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* BladeOnAStick: Lian San "The Throat Piercing Halberd", much like his name implies, is an expert fighter wielding a halberd.
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* WreckedWeapon: Invoked ''on purpose''. Duan Chang-qing uses a long ''jian'' with a breakable blade, with every challenger he kills, he then breaks an inch of his sword in their corpses as an indicator of his victim. In the opening duel, Tuan draws his sword to fight Lian, and it's tip is noticeably chipped.
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* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: During his first fight scene in the casino, Xiao Dao, attacked by armed thugs while bare-handed, picks up stools as {{Improvised Weapon}}s. Either as shields, or as clubs. He ends up destroying three chairs as well as numerous tables in the process.
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[[caption-width-right:350:He only breaks his sword when he's about to kill someone.]]
''The Deadly Breaking Sword'' is a 1979 Creator/ShawBrothers ''wuxia'' movie directed by Sun Chung, starring Creator/TiLung and Creator/AlexanderFuSheng, being the trio's next collaboration after the previous year's ''Film/TheAvengingEagle'', although the film itself is comparatively more light-hearted and comical.
The warrior and assassin, Duan Chang-qing (Ti Lung), is known in the martial world as "The Deadly Breaking Sword", because with every challenger he kills, he leaves a fragment broken from his sword in their corpses. So when Duan meets brothel ourtesan Liu Yinxi (Creator/ShihSzu) who convince Duan to perform an assassination for her to avenge her fiancée, Duan agrees. But a run-in with local gambler and frequent casino-hanger, the spunky young fighter Xiao Dao, had Xiao tagging along Duan's mission -- whether he likes it or ''not''.
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!!''The Deadly Troping Site''
* ActionPrologue: The film opens with the duel between Duan Chang-qing "The Deadly Breaking Sword" and Lian San "The Throat Piercing Halberd", before the opening credits.
* BadassCape: Duan Chang-qing and Lian San, the two best fighters in the film, both wears capes, respectively in purple and white, which they display glamourously while fighting each other during their ActionPrologue.
* BladeOnAStick: Lian San "The Throat Piercing Halberd", much like his name implies, is an expert fighter wielding a halberd.
* ChallengeSeeker: Tuan Chang-qing is often the target of assassins and rival swordfighters, and he accepts all their invitation to duels, leaving behgind plenty of dead bodies with broken pieces of metal lodged in them as a reminder to future challengers on why he's a force to be reckoned with.
* DeadlyDodging: During the fight between the Sword Spirits Duo, Duan managed to trap the Red Spirit in a corner, just as the Blue Spirit comes charging at him. With a quick move, Duan tricks the Blue Spirit into stabbing his comrade, before finishing off the Blue Spirit effortlessly.
* DualBoss: The Sword Spirits Duo, among the several challengers Duan defeats, are the only two who attacks the hero two-against-one.
* DualWielding: Xiao-Dao wields twin knives in his fights.
* EarAche: The prison breakout culminates with Xiao-Dao cutting off the lead thug's left ear, with the camera zooming in on the bloodied ear.
* TheGadfly: Xiao Dao trolls ''everyone'' that he comes across, toying with his opponents repeatedly before beating them to a pulp, and forces himself on tagging behind Duan whether the hero likes it or not.
* TheGambler: Xiao Dao, a chronic gambling addict who never goes anywhere ''without'' his gambling tiles.
I IllegalGamblingDen: Xiao Dao's first scene is in one of these, where he scams a group of punks in a domino game, leading to a fight breaking out.
* KnowsTheRopes: Xiao-Dao gets assaulted by a trio of punks armed with a thick rope, intending to capture him alive. Instead, Xiao cause them to entangle each other instead until all three thugs are tied up in a comical fasion.
* MeaningfulName: Duan Chang-qing, the killer who breaks his sword in his victims as his CallingCard. Fitting, since "Duan" means "break" in Mandarin...
* RedBaron: No ''wuxia'' heroes would be complete without a catchy nickname, would it? There's the hero Duan Chang-qing "The Deadly Breaking Sword", his rival Lian San "The Throat Piercing Halberd", and the two Sword Spirits (NoNameGiven).
* TitleDrop: More than once, from the hero Duan, who constantly makes this BadassBoast before each of his fights.
--> "You will fear the power of '''The Deadly Breaking Sword''', which you shall witness before your death!"
