Big Trouble in Little China: Difference between revisions

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* [[Drowning Pit]]: The elevator in Lo Pan's lair.

* [[Elemental Embodiment]]: Thunder, Lighting and Rain.

* [[The End - Or Is It?]]: As Jack Burton drives off, we see that one of David Lo Pan's monsters is hitching a ride under his truck.

* [[The End - or Is It?]]: As Jack Burton drives off, we see that one of David Lo Pan's monsters is hitching a ride under his truck.

* [[Evil Cripple]]: Lo Pan in his "old man" form, restricted to a wheelchair.

* [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]: Egg Shen invokes this trope when he and Jack are beneath Chinatown.

* [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]]: Egg Shen invokes this trope when he and Jack are beneath Chinatown.

{{quote| '''Jack:''' That is ''not'' water.<br />

'''Egg:''' Black blood of the earth.<br />

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* [[Femme Fatalons]]: David Lo Pan can grow these at will.

* [[Finger-Snap Lighter]]

* [[Firing in ~~The~~ Air A Lot]]: Jack tries it and [[Reality Ensues]], with bits of the ceiling falling on his head and knocking him out.

* [[Firing in the Air a Lot]]: Jack tries it and [[Reality Ensues]], with bits of the ceiling falling on his head and knocking him out.

* [[Friendly Local Chinatown]]

* [[Good Hair, Evil Hair]]: David Lo Pan's long wispy beard definitely qualifies as Evil Hair.

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* [[Large Ham]]: Basically everyone expecially Jack himself. The villains are also this.

* [[Law of Inverse Recoil]]: Subversion when Jack fires a machine pistol on full automatic.

* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: When Jack finally defeats Lo Pan, his lair starts to fall apart.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Gracie Law is a lawyer.

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* [[Nice Hat]]: Lo Pan has an ''extremely'' nice hat.

* [[No Man of Woman Born]]: Lo Pan has to marry and then sacrifice a green-eyed woman to return to human form, but he has to stay married to one in order to regain his full power. The solution: [[Tenchi Solution|Marry two women and sacrifice one of them.]]

* [[Not ~~With~~ the Safety On, You Won't]]

* [[Not with the Safety On, You Won't]]

* [[Oculothorax]]: A Beholder-like monster shows up, to Jack's horror. "What it sees, Lo Pan sees." Naturally, he tries shooting it.

* [[Oh Crap]]: Jack and company after the knife he throws at Lo Pan misses.

* [[Open the Door ~~And~~ See All ~~The~~ People]]: Jack Burton opens a door and sees a mob of angry-looking mooks on the other side.

* [[Open the Door and See All the People]]: Jack Burton opens a door and sees a mob of angry-looking mooks on the other side.

* [[PG Explosives]]: The explosives that Egg Shen uses to blow up multiple [[Mook|Mooks]].

* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Jack Burton, even though he's supposed to be [[The Hero]].

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* [[Sunglasses At Night]]: Not exactly night, but barely an hour before it, we see Jack Burton at the start of the film, driving a truck with sunglasses on well after the sun has gone down.

* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: As mentioned by [[Word of God]].

* [[Tap On the Head]]: Wang and Eddie to several of Lo Pan's guards, and Jack Burton does it to himself.

* [[Tap on the Head]]: Wang and Eddie to several of Lo Pan's guards, and Jack Burton does it to himself.

* [[Tennis Boss]]: Lo Pan.

* [[Theme Naming]]: The Three Storms: Thunder, Lighting and Rain.

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* [[Throat Light]]: David Lo Pan

* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: Wang Chi vs. Rain.

* [[The Triads and ~~The~~ Tongs]]: The Wing Kong and Chang Sing street gangs are explicitly referred to as "Fighting Tongs".

* [[The Triads and the Tongs]]: The Wing Kong and Chang Sing street gangs are explicitly referred to as "Fighting Tongs".

* [[Underside Ride]]: The ending shows the hero happily driving away, only for a last minute [[Jump Scare]] revealing a monster hiding under his semi trailer.

* [[The Unmasqued World]]: The first scene (which is chronologically the last scene) implies that the outside world noticed the fight with Lo Pan and wants answers.