Mulan

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**Mulan** is the third episode of the third and final season of American McGee's Grimm and is based on the Chinese folklore of Hua Mulan.

## Characters

**NOTE** This list only includes the characters that played an active role in the story and does not include side characters or Grimm.

* Hua Mulan
* Mulan's Father
* Weapons Dealer
* Armourer
* Stablekeeper
* Ma
* General Li
* Hun Khan
* The Emperor
* Mulan's Mother

## Plot

### Light Version

In a Chinese Kingdom, the emperor wants men of fighting age to conscript to the army, namely farmers. One such conscript is an elderly man who is practically unfit and unable to properly fight, which his daughter Hua Mulan oversees. Despite his pleas the recruiter denies the father and forces him to join the army, his daughter rushes in and states that "he'll be ready" in the following morning. It turns out Mulan planned to take her father's place, firstly getting weaponry and gear. Initially the weapons dealer refuses to give Mulan any weapons but let's her have a bow. Meanwhile the armourer has his helmet practically stolen by Mulan as she then meets with a stablekeeper who gives her a horse called Ma. Now ready, Mulan is suited and booted, disguised as an man, she encounters the first hurdle which is that the General's soldiers can't swim through deep waters, however, Mulan spots an area where they can walk across thanks to being shallow enough. The second obstacle is a large boulder blocking the path, Mulan suggest blowing it up, which works and they move on. Mulan is highly capable and praised by the General, her abilities prove useful against the war with the Huns. Mulan strategizes and knows that if they kill the Hun Khan they have essentially beaten the Huns by killing their leader. During the battle Mulan fires her bow and strikes the Jun Khan in the head killing him. The army celebrate their victory back home in the royal courts where the Emperor greets the generals and Mulan. The Emperor and the General become surprised when it is revealed that their best warrior was a woman, they then offer Mulan an award for her service where she prefers to live a normal life and goes back home to her family and celebrates her homecoming discussing her time in the army.

### Dark Version

The brutal Chinese Empire forces all men between 15-60 to enlist in the army, this includes a frail and fragile old father, who is threatened with death if he does not join. Mulan rushes in to enlist instead of her father, stating her brother is too young and her father is too lame. The recruiter reluctantly allows Mulan to join and brings her to market to prepare for the army. Mulan first visits a weapon dealer and gets a bow, killing the weapons dealer in the process instead of paying for it. Next the armourer where she demands armour, but instead the armourer insults her by stating she has a big head. He gives her some armour and Mulan takes it before beating him up. Now to get a horse, Mulan visits a stablekeeper who claims he hasn't got any good horses except for one big and violent one, said violent horse tramples the stablekeeper and runs off with Mulan. Now ready, Mulan goes to the army training camp and helps the General get across the river using arsenic then the army faces a problem at Black Mountain where a giant boulder lays in the way. To solve this issue, a giant Minotaur appears and destroys the boulder, and then tries to attack the General and Mulan. The General and Mulan make it back to the barracks, worse for wear. The General thinks they should plan an attack but Mulan, fed up with the stupidity of the soldiers decides she'd rather kill herself than plan and demands they go in for the assault against the Huns immediately. The Huns are ferocious and the General whines about the battle, but Mulan, unfazed decides to taken them out herself. She kills a few Huns before going after the Hun Khan where they battle each other with Mulan victorious, slaying the Khan. Later, celebrations for Mulan over her victory against the Huns are held with the Emperor congratulating her, before making suggestive comments about her "sitting on his lap". She kills the Emperor goes back home. Once home, she moans to her father about how much she can't stand men after her experiences.

## Levels

### Scene 1

Starting off in the small Chinese village, Grimm decides to turn the Chinese soldiers into more aggressive and violent brutes that burn down homes and slaughter people, Grimm uses them to cut down a large bamboo to create a bridge across the river. There Grimm navigates across the land and turns all the villagers by getting the army to trap them in cages and force them to join. As the army attempt to harass Mulan's father, Mulan beats them all up.

### Scene 2

In the Chinese market, Grimm starts off where the weapons dealer is, transforming the land before converting the weapons deal. Mulan tries out the bow and kills a cow, with another cow frightened and jumping on a boat, flipping it over and creating a passage across to the other side. Here the armourer and Mulan chat, here Grimm's next objective is. Once converted, Mulan and the soldiers beat up and loot the armourer, causing him to run away and jump into the river. Now on the third island, Grimm must get to the stablekeeper and his horse, converting them and turning the horse into a blood thirsty war horse.

### Scene 3

At the army training camp, Grimm decides to make it more grotesque, he converts the soldiers and makes them pee in the river, all at once, which a cow drinks and dies. After a few corpses wash up, they form a bridge allowing Grimm across to the otherwise. Here, Grimm makes his way to a large building with two large statues, destroying the chains with lighting and bringing the statues to life where they wreck havoc.

### Scene 4

In the mountains, it's war and Grimm wants the battlefield even more bloody, his main target is a giant Hun who he eventually converts and turns small, where he is sliced apart, freeing the way. Grimm makes his way up higher, where he converts a catapult which destroys the Huns on the otherwise. Grimm then uses the catapult to throw himself across where he makes his way to the fight between Mulan and the Hun Khan. Once converted, Mulan slices apart the Huns before making her way to the Hun Khan and fires flurry of arrows into him.

### Scene 5

At the palace where there are celebrations, Grimm starts off in the garden and makes his way to Mulan at the gate. Once transformed, Mulan murders the gatekeepers and makes her way in with her horse. Once properly inside the castle grounds, Grimm targets the fireworks and sets them off, which causes a chain reaction of explosions and fire that kills several of the guests.

### Scene 6

Now back home, Grimm decides to go after the poor villagers again once converted, they become obsessed with Mulan and all try to make advances but Mulan charges away into the town. Grimm must now get to the swarm of people, before reaching a large door, where he brings in more love struck villagers. With so many people, Grimm must get to the rooftops and jump rooftop to rooftop, strangely, to another wedding, which Grimm decides to destroy by making his way to Mulan, turning her and making her slaughter just about everyone.

## Trivia

* The entire episode is dubbed in Chinese.