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* PantyShot: Both Kiki and Chi-ying ends up baring their undies at different points in the film. For the latter it's less frequent as she wears a long skirt, but it can still be seen when she did a jump-kick on the former in the finale.
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[[caption-width-right:230:The red in the poster comes from he amount of fake blood used in the making of this film.]]
''21 Red List'', also known as ''21 Red Treaty'' is a 1994 Taiwanese action film directed by Chuang Yan-Chien, with Creator/AlexanderLoRei as the action choreographer and in a lead role.
1915 China, before the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. A treaty to increase Japanese dominance of territories in the Chinese border is about to be signed, and the Chi siblings, a band of four thieves, assassins and mercenaries raised from birth to be professionals, are assigned to track the list down. But the leader of the four, Chi-wen (Alexander Lo) suspects something is amiss when their mission becomes compromised. Complication ensues when the second sibling, Chi-wu, fell for Kiki, a woman who is also a spy with an equally mysterious background.
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!!21 Red List of Tropes:
* ActionGirl: Chi-ying, the [[TheSmurfettePrinciple sole female of the quartet]], and the DarkActionGirl and [[spoiler: TheMole]] Kiki.
* AlliterativeFamily: The four main characters are named Chi-wen, Chi-wu, Chi-ying and Chi-jie. They are orphans unrelated by blood, adopted by their mentor Hu-zheng.
* BackToBackBadasses: Chi-wen and Chi-ying, [[spoiler: the last two survivors of the four protagonists]] against legions of katana-wielding Japanese agents in the final scene.
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Hu-zheng, the adoptive father of the four main characters, who is also an EvilMentor]].
* DastardlyWhiplash: [[spoiler: Hu-zheng]] sports a really badass stache throughout the entire movie. One that screams "I'm totally the bad guy of this picture!" even before TheReveal late in the film.
* DeadMansTriggerFinger: [[spoiler: Hu-zheng, upon having a katana shoved through his gut, collapses... while pulling the trigger and empty every round from his pistol in the process. He ends up unintentionally hitting a crate full of explosives]]...
* DefeatByModesty: In his first fight against the katana-wielding Japanese agents, Chi-wu managed to beat them off by grabbing one of their katanas and slicing off their belts, resulting in the agents losing their pants one at a time.
* DesignatedGirlFight: The final battle had a lengthy one-on-one smackdown between the two girls of the film, Chi-ying and [[spoiler: Kiki]], who is revealed to be an informant working for the enemy.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The attempt to prevent the red list from falling into Japanese hands had gone to waste. Chi-wen and Chi-ying are forced to kill their adoptive father, only to end up dying and the list taken by Japanese soldiers storming the warehouse]]. Roll credits.
* {{Fingore}}:
** During the American Embassey infiltration scene, Chi-wu, while hiding under a bed, had his fingers stepped on by a passing guard, and had to keep uiet or risk giving his position away.
** [[spoiler: Hu-zheng]] when interrogating the American general removes his fingers as a form of intimidation.
* FourIsDeath: This being a Taiwanese film with four main characters, [[spoiler: not one of them survive the credits]].
* {{Gorn}}: Used in plenty of the movie's fight scenes, with plenty of HighPressureBlood from slashings and stabbings.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: More than one Japanese agent suffers this fate by katanas. ''Vertically''.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Hu-zheng in the final battle gets impaled by CHi-ying's flung katana]].
* MacGuffinMelee: The final battle when Chi-wen and Chi-ying fights [[spoiler: Hu-zheng and Kiki]] for the titular scroll.
* MadeOfExplodium: Basically the contents of the ''entire'' warehouse at the end of the film. [[spoiler: When Hu-zheng, succumbing to his wounds, empties the contents of his pistols randomly as he falls, he ends up hitting a nearby crate filled with dynamites, leading to a chain reaction of explosion that blows the entire warehouse into he stratospher, taking with him Chi-wen, Chi-ying, and Kiki]].
* OffWithHisHead: During his LastStand, Chi-wu hacks off a katana-wielding Japanese soldier's head.
* OneManArmy: Chi-wu during the fight against a whole legion of Japanese agents, which he holds off well enough, taking plenty of names and [[spoiler: only losing when Kiki reveals herself to be an informan and turning on him].
* PantyShot: Both Kiki and Chi-ying ends up baring their undies at different points in the film. For the latter it's less frequent as she wears a long skirt, but it can still be seen when she did a jump-kick on the former in the finale.
