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* JavelinThrower: Early in the first {{Flashback}} where the Eagle Assassins began their attempt in stealing and Ming was loyal to the clan, the first guard met his end via a spear being thrown his way -- he was looking around when the spear was launched and turned around just in time to face the spear piercing his gut; it's never shown who did the throwing.
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* EnemyMine: Cheuk and Ming fights each other early on, due to Cheuk having his desire for vengeance taking over him, but they eventually decide to work together to defeat the Eagle Assassins while trying to reach Master Hung.
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* {{Flashback}}: There are two such examples in the film, both as Ming recounts of his activities as a former Eagle Assassin to Cheuk.
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* EndingMemorialService: The film ends with [[spoiler:Cheuk standing in front of Ming's grave]].
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* OneArmedWarrior: Gold and Silver Eagle only have one arm each, but that doesn't stop them from being a threat.
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* CrusadingWidower: Cheuk Yi-fan, on a quest for vengeance after the Eagle Assassins killed his pregnant wife.
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* CrusadingWidower: CrusadingWidow: Cheuk Yi-fan, on a quest for vengeance after the Eagle Assassins killed his pregnant wife.
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* ActorAllusion: In his first few scenes, Ming-hsing is depicted wearing a poncho over his black robes, not unlike his previous role Fu Hung-hsueh from ''Film/TheMagicBlade''.
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* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: [[spoiler: Ming said this trope to Cheuk, almost word-for-word, after they've killed Master Hung together. Cheuk's thirst for vengeance have been fulfilled and no longer desires to kill, but Ming have other plans]].
--> [[spoiler: '''Ming''': "Kill me now! Isn't this what you're after?"]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Cheuk''': "Pfft, what for? My enemies are all dead." (Prepares to leave)]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Ming''': (Grabs Cheuk's arm-blades and finishes off himself instead)]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Ming''': "Kill me now! Isn't this what you're after?"]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Cheuk''': "Pfft, what for? My enemies are all dead." (Prepares to leave)]]
--> [[spoiler: '''Ming''': (Grabs Cheuk's arm-blades and finishes off himself instead)]]
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* PowerFist: Master Hung, fitting for a villain who runs an eagle-themed assassination legion, wears a pair of iron gauntlets with eagle claws in the final battle.
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* PowerFist: Master Hung, fitting for a villain who runs an eagle-themed assassination legion, wears a pair of [[https://www.fareastfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/The-Avenging-Eagle1.jpg iron gauntlets with eagle claws claws]] in the final battle.battle.
* ThirstyDesert: In the opening sequence, Ming is riding a horse over a dry, barren desert looking for a way out. He reaches an oasis, but his horse succumbs to the harsh desert after a short while.
* ThirstyDesert: In the opening sequence, Ming is riding a horse over a dry, barren desert looking for a way out. He reaches an oasis, but his horse succumbs to the harsh desert after a short while.
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* DualWield: More than one member of the Eagle Assassins use two weapons at the same time, such as butterfly blades, tonfas, or swords.
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* DualWield: More than one member of the Eagle Assassins use two weapons at the same time, such as butterfly blades, tonfas, or swords. Cheuk Yi-fan himself prefers using two mini-blades attached to his wrists.
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* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Ming, after killing [[spoiler: Cheuk's pregnant wife]].
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* BeardOfEvil: Master Hung, whose magnificent mop of beard makes him even more ObviouslyEvil than necessary.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Master Hung is dead, and the Eagle Assasins have disbanded. Cheuk have given up his quest for vengeance, but Ming, still guilty over killing Cheuk's wife, demands for Cheuk to kill him. After a brief scuffle, Ming ends up [[DrivenToSuicide forcing Cheuk to stab himself]] in the gut, apologizing for his past misdeeds, before dying]].
