Okay guys let’s talk about the KFP villains “Tai Lung, Lord Shen and Kai”.
We know we love the hero but we also love a good villain and in this case we’re gonna see what makes each villain so cruel, ruthless, heartless and every bad thing that makes them good villains and what they have in common regardless of their hatred towards Po.
Tai Lung (played by Ian McShane): We know he was abandoned as cub and Shifu took him in and raised him as he’s own and by that love he gave Shifu was so blind to see what Tai Lung was turning into, and he wanted to be the Dragon Warrior not only for its power but also to make his father proud but the destiny was calling for someone more worthy if we can put it in that way. I think that this Oogway’s reject and that Shifu didn’t support him lead him to destroy everything that standed in his way, then after 20 years on prison he escapes and tries to get what he thought it was his but his own ambition made him destroy himself.
Lord Shen (played by Gary Oldman): As a young age Shen discovered a evil power in the fireworks and being clouded by that power his ambition to take over China was getting bigger and with the prophecy the Soothsayer foretold he was convinced he would anything to get what he wants even murder a complete panda village and with that horrible thing he did his parents had no more choice that vanished him, it was a better potion than to be executed and as the years passed by, making his cannons and making his own army just like Tai Lung he returns to Gongmen city to proclaim what it’s his by right and knowing that the only one who can stop him is still alive he does everything to get rid of him, even try to murder him just as he thought he did years ago.
Kai (played by J.K. Simmons): Now let’s see this guy, Kai was like a brother to Oogway, fight together, train together like any brotherhood and when Oogway got really wounded he was healed by the pandas and taught him to master the Chi, and like the others 2 he got clouded by that power and he discovered it can also be taken away and Oogway couldn’t allow it, their fight shook the earth ‘till Oogway vanished Kai to the Spirit Realm and we know he could escape by taking Oogway’s Chi and just like he said Kai only can be stopped by a master of Chi and desperate to gain more power he haunts Po to take his Chi away and then he would be the most powerful spirit warrior in the history of China.
All right what I can see here is the 3 of them want power, the power to be the Dragon Warrior, the power to be the ruler over China and the power to be the most powerful spirit warrior, the 3 want power in every possible way and they don’t care what they have to do to get it by lying, destroying, manipulating and even murdering.
And another thing I got from here is that the 3 of them were rejected or turning their backs or whatever that they didn’t realized it was only for their own good and by that rejection they did horrible things just to get what they thought it was for them. So although this 3 villains have a common enemy “Po” they have a common purpose “The Power” the power to do and be better than they were in the past and no matter what they do there will be someone out there who will defeat them and maybe make them see what they did and make the change. But in their case it didn’t happen it hasn’t happened and it won’t happen.
