History Film / Chocolate

* ActionGirl: Zen. Zen was a DarkActionGirl in the backstory, or possibly a DragonLady.
* AgonyOfTheFeet: During Zen's acrimonious departure at the start of the film, her boss shoots his own big toe off to show Zen just what she's done to him. [[spoiler:He later cuts one of Zen's toes off when he finds out she's still contacting her yakuza boyfriend.]]

* ActionGirl: Zen. Zin was a DarkActionGirl in the backstory, or possibly a DragonLady.
* AgonyOfTheFeet: During Zin's acrimonious departure at the start of the film, her boss shoots his own big toe off to show Zin just what she's done to him. [[spoiler:He later cuts one of Zin's toes off when he finds out she's still contacting her yakuza boyfriend.]]
* AmbiguousDisorder: Zen's disorder is never named, but it's pretty clearly a form of autism. Thomas's disorder, which is quite wrongly credited as "epilepsy", looks vaguely like a full body form of Tourette syndrome.

** Autism tends to impair motor skills: even although many autistic people are good in either fine or gross motor skills, they are often defficient in the other. Martial arts usually requires of both, so it would be unrealistic (though admittedly not 100% impossible) to expect from an autistic girl to be a fighting savant.

* AwesomeByAnalysis: Zen's specialty, as she can learn martial arts only by watching and shadowboxing what she watches. It doesn't end there, as she also applies it while fighting in order to land precise strikes and remove her body out of danger with CombatParkour every time it is needed. This is why Thomas manages to confuse her for a round: his spasms make it hard for her to analyze his movements, and it takes a time for her to readjust.

** Earlier in the same fight, the blade ''didn't'' land pointy end in on a chain link barricade, but did when it [[ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks bounced off and hit the mook who threw it...]]

* ForceAndFinesse: Zen's specialty is traditional muay thai, favoring committed lunges with a lot of forward knees, kicks and elbows (the Force), while Thomas flows around with modified capoeira, combining evasive acrobatics with elegant long-range kicks (the Finesse).

* GlassCannon: Thomas is one of those in contrast to Zen, who is a LightningBruiser. He can deliver heavily torqued kicks from unpredictable angles and is difficult to hit even by a savant like Zen, but he crumbles rather fast if he is hit at all. It only takes a couple well placed knockouts to take him out of the battle, while Zen by then had tanked through more than that to his hands (or rather feet) and to the other mooks's.

* IKnowMortalKombat: Zen primarily learns martial arts watching Creator/BruceLee and Creator/TonyJaa movies. Apparently including training videos, like in the clip that shows her absorbing every movement. Additionally there is a muay thai class training near her house that she seems to audit without their knowledge.
* ImportantHaircut: Zen cuts off her beautiful long hair after she finds out her mother is going bald from chemotherapy. [[spoiler:She had pulled off her mother's wig and, in a series of flashbacks to times she'd played with her mother's hair, thought she'd torn off her mom's real hair. She was apparently acting out because of the trauma.]]

* NonActionGuy: Moom qualifies, while he occasionally contributes in fight scenes, for the most part he simply keeps out of Zen's way.
* NonIndicativeTitle: Zen does enjoy chocolate, and it shows up in several scenes, however it's never a plot point and a very random choice for a title.

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Zen's mother is killed by the BigBad. However, by this point, Zen has defeated everyone who stood against them... so her father doesn't have to leave again, and she is reunited with him.]]

* HilariousOuttakes: A weird breed, as they're actually footage of on-set injuries.

* RealityEnsues: Played straight, then subverted. Mooks swarm into the room with katanas drawn, and it looks like it's going to be an epic sword fight between them and Zen's father, until [[spoiler:[[CombatPragmatist he pulls a gun and empties into their ranks]].]] For the subversion, he grabs a blade of his own and fights the rest traditionally.

* {{Yakuza}}: Zen's dad Masashi.

** Autism tends to impair motor skills. Even although many autistic people are good in either fine or gross motor skills, they are often defficient in the other. Martial arts usually requires of both, so it would be unrealistic (though admittedly not 100% impossible) to expect from an autistic girl to be a fighting savant.
** Same with Tourette's. Thomas's chronic spasms would make it ''very'' hard for him to learn and/or train martial arts, not to mention an incredibly complex one as it is capoeira. It is HandWaved in the film because it's never explicitly stated that his disorder is Tourette's (he's even credited as "Epileptic Boxer", which is another level of Artistic License - Biology altogether, as epilepsy is a completely different thing).

* CombatParkour: Zen, a small Thai autistic girl whose DisabilitySuperpower is to absorb martial arts from movies and TV shows. The entire movie is her beating up hundreds of people larger than her with UsefulNotes/MuayThai. The actress supposedly spent 2 years learning enough muay thai to make it look realistic. The film handled her smaller size well - she uses it to her advantage by taking the fight into narrow spaces where her opponents have trouble moving. She and her opponents also employ combat parkour in places when evading kicks and bouncing around the scenes.
* ConfusionFu: Zen's most dangerous enemy is Thomas, a boy with Tourette's. Not only he is skilled, his tics make it almost impossible for her to read his moves.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Zen goes through {{mooks}} like it's nothing, but has some difficulty with Thomas.
* CursedWithAwesome: Autism, as well as Tourette's apparently.

