Line #74 TearJerker/ThunderboltFantasy


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7	[[caption-width-right:350:''[[MortonsFork I should have never taken a step outside the shrine... and]] [[TogetherInDeath died alongside my brother.]]'']]
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10	'''Episode 8:The Enigmatic Gale''':
11	* Lin Xue Ya uses his illusion on Dan Fei into fighting Shang Bu Huan thinking she was actually fighting Mie Tian Hai.
12	* After Dan Fei woke up and realized the piece of Tengyouken taken from her, She fell into deep despair as she was unable avenge her brother's death and disgrace her ancestors.
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14	'''Episode 9: The Essence of a Sword''':
15	* After Dan Fei and Shang Bu Huan find out their allies (except Ken) knew Lin Xue Ya's true identify and has their no good agenda.
16	** Before their former allies abandon them, Juan Can Yun was the only one who refused to leave them, however Shou Yun Xiao coldly suggests to him if he would be willing to put them out of their misery. Ken had no choice to choose the latter instead.
17	** Even though Shou Yun Xiao was aware Juan Can Yun's feelings toward Dan Fei, he tells him to forget about her, thinking that emotions would only get in the way. It presumably that he thinks getting attachment to someone as a sign of weakness.
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19	'''Episode 11: A Proud Life''':
20	* Shou Yun Xiao uses his shadow clones technique on his former sworn brother before he shoot him in the eye in order for him to get the remaining piece of the weapon. That was a dirty trick.
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22	'''Episode 13: A New Duty''':
23	* After Mie Tian Hai lose to Lin Xue Ya, he has a major breakdown and refuses to be defeated so he destroys the Tengyouken and himself.
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26	[[folder:Season 2]]
27	'''Episode 3: Princess of Cruelty'''
28	* Xiao Kuang Juan and his men slaughter [[spoiler:innocent people who are mind control of the Night of Mourning's curse caused by Xie Yingluo. They don't even try to free them from Night of Mourning's curse. Xiao Kuang Juan states this is out of mercy and it's Shang Bu Huan's fault that they meet their tragic fates.]]
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30	'''Episode 8: The Song That Dooms Evil'''
31	* After Lin took Xiao Kuang Juan to safety, Lang Wu Yao relationship with Shang Bu Huan becomes very strained. Lang Wu Yao decides to leave him and search for Katsu alone since he's tired of Shang Bu Huan's pacifist and merciful attitude towards opponents.
32	* After Xiao Kuang Juan regain his senses, he doesn't felt remorse after he killed his henchmen when was under control of the Seven Blasphemous Deaths's influences. It shows that he doesn't care his about henchmen's death at all and he seen them as pawns he can used.
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34	'''Episode 10: Demonic Swords/Holy Swords'''
35	* It's both a tearjerker and heartwarming since even though he find his summoning whistle to Shang Bu Huan to find a safety to hide from Lou Zhen Jie, but he knew that he won't be powerful enough to stop Lou Zhen Jie from killing innocent people. It implies that he has already accept his death in order the person he cares deeply to survive.
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38	[[folder:Season 3]]
39	'''Episode 3 - The Infatuated Princess'''
40	* Shang Bu Huan feels betrayed and horrified seeing his friend and ally who helped him in the past has pledged fealty to Huo Shi Ming Huang and the Order of the Divine Swarm, losing one of his friends to the enemy organization. He tries to reason with Wan Jun Po and convince him that they are using him for their own gain and to leave the Order of the Divine Swarm, but Wan Jun Po refuses.
41	** It makes sense that Wan Jun Po decides to join Huo Shi Ming Huang because he is tired to following Chao Feng's mad orders and she is the reason he wasn't able to assist and help his men defending the borders of Xi-You.
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43	'''Episode 6 – Huò Shì Míng Huáng'''
44	* Lang Wu Yao clearly hasn't forgiven Shang for abandoning him and Mu Tian Ming after they nearly escaped from Huo Shi Ming Huang. He is even more angry at him for not visiting her even though she's been waiting to see him again since she lost her sight. Shang Bu Huan's reason why he did this before he traveled to Dong-Li is because he doesn't want to see his companions lose their lives because of him.
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46	'''Episode 7 – Court of Hell'''
47	* After Lang Wu Yao finds out scrying mirrors are not only used to travel through dimensions, but time as well, Lang Wu Yao wants to use it to travel to the past to save Mu Tian Ming from losing her eyes. Lang Wu Yao feels guilty for not protecting her in time and he will gladly give up his life to save her if he can change the past. However, Shang Bu Huan disagreed with him since they can't change the past and says undoing something that's already happened is something that just should not be done. Lang Wu Yao demands him to explain why they shouldn't change the past, but he refuses to answer him.
