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* [[Break the Cutie]]: Qing, who starts the movie as a hopeful young bride-to-be and is slowly broken by the corruption around her. {{spoiler|[[Kill the Cutie|Then she's poisoned.]]}}
* [[Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl]]: Wu Luan and Qing, who deconstruct this as the original play does.
* [[The Chessmaster]]: The empress.
* [[Conspicuous CG]]: Some of the blood effects look a little out of place.
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* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: The general response to the empress.
* [[The Good King]]: Wu Luan's father is implied to have been this.
* [[Hot -Blooded]]: Yin Sun, the Laertes [[Expy]].
* [[Hot Mom]]: The empress, who is four years younger than Wu Luan. Justified in that she is his stepmother and was engaged to him before marrying his father.
* [[The Ingenue]]: Qing.
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* [[Waif Fu]]: A wuxia film with Zhang Ziyi is almost guaranteed to have this.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: The empress admonishes Wu Luan more than once when he says or does something stupid that's going to get him killed.
* [[WomaninWoman in Black]]: The empress wears either black or red for most of the film. Black is worn particularly in scenes where she's quietly scaring the crap out of everybody.
* [[Woman in White]]: The empress at the beginning of the film and her first on-screen meeting with Wu Luan. This is an emphasis of her lost childish innocence and purity.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: