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* SimpleStaff: Lu Xiao-jia prefers using a thick bamboo staff to beat up mooks.
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* BadassMoustache: Fu Hung-hsueh sports a rather epic beard and stache in all three films.
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* BadassCrew: In the sequel, Fu Hung-hsueh forms a PowerTrio with Ye-kai and Lu Xiao-jia, and all three of them ends the film fighting an entire army of mooks, killing everybody that gets in their way with ease.
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* BadassCrew: In the sequel, Fu Hung-hsueh forms a PowerTrio team of three with Ye-kai and Lu Xiao-jia, and all three of them ends the film fighting an entire army of mooks, killing everybody that gets in their way with ease.
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* EnemyMine: ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' has it's PowerTrio of Fu Hung-hsueh, Lu Xiao-jia and Ye-kai originally ''NOT'' on the same side, but eventually deciding to work together when realizing they have a common enemy with Master Ma Kong-Qun and his legion of 50-odd killers.
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* EnemyMine: ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' has it's PowerTrio of heroes Fu Hung-hsueh, Lu Xiao-jia and Ye-kai originally ''NOT'' on the same side, but eventually deciding to work together when realizing they have a common enemy with Master Ma Kong-Qun and his legion of 50-odd killers.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The second movie's PowerTrio of Fu Hung-hsueh, Ye-kai and Lu Xiao-jia really, really, '''really''' doesn't want to be working as a team, with Fu invoking the IWorkAlone trope via dialogue.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The second movie's PowerTrio of heroes, Fu Hung-hsueh, Ye-kai and Lu Xiao-jia really, really, '''really''' doesn't want to be working as a team, with Fu invoking the IWorkAlone trope via dialogue.
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* PaperMaster: The first movie has an enemy scholar who throw ''sheets of paper'' at Fu, which embeds into solid ground.
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* ActorAllusion: In ''The Magic Blade'', Lo Lieh plays Yen Nan-fai, the main villain who [[spoiler: ends the movie choosing to kill himself after being defeated by Fu Hung-hsueh]]. In the sequel, ''Pursuit of Vengeance'', Lo Lieh plays Lu Xiao-jia, a warrior seeking to challenge Fu Hung-hsueh to a battle... because he lose a fight against Fu in an offscreen duel between the events of the two movies. Talk about CastingGag...
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* ActorAllusion: In ''The Magic Blade'', Lo Lieh Creator/LoLieh plays Yen Nan-fai, the main villain who [[spoiler: ends the movie choosing to kill himself after being defeated by Fu Hung-hsueh]]. In the sequel, ''Pursuit of Vengeance'', Lo Lieh plays Lu Xiao-jia, a warrior seeking to challenge Fu Hung-hsueh to a battle... because he lose a fight against Fu in an offscreen duel between the events of the two movies. Talk about CastingGag...
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* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: ''A Warrior's Tragedy'', due to being released more than a decade after ''Pursuit of Vengeance'', with Fu Hung-hsueh becoming a retired warrior who had long since left the world of martial arts. It's more of a character-driven drama with minimal action scenes, and Fu isn't depicted as the BloodKnight he was in the first two films.
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* OddballInTheSeries: ''A Warrior's Tragedy'', due to being released more than a decade after ''Pursuit of Vengeance'', with Fu Hung-hsueh becoming a retired warrior who had long since left the world of martial arts. It's more of a character-driven drama with minimal action scenes, and Fu isn't depicted as the BloodKnight he was in the first two films.
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* TheFunInFuneral: Inverted, when a funeral scene in ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' turns out to be a set up for an ambush, with the mourners drawing swords and pikes to ambush Fu Hung-hsueh and Lu Xiao-jia.
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* HumanChessboard: One of the key action scenes from the first film, ''The Magic Blade'', is on a giant chessboard spread across a courtyard. The pawns are low-tier mooks, EliteMooks fill the role of bishops, and the Ghost Granny is one of the rooks.
