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* HurtingHero: Lu Feng, oh ''so very much''. From allowing himself to be punished in order to save a family of farmers [[spoiler: only to personally witness the farmers getting killed]] and getting himself repeatedly thrown in near-death situations and barely surviving the final battle.


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* TraumaCongaLine: Lu Feng allows himself to be punished in order to save a family of farmers [[spoiler: only to personally witness the farmers getting killed]]. Afterwards he is repeatedly thrown in near-death situations and barely survives the final battle.

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* BalanceSpeedStrengthTrio: For the PowerTrio, Lu Feng, Huang Liang, Yan Zi-qing, in that order.

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* BalanceSpeedStrengthTrio: For the PowerTrio, The titular trio, whom are three heroes trying to take down an evil overlord. With Jimmy Wang-yu's Lu Feng, Feng as TheHero who is StrongAndSkilled, Cheng Lui's Huang Liang, Liang TheLancer and FragileSpeedster, and Lo Lieh's Yan Zi-qing, in that order.Zi-qing as TheBigGuy.



* PowerTrio: The titular trio, whom are three heroes trying to take down an evil overlord. With Jimmy Wang-yu's Lu Feng as TheHero who is StrongAndSkilled, Cheng Lui's Huang Liang TheLancer and FragileSpeedster, and Lo Lieh's Yan Zi-qing as TheBigGuy.
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* AdaptationalLocationChange: Its pretty much a ShotForShotRemake of Hideo Gosha's ''Three Outlaw Samurai'', but with the movie being made in another country, the setting was relocated from Feudal Japan to Ming Dynasty China.

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* InASingleBound: All over the place. Most of the named characters can defy gravity by leaping, and in the final scene [[spoiler: Chief Gao tries leaping across the room to ambush the Imperial Minister only for Lu Feng to leap across in a similar way and kill Gao instead]].



* WithASingleBound: All over the place. Most of the named characters can defy gravity by leaping, and in the final scene [[spoiler: Chief Gao tries leaping across the room to ambush the Imperial Minister only for Lu Feng to leap across in a similar way and kill Gao instead]].

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* GrievousBottleyHarm: A variation in the tavern fight, Huang Liang grabs a ceramic wine vessel [[https://www.amazon.com/Linshing-Porcelain-Container-%E6%99%AF%E5%BE%B7%E9%95%87%E9%99%B6%E7%93%B7%E9%85%92%E5%9D%9B%E5%AD%90-5L-Cloth/dp/B07F62K2JS something like this]]) and use it to smash a mook's head.

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* GiantMook: Gao, the MookLieutenant leading Magistrate Wei's soldiers.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: A variation in the tavern fight, Huang Liang grabs a ceramic wine vessel (it looks [[https://www.amazon.com/Linshing-Porcelain-Container-%E6%99%AF%E5%BE%B7%E9%95%87%E9%99%B6%E7%93%B7%E9%85%92%E5%9D%9B%E5%AD%90-5L-Cloth/dp/B07F62K2JS something like this]]) and use it to smash a mook's head.



* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Or daughter. Magistrate Wei may be a cruel, ruthless and dishonourable warmonger, but his daughter Wei Wen-chen is a NiceGirl who cares about peasants and tries to make her father change for the better.

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* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Or daughter. Magistrate Wei may be a cruel, ruthless and dishonourable dishonorable warmonger, but his daughter Wei Wen-chen is a NiceGirl who cares about peasants and tries to make her father change for the better.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Well, as bad and ruthless Magistrate Wei is, at the very least he ''does'' love his daughter. [[spoiler: That's a redeeming factor that sees him being arrested at the end of the film instead of dying, making him one of the few {{BigBad}}s from Wang Yu's movies that doesn't die]].

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Well, as bad and ruthless Magistrate Wei is, at the very least he ''does'' love his daughter. [[spoiler: That's a redeeming factor that sees him being arrested at the end of the film instead of dying, making him one of the few {{BigBad}}s BigBad from Wang Yu's movies that doesn't die]].
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[[caption-width-right:350:The trio acting magnificently. [[note]] Clockwise, Jimmy Wang-yu, Cheng Lui, Lo Lieh [[/note]] ]]

''The Magnificent Trio'' is a 1966 ''wuxia'' film released by Creator/ShawBrothers, starring Creator/JimmyWangYu, Creator/LoLieh and Cheng Lui as the titular characters.

A shot-by-shot remake of Hideo Gosha's ''Three Outlaw Samurai'', set in the Ming Dynasty instead of Japan: nearing the end of the dynasty, the outbreak of war is about to happen, and corruption runs amok as powerful warlords took over the ruling authority of border provinces. The most ruthless of the lot, Magistrate Wei, enforces an iron grip on the peasants, but three heroic swordsmen - former soldier Lu Feng (Jimmy), wandering swordsman Yan Zi-qing (Lo Lieh) and righteous warrior Huang Liang (Cheng Lui) - stands in his way.

