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Sooo wwhat if Mk breaks the staff. I mean think about it, the staff is relationship with wukong and Mk, they met with it, they spent time with it, and they bonded their friendship with if it Braeks Mk might not be forgiven by wukong...

So the staffs interesting because in AHIB Wukong effectively gave it to MK. He's presumably the one who ordered noodles by the staff, and he knocks MK down right into the thick of the plot. I've always interpreted that scene as Wukong pushing MK to lift the staff, mainly to see if MK even could.

Then you have the situations in ROTSQ and EYD where Wukong helps lift the staff, but then immediately gives it back to MK. The only time we've seen him use it beyond flashbacks is during 4x07, where he slides by MK and picks up the staff to attack the curse.

Now, by this point in the show it was effectively MK's weapon. Except, at the end of 4x11 MK gifts Monkey King back the staff. Throughout the rest of the s4 special, we see Wukong and MK wielding the staff together.

All of that along with the fact that MK doesn't use the staff while in Monkey Form, makes me think we'll either have MK break the staff or have SWK wield the staff against MK (committing to the Macaque and MK parallel).

When it comes to MK's own relationship with the staff, he often uses as a crutch, believing his powers came from it (3x03) and that he's incomplete without it (3x13). I've always thought he needed to be separated from the staff eventually, deciding who he is without it (and by extension the label of "Monkie Kid").

I think the staff is less about SWK and MK's relationship with each other (though that's definitely part of it), and more about their relationship with their role as the heroes. Their role in being responsible for the world ("It's time for the hero stuff.").

Wukong left the staff on top of that mountain for hundreds of years and isolated himself, effectively "leaving the world" so to speak. He then gives that role to MK, letting MK take charge in being a hero. In 4x11 when Wukong's unsure about his mistakes and lifetimes, it's MK who reassures Wukong that they need him to "be the Monkey King".

Wukong at this point has borderline unreasonable faith in MK. He has more faith in MK than MK has faith in MK, or even more faith than Wukong has in himself. MK is Wukong's way to "make the world a little better than he found it". Even if MK broke the staff (which it's not the staff breaking itself but more of what that would mean symbolically that I'm worried about), Wukong would forgive him.

But MK breaking the staff? That's basically him rescinding his resolve to leave the world better than he found it. He's foregoing his title as Monkey Kid, and even showing his doubt in the title of "Monkey King".

So, I think a situation where SWK tries to gift MK back the staff, and MK responds by breaking it would be really interesting, imagining a potential way SWK V MK could go down.

But I guess we'll just have to see what happens in s5!