"With Five Sisters, I'm Doomed To Be Single!"
How To Train Our Dragon (originally titled With Five Sisters, I'm Doomed To Be Single!) is a Taiwanese comedy film directed by Shaun Su.Li Kuang-Lung would be your Ordinary High-School Student wanting a girlfriend, were it not for his five extremely overprotective older sisters, who are determined to keep him from finding a girl so he'll never have his heart broken and are willing to spy on him all day, shoot arrows at him, become his school principal, force feed him his lunch and tie him up and torture him if he ever thinks of a girl to make sure he stays single.
Desiring freedom from his older sisters' overprotectiveness, Kuang-Lung decides to try and find a girlfriend anyway, and soon sets his sights on Hsu Hsin-Meng, a cute and innocent new transfer student with a reputation for helping people. Meng is indifferent at first, but after seeing Kuang-Lung's older sisters bullying him she takes pity on him and decides to pretend to be his girlfriend to get his sisters off his back. However, the Li sisters are only willing to let a specific kind of woman take their brother and thus force Meng to compete against them in a series of contests to prove herself worthy of claiming Kuang-Lung's love.
Tropes that appear in this work:
- All-Loving Hero: Meng is a cheerful kind girl willing to help out anyone in need of it.
- Amusing Injuries: Chin-Ling shooting arrows into people's heads is consistently played for laughs and her aren't shown to do anything other than irritate the people they hit.
- The Baby of the Bunch: Li Kuang-Lung is the youngest sibling in his family and is kept under fierce protection by his sisters.
- Badass Crew: The Li sisters are effectively a team of Cool Big Sises with specialized skills, which they put towards making sure their baby brother stays single forever.
- Bait-and-Switch: After Kuang-Lung seemingly dies, the next scene of the movie is Meng talking to a grave, which is assumed to be Kuang-Lung's. Then Kuang-Lung steps in and it's revealed the grave Meng is talking to is actually her mother's, and the two prepare to go off on vacation.
- The Cracker: Hsuan-Ling is shown to be able to hack almost anything with her computer skills, usually security cameras in order to keep an eye on Kuang-Lung.
- The Dreaded: Huang-Ling, the eldest Li sister. Her younger sisters all fear her about as much as they love and respect her.
- Five-Man Band: Kuang-Lung's older sisters fit these roles very well and form a neat Five-Woman Band.
- The Leader: Li Huang-Ling, the scary, goddess-like eldest sister and leader of the five sisters.
- The Lancer: Li Ya-Ling, the sexy and domineering second oldest and second-in-command of the sisters who serves as the dean of Kuang-Lung's school.
- The Smart Girl: Li Hsuan-Ling, the middle sister who's a computer whiz and expert hacker.
- The Big Girl: Li Chin-Ling, the tough and athletic second youngest sister who's an expert shot with a bow and arrow.
- The Cutie: Li Hsiang-Ling, the cutesy and caring youngest sister who's in charge of feeding Kuang-Lung his meals each day.
- Here We Go Again!: The movie ends with Kuang-Lung and Meng preparing to go on vacation, and Kuang-Lung's five sisters tagging along to make sure he stays protected...
- Heroic Sacrifice: With the rocket he's strapped to about to go off and with little time left to stop the countdown, Kuang-Lung confesses everything to Meng and stops her from saving him before the rocket takes off and explodes. Thankfully though, he survives.
- Hot Teacher: Li Ya-Ling is renowned for her beauty, and though she's the school dean rather than a teacher, she still more than fits the billing.
- Knight Templar Big Sister: The Li sisters are determined to do almost anything to make sure their baby brother stays protected and safe from any girls. Trying to harm him is not a good idea.
- Market-Based Title: Known as "How To Train Our Dragon" over in the west.
- My Beloved Smother: The Li sisters are the sisterly variant, acting very overbearing and overprotective to their younger brother in order to keep him out of trouble.
- Nerd Glasses: Hsuan-Ling, an otaku and a computer genius, naturally wears a pair of big round glasses. Hsu Chiao-Nan, a math geek and Meng's obsessive stalker, also wears a noticeable pair of thick-rimmed glasses.
- Non-Action Guy: Hsuan-Ling is the only sister to never do anything physical, or even leave the house, instead staying at home to either play video games or spy on Kuang-Lung.
- Parental Abandonment:
- The Li parents both abandoned their children after getting divorced, going their separate ways and leaving the house to them. They occasionally send post cards to their children, but never check up on them personally.
- Meng was left without parents after her mother died, and so she stays with her uncle.
- Parental Substitute: Huang-Ling says herself that she had to act as her younger siblings' mother and father after their real parents left.
- Shout-Out: The western title is an obvious one to How to Train Your Dragon.
- Unexplained Recovery: Kuang-Ling somehow survives the explosion of a rocket with only a broken arm.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Chiao-Nan disappears from the plot after the rocket launches with Kuang-Lung on it and never appears again. Considering he was last seen at the mercy of an angry Huang-Ling however, one can assume his fate wasn't pretty.
