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* AdoptionConflict: Po finally meets his biological father, Li, and together, they bond as Li takes Po to the Panda village that he lives in. Po's adoptive father, Ping, gets quite jealous of Li, as he's worried that Li will take his son away from him, and that Po will forget about who raised him. [[spoiler:Thankfully, that never happens. As the movie progresses, Ping eventually realizes that Po views both of them as his dads, and that they can work together to support their son.]]
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* AdoptionConflict: Po finally meets his biological father, Li, and together, they bond as Li takes Po to the Panda village that he lives in. Po's adoptive father, Ping, gets quite jealous of Li, as he's worried that Li will take his son away from him, and that Po will forget about who raised reared him. [[spoiler:Thankfully, that never happens. As the movie progresses, Ping eventually realizes that Po views both of them as his dads, and that they can work together to support their son.]]
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* AdoptionConflict: Po finally meets his biological father, Li, and together, they bond as Li takes Po to the Panda village that he lives in. Po's adoptive father, Ping, gets quite jealous of Li, as he's worried that Li will take his son away from him, and that Po will forget about who raised him. [[spoiler:Thankfully, that never happens. As the movie progresses, Ping eventually realizes that Po views both of them as his dads, and that they can work together to support their son.]]
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** One that spans the entire series - at the end of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', Po appears to be wearing a straw hat and cape after defeating Tai Lung. [[spoiler:He finally gets to wear them for real during the final portion of his fight with Kai in the Spirit World]].
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** One that spans the entire series - at the end of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'', Po appears to be wearing a straw hat and cape after defeating Tai Lung. [[spoiler:He finally gets to wear them for real during the final portion of his fight with Kai in the Spirit World]].
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* CitywideEvacuation: The Jade Valley has another exodus of everyone except Shifu and the Furious Five before Kai arrives, although this time it occurs offscreen. Again like the last time, the population returns to rebuild at the end once the crisis is over.
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* CitywideEvacuation: The Jade Valley has another exodus of everyone except Shifu and the Furious Five before Kai arrives, although this time it occurs offscreen. Again like the last time, the population returns to rebuild at the end once the crisis is over.
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: Kai is [[AttentionWhore very put-out]] that [[UnknownRival no-one remembers him or his exploits]]... so when Po does, he's actually extremely excited and pleased. To the point he ''almost'' considers sparing him.
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* DudeWheresMyRespect: Kai is [[AttentionWhore very put-out]] that [[UnknownRival no-one remembers him or his exploits]]... so when Po does, he's actually extremely excited and pleased. To the point he ''almost'' considers sparing him.
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** Shifu and the Five are completely distracted from the fact that [[spoiler:Po and Li wrecked the interior of the Jade Palace by playing inside it]] due to their excitement for Po finally meeting his biological father. No-one mentions the issue ever again. [[spoiler:Though the fact that Kai showed up shortly afterward and destroys that part of the palace may have something to do with it.]]
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** Shifu and the Five are completely distracted from the fact that [[spoiler:Po and Li wrecked the interior of the Jade Palace by playing inside it]] due to their excitement for Po finally meeting his biological father. No-one mentions the issue ever again. [[spoiler:Though the fact that Kai showed shows up shortly afterward and destroys that part of the palace may have something to do with it.]]
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* ElephantInTheRoom: Po meets another Giant Panda for the first time since he was a cub, an older panda named Li Shan explaining that he's looking for his son. Po is shocked to hear this and replies that he lost his father. An awkward silence passes as the two pandas then wish each other good luck and walk off. Everyone watching can't believe either of them and {{facepalm}}s. [[spoiler:[[DelayedReaction The realization then hits each other just before they completely walk away]]]].
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* ElephantInTheRoom: Po meets another Giant Panda for the first time since he was a cub, an older panda named Li Shan explaining that he's looking for his son. Po is shocked to hear this and replies that he lost his father. An awkward silence passes as the two pandas then wish each other good luck and walk off. Everyone watching can't believe either of them and {{facepalm}}s. [[spoiler:[[DelayedReaction The realization then hits each other just before they completely walk away]]]].away]].]]
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* DisownedParent: After meeting his biological father Li Shan, Po travels with him to the mountains to learn the art of chi. While there, he finds out from Tigress that Kai has stolen the chi of all the kung fu masters and destroyed the Jade Palace, and frantically demands that Li teach him chi. Li confesses that he doesn't actually know anything about chi, and lied because he knew something bad was coming and he wanted to protect Po from it. Po is so hurt and angry that he disowns him, but this doesn't last, as he instead decides to teach kung fu to all the villagers, including Li, so they will be prepared when Kai attacks.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler:Kai spends much of the movie]] taking [[spoiler:the chi from various masters]], culminating in [[spoiler:him trying to take Po's chi, seeking the power of the dragon warrior]]. When [[spoiler:Po, as the dragon warrior]] gives him what he wanted, [[spoiler:pushing all of his chi into Kai]], [[spoiler:it proves to be too much, destroying him]].
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* CasualDangerDialog: [[spoiler:When Po joins Shifu and the Five's fight against the "jade zombies", he's not so much concerned with how effectively the latter are fighting as he is excited to find that they're more kung fu masters he idolizes. He even insists that Feng, ([[TheBusCameBack the palace artist from the holiday special]]), paints a portrait of him with one of them, ''while'' they're fighting.]]
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* CasualDangerDialog: CasualDangerDialogue: [[spoiler:When Po joins Shifu and the Five's fight against the "jade zombies", he's not so much concerned with how effectively the latter are fighting as he is excited to find that they're more kung fu masters he idolizes. He even insists that Feng, ([[TheBusCameBack the palace artist from the holiday special]]), paints a portrait of him with one of them, ''while'' they're fighting.]]
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* CluckingFunny: One of the new Kung Fu masters introduced is Master Chicken.
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** Played straight with Li Shan who finds his son after twenty years only to learn he's a famous warrior who fights enemies on a daily basis. When Li Shan learns that an even more threatening foe is approaching, whose jombies thoroughly thrash Po, Li [[spoiler:decides to lie about knowing how to master chi in order to bring Po with him to the panda village and out of harm's way.]]
** There's also once more Mr. Ping's fear that he will end up rejected as Po's dad now that his biological father has appeared. He insists on [[spoiler:coming along to the panda village, on the pretext of making Po's favorite foods and worries about cooking in the panda village. He mellows on seeing that all the baby pandas like his cooking after running him ragged, on learning that Li lied to keep Po safe, and on seeing Po train himself to prepare for battle. He then reaches out to Li Shan with dumplings and talks about how they're similar]].
** Li Shan and Mr. Ping are frantic when [[spoiler:Po does a HeroicSacrifice and goes to the Spirit Realm with Kai. When Po comes back, both dads hug him while Mr. Ping is chiding "Don't you go disappearing into petals again!"]]
** Played straight with Li Shan who finds his son after twenty years only to learn he's a famous warrior who fights enemies on a daily basis. When Li Shan learns that an even more threatening foe is approaching, whose jombies thoroughly thrash Po, Li [[spoiler:decides to lie about knowing how to master chi in order to bring Po with him to the panda village and out of harm's way.]]
** There's also once more Mr. Ping's fear that he will end up rejected as Po's dad now that his biological father has appeared. He insists on [[spoiler:coming along to the panda village, on the pretext of making Po's favorite foods and worries about cooking in the panda village. He mellows on seeing that all the baby pandas like his cooking after running him ragged, on learning that Li lied to keep Po safe, and on seeing Po train himself to prepare for battle. He then reaches out to Li Shan with dumplings and talks about how they're similar]].
** Li Shan and Mr. Ping are frantic when [[spoiler:Po does a HeroicSacrifice and goes to the Spirit Realm with Kai. When Po comes back, both dads hug him while Mr. Ping is chiding "Don't you go disappearing into petals again!"]]
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* ActionFigureJustification: When Po's dad Mr. Ping is worried about his son, he starts with, "I come home to find you taking a bath with your ''dolls...''" Po grumbles, "They're action figures!"
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* CaptainObviousReveal: An InUniverse-version played for laughs. When Mr. Li and Po meet, Li tells Po he's looking for his lost son, while Po tells Li he's looking for his lost father (note that neither of them think that any other pandas are ''alive''). They wish each other luck, [[WhatAnIdiot and both turn to leave.]] ''Everyone'' in the crowd watching them facepalms.
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* CaptainObviousReveal: An InUniverse-version played for laughs. When Mr. Li and Po meet, Li tells Po he's looking for his lost son, while Po tells Li he's looking for his lost father (note that neither of them think that any other pandas are ''alive''). They wish each other luck, [[WhatAnIdiot and both turn to leave.]] leave. ''Everyone'' in the crowd watching them facepalms.
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'''Li:''' And I hope you find your father. ''[[[WhatAnIdiot Both ''Both of them turn to leave;]] leave; Mr. Ping's guests {{facepalm}} at Po and Li failing to see the resemblance to each other]''
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* AfterlifeAvenger: Kai, after being defeated and sent to the Sprit World by his former ally Master Oogway, decides to hunt down Oogway 500 years later after Oogway has passed on to the Spirit World himself. After hunting all the masters of martial arts in the realm, Kai hunts down and defeats Oogway before stealing his chi to make his way to the mortal realm.
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* ContinuityNod:
** Po has added even more action figures to his collection, including ones of Tai Lung, Master Croc, and the Wolf Boss. [[AscendedFanboy Because of course he would]].
