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* ImprovFu: The show has [[TheDanza Sammo Law]] present this art in its finest form.
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* ImprovFu: The show has [[TheDanza Sammo Law]] Law present this art in its finest form.
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** Creator/ChuckNorris' ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' appears in one episode and Sammo appears in his show for the conclusion.
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** Creator/ChuckNorris' ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' appears in one episode ("Honor Among Strangers") and Sammo appears in his show ("Day of Cleansing") for the conclusion.
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* NotSoDifferent: Terrell recommends a hot plate of collard greens for Sammo's cold, saying that it's a common remedy among African Americans. Sammo politely turns him down saying that he'd prefer to use something his aunt is sending him from China, only to discover that she sent him a box full of collard greens.
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* SoftGlass: Numerous episodes show window glass for vehicles, houses and hotel rooms to be easily and neatly broken.
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* DoesntLikeGuns: Not that he doesn't like them, he just doesn't get one. HandWaved as the brass being afraid things might get volatile if he had one. [[MST3KMantra Don't think about it]]. Just don't.
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* DoesntLikeGuns: Not that he doesn't like them, he just doesn't get one. HandWaved as the brass being afraid things might get volatile if he had one. [[MST3KMantra Don't think about it]]. Just don't.
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* ActionGirl: Dana and Grace
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%% * ActionGirl: Action Girl: Dana and Grace
* GenreSavvy: When Sammo leaves the airport in the first episode, he ends up in a con-man's taxi. The con man drives him out to a remote area, where he is surrounded by a half-dozen men and robbed, [[AntiClimax without fighting back]]. Because that would be stupid, seeing as they were armed and could've plugged him full of holes. When they get back from commercial, he's reporting the crime at the police station, and everything is recovered at the end of the episode.
** In another first season episode, he and his partner have to get into a building that's surrounded by a high fence that's topped with razor wire. His partner asks if he's going to do some sort of crazy kung fu jump over the fence. Sammo gives him an incredulous look and asks if he's kidding. They find another way around the fence.
** In another first season episode, he and his partner have to get into a building that's surrounded by a high fence that's topped with razor wire. His partner asks if he's going to do some sort of crazy kung fu jump over the fence. Sammo gives him an incredulous look and asks if he's kidding. They find another way around the fence.
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* RealityEnsues: When Sammo leaves the airport in the first episode, he ends up in a con-man's taxi. The con man drives him out to a remote area, where he is surrounded by a half-dozen men and robbed, [[AntiClimax without fighting back]]. Because that would be stupid, seeing as they were armed and could've plugged him full of holes. When they get back from commercial, he's reporting the crime at the police station, and everything is recovered at the end of the episode.
** In another first season episode, he and his partner have to get into a building that's surrounded by a high fence that's topped with razor wire. His partner asks if he's going to do some sort of crazy kung fu jump over the fence. Sammo gives him an incredulous look and asks if he's kidding. They find another way around the fence.
** In another first season episode, he and his partner have to get into a building that's surrounded by a high fence that's topped with razor wire. His partner asks if he's going to do some sort of crazy kung fu jump over the fence. Sammo gives him an incredulous look and asks if he's kidding. They find another way around the fence.
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** In another first season episode, he and his partner have to get into a building that's surrounded by a high fence that's topped with razor wire. His partner asks if he's going to do some sort of crazy kung fu jump over the fence. Sammo gives him an incredulous look and asks if he's kidding. They find another way around the fence.
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* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Melanie George (Creator/JuliaCampbell), Sammo's girlfriend in Season 1.
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* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Melanie George (Creator/JuliaCampbell), Sammo's girlfriend in Season 1. When the main characters first meet her (in [[Recap/MartialLawS1E06ExtremeMeasures "Extreme Measures"]]), she's the assistant for a district attorney who is murdered. The attorney's death essentially ends the assistant job. Okay. Then in [[Recap/MartialLawS1E16CaptiveHearts "Captive Hearts"]], an episode that involves the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), it turns out that Melanie now works at INS. Convenient, but plausible. But then, in [[Recap/MartialLawS1E19NitroMan "Nitro Man"]], she works at a bank that gets robbed. There's no explanation for her sudden move to the private sector. %% She returns to the public sector in the season finale, if I recall correctly, but I don't remember whether there's any explanation for her leaving the bank
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* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Melanie George (Creator/JuliaCampbell), Sammo's girlfriend in Season 1.
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%%* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Sammo's son]] apparently did one and did his own gambit by [[spoiler:shooting Sammo with a tranquilizer to bring him into the SupervillainLair]].
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* ReverseMole: [[spoiler:Sammo's son]] apparently did a HeelFaceTurn and did his own gambit by [[spoiler:shooting Sammo with a tranquilizer to bring him into the SupervillainLair]].
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''Martial Law''--Sammo Law, a top flight cop and hand-to-hand combat instructor from UsefulNotes/{{Shanghai}}, China comes to Los Angeles to search for a crime boss and an undercover cop whom his department lost contact with. Once there, his temporary mission is turned into an ongoing exchange position and he is partnered with a pair of cops and is met with a clash in culture. As they battle the criminal elements of the city, his skill in martial arts proves to be a big help.
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Sammo Law, a top flight cop and hand-to-hand combat instructor from UsefulNotes/{{Shanghai}}, China comes to Los Angeles to search for a crime boss and an undercover cop whom his department lost contact with. Once there, his temporary mission is turned into an ongoing exchange position and he is partnered with a pair of cops and is met with a clash in culture. As they battle the criminal elements of the city, his skill in martial arts proves to be a big help.
