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* BareHandedBladeBlock: Michelle Yeoh's character manages to catch the Emperor's sword thrust. [[spoiler: She then lets go and sacrifices herself to grab the cursed dagger from the Emperor's belt.]]
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* BareHandedBladeBlock: Michelle Yeoh's character Zi Yuan manages to catch the Emperor's sword thrust. [[spoiler: She then lets go and sacrifices herself to grab the cursed dagger from the Emperor's belt.]]
* DisappearedDad: Lin wasn't able to know Ming as the Emperor killed him before she was born. They briefly meet in the final battle before his undead form crumbles back to dust.
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** Yang, the rogue KMT officer, sports in a Nazi-Style Uniform. The Third Reich did supply the Nationalist Chinese with German-made weapons, equipment, and uniforms from 1938-1941, in what is now known at the Sino-German Cooperation.
** The British government agent warns the O'Connells that post-war China is a very dangerous place. This is true because right after Japan's defeat in World War II, the communists and the Nationalists resumed their fighting in 1946, reigniting the Chinese Civil War. Additionally, there were warlords around the Chinese countryside. The film takes place in 1946-1947, which would make complete sense.
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* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: Lin summons a small army of Yetis to aid the heroes.
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** The British government agent warns the O' Connels O'Connells that post-war China is a very dangerous place. This is true because right after Japan's defeat in World War II, the communists and the Nationalists resumed their fighting in 1946, reigniting the Chinese Civil War. Additionally, there were warlords around the Chinese countryside. The film takes place in 1946-1947, which would make complete sense.
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* TearOffYourFace: The Emperor's terra-cotta face frequently cracks and falls off, only to rebuild itself. At one point he rips it off deliberately and hurls the resulting death mask as a weapon.
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* VillainBall: The villains make sure that the O'Connels are the ones to deliver the Eye of Shangri-la to the museum. No reason is really given for this, they get Evey to translate the writing on it but Ancient Chinese isn't her specialty so why they would need her specifically is still unclear.
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* SequelGoesForeign: No more Egypt, it's China this time around.
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** Though it looks like a throwaway joke, there really are mummies in Peru (see the Chinchorro mummies). However, they were discovered about thirty years before the setting of this film.
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* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Jonathan turns Geraldine the Yak loose a long way from any accessible forage, and doesn't take her halter off when he releases her.
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** The British government agent warns the O' Connels that post-war China is a very dangerous place. This is true because right after Japan's defeat of in World War II, the communists and the Nationalists resumed their fighting in 1946, reigniting the Chinese Civil War. Aditionally, Additionally, there were warlords around the Chinese countryside countryside. The film takes place in 1946-1947, which would completely make complete sense.
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* ContinuityNod: In the final battle against the Emperor, Alex draws a divide symbol on the sand ground for Rick to remember his "divide and conquer" strategy. This links back to ''Film/TheMummyReturns'', where a kidnapped Alex constantly made sand sculptures as signals for Rick and Evy to find him.
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->''"The curse must never be lifted... or the Emperor will rise again, to enslave all of man-kind. On that dark day, there will be nothing and no one, to save us."''
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''The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'' (2008) is the third and final movie in ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy''.
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''The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'' (2008) is the third and final movie in ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy''.
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* PuttingOntheReich: Yang spots a Nazi-style uniform. See [[{{Shown Their Work}} Shown Their Work]] below.
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* BilingualBonus: When the Emperor's Terracotta Warriors shoots a barrage of arrows into an opposing army of heroic skeletons. While this naturally had no effect on the already dead targets, one of the skeletons accidentally knocks another one's head off with his shovel. He then goes to say in perfect and ''completely unsubtitled'' Chinese to his comrade ''"Oh sorry! Sorry! Your head's over here."''
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In Ancient China, the tyrannical Dragon Emperor was once united the kingdoms under his rule after he acquired magical powers. After betraying the woman who helped him, he is sealed away, seemingly for good. In 1946, the O'Connels go on an archeological survey in Shanghai when two members of a rogue military faction release the Emperor to use him to reunite the wartorn country by any means necessary.
