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{{quote|''"Betty has gone too far. [[And That's Terrible|Killing is wrong]]. [[Shaped Like Itself|And bad]]. There should be a new, stronger word for killing. Like... badwrong. Or... badong. Yes. [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs|Killing is badong.]] From this moment, I will stand for the opposite of killing: [[Sdrawkcab Name|Gnodab]]."''|'''The [[Chosen One]]'''}}
 
An [[Big Bad|evil man]] kills an entire family to get at a baby that is destined to become the [[Chosen One]]. The baby escapes, [[Wild Child|grows up in the wild]], fights off attackers by [[Defeat Byby Modesty|ripping their clothes into shred-bikinis]], joins a school of martial artists who loudly admit that [[Wholesome Crossdresser|they wear push-up bras]], eventually meets the evil man -- who, in the intervening years, has changed his name to Betty -- and later [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|fights a cow]]. He is also the [[Chosen One]] because his tongue has a face on it; its name is Tonguey.
 
Oh, and there are French aliens.
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A sequel, ''Kung Pow 2: Tongue of Fury'', was due to follow; it's been in [[Development Hell]] for years, though. [[Word of God]] states that Oedekerk is (still) trying to find the right Hong Kong movie(s) to lift scenes from.
 
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* [[Aluminum Christmas Trees]]: Some martial arts schools actually "trained" students they considered unworthy like Wimp Lo was "trained", and certain forms of Chinese martial arts do go to considerable lengths to toughen up the practitioner's skin (although not usually to the point of breaking a thermometer in their student's hands).
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* [[Arc Words]]: "Open your mouth!"
* [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]]: Wimp Lo, despite being laughably incompetent.
{{quote| "Face-To-Foot style, how'd ya like it?!"}}
* [[Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad]]: Played for laughs with Wimp Lo. Master Tang trained him wrong as a joke, but he's so warped from the training he thinks any strike against him is him winning. For example. When The Chosen One kicks him in the face, during their first and only fight, Wimp Lo calls it his "Face to Foot Style." Leading to this dialogue.
{{Quote|'''Wimp Lo:''' Face to foot style. How do you like it?
'''The Chosen One:''' I'm sure on some planet your style is impressive, but your weak link is: this is Earth.
'''Wimp Lo:''' Oh yeah? Then try my nuts to your fist style!
'''Ling:''' Please, stop. Wimp Lo sucks as a fighter, a child could beat him.
-later-
'''Wimp Lo:''' I'm bleeding, making me the victor.}}
* [[Balls of Steel]]: This is one of Master Pain's / Betty's powers.
** Wimp Lo apparently thinks he has this, considering his secondary style is Nuts-to-Your-Fist.
** And the Chosen One learns the hard way that, no, he does not have this power. At all. He might not even have balls after the test run.
* [[Bits of Me Keep Passing Out]]: The Chosen One is subjected to [[The Paralyzer]], and then flails his arms around wildly trying to defeat Betty.
* [[Blade Run]]: Done by the baby Chosen One during the prologue.
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: An intermission occurs midway through, where the characters tell the audience to go buy snacks. Whoa is, suprisingly, about the only character in the movie itself aware of the fourth wall, breaking it repeatedly.
{{quote| '''Whoa''': [[We Will Meet Again|We will meet many more times]]...in the sequel!}}
* [[Brick Break]]: During his training montage, the Chosen One goes to punch a board, stops inches from it, then extends his index finger. The board explodes, sending the two men behind it flying.
* [[Bullet Time]]: Used during the cow fighting scene to parody [[The Matrix]].
* [[Butt Monkey]]: "I must apologize for Wimp Lo. He is an idiot. We purposely trained him wrong, as a joke."
* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: Wimp Lo's attacks.
{{quote| '''Wimp Lo''': My nuts to your fist style!}}
** Betty also shouts "Paralyzer!" and "Another Paralyzer!" when attacking The Chosen One.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Betty had "Shirt ripper!"
* [[Character Asas Himself]]: Tonguey is credited to "Escobar Tongue."