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* MistakenForSpies: A second season ep has an NSA operative convinced beyond reason Sammo is working for Chinese intelligence. While Sammo's odd behavior (which is him looking for his long-lost son) fuels it a bit, it's obvious the man's only "evidence" of Sammo's spy status is simply [[YellowPeril him being Chinese.]] Even when Sammo risks his life to get back a device, the man smugly suggests Sammo was trying to recover it "for your bosses in China and we showed up. Guess we'll never know." It's a testament to his temper that Sammo doesn't flatten the guy.
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* MistakenForBadass: In "This Shogun For Hire," the team are tracking Nakamura, said to be the deadliest hitman on Earth. He's famous for killing an entire pack of Yakuza leaders at a dinner and suspected of scores of other murders. Grace meets him undercover, a charming and cool man who refuses to defend himself against attackers as "I'm paid to kill." He and Sammo face off...and Sammo takes him down in five seconds with Nakamura begging for mercy. This "master assassin" is a low-level con artist who couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag. ("You're not a hitman?" "I'm not even Japanese.") He ''did'' kill those Yakuza members...by accident as he was posing as a chef to escape the cops and cooked a fish the wrong way. Before he knew it, he was being blamed for every other unsolved murder in Japan so decided to use that to con a mob boss out of a big payday then run off before he could actually perform the hit. He's not happy the cops push him to keep up the role to find out who the target is.
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* SuddenlyShouting: When a young girl is killed in the crossfire of a gang war, the normally calm Sammo is on a quest for justice. Interrogating one of the gang's weapon suppliers, Sammo shows a picture of the girl. When the man looks away, Sammo suddenly screams ''look at her picture''. Even Terrell is thrown by his partner's sudden anger.
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* SuddenlyShouting: When a young girl is killed in the crossfire of a gang war, the normally calm Sammo is on a quest for justice. Interrogating one of the gang's weapon suppliers, Sammo shows a picture of the girl. When the man looks away, Sammo suddenly screams ''look ''"look at her picture''. picture!"'' Even Terrell is thrown by his partner's sudden anger.
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* SuddenlyShouting: When a young girl is killed in the crossfire of a gang war, the normally calm Sammo is on a quest for justice. Interrogating one of the gang's weapon suppliers, Sammo shows a picture of the girl. When the man looks away, Sammo suddenly screams ''look at her picture''. Even Terrell is thrown by his partner's sudden anger.
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''Martial Law''--Sammo Law, a top flight cop and hand-to-hand combat instructor from UsefulNotes/{{Shanghai}}, China comes to Los Angeles to search for a crime boss and a female undercover cop whom his department lost contact with. Once there, his temporary mission is turned into an ongoing exchange position and he is partnered with a pair of cops and is met with a clash in culture. As they battle the criminal elements of the city, his skill in martial arts proves to be a big help.
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''Martial Law''--Sammo Law, a top flight cop and hand-to-hand combat instructor from UsefulNotes/{{Shanghai}}, China comes to Los Angeles to search for a crime boss and a female an undercover cop whom his department lost contact with. Once there, his temporary mission is turned into an ongoing exchange position and he is partnered with a pair of cops and is met with a clash in culture. As they battle the criminal elements of the city, his skill in martial arts proves to be a big help.
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* HilariousOuttakesHilariousOuttakes: The closing credits presented a montage of flubbed lines and failed fight takes.
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* ActorAllusion: Terrell Parker (Arsenio Hall) mentions that one of his favorite films is ''Film/ComingToAmerica''.
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* NotSoDifferent: Terrell recommends a hot plate of collard greens for Sammo's cold, saying that it's a common remedy among African Americans. Sammo politely turns him down saying that he'd prefer to use something his aunt is sending him from China, only to discover that she sent him a box full of collard greens.
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* BillyNeedsAnOrgan: In one episode, a heart intended for a governor's daughter is stolen before it can be delivered.
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* TheDanza: Creator/SammoHung playing Sammo Law. As well as Louis Mandylor playing Louis Malone.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Season two's BigBad, The One, was initially played (in a voice-only role) by Creator/TimCurry, but when he appeared on-camera in the last episodes he was played by the somewhat slimmer Christopher Neame ([[FlashbackWithTheOtherDarrin who also overdubbed Tim Curry's lines]] in the appropriate "Previously On ''Martial Law''" bits).
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If you're looking for the trope where someone declares martial law or a state of emergency, you'll want EmergencyAuthority.
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If you're looking for the trope where someone declares martial law or a state of emergency, you'll want EmergencyAuthority. You might also have been looking for the comic series ''ComicBook/MarshalLaw''.
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* TheDanza: SammoHung playing Sammo Law. As well as Louis Mandylor playing Louis Malone.
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* GameShowAppearance: In the first episode, Sammo furnishes his apartment by winning stuff in ''ThePriceIsRight''.
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* GameShowAppearance: In the first episode, Sammo furnishes his apartment by winning stuff in ''ThePriceIsRight''.''Series/ThePriceIsRight''.
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How To Create A Works Page explicitly says "No bolding is used for work titles."
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** Happens to Portman too, who was sent to Hong Kong in Sammo's place as an exchange program. Starts getting over it in [[ADayInTheLimelight the episode showing his predicament]].
