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Sep 11, 2023 · What is Po’s special power? Po’s special power is his ability to use the Dragon Scroll, which gives him extraordinary strength and mastery over Kung Fu techniques. 3.
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- Kung Fu Panda 4
The story of Po in the Kung Fu Panda franchise.
Po was born in a remote farming village populated entirely by pandas. There he grew up happily with his biological mother and father Li, until one day the village was invaded by an evil, power-hungry peacock named Shen, who sought to avert a prophecy by eliminating any threat to his rule.
As his wolf followers slaughtered the pandas and destroyed the village, Po's mother fled with her son, while his father stayed behind to try and fight them off. As the wolves quickly started to close in on her, Po's mother managed to temporarily elude the wolves and found a crate of radishes, which she hid her child in. Mother and son shared one final moment of farewell before his mother caught the attention of the wolves and lead them away from him, sacrificing her life for her son.
The crate Po was in was eventually shipped far away to a village in the Valley of Peace, where the owner of a noodle shop, a goose named Mr. Ping, found the baby panda. Though hesitant to get involved at first, the goose felt pity for the infant and brought him inside where he fed him and bathed him, and as he continued to care for him, he grew to love the cub. Eventually realizing that no one was looking for the child, Mr. Ping decided to adopt him, giving him the name "Po" and raising him as his son.
Since then, Po had been happily raised in the noodle shop, learning all he knew as a noodle maker from his adoptive father. Until the events in the second film, Po never questioned Mr. Ping about whether he was adopted, as both father and son shared a deep mutual love and respect. He did, however, carry doubts that they were related.
Po had grown up into an adventurous dreamer who hoped to become a kung fu legend someday, on par with the legendary heroes known as the Furious Five, whom he idolized. However, he didn't think he could pursue his dream, as he was an out-of-shape panda who worked at a noodle shop, which Mr. Ping enthusiastically expected him to someday run in his place. Though Po showed little interest in continuing this family tradition, he complied, not wanting to let his father down.
At heart, Po was a huge fan of kung fu, as his room was decorated with posters and action figures of the Furious Five, and he would imagine himself as a legendary, unbeatable warrior who would fight alongside them. Po knew, in detail because of this, many things about kung fu, from techniques to various weapons and legends. Although this encyclopedic knowledge showed Po as somewhat of an expert on kung fu, it was only in the form of a fan who fantasized he could be part of it, not as someone who had any real experience.
It was seemingly by mistake, then, that he was chosen to become the Dragon Warrior. Po was ecstatic when he heard of a tournament being held to determine which of the Furious Five would be chosen as the Dragon Warrior, something he declared would be the "greatest day in kung fu history". He abandoned his task of selling noodles to see the tournament, but couldn't make it in time, as the gates closed on him, shutting him out.
After many failed, desperate attempts to get inside and watch the event, Po was about to give up and go back to work with his father—when the fireworks that he had strapped to a chair lit up and shot him into the sky, flying over the arena. Po abruptly landed inside the tournament grounds just as the grandmaster Oogway was about to choose who would be the Dragon Warrior, and Po fell in front of the Furious Five—with Oogway's claw pointed directly at him. Inspired by the panda's sudden appearance, Oogway took this as a sign that the universe had brought them all the Dragon Warrior. Everyone else, including Po, was surprised by this.
The Valley celebrated, and Po was carried (with difficulty) on a palanquin (which he broke through) to the Jade Palace. Po was dropped inside the palace, where he became distracted as he discovered the many legendary kung fu artifacts kept within. After awing at several displays, he was met by master Shifu, who had objected that a "flabby panda" couldn't possibly be the Dragon Warrior, and the red panda tried to intimidate Po upon meeting him, insulting his portliness, hygiene, and threatening Po with the potential use of the Wuxi Finger Hold, promising the panda that he would regret ever being chosen.
Shifu afterwards led Po to the challenging Training Hall, where the members of the Furious Five were training. Po, thrilled at being in the presence of the Five (who were all observing him), was nervous but eager to try some kung fu moves. But being an unwary beginner, he was hurtled, burnt, punched, and thrown through the various obstacles. The Furious Five later joked about his incompetence, which Po happened to overhear, making him feel inferior.
Some time after defeating Tai Lung, Po, cheered on by the Furious Five in the Training Hall, attempted to see how many bean buns he could stuff into his mouth. After reaching forty, he was soon summoned to the Dragon Grotto where he witnessed Shifu meditating. The master then performed a technique that allowed him to catch and guide a falling water droplet upon his paws without breaking it, much to Po's fascination. Shifu specified that he could do this because he'd found inner peace, and that it was the next step in Po's training. Before they could proceed with the lesson, Tigress arrived and told Po that the Musicians' Village was under attack by bandits. Po immediately rose to the challenge and left with the Five.
