Walter Donovan

Kung Fu Panda MLP FIM: Day of the Departed

"*You can't save her when you are dead! The healing power of the grail is the only thing that can save your mother now! It's time to ask yourself what you believe?*"
―Donowan to Daniel after he shot his mother[src]
**Walter Donovan** (known simply as **Donovan**) is the main antagonist of the Awesome Universe action-adventure film Kung Fu Panda and the Last Crusade, the third installment in the Kung Fu Panda Indiana Jones combination stories.

He was a wealthy American industrialist and collector of antiquities who allied himself with HYDRA in order to get the Holy Grail, which he sought for its fabled gift of immortality. He ends up in conflict with Daniel, Korra, Po, Tigress, Sonic and Amy in order to gain the Holy Grail.

He was portrayed by the English classical actor Julian Glover.

## Biography

#### **Early years**

American multimillionaire Walter Donovan had made several generous contributions to the Old World Museum. His copper mine engineers discovered a stone tablet in Turkey which held clues to the location of the Holy Grail. He and his wife lived in a fancy apartment on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. Donovan kept the tablet at this home along with a manuscript which contained a Franciscan friar's account of the story of three knights who had found the Grail.

on an time before or after the events in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Donovan had fallen in with the HYDRA as part of his plan to achieve the Grail's reputed gift of eternal life to whomever drank from it. Towards the end of the year before the events of the Last Crusade, Donovan hired the Avatar and the mother of the film's protagonist, Korra to lead his research team to track down the resting place of the Grail.  As such, Korra was paired with Doctor Elsa Schneider to find the location of a grail knight's tomb in Venice. When Korra realized that Schneider was affiiated with HYDRA,  she was made to conveniently 'disappear', spirited away and imprisoned at Castle Brunwald on the Austro-Germanborder but not before she managed to send her Grail Diary, her lifelong research of the relic to hers lion boy son Daniel.

### In *Kung Fu Panda and the Last Crusade*

Donovan used the removal of the Avatar from his expedition to lure Daniel into helping him piece together vital clues leading to the location of the Grail. As such, he had Daniel brought to a cocktail party that he and his wife were hosting at his New York City apartment in the film. In a private room away from the guests, Donovan spoke with Daniel about the tablet, which was one of the markers needed to discover the cup used by Jesus Christ during the Last Supper. After learning from Donovan that his mother had gone missing, Daniel and Team Sonic journeyed to Italy at Donovan's expense to meet with Schneider in Venice. There, they discovered Sir Richard's tomb and the rest of the inscription of Donovan's tablet written on the knight's shield.

Eventually, thanks to the help of Kazim, leader of the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword, a secret society dedicated to protecting the Grail by any means, Daniel learned of his mother's captivity. Daniel and Elsa thus went to rescue the Avatar from Castle Brunwald. Once there, however, Elsa betrayed them after acquiring the Grail Diary, handing it to Colonel Ernst Vogel. With mother and son subdued, they were brought to a room where Donovan revealed himself as a HYDRA ally. Learning of Donovan's nature, Daniel considered that Donovan may have been the same anonymous collector who had offered to buy the Cross of Coronado from Panama Hat, in a bad state financially following the Great Depression, in exchange for the lion boy's death earlier that year off the Portuguese coast. When reports that Team Sonic, who had been sent on ahead to Iskenderun with vital pages ripped from the diary, was apprehened by HYDRA agents, Donovan left Daniel and Korra in Vogel's hands while Schneider was called back to Berlin to attend a bookburning rally presided by Red Skull, Arnim Zola and Baron Von Strucker, and took with her what Donovan thought was a now useless diary. However, during that same rally, Daniel and Korra, having escaped from Brunwald, recovered the diary.

With the missing diary pages that supplied a map to the location of the Grail, Donovan and the Nazis headed to Hatay to negotiate permission from the country's Sultan to cross his land and retrieve the relic. Offering him treasures 'donated' by the finest families in Germany, Donovan found that what actually held the Sultan's interest was his Rolls-Royce Phantom II. Willing to give up his prized car if that meant finding the Holy Grail, Donovan readily handed the keys to the Sultan who supplied a military escort, including a Mark VII Tank, in exchange.

Shortly afterwards, a surprise attack from the Brotherhood of the Cruciform Sword was launched, and though some of Donovan's men were killed, the Brotherhood was mostly wiped out, including Kazim. A chase followed, through which Daniel and Sonic sought to save Amy, Tails, Knuckles and Sticks who was being held inside the tank. While Vogel and many of his soldiers stayed behind to deal with the lion boy, Donovan, with Schneider and some soldiers at his side, went on ahead to the Temple of the Sun.

At the Grail temple, Donovan proceeded to send soldiers into the temple's lethal traps one by one to gain access to the relic but none were able to bypass the first challenge. After the death of another soldier, Donovan demanded more 'volunteers' but with the subsequent arrival and capture of Daniel and his allies, Donovan directed Daniel to go through the challenges and obtain the Grail. Daniel initially refused but Donovan shot Korra in retaliation, forcing Daniel to rely on the Grail's powers to save his mother. After Daniel and Sonic neutralized the traps and reached the inner sanctum where the last of the Grail knights kept watch over the sacred chalice–and several more false pretenders–Donovan and Schneider followed in safety.

The knight explained to his visitors that only by drinking from the true Holy Grail would grant that person eternal life, while a false one would take it away. Faced with this dilemma, Donovan relied on Schneider choosing for him. She gave Donovan a bejeweled, golden chalice that Donovan convinced himself was indeed a cup befitting the King of Kings.

Toasting to his own longevity, Donovan drank from the Grail, but he had been betrayed by Schneider. To his horror, Donovan found himself aging rapidly and turned on Schneider, but Daniel pushed what was left of the doomed Donovan away. As his bony arms still flailed in desperation, the skeletal Donovan fell against a wall where he shattered into dust. With a HYDRA pin left lying amongst all that remained of him, Walter Donovan had chosen poorly.

### In *Kung Fu Panda MLP FIS: Day of the Departed*

Donovan returned as a zombie in the Kung Fu Panda My Little Pony movie Day of the Departed. He is seen when he is joined by many other enemies that the heroes of the franchise have fought earlier before the film's event.

## Personality

Walter Donovan was a ruthless, arrogant and greedy man though he was able to hide it under the mask of a warm, genial and understanding person who was concerned about other people. Though distinguished, Donovan was duplicitous. He was also somewhat hypocritical, as he told Master Daniel not to trust anybody but then relied on his equally ruthless colleague, Elsa Schneider, to pick out and deliver the correct Grail for him, a trait which ultimately cost him his life.

An example of his ruthlessness was through desire for objects of great historical significance, like the Holy Grail, for his own purposes: Korra. regarded Donovan as a man willing to sell his own mother for an Etruscan vase In his desire for eternal life, he had no regard for others; when two soldiers were beheaded by a trap trying to reach the Grail, Donovan merely ordered another forward and later shot Daniel's mother so the former would be forced to retrieve the Grail.