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The Great Wall

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The Great Wall	comment	The Great Wall (長城, Cháng Chéng) is a 2016 epic Historical Fantasy action movie directed by Zhang Yimou featuring Matt Damon as William, Pedro Pascal as Tovar, Jing Tian as Commander Lin Mei, Andy Lau as Strategist Wang and Willem Dafoe as Sir Ballard. It was released in China in December 15th, 2016, and was released in the United States on February 17, 2017.During the Song Dynasty (sometime in the 11th century), European mercenaries William, his friend Tovar and other sellswords are traveling to China in search of the Chinese's revolutionary secret weapon: black powder, a substance said to transform into fire with great force and able to kill ten men in one blast. On their way, their group is decimated by the hill tribes and then a mysterious beast which William and Tovar fortunately manage to slay. The two remaining mercenaries then stumble upon the Great Wall, a massive fortification running along the mountains and guarded by a huge army. Taken prisoner, William and Tovar meet the commanders guarding the wall, among them Lin Mei of the all-female Crane Troops, the only commander able to speak English, and learn that the beast they killed, a Tao Tei, is a mere scout for the great swarm of Tao Tei which scourge the North of China and threaten its capital. As the Great Wall is the capital's only meaningful defense, it is up to the commanders to repel the beasts. For his part, William begins to warm up to the army and cannot stay neutral as they fight, but Tovar is here to remind him that they came to seek black powder, which the army has aplenty.The film is notable for being the first major movie made by Chinese companies in collaboration with American companies and personalities and deliberately aimed at an international market, thus why it features a Westerner as the protagonist and was shot in (mostly) English.
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The Great Wall / int_1161fb48	type	Bizarre Alien Biology
The Great Wall / int_1161fb48	comment	Bizarre Alien Biology: The basic Tao Tei looks like an oversized green dog mutant, but what really makes them look strange is that their eyes are on the shoulders instead of their face. The Tao Tei queen has a head frill that she uses like an antenna to communicate orders to her whole army, and her "guard" have much larger frills that they can extend in a circle, which they use to protect the queen.
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The Great Wall / int_14848fa3	type	Multinational Team
The Great Wall / int_14848fa3	comment	Multinational Team: The group of mercenaries, or at least their remnants seen at the beginning of the film comprises of an Englishman (William), a Spaniard (Tovar), an Arab and an Italian.
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The Great Wall / int_14cdffc9	type	Weaponized Landmark
The Great Wall / int_14cdffc9	comment	Weaponized Land Mark: The Great Wall of China is equipped with many fire catapults and also has an incorporated system of rotating blades in order to stop the Tao Tei from scaling the Wall.
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The Great Wall / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Great Wall / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License – Biology: Probably justified due to their alien nature, as well as their inspiration from Asian mythology, but the Tao Tei's shoulder-mounted eyes are very counterintuitive for a predator. In Real Life, most carnivores have eyes close together and facing forward, to have better binocular vision to aid in hunting prey.
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The Great Wall / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Great Wall / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Crane Troops fight suspended in the air by a rope-and-spar contraption.
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The Great Wall / int_1c398324	type	Death from Above
The Great Wall / int_1c398324	comment	Death from Above: An example as unusual as it is awesome can be found in the Crane Troops, an all-female branch of the Order that basically weaponizes bungee jumping by hurling themselves from the Wall, stabbing as many Tao Tei as possible to death with their spears, then getting pulled up again for another round. The Wall's defenders also make use of more traditional examples like entire catapult batteries loaded with firebombs, and of course thousands of archers for the mandatory Rain of Arrows.
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The Great Wall / int_1c7bed9f	type	Astronomic Zoom
The Great Wall / int_1c7bed9f	comment	Astronomic Zoom: The first shot of the film is a zoom in on the great wall... from outer space.
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The Great Wall / int_1d9099cb	type	Deadly Disc
The Great Wall / int_1d9099cb	comment	Deadly Disc: The Order's foot soldiers wield ornate circular shields ringed with sharp blades, which essentially makes the things buzzsaw blades with a handle. They're shown to be frighteningly effective as a melee weapon, too, and William even catches, then throws one at a Tao Tei with a proficiency that would make Captain America proud.
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The Great Wall / int_21d41a5b	type	Praetorian Guard
The Great Wall / int_21d41a5b	comment	Praetorian Guard: Specialized Tao Tei are tasked with guarding the Queen. They're notable for being three times more massive than a normal Tao Tei and can deploy a sturdy bone shield which can withstand any bombardment.
