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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Hardly anyone has as much as a scratch on them even after the most vicious fights, and the girls always look drop-dead gorgeous.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Well, it's a martial arts tournament, so none of the guys pull any punches when they're up against the female fighters. Thankfully, BeautyIsNeverTarnished is in full effect.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Until things get a bit more serious during the finale, Christie is almost constantly wearing an amused smirk no matter what happens.
* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: Whenever a blade goes flying, you can bet it'll end up like this.
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* WireFu: Most of the fight scenes and acrobatics would be physically impossible without all those invisible wires everywhere.
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* RollerbladeGood: Helena is introduced rolling around DOA Island on rollerblades, and she continues to use them afterwards every now and then.
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* GroinAttack: Christie, still pissed off about Max ratting her out to the Hongkong police, cracks his nuts ''twice'' when they meet aboard the plane to the DOA island.
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* AdaptedOut: Counting the games that were out at the time, only Raidou, Jann Lee and Tengu are left out (the new characters from ''[=DOA4=]'' are excused because of the likelihood of the movie being produced in parallel with the game). But then again, given that this is ''Dead or Alive'', who cares for the men?
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* AdaptedOut: Counting the games that were out at the time, only Raidou, Jann Lee and Tengu are left out (the new characters from ''[=DOA4=]'' are excused because of the likelihood of the movie being produced in parallel with the game). But then again, given that this is ''Dead or Alive'', who cares for the men?
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* AdaptedOut: Counting the games that were out at the time, only Raidou, Jann Lee and Tengu are left out (the new characters from ''[=DOA4=]'' are excused because of the likelihood of the movie being produced in parallel with the game). But then again, given that this is ''Dead or Alive'', who cares for the men?
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Donovan's final fate, glaring considering he's a huge KarmaHoudini in the games.]]
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Kasumi's bio calls her a "shinobi ninja princess." "Shinobi" and "ninja" are alternate readings of the same Japanese characters.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Kasumi's bio calls her a "shinobi ninja princess." "Shinobi" and "ninja" are alternate readings of the same Japanese characters.characters[[note]]somewhat; the word ''shinobi'' (忍) uses only the first kanji of the word ''ninja'' (忍者)[[/note]].
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* EvilPlan: The true purpose of the tournament is to collect data on various fighting styles with nanobots introduced on the competitors bloodstreams, put the gathered info on a pair of special sunglasses that [[BadassTransplant grants]] its wearer CombatClairvoyance and then Donovan is going to sell the product for big money on an AuctionOfEvil.
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* EvilPlan: The true purpose of the tournament is for Donovan to collect data on various fighting styles with nanobots introduced on {{nanobots}} injected into the competitors competitors' bloodstreams, put display the gathered info on a pair of special sunglasses that [[BadassTransplant grants]] its wearer CombatClairvoyance and then Donovan is going to sell the product for big money on an AuctionOfEvil.
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* FullFrontalAssault: The police enter Christy's hotel room while she is showering to arrest her. She flirts and flaunts her body to make them drop their guard, then kicks their asses.
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* FullFrontalAssault: The police enter Christy's Christie's hotel room while she is showering to arrest her. She flirts and flaunts her body to make them drop their guard, then kicks their asses.
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* BigBraToFill: Kasumi is nowhere near as stacked here as she was in the games.
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* BigBraToFill: Given the games are a textbook case of WorldOfBuxom, all the main cast applies, though Kasumi is nowhere near as stacked here as she was in likely the games.most egregious example.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Hayabusa, aka Ryu Hayabusa of ''NinjaGaiden'', who aside from losing his stoic badass personality also gets captured with pathetic ease by Donovan.
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* AdaptationalWimp: Hayabusa, aka Ryu Hayabusa of ''NinjaGaiden'', who aside from losing his stoic badass personality also gets captured with pathetic ease by Donovan.
* PromotedToLoveInterest: Hayabusa and Kasumi, as well as Hayate and Ayane (see RelatedInTheAdaptation below for more on the latter).
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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Inverted. In the games, Ayane is Kasumi and Hayate's [[TangledFamilyTree cousin and half-sister]]. Here, she's Kasumi's servant and Hayate's love interest.
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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Inverted. In the games, Ayane is Kasumi and Hayate's [[TangledFamilyTree cousin and half-sister]]. Here, she's Kasumi's servant an unrelated member of the clan in service to Kasumi, and Hayate's love interest.PromotedToLoveInterest for Hayate.
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* ClassyCatBurglar: Though she still works as an assassin, this version of Christie is more one of these.
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* BolivianArmyEnding: The films ends with [[spoiler:a one week time skip from the climax's aftermath to a scene where the main five heroines readying themselves to take on the hundreds mooks at Kasumi's former palace with swords]]. This scene was [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil featured prominently in the trailer]].
* CanonForeigner: LoveableRogue Max and [[LoveRedeems Not-So]] EvilGenius Weatherby.
