Kai

chi, brown loincloth, gray

puttees

Supreme Warlord of all Kung Fu Panda Wall

The Jade Slayer

Master of Pain

Beast of Vengeance

Maker of Widows

The Unknown Enemy best student

The Unknown Enemy

Sabel (somtimes enemy)

Jombis

The Dark Empire

The Creepies

Venus dragon flytrap

Madame Ghoulasha (short time)

The Terminator

Dracula

Specter (short time)

Master Goo

Victor Frankenstein (short time)

Po

Daniel

Tigress

Elida

Shifu

Olivia

Mantis

Viper

Crane

Monkey

Croc

Bear

Chicen

Red Skull

Hydra

All kung fu masters (living and dead)

Tai Lung (somtimes)

Sabel (somtimes)

Madame Ghoulasha

Specter

Victor Frankenstein

Mummy Wizard

Easter Peep

Huge Foot

Ron

Bob

Paul

long chains as weapons

General Kai (also known as The Collector) is the main antagonist of Kung Fu Panda 3 and in The Awesome Universe Kung fu panda series's season 4 - Kung Fu Panda and the kung fu adventures. He was a warrior and the general of an army which he led alongside his brothers-in-arms Oogway and Knut.

Kai fought alongside Oogway and Knut as close friends, but after The Unknown Enemy taught him how to steal the chi of others, Oogway and Knut banished him to the Spirit Realm. Five hundred years later, he returned to the mortal realm as a Spirit Warrior and sought to steal the chi from every kung fu master and destroy Oogway and Knut's legacy. With the help of his jombies, he nearly accomplished his goal, but he was eventually defeated and destroyed by Po.

## Biography

### **In life**

Approximately five hundred years prior to the events of Kung Fu Panda 3 and season 4, Kai was a warrior alongside Oogway and Knut, with whom he grew a brotherly bond with. They were good friends and together they fought side by side, leading a great army into battle.

One day, during an ambush, Oogway was badly wounded and Knut and Kai carried him for days, searching for help. They then happened upon a secret village of pandas, who used their knowledge of chi to heal Oogway. Fascinated by the power, Oogway and Knut was taught by the pandas on how to utilize it. Kai, however, became interested solely in using it to increase his own power, so he began taking chi from others rather than giving it after The Unknown Enemyhe learned him. Seeing the damage Kai's obsession would cause, Oogway and Knut broke off his relationship with Kai, and all three former friends fought fiercely until Oogway and Knut finally triumphed, banishing Kai's body and soul to the Spirit Realm (but it is and will be unknown how they did it).

### **In *Kung Fu Panda 3***

#### **Rise to power**

Five hundred years after his banishment to the Spirit Realm, Kai, having become vengeful and power-hungry over time, underwent a physical transformation: his horns had grown twice their natural height and pronged, two smaller horns had come from the sides of his head, his mane grew longer and more unruly, and Kai's general regalia, consisting of an armored uniform, was gone. In this time, Kai challenged Oogway to a rematch, in which he explained that he had taken the chi of every master within the Spirit Realm and shows him a medallion of Knut chi on a necklace, much to Oogway's chagrin. Although nearly equally matched, Oogway was ensnared and his chi was stolen, but not before warning Kai that he had set another on the path to defeat him. Kai swore to take the Dragon Warrior's chi and subsequently used Oogway's chi combined with Knut's chi to return to the mortal world.

Upon his return, Kai ordered several of his jade soldiers to find Oogway and Knut's students. They eventually found Po and the Furious Five, who Kai witnessed through the "eyes" of his soldiers as they fought them. He then summoned his warriors back to his side, and Crane and Mantis were ordered to investigate his current location, joining up with Masters Bear, Croc and Chicken whose villages had also been attacked. Although the masters confronted and tried to fight Kai, they were, one by one, all easily defeated and had their chi stolen, along with all other masters in kung fu panda wall, from the walls inward.

#### **Destruction of the Jade Palace**

Kai eventually arrived at the Jade Palace where he attacked the rest of the Five, Daniel, Elida, Olivia and Shifu, destroying the palace in the process. He managed to absorb the chi of Daniel, Elida, Olivia, Shifu, Viper and Monkey. He couldn't get Tigress because she escaped whit her uncle Wilmar in order to warn Po of Kai's advancement.