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The Great Wall / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
The Great Wall / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: When a Tao Tei drone baited with explosives tries to approach the queen, a pair of guards momentarily hesitate and sniff the drone in question before letting it in, despite said explosives being clearly visible strapped on the drone's body.
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The Great Wall / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
The Great Wall / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: The Nameless Order warms up to William and Tovar considerably after both of them save a foot soldier from a Tao Tei and proceed to fight on the Wall.
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The Great Wall / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Great Wall / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: While this movie is obviously historic fantasy fiction, the fact still remains that the Song Dynasty (960 – 1279 AD) had almost nothing to do with the Great Wall. Never mind that the wall is located in Northern China, in territories controlled by the Liao (907 – 1125 AD), and later Jin (1115 – 1234) Dynasties. The wall as we know it today was reconstructed and renovated under the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644 AD).
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The Great Wall / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
The Great Wall / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: When the Tao Tei pause to heed their queen's command in the first battle, one of the drones in the background gets an eyeful of arrows and drops dead just as it pauses to listen.
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The Great Wall / int_278a8f2b	type	ChildSoldier
The Great Wall / int_278a8f2b	comment	Child Soldier: William was sold to a mercenary band at a young age, and Lin was recruited at 5.
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The Great Wall / int_282a22cc	type	Key Confusion
The Great Wall / int_282a22cc	comment	Key Confusion: When the Tao Tei attack for the first time, William and Tovar are to be locked up, but the soldier responsible can't find the right key on his keyring. They are thus taken up the wall instead.
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The Great Wall / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
The Great Wall / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: The Crane Troops' combat style. As one Chinese netizen put it: "lunch delivery." Bungee jumping off the wall to get in a few quick stabs with a spear before being torn to pieces seems insanely wasteful, and defeats the purpose of having a massive wall in the first place. Damn if it doesn't look cool, though. Playing massive drums using nunchucks. Looks awesome. Would it work in real life? No.
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The Great Wall / int_2ec87029	type	Sadly Mythtaken
The Great Wall / int_2ec87029	comment	Sadly Mythtaken: In the original Chinese legends, the taotie has its eyes located on its armpits. Though it's likely that the film designers simply relocated them to the shoulders as it would admittedly be more "practical" that way.
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The Great Wall / int_31a2a33c	type	Stuff Blowing Up
The Great Wall / int_31a2a33c	comment	Stuff Blowing Up: The Chinese Army's greatest weapon is their black powder. A small quantity of it is enough to blow up one Tao Tei. Lin and William manage to take out the Tao Tei queen with a black powder arrow and several bombs.
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The Great Wall / int_32956961	type	Explosive Breeder
The Great Wall / int_32956961	comment	Explosive Breeder: Subverted with the Tao Tei Queen. She is not really shown giving birth or laying eggs in the film, and she doesn't seem to have any adaptations for quickly producing large numbers of young, so it's likely she can only raise an army rather slowly (which is why they attack only once every sixty years).
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The Great Wall / int_33b4e7f	type	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic
The Great Wall / int_33b4e7f	comment	Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Largely averted. The various commanders (most prominently Lin) are often shown without their helmets, but they suit up as soon as combat is imminent. Played straight, however, during the climax where Lin goes bareheaded, but given the haste of her departure, she probably just didn't have the time to grab it.
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The Great Wall / int_3441859b	type	Rank Scales with Asskicking
The Great Wall / int_3441859b	comment	Rank Scales with Asskicking: The Chinese commanders are also the greatest individual warriors of their troops.
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The Great Wall / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
The Great Wall / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: William is supposed to be an Englishman. Matt Damon's accent, on the other hand, bounces between Irish, Scottish and American.
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The Great Wall / int_35d4beb4	type	Horde of Alien Locusts
The Great Wall / int_35d4beb4	comment	Horde of Alien Locusts: The Tao Tei are a horde of monsters with a Hive Queen who attack in huge numbers and seek to devour everything in their way.
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The Great Wall / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
The Great Wall / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: Bungee jumping and rappelling soldiers? Playing massive war drums with nunchucks? Giant blades that come out of the wall and bisect clambering attackers? Rule of Cool pretty much runs this movie.
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The Great Wall / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
The Great Wall / int_3946634e	comment	The Smart Guy: Strategist Wang is the leading expert on Tao Tei, is responsible for making black powder or miscellaneous concoctions, and tactically counsels the General.