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: Master Hung is dead, and the Eagle Assasins have disbanded. Cheuk have given up his quest for vengeance, but Ming, still guilty over killing Cheuk's wife, demands for Cheuk to kill him. After a brief scuffle, Ming ends up [[DrivenToSuicide forcing Cheuk to stab himself]] in the gut, apologizing for his past misdeeds, before dying]].
* DeathSeeker: As it turns out, Ming is actively seeking his own demise after taking down the Eagle Assassins. [[spoiler: His final actions are to commit suicide using Cheuk's blades, to atone for his past sins]].
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* TroubledBackstoryFlashback: One occurs for Ming halfway through the film. It depicts the Eagle Assasins, including Ming, ruthlessly slaughtering every member of the Cheuk household, culminating with [[spoiler: Ming killing Cheuk's pregnant wife, under Master Hung's orders]].
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* BadassLongrobeBadassLongrobe: Both protagonists wears long overcoats, as well as some of the Eagle Assassins, and Master Hung himself.
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TheDrifter: Ming is introduced as a vagabond, having being on the run from his former syndicate who wants him dead.
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* EnemyMineEnemyMine: Cheuk and Ming fights each other early on, due to Cheuk having his desire for vengeance taking over him, but they eventually decide to work together to defeat the Eagle Assassins while trying to reach Master Hung.
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* FightingYourFriend FightingYourFriend: [[spoiler: For the climax, after finding out Ming is the true killer who murdered his wife, Cheuk briefly attacks Ming, at this point which they're FireForgedFriends after all they've been through]].
* GottaKillThemAll: There are 12 Eagle Assassins who wants Ming and Cheuk dead, and to overthrow the evil clan they have to kill all 12 of them.
* GottaKillThemAll: There are 12 Eagle Assassins who wants Ming and Cheuk dead, and to overthrow the evil clan they have to kill all 12 of them.
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NothingUpMySleeve: Cheuk's preferred weapon, which he used to kill the first Eagle Assassin who crossed his path. Later he continuously uses the BladeBelowTheShoulder variety of weapons against the other assassins.
*PowerFist
PowerFist: Master Hung, fitting for a villain who runs an eagle-themed assassination legion, wears a pair of iron gauntlets with eagle claws in the final battle.
*ThirteenIsUnlucky
ThirteenIsUnlucky: Subverted, there are thirteen members of the Eagle Assassins, one which is our hero Ming. As such he's facing off against 12 assassins after him.
*TroubledBackstoryFlashbackTrainingFromHell: The Eagle Assassins are subjected to these ever since birth, by the clan that adopted them. Right in the opening flashback we see their recruits - many which are still children - getting put to death for failing their training!
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''The Avenging Eagle'' is a 1978 {{Wuxia}} film released by Shaw Brothers, starring Ti Lung and Alexander Fu Sheng.
In the warring clans of ancient China, Chik Ming-hsing (Ti Lung) is a man on the run, having escaped the former clan he was raised in, the dreaded Iron Boat Clan whose legion of assassins, called the Thirteen Eagles, he was a member of. His former colleagues and partners are unwilling to let him go, and now Ming is a wanted fugitive by the other twelve Eagle Assassins. But along the way, Ming encounters Cheuk (Alexander Fu Sheng), a wandering warrior who is travelling all across China to personally destroy the Eagle Assasins, because these assassins massacred his family of in-laws while he's on journeys of his own. Namely, his personal vendetta is against the Eagle who killed his pregnant wife.
After a brief fight between the two - Cheuk trying to kill Ming because of Ming's connections with the Eagles, both men comes to a conclusion that they will work together to overthrow their common enemy - Master Hung, the ruthless leader of the Eagle Assassins.
This film was remade in 1993, titled ''The 13 Cold-Blooded Eagles''. There are news reports from The Weinstein Company of a modern Hollywood remake of this film, but so far nothing has come into fruition.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AnimalMotifs: The Thirteen Eagles, killers who use birds of prey as motifs whose members are named Condor, Vulture, Falcon, among others.
