History Film / Chocolate

* TattooedCrook: Zin and Masashi are both tatooed on their torsos, as seen when they have sex. She's Thai and he's Japanese, both dangerous gangsters.

* AmbiguousDisorder:
** Zen's disorder is never named, but it's pretty clearly a form of autism.
** Thomas's disorder, which is quite wrongly credited as "epilepsy", looks vaguely like a full-body form of Tourette syndrome.

* ChekhovsGun: "Flies!"

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* LittleMissBadass: Zen.

* MartialArtsMovie: Duh.
* MixedAncestry: See above.

* RealityEnsues: Played straight, then subverted. Mooks swarm into the room with katanas drawn, and it looks like it's going to be an epic sword fight between them and Zen's father, until [[spoiler: he pulls a gun and empties into their ranks]]. For the subversion, he grabs a blade of his own and fights the rest traditionally.

** Autism tends to impair motor skills: even although many autistic people are good in either fine or gross motor skills, they are often deficient in the other. Martial arts usually require both, so it would be unrealistic (though admittedly not 100% impossible) to expect an autistic girl to be a fighting savant.

* ConfusionFu: Zen's most dangerous enemy is Thomas, a boy with Tourette's. Not only he is skilled at a deliberately confusing martial art, his tics make it almost impossible for her to read his moves.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Zen goes through {{mooks}} like it's nothing, but has difficulty in her singles duel with Thomas and is eventually taken out in a double KO. Justified because he is a KungFuProofMook for her, while the rest are regular thugs.

* DisabilitySuperpower: Zen is autistic... which gives her almost superhuman senses. Same for Thomas, who has some sort of Tourette which makes him physically unpredictable.

* DoubleKnockout: Zen and Thomas feature one at the final moments of the fight, as they both land a ''martelo do chao'' at once and drop momentarily groggy to the ground each. A variation happens immediately after, when Zen lands a ''mariposa'' kick while Thomas was trying to sweep her legs: although his attack misses, the battle wear finally catches up with Zen and she collapses next to him upon landing.

* GlassCannon: Thomas is one of those in contrast to Zen, who is a LightningBruiser. He can deliver heavily torqued kicks from unpredictable angles, but although he is admittedly difficult to hit even by a savant like Zen, he cannot take nearly as much damage as she can. It only takes a couple of well-placed knockouts to take him out of the battle, while Zen herself, by then, had tanked through much more damage than that (and not even counting the other mooks').

* HeroicSecondWind: Played twice at high-speed in the final duel. The drama increases at the end because Thomas is so damn adaptable that he ''keeps'' outgunning Zen even after she decodes his body language, which initially seemed the key to beat him; it is only when Zen goes further and starts directly copying his style that she finally starts landing finishing blows.

* HollywoodTourettes: Fortunately averted. Thomas barely talks in the film, but he never swears as classically expected from a character with Tourette's.

* KungFuProofMook: A literal example in Thomas, who proves to be a match for Zen precisely because he is a disabled fighter too and just as a gifted martial artist as she is. Even after she finds the way to land some hard strikes on him, he manages to pull a draw and take her out of action (although, to be fair, she was already worn due to an earlier fight against bunch of mooks).

* PowerCopying: Zen shows it during her battle against Thomas, albeit with a lot of effort, due to her opponent's body language being difficult to read. She adopts some capoeira approach to match his style, immediately landing a DoubleKnockout, and manages to finish him with a ''mariposa'' (interestingly, a capoeira move he had ''not'' used previously, implying she actually had some prior knowledge of the art and recalled it for her change of style).

* AmbiguousDisorder: Zen's disorder is never named, but it's pretty clearly a form of autism. Thomas's disorder, which is quite wrongly credited as "epilepsy", looks vaguely like a full-body form of Tourette syndrome.

** Autism tends to impair motor skills: even although many autistic people are good in either fine or gross motor skills, they are often deficient in the other. Martial arts usually requires of both, so it would be unrealistic (though admittedly not 100% impossible) to expect from an autistic girl to be a fighting savant.
** Same with Tourette's. Thomas's chronic spasms would make it ''very'' hard for him to learn and/or train martial arts, not to mention an incredibly complex one as it is capoeira. It is HandWaved in the film because it's never explicitly stated that his disorder is Tourette's (he's even credited as "Epileptic Boxer", which is another level of artistic license altogether, as epilepsy is a completely different thing).

* ConservationOfNinjutsu: Zen goes through {{mooks}} like it's nothing, but has difficulty with Thomas and is eventually taken out in a double KO. Justified because he is a KungFuProofMook for her, while the rest are regular thugs.

* DoubleKnockout: Zen and Thomas feature one at the final moments of the fight, as they both try and land a ''martelo do chao'' at once, falling momentarily groggy. A variation happens immediately after, when Zen lands a ''mariposa'' kick while Thomas was trying to sweep her legs: although his attack misses, the battle wear finally catches up with Zen and she collapses next to him upon landing.

* ForceAndFinesse: Zen's specialty is traditional muay thai, favoring committed lunges with a lot of forward knees, kicks, and elbows (the Force), while Thomas flows around with modified capoeira, combining evasive acrobatics with elegant long-range kicks (the Finesse).

* GlassCannon: Thomas is one of those in contrast to Zen, who is a LightningBruiser. He can deliver heavily torqued kicks from unpredictable angles and is difficult to hit even by a savant like Zen, but he crumbles rather fast if he is hit at all. It only takes a couple of well-placed knockouts to take him out of the battle, while Zen by then had tanked through more than that to his hands (or rather feet) and to the other mooks.

* HeroicSecondWind: Played twice at high-speed in the final duel. Some brief drama is made because Thomas is so damn adaptable that he keeps outgunning Zen even after she decodes his body language, which initially seemed the key to beat him; it is only when she goes further and starts directly adopting his style that she finally starts landing finishing blows.

* PowerCopying: Zen shows it during her battle against Thomas, albeit with a lot of effort, due to her opponent's body language being difficult to read. She adopts some capoeira approach to match his style, and manages to finish him with a ''mariposa'' (interestingly, a capoeira move he had ''not'' used previously, implying she actually had some prior knowledge of the art and recalled it for her change of style).