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The Deer and the Cauldron

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The Deer and the Cauldron	comment	Wei Xiaobao is the lazy, uncouth, trouble-making ne'er-do-well son of a prostitute who does nothing but hang around all day, whether it be the halls of the Lichun Court brothel or the streets of Yangzhou, making questionable friends. This has only bitten him in the ass on two major occasions. One day, he chances upon some educated-looking men in dire danger and offers to shield them from the bloodthirsty authorities - after which he learns that they're all with La Résistance, and ends up entangled in their plot to dismantle the monarchy. His new (unwanted) mission - find a mysterious document somewhere in the Forbidden City known only as the 42 Scriptures, by applying to be the pageboy of a high-ranking eunuch, which proves to be a little less cushy than expected. Knowing he can still survive on favors, Wei Xiaobao smooth talks his way into the good graces of everyone from the chambermaids to the captain of the guard, and befriends a young boy named Xuan Luo... then, to Xiaobao's surprise, he discovers that Xuan Luo is the current Emperor.So begin Wei Xiaobao's life as a reluctant pawn of both the revolutionaries and the Emperor, trying to stay alive as he constantly finds himself the target of innumerable attempts to kill him. Meanwhile, he travels around China in search of great treasure and adds more and more women to his growing harem.The Deer and the Cauldron (also known as The Duke of Mount Deer) is the second to last work of Jin Yong that plays with, if not outright breaks, quite a bit of the author's previous Wuxia conventions.The novel has been adapted to a two part film starring Stephen Chow as Wei Xiaobao in 1992 (The Royal Tramp and Royal Tramp II) and a 50 episode TV series in 2008, as well as many other adaptations. As a sidenote, actors who have portrayed Wei Xiabao include Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Jordan Chan ("Chicken" Chiu in Young and Dangerous).
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_1235f055	comment	Dirty Coward: Our first real look at what Liu Yishou is made of, when he leads a sneak attack on the palace to Frame-Up the visiting Wu Sangui, only to duck into a corner and avoid the actual carnage. He still gets captured for it. Zheng Keshuang turns out to be an even more flagrant one. He falls for A-Ke immediately and agrees to follow her to the temple to hunt down Wei Xiaobao, but then realizes they're greatly outmatched when a Shaolin monk (yes, one guy) can hold them off. The next thing he does is wait till A-Ke is beaten and laid out cold, then flee.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Princess Jianning and Xiaobao's first time is deliberately done in the style of 70s' Chinese melodramas, making it look for all the world like she deflowered him. (Which isn't that far out of character, honestly.)
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: One of Wei Xiaobao's earliest allies is Duke Kang, the Emperor's own uncle. Shuang-er's foster father Uncle Guang is a subversion as Wei is constantly keeping him out of trouble and gambling debt until his connection with Hai Dafu is revealed.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_1777688d	type	Genre Savvy
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_1777688d	comment	Genre Savvy: Wei's supposed street smarts is really the culmination of everything he's learned about the history of China. Mind you, all of it was in spoken-word form.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_1e679bd0	type	The Quisling
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_1e679bd0	comment	The Quisling: Wu Sangui, one of most prominent examples in China's history.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_20779065	type	Marry Them All
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_20779065	comment	Marry Them All: What Wei Xiaobao had in mind, pretty much ever since the beginning. With all seven of his love interests. In his defense, people in those days could do that, and there was absolutely nothing wrong with it.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Actual guns, a gift to Wei Xiaobao from Wu Sangui, which get separated and used in several occasions like Jianning castrating Wu's own son.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Wei Xiaobao, Wei Xiaobao... pretty much the only thing that keeps him in line is the Emperor himself.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_23e32a30	type	Genre Deconstruction
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_23e32a30	comment	Genre Deconstruction: Of Wuxia.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_28848c12	type	Life-or-Limb Decision
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_28848c12	comment	Life-or-Limb Decision: Wei Xiaobao figures out that Hai Dafu's corpse-melting powder can remain active for a while, and gets the idea to bait one of the pursuing Bare-Fisted Monk lamas with one of the 42 Scriptures still covered in it. By the time the lama figures it out, his finger bones are already visible, and he has to lop off the whole hand.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: The Fat Monk, who is thin, and the Thin Monk, who is fat. Wei Xiaobao lampshades this. It turns out a drug's side effect caused those changes to their appearances.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_297ab1b9	type	Parental Abandonment
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_297ab1b9	comment	Parental Abandonment: Kang Xi does come across as too young to be Emperor, specifically because his father, Emperor Shun De abdicated the crown directly to him before disappearing. Tracking him down forms its own story arc as Wei has to (very unwillingly) infiltrate a monastery. As a monk. Some takes on the story have Wei's mother telling him his real father walked out on them (and that's assuming she knows who that is.)