*TheAtoner: Chik Ming-hsing, our RetiredOutlaw protagonist who is seeking to atone for the murders he committed in the past.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Master Hung, leader of the Eagle Assassins and also the powerful final battle for Cheuk and Ming to overcome.
* BackToBackBadasses: Cheuk and Ming against the Eagle Assassins, and then against Master Hung’s legion of mooks in the finale.
* BadassLongrobe
* BaldOfEvil: The Vulture Eagle, the most powerful of the Eagle Assassins sent after Ming.
* BittersweetEnding:
* CombatPragmatist: Ming and Cheuk both uses strategies to outwit and disarm the Eagles sent to kill them, which works most of the time allowing the duo to strike a killing blow first.
* ContractOnTheHitman: Ming have bailed on the Legion of Eagles, but his Master and ex-colleagues aren’t very happy about his departure and wants him dead.
* CrusadingWidower
* DeadlyDisc: The Vulture Eagle uses this as a weapon, as does the Gold and Silver Eagles.
* TheDrifter:
* DualWield
* EliteMook: The Eagle Assassins, a league of killers trained since birth to become naturally-trained assassins, which TheHero Ming was a member of.
* EnemyMine
* EyepatchOfPower: One of the Eagle Assassins who gets killed early in the film have this over his left eye.
* FightingYourFriend
* GroinAttack: Cheuk and Ming does this more than once in the film. In fact in Cheuk's introduction scene he explicitly does this, prompting the Eagle Assassin who's on the receiving end to curse him for hitting below the belt.
--> "Hitting between the legs? Where's your sense of honour?"
* HandicappedBadass: The Gold and Silver Eagle, Master Hung’s two personal bodyguards. They’re missing their left and right hands respectively, but they still give Cheuk and Ming one hell of a fight in the ending.
* HisNameIs: The Vulture Eagle, most powerful of the enemies, barely managed to croak out the truth behind the death of Cheuk’s wife ([[spoiler: namely, Ming is the true murderer who took her life]]) before Ming finish him off with a deadly stab.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: More than one member of the Eagle Assassins ends up getting killed by their own weapons courtesy of Ming and Cheuk. Including the dual-sword wielding Eagle who gets stabbed by his own sword, the Eagle Assassin who uses an EpicFlail getting strangled by his own flail, etc.
* InTheBack: During the inn ambush, Cheuk (disguised as a waiter) stealthily takes out one of three Eagle Assassins out to kill them by stabbing his opponent in the back.
* MartialArtsHeadband: Worn by many characters, including Ming, Cheuk, the Vulture Eagle, the Condor Eagle, the Gold and Silver Eagle, and a few other members of the eagle legion.
* MurderInc: The Eagle Assassins are all professional killers trained from birth.
* NothingUpMySleeve
* PowerFist
* ThirteenIsUnlucky
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback
* WireFu: True to the typical {{Wuxia}} setting.
* WouldHitAGirl: Master Hung have absolutely zero qualms ordering for the entire Cheuk household massacred, including handmaidens and ladies-in-waiting, and even [[spoiler: ordered Ming to kill Cheuk’s pregnant wife to prove his allegiance to the Eagle Assassins]].
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''The Avenging Eagle'' is a 1978 {{Wuxia}} film released by Shaw Brothers, starring Ti Lung and Alexander Fu Sheng.
In the warring clans of ancient China, Chik Ming-hsing (Ti Lung) is a man on the run, having escaped the former clan he was raised in, the dreaded Iron Boat Clan whose legion of assassins, called the Thirteen Eagles, he was a member of. His former colleagues and partners are unwilling to let him go, and now Ming is a wanted fugitive by the other twelve Eagle Assassins. But along the way, Ming encounters Cheuk (Alexander Fu Sheng), a wandering warrior who is travelling all across China to personally destroy the Eagle Assasins, because these assassins massacred his family of in-laws while he's on journeys of his own. Namely, his personal vendetta is against the Eagle who killed his pregnant wife.
