I freaking LOVE Imagine Dragons but you could argue that he did violate the virtue because he is the only character in the franchise who's theme music is a take off on an already existing song. Thereby violating the illusion that all the Kung Fu Panda music is made in every step for the movies
conanically, Lord Shen is naturally an almbino peacock as in a scrapped plot point for kfp2 lord Shen was meant to be a "sickly child" and ignored by his overworked parents. So when the script was finalized his natrual whiteness was just subconciously slipped in as fact.
What makes sense for Shen being a “sickly child” is he is literally born with the abnormality of albinism which is why he is starkly different from his parents.
they should have kept thatplot, honestly it´s way more realistic if we look at the time and culture and it´s a lot deeper than "Shen discovers fireworks are great as weapons, hears an unneceswary but plot convenient prophecy, went Freezer on Pandas cuz Zebras, cows, tons of birds and etc doesnt exist here and "they loved you so much that vanishim you killed them"..."
@@zoazede2098 there is a theory that Shen instead of just harassing Pandas went on a full on crusade against black white animals which would also explain Tai Lung being abandoned as well (white and black Leopard after all).
@@julianozaur444 it would make sense, but it's just a theory, A FILM THEORY!! XD but anyways, it's never mentioned nor insinuated in the movie, so, I'll leave the theory apart for now
I love how each Kung fu panda villain has a unique eye colour to them. Tai-lungs were yellow hinting to his past and that he wasn’t always a bad man. He is also redeemable more so than the other two villains. Shens were Red this emphasises his pure ruthless nature and longing for destruction/conquest and the pain he inflicts on others to hide from his own. Kai’s were green this represents his envy and jealousy towards Oogways legacy since he felt betrayed by him. He was also angered by the fact No one remembered who he was. Xx
I was thinking about TaiLung's yellow eye and how that works in hero-ism and I realized something. TaiLung has yellow eyes because he sees what he do is good. He thinks what he is seeing is justice, 'seeing'. That is the key term. The reason why he isn't shining as yellow like Po is because, he is not good. Po is, he is the hero but sometime he doesn't think he is. That is why his eye is not yellow, he is always doubting himself.
One issue is Tai Lung knew his actions were bad but also knew it was too late for him to turn back, seen in his fight wish Shifu, right after Shitu apologized.
Additionaly in one of the trailers the Chameleon seems to have a golden yellow throne in the shape of a dead tree. I have a feeling that it symbolizes her connection to sickness and death. In addition to that in another recent promo trailer she literally transformed into a perverted dragon like figure. I guess that this kind of confirms that when compared to the previous villains she is the true Satan of the bunch.
It seems to me that the villains are related to 4 of the 5 heavenly beasts in Chinese mythology (the 5th one being the golden dragon of the middle which is Po). Tai Lung represents the white tiger, Shen represents the vermillion bird, Kai represents the black tortoise/snake/warrior (the translations of this one are broader than the rest, but I'm gonna go with warrior because he's not a tortoise or a snake), and the new chameleon villain seems to represent the asure dragon. I love it so much
I had a similar theory to this but with the Logos. I believe that every 2 Movies involved with Kung Fu Panda reflects on the topics, lessons, and Elements the Movies focus on. We see that the Logo of Kung Fu Panda 1 - 2 are Red, which resembles the Brutality and focus on Inner Peace as the First Key Element of Kung Fu in the duology, it’s briefly talked about in the 1st and shown in the 2nd. And then there’s the 3rd - 4th Movie we are currently on, having a text of Green, resembling Chi and the shape-shifting and Jade Zombie focus. With the 3rd having a focus on Chi and the 4th we are unsure of at the moment. Now for understanding, my Theory says that the next 2 Movies that come after the 4 Movies will have a fully yellow text/logo or Blue possibly, since throughout Po’s Adventures, we see a symbol of Yellow he expresses throughout his Dreams and such and it shows itself as a pleasant and nice color scheme revealing himself as the Dragon Warrior, and you may ask, what would the next 2 Movies focus on after Inner Peace and Chi? Well, let’s just say that I’m unsure, now there are possible elements that might be present in the next 2 Movies, like Adultery or Elderly Present and such but whatever the next 2 will hold, might be the most impacting element shown in the Movie thus far. We’ll see what the future holds for the KFP Franchise depending on the writers soon. I mostly call these Textual Colors, Arcs, since one lesson will be present for 2 Movies over the other and when the Text Color we’re on in the logo, fades away and presents a new color, it starts a new lesson/element.