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* HumanChessboard: HumanChess: One of the key action scenes from the first film, ''The Magic Blade'', is on a giant chessboard spread across a courtyard. The pawns are low-tier mooks, EliteMooks fill the role of bishops, and the Ghost Granny is one of the rooks.
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* PuttingTheFunInFuneral: Inverted, when a funeral scene in ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' turns out to be a set up for an ambush, with the mourners drawing swords and pikes to ambush Fu Hung-hsueh and Lu Xiao-jia.
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''The Magic Blade'' is a 1976 Creator/ShawBrothers MartialArtsMovie starring Creator/TiLung, the first of four films featuring the legendary, poncho-clad warrior, Fu Hung-hsueh (傅红雪), from the Gu-long novel series of the same name. Notably one of two film adaptations of Gu-long's novels with Ti Lung portraying a character from the series (the other being Li the Flying Dagger from the ''Film/TheSentimentalSwordsman'' trilogy), the film plays out like a Western, but set in the Ming Dynasty (so... an Eastern?), featuring a mysterious wanderer and drifter who finds himself deep in a war for power during his travels.
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''The Magic Blade'' is a 1976 Creator/ShawBrothers MartialArtsMovie starring Creator/TiLung, the first of four films featuring the legendary, poncho-clad warrior, Fu Hung-hsueh (傅红雪), from the Gu-long novel series of the same name. Notably one of two film adaptations of Gu-long's novels with starring Ti Lung portraying a character from the series (the other being Li the Flying Dagger from the ''Film/TheSentimentalSwordsman'' trilogy), the film plays out like a Western, but set in the Ming Dynasty (so... an Eastern?), featuring a mysterious wanderer and drifter who finds himself deep in a war for power during his travels.
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Besides the trilogy, Fu Hung-hsueh's only other appearance in film is a cameo appearance in an IntercontinuityCrossover in the Shaw Brothers film, ''Film/DeathDuel''.
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Besides the trilogy, Fu Hung-hsueh's only other appearance in film is a cameo appearance in an IntercontinuityCrossover in the Shaw Brothers film, ''Film/DeathDuel''.
''Film/DeathDuel''. [[note]] He shows up, kills a handful of mooks, have a minute-long chat with the protagonist of ''Death Duel'', and leaves. [[/note]]
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Fu Hung-hsueh, once a powerful warrior who had renounced his ways of killing, uncovers a plot to overthrown overthrow the world of martial arts, arts with a deadly weapon called the Peacock Scale. Fu has to track down said weapon, but he's not the only one who's interested in it's powers.
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[[caption-width-right:350: [[BloodKnight Fu Hung-hsueh]] in ''The Magic Blade'' (top), and [[RetiredBadass Fu Hung-hsueh]] in ''A Warrior's Tragedy'']]
''The Magic Blade'' is a 1976 Creator/ShawBrothers MartialArtsMovie starring Creator/TiLung, the first of four films featuring the legendary, poncho-clad warrior, Fu Hung-hsueh (傅红雪), from the Gu-long novel series of the same name. Notably one of two film adaptations of Gu-long's novels with Ti Lung portraying a character from the series (the other being Li the Flying Dagger from the ''Film/TheSentimentalSwordsman'' trilogy), the film plays out like a Western, but set in the Ming Dynasty (so... an Eastern?), featuring a mysterious wanderer and drifter who finds himself deep in a war for power during his travels.
Fu Hung-hsueh, once a powerful warrior who had renounced his ways of killing, uncovers a plot to overthrown the world of martial arts, with a deadly weapon called the Peacock Scale. Fu has to track down said weapon, but he's not the only one who's interested in it's powers.
A year later, the sequel, ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' is released, this time with Fu uncovering a secret from his past. Forced into an alliance with two other killers from the martial arts world, Fu and his new allies are in for the battle of their lives.