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_2bfb1856	type	Beard of Evil
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_2bfb1856	comment	Beard of Evil: Ao Bai, something that every Live-Action Adaptation has faithfully agreed on.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_2cac89cf	type	The Ingenue
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_2cac89cf	comment	The Ingenue: Mandarin princess Mu Jianping.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_2cc736e4	type	Bondage Is Bad
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_2cc736e4	comment	Bondage Is Bad: Princess Jian Ning is one of the most open characters about her love of BDSM out of all of Jin Yong's characters... and she certainly is one of the more insane characters of the series. But at the same time, Xiaobao plays along with it...
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_2d363f63	type	Frame-Up
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_2d363f63	comment	At the end of the refugee chapter, the Emperor welcomes Wei back with open arms, having learned of the death of Chen Jinnan, which should resolve whatever responsibilities Wei had to the Heaven and Earth Sect, and even awards Wei the titular Duke of Mount Deer rank... and then it's revealed that the promotion is for the merit of killing Chen Jinnan, which the Emperor made sure to make public. That lovely mansion he built to house all seven wives? They're functionally his hostages now.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_2dc0d2bf	type	Hidden Depths
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_2dc0d2bf	comment	Hidden Depths: Despite growing up in a brothel, Wei Xiaobao has remained savvily immune to all the prostitutes' charms, saving all his genuine affection for... okay, there's seven of them, but the point still stands. According to Shaolin abbot Chengguan, A-Ke has the potential to be a martial arts prodigy if she was able to learn enough techniques from different schools to mask her origins (just not well enough to evade his analysis). Unfortunately it's really the result of her sensei being irresponsible.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_322ab612	type	I Am Not Your Father
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_322ab612	comment	I Am Not Your Father: Turns out Princess Jianning is really the child of the woman impersonating the Empress and the Thin Monk, which would make her... nothing, really.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_32768814	type	Kick the Son of a Bitch
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_32768814	comment	Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Corrupt official Wu Zhirong has been claiming familial relations to one Wu Sangui (note the identical surnames) well before he set up the Zhuang estate for colluding with Ming loyalists, and executing all their menfolk - making it pretty easy for Wei to set him up for treason, then literally stringing him up to present to the surviving Zhuang womenfolk.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_33987735	type	Disposing of a Body
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_33987735	comment	Disposing of a Body: They actually predate Breaking Bad with a powder Hai Dafu uses to melt down dead bodies by applying to the fatal wounds.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: Instead of Wei's mother we get an older sister, played by longtime Chow collaborator Sandra Ng. Mu Jianping, Fang Yi and Zeng Rou do not appear in any form in this version. None of the Dragon Sect characters that is in the novel appear in the movie.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_34dd5f3	type	La RÃ©sistance
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_34dd5f3	comment	La Résistance: The Ming loyalists during Qing rule are actually a recurring trope in many literary works set in this period. In this case, they're apparently the first major one given how early the Qing dynasty is, and they're named the Heaven and Earth Sect. A secret night meeting reveals that there's quite a few such like-minded groups - the Zheng estate from Taiwan, the Mu estate, the Wangwu group and some smaller ones. Unfortunately they can't work together without snapping at each others' throats.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_355007c3	type	Brilliant, but Lazy