* [[The Chosen One]]: The hero has [[No Name Given]] other than "Chosen One".
** Also, Chosen One's dog is creatively named Dog.
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** Chosen One slightly less. [[Only Sane Man|Comes across clearly]] compared with Ling and her father.
* [[Curse Cut Short]]: "I'm gonna count to three, and if I hear one more squeak, I'm gonna take his shoes and shove 'em up his-"
* [[Defeat Byby Modesty]]
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Betty, about The Chosen One: "I'll kill him. I'll kill him dead."
** "Like with, with a, rock or something. Like a, like a stone..."
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* [[Dying Declaration of Love]]: Ling says this to the Chosen One, though she does survive.
* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: The masked antagonist that Chosen One confronts early in the film.
{{quote| '''"OPEN... YOUR... MOUTH!!!!"'''}}
* [[Fighting Withwith Chucks]]: Gopher Chucks!
* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Betty.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: One of the Council's flying pyramids appears in the sky halfway though the movie.
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* [[Gag Dub]]
* [[Glove Snap]]: Happening off-screen in one scene.
{{quote| '''Master Tang''': Eeny meeny miney moe, I wonder where my glove will go...}}
* [[Groin Attack]]: One of <s>Master Pain's</s> Betty's special abilities allows him to ''[[Balls of Steel|resist]]'' shots to the groin. The Chosen One tries to see if he possesses this ability only to play the trope straight...
** In the [[Credits Gag|credits]], we see an outtake of this scene.
{{quote| '''Steve Oedekerk''': "Oooooh! OK, I'm gonna need a cup."}}
** According to the DVD commentary, this scene from Tiger and Crane Fist is what led to it being picked.
** [[Up to Eleven|Taken up to eleven]] in a deleted scene from the final fight, where the Chosen One unleashes a barrage of kicks, punches, and ''headbutts'' upon Betty's naughty bits, to [[Punch-Punch-Punch Uh-Oh|absolutely no effect]].
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* [[Harmful to Minors]]
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Chosen One's inability to find a way to remove the metal spikes protecting Betty's weak points causes him to throw a [[Inelegant Blubbering|major hissy fit.]]
{{quote| '''Chosen One:''' DON'T LOOK AT MEEE!}}
* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]
* [[Hong Kong Dub]]: Parodied. At one point, ''Dog barks'' and lays down, at which point we hear the sound.
** The poor dubbing was [[Comically Missing the Point|one thing that critics]] [[Dramatically Missing the Point|hated about the movie]].
* [[I Know Kung Faux]]: The "My-Face-to-Your-Foot style".
* [[Imperial China]]: Complete with
* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Gopher Chucks]]!
* [[Inescapable Net]]: Spoofed. The hero is trapped in a net that isn't even big enough to cover his head.
{{quote| '''Betty''': Yessss, the tiny net is a death sentence. IT'S A NET AND IT'S TINY!}}
* [[Instant Chucks]]: See above.
* [[Intermission]]: Yep, there's one here, despite that it's only an 81 minute movie. Of course, the intermission is only about 15 seconds long.
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* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Wimp Lo.
** Played for laughs when it turns out everyone else was [[Not Quite Dead]].
{{quote| '''Chosen One''': Wait...if you're all alive, then surely Wimp Lo...Wimp!<br />
*Chosen One runs over to Wimp's off-screen body, while flies buzz around*<br />
'''Chosen One''' ...oh. }}
* [[Kung Foley]]
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** "At that moment, the Chosen One learned a valuable lesson about iron claws...'''THEY HURT LIKE CRAP, MAN!'''"
*** Master Tang gets in on it with a line of audible thought:
{{quote| "OK, so here were my options - A.) Quickly duck sideways, dodge the claw, then take him out with a spinning back kick, or B.) Take the claw in the face, then roll on the ground and die. (proceeds to take claw to the face) Hmm, should've gone with A."}}
* [[Lip Lock]]: Almost always ignored for humour, except when it is occasionally followed... for humour. Example:
{{quote| '''Betty''': People say that I do things that are not...(pause) '''correct-to-do'''.}}
** Attention is drawn to this quite often. Example: Oedekerk's character looks to be shouting something with a lot of emotion and the camera zooms in on his face, but you hear him say, in a less-than-excited voice, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkxmMPCVogc "I implore you to reconsider."]