The third and final movie, ''A Warrior's Tragedy'', is released... 17 years later. It's the only movie of the series '''NOT''' produced or distributed by Shaw Brothers, and despite having Ti Lung portray Fu Hung-hsueh once more, most fans consider this third installment to be InNameOnly.
Besides the trilogy, Fu Hung-hsueh's only other appearance in film is a cameo appearance in an IntercontinuityCrossover in the Shaw Brothers film, ''Film/DeathDuel''.
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!! The Fu Hung-hsueh series of films contains the following tropes:
* ActorAllusion: In ''The Magic Blade'', Lo Lieh plays Yen Nan-fai, the main villain who [[spoiler: ends the movie choosing to kill himself after being defeated by Fu Hung-hsueh]]. In the sequel, ''Pursuit of Vengeance'', Lo Lieh plays Lu Xiao-jia, a warrior seeking to challenge Fu Hung-hsueh to a battle... because he lose a fight against Fu in an offscreen duel between the events of the two movies. Talk about CastingGag...
* BadassCrew: In the sequel, Fu Hung-hsueh forms a PowerTrio with Ye-kai and Lu Xiao-jia, and all three of them ends the film fighting an entire army of mooks, killing everybody that gets in their way with ease.
* BadassCape: Fu Hung-hsueh's poncho, which he's ''never'' seen without.
* BadassMoustache: Fu Hung-hsueh sports a rather epic beard and stache in all three films.
* BigBad: Yen Nan-fei in ''The Magic Blade'', Ma Kong-Qun in ''Pursuit of Vengeance''.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Many victims defeated by Fu Hung-hsueh will inevitably spill blood from the edge of their mouths. Notably the swordsman, Gu, from ''The Magic Blade'', with the camera lingering on his face as he utters his DyingCurse while succumbing.
* ChainPain: One fight scene in ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' has Fu Hung-hsueh being surrounded by EliteMooks, armed with hidden dart launchers with chains attached, which they use to ambush and ensnare Fu and then entangle him with the chains. Fu managed to slip out of those chains (thanks to his poncho) where he then proceeds to slice apart those mooks as they try using their chains on him again.
* ChasteHero: Fu Hung-hsueh has more than one woman trying to hook up with him in the first two movies, but he shoots down ''all'' their advances towards him. Even when the prostitute Moon Heart (from ''The Magic Blade'') tries to seduce him (wearing what equals to lingerie in the Ming Dynasty), he doesn't even bat an eye.
* ClothingDamage: Fu Hung-hsueh's poncho gets shredded multiple times in the first two movies, and in ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' has Ye-kai having a trouser leg ripped off in the final battle. And in the same movie, the DuelToTheDeath between Fu Hung-hsueh and Lu Xiao-jia, since they're [[FireForgedFriends reluctant to kill each other after all they've been through]], is instead changed into a contest where they slice up each other's pants. [[SincerityMode Yes, really]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite wearing black robes in a dark poncho in all three movies, Fu Hung-hsueh is the protagonist and hero of the trilogy.
* DeterminedDefeatist: Lu Xiao-jia from the second movie, a failed warrior defeated by Fu Hung-hsueh in the past, is actively seeking Fu for a rematch, despite learning how Fu has defeated Yen Nan-fei and his legion of expert killers, and witnessing Fu in battle where Fu is clearly leagues above him in terms of combat. Nevertheless, Lu Xiao-jia ''still'' wants a fight for his own reasons.
* DistantSequel: Several decades have passed between ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' and ''A Warrior's Tragedy'' (16 years in real life), enough for Fu Hung-hsueh to go from a badass OneManArmy killing machine to a RetiredBadass that have since lost most of his purpose in life due to being LonelyAtTheTop.
* TheDrifter: Fu Hung-hsueh is a wanderer and vagabond, who [[WalkingTheEarth spend his days aimlessly drifting all over the world of martial arts]].
