History YMMV / RumbleInTheBronx

* MoralEventHorizon: You could just think the diamond smugglers are normal bad guys, and they killed other dealers in the process of trying to make off with their profits. Then they grab two of the Bronx biker gang members, beat and torture them for information, and then grab one and [[GoryDiscretionShot shove him face-first into a woodchipper]], solely so they could MakeAnExampleOfThem for the surviving fellow to bring back to the rest of the gang as intimidation.

** The diamond smugglers from White Tiger's syndicate have a couple funny moments, but are played almost entirely straight as sociopathic murderers that will kill everyone in their path to LeaveNoWitnesses, and brutally beat every person they hold captive repeatedly to prove how easily they can kill them all.

** The diamond smugglers have a couple funny moments, but are played almost entirely straight as sociopathic murderers that will kill everyone in their path to LeaveNoWitnesses, and brutally beat every person they hold captive repeatedly to prove how easily they can kill them all.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: During the chaotic hovercraft sequence towards the end of the film, as people are trying to get the hell out of dodge amidst it running on land, one man that was wheelchair bound sees it incoming [[ThrowingOffTheDisability and proceeds to dart from his chair.]]

* ClicheStorm: Distant family member comes to town, invokes the local criminal gang's wrath, and ends up taking the fight to them to protect what he cares about with a bigger criminal gang afoot. The difference here was that it was Creator/JackieChan and his big introduction to Hollywood, producing a comedy-action film that ascended the premise into a whole new style all its own.

** One of the biker gang members being shoved into a wood chipper.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Elaine's shop is ransacked and vandalized multiple times throughout the movie, with each incident worse than the last, and it's played for drama each time. Until the last one, where a tow truck is used to pull apart the building, completely destroying the shop, tearing down half her apartment building while she's still inside. ''On the toilet.'' Then it's played for laughs.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Elaine's shop is ransacked and vandalized multiple times throughout the movie, each incident is worse than the last, and it's played for drama each time. Until the last one, where half the building, including both the shop and the apartment she's living in, is torn down ''while she's on the toilet''. Then it's played for laughs.

* NightmareFuel: The bloodied Jackie stumbling into the apartment building the morning after his near-fatal alley attack is horrifying.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Elaine is played Anita Mui, who is a very skilled martial artist in her own right, but the character is TheChewToy who never gets involved in any action.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Music/{{Ash}}'s "Kung Fu," the ''perfect'' song to introduce one of the world's great action stars to North America.

** One of the biker gang members being shoved into a wood chipper

** One of the White Tiger goons being shoved into a wood chipper

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: {{Ash}}'s "Kung Fu," the ''perfect'' song to introduce one of the world's great action stars to North America.

CrowningMusicOfAwesome: {{Ash}}'s "Kung Fu," the ''perfect'' song to introduce one of the world's great action stars to North America.