** After Po's [[spoiler:first failed attempt at training the Five, they all walk/crawl bruised and battered towards him, similarly to how he did in the first film after accidentally stepping into the training exercises.]]
** When Po sees Shifu and all of the Five except for Tigress have been zombified, he says "Oh no, it's true, you guys have all been turned green! Except for you, Mantis. You were already green." followed by Mantis twitching his antennae in annoyance, similar to in the first movie when he says "Whoa, the Furious Five! You're so much bigger than your action figures! Except for you, Mantis. You're about the same." and Mantis twitches his antennae.
** After Po's failed attempt at teaching the Five, Shifu shows up and after telling Po about chi and how Po needs to be Po he leaves, leaving the lantern he had brought with Po as Oogway did in the first film.
** From the first film; Shifu gets momentarily distracted by something about his opponent that allows him to be incapacitated by a single blow. Secondly, his face gets smashed into a wok, much like his former student Tai Lung.
** In both the first and third films, the antagonist ends up with his own tail in his mouth once Po gets the upper hand in the fight.
** Shifu unrolls the scroll that holds the secret to Kai's identity. It's empty and Shifu is ''not amused'', though it is revealed that he just had to unroll it further.
** When Shifu reads from the scroll detailing Kai's and Oogway's past, he reads too slowly, causing Mantis and Monkey to try and finish his sentences, just like Mantis did in ''Secret of the Five'' before he learned patience.
** Several elements from ''The Art of KFP'' make it into this one, such as: the abandoned junk in the desert (in the book it was the location of a WretchedHive, in the movie it's where Crane and Mantis track Kai); Po's outfit [[spoiler:in the Spirit World, which matches the Dragon Warrior costume from the storyboarded dream sequence from the first movie]]; the statues of the great kung fu masters around the stairs to the Jade Palace, which were originally intended to be a Vault of Heroes ''under'' the steps where Po was to have his final battle with Tai Lung; Tigress's new outfit, which is essentially the one from the book re-colored to gold; and even a number of shots of the panda village or the landscape during the journey there.
** Master Porcupine is a character that was originally going to be in the first ''Kung Fu Panda'' film, as a doctor using his own quills for acupuncture needles. He appears in this film as one of Kai's jade zombies, using his quills as arrows.
** Po accidentally dumps Sichuan peppercorns in his bathwater instead of soap and comments "My tenders!" while quickly adding cold water. Later he also suffers another GroinAttack while training an elderly panda.
** The bridge that Li and Po cross on the way to the panda village appear to be the same bridge where the Five fought Tai Lung in the first film.
** During the confrontation between Po and Kai at the end of the film, Po repeatedly mocks Kai's speech as he's delivering it as "chit chat". Or, in other words...
--->'''[[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda Dragon Warrior]]:''' Enough talk, let's fight!
** Po has added even more action figures to his collection, including ones of Tai Lung, Master Croc, and the Wolf Boss. [[AscendedFanboy Because of course he would]].
** After Po's [[spoiler:first failed attempt at training the Five, they all walk/crawl bruised and battered towards him, similarly to how he did in the first film after accidentally stepping into the training exercises.]]
** When Po sees Shifu and all of the Five except for Tigress have been zombified, he says "Oh no, it's true, you guys have all been turned green! Except for you, Mantis. You were already green." followed by Mantis twitching his antennae in annoyance, similar to in the first movie when he says "Whoa, the Furious Five! You're so much bigger than your action figures! Except for you, Mantis. You're about the same." and Mantis twitches his antennae.
** After Po's failed attempt at teaching the Five, Shifu shows up and after telling Po about chi and how Po needs to be Po he leaves, leaving the lantern he had brought with Po as Oogway did in the first film.
** From the first film; Shifu gets momentarily distracted by something about his opponent that allows him to be incapacitated by a single blow. Secondly, his face gets smashed into a wok, much like his former student Tai Lung.
** In both the first and third films, the antagonist ends up with his own tail in his mouth once Po gets the upper hand in the fight.
** Shifu unrolls the scroll that holds the secret to Kai's identity. It's empty and Shifu is ''not amused'', though it is revealed that he just had to unroll it further.
** When Shifu reads from the scroll detailing Kai's and Oogway's past, he reads too slowly, causing Mantis and Monkey to try and finish his sentences, just like Mantis did in ''Secret of the Five'' before he learned patience.
** Several elements from ''The Art of KFP'' make it into this one, such as: the abandoned junk in the desert (in the book it was the location of a WretchedHive, in the movie it's where Crane and Mantis track Kai); Po's outfit [[spoiler:in the Spirit World, which matches the Dragon Warrior costume from the storyboarded dream sequence from the first movie]]; the statues of the great kung fu masters around the stairs to the Jade Palace, which were originally intended to be a Vault of Heroes ''under'' the steps where Po was to have his final battle with Tai Lung; Tigress's new outfit, which is essentially the one from the book re-colored to gold; and even a number of shots of the panda village or the landscape during the journey there.
** Master Porcupine is a character that was originally going to be in the first ''Kung Fu Panda'' film, as a doctor using his own quills for acupuncture needles. He appears in this film as one of Kai's jade zombies, using his quills as arrows.
** Po accidentally dumps Sichuan peppercorns in his bathwater instead of soap and comments "My tenders!" while quickly adding cold water. Later he also suffers another GroinAttack while training an elderly panda.
** The bridge that Li and Po cross on the way to the panda village appear to be the same bridge where the Five fought Tai Lung in the first film.
** During the confrontation between Po and Kai at the end of the film, Po repeatedly mocks Kai's speech as he's delivering it as "chit chat". Or, in other words...
--->'''[[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda Dragon Warrior]]:''' Enough talk, let's fight!
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* EleventhHourSuperpower: Of the traditional sort generated by ThePowerOfFriendship. [[spoiler:Sustained by the freely given chi of his friends, students and family, Po is invulnerable to Kai's signature trick.]]
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* AbnormalAmmo:
** Master Porcupine's jombie uses a bow and what looks like his own quills as arrows.
** During the pre-climax fight, [[spoiler: the panda children using firecrackers and [[FastballSpecial some pandas use themselves as catapult ammunition]].]]
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Kai's jade swords on chains can can pierce through ''and'' slice solid rock.
* AccidentalHero: Li Shan [[spoiler:helps create the panda army that ends up defeating Kai's jombies in the FinalBattle by lying to his son about knowing about chi and bringing him to the village. It does help that he wants his son's respect back after he has to admit he's lied to him, and studies the chi manipulation technique while Po does training sessions for everyone in the village.]]
* AchillesHeel: Kai can see and otherwise sense through his jade zombie minions... but this backfires during the FinalBattle thanks to the various kinds of abuse the pandas give them.
* ActorAllusion: You might say [[Creator/KateHudson Mei Mei]] knows [[Film/HowToLoseAGuyIn10Days how to lose a panda in 10 days]].
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Kai lets out an amused chuckle when he sees one of his Jombies SquashedFlat by the two hammock-catapult Pandas in midair.
-->'''Kai:''' Seriously?
* AdultFear:
** Played straight with Li Shan who finds his son after twenty years only to learn he's a famous warrior who fights enemies on a daily basis. When Li Shan learns that an even more threatening foe is approaching, whose jombies thoroughly thrash Po, Li [[spoiler:decides to lie about knowing how to master chi in order to bring Po with him to the panda village and out of harm's way.]]
** There's also once more Mr. Ping's fear that he will end up rejected as Po's dad now that his biological father has appeared. He insists on [[spoiler:coming along to the panda village, on the pretext of making Po's favorite foods and worries about cooking in the panda village. He mellows on seeing that all the baby pandas like his cooking after running him ragged, on learning that Li lied to keep Po safe, and on seeing Po train himself to prepare for battle. He then reaches out to Li Shan with dumplings and talks about how they're similar]].
** Li Shan and Mr. Ping are frantic when [[spoiler:Po does a HeroicSacrifice and goes to the Spirit Realm with Kai. When Po comes back, both dads hug him while Mr. Ping is chiding "Don't you go disappearing into petals again!"]]
* AdvertisedExtra:
** Mei Mei is a surprisingly minor character given how much attention she got in the promotional material. Note how she's present on [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chinese_poster15.jpg the Chinese poster]], while Li Shan, indisputably a much more important character, is absent.
** Bao as well, considering that he was promoted in behind-the-scenes features and even made playable in the tie-in fighting game (with his actor being one of the few from the films to retain his voice actor, even). In the movie, he gets very few lines and is just another one of the panda kids along with the others.
* AirplaneArms: Po briefly runs like this in the opening montage with him and the Five.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Po is victim to this once again, this time due to his ''biological'' father. Shifu and the Five's first impression of Li is him repeating "I'm gonna getcha!" in a baby talk voice to Po while everyone else looks on awkwardly.
* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Inverted, albeit with the Chinese cover for the film rather than the Japanese. The American cover has an emphasis on cuteness, showing a confused Po among the other pandas. The Chinese poster, on the other hand, has a much more serious focus, with Po in an AsskickingPose [[spoiler:(as well as wearing his Spirit Realm clothes)]], being with the Furious Five, and featuring Kai as an EvilOverlooker.
* AncientEvil: Kai, who was sealed away five hundred years ago when Oogway was young. This also means no one has ''any'' idea who he is, which is both to his advantage (as no one really has an idea of how to beat him), and [[BerserkButton anger]].