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_355007c3	comment	It's testament to Wei's Brilliant, but Lazy nature that he finds use for a dozen other people's gimmicks for himself down the line, like scattering slaked lime to blind people, or just drugging them from the large pot of sedatives in his growing inventory.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: Wei Xiaobao is incredibly foul-mouthed. Of course, this is for the effect of showing the readers that Wei Xiaobao is an uneducated boy who was raised in a red light district.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: In universe, Xiaobao has a tendency to slip into his native Yanzhou accent, especially when cussing.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_3b9b21c9	type	So Beautiful, It's a Curse
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_3b9b21c9	comment	So Beautiful, It's a Curse: Chen Yuanyuan in the backstory of the Qing empire itself. That's not an exaggeration - she was a concubine of Wu Sangui, a Ming official who thought he could get her back by allying with the growing Manchurian empire and basically selling out China. As her child A-Ke later proved, it's practically In the Blood.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Hai Dafu, an old eunuch with some terminal conditions (only made worse when Wei tries to poison him and just leaves him blind instead) and the lethal Bone-Melting Palm skill, Bad Boss to boot, and not even the biggest threat in the story.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_3edeeff4	type	Son of a Whore
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_3edeeff4	comment	Son of a Whore: Wei Xiaobao again.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Having eked it out with just his mother in his life, Wei has been subconsciously latching on to these just as much as his seven wives, from Uncle Guang to Chen Jinnan, Duke Kang and particularly the One-Armed Nun.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Wei needs a genuinely competent military officer on his side when the Qing empire resorts to power plays, and summons a bunch of officers for no apparent reason, picking out the only one with the backbone to stand up to him... Except it's all a massive excuse, as Wei had met the guy once but only remembered him having a beard, and summoned every bearded officer in the off-chance he could still identify the bugger.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: As one of the fictional characters, Wei's final fate is to disappear into history - he ends up losing the bulk of his fortune, and he can never see his friend the Emperor again, but as the unseen proprietor of a chain of brothels, it's just as cushy as he needs it to be.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_4631e81f	type	Badass in Distress
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_4631e81f	comment	Badass in Distress: In the second movie, Chan Jinan is defeated by Feng Xifan and imprisoned in the Qing Empire. Xiaobao rescues him after the climatic battle.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Xiaobao gets the receiving end of comedic misfortune a lot throughout the movies.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_49fb5ccb	type	Combat Pragmatist
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Wei Xiaobao pays lip service to Jianghu ideals, but when he's fighting for his own survival or to protect someone he cares about he doesn't hesitate to use every trick in the book.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: It's easy to forget that Wei Xiaobao is foul-mouthed, uneducated, a massive coward who seldom leaves a good first impression, yet he has rightfully earned the genuine affection of seven women. The Adaptational Attractiveness from some of the China-made series doesn't help.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: The Dragon Sect leader has all his followers drugged with something that they have to keep taking or else it'll cause this. The Thin Monk has already been turned into a fat guy and the Fat Monk into a thin guy, and they got off lucky.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_504ca25a	type	Live-Action Adaptation
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_504ca25a	comment	Live-Action Adaptation: Several, from the classic '70s Pragmatic Adaptation that turned Tony Leung Chiu-wai into a star to the movies starring Stephen Chow.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: Liu Yizhou, who pursues Wei Xiaobao in rage after overhearing Fang Yi's conversation, who mentioned herself spending the night with Xiaobao. It doesn't end well for Yizhou.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_53136954	type	Book Dumb
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_53136954	comment	Book Dumb: Wei Xiaobao, who is illiterate and constantly recites idioms incorrectly. However...
