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The Untamed (陈情令; Chen Qing Ling) is a web series loosely based on the Chinese Boys' Love novel Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi by Mo Xiang Tong Xiu. It is directed by Zheng Weiwen and Chen Jialin, and stars idols Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo as the main leads.The Untamed aired on Tencent from June to August 2019, with a total of 50 episodes.The series is also available with English subtitles on Youtube,note Some of the episodes are blocked in certain countries. WeTV, Viki, and Netflix.Two web movies serving as "side stories" were also released. The first movie The Living Dead (生魂; Sheng Hun) was released on November 7, 2019, and focuses on Wen Ning and Lan Sizhui after the events of the series finale, where they investigate a murder mystery in a town near Qishan. The second movie Fatal Journey (乱魄; Luan Po) was released on March 26, 2020, and focuses on the lives of Nie Huaisang, Nie Mingjue, and Jin Guangyao prior to Nie Mingjue's death.A mobile game based on the series is slated for 2022.
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Dying Town
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Dying Town: There are a few people still living in Yi City, but it's become desolate over time due to Xue Yang killing them.
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Canon Foreigner
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Canon Foreigner: There are various new characters unique to the franchise. Most of them appear in the movies which focus on new content. The one canon foreigner in the main series is Xue Chonghai, the creator of the Yin Iron and possibly Xue Yang's ancestor — he exists purely so that someone else is the creator of demonic cultivation in this adaptation instead of Wei Wuxian himself.
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Bloodless Carnage
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Bloodless Carnage: While there are a few fight scenes that feature blood, more often than not there isn't.
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Madness Mantra
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Madness Mantra: Jiang Cheng keeps repeating "No..." in a frenzy after Wen Ning tells him who his current golden core originally belonged to. It zigzags between a Little "No" and a Big "NO!".
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Sheath Strike
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Sheath Strike: Cultivators usually dual wield their swords and their sheaths in battle.
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Framing Device: Wei Wuxian's dreams after he falls unconscious in Episode 2 serve as a window into the past, showing in one long series of one Flashback the story of his demise.
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Wei Wuxian made Wang Lingjiao cut her own face before driving her to suicide via hanging.
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"Do It Yourself" Theme Tune: Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo (the actors for Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji, respectively) are the singers for the ending song.
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Chekhov's Gun: Early on, Wei Wuxian created a talisman that explodes into small flashes of light, which is best for creating distractions. Lan Wangji used this when the Wen Clan arrived to attack the Cloud Recesses, and is revealed to hold onto another when they arrive at Yunping City and Wen Ning gets harassed (albeit harmlessly) by some young boys.
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Tampering with Food and Drink: Wen Ning drugged the Wens' wine so he could sneak Jiang Cheng out of Lotus Pier and make sure they wouldn't awaken until morning with heavy hangovers.
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Adaptation Expansion: Canon divergence aside, the series does expand on things that are only either mentioned or featured briefly in the novel and the other adaptations. Wei Wuxian is seen interacting a lot more with the Jiang siblings and with Nie Huaisang in the flashbacks. Additionally, he had more interactions with Lan Wangji prior to the Xuanwu Cave arc. The Soul-Eating Goddess has a larger role in the plot, even appearing in the Flashback Arc and being part of the cause of Wen Ning's weak constitution.
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Adaptation Deviation: While the series still follows the main concepts of the original story, some things here and there are either slightly changed or completely altered. The biggest change is that it was a different person, Xue Chonghai, who founded demonic cultivation to be used in an effective way, centuries before Wei Wuxian was even born. He created the Yin Iron as well as the sword stuck in the Xuanwu of Slaughter. These 'Yin Iron' pieces allowed Wen Ruohan to use demonic cultivation for his plans of conquest. In the novel, Jiang Fengmian left Lotus Pier because he intended to reclaim Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng's swords, which were being kept in the Nightless City. But in the series, it's because he escorted a wounded Clan Leader Yao to safety in Lanling. The amount of years that passed during the Time Skip is increased from 13 to 16 years. Lan Qiren ordered Lan Wangji into seclusion for three years as part of his punishment. In the novel, Jiang Cheng is known to be the one who killed Wei Wuxian, but the latter clarifies that it's false. The series reverses this fact. Episode 33 reveals that it's not actually false, but not completely true either. When the Sunshot Campaign ended, the cultivation clans held a celebratory banquet in the Nightless City instead of Golden Carp Tower as they did in the novel. Lan Wangji, instead of fighting and injuring 33 Lan elders, stood against the Jin Clan at the end of the Sunshot Campaign. By the time Lan Wangji takes Wei Wuxian back to the Cloud Recesses in the present time, the latter already knows that Lan Wangji has figured out his real identity, hence he doesn't wear his mask in his presence. It isn't an arm that causes the deaths at Mo Manor and starts the plot, but the spirit of Baxia, Nie Mingjue's spiritual sabre leading to its master's remains. The Nie tomb is for the Nie Clan's sabres because their spirits tend to become resentful. Jin Guangyao still hid Nie Mingjue's head in Golden Carp Tower, but the rest of his body remained whole and was hidden in Yi City. This change also leads to a different sequence of events at the climax. Nie Mingjue's fierce corpse doesn't rise and attack Jin Guangyao. Baxia does, however, by possessing Wen Ning. Nie Mingjue's angry spirit eventually rises too, then killing Jin Guangyao, although this happens off-screen.
