the black martial artist Williams is depicted as taking on four women at a time, which plays into stereotypes about hyper-sexual black men, and he’s the only one of the main heroes who dies, in a manner that is disturbingly reminiscent of a lynching. He and the white martial artist Roper are both shown as being much more concerned with money and women than the noble and celibate Lee (his character is named Lee, too), partly because of the Chinese trope where a true warrior’s dedication to a mission is demonstrated through his chastity.