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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:The final narration claims that Tien is going to be executed, but also that he might find a way to escape death. We are then presented with a FlashForward from ''Film/OngBak3'', the scene where a post-recovery Tien stands in front of the Ong Bak after having defeated the soldiers that ravaged Kana Khone. For someone that has not watched the third film yet, this shot makes no clear sense.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: It's left ambiguous whether [[spoiler:the masked assassins Tien faces at the climax are meant to be Pha Beek Khrut in disguise or unrelated hired guns. Their variety of Asian weapons and styles is matched only by the Khrut bandits themselves, not to mention Chernang's presence among them implies the rest are also his own men, but there is also the crow fighter, a trump card never seen before, and Tien doesn't seem to react as if he had recognized any of them by their fighting styles (although he fails to recognize that of his own master until the latter is unmasked, so this might be a moot point).]]
* AmbiguousSituation: It's left ambiguous whether [[spoiler:the masked assassins Tien faces at the climax are meant to be Pha Beek Khrut in disguise or unrelated hired guns. Their variety of Asian weapons and styles is matched only by the Khrut bandits themselves, not to mention Chernang's presence among them implies the rest are also his own men, but there is also the crow fighter, a trump card never seen before, and Tien doesn't seem to react as if he had recognized any of them by their fighting styles (although he fails to recognize that of his own master until the latter is unmasked, so this might be a moot point).]]
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* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:The final narration claims that Tien is going to be executed, but also that he might find a way to escape cheat death. We are then presented with a FlashForward from ''Film/OngBak3'', the scene where a post-recovery Tien stands in front of the Ong Bak after having defeated the soldiers that ravaged Kana Khone. For someone that has not watched the third film yet, this shot makes no clear sense.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: It's left ambiguous whether [[spoiler:the masked assassins Tien faces at the climax are meant to be Pha Beek Khrut in disguise or unrelated hired guns. Their variety of Asian weapons and styles is matched only by the Khrut bandits themselves, not to mention Chernang's presence among them implies the rest are also his own men, but there is alsothe crow fighter, a Bhuti, an unrelated trump card never seen before, and Tien doesn't seem to react as if he had recognized any of them by their fighting styles (although he fails to recognize that of his own master until the latter is unmasked, so this might be a moot point).]]
* AmbiguousSituation: It's left ambiguous whether [[spoiler:the masked assassins Tien faces at the climax are meant to be Pha Beek Khrut in disguise or unrelated hired guns. Their variety of Asian weapons and styles is matched only by the Khrut bandits themselves, not to mention Chernang's presence among them implies the rest are also his own men, but there is also
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** The crow fighter at the end does the proper, using ample arm movements simulating wings and sporting long bird-like claws.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: There's little excuse for an experienced warrior like Tien not to realize that his sword slashes are [[spoiler:hitting a hidden armor]] instead of slicing [[spoiler:Rajasena]] open. Only the resistance opposed against his blade would be starkly dfferent compared to that of human flesh and bone.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: This is Tien's final exam among the bandits. He has to defeat a Japanese samurai, a Chinese kung fu fighter and an indigenous wrestler in their own fields.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: There's little excuse for an experienced warrior like Tien not to realize that his sword slashes are [[spoiler:hitting a hidden armor]] instead of slicing [[spoiler:Rajasena]] open. Only the resistance opposed against his blade would be starkly dfferent compared to that of human flesh and bone.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: This is Tien's final exam among the bandits. He has to defeat a Japanese samurai, a Chinese kung fu fighter and an indigenous wrestler in their own fields.
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** The crow fighter at the end end, Bhuti Sankha (whose name means "Demon Crow"), does the proper, using ample arm movements simulating wings and sporting long bird-like claws.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: There's little excuse for an experienced warrior like Tien not to realize that his sword slashes are [[spoiler:hitting a hidden armor]] instead of slicing [[spoiler:Rajasena]] open. Only the resistance opposed against his blade would be starklydfferent different compared to that of human flesh and bone.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: This is Tien's final exam among the bandits. He has to defeat a Japanese samurai, a Chinese kung fu fighter andan indigenous a tribal wrestler in their own fields.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: There's little excuse for an experienced warrior like Tien not to realize that his sword slashes are [[spoiler:hitting a hidden armor]] instead of slicing [[spoiler:Rajasena]] open. Only the resistance opposed against his blade would be starkly
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: This is Tien's final exam among the bandits. He has to defeat a Japanese samurai, a Chinese kung fu fighter and
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* TheBigGuy: The indigenous wrestler seems to be this for Tien's team, being the biggest and strongest. He is the one who takes prisoner the slave ring leader, who is a giant in his own right.