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Go Through Me: Lan Wangji tried to prevent the Jin Clan from razing the Burial Mounds to take Wei Wuxian's belongings. Unfortunately, Jin Guangyao informed Lan Qiren of his actions, resulting in his punishment of 300 lashes. In the present time, when Wei Wuxian's true identity gets exposed, Lan Wangji quickly denies being manipulated by Wei Wuxian and draws his sword at all the cultivators pointing their blades at the latter.
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Surprisingly Happy Ending: Prior to the finale, many hints are dropped that Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji will go their separate ways in the end. While that initially seems to be the case near the final five minutes of the episode, the very last scene implies otherwise; after playing the flute alone on a mountaintop, Wei Wuxian hears a very familiar voice calling his name and smiles after turning around to see who it is. The alternate ending shown in the Special Edition confirms this happier ending by showing that Wei Wuxian is now living in the Cloud Recesses.
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Good Victims, Bad Victims: Deconstructed. Everyone showed sympathy to the Lan and Jiang clans when they're massacred, but when it's the Wen clan, everyone acted as if it was justified even when it came to civilians, doctors, old folks, and children. When Wei Wuxian called out this hypocrisy and pondered what would happen if he turned the tables on the people around him, everyone panicked.
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Wei Wuxian falls unconscious several times across the span of the series due to exhaustion, often while he is still recovering from injuries. Occasionally it's a Power-Strain Blackout after using demonic cultivation.
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Implied Death Threat
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Implied Death Threat: In the finale, while Wei Wuxian and Nie Huaisang seem to be sharing a casual conversation, Wei Wuxian hints that he knows the latter was behind everything. While he is grateful for a second chance at life, he subtly warns Nie Huaisang to be careful, especially if his future plans are nefarious in nature. The character in question is quiet for a beat before acknowledging Wei Wuxian's words, and the two eventually part ways for good.
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Dies Wide Open: The Yi City Arc Villain Xue Yang dies without closing his eyes while smiling and looking at the last piece of candy that Xiao Xingchen gave him.
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Adapted Out: There are a number of novel details that are unadapted, vague or unmentioned in the drama. The romance between Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji is absent due to censorship. That being said, there's still a lot of homoerotic subtext to be found in the series. The Second Siege still happens, although it doesn't include the part where the Wen remnants briefly come back to life to help the protagonists fend off the corpses summoned by the Yin Tiger Seal. What is Jin Guangyao so desperate to dig up at Guanyin temple? The corpse of his mother, who he buried there so she would be venerated in the after life. He planned to take her body and run away to Dongying. Why was Sisi spared when all of her colleagues were killed? She used to work in the same brothel as Jin Guanyao's mother and was kind to the both of them. How did Lan Wangji get a Wen brand on his chest? After Wei Wuxian's death, Lan Wangji was so overcome with grief that the only way he could alleviate it was by injuring himself the same way that Wei Wuxian had been.
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Five-Second Foreshadowing: In the finale, once Jin Guangyao is completely cornered with no more means of escaping, Lan Xichen warns him that he will strike him down if he tries anything. Almost immediately, the camera cuts to Nie Huaisang giving a cold and calculating look at both of them. When Lan Xichen turns to Nie Huaisang to tend to his wounds, the latter suddenly shouts that Jin Guangyao was about to do something... and Lan Xichen carries through with his threat.
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Volcano Lair: The Wen Clan's home, the Nightless City, is surrounded by volcanoes which is befitting of a malicious clan.