* DanceBattler: Not easy to call "dance" to Thomas's spastic fighting style, but he actually fights with an adapted form of UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}}.

* DoubleKnockout: Zen and Thomas feature one at the final moments of the fight when they both try and land a ''martelo do chao'' at once.

* GoodOldFisticuffs: Zen uses them frequently.

* KungFuProofMook: A literal example in Thomas, who proves to be a match for Zen precisely because he is a disabled fighter too. Even after she finds the way to land some hard strikes on him, he manages to pull a draw and take her out of action (although, to be fair, she was already worn due to an earlier fight against bunch of mooks).
* LittleMissBadass / BadassAdorable

* PowerCopying: Zen shows it (with a lot of effort, due to her opponent's body language being difficult to read) during her battle against Thomas. She soon adopts some capoeira approach to match his style and manages to finish him with a ''mariposa'' kick while dodging a sweep.

* {{Yakuza}}: Zen's dad Masashi.

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* AmbiguousDisorder: Zen's disorder is never named, but it's pretty clearly a form of autism. Thomas's disorder looks like full body Tourette's, but that doesn't explain all his symptoms.
* AntiHero: Zen and Moom have a good cause... but they're basically collecting money owed to the mob for their own personal use.

* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: Played straight many times in the butcher shop fight, but notably subverted at one point. Zen deflects a thrown knife at a mook who was already victim to this trope. You see his face and reaction when he's hit... then the camera pans downward and it turns out it merely slapped him with the side of the blade.

* CombatParkour: Zen, a small Thai autistic girl whose DisabilitySuperpower is to absorb martial arts from movies and TV shows. The entire movie is her beating up hundreds of people larger than her with Muay Thai. The actress supposedly spent 2 years learning enough Muay Thai to make it look realistic. The film handled her smaller size well - she uses it to her advantage by taking the fight into narrow spaces where her opponents have trouble moving. She and her opponents also employ Combat Parkour in places when evading kicks and bouncing around the scenes.

* InformedAbility: Thomas is credited as the "Epileptic Boxer", which is quite misguided considering he is neither a boxer nor exactly epileptic.

* KungFuProofMook: A literal example in Thomas, who proves to be a match for Zen. Even after she finds the way to land some hard strikes on her twisty antagonist, he manages to pull a draw and takes her out of action (although, to be fair, she was already worn due to an earlier fight against bunch of mooks).

* MalignedMixedMarriage: Less because it's a marriage between a Japanese man and a Thai woman, more because it's between a yakuza and a Thai Enforcer.

* IKnowMortalKombat: Zen primarily learns martial arts watching {{Bruce Lee}} and {{Tony Jaa}} movies. Apparently including training videos, like in the clip that shows her absorbing every movement. Additionally there is a muay thai class training near her house that she seems to audit without their knowledge.

* IKnowMortalKombat: Zen primarily learns martial arts watching {{Bruce Lee}} and {{Tony Jaa}} movies.

* GoodOldFistiCuffs: Zen uses them frequently.

* UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}}: Thomas's fighting style.

* DisabilitySuperpower: Zen is autistic... which gives her almost superhuman senses. Same for Thomas.

* KungFuProofMook: A literal example in Thomas, who proves to be a match for Zen. Even after she finds the way to land some hard strikes on her twisty antagonist, he manages to [[DoubleKnockout pull a draw]] and takes her out of action (to be fair, she was already worn due to an earlier fight against bunch of mooks).

* PowerCopying: Zen shows it during her battle against Thomas

* TrivialTitle: The movie is about an autistic girl beating people up to pay for her mother's chemotherapy. She also happens to like chocolate, though that doesn't affect the plot in the slightest.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Moom in the very final scene, especially since he was [[spoiler:pretty badly wounded]].

* PacManFever: Zen's playing a PS2 with a Super Famicom controller at one point.

A Thai woman falls in love with a Japanese gangster, but they part ways after her employers disapprove... with violence. A few months after the split, she gives birth to Zen, a girl with autism. Said autism allows Zen to master martial arts moves by watching them. She also enjoys chocolate, [[NonIndicativeTitle thus the title.]]

* ConfusionFu: Zen's most dangerous enemy is Thomas, a boy with Tourette's. His style looks like some bizarre mix of {{capoeira}} and monkey kung fu, and his tics make it almost impossible for her to read his moves.

* KungFuProofMook: A literal example in Thomas, who proves to be a match for Zen. Even after she somehow finds the way to land some hard strikes on her twisty antagonist, he manages to pull a draw and take her out of action. To be fair, she was worn due to having to fight a bunch of mooks before their battle.

* RealityIsUnrealistic: Zen's WaifFu moves look like they shouldn't pack that much weight... until you see the HilariousOuttakes and you see that when her blows hit the stuntmen, they do some serious damage.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: During Zin's acrimonious departure at the start of the film, her boss is shot in the foot and loses his big toe. [[spoiler:He later cuts one of Zin's toes off as revenge.]]

