Kung Fu Panda 2: Difference between revisions

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Master Shifu and Masters Croc and Ox near the tail-end of the film. Po pulled it a short bit before to save the Five from Shen.}}

** {{spoiler|And Po's father in Po's flashback when two wolves were about to attack baby Po.}}

** Baby!Po, on the other hand, is a pretty straight example, which Mr. Ping points out repeatedly as he fed the cub multiple times in a single day. And then there was the time he ate all the bamboo furniture...

** [[Call Back|Po eats when he's upset]]. As the Dragon Warrior, he's happier than he's ever been.

* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: Mantis' mother ate his dad's head before he was born, but he sees nothing strange in this since this is normal for his species. He even imagined himself dying like this.

{{quote|'''Mantis:''' I thought I'd meet a nice girl, settle down, and then she'd eat my head.}}

* [[Break Them by Talking]]: When Po confronts Shen in the foundry, the peacock manages to gain the upper hand by claiming that Po's parents didn't love him and abandoned him.

* [[Brick Joke]]: In the first film, Ping told Po that when he was young, he thought going into the tofu business was crazy. The second film begins with Ping having expanded his noodle business by adding tofu to the menu!

** Another example: When entering the prison, Monkey promises to warn the Furious Five with a "Caw-CAW!" to which it is pointed out how much it sounds like Crane, who protests by saying he never says that. At the finale of the film, Crane uses his "Wings of Justice! Caw-CAW!"

** Po notes in the first film that Mantis is about the same size as his action figure. This film, {{spoiler|he swaps out Mantis for his Mantis action figure to fool Shen's men}}.

* [[Call Back]]: A kid playing with a Po figurine in the opening scenes says "Enough talk. Let's fight!", which is Po's first line in his fantasy of the first film.

** There's also several in the opening fight in with the wolves. Many shots and elements of the whole scene match up with the 2D opening dream sequence of the first movie, including Po's "Feet of Fury" technique.

* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Pretty much gone now for Tigress, who has become Po's best friend of the Five. Although the one scene where she's ordering Po to stay in the dungeon was pretty scary (even more so that Viper told Po to "stay down" after he was knocked around for a bit), she wasn't doing it to be mean; she clearly stated at the end that she was fearing for his safety.

** The included bonus DVD, ''Secrets of the Masters,'' has the Wu sisters, a trio of cats who play this trope ''very'' straight. As in, "Live in a volcano fortress, openly proclaim their evilness, and try to take over all of China's crime gangs."

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: Po's wooden action figures of the Furious Five, particularly Mantis's. This actually goes all the way back to the first movie, where Po comments that Mantis is about the same size as his action figure. {{spoiler|In this movie, he swaps Mantis for his figure while they're all being locked in chains so he can help save them later.}}

** One that goes back to the first movie - Po's recurring use of a wok as a hat, leading to the Disc of Destruction scene.

** When Po is running on the conveyor belt, the wok pan with Tai Lung's Face indented in it from the first movie goes over the side {{spoiler|right before Po himself falls and catches himself with the tuning fork}}

* [[Freudian Excuse]]: [[Big Bad]] Lord Shen's family never loved him. {{spoiler|From his perspective, anyway.}}

* [[Genocide Backfire]]: [[Playing with a Trope|Sort of]]. Lord Shen heard a prophecy that a black and white warrior would defeat him, so he destroyed the village of pandas close to his city. He later finds out that there was a survivor; Po. {{spoiler|[[Sequel Hook|And a hidden village of pandas, including Po's biological father]]}}. Unlike most examples of this trope, this wasn't what directly caused the confrontation between Po and Shen, and traumatic memories of his early childhood actually weaken Po, instead of motivating him.

** As noted further down, though, Po would never have been in a position to become the Dragon Warrior if Shen hadn't destroyed his village.

** Then again, we don't know how much time passed since Shifu first showed Po the technique and the day he sends him off to fight Shen, so he could have been trying to learn it in between.

*** Doubles as a [[Call Back]], since both are techniques Shifu told Po about in the beginning{{spoiler|, and later used to dispose of the villain of the respective movies}}.

* [[Meteor Move]]: Performed by Po on the Wolf Boss at the end of the Rickshaw Chase.

{{quote|'''Po:''' '''''Alaka-squasho!'''''}}

* [[My Significance Sense Is Tingling]]: Master Shifu collapses after sensing {{spoiler|Po being shot by Lord Shen's cannon.}}

** {{spoiler|Also shown at the end of the film when Po's biological father senses that he is alive and well}}.

* [[Never Found the Body]]: {{spoiler|Po's biological father.}}

* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]: Much like with its predecessor, the trailers mostly showed the comedic aspects of the film. Perhaps it was Dreamworks's way of not giving away any of the surprises.

* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Averted, thankfully. {{spoiler|It's a good thing that Tigress is VERY disciplined, and compassionate}}. And another reason why that "fight" was not in the first movie.

* [[No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup]]: Very, very averted. We don't see any prototypes for Shen's firework cannon, but there are a ''[[More Dakka|looot]]'' of backups.

* [[Noodle Incident|Rice Incident]]:

{{quote|'''Tigress:''' I hope this turns out better than your plan to cook rice in your stomach by eating it raw and then drinking boiling water.

* [[Oblivious Adoption]]: Confronted and answered. The ironic part is that Po already knew but his dad thought he didn't.

** Some people, including [[Roger Ebert]] when seeing the first film, just assumed this is a universe where whatever animal you happen to be is not dependent on your birth parents. After the second film, he admitted he was wrong.

* [[Of Doom]]: For the sake of rhyme, the sequel was at one point named ''Kung Fu Panda 2: The Kaboom of Doom''.

* [[Oh Crap]]: When Po and the Five {{spoiler|destroy Shen's cannon in the palace, only to find that the peacock has a whole arsenal of copies and they are about to fire a whole ''salvo'' at them.}}

* [[Offhand Backhand]]: Po does this rather effectively to the last wolf guard protecting Master Ox and Master Croc. It was the only move he did the entire fight and even ''Tigress'' complimented him on it.

* [[Only Six Faces]]: This movie adds goats and sheep to the mix of rabbits, pigs, and geese to the cast of civilians from the first movie.

* [[Papa Wolf]]: {{spoiler|Po's biological dad, as it's shown that he directly confronted the wolves that were massacring his village. Maybe Po's badassery is [[In the Blood]]...}}

** Also, the fact that Po is annoyed that his Tigress action figure is scratched.

*** Even the DVD commentary from the first movie stated that Tigress was Po's favorite out of the Five.

* [[Shout-Out]]:

** The sequence where the Furious Five hide in a dragon costume and "devour" wolf minions ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]), filmed from a top-down perspective, is an obvious ''[[Pac-Man]]'' allusion.