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In Ancient China, the tyrannical Dragon Emperor was once united the kingdoms under his rule after he acquired magical powers. After betraying the woman who helped him, he is sealed away, seemingly for good. In 1946, the O'Connels go on an archeological survey in Shanghai when two members of a rogue military faction release the Emperor to use him to reunite the wartorn country by any means necessary.
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**The British government agent warns the O' Connels that post-war China is a very dangerous place. This is true because right after Japan's defeat of World War II, the communists and the Nationalists resumed their fighting in 1946, reigniting the Chinese Civil War. Aditionally, there were warlords around the Chinese countryside The film takes place in 1946-1947, which would completely make sense.
**Yang, the rogue KMT officer, sports in a Nazi-Style Uniform. The Third Reich did supply the Nationalist Chinese with German-made weapons, equipment, and uniforms from 1938-1941, in what is now known at the Sino-German Cooperation.
**The British government agent warns the O' Connels that post-war China is a very dangerous place. This is true because right after Japan's defeat of World War II, the communists and the Nationalists resumed their fighting in 1946, reigniting the Chinese Civil War. Aditionally, there were warlords around the Chinese countryside The film takes place in 1946-1947, which would completely make sense.
**Yang, the rogue KMT officer, sports in a Nazi-Style Uniform. The Third Reich did supply the Nationalist Chinese with German-made weapons, equipment, and uniforms from 1938-1941, in what is now known at the Sino-German Cooperation.
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* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Jonathan turns Geraldine the Yak loose a long way from any accessible forage, and doesn't take her halter off when he releases her.
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* ObservationOnOriginality: The film merrily hits every action/adventure movie trope right on the mark. Nothing in the movie is a surprise, but it's not a bad film for it.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: The people who sealed the Emperor away put his mummy in a statue, the idea being that anyone who tries to raise him would instead raise a eunuch, which was in the coffin as decoy. This plan almost works... till the mummy raising water is accidently splashed on the emperor's statue.
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* SpannerInTheWorks: The people who sealed the Emperor away put his mummy in a statue, the idea being that anyone who tries to raise him would instead raise a eunuch, which was in the coffin as decoy. This plan almost works... till the mummy raising water is accidently accidentally splashed on the emperor's statue.
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* ObservationOnOriginality: VillainBall: The film merrily hits every action/adventure movie trope right on villains make sure that the mark. Nothing in O'Connels are the movie ones to deliver the Eye of Shangri-la to the museum. No reason is a surprise, really given for this, they get Evey to translate the writing on it but it's not a bad film for it.Ancient Chinese isn't her specialty so why they would need her specifically is still unclear.
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Misuse. It\'s \"Genre Savvy\", not just \"Savvy\".
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* GenreSavvy: When leaving the museum, Rick mentions that the emperor will get stronger the longer it takes to put him down, chalking his logic up to, basically, that's how mummies work.
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The first two movies were definitely not horror movies. They were all three of them action movies in the vein of Indiana Jones.
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* LighterAndSofter: Then the previous films, which had more emphasis on the horror genre, while this film was more of an action fantasy.
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* HereWeGoAgain: Said by Rick word for word when the Emperor comes back to life.
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* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow: Alex O'Connell and Lin.
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''The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'' (2008) is the third movie in ''Film/TheMummyTrilogy''.
In Ancient China, the tyrannical Dragon Emperor was once united the kingdoms under his rule after he acquired magical powers. After betraying the woman who helped him, he is sealed away, seemingly for good. In 1946, the O'Connels go on an archeological survey in Shanghai when two members of a rogue military faction release the Emperor to use him to reunite the wartorn country by any means necessary.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: The Japanese dub of ''The Dragon Emperor'' uses [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se9G-gkdZY4 "Memories"]] by Manami Kurose as its image song.
* AnnoyingArrows: A RainOfArrows is fired at the undead army. They spend a couple minutes pulling them out then get back to the fighting.
* AntiVillain: The Dragon Emperor's living minions Yang and Choi. Their country has been locked in a vicious civil war for years, and it seems like the only man who can unite China is the one who did it in the first place. Made especially so by [[spoiler: their very heroic deaths: Choi trying to pull Yang out of machinery while he yells at her to save herself.]]
