Furious Five vs. Tai Lung with healthbars (Birthday Special)

The Furious Five put up a good fight against Tai Lung, but are soon overwhelmed by his nerve strike technique.

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[ceruleanwalker]

I love that at the start of this fight you can see how out of her depth Tigress is by how she's constantly adjusting her Balance. Tai Lung is lounging on that rope.

[dvra]

Mantis's "What was I thinking" always kills me lol

[victoriaburroughs]

This scene is masterful both choreography-wise and story wise. The Furious Five are masters of Kung Fu known across China for utilizing their amazing and innovative abilities to defeat seemingly insurmountable challenges (they literally created their own styles of Kung Fu). They are not mascots with big egos and empty skills. They are masters with years of practice and teamwork under their belts, and Tai Lung still wiped the floor with them within 5 minutes of battle. He identified their weaknesses (Tigress’s weak balance, Viper’s inability to fight once seized due to having no limbs, Crane’s delegated role as air assist rather than a hand-to-hand combatant, etc.) and easily beat them individually. Even when they ganged up on him as a team and temporarily incapacitated him, he literally shot back up at an near-incomprehensible speed with hardly a scratch on him and chi-blocked them so hard they were full-body paralyzed. This scene really did an excellent job of building up Tai Lung as a threat to Po and the Valley as whole, because if Five masters of Kung Fu trained by the greatest teacher in all of China couldn’t beat him, what chance does our hero have?

[misterabel_]

Honestly, I like how Tai Lung already knew that none of them were the Dragon Warrior

[Froggyman]

Tai Lung acknowledging that they were well trained felt nice. He's not insulting them with lines like "you're the best Shifu had to throw at me? Pathetic." or stuff like that; he straight up admits that they're quite formidable...but _nothing_ compared to _him_

[sebby]

tai lung is the only villain of Kung Fu Panda who actually says Po's name

[Spiceodog]

This is genuinely one of the best fights in cinematic history

[SHARPSPEED]

2:58 He was moving so fast we don't even see him jump up from the mist, just the rope that bound him. The 5 pretty much lost the instant they left the damned valley.

[dariusbrock]

Idk why people say Shen was more of an intimidating villain. Shen needed to hide behind armies and canons while Tai Lung destroyed armies and grand masters with his bare hands

[yoshidinosaur]

Even though they lost against Tai Lung but this battle showed how well they worked as a team and how their training payed off

[sagewilson]

I love the detail of Tai lung being at ease on the bridge while tigress has to keep adjusting her footing while they talk

[danieldoucet]

I like how tai lung doesn't even feel threatened by the furious five.

[HellJumper]

Finally a Kung Fu Panda clip with open comments

[angeladraingaribay]

Crazy how this also shows how shifu still kinda had a favorite in the end .. which was teaching tai lung MORE then the furious Five combined ☠️☠️☠️

[TheRedMan]

I like that Tai Lung just casually messes with the balance of the bridge because he knows that as long as Tigress is on the bridge, they won't let it fall. Makes sense that he's got better balance then Tigress too, Snow Leopards are unnaturally good climbers and can basically defy gravity, Tigers on the other hand are nowhere near as good, most likely because of their greater size and weight.

[timothysims]

The fact that mantis said "what was I thinking " makes this scene one of the funniest of the whole movie 1:57

[nojorooney]

This is just proof that Mantis is the strongest of the furious five, he can keep a very unstable bridge steady while there is a tiger, Tibetan macaque, viper, and snow leopard on it and he’s much smaller than all of them.

[hiveemperor]

You can see that Tai Lung closely observed the Five’s weaknesses, Tigress’ poor balance (which is a reference to how Snow Leopards are apparently better at balancing than Tigers), Viper’s lack of arms and inability to fight once restrained and Crane’s speciality as more so air support than a physical fighter. He then made use of these to counter them. Plus, he used their overconfidence and the element of surprise to catch them off guard with his Nerve Attack.

[maytalacedo]

This fight is still after a decade later really good storytelling

[jackalvalcoun]

There's something I don't see enough people talk about when it comes to Tai Lung. When he talks.

Tai Lung has barely any lines in the movie. He says the least out of all the villains in Kung Fu Panda, shorts or otherwise. The first time we hear his actual voice (not his growls) is after he escapes. This is a guy who just tore apart a top security prison and obliterated a thousand guards, and he only needed a feather to do it. And yet, when he talks, he's completely relaxed. He's calm, collected, and He's not even fazed by the power of those rhino guards, or the Furious Five, or anyone else. He's not even afraid of Shifu.

When Tai Lung talks, you see just how in his element he is.