* WreckedWeapon: Invoked ''on purpose''. Duan Chang-qing uses a long ''jian'' with a breakable blade, with every challenger he kills, he then breaks an inch of his sword in their corpses as an indicator of his victim. In the opening duel, Tuan draws his sword to fight Lian, and it's tip is noticeably chipped.
* {{Wuxia}}
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[[caption-width-right:350:He only breaks his sword when he's about to kill someone.]]
''The Deadly Breaking Sword'' is a 1979 Creator/ShawBrothers ''wuxia'' movie directed by Sun Chung, starring Creator/TiLung and Creator/AlexanderFuSheng, being the trio's next collaboration after the previous year's ''Film/TheAvengingEagle'', although the film itself is comparatively more light-hearted and comical.
The warrior and assassin, Duan Chang-qing (Ti Lung), is known in the martial world as "The Deadly Breaking Sword", because with every challenger he kills, he leaves a fragment broken from his sword in their corpses. So when Duan meets brothel ourtesan Liu Yinxi (Creator/ShihSzu) who convince Duan to perform an assassination for her to avenge her fiancée, Duan agrees. But a run-in with local gambler and frequent casino-hanger, the spunky young fighter Xiao Dao, had Xiao tagging along Duan's mission -- whether he likes it or ''not''.
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!!''The Deadly Troping Site''
* ActionPrologue: The film opens with the duel between Duan Chang-qing "The Deadly Breaking Sword" and Lian San "The Throat Piercing Halberd", before the opening credits.
* BadassCape: Duan Chang-qing and Lian San, the two best fighters in the film, both wears capes, respectively in purple and white, which they display glamourously while fighting each other during their ActionPrologue.
* BladeOnAStick: Lian San "The Throat Piercing Halberd", much like his name implies, is an expert fighter wielding a halberd.
* ChallengeSeeker: Tuan Chang-qing is often the target of assassins and rival swordfighters, and he accepts all their invitation to duels, leaving behgind plenty of dead bodies with broken pieces of metal lodged in them as a reminder to future challengers on why he's a force to be reckoned with.
* DeadlyDodging: During the fight between the Sword Spirits Duo, Duan managed to trap the Red Spirit in a corner, just as the Blue Spirit comes charging at him. With a quick move, Duan tricks the Blue Spirit into stabbing his comrade, before finishing off the Blue Spirit effortlessly.
* DualBoss: The Sword Spirits Duo, among the several challengers Duan defeats, are the only two who attacks the hero two-against-one.
* DualWielding: Xiao-Dao wields twin knives in his fights.
* EarAche: The prison breakout culminates with Xiao-Dao cutting off the lead thug's left ear, with the camera zooming in on the bloodied ear.
* TheGadfly: Xiao Dao trolls ''everyone'' that he comes across, toying with his opponents repeatedly before beating them to a pulp, and forces himself on tagging behind Duan whether the hero likes it or not.
* TheGambler: Xiao Dao, a chronic gambling addict who never goes anywhere ''without'' his gambling tiles.
I IllegalGamblingDen: Xiao Dao's first scene is in one of these, where he scams a group of punks in a domino game, leading to a fight breaking out.
* KnowsTheRopes: Xiao-Dao gets assaulted by a trio of punks armed with a thick rope, intending to capture him alive. Instead, Xiao cause them to entangle each other instead until all three thugs are tied up in a comical fasion.
* MeaningfulName: Duan Chang-qing, the killer who breaks his sword in his victims as his CallingCard. Fitting, since "Duan" means "break" in Mandarin...
* RedBaron: No ''wuxia'' heroes would be complete without a catchy nickname, would it? There's the hero Duan Chang-qing "The Deadly Breaking Sword", his rival Lian San "The Throat Piercing Halberd", and the two Sword Spirits (NoNameGiven).
* TitleDrop: More than once, from the hero Duan, who constantly makes this BadassBoast before each of his fights.
--> "You will fear the power of '''The Deadly Breaking Sword''', which you shall witness before your death!"
* WreckedWeapon: Invoked ''on purpose''. Duan Chang-qing uses a long ''jian'' with a breakable blade, with every challenger he kills, he then breaks an inch of his sword in their corpses as an indicator of his victim. In the opening duel, Tuan draws his sword to fight Lian, and it's tip is noticeably chipped.
* {{Wuxia}}
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