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See also ''Film/TrueLegenbd2010'', a modern take on the character's backstory.

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See also ''Film/TrueLegenbd2010'', ''Film/TrueLegend2010'', a modern take on the character's backstory.



* ArchEnemy: Master Tiger and Master Wu Gong, who both used to be sworn brothers until Master Wu turns out to be far too despicable for his brethen.
* BadassTeacher: Master Hu; not only is he a schoolteacher who educates youngters, but he turns out to be an expert in the Tiger Fist kung fu, and willingly passes his skills to Su Qi-er as well!
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: The arguement in a classroom between Su Qi-er and various of his classmates leads to punches being thrown, and Su promptly grabs a stool. He ends up using the stool in hitting his class teacher on the noggin' instead, who walked in at the wrong time.

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* ArchEnemy: Master Tiger and Master Wu Gong, who both used to be sworn brothers until Master Wu turns out to be far too despicable for his brethen.
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* BadassTeacher: Master Hu; not only is he a schoolteacher who educates youngters, youngsters, but he turns out to be an expert in the Tiger Fist kung fu, and willingly passes his skills to Su Qi-er as well!
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: The arguement argument in a classroom between Su Qi-er and various of his classmates leads to punches being thrown, and Su promptly grabs a stool. He ends up using the stool in hitting his class teacher on the noggin' instead, who walked in at the wrong time.



* GroinAttack: Master Tiger Hu does this ''a lot'', even during the TrainingMontage on his protege, Su Qi-er. In a flashback scene, he squares off against his Arch-Enemy, Master Wu Gong, who sics seven EliteMooks on Tiger. Tiger defeats them by hitting seven groins in a row.

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* EliteMook: Master Wu Gong's acolytes, a legion of black-clad thugs. There are less than ten of them, but they can put up a fierce battle on their own.
* GoodOldFisticuffs: Most of Su Qi-er's fights have him taking on enemies with his fists alone, and he's darn good at it.
* GroinAttack: Master Tiger Hu does this ''a lot'', even during the TrainingMontage on his protege, protégé, Su Qi-er. In a flashback scene, he squares off against his Arch-Enemy, Master Wu Gong, who sics sic seven EliteMooks on Tiger. Tiger defeats them by hitting seven groins in a row.



* MeaningfulName: Master ''Wu Gong" - literally translates to Centipede in Mandarin, and he's an expert in the centipede fist kung fu. His disciples trains usign the same style of kung fu as him, too.

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* MeaningfulName: Master ''Wu Gong" - literally translates to Centipede in Mandarin, and he's an expert in the centipede fist kung fu. His disciples trains usign using the same style of kung fu as him, too.


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* SurpassedTheTeacher: Su Qi-er's skills ultimately goes beyond the level of his mentor, Master Tiger Hu, to the point of [[spoiler: defeating Master Wu Gong's acolytes and ultimately killing Master Wu, which Master Tiger fails]].
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''The Young Vagabond'' is a 1985 Creator/ShawBrothers MartialArtsMovie based on the life of Su Qi-er a.k.a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Chan Beggar So Chan]], the legendary Beggar Lord-kung fu master of the late Qing Dynasty, with a young Creator/GordonLiu portraying the life of Su in his early years.

A {{Prequel}} of sorts to the character's backstory, Su Qi-er - then named Su Chan - is depicted as the spoiled eldest son of Master Su, a wealthy lord, who in a twist of fate, ends up learning the skills of Tiger's Fist from his teacher, Drunken Tiger, an ex-outlaw who had gone into hiding. While training himself to be the new Master of Tiger's Fist, an old enemy from Drunken Tiger's past re-emerges for a challenge.

See also ''Film/TrueLegenbd2010'', a modern take on the character's backstory.

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* AnimalMotifs: Played straight for the film's BigGood and BigBad: Su Qi-er's teacher, Master Hu, uses the Tiger Fist as his preferred style of kung fu, while the villain, Master Wu Gong, uses a centipede motif. Their teachings to their disciples plays it completely straight as well.
* ArchEnemy: Master Tiger and Master Wu Gong, who both used to be sworn brothers until Master Wu turns out to be far too despicable for his brethen.
* BadassTeacher: Master Hu; not only is he a schoolteacher who educates youngters, but he turns out to be an expert in the Tiger Fist kung fu, and willingly passes his skills to Su Qi-er as well!
* ChairmanOfTheBrawl: The arguement in a classroom between Su Qi-er and various of his classmates leads to punches being thrown, and Su promptly grabs a stool. He ends up using the stool in hitting his class teacher on the noggin' instead, who walked in at the wrong time.
* DrunkenMaster: Master Hu, the Drunk Tiger, who is Su Chan's Badass Teacher whose kung fu skills improves with the amount of wine he chugs. By the end of the movie, protagonist Su Qi-er had taken over Drunken Tiger's mantle as another drunken master.
* DefectorFromDecadence: Master Tiger Hu and Master Wu Gong used to be sworn brothers and outlaws, robbing from the rich. But Master Wu's thirst for power and wealth got the better of him, and Master Tiger decides to bail after witnessing Master Wu ordering his minions to restrain a woman while he rapes her.
* GroinAttack: Master Tiger Hu does this ''a lot'', even during the TrainingMontage on his protege, Su Qi-er. In a flashback scene, he squares off against his Arch-Enemy, Master Wu Gong, who sics seven EliteMooks on Tiger. Tiger defeats them by hitting seven groins in a row.
* LanguageBarrier: Early in the film, Su Qi-er unintentionally gets himself into trouble for assaulting his father's guest, a white man, when he mistake the guest for making a racist remark on the Chinese. Turns out the unfortunate foreigner was only complimenting their kitchen's seafood.
* ManBitesMan: In the final battle, when it all comes down to Su Qi-er and Master Wu dueling one-on-one, [[spoiler: Su Qi-er eventually defeats the villain by chewing his throat out]]. The film even ends with a lovely freeze-frame of Su roaring with blood all over his lips.
* MeaningfulName: Master ''Wu Gong" - literally translates to Centipede in Mandarin, and he's an expert in the centipede fist kung fu. His disciples trains usign the same style of kung fu as him, too.
* MentorOccupationalHazard: [[spoiler: Master Hu ends up being betrayed, and then ambushed by his sworn enemy, Master Wu Gong, and ends up getting killed by the latter's centipede fist]].
* OhCrap: When Su accidentally whacks the priest with a stool.
* TalkToTheFist: This is how Su Qi-er responds to literally ''anything''... by lashing out. Punks, bullies, challengers, everyone. This actually gets him into trouble early in the film when Su punches out a business partner of his father, a foreigner, for mistaking the foreigner at making a racist remark on the Chinese when said foreigner is only complimenting Chinese food.
* TrainingMontage: For Su Qi-er to develop his skills in kung fu.
* WildHair: Su Qi-er had his hair become completely unkempt and wild after [[spoiler: Master Hu's death]], and remains in this state for the rest of the film, including the final battle against Master Wu Gong.
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