Viper (Kung Fu Panda)

Viper is a major character in the franchise. She is a green tree snake who is a member of the Furious Five. Along with the other four members of the same group, she is a master of the Kung Fu martial art, restricted mainly to the snake style.
She is voiced by , who also voiced Silvermist from the Disney Fairies franchise and Callisto Mal in Strange World, and Jessica DiCicco when she was younger who also voiced Flame Princess, Lexi Bunny, Maggie Pesky, Malina, Lynn Loud Jr., and Lucy Loud. In the Japanese dub of the movie, she is voiced by Romi Park.
==Appearance==
Viper is a viper snake. The middle of her back is covered in lime green scales, whereas the beginning and end of her back are covered in black scales. There are brown marks all over the scales as well. Her eyes feature blue irises and scleras with blue undertones. She also wears two lotus flower clips on her head and three white beads on her tail.
==Personality==
Compared to the other members of the Furious Five, Viper is perhaps the most sympathetic, especially towards Po. This is first noticeable when Po arrives at the Jade Temple and is proclaimed the Dragon Warrior by Master Oogway.
==Biography==
Viper was born without fangs, a sign of which meant she was not worthy of becoming a warrior. Despite the setback, she was able to become a talented ribbon dancer. Eventually however, her father was eventually attacked by an unnamed gorilla bandit who seemed to have the upper advantage over him. Viper, using her skills as a ribbon dancer, was able to fight back and overpower the bandit, thus saving her father from certain death. Viper eventually grew to become a kung fu master and formed the Furious Five under leadership of Master Shifu and Oogway.
===Kung Fu Panda===
When first meeting Po after he made an unexpecting entrance to see the Furious Five compete to see which one is to become the chosen one, she was astonished that Oogway had chosen him, but was skeptical of the panda's abilities as the Dragon Warrior.
That night, after Po humiliated himself in front of the Five, they began gossiping over his lack of ability in the art of kung fu. Though Viper did laugh at the jokes they made about the big panda, she was the only one who didn't mock the panda directly, instead she expressed sympathy for him, stating, "the poor guy is just going to get himself killed.".
Despite the evidence that Po seemed to have quit, she was surprised to find in ready for training the following day. Shifu had instructed Po to battle against Viper first, but when he was about to answer about being ready, she overpowered and incapacitated him within a few seconds, she however apologized afterwards.
After Shifu sparred and defeated Po, who was sent falling down the stairs leading to the Jade Palace, Viper and Mantis attempted to heal Po's injuries with acupuncture, there Po expressed his doubt about being the Dragon Warrior, and suspected that Shifu was trying to get rid of him, but Viper assured him with a smile that it was just his harsh demeanor. Later on, Viper was surprised to find out that Po was actually a skilled chef after tasting the noodles he made, she even laughed while Po impersonated Shifu, only for him to enter in the middle of the act and announce Oogway's death and Tai Lung's escape from prison, which all of the Furious Five and Po were shocked to learn.
Tigress eventually journeyed to battle against Tai Lung (despite Shifu's denouncement against the action), to the other four members joined up. They eventually encountered Tai Lung on the Thread of Hope and participated in a fierce battle against him, only for him to end up defeating and paralyzing all except Crane. Crane was able to retreat back to the Jade Palace where he used the last of his strength to carry the paralyzed Five, Shifu was able to revive them, but after learning of the Five's defeat, he decided to take drastic measures and reveal the scroll to Po, to which Viper, Po, and the rest of the Five were shocked to find out that the scroll was blank and empty.
Thinking that the valley was in great danger, Shifu instructed Viper and the rest of the Five to gather the villagers and escape to safety. Viper was tasked with gathering those within the southern portion of the region. Meanwhile, Tai Lung arrived at the Jade Temple and battled against Shift and defeated him, only for Po to join in, despite the fact Tai Lung had the upper hand, Po eventually used his weight as a means to counter him later on, eventually incapacitating Tai Lung and finally defeating him with the surprised usage of the Wushi finger hold by proclaiming "skadoosh", causing a shockwave of gold dust to erupt from the valley (and presumably killing Tai Lung). The Five witnessed the shockwave and returned to the valley to find that Po was victorious in defeating Tai Lung, Viper and the Five then bowed in front of the Dragon Warrior in respect, followed by the villagers in return.