* AnimalBattleAura: [[spoiler:Po gets a golden dragon shaped aura when his allies channel their chi to him.]]
* AnimalGenderBender:
** A male goose lays a bunch of eggs when frightened by Kai, probably for RuleOfFunny.
** Master Chicken is male, but looks more like a hen than a rooster.
* ApologeticAttacker: A humorous semi-example: Monkey tries to snap the jombie Mantis out of it, but he ends up latching onto his zombified friend, who starts attacking the remaining Furious Five members at the Jade Palace, with Monkey apologizing to them after each blow.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Po and Shifu's discussion after Po failed miserably at teaching the Five involves Shifu directly questioning Po's sense of identity, in order to start him on the path to mastering chi. This silences Po's objections as he struggles to answer.
-->'''Po:''' I don't wanna be more! I like who I am!\\
'''Shifu:''' You don't even know who you are.\\
'''Po:''' What do you--of course I do! I'm the Dragon Warrior!\\
'''Shifu:''' And what exactly does that mean, ''Dragon Warrior?''
* ArtEvolution: Because of new animation software, all of the character models were rebuilt for this film. This is perhaps most visible with Po who overall has a slimmer appearance than in the two previous films.
* ArtShift: Some of the flashback scenes were presented in 2-D animation, while the TrainingMontage with Po [[TrainingThePeacefulVillagers training the panda village in Kung Fu]] has a more stylised 3-D effect.
* AscendedExtra: Mr. Ping had minor roles in the last two movies but here he's the Triagonist of the film.
* AssKicksYou: Po in his [[spoiler:chi dragon form tosses Kai around, first with a "Belly Gong", followed immediately by a "Butt Slap". Yes, that's what he's [[CallingYourAttacks calling the attacks]]]].
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* BadassAndChildDuo: Tigress and Lei Lei during [[spoiler:the battle against the jombies in the Panda Village]]. Lei Lei even helps out a little.
* BadassBoast:
** [[spoiler:Delivered by Po at the FinalBattle: "Am I the son of a panda? The son of a goose? A student? A teacher? Turns out... I'm ''all'' of them. I am... The Dragon Warrior!"]]
** Bonus: [[spoiler:"Get it? See the giant dragon??"]]
** Tigress gets a brief one herself during Kai's attack on the Jade Palace. Kai mockingly calls her a "little kitten", then proceeds to fight off Shifu, Monkey and Viper. Cue Tigress leaping at Kai and delivering a kick so powerful it emits a wave of chi, causing him to lose his blades and fall to his knees.
--->'''Tigress:''' How's ''that'' for a "little kitten"?!
* BaitAndSwitch:
** ''Twice'' with Shifu. First, after Kai speaks to the Jade Palace warriors through his jade zombies and identifies himself, it sounds as if Shifu (unlike everyone else so far) recognizes his name... but then he doesn't either. After that, when researching in the scrolls for information on him, he finds a scroll in a special case which he says holds all the knowledge they seek. [[ContinuityNod Upon removing it, it seems to be blank]] (and he even exclaims "Again?!") before discovering the story when he unrolls it further.
** At the very beginning, we have Po boasting how "Justice... is about to be served!" followed by him and the Five racing to the Valley below in an extended action sequence, making it seem they're off to fight bad guys. Turns out they were just going to Mr. Ping's to have "justice platters" for breakfast.
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Oddly, nearly every panda ''except'' Po.
* BearHug: A literal example with Big Fun, since he's a panda bear and he likes to give out hugs.
* BeYourself: This trope is the reason for the central theme of 3, that being "You don't have to be anyone other than yourself." But at the same time it adds "But be the very best of yourself that you can possibly be."
* BigBad: Kai, the ancient warrior spirit, and a former friend of Oogway, is out to destroy his legacy and absorb everyone's chi to become all-powerful.
* BigDamnReunion: Po reunites with his biological father whom he hasn't seen since he was a cub. Later, Po remains in [[spoiler:the spirit realm after having defeated Kai and finds himself reuniting with Oogway.]]
* BigEntrance:
** {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{lampshade|Hanging}}d. Po says that this is a very important thing... and to everyone's surprise, including his own, Shifu agrees, pointing out a proper entrance can get you the advantage before the fight actually starts. He then follows up with the "dramatic exit": getting Po to [[LookBehindYou look behind him]] so he can slip away. [[ChekhovsGun This becomes important]] in how Po is able to [[spoiler:banish Kai back to the Spirit Realm]].
** In addition, Kai seems to be fond of these, every one of his entrances are awesome, first is his sword flying towards Oogway in the spirit realm, then he returns to the mortal realm in a green glowing fireball of awesomeness. He arrives to the Jade Palace swinging his swords threateningly while lumbering out of a cloud of fog, and he climbs the mountain to the Panda Village effortlessly (Po himself lampshades how awesome his entrance was). And every one of his entrances have his [[{{Leitmotif}} awesome theme]] playing in the background.
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: [[spoiler:Tigress develops this with Lei Lei.]]
* [[BigBrotherWorship Big Sister Worship]]: [[spoiler:Lei Lei is completely smitten with "Stripy Baby" Tigress and is constantly by her side.]]
* BigWhat: [[spoiler:Delivered by Po when Shifu tells him that he will be the next teacher of the Furious Five.]] The rest of the gang doesn't exactly seem all that thrilled either, based on their own reactions.
** This is ZigZagged from there; once Shifu makes his "dramatic exit", the Five willingly bow before Po, accepting him as their new teacher, with Tigress adding, "All you have to lose is our respect." Then comes Po in teacher mode, and, well...
* BluntYes: Shifu gives Mantis one when he assigns him to team up with Crane:
-->'''Crane:''' Master, what are we going to do?\\
'''Shifu:''' You are going to find out where Kai is. Follow the trail of those jade creatures, but do not engage, for with every foe he faces, Kai becomes stronger.\\
'''Crane:''' Why me? Is it because I asked?\\
'''Shifu:''' No. It is because you can fly. Go!\\
'''Mantis:''' Should have kept your beak shut! ''[laughs]''\\
'''Shifu:''' And take Mantis.\\
'''Mantis:''' What? Ohh, man! Is it because I--\\
'''Shifu:''' Yes.
* {{Bookends}}:
** The trilogy began with Po as a legendary, revered warrior in a robe and wearing a nice hat - albeit only in a dream. This film almost ends the same way, but under much different circumstances: [[spoiler: Po only dons the outfit he wore in the opening of the first film after accepting himself as the Dragon Warrior after sending himself and Kai to the Spirit Realm. Po loses the outfit once he returns to the mortal realm, but he still ends the film and the trilogy as the legendary, revered warrior he once only dreamed he could be.]]
** In the film itself, Shifu states, "Before the battle of the fists, comes the battle of the mind." The lyrics finish the whole statement during the credits: "When you don't know who you are, just look inside."
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: During Po's rant at Li Shan, Po had every right to be angry at him for lying that he knew how to master chi and leaving his friends and the valley to be attacked by Kai, and Li was right when he said that Po could've been killed by Kai as well.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: Po's "I think I just peed a little" line at seeing the full capability of Master Rhino's armor is changed in the Mandarin dub to "This is too much".
* BowelBreakingBricks: A goose is so frightened of meeting Kai [[RuleOfFunny he lays a bunch of eggs rapidly]].
* BrickJoke:
** Lei Lei, a little baby panda, takes Po's Tigress action figure and calls it "Stripy Baby". [[spoiler:When Tigress appears, Lei Lei recognizes her and gives her a {{Glomp}}.]]
** One that spans the entire series - at the end of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', Po appears to be wearing a straw hat and cape after defeating Tai Lung. [[spoiler:He finally gets to wear them for real during the final portion of his fight with Kai in the Spirit World]].
**
--->'''Ping:''' Son! You ''can'' fly!
* BritishTeeth: Hom-Lee, whose smile is [[MeaningfulName rather homely]], until [[spoiler: he gets hit with nunchucks and his smile is straightened out]].
* TheBusCameBack: Oogway returns in this film after having been completely absent from the second film (not counting the opening logo of that film) after his death in the first film. It turns out that he's been spending all this time in the spirit realm, and wasn't interested in leaving it.
* ButtMonkey:
** Master Chicken is pretty much nothing but comic relief. Even as a jombie.
** During the final battle [[spoiler:in the Spirit World, once Po fully becomes the Dragon Warrior, the fight against Kai turns into a string of humiliations for the BigBad]].
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[[folder:C]]
* CallBack:
** Po shows his father the Hall of Heroes, which includes the Urn of Whispering Warriors he broke in the first film having been repaired (not terribly well). [[spoiler:And then it gets broken again when Li, having been discovered by Shifu and the Five, tosses away one of the weapons.]]
--->'''Po:''' Someone broke that... once.\\
'''Li:''' Who?\\
'''Po:''' Some idiot...
** When Shifu first unrolls the scroll on Kai he thinks it's blank like the Dragon Scroll (until he unrolls it further) saying in exasperation: [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe "Again?!"]]
** The flashback of Po's mother and Po as a baby is shown again, this time in 3D. Lord Shen's feathers briefly flash in the background.
