[ SECRET POST #3043 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3043 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Mulan is awesome. She's so awesome you don't even notice that she never actually exchanges sword strokes with anyone in the entire movie.

True. Though to be fair, very few people in general exchange sword strokes if I remember the movie correctly, and Mulan was both wounded by a sword in one encounter with Shan Yu and survived unarmed against him in another until she managed to disarm him hand-to-hand using a fan. Her primary weapons were guile (and fireworks) rather than swords, but she did survive combat involving them as well, and got herself sliced across the abdomen for her troubles in the middle of it. Credit where it's due, Shan Yu apparently did not give a good goddamn what her gender was while trying to kill her. He recognised her as the soldier from the mountains immediately, wasted no time on disbelief because she was suddenly dressed as a woman, did severe damage to the architecture trying to hit her, and his only taunt to her wasn't that she was a woman but that she'd seemed to temporarily run out of tricks.

It's a bit unfortunate that Shan Yu wasn't allowed to land a hit once he had realised she was a woman, maybe, but on the other hand he had already badly wounded her once, he'd almost certainly have killed her outright had he made contact a second time while she was unarmed and after she'd twice deprived him of his victory, he showed no surprise or lack of respect for her skills on learning she was a woman, and the fact still remains that Mulan has the highest bodycount in the movie, even if most of it was indirect and not at the point of a sword. She doesn't even really do less physical fighting than anyone else, since very few other characters were seen fighting hand-to-hand onscreen either. Shang lasted all of a minute against Shan Yu before getting punched in the head and saved by Mulan. So. Even relative to the rest of the main cast, she did as much if not more fighting, and I think was the only one of them seriously wounded.

I don't know. I don't think the movie really flinched from having its lead experience violence. No more than it did onscreen for the main characters in general, anyway. Shang was less injured and less successful than her before the end of it.