History Film / HeroicTrio

* '''Evil Master''' -[[{{NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast}} In case you couldn't tell,]]this guy's the BigBad. Commands Invisible Girl to kidnap babies for his evil plan to find a successor. Turns babies into demon cannibal evil babies, when he's not killing them. Throws [[PoisonedWeapons poison darts]]. See WeaksauceWeakness below.

* '''Evil Master''' - This guy's the BigBad. Commands Invisible Girl to kidnap babies for his evil plan to find a successor. Turns babies into demon cannibal evil babies, when he's not killing them. Throws [[PoisonedWeapons poison darts]]. See WeaksauceWeakness below.

* StuffedInAFridge - The SpearCounterpart. The male love interests in this movie get put through the grinder.

This film is an example of Hong Kong {{Wuxia}}, WireFu, and HeroicBloodshed. The three main characters form a PowerTrio of {{Action Girl}}s. The RuleOfCool helps to excuse some of the more over-the-top action sequences. The fight scenes are all highly choreographed [[UnnecessaryCombatRoll whirling mayhem]] filmed with sweeping tracking shots and plenty of ringing and swishing sound effects.

* PowerTrio: The most obvious time this trope is invoked is the brief fight between Thief Catcher and Invisible Girl right before Wonder Woman breaks it up and straightens them out.

* DeathOfAChild: We see a few kids die onscreen in what is otherwise, a pretty light-hearted movie.

** Invoked with Wonder Woman's husband who is a BadassNormal cop that, in the first scene, jumps out of a window and intimidates a car-thief into putting handcuffs on himself.

The ''Heroic Trio'' is a 1993 UsefulNotes/HongKong action film directed by Johnny To, featuring an {{all star cast}} including Creator/MichelleYeoh, Creator/MaggieCheung and the late Anita Mui as the titular trio.

* InfantImmortality: Averted, obviously. We see a few kids die onscreen in what is otherwise, a pretty light-hearted movie.

* '''Thief Catcher''' or Mercy or Chat, depending on who did the subtitles - played by Maggie Cheung, is the PluckyComicRelief, a spunky wise-cracking [[BikerBabe biker girl]] with a fondness for [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter shotguns]] and [[StuffBlowingUp dynamite]]. [[SoBadItsGood Delightful outfit]] includes [[GogglesDoNothing goggles]], leather BadassLongcoat, and kneepads. Her main superpower seems to be always being {{Crazy Prepared}}, as she never seems to run out of ammo or explosives. Practices {{Gun Fu}}.

* '''Evil Master''' - This guy's the {{Big Bad}}. Commands Invisible Girl to kidnap babies for his evil plan to find a successor. Turns babies into demon cannibal evil babies, when he's not killing them. Throws [[PoisonedWeapons poison darts]]. See {{Weaksauce Weakness}} below.
* '''Kau''' - This guy's {{The Dragon}}. Fully grown version of one of Evil Master's demon babies. This guy's [[MadeofIron tough]] and, it seems, {{immune to bullets}}. [[ObviouslyEvil Eats songbirds.]] Decapitates victims with an {{Impossibly Cool Weapon}}.

* {{Absurdly Spacious Sewer}} - The Evil Master has quite a nice lair under the city streets.
* AllAmazonsWantHercules - Averted with Invisible Girl and her somewhat nerdy boyfriend.

* AntiHero - Thief Catcher is a PunchClockHero initially and is more than willing to kidnap a baby herself in order to lure out the real culprits.
* AntiVillain - Invisible Girl until about two thirds of the way through.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished - All three main characters remain gorgeous for the most part, despite getting bloody and dirty.