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The Great Wall / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Great Wall / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: William goes from an amoral mercenary out to steal the secret of Chinese black powder, to someone fighting for something bigger than himself who even puts his comrade's well-being over his own personal gain.
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The Great Wall / int_3cd3a0f1	type	Femme Fatalons
The Great Wall / int_3cd3a0f1	comment	Femme Fatalons: The Tao Tei Queen has some wicked-looking claws on her forepaws, though as she never directly takes part in combat we never see them in use.
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The Great Wall / int_3df9c288	type	Keystone Army
The Great Wall / int_3df9c288	comment	Keystone Army: If the Queen dies, Strategist Wang suspects every Tao Tei will perish as well. His suspicions are confirmed at the end, as every Tao Tei stop in their tracks after their queen blows up.
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The Great Wall / int_3ec27f76	type	Costume Porn
The Great Wall / int_3ec27f76	comment	Costume Porn: Par for the course for a movie set in ancient China and made with heavy Chinese influence. Every single soldier defending the wall wears beautifully crafted, insanely ornate armor in vibrant colors, and with a cape to boot. Everyone. Even the emperor's gorgeous golden robe pales in comparison to that.
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The Great Wall / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
The Great Wall / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: The Tao Tei's traditional tactic is to multiply and then throw themselves at the Great Wall to overrun the defenders. It's ultimately subverted, as the attacks are only a diversion while they dig a tunnel underneath the Wall. It doesn't help that every single Tao Tei is a Made of Iron one-monster army capable of devastating whole squads on its own.
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The Great Wall / int_43f2f606	type	Annoying Arrows
The Great Wall / int_43f2f606	comment	Annoying Arrows: Played completely straight. Being peppered with a dozen or more heavy arrows doesn't even slow a Tao Tei down, least of all weaken it. Only those hit by one of the huge barbed harpoons are affected, and then more from being bound by the chain attached limiting their movement. Only a clean hit in the eye can do them in.
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The Great Wall / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Great Wall / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: That one individual Tao Tei who over the course of the movie is shot in the ass with a drugged spear, caged and taken to the palace, paralyzed by a magnet, baited with explosives, thrown around by the Queen's guards, and ultimately is struck by General Lin's spear and blows up along with the Queen. You almost feel bad for the poor guy.
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The Great Wall / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
The Great Wall / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: The mountainous landscapes of Northern China are milked for all they're worth, from the bright red hills to the eerie foggy summits looking like a traditional Chinese ink painting.
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The Great Wall / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Great Wall / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Used extensively. There's actually a surprising amount of blood in the movie, but we only ever get to see it from afar or in the aftermath of battles. When the Tao Tei maul humans to death, the victims are either quickly buried under hordes of monsters, or the camera cuts away from the (presumably) horrific sight.
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The Great Wall / int_4e6e9b64	type	A Child Shall Lead Them
The Great Wall / int_4e6e9b64	comment	A Child Shall Lead Them: A decidedly unflattering example in the Chinese emperor, who's a spoiled, cowardly brat of a teenager.
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The Great Wall / int_5029c444	type	Audible Sharpness
The Great Wall / int_5029c444	comment	Audible Sharpness: Strangely, the Tao Tei queen's guards when they open their frills.
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The Great Wall / int_50d71a78	type	Dual Wielding
The Great Wall / int_50d71a78	comment	Dual Wielding: Commander Lin dual wields spears in a showcase of Rank Scales with Asskicking. Tovar dual-wields swords — a scimitar and a European longsword with Christian symbols carved into it that looks like it saw action in the Crusades.
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The Great Wall / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
The Great Wall / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: The Nameless Order are equipped with many weapons and miscellaneous tools to fight in every possible situation. Justified since one failure means China, and eventually the rest of the world, is doomed. Among their strangest contraptions are whistling arrows and giant ear trumpets to detect Tao Tei via sound when the mountains become foggy.
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The Great Wall / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
The Great Wall / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: The Universal logo zooms into China, going all the way to a section of the Great Wall and through a crack in the section, seen here.
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The Great Wall / int_55ab1be5	type	Royal Brat
The Great Wall / int_55ab1be5	comment	Royal Brat: The emperor is a textbook example.
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The Great Wall / int_590e1c70	type	Frontline General
The Great Wall / int_590e1c70	comment	Frontline General: The commanders all fight beside their troops. It eventually costs General Zhao his life when he fights a Tao Tei. The Tao Tei Queen herself, who emerges from the mountain to accompany her troops, and charges at the head of the swarm when they finally lay siege to the capital.
