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Mulan / Disney

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Mulan / Disney	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })This entry is about the Disney animated film. For other works by the same name, see Mulan.Mulan is an animated film released in 1998, as the 36th film on the Disney Animated Canon. It was inspired by the Ancient Chinese folk legend of Hua Mulan (花木蘭).note Disney chose to romanize the heroine's name as Fa Mulan, in effect giving her family name the typical Cantonese pronunciation, but her personal name the normal Mandarin one. The film deals with Huns invading Imperial China, resulting in every Chinese family receiving a conscription order requiring one male from their household to serve in the army. The title character, Fa Mulan (Ming-Na Wen), has no brothers, but she doesn't want her aging veteran father to go to war again, so she steals his sword and armor, cuts her hair, and goes in his place, disguised as a man.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })As Mulan is the only lineage of the Fa family, her ancestors order the disgraced guardian Mushu (Eddie Murphy), who is small and has a penchant for comedy, to send the Great Stone Dragon to fetch Mulan home safely, but Mushu accidentally breaks the Stone Dragon's statue. He then goes in his place, but rather than fetching Mulan, hopes to make her a war hero and bring himself to glory.Under the assumed name "Fa Ping", Mulan undergoes many hardships in basic training, but eventually wins the respect and friendship of her fellow soldiers, and marches with her company to confront the invading Huns in a cliff-top battle.It was followed by a Direct-to-Video sequel in 2004, Mulan II. An upcoming live-action version is set to be released in 2020. A version of Mulan has also appeared in the live-action TV show Once Upon a Time, (which is also produced by the Disney empire) where she is played by Jamie Chung.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })
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Mulan / Disney / int_11e0d645	type	Arc Symbol
Mulan / Disney / int_11e0d645	comment	Arc Symbol: Reflections.
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Mulan / Disney / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Mulan / Disney / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: The film's directors (Tony Bancroft & Barry Cook) are animated as the two guards in the fireworks tower.
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Mulan / Disney / int_135b9977	type	Bloodless Carnage
Mulan / Disney / int_135b9977	comment	Bloodless Carnage: The movie manages to avoid fields of blood even though an entire army was massacred and a village destroyed and burnt by having the devastation seen only after a layer of snow has covered everything. Despite getting beaten to a pulp by Shan Yu, Shang isn't even bruised. The way Shan Yu is disposed of would have seen the rocket ripping him apart and ash and bloody/charred gibs raining over a small part of the Imperial City.
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Mulan / Disney / int_1397e10d	type	Rage Against the Reflection
Mulan / Disney / int_1397e10d	comment	Rage Against the Reflection: A variation, as no mirrors are broken or water splashed — it's a shiny, shiny sword. Reflections are a motif in the movie — the pond at her house, the multiple ones in the ancestors' shrine (where she wipes off her makeup), the song, her helmet (which she throws to the ground), and the iconic sword.
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Mulan / Disney / int_141f6a73	type	Artistic License â€“ Martial Arts
Mulan / Disney / int_141f6a73	comment	Artistic License – Martial Arts: During the "I'll Make a Man Out of You" sequence they do deeds worthy of Bruce Lee. Take a look at when Mulan kicks Shang. She pivots on her toe — in martial arts, you typically pivot on the ball of your foot.
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Mulan / Disney / int_1420a9b8	type	Scenery Censor
Mulan / Disney / int_1420a9b8	comment	During the bathing scene, Mulan is shown undressing behind the foliage that conveniently only goes up to her shoulders. When she's in the water, she keeps her shoulders above the water while the guys often have it up to their waist. When dozens of naked soldier run past Mulan, they're also only seen from the waist up.
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Mulan / Disney / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Mulan / Disney / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Mulan has a mild one after her cover is blown and she is abandoned by the army.
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Mulan / Disney / int_14aa871a	type	Improvised Zipline
Mulan / Disney / int_14aa871a	comment	Improvised Zipline: Mulan uses a string of lanterns to zip down from the roof of the Imperial Palace.
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Mulan / Disney / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Mulan / Disney / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: This film, unlike most Disney movies, thoroughly addresses the subject of war and the grim consequences thereof, including the implied large-scale murder of the innocent and the grieving family members of those killed. This is softened somewhat through frequent comic relief. Mulan's strategic avalanche-triggering makes her personally responsible for the deaths of hundreds of men, something that cannot be said about any other Disney Princess. Shan Yu may also be the only Disney character to actually hit a real person with a sword, using the sharp edge, on-screen.
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Mulan / Disney / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Mulan / Disney / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: After the Imperial Army leave with the general, Shang appears to the recruits during their fight ("Soldiers!"). They all point at Mulan and say, "He started it!" Sort of like a fight in a school interrupted by a teacher.
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Mulan / Disney / int_151bc113	type	Cover Identity Anomaly
Mulan / Disney / int_151bc113	comment	Cover Identity Anomaly: Mulan does this when asked her name. Her family name (which she must use as part of the cover story) is Fa, but she hasn't thought of a personal name, leading to a very awkward conversation where Mushu tries to secretly help her come up with a name.
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Mulan / Disney / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Mulan / Disney / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: When preparing Mulan to see the matchmaker, her grandmother sings: Later, after narrowly escaping the lake with her disguise intact:
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Mulan / Disney / int_15eebf59	type	Scene of Wonder
Mulan / Disney / int_15eebf59	comment	Scene of Wonder: Immediately following the number "A Girl Worth Fighting For," all the soldiers fall silent as they arrive at the decimated village. They even stop before singing the last note of the song to stare in shock and horror. This is taken even further when they come across the fallen troops that came before them.
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Mulan / Disney / int_17122b19	type	Exactly What I Aimed At
Mulan / Disney / int_17122b19	comment	Exactly What I Aimed At: Instead of shooting at Shan Yu and killing only him, Mulan shoots at a mountaintop and creates an avalanche that wipes out most of his army, turning what could have been a rout for the Hun force into a victory for the Chinese.
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Mulan / Disney / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Mulan / Disney / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: The Chinese emperor. Even when he's not dispensing sage king wisdom, he has his moments with some witty one liners.
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Mulan / Disney / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Mulan / Disney / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Downplayed. Shang is the captain of the soldiers, but he is also an academy student who, although highly trained, hasn't exactly been in a lot of actual battles. So, when he fights Shan Yu, who is twice his body weight, he gets his butt kicked, but still manages to land a few good hits on the Hun in the process.
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Mulan / Disney / int_17a45ff5	type	Misplaced Wildlife
Mulan / Disney / int_17a45ff5	comment	Misplaced Wildlife: Downplayed. In one scene, Mushu rides a panda - an animal that is native to China, but southern China, not the northern border where the scene takes place.
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Mulan / Disney / int_189841a6	type	Cheated Angle
Mulan / Disney / int_189841a6	comment	Cheated Angle: The topknots on Shang and Mulan are cheated up slightly to keep them visible even when they would otherwise be blocked in a front angle view.
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Mulan / Disney / int_191babbc	type	Trampled Underfoot
Mulan / Disney / int_191babbc	comment	Trampled Underfoot: Mulan's horse Khan does this to Mushu either because he appears to be a snake, or possibly because Mushu kept calling the horse a cow.
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Mulan / Disney / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Mulan / Disney / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: The teaser trailer makes the film seem more like an action-adventure drama. The movie itself turns out to be a kids' musical with bits of action. Surprisingly, it doesn't shy from the fact that Mulan is going to ''war''.
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Mulan / Disney / int_1b3b48f3	type	David Versus Goliath
Mulan / Disney / int_1b3b48f3	comment	David vs. Goliath: Shang is a tall and well-built man but Shan Yu is larger and stronger. Goliath wins that round. Mulan, who is even more of a David in comparison, wins by refusing to fight him on his terms.
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Mulan / Disney / int_1b4e322c	type	MrFanservice
Mulan / Disney / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice Captain Shang trains without a shirt. Ping is also one In-Universe, according to Yao:
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Mulan / Disney / int_1b5fa24a	type	The Brute
Mulan / Disney / int_1b5fa24a	comment	The Brute: All but a few of the Huns are huge. Some look Lean and Mean.
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Mulan / Disney / int_1bb2c500	type	TheHorde
Mulan / Disney / int_1bb2c500	comment	The Horde: The Huns pour into China from over the Great Wall to rampage and raze and generally bring out the end of the Chinese way of life. All of them look sinister.
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Mulan / Disney / int_1ca3c244	type	Who Are You?
Mulan / Disney / int_1ca3c244	comment	Who Are You?: Mushu heads over to the fireworks area during the final battle, and is asked by the guards there, "Who are you?" He responds, "Your worst nightmare," and they flee.
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Mulan / Disney / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
Mulan / Disney / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: Averted; Shan Yu is one of the more well-known Disney Villains to never have gotten one. One of the things the animators were going for with Shan Yu was to make him a man of few words and let his actions carry the character. Giving him a song would have derailed that.
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Mulan / Disney / int_1d9a2764	type	Reality Ensues
Mulan / Disney / int_1d9a2764	comment	Reality Ensues: The Fa ancestors predict that although Mulan's actions were of good intentions, consequences are nonetheless riding on those actions: should she be discovered and/or killed, it could bring shame to her household, her family lineage will be cut off, and they could lose their land.
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Mulan / Disney / int_1dfd19f9	type	PapaWolf
Mulan / Disney / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: The Emperor is this to Imperial China. He calls them "my children". The ancestors of the Fa family send supernatural guardians to aid their descendants.
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Mulan / Disney / int_1e0c10c5	type	Laugh of Love
Mulan / Disney / int_1e0c10c5	comment	Laugh of Love: Invoked and exploited when Yao, Ling, and Chien-Po disguise themselves as concubines and giggle while approaching Shan-Yu's guards in order to take them out.
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Mulan / Disney / int_1e4a1e0e	type	I Owe You My Life
Mulan / Disney / int_1e4a1e0e	comment	I Owe You My Life: Shang to Mulan. This life-debt becomes immediately useful when Mulan is found out, and the punishment for a woman joining the army is death. Instead of killing her, Shang lets her go free. In the next scene, we're shown that he did leave her a good amount of provisions and her horse, which she promptly rides back into town after learning the Huns are alive.
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Mulan / Disney / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Mulan / Disney / int_1e7c47ab	comment	A Stealth Pun "A girl can bring her family great honor in one way/by striking a good match." Both of Mulan's victories involved firepower.
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Mulan / Disney / int_1f862cf	type	Dare to Be Badass
Mulan / Disney / int_1f862cf	comment	Dare to Be Badass: The song "I'll Make A Man Out Of You". The chorus is not only this, but practically a Badass Creed.
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Mulan / Disney / int_215f0830	type	Big Shadow, Little Creature
Mulan / Disney / int_215f0830	comment	Big Shadow, Little Creature: During his salvation sermon, Mushu casts a towering shadow due to Cri-Kee fanning a small flame nearby. The illusion is broken when he steps out from behind a rock, and his true size is lampshaded by Mulan: "You're...tiny."
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Mulan / Disney / int_21f3e32e	type	Chekhov's Boomerang
Mulan / Disney / int_21f3e32e	comment	Chekhov's Boomerang: Arrows. One is used in the pole while the recruits are training, and Mulan retrieving it inspires the others to pass their training. Then Shang's troops are attacked by Huns with arrows (including flaming ones) before the full army appears. Finally, Mulan and Shang are rescued from the avalanche with an arrow tied to a rope.
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Mulan / Disney / int_2232f10e	type	Hero's Muse
Mulan / Disney / int_2232f10e	comment	Hero's Muse: The soldiers discuss this trope in the song "A Girl Worth Fighting For".
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Mulan / Disney / int_2289f1be	type	Spit Shine
Mulan / Disney / int_2289f1be	comment	Spit Shine: Mushu tries shining up Mulan's helmet to cheer her out of her Heroic BSoD. It doesn't work.
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Mulan / Disney / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
Mulan / Disney / int_22a60f6a	comment	Nepotism: Chi-Fu heavily implies to Shang that he believes the latter only earned the title of Captain because his father is Imperial General.
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Mulan / Disney / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Mulan / Disney / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: It's a good thing Mulan got prepared within hours to see the matchmaker. It allows her to disguise herself and her friends as concubines to save the emperor.
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Mulan / Disney / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Mulan / Disney / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: A reprise of "Make A Man Out Of You" plays with unabashed glee while Mulan's friends are getting tarted up in full concubine drag to infiltrate the palace. Later, all four of them use the combat moves they were shown learning during that musical number against the Huns... while still dressed as women.
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Mulan / Disney / int_23c132d9	type	Beneath Suspicion
Mulan / Disney / int_23c132d9	comment	Beneath Suspicion: Mulan takes advantage of the culture's gender politics by posing herself and her friends as concubines.
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Mulan / Disney / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Mulan / Disney / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Shan Yu versus Shang is brutal. Although Shang puts up a good fight, and his training pays off, by the end of it he's semiconscious before being disabled by Shan Yu. When Mulan lures Shan Yu away, Shang tries to get up but can't.