Something I would like to add to the Kai portion of the video Kai's weapons are made of a green Jade, a very iconic color of Jade and one that everyone knows Jade to be. But there are other colors of Jade, which one is what I want to point out. YELLOW Jade. Kai is a spirit warrior and was turning everyone into Jade statues to fight for him and see through their eyes. And when he gets defeated, he turns yellow as does the spirit world. And that just seemed so cool to me at the time.
That doesn't add red pigments though? The red only red would be his eyes as there wouldn't be melanin, leading to the color of the blood vessels being visible. This would not happen with his feathers let alone like that
@@blackberrythefox117 dunno what the actual science mumbo jumbo is but originally shen was supposed to be an albino peacock and his parents saw as a sick child and overlooked him but when they changed him to be this badass maniac they decided to keep in the white feathers
@@joshzuker8308 I'd still say greed due to the fact that it was mentioned that when he found out the way on how to gain chi he strived for more not stopping.
Also in kfp yellow represents body red represents mind and green represents chi what po masters through out all three movies and tai lung kai and shen represent yin, yang, and the yang and yin so chameleons colors being the same as pos is pretty interesting
Betrayal, Wrath, Jealousy. Tai Lung felt BETRAYED by Shifu after not becoming the DW. Lord Shen felt WRATH because he sees no one as worthy and ends them with no care for their life. Kai felt jealous of how he felt about Oogway being more liked than him, and wanting the power that he had that made Oogway powerful and use it against everyone.
Theory: Po's enemies represent the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Kai - Death The Chameleon - Famine Lord Shen - War Tai Lung - Conquest Tai Lung tried to take over Po's role, explaining his conquest. Lord Shen commited genocide against innocent pandas, explaining his war. Kai wanted nothing more than the deaths of the kung fu masters for their chi, explaining how he is death. Chameleon is taking every villain's chi, starving them of it, making her famine.
Fun fact in Japanese culture is that the color white sometimes represents death, and seeing how much shen has killed in the 2nd film to accomplish his goal the color white definitely suits him
I’m gonna have to say Chameleon’s colour is teal or turquoise. The colour of her eyes when she transforms, the shots inside her palace are frequently tinged with a sort of greenish blue, and the city seems to be situated beside a big turquoise ocean. I kinda see it as a middle ground between Kai and Tai Lung, having both the feeling of calm, calculating cunning of blue and the supernatural creepiness of green.
as soon as she started talking about the potential color for the chameleon i went to see if anyone made any jokes about how dog shit the movie was and you did not disappoint
What I noticed is that the colors of each villain is also seen in the official Kung Fu Panda title cards, except for the first movie's. Kung Fu Panda 2 is red Kung Fu Panda 3 is green Kung Fu Panda 4 is somewhat yellow
Having grown up with the series (along with many others) I. ..was skeptically optimistic about the 4th movie. Unfortunately, while not utter trash. It was just okay. It wasnt that the Five wasnt in the film. It's that the movie did way too much dumb filler where there should have been action or story telling. The villian also is one of the worst written villians DreamWorks has ever done. No back story. No personality. Just I'm evil because I'm evil. And I'm more powerful than everyone else. Why? Because
@@Mr.Needle-Hamsterblue is associated with serenity, stability, inspiration, or wisdom. open spaces, freedom, intuition, imagination, and sensitivity. Blue also represents meanings of depth, trust, loyalty, sincerity,confidence, faith, and intelligence.