* CombatParkour: Zen, a small Thai autistic girl whose DisabilitySuperpower is to absorb martial arts from movies and TV shows. The entire movie is her beating up hundreds of people larger than her with Muay Thai. The actress supposedly spent 2 years learning enough Muay Thai to make it look realistic. The film handled her smaller size well - she uses it to her advantage by taking the fight into narrow spaces where her opponents have trouble moving. She and her opponents also and Combat Parkour in places when evading kicks and bouncing around the scenes.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Yanin, the actress who played Zen, was ''23'' while filming the movie. Surprised?

* AmbiguousDisorder: Zen's disorder is never named, but it's pretty clearly a form of autism. The real example is Thomas, whose disorder looks like full-body Tourette's, but that doesn't explain all his symptoms.

* ImportantHaircut: Zen cuts off her beautiful long hair after she finds out her mother is going bald from chemotherapy. [[spoiler:She had pulled off her mother's wig and, in a series of flashbacks to times she'd played with her mother's hair, thought she'd torn off her mom's real hair. She was apparently acting out because of the trauma.]]

* KungFuProofMook: A literal example in Thomas, who proves to be a match for Zen. Even after she somehow finds the way to land some hard strikes in the twisty boy, he manages to pull a draw in their fight and takes her out of action. To be fair, she was worn due to having to fight a bunch of mooks before their battle.

* NonIndicativeTitle: Zen does enjoy chocolate, and it shows up in several scenes, however it's never a plot point and a very random choice for a title.

* ActionGirl - Zen. Zin was a DarkActionGirl in the backstory, or possibly a DragonLady.
* AgonyOfTheFeet - During Zin's acrimonious departure at the start of the film, her boss is shot in the foot and loses his big toe. [[spoiler:He later cuts one of Zin's toes off as revenge.]]
* AmbiguousDisorder - Zen's disorder is never named, but it's pretty clearly a form of autism. The real example is [[spoiler:the boy who serves as the final boss. It's generally considered to include full-body Tourette's, but that doesn't explain all his symptoms]]
* AntiHero - Zen and Moom have a good cause... but they're basically collecting money owed to the mob for their own personal use.
* BadassFamily - Dad's a (very good) gangster. Mom... had moves before the cancer. Their kid is unstoppable.
* BigDamnHeroes - A few examples. The most hilarious (and overt) being Moom saving the day by... scaring away the flies using an electric flyswatter, thus allowing Zen to mop the floor with the people she's extorting money from.
* BittersweetEnding - [[spoiler:Zen's mother is killed by the BigBad. However, by this point, Zen has defeated everyone who stood against them... so her father doesn't have to leave again, and she is reunited with him.]]
* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn- Played straight many times in the butcher shop fight, but notably subverted at one point. Zen deflects a thrown knife at a mook who was already victim to this trope. You see his face and reaction when he's hit... then the camera pans downward and it turns out it merely slapped him with the side of the blade.
* ChekhovsGun - "Flies!"

* ConfusionFu - Zen's most dangerous enemy [[spoiler:has Tourette's. His tics make it almost impossible for her to read his moves.]]
* CursedWithAwesome - Autism, as well as Tourette's apparently.
* CuteBruiser - Zen of course.
* DisabilitySuperpower - Zen is autistic... which gives her almost superhuman senses.
* HilariousOuttakes - A weird breed, as they're actually footage of on-set injuries.

* KickTheDog - Number Eight [[spoiler:on Zen, ''in her face'', as she tries to revive her mortally-wounded mother.]]

* LoanShark - Zen and Moom, are, effectively, acting as enforcers for the mob's loans and keeping the money.

* MixedAncestry - See above.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero - Zen and Moom collecting debts is essentially stealing from the mob, which puts them back on Number Eight's radar.
* NonActionGuy - Moom qualifies, while he occasionally contributes in fight scenes, for the most part he simply keeps out of Zen's way.
* NonIndicativeTitle - Zen does enjoy chocolate, and it shows up in several scenes, however it's never a plot point and a very random choice for a title.
* PacManFever - Zen's playing a PS2 with a Super Famicom controller at one point.
* QuirkyMinibossSquad - The Thai mob seems to employ a QMS of transvestites.
* RealityEnsues - Played straight, then subverted. Mooks swarm into the room with katanas drawn, and it looks like it's going to be an epic sword fight between them and Zen's father, until [[spoiler:[[CombatPragmatist he pulls a gun and empties into their ranks]].]] For the subversion, he grabs a blade of his own and fights the rest traditionally.
* RealityIsUnrealistic - Zen's WaifFu moves look like they shouldn't pack that much weight... until you see the HilariousOuttakes and you see that when her blows hit the stuntmen, they do some serious damage.
* SweetTooth - Zen, it's why the movie is named what it's named.

* WaifFu - Done well for the most part. Zen has to build up momentum be able to knock back her opponents more than a few inches. See RealityIsUnrealistic.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse - Moom in the very final scene, especially since he was [[spoiler:pretty badly wounded]].
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes - Zen ''hates'' flies.
* {{Yakuza}} - Zen's dad Masashi.

* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Zen loves chocolate. At one point the gangsters [[{{Squick}} use it against her]].