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Mulan / Disney / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Mulan / Disney / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: The Forbidden City (constructed during the Ming dynasty) is featured prominently in the finale, but the Huns were already integrated into Chinese society by the time of the Northern Wei. The use of fireworks suggests the Sui dynasty but their style of dress suggests a later date. Goofy Print Underwear with what appears to be an elastic waistband, and a modern toothbrush and toothpaste tube. Ling makes an inexplicable reference to "cutting gym [class]," something few teenagers will start doing until the government-sponsored district schools of the Ming dynasty hundreds of years later (for those families which could afford it, which were few). See this article for more on historical/cultural accuracy, which is forced to conclude that Mulan is set in "an imaginary dynasty in an imaginary part of China, based on real customs and lands".
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Mulan / Disney / int_2629c82a	type	Breaking the Glass Ceiling
Mulan / Disney / int_2629c82a	comment	Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Mulan at the end is asked by the Chinese emperor to join his council. It's downplayed because she refuses the offer because she wants to go home, but even the job offer itself is groundbreaking because up until now the council was reserved for men.
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Mulan / Disney / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Mulan / Disney / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: When walking through the ruins of a raided village, a single doll is found, as a G-rated signal that there were children killed here.
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Mulan / Disney / int_27636a1	type	Hellish Horse
Mulan / Disney / int_27636a1	comment	Hellish Horse: The horses used by the Huns have red eyes and fangs.
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Mulan / Disney / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
Mulan / Disney / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Shang despairs over Ping more than the rest of his raw recruits but gradually comes to respect "him" as he proves himself. After the defeat of the Huns, he unthaws enough to offer his unconditional trust, but freezes again when the deception is revealed. When Mulan shows her courage and nobility — as herself this time — he falls for her but Cannot Spit It Out until given some unsubtle prompting by the emperor.
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Mulan / Disney / int_28e69c98	type	Debt Detester
Mulan / Disney / int_28e69c98	comment	Debt Detester: Shang spares Mulan's life after she dishonors the Chinese army in return for her saving his life during the Hun attack.
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Mulan / Disney / int_28f852ea	type	Wholesome Crossdresser
Mulan / Disney / int_28f852ea	comment	Wholesome Crossdresser: Mulan pretends to be a man so she can save her father. Mulan's three friends make "Concubines." "Ugly Concubines."
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Mulan / Disney / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Mulan / Disney / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Mulan's male alias, "Ping", makes his full name "Hua Ping" (花瓶), which is Chinese for "flower vase" but also a figurative term for someone who is "just a pretty face" or, in other words, pretty but useless. Another way of using the term is not derogatory, instead using it to refer to women who are required for a position to be pretty without considering capability. "Hua Ping" is also slang for "effeminate or homosexual man." Chi Fu's name is a pun on the Chinese word for "to bully." Chien Po's chant while trying to calm Yao down is a Buddhist prayer. "Hayabusa" is Japanese for falcon, making this a case of Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
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Mulan / Disney / int_29a9366f	type	Mermaid Arc Emergence
Mulan / Disney / int_29a9366f	comment	Mermaid Arc Emergence: Mulan throws her wet hair in a backward arc when she emerges from the water while she's bathing.
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Mulan / Disney / int_2a090d00	type	LampshadeHanging
Mulan / Disney / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Yao asks, "Is she allowed to do that?" when Mulan hugs the Emperor at the end. Strictly speaking, no, she is absolutely not. The Emperor of feudal China was seen as a semi-divine personage, and touching him without permission was punishable by death.
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Mulan / Disney / int_2ae277ab	type	Mauve Shirt
Mulan / Disney / int_2ae277ab	comment	Mauve Shirt: Shang's father gets killed, along with his Red Shirt army. He was previously established as a Reasonable Authority Figure and a loving father. Shang's shock and grief carries a lot of weight when Chien Po finds General Li's helmet.
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Mulan / Disney / int_2ccdff6c	type	Mortal Wound Reveal
Mulan / Disney / int_2ccdff6c	comment	Mortal Wound Reveal: Mulan is revealed to be injured after the initial defeat of the Big Bad, but not mortally so. Although, given she passed out from blood loss and shock, it could have been had she not received medical attention.
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Mulan / Disney / int_2d2e3275	type	Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!
Mulan / Disney / int_2d2e3275	comment	Attack! Attack... Retreat! Retreat!: After seeing Mulan rush towards Shan Yu with the last cannon, the Gang of Three follow her lead and also gallantly charge into battle... until they notice the gigantic avalanche that Mulan's cannon has created and immediately flee back the other way.
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Mulan / Disney / int_2fd1d68a	type	Cool-Down Hug
Mulan / Disney / int_2fd1d68a	comment	Cooldown Hug: Chien Po, on the first occasion when "Ping" ticks off Yao, picks up Yao and guides him in a calming chant.
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Mulan / Disney / int_308a5ff0	type	Strange Minds Think Alike
Mulan / Disney / int_308a5ff0	comment	Strange Minds Think Alike: Both Fa Zhou and the emperor compare Mulan to "the rarest and most beautiful flower of all." (Mulan translates to wood-flower or magnolia) On a more comedic note: Mushu tells Mulan to punch someone because it's the man's version of saying hello. After she reluctantly punches Yao, Chien-Po says, "Look, Yao, you've made a friend!"
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Mulan / Disney / int_31c4280	type	Conscription
Mulan / Disney / int_31c4280	comment	Conscription: Sets the main plot in motion. A decree goes out that every household in the region must provide at least one man to serve in the army for the war with the Huns. Since the only man in the Fa household is Mulan's elderly father, for whom going to war would be a death sentence, Mulan disguises herself as a man and goes in his stead.
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Mulan / Disney / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Mulan / Disney / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: The emperor of China subtly does this. Likewise, Mulan's grandmother ships her granddaughter and Shang the minute she finds out about him. She does not possess the emperor's subtlety.
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Mulan / Disney / int_31df9110	type	Masculine Lines, Feminine Curves
Mulan / Disney / int_31df9110	comment	Masculine Lines, Feminine Curves: Mulan is drawn with an angular jaw when in her Ping disguise.
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Mulan / Disney / int_31fcc258	type	Training Montage
Mulan / Disney / int_31fcc258	comment	Training Montage: "I'll Make a Man Out of You". Justified; this is boot camp.
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Mulan / Disney / int_32a0286d	type	Pandaing to the Audience
Mulan / Disney / int_32a0286d	comment	Panda-ing to the Audience: Mushu disguised as a messenger delivers a fake message to Chi-Fu riding on the back of a panda, after Khan refuses to cooperate.
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Mulan / Disney / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
Mulan / Disney / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Mulan had a little brother in the original ballad, and also a sister in some versions. She's an only child here, but her dog is named 'Little Brother' as a nod to the mythology.
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Mulan / Disney / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
Mulan / Disney / int_355007c3	comment	Mulan goes from a Brilliant, but Lazy Adorkable teenager to a Badass Normal soldier who uses creative strategies to get the upper hand in battle.
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Mulan / Disney / int_357ccbd1	type	Kung-Shui
Mulan / Disney / int_357ccbd1	comment	Kung-Shui: Shan Yu's pursuit of Mulan breaks many walls and ceilings of the Emperor's palace.
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Mulan / Disney / int_371b253a	type	Testosterone Poisoning
Mulan / Disney / int_371b253a	comment	Testosterone Poisoning: Mulan's portrayal of Ping is a hilariously bad attempt to be a stereotypical manly-man.
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Mulan / Disney / int_378039e	type	TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers
Mulan / Disney / int_378039e	comment	The Last of These Is Not Like the Others: General Li praising his son. "Number one in his class, extensive knowledge of training techniques... [smiles and strokes his chin] and impressive military lineage."
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Mulan / Disney / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Mulan / Disney / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: BD Wong stars as Shang, whose love interest disguises herself as a man to join the army. His first film role was in M. Butterfly - as a man who disguises himself as a woman. Mushu jokes of 'Ah-Chew' as a potential alias for Mulan. Pat Morita, who voiced the Emperor, guest starred on Sanford and Son as a character called Ah-Chew. Yao disguises himself as a woman towards the end. Harvey Fierstein is famous for drag queen performances.
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Mulan / Disney / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Mulan / Disney / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Almost happens at the Huns' ambush.
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Mulan / Disney / int_3abe36c6	type	Effeminate Misogynistic Guy
Mulan / Disney / int_3abe36c6	comment	Effeminate Misogynistic Guy: Chi-Fu is a Non-Action Guy known for his Girly Scream, yet when told that Mulan is a hero, he simply says, "'Tis a woman. She'll never be worth anything!"
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Mulan / Disney / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
Mulan / Disney / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: Shang's troops, heavily outnumbered and with few cannons, face the entire Hun army at the Tung Shao Pass. They fully expect to be slaughtered, as the rest of the Chinese army was, and without Mulan using their last cannon to trap the troops in an avalanche, they would have been. Shang attempts a one-man version of this against Shan Yu in the imperial palace. He succeeds as far as buying enough time for his subordinates to rescue the emperor. Shan-Yu is a second away from killing him when Mulan says I Am Your Opponent.
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Mulan / Disney / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Mulan / Disney / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Mulan goes from a Brilliant, but Lazy Adorkable teenager to a Badass Normal soldier who uses creative strategies to get the upper hand in battle. After Mulan accidentally antagonizes them, Ling and Yao start to warm up to "Ping" after she manages to get the arrow. Like her, they also become a Badass Normal trio with Chien Po, who remains a Gentle Giant.
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Mulan / Disney / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Mulan / Disney / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Mushu's previous chance to prove himself worthy of protecting the Fa family somehow led Fa Deng to be decapitated. Fa Deng is still pretty bitter about the whole thing.
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Mulan / Disney / int_3d2d0d5c	type	Feeling Their Age
Mulan / Disney / int_3d2d0d5c	comment	Feeling Their Age: Though Fa Zhou retains his sword skills, his old age, bad leg, and an implied heart condition prevent him from performing as he used to, as shown when he collapses doing basic exercises. This is the main reason why Mulan runs off to take his place in the war, knowing he won't survive if he goes off to fight.
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Mulan / Disney / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Mulan / Disney / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Three examples: The first one (which isn't seen but is heavily implied) between the Huns and the Chinese army. Based on the aftermath Mulan and her friends see, it didn't go well for the Chinese troops. Mulan, herself, later delivers one to the Hun Army when she uses a rocket to cause an avalanche, destroying nearly all of the Huns in the process. Mulan, Yao, Ling and Chien Po versus the Huns guarding Shan Yu and the Emperor. It helps that they have the element of surprise.
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Mulan / Disney / int_3d897748	type	Do Not Go Gentle
Mulan / Disney / int_3d897748	comment	Do Not Go Gentle: When the Huns prepare to bear down on Shang and his troops, who are outnumbered and with one last cannon, Shang orders his men to prepare to fight. They aren't going to lie down for the Huns. Fortunately, Mulan finds another way.
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Mulan / Disney / int_3f6b4b04	type	Just the Way You Are
Mulan / Disney / int_3f6b4b04	comment	Just the Way You Are: When Mulan returns home with gifts of honor, Fa Zhou, who has been worried sick about his daughter getting killed and her running away after they had a big fight, envelops her in a hug and tells her that she is the greatest gift and honor.
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Mulan / Disney / int_422cefe3	type	True Blue Femininity
Mulan / Disney / int_422cefe3	comment	True Blue Femininity: When Mulan properly changes back into women's clothes to sneak inside the palace, the dress is blue. Ling, Yao, and Chien-Po disguise themselves as concubines, also with blue dresses.
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Mulan / Disney / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
Mulan / Disney / int_42c9f1ec	comment	A smaller example occurs in the middle of the song, when Mulan suggests that a girl worth fighting for is one "who's got a brain, who always speaks her mind". Her fellow soldiers don't see the appeal, and apparently neither does the BGM.
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Mulan / Disney / int_43702f21	type	Bear Hug
Mulan / Disney / int_43702f21	comment	Bear Hug: Chien Po does this because he is a Gentle Giant.
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Mulan / Disney / int_43d612b7	type	Disney Acid Sequence
Mulan / Disney / int_43d612b7	comment	Disney Acid Sequence: "A Girl Worth Fighting For," with its Art Shift into the comic trio's imagination.
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Mulan / Disney / int_43e36f2f	type	Acrofatic
Mulan / Disney / int_43e36f2f	comment	Acrofatic: Chien Po is a tubby guy but he can do flips across a series of poles.
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Mulan / Disney / int_43f2f606	type	Annoying Arrows
Mulan / Disney / int_43f2f606	comment	Annoying Arrows: Justified (while defying Armor Is Useless) when an arrow knocks Shang from his horse, but fails to penetrate his shoulder armor. Subverted for the Chinese Red Shirt Army.
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Mulan / Disney / int_440d1d0b	type	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Mulan / Disney / int_440d1d0b	comment	Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Shang lets Mulan live, despite the rules of executing her for passing as a man to get into the army, as part of his I Owe You My Life debt to her earlier.
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Mulan / Disney / int_4435aa66	type	Attractive Bent-Gender
Mulan / Disney / int_4435aa66	comment	Ping is also one In-Universe, according to Yao:
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Mulan / Disney / int_44cdd259	type	War Is Glorious
Mulan / Disney / int_44cdd259	comment	War Is Glorious: Be a Man... by going to war, killing the invaders, and protecting your country. That's the idea, anyway; the reality of it is closer to War Is Hell.