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_55a37945	type	Badass Family
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_55a37945	comment	Badass Family: The Gui family look like an elderly couple stuck taking care of a mentally impaired son who's above 40 at least, but their combined strength could beat a small army. Unfortunately, they're the ones who killed Wu Liuqi due to a Frame-Up.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_56264acd	comment	The So-Called Coward: While Wei Xiaobao's first instinct is to run away (he even learns a martial art based entirely on running away), when push comes to shove he can be incredibly heroic.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_567e7c4d	type	Wounded Gazelle Gambit
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_57b74bd4	type	Achievements in Ignorance
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_5e7c0ab7	type	Kleptomaniac Hero
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_5e7c0ab7	comment	Kleptomaniac Hero: One underrated aspect of Wei Xiaobao is the ever-growing number of useful items he "picks up" in the course of his adventures.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The refugee chapter. After Wei and the seven wives find the original uncharted island that was his forward base to hit the Dragon Sect, the story jumps ahead a couple of years to the Emperor's search party catching up to him.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_63bfa45e	type	You Go, Girl!
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_63bfa45e	comment	You Go, Girl!: Zeng Rou, who's often confused with Fang Yi for their parallel origins (she's from the Wangwu group, founded by a Ming officer, as opposed to the Mu estate which is headed by a Ming aristocrat), down to heading sneak attacks alongside the men.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_66ea7e5c	type	Brought Down to Normal
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_66ea7e5c	comment	Brought Down to Normal: Long'er, after transferring her powers to Xiaobao, becomes significantly weaker in combat and instead mentors Xiaobao in how to use the new powers in the climatic battle of the second movie.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_671a3e1	type	Too Kinky to Torture
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_671a3e1	comment	Too Kinky to Torture: The ultimate example might very well be Princess Jian Ning. Wei Xiaobao hits her, and she likes it. She's very explicit in her adoration of BDSM.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_680bb6b1	type	Hot-Blooded
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_680bb6b1	comment	Hot-Blooded: Fang Yi of the Mu estate, considered especially so for women of her time.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_6b2b3b59	comment	In order to suck up to Chen Yuanyuan since his real target is her daughter A-Ke's hand, Wei Xiaobao starts pointing out all the times in history when the downfall of civilizations were wrongfully attributed to famous women. Then he has to eat his words really fast with The Reveal that a woman, the One-Armed Nun is responsible for setting up A-Ke to kill her own father.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_6b6556ee	type	Mentor Occupational Hazard
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_6b6556ee	comment	Mentor Occupational Hazard: Subverted as Chen Jinnan never really found the time to give Wei formal lessons, but dies anyway. The One-Armed Nun, on the other hand (ugh, sorry) is responsible for the only martial arts lesson Wei fully sat through, but her eventual fate is to disappear into history.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: Subverted. Three of the seven bear Wei Xiaobao's babies, but they're still on the run after Wei was outed as part of La Résistance, and the story's far from over.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_6de71c57	type	Disc-One Final Boss
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_6de71c57	comment	Disc-One Final Boss: The seemingly unkillable General Ao Bai, whose death ingratiates Wei Xiaobao to the Emperor and kickstarts the plot.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_6e9e1e32	type	GottaCatchEmAll
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_6e9e1e32	comment	Gotta Catch 'Em All: The 42 Chapters (fortunately it's less than 42 parts that have to be found).
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: Sandra Ng, longtime Stephen Chow co-star who plays Wei's sister in Royal Tramp, actually used to be Zeng Rou in the 1984 series (the one with Tony Leung Chiu Wai as Wei Xiaobao).
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_6fb5cb83	type	I Gave My Word
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_6fb5cb83	comment	I Gave My Word: When attacked in mid-travel by Zeng Rou and the Wangwu soldiers, Wei manages to turn the tables on them, but gives them a shot at their freedom by joining the gambling table already laid out. And he does set them free when they win. Zeng Rou is won over this way. Towards the end of the story, Chen Jinnan is backstabbed by Zheng Keshuang and dies, but due to his Undying Loyalty to La Résistance he makes Wei promise him not to seek revenge. It doesn't extend to Feng Xifan though.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Wei Xiaobao learns, sometimes firsthand, that both the royal court and the revolutionaries are ready to do some very terrible things for what they believe in. And that's not counting the number of outside forces that have China in their sights...
