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=== This film includes examples of the following tropes: ===
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: Both The Colonel and Saddest Flute are significantly more dangerous than their respective underlings.
* [[Badass]]
** [[Badass Longcoat]]: Yang wears one for the second half of the movie.
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* [[Gory Discretion Shot]]: Not all the time, but there are an awful lot of shots of blood spatters hitting screens and such. One such massacre takes place entirely in a ''dust cloud''.
* [[Groin Attack]]
* [[Guns Are Worthless]]: Throughly averted. The ninjas clearly have superhuman abilities and are able to dodge thrown knives, but they can't dodge bullets, and react to being shot just like anyone else. In the final fight the ninjas definitely have the advantage (due in large part to the panicked [[A-Team Firing]] of the cowboys), but the cowboys do manage to hold their own, especially once they bring out the [[Gatling Good|Gatling guns]]). Noteably, Yang never faces gun-wielding opponents head-on; he either catches them by surprise, or fights while concealed inside a dust cloud or in darkness.
* [[Heroes Want Redheads]]
* [[Hitman with a Heart]]: Yang.
* [[Hope Sprouts Eternal]]: There's definitely something going on with the flower garden in the desert.
* [[Human Shield]]: Used primarily by Yang
* [[Implacable Man]]:
** Yang
** The Sad Flutes, who seem to have an inexhaustible supply of assassins hunting Yang to every corner of the world.
* [[Improvised Weapon]]: In spades.
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Forms the premise of the film, although it is averted in the case of {{spoiler|Lynne's brother.}}
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* [[Scars Are Forever]]
* [[Single-Stroke Battle]]: All the sword fights are like this, the most traditional being the one at the beginning where Yang becomes The Greatest Swordsman in the World by killing The Greatest Swordsman in the World. The only two prolonged fights with any degree of [[Flynning]] are the ones at the end between Lynne and the Colonel, and between Yang and Saddest Flute (which appears to be a training flashback substituted in place of their actual final battle).
* [[Soft
* [[Stepping Stone Sword]]
* [[Stuff Blowing Up]]: "We only have 100 sticks of dynamite"
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