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* TheBigGuy: The indigenous tribal wrestler seems to be this for Tien's team, being the biggest and strongest. He is the one who takes prisoner the slave ring leader, who is a giant in his own right.
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* BossBonanza: Throughout the finale, [[spoiler:Tien fights Chernang in disguise, the samurai with the straw basket, two dudes with twin swords, a fighter with a wicker shield, one with a lance, one with a heavy saber, a trio of fighters with katars, axes and tiger claws respectively, two unarmed fighters that do tiger kung fu and muay thai, one with a scythe, and two waves of multiple mooks in which he scores no less than 28 knockdowns the first and 17 the second, not counting the crow fighter. And then Rajasena's soldiers come out.]]
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* BossBonanza: Throughout the finale, [[spoiler:Tien fights Chernang in disguise, the samurai with the straw basket, two dudes with twin swords, a fighter with a wicker shield, one with a lance, one with a heavy saber, a trio of fighters with katars, axes and tiger claws respectively, two unarmed fighters that do tiger kung fu and muay thai, one with a scythe, and two waves of multiple mooks in which he scores no less than 28 knockdowns the first and 17 the second, not second (not counting the crow fighter.Bhuti Sangkha, who knocks down Tien in turn). And then Rajasena's soldiers come out.]]
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* DrunkenBoxing: During the battle against the slave traders, Tien chugs a huge vessel of some presumably alcoholic beverage and switches to a weird, almost UsefulNotes/{{capoeira}}-like fighting style, dropping to the ground and fighting almost exclusively with trips, sweeps and kicks.
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* DrunkenBoxing: During the battle against the slave traders, Tien chugs a huge vessel of some presumably alcoholic beverage and switches to a weird, almost UsefulNotes/{{capoeira}}-like UsefulNotes/{{Capoeira}}-like fighting style, dropping to the ground and fighting almost exclusively with trips, sweeps and kicks.
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Tien's adopted father Chernang, who killed his real father, allows himself to be killed by Tien both to atone for killing his father and to ensure that the rest of his own family is kept safe.]]
* TheSvengali: [[spoiler:Chernang, who worked for Rajasena against Tien's family and now is trying to fulfill his part of the deal.]]
* TheSvengali: [[spoiler:Chernang, who worked for Rajasena against Tien's family and now is trying to fulfill his part of the deal.]]
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Tien's adopted father Chernang, who killed his real father, allows himself to be killed by Tien both to atone for killing his father and to ensure that the rest of his own family is bandits are kept safe.safe as promised by Rajasena.]]
* TheSvengali: [[spoiler:Chernang, who worked for Rajasena against Tien's family and now is trying to fulfill his part of the deal. In a subversion, he was seemingly unaware that Tien was his escaped target all along and only discovers it during the third act of the film, and when the moment comes, he allows Tien to kill him rather than the opposite.]]
* TheSvengali: [[spoiler:Chernang, who worked for Rajasena against Tien's family and now is trying to fulfill his part of the deal. In a subversion, he was seemingly unaware that Tien was his escaped target all along and only discovers it during the third act of the film, and when the moment comes, he allows Tien to kill him rather than the opposite.]]
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** Chernang's indigenous wrestler uses a chokeslam on Tien when the latter's ''osoto gari'' fails. Tien retaliates with a DDT and later a headscissors takedown. He also uses elbow drops here and there.
** The crow fighter uses a shooting star double foot stomp onto Tien (in an elephant!).
** The crow fighter uses a shooting star double foot stomp onto Tien (in an elephant!).
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** Chernang's indigenous tribal wrestler uses a chokeslam on Tien when the latter's ''osoto gari'' fails. Tien retaliates with a DDT and later a headscissors takedown. He also uses elbow drops here and there.
**The crow fighter Bhuti uses a shooting star double foot stomp onto Tien (in an elephant!).
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Tien's adopted father Chernang, who killed his real father, allows himself to be killed by Tien both to atone for killing his father and to ensure that the rest of his own family is kept safe.]]