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: The aliases used by Wei Xiaobao and Emperor Kang Xi to sneak around the Forbidden City under the radar, Xiaoguizi and Xiaoxuanzi respectively, get recycled into this eventually.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The volumes of the 42 Chapters will often have punny names to assign colors to them. Some live action versions go a step further by actually coloring them that way.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_7453bc5b	type	Spared by the Adaptation
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_7453bc5b	comment	Spared by the Adaptation: Chen Jinnan, though he loses an arm.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_75898be8	type	Tomboy Princess
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_75898be8	comment	Tomboy Princess: Jianning is very brash and upbeat, and is even first introduced wearing masculine clothing.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_759985ec	type	Crotch-Grab Sex Check
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_759985ec	comment	Crotch-Grab Sex Check: Invoked as a plot point - it's the fastest way to expose a not-eunuch after all. Then Hai Dafu imparts some martial arts to Wei, who starts using this to gain the upper hand... so to speak.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_77063cd7	comment	Some takes on the story have Wei's mother telling him his real father walked out on them (and that's assuming she knows who that is.)
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_7881f335	type	Chekhov's Armoury
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_7881f335	comment	Chekhov's Armoury: After Ao Bai is dealt with, the Emperor puts Wei in charge of Ao Bai's estate, which includes the cash that starts up Xiaobao's fortune, and a number of items that come into use later, like the Bulletproof Vest. Hai Dafu also leaves behind a number of drugs and powders after his demise. It's testament to Wei's Brilliant, but Lazy nature that he finds use for a dozen other people's gimmicks for himself down the line, like scattering slaked lime to blind people, or just drugging them from the large pot of sedatives in his growing inventory. During the final chapter, the entire "armoury" itself gets this treatment, when Wei is forced to give up the location of the Manchurian treasure, and ends up leading them to a fake location that's been filled with all of his own riches. As the dungeon finally collapses, Wei's final act is to pass the Bulletproof Vest to the Emperor.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_792bb47a	type	Heroic Bastard
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_792bb47a	comment	Heroic Bastard: Wei Xiaobao.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_79b5990c	type	Mr. Vice Guy
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_79b5990c	comment	Mr. Vice Guy: Drinking and gambling tend to follow Wei Xiaobao around well before his seven wives did.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_7ef728b1	type	Tsundere
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_7ef728b1	comment	Tsundere: A Ke, who is very hostile to Xiaobao initially, due to her not-so-good first impression of him.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Wei Xiaobao often receives terrible reminders that he's not Born Lucky like much of the text would have you believe. He brings up Uncle Guang in front of Hai Dafu without knowing anything of their shared history, and this leads to Uncle Guang's death.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Liu Yizhou makes another attempt at taking down Wei Xiaobao, this time by allying with Wu Sangui against the entire Mu estate. Considering Wu Sangui's personal and relevant experience in the matter, all it takes is for Wei to out Liu as having sold out his people before to turn the tables.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Chunhua is last seen with Xiaobao's wives in his private quarters and is absent when he flees the land along with Chan Jinan and his five wives.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_8a07e085	type	Denser and Wackier
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_8a07e085	comment	Denser and Wackier: Since it stars Stephen Chow, there's bound to be sexual humor to go along with the story.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Liu Yizhou tries to sell Wei Xiaobao out when encountering some goonies from the Mystic Dragon Cult, who were seeking the latter, resulting in risking the lives of his lover and companions. Fang Yi decides to leave him afterwards. At the end of the refugee chapter, the Emperor welcomes Wei back with open arms, having learned of the death of Chen Jinnan, which should resolve whatever responsibilities Wei had to the Heaven and Earth Sect, and even awards Wei the titular Duke of Mount Deer rank... and then it's revealed that the promotion is for the merit of killing Chen Jinnan, which the Emperor made sure to make public. That lovely mansion he built to house all seven wives? They're functionally his hostages now.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: Wei Xiaobao blunders his way into several historical events, including the signing of the first equal treaty between China and a foreign power and being the first to step foot on an island that allegedly maybe the one that later fell into dispute between China and Japan.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_9b9d19fe	type	Numerical Theme Naming
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_9b9d19fe	comment	Numerical Theme Naming: Wei Xiaobao's first three children are born during the refugee chapter, and he ends up naming them with dice throws. We're not even kidding.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Shuang Er, under the tutelage of someone implied to be He Tieshou. With so many boss-level martial artists out there, she still rates a 4 out of a scale of 1 to 10, but in the time it took that's plenty. Wei Xiaobao's time with the One-Armed Nun apparently taught him to find his courage, or failing that a good workaround - after the One-Armed Nun is incapacitated by a pursuing band of Bare-Fisted Monk lamas, Wei relies on his own quick wits and admittedly cowardly backstabbing, and kills off most of them!