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Mulan / Disney / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
Mulan / Disney / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: Shang takes off his shirt for the first training session. It gets Mulan's attention, whereas Yao snarks at him.
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Mulan / Disney / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Mulan / Disney / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Shan Yu treats Shang this way, blaming him for the great losses that the Huns have suffered. Towards the climax, when Mulan reveals that it was she who destroyed the Hun army, Shan Yu isn't at all shocked and calls her "the soldier from the mountains." Then he comes at her without wasting any time with the usual "I can't hit a girl" or "I was beaten by a woman?!" stuff villains usually spout when facing a female opponent.
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Mulan / Disney / int_46118dc5	type	Adult Fear
Mulan / Disney / int_46118dc5	comment	Adult Fear: Mulan runs away from home to take her father's place in the army. Her parents can only remain silent, knowing that she might be killed in battle if she fights but most certainly will be executed if they expose her. The last thing Fa Zhou says to Mulan is "I KNOW MY PLACE! It's time you've learned yours," which piles on a bit more fear and guilt. When she returns, with Shan Yu's sword and the emperor's crest as "gifts to honor the Fa family," he tosses them away and hugs her tightly, telling her "the greatest gift and honor is having you for a daughter".
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Mulan / Disney / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
Mulan / Disney / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: Part of Mulan's soldier transformation is to cut her long hair so that she can more easily pass for a man. Bonus points for using her father's sword to do it.
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Mulan / Disney / int_4686734b	type	Saved by the Awesome
Mulan / Disney / int_4686734b	comment	Saved by the Awesome
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Mulan / Disney / int_47a44ec9	type	Motivation on a Stick
Mulan / Disney / int_47a44ec9	comment	Motivation on a Stick: Mulan uses a dog and bone to feed the chickens. The bone-on-a-stick is tied to the dog's back so the bone is always in front of the dog, and the dog runs around with a feedbag leaking grain behind him.
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Mulan / Disney / int_4832a3bb	type	Always Chaotic Evil
Mulan / Disney / int_4832a3bb	comment	Always Chaotic Evil: Every Hun in the movie is a vicious soldier. Justified, as we only see their army.
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Mulan / Disney / int_492ef6e3	type	Challenge Seeker
Mulan / Disney / int_492ef6e3	comment	Challenge Seeker: Shan Yu takes the Great Wall as a challenge, deliberately challenges the Chinese Army and curb-stomps them, and when he and his mooks are buried in an avalanche, they just pop right out of the snow! note Like daisies!!
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Mulan / Disney / int_497bdeec	type	Sexy Surfacing Shot
Mulan / Disney / int_497bdeec	comment	When Mulan sneaks away from the guys during the bath scene, she whistles for her horse who blocks the view of her surfacing from the lake.
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Mulan / Disney / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Mulan / Disney / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: One of the "messengers" Shan Yu sends to the emperor is killed by an archer. When Mulan gets slashed across the chest, she's clearly bleeding.
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Mulan / Disney / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
Mulan / Disney / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Mulan spends the morning of her matchmaking session avoiding the "proper" way of doing things and instead using shortcuts such as getting her dog to feed the chickens and writing a supposedly-memorized speech on her arms. It seems lazy and dysfunctional at the time, but it's exactly this kind of "work smarter, not harder" attitude that will soon turn her into a respected Combat Pragmatist in the army.
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Mulan / Disney / int_4ada5be3	type	Twelfth Night Adventure
Mulan / Disney / int_4ada5be3	comment	Twelfth Night Adventure: Notice that the character is drawn differently when she pretends to be a man. Look at the movie poster where half of her face is reflected in a sword. Notice her nose and jaw. Disney Adventures pointed this out at the time of the movie's release, and the DVD Commentary flat-out admitted it. The Nostalgia Chick noticed that her eyelashes disappear whenever she's disguised. Looking closely, you can see that they even momentarily vanish when she draws her hair back up to reveal her identity to Shan Yu.
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Mulan / Disney / int_4c3f14e0	type	You Are Too Late
Mulan / Disney / int_4c3f14e0	comment	You Are Too Late: For Shang, who didn't know that the note from his father was forged, he arrives in time to find the aftermath of the Huns' grisly slaughter. He can only create a memorial for his father, accept Mulan's compassion, and order his men to move out and stop the Huns from reaching the capital.
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Mulan / Disney / int_4ca758b8	type	Does This Make Me Look Fat?
Mulan / Disney / int_4ca758b8	comment	Does This Make Me Look Fat?: Said by Yao when dressed as a woman, which is also an Actor Allusion (his voice actor has performed in drag). He gets a Dope Slap for his trouble.
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Mulan / Disney / int_4ce20451	type	Rhetorical Request Blunder
Mulan / Disney / int_4ce20451	comment	Rhetorical Request Blunder: A mild one, played for laughs after Mulan escapes from her friends bathing in the river:
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Mulan / Disney / int_4d396c3e	type	Last Villain Stand
Mulan / Disney / int_4d396c3e	comment	Last Villain Stand: After his army gets wiped out by an avalanche and his generals have been captured, Shan Yu still tries to kill the one who stole his victory.
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Mulan / Disney / int_4e0f7320	type	Misfit Mobilization Moment
Mulan / Disney / int_4e0f7320	comment	Misfit Mobilization Moment: Mulan is accompanied by her three friends—the short-tempered and surly Yao, the loud and awkward Ling, and the kind but huge Chien Po—and Shang in her plan to infiltrate the Imperial Palace. The trio take it further by doing so in drag.
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Mulan / Disney / int_4e4290cb	type	Combat Hand Fan
Mulan / Disney / int_4e4290cb	comment	Combat Hand Fan: Mulan uses a paper fan to disarm Shan-Yu.
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Mulan / Disney / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Mulan / Disney / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The destroyed village, hands down. Manages to outdo itself just moments later when Shang discovers his father's army, completely wiped out.
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Mulan / Disney / int_51605de2	type	Conservation of Competence
Mulan / Disney / int_51605de2	comment	Conservation of Competence: The usual Disney case is averted — Shan-Yu has no comedy underlings, which (much like giving him a song) would've detracted from his particular image.
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Mulan / Disney / int_518911b	type	Etiquette Nazi
Mulan / Disney / int_518911b	comment	Etiquette Nazi: * The matchmaker marks down Mulan for everything she does. After calling for Mulan, the girl says "present" and yet the matchmaker mutters "speaking without permission". Even Mulan's grandmother thinks this is too far. I.E. "who spit in her bean curd?"
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Mulan / Disney / int_51afcd70	type	Sexy Silhouette
Mulan / Disney / int_51afcd70	comment	Sexy Silhouette: Mulan is seen as a silhouette behind a dressing screen when she's being undressed by the cosmetologist before being shoved into a tub.
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Mulan / Disney / int_521fb75d	type	Put Their Heads Together
Mulan / Disney / int_521fb75d	comment	Put Their Heads Together: In the final act, Yao, Ling, Chien-Po, and Mulan getting past two mooks on their way to the Boss Fight involves slamming melons on the mooks' heads and then slamming those heads together.
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Mulan / Disney / int_538a096f	type	Burning the Flag
Mulan / Disney / int_538a096f	comment	Burning the Flag: As the Huns attack the Great Wall, a Chinese soldier lights a signal fire as he is confronted by Shan Yu and defiantly says, "Now all of China knows you're here." Shan Yu breaks a nearby flag off its pole and adds it to the fire. "Perfect!"
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Mulan / Disney / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Mulan / Disney / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Hayabusa the falcon, who acts as Shan-Yu's chief reconnaissance scout (bringing back a doll that leads to the Huns attacking the village), who frequently brings his boss whatever information or items he may need.
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Mulan / Disney / int_54cc6b24	type	Le Parkour
Mulan / Disney / int_54cc6b24	comment	Le Parkour: Shan Yu uses this to chase Mulan in the climax.
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Mulan / Disney / int_55180ce	type	Snow Means Death
Mulan / Disney / int_55180ce	comment	Snow Means Death: There's snow on the ground of the massacred village. It also starts snowing after Shang creates a memorial for his father. Averted for Shan Yu and a handful of other particularly resilient Huns after the avalanche. They pop right back out of the snow.note Like daisies!!
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Mulan / Disney / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Mulan / Disney / int_558245a7	comment	Redshirt Army: Sadly, this fate befalls the supposed "elite" Imperial Army, led by Shang's father. It's to demonstrate how dangerous the Huns are.
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Mulan / Disney / int_5692bfd9	type	Human Notepad
Mulan / Disney / int_5692bfd9	comment	Human Notepad: Mulan writes notes in her arm when she goes to meet the matchmaker.
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Mulan / Disney / int_57dda60c	type	The Emperor
Mulan / Disney / int_57dda60c	comment	The Emperor is this to Imperial China. He calls them "my children".
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Mulan / Disney / int_584634dd	type	Third-Act Misunderstanding
Mulan / Disney / int_584634dd	comment	Third-Act Misunderstanding: When Mulan's true gender is revealed, Shang, who carries a grudge over being deceived, isn't willing to trust her word when they really should, and her new friends have to reluctantly follow orders. However, even he is shown looking warily to either side as he approaches the palace — as soon as the crisis breaks out, the other soldiers are quick to follow Mulan's lead, and Shang is only a little behind them.
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Mulan / Disney / int_58b70952	type	Failure Montage
Mulan / Disney / int_58b70952	comment	Failure Montage: The song "I'll Make a Man Out of You" opens with a montage of all the soldiers trying and failing to retrieve Shang's arrow from the top of a pole.
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Mulan / Disney / int_58db779e	type	Letting the Air out of the Band
Mulan / Disney / int_58db779e	comment	Letting the Air Out of the Band: An awful, jarring, highly effective twist on this trope occurs at the end of "A Girl Worth Fighting For": A smaller example occurs in the middle of the song, when Mulan suggests that a girl worth fighting for is one "who's got a brain, who always speaks her mind". Her fellow soldiers don't see the appeal, and apparently neither does the BGM.
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Mulan / Disney / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
Mulan / Disney / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": The "Huns" referred to in the movie are almost certainly the Xiongnu, who were similar in many ways and often identified with the Huns, but were different. This is presumably because 'Huns' is much easier to rhyme in English; the Mandarin version calls them the Xiongnu.
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Mulan / Disney / int_5b2cf07b	type	American Gothic Couple
Mulan / Disney / int_5b2cf07b	comment	Two of the ancestors look remarkably like the American Gothic Couple.
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Mulan / Disney / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Mulan / Disney / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Averted, deliberately. Shan Yu does not die from falling. He dies from a fireworks rocket shooting him horizontally into a fireworks cache. The DVD's audio commentary has Lampshade Hanging.
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Mulan / Disney / int_5be919ae	type	Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario
Mulan / Disney / int_5be919ae	comment	Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: Shang abandons Mulan after discovering her secret, but they don't reconcile when she catches up to him. They reconcile, wordlessly, moments later during Operation Save-the-Emperor.
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Mulan / Disney / int_5d753b19	type	The Smurfette Principle
Mulan / Disney / int_5d753b19	comment	The Smurfette Principle: Mulan, herself, is the only woman in the Chinese army. Her mother and grandmother feature prominently at the start but don't make more appearances until the end, whens she goes home. After all, there aren't supposed to be any women in the Chinese army.
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Mulan / Disney / int_5fc3ab7f	type	Implied Love Interest
Mulan / Disney / int_5fc3ab7f	comment	Implied Love Interest: Mulan and Captain Li Shang. They blush around each other and Mulan asks the captain to stay for dinner, but no one outright says that they are a couple.
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Mulan / Disney / int_6115944d	type	Fruit of the Loon
Mulan / Disney / int_6115944d	comment	Fruit of the Loon: The boys stuff their dresses with a variety of fruit, including... a banana.
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Mulan / Disney / int_615cad18	type	Outdoor Bath Peeping
Mulan / Disney / int_615cad18	comment	Outdoor Bath Peeping: Inverted and Gender Inverted. Mulan is mid-bath when Ling, Yao, and Chien-Po decide they want to wash up. The sequence is marked by Mulan sinking as low in the water as possible, desperately trying to make a hasty exit, maintain her disguise, and avoid getting an eyeful of her nude comrades, who are guilelessly trying to befriend "Ping" with a little good-natured water fight.
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Mulan / Disney / int_619985d7	type	Sacrificial Lion
Mulan / Disney / int_619985d7	comment	Sacrificial Lion: General Li is set up as a big and important character: general of the hero's army, father to Mulan's captain... and then he dies off-screen to prove just how serious things have become.
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Mulan / Disney / int_61b8f9e2	type	Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Mulan / Disney / int_61b8f9e2	comment	Bunny-Ears Lawyer: What Ping eventually becomes to "his" fellow soldiers — unorthodox almost to the point of madness, but very effective.
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Mulan / Disney / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
Mulan / Disney / int_627264e0	comment	Her mother calls her out for arriving late on matchmaking day, the one day she needs to be on time. Fa Li starts by giving Mulan a Death Glare, telling her the bathwater would have been warm if she arrived on time and rushing her to the cosmetologists who quickly clean her up.