** [[spoiler:The Wuxi Finger Hold of all things makes a return when Po attempts to use it against Kai]].
** When Po [[spoiler:becomes the Dragon Warrior, the move he uses to summon the spirit dragon is the one in ''2'', when he finds inner-peace, and redirects a droplet of rain onto a leaf on the ground, and later a cannonball back at the ship.]]
** Crane labeling every action starting with "wings of" like he did with his "Wings of Justice" attack from the second film. Mantis also announces his presence with "Fear the Bug!" from the second film as well.
** As the second film, Shifu gripes about Po's speedy learning skill of lifelong techniques, once again muttering about him doing it at such a young age.
** [[spoiler: There is a brief flashback to the moment Oogway first chose Po as the Dragon Warrior, as Oogway reveals to Po that he chose him in part because he was a panda, and believed that he would be able to channel his C'hi.]]
** When training the other pandas, Po uses the lesson Shifu learnt in the first movie; not to train pandas in martial arts but to perfect the skills they already have.
* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:Po to Li, after he reveals he lied about knowing how to master chi.]] Made all the more painful by how quiet, hurt, and bitter it is, rather than furious or browbeating like most examples of the trope.
* CallingYourAttacks:
** Lampshaded by Mantis when he comments on Crane's habit of shouting "Wings of (X)!" Mantis tries "Antenna of Power" later against Kai, except of course [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome nothing happens]].
** Shows up again later with Mantis after he gets grabbed by Lei Lei. It's easy to miss, but he shouts "Antenna of Fear!" as he gets taken away.
** Mr. Ping and Li get into the act as well. "DOUBLE DAD DEFENSE!"
** Po throws a few among simple orders in during his TrainingFromHell. It makes things worse.
** Interestingly, Po has been well-known for doing this before, yet he doesn't do it for most of the movie. He only does it briefly during his final battle with Kai: "Belly Gong. Butt Slap. Perhaps a bit of lunch, 'cause I'm starvin'."
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: [[spoiler:Shifu chooses Po to be the next teacher of the Five, something Po isn't all too happy about, and he's relieved to join his father in the panda village to get away from the new responsibilities. When a wounded Tigress arrives at the village and tells Po the others have been defeated by Kai, Po has to serve as a teacher after all, training the other pandas.]]
* CameBackStrong: Kai is ''much'' stronger than he was when Oogway banished him to the Spirit World in ancient times, due to how much chi he's stolen. [[spoiler:And because he's no longer alive, the Wuxi Finger Hold doesn't work on him.]]
* TheCameo:
** Master Croc returns as one of the masters investigating the jombies and is turned into one shortly afterward.
** Lord Shen is seen in the flashback from the second film that is reused during Li Shan's mourning of Po's mother.
** Tai Lung also makes an appearance as an amulet on Kai's waist, next to Mantis, though it's so brief it counts for a FreezeFrameBonus. He's also one of Po's action figures during his bathing scene.
* CaptainObviousReveal: An InUniverse-version played for laughs. When Mr. Li and Po meet, Li tells Po he's looking for his lost son, while Po tells Li he's looking for his lost father (note that neither of them think that any other pandas are ''alive''). They wish each other luck, [[WhatAnIdiot and both turn to leave.]] ''Everyone'' in the crowd watching them facepalms.
* CasualDangerDialog: [[spoiler:When Po joins Shifu and the Five's fight against the "jade zombies", he's not so much concerned with how effectively the latter are fighting as he is excited to find that they're more kung fu masters he idolizes. He even insists that Feng, ([[TheBusCameBack the palace artist from the holiday special]]), paints a portrait of him with one of them, ''while'' they're fighting.]]
-->'''Po:''' [[spoiler:I'm being choked by Master Porcupine. This is so cool! ''[grabs action figure]'' Oh! Oh! Look, it's you!]]
* ChekhovsBoomerang: [[spoiler:Po reveals to Tigress that he plans on using the Wuxi Finger Hold against Kai. Tigress warns him that it won't work, and after the first attempt is a NoSell, Po manages to get the jump on Kai, and skadooshes both of them to the spirit realm when Po applies the Wuxi finger hold to himself.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: At the beginning of the film, Shifu demonstrates the "dramatic exit" to Po by shouting "What's that?" and then quickly leaving while Po looks another way. [[spoiler:At the climax battle, Po pulls the same trick to make Kai look away, giving him an opening to jump him.]]
** At the beginning, Shifu tells Po that the Furious Five's training will be in the Dragon Warrior's hands, telling them that there is always more to learn, even for a master. After Po's first class gets the Furious Five hurt, it is near the end when Po is able to help the other pandas learn kung fu by putting their individual talents to use, and Shifu is impressed by how far Po has progressed as the Dragon Warrior.
* CitywideEvacuation: The Jade Valley has another exodus of everyone except Shifu and the Furious Five before Kai arrives, although this time it occurs offscreen. Again like the last time, the population returns to rebuild at the end once the crisis is over.
* CluckingFunny: One of the new Kung Fu masters introduced is Master Chicken.
* CockyRooster: Master Chicken is male (although [[AnimalGenderBender looks more like a hen than a rooster]]), and is a brave Kung Fu warrior who charges at Kai at the first opportunity.
* CombinedEnergyAttack: [[spoiler:Po's friends and family send him their chi, giving him a GoldenSuperMode and the power to destroy Kai once and for all.]]
* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
** The villagers do a {{Facepalm}} when Po and Li Shan meet for the first time:
-->'''Po''' Who are you?\\
'''Li:''' I'm Li Shang. I'm looking for my son.\\
'''Po:''' You lost your son?\\
'''Li:''' Yes. Many years ago.\\
'''Po:''' I lost my father.\\
'''Li:''' I'm very sorry.\\
'''Po:''' Thank you.\\
'''Li:''' Well, good luck to you.\\
'''Po:''' You too. I hope you find your son.\\
'''Li:''' And I hope you find your father. ''[[[WhatAnIdiot Both of them turn to leave;]] Mr. Ping's guests {{facepalm}} at Po and Li failing to see the resemblance to each other]''
** This exchange:
--->'''Elderly panda:''' ''[to Po]'' Oh, he's so handsome, just like his father!\\
'''Mr. Ping:''' Thank you!
** And later, this:
--->'''Po:''' I'm gonna stay, and fight that monster.\\
'''Mr. Ping:''' Po, he may be a monster, but he's still your father.\\
'''Po:''' Not him! ''Kai!''
* ContinuityCavalcade: Po's room is ''filled'' with references to the previous films, including the old dummy from the training hall, the Furious Five action figures, the drawings of Tigress and the Five from Po's old room, and a painting of Master Thundering Rhino and the Tower of Sacred Flame, among others.
* ContinuityNod:
** Po has added even more action figures to his collection, including ones of Tai Lung, Master Croc, and the Wolf Boss. [[AscendedFanboy Because of course he would]].
** After Po's [[spoiler:first failed attempt at training the Five, they all walk/crawl bruised and battered towards him, similarly to how he did in the first film after accidentally stepping into the training exercises.]]
** When Po sees Shifu and all of the Five except for Tigress have been zombified, he says "Oh no, it's true, you guys have all been turned green! Except for you, Mantis. You were already green." followed by Mantis twitching his antennae in annoyance, similar to in the first movie when he says "Whoa, the Furious Five! You're so much bigger than your action figures! Except for you, Mantis. You're about the same." and Mantis twitches his antennae.
** After Po's failed attempt at teaching the Five, Shifu shows up and after telling Po about chi and how Po needs to be Po he leaves, leaving the lantern he had brought with Po as Oogway did in the first film.
** From the first film; Shifu gets momentarily distracted by something about his opponent that allows him to be incapacitated by a single blow. Secondly, his face gets smashed into a wok, much like his former student Tai Lung.
** In both the first and third films, the antagonist ends up with his own tail in his mouth once Po gets the upper hand in the fight.
** Shifu unrolls the scroll that holds the secret to Kai's identity. It's empty and Shifu is ''not amused'', though it is revealed that he just had to unroll it further.
** When Shifu reads from the scroll detailing Kai's and Oogway's past, he reads too slowly, causing Mantis and Monkey to try and finish his sentences, just like Mantis did in ''Secret of the Five'' before he learned patience.
** Several elements from ''The Art of KFP'' make it into this one, such as: the abandoned junk in the desert (in the book it was the location of a WretchedHive, in the movie it's where Crane and Mantis track Kai); Po's outfit [[spoiler:in the Spirit World, which matches the Dragon Warrior costume from the storyboarded dream sequence from the first movie]]; the statues of the great kung fu masters around the stairs to the Jade Palace, which were originally intended to be a Vault of Heroes ''under'' the steps where Po was to have his final battle with Tai Lung; Tigress's new outfit, which is essentially the one from the book re-colored to gold; and even a number of shots of the panda village or the landscape during the journey there.
** Master Porcupine is a character that was originally going to be in the first ''Kung Fu Panda'' film, as a doctor using his own quills for acupuncture needles. He appears in this film as one of Kai's jade zombies, using his quills as arrows.
** Po accidentally dumps Sichuan peppercorns in his bathwater instead of soap and comments "My tenders!" while quickly adding cold water. Later he also suffers another GroinAttack while training an elderly panda.
** The bridge that Li and Po cross on the way to the panda village appear to be the same bridge where the Five fought Tai Lung in the first film.
** During the confrontation between Po and Kai at the end of the film, Po repeatedly mocks Kai's speech as he's delivering it as "chit chat". Or, in other words...
