Lord Shen

**Lord Shen** (or simply known as Shen) is the main antagonist of the 2011 Dreamworks animated film, Kung Fu Panda 2 (which is the sequel to the 2008 film Kung Fu Panda). He is a sadistic and devious peacock who want to take over China (including Gongmen City) and destroy Ku Fung with his cannons as well as Soothlayer's former master and Boss Wolf and the Wolves's leader and boss.

He is voiced by Gary Oldman.

## Kung Fu Panda 2

In the beginning of the movie, it reveals that before the events of the movie. Lord Shen was born into the noble Peacock family, the rulers of Gongmen City who brought great joy and prosperity to the city for they have invented fireworks but Shen saw a darker power in the fireworks which what had brought color and joy could also bring darkness and destruction. During that, Soothlayer told Shen's parents if Shen coutinued pursing his path, he would be defeated by a warrior of black and white. Because of Shen hearing this, he and his wolf gang massarce a nerby village of pandas.

After the massarce was complete, Shen returns back to his palace only to see that his parents is horrified and disgusted by what he has done. Because of this, Shen was banished from the city forever but he swore revenge and someday, he would return and rule China.

After the movie revealed Shen's backstory, deep in the mountains, Shen's wolves worked tirelessly to complete their master's ulimate weapon which was used to destroy Kung Fu. When Boss Wolf informed his master that the weapon is almost done and they run out of metal, Shen ordered him to search the farthest villages and find more metal and also tells him China will be his.

Shen then return to Gongmen city and also attack the guards and also tells Master Rhino, Master Ox and Master Croc to keave the palace but the three refused and Shen also reveal his plans to the three. Master Ox tries to defeat Shen but Shen defeated Master Ox and Master Croc. Shen then tries to attack Master Rhino but Master Rhino protects himself from Shen and tells him that is a warning and he is no match for his and the other's Kung Fu. Shen tells Master Rhino he agrees but the weapon which would later kill Master Rhino and also imprisoned the other Kung Fu masters, Ox and Croc and took back his palace, plotting to spread his power. It was then that Po, Shifu, and the Furious Five learned about Lord Shen's plans which could mean to be the end of Kung Fu.

With the Concil out of the way, Shen began to ransack the tower along with his gorilla minions, even tossing his father's throne out of the window and replacing it with his cannon (despite stating his fond mermories of the throne). Shen then tells everyone with the weapon on his side, everyone in China bow before him and he and the others move out in three days when the moon is full and the tide is high. Shen tells Soothsayer that why don't she tell him his future but Soothlayer say fortune and look in her bowl and tell him what glory awaits. Soothsayer tells Shen if he countine on his current path, he will find himself at the bottom of the stairs which Shen sees that he is on the bottom of the stairs. Soothsayer then looks at her bowl again and says she sees pain and anger by plucking one of Shen's feathers and takes a bite out of his robe. Shen then gets angry at Soothsayer and told her how dare she as well as that is the finest slik in the province. Soothsayer says followed by denial and Shen tells her that is not fortune telling and she is just saying what's happening right now but Soothsayer says now and put the feather and piece of slik into the bowl and told him if he really want to see the furture. Shen tells Soothsayer what does she see, Soothsayer tells him that she sees a peacock is defeated by a warrior of black and white which caused Shen destroy the bowl and tells her that's impossible and she knows it but Soothsayer said it is not impossible and he knows it and Shen ask her who. Just then, Boss Wolf came and tells Shen that he saw a panda (which is Po) which cause Shen to choke his neck. Boss Wolf tells Shen that the panda is a kung fu warrior, it fought like a demon, big and fury, soft and squishy, kind of plushly and cuddly but Shen tells him there are no pandas but then Soothsayer tells Shen that even with his poor eyesight, he can see the truth and asks him why isn't that he can not. Shen ordered Boss Wolf to bring the panda to him, Shen tells Soothsayer one panda does make her right but Soothsayer says he is right but being right makes her right. Becuase of this, Shen decide to kill Po in order to make Soothsayer wrong and Soothsayer later bite out of Shen's robe again.