0:31 Also, to back up your point, Tigress’ sclera, like Tai Lung’s, becomes increasingly more yellow at times, at times especially when she is jealous (ie. the “You don’t belong here” and “this is what you trained me for” scene). She is jealous, like Tai Lung, for good reason. She has trained for so long (arguably 20 years based off of Tai Lung’s banishment and a reference from Kung Fu Panda 2) for something she believed she deserved, becoming the Dragon Warrior, yet this new guy comes in and takes it all and shows no potential. She can also easily be seen as the leader of the 5, eating tofu while everyone else enjoys Po’s noodles, sacrificing herself to stop Tai Lung on her own, tells Po to stay put in Kung Fu Panda 2, and was the first to attack and lead the team on the bridge with Tai Lung. In my eyes, she might also be proud of her accomplishments and determination to the art, like Tai Lung, but has more self-control. Plus, her sclera in the flashback scene was white, like Tai Lung’s, or at least very minimal yellow, just trying to make Shifu proud before the dragon scroll even comes to mind. Also, her eyes are rarely yellow in Kung Fu Panda 2, which might be an indication that she is finally at peace not being the dragon warrior and instead chooses to be kinder to Po. Just an interesting detail from the creators that fully support your color theory.
Excellent point! I've actually had a short script in the works regarding Tigress vs. Tai Lung's upbringing (and how Tigress could have, with a semi-light push, devolved into a more villainous character had it not been for Po and the Furious Five) and I thought it was an EXTREMELY interesting tie between the two!
I like how chameleon also gives out a lot of yellow, completing the 4 main colors. Yes, her eyes are blue, but everything else about the trailers so far screams "yellow", but we will have to see if I'm right
As much as I like the combination of the colours, seeing the colour purple in future Kung Fu Panda movies would be interesting, it would have a more menacing tone
@@mikez4388it's been said that 4 will be the start of a new trilogy, so maybe we go through all the primary and secondary colours. 1: Blue 2: Red 3: Green 4: Yellow (most likely) That leaves purple and orange left
In Chinese culture, yellow is a representation of royalty and power. Not only that, but also heroism. I have a feeling that Chameleon will view herself as the hero of the story.
Also the use of blue fire is very reminiscent of the duel between Zuko and Azula. I think the use of blue for Tai Lung has a similar kind of symbolism behind it. Additionally Tai Lungs connection with blue flame and his cold calculating rage kind of makes him similar to Disney's Hades as well.
@@Vibaravi I wouldn't say ambition in this case. More like something beautiful and attractive but at the same time cold, distant, calculating and deadly. Also a living embodiment of a raw power that can literally annihilate you. Although now that I think about it both of them are indeed ambitious in their pursuit of power for the sake of power alone and that passion in the end becomes the source of their eventual downfall.
The eye colours of the new villain is cyan, a colour that often symbolize creativity. So in theme with the villains that have personalities contrary to their symbolic colour, the cyan really fits someone who doesn't have their own fighting style and need to steal those of others
Yellow (and golden) color symbolizes good, justice, innocence, wisdom, ballance and peace - here is Oogway, Po, The Spirit Realm at all and even young Tai Lung! On the other hand, Evil is let's to say a RGB - it's one identity but has three different forms and colors respectively: The Red one is pure kind of evil, that's Lord Shen; The Green one is corrupted kind of evil, that's General Kai; The Blue one is broken kind of evil, that's Tai Lung... So the Chameleon probably will be kinda both there dimensions of evil - she shape-shifts into all Tai Lung, Shen and Kai, but this is not only physicaly but in a metaphorical way too - she holds and "shape-shifts" into all possible variations of evil and villainy, that's why she is the final and ultimate boss!
If you look at Kai and Oogwey, and look at their stories, it appears on the surface level that Kai turned evil when he came across chi. But if you look at the finer details, it becomes apparent that Oogwey turned good when he came across it.
I'm going to see kung fu panda 4 in theaters on the 7th. I personally think the chameleon will have a color palette of yellow, because Tai Lung had blue, Shen had red, and Kai had green. It's only fair that Chameleon gets yellow, because it'd wrap up the "primary" color thing.
