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    Kai the Collector
    "I will show you the true power of chi, brother."
    Gender: Male
    Type: Power-Hungry Soul Collector
    Age: 500+
    Species: Bull
    Portrayed by: J.K. Simmons
    Status: Deceased
    Media of origin: Kung Fu Panda 3


    General Kai, simply known as Kai, also known to all as "Kai the Collector", is the main antagonist of DreamWorks' 32nd full-length animated feature film Kung Fu Panda 3, the third installment in the Kung Fu Panda franchise, and a supporting character in its 2024 sequel Kung Fu Panda 4.

    He is voiced by J.K. Simmons.

    Why He Rocks

    1. He is an extremely powerful warrior and is easily one of the strongest warriors known to have walked China. Even in his youth, his skills as a warrior had earned him the title of Warlord, and he was able to fight against Oogway.
    2. He is a supernatural being with magical powers. Due to his ethereal spirit physiology, he is a Spirit Warrior, rendering him immune to fatigue, age, and disease, as well as most forms of physical harm in the mortal realm.
      • Due to the fact that he's a Spirit Warrior, it makes him immune to being directly affected by the Wuxi Finger Hold.
    3. His scheme is to defeat every Kung Fu master, steal the chi of the pandas, destroy Oogway's legacy, and become all powerful.
    4. He's known for making his dramatic entrance for every scene he's in. Even Po makes a comment on how great his entrance is.
    5. He is able to summon jade zombie versions of the Kung Fu masters whose chi he has stolen. He could also summon jade soldiers to do his bidding and could see, hear, and feel everything that they could; in other words, he had a telepathic link to them.
      • His green eyes sometimes literally glow, showing off his supernatural abilities.
    6. His unique fighting style is ferocious and direct, utilizing wide sweeping kicks and devastating horn-charges combined with powerful punches augmented in both strength, speed and accuracy by his stolen chi power. He possessed incredible supernatural strength, enough to tear down and swing a statue and cleave small mountains in half.
    7. In unarmed combat, his veteran Kung Fu skills, honed from centuries of practice, allowed him to effortlessly outmatch every member of the Furious Five, Shifu, and even Po before his mastering of chi.
    8. In comparison to the previous villains, Kai is a lot more outright and laughably evil at that. He is pure evil and betrayed Oogway, the one person he ever seemed to actually care about. Not to mention, he's also the first villain that Po outright couldn't beat by himself.
    9. The way Po defeats him is awesome. When he overloads him with powerful chi energies, it becomes so strong that Kai can't control it and gets obliterated into a bright light, being destroyed by the same power he sought to obtain.
    10. His primary weapons are a pair of jade swords attached to long chains, which extend and abbreviate mystically from around his wrists. He wielded them in combat, but also used them to scale cliffs and other terrain that he couldn't traverse normally.
      • In his youth, he wield a double-sided staff blade, which was destroyed during his first fight with Oogway.
    11. His theme song is an extremely simple yet catchy tune that can be both loud and boisterous, or dark and sinister, much like Kai himself.
    12. J.K. Simmons does an excellent job voicing him.

    Bad Qualities

    1. While he is an entertaining and badass villain in his own right, he feels much inferior compared to the previous villains, Tai Lung and Lord Shen.
    2. He tends to gloat about himself and expects everyone in the present day to still know and fear him, not accounting for just how long he's been gone.
    3. He's a self-centered and power-hungry warlord who wants all the chi he can get his hands on for himself. He can't comprehend the reason Oogway had a problem with him turning on the pandas who saved Oogway's life and trying to steal their chi.
    4. The film never goes very deeply into his backstory and character, which is particularly upsetting since the previous films explored their villains' backstories and emotional drives in full detail. We're told who Kai was and what he did, but we're told never why he did it, and we never find his take on the events that led to him being who he is in the film.
    5. Him and Lord Shen only make non-speaking cameos in Kung Fu Panda 4. Neither one of them directly interacts with Po or Tai Lung onscreen or have a reaction to their current situation or any development while they were in the spirit world. It doesn't help that they were last minute additions.
      • Also, his return is quite confusing, as in the previous film, he was destroyed in the Spirit Realm, yet he comes back with no proper explanation.

    Trivia

    • Kai's theme music incorporates a remix of the Imagine Dragons song "I'm So Sorry" with more oriental instruments to fit the Chinese-inspired setting.
    • His design is similar to Drago Bludvist from How to Train Your Dragon 2, another film by DreamWorks.
    • Kai's chained blades resemble the Blades of Chaos welded by Kratos from the God of War series.
    • Kai notably keeps Oogway's amulet around his neck, while the rest of his victims are on his hip. He also never uses Oogway's Jombie in battle.
    • Kai's voice actor, J.K. Simmons, is well known for portraying J. Jonah Jameson from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy.

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