History Film / IpMan4

** In the beginning Geddes insults a downed marine that was being held-locked from Frater by saying he hates colored cowards while [[BlantantLies denying that he is a racist]].

** In the beginning Geddes insults a downed marine that was being held-locked from Frater by saying he hates colored cowards while denying that he is a racist.
** Geddes goes well beyond excess to [[spoiler: make a demonstration out of Chairman Wan after he loses their bout]], hospitalizing him with a shattered kneecap and a broken arm. When he had Ip Man on the floor during the fight, he insults him.

* IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance: Becky claims that America has belonged to the white people for generations. Yonah, however, corrects her, stating that America has always been composed of people from various different ethnicities, and that the natives are the only actual Americans, who had their land stolen from them.

* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Geddes goes well beyond excess to [[spoiler: make a demonstration out of Chairman Wan after he loses their bout]], hospitalizing him with a shattered kneecap and a broken arm. When he had Ip Man on the floor during the fight, he insults him.

* SequelGoesForeign: This time, the film is set outside of China, in America. In San Francisco, more exactly.

* WouldHarmASenior: Becky's boyfriend and his gang have no qualms attacking the 71-year old Ip Man, who intervenes in their attack on Yonah. Not that it matters as it doesn't end well for them, however, as he repels them without breaking a sweat.

* ElderAbuse: Becky's boyfriend and his gang have no qualms attacking the 71-year old Ip Man, who intervenes in their attack on Yonah. Not that it matters as it doesn't end well for them, however, as he repels them without breaking a sweat.

* ElderAbuse: Becky's boyfriend and his gang have no qualms attacking the 71-year old Ip Man, who intervenes in their attack on Yonah. It doesn't end well for them, however, as he repels them without breaking a sweat.

** After his earlier attempts to convince his direct superiors on the integrating Chinese martial arts into Marine training fails, a Staff Sergeant (OR-6) Hartman massively goes over his superiors heads, seemingly straight to a ''General'' (OF-9) to propose the idea to him. Not only is this a serious disregard of the chain of command; something as trivial as showing of a different type of martial arts is something most Generals, let alone junior officers wouldn't bother with compared to their other more pressing matters in their respective stations.

** ''Every'' board member of the Chinese Benevolent Association is a master of some martial art style. Master Wan, as head of the CBA, does the better against Geddes than any of his cohorts.

** Barton Geddes

** Ip Ching blames his father for the death of his mother which earns him a slap from him. [[spoiler:However he was able to make with his father after hearing about his condition.]]

* SmashTheSymbol: American soldiers burn a Wing Chun training dummy to symbolize their rejection of it after Hartman's failure to beat the Marine karate instructor Colin with the training Bruce gave him.
* TheDragon: Frater to Geddes.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Happens twice in the film both from chinese giving it to their racist westerners. First is Yonah towards Becky, see IgnorantOfTheirOwnIgnorance and the other is Hartman towards Geddes in the climax of the film.

* KickThemWhileTheyAreDown: Geddes goes well beyond excess to [[spoiler: make a demonstration out of Chairman Wan after he loses their bout]], hospitalizing him with a shattered kneecap and a broken arm.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Geddes would've won when he had Ip Man on the floor and finish him off, but instead he chooses to insult him and let's him get back up, which then leads to his own defeat. Also because of his 'no rules', Ip Man was able to turn this rule against Geddes and had he not put it in, he would've won.

* SickeningCrunch: Wan's shattered knee lets out a loud one in his fight against Geddes while Geddes's broken arm lets out a quiet one against his fight against Ip Man.

* DirtyCoward: Becky as she was able to beat up Yonah because she had her boyfriend's gang to back her up, but once Ip Man shows up and effortlessly defeats her boyfriend's gang, she immediately retreats with them.

* HateSink: Becky only exists to be painted as an irredeemable and despicable bitch who exhibits hostility towards the Chinese without any good reason. To pour salt in the wound, [[KarmaHoudini she doesn't get any form of comeuppance for what she did to Yonah]] throughout the course of the film's events.
* HatesTheirParent: Yonah resents her father for not taking her own interests to heart and his mindset of knowing what's best for his daughter because he is the parent. She makes up with him, however, after the Marines take him into custody.