*** The words Oedekerk is really yelling: "'''''I'M SOMEBODY'S MOMMY!!'''''"
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* [[Made of Plasticine]]: [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by the narrator.
* [[Master of the Mixed Message]]: Ling is very indecisive about how much she loves the Chosen One. Even though she repeatedly flashes her breasts to him, she doesn't want him to think she's a slut.
* [[Moses in Thethe Bulrushes]]: Subverted. The first woman who finds the Chosen One as a baby lying on the side of the mountain he's rolled half-way down stops, picks him up, and coos "So cute..." before bidding him farewell as she lobs him to roll down the other half of the mountain. (Where he is eventually found, and raised... by "various rodents".)
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Inverted when Master Pain changes his name to Betty.
** [[Firefly|Man walks down the street with that name, you know he's not afraid of anything.]]
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* [[Nobody Here But Us Birds]]: "Nng, I'm just a birdie too...."
* [[No Indoor Voice]]: '''''THAT'S A LOT OF NUTS!'''''
{{quote| ''''' THAT'LL BE FOUR BUCKS BABY, YOU WANT FRIES WITH THAT?!'''''<br />
'''''HE JUST LEFT... WITH NUTS!''''' }}
* [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness]]: "Nnnng... Yes, the Council!"
{{quote| '''Mayor''': Master, what exactly ''is'' the Evil Council's plan? <br />
'''Betty''': It is ''evil''. [[Evil Laugh|Mnah hah]], It is ''so'' evil! It is a bad, bad plan that will hurt many... people...that are ''good''. I think it's great, because it's so bad. <br />
'''Mayor''': I see. I think. }}
* [[One-Scene Wonder]]:
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** Woah, the woman with one breast who comes to test the Chosen One's prowness.
* [[Overly Long Gag]]: A scene near the beginning is around two minutes of Whip-Zooms accompanied by dramatic musical stings.
{{quote| '''Ling''': "Chosen One!"<br />
'''C.O.''': "I'm coming!"<br />
(this goes on for 5 minutes) }}
* [[The Paralyzer]]: Betty's signature attack is the [[Trope Namer]].
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** If you look closely when during the scene in which Betty goes to fight one of the two old men (someone clarify his name) and during the zoom out you can see people moving tables and on the left side you can clearly see a Hooters.
** When The Chosen One goes to buy nuts, there is a shelf of Pringles behind him.
* [[Raised Byby Wolves|Raised By Various Rodents]]
* [[Real Trailer, Fake Movie]]: Sadly, ''Kung Pow II: Tongue Of Fury'' will probably never happen.
** A lot of the shots used for it are taken from deleted scenes.
* [[Reality Ensues]]: Probably the funniest example in the world. The Chosen One witnesses Betty demonstrate The Iron Shirt Technique, by letting fellow citizens whack at him with staffs to no effect. Including but repeated [[Groin Attack|shots on his groin]]. The Chosen One, then hires some locals to do the same to him....[[Tempting Fate|which]] [[Epic Fail|goes]] [[Curb Stomp Battle|about]] [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|as]] [[Amusing Injuries|well]] [[Too Dumb to Live|as]] [[Hilarity Ensues|you'd expect.]] Slightly subverted in that the beatings didn't kill him, but he is [[The Chosen One|The]] [[Plot Armor|Chosen]] [[Made of Iron|One]]. The lesson here being that just because you're the Chosen One, doesn't mean you automatically have the same powers and advantages as your destined foe.
* [[The Rival]]: Wimp Lo
* [[Rule of Cool]]: The Chosen One is able to do ''fifteen'' backflips in mid-air before landing and is able to do push-ups without touching the ground (he holds himself airborne by blowing the ground).