--->'''[[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda Dragon Warrior]]:''' Enough talk, let's fight!
* {{Crossover}}: Not the movie itself, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKoumObieS4 one trailer]] features [[{{Franchise/Shrek}} Shrek and Donkey]]: as part of a ShoutOut to the Snickers brand, Po and Monkey are not themselves, having become hungry enough that the former became Donkey while the latter became Shrek.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[spoiler: While they're not stupid, more just very chill and relaxed, the pandas are able to fend off most of Kai's jade army after Po's training.]]
* CuddleBug: One of the panda villagers loves giving out hugs, even to total strangers. [[spoiler:This is later weaponized in the battle against the Jombies, with the villager holding one in place by hugging it.]]
* CueCardPause: When Shifu reads the scroll mentioning Kai, it mentions that he was once Oogway's brother... in arms.
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:This is pretty much what Po delivers on Kai after channeling a dragon BattleAura in the spirit realm -- and it must be noted it only lasts as long as it does because Po ''is toying with him''.]]
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[[folder:D]]
* DancePartyEnding: Or a ''kung fu'' party ending.
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:During the final battle within the spirit realm, Po unleashes all of his chi into Kai per his boast about taking it, and while he revels at first, he discovers that it's too much for him to handle, and it disintegrates him. Given he was ''already'' a spirit...]]
* DeathByIrony: Kai spends the whole movie aiming at capturing the chi of the greatest kng fu masters, especially the Dragon Warrior, to make himself stronger. In the end [[spoiler:Po gives him exactly what he wanted... [[GoingToGiveItMoreEnergy except it's way too much energy and Kai explodes]].]]
* DeathIsCheap: Apparently, [[spoiler:passing away in the films' universe, at least if you're a kung fu master, means you go on "living" in the spirit realm. And it's not impossible to return (though you might have to work for it a few centuries).]]
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Li at one points tells Po how much he loved his mother, and how she was everything: "Smart. ''Beautiful.'' Tremendous appetite..."
* DelayedReaction: When Shifu says [[spoiler:he's passing on his teaching duties to Po]], the Five are stunned shocked. As for Po, he just casually nods... Then he processes the info, and it leads to the BigWhat moment above.
* DemotedToExtra: The Furious Five save Tigress suffer from this, having much less screen time here than in the second film (where, by contrast, they had a prominent role accompanying Po on the mission to stop Shen) and all becoming zombified by Kai by just beyond the movie's halfway point. While Shifu gets captured as well, he still gets more time onscreen than the rest before Kai gets to him.
* DespairEventHorizon: A brief one occurs after [[CurbStompBattle Kai hands Po his ass]] all the way back to the panda village. Tigress, Po's dads and the rest of the pandas look on in horror at the battered Po, who can only look up at them and admit that he was wrong about being able to take on Kai and begs them to flee. Only once Kai shows up again and [[spoiler:gives Po the EurekaMoment he needs about sending Kai to the Spirit Realm does Po resume fighting back]].
* TheDreadedPretendTeaParty: Inverted. Little Lei Lei is delighted to meet "big Stripy Baby" in the person of Tigress. Standoffish at first, Tigress is soon won over by the relentless affection. When Kai attacks, Tigress is reverently playing tea party with the adoring cub.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Shifu walking in on Po relating the story of how a Kung Fu master intimidated a threat so that he didn't have to fight might cause people to think he's about to chew Po out again...only for him to say that Po is actually ''correct'', because shaking an enemy's self-confidence before a fight is just as important as the fight itself.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Kai is [[AttentionWhore very put-out]] that [[UnknownRival no-one remembers him or his exploits]]... so when Po does, he's actually extremely excited and pleased. To the point he ''almost'' considers sparing him.
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[[folder:E]]
* EasilyForgiven:
** Shifu and the Five are completely distracted from the fact that [[spoiler:Po and Li wrecked the interior of the Jade Palace by playing inside it]] due to their excitement for Po finally meeting his biological father. No-one mentions the issue ever again. [[spoiler:Though the fact that Kai showed up shortly afterward and destroys that part of the palace may have something to do with it.]]
** [[spoiler:While angry with him, next time time Po speaks with Li, he's come to forgive him for lying about learning how to use chi, since Li then makes up for it by volunteering the panda village as an army to fight Kai's jombies. At the end of the film, he accepts his biological father in his life]].
* EggLayingMale: A male goose lays dozens of eggs in rapid succession when Kai yells at him, as a BowelBreakingBricks gag.
* ElephantInTheRoom: Po meets another Giant Panda for the first time since he was a cub, an older panda named Li Shan explaining that he's looking for his son. Po is shocked to hear this and replies that he lost his father. An awkward silence passes as the two pandas then wish each other good luck and walk off. Everyone watching can't believe either of them and {{facepalm}}s. [[spoiler:[[DelayedReaction The realization then hits each other just before they completely walk away]]]].
* EquippableAlly: During the fight against the Jade Zombies, Po stuffs his cheeks with buns, Viper circles his belly with her body and Tigress pulls on her tail, making Po spits the buns like a machine-gun on Kai's minions.
* EvilOverlooker: Used with Kai in the Chinese poster for the film.
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[[folder:F]]
* {{Facepalm}}: A mass one by Ping's customers when Po and Li ignore TheNotSecret of being son and father.
* FadeAroundTheEyes: When Kai captures Crane, the camera quickly zooms on his face just before switching to the next scene. When the scene switches, his eyes can briefly be seen in the sky.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: [[spoiler:Kai brought Oogway to the Pandas to heal him, which they did out of kindness. Kai promptly turned on them the moment that he realized the power he could get from stealing their chi.]]
* FishOutOfWater: Both Mr Ping and Tigress find themselves a bit out of place within the Panda village. This makes for a humorous role reversal against Po for the latter, with her more less playing the comic relief during the pandas' TrainingMontage.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Oogway tells Kai, when he reveals how much chi he has absorbed, that "the more you take, the less you have." This obliquely alludes to what happens when [[spoiler:he is fed Po's chi and it is too much for him to handle, because he can't control that much power. As well as the fact Po wins by having chi ''given'' to him rather than taking it]].
** When Mr. Ping hears about Shifu promoting Po to a teacher, he tells him to take the job and eagerly states that "one day when you're in charge of the whole Jade Palace I can sell noodles in the lobby!" [[spoiler:After Kai is rendered DeaderThanDead Oogway names Po his true sucessor and during the celebration in the Jade Palace Arena at the end of the movie Mr. Ping is giving out noodles to the baby pandas.]]
* FreeRangeChildren: The panda children are often seen doing whatever they please with little adult supervision.
* FryingPanOfDoom: Mr. Ping lands one on Jombie-Shifu.
* FurryReminder:
** Po has a humorous line alluding to the diet of real-life Giant Pandas. When he's trying to tell the other pandas his battle strategy by using food, he's shocked to find the younger pandas eating both the dumplings and the noodles he tried to use. When one of them eats the bamboo stick he was holding, he chuckles and says "Okay, I saw ''that'' coming."
** Parodied with this exchange:
--->'''Li:''' I guess it'd be cruel to make [Mr. Ping] fly all the way back.\\
'''Po:''' You can fly?!\\
'''Mr. Ping:''' I'm a ''bird,'' Po.
** Later, Mr. Ping walks atop deep drifts of snow because his feet are webbed and essentially snowshoes, while Po and Li are forced to trudge slowly through it. Ping's smirk says it all.
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* EleventhHourSuperpower: Of the traditional sort generated by ThePowerOfFriendship. [[spoiler:Sustained by the freely given chi of his friends, students and family, Po is invulnerable to Kai's signature trick.]]
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[[folder:A]]
* AbnormalAmmo:
** Master Porcupine's jombie uses a bow and what looks like his own quills as arrows.
** During the pre-climax fight, [[spoiler: the panda children using firecrackers and [[FastballSpecial some pandas use themselves as catapult ammunition]].]]
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: Kai's jade swords on chains can can pierce through ''and'' slice solid rock.
* AccidentalHero: Li Shan [[spoiler:helps create the panda army that ends up defeating Kai's jombies in the FinalBattle by lying to his son about knowing about chi and bringing him to the village. It does help that he wants his son's respect back after he has to admit he's lied to him, and studies the chi manipulation technique while Po does training sessions for everyone in the village.]]
* AchillesHeel: Kai can see and otherwise sense through his jade zombie minions... but this backfires during the FinalBattle thanks to the various kinds of abuse the pandas give them.
* ActorAllusion: You might say [[Creator/KateHudson Mei Mei]] knows [[Film/HowToLoseAGuyIn10Days how to lose a panda in 10 days]].
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Kai lets out an amused chuckle when he sees one of his Jombies SquashedFlat by the two hammock-catapult Pandas in midair.
-->'''Kai:''' Seriously?
* AdultFear:
** Played straight with Li Shan who finds his son after twenty years only to learn he's a famous warrior who fights enemies on a daily basis. When Li Shan learns that an even more threatening foe is approaching, whose jombies thoroughly thrash Po, Li [[spoiler:decides to lie about knowing how to master chi in order to bring Po with him to the panda village and out of harm's way.]]
** There's also once more Mr. Ping's fear that he will end up rejected as Po's dad now that his biological father has appeared. He insists on [[spoiler:coming along to the panda village, on the pretext of making Po's favorite foods and worries about cooking in the panda village. He mellows on seeing that all the baby pandas like his cooking after running him ragged, on learning that Li lied to keep Po safe, and on seeing Po train himself to prepare for battle. He then reaches out to Li Shan with dumplings and talks about how they're similar]].