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Mulan / Disney / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Mulan / Disney / int_6375f746	comment	Despite being a Drill Sergeant Nasty, Shang proves to be this. He kicks "Ping" out of the army initially for failing a number of the training exercises, but lets the recruit back in when the latter figures out the weight challenge and retrieves the arrow from the pole. After the recruits pass their training with flying colors, he defends them to Chi-Fu and silently accepts Mulan's compliment that he's a great captain. When Mulan defies orders and steals the last cannon, his first priority is for their safety in seemingly making a suicide run and praises the soldier when he and his men survive the avalanche and what would have been a Curb-Stomp Battle. He also spares Mulan after she's outed, albeit angrily, and when she's proven right about the Huns surviving the avalanche, he defer authority to her to save the emperor. Once Shan Yu is dead, Shang prepares to defend her actions to the emperor.
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Mulan / Disney / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Mulan / Disney / int_6411dac8	comment	After Mulan accidentally antagonizes them, Ling and Yao start to warm up to "Ping" after she manages to get the arrow. Like her, they also become a Badass Normal trio with Chien Po, who remains a Gentle Giant.
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Mulan / Disney / int_64265de8	type	Multigenerational Household
Mulan / Disney / int_64265de8	comment	Multigenerational Household: Mulan's household includes her parents and her grandmother.
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Mulan / Disney / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Mulan / Disney / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Yao totally cries when Mulan is honored.
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Mulan / Disney / int_651e4362	type	Chain of People
Mulan / Disney / int_651e4362	comment	Chain of People: Mulan's troupe forms one after she falls off the cliff. Turns into a Self-Retracting Chain Of People immediately after, when Chien Po joins in.
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Mulan / Disney / int_653c5c73	type	Cannot Spit It Out
Mulan / Disney / int_653c5c73	comment	Cannot Spit It Out: Shang towards Mulan at the end. The emperor calls him out on this. Even when Shang later shows up at Mulan's house, he initially tries to claim it's only to return her father's helmet. Luckily for him, she invites him to stay for dinner anyway.
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Mulan / Disney / int_6844f0d5	type	Undressing the Unconscious
Mulan / Disney / int_6844f0d5	comment	Undressing the Unconscious: This is how Mulan's gender is revealed to the army. Shortly after burying the Hun army with a snow avalanche, Mulan (as Ping) rescues Shang from a plummeting doom. This effort, plus a wound received in combat, causes her to lose consciousness. Mulan awakens in a camp tent mostly undressed, with Sarashi-like bandaging around the torso, done by the Chinese army medic. The first face she sees is that of captain Shang, who has learned from the medic that she is a girl posing as a male conscript. Mulan's reflex to pull a Modesty Bedsheet to cover herself confirms her deception.
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Mulan / Disney / int_6924443d	type	Girliness Upgrade
Mulan / Disney / int_6924443d	comment	Girliness Upgrade: Mulan dresses like a warrior in the original Disney cartoon, but is dressed as a Chinese princess in the merchandising. Her usual costume in the Disney Parks is her matchmaker dress with her hair done up, but without her white makeup. The only aversion to this trope is her cameo in Sofia the First, wherein she appears with loose, short hair and wearing her armor, and in the Kingdom Hearts series, where her level features her during the war.
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Mulan / Disney / int_6a47a1e2	type	Knight of Cerebus
Mulan / Disney / int_6a47a1e2	comment	Knight of Cerebus: Shan Yu and the Huns. They are treated with a colossal degree of seriousness and, seeing as they managed to invade China's borders and slaughter the emperor's best armies, there's a very good reason why everyone (except the emperor, himself) fears them.
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Mulan / Disney / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Mulan / Disney / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: Chi Fu points out that Shang is an academy student, who hasn't been in battle, and so someone with more experience should be captain instead of him. Indeed, when Shang fights Shan Yu, he is outclassed despite his training. Mulan's creativity saves him twice.
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Mulan / Disney / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
Mulan / Disney / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Honor is a huge deal in ancient China.
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Mulan / Disney / int_6d6b8aa	type	Human Ladder
Mulan / Disney / int_6d6b8aa	comment	Human Ladder: The soldiers form one to try to find Mulan during the avalanche.
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Mulan / Disney / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Mulan / Disney / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Shan Yu and a few members of his army survive the avalanche, and are able to sneak their way through the Imperial City to capture the emperor.
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Mulan / Disney / int_6fbe85e6	type	Adaptation Personality Change
Mulan / Disney / int_6fbe85e6	comment	Adaptation Personality Change: The original Hua Mulan is usually portrayed as quite serious and ambitious. Here she is portrayed as a devoted daughter with an Adorkable side, who matures over the course of the story.
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Mulan / Disney / int_6feaf27b	type	Scarily Competent Tracker
Mulan / Disney / int_6feaf27b	comment	Scarily Competent Tracker: The Huns find out that a village is being guarded by means of a doll sprinkled with GPS Evidence.
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Mulan / Disney / int_7204fa60	type	George Jetson Job Security
Mulan / Disney / int_7204fa60	comment	George Jetson Job Security: Subverted at the end when Mulan is offered the position of imperial councillor, which she respectfully declines so she can return home:
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Mulan / Disney / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Mulan / Disney / int_722b3319	comment	"Hua Ping" is also slang for "effeminate or homosexual man."
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Mulan / Disney / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
Mulan / Disney / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Averted. Shan Yu is one of the few male characters in the movie to never say anything sexist against Mulan. This could be because the Huns were less sexist against women than the Chinese. Chi-Fu plays this straight, however, to the extent that he can be considered a villain.
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Mulan / Disney / int_72d30083	type	Cheaters Never Prosper
Mulan / Disney / int_72d30083	comment	Cheaters Never Prosper: Mushu attempts to help Mulan cheat with shooting arrows into persimmons. Shang immediately catches her.
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Mulan / Disney / int_730d3664	type	Adaptational Angst Upgrade
Mulan / Disney / int_730d3664	comment	Adaptational Angst Upgrade: In contrast to Hua Mulan, who excels as a soldier and whose real gender is never even suspected, Disney's Mulan lives in tension because who she is — even as a woman — isn't what she's supposed to be. She eventually finds the confidence to be a hero and meet society's expectations in her own way.
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Mulan / Disney / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
Mulan / Disney / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: Shan Yu and his men deduce that the emperor's army are in a village in the mountain pass. They do this through nothing more than the GPS Evidence on a child's doll that Shan Yu's falcon retrieved.
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Mulan / Disney / int_7431b974	type	Vile Villain, Saccharine Show
Mulan / Disney / int_7431b974	comment	Vile Villain, Saccharine Show: It's as comedic as any Disney movie can get, but it still can make Shan Yu, a mass-murdering warlord, a big terrifying threat.
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Mulan / Disney / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Mulan / Disney / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Honor".
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Mulan / Disney / int_746bfee8	type	Vanilla Edition
Mulan / Disney / int_746bfee8	comment	Vanilla Edition: A Limited Issue DVD of the film came out only a few months after the premiere Walt Disney Masterpiece Collection VHS tape, but this disc contained barely any bonus content. Mitigated in 2004, when Disney re-released Mulan as a 2-Disc Special Edition DVD, as a tie-in with Mulan II.
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Mulan / Disney / int_74ef476c	type	Kneel Before Zod
Mulan / Disney / int_74ef476c	comment	Kneel Before Zod: Shan Yu attempts to invoke this, but the Emperor refuses. Shan Yu decides to kill him instead.
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Mulan / Disney / int_78947751	type	Instantly Defeathered Bird
Mulan / Disney / int_78947751	comment	Instantly Defeathered Bird: Shan Yu's falcon is intimidating... until Mushu sets fire to him and he instantly looks and sounds like a featherless chicken. He even appears headless for a moment, as he had tucked it into his neck. A few scenes later, Mushu is riding him.
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Mulan / Disney / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Mulan / Disney / int_78c895c8	comment	Amusing Injuries: During the Training Montage of I'll Make A Man Out Of You, Yao gets his buttock pierced by a burning arrow, which is played for laughs.
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Mulan / Disney / int_78d0ebcf	type	Crying Wolf
Mulan / Disney / int_78d0ebcf	comment	Crying Wolf: After Mulan is revealed as a woman, Shang blows off her warning that some of the Huns survived. Yao, Ling, and Chien Po believe her, but they don't have a choice but to follow orders. Mulan says, "You'd trust Ping; why is Mulan any different?"
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Mulan / Disney / int_78f5a589	type	Supernatural Aid
Mulan / Disney / int_78f5a589	comment	Supernatural Aid: Mulan's ancestors send her a guardian spirit to help her and he does, albeit not in quite the way they intended.
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Mulan / Disney / int_794f3589	type	Adaptation Explanation Extrication
Mulan / Disney / int_794f3589	comment	Adaptation Explanation Extrication: The reason Mulan turns down a council position in the ballad is because her gender is still a secret, and her comrades don't discover this until they visit her years after the war. In the film, her gender is already known when the emperor makes the offer, and she gives no reason for her refusal except the desire to go home.
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Mulan / Disney / int_7b20b8d2	type	Alternative Foreign Theme Song
Mulan / Disney / int_7b20b8d2	comment	Alternative Foreign Theme Song: The Japanese version has "Breathe" by Luna Sea as the theme song. The Korean version uses "Eternal Memory" by Lena Park.
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Mulan / Disney / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Mulan / Disney / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question:
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Mulan / Disney / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Mulan / Disney / int_7d89315b	comment	After Chi Fu delivers a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Shang, who accepts it with Tranquil Fury, Mulan tells Shang that she thinks he is a great captain. Shang looks softened by this, though due to his position, he can't answer.
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Mulan / Disney / int_7d914cb9	type	WellDoneDaughterGirl
Mulan / Disney / int_7d914cb9	comment	"Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Both as a bride-to-be and as a soldier, Mulan seeks to make her father proud. This is her driving motivation thoughout the movie. Although, it should be noted that Fa Zhou already clearly loves his daughter, and Mulan is instead trying to avoid dishonoring him.
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Mulan / Disney / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
Mulan / Disney / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: Averted. Many of the male characters are extremely sexist or prejudiced. Mulan, herself, is in no way rebelling against the prospect of arranged marriage or Ancient China's idea for proper feminine behavior at the beginning of the film, and is in fact significantly upset because she wants to fit into that role, but can't manage it.
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Mulan / Disney / int_7fbb2a3	type	NiceJobBreakingItHero
Mulan / Disney / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: Played with. Mulan's grandmother gives her a cricket to give her luck in order to help her with the matchmaker. Although Mulan doesn't perform well to start with, it's obvious that the cricket is the direct cause for her failing the matchmaking. Had she succeeded, she might not have joined the army in her father's place, in which case the Huns would have succeeded in their invasion. She also would not have won the heart of Shang, who is a better match than the matchmaker could have arranged for her. It's possible that Mulan still would have taken her father's place in the army had her meeting with the matchmaker been successful, but her having a match would have introduced a complication in her relationship with Shang. Some of Mushu's actions serve to make things harder for Mulan, such as when he accidentally sets off a cannon on the mountainside, inadvertently signaling their presence to the Hun Army. After he learns the truth about Mulan, Shang disregards her warnings that the Huns are still alive. Though he credits her words enough to be cautiously glancing around the courtyard where he meets the emperor, the lack of a more proactive response allows the Huns to seize the emperor.
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Mulan / Disney / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Mulan / Disney / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: During "A Girl Worth Fighting For," Chi-Fu joins in the singing. Yao jokes to "Ping" that "the only girl who'd love him is his mother." Mulan, who's been uncomfortable for most of the song, can't help but smirk as Chi-Fu glares.
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Mulan / Disney / int_81045f89	type	Juxtaposed Halves Shot
Mulan / Disney / int_81045f89	comment	Juxtaposed Halves Shot: The home video covers show one half of her face hidden by a sword. The other half is reflected in the sword, but as her male soldier persona.
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Mulan / Disney / int_823c6e3e	type	LargeHam
Mulan / Disney / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Mushu. "I LIIIIIIIIIVVVVEEEE!!!!!!"
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Mulan / Disney / int_83109d67	type	Sweet on Polly Oliver
Mulan / Disney / int_83109d67	comment	Sweet on Polly Oliver: Averted. What Shang develops with "Ping" is closer to a bromance Fire-Forged Friends-style.
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Mulan / Disney / int_8338de89	type	"I Want" Song
Mulan / Disney / int_8338de89	comment	"I Want" Song: "Reflection" and "A Girl Worth Fighting For".
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Mulan / Disney / int_83cef301	type	Right for the Wrong Reasons
Mulan / Disney / int_83cef301	comment	Right for the Wrong Reasons: When Mushu blithely forges a letter informing Shang that General Li is in desperate need of aid. Mushu only does so hoping to get Mulan on the front lines and make her a war hero. It turns out the Huns had already wiped out General Li's men by the time Mushu wrote the letter. If Mushu hadn't forged that letter, the Hun army would have likely made it to the emperor's palace unopposed.
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Mulan / Disney / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Mulan / Disney / int_8409a385	comment	"Hayabusa" is Japanese for falcon, making this a case of Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
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Mulan / Disney / int_847a5361	type	Human Traffic Jam
Mulan / Disney / int_847a5361	comment	Human Traffic Jam: In the Training Montage, when the soldiers are jumping along some poles jutting upwards in a line, Chien Po falters and stops moving forward. Shang, coming behind him, defies the trope by stopping in a controlled manner before running into him, but that just makes the jam form behind him when everyone else fails to do the same.
