14. But Then, Mulan’s Female Identity Was Revealed
While Mulan is in her tent resting, Shang Li comes to visit her. She sits up to greet him and inadvertently exposes that she is a woman. He is horrified, and she pleads with him that she joined the army to take her father’s place.
The men that she had saved and who had come to appreciate “him” as one of them were also horrified. But they also can’t fathom that a woman, not a man, showed the courage and wits necessary to bring down the Hun army and rescue their general.