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49	'''Episode 9 - The Cross-Time Guardian'''
50	* Lang Wu Yao becomes hesitant to destroy the time scrying mirror because he feel guilty about not saving Mu Tian Ming when Shang Bu Huan demands that he should destroy it. He was considering to using it to travel to the past to save her. At the end of the episode, the mysterious black cloaked figure (Azibělpher in disguise) sends Lang Wu Yao back in time and forces him to re-watch the past version of him, Shang Bu Huan and Mu Tian Ming lose their fight to Huo Shi Ming Huang and Mu Tian Ming lose her eyes to him.
51	* This is one of the times where Lin Xue Ya's luck finally runs out when he falls into [[spoiler:Xing Hai's trap by forcing him to become brainwashed by Seven Blasephemous Deaths' charm powers. Lin Xue Ya's behavior ends up becoming similar to Lou Zhen Jie's (even though he wasn't brainwashed by Seven Blasephemous Deaths' powers) who becomes crazily obsessive about Seven Blasephemous Deaths.]] This will mean Shang Bu Huan loses one of his allies to his enemies again.
52	** [[spoiler:Subverted in Episode 12, it was Juan Can Yun disguised as Lin Xue Ya.]]
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54	'''Episode 10 - Secrets of Sacred Swords'''
55	* It's both a tearjerker and nightmare fuel. Azibělpher shows Lang Wu Yao a glimpse of the future where the demon god Yao Tu Li is released from its seal and begins destroying Dong-Li, since if Lang Wu Yao changes the past in order to save Mu Tian Ming, Shang Bu Huan won't have any reason to leave Xi-You and won't able to re-seal the demon god again and prevent him from destroying the world. Lang Wu Yao chooses not to interfere and change the past since he can't risk that his actions will result in a bad future to save the just to save the person he cares the most and erase Shang Bu Huan's reason for leaving them.
56	* Juan Can Yun gets killed by a brainwashed Lin Xue Ya in order to steal the Sorcerous Sword Index from him. This makes him one of the first heroes to be killed off this season and makes his wife Dan Fei a widow.
57	** [[spoiler:Subverted in Episode 12, the real Juan Can Yun is alive.]]
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59	'''Episode 12 – The Patriot, Once Again'''
60	* Despite Wan Jun Po finally turning his back on his master Huo Shi Ming Huang, who refuses to deal with Zhao Jun Lin, he still refuses to free Shang Bu Huan from his sealed wooden prison since he sees him as a threat. Wan Jun Po wants to stop Zhao Jun Lin by using Sorcerous Sword Index against her without Shang Bu Huan's help. It is clear that he will do anything to save his country from Zhao Jun Lin even though it's impossible to defeat her without Shang Bu Huan to aid him.
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63	[[folder:Manga]]
64	'''Chapter 6''':
65	* After Lie Mei retreat, she was brutally smash to the head from Chou Mei for going on her own. That seems very harsh of him treating his comrades like that.
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67	'''Chapter 14''':
68	* In the manga, when Lin asks Sha Wu Sheng to join his group to the Seven Sin Tower and offer his head to him, he refused his offer thinking it might be one of his tricks. Lin takes drastic measure of breaking a vase and place of shard to his throat in order for Sha Wu Sheng to accept his offer of joining him. He has no choice, but to accept his offer. It is unknown if he's was actually planning to commit suicide or just a threat.
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70	'''Chapter 19''':
71	* In the manga towards the end of the chapter, Genkishu ambush Dan Fei and capture her without neither Shang Bu Huan or Lin Xue Ya come to her aid to save her. It implied that Mie Tian Hai come up with a backup plan in to capture her before she enters the final barrier.
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73	'''Chapter 21''':
74	* In the manga, Chou Mei carved Genkishu's emblem on Dan Fei's back with the dagger.
75	* He show her brother fate and the piece of Tengyoken's guard in front of her so he can see her to sink of despair. Her eyes looked broken and empty afterwards.
76	** Even though she was reunited with Shang Bu Huan, Juan Can Yun, and the others, but she was too broken and depressed to express any relieved to see them. It can't really been help after Chou Mei did to her that breaks her spirit.
77	** After being reunited, Shou Yun Xiao, Xing Hai, and Sha Wu Sheng don't even care or feel sorry for Dan Fei after being horrible torture and traumatized by Genkishu (Shang Bu Huan and Juan Can Yun were the only allies who actually cares for her.)