#### **Battle against Panda Village**

Kai and a hologram of The Unknown Enemy journeyed to the Panda Village, and upon arriving, Kai and his soldiers were attacked by the pandas whom Po had organized into a defensive force, using their everyday activities as their assets. While Kai was distracted, Po attempted to use the Wuxi Finger Hold to transport Kai back to the Spirit Realm, but Kai revealed that it could only transport mortals to the Spirit Realm, not immortal spirit warriors. Kai gained the upper hand in their battle and advanced on Po and the others. But before he could attack, Po grabbed onto Kai and used the Wuxi Finger Hold on himself, sending them both to the Spirit Realm.

#### **Battle and defeat against Po**

Angered to have been returned to the Spirit Realm, Kai fought Po and gained the upper hand over him again. He was able to grab Po in his chains and began to steal his chi, but before the process could be completed, Li, Tigress, Mr. Ping, Wilmar and all the pandas were able to use their own chi to save Po. Po then formed his own chi in the shape of a dragon and fought against Kai, gaining the upper hand and destroying one of his swords. Undaunted, Kai swore to take Po's chi even if it took him another five hundred years. Po then willingly surrendered his chi to Kai who was ecstatic to receive the power, but quickly discovered that it was overloading him with chi. Unable to stop it, the abundance of energy became so great that Kai is obliterated into a bright light, being destroyed by the same power he sought to obtain.

Following his demise, all the chi that he had stolen was returned, reviving its fallen warriors.

### **In *Paws of Destiny***

Kai is mentioned in "Unholy Dragon Returns to the Mountains" when Li reminds his other pandas how they were able to summon their chi to defeat him.

## Personality

During his time as a mortal, Kai was fiercely devoted to fighting alongside and protecting Oogway and Knut, whom he loved them like his brothers. Kai was willing to risk his own life in order to keep Oogway and Knut safe; after the tortoise was injured in an ambush, Kai carried him with Knut for days across hostile terrain in a desperate attempt to find help. However, their relationship was broken beyond repair after stumbling upon the panda village and discovering the power of chi. Unlike Oogway and Knut, Kai became interested in stealing the chi of others in order to increase his own power, learning how it could be taken as easily as it was given. Because Oogway and Knut prevented him from fulfilling his ambition and imprisoned him for centuries in the Spirit Realm, he felt Oogway and Knut betrayed him and had never, or would ever, recover from the pain of losing the only persons he ever truly loved.

After his banishment, Kai's anger and hatred grew ever stronger against Oogway and Knut, demanding a rematch, which ended with Kai stealing Knut and Oogway's chi and returning to the mortal realm, but as a Spirit Warrior, to exact total vengeance against Oogway and Knut by destroying their legacy. Kai's disposition was worsened, if anything, during his time in the Spirit Realm as his sense of humor was darkened, and where there was once loyalty and honor, cruelty and aggression had replaced. To further his lack of morals, Kai was blinded by his own repute and was devoted heavily to his legacy, displeased that none recalled or even had heard of Kai, the "Beast of Vengeance" or "Maker of Widows" and so had no qualms whatsoever about destroying Knut and Oogway's legacy, believing that them had destroyed his. However, Kai was quite pleased when Po addressed him with said titles, even thanking him quite politely and claiming that it made him almost want to spare his life. Of course, that did not stop Kai from trying to steal Po's chi along with the rest of the pandas. Kai was also often annoyed by Po's sense of humor and underestimated him, just like nearly all of Po's previous adversaries, but he was ultimately defeated by Po who overloaded him with chi, leading to his demise.

## Fighting style

Kai was an extremely powerful warrior and easily one of the strongest warriors known to have walked the kung fu panda wall. Even in his youth, Kai's skills as a warrior had earned him the title of warlord and he was able to fight against Oogway and Knut, who was considered the most powerful kung fu master in history and was named Unknown Enemy's best student until Po became the Dragon Warrior, in a battle so intense that it "shook the earth." Five hundred years later, Kai had become even more powerful, as he was able to make short work of all the kung fu masters in the Kung Fu Panda Wall and can fight evenly with and eventually defeat Knut and Oogway, though it was due to Oogway surrendering to him willingly that he was able to defeat Kai While Knut fought bravely against him to protect Daniel and Elida.

