** Tai Lung was in prison for forty years by the time of the first KFP movie, and Shen had been exiled for 30 by the time of the second movie. Tai Lung was presumably a young adult, if not outright a full adult, when he went on his rampage, so let's assume he was at least twenty. He was orphaned at least thirty years or so before Shen was stopped by his parents, and I'm not seeing them letting him go on a thirty-year spree of destruction like that. Plus, unlike Po, we've seen other leopards and snow leopards in various other supplimentary materials (the ''Secrets of the Masters/Furious Five'' videos, the character of Peng in ''Legends of Awesomeness'', and others), which does not imply the sort of ethnic cleansing that the pandas suffered through. And finally, if Tai Lung was in prison for so long, and was such a public figure, why did Shen not take notice of the location of a fairly prominent, extremely competent, and very violent black-and-white Kung Fu warrior, and then slit his throat while he was in Chor-Ghom? TL;DR while it does make sense that he wouldn't single out the pandas, the evidence from Tai Lung's existence, the timeline, and supplimental materials do not support this conclusion.

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[[WMG: The warrior of black and white was not Po, but Shen himself.

Shen's primary colors are also black and white. Note that the cannons and the gunpowder are black. There is a brief, stylized shot showing Shen with half his face black paralleling the ying-yang symbol, and it is the smoke figure of Shen that transforms into the yin-yang symbol when the Soothsayer tries to predict his fate. And in the final confrontation, some of Shen's white feathers are covered in black soot. Over the course of the movie, including the backstory, Shen loses his parents, his right to the throne of Gongmen city (and eventually destroys even its symbol, the throne itself, upon returning), his old home, his surrogate mother, and his oldest and only remaining friend, all through his own actions. Even the destruction of his remaining forces in the finale comes from deflected cannon shots he ordered to fire. Finally, in the last battle against Po, he directly contributed to the wreck of his cannon falling on him by accidentally cutting the ropes during the fight. Indeed, it can be argued that Shen defeated and destroyed himself quite thoroughly, and maybe he even realizes the irony, when he calmly allows the cannon to crush him.]]

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[[WMG: Tai Lung was a metaphor for Moses, while Shen was a metaphor for Jesus]]

Admitely Shen = Jesus is more obvious than Tai Lung = Moses, but let me explain.

Tai Lung, like Moses, was the surviver of a massacre of his people (assumed to be destroyed by Lord Shen alongside the pandas, making Lord Shen also a metaphor for the Old Testament Yahweh, who is thought as having been God the Son before being incarnated as Jesus by some theologists), and was raised by Shifu, who is a stand-in for the pharaoh (Oogway = Ra/Horus).

Much like Moses was raised as being the heir of the throne, Tai Lung was raised to be the Dragon Warrior. This makes the parallel even more obvious when one considers that the pharaoh was the link between Ra/Horus and the people of Egypt, just like Tai Lung would be the emissary for peace as appointed by Oogway. However, external conflicts both made Moses and Tai Lung deviate from their paths for the exact opposite (the freedom of the jews, the "darkness in the heart", which was probably Oogway's BSing anyways), making them pariahs and tormented by their enemies.

You might think that Tai Lung's final fate is the opposite of Moses', but actually it isn't. Much as we now know the hebrews weren't actually opressed in Ancient Egypt, and might actually have had slaves themselves, Tai Lung's point of view was disproven. This means Po and the Furious Five are actually symbolic of '''scientific progress''', therefore proving how meaningless Tai Lung's rebellion was, leaving him no choice but death, just like Moses is essnecially a meaningless, obsolete figure.

Lord Shen is Jesus for very obvious reasons. Like Jesus in Revelation, Lord Shen is white and red in colour, a figure of divine wrath further solidified by his name, which means "divinity" in chinese. Lord Shen was born to normal parents, who were artificers (just like Jesus' parents were carpenters), but he twisted their profession (Jesus made carpentery a noble pursuit, Shen made fireworks lethal). Eventually, both gather violent cultists, and with them they commit genocide in name of a divine ideal (the death of white and black races for Shen, the violent early christian uprisings for Jesus). This leads to persecution from the local authorithy (the peacocks for Shen, the romans for Christianity, and therefore the Holy Spirit), but return stronger than ever (Shen kills the gay rhino, Christianity destroys paganism and Jesus will return in Revelation) and plan global domination and assimilation.

Once again, Po and the Furious Five return, intending to stop Shen's/Jesus' madness. Shen is revealed as having made Po an orphan, just like newer historical finds show a darker side to Jesus and the early christians. Shen/Jesus then launches a final attempt at taking over the world, but Po/Sophia, renewed with sacred knowledge, promptly destroys the canon/religious fundamentalism, and Shen dies (ironically killing himself with his own weapon, just like Jesus died thanks to jewish faith and just like Christianity undermines itself with it's hypocrisy).

For further bonus, Po and the Furious Five are associted with gold, and thus the light of the Sun, while Tai Lung is associated with blue fire that he carries on his hands (symbolising the parting waters and the primordial, chaotic darkness), and Shen is associated with fire and metal (symbolising both the planet Venus [Jesus is associated with the Morning Star in the New Testament]).

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