===Kung Fu Panda 2===
In the second film, Viper is first seen with the Five watching Po consume as many bean buns as he could fit in his mouth; after Po succeeded in this challenge, Viper fainted from the terror she witnessed.
Soon afterwards, Po and the Five are tasked to travel to Gongmen City after learning of a new threat towards the valley, a power-hungry peacock named Shen. Along the way, Viper overhears Po discussing about his issues with his father to Tigress, to which Viper shows the most sympathy upon hearing. They eventually arrive and disguise themselves as a festive dragon to witness Shen's militia brutally abusing the townspeople.
The six of them purposely got themselves captured so that they can gain access to Shen's tower, Viper freed the other members by lock picking cuffs binding them, and the six of them headed into Shen's throne room to attack and destroy Shen's cannon, while this succeed, Po failed to capture or defeat Shen when his opportunity was foiled after the peacock escaped, the Five scolded him in the jail afterwards and despite pleading to the Five about the failure, Po was defeated by Tigress, to which Viper told them to stay down as a means to stay safe rather than as an act of punishment.
The Five travel to destroy an arsenal of Shen's cannons located in a foundry, but there planned is caught red-handed after Po is spotted battling Shen, his Wolves then attack and capture the Five, seeming as though Viper and the Five had lost.
Aboard Shen's battleship, the Five were bound together by chains as natives to Shen, who plotted on killing them before his invasion begun. Miraculously, Po intervened when it seemed all hope was lost and freed the Five, in an attempt to get to Shen, Viper used a technique called "Puppet of Death" during a battle against Shen's wolves to manipulate and unconscious wolf. Eventually, Shifu joined the battle and brought along masters Ox and Crocodile to fight alongside Po and the Five. When it seemed as though Viper and the Five as well as their allies had won, they were all blasted into the harbor by Shen's flagship cannon, while Shifu and the Five were incapacitated, Po was able to stand his ground and fight back by deflecting the many cannons fired upon him by Shen, eventually destroy to entire fleet of his, and rendering his flagship severely damage, Po attempted to change Shen's mind, but he refused and attempted to attack the band, but unexpectedly cut the ropes holding his prized cannon to plummet down upon him and crush him to death.
In the end, the Viper and the Five were once again victorious.
===Kung Fu Panda 3===
Viper appears when Shifu resigns from his position and appoints Po as teacher, which leads to Viper and the rest of the Furious Five being injured in training. 
During Kai's attack, Viper was turned into a jade zombie after a short battle. Kai later used Viper and the rest of the jade zombies to attack the village, but after defeating Kai, Viper became her former self and returned to the mortal world.
===Kung Fu Panda 4===
Viper and the Furious Five are revealed to be on their own missions. According to Po, Viper's mission is bringing peace between the Cobras and Mongooses. They appear during the film's end credits training Po's successor, Zhen, in the Training Hall to be the next dragon warrior.
==Gallery==
===Promotional Material===
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===Screenshots===
====Movies & Short films====
=====Kung Fu Panda (2008)=====
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=====Secrets of the Furious Five (2009)=====
=====Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)=====
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=====Kung Fu Panda Holiday (2012)=====
=====Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) =====
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=====Secrets of the Scroll (2016) =====
====TV Series====
=====Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness=====
======Season 1======
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===== Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024) =====
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===Others===
===Concept Art===
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==Trivia==
*In the first film, when Po mentions how all of the Five possess a unique and useful quality but him, he says "venom" in referral to Viper. 
**In Secrets of the Furious Five, it was revealed that she was never even born with fangs to inject any such venom. It now seems Viper has grown a pair of small, blunt fangs.
*In Secrets of the Furious Five, she was shown as a firstborn, only child.
**In Kung Fu Panda Holiday, She mentioned that she has sisters of whom she loved to cook with during the Winter Feast.
*In the second film, demonstrates that Viper has some experience in lock picking.
*Her battle weakness is frontal attacks.
*Real snakes don't actually have eyelids so Viper shouldn't be able to blink.
*She was the most difficult character to animate.
*She has 120 bones along the length of her body.
*Viper design's character artist Nicolas Marlet used Chinese poetry for the markings on Viper's skin.
*So far, Viper has the most consistent voice artist among the Furious Five (with that being Lucy Liu), save for her younger self (who was instead voiced by Jessica DiCicco).
**Quite ironically, she holds this much longer than even Po himself (who was originally voiced by Jack Black).
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