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!! The Magnificent Tropes:

* AllForNothing: Lu Feng's attempts to save a farming family from being sentenced to death, by getting punished via 100 lashes to the back in their stead, [[spoiler: doesn't save the farmers from eventually getting killed despite all his efforts]].
* BadassCrew: The trio when they take on armies side-by-side.
* BackToBackBadasses: The trio in the final battle.
* BalanceSpeedStrengthTrio: For the PowerTrio, Lu Feng, Huang Liang, Yan Zi-qing, in that order.
* BigDamnHeroes:
** Huang Liang's intro had him saving several villagers from a band of marauders, all which he kills in under a minute.
** [[spoiler: The Imperial Minister and his army fulfills this role when he arrives to bail the Magnificent Trio out of the finale. Unfortunately though he only managed to save two of the three]].
* BigGood: The Imperial Minister, who has authority second only to the Emperor. [[spoiler: By the end of the film after Magistrate Wei's corruption is exposed, the Minister personally orders for the Magistrate to be demoted and arrested]].
* BigGuyFatalitySyndrome:
** Inverted, it's [[spoiler: Huang Liang the smallest guy of the three]] who serves the SacrificialLion role.
** Almost [[DefiedTrope defied]] in a deliberate manner: in the final battle, Yan Zi-qing is about to be overwhelmed by enemy soldiers, at which point he attempts a BetterToDieThanBeKilled option by raising his sword to his throat. Lu Fang however stops him by blocking his sword.
* TheCavalry: [[spoiler: In the final battle, with Huang Liang mortally injured and the remaining two of the titular trio cornered by enemy soldiers, suddenly an entirely new army of soldiers comes marching in, led by the Imperial Minister. The entire battle quickly grinds to a halt at that point]].
* CorruptPolitician: The film's BigBad, Magistrate Wei, is a corrupt judge who abuses his power while hiding the reality of the townspeople's poverty from the Emperor. He is also not above hiring brutal thugs and bandits as his enforcers to make life difficult for farmers.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Well, as bad and ruthless Magistrate Wei is, at the very least he ''does'' love his daughter. [[spoiler: That's a redeeming factor that sees him being arrested at the end of the film instead of dying, making him one of the few {{BigBad}}s from Wang Yu's movies that doesn't die]].
* ForeignRemake: Of Creator/HideoGosha's ''Three Outlaw Samurai'', but now set in the Ming Dynasty.
* GrievousBottleyHarm: A variation in the tavern fight, Huang Liang grabs a ceramic wine vessel [[https://www.amazon.com/Linshing-Porcelain-Container-%E6%99%AF%E5%BE%B7%E9%95%87%E9%99%B6%E7%93%B7%E9%85%92%E5%9D%9B%E5%AD%90-5L-Cloth/dp/B07F62K2JS something like this]]) and use it to smash a mook's head.
* HumanPincushion: [[spoiler: Huang Liang dies from being skewered by arrows]].
* HurtingHero: Lu Feng, oh ''so very much''. From allowing himself to be punished in order to save a family of farmers [[spoiler: only to personally witness the farmers getting killed]] and getting himself repeatedly thrown in near-death situations and barely surviving the final battle.
* JustifiedCriminal: The farmers kidnaps Magistrate Wei's daughter, Wei Wen-chen, for ransom money because they are starving and living in constant poverty due to the Magistrate repeatedly taxing the civilians.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Or daughter. Magistrate Wei may be a cruel, ruthless and dishonourable warmonger, but his daughter Wei Wen-chen is a NiceGirl who cares about peasants and tries to make her father change for the better.
* ParryingBullets: Lu Feng in the final battle parries arrows fired by enemy archers.
* PowerTrio: The titular trio, whom are three heroes trying to take down an evil overlord. With Jimmy Wang-yu's Lu Feng as TheHero who is StrongAndSkilled, Cheng Lui's Huang Liang TheLancer and FragileSpeedster, and Lo Lieh's Yan Zi-qing as TheBigGuy.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Huang Liang]].
* SingleStrokeBattle: Lu Feng vs. Chief Gao. [[spoiler: Lu Feng wins]].
* ATasteOfTheLash: Lu Feng, in order to spare an innocent family of farmers, allows himself to be whipped a hundred times on their behalf. He ends up passing out from the pain until the farmer's daughter nursed him back to health.
* WithASingleBound: All over the place. Most of the named characters can defy gravity by leaping, and in the final scene [[spoiler: Chief Gao tries leaping across the room to ambush the Imperial Minister only for Lu Feng to leap across in a similar way and kill Gao instead]].
* {{Wuxia}}

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