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The Inspector Wears Skirts

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The Inspector Wears Skirts	comment	The Inspector Wears Skirts is a series of movies revolving around a team of all-female police trainees, led by Inspector Wu (Sibelle Hu) and her American colleague and partner, Madam Law (Cynthia Rothrock). Inspired by the Police Academy series, The Inspector Wears Skirts and its sequels are close to a Gender Flipped remake with more emphasis on comedy and slapstick aspects, and with plenty of Action Girl actresses - mostly familiar faces from late 80s and early 90s Girls with Guns movies, such as Moon Lee, Cynthia Khan, Kara Wai, Michiko Nishiwaki, and the like showing up in random installments of the (mostly short-lived) franchise.Sibelle Hu is the only actress who showed up in ALL entries of the main installment, while Cynthia Rothrock shows up alongside Hu in the first two movies.Moon Lee and Cynthia Khan regrettably show up in only one of the movies, The Inspector Wears Skirts IV. Their one-on-one fight is pretty much the most memorable moment of the entire series in general.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_31f7c194	comment	Super Window Jump: Inspector Wu in the fourth movie, jumping out a window on the fourth story of a building after realizing it's booby-trapped with grenades.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_3441859b	type	Rank Scales with Asskicking
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_3441859b	comment	Rank Scales with Asskicking: Justified, since most of the characters are police trainees, with the supervisors being played by veteran action stars kicking most of the ass when they're dragged into action.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_50f17484	type	Fake-Out Opening
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_50f17484	comment	Fake-Out Opening: The first movie opens with an assault by machine-gun wielding ninjas. After a lengthy shootout with Madam Law and Inspector Wu taking out all of the ninjas, the movie then moves into the corny comedy-drama it actually is.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_5c0902e7	type	Boyish Short Hair
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_5c0902e7	comment	Boyish Short Hair: Madam Wu and Madam Law.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_66bee5ea	type	Shooting Gallery
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_66bee5ea	comment	Shooting Gallery: Shows up in all of the movies, usually for the trainees to bond over shooting and showing off their skills.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_7e577db	type	Slashed Throat
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_7e577db	comment	Slashed Throat: The ninjas in the first movie does this to a few security guards during the embassy assault scene.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_7eccbb3d	type	Shower Scene
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_7eccbb3d	comment	Shower Scene: In the second movie, with all of the recruits taking a shower in the same stall.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew: The trainees, with the senior inspectors (usually Inspector Wu) being in charge.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_9cde2df1	type	Hand Cannon
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_9cde2df1	comment	Hand Cannon: Madam Law's preferred weapon is a Magnum which is almost as large as she is.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: The second movie inexplicably had the pervy mess cook of the police precinct being punished by taking his bath in a tub... outdoors. In front of maybe twenty of the female trainees.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_a6441fa	type	Gratuitous Ninja
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_a6441fa	comment	Gratuitous Ninja: The Action Prologue of the first movie, for some inexplicable reason, had ninjas attacking the embassey building, for some reason, which Madam Law and Inspector Wu had to thwart.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_acc265c6	type	Rollerblade Good
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_acc265c6	comment	Rollerblade Good: For some inexplicable reason, the first movie features the recruits in a rollerblading disco during their break night, where they end up performing an extended musical montage while rollerblading.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_b2f1059a	type	Military Salute
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_b2f1059a	comment	Military Salute: Happens throughout the series, in one of the movies Inspector Wu addresses a group of marching recruits with a salute, and the entire team of recruits - all 40 of them - salutes back simultaneously.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_becbd1d4	type	Jungle Warfare
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_becbd1d4	comment	Jungle Warfare: The climatic final scene in the second movie has the recruits being pitted in combat against terrorists in a thick jungle region. With plenty of Booby Trap and ambushes.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The opening scene of the fourth movie is a reference towards Police Story, with Inspector Wu chasing after a double-decker bus and trying to get inside. There's also a fight later inside a multi-story shopping mall much like in the other Jackie Chan movie.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_c87737d9	type	Vacation Episode
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_c87737d9	comment	Vacation Episode: The third movie, which is largely set on a cruise ship. The trainees led by Inspector Wu had to infiltrate the vessel to investigate an arms deal taking place on board, but the situation quickly turns into Die Hard on a luxury cruiser where the trainees have to save the day.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: The last ninja attacker in the first movie's opening scene tries to blow up the embassy with grenades on both hands after being shot, but Inspector Wu and Madam Law prevents him from doing so, with Wu throwing a rope around him and Law grabbing and pulling the other end of the rope. The ninja ends up being hoisted into mid-air and exploding harmlessly on his own.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_d66cd0e6	type	Training from Hell
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_d66cd0e6	comment	Training from Hell: Happens to the trainees in the first two movies, including a scene where the trainees had to run along a thick rope around a racetrack.... which is doused in gasoline, with Madam Law setting one end on fire and the trainees have to run like crazy before the flames end up roasting them.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: The police recruits spends much of the franchise training to be elite officers, but right at the start of their respective movies, the seniors (played by veteran B-grade Action Queens Sibelle Hu, Cynthia Rothrock, Moon Lee and the like) are already capable ass-kickers and fighters.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Done by most of the ladies throughout the series. The first movie's opening scene notably had Inspector Wu kicking one of the ninja in his gonads, with his exposed eyes squinting to emphasize on how badly that hurts. In the fourth movie, during a training exercise the comic relief character gets shot in the dick by paintball pellets.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_ec212e4d	type	Ensemble Cast
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_ec212e4d	comment	Ensemble Cast: For the entire series anyway, practically every Action Girl actress of 80s and 90s Hong Kong cinema shows up in the franchise, including Sibelle Hu, Cynthia Rothrock, Moon Lee, Michiko Nishiwaki, Kara Hui, Ann Bridgewater, among others.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Most of the villains of the series.
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The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_fed07537	type	Mighty Whitey
The Inspector Wears Skirts / int_fed07537	comment	Mighty Whitey: Madam Law is depicted as this in entries of the movies whenever she shows up, being an American Inspector and specialist who's in charge of "whipping the trainees to shape". Inspector Wu's superiors often emphasizes on her seniority and experience as a leading enforcer of the States' police department as well, as did the trainees who stops goofing around whenever Madam Law shows up. The first movie emphasizes this trope, with an extended scene where Madam Law plays a "terrorist" in a combat training exercise, and for the recruits playing the "police" attacking her all at once. Madam Law beats up every single recruit in under two minutes. Before berating them for being "inexperienced rookies".
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