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• Continuity: When Mulan is chased in the camp and collide with the men standing in line to get their rice, rice flies out of the bowls of the men waiting in line.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mulan is riding on Khan before the cart explodes, she is holding her sword. In the next shot when she is blown off her horse, her sword is back in its sheath.
  
  
• Continuity: When Yao, Ling and Chien-Po are racing to help Mulan in the avalanche scene, Yao's sword is shaped like a scintar (Hun sword). In the next scene it is a straight sword.
  
  

• Continuity: Mulan's helmet flies off her head in the avalanche. But when she is left behind in the mountains, her helmet reappears next to her.
  
  
• Continuity: When Chien-Po collides with the men standing in line to get their rice, he is standing up. In the next shot, he is lying on his back.
  
  
• Continuity: The cricket cage attached to Mulan's behind reappears during her meeting with the matchmaker and the first few seconds of the "Reflection" sequence.
  
  
• Continuity: Shang's armor and pants change from a blackish color to brown and finally gray as he fights Shan-Yu on the balcony.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mulan is pulled back onto the cliff by Chien-po and the other soldiers by the rope, the rope is tied around Kahn, her horse. But when Kahn walks away, the rope is still tied to Kahn's body but he moves away freely even though the other end of the rope is under the soldiers.
  
  
• Continuity: Before Mushu reveals himself from behind the rock in the Bamboo Thicket, his shadow shows that he is moving to the left of the rock, but he comes out from behind the rock's right side.
  
  
• Continuity: Before Mulan punches Yao, she is holding her father's conscription notice in her hand. When she punches Yao, the conscription is in the sash around her waist.
  
  
• Factual errors: Crick-E has four legs, but all crickets have six legs.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the matchmaker grabs Mulan's arm and the paint from Mulan's notes get on her hand, the paint is rubbed onto her face, but not on the handle of the teapot she gives Mulan.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mulan goes to let her "Little Brother" out of the house to help with her chores, the notes on her arm temporarily disappear.
  
  
• Continuity: During her meeting with the matchmaker, Mulan absentmindedly spills tea onto the table. In the next few shots, the spilled tea disappears.
  
  
• Continuity: After Fa Zhou yells at Mulan for "dishonoring" him and Mulan is shown crying underneath the dragon statue, the ribbon in her hair disappears.
  
  
• Continuity: When Shan-Yu cuts Mulan with his sword during the avalanche, no blood is visible on his sword.
  
  
• Continuity: The two Huns that carry the Emperor to the balcony both have swords at their sides which disappear after Shan-Yu orders them to guard the door.
  
  
• Continuity: The number of soldiers under Li Shang's command continually decrease throughout the movie although no casualties are ever suffered.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Several times, Chien-Po demonstrates super-strength in this episode by lifting about seven soldiers at a time while rescuing Mulan, Li Shang, Mushu, Crick-E, and Khan from falling over the edge of the mountain and also by holding Ling and Yao with one hand while searching for Mulan in the avalanche. Provided he is human with no connection to any supernatural ancestors, Chien-Po has defied the laws of physics in this episode.
  
  
• Continuity: In the Imperial City, Yao and Ling go down the rope from the balcony at the Palace into the crowd below before Chien-Po and the Emperor, yet they have just landed when they call back to Mulan, who is still on the balcony.
  
  
• Continuity: Shang leaves his sword in the mountains with his father's helmet on top of it, but when the Huns jump out of the Lion at the Imperial City, he pulls it out of his scabbard. Then when he looks at the Emperor's hat, his sword has disappeared from the floor next to him.
  
  
• Continuity: During the fight on the balcony at the Palace in the Imperial City, Shun-Yu knocks Shang unconscious and throws him. Shang lands on his side, when we next see him, he is on his back, and then on his front when Mulan runs to him.
  
  
• Continuity: When Shun-Yu knocks Shang out on the balcony, Mulan is standing with a cloth over the rope after sending Yao, Ling, Chein-Po and the Emperor down into the crowd. We see Shang landing on his side after Shun-Yu has thrown him, then it cuts back to Mulan as Shun-Yu approaches her, but the cloth she had in her hand and over the rope has disappeared.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mulan changes into a man, the ribbon in her bun changes color from green to brown and other colors and then back to green.
  
  
• Factual errors: As the Huns crawl out from beneath the snow of the avalanche, there's not a trace of snow clinging to any of them.
  
  
• Continuity: While singing 'reflection', Mulan takes out her red hair ribbon and flower. At the dinner table, Mulan's hair is held back by a fallen red ribbon. It then disappears
  
  
• Continuity: After Mulan runs home from the matchmaker's place, she goes into her ancestor’s shrine and wipes off her make-up, but no make-up is visible on her sleeves.
  
  
• Factual errors: When Mulan reads the final admonition and copies it on her arms she writes it in simplified Chinese. However, simplified Chinese has only been created by the government of the People's Republic of China in the 1950s. Mulan should have used the traditional Chinese symbols.
  
  
• Continuity: When the remaining Huns emerge from the avalanche (observed by Mulan) and look down from the pass onto the Imperial City, the City is oriented with its front gate facing the pass. Moments later, when Mulan rides off to warn the troops, the Imperial City appears to have rotated, so that the palace is on the left and the front gate on the right.
  
  
• Continuity: When Mulan, Ling, Chien-Po, and Yao dress up as concubines in order to defeat the guards to get to the emperor, Mulan is seen to have a green fan. But when she is on the roof with Shan-Yu, she pulls out a yellow fan.
  
  
• Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Mulan says "Chien-Po, get the emperor" her mouth movements do not match with what she's saying.
  
  
• Continuity: Before the matchmaker appears from her shack, the girl with the green parasol is squatted on the left and the girl with the pink parasol is on the right. After the matchmaker reappears at the front door, the two girls have switched places.
  
  
• Continuity: At the 'matchmaker' scene, when the matchmaker puts the teapot on the table, it was a few centimeters away from Mulan, but after one shot, it was now near Mulan.
  
  

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