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Most notably to The Sword Stained with Royal Blood. The "great master" that saved Shuang-er and the survivors of the Zhuang estate is implied to be He Tieshou; and one of the prominent characters, the One-Armed Nun, is a surviving Princess Changping, as well as the family trio martial artists and the organiser of Wu Sangui assassination alliance.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_9e943076	type	One-Man Army
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_9e943076	comment	One-Man Army: Any of the boss-level martial artists can claim this. Ao Bai in particular can back up the 'army' part, having been in an actual war.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_a00eb8f9	type	Bare-Fisted Monk
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_a00eb8f9	comment	Wei Xiaobao's time with the One-Armed Nun apparently taught him to find his courage, or failing that a good workaround - after the One-Armed Nun is incapacitated by a pursuing band of Bare-Fisted Monk lamas, Wei relies on his own quick wits and admittedly cowardly backstabbing, and kills off most of them!
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: Chen Jinnan of the Heaven and Earth sect is practically A Father to His Men.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_a54c2273	type	Dented Iron
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_a5e02e9e	comment	Infinity +1 Sword: At some point the "slice iron like mud" knife started getting treated like one. The most telling incident is when Wei is forced to stab the Qing captain of the guard Duolong in the back, to let the Heaven and Earth sect escape... and apparently the wound is so clean that Duolong survives.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_a8217606	type	Sweet Polly Oliver
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_a8217606	comment	Sweet Polly Oliver: Whichever of the seven wives that are already with Wei often have to keep under the radar this way. Sometimes repeatedly.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: Wei Xiaobao's reaction when he meets A Ke at Shaolin Temple.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_aabdf2c6	type	Tyke-Bomb
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_aec63727	type	Pragmatic Hero
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_b1c8e04e	type	Marital Rape License
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_b1c8e04e	comment	Marital Rape License: Despite quite a bit of Values Dissonance elsewhere, this one is apparently invalid on the actual wedding night, as Princess Jianning not only sets up Wu Yingxiong for rape, but blasts his parts off in "self defense".
