History Film / EnterTheDragon

* CatsHaveNineLives: Han challenges Mr. Roper to pull the cord on a guillotine with a cat in said guillotine. Instead, Roper picks the cat up, says "Now you've got eight more" and lets it go.

* NervesOfSteel: Lee naturally. [[spoiler:Among his exploits, he slaps a cobra on the head just to piss it off so he can use it to scare the mooks out of the radio room and use it. Then he enters the room with almost zero regard for the venomous snake he put in there, and while sending out the radio signal, makes an annoyed face and seems put out that he has to step on said snake to get it to leave him alone long enough to finish his message and leave. Then, he simply exits the room and leaves it to slither around Han's underground lair.]]

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Any chance [[spoiler:Han had of getting Roper to join his organization, if not before then, evaporated the SECOND Roper saw that Han had murdered Williams. He has a hard time hiding his disgust for Han after seeing the body, and even then, likely only makes a token effort to hide it because he doesn't want to end up hung up there as well by giving the game away. Han seems to sense it too, but waits until Roper refuses to fight Lee for confirmation.]]

* CatchPhrase: Roper's appears to be "wanna bet?"

* TheDragon: Bolo for Mr. Han. Killing him falls to Roper, rather than Lee (who goes straight for Han as soon as Bolo is defeated).

** Roper is a gambler who [[ThrowingTheFight begins to purposefully lose a fight]] in order to swindle a spectator out of money and is upfront about the fact that he [[ConMan plans to trick Lee into losing money]]. Despite this, he is still seen as charming to both the audience and the other characters.

* LotsOfLuggage: Roper brings several rickshaws worth of luggage with him on his way to the tournament.

** Roper has three of them: one comical-yet-serious one when Han reveals his opium ring, one when he sees [[spoiler:Williams' corpse]] (he slow motion mouths the words "Oh shit"), and a debatable third one when Han orders Roper to fight Lee. In the first two cases, Roper may be a con artist, but he draws the line at murder and drug trafficking; in the last, he has seen what Lee is capable of and doesn't want to mess with him.

* GoodWeaponEvilWeapon: Lee uses a SimpleStaff, Eskrima sticks and ''nunchaku'' on occasion and [[BareFistedMonk his own style of martial arts]] the rest of the time, while Han's evilness is emphasized by his penchant for sinister-looking [[WolverineClaws claw]] [[ArtificialLimbs hands.]]

** And then there are ThoseTwoBadGuys in the radio room when Lee unleashes a venomous snake. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere They waste little time in getting the hell out.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Han [[spoiler:throws a spear at]] Lee, which [[spoiler:goes straight through a wall and stays there]]. During the fight, Lee [[spoiler:[[InertialImpalement kicks Han into the spear]] and kills him.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: O’Hara seemed confident he could beat Lee, but when the fight starts, Lee takes him down rather easily. O’Hara gets angry and tries to beat up Lee but fails horribly. He then tries to kill Lee with broken bottles, who again overpowers O’Hara and kills him.

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--> '''Lee:''' You have offended my family, and you have offended the Shaolin Temple.\\

'''Williams:''' Man...you come right out of a comic book. ({{Subverted}}, though, in that [[spoiler:Han beats Williams to death]].)

* RedRightHand: Mr. Han is missing one hand and likes to replace it with various killer prosthetics (such as a literal iron hand or the claws that inflicted the iconic scratch mark injuries on Lee). O'Hara
also has a jagged scar on his face that we soon discover was inflicted by Lee's father in an attempt to stop O'Hara from raping Lee's sister.

* SwissArmyAppendage: Mr. Han has a hand-stump, to which he attached a jade fist, tiger claws and a ''bagh nakh''.

* ToWinWithoutFighting: Lee describes his fighting style to an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy as "the art of fighting without fighting." Then proceeds to demonstrate it by tricking him into a tiny row-boat being dragged behind the ship.

* RedRightHand: Mr. Han is missing one hand and likes to replace it with various killer prosthetics (such as a literal iron hand or the claws that inflicted the iconic scratch mark injuries on Lee). O'Hara, also has a jagged scar on his face that we soon discover was inflicted by Lee's father in an attempt to stop O'Hara from raping Lee's sister.

* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: When Williams is being threatened in Han's office, Han calls in some guards to beat him up. Williams says "Man, you come right out of a comic book!" and beats up the guards. This isn't strictly in the movie but, in the novelisation (and possibly in some out-takes somewhere), he does so with appropriate shouts, like "Bam" and "Kapow".

* PowerFist: [[spoiler: Mr Han conceals one, while wearing gloves]] and uses it for offence and defense.

* ManBitesMan: Roper bites down while in a leg lock, Bolo to let go.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: Subverted. O'Hara has a (usually) heroic "crossing one eye but not damaging it"-scar, but is definitely evil.

* BeneathTheMask: In reference to Han, the villain, whose martial-arts tournament is a front for a really nasty operation: "You must remember... the enemy has only images and illusions, behind which he hides his true motives. Destroy the image, and you will break the enemy."

-->'''Williams:''' Man... you come right out of a comic book.

* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: The film ends with a massive kung fu battle. On one side you have Han's army of martial arts students, trained to kill mercilessly with their bare hands. On the other side you have... a bunch of vagrants and runaways, kidnapped from the streets of Hong Kong and freshly released from Han's dungeons. And Bruce Lee. The two sides appear to be about evenly matched.

'''Williams:''' Man... you come right out of a comic book. ({{Subverted}}, though, in that [[spoiler:Han beats Williams to death]].)

* AsYouKnow: Why Lee suggests guns for his mission, Braithwaite says this while explaining that the posession of a weapon is a serious offence.

* TheAggressiveDrugDealer: Turns out that Mr. Han can afford his private island fortress and ThugDojo by making cocaine in a laboratory concealed within said island and selling it (he even invited Roper in the hopes that he would become his agent in his planned expansion to the States)... and abducts women from the streets of Hong Kong and gets them forcibly hooked in order to "create demand".
* AllThereInTheScript: Han's secretary/madame is named Tania.

* TheAce: Lee. He is leagues above nearly every other martial artist in the tournament; only Han is able to even contest him through dirty fighting and the use of weapons, and Han himself was leagues above everyone else. Every other fight Lee gets into is a CurbStompBattle, and one of the more pivotal action scenes in the film is him kicking the asses of a small army. He's also shown to be clever, down-to-earth, spiritual yet streetwise, no stranger to bloodshed, and unshakably moral.

''Enter the Dragon'' is the fourth film (and final completed film) in the career of martial arts legend Creator/BruceLee. It premiered in August 1973, one month after Lee's untimely death. ''Enter the Dragon'' was the first of Lee's movies to premiere in America and the first to be recorded in English.

* MeaningfulEcho: Early in the film, Lee's master tells him, "The enemy has only images and illusions, behind which he hides his true motives. Destroy the image and you will break the enemy." When fighting Han in the hall of mirrors, Lee reinterprets this advice and begins to break the mirrors so he can draw Han out.

* BullyingADragon:
** There were about a dozen or so people on that boat. Parson decided Lee was the best one to pick a fight with. (Really, though, he was lucky; Lee was content to just play a joke on him, while Williams and Roper would have more likely whooped him.)
** Both Roper and Williams are introduced beating up groups of men who thought they'd be easy pickings: gambling debt collectors for Roper, racist cops for Williams.