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Face Death with Dignity: Wen Qing was shown calmly walking up the stairs of Golden Carp Tower with several cultivators pointing their swords at her and her brother and smiling before getting Killed Offscreen. While falling to his death in his first life, Wei Wuxian only smiled and closed his eyes.
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Fainting: Wei Wuxian falls unconscious several times across the span of the series due to exhaustion, often while he is still recovering from injuries. Occasionally it's a Power-Strain Blackout after using demonic cultivation. Nie Huaisang is very prone to fainting which drives home how useless he is as a cultivator, but it's unclear how much of it is due to his low cultivation and how much is just an act.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Exempting the protagonists, some of the characters win some as much as they lose some. One such example is Jiang Cheng; he doesn't lose Jin Ling nor suffer the loss of his clan again, but even after finding closure with Wei Wuxian their relationship remains distant without any reassurance that they can be friends, let alone brothers, again. Although in contrast to the novel, the series adds a slightly more hopeful touch by having Jiang Cheng gently telling Wei Wuxian to take care of himself, confirming that at least there's no hard feelings anymore.
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Wen Qing was shown calmly walking up the stairs of Golden Carp Tower with several cultivators pointing their swords at her and her brother and smiling before getting Killed Offscreen.
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Adaptational Alternate Ending: In the novel, Wei Wuxian confesses his love to Lan Wangji at Guanyin temple and they get married. In the drama, they become Heterosexual Life-Partners and part ways to wander the country as Knights Errant in the original airing. (The Special Edition has an alternate ending close to the original where both live at the Cloud Recesses, albeit still as Heterosexual Life-Partners.)
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Laughing Mad: Xue Chonghai's only two appearances had him laughing mad from power. Wei Wuxian laughed at the other cultivation clans in mockery while watching them fight each other for the remaining half of the Yin Tiger Tally. However, he quickly descended into Cry Laughing afterwards before deciding to commit suicide.
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Counting to Three: Inverted. When Jin Zixun continues to be reluctant in telling Wei Wuxian where the surviving Wens are being detained, Wei Wuxian threatens to use lethal force if he doesn't start talking and begins to count down from three to one. Jin Zixuan caves after Wei Wuxian counts down to two.
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Villains Want Mercy: In Wen Chao's final appearance during the Sunshot Campaign, he begged and bowed to Wei Wuxian while asking for forgiveness. Neither he nor Jiang Cheng granted him that mercy, given all the villainous acts he committed.
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Improvised Weapon: Lan Sizhui uses his guqin to knock enemies back in The Living Dead.
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Tears of Joy: Wei Wuxian and Lan Sizhui shed happy tears after they properly recognize each other from their past.
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Drowning My Sorrows: It's implied that after the Sunshot Campaign ended, Wei Wuxian started drinking more to deal with the stress he's getting from both his personal losses and the effects of his newfound abilities.
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Book Ends: Wei Wuxian's existence as the Yiling Patriarch started the same way as it ended — by falling off a cliff in the Burial Mounds. The Yi City arc begins with Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian, two cultivators clad in white and black respectively, walking the path towards the eponymous city, facing the audience. Shortly before it ends, Song Lan leaves the city, mind free, holding Xiao Xingchen's soul in the sprit-trapping pouch. The scene blurs to both him and Xiao Xingchen walking side by side, clad in black and white respectively, backs turned to the audience. Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji parted on top of a cliff as Wei Wuxian plummeted to the drop Lan Wangji was trying to save him from in Episode 1. Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian part in Episode 50 on top of another mountain in front of a cliff, amiciable, both at peace, to fulfill the oath they made to and with each other as disciples, with the hope to meet again... and they do. Wei Wuxian's bloodied, tear-stained face in close-up is one of the first shots of the series. The very last shot of Episode 50 is Wei Wuxian's face in close-up again, almost exactly the same angle... but this time, as he turns around, he breaks into a wide, warm smile as he sees who has called his name.
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Adaptation-Induced Plot Hole: While she died at his hands in the novel, A-Qing was blinded and rendered mute by Xue Yang but not dead in this series. This makes her ability to stay alive in Yi City up to the present timeline more puzzling, as the city's been desolate and inhabited by fierce corpses and a Serial Killer for years.
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The Unreveal: It stays a mystery where Wei Wuxian's body vanished to after he fell off the cliff in Episode 1. While Lan Wangji's brand scar is kept in the series, how he got it is never explained.
