History Fridge / BigTroubleInLittleChina

* Jack's comment [[CatchPhrase "It's all in the reflexes"]] seems to be very true. Any time he does something deliberately, things tend to go wrong, such as punching one of the Storms, or throwing the knife at Lo Pan. But when it comes down to his reflexes, such as his CatchAndReturn against Lo Pan, he never seems to fail.

* Jack Burton is a SupportingProtagonist who believes he's TheHero.
** Confirmed by WordOfGod in Carpenter and Russell's DVDCommentary.
* Lo Pan said that there has been other girls who had green eyes. If you look at the eyed guardian it has green eyes.

* Egg's potion isn't magical at all, it's just LiquidCourage being used as a MagicFeather.
* The whole movie tweaks its nose at movie conventions, doing things like swapping the FunnyForeigner and MightyWhitey roles around to make Jack Burton and Gracie Law essentially the ethnic comic relief in a kung-fu film. The fact that the comic sidekick kills the main villain instead of the young handsome hero (Wang) or the old master (Egg) is just the movie making one last poke at the traditional storytelling tropes.

* The whole movie tweaks its nose at movie conventions, doing things like swapping the FunnyForeigner and MightyWhitey roles around to make Jack Burton and Gracie Law essentially the ethnic comic relief in a kung-fu film. The fact that the comic sidekick kills the main villain instead of the young handsome hero (Wang) or the old master (Egg) is just the movie making one last poke at the traditional storytelling tropes.

* Egg's potion isn't magical at all, it's just LiquidCourage being used as a MagicFeather.

* Jack Burton is a {{Supporting Protagonist}} who believes he's the {{Hero}}.

* The wedding to make Lo Pan mortal again may have not just been for him, but also for his Storms. In their first scene they [[NoSell absorb bullets from 3 gunmen]] without reacting, and throughout the whole movie they are basically invulnerable. As soon as Lo Pan succeeds in marrying Miao Yin, the Storms start dying one after the other. Rain gets impaled (looking quite surprised about it) and blown up, Thunder detonates himself up out of rage, and Lightning just gets a statue dropped on his head.

* Lo Pan said that there has been other girls who had green eyes. If you look at the eyed guardian it has green eyes.

** Confirmed by WordOfGod in Carpenter and Russell's DVDCommentary.

* Jack Burton is a {{Supporting Protagonist}} who believes he's the {{Hero}}.

* Jack Burton is a {{Supporting Protagonist}} who believes he's the {{Hero}}, but he's really a {{Hero Of Another Story}} who's [[WrongGenreSavvy outside of his own world]], and he [[NoMoreForMe stays up all night drinking]] just before the adventure begins.

Jack Burton is a {{Supporting Protagonist}} who believes he's the {{Hero}}, but he's really a {{Hero Of Another Story}} who's [[WrongGenreSavvy outside of his own world]], and he [[NoMoreForMe stays up all night drinking]] just before the adventure begins.

Jack Burton is a {{Supporting Protagonist}} who believes he's the {{Hero}}, but he's really a{{Hero Of Another Story}} who's [[WrongGenreSavvy outside of his own world]], and he [[NoMoreForMe stays up all night drinking just before the adventure begins]].

Jack Burton is a{{Supporting Protagonist}} who believes he's the {{Hero}}, but he really is a{{Hero Of Another Story}} who's [[WrongGenreSavvy outside of his own world]], and he [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoMoreForMe stays up all night drinking just before the adventure begins]].

Jack's various blunders and flashes of ineptitude keep him as a {{Supporting Protagonist}} who believes he's the {{Hero{{, but he really is a{{Hero Of Another Story}} who's [[WrongGenreSavvy outside of his own world]], and he stayed up all night drinking.

Jack's various blunders and flashes of ineptitude keep him as a Supporting Protagonist who believes he's the Hero, but he really is a Badass Action Hero Of Another Story outside of his own world, and he stayed up all night drinking.