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79	'''Chapter 22''':
80	* In the manga, after Shou Yun Xiao and others abandon Dan Fei and Shang Bu Huan (Except Juan Can Yun refused to, but had no choice), even though Juan frees Dan Fei from her prison cell, but she doesn't even tried to escape or find some way to free Shang Bu Huan. It's was due to that everything that made to her suffer further that she had already given up her reason for living.
81	** After Juan forcefully abandon Dan Fei and Shang Bu Huan, he felt sorry and sadden for them. However in Volume 3, his expression redrawn make him felt more guilty for abandoning them which makes it more heartbreaking and tearjerker moments.
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83	'''Chapter 26''':
84	* Dan Fei attacks Juan Can Yun thinking he was still a traitor after he abandoned her and Shang Bu Huan. Despite of recovering from trauma, she still in a emotional state of unable to trust anyone beside Sho. Especially she refused to trust him after he tried to explain to her that he leave Unshou and Xing Hai to save her.
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86	'''Chapter 27''':
87	* In the manga, it's slightly different based on Episode 11 since, after Juan Can Yun destroyed all the shadow clones of his former sworn brother, he thought he "killed" Shou Yun Xiao, however it was actually another shadow clone and the real Shou Yun Xiao shoots Juan Can Yun in close range into his right eye. He screamed in horrible pain as the arrow was stuck in his destroyed right eye socket.
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89	'''Chapter 28''':
90	* When Dan Fei unexpectedly encounter Chou Mei, she breaks down in tears as Chou Mei asks her if she wants him to torture her again. Juan Can Yun was so angry and pissed off after he finds out Chou Mei was responsible of torturing Dan Fei. He even attempt to attack him, but he was stopped by Shang Bu Huan.
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92	'''Chapter 32''':
93	* In the manga, Dan Fei's reaction where she found out You Ja Rei was actually sealed underneath of the shrine that she and her brother were guarding.
94	** Dan Fei falls into despair again and she wasn't even trying to get away of You Ja Rei's attack.
95	** When Dan Fei finally come back to her senses, only to find Juan Can Yun, badly injured protecting her from being crushed from the boulders by one of You Ja Rei's attacks. She cried for him as she thought he died protecting her. Luckily, Shang Bu Huan confirmed Juan Can Yun not dead, but if he really did died, it would be tragic.
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97	'''Chapter 34''':
98	* In a flashback of the final chapter, Juan Can Yun was devastated over his former sworn brother's death after Lin inform him about Shou Yun Xiao's demise. He dropped to his knees in despair. Despite of everything that Shou Yun Xiao did to him, Juan Can Yun still cares for him.
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101	[[folder:Novel]]
102	'''Thunderbolt Fantasy Gaiden''':
103	* In the novel, reveals Xing Hai's past and her reason for hating Lin Setsua:
104	** [[spoiler: Lin manipulated both Xing Hai and Luan Niangzi behind their backs and turned them against each other. First, he manipulated Xing Hai falling in love with him and makes her jealous of Luan Niangzi and give her an reverse elixir to revert back to her true age. Secondly, he makes his next move on Luan Niangzi and make her burn down Xing Hai's home after she turns into an old woman. Finally, Lin breaks Xing Hai's heart and reveals his true intention before he leaves.]] He got what he wants, destroying their partnerships, and pride. Like killing two birds with one stone.
105	** [[spoiler:This is Xing Hai's true reason why she hates him so much that she wants him dead in the first place.]]
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108	[[folder:Film]]
109	'''Thunderbolt Fantasy: The Sword of Life and Death'''
110	* Sha Wu Sheng's past is both Tear Jerker and Nightmare Fuel since [[spoiler:his father tried to kill him when he was an infant when he thought he killed his wife, and midwives. In reality, Sha Wu Sheng's mother died giving birth to him and the midwife feared being blamed, so she tried to blame her assistant and both of them ended up killing each other. In grief, Sha Wu Sheng's father abandons him at his master's school and sends Tekkisen a letter, asking him to kill his son and calls Sha Wu Sheng, a man-eating fiend.]]
111	* Shang Bu Huan's impostor's real past is very sad since he doesn't know his name, the place he was born or his parents by the time [[spoiler:the Onyx Demons take him in as an infant and trains him as a nameless Mook. His fighting skill was still subpar and he feared that someone might decide to test their weapon on him, he decided to flee the Demon Spine Mountain a year ago.]] It is hinted that if he wasn't useful for fighting, they would have killed him for being weak.

Context TearJerker / ThunderboltFantasy