![]() ![]() Foe Yay: Expect heroes and villains to be be obsessed with defeating each others, to the point that it becomes the raison d'etre of their life.Don't worry, even if you can't win against him or her, your disciple(s) will take care of the matter. Evil Former Friend: Having one seems to be part of being a shīfu.Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: Pretty much the whole point.Eunuchs Are Evil: And if you're in a fantasy story, expect him to be an Evil Sorcerer as well.Dueling Dojos: Technically, duelling guǎn,since we're in China.The Dark Arts: Any respectable martial arts school will have a sub-style that its students aren't meant to learn, because it will lead them toward.Don't expect them to surrender anything though. Dark Action Girl: And it would be the challenge for the heroes to tame them.Conflicting Loyalty: Any character with any loyalty at all, can expect to be tested.Chick Magnet: 99% of the male leads of these stories.Expect them to kill people in a fit of rage, and then lament upon it when their clarity return. Byronic Hero: Some stories have "heroes" with barely-controlled vices.Arrogant Kung Fu Guy: Pretty much a standard feature.Ambition Is Evil: One of the stock aesops, especially in stories that deconstructs To Be a Master.Alas, Poor Villain: One of the side effect of having to put an end to a very powerful villain is the loss of a great talent in the world.A God Am I: Some villains will behave like this.Academy of Evil: If the story leans heavily toward martial-artists, expect one or more of it to exist in the settings.For the 2011 movie titled Wu Xia, see Swordsmen. Modern works often incorporate outside themes and ideas, allowing the genre to develop, and in turn wǔxiá themes and visual styles have strongly influenced Western media, especially in cinema.Ĭompare High Fantasy, Heroic Fantasy, and Swashbuckler. Wulin is basically a majestic way of saying "The World of Warriors." In modern Chinese, perhaps as a result of these connotations of a separate world with its own rules, the term jianghu has taken on other meanings, including the underworld or criminal gangs.Ī more romantic term known as Wulin (武林 - literally "Warrior's Forests") is used when one wants to talk specifically about the world of martial artists and warriors specifically, divorced from the ugly connotations of criminality that jianghu has come to embody. It is implicit that law and government are unjust, ineffective and/or corrupt, requiring the xia to settle differences by force moderated only by their chivalrous code, and often forcing them to live as outlaws despite their noble characters. The best wuxia writers draw a vivid picture of the intricate relationships of honour, loyalty, love and hate between individuals and between communities in this milieu. The Jianghu is a "shared universe", populated by martial-artists and monks, wandering knights and beautiful princesses, thieves and beggars, priests and healers, merchants and craftsmen. Notable for Melodrama, spectacular swordplay, and high-flying martial arts.Īlthough some wuxia stories are set in modern times, or even the future, most take place in the "Martial Arts World" of Jiānghú (江湖 - literally "rivers and lakes") a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Imperial China. One of the oldest genres in Chinese literature, wǔxiá (武侠 - literally "martial-arts chivalry" or "martial arts heroes", and pronounced roughly woo-seeah in Mandarin) stories are tall tales of honourable warriors (侠 xiá) fighting against evil, whether it be an individual villain, or a corrupt government. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. ![]() THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples.Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted.Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so. Before making a single edit, Tropedia EXPECTS our site policy and manual of style to be followed. ![]()
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