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Chi-ying's attempt to fight the hulking GiantMook results in this.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Chi-wu, late in the film, in the hands of Kiki]].
* ShesGotLegs: Kiki during the bedroom scene. Barefoot, pantless, and wearing only a shirt.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, Chi-wen, Kiki, and Hu zheng are all dead. Chi-ying, the only survivor of the battle, grabs the titular Red List, and is promptly shot dead by Japanese soldiers storming into the minitions warehouse, turning their entire battle to prevent the list from falling to the hands of the Japanese to be pointless]].
* SiblingTeam: Chi-wen, Chi-wu, Chi-ying and Chi-jie works as a team in their infiltration missions. They aren't related by blood, being orphans raised from blood to be spies and assassins, but they're definitely close enough to each other to count.
* SlipperySkid: In the opening theft, Chi-ying managed to take out a GiantMook pursuing her and her siblings, by emptying the contents of a box of pearls right at his feet. Said mook falls over, and the quartet made their escape by stepping ''over'' that mook.
* SpottingTheThread: Kiki claims to be taking a shower in Chi-wen's place, [[spoiler: when she is actually searching his bedroom for the titular red list]]. Despite her being dressed in only a towel and the floors being wet, Chi-wen managed to see through her lie because he notes that there aren't any steam or vapour in the bathroom's mirrors.
* StuffBlowingUp: [[spoiler: At the end of the film, the entire warehouse gets blown sky-high after Hu-zheng in his dying breath shoots up a crate of explosives]]. Resulting in [[spoiler: Hu-zheng, Chi-wen, Chi-ying and Kiki]] NotEnoughToBury.
* TemptingFate: An ambassador in the opening assasination scene, upon being demanded by his would-be killers demanding for him to hand over a briefcase full of documents, simply replies, "Over my dead body!" He promptly gets shot dead immediately.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: In the final scene, [[spoiler: this is how Chi-ying kills Hu-zheng, her adoptive father and mentor, via katana after witnessing Hu-zheng shoot Chi-wen]].
* VillainousValour: [[spoiler: Hu-zheng]], in the final scene, despite having over a hundred Japanese soldiers backing him up, still chose to confront Chi-wen and Chi-ying all by himself, with only Kiki as his sole backup.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: [[spoiler: On Chi-wu at the moment of his death]]. It gets plenty of red on it, both his blood and those from Japanese agents.
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[[caption-width-right:230:The red in the poster comes from he amount of fake blood used in the making of this film.]]
''21 Red List'', also known as ''21 Red Treaty'' is a 1994 Taiwanese action film directed by Chuang Yan-Chien, with Creator/AlexanderLoRei as the action choreographer and in a lead role.
1915 China, before the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War. A treaty to increase Japanese dominance of territories in the Chinese border is about to be signed, and the Chi siblings, a band of four thieves, assassins and mercenaries raised from birth to be professionals, are assigned to track the list down. But the leader of the four, Chi-wen (Alexander Lo) suspects something is amiss when their mission becomes compromised. Complication ensues when the second sibling, Chi-wu, fell for Kiki, a woman who is also a spy with an equally mysterious background.
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!!21 Red List of Tropes:
* ActionGirl: Chi-ying, the [[TheSmurfettePrinciple sole female of the quartet]], and the DarkActionGirl and [[spoiler: TheMole]] Kiki.
* AlliterativeFamily: The four main characters are named Chi-wen, Chi-wu, Chi-ying and Chi-jie. They are orphans unrelated by blood, adopted by their mentor Hu-zheng.
* BackToBackBadasses: Chi-wen and Chi-ying, [[spoiler: the last two survivors of the four protagonists]] against legions of katana-wielding Japanese agents in the final scene.
* BigBad: [[spoiler: Hu-zheng, the adoptive father of the four main characters, who is also an EvilMentor]].
* DastardlyWhiplash: [[spoiler: Hu-zheng]] sports a really badass stache throughout the entire movie. One that screams "I'm totally the bad guy of this picture!" even before TheReveal late in the film.
* DeadMansTriggerFinger: [[spoiler: Hu-zheng, upon having a katana shoved through his gut, collapses... while pulling the trigger and empty every round from his pistol in the process. He ends up unintentionally hitting a crate full of explosives]]...
* DefeatByModesty: In his first fight against the katana-wielding Japanese agents, Chi-wu managed to beat them off by grabbing one of their katanas and slicing off their belts, resulting in the agents losing their pants one at a time.
