Line #13 YMMV/TheOne


1	!!''Film/TheOne'' (movie)
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Music/PapaRoach, Music/DrowningPool and Music/{{Disturbed}} provided most of the soundtrack. With Music/TrevorRabin providing the underscore. Not the first time he's scored [[Film/The6thDay a movie with the star in multiple roles]].
3	* CompleteMonster: [[ItsAllAboutMe Gabriel Yulaw]] is a sociopathic interdimensional criminal with [[AGodAmI a God complex]]. Originally an [[FallenHero officer of the Multiverse Authority]], Yulaw discovered that, by [[KillingYourAlternateSelf killing his alternate selves]], he would gain their life energies and essence. Yulaw then set about across dozens of parallel universes, killing all of his alternate selves in an effort to become "the One," a being of godlike power. Having already succeeded in killing 123 of his targets, Yulaw was briefly detained, but broke free, murdering several guards before teleporting himself to the universe of his final target, [[TheHero Gabe Law]]. Upon arriving, Yulaw went on a killing spree, killing several police officers as he sought out Gabe to kill him. When his former ally, Harry Rodecker, arrived to stop him, Yulaw delivered a brutal beatdown upon his former friend, ultimately killing him. He then proceeded to gun down Gabe's wife, making sure that Gabe was watching while he did so. After his final showdown with Gabe ended with the two of them being transported back to MVA headquarters, Yulaw attempted to frame Gabe for his crimes. Arrogant and sadistic, Yulaw lived for nothing more than power and his own egomania.
4	* EvilIsCool: Jet Li as Gabriel Yulaw is easily the most badass part of the film, between his cool outfits, epic lines, nightmarish murders, and great fighting skills.
5	* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Gabe Law is kind of a par-for-the-course role for {{Creator/Jet Li}}, but he also knocks it out of the park as Yulaw which is a far less common character type for him to attempt.
6	* HilariousInHindsight:
7	** A brief news clip has George W. Bush approving universal healthcare to a standing ovation from the Senate, so as to demonstrate that universe is not ours. Bush's successor Barack Obama would end up approving a healthcare plan (known as "Obamacare") considered to be a (admittedly small) step towards that.
8	** Creator/KeHuyQuan worked on this movie as an assistant director for the fight choreography. While his involvement is admittedly small enough to have been uncredited, it's still amusing to know this when two decades later, he'd have a major starring role in yet ''another'' (and more critically acclaimed) [[Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce Asian-led martial arts movie about the multiverse]].
9	* JustHereForGodzilla: Most likely, you're either here to see Jet Li fight Jet Li, or just here for [[EvilIsCool Yulaw being a badass]].
10	* MoralEventHorizon: If Yulaw didn't cross it by killing 123 of his alternate selves or by murdering [[spoiler:his former friend Roedecker]], he absolutely crossed it when [[spoiler: he murders of Gabe's wife TK]].
11	* NarmCharm: Yulaw's BadassBoast [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCu_mJgnKCg at the end of the film]] is rather cheesy but Jet Li manages to sell it as incredibly awesome.
12	--> I am Yulaw! I am ''nobody's'' bitch! ''You'' are mine. I don't need to know you. ''You'' only need to know ''me''. I will be The One!
13	* SpecialEffectFailure: Some of the movie's green-screening effects were unimpressive.
14	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The soundtrack to the movie is ''very'' early 2000's, with songs such as [[Music/DrowningPool "Bodies"]] and [[Music/{{Disturbed}} "Down with the Sickness"]].
15	* ValuesResonance: A good decade before concerns about Asian-American representation became a topic of discussion across media, Gabe Law is quite ahead of his time. Jet Li's leading man is a respected police officer in an ethnically diverse department, and has a stable interracial marriage that combines aspects of Chinese and American culture.
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17	!!''Manhua/TheOne'' (manhua)
18	* ValuesDissonance: The portrayal of canonically bisexual characters like Lele's father and Luo definitely falls under this, particularly because [[NoBisexuals they are never called or labeled as bisexual]] by any character in the series; they are either discussed as being "formerly gay" or similarly mocked for their same sex romantic interests (e.g. "a sister", "a queen"). Luo in particular suffers from this, which has its own bucket of Unfortunate Implications relating to InTouchWithHisFeminineSide because of how CampGay he is depicted as being.
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20	!!''The One'' (TV series)
21	* FridgeLogic: As described in the show, all a match ''really'' guarantees is powerful mutual attraction. As generally imagined, a soulmate is ''more'' than powerful attraction; it's someone you can build a life with, someone who will challenge you and make you grow. For that, it'd be pretty important to consider cultural factors--something you can't tell from a person's genes (ie. I won't date someone who uses heroine, or has radically different politics than I do, or one of us wants kids while the other doesn't). This is largely absent from the show. This could be considered a PlotHole, or HandWave. Or, it might actually make sense: All we know for sure is that matches are people whose pheromones jive. We know ''nothing'' about the long-term outcomes for such couples, because--in-universe--this technology hasn't even existed for 2 full years yet. Real-world science usually puts the shelf-life of passion at 3 or 4 years. It would be entirely in-character for Rebecca is she stumbled upon this genetic feature, and then projected the vastness of the cultural ideal of soulmates onto it, without having any ''real'' evidence that there's anything more than compatible pheromones going on here.

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