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* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982'', another film with a lot of sword slashes where a child gets his father killed in front of him, is captured by slavehunters, trains to become an excellent warrior, and ultimately seeks revenge against the powerful man that killed his father, [[spoiler:not without paying the price of his impulsiveness and being captured]].
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's left ambiguous whether [[spoiler:the masked assassins Tien faces at the climax are meant to be Pha Beek Khrut in disguise or unrelated hired guns. Their variety of Asian weapons and styles is matched only by the bandits themselves, not to mention Chernang's presence among them implies the rest are also his own men, but there is also the crow fighter, a trump card never seen before, and Tien doesn't seem to react as if he had recognized any of them by their fighting styles (although he fails to recognize that of his own master until the latter is unmasked, so this might be a moot point).]]
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* AllThereInTheManual:
** The DVD's extras contain an excerpt by writer Ek Iemchuen where he reveals the reason why Tien's parents took him to learn dancing: apparently, they had a mystic prediction that Tien would suffer a terrible fate if he ever became a man at arms, which they tried to dispel by putting him to learn the least violent thing possible, in this case dances. However, because YouCantFightFate, his family would be killed and he found himself training to become a warrior anyway.
** The extras also reveals Master Bua is a Thai Brahmin, who knows about dancing, meditation and other arts.
* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:The final narration claims that Tien is going to be executed, but also that he might find a way to escape death. We are then presented with a FlashForward from ''Film/OngBak3'', the scene where a post-recovery Tien stands in front of the Ong Bak after having defeated the soldiers that ravaged Kana Khone. For someone that has not watched the third film yet, this shot makes no clear sense.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: It's left ambiguous whether [[spoiler:the masked assassins Tien faces at the climax are meant to be Pha Beek Khrut in disguise or unrelated hired guns. Their variety of Asian weapons and styles is matched only by the Khrut bandits themselves, not to mention Chernang's presence among them implies the rest are also his own men, but there is also the crow fighter, a trump card never seen before, and Tien doesn't seem to react as if he had recognized any of them by their fighting styles (although he fails to recognize that of his own master until the latter is unmasked, so this might be a moot point).]]
** The DVD's extras contain an excerpt by writer Ek Iemchuen where he reveals the reason why Tien's parents took him to learn dancing: apparently, they had a mystic prediction that Tien would suffer a terrible fate if he ever became a man at arms, which they tried to dispel by putting him to learn the least violent thing possible, in this case dances. However, because YouCantFightFate, his family would be killed and he found himself training to become a warrior anyway.
** The extras also reveals Master Bua is a Thai Brahmin, who knows about dancing, meditation and other arts.
* AmbiguousEnding: [[spoiler:The final narration claims that Tien is going to be executed, but also that he might find a way to escape death. We are then presented with a FlashForward from ''Film/OngBak3'', the scene where a post-recovery Tien stands in front of the Ong Bak after having defeated the soldiers that ravaged Kana Khone. For someone that has not watched the third film yet, this shot makes no clear sense.]]
* AmbiguousSituation: It's left ambiguous whether [[spoiler:the masked assassins Tien faces at the climax are meant to be Pha Beek Khrut in disguise or unrelated hired guns. Their variety of Asian weapons and styles is matched only by the Khrut bandits themselves, not to mention Chernang's presence among them implies the rest are also his own men, but there is also the crow fighter, a trump card never seen before, and Tien doesn't seem to react as if he had recognized any of them by their fighting styles (although he fails to recognize that of his own master until the latter is unmasked, so this might be a moot point).]]
** One of the assassins at the end uses tiger-style.
* CoolMask: The samurai who seems to be in command of the assassin army wears a mask made out of a black wicker basket, like a Japanese ''komuso'' monk.
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* DiabolusExMachina: A mysterious, anmalistic fighter appears at the climax and manages to kick Tien's ass.
* DrunkenBoxing: During the battle against the slave traders, Tien chugs a huge vessel of some presumably alcoholic beverage and switches to a weird, almost capoeira-like fighting style, dropping to the ground and fighting almost exclusively with trips, sweeps and kicks.
* DrunkenBoxing: During the battle against the slave traders, Tien chugs a huge vessel of some presumably alcoholic beverage and switches to a weird, almost capoeira-like fighting style, dropping to the ground and fighting almost exclusively with trips, sweeps and kicks.
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* DiabolusExMachina: A mysterious, anmalistic fighter appears at the climax and manages to easily kick Tien's ass.
ass before stealing his elephant.
