How I Killed Your Master: Page 025 to ~046

[Ilmoran]

Something occurs to me: If Tiger Knuckles disciples measure themselves against each other, and "A hundred opponents are as one to a Tiger Knuckles Disciple", then shouldn't there be only one Tiger Knuckle master?

To prove themselves, they'd have to be able to take on 100 opponents, who may include other Tiger Knuckles. But if a master of Tiger Knuckle could defeat several others including other Tiger Knuckles, then when any other Tiger Knuckle tried to be acknowledged as a master, they'd have a problem defeating 100 opponents that could now include the Tiger Knuckle master.

Or it's just a boast.

Hmm... maybe that's it... He's not here to learn humility, he's here to learn a proper boast!

Fei's letter: "This kid knows a little about fighting, but his taunts need some work. Show him how to make his opponents fear his ridiculous boasts."

[MSperoni]

Could be a grudge between her and Fei.. maybe Fei's letter said:

"This is my best student, he's a million times better than all of your crappy students put together and he said so AND wrote a book about it which became a national best seller which you didn't get because you probably still can't read since you spend all your time training your crap students to be halfway decent! Wong also agrees. It will be just like the old days when I used to beat you constantly.

Your Pal,

Fei

P.S I'm not your pal. "

[Ilmoran]

Originally Posted by MSperoni

Could be a grudge between her and Fei.. maybe Fei's letter said:

"This is my best student, he's a million times better than all of your crappy students put together and he said so AND wrote a book about it which became a national best seller which you didn't get because you probably still can't read since you spend all your time training your crap students to be halfway decent! Wong also agrees. It will be just like the old days when I used to beat you constantly.

Your Pal,

Fei

P.S I'm not your pal. "

That could make writing the letter a little pointless . Unless Fei really drew a bunch of pictures, and this is just the idea he was attempting to convery

[Aldurin]

Wong could take them. All he has to do is get the fire flower out of his luggage.

[BattyAsHell]

Originally Posted by Captain Boom

If that's the case, each style of fighting is pretty useless if the first 2 style together gets pummeled by the 3rd style. Then why even bother with the 3rd and 4th? Might as well just go to the 5th style and master that style.

I don't think Wong would let this pummeling happen again. I think he'll be ready next time. He'll have some dream sequence with a flashback to something Fei told him.

Oh Wong, you didn't use your special weapon. You should have used your special tea. With cyanide. Wong should have followed Xu Li and used poison.

I miss Po. Maybe he turns out to be the 5th master? Maybe he'll reiterate his warning to Wong.

If Wong started with the second style first than went to Fei, he'd probably still get owned. That is, if Fei's students weren't incompetent mules.

[Gitman]

Originally Posted by Ilmoran

Or it's just a boast.

Hmm... maybe that's it... He's not here to learn humility, he's here to learn a proper boast!

Fei's letter: "This kid knows a little about fighting, but his taunts need some work. Show him how to make his opponents fear his ridiculous boasts."

Ha! I like this idea.

In other news, I suspect that sometime in the future Wong will have to save Fang Lin's bacon. In her overconfidence, she'll probably tangle with an opponent out of her league, but by that time Wong will have mastered four of the five dragons' styles.

Also, I've had another idea knocking around in my head. What if Wong doesn't recreate his father's style, but creates his own unique style that's just as awesome, or moreso?

[Tev]

Originally Posted by Gitman

Also, I've had another idea knocking around in my head. What if Wong doesn't recreate his father's style, but creates his own unique style that's just as awesome, or moreso?

Well if you think about it, that’s exactly what he’s trying to do. He can’t replicate his father’s style because his father isn’t around to teach it. What Wong learns from the remaining Dragons and how he applies it will be different than how his father did.

It’s like telling a kid his father was a great artist who painted an amazing picture using five colors of paint, but then the painting got destroyed in a fire and the building collapsed on his father. Then you send the kid to five different art schools to learn how to paint. After that you hand him the same five colors and tell him to paint the same picture his father did. He won’t be able to. He will, however, be able to paint a picture that was just as awesome.

[Ilmoran]

Originally Posted by Gitman

Also, I've had another idea knocking around in my head. What if Wong doesn't recreate his father's style, but creates his own unique style that's just as awesome, or moreso?

At first I read this and thought "Well yeah, it's gotta be more awesome than his father's, because his father agreed with disbanding the Five Dragons and, more or less, hiding/fading into obscurity, rather than confronting Xu Li. So Wong's style will have to be superior if he was willing to face, and able to defeat, Xu Li."

But then I got to thinking about the beginning of the story...

"Come sit, have tea, and listen to how I killed your master."

A few hundred pages later:

"Oh yes, I was supposed to tell you how I killed your master. Well, one day after I mastered the styles of the other four dragons, I invited Xu Li over for tea. Poisoned tea. By the way, have you enjoyed yours?"



Unrelated note:
I was looking at the pages from the 10 year flash forward, specifically Wong beating up the bandits. I don't know if anyone noticed/pointed it out, but I just noticed Wong uses closed fist punches, while Fei's Five Mantis Fist uses a a two-fingered hooking "fist". So somewhere Wong picked up some new moves (I know, kinda late to be noticing it since he's at a new school now). Also noticing that his punch on the first bandit looks very reminicent of the first punch Fang Lin landed on him. So maybe he thinks he's "mastered" Tiger Knuckle, and is returning from his 100 mile hike (100 miles are as 1 blah blah blah) to take his final test

[Tev]

Xu Li: “Old man you’ve kept me here long enough! I do not have a hundred years to listen to this prattling tale of yours!”

Wong: “A hundred years are as one in the quest for knowledge. You have not yet learned the secret of my power, so I must teach you the hard way.” *Assumes a crazy martial arts stance* “Through my travels I learned to incorporate my masters’ teachings.”

Xu Li: “From what little of your stories I could tolerate you hardly spent more than a few years with the remnants of the Five Dragons. Not nearly long enough to master their arts and make them your own!”

Wong: “You’ve learning nothing! A hundred styles are as onesee HIKYM page 35 to a master of The Divine Fist of the Unconquerable Sky!”

[Gitman]

Originally Posted by Ilmoran

Unrelated note:
I was looking at the pages from the 10 year flash forward, specifically Wong beating up the bandits. I don't know if anyone noticed/pointed it out, but I just noticed Wong uses closed fist punches, while Fei's Five Mantis Fist uses a a two-fingered hooking "fist". So somewhere Wong picked up some new moves (I know, kinda late to be noticing it since he's at a new school now). Also noticing that his punch on the first bandit looks very reminicent of the first punch Fang Lin landed on him. So maybe he thinks he's "mastered" Tiger Knuckle, and is returning from his 100 mile hike (100 miles are as 1 blah blah blah) to take his final test

Maybe... but in page 46 you can see he still prefers the Five Mantis stance. By the way, anyone else notice Fang Lin has blue eyes? Isn't she Chinese? I assume Fang Yun is her mother, so does she have a Western father?