Motives for the Kung Fu Panda Villains be like:

Is is too late for a volume warning? #kungfupanda4 #kai #tailung

Anywho, I saw Kung Fu Panda 4, and the villain's motives were... unexistent...

[excalibur]

KFP 1: PHYSICAL
KFP 2: MENTAL
KFP 3: SPIRITUAL
KFP 4: an insecurity about having a short height

[Vidgital]

Tai Lung: Wanted to get what he considered rightfully his
Kai: Was driven by greed for Chi energy
Shen: Literally peacock Hitler

[lordmeian]

Kai Didn't turn evil, oogway turned good

[bystanderX]

They coulda just said that the Chameleon wasn’t as talented at Kung Fu as her classmates. So instead of finding her unique strength (like what Po did in the first movie with food), she decided it’s better to cheat and suck other people’s Kung Fu. It’s generic but it at least works better than “I am too smol”!!!

[BearSmoothie]

If being small means you could threaten people then mantis has every right to be evil

[montygator]

Mantis and Shifu: Are we jokes to you??

[termtwd]

They had to remove half of the cast because them existing conflicted so hard with her motives lmao

[what]

Worst actions for kung fu pandas villains be like:

Tai Lung: rampages through valley of peace and attacking many innocent people when he was rejected as dragon warrior and killing many guards in his prison escape.

Lord Shen: commits genocide on the panda species, kills a kung fu master and kills his own men with his cannon in an attempt to stop Po.

Kai the collector: stealing the chi from many kung fu masters, literally imprisoning their souls.

The Chameleon: pushes someone down the stairs

[bad-girl-coventhe-owl-club]

Fun fact: The movie's director wanted Camaleon to have NO backstory whatsoever, and by the time the production crew convinced him that, you know, giving the villain a backstory is kind of important, they were too late to do anything but put in those few lines.

[sophiegerlofs]

Mantis: are you kidding me you're huge!

[arbustotactico]

The last villain: I was rejected from art school

[corrinflakes]

Chameleon: “iM SMOL”
Mantis: “Yeah, that's a skill issue.”

[agonyremnanttrap]

Tai Lung, Lord Shen, and Kai: "Oh you're a Kung Fu villain alright…. Just not a LEGENDARY Kung Fu villain!"

The Chameleon: "Oh yeah, what's the difference?"

Tai Lung, Lord Shen, and Kai: "GOOD MOTIVATION AND EXECUTION!"

[vengefulbale]

You're laughing, she shared her insecurities over being smol and you're laughing

[dragondelsur]

I'm honestly surprised she's that big when Mantis and Viper are height accurate.

[Jonathan_Collins]

My problem is the absolute wasted potential. Shapeshifters are one of the most interesting kinds of characters because they give you unlimited routes on how you can write them. To make that kind of character uninteresting is an absolute gut punch. The writers of KFP4 took the least interesting way to write the villain and she is so disconnected from the cast and movie.

What's even more disappointing is that it wouldn't be hard at all to improve her as a villain and character.

To name just a few ideas, the chameleon could have killed countless people and stolen their identities and live their lives to learn the kung fu people weren't willing to teach her in the past. She could have been a villain that has an identity crisis and loves to take the forms of other people because she feels meaning in it. She could have been working alongside Po disguised as one of his friends only to betray him and giving him the challenge of trusting people around him. Every villain in the previous movies had some connection to Po and/or others in the main cast and that's what challenged him. The chameleon has no such connection, making her less of a threat.

She sums up my feelings of the fourth movie so well: disconnected and wasted potential.

[MoonWielder]

Judy Hopps faced the same challenges as The Chameleon, but she overcame them and proved everyone wrong. What a pathetic excuse for a motive.

[IamBardsongWolf]

There were so many ways to make Chameleon interesting but the director didn't care about good storytelling. The co-director had so many good ideas, but he dropped them in favor of the excuse of: "It's a kid's movie. Plot confuses them."

[Jonathan_Collins]

Tai Lung: *Tests Po’s physical prowess*
Shen: *Test's Po’s mental prowess*
Kai: *Tests Po's spiritual prowess*
Chameleon: *Tests nothing audience's patience*

Her motivation makes no sense and the most evil thing she does, Shifu already did to Po in the first movie. She can have the combined power of all the villains, but she's undoubtedly the weakest of the franchise.

[diegopansini]

“I was turned away by all the masters because I was too small”. She KNOWS that there are many small masters out there, but the writers seemed to have forgotten that

Master Shifu, Mantis, Viper, Porcupine, even Chicken…