As Po and the Furious Five fought the invading pack of wolves, they worked together in battle and managed to save most of the metal the wolves were attempting to steal. The pack had been chased off, and the village celebrated their heroes. Suddenly, Po turned to see another wolf still present and prepared to fight him off. But before he could do so, he noticed the symbol on the wolf's armor and received a vision of his mother, which temporarily dazed him long enough to take the wolf's hammer to the face, knocking him down and allowing the wolf to escape.
Not knowing what to make of this vision, Po then went to the Noodle Shop to seek answers from Mr. Ping. After explaining what he'd seen, he nervously asked the goose where he came from. Mr. Ping hesitantly admitted the truth that he had adopted him, and showed him an empty radish crate, telling him the story of how he had found him in it as a baby, and had taken care of him, growing to love him and raise him as his son. Wishing to know more, Po was dissatisfied with what little information he‘d gained. Though his father tried to comfort him, reminding him that he had a good life regardless of how his story began, Po remained troubled with lingering questions about his past.
Soon time later, Shifu received a message that Master Thundering Rhino of Gongmen City had been killed by a powerful weapon that Lord Shen had made, which was capable of making kung fu obsolete. Shifu then told Po and the Five to go to Gongmen City, destroy the weapon, and defeat Shen, though Po was concerned about how they would be able to "stop something that stops kung fu", to which Shifu advised him that anything was possible—if he had inner peace.
Before Po and the Five could leave the Valley, they were stopped by Mr. Ping, who gave Po a backpack full of his favorite foods, paintings of their moments together, and Po's action figures. Fearing for his son, Mr. Ping pleaded with him not to go, but Po remarked that he had to fulfill his duty as the Dragon Warrior, asking rhetorically what he would be if he didn't go to save kung fu. Mr. Ping supplied that he was his son, to which Po merely stared at him, not answering when the goose questioned whether he agreed. Pressed to leave with the others by Tigress, Po said goodbye to the goose and set off on his journey as Mr. Ping sadly watched him go.
They spent several days traveling across China, crossing snowy mountains and huge deserts. One night while sleeping on a river in a small boat, Po had a dream about his parents replacing him with a radish, and woke in distress. He went outside the boat to try and do the technique Shifu had showed him. However, droplets of water kept falling on him, eventually causing him to yell in frustration. Po was then confronted by Tigress, who started to spar with him. Po shared how he had found out that Mr. Ping had adopted him, though tried to shrug off that this bothered him, and complimented Tigress‘ "hardcore" ability to not feel anything, his comment making Tigress pause in thought.
In Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness after putting Shen behind, Po and Monkey have become best friends. In "Scorpion's Sting," when Tigress is infected by a deadly fever he & Monkey set out to retrieve a flower that is the only cure in the territory of a villainous Scorpion with the power to sting her victims into obeying her, and when Monkey's mind-controlled to kill Po by Scorpion, the panda tries to reminds him that they're friends and when that doesn't work, Po then hits him, fortunately Po is able to snap him out of the mind-control & together they defeat Scorpion & take the cure to Tigress just in time.
In "Chain Reaction," Po said that he would like to be friends with Tigress; he tells her that he "dreamed" of being friends with her since he was five and later, when she goes off on him, he says that she "stinks at the friendship and fun ship" but are eventually forced to work together when they are handcuffed together & a bunch of Crocodile bandits led by one named Fung, after beating them up, they are able to uncuff each other & Tigress gains newfound respect for Po.
In "Bad Po," it is revealed that Po has a split personality: one is kind, considerate, caring, polite, sensitive, very positive, helpful, hard-working, selfless and compassionate (which makes him "Good Po") and the other one is rude, very negative, lazy, sadistic, unhelpful, heartless, abusive, mean-spirited, selfish, manipulative, mischievous, cruel, uncaring, destructive, misbehaved and devious (which makes him "Bad Po" or "Evil Po"). Both of his personalities have been split when he looks into the Mystical Mirror of Yin and Yang. Bad Po blames Good Po for his evil deeds and when one panda gets hurt, the other feels the same. In the end, Good Po makes Bad Po look in the mirror and both pandas are rejoined.
As he goes on more adventures, Po encounters more foes & allies alike ranging from a constable elephant named Hu who frequently visits the valley, another former student of Oogway named Chao, and even Tai Lung's long-lost nephew Peng, who after a somewhat rocky start after revealing the truth to him comes to respect him. He also comes into conflict with the likes of an evil inventor named Taotie, a ruthless loris named Tong Fo, Shifu's longtime rival for being master of the Jade palace named Junjie, a former prison guard from Tai Lung's prison named Hundun who blames Po for losing his job, and the ruthless leader of the Quidan clan Temutai, though Po finds a true challenge in the form of a dangerous owl named Fenghuang who was once a pupil of Oogway before she got consumed with power & became evil.