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The Great Wall / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
The Great Wall / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Mercenaries from different nations have teamed up to travel to China as the journey is extremely dangerous, between the harsh weather and the bandits. Tovar comments that under other circumstances, they would all be at each others' throats.
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The Great Wall / int_5c446b43	type	Aliens in Cardiff
The Great Wall / int_5c446b43	comment	Aliens in Cardiff: Aliens in the northern border of China.
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The Great Wall / int_5e7eb915	type	Clarke's Third Law
The Great Wall / int_5e7eb915	comment	Clarke's Third Law: The Chinese may only see their black powder as a chemical concoction, but Sir Ballard presents it as "transmutation of the elements". It should be noted that both "chemistry" and "alchemy" derive from the Arabic "al-kimiya" and were initially understood as the same area of study (Newton, for instance, was an early scientist but also an alchemist), and that the formula for gunpowder was likely accidentally discovered by Chinese alchemists, so it makes sense for people of this era to see chemistry and alchemy as linked.
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The Great Wall / int_61a503a7	type	Hell Is That Noise
The Great Wall / int_61a503a7	comment	Hell Is That Noise: The Tao Tei queen has an eerie and distinctive call which she uses to signal her drones.
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The Great Wall / int_61c3ca7b	type	Panthera Awesome
The Great Wall / int_61c3ca7b	comment	Panthera Awesome: In comparison to her brutish, canid drones, the Tao Tei queen has a sleek, elegant, cheetah-like build and gait, rather surprising given that all she does is eat and give birth.
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The Great Wall / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: None of the characters have any extraordinary attributes besides courage and determination. The closest example is William's archery, but even that is implied to just be a fundamental difference in his skillset versus the Chinese (he specializes in single-target shots, while they have to use massed techniques to deal with the Tao Tei horde).
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The Great Wall / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
The Great Wall / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: A recurring occurrence, as General Zhao puts himself in a Tao Tei's way to save Lin, the young nameless soldier blows himself up to stop a band of Tao Tei, and Wang tosses the precious magnet to Lin so that she can be protected as she tries to kill the Queen and is devoured by the Tao Tei.
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The Great Wall / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Great Wall / int_65acf9db	comment	He Knows Too Much: Sir Ballard was a (relatively free) prisoner of the Great Wall for 25 years because he knows of the black powder, a military secret so important the Chinese are reluctant to use it against the Tao Tei. When William sees some black powder weapons be used, Lin implies that now he can't be allowed to leave either.
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The Great Wall / int_68424916	type	Eating the Eye Candy
The Great Wall / int_68424916	comment	Eating the Eye Candy: When William puts on some clothes after being taken care of by the doctors, Commander Lin sneaks a peek at his muscled back.
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The Great Wall / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Great Wall / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: Lin and William discuss each other's lives, and see that they've lived all their lives in war. However, whereas Lin fought for her country and trusts her comrades, William is a mercenary and only trusts coin, thus leading to them saying that they're actually different. At the end of the movie, after William's character development, he comments that they were wrong and that he and Lin are really the same kind of people deep down.
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The Great Wall / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Great Wall / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Despite being explicitly told to "aim for the eyes", William spears a Tao Tei down the throat, twice. He predictably almost gets eaten.
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The Great Wall / int_72a3f091	type	Giant Eye of Doom
The Great Wall / int_72a3f091	comment	Giant Eye of Doom: Featured prominently in one teaser poster, and actually does a good job at concealing the uncanny location of said eyes.
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The Great Wall / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
The Great Wall / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: The Great Wall of China itself is this. In the movie it is presented as a sophisticated fortification manned by many soldiers, and comprises many war machines, traps and hidden passages, not to mention it is many times bigger (both height and width) than in real life.
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The Great Wall / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
The Great Wall / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: The nameless rookie soldier that William saves early on (and encourages) later offers up crucial testimony to save William's life, and performs a Heroic Sacrifice to save William, Lin and Wang during the final battle.
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The Great Wall / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
The Great Wall / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: An In-Universe example noted by Tovar. Each specialized branch of the Nameless Order wears vibrantly colored armor. Blue is for Crane Troops, red for Eagle Troops, black for close-quarter Bear Troops, bronze for the Tiger Troops (artillery engineers), and magenta for the Deer Troops (who act as mobile infantry). Generals Zhao (and Lin) wear dark silver. Tao Teis are symbolized with a sickly green instead.
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The Great Wall / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
The Great Wall / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: The Tao Tei's sole weakness is their eyes, something the Wall's defenders are well aware of and do everything they can to exploit.
