Ip Man/Characters: Difference between revisions

=== Ip Man (Master Ip) ===

The titular character. Ip is a Wing Chung master whose house was seized by the Japanese. Played by Donnie Yen.

* [[Nice Guy]]

* [[Not So Stoic]]: He was often calm and collected but he finally loses it when he saw {{spoiler|Liu being shot trying to pick up a bag of rice he won.}}

* [[Parental Neglect]]: He seems to be this at first regarding his son. To the point that his wife called him out on it.

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Albeit a sweet and kind-hearted example.

* [[Rags to Riches]]: Inverted. He started out a rich man, then was forced to live in abject poverty when the Japanese occupied Fo-Shan.

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]]: Granted he is garbed in black 99% of the duration of both films and never literally wears pink, but it's mentioned a few times that Wing Chun was invented by a woman. The name itself means something like "eternal springtime" or "spring chant" depending on who you ask.

* [[Showy Invincible Hero]]: While he always [[Curb Stomp Battle|curb-stomps]] his opponents, at least in the first film, he did it with such a style.

=== Master Liu ===

A martial artist teacher who had a friendly fight with Ip. Played by Chen Zhihui.

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]

* [[The Worf Effect]]: He was easily defeated in his first two fights on screen. By the time he actually defeated someone, it was too little too late.

=== "Crazy/Zealot" Lin ===

Ip's friend who runs a teashop. Played by Xing Yu.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Despite the fact that he was severely injured against Miura, he continued to go on against him and ended up beaten to death.

 

A businessman who owns a cotton mill being plagued by Jin's bandits. His family flees to Hong Kong with Ip Man's family but he is shot in the head by a Japanese soldier. This causes him to forget his family and friends, thinking that everyone he sees is Japanese.

* [[Easy Amnesia]]: He is cured after hearing Ip Man beat Twister on the radio.

 

=== Jin Shanzhao ===

* [[Heel Face Turn]]

* [[Henpecked Husband]]: Even though he accuses Ip Man of being one in the first film, he becomes one himself in the second.

* [[Jerkass]]: In the first movie.

* [[Love Redeems]]: ''"Thank you for knocking some sense into me all those years ago. Now that I'm married, I'm a responsible man with a family now!!"''

=== General Miura ===

The Japanese general in Fo-Shan who was also a martial arts enthusiast. He often took Chinese martial artists to his building to fight against their Japanese counterparts. Played by Hiroyuki Ikeuchi.

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: He turned out to be much more of a skilled martial artist then the other Japanese ones.

* [[Badass]]

** [[Badass in Charge]]

* [[Blood Knight]]: He was driven by his desire to pit the Chinese martial artists with the Japanese ones.

* [[Big Bad]]

Ip Man's first student in Hong Kong. Played by Huang Xiaoming.

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: Doubly subverted. At first he rejects Ip's offer to be the man's student and came back with friends for another round. When he's conclusively shown the error of his ways, though, he gladly accepts the tutelage.

 

=== Hung Lei-Nan (Master Hung) ===

* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: In contrast with the kung fu the Chinese use, Twister sticks to boxing and manages to {{spoiler|murder Hung Lei-Nang}} and hold his own against Ip.

* [[Interplay of Sex and Violence]]: He clearly gains intense sexual pleasure from bullying and murdering Chinese Warriors.

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Doesn't die, or even get crippled, for murdering Master Hung Lei-Nang.

* [[Lack of Empathy]]

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: The Twister can take and dish it out well while still being fast enough to keep up with Master Hung and Ip.

* [[Put the Laughter In Slaughter]]: Publically and happily gloats that he's going to murder ''every'' Chinese Warrior in Hong Kong in a rematch that is meant to clear his name.

* [[Sex Is Violence]]

* [[The Sociopath]]

 

=== "Fatso" ===

A Chinese police officer in Hong Kong who ensures that the martial arts clubs comply with the British police. Played by Kent Cheng.

* [[Les Collaborateurs]]: Like Li in the first film, Fatso is a policeman who reluctantly collaborates with the foreign occupiers before turning against them and helping the Chinese.

* [[Reverse Mole]]

 

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