* BackToBackBadasses: Evy and Rick, first with rifles, then pistols, then swiped swords, until eventually they're exhausted, leaning back to back to keep each other standing up.
* BareHandedBladeBlock: Michelle Yeoh's character manages to catch the Emperor's sword thrust. [[spoiler: She then lets go and sacrifices herself to grab the cursed dagger from the Emperor's belt.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: Jonathan arrives at the final battle to take on the Emperor's terracotta army with a pair of WWII planes.
-->'''Evy:''' Jonathan certainly knows how to make an entrance.
* BilingualBonus: When the Emperor's Terracotta Warriors shoots a barrage of arrows into an opposing army of heroic skeletons. While this naturally had no effect on the already dead targets, one of the skeletons accidentally knocks another one's head off with his shovel. He then goes to say in perfect and ''completely unsubtitled'' Chinese to his comrade ''"Oh sorry! Sorry! Your head's over here."''
* CoolVersusAwesome: Terracotta warriors versus a skeleton army.
* ElementalPowers: The Emperor, and they make sure to establish that he uses the Chinese, rather than Western, elements.
* FullNameUltimatum: Rick to Alex.
--> '''Rick:''' Alexander Rupert O'Connell, you get on the back of this horse, ''this instant!''
* GenreBlindness: Jonathan shouldn't have ''openly stated'' he was moving to Peru because there were no mummies there.
* GenreSavvy: When leaving the museum, Rick mentions that the emperor will get stronger the longer it takes to put him down, chalking his logic up to, basically, that's how mummies work.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: During the chase sequence in Shanghai, Jonathan has this priceless reaction to his burning backside:
-->'''Jonathan:''' Ah! My ass is on fire! My ass is on fire! Spank my ass. Spank my ass!
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: A bisected soldier is briefly seen crawling after Rick in the final fight.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Zi Yuan (who had already sacrificed her immortality to raise General Ming's army) allows the Emperor to mortally wound her with his sword in order to get back the dagger that can kill him.]]
* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: When we meet Maria Bello as Evy, she refers to a character in her novel based on her and Rick's adventures as being "a completely different person."
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Alex and the 2,000-year-old Lin fall in love. She later [[spoiler:gives up her immortality to spend her life with him]].
* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow: Alex O'Connell and Lin.
* NightOfTheLivingMooks: [[spoiler: The counter-undead raised to fight the Dragon Emperor.]]
* PrettyInMink: There are a few fox wraps, in addition to the winter coats in the mountains.
* PunctuatedPounding: Rick when gunning down the Emperor's troops at the Great Wall.
--> '''Rick:''' I! [''bang!''] Really! [''bang!''] Hate! [''bang!''] ''Mummies''! [''bang!'']
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Lin.
* RainOfArrows: Fittingly used by the terracotta army, but they abandoned the strategy when they remembered their opponents were undead.
* SequelHook: The movie ends with John resolving to move to Peru. As he drives off, ''Mummies were later discovered in Peru'' appears on the screen. Though considering the timing and that no further movies have been made, this may just have been reinforcing Jonathan's status as the ButtMonkey.
* SpannerInTheWorks: The people who sealed the Emperor away put his mummy in a statue, the idea being that anyone who tries to raise him would instead raise a eunuch, which was in the coffin as decoy. This plan almost works... till the mummy raising water is accidently splashed on the emperor's statue.
* TakenForGranite: Probably the most horrific origin story of the Terracotta Warriors ever conceived. Explains why every face is unique...
* TemptingFate: Jonathan states that he's moving to Peru after selling his bar to a Russian pilot, and states that at least that place doesn't have mummies. A narrative quote then appears stating that after his arrival, mummies were discovered in Peru.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: The Dragon Emperor throwing his sword at Rick. Although being able to make it fly around on a whim it probably helped.
* ObservationOnOriginality: The film merrily hits every action/adventure movie trope right on the mark. Nothing in the movie is a surprise, but it's not a bad film for it.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Yang and Choi. They resurrected the Dragon Emperor only so they could end China's civil war.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Lin, once she realizes that she's in love with Alex. Her mother took care of that problem.
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