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Basically anytime anything shows someone travelling to the remote home of a criminal to participate in a tournament, it's a reference to Enter the Dragon.

Anime & Manga

Film

  • Balls of Fury is a Whole-Plot Reference to Enter the Dragon, with ping-pong instead of martial arts.
  • In Undercover Brother the protagonist watches a scene with Jim Kelly on his TV set. Later while fighting some mooks, he imitates the prolonged funny Bruce Lee noise after beating down the last one except it's revealed that the crunching sounds belong to the mook's bag of chips Undercover Brother stomped on.
  • Mortal Kombat: The Movie follows Mortal Kombat (1992)'s first game's plot and elaborates on it. It also borrows even more from Enter the Dragon by giving Liu Kang a sibling that he seeks to avenge.
  • In Bloodsport, Bolo Yeng is again a Giant Mook and many of his lines come almost directly from the movie. "Impressive, but brick not hit back."
  • The Man with the Golden Gun, which came out a year later, clearly borrowed the martial aspects and the Hall of Mirrors.
  • The "A Fistful of Yen" segment of The Kentucky Fried Movie is a half-hour spoof of Enter the Dragon, with a protagonist enticed into infiltrating the villain's lair by the prospect of killing "fifty, maybe sixty people."

Live-Action TV

  • That '70s Show: Fez reenacted Bruce Lee's fight with Han, with himself, of course, as Lee, in one of the show's many Imagine Spot scenes.
  • The Goodies. In the episode spoofing the martial arts craze, there's a movie poster about a crossdressing Bill Oddie called Enter With Drag On.

Tabletop Games

Video Games

  • Double Dragon has this in the mooks being named after characters from the movie, Williams and Roper to start. II introduces one mook named Bolo, after not just the character but the actor as well.
  • Mortal Kombat (1992) is the same plot with supernatural elements.
  • One of the DLC stories for Sleeping Dogs (2012) is also Enter the Dragon basically a cheesier Enter the Dragon, which is an Out-of-Genre Experience from the realistic base game.
  • Tekken 8 has resident Bruce Lee Clone Marshall Law reference the iconic stomp Lee does in the movie in his updated Rage Art.

Web Original

Western Animation

  • The Jackie Chan Adventures episode "Enter the J-Team" is a Whole-Plot Reference, with Jackie and friends going undercover at a martial arts tournament to investigate illegal activities note . The bad guy even has an artificial hand.
  • South Park references Peter Archer’s infamously goofy and obviously dubbed-over “what’s your style?” scene in “Franchise Prequel” with Mark Zuckerberg, who speaks and behaves like a poorly-dubbed (complete with ‘70s westrex sound) kung-fu villain who incessantly grills people about their "shtoyle."

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