Tai Chi Master
Tai Chi Master (also known as Twin Warriors) is a 1993 martial arts films starring Jet Li and Michelle Yeoh.
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Tropes used in Tai Chi Master include:
- Action Girl: Siu, Li, and even the Governor's niece.
- Adorkable: Junbao may be a Badass, but he's pretty naive on worldly matters for the first half of the movie.
- Badass: Tianbo, Junbao, the monks.
- Bad Boss: Tianbo after his Face Heel Turn. He applies Training from Hell which actually kills his soldiers and uses them as human missiles against Junbao in their final battle. They eventually desert him.
- Bare-Fisted Monk
- Chaste Hero: Junbao during the first half of the movie was actually scared of touching Siu. He was raised to be a monk, so this is justifiable.
- Chekhov's Gun: The scroll.
- Combat Medic: The rebels have one, who pretends to be a kooky fortuneteller.
- Counter Attack: Just look at the title.
- Crapsack World: The government is corrupt, the peasants will kill you if offered money... even in the temple there were bullies.
- Curb Stomp Battle: Junbao's fights after developing Tai Chi becomes this.
- Deadly Counter: Junbao does this after developing Tai Chi, most notably against Tienbo.
- Evil Former Friend
- Face Heel Turn: Tienbo.
- Heroic BSOD: Junbao has a BIG one.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Tianbo. Turns into full-on Jerkass after his Face Heel Turn.
- La Résistance
- Love Interest: The two women seem to be this for our protagonists. However only Siu actually is; Li gets killed for refusing to be Tienbo's concubine. They're not specifically shown to have gotten together, though.
- Made of Iron: Junbao and Tianbo. A group of hired guards beat them up at one point. Their reaction? Pick the coins on the ground.
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- Martial Pacifist: Junbao, especially after his powerup.
- Meaningful Name: Junbao was renamed Zhang Sanfeng by the doctor who tried to treat his madness. Sanfeng was explained in-movie as meaning "3-times crazy". Junbao later mistook the Feng part to be prosperity.
- Mid-Season Upgrade: or rather mid-movie upgrade.
- Training Montage: Several times.
- The Mole: Tienbo. Not.
- Mood Whiplash: The movie feels like a comedy for the first half; afterwards... It Got Worse.
- This troper thinks watching Junbao as a crazy man was still pretty funny. Sad, but funny.
- Wuxia
- Wire Fu