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* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Despite the Inu-no-Taisho cutting off his left arm, Takemaru seemed to be fairly unfazed by the injury and later fights the Inu-no-Taisho in a duel that results in both their deaths.
** the Inu-no-Taisho is dying from his wounds from his battle with Ryūkotsusei, yet runs at full speed and fights his way through an entire army of samurai to get to his wife’s side as she’s in labor, then fights Takemaru to the death.

* AnArmAndALeg: The first thing the [[PapaWolf Inu-no-Taisho]] does when he encounters Takemaru after he announced that he killed his pregnant wife is to chop Takemaru's left arm clean off and then runs off to revive her with the Tenseiga.

* CueTheFlyingPigs: The only way to stop So’unga is if Inuyasha and Sesshomaru join forces, but this makes Jaken practaly burst his gut laughing over this, proclaiming that hell will freeze over before that happens. Inuyasha’s companions agreed. But towards the climax the brothers do work together, [[TeethClenchedTeamwork but not without constantly arguing towards each other.]]

* FightingFromTheInside: Inuyasha during the entire time So'unga is controlling him. One good example is when So'unga attempts to force him to kill a woman and child; Inuyasha actually bites into his own arm to hold the blade back and allows Miroku and Sango to get them to safety. He decides to separate for his friends and other civilians in order to protect them from So’unga, [[StatusQuoIsGod but this doesn’t last long.]]

* AnArmAndALeg: The first thing the [[PapaWolf Inu-no-Taisho]] does when he encounters Takemaru after he announced that he killed his pregnant is to chop Takemaru's left arm clean off and then runs off to revive her with the Tenseiga.
* AnnoyingArrows: The Inu-no-Taisho gets shot several times by Takemaru's archers, but this does jack squat to his combat efficiency.

* PapaWolf: The Inu-no-Taisho tore through an army of samurai trying to finish him off, all to get to Izayoi who was in labor with their son Inuyasha. [[MadeOfIron Even though he was already dying from his wounds]] from the battle with Ryūkotsusei, yet being shot at AnnoyingArrows DID NOT stop him either in his already critical state. Keep in mind when Takemaru shows up and announced that he killed Izayoi, he left out that their newborn son had survived the birth, making it seem that both had perished. He was ''' PISSED''' at Takemaru and immediately runs through and [[AnArmAndALeg cuts off]] his left arm! After reviving her with the Tenseiga, he gives her the robe of the fire rat to ensure her and Inuyasha’s safety out of the burning castle.

* BirthDeathJuxtaposition: The film opens with Inuyasha's birth, with his mother Izayoi dying in the process as a result of Takemaru stabbing her with a spear. When the Inu-no-Taisho arrives, he uses [[HealingShiv Tenseiga]] to resurrect Izayoi, and then subsequently dies fighting off Takemaru.

* FightingFromTheInside: Inuyasha during the entire time So'unga is controlling him. One good example is when So'unga attempts to force him to kill a woman and child; Inuyasha actually bites into his own arm to hold the blade back and allow Miroku to get them to safety.

* AnArmAndALeg: The first thing the Inu-no-Taisho does when he encounters Takemaru is chop Takemaru's left arm clean off.

''[=InuYasha=] the Movie: Swords of an Honorable Ruler'' is the third of the four ''Franchise/InuYasha''' movies, released in 2003.

!!''Swords of an Honorable Ruler'' contains examples of the following tropes:

* IronicEcho: "Humans are more arrogant and greedy than any other living creature." [[HeroicResolve InuYasha agrees.]]

* AscendedExtra: After only appearing briefly a few times in the first movie and having very short cameo in the second, the third movie has Sesshomaru as one of the primary characters.

* BigBad: So'unga plot to manipulate its user into killing everything that lives out of blood thirst and drives the film's plot by trying to possess Inuyasha, Sesshomaru and later Takemaru for this purpose.

* ChekhovsGun: Sesshomaru's second most powerful technique, the Dragon Strike, makes its debut; proving instrumental in the {{Big Bad}}'s defeat.

** "Technique", not "sword".