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Sword Plant: Lan Wangji sticks his sword in the ground twice. The first is when he tried to keep himself standing after he got exhausted trying to fend off anyone who attempted to destroy the Burial Mounds. The second was when he learned about Wei Wuxian sacrificing his golden core so Jiang Cheng would regain his cultivation, and he slammed his (sheathed) sword on the ground to vent all his sadness and anger. It also serves as a warning to Jiang Cheng: if he stops them from leaving Lotus Pier a third time, Lan Wangji will run him through.
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Corpse Land: The Burial Mounds are an ancient battlefield littered with the corpses of the fallen.
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The amount of years that passed during the Time Skip is increased from 13 to 16 years. Lan Qiren ordered Lan Wangji into seclusion for three years as part of his punishment.
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Freeze-Frame Bonus
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: The series keeps the scene where Wei Wuxian pranks Lan Wangji by switching his book with porn. But when paused at the right moment, the viewer can see that he actually showed Lan Wangji longyang (homosexual porn).
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Image Song
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Image Song: A companion album contains many image songs for the characters, and some of the actors sing their respective characters' songs.
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Forgot About His Powers: In general, The Untamed has the characters pull off new abilities that weren't featured in the novel or the other adaptations. Said abilities are used only once or twice throughout the entire duration of the series even when they would come in handy.
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Facial Horror: Wang Lingjiao's face was mutilated nearly beyond recognition before she died. This was self-inflicted, as she was controlled by a vengeful Wei Wuxian and made to cut her face with a broken clay shard.
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Ship Sinking: The series hints at the romantic potential between Jiang Cheng and Wen Qing in the flashback arc, but it ultimately went nowhere due to their loyalties to their respective clans, and any novel reader knows that Wen Qing's death is a Foregone Conclusion.
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Meaningful Echo: During one of their conversations in the Nightless City, Wei Wuxian gave Lan Wangji an Armor-Piercing Question about the Grey-and-Gray Morality of their world. Later on, Lan Wangji repeated this question to his uncle while receiving his punishment for defending Wei Wuxian.
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Master Actor: Jin Guangyao and Nie Huaisang have both spent years concealing their true natures from the entire world. Nie Huaisang takes it a step further and manages to fool even Jin Guangyao.
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Villain Has a Point: While he's being hypocritical about it, the Big Bad's right hand Su She makes a good point when he rages at Jiang Cheng about how many cultivators take advantage of their wealth and political status, and use those to demean and unfairly judge everyone around them.
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Adaptational Angst Upgrade: The fall of Lotus Pier was even more tragic by having Jiang Yanli be there to see her father one last time and crying alongside Wei Wuxian and Jiang Cheng when they informed her of their parents' deaths.
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Once More, with Clarity!: The first episode starts with showing Wei Wuxian's final moments in the Burial Mounds, with Lan Wangji trying to save Wei Wuxian from falling and Jiang Cheng stabbing the latter so he would fall. Episode 33 replays the same scene again and reveals that not all was as it seemed.
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ColorCodedForYourConvenience
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Color-Coded for Your Convenience: The main five clans mostly have the same colors as the novel. The Gusu Lan Clan, Lanling Jin Clan and Yunmeng Jiang Clan are still blue/white, yellow and purple respectively; however, the Qinghe Nie Clan is now dark gray instead of dark green and the Qishan Wen Clan is now red and black instead of white and red.
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Vengeance Feels Empty: Downplayed. Nie Huaisang's reaction in the finale implies he doesn't feel elated by what he did against Jin Guangyao, but he doesn't regret it either since he still had to avenge his brother.
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Kick Them While They Are Down
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Kick Them While They Are Down: Xue Yang literally kicked down Song Lan's body after Xiao Xingchen fatally stabbed him.
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Armor-Piercing Question: Jiang Cheng offered Wen Qing a comb as a gift and to let her know that she could use it if she ever needed his help. However, once she and her family had settled at the Burial Mounds and after Jiang Cheng confronted Wei Wuxian about sheltering the Wens, Wen Qing returned the comb to him. He asked her why she didn't call for his help, and she calmly asked if he would had truly helped her save her brother without question like Wei Wuxian did, to which Jiang Cheng couldn't reply.
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Freak Out: Jin Guangyao has a massive freak out when Wei Wuxian forces him to see apparitions of the people he previously killed.
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Actually Pretty Funny: When Wei Wuxian trolls Wen Chao by reciting the Lan Clan's rules rather than the Wen Clan's as he was supposed to do, Jin Zixuan is seen trying not to smile.
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Dramatic Wind
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Dramatic Wind: Even when Wen Ruohan's just sitting on his throne, there was wind constantly flowing around him since his hair never stopped moving about.