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The Great Wall / int_8272ed55	type	Hive Queen
The Great Wall / int_8272ed55	comment	Hive Queen: The Tao Tei have a Queen which directs them in battle and gives birth to more Tao Tei.
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The Great Wall / int_881b90be	type	Bling of War
The Great Wall / int_881b90be	comment	Bling of War: The Chinese Army wears highly ornate and brightly colored armors meant to represent various animals that also reflect in their names, like the Crane Troops for instance.
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The Great Wall / int_8878f3be	type	Badass Army
The Great Wall / int_8878f3be	comment	Badass Army: The Nameless Order, the Chinese army guarding the Great Wall. They are a well-drilled formation numbering in the tens of thousands and though a Tao Tei is mightier than ten men, superior discipline and training (not to mention that huge wall giving them the advantage of the terrain) allowed the Order to successfully repel the Tao Tei every sixty years for millennia.
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The Great Wall / int_88799cf4	type	Badass Cape
The Great Wall / int_88799cf4	comment	Badass Cape: Every soldier of the Nameless Order, even the lowliest footslogger, wears one. It only gets more badass from there.
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The Great Wall / int_89a17726	type	Spell My Name with an S
The Great Wall / int_89a17726	comment	Spell My Name with an S: Viewers well-versed in Classical Chinese culture would be able to recognize that the Tao Tei are based on the Taotie, whose English name is based on the modern Chinese pronunciation of the word in pinyin. The word used in the movie is closer to an approximation of the same word in Middle Chinese, and as such, could result in a few inconsistencies regarding how to spell it since "Tei" is not a valid pinyin spelling.
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The Great Wall / int_8f0dc93c	type	Dangerous Forbidden Technique
The Great Wall / int_8f0dc93c	comment	Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Using balloons to travel from the Wall to anywhere else. They can make a two days long horse ride in six hours but the balloons are incredibly unsafe and prone to catching fire.
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The Great Wall / int_8f5247eb	type	Arrow Cam
The Great Wall / int_8f5247eb	comment	Arrow Cam: Done several times to spectacular effect.
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The Great Wall / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Great Wall / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: Sir Ballard, who's stolen black powder from the Chinese and proceeded to betray Tovar, is captured by the hill tribes then dies when a bomb falls into the fire near him and explodes.
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The Great Wall / int_9600368d	type	Behind the Black
The Great Wall / int_9600368d	comment	Behind the Black: Is it amazing how close William and Tovar get to the wall before noticing it. Despite the reverse angle making it clear there was nothing obstructing their line of sight of it they get within about a stone's throw of the gate before The Nameless Legion's Twang Hello.
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The Great Wall / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
The Great Wall / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: In the first battle that we see, one of the Crane Corps soldiers continues hacking and slashing away at the Tao Tei swarming her even as she's being torn apart piece by piece.
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The Great Wall / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Great Wall / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Tao Tei Queen.
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The Great Wall / int_974b47a7	type	Men Are the Expendable Gender
The Great Wall / int_974b47a7	comment	Men Are the Expendable Gender: Subverted. While the vast majority of the forces at the Wall are men, the Crane Troops are made entirely of women due to being lighter for their duty (to bungee-jump down the Wall to kill Tao Tei trying to climb it). They have one of the most dangerous jobs, and their casualties are appropriately high.
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The Great Wall / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Great Wall / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Actually a persistent object of discussion between William and Lin. First it's used by him, then rebutted by her in the same conversation, and eventually amicably confirmed by both.
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The Great Wall / int_9a5ae2a2	type	More Teeth than the Osmond Family
The Great Wall / int_9a5ae2a2	comment	More Teeth than the Osmond Family: A single Tao Tei has shark-like teeth organized in several rows in the mouth. The Queen has such long and prominent teeth that she can't actually close her mouth properly and is left with a permanent sneer.
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The Great Wall / int_9aebded4	type	Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow
The Great Wall / int_9aebded4	comment	Mighty Whitey and Mellow Yellow: Averted again. Lin is put in a position of power over William at first, and then they stand on equal footing. At the end, no romance comes out of their relationship although it's implied they have feelings for each other, but they respect deeply each other's valour.
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The Great Wall / int_9c1f758a	type	Kill It with Fire
The Great Wall / int_9c1f758a	comment	Kill It with Fire: The Chinese use an abundant quantity of fire to repel the Tao Tei, but it's not a particular weakness of theirs.