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* BolivianArmyEnding: The films ends with [[spoiler:a one week time skip from the climax's aftermath to a scene where the main five heroines readying themselves to take on the hundreds of mooks at Kasumi's former palace with swords]]. This scene was [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil featured prominently in the trailer]].
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* MistakenForGay: A RunningGag is Bass Armstrong [[NotWhatItLooksLike walking in on his daughter with another woman]] and thinking they're in a lesbian relationship.
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* AdaptationalHeroism: In this movie, Christie is a lot more likeable and moral and has nothing to do with Donovan's scheming.
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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Inverted. In the games, Ayane is Kasumi and Hayate's [[TangledFamilyTree cousin and half-sister]]. Here, she's Kasumi's servant and Hayate's love interest.
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* InNameOnly: Just about every single character, but Helena in particular bears absolutely no resemblance to her game counterpart.
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* NeverFoundTheBody: The film with Kasumi being told by Ryu Hayabusa about her brother Hayate's death in the DOA tournament. Kasumi immediately demands to see the body. Hayabusa tells her that there is no body. Kasumi then flatly states that Hayate is not dead and goes to find him. On the other hand, Ayane, who is secretly in love with Hayate, doesn't question that he's dead. Later on, [[BigBad Victor Donovan]] personally tells her that, after his fight with Leon, Hayate fell off a cliff, and his body was never recovered. Naturally, Kasumi assumes Donovan is lying, especially after fighting Leon and finding out he's a mediocre fighter at best (i.e. no match for Hayate).
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* NeverFoundTheBody: The film begins with Kasumi being told by Ryu Hayabusa about her brother Hayate's death in the DOA tournament. Kasumi immediately demands to see the body. Hayabusa tells her that there is no body. Kasumi then flatly states that Hayate is not dead and goes to find him. On the other hand, Ayane, who is secretly in love with Hayate, doesn't question that he's dead. Later on, [[BigBad Victor Donovan]] personally tells her that, after his fight with Leon, Hayate fell off a cliff, and his body was never recovered. Naturally, Kasumi assumes Donovan is lying, especially after fighting Leon and finding out he's a mediocre fighter at best (i.e. no match for Hayate).
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Kasumi's bio calls her a "shinobi ninja princess." "Shinobi" and "ninja" are alternate readings of the same Japanese characters.
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* Take That: A possible example as the group of pirates Tina (and later the entire main cast) encounter is headed by Robin Shou, who played the main character in another movie series based on a fighting video game. He is easily defeated by Tina and is implied to be taken down with ease at the end.
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* Take That: A possible example as the group of pirates Tina (and later the entire main cast) encounter is headed by Robin Shou, who played the main character in another movie series based on a fighting video game. He is easily defeated by Tina and is implied to be taken down with ease at the end.
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* WaifFu: All over the place. For example, Kasumi wins in a fight against Bayman, who is approximately three times her weight and a foot taller.
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** Also mostly averted with the guards who charge Helena and Weatherby on the large stairway. She frequently has to fight off several of them at a time.
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* BattleInTheRain: Helena and Christie are set to fight each, and they duke it out on a beach as it rains.
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* DemotedToExtra: Characters Jan Lee, Lei Fang and Gen Fu from the games do appear, but only briefly in the backgrounds and the montage of the initial fights.
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* ExactProgressBar: Donovan is uploading the plans for his invention to a bunch of international buyers. Naturally, the progress bar is quickly filling up, despite the fact that these buyers are all, presumably, located in different locations. When Wetherby manages to stop the upload, the bar ''reverses'' and quickly goes back to 0.
* FullFrontalAssault: The police enter Christy's hotel room while she is showering to arrest her. She flirts and flaunts her body to make them drop their guard, then kicks their asses.
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Various fighters around the world are invited to take part in the annual Dead or Alive tournament, which has just been taken over one Victor Donovan after the death of its former owner, Fame Douglas. A prize of ten million dollars is promised for the winner, but in the background, [[NotJustATournament but there are bigger sums of cash money at the play]], including and the competitor's lives.
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* JustifiedTrope: Donovan manages to display {{Life Meter}}s for the tournament contestants during their fights, thanks to the nanomachines he injected into them. The justification is that the machines are also a vital part of the BigBad's master plan.
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* SamuraiInNinjaTown: All of the inhabitants of Kasumi's ninja village act much more like samurai than ninjas.
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!!This film has examples of:
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: A kimono discarded by Kasumi, which then lands on a blade of katana and is sliced in half by just touching it.
* AccidentalMisnaming: A RunningGag has people calling Weatherby "Wallaby" or something like that. At the end, his love interest Helena calls him by his name, which leads to him angrily trying to correct her before he realizes she got it right.
* ActionGirl: The main five heroines; Christie, Helena, Ayane, Katsumi, and Tina.
* BattleInTheRain: Helena and Christie are set to fight each, and they duke it out on a beach as it rains.
