Royal Warriors and Royal Warriors

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Royal Warriors is a 1985 Hong Kong Martial Arts Movie starring Michelle Yeoh , Hiroyuki Sanada , and Michael Wong ( Legacy of Rage ). It was one of Yeoh's earliest films, released right after Yes, Madam , and the second in the In the Line of Duty series, even though Yeoh plays a different character (with the same personality and attitude). Michelle Yip (Michelle Yeoh) is an off-duty Hong Kong police officer who just returned home from a trip in Japan, but her flight is hijacked by a madman, where she ends up thwarting his assault thanks to assistance from Peter Yamamoto (Hiroyuki Sanada), a Japanese Interpol agent returning to his wife and daughter in Hong Kong, and Michael (Michael Wong), a sky marshal who is quickly smitten by Michelle. But unfortunately for them, the hijacker is just one of four villains and murderers - a band of former Vietnam veterans, who had turned to a life of crime after the war, and with one of them dead, the others will tear Hong Kong apart to have Michelle, Peter and Michael killed. Royal Warriors provides examples of: Avenging the Villain : The criminals’ reason for trying to kill Peter, Michelle and Michael is to avenge their friend, the hijacker on the airplane, who died because the three protagonists interfered with his hijacking and got him killed. Talk about Moral Myopia … Badass Bystander : Subverted. During the nightclub shootout, Bull had run out of bullets for his Uzi, and Michelle thinks it’s a good time to Leap and Fire back. However, another bystander behind her thought she is one of the bad guys, and trips her, nearly causing Michelle her life. Belated Love Epiphany : Michelle ignores Michael’s advances and often thinks of him as too childish, and doesn’t pay much attention to him because he tends to speak up at the most inappropriate moments. She suddenly realize how much she misses Michael when he dies . Blood Knight : The four ex-veterans, who enjoys killing a little too much, and won’t hesitate to gun down civilians and bystanders to kill Michael, Michelle and Peter. Heck, their Accidental Murder of Peter’s wife and child only drives them to becoming more bloodthirsty and murderous than anything! Buried Alive : One of the killers, Bull, tries to do this to Peter using an excavator. But Michelle attacks him and stops him before he can do so. By the Hair : In the fight against the hijacker, Michelle gets temporarily subdued when her opponent grabs a fistful of her hair. But just temporarily. Happens to Michelle again (twice!) in the nightclub scene, when Bull sneaks upon her and grabs her hair during fighting up close. Car Bomb : The villains attempt to use this to assassinate Peter, but only succeeds in blowing up his car containing his wife and daughter . Casanova Wannabe : Michael tries hooking up with Michelle when they first meet on their flight, only to continuously bumble in her way and embarrass himself. Although once he helps Michelle fight off the hijackers they started hanging out. And he continues being this trope, trying to constantly flirt with Michelle at the wrong times, sending her flowers and love letters, and trying to set her up on dates, even when at inappropriate moments ( like, say, after Peter's family died ? Or after a brutal shootout in public which more than a dozen innocents gets killed?). Chainsaw Good : Bandana tries to kill Michelle with a chainsaw in the final battle, even managing to draw the blade damn near to Michelle’s jugular . She manage to throw him off in the last minute though, and relive him of this weapon after it got Left Stuck After Attack . Cheerful Child : Peter’s daughter, who gets several scenes of her bonding with her dad and happily playing with the giant stuffed toy Peter got for her. There's even a rather adorable scene of her crying for her dad to "don't leave me and mommy again" when Peter tries leaving, only for him to kiss her and assure her that he will be back for dinner. Say, I wonder is there a reason for this movie to show us … aw damn, I *had* to ask, didn’t I ? Chronic Hero Syndrome : Michelle in her first action scene doesn’t have a reason to save the man being chased by katana-swinging Yakuza mooks. Except she just wants to. In fact, she practically breathes this trope the entire movie. Continuous Decompression : The hijacker in the airplane battle dies this way when Michelle causes his head to go through an open window, although unlike most examples of this trope he didn’t get his entire body sucked out of the window (only his head sticks out, his body gets stuck from the shoulder, but the external cold air is enough to suffocate him). Deadly Dodging : During the fight against arm dealers, Peter manage to trick one of them into smashing his partner’s gut with a badly-timed swing of a sledgehammer. Desecrating the Dead : Bandana, after failing to kill Michael personally since Michael choose the way of Better to Die than Be Killed , instead decide to dig out his casket ( and wrap it in bundles of dy