* {{Blood From The Mouth}} - When the Evil Master clutches Invisible Girl and Wonder Woman on the edge of the building, they cough a modest rivulet each.
* BlownAcrossTheRoom - Happens several times during the film after various punches, kicks, or explosions.
* BodyHorror - [[spoiler: The Evil Master's final form, and the fate of his victims.]]
* {{Brainwashed}} - Invisible Girl and all of the Evil Master's underlings. Invisible Girl got better at least.
* TheCape - Wonder Woman is a standard superheroine. She is the most moral of the three ladies and doesn't have to go through any heel turns. She even wears a cape.
* {{Car Fu}} - Well, Bike Fu, technically. Wonder Woman uses a flying, spinning motorcycle as a weapon against Kau.
* {{Catch A Falling Star}} - A number of babies are tossed around rather dramatically.
* TheCavalry - All three women have their moments. Sometimes solo. Sometimes in a pair.
* CoDragons - Kau and Invisible Girl start off as the two main enforcers for the BigBad until she joins the side of the heroes.
* CoolBike - Thief Catcher, of course.
* [[CreepyChild Creepy Children]] - The kidnapped kids are raised on human flesh.
* DeadlyNosebleed - Happens to the Invisible Girl's scientist boyfriend; clear indicator that this guy's research is slowly killing him.
* DoItYourselfThemeTune - Anita Mui, a famous pop star at the time, does the theme and has a few songs on the soundtrack.
* {{Dramatic Unmask}} - Wonder Woman to Invisible Girl.
* {{Empathic Environment}} - Lightning and {{Dramatic Wind}} seems to follow characters feeling internal conflict.

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning - Obviously the case with the flamboyant whirling Wuxia chop-socky, but also Thief Catcher can't seem to let off a single bullet without pirouetting. Also flying motorcycle.
* ExtremeOmnivore - Kau not only eats humming birds but he also [[{{Squick}} eats his own severed finger.]]
* {{Friend To All Living Things}} - Both Wonder Woman and Invisible Girl have birds land in their hands in different scenes and prove to be skilled equestrians. Wonder Woman also saves a kitten (yes, a [[TastesLikeDiabetes kitten]]).
* GogglesDoNothing - Subverted then played straight: Thief Catcher uses her goggles when battling mooks, yet leaves them on her brow when ''driving her motorcycle through explosions''.
* GratuitousEnglish - Thief Catcher says "Good morning" to cops and later shouts "Happy New Year!" when attempting to blow up the Evil Master. Obviously, this is not in the dubbed versions.

* GunFu - Thief Catcher vs. {{Mooks}}. She fires her guns in a similar way that the other girls sword fight.
* HeartBrokenBadass - Invisible Girl has this with a side of DeclarationOfProtection and a glass of ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies. We get a little slice of LoveRedeems as dessert.
* {{Heel Face Turn}} - Invisible Woman goes form evil to good.
* HeroicSpirit - They all perservere through some pretty heavy stuff in order to do the right thing.
* HorseBackHeroism - Two of the ladies ride horses in slo-mo with Thief Catcher on her motorcycle.
* InfantImmortality - Averted, obviously. We see a few kids die onscreen in what is otherwise, a pretty light-hearted movie.
* [[LetsYouAndHimFight Let's You And Her Fight]] - All three women fight each other at least once before finally teaming up.
* MakeMeWannaShout - The Evil Master screams and destroys Invisible Girl's chain weapon.
* MoodWhiplash - The movie can go from goofy, to heartwarming, to disturbing in the span of minutes.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero - Thief Catcher tries to lure the baby-knapper out in the open by using a baby as live bait. The baby ends up dying in a fight between the three ladies.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat - The Evil Master does this twice while surviving massive explosions.

* OffWithHisHead - Kau has a very convenient and hilariously implausible portable guillotine that he chucks at people to attain this effect.
* OhCrap - The Master has two of the women [[NeckLift by the throat]], only to realize a stick of dynamite had been shoved into his robes.
* OldMaster - The Evil Master and the master who trained Wonder Woman and Invisible Girl.
* {{Only A Flesh Wound}} - Each member of the Heroic Trio is pummeled to the point where they're squirting blood out of their mouths. They seem just fine by the end of the movie.
* OutOfTheInferno - During the climax, the girls blow up the Evil Master, but things don't go that easily for them when they see his skeleton rising from the flames for a second round.
* PaperThinDisguise - Wonder Woman's mask only covers her forehead, nose, and cheeks. Even then, it's perfectly scultped to her face to the point where people should recognize her if they see her in her civilian identity and then see her as Wonder Woman.