** Li Shan and Mr. Ping are frantic when [[spoiler:Po does a HeroicSacrifice and goes to the Spirit Realm with Kai. When Po comes back, both dads hug him while Mr. Ping is chiding "Don't you go disappearing into petals again!"]]
* AdvertisedExtra:
** Mei Mei is a surprisingly minor character given how much attention she got in the promotional material. Note how she's present on [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chinese_poster15.jpg the Chinese poster]], while Li Shan, indisputably a much more important character, is absent.
** Bao as well, considering that he was promoted in behind-the-scenes features and even made playable in the tie-in fighting game (with his actor being one of the few from the films to retain his voice actor, even). In the movie, he gets very few lines and is just another one of the panda kids along with the others.
* AirplaneArms: Po briefly runs like this in the opening montage with him and the Five.
* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Po is victim to this once again, this time due to his ''biological'' father. Shifu and the Five's first impression of Li is him repeating "I'm gonna getcha!" in a baby talk voice to Po while everyone else looks on awkwardly.
* AmericanKirbyIsHardcore: Inverted, albeit with the Chinese cover for the film rather than the Japanese. The American cover has an emphasis on cuteness, showing a confused Po among the other pandas. The Chinese poster, on the other hand, has a much more serious focus, with Po in an AsskickingPose [[spoiler:(as well as wearing his Spirit Realm clothes)]], being with the Furious Five, and featuring Kai as an EvilOverlooker.
* AncientEvil: Kai, who was sealed away five hundred years ago when Oogway was young. This also means no one has ''any'' idea who he is, which is both to his advantage (as no one really has an idea of how to beat him), and [[BerserkButton anger]].
* AnimalBattleAura: [[spoiler:Po gets a golden dragon shaped aura when his allies channel their chi to him.]]
* AnimalGenderBender:
** A male goose lays a bunch of eggs when frightened by Kai, probably for RuleOfFunny.
** Master Chicken is male, but looks more like a hen than a rooster.
* ApologeticAttacker: A humorous semi-example: Monkey tries to snap the jombie Mantis out of it, but he ends up latching onto his zombified friend, who starts attacking the remaining Furious Five members at the Jade Palace, with Monkey apologizing to them after each blow.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Po and Shifu's discussion after Po failed miserably at teaching the Five involves Shifu directly questioning Po's sense of identity, in order to start him on the path to mastering chi. This silences Po's objections as he struggles to answer.
-->'''Po:''' I don't wanna be more! I like who I am!\\
'''Shifu:''' You don't even know who you are.\\
'''Po:''' What do you--of course I do! I'm the Dragon Warrior!\\
'''Shifu:''' And what exactly does that mean, ''Dragon Warrior?''
* ArtEvolution: Because of new animation software, all of the character models were rebuilt for this film. This is perhaps most visible with Po who overall has a slimmer appearance than in the two previous films.
* ArtShift: Some of the flashback scenes were presented in 2-D animation, while the TrainingMontage with Po [[TrainingThePeacefulVillagers training the panda village in Kung Fu]] has a more stylised 3-D effect.
* AscendedExtra: Mr. Ping had minor roles in the last two movies but here he's the Triagonist of the film.
* AssKicksYou: Po in his [[spoiler:chi dragon form tosses Kai around, first with a "Belly Gong", followed immediately by a "Butt Slap". Yes, that's what he's [[CallingYourAttacks calling the attacks]]]].
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[[folder:B]]
* BadassAndChildDuo: Tigress and Lei Lei during [[spoiler:the battle against the jombies in the Panda Village]]. Lei Lei even helps out a little.
* BadassBoast:
** [[spoiler:Delivered by Po at the FinalBattle: "Am I the son of a panda? The son of a goose? A student? A teacher? Turns out... I'm ''all'' of them. I am... The Dragon Warrior!"]]
** Bonus: [[spoiler:"Get it? See the giant dragon??"]]
** Tigress gets a brief one herself during Kai's attack on the Jade Palace. Kai mockingly calls her a "little kitten", then proceeds to fight off Shifu, Monkey and Viper. Cue Tigress leaping at Kai and delivering a kick so powerful it emits a wave of chi, causing him to lose his blades and fall to his knees.
--->'''Tigress:''' How's ''that'' for a "little kitten"?!
* BaitAndSwitch:
** ''Twice'' with Shifu. First, after Kai speaks to the Jade Palace warriors through his jade zombies and identifies himself, it sounds as if Shifu (unlike everyone else so far) recognizes his name... but then he doesn't either. After that, when researching in the scrolls for information on him, he finds a scroll in a special case which he says holds all the knowledge they seek. [[ContinuityNod Upon removing it, it seems to be blank]] (and he even exclaims "Again?!") before discovering the story when he unrolls it further.
** At the very beginning, we have Po boasting how "Justice... is about to be served!" followed by him and the Five racing to the Valley below in an extended action sequence, making it seem they're off to fight bad guys. Turns out they were just going to Mr. Ping's to have "justice platters" for breakfast.
* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Oddly, nearly every panda ''except'' Po.
* BearHug: A literal example with Big Fun, since he's a panda bear and he likes to give out hugs.
* BeYourself: This trope is the reason for the central theme of 3, that being "You don't have to be anyone other than yourself." But at the same time it adds "But be the very best of yourself that you can possibly be."
* BigBad: Kai, the ancient warrior spirit, and a former friend of Oogway, is out to destroy his legacy and absorb everyone's chi to become all-powerful.
* BigDamnReunion: Po reunites with his biological father whom he hasn't seen since he was a cub. Later, Po remains in [[spoiler:the spirit realm after having defeated Kai and finds himself reuniting with Oogway.]]
* BigEntrance:
** {{Discussed|Trope}} and {{lampshade|Hanging}}d. Po says that this is a very important thing... and to everyone's surprise, including his own, Shifu agrees, pointing out a proper entrance can get you the advantage before the fight actually starts. He then follows up with the "dramatic exit": getting Po to [[LookBehindYou look behind him]] so he can slip away. [[ChekhovsGun This becomes important]] in how Po is able to [[spoiler:banish Kai back to the Spirit Realm]].
** In addition, Kai seems to be fond of these, every one of his entrances are awesome, first is his sword flying towards Oogway in the spirit realm, then he returns to the mortal realm in a green glowing fireball of awesomeness. He arrives to the Jade Palace swinging his swords threateningly while lumbering out of a cloud of fog, and he climbs the mountain to the Panda Village effortlessly (Po himself lampshades how awesome his entrance was). And every one of his entrances have his [[{{Leitmotif}} awesome theme]] playing in the background.
* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: [[spoiler:Tigress develops this with Lei Lei.]]
* [[BigBrotherWorship Big Sister Worship]]: [[spoiler:Lei Lei is completely smitten with "Stripy Baby" Tigress and is constantly by her side.]]
* BigWhat: [[spoiler:Delivered by Po when Shifu tells him that he will be the next teacher of the Furious Five.]] The rest of the gang doesn't exactly seem all that thrilled either, based on their own reactions.
** This is ZigZagged from there; once Shifu makes his "dramatic exit", the Five willingly bow before Po, accepting him as their new teacher, with Tigress adding, "All you have to lose is our respect." Then comes Po in teacher mode, and, well...
* BluntYes: Shifu gives Mantis one when he assigns him to team up with Crane:
-->'''Crane:''' Master, what are we going to do?\\
'''Shifu:''' You are going to find out where Kai is. Follow the trail of those jade creatures, but do not engage, for with every foe he faces, Kai becomes stronger.\\
'''Crane:''' Why me? Is it because I asked?\\
'''Shifu:''' No. It is because you can fly. Go!\\
'''Mantis:''' Should have kept your beak shut! ''[laughs]''\\
'''Shifu:''' And take Mantis.\\
'''Mantis:''' What? Ohh, man! Is it because I--\\
'''Shifu:''' Yes.
* {{Bookends}}:
** The trilogy began with Po as a legendary, revered warrior in a robe and wearing a nice hat - albeit only in a dream. This film almost ends the same way, but under much different circumstances: [[spoiler: Po only dons the outfit he wore in the opening of the first film after accepting himself as the Dragon Warrior after sending himself and Kai to the Spirit Realm. Po loses the outfit once he returns to the mortal realm, but he still ends the film and the trilogy as the legendary, revered warrior he once only dreamed he could be.]]
** In the film itself, Shifu states, "Before the battle of the fists, comes the battle of the mind." The lyrics finish the whole statement during the credits: "When you don't know who you are, just look inside."
* BothSidesHaveAPoint: During Po's rant at Li Shan, Po had every right to be angry at him for lying that he knew how to master chi and leaving his friends and the valley to be attacked by Kai, and Li was right when he said that Po could've been killed by Kai as well.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: Po's "I think I just peed a little" line at seeing the full capability of Master Rhino's armor is changed in the Mandarin dub to "This is too much".
* BowelBreakingBricks: A goose is so frightened of meeting Kai [[RuleOfFunny he lays a bunch of eggs rapidly]].
* BrickJoke:
** Lei Lei, a little baby panda, takes Po's Tigress action figure and calls it "Stripy Baby". [[spoiler:When Tigress appears, Lei Lei recognizes her and gives her a {{Glomp}}.]]
