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A [[Sequel Series]], ''Kung Fu: The Legend Continues'', featured Caine's [[Identical Grandson]] and his own estranged son, a modern day cop. It lasted longer than its namesake, though it failed to gain nearly so much attention. ''Kung Fu 3D'' was a series of 12 [[Webisode|Webisodes]] hosted on the Warner Brothers website in 1999; while it featured a character named Kwai Chang Caine voiced by David Carradine, it deviated from the show's canon. Caine is [[Door Step Baby|left on the temple's steps by his mother as a baby]], and he is in search of his father instead of his brother. The web series had [[No Ending]].

Either invented or introduced the concept of a kung-fu Western to...well, ''Western'' audiences.

Either invented or introduced the concept of a kung-fu Western to... well, ''Western'' audiences.

If you're looking for martial arts tropes, see [[This Index Knows Kung Fu]].

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* [[Aliens Speaking English|Asians Speaking English]]/[[Translation Convention]]

* [[Badass Family]]: The Caines, naturally.

* [[By-The-Book Cop]]: In the first season of ''The Legend Continues,'' Peter often disapproved of his father's interference in police investigations. By the time he himself [[Took a Level In Badass|re-learned his own childhood martial arts training]], he began to value Caine's assistance more.

* [[By-The-Book Cop]]: In the first season of ''The Legend Continues'', Peter often disapproved of his father's interference in police investigations. By the time he himself [[Took a Level In Badass|re-learned his own childhood martial arts training]], he began to value Caine's assistance more.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Grasshopper" among others.

* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]: One of the only times Caine wears footwear is to attend a wedding.

* [[Fighting Series]]

* [[Flashback Echo]]

* [[Friend on the Force]]: Several of the cops in ''The Legend Continues,'' although most of them simply couldn't figure out the senior Caine at all. Peter himself was this for his father.

* [[Friend on the Force]]: Several of the cops in ''The Legend Continues'', although most of them simply couldn't figure out the senior Caine at all. Peter himself was this for his father.

* [[Handicapped Badass]]: The blind Master Po.

* [[Humble Goal]]

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{{quote|'''Peter:''' Look, I'm not my father. I don't do kung fu. I'm a cop. ''That's'' who I am; ''that's'' what I do.}}

* [[Identical Grandson]]: Kwai Chang Caine from ''The Legend Continues'', grandson of Kwai Chang from the original series. Both played by David Carradine.

** David Carradine also played Matthew Caine, Kwai Chang's son & Kwai Chang II's father, in an episode or two of ''~~TLC~~''.

** David Carradine also played Matthew Caine, Kwai Chang's son & Kwai Chang II's father, in an episode or two of ''The Legend Continues''.

* [[Koan]]. Well yes, naturally.

* [[Koan]]: Well yes, naturally.

** Subverted in the [[Pilot Movie]] for ''Kung Fu: The Legend Continues'' when Peter quotes his father back to him.

{{quote|'''Peter:''' "Ah yes. Darkness shall overcome the light," as you would say. "But splinters of black will easily be crushed. The illumination of one candle shall forever touch mankind's luminous spirit."

'''Kwai Chang:''' I never said anything like that. [[Ice Cream Koan|That means absolutely nothing.]]

'''Peter:''' I know. Sounded great though, didn't it? }}

'''Peter:''' I know. Sounded great though, didn't it?}}

* [[Levitating Lotus Position]]: Kwai Chang Caine did this sometimes while meditating in ''The Legend Continues''.

* [[Magical Asian]]: Masters Po and Kan to Caine and Caine himself to most white people he meets.

* [[The Magnificent Seven Samurai]]: ''The Legend Continues'' had an episode called "Dragonswing", where Caine and Peter assemble a team of Shao Lin alumni to help a friend rescue his girlfriend from the thugs who've taken over his Northwestern town. Robert Vaughn guest-starred as Rykker, a mercenary very similar to his ''Magnificent Seven'' character.

* [[The Man They Couldn't Hang]]: In "The Nature of Evil"

* [[The Man They Couldn't Hang]]: In "The Nature of Evil".

* [[Martial Pacifist]]: Caine never wants trouble, but woe be anyone who forces him to fight.

* [[Punishment Box]]: Caine finds himself in a two-man Box, and teaches the other man in the box to meditate so as to avoid the torturous aspects of being in the box. The guards & other prisoners are amazed that they're able to leave under their own power instead of being carried out.

* [[Stern Chase]]

* [[Strictly Formula]]: In each episode Caine basically goes to a town, townspeople don't like him, finds open-minded ally, finds enemy, must fight, makes monk-ly decision concerning friend and enemy, flashback to the power of five, win fight, credits roll.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: In one of the early episodes of ''The Legend Continues,'' Peter's in a bind against the [[Villain of the Week]], who's beating the crap out of him like nobody's business. Then he instinctively taps into his forgotten kung fu skills via [[Groin Attack]]. The next season would focus on him gradually re-learning everything he'd been taught as a child.

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: In one of the early episodes of ''The Legend Continues'', Peter's in a bind against the [[Villain of the Week]], who's beating the crap out of him like nobody's business. Then he instinctively taps into his forgotten kung fu skills via [[Groin Attack]]. The next season would focus on him gradually re-learning everything he'd been taught as a child.

* [[Walking the Earth]] - [[Trope Namer]]; well, [[Pulp Fiction|indirectly]].

* [[Walking the Earth]]: [[Trope Namer]]; well, [[Pulp Fiction|indirectly]].

* [[Warrior Poet]]

* [[The Western]]