It also might have something to do with chakras Green represents the heart chakra and is blocked by grief and deals with compassion, so it makes sense if Kai trusted Ogway to the point of his “betrayal” leaving him grieving for companionship and replacing that for the need of recognition and becoming heartless. Blue can be associated with the 3rd eye and throat chakras depending on the shade, 3rd eye is blocked by illusion and deals with insight and the throat chakra deals with truth and is blocked by lies, lies and illusion are associated with tai lung, he’s motivated by the illusion he’s the dragon warrior whilst trying to prove to the world what he deep down knows is a lie. Idk much about shen being Red as red is the root chakra witch deals with survival and is blocked by fear. Shen causes a lot of fear so I believe it represents more of what he causes instead of what he feels.
Shen heard prophecy in which panda will destroy him one day, so him destroying pandas first is his way to survive. Also he is scared that his downfall will still happen and out of fear he just keeps making more damage
In addition to that, another comment pointed out that shen was originally going to be born a sickly child so theme of survival could have also played into that.
I never thought about these before, but now that I think about it, there’s a common trope through all of these: they’re *primary* colors and the entire trilogy would be set in a primary point in time aka the dragon warrior’s life, probably making it a significant point in the franchise’s timeline.
KFP1(Tai Lung) 💙 KFP2(Lord Shen) ❤ KFP3(Kai The Collector) 💚 KFP4(The Chameleon) 💛 or (🧡-8:28) (because in the scene of the first trailer where the chameleon takes tai lung's abilities the background is orange). KFP5💜(????????)(i don't know the color what represents iether orange?). KFP6💛(A Evil Panda)(i thought yellow was the final color for this movie but i could be wrong, when i'm going to the cinema and see the film we will know what is the color).
I don’t think Shen ever painted his feathers red as opposed to being born with his coloration. While his background color is red, he is obviously white and is starkly different from either of his parents meaning he was born with albinism and thus have little colors which I think works wonderfully for Shen as he was born quite literally different and he strove to change his fate by doing anything that he thinks would set him on a different course.
Joked with my friends about the villains being rbg lights when I noticed their connections with blue, red, and green respectively, but I had a feeling there was something more to it. Nice to see someone do research into that very topic
I’ve been watching your district deep dives and now you tackling kung fu panda Hope your able to tackle more topics as you go along PS you have a very relaxing laid back voice Whenever I hear your vids while doing tasks or gaming
from what I already seen in the film, it really does seem like the Chameleon symbolizes blues, yellows, and orange, with orange being something that can represent pride and arrogance, as much as it's not much of a colour that sticks with her throughout the film and is more so a part of her palace
I never caught onto that the prophecy could have a double meaning. He is black and white so either he defeats himself by not giving up or Po (a panda) defeats him.
They confirm Kung Fu Panda is gonna have six movies, with three already made and one in progress. I theorize the fifth movie’s villain would be mainly orange in color, and the sixth villain would be purple. Or maybe fifth movie villain would be purple, and sixth movie villain becomes pitch black.
Nah, I think Kai forsook music as well: his theme samples Imagine Dragons' "I'm So Sorry". Also, I think I read on TV Tropes that jade is not to be used in combat.
2:02 Something else of note is that the “tai” in his name (which I presume is 太) also means too much of. If something is too much of anything you’d say it’s 太[insert adjective]
A neat detail is that to an extent, all the villains use their color as a weapon Tai Lung when he lights his paws on fire, Shen's cannons having an initial red color, Kai's chi blades, and the Chameleon's power stealing being a yellow color.
i was so confused at first. when you were naming the 7 virtues i was just looking away and heard you say ''the netherlands'', only later realizing you said ''benevolence''😅
I love the chameleons yellow color choice since in King Fu Panda 3 Kai’s unnatural color is a perversion of Oogway’s green and similarly the chameleons yellow hue is a perversion of Po’s Golden color