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The Great Wall / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
The Great Wall / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: The Tao Tei are nearly impervious to bodily harm. Even shoving a giant spear down their throat barely slows them down. Only attacking the eyes, or inflicting truly massive physical trauma (like shearing them in half) can kill them.
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The Great Wall / int_9f842947	type	Alternate Landmark History
The Great Wall / int_9f842947	comment	Alternate Landmark History: The Great Wall was built and used to repel an invasion of alien monsters, unbeknownst to the world outside China.
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The Great Wall / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Great Wall / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: Their eyes are the Tao Tei's sole weak spot, so naturally a lot of them get popped in welters of blood.
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The Great Wall / int_a54c2273	type	Dented Iron
The Great Wall / int_a54c2273	comment	Dented Iron: William takes his shirt off after the first battle, which lets Lin see plenty of old scars he has in his back.
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The Great Wall / int_a74d419a	type	Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway
The Great Wall / int_a74d419a	comment	Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway: The hot-air balloons. Well, they apparently did test them since they know there's a very high chance of the things (and everyone aboard) going up in flames, but the technology is definitely not yet ready for field deployment. Lin decides to take the risk anyway since at that point it's the only option she has.
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The Great Wall / int_a86b13a9	type	Drums of War
The Great Wall / int_a86b13a9	comment	Drums of War: The Nameless Order uses an entire drum squad to transmit orders. They stand on top of the tower not caring about things like firing catapults and rushing monsters, start a few pieces of soundtrack and use nunchaku for drumsticks.
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The Great Wall / int_a8826e1e	type	Giant Mook
The Great Wall / int_a8826e1e	comment	Giant Mook: The Tao Tei queen's Praetorian Guard absolutely towers both over her and her countless lesser minions.
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The Great Wall / int_abafa9b6	type	Peeling Potatoes
The Great Wall / int_abafa9b6	comment	Peeling Potatoes: A young soldier is sent to the kitchens after he screws up in front of the brass, embarrassing his superior officer in the process. We actually see him working there later, wearing a white apron — over his heavy black armor.
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The Great Wall / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Great Wall / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: William and Tovar have this reaction when they openly discuss their escape plan in the presence of the Chinese-speaking Order commanders, only to realize that Lin understands what they're saying when she suddenly addresses them in English. Followed up amusingly a few minutes later when Tovar insults Lin behind her back in Spanish. The Tao Tei Queen herself, as she realizes the lighted arrow has penetrated the guards' shields. She frantically chews on the arrow to extinguish it, only for it to blow up in her face.
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The Great Wall / int_b1bf431c	type	Go for the Eye
The Great Wall / int_b1bf431c	comment	Go for the Eye: Tao Tei can still rampage with a spear down their throat, but a single arrow in the eye is a mortal blow.
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The Great Wall / int_b40f5b51	type	Secret Weapon
The Great Wall / int_b40f5b51	comment	Secret Weapon: The black powder is treated as this by the Chinese Army.
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The Great Wall / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Great Wall / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Sure, take the captured monstrosity that's known to have a telepathic link to its queen straight to the emperor and into the very heart of the Chinese capital, the one place you've fought and died to keep the Tao Tei away from for twenty centuries. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?. In case you're wondering, what goes wrong is that the court scientists, in the course of investigating the distance at which a magnet will incapacitate a Tao Tei, allow it to signal its location to the queen, who immediately directs her children that way.
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The Great Wall / int_b6064061	type	Power of Trust
The Great Wall / int_b6064061	comment	Power of Trust: It's hammered down that the Chinese Army's efficiency is founded on the trust that every other member will fulfill their duty, allowing a soldier to focus on his own task. This trust goes a long way since when William is accused of having tried to steal black powder, General Lin is willing to listen to the testimony of a simple foot soldier who saw that William wasn't part of the heist.
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The Great Wall / int_ba5436eb	type	The Great Wall
The Great Wall / int_ba5436eb	comment	The Great Wall: The Great Wall of China itself is the centerpiece of the movie.
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The Great Wall / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
The Great Wall / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: William never misses his target during the entire movie. He's able to hit the eye of a moving Tao Tei under any circumstances, but his most impressive display of archery is being able to bounce a bowl into a pillar with an arrow and shoot two arrows underneath it to support it. The whole crowd of soldiers watching is naturally impressed. The two times his arrows don't find their mark aren't actually his fault.
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The Great Wall / int_c09dbbbb	type	Weaksauce Weakness
The Great Wall / int_c09dbbbb	comment	Weaksauce Weakness: Tao Tei are susceptible to magnetized iron. Wang theorizes its energy isolates them from the Queen's mind control and without command, a Tao Tei simply sits still even as soldiers kill it.
