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* [[Drowning Pit]]: The elevator in Lo Pan's lair.
* [[Elemental Embodiment]]: Thunder, Lighting and Rain.
* [[The End - Oror Is It?]]: As Jack Burton drives off, we see that one of David Lo Pan's monsters is hitching a ride under his truck.
* [[Evil Cripple]]: Lo Pan in his "old man" form, restricted to a wheelchair.
* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: Egg Shen invokes this trope when he and Jack are beneath Chinatown.
{{quote| '''Jack:''' That is ''not'' water.<br />
'''Egg:''' Black blood of the earth.<br />
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* [[Femme Fatalons]]: David Lo Pan can grow these at will.
* [[Finger-Snap Lighter]]
* [[Firing in Thethe Air Aa Lot]]: Jack tries it and [[Reality Ensues]], with bits of the ceiling falling on his head and knocking him out.
* [[Friendly Local Chinatown]]
* [[Good Hair, Evil Hair]]: David Lo Pan's long wispy beard definitely qualifies as Evil Hair.
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* [[Large Ham]]: Basically everyone expecially Jack himself. The villains are also this.
* [[Law of Inverse Recoil]]: Subversion when Jack fires a machine pistol on full automatic.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: [[Halloween (Filmfilm)|Compared]] [[The Thing (Filmfilm)|to]] [[Escape Fromfrom New York (Film)|Carpenters]] [[Prince of Darkness (Film)|other]] [[They Live (Film)|works]].
* [[Load-Bearing Boss]]: When Jack finally defeats Lo Pan, his lair starts to fall apart.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Gracie Law is a lawyer.
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* [[Nice Hat]]: Lo Pan has an ''extremely'' nice hat.
* [[No Man of Woman Born]]: Lo Pan has to marry and then sacrifice a green-eyed woman to return to human form, but he has to stay married to one in order to regain his full power. The solution: [[Tenchi Solution|Marry two women and sacrifice one of them.]]
* [[Not Withwith the Safety On, You Won't]]
* [[Oculothorax]]: A Beholder-like monster shows up, to Jack's horror. "What it sees, Lo Pan sees." Naturally, he tries shooting it.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Jack and company after the knife he throws at Lo Pan misses.
* [[Open the Door Andand See All Thethe People]]: Jack Burton opens a door and sees a mob of angry-looking mooks on the other side.
* [[PG Explosives]]: The explosives that Egg Shen uses to blow up multiple [[Mook|Mooks]].
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: Jack Burton, even though he's supposed to be [[The Hero]].
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* [[Sunglasses At Night]]: Not exactly night, but barely an hour before it, we see Jack Burton at the start of the film, driving a truck with sunglasses on well after the sun has gone down.
* [[Supporting Protagonist]]: As mentioned by [[Word of God]].
* [[Tap Onon the Head]]: Wang and Eddie to several of Lo Pan's guards, and Jack Burton does it to himself.
* [[Tennis Boss]]: Lo Pan.
* [[Theme Naming]]: The Three Storms: Thunder, Lighting and Rain.
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* [[Throat Light]]: David Lo Pan
* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: Wang Chi vs. Rain.
* [[The Triads and Thethe Tongs]]: The Wing Kong and Chang Sing street gangs are explicitly referred to as "Fighting Tongs".
* [[Underside Ride]]: The ending shows the hero happily driving away, only for a last minute [[Jump Scare]] revealing a monster hiding under his semi trailer.
* [[The Unmasqued World]]: The first scene (which is chronologically the last scene) implies that the outside world noticed the fight with Lo Pan and wants answers.
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