* DrunkenBoxing: During the battle against the slave traders, Tien chugs a huge vessel of some presumably alcoholic beverage and switches to a weird, almostcapoeira-like UsefulNotes/{{capoeira}}-like fighting style, dropping to the ground and fighting almost exclusively with trips, sweeps and kicks.
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* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: Roughly everybody in this film is a martial artist or weaponmaster of some kind.
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* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: Roughly everybody in this film film, with the exception of Bua and his villagers, is a martial artist or weaponmaster of some kind.
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Set in medieval Thailand, back then known as Siam, Tien is the young heir to a noble family that sees all of his household massacred by the ambitious rival lord Rajasena. Fleeing along through the Thai jungle, he is caught by slave hunters, but his willpower and spunk make them throw him to a crocodile pit.
At that moment, however, he is rescued in incredibly convenient fashion by the Pha Beek Khrut, the bandits of the Garuda Wing Cliff, a multi-national tribe of Asian martial artists. Having impressed their leader, Chernang, Tien is adopted by them and set to become a master warrior, which he will put to good use to try to extract vengeance from the wicked Rajasena.
''Ong Bak 2'' was one of the most anticipated and ambitious Thai films in history, so much that its production became the Asian version of ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' and essentially destroyed the rising career of Tony Jaa. The film's original idea had to be divided in a duology whose second part, ''Film/OngBak3'', was released in 2010.
At that moment, however, he is rescued in incredibly convenient fashion by the Pha Beek Khrut, the bandits of the Garuda Wing Cliff, a multi-national tribe of Asian martial artists. Having impressed their leader, Chernang, Tien is adopted by them and set to become a master warrior, which he will put to good use to try to extract vengeance from the wicked Rajasena.
''Ong Bak 2'' was one of the most anticipated and ambitious Thai films in history, so much that its production became the Asian version of ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' and essentially destroyed the rising career of Tony Jaa. The film's original idea had to be divided in a duology whose second part, ''Film/OngBak3'', was released in 2010.
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Set in medieval Thailand, back then known as Siam, Tien is the young heir to a noble family that sees witnesses how all of his household is massacred by the ambitious rival lord Lord Rajasena. Fleeing along through the Thai jungle, he is caught by slave hunters, but his willpower and spunk make them throw him to a crocodile pit.
At that moment, however, he is rescued in incredibly convenient fashion by the Pha Beek Khrut, the bandits of the Garuda Wing Cliff, a multi-national tribe of Asian martial artists. Having impressed their leader, Chernang, Tien is adopted by them and set to become a master warrior, which he will put to good use to try to extract vengeance from thewicked evil Rajasena.
''Ong Bak 2'' was one One of the most anticipated and ambitious Thai films in history, so much that its production became ''Ong Bak 2'' might be considered the Asian version of ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' and ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', as its nightmarish production essentially destroyed stunted forever the rising career of Tony Jaa. The film's original idea had to be divided in a duology whose second part, ''Film/OngBak3'', was released in 2010.
At that moment, however, he is rescued in incredibly convenient fashion by the Pha Beek Khrut, the bandits of the Garuda Wing Cliff, a multi-national tribe of Asian martial artists. Having impressed their leader, Chernang, Tien is adopted by them and set to become a master warrior, which he will put to good use to try to extract vengeance from the
* AmbiguousSituation: It's left ambiguous whether [[spoiler:the masked assassins Tien faces at the climax are meant to be Pha Beek Khrut in disguise or unrelated hired guns. Their variety of Asian weapons and styles is matched only by the bandits themselves, not to mention Chernang's presence among them implies the rest are also his own men, but there is also the crow fighter, a trump card never seen before, and Tien doesn't seem to react as if he had recognized any of them by their fighting styles (although he fails to recognize that of his own master until the latter is unmasked, so this might be a moot point).]]
* TheBigGuy: The indigenous wrestler seems to be this for Tien's team, being the biggest and strongest. He is the one who takes prisoner the slave ring leader, who is a giant in his own right.
* BossBonanza: Throughout the finale, [[spoiler:Tien fights Chernang in disguise, the samurai with the straw basket, two dudes with twin swords, a fighter with a wicker shield, one with a lance, one with a heavy saber, a trio of fighters with katars, axes and tiger claws respectively, two unarmed fighters that do tiger kung fu and muay thai, one with a scythe, and two waves of multiple mooks in which he scores no less than 28 knockdowns the first and 17 the second, not counting the crow fighter. And then Rajasena's soldiers come out.]]