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Artistic License – Animal Care
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Artistic License – Animal Care: Those who own a rabbit or are generally familiar with Real Life animal care are likely to wince when Wei Wuxian tossed a rabbit at Jiang Cheng and when he held another rabbit in a way that it was lying belly-up. This is because rabbits are sensitive animals that frighten easily, so when they're shocked enough they might literally die of a heart attack. Throwing them or making them lie on their backs is a good way to do that.
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Joke and Receive: Jiang Cheng sniped at Wei Wuxian that if he liked spending time with Lan Wangji so much then he should just stay in the Cloud Recesses and not come back to Lotus Pier anymore. Cut to around 20 years later and that more or less becomes the case, especially after he repeats his words with a more venomous and hateful tone.
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Bait-and-Switch: When Jiang Fengmian first appeared, the first thing he did was firmly tell Wei Wuxian to kneel properly (as part of his punishment for punching Jin Zixuan), and he gave Jiang Cheng a stern look when the latter protested to his suggestion to dissolve Jiang Yanli's engagement. But once he was done talking to Lan Qiren, his attitude towards Wei Wuxian and his children notably mellowed, which is how he actually acted towards them.
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Go Out with a Smile
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Go Out with a Smile: As Xue Yang succumbs to his injuries, he dies while wearing a wistful smile on his face. In Wen Qing's last moments, she smiled at her brother as she held his hand.
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Squish the Cheeks
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Squish the Cheeks: Wei Wuxian would often pinch Wen Yuan's cheeks whenever he doted on him, and he does the same when he meets Mianmian's daughter.
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Demonic Possession
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Demonic Possession: In the finale, Wen Ning briefly gets possessed by the spirit of Nie Mingjue's sabre.
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Nothing Personal
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Nothing Personal: While Wei Wuxian and the Big Bad don't have any history together, the latter takes delight in making him suffer, regardless of whether he worked for his father or for himself. Downplayed. While Nie Huaisang plotted Wei Wuxian's revival and made him a pawn for his revenge plan against Jin Guangyao, he doesn't see him as an obstacle to be rid of and simply used him for convenience sake. In the finale, he implicitly assures him that their businesses don't conflict, and as such they have nothing to worry about from each other.
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Ominous Fog: Yi City is wreathed inside mist, hinting at its unsettling environment and circumstances.
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Adaptational Romance Downgrade: In the novel, Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian are explicitly a romantic couple, including getting married in the end. The Untamed couldn't outright depict them as being in a romantic relationship, an Enforced Trope due to Chinese censorship laws around depicting homosexual relationships onscreen. It instead presents them more as Heterosexual Life-Partners. That said, there's a lot of romantic subtext around their relationship and they refer to each other with terms like "close companions" or "soulmates", so they can easily come off as a same-sex couple with plausible deniability to get past the censorship.
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Take a Third Option
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Take a Third Option: While the Four Great Clans were celebrating the Wen Clan's defeat, Jin Guangshan brought up the dissolved Arranged Marriage between Jin Zixuan and Jiang Yanli and subtly tried to railroad Jiang Cheng into reconsidering his father's decision. Jiang Cheng knew that he couldn't just refuse, but there were just as many downsides to accepting — his personal dislike for Jin Zixuan notwithstanding. Wei Wuxian then stepped in and stated that Jiang Yanli is the one who should decide since she's the one they want to have married off.
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You Are Grounded!
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You Are Grounded!: An implicit example in Episode 25 when Lan Qiren prevented Lan Wangji from accompanying his brother and told him to rewrite the clan's rulebook instead. This happened again when Lan Wangji attempted to stop the Jin Clan from razing the Burial Mounds. After being whipped, Lan Wangji was forced to stay in a cave for three years.
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Big Bad
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While Wei Wuxian and the Big Bad don't have any history together, the latter takes delight in making him suffer, regardless of whether he worked for his father or for himself.
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Rewatch Bonus
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Rewatch Bonus: There's a figure in the first episode whose face remains out of frame, but thanks to some of the editing appears to be important. He happens to carry a fan. After watching to the end, it becomes quite clear that this was Nie Huaisang, manipulating events.
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Mass "Oh, Crap!"
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Mass "Oh, Crap!": When Wei Wuxian threatened to use Chenqing in one of the banquets hosted by the Jin Clan, all the cultivators present immediately stood up with half of them brandishing their swords.
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Long-Haired Pretty Boy
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Long-Haired Pretty Boy: As it was custom in ancient China, all the men have long hair. This helps accentuates many of their pretty looks.