During his days with Oogway and Knut, he showed remarkable knowledge and wisdom about military protocols and logistics, being able to lead a large army without any form of difficulty. This also foreshadows his tactical leadership capabilities. He also possesses extremely strong willpower, being able to carry Oogway and the worn-out Knut for days through extremely harsh environments, until they arrived at a medicinal village, where the Pandas managed to revive Oogway from the brink of death.

In unarmed combat, Kai's veteran kung fu skills, honed from centuries of practice, allowed him to effortlessly outmatch every member of the Furious Five, Daniel, Elida, Olivia, Shifu and even Po before his mastering of chi. His fighting style was 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. Kai possessed incredible supernatural strength, enough to tear down and swing a statue and cleave small mountains in half. He also displayed extreme supernatural durability, beyond the likes of pandas. He was able to take the worst hits from Knut and Oogway, Tigress, Daniel and Po's Dragon Form with only slight injuries and slight tardiness. Yet for all his power and skill, Kai's fighting style had its own fatal flaws for it was weak in and highly unsuited to prolonged combat due to it lacking any sufficient defensive capabilities or maneuvers geared specifically towards fighting multiple opponents simultaneously for more than a few seconds at a time, forcing him to rely heavily on his jade swords, chain whips and jade zombies for defense.

Fierce and dangerous in close combat, Kai wielded a pair of jade swords attached to long chains, which extend and abbreviate mystically from around his wrists. He wielded them as his primary weapons in combat, but also used them to scale cliffs and other terrain that he couldn't traverse normally.

Kai was a supernatural being of magical powers. Due to his ethereal "spirit" physiology, Kai was a Spirit Warrior, rendering him immune to age and disease as well as most forms of physical harm in the mortal realm. He could also, when needed, 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. However, this could be used against him to distract him, as when Po tried to keep his attention occupied with help from the other pandas and use the Wuxi Finger Hold on him. Unfortunately, it failed because the Finger Hold could only affect mortals, not spirits. This implies that he is immortal since he is not even alive in the first place, in essence at least. However, this does not mean that he is beyond destruction.

He also possessed other supernatural abilities, most notably was the power to steal other warriors' chi. After he had absorbed the chi from a warrior, Kai's already extraordinary physical powers would increase exponentially. However, he takes a long time to absorb a Panda's chi due to their immense levels of it, whereas it took him mere seconds to absorb Oogway and Knut's and every other kung fu master's chi. An example would be when he it took him several minutes to nearly absorb all of Po's chi. But if a being's chi and mastery over chi is far greater than his own, then he cannot absorb their chi. In addition, Kai could use his natural chi as well as all of the stolen chi to enhance the power of his physicality for even greater supernatural strength, speed, and agility; with one chi-infused flick of his finger, he almost knocked out Crane. He even used a chi-infused strike to send Po flying through a gigantic rock and wounding him though his immense durability. He can even use the chi to increase his natural healing potency or heal other beings from injuries and illness.

### **Weaknesses**

Kai, though extremely powerful, was not without his weaknesses. Should an opponent utilize chi to fight him, the result would cause damage, as seen when Tigress was able to briefly stun him with a chi-enhanced kick at the Jade Palace, which broke through his invulnerability and Oogway and Knut similarly could knock him down and cause him some pain with a blast of chi. Another example is when Po used a chi-based Dragon construct to hurt him, and he succeeded. This is likely due to the fact that since Kai is a supernatural being, a supernatural force, such as chi energy, must be utilized to cause him harm or even destroy him. This was seen when Po overloaded him with powerful chi energies, which caused his "final death".

The actual methodology of sealing Kai into Spirit Realm used by Oogway and Knut in the past is unknown, and it is also unclear that whether or not this 'sealing' was physically defeating.

As noted in the previous section, Kai's jombies are a weakness as well as a strength. As Po theorized and later proved, assaulting the jombies all at the same time left Kai open to retaliation due to him being paralyzed due to sensory overload.

Also noted in the previous section, while the Wuxi Finger Hold normally does not affect him as a spirit warrior, he can still be forcibly sent to the Spirit Realm by the Hold if anyone vulnerable to the Hold uses it on themselves while grabbing onto Kai.