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* GenreShift: The movie is a historical martial arts epic with Buddhist elements rather than a mere kung fu flick as the original ''Ong-Bak''.
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* GenreShift: The movie is a historical martial arts epic with Buddhist elements rather than a mere kung fu flick as the original ''Ong-Bak''.
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* MeaningfulRename: Rajasena gives his own royal dynasty the name of Garuda. It's hardly a coincidence that Garuda is the mythological vehicle of Vishnu, the god of which the Ayutthaya king is considered an incarnation. By invoking this symbolism, Rajasena is simultaneously giving himself a superior power yet at the same time appointing himself as the perfect vassal.
* MookChivalry: Justified in the slave market brawl when it turns out everybody is positively terrified of fighting Tien after having seen what is he pable of.
* MookChivalry: Justified in the slave market brawl when it turns out everybody is positively terrified of fighting Tien after having seen what is he pable of.
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* MeaningfulRename: Rajasena gives his own royal dynasty the name of Garuda. It's hardly a coincidence that Garuda is the mythological vehicle of Vishnu, the god of which the Ayutthaya king is considered an incarnation. By invoking this symbolism, Rajasena is simultaneously giving crowning himself over a superior power mere general yet at the same time appointing himself as the perfect vassal.
vassal to the king.
* MinorMajorCharacter: Two of the assassins Tien faces at the end, the samurai with the straw basket and the crow warrior, seem to be pretty important characters on the basis that Tien fails to beat them, but we learn nothing about them.
* MookChivalry: Justified in the slave market brawl when it turns out everybody is positively terrified of fighting Tien after having seen what is hepable of.able of. Possibly too in the final mass fight.
* MinorMajorCharacter: Two of the assassins Tien faces at the end, the samurai with the straw basket and the crow warrior, seem to be pretty important characters on the basis that Tien fails to beat them, but we learn nothing about them.
* MookChivalry: Justified in the slave market brawl when it turns out everybody is positively terrified of fighting Tien after having seen what is he
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* TheChessmaster: Rajasena. The film takes place during the expansion of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, whose orders for Lord Sihadecho were to submit the conquered new territories. However, Sihadecho believes it was the main adviser, Lord Rajasena, who convinced the Ayutthaya king into starting those conquests, which would put Sihadecho in a position where Rajasena could easily destroy his household. He's right, and by the end of the movie, Rajasena has usurped Sihadecho's job, even establishing himself as a vassal king to Ayuttahaya.
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* MeaningfulRename: Rajasena gives his own royal dynasty the name of Garuda. It's hardly a coincidence that Garuda is the mythological vehicle of Vishnu, the god of which the Ayutthaya king is considered an incarnation. By invoking this symbolism, Rajasena is simultaneously giving himself a superior power yet at the same time appointing himself as the perfect vassal.
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* AnimalThemedFightingStyle:
** Tien defeats the kung fu fighter by using cobra-style kung fu.
** The crow fighter at the end does the proper, using ample arm movements simulating wings and sporting long bird-like claws.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: There's little excuse for an experienced warrior like Tien not to realize that his sword slashes are [[spoiler:hitting a hidden armor]] instead of slicing [[spoiler:Rajasena]] open. Only the resistance opposed against his blade would be starkly dfferent compared to that of human flesh and bone.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: This is Tien's final exam among the bandits. He has to defeat a Japanese samurai, a Chinese kung fu fighter and an indigenous wrestler in their own fields.
** Tien defeats the kung fu fighter by using cobra-style kung fu.
** The crow fighter at the end does the proper, using ample arm movements simulating wings and sporting long bird-like claws.
* ArtisticLicenseMartialArts: There's little excuse for an experienced warrior like Tien not to realize that his sword slashes are [[spoiler:hitting a hidden armor]] instead of slicing [[spoiler:Rajasena]] open. Only the resistance opposed against his blade would be starkly dfferent compared to that of human flesh and bone.
* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame: This is Tien's final exam among the bandits. He has to defeat a Japanese samurai, a Chinese kung fu fighter and an indigenous wrestler in their own fields.
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* BulletproofVest: Tien seemingly kills Rajasena by slashing him multiple times on the torso before [[DisneyVillainDeath throwing him off a building]]. Rajasena reappears later and smugly shows his armored vest to Tien.
