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* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: While this entry doesn't necessarily prevent the release of future ''Master Z'' films, ''Ip Man 4'' almost certainly does this for the Ip Man movies starring Donnie Yen. If the movie's title ''The Finale'' isn't enough, the movie's plot features [[spoiler: Ip Man suffering from cancer that ends up being fatal eight years later, ending with Ip Man's funeral]].
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* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: While this entry doesn't necessarily prevent the release of future ''Master Z'' films, ''Ip Man 4'' almost certainly does this for the Ip Man movies starring Donnie Yen. If the movie's title ''The Finale'' isn't enough, the movie's plot features [[spoiler: Ip Man suffering from cancer that ends up being fatal eight years later, ending with Ip Man's funeral]].
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* IronyAsSheIsCast: Chris Collins plays Colin Frater, a karateka antagonistic to Wing Chun, when Collins actually has a background in Wing Chun but not karate (he had to receive a crash course for the movie). He even served in the USMC and tried to integrate Wing Chun into its training, exactly what his character opposes there. However, and much more egregiously, Collins plays a character who is racist towards the Chinese, despite Collins is ''half-Chinese'' in real life, only that he can pass as white from afar (in fact, he revealed he used to be the target of racism ''from'' the Chinese population of Hong Kong because he taught Wing Chun being a foreigner and non-full-blooded Chinese).

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* IronyAsSheIsCast: Chris Collins plays Colin Frater, a karateka antagonistic to Wing Chun, when Collins actually has a [[https://youtu.be/3TT9Hmzo0YY?si=JIDnRQTqnosSgzfE&t=30 background in Wing Chun Chun]] but not karate (he had to receive a crash course for the movie). He even served in the USMC and tried to integrate Wing Chun into its training, exactly what his character opposes there. However, and much more egregiously, Collins plays a character who is racist towards the Chinese, despite Collins is being ''half-Chinese'' in real life, only that he can pass as white from afar (in fact, he revealed he used to be the target of racism ''from'' from the Chinese ''Chinese'' population of Hong Kong because he taught Wing Chun being as a foreigner and non-full-blooded Chinese).

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* StarMakingRole: The film series that made Donnie Yen's name much bigger internationally.

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* TheDanza: Almost. Chris ''Collins'' plays ''Colin'' Frater.



* IronyAsSheIsCast: Chris Collins plays Colin Frater, a karateka antagonistic to Wing Chun, when Collins actually has a background in Wing Chun but not karate (he had to receive a crash course for the movie). He even served in the USMC and tried to integrate Wing Chun into its training, exactly what his character opposes there. However, and much more egregiously, Collins plays a character who is racist towards the Chinese, despite Collins is ''half-Chinese'' in real life, only that he can pass as white from afar (in fact, he revealed he used to be the target of racism ''from'' the Chinese population of Hong Kong because he taught Wing Chun being a foreigner and non-full-blooded Chinese).



* PromotedFanboy: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTNk4m-qAQ4 Adkins has been a Yen fan since young,]] with one of his favorite films being ''Film/InTheLineOfDuty4Witness'' (1989), which is fairly obscure in the West.

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[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTNk4m-qAQ4 Adkins has been a Yen fan since young,]] with one of his favorite films being ''Film/InTheLineOfDuty4Witness'' (1989), which is fairly obscure in the West.West.
** Chris Collins, a Creator/DonnieYen fan since his childhood, showed ''Film/IpMan3'' to his kung fu students and joked that he might be in the next installment. Ask and you shall receive. Moreover, the film used a lot of his life experience as plot points, if ironically putting him at the other side of them.
* RealitySubtext: Frater's actor served as a US Marine and has real experience in challenge matches against Chinese kung fu practitioners, only that in this case he was the target of racism from them and not vice versa. He also tried to get the army to train in Wing Chun, just like Wu does in the movie.



* UnderageCasting: Donnie Yen is a very young-looking mid-fifties playing a seventy-one-year-old Ip Man.

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* UnderageCasting: Donnie Yen is a in mid-fifties (and very young-looking mid-fifties at it) playing a seventy-one-year-old Ip Man.

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* TroubledProduction: A particular instance. When Mike Tyson was announced to star in the third film along with Donnie Yen, there were many people, including Yen's own wife, who worried that Yen could get injured or wounded from working with Tyson, who is famous for both his brilliant boxing resume and nasty attitude problems. It turned out that it was ''Yen'' who accidentally injured Tyson during the shootings, breaking one of his fingers when he instinctively blocked a punch with his elbow.



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* When Mike Tyson was announced to star in the third film along with Donnie Yen, there were many people, including Yen's own wife, who worried that Yen could get injured or wounded from working with Tyson, who is famous for both his brilliant boxing resume and nasty attitude problems. It turned out that it was ''Yen'' who accidentally injured Tyson during the shootings, breaking one of his fingers when he instinctively blocked a punch with his elbow.
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* YouLookFamiliar: Dennis To played Jin Shanzhao's henchman in the first film, then he played the gang leader and student of Hung Chun-nam in the second film.

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* YouLookFamiliar: Dennis To played Jin Shanzhao's henchman in the first film, then he played the gang leader and student of Hung Chun-nam in the second film.
film. Then he portrayed Ip Man himself in the loose prequel, ''The Legend is Born: Ip Man''

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