* DesignatedGirlFight: The final battle had a lengthy one-on-one smackdown between the two girls of the film, Chi-ying and [[spoiler: Kiki]], who is revealed to be an informant working for the enemy.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The attempt to prevent the red list from falling into Japanese hands had gone to waste. Chi-wen and Chi-ying are forced to kill their adoptive father, only to end up dying and the list taken by Japanese soldiers storming the warehouse]]. Roll credits.
* {{Fingore}}:
** During the American Embassey infiltration scene, Chi-wu, while hiding under a bed, had his fingers stepped on by a passing guard, and had to keep uiet or risk giving his position away.
** [[spoiler: Hu-zheng]] when interrogating the American general removes his fingers as a form of intimidation.
* FourIsDeath: This being a Taiwanese film with four main characters, [[spoiler: not one of them survive the credits]].
* {{Gorn}}: Used in plenty of the movie's fight scenes, with plenty of HighPressureBlood from slashings and stabbings.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: More than one Japanese agent suffers this fate by katanas. ''Vertically''.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Hu-zheng in the final battle gets impaled by CHi-ying's flung katana]].
* MacGuffinMelee: The final battle when Chi-wen and Chi-ying fights [[spoiler: Hu-zheng and Kiki]] for the titular scroll.
* MadeOfExplodium: Basically the contents of the ''entire'' warehouse at the end of the film. [[spoiler: When Hu-zheng, succumbing to his wounds, empties the contents of his pistols randomly as he falls, he ends up hitting a nearby crate filled with dynamites, leading to a chain reaction of explosion that blows the entire warehouse into he stratospher, taking with him Chi-wen, Chi-ying, and Kiki]].
* OffWithHisHead: During his LastStand, Chi-wu hacks off a katana-wielding Japanese soldier's head.
* OneManArmy: Chi-wu during the fight against a whole legion of Japanese agents, which he holds off well enough, taking plenty of names and [[spoiler: only losing when Kiki reveals herself to be an informan and turning on him].
* PantyShot: Both Kiki and Chi-ying ends up baring their undies at different points in the film. For the latter it's less frequent as she wears a long skirt, but it can still be seen when she did a jump-kick on the former in the finale.
* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: Chi-ying's attempt to fight the hulking GiantMook results in this.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Chi-wu, late in the film, in the hands of Kiki]].
* ShesGotLegs: Kiki during the bedroom scene. Barefoot, pantless, and wearing only a shirt.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: At the end of the movie, Chi-wen, Kiki, and Hu zheng are all dead. Chi-ying, the only survivor of the battle, grabs the titular Red List, and is promptly shot dead by Japanese soldiers storming into the minitions warehouse, turning their entire battle to prevent the list from falling to the hands of the Japanese to be pointless]].
* SiblingTeam: Chi-wen, Chi-wu, Chi-ying and Chi-jie works as a team in their infiltration missions. They aren't related by blood, being orphans raised from blood to be spies and assassins, but they're definitely close enough to each other to count.
* SlipperySkid: In the opening theft, Chi-ying managed to take out a GiantMook pursuing her and her siblings, by emptying the contents of a box of pearls right at his feet. Said mook falls over, and the quartet made their escape by stepping ''over'' that mook.
* SpottingTheThread: Kiki claims to be taking a shower in Chi-wen's place, [[spoiler: when she is actually searching his bedroom for the titular red list]]. Despite her being dressed in only a towel and the floors being wet, Chi-wen managed to see through her lie because he notes that there aren't any steam or vapour in the bathroom's mirrors.
* StuffBlowingUp: [[spoiler: At the end of the film, the entire warehouse gets blown sky-high after Hu-zheng in his dying breath shoots up a crate of explosives]]. Resulting in [[spoiler: Hu-zheng, Chi-wen, Chi-ying and Kiki]] NotEnoughToBury.
* TemptingFate: An ambassador in the opening assasination scene, upon being demanded by his would-be killers demanding for him to hand over a briefcase full of documents, simply replies, "Over my dead body!" He promptly gets shot dead immediately.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: In the final scene, [[spoiler: this is how Chi-ying kills Hu-zheng, her adoptive father and mentor, via katana after witnessing Hu-zheng shoot Chi-wen]].
* VillainousValour: [[spoiler: Hu-zheng]], in the final scene, despite having over a hundred Japanese soldiers backing him up, still chose to confront Chi-wen and Chi-ying all by himself, with only Kiki as his sole backup.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: [[spoiler: On Chi-wu at the moment of his death]]. It gets plenty of red on it, both his blood and those from Japanese agents.
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