* PowerTrio - The most obvious time this trope is invoked is the brief fight between Thief Catcher and Invisible Girl right before Wonder Woman breaks it up and straightens them out.
* PuppeteerParasite - The Evil Master does this to Invisible Girl in the climax although it's a much more visible example than most. He never fullys takes control of her, however, due to HeroicWillpower.
* {{Redemption Equals Death}} - Invisible Girl dabbles with this, with a touch of {{Wangst}}.
* {{Rocket Ride}} - Thief Catcher straddles a steel drum, tosses a lit stick of dynamite into the open end, and rides it into combat.
* RunawayTrain - Kau makes this happen. Once said train ends up in Kau's path, he tries {{Trainstopping}}. It doesn't work as well as planned.
* {{Separated At Birth}} - Actually, separated in early childhood in the case of Wonder Woman and Invisible Woman.

* {{Take My Hand}} - At least three times between Wonder Woman and Invisible Girl

* TitleDrop - The trio get their name in the last scene.
* TrainingFromHell - All the girls gets this. Since Invisible Girl and Thief Catcher got this from the Evil Master, it's an almost literal example.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend - After Invisible Girl left Wonder Woman as a child, she found the Evil Master and was trained alongside Thief Catcher. This time, Thief Catcher was the one who eventually escaped. Invisible Girl wasn't as lucky.
* UseYourHead - Thief Catcher does this multiple times in a row against the Evil Master to no avail.
* {{Weaksauce Weakness}} - Evil Master - kick him, shoot him, burn him, blow him up. Nothing works. Except... Love. Yep. Love. [[YourHeadASplode Makes his head explode.]]
* WouldHurtAChild - The Evil Master kills a baby rather randomly. We also get briefly treated to a serial killer who attempts to kill newborns (and fails, luckily enough).
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse - So Wonder Woman and Invisible Girl were trained by an OldMaster that wanted them to "fight for justice" and all we see are two flashbacks with no actual mention of even his name.
* WhatTheHellHero - See: NiceJobBreakingItHero. Both the cops and Wonder Woman give Thief Catcher this after the baby's death.
* WhipSword - Wonder Woman has one that can go from a straight blade to a whip sword.
* WhyWontYouDie - Happens with both the Evil Master and Kau. Bad guys in this movie can survive quite a lot.

* InfantImmortality - Averted pretty damn hard, obviously. We see a few kids die onscreen in what is otherwise, a pretty light-hearted movie.

* '''Wonder Woman''' (no, not [[Franchise/WonderWoman THAT]] one) or Tung - played by Anita Mui, is a mild-mannered domestic {{housewife}} by day and a super ninja-skilled ActionGirl with a CoolMask by night. Her weapons of choice are a sword and [[AbsurdlySharpBlade absurdly sharp]] throwing shurikens that can [[ImplausibleFencingPowers deflect and destroy bullets in mid-flight]].

** The final battle with the BigBad has a rather obvious homage to the first ''Film/TheTerminator'' movie.

* ShoutOut - The final battle with the BigBad has a rather obvious homage to the first {{Terminator}} movie.
** [[TheDragon The Dragon's]] weapon could also be a ShoutOut to the Hong Kong movie, MasterOfTheFlyingGuillotine.

The ''Heroic Trio'' is a 1993 Hong Kong action film directed by Johnny To, featuring an {{all star cast}} including MichelleYeoh, MaggieCheung and the late Anita Mui as the titular trio.

This film is an example of Hong Kong {{Wuxia}}, {{Wire Fu}}, and {{Heroic Bloodshed}}. The three main characters form a {{Power Trio}} of {{Action Girl}}s. The {{Rule of Cool}} helps to excuse some of the more over-the-top action sequences. The fight scenes are all highly choreographed [[UnnecessaryCombatRoll whirling mayhem]] filmed with sweeping tracking shots and plenty of ringing and swishing sound effects.