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* BigOlEyebrows: The bandit who fights with ''karambits'' and does sleeve tricks has a massive unibrow.
* BulletproofVest: Tien seemingly kills Rajasena by slashing him multiple times on the torso before [[DisneyVillainDeath throwing him off a building]].Rajasena [[spoiler:Rajasena reappears later and smugly shows his armored vest to Tien.]]
* BulletproofVest: Tien seemingly kills Rajasena by slashing him multiple times on the torso before [[DisneyVillainDeath throwing him off a building]].
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* ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler:Rajasena sends Chernang to massacre Tien's family, only that Tien escapes thanks to a loyal vassal. He ends up in a slave circuit, where ''Chernang'' of all people finds and adopts him because he likes his spunk. Naturally, the thing becomes tragic when the truth is revealed.]]
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* ChainPain: One of the bandits fights with chained iron rings.
* ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler:Rajasena sends Chernang to massacre Tien's family, only that Tien escapes thanks to a loyal vassal.He Tien ends up in a slave circuit, where ''Chernang'' of all people finds and adopts him because he likes his spunk. Naturally, the thing becomes tragic when the truth is revealed.]]
* ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler:Rajasena sends Chernang to massacre Tien's family, only that Tien escapes thanks to a loyal vassal.
* DrunkenBoxing: During the battle against the slave traders, Tien chugs a huge vessel of some presumably alcoholic beverage and switches to a weird, almost capoeira-like fighting style, dropping to the ground and fighting almost exclusively with trips, sweeps and kicks.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Tien loses everything in his life ''again'' and is captured by his ArchEnemy, it being presumed that he will be tortured to death.]] Also an AmbiguousEnding counting on Master Bua's final narration and the scene of [[spoiler:a bearded Tien next to the Ong Bak Buddha.]]
* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: Roughly everybody in this film is a martial artist or weaponmaster of some kind.
* TheForeignSubtitle: ''The Beginning'' in the English world. For its part, Spain added ''The Legend of the Elephant King''.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Tien loses everything in his life ''again'' and is captured by his ArchEnemy, it being presumed that he will be tortured to death.]] Also an AmbiguousEnding counting on Master Bua's final narration and the scene of [[spoiler:a bearded Tien next to the Ong Bak Buddha.]]
* EverybodyWasKungFuFighting: Roughly everybody in this film is a martial artist or weaponmaster of some kind.
* TheForeignSubtitle: ''The Beginning'' in the English world. For its part, Spain added ''The Legend of the Elephant King''.
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* HeroicRROD: The marathon village fight takes its toll on Tien and by the end, he can barely stand.
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* HeroicRROD: The marathon village fight takes its toll on Tien Tien, and by the end, he can barely stand.
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* LikeASonToMe: Chernang affectionately calls Tien "My son!"
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* KukrisAreKool: One of the guards in the slave market wields a kukri.
* LikeASonToMe: Chernang affectionately calls Tien "Myson!" son!"
* MookChivalry: Justified in the slave market brawl when it turns out everybody is positively terrified of fighting Tien after having seen what is he pable of.
* LikeASonToMe: Chernang affectionately calls Tien "My
* MookChivalry: Justified in the slave market brawl when it turns out everybody is positively terrified of fighting Tien after having seen what is he pable of.
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* TheSvengali: [[spoiler:Chernang, who worked for Rajasena and now is trying to fulfill his part of the deal.]]
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* TheSvengali: [[spoiler:Chernang, who worked for Rajasena against Tien's family and now is trying to fulfill his part of the deal.]]]]
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: The scarred bandit uses bombs and hand grenades as his weapon of choice.
* WildMan: The woman in the cave is a feral martial artist who lures men in pretending to be a prisoner.
* ThrowDownTheBomblet: The scarred bandit uses bombs and hand grenades as his weapon of choice.
* WildMan: The woman in the cave is a feral martial artist who lures men in pretending to be a prisoner.
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* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Tien uses a DDT, a headscissors takedown and a couple elbow drops on occasion.
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* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Tien WrestlerInAllOfUs:
** Chernang's indigenous wrestler uses aDDT, chokeslam on Tien when the latter's ''osoto gari'' fails. Tien retaliates with a DDT and later a headscissors takedown and a couple takedown. He also uses elbow drops on occasion.here and there.