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The Great Wall / int_c2f7db18	type	Alien Blood
The Great Wall / int_c2f7db18	comment	Alien Blood: The Tao Tei bleed green blood.
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The Great Wall / int_c3bdeeda	type	She-Fu
The Great Wall / int_c3bdeeda	comment	She-Fu: Lin does an unnecessary but cool-looking backflip the second time she jumps from the Wall, contrasting the other Crane Troops who take bog-standard headers instead.
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The Great Wall / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
The Great Wall / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: "and Andy Lau".
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The Great Wall / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Great Wall / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Eyes on the shoulders aside, the normal Tao Tei look an awful lot like Mutant Hounds from Fallout 4. Similar to World War Z, the Tao Tei form living ladders made from their own bodies in order to reach the top of the wall. Matt Damon's character talks about being left behind before, doubling as Actor Allusion. The Tao Tei Queen's guards bear some resemblance to Leatherback.
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The Great Wall / int_c7f294da	type	Large and in Charge
The Great Wall / int_c7f294da	comment	Large and in Charge: The Tao Tei Queen is noticeably bigger than her drones, though not by much.
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The Great Wall / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
The Great Wall / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: Tao Tei are easily mistaken for mindless beasts, but their Queen commands them efficiently and they still individually have the cunning of a predator. One early example of their intelligence is that they take back any fallen Tao Tei in order to prevent the Chinese from studying their weaknesses.
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The Great Wall / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
The Great Wall / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: The Imperial Court is presented this way. The Emperor is a spoiled brat surrounded by counselors more preoccupied with currying favor than actually working against the Tao Tei.
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The Great Wall / int_cab5085a	type	Rain of Arrows
The Great Wall / int_cab5085a	comment	Rain of Arrows: No Chinese-influenced historical epic would be complete without at least one.
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The Great Wall / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
The Great Wall / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: The nameless young soldier, heavily but not mortally wounded already, pulls a Heroic Sacrifice this way by detonating a black powder charge to buy the heroes more time, taking out several Tao Tei in the process. Even Lin looks equal parts impressed and distressed at the sight.
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The Great Wall / int_cb1f5db5	type	Feed It a Bomb
The Great Wall / int_cb1f5db5	comment	Feed It a Bomb: One of the few effective ways of killing a Tao Tei.
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The Great Wall / int_cb5a0181	type	Where's the Kaboom?
The Great Wall / int_cb5a0181	comment	Where's the Kaboom?: When Ballard and Tovar try to break into Wang's office, they use a stick of black powder to blow up the lock but the explosion doesn't seem to come even if the fuse is spent. Ballard tells Tovar to check and immediately after he steps up, the sticks explode. After General Lin succeeds in throwing the explosives into the Queen, there is a delayed reaction before the bomb goes off and kills her.
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The Great Wall / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Great Wall / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Are the Tao Tei really divine retribution sent by the gods to punish mankind? Or simply a random coincidence of an alien invasion happening during a tyrannical emperor's reign? The film leaves either option ambiguous.
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The Great Wall / int_d028e0da	type	An Arm and a Leg
The Great Wall / int_d028e0da	comment	An Arm and a Leg: William hacking off a Tao Tei's clawed arm without even knowing what he just fought there soon turns into an important plot point. Apart from that, we have several people being torn limb from limb by Tao Tei.
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The Great Wall / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Tovar constantly belittles and insults William, who shrugs it off since Tovar is still ready to jump into battle to save him. At the end, after Tovar is captured by the Army, William intervenes to grant him amnesty.
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The Great Wall / int_d9d2c40b	comment	Amazon Brigade: The Crane Troop is composed entirely of women because their role is to jump down the Wall attached to a rope to fight the Tao Tei. A man is heavier and thus would have more difficulty being reeled up by the engineers. This is lampshaded by one of them when Lin offers to let William try it during a lull in the fighting.
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The Great Wall / int_db911ee	comment	Field Promotion: When General Zhao is fatally wounded by a Tao Tei, his last act is to name Commander Lin the new General of the Nameless Order. By the end of the film, she's traded in her blue Crane Troops armor for a dark silver suit identical to his (except fitted to a woman's body).
