Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness/YMMV

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  • Acceptable Targets: Fat is still an acceptable target even though Po, as a panda, is a fat creature, so to speak.
    • Po is frequently portrayed as shirky and lazy. This may also be based on misperceptions of Real Life pandas, but that only adds a different layer of Unfortunate Implications...
    • Po himself has made jokes about Monkey's cheeks looking jowly.
  • Complete Monster: Affably Evil aside, Tong Fo qualifies. He attempted to destroy the Valley of Peace for seemingly no reason, his actions are taken seriously, he shows no remorse for the devastation he's brought or attempted to bring, and has no redeeming qualities that we know of. In fact, in each of his appearances so far he attempts torture, murder, maim, or something equally heinous.
  • Crosses the Line Twice: During Monkey's Flash Back to explain why he is defending his thieving brother, the dramatic pathos of the moment when seeing the two of them fighting "broke his mother's heart" is illustrated by her...abruptly falling over on the floor with a thud. This is then subverted by it turning out she wasn't actually dead, just truly heartbroken, thus enabling her to extract The Promise from Monkey...until it's revealed she really did die after that, with Monkey shown placing a flower on her grave.
  • Designated Monkey: Po.
  • Dude, Not Funny: While none of the things Evil!Po says or does are very funny (except to Shifu), how he treats Mr. Ping is particularly painful (and out-of-character). There'd better be some major apologies off-screen.
  • Ear Worm: The theme song. Hear the legends of the Kung Fu Panda...
    • PROTECT THE VALLEY SOMETHING SOMETHING SOMETHING SOMETHING ALIVE!!!
  • Expy: The five "creepy" leopards are, like Mei Ling, based off the Wu Sisters' design. They even carry Wind and Fire Wheels.
  • Fan-Preferred Couple: Po and Tigress, big time.
  • Foe Yay: One-Sided Tong Fo/Po. He got so excited when he realized Po was the Dragon Warrior and had the nerve to say it to his face.
  • Ho Yay: Shifu is...a little too much of a Fan Boy toward Yao, particularly during his "beautiful, brilliant brain" speech.
  • Magnificent Bastard / Manipulative Bastard: Junjie.
  • Marty Stu: Peng, "The Kung Fu Kid", is an incredible prodigy who charms everyone who meets him, manages to make Tigress laugh, and is Tai Lung's nephew. Ultimately, however, his introductory episode is focused on Po's reaction. And the nature and reason for Peng's journey.
  • Moe Moe: Little Shifu training with Oogway.
  • Moral Event Horizon:
  • Squick: Tigress had a crush on Shifu when she was a teenager. He may be her father through adoption, but still...
  • Tastes Like Diabetes: Good!Po.
  • Took a Level in Jerkass: Po, who is a very peculiar example of this trope. Namely, in some episodes, he plays this trope down to a T, such as when he constantly used the Fluttering Finger Mindslip to get out of duties, chores and trouble, and when he got jealous and lied to Peng about Shifu not wanting him in the palace to make Peng leave. What makes Po a peculiar example of the trope is that he takes the level in jerkass for just that one episode, then does repent and works to fix the trouble he caused, and then he takes the level of jerkass again in another episode, repeating the process. In still other episodes, he's either as nice as can be or, if he does make a mistake, it's out of clumsiness or ignorance rather than jerkishness.
    • Everyone does at some moment, except for Shifu (but that's only because Shifu's dickery in the first movie is hard to top). The worst moment is when Po demonstrates one of the Seven Impossible Moves and everyone in the Jade Palace suddenly ceases to trust him just because the master who initially invented these moves turned evil and despite everything they went through together. When all of the Five reject him and refuse to listen (as he's trying to tell them their master Shifu is in danger), simply because they believe Po screwed up and thus got Shifu and all of them thrown out of the palace (instead of letting him explain Junjie said it was okay for him to watch the masters' exhibition) also takes the cake. At least this one led to Ping reading them the riot act.
  • Ugly Cute: The Mongolian Fire Fist Demon.
  • Villain Decay: Temutai could be taken seriously in his first appearance, see Moral Event Horizon above. In his subsequent appearances, not so much.
  • The Woobie: Po puts up with a lot of crap in this series...
    • Also Bian Zao qualifies as one.
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