#on the prison. .. literally if shifu didnt do that tai lung wouldnt have escaped. and all the events of the first movie never wouldve

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i mean in a way tai lung is an interesting villain. i mean he spent all his life since he was a child training to be the dragon warrior, literally raised to believe that that was his destiny, with his father figure telling him these things and training him for it, and then he’s told that he can’t be the dragon warrior, which is already a low blow, but then his father just like doesnt even do anything about it

i mean like i can only imagine how much that much suck . like okay your whole life has been wasted now. like what the fuck do you do now when you thought you only had one future

but then he....... lashed out about it and destroyed like the whole village. which like. it doesnt matter how much it sucks, it doesnt give you the right to ruin people’s property and like, probably kill people? i mean it’s hard to say since it’s never explicitly stated that he killed anyone (it only ever showed flashbacks of him wrecking shit ) but like... with the level of security placed on him ... and the fact that po kills him with 0 remorse...... lol. like it’s alright to be upset and pissed off at your dad for like, misleading you THAT badly, but the fact that he lashed out and THAT much is... precisely why he couldnt be the dragon warrior LOL.

in a way it’s a self fulfilling prophecy and thats what i love with kung fu panda, the whole idea that in trying to avoid your fate you ultimately wind up making it happen. if oogway had just let tai lung be the dragon warrior, would he have done all those bad things? we’ll never know. but in the end, the possibility of doing bad things is what disqualified him, and is what led him to doing those bad things. by denying him the dragon scroll out of fear of his potential to do bad, he became the bad person they feared, but then it also proved them right anyway

as a kid i thought he was way more interesting as a character but now he’s only really interesting in terms of the narrative (a la that last paragraph). ever since i saw that kfp extra with the furious 5 backstories and i saw tigress’s backstory, i just love her SO much more and like. she’s so much more interesting! she had WAY more angst that could cause her to go evil and she didnt!!

the whole Bad Shit going down with tai lung made shifu withdraw, and when he adopted tigress he wasn’t really as much of a good father to her. still her father figure, but very withdrawn, not very affectionate, not at all like how he was raising tai lung. even though she tried so hard to get his approval, he only ever really acted like a teacher to her

idk where im even going with this idk if i even make sense i feel like im just rambling about kung fu panda BUT

in conclusion, tigress deserved better