* BigBad: Victor Donovan, who is not hosting the tournament for simple entertainment.
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* BladeReflection: Helena [[DualWielding dual-wields]] katanas, using one as a mirror to look at the {{Mook}}s behind her.
* BolivianArmyEnding: The films ends with [[spoiler:a one week time skip from the climax's aftermath to a scene where the main five heroines readying themselves to take on the hundreds mooks at Kasumi's former palace with swords]]. This scene was [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil featured prominently in the trailer]].
* CurbStompBattle: Max defeats Bayman by complete accident by having a statue fall on him. Likewise, the next time they meet face to face, Bayman easily knocks him out with one punch.
* DemotedToExtra: Characters Jan Lee, Lei Fang and Gen Fu from the games do appear, but only briefly in the backgrounds and the montage of the initial fights.
* DidTheEarthMoveForYouToo: Christie and Max are in bed shortly after doing the deed. Suddenly, she says that the earth moved. Max, of course, takes credit, until Kasumi and Leon crash through the wall from Kasumi's room, as it is their turn to fight.
* TheDragon: Bayman, who is actually working for Donovan as his personal muscle.
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Kasumi is upgraded from a simple ninja from the games to a ninja princess, with hundreds of subjects. Until she throws it all away for the sake of finding her brother Hayate.
* EvilPlan: The true purpose of the tournament is to collect data on various fighting styles with nanobots introduced on the competitors bloodstreams, put the gathered info on a pair of special sunglasses that [[BadassTransplant grants]] its wearer CombatClairvoyance and then Donovan is going to sell the product for big money on an AuctionOfEvil.
%%* IBrokeANail: "Perfect. Broke another nail."
* InvulnerableKnuckles: Averted. Wimpy scientist Weatherby saves Helena's life by punching out a mook who was about to stab her in the back. He comically hops around clutching his hand and asking her how "You people" do that without it hurting.
* JuggleFu: Christie, when being caught by the police immediately after taking a shower, manages to pull this trick with her bra. And she not only caught it on its way down, but also put it on.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: All the mooks use katanas. Fortunately, the main heroines are also very proficient in using them.
* MookChivalry:
** Played straight when Hayabusa is infiltrating Donovan's HQ, and when Helena is fighting off dozens of Donovan's security guards who are only armed with swords. Granted, there are times when Helena has to fight ''two'' at the same time, but it's never more than that at a time.
** Averted with the heroines who all gang up on Donovan at the end, seeing as how they can't beat him ([[spoiler:his glasses, actually]]) on their own.
* NeckSnap: Hayabusa does this to a random {{Mook}} while sneaking into Donovan's lab.
* NeverFoundTheBody: The film with Kasumi being told by Ryu Hayabusa about her brother Hayate's death in the DOA tournament. Kasumi immediately demands to see the body. Hayabusa tells her that there is no body. Kasumi then flatly states that Hayate is not dead and goes to find him. On the other hand, Ayane, who is secretly in love with Hayate, doesn't question that he's dead. Later on, [[BigBad Victor Donovan]] personally tells her that, after his fight with Leon, Hayate fell off a cliff, and his body was never recovered. Naturally, Kasumi assumes Donovan is lying, especially after fighting Leon and finding out he's a mediocre fighter at best (i.e. no match for Hayate).
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Bass Armstrong walks in on his daughter Tina sleeping in the same bed with Christie, and [[MistakenForGay mistakenly believes they are lovers]]. He constantly insists he is supportive of their relationship, despite Tina's protests that there is nothing going on. He later makes a similar assumption upon seeing Tina and Kasumi together.
* PhotographicMemory: Christie seems to have this. She manages to draw Helena's tattoo (the key to a vault) from memory having glimpsed it for less than a second, while in full motion, during a fight.
* RaceLift: The Japanese Kasumi and Ayane are played by the half-Japanese Devon Aoki and the half-Malaysian Natassia Malthe, respectively. Strangely, this applied only to them: Ryu Hayabusa and Hayate were played by the half-Japanese half-Chinese Kane Kosugi and the Taiwanese Collin Chou.
* RuthlessModernPirates: A group of modern day pirates run afoul of Tina in her introduction -- and then have the misfortune to encounter the rest of the heroines when they are stranded at sea at the movie's end.
* SteppingStoneSword: To escape her palace, Kasumi throws a katana to stick in a wall, runs on the backs of her clansmen, then jumps on the sword, and uses it as a springboard to jump over the high walls surrounding the establishment.
* StockScream: A Wilhelm Scream shows up when Hayabusa throws a ninja off a balcony.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Given that this always [[ArtisticLicensePhysics spits in the face of physics]], Kasumi's thrown sword flying in a straight line for at least 100 meters in the opening scene looks extremely jarring.
* WaifFu: All over the place. For example, Kasumi wins in a fight against Bayman, who is approximately three times her weight and a foot taller.
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