young master

A stereotype commonly found in chinashit xianxia, a young master is an overbearing and prideful character, often with the backing of a powerful family or organization, who underestimates the protagonist and comes into conflict with them over trivial matters. Obsessed with their own overwhelming superiority and prideful to a comical degree, they are quickly killed off by the protagonist in order to progress the plot and fuel conflict between the protagonist and the young master’s supporters.