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1	* {{Adorkable}}: Tin Jong in "Double Face" could be counted as one after his proposal to Lindo. He speaks Cantonese and she speaks Mandarin but they're both learning English which is the only way they could speak to each other from the time despite it being both their second languages. It leads to some rather humorous dialogue between the two.
2	-->"Lindo, can you spouse me?"
3	* RetroactiveRecognition:
4	** Creator/MingNaWen would achieve more recognition for ''{{Series/ER}}'', being the voice of {{WesternAnimation/Mulan}} and as Melinda May in ''Series/AgentsOfShield''.
5	** Creator/LaurenTom (Lena St. Clair) is now better known as a voice actor, such as Amy in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' and Numbah 3 in ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor''
6	** Creator/TamlynTomita can be seen in ''[[Recap/BabylonFiveS01E00TheGathering Babylon 5: The Gathering]]'' as Lt. Cmdr. Laurel Takashima.
7	* UnintentionallySympathetic: Tyan-yu Huang in-universe. He's a SpoiledBrat bullying his child bride but he's also eleven years old and under the thumb of his EvilMatriarch who is pressuring him for a grandson when he hasn't even hit puberty yet. If Lindo hadn't performed her BatmanGambit, he would have been just as miserable as she was. His book counterpart hints that he's just as scared into silence as Lindo is and possibly lies to his mother (telling her he's had sex with Lindo many times) not only for himself but also to spare Lindo from his mother's wrath.
8	* ValuesDissonance: Some of the parenting methods from 1920s and 1950s China may seem abusive to a modern audience.
9	** Waverly's homophobic comment about Jing-mei's gay hair stylist: "He could have AIDS. And he is cutting your hair, [[ArtisticLicenseBiology which is like cutting a living tissue]]." Granted, we're not really supposed to agree with her, but this reflects an attitude about AIDS which was very common in the 1980s, when the book was written. Only the most virulent homophobes would say something like that now.
10	* TheWoobie: An-mei's mother, most definitely.
11	** All the main characters in the film. Most males are either abusive or clueless, with the possible exception of Suyuan's husband and Lindo's husband, so the women are even more sympathetic.

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