When Yeung Gor and Yeun Nan Ping first met in RETURN OF THE CONDOR HEROES, they had a conversation (or at least they did in ROCH '83 by TVB) that is rife with irony. Here's the exchange (going by memory, here, so it might not be verbatim):
Yeun Nan Ping: I forgot to ask...what's your name?
Yeung Gor: Me? I'm called Yeung Gor.
Yeun Nan Ping: Yeung . . . then that means you're a Han, not a Mongol! That's great!
Yeung Gor: So what if I'm a Han?
Yeun Nan Ping: If you're a Han, then we can be friends!
This conversation is ironic for three reasons:
1. If Yeun Nan Ping had said this to Yeung Gor only twenty years earlier, it would have been ridiculous. The Han and Juchen people hated each other, and had been at war against each other for nearly a century.
2. Yeung Gor's father Yeung Hong was a Han who had been a Jin prince...heir to the Jin throne. In fact, Yeun Nan Ping could have been Yeung Hong's niece or cousin.
3. Yeung Gor's ancestors had waged war against the Juchen in past generations.
Neither character seemed conscious of the irony, but many readers/viewers probably noticed it.