* [[Schizo-Tech]]: [[Played for Laughs]].
{{quote| '''Master Pain:''' "Mmmmm... lighter."}}
* [[Sequel Snark]]: It spends a good deal of time at the end of the movie showing a full trailer for the sequel, made up mostly of scenes deleted from the first movie. Naturally, no such movie exists (though an unrelated sequel ''is'' currently in [[Development Hell]]).
* [[Shirtless Scene]]
* [[Shout-Out]]: To [[The Lion King]] in the form of Mushufasa, who calls the Chosen One "Simba" before finally settling on "Chosimba One".
{{quote| '''Mushufasa:''' ''(fading back into the clouds)'' "This... is CNN."}}
** Mushufasa is also a portmanteau of [[Lion King|Mufasa]] and one of [[Mulan]] characters - dragon Mushu
* [[Sissy Villain]]: Played straight and inverted. [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy|Wimp Lo]] has a very high voice and is indeed wimpy, but [[Big Bad|Betty]] has a low voice and is pretty manly despite the [[Fluffy the Terrible|name]], and the Chosen One has his own points of sissyness.
** Early on, he is assaulted by a large masculine man who says "Your days are over, Mister" in a high-pitched lisp. The Chosen one shreds his clothes into a bikini, which causes him to wrap his arms around himself as if to protect his modesty and run off crying.
* [[Smoke Out]]: Averted when the smoke is too small and conditions are too windy to hide the ninja.
* [[Suicidal Overconfidence]]:
{{quote| Wimp Lo, you must be careful. Your confidence is disproportional to your abilities.}}
* [[The Stinger]]: No one actually recovered Master Tang after his "death" scene, and the crew just laugh as a hawk arrives to eat him. Also, save the whales.
* [[Stock Footage]]
* [[Tethercat Principle]]: A hawk is eating Master Tang. Fade to black.
{{quote| "Hey, just because you fade to black doesn't mean he stopped. He's still eating me! I promise!"}}
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: Betty has a guy with a boom box playing "Can't Touch This" and "Baby Got Back". Also when the Chosen One changes the music to "Black Betty"
{{quote| "Beware... his song... about big butts. He... beats you up while he plays it!"}}
* [[Throw It In]]: Oedekerk was originally going to have an entire cast of actors providing voices, instead of just him. Then he did a couple test scenes as Evil Betty and Master Tang and it was so fun and funny that he kept going.
* [[Translation: "Yes"]]: "______________________________________________________ I dunno."
* [[Trivially Obvious]]: "Behold the two symbols. One of them...over here. The other one...over here." That's all we ever learn about them.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Developed to fill time when the characters are still talking on the film but have run out of dialogue. Eventually leads to this exchange:
{{quote| '''Betty:''' Nnnnnng...<br />
'''Ling:''' Wee-ooh! Wee-ooh!<br />
'''Betty:''' Nnnnnng...<br />
'''Ling:''' Wee-ooh! Wee-ooh!<br />
'''Betty:''' Nnnnnng...<br />
'''Ling:''' WEE! [Kicks random mook] OOH! [Beats another one] }}
* [[Walking the Earth]]: "So on he walked... and sometimes, drove... and occasionally, partied with the desert creatures."
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** [[Aluminum Christmas Trees|Which is, apparently, what some ancient martial arts schools actually did]] to those they felt were less than worthy.
* [[Wrestler in All of Us]]: The Cow has a mean piledriver.
* [[You Fight Like a Cow|You Fight]] <s>[[Literal -Minded|Like]]</s> [[You Fight Like a Cow|A Cow]]
 
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{{quote| ''"We will meet again, Chosen One. Many more times. [[Genre Savvy|In the sequel]]."''
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{{reflist}}
[[Category:Films of the 2000s]]
[[Category:Kung Pow Enter The Fist]]
[[Category:Film]]
[[Category:Kung Pow! Enter the Fist]]
[[Category:Martial Arts Movie]]
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