Eventually in "Royal Pain," Po is not only tasked to actually begin training someone in kung fu, but the student he's assigned to train is actually a young accident-prone water buffalo named Lu Kang, who is the grandson to the Emperor himself who says he must learn kung fu in order to ascend his place as heir of the royal family. While initially struggling to teach him at first, Po discovers that the young prince simply needs confidence in himself to pull of his training, with that set he gives Lu Kang a bean pod & passes it off as magical, which fuels up his confidence & begins training much better, however, on the day he would be picked up, Po & Lu Kang discover that the latter's emissary was actually hoping he'd fail because he plans to become emperor himself & attacks them, during the battle he breaks the bean pod which make Lu Kang unsure with himself, but after Po reveals his little lie & that he was getting better, Lu Kang gets his confidence back & beats the traitor & has him arrested, afterwards Lu Kang is officially made heir to the royal family & he happily thanks Po for all he's done for him.
In the "Enter the Dragon" duology, Po has slightly become a little overconfident in himself & has begun losing sight of what it means to be a hero, which doesn't help given the fact that he hasn't come up against an actually threatening opponent for sometime. However after beating up a bunch of thugs, Po returns to the Jade Palace to find that everything is being cleared out & when he asked Shifu what's the problem, he reveals to him that the Peach tree is slowly dying which spells even more disastrous things coming quickly.
In the third film, Po "must face two hugely epic, but very different threats: one supernatural and the other a little closer to home." He will additionally reunite with his biological father and travel to a hidden village filled with other pandas, and have the difficult task of training his fellow pandas to fight a new, supernatural threat."
Greatly enjoying his status as Dragon Warrior, Po is stunned when Shifu announces that he is leaving the training of the Furious Five to Po in order to pursue his own studies in the art of controlling Chi. After a miserable first day, Po learns that Shifu knew that such would be the case, but that he knows that new challenges are the only way for Po to reach his full potential. He tells the panda that there's more to being the Dragon Warrior than fighting and running through town giving high-fives. Shifu's words plant the seeds of doubt in Po about his own identity.
When he returned to the noodle shop to play with his action figures while bathing, Po is caught in the act by Mr. Ping, who could tell that something was bothering him. Po soon opened up about his insecurities about being a teacher and whether he was still the Dragon Warrior. Mr. Ping only caught the first half and became excited, knowing that it puts Po in a higher position to expand their franchise.
Then suddenly, a pig burst in, announcing that a stranger was beating Po's dumpling eating record. Po went to the restaurant to investigate and was surprised to see the challenger to be another panda. The panda introduced himself as Li Shan and stated he was looking for his son. Both pandas were slow on the uptake until the assembled crowd groaned and Po and Li warmly embrace each other. Though a jealous Mr. Ping attempts to dispute whether Li was actually Po's biological father, the pandas ignored him as Po learned how to belly gong. Li then shared with Po that learned of his survival via "a message from the universe", and that there was a secret village of pandas.
The pair spend some time goofing off in the Jade Palace, before being discovered by Shifu and the Five. After they identified Li as his father, Shifu suggested that Li observe Po teach a class. Thankfully for Po, they then heard a bell signalling that the valley was under attack by strange monsters made out of jade, whom Po and Monkey quickly dub jombies. Po then recognized some of their attackers as Masters Badger Twins and Porcupine, who were supposed to be deceased. As the fight moved to the floor of the noodle shop, Po used his "Dumplings of Doom" technique so he and his friends could subdue the jombies. An ominous voice then spoke from the creatures, identifying himself as a warrior named Kai, vowing to take their chi, before the jombies turn into jade statuettes and flew off.
Returning to the Jade Palace, Shifu found an obscure, green scroll written by Oogway himself, revealing that Kai was once a comrade of Oogway's five hundred years. Po became deeply interested in the tale when it mentioned that pandas were once great practitioners of chi, who taught Oogway the art, but Kai abused the power to take chi from others, leading to Oogway banishing him to the Spirit Realm. The tale ended stating that only a true master of chi could defeat Kai, which Po assumed Shifu qualified, but was told otherwise. Li then stated that he could teach him, but to do so, Po had to come with him to the secret village to rediscover the true meaning of being a panda. Believing his father's arrival was a sign from the universe, Po agreed to accompany him.
Po is first seen fighting a stingray and saving a few children. He then returns to the Valley of Peace to announce the opening of his father's new restaurant, but is summoned to the Jade Palace by Shifu, who tells him that it is time to choose a successor. Po is hesitant as he wants to remain as the Dragon Warrior, but Shifu insists that he must follow in Oogway's footsteps and choose a successor by tomorrow.
However, the next day, Po chooses himself to in an attempt to stay as the Dragon Warrior, much to an annoyed Shifu's frustration. Po later meditates for inner peace at the Sacred Peach Tree of Heavenly Wisdom.
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