Romance of the Three Kingdoms (novel): Difference between revisions

** Zhurong is the only female character to actually fight. She manages to capture a couple of Shu generals, then gets captured herself several times, but compared to the other female characters (who sometimes regard ''themselves'' as [[Disposable Woman|disposable]]) she does pretty well.

*** Lady Wang, Zhao Ang's wife, also fought, both historically (in fact, she was the only woman to actually historically be recorded as fighting in that period, when she took up arms and attempted to murder Ma Chao after he slaughtered her husband) and in the novel, though that part's far less prominent.

* [[An Aesop]]: The first part of ''Romance'' that any Chinese-language elementary student will learn in school is the "Seven Steps Poem", a story about Cao Cao's successor Cao Pi and his more popular son Cao Zhi. It's often presented as an [[Anvilicious]] fable about sibling rivalry.

* [[Annoying Arrows]]: Guan Yu and Xiahou Dun - but [[Averted]] by the large number of characters who actually ''do'' get killed by arrows. And while even Guan Yu plays this trope straight most of the time, he does get knocked off his horse by an arrow, requiring extensive surgery to heal the wound.

* ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'': It turns out that the invincible Hokuto Shinken School of Martial Art has three brother schools that inherit the names of the Sun, Cao and Liu factions that their ancestors served and protected in the Three Kingdoms period, and [[Fist of the Blue Sky]] is the story of their rivalry in 1935 Shanghai.

* ''[[Ikki Tousen]]'' (''Extremely'' loosely based, seeing as it has the major characters reincarnated as top-heavy [[Panty Fighter]] schoolgirls. However, the story exists in-universe and thus some of the plot revolves around this fact.)

* Anime with [[Mamoru Miyano]] as main star:

** ''[[Koutetsu Sangokushi]]'': With Wu as the main kingdom, and have the [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys]] ratio dialled [[Up to Eleven]]. Main star: Lu Xun (Rikuson).