** Becky's parents buy their daughter's claim that she was bullied at school, not knowing that it was she who picked on Yonah in the first place.

* DeadlyDistantFinale: [[spoiler: The film ends with a montage depicting Ip Man's funeral several decades later]].

* HateSink: Becky only exists to be painted as an irredeemable and despicable asshole who exhibits hostility towards the Chinese without good reason. To pour salt in the wound, [[KarmaHoudini she doesn't get any form of comeuppance for what she did to Yonah]] throughout the course of the film's events.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Ip Man ends [[spoiler: his bout against Sergeant Geddes]] the same way Geddes ended the fight with Wan: By breaking his arm. For a bonus, he also punches Geddes in the throat.

* SickeningCrunch: Wan's shattered knee lets out a loud one while Barton's broken arm lets out a quiet one.

* IntimidationDemonstration: Frater has thick bricks brought with him when gatecrashing the Mid-Autumn Festival, which he shatters with a karate chop in challenge to the kung fu masters.
** Later on, Geddes isn't comfortable with having just beaten Wan, he makes an example of him by shattering his knee and arm.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Geddes is inevitably the best fighter Ip has to face, even more so than Frater, the designated karate instructor reporting to him. Master Wan as head of the CBA similarly does the best against Geddes of his cohorts.

* FriendOnTheForce: Two of them, both Bruce's disciples. Billy, who works for ICE and [[spoiler:tips off the CBA to an impending raid]], and [=SSgt=] Hartman, whose attempts to introduce kung fu into the Marine hand to hand curriculum drive much of the plot.

** After his earlier attempts to convince his direct superiors on the integrating Chinese martial arts into Marine training fails, a Staff Sergeant (OR-6) Hartmann massively goes over his superiors heads, seemingly straight to a ''General'' (OF-9) to propose the idea to him. Not only is this a serious disregard of the chain of command; something as trivial as showing of a different type of martial arts is something most Generals, let alone junior officers wouldn't bother with compared to their other more pressing matters in their respective stations.

* BullyBrutality: Becky and her boyfriend's gang roughs up Yonah and Becky cuts her hair before Ip Man shows up.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: As well-intentioned as he was in standing up for his culture, Hartman going over Geddes's head to push kung fu into the Marine curriculum is what spurs Geddes first to send Frater to make trouble in Chinatown, and later to enter the fray himself when that wasn't enough.

* SmashTheSymbol: American soldiers burn a Wing Chun training dummy to symbolize their rejection of it after Hartman's failure to beat the Marine karate instructor with the training Bruce gave him.

* YouCanBarelyStand: Downplayed. Ip Man gets a gate slammed on his left wrist partway through the film. Master Wan, who notices the subsequent weakness, kindly refuses to use his own left hand in order to be gentlemanly. Geddes, who also notices, doesn't.

* {{Homage}}: Bruce takes on a challenger in a fight clearly intended to evoke the nunchuks vs katana fight in ''Film/FistOfFury'', albeit with a metal rod in place of the katana and the nunchuks wrested from the challenger.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Ip Man ends [[spoiler: his bout against Sergeant Geddes]], the same way Geddes ended the fight with Wan: By breaking his arm. For a bonus, he also punches Geddes in the throat.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: An ArrogantKungFuGuy insulting Chinese people living in San Francisco with "yellow bitches".

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Ip Man ends [[spoiler: his bout against Sergeant Geddes]], the same way Geddes ended the fight with Wan: By breaking his arm. For a bonus, he also punches Barton in the throat.

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Ip Man ends [[spoiler: his bout against Sergeant Geddes]] the same way Geddes ended the fight with Wan: By breaking his arm.

* SickeningCrunch: Wan's shattered knee lets out a loud one.

* BerserkButton: Ip takes his son's unfilial rant stoically at first, but when the memory of his late wife is attempted to be used against him, he slaps the young man. Justified as this takes place the same year as ''3'', meaning her death is still in recent memory.

* ImmediateSequel: The film is set in 1959, the same year as ''Ip Man 3''. For comparison, the latter took place nine years after ''Ip Man 2''.