Shen later tries to make a good introduction to Po in order to be prepared but then Soothsayer tells Shen that he is afraid for a reason but Shen said that he is not afraid and Po is coming to him in chains and anybody should be afraid but Soothsayer said it's him, Shen later thanks her. Later, Shen's minions brought Po and his friends to plus when Shen meets Po, he tells him hey and greetings and later tells everyone enough of the nonsense. Shen was also taken aback by Po's casual behavior of not intimidated by him or the situation. Much to the Soothlayer's surprise and Shen's amusement, it soon became clear that Po was unaware of the massacre, and Shen's role in it. He laughed and taunted him about his ignorance, and then ordered the Wolf Boss to fire the cannon but however unaware that Viper was secretly unlocking Tigress's cuffs as well as Mantis secretly escape and quickly extinguished the fuse and also knocked Boss Wolf out. Once they were free, Po and the Five attacked, and Tigress and Mantis destroyed the cannon.

Po lunged at Shen but upon seeing the marks on Shen's tail feathers, was struck with a mermory of his past and realized Shen was there at the night he lost his biological parents. Shen tells Po he was there, and then escape to the Fireworks factory in order to kill Po and the Furious Five but however Po and the rest escape and the palace was also destroyed. After that, Shen gets angry at his minions for not killing Po and the Furious Five by abusing them and also ordering them to call of the wolves since he want them ready to move, declaring the begnning of "the Year of Peacock" but his minion Boss Wolf tells him that it's the middle of the year so he only gets the half of the year of peacock but Shen uses a knife which scares Boss Wolf and also made him say that this the year of Peacock and happy new year to Shen but Shen later ordered Boss Wolf get the wolves ready since themselves are loading the ships now.

Shen lated tells Soothsayler that she was wrong and themselves sailed for victory tonight as well as Po being a fool since he failed to defeat him. Soothsayler later ask him that is he certain is it Po who is the fool given he destroying his ancestral home. Shen later tells her that's trvial sacrifice and when China is his. Soothsayler ask Shen if the subjugaction of the whole world would finally satisfly him. Shen quickly brush his doubt, snarkily relpying "It's a start, I might also convert the basement into a dungeon, Soothsayler tried to reason with Shen, stating the cup he choose has no bottom and it is time to stop the madness. Shen ask her why would he do that, Soothsayler told him so his parents can rest in peace but Shen tells Soothslayer that his parents hated him and does she understand as well as they wronged him and he will make it right. Soothsayler said that they loved him and they loved him so much, that having to send him away killed them but Shen said that the dead exist in the past and he must tend to the future. Then Shen ordered his minions to set Soothsayler free because she's no used to him. Soothsayler tells Shen goodbye and she wished him happeness, Shen also tells her happeness must be taken and he will take his.

Meanwhile, the Furious Five tries to blow the factory with explosives while keeping Po back at the Gongmen city prison, along with Croc and Stroming Ox (who was starting to show weakness from discoving the truth of his family). However, Po sneaks into the factory to confront Shen and learn about his past, inadverting interfring interfering with the Five's plan. Po tells Shen no more running and what happened, Shen taking Po's weakness by lying that Po's parents didn't love him, manages to shoot the panda with his cannon; sending Po out of the factory and into the river. The Furious Five would later be captured.

Po is found and healed by the Soothsayer, who helps him attain inner peace and return to the face Lord Shen again as begins his assult It was then Po realized his father defended him against the wolves and Lord Shen as well as his mother sacrificed herself to save him from Shen's wrath.

Shen has the Furious Five chained up and tells them they are going to be part of something beatuiful and once we reach the harbour in front of all of the world, themselves and their kung fu will die and then China will bow before to him. the ships sailed out of the city but much to shock and anger, Po came back and tries to rescue his friends and defeat Shen once for all. Shen orders his gunners to blast him, but Po nimbly moves along the rooftops, preventing them from getting a clear shot, and then jumps onto the ships to engage Shen's army, now that they coudn't fire without hitting their own men. Lord Shen could do nothing but watch as Po freed the Furious Five and joined forces with Master Stroming Ox, Master Croc, and Master Shifu and a tremendous battle ensused and the canal was eventually blocked just before the habor, preventing the armada from progessing.