** One that spans the entire series - at the end of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', Po appears to be wearing a straw hat and cape after defeating Tai Lung. [[spoiler:He finally gets to wear them for real during the final portion of his fight with Kai in the Spirit World]].
**
--->'''Ping:''' Son! You ''can'' fly!
* BritishTeeth: Hom-Lee, whose smile is [[MeaningfulName rather homely]], until [[spoiler: he gets hit with nunchucks and his smile is straightened out]].
* TheBusCameBack: Oogway returns in this film after having been completely absent from the second film (not counting the opening logo of that film) after his death in the first film. It turns out that he's been spending all this time in the spirit realm, and wasn't interested in leaving it.
* ButtMonkey:
** Master Chicken is pretty much nothing but comic relief. Even as a jombie.
** During the final battle [[spoiler:in the Spirit World, once Po fully becomes the Dragon Warrior, the fight against Kai turns into a string of humiliations for the BigBad]].
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* CallBack:
** Po shows his father the Hall of Heroes, which includes the Urn of Whispering Warriors he broke in the first film having been repaired (not terribly well). [[spoiler:And then it gets broken again when Li, having been discovered by Shifu and the Five, tosses away one of the weapons.]]
--->'''Po:''' Someone broke that... once.\\
'''Li:''' Who?\\
'''Po:''' Some idiot...
** When Shifu first unrolls the scroll on Kai he thinks it's blank like the Dragon Scroll (until he unrolls it further) saying in exasperation: [[YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe "Again?!"]]
** The flashback of Po's mother and Po as a baby is shown again, this time in 3D. Lord Shen's feathers briefly flash in the background.
** [[spoiler:The Wuxi Finger Hold of all things makes a return when Po attempts to use it against Kai]].
** When Po [[spoiler:becomes the Dragon Warrior, the move he uses to summon the spirit dragon is the one in ''2'', when he finds inner-peace, and redirects a droplet of rain onto a leaf on the ground, and later a cannonball back at the ship.]]
** Crane labeling every action starting with "wings of" like he did with his "Wings of Justice" attack from the second film. Mantis also announces his presence with "Fear the Bug!" from the second film as well.
** As the second film, Shifu gripes about Po's speedy learning skill of lifelong techniques, once again muttering about him doing it at such a young age.
** [[spoiler: There is a brief flashback to the moment Oogway first chose Po as the Dragon Warrior, as Oogway reveals to Po that he chose him in part because he was a panda, and believed that he would be able to channel his C'hi.]]
** When training the other pandas, Po uses the lesson Shifu learnt in the first movie; not to train pandas in martial arts but to perfect the skills they already have.
* CallingTheOldManOut: [[spoiler:Po to Li, after he reveals he lied about knowing how to master chi.]] Made all the more painful by how quiet, hurt, and bitter it is, rather than furious or browbeating like most examples of the trope.
* CallingYourAttacks:
** Lampshaded by Mantis when he comments on Crane's habit of shouting "Wings of (X)!" Mantis tries "Antenna of Power" later against Kai, except of course [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome nothing happens]].
** Shows up again later with Mantis after he gets grabbed by Lei Lei. It's easy to miss, but he shouts "Antenna of Fear!" as he gets taken away.
** Mr. Ping and Li get into the act as well. "DOUBLE DAD DEFENSE!"
** Po throws a few among simple orders in during his TrainingFromHell. It makes things worse.
** Interestingly, Po has been well-known for doing this before, yet he doesn't do it for most of the movie. He only does it briefly during his final battle with Kai: "Belly Gong. Butt Slap. Perhaps a bit of lunch, 'cause I'm starvin'."
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: [[spoiler:Shifu chooses Po to be the next teacher of the Five, something Po isn't all too happy about, and he's relieved to join his father in the panda village to get away from the new responsibilities. When a wounded Tigress arrives at the village and tells Po the others have been defeated by Kai, Po has to serve as a teacher after all, training the other pandas.]]
* CameBackStrong: Kai is ''much'' stronger than he was when Oogway banished him to the Spirit World in ancient times, due to how much chi he's stolen. [[spoiler:And because he's no longer alive, the Wuxi Finger Hold doesn't work on him.]]
* TheCameo:
** Master Croc returns as one of the masters investigating the jombies and is turned into one shortly afterward.
** Lord Shen is seen in the flashback from the second film that is reused during Li Shan's mourning of Po's mother.
** Tai Lung also makes an appearance as an amulet on Kai's waist, next to Mantis, though it's so brief it counts for a FreezeFrameBonus. He's also one of Po's action figures during his bathing scene.
* CaptainObviousReveal: An InUniverse-version played for laughs. When Mr. Li and Po meet, Li tells Po he's looking for his lost son, while Po tells Li he's looking for his lost father (note that neither of them think that any other pandas are ''alive''). They wish each other luck, [[WhatAnIdiot and both turn to leave.]] ''Everyone'' in the crowd watching them facepalms.
* CasualDangerDialog: [[spoiler:When Po joins Shifu and the Five's fight against the "jade zombies", he's not so much concerned with how effectively the latter are fighting as he is excited to find that they're more kung fu masters he idolizes. He even insists that Feng, ([[TheBusCameBack the palace artist from the holiday special]]), paints a portrait of him with one of them, ''while'' they're fighting.]]
-->'''Po:''' [[spoiler:I'm being choked by Master Porcupine. This is so cool! ''[grabs action figure]'' Oh! Oh! Look, it's you!]]
* ChekhovsBoomerang: [[spoiler:Po reveals to Tigress that he plans on using the Wuxi Finger Hold against Kai. Tigress warns him that it won't work, and after the first attempt is a NoSell, Po manages to get the jump on Kai, and skadooshes both of them to the spirit realm when Po applies the Wuxi finger hold to himself.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: At the beginning of the film, Shifu demonstrates the "dramatic exit" to Po by shouting "What's that?" and then quickly leaving while Po looks another way. [[spoiler:At the climax battle, Po pulls the same trick to make Kai look away, giving him an opening to jump him.]]
** At the beginning, Shifu tells Po that the Furious Five's training will be in the Dragon Warrior's hands, telling them that there is always more to learn, even for a master. After Po's first class gets the Furious Five hurt, it is near the end when Po is able to help the other pandas learn kung fu by putting their individual talents to use, and Shifu is impressed by how far Po has progressed as the Dragon Warrior.
* CitywideEvacuation: The Jade Valley has another exodus of everyone except Shifu and the Furious Five before Kai arrives, although this time it occurs offscreen. Again like the last time, the population returns to rebuild at the end once the crisis is over.
* CluckingFunny: One of the new Kung Fu masters introduced is Master Chicken.
* CockyRooster: Master Chicken is male (although [[AnimalGenderBender looks more like a hen than a rooster]]), and is a brave Kung Fu warrior who charges at Kai at the first opportunity.
* CombinedEnergyAttack: [[spoiler:Po's friends and family send him their chi, giving him a GoldenSuperMode and the power to destroy Kai once and for all.]]
* ComicallyMissingThePoint:
** The villagers do a {{Facepalm}} when Po and Li Shan meet for the first time:
-->'''Po''' Who are you?\\
'''Li:''' I'm Li Shang. I'm looking for my son.\\
'''Po:''' You lost your son?\\
'''Li:''' Yes. Many years ago.\\
'''Po:''' I lost my father.\\
'''Li:''' I'm very sorry.\\
'''Po:''' Thank you.\\
'''Li:''' Well, good luck to you.\\
'''Po:''' You too. I hope you find your son.\\
'''Li:''' And I hope you find your father. ''[[[WhatAnIdiot Both of them turn to leave;]] Mr. Ping's guests {{facepalm}} at Po and Li failing to see the resemblance to each other]''
** This exchange:
--->'''Elderly panda:''' ''[to Po]'' Oh, he's so handsome, just like his father!\\
'''Mr. Ping:''' Thank you!
** And later, this:
--->'''Po:''' I'm gonna stay, and fight that monster.\\
'''Mr. Ping:''' Po, he may be a monster, but he's still your father.\\
'''Po:''' Not him! ''Kai!''
* ContinuityCavalcade: Po's room is ''filled'' with references to the previous films, including the old dummy from the training hall, the Furious Five action figures, the drawings of Tigress and the Five from Po's old room, and a painting of Master Thundering Rhino and the Tower of Sacred Flame, among others.
* ContinuityNod:
** Po has added even more action figures to his collection, including ones of Tai Lung, Master Croc, and the Wolf Boss. [[AscendedFanboy Because of course he would]].
** After Po's [[spoiler:first failed attempt at training the Five, they all walk/crawl bruised and battered towards him, similarly to how he did in the first film after accidentally stepping into the training exercises.]]
** When Po sees Shifu and all of the Five except for Tigress have been zombified, he says "Oh no, it's true, you guys have all been turned green! Except for you, Mantis. You were already green." followed by Mantis twitching his antennae in annoyance, similar to in the first movie when he says "Whoa, the Furious Five! You're so much bigger than your action figures! Except for you, Mantis. You're about the same." and Mantis twitches his antennae.
** After Po's failed attempt at teaching the Five, Shifu shows up and after telling Po about chi and how Po needs to be Po he leaves, leaving the lantern he had brought with Po as Oogway did in the first film.
** From the first film; Shifu gets momentarily distracted by something about his opponent that allows him to be incapacitated by a single blow. Secondly, his face gets smashed into a wok, much like his former student Tai Lung.