* EmergingFromTheShadows: Fu Hung-hsueh making his first onscreen appearance in ''The Magic Blade''.
* EnemyMine: ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' has it's PowerTrio of Fu Hung-hsueh, Lu Xiao-jia and Ye-kai originally ''NOT'' on the same side, but eventually deciding to work together when realizing they have a common enemy with Master Ma Kong-Qun and his legion of 50-odd killers.
* EvilOldFolks: The Ghost Granny appears to be a benelovent and kindly old woman, but is in fact a dangerous murderer and assassin, who takes delight in butchering her victims and [[IAmAhumanitarian cooking them for her soup]].
* FaceFramedInShadow: The Ghost Granny's debut has her entirely hidden in the dark, with her silohoutte and voice being the only thing visible to audiences. She finally reveals how she actually looks like in a later scene.
* FuroScene: Lu Xiao-jia's intro in the second film has him taking a bath in a wooden tub... in the ''middle'' of crowded city streets. For some reason.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: The first movie's climax has this happening to a MookLieutenant who's sneaking up on Fu Hung-hsueh, while he's in the midst of battling Yen Nan-fei. Said mook is hiding behind a wooden panel, and Fu simply slices the panel vertically into half, bisecting his opponent vertically along the way. The panel obscures the gore however.
* HiddenInPlainSight: The Peacock Scale from the first movie, a powerful weapon that can destroy armies and cause dozens of explosions, appears to be hidden in a guarded, underground vault in Peacock Hall, but it's actually hidden right on the mantelpiece of the hall itself, as a seemingly normal-looking, random wall ornament.
* HumanChessboard: One of the key action scenes from the first film, ''The Magic Blade'', is on a giant chessboard spread across a courtyard. The pawns are low-tier mooks, EliteMooks fill the role of bishops, and the Ghost Granny is one of the rooks.
* HumanLadder: Again from the first movie; the battle in the bamboo forest has Fu Hung-hsueh being ambushed from all around him by EliteMooks standing on each other, attempting to prevent Fu from somersaulting his way out. Fu simply hacks apart those mooks from the bottom and slices apart those on the top as they fall.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: From ''The Magic Blade'', Yen Nan-fei's MookLieutenant legion uses a variety of odd, unusual weapons, including a jade cane, [[ThePenIsMightier a paintbrush with razor-sharp bristles]], a metal CombatHandFan, and sheets of paper which can cut through flesh.
* InASingleBound: Fu Hung-hsueh can leap great distances and land on rooftops from jumping at gound level, thanks to his martial arts training. But most EliteMooks and MookLieutenant have this ability too.
* LatexPerfection: Latex masks are used extensively in the second movie, for characters faking their deaths.
* LightIsNotGood: The first movie's main villain, Ye Nan-fei, wears white with gold-trimmed robes throughout the entirety of his screentime. Subverted than he's a NobleDemon who plays fair, and displays plenty of VillainousValour towards Fu Hung-hsueh.
* MultiMeleeMaster: Ye-kai from ''Pursuit of Vengeance''. While Fu Hung-hsueh solely relies on his tonfas and Lu Xiao-jia uses a thick staff, Ye-kai can be seen using swords, spears, chains and his fists during fight scenes.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: After the second film's final battle, with Fu Hung-hsueh, Lu Xiao-jia and Ye-kai putting their differences aside [[spoiler: to successfully defeat Master Ma]], Fu and Lu are ''still'' adament to have their DuelToTheDeath. Ye-kai instead suggest they invoke a DefeatByModesty instead, where the duel ends if they remove each other's pants.
** [[spoiler: Ultimately, their duel ends with Fu Hung-hsueh winning. Deciding to be a GracefulLoser, Lu Xiao-jia then strolls away cheerfully as the film literally ends with a freeze-frame on his '''naked ass''']].