After a brief fight between the two - Cheuk trying to kill Ming because of Ming's connections with the Eagles, both men comes to a conclusion that they will work together to overthrow their common enemy - Master Hung, the ruthless leader of the Eagle Assassins.
This film was remade in 1993, titled ''The 13 Cold-Blooded Eagles''. There are news reports from The Weinstein Company of a modern Hollywood remake of this film, but so far nothing has come into fruition.
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!!This film contains examples of:
* AnimalMotifs: The Thirteen Eagles, killers who use birds of prey as motifs whose members are named Condor, Vulture, Falcon, among others.
*TheAtoner: Chik Ming-hsing, our RetiredOutlaw protagonist who is seeking to atone for the murders he committed in the past.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Master Hung, leader of the Eagle Assassins and also the powerful final battle for Cheuk and Ming to overcome.
* BackToBackBadasses: Cheuk and Ming against the Eagle Assassins, and then against Master Hung’s legion of mooks in the finale.
* BadassLongrobe
* BaldOfEvil: The Vulture Eagle, the most powerful of the Eagle Assassins sent after Ming.
* BittersweetEnding:
* CombatPragmatist: Ming and Cheuk both uses strategies to outwit and disarm the Eagles sent to kill them, which works most of the time allowing the duo to strike a killing blow first.
* ContractOnTheHitman: Ming have bailed on the Legion of Eagles, but his Master and ex-colleagues aren’t very happy about his departure and wants him dead.
* CrusadingWidower
* DeadlyDisc: The Vulture Eagle uses this as a weapon, as does the Gold and Silver Eagles.
* TheDrifter:
* DualWield
* EliteMook: The Eagle Assassins, a league of killers trained since birth to become naturally-trained assassins, which TheHero Ming was a member of.
* EnemyMine
* EyepatchOfPower: One of the Eagle Assassins who gets killed early in the film have this over his left eye.
* FightingYourFriend
* GroinAttack: Cheuk and Ming does this more than once in the film. In fact in Cheuk's introduction scene he explicitly does this, prompting the Eagle Assassin who's on the receiving end to curse him for hitting below the belt.
--> "Hitting between the legs? Where's your sense of honour?"
* HandicappedBadass: The Gold and Silver Eagle, Master Hung’s two personal bodyguards. They’re missing their left and right hands respectively, but they still give Cheuk and Ming one hell of a fight in the ending.
* HisNameIs: The Vulture Eagle, most powerful of the enemies, barely managed to croak out the truth behind the death of Cheuk’s wife ([[spoiler: namely, Ming is the true murderer who took her life]]) before Ming finish him off with a deadly stab.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: More than one member of the Eagle Assassins ends up getting killed by their own weapons courtesy of Ming and Cheuk. Including the dual-sword wielding Eagle who gets stabbed by his own sword, the Eagle Assassin who uses an EpicFlail getting strangled by his own flail, etc.
* InTheBack: During the inn ambush, Cheuk (disguised as a waiter) stealthily takes out one of three Eagle Assassins out to kill them by stabbing his opponent in the back.
* MartialArtsHeadband: Worn by many characters, including Ming, Cheuk, the Vulture Eagle, the Condor Eagle, the Gold and Silver Eagle, and a few other members of the eagle legion.
* MurderInc: The Eagle Assassins are all professional killers trained from birth.
* NothingUpMySleeve
* PowerFist
* ThirteenIsUnlucky
* TroubledBackstoryFlashback
* WireFu: True to the typical {{Wuxia}} setting.
* WouldHitAGirl: Master Hung have absolutely zero qualms ordering for the entire Cheuk household massacred, including handmaidens and ladies-in-waiting, and even [[spoiler: ordered Ming to kill Cheuk’s pregnant wife to prove his allegiance to the Eagle Assassins]].
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