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Better to Die than Be Killed
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Better to Die than Be Killed: Yu Ziyuan stabbed herself out of defiance and grief when she was overpowered and saw that her husband was drawing his last breath.
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Eldritch Location: The Burial Mounds is haunted by hundreds of resentful spirits, which called out to Wei Wuxian after he's thrown in by Wen Chao.
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Foreshadowing: When the Wens captured Wei Wuxian, he was dramatically thrown into the inn and Wen Zhuliu (the Core-Melting Hand) walked in while giving his own hand a curious look. He tried melting Wei Wuxian's core, but it failed because Wei Wuxian has secretly had it removed and transferred to Jiang Cheng.
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Whole Episode Flashback: After fainting in the middle of Episode 2, Wei Wuxian dreams of the events that led to his demise sixteen years ago. This flashback ends in Episode 33 where he wakes up in Lan Wangji's chambers.
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The Soul-Eating Goddess has a larger role in the plot, even appearing in the Flashback Arc and being part of the cause of Wen Ning's weak constitution.
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Died in Your Arms Tonight
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Died in Your Arms Tonight: Jiang Yanli died while being held by a tearful Jiang Cheng.
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Same Language Dub: The Chinese language contains several dialects than can sound confusing for part of the Chinese audience note For example, Xiao Zhan speaks in the Chongqing dialect whereas Wang Yibo speaks in the Henan dialect. Therefore, as is the standard practice for Chinese dramas, voice actors who speak standard Mandarin were hired to dub over the actors to account for their different dialects.
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Dramatic Irony: Jiang Yanli's Arc Words was her way of assuring Wei Wuxian that they and Jiang Cheng were inseparable. As the audience would already know based on the beginning episodes, she married into the Jin Clan (and is long dead) and Wei Wuxian had a falling out with Jiang Cheng and the Jiang Clan.
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Disappointed in You: Lan Qiren expressed his disappointment in Lan Wangji while having him flagellated for acting in Wei Wuxian's defense.
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Soundtrack Dissonance: Played for Laughs. When Wei Wuxian sneaks into the other chambers of Golden Carp Tower via a paper talisman, the track playing at the moment is reminiscent of a modern-day spy comedy film, which can sound odd and jarring.
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Held Gaze: Nearly every time Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji are looking at each other, they hold this gaze far longer than normal. It doesn't matter what's going on in the background — these two will stare at each other, seemingly having entire conversations without uttering a word.
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Be Careful What You Wish For: Part of the reason why the cultivation clans turned against Wei Wuxian was because they wanted the power of the Yin Tiger Seal. During the Nightless City attack, Wei Wuxian destroyed half of it and watched in mad glee as the clans fought and killed each other for the other half.
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Fate Worse than Death: In The Living Dead, Wen Ning refuses to kill Xiao Yi and states that it's a more fitting punishment for him to live with the consequences of his actions. This fate causes Xiao Yi to scream at his endless suffering.
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Double Weapon: Jiangzai still takes the form of a standard jian sword, but it can also transform into a double-bladed sword.
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Blood from the Mouth: Blood leaking from one's mouth is a common occurrence for both lethal and non-lethal reasons, like a sword through the gut, vomiting tainted blood, or somebody having their spiritual powers forcefully sealed.
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Mirror Character: A character's behavior in public is a mask to hide their true nature. They're involved in plotting against (and ultimately causing the death of) someone they were once close to. Now, is this a description of Jin Guangyao or Nie Huaisang?
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Wire Fu: Holding actors with wires during action scenes is used liberally in lieu of showing the cultivators flying on their swords, which only happens a few times over the show's run.
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Desecrating the Dead
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Desecrating the Dead: Wen Chao poured wine over Jiang Fengmian and Yu Ziyuan's corpses, and later on hung their corpses at the front gate while he and his men had a party. Xue Yang had no qualms in kicking over Song Lan's corpse after Xiao Xingchen unknowingly killed him.
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Dies Differently in Adaptation: Wei Wuxian's death involved him falling off a cliff, whereas the novel implied he died from backlash. In the Yi City arc, Xue Yang's death occurs off-screen in the novel, and it's hinted that he dies of blood loss after getting his arm cut off. Here, his death is cemented after not just losing his arm but also Song Lan stabbing him through the chest shortly afterwards. While in the novel Wang Lingjiao choked on a table leg, in this adaptation she was made to hang herself. In the novel, the Wen remnants were slaughtered in the First Siege. In this adaptation, they accompanied Wen Qing and Wen Ning when the siblings surrendered themselves to the Jin Clan, and were consequently hanged. In the final arc of the novel, Jin Guangyao is killed by a zombified Nie Mingjue via a Neck Snap before being buried alongside him. Here, he gets crushed by falling debris when Nie Mingjue's spirit causes the Guanyin Temple to collapse.
