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  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: During the fight in the ice factory, Zen starts whooping and hollering while fighting the workers. We're given no reason for why she acts like this during that scene, or why she never does it again. Most likely she was enjoying herself and/or giving a shout out to Bruce Lee. Either that or it was echolalia.
  • Creepy Awesome: Thomas. His weird spasms, acrobatic skills and ridiculous accuracy are both unsettling and glorious to see.
  • Crosses the Line Twice: Two disabled children fighting? Questionable. Two disabled children with savant martial arts skills fighting? Awesome.
  • Diagnosed by the Audience:
    • Zen's disorder is never named, but it's pretty clearly a form of autism.
    • Thomas's disorder, which is quite wrongly credited as "epilepsy", looks vaguely like a full-body form of Tourette syndrome.
  • Funny Moments: The guy in the butcher shop who first has his thrown knife bounce back at him and sticks in his shoulder. Then gets hit with another knife when he starts to recover but this time he only gets with the flat side in the chest instead of the edge part.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Chocolate is more popular with American audiences than its native Thailand, because of Zen's autism.
  • Moe: Zen, considering her actress played her as childlike, and she was nonverbal and autistic. Justified in that the character is fifteen years old.
  • One-Scene Wonder: Zen's biological father, who turns out to be from the Yakuza, effortlessly cleans house with mooks in the finale, and takes between 20 to 30 names in one big fight scene. Being played by veteran Japanese badass Hiroshi Abe helps.

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