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Mulan / Disney / int_85debad9	type	Plucky Girl
Mulan / Disney / int_85debad9	comment	Plucky Girl: Mulan doesn't let a little thing like a bleeding wound stop her from saving Shang's life. Hell, aside from the initial pain, she doesn't even seem to notice it until things have calmed down. Gotta love that adrenaline, eh?
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Mulan / Disney / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Mulan / Disney / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Mushu accompanies Mulan rather than facing the ancestor spirits when he destroys the statue holding the spirit that was supposed to follow her. When they return as heroes, no mention is ever made of the destruction of the other (apparently much more competent and powerful) guardian spirit. What happened to the other remaining Huns following their leader's demise?
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Mulan / Disney / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Mulan / Disney / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Mulan announces to Shan Yu that she took away his victory before he can kill Shang, and reveals herself as "the soldier from the mountains". The emperor is commanded to Kneel Before Zod and delivers a Doomed Moral Victor reply:
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Mulan / Disney / int_86c192f4	type	Badass Creed
Mulan / Disney / int_86c192f4	comment	The chorus is not only this, but practically a Badass Creed.
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Mulan / Disney / int_87504252	type	The Big Board
Mulan / Disney / int_87504252	comment	The Big Board: General Li uses one to explain the war strategy to Shang.
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Mulan / Disney / int_878d235d	type	Couldn't Find a Lighter
Mulan / Disney / int_878d235d	comment	Couldn't Find a Lighter: During the battle with the Huns, Mulan is trying to light the last firework but Hayabusa makes her drop her flint and steel. She eventually resorts to using Mushu.
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Mulan / Disney / int_88d770dc	type	One-Hit Polykill
Mulan / Disney / int_88d770dc	comment	One Hit Poly Kill: Mulan wipes out the majority of the Hun army with a single rocket, defeats its leader with another, and then flashes Shan Yu a smirk when he has his Oh, Crap! moment. This rocket is typically meant for only one person, so it counts.
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Mulan / Disney / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
Mulan / Disney / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: In the mountain scene, Shan-Yu basically leads his entire army of thousands on horseback in a charge against a platoon of maybe two dozen people that he came across only by coincidence.
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Mulan / Disney / int_8c431fe4	type	Band of Brothers
Mulan / Disney / int_8c431fe4	comment	Band of Brothers: Ping and the others grow on each other during the Training from Hell Montage — which is half of what boot camp is about.
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Mulan / Disney / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Mulan / Disney / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: Shang tells his recruits that they'll need "Discipline" and "Strength" (two heavy weights on ropes) to retrieve the arrow from the top of the pole. The secret is to loop them together around the pole like a belt.
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Mulan / Disney / int_8cf75a5c	type	Lipstick-and-Load Montage
Mulan / Disney / int_8cf75a5c	comment	Lipstick-and-Load Montage: Used when the soldiers are applying drag to infiltrate Shan Yu's guard in the royal palace (set to a brief reprise of "I'll Make A Man Out Of You", no less!). Mulan getting dressed up during "You'll Bring Honor to Us All" is treated with the seriousness of preparing for battle. This would be her "battlefield" after all.
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Mulan / Disney / int_8ea29181	type	Raised Hand of Survival
Mulan / Disney / int_8ea29181	comment	Raised Hand of Survival: The supposedly killed-in-an-avalanche Shan Yu pokes his hand out from the snow. (Like a daisy!)
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Mulan / Disney / int_9099c21c	type	GPS Evidence
Mulan / Disney / int_9099c21c	comment	GPS Evidence: Shan Yu's falcon brings him a doll from a village to which they are en route. The doll has evidence on it — pine tar, a white horsehair, and gunpowder — that tells him the Imperial Army are there.
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Mulan / Disney / int_90c018ac	type	JustifiedTrope
Mulan / Disney / int_90c018ac	comment	Mulan and the Guy Trio don't say anything onscreen about how to get into the palace, save the emperor, and defeat Shan Yu. They just enact the plan as if they had. Slightly justified, given that Mulan specifically says she's making it up on the fly.
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Mulan / Disney / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Mulan / Disney / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: The Imagine Spot during "A Girl Worth Fighting For", which shifts to the style of brush paintings. The billows of snow, smoke, and fire are noticeably Eastern styled.
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Mulan / Disney / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Mulan / Disney / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: The unnamed soldier on the wall at the beginning. He desperately runs to the nearest signal, and when confronted by Shan Yu he lights the beacons knowing full well he's about to die. The emperor also counts, since he refuses to Kneel Before Zod and knows that he'll die for it.
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Mulan / Disney / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Mulan / Disney / int_970c790a	comment	Averted. Shan Yu is one of the few male characters in the movie to never say anything sexist against Mulan. This could be because the Huns were less sexist against women than the Chinese.
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Mulan / Disney / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
Mulan / Disney / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": Shang's company are shocked to silence when they see the massacre of the main Chinese army, then it happens a second time when Shan Yu attacks them, and then when they see the size of his army. Every citizen outside the emperor's palace panics when they realize Shan Yu is still alive.
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Mulan / Disney / int_99c08028	type	Grin of Audacity
Mulan / Disney / int_99c08028	comment	Grin of Audacity: Shan Yu is about to cut down Ping, but stops when the helpless soldier in front of him smirks at something behind him.
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Mulan / Disney / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Mulan / Disney / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Mushu's blowing of the rocket and blaming it on Cri-Kee seems like a random gag... Except it gives away the position of the remains of the Chinese army. A Curb-Stomp Battle ensues (though it doesn't end as one might expect).
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Mulan / Disney / int_9a6990	type	Skinny Dipping
Mulan / Disney / int_9a6990	comment	Skinny Dipping: Mulan's bath in the middle of the night turns into this when other soldiers drop by. She is both embarrassed and afraid of blowing her cover.
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Mulan / Disney / int_9ae42b50	type	I Have Just One Thing to Say
Mulan / Disney / int_9ae42b50	comment	I Have Just One Thing to Say: The emperor lists all the many things that Mulan has done that violate rules and tradition — and then bows to her for her having saved China.
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Mulan / Disney / int_9afa05c7	type	Family-Unfriendly Death
Mulan / Disney / int_9afa05c7	comment	Family-Unfriendly Death: Shan Yu is blown to bits by several fireworks lit by Mulan and Mushu. Arguably at the village too, since it's implied no one is left alive. Not even the little girl missing her doll.
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Mulan / Disney / int_9b7c345d	type	Naked Freak-Out
Mulan / Disney / int_9b7c345d	comment	Naked Freak-Out: Played With during the bath scene, while Mulan is freaking out at being naked in the water with the male soldiers, she is more worried about blowing her cover than being seen naked.
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Mulan / Disney / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Mulan / Disney / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: This is the point of the "I'll Make a Man Out of You" sequence; turn rowdy recruits into polished soldiers.
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Mulan / Disney / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Mulan / Disney / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: During the matchmaker song, Mulan saves a girl's doll from two boys with toy swords. Later, she is able to save a doll, but not the girl who owns it. She also demonstrates some cleverness by turning the tide of a game of chess with just a single move. Later, one clever move is enough to bury the Hun Army. A Stealth Pun "A girl can bring her family great honor in one way/by striking a good match." Both of Mulan's victories involved firepower. At the end of "Honour To Us All", Mulan is visibly out of step from the rest of the girls, showing that she is the only one who doesn't know what she's doing and foreshadowing that her interview with the matchmaker won't go well. When the conscription notices are being handed out, a man in the second family says he will join the army in place of his father. Mulan ends up doing exactly this a few scenes later. She shows she's good at aiming a thrown slipper when she chastises Khan for laughing at her first attempt to be "manly." Later, she distracts Shan Yu the same way when he's about to finish off Shang. Subverted with the fact that if Mulan's true identity as a woman in the army is exposed, she will be executed. This is brought up first by Fa Zhou, then by Mushu. When she is exposed, it looks like Shang is about to kill her, but because she had saved his life in the avalanche, he refuses to kill her and flings the sword to the ground. Mulan spends the morning of her matchmaking session avoiding the "proper" way of doing things and instead using shortcuts such as getting her dog to feed the chickens and writing a supposedly-memorized speech on her arms. It seems lazy and dysfunctional at the time, but it's exactly this kind of "work smarter, not harder" attitude that will soon turn her into a respected Combat Pragmatist in the army.
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Mulan / Disney / int_9d7a3ac4	type	Shield Surf
Mulan / Disney / int_9d7a3ac4	comment	Shield Surf: Mushu sleds during an avalanche with a shield he picked up somewhere.
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Mulan / Disney / int_9e08b900	type	Most Definitely Not a Villain
Mulan / Disney / int_9e08b900	comment	Most Definitely Not a Villain: In this case, Most Definitely Not a Girl in Disguise. Mulan trying to join the army.
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Mulan / Disney / int_9eb11fac	type	Weak, but Skilled
Mulan / Disney / int_9eb11fac	comment	Weak, but Skilled: Mulan can't overpower anyone, but she's fairly effective because she knows just where and when to hit.
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Mulan / Disney / int_9f74002a	type	Feminist Fantasy
Mulan / Disney / int_9f74002a	comment	Feminist Fantasy: Based on the Chinese legend. Mulan is resourceful and brave, choosing to disguise herself as a man in order to take her father's place in the Imperial army. Through her quick wits and determination, she becomes an accomplished soldier and goes on to defeat the Big Bad and save China. Her love interest follows her home, to return her helmet. When awkwardly complimenting her, he focuses on her fighting skills.
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Mulan / Disney / int_9f8a12d7	type	Who's on First?
Mulan / Disney / int_9f8a12d7	comment	Who's on First?: When Shang is trying to find out the recruit's/ Mulan's name:
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Mulan / Disney / int_a195310a	type	Red Is Heroic
Mulan / Disney / int_a195310a	comment	Red Is Heroic: Shang, General Li, and the Imperial Army soldiers wear red capes as they march off to defend their homeland and families. The Huns do not because they are invaders.
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Mulan / Disney / int_a1b76006	type	Nerves of Steel
Mulan / Disney / int_a1b76006	comment	Nerves of Steel: Nothing unsettles The Emperor. He's a noncombatant, and the much younger and bulkier leader of the army that just crushed his own is swinging a sword at him. He doesn't flinch.
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Mulan / Disney / int_a1d41a07	type	Throw-Away Country
Mulan / Disney / int_a1d41a07	comment	Throwaway Country: The village that was razed to the ground to demonstrate Hun viciousness.
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Mulan / Disney / int_a2968da6	type	If Only You Knew
Mulan / Disney / int_a2968da6	comment	If Only You Knew: The song "I'll Make a Man Out of You" has the line, "Did they send me daughters when I asked for sons?" Shang thinks he's turning boys into men, but of course, with Mulan the starting point is a bit different. Though, ironically, she becomes an even more capable soldier than her male comrades-in-arms.
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Mulan / Disney / int_a3c0c1df	type	Dance Party Ending
Mulan / Disney / int_a3c0c1df	comment	Dance Party Ending: Cri-Kee sounds the gong at the end of the film, starting the instrumental of "True to Your Heart," which the guardians all dance to, leading into the closing credits as the vocal begins.
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Mulan / Disney / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
Mulan / Disney / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: Two of them: True to Your Heart by 98º and Stevie Wonder. Christina Aguilera's cover of Reflection.
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Mulan / Disney / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Mulan / Disney / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: "A girl worth fighting—" [Cut to reaction shot of destroyed village] Shortly after the above example comes a double whiplash: somberness turns into humor when a rocket fires out of Mulan's cart, having accidentally been lit by Mushu (who, stunned, weakly tries to blame Cri-Kee); then humor turns into panic as the Huns take notice and attack. After burying the Huns under the avalanche, our ragtag army celebrate Mulan's brilliant plan and her promotion as Shang's second-in-command. Then Mulan winces in pain from the wound Shan Yu gave her, and passes out from blood loss. Another double whiplash occurs near the beginning after the matchmaker scene. After Mulan's "Reflection" number, we get the heartwarming scene of her father cheering her up. Then the mood quickly switches again after Chi Fu arrives to deliver the conscription notices.
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Mulan / Disney / int_a5001f7f	type	Chekhov's Classroom
Mulan / Disney / int_a5001f7f	comment	Chekhov's Classroom: "Reflect before you act. This will bring you honor and glory." This lesson that Mulan recites for the matchmaker is fulfilled when she sees a snow drift in the reflection of her sword and is inspired to cause an avalanche to bury the Hun army, which is a big part of how she earns honor and glory.
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Mulan / Disney / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
Mulan / Disney / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: The entire sequence of Mulan trying to bathe in the river, while avoiding her equally naked soldier friends, is played for Cringe Comedy. Hayabusa getting his feathers burned off is treated the same way, and is made more comical by making him look like a chicken.
