YMMV / Mulan: Rise of a Warrior

• Complete Monster: Mengdu, prince of the Rouran tribes, is first seen ordering some prisoners slaughtered for fun. After being forced to stop by his father, Mengdu suggests that they use their recently-united army to conquer China, kicking off a war that's so severe that China must conscript one man from every military family. After twelve years of fighting, and the men tired of war, Mengdu kills one general who tried to convince the others to go home, kills his father to take over the army, declares that the war will continue, and forces his sister to marry him. After Mengdu finds Mulan's army weakened by a sandstorm, he decides to stop them by torturing his POWs to draw the soldiers out and killing them as they do. Soon, Mengdu gets impatient and orders the prisoners slaughtered, only stopping when a prince who happened to be in the army offers himself as a hostage.
• Moral Event Horizon: Mengdu crosses it when he kills his own father to keep a war going.
• Vindicated by History: When it was released, audiences deemed Rise of a Warrior as So Okay, It's Average, but as a result of Critical Dissonance and a bevy of other problems the 2020 live-action remake had, viewers displeased with the latter would turn their attention towards the 2009 film, giving it new life and an appreciation towards a more "grounded" approach to the Mulan folktale, especially when the problems in the 2020 film don't exist in this one.

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