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_b43dfc8d	type	Your Days Are Numbered
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_b43dfc8d	comment	Your Days Are Numbered: When Hai Dafu suspects Wei Xiaobao of killing the guy who would've been his pageboy in his place, he keeps Wei under his thumb by hitting him with a supposedly slow-acting variant of his Bone-Melting Palm, with Tainted Veins and everything. The combined efforts of Wei's backers in La Résistance and whatever else Wei can scrape together to rectify this can take up their own arc.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_ba0791de	type	First Girl Wins
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_ba0791de	comment	First Girl Wins: Played With. Shuang Er was not the first girl Xiaobao met (Mu Jianping was), but the first to return his affections, and though Xiaobao ended up marrying all of his love interests she remains the most loyal to him.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_be8416ea	type	Shrouded in Myth
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_be8416ea	comment	Shrouded in Myth: The revolutionaries themselves, making them Fanfic Fuel of sorts when Wei Xiaobao spins tales about them as a sort of standup routine in the brothel. He earns revolutionary leader Chen Jinnan's respect this way, as any mention of the revolutionaries when royal courtiers are a part of your clientele can be a very bad idea.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Wei Xiaobao.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_c0afd51a	type	Evil Cripple
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_c0afd51a	comment	Evil Cripple: Hai Dafu, an old eunuch with some terminal conditions (only made worse when Wei tries to poison him and just leaves him blind instead) and the lethal Bone-Melting Palm skill, Bad Boss to boot, and not even the biggest threat in the story. Dragon Sect leader Hong Antong needs a little help getting onto his feet due to his advanced years... but is powerful enough to kill someone from the comfort of his seat anyways.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_c45c9fcd	type	Ass Shove
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_c45c9fcd	comment	Ass Shove: Wei's sister teaches him how to hit a certain acupoint down there to undo a hernia. Of all things, THIS is used as a Chekhov's Gun.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: Being raised by the mostly resentful and at best indifferent Jiunan has turned A-Ke into one.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_c547cd6d	type	Bulletproof Vest
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_c547cd6d	comment	During the final chapter, the entire "armoury" itself gets this treatment, when Wei is forced to give up the location of the Manchurian treasure, and ends up leading them to a fake location that's been filled with all of his own riches. As the dungeon finally collapses, Wei's final act is to pass the Bulletproof Vest to the Emperor.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_c83a589c	type	Luke, I Am Your Father
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_c83a589c	comment	Luke, I Am Your Father: A-Ke was the child of Chen Yuanyuan and Wu Sangui, the man she was raised to kill. Or be killed by. Jiunan didn't really care either way. At least until the truth got out... that A-Ke's father was actually Li Zhicheng, the man who abducted Chen Yuanyuan and caused Wu to ally with the Manchu empire in the first place. Jiunan literally cast her out on the streets when she found out.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: Princess Jian Ning and Wei Xiaobao's relationship. With a whip. And candles. Yikes.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_c9790040	type	Decadent Court
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_c9790040	comment	Decadent Court: The Imperial Court.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: The revolutionaries are split among which of the surviving Ming royals to return to the throne (some are secretly plotting to take over for themselves, whether directly or as The Man Behind the Man); when Xiaobao first meets them, they're trying to clear up a dispute that started over an argument along this vein and ended with one revolutionary dead and another grievously injured.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_cc1bd54d	comment	Non-Action Guy: Xiaobao for most of the two movies, until the end of the 2nd movie where he goes one-on-one against Feng Xifan. The Emperor and Duolong are more straighter examples.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_ce750b4	type	Living MacGuffin
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_ce750b4	comment	Living Macguffin: One of Ao Bai's political prisoners is actually a Russian friar-cum-scientist, credited with researching Chinese fireworks and channeling them to create the handgun.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_cfc52d52	type	Spoiled Brat
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_cfc52d52	comment	Spoiled Brat: Princess Jian Ning, although she also tends to like being mistreated, since she's a masochist.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: A-Ke by the last quarter of the story.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_d5b3df2d	type	Dark Action Girl
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_d5b3df2d	comment	Dark Action Girl: Wife of the Dragon Sect leader, Su Quan, who's far more well-versed in the odd clawing-based martial arts that Empress impersonator Mao Dongzhu nearly killed Wei with at least once. A-Ke veers into this, being trained as an assassin since young, but ultimately subverts it as her sensei Jiunan was just using her for revenge.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_d9d8fd35	type	Battle Butler
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_d9d8fd35	comment	Battle Butler: Fang Yi to Mu Jianping. Zheng Keshuang has Feng Xifan, a boss-level martial artist so dangerous you have to wonder why Zheng isn't a more dangerous individual under his tutelage. It's all part of the Zheng matriarch's plan to keep him, the functional heir to the throne they're after, out of danger.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_dc6a260b	type	Try to Fit That on a Business Card
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_dc6a260b	comment	Try to Fit That on a Business Card: Deconstructed as Wei winds up bearing several opposing titles - Yellow Horse Envoy for the Qing Empire, Greenwood Hall leader for the Heaven and Earth Sect, White Dragon Emissary of the Mystic Dragon Cult, and those are just the top three.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: Grabbing the 42 chapters is just the one goal that the dozen or so different factions are after at the same time - there's also the death of Wu Sangui, the restoration of the Ming dynasty, as vague as it seems since there's like three estates after said throne, and ultimately control of all China is at stake. Wei Xiaobao is responsible for damage control at an international level (as well as some of the damage considering he holds several conflicting positions of power) as he has to prevent them from even knowing each others' existence, but as the Chinese saying goes, you cannot use paper to wrap a fire...