## Relationships

### **Oogway**

Kai shared a close and brother-like relationship with Oogway, loving him a great deal. After an ambush led to Oogway being badly wounded, Kai carried him with Knut for days through the harshest of elements until reaching a Panda Village where the pandas used their chi to save his life. Fascinated by the power, Oogway and Knut learned from the pandas how to use chi to give life, but Kai saw a darker use for it, wishing to steal the chi from other warriors to increase his own power. Kai, Oogway and Knut's relationship became broken beyond repair and battled fiercely until Oogway and Knut banished Kai to the Spirit Realm. Five hundred years later, Kai mentioned to Daniel how he felt betrayed by Oogway and Knut.

Oogway and Kai reunited in the Spirit Realm where Oogway learned that Kai had become malicious and resentful as well as becoming more powerful by stealing the chi of every kung fu warrior in the Spirit Realm (plus Knut's chi). Kai battled Oogway one final time and defeated him, stealing his chi. With Oogway's chi, Kai had enough power to return to the Mortal Realm and, with one singular goal; destroy everything Oogway and Knut had ever created.

### **Po**

Po was the warrior destined to defeat Kai, but Kai had only saw him as a joke. Kai was also easily annoyed by Po's sense of humor, proven when they had first met. However, Kai gained a morsel of respect for Po when the panda was impressed by his entrance in their meeting and mentioned Kai by name and called him by his various titles; he thanked him quite politey and even claimed that it almost made him want to spare Po's life. Nevertheless, this did not stop Kai from trying to take the chi of Po and all the other pandas. Kai also continually underestimated Po's cunning, strategy, and power, allowing Po to gain the upper hand in their battle, first in the Panda Village and then in the Spirit Realm.

Kai's desire to absorb Po's chi proved to be his downfall, as the power of the Dragon Warrior's chi dragon avatar was too great to handle, causing Kai to be destroyed in a blast of light.

### **Shifu**

Kai considered Shifu to be nothing more than an obstacle in the way of destroying Oogway and Knut's legacy, and openly mocked one of the masters of the Jade Palace for being unable to stop him before taking his chi as well.

### **The Furious Five**

Kai saw potential henchmen in the Furious Five, enslaving four of them, with the exception of Tigress who managed to escape with uncle Wilmar. Kai did not think much of Tigress in particular, mocking her by calling her "little kitten" during their fight. Until The Unknown Enemy informed him that he sees Tigress as a major threat to him (probably because she almost killed him in season 2 of the series).

## Clothing

In life, Kai wore a green cloak, thick brown armor studded with dull metal spikes, puttees, and a belt. While in the Spirit Realm, Kai's armor, whether taken off through his own choice or lost over time, was gone, and in its place, the former general wore a green belt, bracers, a shredded leather loincloth, puttees, a studded helmet, and while in the Mortal Realm, he wore a jade pendant of Oogway and Knut's captured chi around his neck.

Other than dressing, Kai, before becoming a Spirit Warrior, likely didn't possess as much "supernatural" physical trends as later. Kai being portrayed in Oogway and Knut's memories lacked the pair of smaller horns unlike later, and the larger horns were not pronged as well.

## Trivia

* In Chinese, the name Kai most often translates to "victory" (traditional Chinese: 凱?; simplified Chinese: 凯; pinyin: kǎi) or "open" (traditional Chinese: 開; simplified Chinese: 开; pinyin: kāi).
* Kai's former character name was Tian Sha, which is his name in the Chinese version of Kung Fu Panda 3 (traditional and simplified Chinese: 天煞?; pinyin: tiānshā). The name means "ferocious (spirit) from heaven," and the characters separately mean "heaven" and "evil spirit" respectively.
* Kai notably keeps Oogway and Knut's amulet around his neck, while the rest of his victims are on his hip.
* Kai was previously reported to be voiced by Mads Mikkelsen. However, he was dropped from the film due to his character being rewritten.
* One of the jade amulets collected on Kai's belt was a former movie villain, Tai Lung. in the movie but in the series, Tai Lung and the other villains had come back to life instead as jombis.
* In The Art of Kung Fu Panda 3 and the film novelization, Kai is mistakenly described as a yak.
* Kai was originally designed to have four arms, resembling a conceptual character drawn in the development for the first film called the "Four-Armed Yak Demon God on Fire", who was to serve as part of Tai Lung's gang.
* Kai's chained blades resemble the Blades of Chaos from the God of War franchise.
* Kai's theme in the Kung Fu Panda 3 soundtrack is an orchestral remix of "I'm So Sorry" by Imagine Dragons.