* '''Wonder Woman''' (no, not [[WonderWoman THAT]] one) or Tung - played by Anita Mui, is a mild-mannered domestic {{housewife}} by day and a super ninja-skilled {{Action Girl}} with a {{Cool Mask}} by night. Her weapons of choice are a sword and [[AbsurdlySharpBlade absurdly sharp]] throwing shurikens that can [[ImplausibleFencingPowers deflect and destroy bullets in mid-flight]].
* '''Thief Catcher''' or Mercy or Chat, depending on who did the subtitles - played by Maggie Cheung, is the {{Plucky Comic Relief}}, a spunky wise-cracking [[BikerBabe biker girl]] with a fondness for [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter shotguns]] and [[StuffBlowingUp dynamite]]. [[SoBadItsGood Delightful outfit]] includes [[GogglesDoNothing goggles]], leather {{Badass Longcoat}}, and kneepads. Her main superpower seems to be always being {{Crazy Prepared}}, as she never seems to run out of ammo or explosives. Practices {{Gun Fu}}.
* '''Invisible Girl''' (not [[ComicBook/FantasticFour THAT]] one, either) or Ching or San - played by Michelle Yeoh, is a [[ByronicHero brooding assassin]] who steals an {{Invisibility Cloak}} from her {{mad scientist}} boyfriend. Slave to the Evil Master, she carries out the grim task of kidnapping male babies for her master. Her weapon of choice is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_whip chain whip]], constructed of bullet-proof {{Variable Length Chain}}.

* EvilTrio: The Evil Master is the mastermind while Kau and Invisible Girl fill out the other two roles, at least for roughly half the movie. Kau and Invisible Girl even play up the BrainsAndBrawn dynamic.

* CoDragons - Kau and Invisible Girl start off as the two main enforcers for the BigBad until Invisible Woman joins the sid eof the heroes.

* AllAmazonsWantHercules - This time around, Chat gets a boyfriend. At first, he is a [TheRival rival]] who goes after her targets. The guy can handle his own against her in a fist fight as well, leading to a romance.

* FromTheFlames - During the climax, the girls blow up the Evil Master, but things don't go that easily for them when they see his skeleton rising from the flames for a second round.

* OutOfTheInferno - The Evil Master.

* {{Creepy Child}}ren - The kidnapped kids are raised on human flesh.

* {{Friend To All Living Things}} - both Wonder Woman and Invisible Girl have birds land in their hands in different scenes. Both Wonder Woman and Invisible Girl prove to be skilled equestrians. Wonder Woman saves a kitten (yes, a [[TastesLikeDiabetes kitten]]).

* GunFu - Thief Catcher vs. {{Mooks}}.

* {{Absurdly Spacious Sewer}} - the Evil Master has quite a nice lair under the city streets.

* AntiHero - Thief Catcher

* BlownAcrossTheRoom - Happens several times during the film.

* TheCape - Wonder Woman.
* {{Car Fu}} - well, Bike Fu, technically. Wonder Woman uses a flying, spinning motorcycle as a weapon against Kau.

* {{Creepy Child}}ren - Raised on human flesh.

* {{Heel Face Turn}} - Invisible Woman

* InfantImmortality - Averted pretty damn hard, obviously.

* {{Only A Flesh Wound}} Each member of the Heroic Trio is pummeled to the point where they're squirting blood out of their mouths. They seem just fine by the end of the movie.

* MoneyDearBoy - Chat is interested in getting paid more than helping out, at first.

* TightropeWalking: One of the main heroines is introduced, running along powerlines, She even does the splits between two of them while throwing knives at a foe.

* SissyVillain - Mr. Kim seems more appropriate as a SailorMoon villain. He giggles a lot, has a heavy case of HoYay with his understudy, and wears a guady 1700's era long coat/mask combo.

* WhipSword - Wonder Woman has one that can go from a straight blade to a whip sword.

* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Girl]] - Michelle Yeoh may be remembered by some as James Bond's {{Distaff Counterpart}} in ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies''. Or from {{Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon}}.
** To say nothing of Anita Mui and Maggie Cheung co-starring with JackieChan a few times. Maggie was also in {{Film/Hero}}.

* HeartBrokenBadass - Invisible Girl has this with a side of [[IWillProtectHer I Will Protect Him]] and a glass of ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies. We get a little slice of LoveRedeems as dessert.

* '''Invisible Girl''' (not [[FantasticFour THAT]] one, either) or Ching or San - played by Michelle Yeoh, is a [[ByronicHero brooding assassin]] who steals an {{Invisibility Cloak}} from her {{mad scientist}} boyfriend. Slave to the Evil Master, she carries out the grim task of kidnapping male babies for her master. Her weapon of choice is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_whip chain whip]], constructed of bullet-proof {{Variable Length Chain}}.

* [[CreepyChild Creepy Children]] - Raised on human flesh. Okay to kill, since they're also [[CompleteMonster Complete Monsters]]