day.
* WouldHitAGirl: Most of the villains of the series.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts is a series of movies revolving around a team of all-female police trainees, led by Inspector Wu (Creator/SibelleHu) and her American colleague and partner, Madam Law (Creator/CynthiaRothrock). Inspired by the ''Film/PoliceAcademy'' series, ''The Inspector Wears Skirts'' and its sequels are close to a GenderFlipped remake with more emphasis on comedy and slapstick aspects, and with plenty of ActionGirl actresses - mostly familiar faces from late 80s and early 90s GirlsWithGuns movies, such as Creator/MoonLee, Creator/CynthiaKhan, Kara Hui, Michiko Nishiwaki, and the like showing up in random installments of the (mostly short-lived) franchise.
Sibelle Hu is the only actress who showed up in ALL entries of the main installment, while Cynthia Rothrock shows up alongside Hu in the first two movies.
Moon Lee and Cynthia Khan regrettably shows up in only one of the movies, ''The Inspector Wears Skirts IV''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JDol59zAqY Their one-on-one fight]] is pretty much the most memorable moment of the entire series in general.
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!!The series contains the following movies:
* The Inspector Wears Skirts (1988)
* The Inspector Wears Skirts II (1989)
* Inspector Wears Skirts 3: Raid on Royal Casino Marine (1990)
* The Inspector Wears Skirts IV (1992)
* Operation Pink Squad (1988) - spinoff
* Operation Pink Squad 2 (1990)
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!!Tropes applicable to the series:
* ActionGIrl: The police recruits spends much of the franchise training to be elite officers, but right at the start of their respective movies, the seniors (played by veteran B-grade Action Queens Sibelle Hu, Cynthia Rothrock, Moon Lee and the like) are already capable ass-kickers and fighters.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Justified, since most of the characters are police trainees, with the supervisors being played by veteran action stars kicking most of the ass when they're dragged into action.
* BadassCrew: The trainees, with the senior inspectors (usually Inspector Wu) being in charge.
* BoyishShortHair: Madam Wu and Madam Law.
* EnsembleCast: For the entire series anyway, practically every ActionGirl actress of 80s and 90s Hong Kong cinema shows up in the franchise, including Sibelle Hu, Cynthia Rothrock, Moon Lee, Michiko Nishiwaki, Kara Hui, Ann Bridgewater, among others.
* FakeOutOpening: The first movie opens with an assauly by ''machine-gun wielding ninjas''. After a lengthy shootout with Madam Law and Inspector Wu taking out all of the ninjas, the movie then moves into the corny comedy-drama it actually is.
* GratuitousNinja: The ActionPrologue of the first movie, for some inexplicable reason, had ''ninjas'' attacking the embassey building, for some reason, which Madam Law and Inspector Wu had to thwart.
* GroinAttack: Doine by most of the ladies throughout the series. The first movie's opening scene notably had Inspector Wu kicking one of the ninja in his gonads, with his exposed eyes squnting to emphasize on how badly that hurts.
** In the fourth movie, during a training exercise the comic relief character gets shot in the dick by paintball pellets.
* HandCannon: Madam Law's preferred weapon is a Magnum which is almost as large as she is.
* JungleWarfare: The climatic final scene in the second movie has the recruits being pitted in combat against terrorists in a thick jungle region. With plenty of BoobyTrap and ambushes.
* MartialArtsUniform: Worn by Inspector Wu and the recruits whenever practicing indoor close-range combat training. The fourth movie notably had Madam Lee and Madam Yang fighting each other in karate ''gi'' outfits.
* MighteyWhitey: Madam Law is depicted as this in entries of the movies whenever she shows up, being an American Inspector and specialist who's in charge of "whipping the trainees to shape". Inspector Wu's superiors often emphasizes on her seniority and experience as a leading enforcer of the States' police department as well, as did the trainees who stops goofing around whenever Madam Law shows up.
** The first movie emphasizes this trope, with an extended scene where Madam Law plays a "terrorist" in a combat training exercise, and for the recruits playing the "police" attacking her all at once. Madam Law beats up every single recruit in under two minutes. Before berating them for being "inexperienced rookies".
* MilitarySalute: Happens throughout the series, in one of the movies Inspector Wu addresses a group of marching recruits with a salute, and the entire team of recruits - all 40 of them - salutes back simultaneously.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The second movie inexplicably had the pervy mess cook of the police precint being punished by taking his bath in a tub... ''outdoors''. In front of maybe twenty of the female trainees.
* RollerbladeGood: For some inexplicable reason, the first movie features the recruits in a rollerblading disco during their break night, where they end up performing an extended musical montage while rollerblading.
* ShootingGallery: Shows up in all of the movies, usually for the trainees to bond over shooting and showing off their skills.
* ShoutOut: The opening scene of the fourth movie is a reference towards ''Film/PoliceStory'', with Inspector Wu chasing after a double-decker bus and trying to get inside. There's also a fight later inside a multi-storey shopping mall much like in the other Jackie Chan movie.
*ShowerScene: In the second movie, with all of the recruits taking a shower in the same stall.
* TakingYouWithMe: The last ninja attacker in the first movie's opening scene tries to blow up the embassey with grenades on both hands after being shot, but Inspector Wu and Madam Law prevents him from doing so, with Wu throwing a rope around him and Law grabbing and pulling the other end of the rope. The ninja ends up being hoisted into mid-air and exploding harmlessly on his own.
* TrainingFromHell: Happens to the trainees in the first two movies, including a scene where the trainees had to run along a thick rope around a racetrack.... which is doused in gasoline, with Madam Law setting one end on fire and the trainees have to run like crazy before the flames end up roasting them.
--> '''Madam Law''': "I bet you’ve never run so fast all your life… Excellent."
* VacationEpisode: The third movie, which is largely set on a cruise ship. The trainees led by Inspector Wu had to infiltrate the vessel to investigate an arms deal taking place on board, but the situation quickly turns into [[DieHardOnAnX Die Hard on a luxury cruiser]] where the trainees have to save the day.
* WouldHitAGirl: Most of the villains of the series.
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