Characters / Tiger Cage

Tiger Cage Characters:

Fan Chun-yau

Portrayed by: Jacky Cheung

• Adorkable: Fan is like this with his friends, but much more with his girlfriend, Amy. This is more heartbreaking when he gets put through the Trauma Conga Line after Terry dies, Amy is murdered, and he finds out that Huang is The Mole.
• Break the Haughty: Wide-eyed, idealistic, dedicated police officer Fan ends up going through one hell of a Humiliation Conga after being framed for drug possession within the police precinct. Getting disowned by his colleagues, having his superiors assassinated, with killers coming after him, and realizing his close ally and mentor Inspector Huang is The Mole who's responsible for his frame-up in the first place.
• Heartbroken Badass: Fan lost Amy while on course to be driven to his death by Inspector Huang. After seeing her death broadcast on the news, he decides to make it personal and hunt down the traitor before he gets away.

Terry

Portrayed by: Donnie Yen

• Advertised Extra: Given how Donnie Yen is the most popular and successful actor among the movie's Ensemble Cast, DVD re-releases will often feature Donnie Yen's character, Terry, in its front and center. In the actual film, Terry only have one fight scene before getting shot dead, over an hour before the credits.
• Dead Star Walking: It appears in the opening of the film that Terry and Fan are the main characters. In reality, it's Fan and Shirley's storylines that are important to the plot. Terry's story ends when Inspector Huang kills him.
• Mauve Shirt: Terry is one of the police officers that are part of the Anti-Drug Unit of the Royal Hong Kong Police Force. Despite being an extra, he has an interesting backstory: He's good friends with Fan and is the Godson of Uncle Tat.

Shirley Ho Suet-ling

Portrayed by: Carol Cheng

• Action Girlfriend: She is Lung's Fiancee as well as apart of the Police task force.
• Fairytale Wedding Dress: Shirley is trying on a giant fancy wedding dress before she is about to get married. Sadly, she runs out of her apartment in said dress when she witnesses Lung dying after he was caught in a Drive by.
• Heartbroken Badass: When Lung is murdered, it occurs before he is going to marry Shirley.

Lung

Portrayed by: Bryan Leung

• Quitting to Get Married: He's retiring from the Police task Force to marry Shirley. He lives long enough to retire... but he doesn't live long to marry Shirley.
• The Lost Lenore: Lung is killed by a vengeful Hung before he marries Shirley. Shirley vows revenge and search for answers as to why he had to die so soon.

Uncle Tat

Portrayed by: Ng Man Tat

• The Atoner: Uncle Tat, when realizing his betrayal inadvertently lead to the death of his protege and godson, Terry.
• Broken Pedestal: Uncle Tat is thie to Terry. Terry, in the scene where he discovers his superior and the man he trusted the most, Uncle Tat, turns out to be secretly working for the drug dealers. He only have two minutes to savour his shock before Inspector Huang reveals himself to be the traitor by shooting Terry in the head.
• Desecrating the Dead: After Uncle Tat managed to kill the black thug by shoving his head into a spike, he then spends some time punching at the corpse in a rage. Justified, since he's still upset over Terry's death and the fact that Inspector Huang would betray him and send the black thug to kill him, if not for Officer Fan's rescue.

Amy

Portrayed by: Irene Wan

• Car Cushion: This is how Amy dies. Amy is dropped off a balcony, falling for ten stories before she lands on a parked vehicle.
• The Lost Lenore: Amy is killed by the Drug Dealers sent by Inspector Huang. Fan makes it personal when her death is broadcast on the news.

Swatow Hung

Portrayed by: Wang Lung Wei

Inspector Michael Huang

Portrayed by: Simon Yam

• Abhorrent Admirer: He becomes this after Shirley loses Lung before her wedding. It gets worst when she goes to confront him and he shows his true colors to her.
• Boom, Headshot!: This is how he dies after he tries to take Shirley hostage in the climax. He deserved it.
• Broken Pedestal: Inspector Huang is this to Shirley. After Shirley learns from Amy before her death that Huang framed Fan, Shirley goes to confront him. His true Sinister Intentions come out when Shirley tries to report him.
• I Have You Now, My Pretty: The two scenes where Shirley is in Huang's hands are disturbing:
  • After she confronts him for being The Mole, he disarms her and takes his belt off to tie Shirley's hands. He then proceeds to sexually assault her until she gives him a swift strike to his groin.
  • Huang in the Climax takes her as his hostage when the Police Force surrounds him. The look on Shirley's face is clear rage when he appears to happy to see her again after what he tried to do to her at his home.
• The Mole: Inspector Huang, the Hidden Villain and actual Big Bad.
• Sinister Shades: Inspector Huang wears sunglasses in several of his scenes, even before the eventual reveal that he is The Mole.
• Villainous Crush: He has feelings for Shirley. He tries to make her take him as her Rescue Romance by trying to endear himself to her are evident from the scenes in which he is alone with her. When Shirley confronts him over Amy's death and Fan's Frame-Up, Huang drops the nice guy act.
• Would Hit a Girl: Huang strikes Shirley in two separate scenes:
  • The first is when she goes to confront him after Amy's death. He knocks the gun out of her hand and then strikes her across her face.
  • The second is when, in the climax, he knocks her back and then takes her as a Hostage