History Characters / KungFuPandaAntagonists

* CombatPragmatist: Rather than fight Tai Lung directly, she disguises herself as one of the unconscious soldiers he defeated and incapacitates him with a nerve strike while his attention is away from her.

* CruelElephant: One of the forms the Chameleon takes is a huge, ferocious looking elephant. She uses the form to intimidate the crime lords of Juniper City to give her 60% cut of their money and uses her trunk to push one of them down a flight of stairs. She later takes on the elephant form again to grab Zhen with her trunk and tell Zhen she should've left her in the gutter after siding with Po.

* MisterBig: Her army consists of komodo dragons, who naturally tower over her.

* PetTheDog: Despite being [[spoiler:being a BadBoss to Zhen]], she genuinely treats the komodo dragons well and never insults or berates them.

* StatingTheObvious: When Po escapes from the cage she dropped on him, the Chameleon drily notes "Well, that's frustrating for a number of reasons".

** Unconventionally, she's one to Po, being an individual who wanted to do kung-fu and was underestimated due to her appearance, but turned out to be secretly quite powerful. However, whereas Po uses his talents to help other people, she's only interested in punishing those who looked down on her. [[spoiler:This ends up taken further with their relationship with Zhen, as while the Chameleon raised and mentored Zhen, it was merely as a pawn for her own power play, while Po's bond with Zhen is much more sincere, playing into her HeelFaceTurn and Po choosing to mentor her as the future Dragon Warrior.]]
** [[spoiler:She also serves as a dark mirror to Shifu, who adopted Tai Lung like The Chameleon did to Zhen. Both trained their adoptive children in their own arts with intentions to fulfil their own goals too, with Shifu wanting Tai Lung to be the Dragon Warrior and The Chameleon wanting Zhen to be her second in command. However, while Shifu genuinely loved Tai Lung and even apologised after his own foster son turned away, The Chameleon used hypocritical statements to manipulate her daughter and never accepts her faults.]]

* HatedByAll: Being a sadistic BadBoss, her rule over Juniper City is maintained largely through fear over respect, with other criminals wasting little time turning on her when given the motivation. The kung fu masters she resurrects express their contempt for her sapping off their own abilities, [[spoiler:and seem intent on punishing her in the Spirit Realm following her defeat. Even her closest lackey, Zhen quickly turns on her after witnessing her cruelty first hand and realising she only values her as a pawn.]]. In spite of all this, Po makes an earnest attempt to offer her a redemption, which she promptly shoots down.

* TheSociopath: Beneath her [[FauxAffablyEvil polite façade]], the Chameleon is completely selfish, uncaring, sadistic, manipulative, and downright violent when things don't go her way. She even gloats about her own LackOfEmpathy to Zhen.

* SiblingsInCrime: They're mercenaries for hire with at least one attempt at conquering China.

** To Tigress -- Both do not know their real parents (the latter was raised in an OrphanageOfLove, the former was a DoorstopBaby), and [[WellDoneSonGuy just wanted their teacher's love]]. Like Tai Lung, Tigress believed that she would be chosen as the Dragon Warrior by Oogway, and resented Po for 'stealing her thunder'. Also, both are big [[CatsAreMean felines]] who suffer from {{Pride}} and [[BerserkButton a bad temper]]. Unlike Tai Lung, Tigress remained honorable by choosing to become an even better and more worthy warrior. This decision, combined with her defeat at the Thread of Hope, kept her from following the same path as him.

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: In the fourth movie, after Po saves him from the Chameleon and gives him back his stolen fighting skills, he finally admits that Po is worthy to be the Dragon Warrior instead of him and bows to Po in respect. He then returns to the Spirit Realm without a fight.]]

* LogicalWeakness: His paralyzing nerve strikes are devastatingly effective but they don't work against [[spoiler: Po as his layers of fat mean the strikes do nothing.]]

---> '''Tai Lung''': Shifu taught you well... but he didn't teach you everything.

** Once more in [[spoiler: the fourth film despite having been brought back to life by The Chameleon, Shen and the other villains decide to go back to the Spirit Realm instead of staying on the living realm without much fuss.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: {{Downplayed|Trope}} but somewhat present. [[spoiler: In the fourth movie, after Po saves him from the Chameleon and gives him back his stolen fighting skills, he bows to Po in respect and returns to the Spirit Realm without a fight. Though given that he doesn't speak, it's hard to nail down what his actions indicate, The fact that he went back at all shows that he no longer desires to pursue his old aspirations or ambitions and is at peace with himself in death.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: In the fourth movie, after Po saves him from the Chameleon and gives him back his stolen fighting skills, he bows to Po in respect and returns to the Spirit Realm without a fight.]]

** [[spoiler: His shtick is stealing power from other people for his own gain. In the fourth film, he gets a taste of his own medicine when the Chameleon steals his fighting skills for herself and puts him in a cage.]]

* AndIMustScream: [[spoiler: Her final fate. Tai Lung returns to the Spirit Realm, [[DraggedOffToHell forcibly taking her with him]], and she's going to spend eternity stuck with all the evil kung-fu masters she attacked and imprisoned, who will probably spend a ''long'' time beating her up as payback.]]

* HiddenDepths: Before resorting to sorcery, Chameleon attempted to learn Kung-Fu by finding a master, but she was rejected by them. [[spoiler: During her fight with Zhen, Chameleon actually fights her former student in her original form, and holds the upper hand by using genuine martial arts. Considering that Zhen can hold her own against many enemies and even give Po a challenge, it shows that Chameleon does have some genuine skill.]]

* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler: She tells Zhen the first rule of the streets is "Never trust anyone", but she's shocked and outraged when Zhen betrays her. She also told Zhen the third rule of the streets is "Nobody's interested in your feelings", but she begs Zhen for mercy as Tai Lung is about to take her with him to the Spirit Realm]].

* VirtueIsWeakness: [[spoiler: When Zhen feels guilty about betraying Po and the Chameleon seemingly killing him, the Chameleon comments that she doesn't know where Zhen picks up her "bad habits".]]

* IcyBlueEyes: His schlera's are green but his irises are a blue colour.

* BadBoss: She tells Zhen right to her face that she would get rid of her [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness if she were no longer useful to her]], and she tells her that nobody cares about her feelings.

* AintTooProudToBeg / VillainsWantMercy: [[spoiler:As Tai Lung is about to take her with him to the Spirit Realm, she begs Zhen to save her.]]

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