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Mulan / Disney / int_a6ab7940	type	I Am Your Opponent
Mulan / Disney / int_a6ab7940	comment	Shang attempts a one-man version of this against Shan Yu in the imperial palace. He succeeds as far as buying enough time for his subordinates to rescue the emperor. Shan-Yu is a second away from killing him when Mulan says I Am Your Opponent.
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Mulan / Disney / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Mulan / Disney / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Mulan's family is the third in her village to receive a conscription notice.
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Mulan / Disney / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Mulan / Disney / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: No one seems to notice (or possibly care) that Mushu accidentally killed the Great Stone Dragon, though it is possible that A. it was dead to begin with, B. it was the wrong statue, or C. the statue is just a vessel to incarnate in the mortal world—the dragon got stuck in the astral plane, but he is all right and the ancestors cut him some slack because he helped save China. note It has been interpreted that the Great Stone Dragon's spirit has already left the statue. Mulan does sit under it before lightning flashes and she suddenly decides to go in her father's place. Perhaps it goes with her?
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Mulan / Disney / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
Mulan / Disney / int_a7382a73	comment	The Imagine Spot during "A Girl Worth Fighting For", which shifts to the style of brush paintings.
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Mulan / Disney / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Mulan / Disney / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Completely subverted on both sides. Shang's Training from Hell ensures that when his soldiers fire cannons, there's always an impact. Mulan's cannon in particular saves the entire army with her aim. The Huns in the meantime manage to hit Shang from a distance.
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Mulan / Disney / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
Mulan / Disney / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: Mulan disguises herself as "Ping" to take her father's place in the muster.
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Mulan / Disney / int_a8476736	type	Keep the Reward
Mulan / Disney / int_a8476736	comment	Keep the Reward: After she's offered a council position, Mulan turns it down because she wants to return home. The emperor then gives her his pendant and Shan Yu's sword so that her family will know how she has saved China.
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Mulan / Disney / int_a8c50563	type	Bathtub Scene
Mulan / Disney / int_a8c50563	comment	During the "You'll Bring Honor To Us All" sequence, Mulan is put into a tub to be washed and only has her bare shoulders above the water, that are shaking due to the water being cold. Her wet hair also happens to fall down to her chest.
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Mulan / Disney / int_aa517da5	type	Forged Message
Mulan / Disney / int_aa517da5	comment	Forged Message: Mushu gets Mulan's company into the war by having Cri-Kee write a fake letter from the general urgently ordering the new recruits into action. Unknown to him, said message turns out to be true and desperately needed. See Accidental Truth example above
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Mulan / Disney / int_aa79bac	type	Parting-Words Regret
Mulan / Disney / int_aa79bac	comment	The last thing Fa Zhou says to Mulan is "I KNOW MY PLACE! It's time you've learned yours," which piles on a bit more fear and guilt. When she returns, with Shan Yu's sword and the emperor's crest as "gifts to honor the Fa family," he tosses them away and hugs her tightly, telling her "the greatest gift and honor is having you for a daughter".
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Mulan / Disney / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Mulan / Disney / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: As mentioned, several (but not all) male characters at least start out pretty sexist because, hey, it's ancient China. It's also lampshaded when Mulan, after being honored as a hero, gives the emperor a big hug; Yao asks, "Is she allowed to do that?" (No, it would have been punishable by death; then again, after all the rest that happened, the emperor is perfectly fine with letting it pass.) The other guys just shrug. Additionally, Mulan's crippled father going off to war just because he is the only man in his family is precisely what was expected of men at the time, even if they were old and/or infirm. It was seen as the honorable thing to do, whereas the modern age would see it as pointless and/or cruel. There's the song "You'll Bring Honor To Us All." The entire piece is about how a woman's sole purpose is to marry well and be a dutiful, obedient wife but this part in particular can come as a shock to those hearing it again as adults:
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Mulan / Disney / int_ac2094ca	type	Red Shirt
Mulan / Disney / int_ac2094ca	comment	Red Shirt: The soldier on the Great Wall in the opening sequence is a goner. We don't see him die, but we know he will.
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Mulan / Disney / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
Mulan / Disney / int_acecb17d	comment	Chekhov's Skill: Almost all the skills the soldiers learn during the Training Montage are put to use later in the movie: The skill of aiming and shooting rockets as Mulan first uses it to defeat Shan Yu's army, then to kill Shan Yu himself. Pole climbing. The climactic scene from "I'll Make A Man Out Of You" returns as an instrumental part of Operation Save-the-Emperor. Shang even rewards Mulan with a smile as she remembers their very first lesson. Ling uses the brick-breaking headbutt he learned in training to take out one of the Huns. Shoe throwing, of all things. Mulan uses it to catch Shan Yu's attention, stopping him just short of chopping Shang's head off. When we see her do the same to Khan earlier, who knew it'd come in handy? Mushu's firebreathing. Attempted when trying to impress the ancestors, later used to light the avalanche-triggering cannon, roast the feathers off Shan-Yu's pet falcon Hayabusa, and light the rocket that sends Shan Yu to his death.
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Mulan / Disney / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Mulan / Disney / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: If Shan Yu didn't focus on making the emperor bow to him, then Mulan, Shang, and the others wouldn't rescue him in time. Also, Shan Yu chasing Mulan for revenge gives her the perfect position to launch lethal fireworks at him.
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Mulan / Disney / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Mulan / Disney / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The Chinese soldier patrolling the Great Wall during the film's introduction. His facial expressions when the Huns start to scale the walls and at his first sighting of Shan Yu say it all. Shan Yu gets several. He gets one when Mulan sets off the avalanche and an even better one when she launches him into a tower containing what seem to be half the fireworks in the country. Shang's company when they find the mountain village has been utterly destroyed and that the Imperial Army led by Shang's father has been wiped out along with it. Their scond time comes when they find out just how large the Hun army really is. Mushu gets three. The first is when he accidentally sets off a rocket and Mulan death glares at him. His face says it all. The rocket gives away the army's position and they are promptly attacked by the Huns. The second is during the avalanche when he sees that he, Mulan, Shang, Khan, and Cri-Kee are about to go over the edge of a cliff. The third is after Mulan passes out from her wound, when the doctor treating Mulan tells Shang that Mulan is a woman, as Shang enters the tent to confront her. Mulan gets one when Shang enters her tent after she's bandaged up and she realizes that he knows she's a woman.
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Mulan / Disney / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Mulan / Disney / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Shan Yu has his moments, such as just after his soldiers capture two Chinese scouts:
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Mulan / Disney / int_af338274	type	Gendered Insult
Mulan / Disney / int_af338274	comment	Gendered Insult: The entirety of "I'll Make A Man Out Of You", and in particular the line "Did they send me daughters when I asked for sons?" Of course, seeing as the by far most competent member of the unit is Sweet Polly Oliver Mulan, this is Played for Laughs.
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Mulan / Disney / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Mulan / Disney / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: At the end of "I'll Make A Man Out of You," Shang kicks Mulan out of the army for incompetence. She could go home, having accomplished the mission of saving her father. Instead, due to pride and wanting to "do things right," she decides to climb for the arrow and prove that she deserves to stay. Shang is clearly impressed, especially afterwards, when she excels in the other activities she previously failed.
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Mulan / Disney / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Mulan / Disney / int_b032e4ed	comment	Mulan also; it's notable that compared to other Disney princesses, she is the one that has the most nude scenes (two bath scenes, one of which is fairly extensive), except perhaps for Ariel.
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Mulan / Disney / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Mulan / Disney / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Chi Fu: "...And I do not squeal like a girl!" [Panda eats Chi Fu's slipper and he squeals like a girl] Mushu: "Dragon, dra-gon, not 'lizard'. I don't do that tongue thing." [Does the tongue thing]
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Mulan / Disney / int_b90e8dc1	type	Hard-to-Light Fire
Mulan / Disney / int_b90e8dc1	comment	Hard-to-Light Fire: Mulan drops the flint and steel she needs to light the final cannon during the battle with the Huns.
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Mulan / Disney / int_b97c2cfb	type	Maybe Ever After
Mulan / Disney / int_b97c2cfb	comment	Maybe Ever After: It doesn't end with a wedding but with a 'get to know her family' dinner. The marriage takes places in the sequel.
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Mulan / Disney / int_bb7dceca	type	Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving
Mulan / Disney / int_bb7dceca	comment	Arson, Murder, and Lifesaving: The Emperor's statement starting with "I have heard a great deal about you, Fa Mulan..." Bonus points for all of it being true.
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Mulan / Disney / int_bc37d80d	type	So Proud of You
Mulan / Disney / int_bc37d80d	comment	So Proud of You: The Emperor tells Shang this when he brings the sword of Shan Yu. He later announces that Mulan has saved all of China. Shang gives Mulan a rewarding smile when she concocts a scheme using the first lesson he taught his men: how to climb a pole with just a sash. He uses his cape to join her, Chien Po, Yao, and Ling. The final one comes from Mulan's father: "The greatest gift and honor is having you for a daughter".
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Mulan / Disney / int_bcbf7aef	type	Plucky Comic Relief
Mulan / Disney / int_bcbf7aef	comment	Plucky Comic Relief: Mushu seems to have the ability to break the rules of reality for his gags, brushing his teeth with a standard modern toothbrush and toothpaste, and referring to a panda as a "black-and-white", a reference to a police car. People don't see or hear him even when they reasonably should.
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Mulan / Disney / int_bce16d24	type	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
Mulan / Disney / int_bce16d24	comment	Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?: Defied by Shang. He teaches his men to shoot to kill, always. He would have killed Shan Yu in their fight if he had gotten the chance. Defied by Shan Yu after Mulan starts the avalanche. Shan Yu slashes her, and the wound would have killed her if the army's doctor hadn't survived. If not for the avalanche and her being on the ground, he would have done much worse. Played straight when Shan Yu first grabs a semiconscious Shang and starts threatening him with his sword, only to give chase to and corner Mulan on the palace roof. With the former he's in Villanous Breakdown mode after the emperor's rescued, and in the latter he's Evil Gloating upon seeing her trapped. He does stab her paper fan, but she flips the fan to steal his sword.
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Mulan / Disney / int_bd1faab9	type	Accidental Hero
Mulan / Disney / int_bd1faab9	comment	Accidental Hero: If Mushu hadn't decided to write the message to get Mulan into war, then the Huns would have made it to the capital city without a problem.
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Mulan / Disney / int_bf5a5757	type	Crisis Catch-and-Carry
Mulan / Disney / int_bf5a5757	comment	Crisis Catch And Carry: When she and the others arrive to stop the Huns, Mulan yells to Chien Po to take the emperor to safety. Chien Po apologizes to the emperor for what he'll have to do, picks him up under one arm, and uses a lantern line to get both of them safely out of Shan Yu's reach.
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Mulan / Disney / int_bf72d5e8	type	The Spartan Way
Mulan / Disney / int_bf72d5e8	comment	The Spartan Way: "Let's get down to business..." Said business involves dodging flaming arrows and breaking bricks with one's face.
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Mulan / Disney / int_bf927e82	type	Non-Human Sidekick
Mulan / Disney / int_bf927e82	comment	Non-Human Sidekick: Mulan has Mushu the little dragon, her horse Khan, and Cri-Kee the blue cricket. The falcon Hayabusa supports Shan-Yu.
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Mulan / Disney / int_c02f148d	type	Both Sides Have a Point
Mulan / Disney / int_c02f148d	comment	Both Sides Have a Point: This trope happens the moment Shang leaves behind Mulan after her gender is revealed. Mulan joined the army under illegal false pretenses and has been lying about her entire identity, so Shang's standpoint is understandable, if incorrect. On the other hand, Mulan only did what she did to save her father's life, and she's probably right when she implies ("You said you'd trust Ping. Why is Mulan any different?") that culturally ingrained sexism is also influencing Shang at this point.
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Mulan / Disney / int_c0594195	type	Through His Stomach
Mulan / Disney / int_c0594195	comment	Through His Stomach: The song "A Girl Worth Fighting For" references this. Ling's ideal girl has pale skin and bright, shining eyes; Yao's will be wooed by his great strength; Chien-Po only cares if she's a good cook.
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Mulan / Disney / int_c0cf3112	type	Sarashi
Mulan / Disney / int_c0cf3112	comment	Sarashi: Technically bandages, since Mulan was injured earlier. Inverted in that the scene where they are revealed is also the scene where Mulan is busted.
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Mulan / Disney / int_c12f0c4	type	Outrun the Fireball
Mulan / Disney / int_c12f0c4	comment	Outrun the Fireball: Mulan's "Get off the roof. Get off the roof. Get off the roof!" as Shan Yu is about to be blown up. A colder variant occurs when everyone's outrunning the avalanche.
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Mulan / Disney / int_c1cef253	type	Nice, Mean, and In-Between
Mulan / Disney / int_c1cef253	comment	Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Mulan's three friends among her fellow soldiers count as this during boot camp. Namely, Chien-Po is the nicest one of the bunch; Yao is the hot-tempered bully; and Ling is somewhere in the middle. They all become Fire-Forged Friends in the course of the training montage.
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Mulan / Disney / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Mulan / Disney / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: Mulan and the other named soldiers become close friends. Even after she's unmasked, they take her seriously, and follow her lead into the final battle.