* OddballInTheSeries: ''A Warrior's Tragedy'', due to being released more than a decade after ''Pursuit of Vengeance'', with Fu Hung-hsueh becoming a retired warrior who had long since left the world of martial arts. It's more of a character-driven drama with minimal action scenes, and Fu isn't depicted as the BloodKnight he was in the first two films.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: When Fu Hung-hsueh and Ye Nan-fei enters a tavern, Ye-kai tries motioning a random waiter, only for the waiter to fall lifelessly to the floor. One scene later it's revealed that ''every'' single occupant in the tavern are, in fact, corpses, propped on chairs and walls.
* OneManArmy: Fu Hung-hsueh throughout all the movies, where he repeatedly takes names using both his blades with ease. Especially the second film when he carves a bloody path through armies of baddies, filling up more than 80 bodybags in the second film alone.
* PluckyComicRelief: Ye-kai in the second movie provides plenty of relief and tension throughout the film, especially during more tense moments.
* PuttingTheFunInFuneral: Inverted, when a funeral scene in ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' turns out to be a set up for an ambush, with the mourners drawing swords and pikes to ambush Fu Hung-hsueh and Lu Xiao-jia.
* RetiredBadass: Fu Hung-hsueh by the third film, ''A Warrior's Tragedy''; having succeeded in his quest for revenge, with all his enemies dead and himself feeling LonelyAtTheTop, for most of the third film Fu is DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.
* ShoutOut: ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' has a rather blatant reference to ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'', when Fu Hung-hsueh stops a horse-cart carrying five coffins, and saying four of them are occupied. Cue four enemy assassins emerging from four of those coffins - and a short battle later, four of them returns to their coffins, slain by Fu.
* SimpleStaff: Lu Xiao-jia prefers using a thick bamboo staff to beat up mooks.
* SingleStrokeBattle: Majority of Fu Hung-hsueh's battles against faceless mooks ends like these.
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler: Ye Nan-fei]] does this to himself at the end of ''The Magic Blade'', preferring death over admitting he lost to Fu Hung-hsueh.
* SpinAttack: More often than not employed by Fu Hung-hsueh in the first two films, himself spinning in circles while twirling his blade.
* SpitefulSuicide: ''The Magic Blade'' ends with the final duel between Fu Hung-hsueh and Yen Nan-fei, culminating with [[spoiler: Yen Nan-fei's defeat]]. Rather than submit to failure though...
--> '''[[spoiler: Yen]]''': "You, defeat me? Never, because only I can defeat myself!" (kills himself)
* SwordFight: Basically 99% of the action scenes in all the movies.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The second movie's PowerTrio of Fu Hung-hsueh, Ye-kai and Lu Xiao-jia really, really, '''really''' doesn't want to be working as a team, with Fu invoking the IWorkAlone trope via dialogue.
* ThirstyDesert: Most of the third movie, ''A Warrior's Tragedy'', is set in the Mongolian desert.
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' has a flashback where Fu remember how his father dies; ''A Warrior's Tragedy'' has Fu, now an elderly warrior, recalling a massacre from his past that he is unable to stop.
* WorthyOpponent: What Ye Nan-fei considers Fu Hung-hsueh to be after their first duel in ''The Magic Blade''.
* YouKilledMyFather: The plot of the second movie, ''Pursuit of Vengeance'', with Fu Hung-hsueh finally uncovering his father's killer from 20 years ago and confronting him.
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''The Magic Blade'' is a 1976 Creator/ShawBrothers MartialArtsMovie starring Creator/TiLung, the first of four films featuring the legendary, poncho-clad warrior, Fu Hung-hsueh (傅红雪), from the Gu-long novel series of the same name. Notably one of two film adaptations of Gu-long's novels with Ti Lung portraying a character from the series (the other being Li the Flying Dagger from the ''Film/TheSentimentalSwordsman'' trilogy), the film plays out like a Western, but set in the Ming Dynasty (so... an Eastern?), featuring a mysterious wanderer and drifter who finds himself deep in a war for power during his travels.