Losing his patience (as well as a huge amout of his sanity), Shen angrily orders Boss Wolf to fire the cannon but Boss Wolf said that themselves would kill their own soliders if he fire the cannon but Shen doesn't care and orders Boss Wolf once again. this cause Boss Wolf to realize the heartless and insane fiend Shen really is. Boss Wolf refused and flung down his torch at long last, because of this, the wicked peacock killed Boss Wolf by using one of his throwing knives and fires the cannon, knocking all of the kung fu warriors away and clearing the blockage, leaving all expect Po too injured and weak to countine fighting.

However, Po, having attained his inner peace by lettting his mermory of his parents flow through him rather than fighting it, manages to redirect all of the cannonballs back at Lord Shen's fleet, much to the other kung fu's masters's surprise. After the ships were all destroyed and the rest of Shen's army defeated, Po confronts the exhaunsted Shen on his ruined flagship, revealing to the peacock that he has prevented his own past from talking over his present and ugres Shen to do the same thing, stating that what matters most is choosing his own furture.

After that, Shen wonders how did Po found peace since he toke away his parents and everything he but Po tells Shen that he got to let go of the past because that does not matter and what matters is what he choose to be now but however, Shen rejected Po's offer for peace and instead still tried to kill him but just then, the cannon fall but however instead of escaping, Shen stays showing that he accepts his death.

## Personality

Lord Shen is a wicked and callous peacock who wants to take over China and eliminate every panda in China just because he overheard that if he countine his path, he will defeated by a warrior of black and white. He has no problem in slaughtering anyonw who opposes him, going as far as to slaughter Boss Wolf for disobeying his orders but however, he doesn't kill Soothsayer despite her cleary opposting him, which shows that he's capable of caring of others (although it maybe aruged that he only did that because she's no use to him according to himself).

He also shown to be sadstic given he wants to kill Po and his friends and also crazy.

## Appearance

Shen is a white peacock with red and black circles on his feathers as well as wearing a long white robe with a black-colored belt. According to himself, the robe is made of slik. He also wears metal talons that serve to protect his feet from fire.

## Trivia

* His tail consists of 92 fathers.
* Lord Shen was orginally cast as a devious mayor for the first Kung Fu Panda movie.
* Lord Shen's wolf army was orginally going to be use as Tai Lung's for the first Kung Fu Panda movie.
* In the Mad episode "Kung Fu Blander" (in which his new army were the Angry Birds) and "Destroy the Bob the Bulider Destroyer", Shen was defeated by Po, and then by Black and White Spies, who were ironically the black and white warriors from the prophercy.
* Shen is the only major villain in the Kung Fu Panda films who has not personality met Shifu or Oogway.
* Shen is also the only major villain in the Kung Fu Panda films who is not sent or banished into the sprit relam.
* Lord Shen represents what Po could have been if he kept on to old grudges and refused to move on from the past.
* Shen being born white is intentionally symbolic for his character as a villain, as white symbolizes death in Chinese's culture.
* Shen's fighting style shares similarities with Chinese matrial arts form, "Cai Li Lo", in which a metal fan is used as defense or as a distraction for enemies, represented by Shen's tail feathers.
* Since the release of Kung Fu Panda 2, Shen became of the most popular Dreamworks villains, topping many lists on "Best Dreamworks Villains".
* Despite Shen's beliefs that his parents hated him, he failed to realize that his parents's act of banishing him was an act of mercy, which, aside from the fact that they both died of grief from losing their son, showed that they truly did, as opposed to having him incarcerated or executed for his crimes againist pandas.
* Lord Shen and Tai Lung appear to be the only main antagonists in the Kung Fu Panda trilogy to be voiced by a English actor due to the fact that Kai the Collector was voiced by an American actor.
* Shen and his minions never acknowledged Po's title as the Dragon Warrior; they only saw him as a threat simply because he is panda.
* Whenever Po sees Shen's eyespots on his tail feather, he gets traumatic experiences and dazes him, to which Shen gets the upper hand in their confrontations. In the wild, peacocks uses eyspots to protect themselves from predators. as a psychological defense.
* When Shen takes off flight, his tail opens up completely. In reality, peacocks cannot open their tails during flight, because of their heavy support.
* According to the director of Kung Fu Panda 2, Shen was incredibly diffucult to animate, which was compared to animating six characters at all once.