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Mulan / Disney / int_c3b51bb3	type	You Are Better Than You Think You Are
Mulan / Disney / int_c3b51bb3	comment	You Are Better Than You Think You Are: After Chi Fu delivers a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Shang, who accepts it with Tranquil Fury, Mulan tells Shang that she thinks he is a great captain. Shang looks softened by this, though due to his position, he can't answer. When Mushu confesses to a depressed Mulan that the ancestors didn't send him, he tells her that whereas she risked her life to save her father, he risked her life to get his guardian job back. "At least you had good intentions."
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Mulan / Disney / int_c3fc812d	type	Wuxia
Mulan / Disney / int_c3fc812d	comment	Wuxia: Set in an indeterminate era of medieval/ancient China, in an indeterminate part, with several fantastical elements such as dragons and ancestral spirits, this movie fits this to a T, though nobody generally thinks of it as one.
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Mulan / Disney / int_c403db7a	type	UnfamiliarCeiling
Mulan / Disney / int_c403db7a	comment	Unfamiliar Ceiling: Following Mulan being stabbed just before the avalanche, she passes out and awakens in the infirmary tent, though it is unknown how much time has passed.
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Mulan / Disney / int_c435ec5d	type	Aesop Amnesia
Mulan / Disney / int_c435ec5d	comment	Aesop Amnesia: Despite Mulan ultimately returning home in triumph, proving that a woman can do more with her life than be a wife and mother, all the women of her village care about is that while singlehandedly saving the country, she incidentally caught the eye of a handsome suitor more to her liking than the local boys while doing so.
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Mulan / Disney / int_c5ef2d50	type	Cringe Comedy
Mulan / Disney / int_c5ef2d50	comment	The entire sequence of Mulan trying to bathe in the river, while avoiding her equally naked soldier friends, is played for Cringe Comedy.
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Mulan / Disney / int_c738a00b	type	Truth-Telling Session
Mulan / Disney / int_c738a00b	comment	Truth-Telling Session: Mulan, Mushu, and Cri-kee have a very cathartic one after they hit Rock Bottom. Mulan says that she wanted to prove that she could do something right after failing with the matchmaker, not just to save her father. Mushu says that her ancestors neither sent him nor like him. Cri-kee, while crying, confesses that he's not really lucky. It ends with a hug.
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Mulan / Disney / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Mulan / Disney / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The families Chi-Fu calls to claim their conscription notices are the names of Disney animators, Mulan's alter-ego is named after Sai Ping Lok, another Disney Studios employee who did background work and research for the movie. When Mushu goes to secure the fireworks for the final plan: The doll the Huns use to find the village, and again when Shang's company find the razed remains of said village, is the same as a doll found in similar circumstances in Nausicaa. An Asian Action Hero fights bad guys while paired up with a wisecracking black guy. Didn't I see this last year? This line when Mushu is waking up Mulan: Two of the ancestors look remarkably like the American Gothic Couple.
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Mulan / Disney / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Mulan / Disney / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Perhaps General Li and his troops would have survived if he hadn't told Shang he was heading to the Tung Shao Pass to stop Shan Yu. Mulan and the Guy Trio don't say anything onscreen about how to get into the palace, save the emperor, and defeat Shan Yu. They just enact the plan as if they had. Slightly justified, given that Mulan specifically says she's making it up on the fly.
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Mulan / Disney / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
Mulan / Disney / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: When Shang is promoted captain and is about to step out of his tent.
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Mulan / Disney / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Mulan / Disney / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: While pretending to be a man, Mulan appears to be this to others, but it's caused by a combination of trying to act manly, having to hide her gender, and being sabotaged by the others after making an initial bad impression.
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Mulan / Disney / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Mulan / Disney / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Li Shang intends to use the last of his cannons on Shan Yu. Mulan has a better idea: causing an avalanche that will almost certainly kill her and everyone else in Li Shang's troop, but also the Hun army.
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Mulan / Disney / int_caf8c66c	type	TheChainsOfCommanding
Mulan / Disney / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: Due to being captain, Shang can't go easy on any of his recruits and has to whip them into shape. He doesn't fraternize with any of them, not even for baths, and doesn't respond to Mulan complimenting him for being a good captain. He is also the one honor-bound to execute Mulan for impersonating a man, even after she single-handedly won the victory and saved him personally.
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Mulan / Disney / int_cb0743c0	type	Lame Pun Reaction
Mulan / Disney / int_cb0743c0	comment	Lame Pun Reaction: The recruits on the first day of training.
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Mulan / Disney / int_cc3c365f	type	Goofy Print Underwear
Mulan / Disney / int_cc3c365f	comment	Goofy Print Underwear: One of the soldiers is wearing anachronistic clothing and it falls on Mushu's face.
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Mulan / Disney / int_cd682fe1	type	Dodge the Bullet
Mulan / Disney / int_cd682fe1	comment	Dodge the Bullet: Part of the training for the new recruits is to learn to run through a hail of burning arrows without being hit. This starts as an inversion in that when they are no good at it they do some actual dodging, but once he's got the hang of it, Yao runs through without being hit and without making any visible effort to dodge.
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Mulan / Disney / int_ce27dc3f	type	Protagonist Title
Mulan / Disney / int_ce27dc3f	comment	Protagonist Title: "Mulan" is the name of the heroine.
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Mulan / Disney / int_ceabe589	type	Incoming Ham
Mulan / Disney / int_ceabe589	comment	Incoming Ham: Mushu's "IIIIIIIIIII LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"
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Mulan / Disney / int_cf2cef75	type	Silly Animal Sound
Mulan / Disney / int_cf2cef75	comment	Silly Animal Sound: After losing all his feathers, Hayabusa clucks like a chicken.
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Mulan / Disney / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Mulan / Disney / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Shang brushes off Mulan's concerns that Shan Yu and some of the other Huns have survived the avalanche. She is vindicated when Shan Yu dramatically reappears, kidnaps the emperor in full view, and seizes the palace.
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Mulan / Disney / int_cff3f6b0	type	Hit You So Hard, Your X Will Feel It!
Mulan / Disney / int_cff3f6b0	comment	Hit You So Hard, Your X Will Feel It!: Mushu tells Mulan that punching and butt-slapping are a form of friendly gesture among men. Mulan does this to Yao in the wrong way, and naturally, it causes a stir in Yao's rather short temper.
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Mulan / Disney / int_d112f7ec	type	"Oh, Crap!" Smile
Mulan / Disney / int_d112f7ec	comment	"Oh, Crap!" Smile: During "I'll Make A Man Out Of You", Shang catches Mulan cheating by putting apples on her arrows (courtesy of Mushu). Mulan reacts with the awkward smile pictured in the trope page.
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Mulan / Disney / int_d21a93f4	type	Hand Gagging
Mulan / Disney / int_d21a93f4	comment	Hand Gagging: Mulan briefly silences Mushu this way during his "dishonor" rant.
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Mulan / Disney / int_d3427b48	type	YamatoNadeshiko
Mulan / Disney / int_d3427b48	comment	Yamato Nadeshiko: Mulan, herself, plays with the trope. She has the looks, is extremely devoted to her parents, and desperately tries to fit in as a perfectly feminine and demure daughter... without much success. However, when she learns that her old and infirm father will have to go to war against the Huns, she shows the core of steel part by dressing up as a man and taking his place, not for glory or to rebel against her family but to save her dad's life and the family honor.
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Mulan / Disney / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Mulan / Disney / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: What makes Mulan unusual from other Disney heroines is that she is very imperfect, and other characters note that she messes up a lot: Her mother calls her out for arriving late on matchmaking day, the one day she needs to be on time. Fa Li starts by giving Mulan a Death Glare, telling her the bathwater would have been warm if she arrived on time and rushing her to the cosmetologists who quickly clean her up. The matchmaker tells her off for setting her on fire. No one contradicts the matchmaker because that was Mulan's fault. Fa Zhou angrily tells Mulan she's dishonoring him by contradicting the emperor's representative. She's immediately cowed. Shang gets a slew of these; he yells at "Ping" for starting a brawl and causing a mess, even if Mulan was only following Mushu's advice. He also glares at Ping for cheating at shooting fruits with arrows — Mushu's doing but Mulan is responsible — and eventually kicks "him" out at the army for being incompetent. It is subverted when he finds out Ping is a woman and he's angry that she lied to him; she points out that he said he would trust Ping, and eventually he follows her lead to save the emperor.
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Mulan / Disney / int_d5929047	type	Revealing Injury
Mulan / Disney / int_d5929047	comment	Revealing Injury: The medic discovers that Mulan is a woman while treating her injuries.
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Mulan / Disney / int_d60bc4a0	type	Longing Look
Mulan / Disney / int_d60bc4a0	comment	Longing Look: What totally gives away Mulan's crush on Shang to Mushu is one of these. She does it a second time after he points it out.
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Mulan / Disney / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
Mulan / Disney / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Training from Hell: The training montage involves running through a field while being shot at by Arrows on Fire.
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Mulan / Disney / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
Mulan / Disney / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kicked Upstairs: It's strongly suggested that General Li gave Shang his own division because the general wanted his son to stay well away from the real fighting — not for incompetence, just a bit too much protective instinct.
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Mulan / Disney / int_d88e125e	type	Our Dragons Are Different
Mulan / Disney / int_d88e125e	comment	Our Dragons Are Different: Mushu is an Eastern dragon, but he is small and has relatively few powers. This may be because he was demoted from a family guardian after he failed. He can, however, breathe fire, a trait more typical of Western dragons.
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Mulan / Disney / int_d8afec40	type	â€¦But He Sounds Handsome
Mulan / Disney / int_d8afec40	comment	...But He Sounds Handsome: The soldiers idly discuss the type of woman they'd like to marry in "A Girl Worth Fighting For". Mulan, disguised as the male Ping, throws in a vote for "How 'bout a girl who's got a brain? Who always speaks her mind?". The men are not impressed.
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Mulan / Disney / int_d97f6f0c	type	Musicalis Interruptus
Mulan / Disney / int_d97f6f0c	comment	Musicalis Interruptus: The end of "A Girl Worth Fighting For" is the strongest, and the most horrifying, example of this trope in the Disney Animated Canon, and possibly the entire genre.
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Mulan / Disney / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Mulan / Disney / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: After going through combat training, Mulan is perfectly capable of taking on adult men hand-to-hand, and even manages to stand against Shan Yu with a bit of cleverness.
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Mulan / Disney / int_dae62ef5	type	Action Hero
Mulan / Disney / int_dae62ef5	comment	An Asian Action Hero fights bad guys while paired up with a wisecracking black guy. Didn't I see this last year?
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Mulan / Disney / int_dbfd6b8	type	Lyrical Dissonance
Mulan / Disney / int_dbfd6b8	comment	Lyrical Dissonance: "I'll Make a Man Out of You" gets more pessimistic, even defeatist, the further it goes while still being a chest-thumping anthem of masculinity.
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Mulan / Disney / int_dc9b1fe9	type	Cue the Sun
Mulan / Disney / int_dc9b1fe9	comment	Cue the Sun: The climax of "I'll Make a Man out of You". Mulan fails the whole training regimen and Shang tells "Ping" to go home. She then sees the arrow at the top of the pole and decides to give it one last try. As she does, the sun rises and the other men come out of their tents and start cheering her on. She succeeds and throws the arrow down to Shang's feet for emphasis, proving she can pull her own weight.
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Mulan / Disney / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Mulan / Disney / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Despite being a Drill Sergeant Nasty, Shang proves to be this. He kicks "Ping" out of the army initially for failing a number of the training exercises, but lets the recruit back in when the latter figures out the weight challenge and retrieves the arrow from the pole. After the recruits pass their training with flying colors, he defends them to Chi-Fu and silently accepts Mulan's compliment that he's a great captain. When Mulan defies orders and steals the last cannon, his first priority is for their safety in seemingly making a suicide run and praises the soldier when he and his men survive the avalanche and what would have been a Curb-Stomp Battle. He also spares Mulan after she's outed, albeit angrily, and when she's proven right about the Huns surviving the avalanche, he defer authority to her to save the emperor. Once Shan Yu is dead, Shang prepares to defend her actions to the emperor. The emperor recognizes the possibility that his standing army may lose to the Huns and so calls up new recruits. Also, although he is furious at Mulan's many transgressions, he recognizes the good she has done.
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Mulan / Disney / int_dcca89a1	type	Gym Class Rope Climb
Mulan / Disney / int_dcca89a1	comment	Gym Class Rope Climb: One of the training exercises is a variation of this; you have to climb a pole and you have to do it with two heavyweights attached to your wrists.
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Mulan / Disney / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
Mulan / Disney / int_dd082289	comment	A Million Is a Statistic: Averted. The massacre of the village and the Imperial army both take place off-screen, and it is still horrific. An Empathy Doll Shot is used to great effect.
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Mulan / Disney / int_e07d3d72	type	Uncle Tomfoolery
Mulan / Disney / int_e07d3d72	comment	Uncle Tomfoolery: Mushu. Roger Ebert said it best: "A black dude in medieval China?" This is more a function of Eddie Murphy's standard roles than anything else.
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Mulan / Disney / int_e0e750b1	type	Shoulder-Sized Dragon
Mulan / Disney / int_e0e750b1	comment	Shoulder-Sized Dragon: Mushu is a rare Eastern dragon example. He insists that he is "travel-sized for your convenience!"
