The Wicked City story
The film tells fictional story of conflicts and relationship between demon- like creatures and humans in 1990s' Hong Kong.
11 total · 7 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ethnic hatred | major | One gets the idea that general and mutual enmity existed between the humans and the Reptoids. |
| friendship | major | Taki and Ken were buddy police detectives who were part of a secret, and elite anti-Reptoid taskforce. |
| illegal drug trade | major | Shudo was importing the addictive and harmful drug "Happiness" into the Wicked City. |
| impostor living secretly among us | major | The Reptoids shapeshifted to appear as humans and were living secretly among them. |
| law enforcement | major | The story follows the two police detective partners Taki and Ken as they go about their anti-Reptoid taskforce business. |
| romantic love | major | Taki and his Reptoid love interest Gaye. |
| shapeshifter | major | The Reptoids shapeshifted to appear as humans and were living secretly among them. |
| father and son | minor | Daishu and his evil son Shuto. |
| telekinetic ability | minor | The powerful Reptoid Daishu telekinetically moved sugar cubed into his interrogator's coffee. |
| time rewind ability | minor | Shudo used his powers to make the time backward to an age when humans were more easy to control. |