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* The whole "Strength and Discipline" trick has a very interesting discussion on [[Mulan/Headscratchers|the movie's Headscratchers page]]. Essentially, not only are the weights Strength and Discipline needed to climb, but without actual strength and discipline, it'd be impossible to figure out the trick and reach the top.

** Towards the end of the movie, {{spoiler|Mulan's secret is revealed. Before Shang almost kills her, she says "I did it to save my father."}} What makes this line so meaningful to Shang is that {{spoiler|he recently lost his ''own'' father in battle}}. This might have been an intentional low blow to help gain sympathy from Shang.

** It's very easy to dismiss the subplot involving Cri-Kee in Mulan as simple [[Rule of Funny]]—everyone believed he was lucky when he truly wasn't, thus explaining why so much went wrong when people depended on him for luck; case in point, Mulan's session with the matchmaker. But unless Grandma was really lucky on her own, there's no way she could have made it across that road without Cri-Kee's luck. If Cri-Kee really IS lucky, though, why did he cause so much trouble with the matchmaker? Sure, he may have just been trying to escape, or hated being taken advantage of, or he was just a little troublemaker, or because he believed himself unlucky the thought of him being there to help Mulan terrified him. But then the answer comes: if Mulan had passed the matchmaker's assessment, she would have become "a perfect porcelain doll", married some rich man her parents chose for her... and then all of China would have fallen to the Huns, and she would never have proven she could bring honor by being the strong, independent woman she was (not to mention find a fine man all on her own, thank you). Therefore, even though it didn't feel like it to her at the time, being humiliated before the matchmaker was the ''luckiest'' thing that could ever have happened, for her or for China.

** Blink and you'll miss it, but Mushu agrees to go with Mulan to {{spoiler|stop the surviving Huns reaching China}} after Cri-Kee gives him a look and a nod. [[Pinocchio|The cricket's acting as his conscience.]] Huh.