** In both the first and third films, the antagonist ends up with his own tail in his mouth once Po gets the upper hand in the fight.
** Shifu unrolls the scroll that holds the secret to Kai's identity. It's empty and Shifu is ''not amused'', though it is revealed that he just had to unroll it further.
** When Shifu reads from the scroll detailing Kai's and Oogway's past, he reads too slowly, causing Mantis and Monkey to try and finish his sentences, just like Mantis did in ''Secret of the Five'' before he learned patience.
** Several elements from ''The Art of KFP'' make it into this one, such as: the abandoned junk in the desert (in the book it was the location of a WretchedHive, in the movie it's where Crane and Mantis track Kai); Po's outfit [[spoiler:in the Spirit World, which matches the Dragon Warrior costume from the storyboarded dream sequence from the first movie]]; the statues of the great kung fu masters around the stairs to the Jade Palace, which were originally intended to be a Vault of Heroes ''under'' the steps where Po was to have his final battle with Tai Lung; Tigress's new outfit, which is essentially the one from the book re-colored to gold; and even a number of shots of the panda village or the landscape during the journey there.
** Master Porcupine is a character that was originally going to be in the first ''Kung Fu Panda'' film, as a doctor using his own quills for acupuncture needles. He appears in this film as one of Kai's jade zombies, using his quills as arrows.
** Po accidentally dumps Sichuan peppercorns in his bathwater instead of soap and comments "My tenders!" while quickly adding cold water. Later he also suffers another GroinAttack while training an elderly panda.
** The bridge that Li and Po cross on the way to the panda village appear to be the same bridge where the Five fought Tai Lung in the first film.
** During the confrontation between Po and Kai at the end of the film, Po repeatedly mocks Kai's speech as he's delivering it as "chit chat". Or, in other words...
--->'''[[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda Dragon Warrior]]:''' Enough talk, let's fight!
* {{Crossover}}: Not the movie itself, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKoumObieS4 one trailer]] features [[{{Franchise/Shrek}} Shrek and Donkey]]: as part of a ShoutOut to the Snickers brand, Po and Monkey are not themselves, having become hungry enough that the former became Donkey while the latter became Shrek.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [[spoiler: While they're not stupid, more just very chill and relaxed, the pandas are able to fend off most of Kai's jade army after Po's training.]]
* CuddleBug: One of the panda villagers loves giving out hugs, even to total strangers. [[spoiler:This is later weaponized in the battle against the Jombies, with the villager holding one in place by hugging it.]]
* CueCardPause: When Shifu reads the scroll mentioning Kai, it mentions that he was once Oogway's brother... in arms.
* CurbStompBattle: [[spoiler:This is pretty much what Po delivers on Kai after channeling a dragon BattleAura in the spirit realm -- and it must be noted it only lasts as long as it does because Po ''is toying with him''.]]
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[[folder:D]]
* DancePartyEnding: Or a ''kung fu'' party ending.
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler:During the final battle within the spirit realm, Po unleashes all of his chi into Kai per his boast about taking it, and while he revels at first, he discovers that it's too much for him to handle, and it disintegrates him. Given he was ''already'' a spirit...]]
* DeathByIrony: Kai spends the whole movie aiming at capturing the chi of the greatest kng fu masters, especially the Dragon Warrior, to make himself stronger. In the end [[spoiler:Po gives him exactly what he wanted... [[GoingToGiveItMoreEnergy except it's way too much energy and Kai explodes]].]]
* DeathIsCheap: Apparently, [[spoiler:passing away in the films' universe, at least if you're a kung fu master, means you go on "living" in the spirit realm. And it's not impossible to return (though you might have to work for it a few centuries).]]
* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: Li at one points tells Po how much he loved his mother, and how she was everything: "Smart. ''Beautiful.'' Tremendous appetite..."
* DelayedReaction: When Shifu says [[spoiler:he's passing on his teaching duties to Po]], the Five are stunned shocked. As for Po, he just casually nods... Then he processes the info, and it leads to the BigWhat moment above.
* DemotedToExtra: The Furious Five save Tigress suffer from this, having much less screen time here than in the second film (where, by contrast, they had a prominent role accompanying Po on the mission to stop Shen) and all becoming zombified by Kai by just beyond the movie's halfway point. While Shifu gets captured as well, he still gets more time onscreen than the rest before Kai gets to him.
* DespairEventHorizon: A brief one occurs after [[CurbStompBattle Kai hands Po his ass]] all the way back to the panda village. Tigress, Po's dads and the rest of the pandas look on in horror at the battered Po, who can only look up at them and admit that he was wrong about being able to take on Kai and begs them to flee. Only once Kai shows up again and [[spoiler:gives Po the EurekaMoment he needs about sending Kai to the Spirit Realm does Po resume fighting back]].
* TheDreadedPretendTeaParty: Inverted. Little Lei Lei is delighted to meet "big Stripy Baby" in the person of Tigress. Standoffish at first, Tigress is soon won over by the relentless affection. When Kai attacks, Tigress is reverently playing tea party with the adoring cub.
* DumbassHasAPoint: Shifu walking in on Po relating the story of how a Kung Fu master intimidated a threat so that he didn't have to fight might cause people to think he's about to chew Po out again...only for him to say that Po is actually ''correct'', because shaking an enemy's self-confidence before a fight is just as important as the fight itself.
* DudeWheresMyRespect: Kai is [[AttentionWhore very put-out]] that [[UnknownRival no-one remembers him or his exploits]]... so when Po does, he's actually extremely excited and pleased. To the point he ''almost'' considers sparing him.
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[[folder:E]]
* EasilyForgiven:
** Shifu and the Five are completely distracted from the fact that [[spoiler:Po and Li wrecked the interior of the Jade Palace by playing inside it]] due to their excitement for Po finally meeting his biological father. No-one mentions the issue ever again. [[spoiler:Though the fact that Kai showed up shortly afterward and destroys that part of the palace may have something to do with it.]]
** [[spoiler:While angry with him, next time time Po speaks with Li, he's come to forgive him for lying about learning how to use chi, since Li then makes up for it by volunteering the panda village as an army to fight Kai's jombies. At the end of the film, he accepts his biological father in his life]].
* EggLayingMale: A male goose lays dozens of eggs in rapid succession when Kai yells at him, as a BowelBreakingBricks gag.
* ElephantInTheRoom: Po meets another Giant Panda for the first time since he was a cub, an older panda named Li Shan explaining that he's looking for his son. Po is shocked to hear this and replies that he lost his father. An awkward silence passes as the two pandas then wish each other good luck and walk off. Everyone watching can't believe either of them and {{facepalm}}s. [[spoiler:[[DelayedReaction The realization then hits each other just before they completely walk away]]]].
* EquippableAlly: During the fight against the Jade Zombies, Po stuffs his cheeks with buns, Viper circles his belly with her body and Tigress pulls on her tail, making Po spits the buns like a machine-gun on Kai's minions.
* EvilOverlooker: Used with Kai in the Chinese poster for the film.
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[[folder:F]]
* {{Facepalm}}: A mass one by Ping's customers when Po and Li ignore TheNotSecret of being son and father.
* FadeAroundTheEyes: When Kai captures Crane, the camera quickly zooms on his face just before switching to the next scene. When the scene switches, his eyes can briefly be seen in the sky.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: [[spoiler:Kai brought Oogway to the Pandas to heal him, which they did out of kindness. Kai promptly turned on them the moment that he realized the power he could get from stealing their chi.]]
* FishOutOfWater: Both Mr Ping and Tigress find themselves a bit out of place within the Panda village. This makes for a humorous role reversal against Po for the latter, with her more less playing the comic relief during the pandas' TrainingMontage.
* {{Foreshadowing}}:
** Oogway tells Kai, when he reveals how much chi he has absorbed, that "the more you take, the less you have." This obliquely alludes to what happens when [[spoiler:he is fed Po's chi and it is too much for him to handle, because he can't control that much power. As well as the fact Po wins by having chi ''given'' to him rather than taking it]].
** When Mr. Ping hears about Shifu promoting Po to a teacher, he tells him to take the job and eagerly states that "one day when you're in charge of the whole Jade Palace I can sell noodles in the lobby!" [[spoiler:After Kai is rendered DeaderThanDead Oogway names Po his true sucessor and during the celebration in the Jade Palace Arena at the end of the movie Mr. Ping is giving out noodles to the baby pandas.]]
* FreeRangeChildren: The panda children are often seen doing whatever they please with little adult supervision.
* FryingPanOfDoom: Mr. Ping lands one on Jombie-Shifu.
* FurryReminder:
** Po has a humorous line alluding to the diet of real-life Giant Pandas. When he's trying to tell the other pandas his battle strategy by using food, he's shocked to find the younger pandas eating both the dumplings and the noodles he tried to use. When one of them eats the bamboo stick he was holding, he chuckles and says "Okay, I saw ''that'' coming."
** Parodied with this exchange:
--->'''Li:''' I guess it'd be cruel to make [Mr. Ping] fly all the way back.\\
'''Po:''' You can fly?!\\
'''Mr. Ping:''' I'm a ''bird,'' Po.
** Later, Mr. Ping walks atop deep drifts of snow because his feet are webbed and essentially snowshoes, while Po and Li are forced to trudge slowly through it. Ping's smirk says it all.
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