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The Great Wall / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: The Nameless Order's entire command staff certainly counts. They're understandably wary of the shifty foreigners that just showed up at their doorstep chased by indigenous riders, but they're equally willing to listen to Strategist Wang's reasonable arguments. Once William and Tovar have proven themselves in battle, they're warmly welcomed into the fold and given free rein of the Wall. Even after Tovar and Ballard abscond with the secrets of Chinese black powder and leave William behind to take the blame, a furious Lin accepts the testimony of the very same lowly foot soldier who didn't exactly distinguish himself up to this point, and merely imprisons William instead of having him executed right away.
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The Great Wall / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: William and Lin share many tender moments which seem like they could lead into a romantic relationship. It doesn't go anywhere, and at the end of the movie William departs for Europe, though he does intend to come back.
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The Great Wall / int_dd608502	comment	Hell Hound: The canid-like Tao Tei evoke this.
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The Great Wall / int_e0c00a95	comment	Absurdly Sharp Blade: The Wall has built-in blade traps to kill Tao Tei attempting to mount it. They cut through the ridiculously sturdy monsters like a hot knife through butter.
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The Great Wall / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
The Great Wall / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: The Tao Tei Queen is perfectly willing to order a retreat when she sees her Zerg Rush tactics don't work.
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The Great Wall / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: The Nameless Order consists of several military branches that are named after animals, like Crane Troops, Eagle Troops and so on. Their armor designs reflect these motifs, most notably the respective commanders' helmets.
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The Great Wall / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: William and Tovar fight together so well they can kill a Tao Tei better than a dozen soldiers.
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The Great Wall / int_e63228a7	comment	Info Dump: A lot of information and the implications of something that's happened on screen are stated. William and Tovar notably discuss out loud what role each color-coded branch of the Chinese Army fills for no real reason.
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The Great Wall / int_e73f6217	comment	Feet-First Introduction: The entrance of the Tao Tei Queen, as she enters the battlefield during the first battle.
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The Great Wall / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Happens twice during the film. The first time, Tovar jumps to rescue William who is fighting the Tao Tei in the fog. The second time, William rescues Lin as she's about to be devoured by several Tao Tei.
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The Great Wall / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: General Zhao promotes Commander Lin to General of the Nameless Order when he's fatally wounded by a Tao Tei.
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The Great Wall / int_eeb2d092	comment	Killer Gorilla: The Tao Tei Queen's guards are bulky and ape-like brutes, roughly the size of large elephants.
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The Great Wall / int_ef0f881b	comment	Trick Arrow: The Chinese have explosive arrows, but also special arrows on which whistles are attached in order to detect any Tao Tei hit by a whistling arrow.
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The Great Wall / int_f56aeb67	comment	Alien Invasion: The Tao Tei came with a comet. Their presence could be seen as this, but Chinese legend interprets them as retribution from the gods to the same greedy Emperor who built the wall.
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The Great Wall / int_f82da1de	comment	Blade Reflection: Put to practical use during the night ambush on the wall. As their troops face the Tao Tei approaching from the front, General Shao and Commander Lin spot the one flanking them from behind in their blades' reflections.
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The Great Wall / int_f8d5904	comment	The Minion Master: The Tao Tei queen, who controls her individually weak, but innumerable children, who without her instruction are completely mindless and fall still.
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The Great Wall / int_fd8e3e9d	comment	World of Action Girls: Commander Lin, and by extension the all-female Crane Troops, who leap down the Great Wall to fight the Tao Tei up close. Their attrition rate is naturally very high but they jump anyway.
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The Great Wall / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
The Great Wall / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Lin looks absolutely great from her introduction scene until the credits roll. Her repeated bungee jumps into hordes of slavering monsters don't even manage to dishevel her stylish hairdo, least of all net her a scratch. The same is true for her soldiers (those that don't get eaten, that is). Lin does get a tiny bit of dirt on her face during the climax, but that's about it.
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The Great Wall / int_fed07537	type	Mighty Whitey
The Great Wall / int_fed07537	comment	Mighty Whitey: Zigzagged. It's William who learns a lesson about fighting for more than himself and trusting his comrades from the Chinese, although he does contribute heavily to the fight against the Tao Tei, killing several in his first encounters despite knowing nothing about them while the Chinese have trained their entire lives but go down easily for the most part. Overall, William is less a savior and more a foil to the Chinese; both are brave and heroic, but the Chinese fight for a unified purpose while William owes allegiance to no one. His usefulness also mostly stems from his travels around the world and picking up knowledge along the way, such as whale hunting which is utilized later on. Some netizens in China actually refer to him as a glorified tour guide of the awesomeness that is ancient (fantasy) China.
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