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Best villain of the KFP Trilogy


Of the three big bads, who would you say was the best of them? Tai Lung, Lord Shen, or Kai?

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Shen, obv. Doesn't give a flying fnck about genocide and has a predilection towards big cannons.

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Yeah, Shen was the best, IMO. Though the other two were fine villains as well.

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Shen was the most villainous, but Kai had a great musical motif and was funny.

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Shen. Claws down.

"Well, make something up!" (RG)

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I really liked Shen.

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Shen. Definitely. He was the most "refined" of the three.

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Shen, hands down.

Oldman's casting was just inspired, not to mention he was, easily, the most fleshed out of the three.

Kai comes in at second, though, because his sense of humor really saved his character from becoming too much of a cliché (yeah, if I was a five hundred-odd year-old bovine, I'm not going to take myself too seriously, either).

He did have the best theme music, though.

Seriously, I don't know if having a theme based on a pre-existing property (Imagine Dragon's "I'm So Sorry) disqualifies one from getting nominated for an Academy Award, but, still, it was pretty damn good. Hans Zimmer is the absolute master of catchy themes.

Plus the fact that he was once the best friend of Oogway, himself definitely helps a lot, too. Nothing like the enemy of kung fu being, literally, the enemy of kung fu.

And now onto poor Tai Lung, himself.

He was just a brute. A well defined brute, but, a brute, nonetheless.

Still a great character, though, but not quite as good as either Kai, or Shen.

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I'm the only one who like better Tai Lung and Kai? A peafowl, he looks less frightening than Tai Lung since he is a peafowl as one of the critics also think, although he just was responsible for Po being seperated from his parents, for his mother's death and perhaps the only villain who wanted conquered China, but I would that either Tai Lung or Kai who could have been responsible for the panda massacre instead.

Peacocks are known as one of the most beautiful and majstetic and not as frightening and evil birds, but they can be know as arragont birds and use their feathers with eye-like spots to scare away enemies as Shen in a way did when he make Po to see a vision of Po's terrible past with his spots.

There were some things that didn't make any sense. It not explain why Shen was evil and why he wanted to rule over China that had nothing to do with him and not only his own kingdom, usually princes and princesses are power hungry because of jealousy if they have an older siblings who are the heirs to the thrones and will only rule over their own kingdom instead of entire country or world that have nothing to with them. Why Shen wanted to make an end of kung fu when it had nothing to do with his backstory? Shen's main objective was to conqured China and he was even a kung fu warrior. Shen created a cannon that would make an end of kung fu, but it's not only kung fu it should make an end of if there is anything else that are as powerful or more powerful than kung fu, like by taking chi from others. Are not kung fu warriors smarter, too quick and has high strength to destroy the cannons? Tai Lung would likely be capable of handling attacks from Shen, Tai Lung was shown to be cunning and swift enough to avoid firing weapons and was able to defeat the Anvil of Heaven, the Furious Five and Shifu on is own. Shen must at least have kung fu skills and learn his wolf army kung fu to defeat kung fu warriors and could study and develope a dark and stronger kung fu style to make an and of other kung fu styles. Kai and Taotie could make an end of kung fu, Kai easily defeat many kung fu warriors by taking their chi on his own and once Taotie created a machin that easily defeat Po, Shifu and Furiouse Five (without Tigress).


Shen is possible weaker than Tai Lung and Kai, perhaps even with his cannon. Tai Lung would likely be capable of handling attacks from Shen, Tai Lung was shown to be cunning and swift enough to avoid firing weapons, and was able to defeat the Anvil of Heaven, the Furious Five and Shifu on his own. Kai could easily defeat Shen, he easily take chi from kung fu warriors on his own.



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