History Film / TigerCage

* ScaryBlackMan: The muscular African-American drug dealer who is the lead bodyguard of the foreign drug syndicate that infiltrates Hong Kong. He's played by Donnie Yen's close friend Michael Woods, and this is their first (of at least 6) onscreen collaborations.

''Tiger Cage'' is a 1988 action movie directed by Creator/YuenWooPing, starring Jacky Cheung, Creator/DonnieYen and Creator/SimonYam, and is one of Yuen's many collaborations with Donnie throughout his career, the two of them having worked together previously in ''Drunken Tai Chi'', and will collaborate again in the sequel, and in ''Film/IronMonkey''.

The movie is followed by a sequel two years later, ''Film/TigerCage2'', also starring Donnie Yen, but this time the movie follows an entirely new storyline with all-new characters, its cast including Creator/CynthiaKhan,
Creator/RosamundKwan (from ''Film/OnceUponATimeInChina'') and Creator/RobinShou. The new plot involves Inspector Yau (Donnie), a police officer who ends up getting involved in Mandy (Rosamund), a lawyer, who's a witness in a crime.

The movie is followed by a sequel two years later, ''Film/TigerCage2'', also starring Donnie Yen, but this time the movie follows an entirely new storyline with all-new characters, its cast including Creator/CynthiaKhan, Rosamund Kwan (from ''Film/OnceUponATimeInChina'') and Creator/RobinShou. The new plot involves Inspector Yau (Donnie), a police officer who ends up getting involved in Mandy (Rosamund), a lawyer, who's a witness in a crime.

** In the ending, [[spoiler: Officer Fan shoots Inspector Huang in the head while Huang is using Shirley as a hostage]].

* ItsAlwaysSunnyAtFunerals: [[Lung's funeral is in daylight when the service is held]].

* DesignatedGirlFight: Between Shirleyy and [[spoiler: Inspector Huang's henchwoman]]. Shirley gets the snot beaten out of her and ends up getting thrown into a pile of barbed wire, but she turns the battle around by [[spoiler: tricking the henchwoman to charge into the wire, where the latter then accidentally strangles herself]].

* CarCushion: [[spoiler: Inspector Shirley]] after being double-crossed and dropped off a balcony, falling for ten storeys before she lands on a parked vehicle.

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Uncle Teh, when realizing his betrayal inadvertently lead to the death of his protege and godson, Terry]].

* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler: Wide-eyed, idealistic, dedicated police officer Fan ends up going through one hell of a HumiliationConga after being framed for drug possession within the police precinct]]. Getting disowned by his colleagues, having his superiors assassinated, with killers coming after him, and realizing [[spoiler: his close ally and mentor Inspector Huang is TheMole who's responsible for his frame-up in the first place]].
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Terry, in the scene where he discovers his superior and the man he trusted the most, Uncle Tat, turns out to be secretly working for the drug dealers]]. He only have two minutes to savour his shock before [[spoiler: Inspector Huang reveals himself to be the traitor by shooting Terry in the head]].

* TheMole: [[spoiler: Inspector Huang, the HiddenVillain and actual BigBad]].