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Mulan / Disney / int_e2a622a7	type	Beleaguered Boss
Mulan / Disney / int_e2a622a7	comment	Beleaguered Boss: Shang is in charge of getting the new recruits into shape, over the course of the Ear Worm "Let's Get Down To Business", better known as "I'll Make A Man Out Of You". Though his efforts go unrewarded at first, the recruits finally shape up once Mulan (the least competent of them all) succeeds in getting an arrow down from a pole, inspiring them.
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Mulan / Disney / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
Mulan / Disney / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy:
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Mulan / Disney / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Mulan / Disney / int_e431c24c	comment	Not Quite Dead: Despite being buried by an avalanche, Shan Yu and several of his men pop right out of the snow! Like daisies!
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Mulan / Disney / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Mulan / Disney / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Starting in the 18th century, French scholar Joseph de Guignes proposed a link between the Huns and the Xiongnu. Since that time, there has been a great effort devoted to investigating such a connection, but there is little consensus on a direct connection between the two peoples. The film pretty much just combines the two peoples: they're called "Huns" but their leader is a "Shan-Yu" (also represented as "Chanyu") and roughly translates to "Majesty Son of Heaven." Also, a rather controversial belief is that the Xiongnu are the ancestors of the Huns. What is done in this movie is pretty much the equivalent of calling the Vikings "Normans."
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Mulan / Disney / int_e4d4633a	type	Shoulders-Up Nudity
Mulan / Disney / int_e4d4633a	comment	Shoulders-Up Nudity: During the "You'll Bring Honor To Us All" sequence, Mulan is put into a tub to be washed and only has her bare shoulders above the water, that are shaking due to the water being cold. Her wet hair also happens to fall down to her chest. During the bathing scene, Mulan is shown undressing behind the foliage that conveniently only goes up to her shoulders. When she's in the water, she keeps her shoulders above the water while the guys often have it up to their waist. When dozens of naked soldier run past Mulan, they're also only seen from the waist up.
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Mulan / Disney / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Mulan / Disney / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: "Dragon, dra-gon, not 'lizard'! I don't do that tongue thing."
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Mulan / Disney / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Mulan / Disney / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Shang dismisses Mulan midway through the "I'll Make A Man Out Of You" segment, which would have relieved Mulan's family of their war duty, but also potentially disgraced them. Mulan refuses to just walk away, and proves she is worthy of being a soldier. Many Huns survive the avalanche and go right back to marching.
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Mulan / Disney / int_e602b55b	type	Shadow Discretion Shot
Mulan / Disney / int_e602b55b	comment	Shadow Discretion Shot: Inverted intentionally as Mushu is trying to be intimidating, but he's not.
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Mulan / Disney / int_e60aad64	type	Spare a Messenger
Mulan / Disney / int_e60aad64	comment	Spare a Messenger: After they are done with their latest massacre, the Huns capture two Chinese scouts. Shan-Yu decides to let them go to carry a challenge back to the emperor. Then he changes his mind on letting them both leave...
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Mulan / Disney / int_e7065d4	type	Weapon Tombstone
Mulan / Disney / int_e7065d4	comment	Weapon Tombstone: When General Li — who also happens to be Shang's father — dies, Shang buries him. In the absence of anything else that hasn't been burned or destroyed, he marks the grave with his father's helmet, placed on his own sword.
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Mulan / Disney / int_e70c45f0	type	All Animals Are Dogs
Mulan / Disney / int_e70c45f0	comment	All Animals Are Dogs: Surprisingly averted for a Disney film that features at least four animal sidekicks (if Mushu counts). Khan doesn't act much like a horse, but neither he nor Cri-kee act like dogs either. The fourth, the villain's falcon, doesn't fare quite so well. After being torched by Mushu and rendered featherless, he starts blatantly acting like a chicken.
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Mulan / Disney / int_e784bb8c	type	Accidental Truth
Mulan / Disney / int_e784bb8c	comment	Accidental Truth: Mushu writes a fake message from General Li saying that Shang's new troops are needed on the front lines. That message turns out to be desperately true: the village to which they arrive has been sacked by the Huns, leaving no one alive — not even the general — among the civilians or the Army.
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Mulan / Disney / int_e8b0f099	type	Dark Is Evil
Mulan / Disney / int_e8b0f099	comment	Dark Is Evil: The Huns are gray skinned and wear all-black. Even their horses are black.
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Mulan / Disney / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Mulan / Disney / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Chi-Fu plays this straight, however, to the extent that he can be considered a villain.
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Mulan / Disney / int_ebfeb3d9	type	"Setting Off" Song
Mulan / Disney / int_ebfeb3d9	comment	"Setting Off" Song: "A Girl Worth Fighting For" is sung while Shang's company head out to meet up with the Imperial Army.
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Mulan / Disney / int_ec4375d	type	Parents Are Wrong
Mulan / Disney / int_ec4375d	comment	Parents Are Wrong: Mulan's parents expect her to be traditionally feminine so she can be a good bride. Mulan eventually proves her mettle as a soldier (and finds a love interest along the way), and her family relents.
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Mulan / Disney / int_ed7817b2	type	Shrine to the Fallen
Mulan / Disney / int_ed7817b2	comment	Shrine to the Fallen: Mushu comes from the Fa family shrine to aid Mulan in her quest. One of her ancestors lost his head somehow. Shang's sword, his father's helmet, and the little girl's doll are left at the village by the Tung Shao Pass.
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Mulan / Disney / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Mulan / Disney / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One Steve Limit: Mentioned when trying to find an alias for Mulan:
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Mulan / Disney / int_effa6875	type	Refrain from Assuming
Mulan / Disney / int_effa6875	comment	Refrain from Assuming: Shang's training song is called "I'll Make a Man Out of You", not "Be a Man" or "We are Man/Men".
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Mulan / Disney / int_f09afb0	type	Digging Yourself Deeper
Mulan / Disney / int_f09afb0	comment	Digging Yourself Deeper: Mulan does this to herself whenever she gets into trouble as Ping because she is flustered and makes further mistakes.
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Mulan / Disney / int_f0b0185e	type	BossFight
Mulan / Disney / int_f0b0185e	comment	Boss Fight: The final fight with Shan Yu. The dude can punch through walls, cut through trees like butter, and power through hard-clay roofs through sheer force of will.
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Mulan / Disney / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Mulan / Disney / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Mulan exploits this to save the emperor. One Hun is besotted with the "ugly" concubines and picks up an apple that Ling drops.
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Mulan / Disney / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
Mulan / Disney / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: The razed village scene, complete with Empathy Doll Shot, is a reality of war.
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Mulan / Disney / int_f26d5e66	type	Brainless Beauty
Mulan / Disney / int_f26d5e66	comment	Mulan's male alias, "Ping", makes his full name "Hua Ping" (花瓶), which is Chinese for "flower vase" but also a figurative term for someone who is "just a pretty face" or, in other words, pretty but useless. Another way of using the term is not derogatory, instead using it to refer to women who are required for a position to be pretty without considering capability.
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Mulan / Disney / int_f38dccf5	type	Strolling Through the Chaos
Mulan / Disney / int_f38dccf5	comment	Strolling Through the Chaos: To show that Cri-Kee is a lucky cricket, Mulan's grandmother crosses a street while covering her eyes. Even Cri-Kee is scared by the ensuing chaos, but she's unharmed and describes it as proof of Cri-Kee's luck.
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Mulan / Disney / int_f522d94b	type	Kneel Before Frodo
Mulan / Disney / int_f522d94b	comment	Kneel Before Frodo: The emperor and then all of China bow to Mulan in the end.
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Mulan / Disney / int_f5e59782	type	A Real Man Is a Killer
Mulan / Disney / int_f5e59782	comment	A Real Man Is a Killer: "I'll Make a Man Out of You".
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Mulan / Disney / int_f64a9cf7	type	EarnYourHappyEnding
Mulan / Disney / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Mulan goes through a lot of hardship, both physical and mental, but ultimately achieves her goal of honoring her family, and then some!
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Mulan / Disney / int_f67171cc	type	Empathy Doll Shot
Mulan / Disney / int_f67171cc	comment	Empathy Doll Shot: Shan Yu's falcon retrieves a doll from a small village that lies in his way. The Huns determine the presence of the imperial army from it and suggest going around, but Shan Yu opts to go through the village because it's the quickest way to the Forbidden City, smirking as he remarks that they should return the doll to the girl who owned it. Later, Mulan discovers the doll in the smoking, empty ruins of the village.
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Mulan / Disney / int_f6cdc27	type	Out Sick
Mulan / Disney / int_f6cdc27	comment	Out Sick: Mulan's dad has a lame leg when the emperor calls for men to push back the Huns, which is what motivates her to go out in his place as a man named Ping.
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Mulan / Disney / int_f7883b17	type	Love Makes You Dumb
Mulan / Disney / int_f7883b17	comment	Love Makes You Dumb: Shang is an incredibly competent and professional soldier, not even letting his father's death distract him from the task at hand. Then he falls all over himself trying to speak to Mulan while she's a girl, but by that point he doesn't really need to be focused on Huns.
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Mulan / Disney / int_f818b637	type	Dude, Where's My Respect?
Mulan / Disney / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: Even after Mulan has single-handedly wiped out the entire Huns army and saved all of China, she loses the trust she's earned from her former allies simply because they find out she's really a woman. It takes her doing it again to regain their trust, and even so, Chi-Fu orders her to be executed.
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Mulan / Disney / int_f82da1de	type	Blade Reflection
Mulan / Disney / int_f82da1de	comment	Blade Reflection: At several moments in the film, Mulan will look at her reflection in her blade or helmet or the Family Ancestor Tablet. It supports the 'reflection' arc word.
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Mulan / Disney / int_f8880124	type	Pervert Revenge Mode
Mulan / Disney / int_f8880124	comment	Pervert Revenge Mode: Mushu: "My eyes can see straight through your armor—" [Mulan slaps him]
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Mulan / Disney / int_f9f2c33	type	RunningGag
Mulan / Disney / int_f9f2c33	comment	Averted for Shan Yu and a handful of other particularly resilient Huns after the avalanche. They pop right back out of the snow.note Like daisies!!
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Mulan / Disney / int_fa6bfde9	type	Have a Gay Old Time
Mulan / Disney / int_fa6bfde9	comment	Have a Gay Old Time: The name Mulan uses while disguised as a boy is Fa Ping. The name is a pun in Chinese as well for a pretty flower vase, as in eye candy; something pretty and useless.
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Mulan / Disney / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License â€“ Physics
Mulan / Disney / int_fc225bec	comment	Artistic License – Physics: The lifesaving scene at the end of the avalanche sequence makes heavy use of this. When Yao and the others are having trouble pulling Mulan to safety, Chien Po steps in and lifts not only Mulan's weight, but also that of Shang, Mushu, the horse, all the other soldiers he's "helping" (they are no longer touching the ground at this point), and all the armor. Additionally, Khan the horse, Mulan, and Shang are all being held up by a single rope, implied to be tied in one knot somewhere on the horse's tack. That's an impressive rope to be able to pull something like 1400 pounds at a dead lift without breaking.
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Mulan / Disney / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Mulan / Disney / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: Mulan is the only Disney princess with a body count... in the thousands.
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Mulan / Disney / int_fd16495f	type	Answer Cut
Mulan / Disney / int_fd16495f	comment	Answer Cut:
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Mulan / Disney / int_fd1f1a63	type	Ridiculously Cute Critter
Mulan / Disney / int_fd1f1a63	comment	Ridiculously Cute Critter: Cri-Kee, the cricket sidekick of Mushu and the luck charm for the Fa family.
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Mulan / Disney / int_fdc83c2c	type	Dead Hat Shot
Mulan / Disney / int_fdc83c2c	comment	Dead Hat Shot: The helmet of Shang's father is found in the snow after the troop reaches the town destroyed by the Huns.
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Mulan / Disney / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Mulan / Disney / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: At the movie's beginning, Mulan shortcuts feeding the chickens by tying a punctured bad of grain to her dog Little Brother's tail, tying a bone to a stick and fixing it to hang in front of his face, and sending him loose to chase the bone in the direction of the chicken coops. At the end, we see that the chickens now associate Little Brother with food. The decapitated ancestor makes a humorous comeback in the ending.
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Mulan / Disney / int_ff5a74c8	comment	Talking Is a Free Action: Averted. Just as Yao is on the verge of saving Mulan and Shang from getting knocked off the cliff by the avalanche by firing a rope-tied arrow to them, he takes the time before grabbing the rope to say out loud that he should grab it, causing him to just miss it.
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Mulan / Disney / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Shan-Yu doesn't even question that "the soldier from the mountains" would be a woman when Mulan reveals herself to him. In Hun society, women were equal with men in many ways, including eligibility to join the army and hunting. It didn't matter that she was a woman; to him, she was just another soldier. The move Mulan uses to disarm Shan Yu with her fan is an actual kung fu move. Fa Zhou is seen practicing a form of tai chi called Mulan Quan - which is named after the original Mulan legend. Crickets are indeed considered a symbol of good luck in China. Magnolias serve as a running motif in the movie. Mulan's name translates as "magnolia".
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