Fu Hung-hsueh, once a powerful warrior who had renounced his ways of killing, uncovers a plot to overthrown the world of martial arts, with a deadly weapon called the Peacock Scale. Fu has to track down said weapon, but he's not the only one who's interested in it's powers.
A year later, the sequel, ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' is released, this time with Fu uncovering a secret from his past. Forced into an alliance with two other killers from the martial arts world, Fu and his new allies are in for the battle of their lives.
The third and final movie, ''A Warrior's Tragedy'', is released... 17 years later. It's the only movie of the series '''NOT''' produced or distributed by Shaw Brothers, and despite having Ti Lung portray Fu Hung-hsueh once more, most fans consider this third installment to be InNameOnly.
Besides the trilogy, Fu Hung-hsueh's only other appearance in film is a cameo appearance in an IntercontinuityCrossover in the Shaw Brothers film, ''Film/DeathDuel''.
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!! The Fu Hung-hsueh series of films contains the following tropes:
* ActorAllusion: In ''The Magic Blade'', Lo Lieh plays Yen Nan-fai, the main villain who [[spoiler: ends the movie choosing to kill himself after being defeated by Fu Hung-hsueh]]. In the sequel, ''Pursuit of Vengeance'', Lo Lieh plays Lu Xiao-jia, a warrior seeking to challenge Fu Hung-hsueh to a battle... because he lose a fight against Fu in an offscreen duel between the events of the two movies. Talk about CastingGag...
* BadassCrew: In the sequel, Fu Hung-hsueh forms a PowerTrio with Ye-kai and Lu Xiao-jia, and all three of them ends the film fighting an entire army of mooks, killing everybody that gets in their way with ease.
* BadassCape: Fu Hung-hsueh's poncho, which he's ''never'' seen without.
* BadassMoustache: Fu Hung-hsueh sports a rather epic beard and stache in all three films.
* BigBad: Yen Nan-fei in ''The Magic Blade'', Ma Kong-Qun in ''Pursuit of Vengeance''.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Many victims defeated by Fu Hung-hsueh will inevitably spill blood from the edge of their mouths. Notably the swordsman, Gu, from ''The Magic Blade'', with the camera lingering on his face as he utters his DyingCurse while succumbing.
* ChainPain: One fight scene in ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' has Fu Hung-hsueh being surrounded by EliteMooks, armed with hidden dart launchers with chains attached, which they use to ambush and ensnare Fu and then entangle him with the chains. Fu managed to slip out of those chains (thanks to his poncho) where he then proceeds to slice apart those mooks as they try using their chains on him again.
* ChasteHero: Fu Hung-hsueh has more than one woman trying to hook up with him in the first two movies, but he shoots down ''all'' their advances towards him. Even when the prostitute Moon Heart (from ''The Magic Blade'') tries to seduce him (wearing what equals to lingerie in the Ming Dynasty), he doesn't even bat an eye.
* ClothingDamage: Fu Hung-hsueh's poncho gets shredded multiple times in the first two movies, and in ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' has Ye-kai having a trouser leg ripped off in the final battle. And in the same movie, the DuelToTheDeath between Fu Hung-hsueh and Lu Xiao-jia, since they're [[FireForgedFriends reluctant to kill each other after all they've been through]], is instead changed into a contest where they slice up each other's pants. [[SincerityMode Yes, really]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite wearing black robes in a dark poncho in all three movies, Fu Hung-hsueh is the protagonist and hero of the trilogy.
* DeterminedDefeatist: Lu Xiao-jia from the second movie, a failed warrior defeated by Fu Hung-hsueh in the past, is actively seeking Fu for a rematch, despite learning how Fu has defeated Yen Nan-fei and his legion of expert killers, and witnessing Fu in battle where Fu is clearly leagues above him in terms of combat. Nevertheless, Lu Xiao-jia ''still'' wants a fight for his own reasons.