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e0c00a95	type	Absurdly Sharp Blade
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e0c00a95	comment	The Manchurian empire supposedly carries out this form of torture, which is on record as having existed about two dynasties prior, and extends to lopping off the limbs. Wei is able to freak out a captive assailant this way, and it helps when you have an Absurdly Sharp Blade that can carry out said lopping off at a moment's notice. Of course Wei's too much of a wimp to do it for real, but it's the thought that counts.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: Not surprisingly, Wei has to rely on these on every other occasion.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e482cfa7	comment	To the Pain: The Manchurian empire supposedly carries out this form of torture, which is on record as having existed about two dynasties prior, and extends to lopping off the limbs. Wei is able to freak out a captive assailant this way, and it helps when you have an Absurdly Sharp Blade that can carry out said lopping off at a moment's notice. Of course Wei's too much of a wimp to do it for real, but it's the thought that counts. After being suspected of treason and tortured for months on end on top of having his limbs cut off, tongue pulled out, and eyes blinded, poor Yang Yizhi finally died of his wounds shortly after Xiaobao found him.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: This movie started a recurring tradition in later adaptations to turn Dragon Sect queen Su Quan and Empress impersonator Mao Dongzhu into one person.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e542d889	type	Gorn
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e542d889	comment	Gorn: Within the opening scene there's Aobai knocking heads off of assassins. And then there's Hai Dafu's Bone Crushing Soft Palm attack....
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e68b72	type	The Load
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: Mu Jianping and Princess Jianning out of the seven wives. Jianping is utterly reliant on Fang Yi and Cannot Tell a Lie, while Jianning can go along with Wei's scams but at other times comes across as Too Dumb to Live.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e6d0ea39	type	Nature Abhors a Virgin
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e6d0ea39	comment	Nature Abhors a Virgin: In the second movie, Long'er inherits her master's sacred martial art powers, and once she has sex, 80% of it's power will be transferred to whoever she sleeps with. Said person ends up being Xiaobao, who she resents at first.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e70127	type	The Mole
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e8dca77c	type	Adaptation Origin Connection
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_e8dca77c	comment	Adaptation Origin Connection: Some live action versions deliberately bump up Shuang Er to Wei's childhood friend, most likely to ensure he has a Morality Pet.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: The Emperor gets his pubic hair torn off by Xiaobao.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Shuang-Er to Wei Xiaobao. No contest. Quite a few Qing officers that made friends with Wei end up letting him flee after he's outed as part of the Heaven and Earth Sect, at massive risk to their own lives.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_f4fd424c	type	All Your Base Are Belong to Us
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_f4fd424c	comment	All Your Base Are Belong to Us: It's arguable how much the Lichun Court brothel counts as a "base", but the Dragon Sect infiltrate it, take all the women hostage and impersonate all the staff to lay a trap for Wei and the royals behind him.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_f6624c30	type	Together in Death
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: The final fate of Li Zhicheng and Chen Yuanyuan.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_f769e261	type	Anything but That!
The Deer and the Cauldron / int_f769e261	comment	Kang Xi does come across as too young to be Emperor, specifically because his father, Emperor Shun De abdicated the crown directly to him before disappearing. Tracking him down forms its own story arc as Wei has to (very unwillingly) infiltrate a monastery. As a monk.
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_fced5df7	comment	Disposable Fiancé: Liu Yizhou to Fang Yi (Latent Jealousy type), Zheng Keshuang to A Ke (Evil All Along type).
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The Deer and the Cauldron / int_ff7c3bb0	type	Stronger with Age
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