** The crow fighter uses a shooting star double foot stomp onto Tien (in an elephant!).
** Chernang's indigenous wrestler uses a
** The crow fighter uses a shooting star double foot stomp onto Tien (in an elephant!).
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''Ong Bak 2'' was one of the most anticipated and ambitious Thai films in history, so much that its production became the Asian version of ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' and essentially destroyed the rising career of Tony Jaa. The film's original idea had to be divided in a duology whose second part, ''Ong-Bak 3'', was released in 2010.
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''Ong Bak 2'' was one of the most anticipated and ambitious Thai films in history, so much that its production became the Asian version of ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' and essentially destroyed the rising career of Tony Jaa. The film's original idea had to be divided in a duology whose second part, ''Ong-Bak 3'', ''Film/OngBak3'', was released in 2010.
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''Ong Bak 2'' (known in English-speaking countries as ''Ong-Bak 2: The Beginning'') is a 2008 Thai martial arts film by Creator/TonyJaa. It acts as a loose {{Prequel}} to his previous film and star-making success, ''Film/OngBak''.
Set in medieval Thailand, back then known as Siam, Tien is the young heir to a noble family that sees all of his household massacred by the ambitious rival lord Rajasena. Fleeing along through the Thai jungle, he is caught by slave hunters, but his willpower and spunk make them throw him to a crocodile pit.
At that moment, however, he is rescued in incredibly convenient fashion by the Pha Beek Khrut, the bandits of the Garuda Wing Cliff, a multi-national tribe of Asian martial artists. Having impressed their leader, Chernang, Tien is adopted by them and set to become a master warrior, which he will put to good use to try to extract vengeance from the wicked Rajasena.
''Ong Bak 2'' was one of the most anticipated and ambitious Thai films in history, so much that its production became the Asian version of ''Film/ApocalypseNow'' and essentially destroyed the rising career of Tony Jaa. The film's original idea had to be divided in a duology whose second part, ''Ong-Bak 3'', was released in 2010.
!! The film contain examples of the following tropes:
* TheBerserker: Tien's fighting style is frighteningly aggressive. He even scratches the face of an enemy after putting him a necklock.
* BulletproofVest: Tien seemingly kills Rajasena by slashing him multiple times on the torso before [[DisneyVillainDeath throwing him off a building]]. Rajasena reappears later and smugly shows his armored vest to Tien.
* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler:The film ends with an unconscious Tien being surrounded by Rajasena's entire army.]]
* ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler:Rajasena sends Chernang to massacre Tien's family, only that Tien escapes thanks to a loyal vassal. He ends up in a slave circuit, where ''Chernang'' of all people finds and adopts him because he likes his spunk. Naturally, the thing becomes tragic when the truth is revealed.]]
* DiabolusExMachina: A mysterious, anmalistic fighter appears at the climax and manages to kick Tien's ass.
* GenreShift: The movie is a historical martial arts epic with Buddhist elements rather than a mere kung fu flick as the original ''Ong-Bak''.
* HeroicRROD: The marathon village fight takes its toll on Tien and by the end, he can barely stand.
* KarmicDeath:
** [[spoiler:If accidentally, Tien slits the throat of his adopted father with his sword, who murdered his actual father by slitting his throat with a sword. He even acknowledges this fact before Tien kills him.]]
** As a boy, Tien was thrown into a crocodile pit by one of the guards. Years later, when Tien has the guard-turned-slaver at his mercy, he [[IronicEcho repeats the man's words from back then]] ([[FalseReassurance "I will give you a chance"]]) before ordering him [[ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine thrown to the crocodiles]].
* LikeASonToMe: Chernang affectionately calls Tien "My son!"
* MultiMeleeMaster: Tien masters a variety of weapons from different countries growing up and shows his skills with the sword (krabi, jian, talwar, katana, dao), spear, three-section staff and rope-dart.
* OneManArmy: To say the least, Tien is able to curbstomp an entire palace and then an entire village of mercenaries.
* OnlyAFleshWound: Tien is cut and slashed a lot in the closing, and yet is able to still dodge 99% of the attacks from his enemies.
* TheSvengali: [[spoiler:Chernang, who worked for Rajasena and now is trying to fulfill his part of the deal.]]
* WizardBeard: Sengpa, Chernang's blind seer, has one, with matching hair.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Tien uses a DDT, a headscissors takedown and a couple elbow drops on occasion.