* DistantSequel: Several decades have passed between ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' and ''A Warrior's Tragedy'' (16 years in real life), enough for Fu Hung-hsueh to go from a badass OneManArmy killing machine to a RetiredBadass that have since lost most of his purpose in life due to being LonelyAtTheTop.
* TheDrifter: Fu Hung-hsueh is a wanderer and vagabond, who [[WalkingTheEarth spend his days aimlessly drifting all over the world of martial arts]].
* EmergingFromTheShadows: Fu Hung-hsueh making his first onscreen appearance in ''The Magic Blade''.
* EnemyMine: ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' has it's PowerTrio of Fu Hung-hsueh, Lu Xiao-jia and Ye-kai originally ''NOT'' on the same side, but eventually deciding to work together when realizing they have a common enemy with Master Ma Kong-Qun and his legion of 50-odd killers.
* EvilOldFolks: The Ghost Granny appears to be a benelovent and kindly old woman, but is in fact a dangerous murderer and assassin, who takes delight in butchering her victims and [[IAmAhumanitarian cooking them for her soup]].
* FaceFramedInShadow: The Ghost Granny's debut has her entirely hidden in the dark, with her silohoutte and voice being the only thing visible to audiences. She finally reveals how she actually looks like in a later scene.
* FuroScene: Lu Xiao-jia's intro in the second film has him taking a bath in a wooden tub... in the ''middle'' of crowded city streets. For some reason.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: The first movie's climax has this happening to a MookLieutenant who's sneaking up on Fu Hung-hsueh, while he's in the midst of battling Yen Nan-fei. Said mook is hiding behind a wooden panel, and Fu simply slices the panel vertically into half, bisecting his opponent vertically along the way. The panel obscures the gore however.
* HiddenInPlainSight: The Peacock Scale from the first movie, a powerful weapon that can destroy armies and cause dozens of explosions, appears to be hidden in a guarded, underground vault in Peacock Hall, but it's actually hidden right on the mantelpiece of the hall itself, as a seemingly normal-looking, random wall ornament.
* HumanChessboard: One of the key action scenes from the first film, ''The Magic Blade'', is on a giant chessboard spread across a courtyard. The pawns are low-tier mooks, EliteMooks fill the role of bishops, and the Ghost Granny is one of the rooks.
* HumanLadder: Again from the first movie; the battle in the bamboo forest has Fu Hung-hsueh being ambushed from all around him by EliteMooks standing on each other, attempting to prevent Fu from somersaulting his way out. Fu simply hacks apart those mooks from the bottom and slices apart those on the top as they fall.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: From ''The Magic Blade'', Yen Nan-fei's MookLieutenant legion uses a variety of odd, unusual weapons, including a jade cane, [[ThePenIsMightier a paintbrush with razor-sharp bristles]], a metal CombatHandFan, and sheets of paper which can cut through flesh.
* InASingleBound: Fu Hung-hsueh can leap great distances and land on rooftops from jumping at gound level, thanks to his martial arts training. But most EliteMooks and MookLieutenant have this ability too.
* LatexPerfection: Latex masks are used extensively in the second movie, for characters faking their deaths.
* LightIsNotGood: The first movie's main villain, Ye Nan-fei, wears white with gold-trimmed robes throughout the entirety of his screentime. Subverted than he's a NobleDemon who plays fair, and displays plenty of VillainousValour towards Fu Hung-hsueh.
* MultiMeleeMaster: Ye-kai from ''Pursuit of Vengeance''. While Fu Hung-hsueh solely relies on his tonfas and Lu Xiao-jia uses a thick staff, Ye-kai can be seen using swords, spears, chains and his fists during fight scenes.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: After the second film's final battle, with Fu Hung-hsueh, Lu Xiao-jia and Ye-kai putting their differences aside [[spoiler: to successfully defeat Master Ma]], Fu and Lu are ''still'' adament to have their DuelToTheDeath. Ye-kai instead suggest they invoke a DefeatByModesty instead, where the duel ends if they remove each other's pants.