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Neck Lift: Wen Ruohan dragged Wei Wuxian several meters through the air with his powers before he physically grabbed him by the throat when his intervention undid his control over his puppets.
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In the final arc of the novel, Jin Guangyao is killed by a zombified Nie Mingjue via a Neck Snap before being buried alongside him. Here, he gets crushed by falling debris when Nie Mingjue's spirit causes the Guanyin Temple to collapse.
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Irony
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Irony: Wei Wuxian gifted Wen Ning with a pouch that was meant to be a good luck charm. While looking for him in Qiongqi Path, Wen Qing and Wei Wuxian find him impaled and thrown amongst the other Wen corpses by the Jin Clan, and he died holding the pouch in his hand.
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Willing Suspension of Disbelief: The soul-summoning ritual brings Wei Wuxian back into Mo Xuanyu's body but this is identified only by the fact that the actor's mole is covered with makeup during the present-day scenes, and unobscured in the flashback scenes. Various characters react to him as Mo Xuanyu, and the dialogue confirms he wears the mask because other cultivators - namely those from the Jin Clan - have seen Mo Xuanyu's uncovered face when he studied in Lanling.
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You Are Better Than You Think You Are
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You Are Better Than You Think You Are: In Fatal Journey when Nie Huaisang remarked on how others may be thinking that he's useless, Nie Zonghui sincerely reassured him that he's not and that his strengths simply lie somewhere else.
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Series Continuity Error: Wen Ning eventually loses the chains that were cast on him by the Jin Clan. However, in The Living Dead he's wearing the same set of chains again as if they were never removed in the first place and no explanation for this is given, even if the chains eventually come in handy near the finale.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: The Untamed takes a less graphic approach in adapting the more disturbing scenes of the novel.
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Eyes Always Averted
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Eyes Always Averted: Qin Su feels awkward and tense around "Mo Xuanyu" when he attends the Discussion Conference, and does her best to never look at him. According to the disciples, it's because he tried to harass her while he was still in the sect — this is what got him kicked out.
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"Eureka!" Moment
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"Eureka!" Moment: In Fatal Journey, Nie Huaisang sees the composition for the song Cleansing, which Jin Guangyao taught to him, and notices that some of the notes are meant to amplify rather than recede the symptoms of qi deviation, allowing him to figure out that Jin Guangyao (indirectly) killed Nie Mingjue.
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You Are Not Alone
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You Are Not Alone: Lan Wangji reassures Wei Wuxian that he is not alone after the latter's identity gets exposed to the public.
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Xue Yang tends to give the creepy heads-down eyes-up stare every now and then. Alongside with his Psychotic Smirks, it reminds the audience just how manic he can be.
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Dramatic Unmask
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Dramatic Unmask: In Episode 34, Wei Wuxian is threatened into revealing his face during a tense moment with Jiang Cheng. It happens again in Episode 42 when Wei Wuxian's true identity is exposed to the rest of the cultivators and he's cornered with nowhere to run.
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Unlimited Wardrobe
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Unlimited Wardrobe: Most of the characters are seen changing their attire every now and then. Even Wei Wuxian and Lan Wangji wore different garments in the past, although in the present time they stick to one or two outfits at best.
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Adaptation Name Change: Both the original Chinese and official English names are different to the novel's name (Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation in English, Mo Dao Zu Shi in Chinese), due to a significant plot change in which Wei Wuxian is not the founder of demonic cultivation. The Chinese title Chen Qing Ling (陈情令) has multiple interpretations and can vary from "a song to explain myself" to "a song of past relationships" to "a song to command the world". The official English name The Untamed comes from the alternate portmanteau of the protagonists' names, Wei Wuxian (魏无羡) and Lan Wangji (蓝忘机). Using the Chinese characters from their names can spell 'wuji' (无机) — this is a homophone of 'wuji' (无羁) which translates to 'untamed.' 'Wuji' is also the name of the theme/end credits song — in the novel, this song is called 'wangxian' (忘羡).
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Public Execution
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Public Execution: The Wen Remnants were hung in front of the gates going into the Nightless City.