** [[spoiler: Ultimately, their duel ends with Fu Hung-hsueh winning. Deciding to be a GracefulLoser, Lu Xiao-jia then strolls away cheerfully as the film literally ends with a freeze-frame on his '''naked ass''']].
* OddballInTheSeries: ''A Warrior's Tragedy'', due to being released more than a decade after ''Pursuit of Vengeance'', with Fu Hung-hsueh becoming a retired warrior who had long since left the world of martial arts. It's more of a character-driven drama with minimal action scenes, and Fu isn't depicted as the BloodKnight he was in the first two films.
* OfCorpseHesAlive: When Fu Hung-hsueh and Ye Nan-fei enters a tavern, Ye-kai tries motioning a random waiter, only for the waiter to fall lifelessly to the floor. One scene later it's revealed that ''every'' single occupant in the tavern are, in fact, corpses, propped on chairs and walls.
* OneManArmy: Fu Hung-hsueh throughout all the movies, where he repeatedly takes names using both his blades with ease. Especially the second film when he carves a bloody path through armies of baddies, filling up more than 80 bodybags in the second film alone.
* PluckyComicRelief: Ye-kai in the second movie provides plenty of relief and tension throughout the film, especially during more tense moments.
* PuttingTheFunInFuneral: Inverted, when a funeral scene in ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' turns out to be a set up for an ambush, with the mourners drawing swords and pikes to ambush Fu Hung-hsueh and Lu Xiao-jia.
* RetiredBadass: Fu Hung-hsueh by the third film, ''A Warrior's Tragedy''; having succeeded in his quest for revenge, with all his enemies dead and himself feeling LonelyAtTheTop, for most of the third film Fu is DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife.
* ShoutOut: ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' has a rather blatant reference to ''Film/AFistfulOfDollars'', when Fu Hung-hsueh stops a horse-cart carrying five coffins, and saying four of them are occupied. Cue four enemy assassins emerging from four of those coffins - and a short battle later, four of them returns to their coffins, slain by Fu.
* SimpleStaff: Lu Xiao-jia prefers using a thick bamboo staff to beat up mooks.
* SingleStrokeBattle: Majority of Fu Hung-hsueh's battles against faceless mooks ends like these.
* SlashedThroat: [[spoiler: Ye Nan-fei]] does this to himself at the end of ''The Magic Blade'', preferring death over admitting he lost to Fu Hung-hsueh.
* SpinAttack: More often than not employed by Fu Hung-hsueh in the first two films, himself spinning in circles while twirling his blade.
* SpitefulSuicide: ''The Magic Blade'' ends with the final duel between Fu Hung-hsueh and Yen Nan-fei, culminating with [[spoiler: Yen Nan-fei's defeat]]. Rather than submit to failure though...
--> '''[[spoiler: Yen]]''': "You, defeat me? Never, because only I can defeat myself!" (kills himself)
* SwordFight: Basically 99% of the action scenes in all the movies.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: The second movie's PowerTrio of Fu Hung-hsueh, Ye-kai and Lu Xiao-jia really, really, '''really''' doesn't want to be working as a team, with Fu invoking the IWorkAlone trope via dialogue.
* ThirstyDesert: Most of the third movie, ''A Warrior's Tragedy'', is set in the Mongolian desert.
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: ''Pursuit of Vengeance'' has a flashback where Fu remember how his father dies; ''A Warrior's Tragedy'' has Fu, now an elderly warrior, recalling a massacre from his past that he is unable to stop.
* WorthyOpponent: What Ye Nan-fei considers Fu Hung-hsueh to be after their first duel in ''The Magic Blade''.
* YouKilledMyFather: The plot of the second movie, ''Pursuit of Vengeance'', with Fu Hung-hsueh finally uncovering his father's killer from 20 years ago and confronting him.
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