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Tears of Remorse
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Tears of Remorse: Lan Wangji sheds tears of guilt twice. The first time was when after he allowed Wei Wuxian to escape with the surviving Wens, and the second is when he learns of Wei Wuxian's sacrifice of his original golden core. Once he learns about Wei Wuxian giving his golden core to him, Jiang Cheng sheds tears while recalling all the hints pointing to the aforementioned truth.
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Kubrick Stare: Xue Yang tends to give the creepy heads-down eyes-up stare every now and then. Alongside with his Psychotic Smirks, it reminds the audience just how manic he can be. The Big Bad gives a lot of these creepy tilted stares, especially at the moment when people turn their backs on him. This is to further emphasize his double-dealing nature. Wen Ning gives a chilling tilted stare when he gets possessed by Baxia's spirit in the climactic arc. Nie Huaisang gives a downright terrifying head-down eyes-up stare in Fatal Journey. What gives this more impact is that he does this just after realizing that Jin Guangyao caused his brother's death, and is now beginning to plan his revenge.
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Thousand-Yard Stare: Lan Xichen has an empty and distant look on his eyes after Jin Guangyao dies.
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Cruel Mercy: In The Living Dead, Wen Ning decides to not kill Xiao Yi and outright states that he deserves to live with the pain of his crimes for eternity.
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Cast Full of Pretty Boys
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Cast Full of Pretty Boys: The cast is primarily made up of young (or at least youthful-looking), long-haired pretty guys.
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Calling the Old Man Out
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Calling the Old Man Out: When Lan Wangji got punished for defending Wei Wuxian, he resolutely responded to his uncle's reminder about never associating with evil, that the line between right and wrong is more blurred than anyone would like to believe. All while being struck with a whip, too. In Fatal Journey, Nie Huaisang really let his brother have it when he learned about the sabre spirits, how they soon claim the lives of their owners and how they need to be appeased with human sacrifices.
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Fond Memories That Could Have Been
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Fond Memories That Could Have Been: Episode 19 shows Jiang Cheng dreaming about his family, including Wei Wuxian, living happily together with none of the problems that plagued them in reality.
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Angry Collar Grab: Angrily grabbing people by the collar happens often. The biggest offender is Jiang Cheng, with Wei Wuxian unsurprisingly his most frequent target.
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But Now I Must Go
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But Now I Must Go: Wei Wuxian's final fate. After the issues with Nie Mingjue's spirit and Jin Guangyao are dealt with in the final arc, he decides to travel the world.
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Take Back Your Gift
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Take Back Your Gift: Jiang Cheng gifts Wen Qing with a decorative comb to show his romantic interest in her, also telling her to come back to Lotus Pier with him so he can protect her. After Cheng doesn't intervene when she and the surviving Wen Clan members are oppressed and mistreated by the other clans, and he rudely tells her she won't change his mind, Qing returns the comb to him and tells him she cannot keep it after all. Cheng is hurt by this, but he still doesn't change his course of action.
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Libation for the Dead
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Libation for the Dead: Food and drink offerings to the dead come up a few times throughout the series as as way for people to show their respect. A inverted example happened when Wen Chao poured wine over Madam Yu's and Jiang Fengmian's faces, showing a mockery of the usual rites.
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Who's Laughing Now?
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Wei Wuxian laughed at the other cultivation clans in mockery while watching them fight each other for the remaining half of the Yin Tiger Tally. However, he quickly descended into Cry Laughing afterwards before deciding to commit suicide.
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Howl of Sorrow: Xiao Xingchen let out a painful howl after finding out he had killed his best friend and other innocent people his sword mistook for corpses.
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Never Found the Body
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Never Found the Body: Jin Guangyao's corpse isn't seen after the Guanyin Temple crumbles down and caves in on him, but the disappearance of the final scar on Wei Wuxian's arm proves that the character is truly dead.
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Ridiculously Cute Critter
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Ridiculously Cute Critter: The rabbits, of course. They're basically walking cotton balls with paws and ears.
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Shown Their Work
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Shown Their Work: When Lan Wangji plays a song from Dongying (Japan), anyone with a keen ear will notice that the song is Japanese rather than Chinese in terms of music composition.
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Tamer and Chaster / int_6085cffc
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Tears of Joy / int_6085cffc
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The Farmer and the Viper / int_6085cffc
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The Show of the Books / int_6085cffc
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Traitor Shot / int_6085cffc
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Ukefication / int_6085cffc
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WTH, Costuming Department? / int_6085cffc
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Whole Episode Flashback / int_6085cffc