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* HeelFaceMole: Taotie in "Bosom Enemies", although it isn't clear at first whether this is the case or he's a genuine HeelFaceTurn being [[ChronicVillainy driven back to villainy]] due to being ReformedButRejected. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation It isn't even fully clear]] [[ZigZaggingTrope by the end of the episode, either]].

%%** He starts off as ReformedButRejected (by Tigress and the rest of the Five, who are understandably leery); then he reveals to his son that [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceMole the whole thing was a ruse]] so as to get revenge on Po]]...except that apparently he really ''was'' going to be a FalselyReformedVillain until Po's seeming superiority by making him his "assistant" [[SecondPlaceIsForLosers offended Taotie]]. But considering it was fairly obvious Po meant nothing insulting, was genuinely trying to help, and [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter truly believed he could change]], it seems just as likely that Taotie was just looking for an excuse to slip into ChronicVillainy again. Then when he discovers the nature of Po's gift to him ([[spoiler:replacing the magnifier he'd had stolen long ago]]), Taotie reforms for real, sabotaging his own machine to save Po. [[spoiler:But at the last, because he did still turn on the Valley and nearly wreck it with his machines again, he still gets returned to Chorh-Gom... pushing him back to evil yet again out of quite justified resentment.]] [[StatusQuoIsGod Sigh]].

* SecondPlaceIsForLosers: Assuming he wasn't merely [[HeelFaceMole faking all along]], this is Taotie's excuse for returning to evil again in "Bosom Enemies", because Po persisted in relegating him to the position of "assistant" to the Dragon Warrior. That is, until he sees what present Po gave him...

* NiceHat: The olive branch crowns, according to Po and Temutai.

** "Croc You Like a Hurricane", from Music/{{Scorpions}}'s ''Rock You Like a Hurricane''.

* NeverSayDie: Both played straight and averted throughout:

** Averted in "Enter the Dragon" when the Ke-Pa the dragon tells Fung "Join me or die."
** Repeatedly averted in "War of the Noodles". Hundun tells Po "Panda, it's time to pan-DIE", Mr Ping says "I can't die now, I have to revise my menu!" and Po answers "I'm not gonna let you die, Dad."

* NeverSayDie: Particularly noticeable in "Master and the Panda" where they go to ridiculous lengths to avoid saying that Po killed Tai Lung.

* AccidentalUnfortunateGesture: Po back-hands Tigress in 'Hometown Hero'. Tigress is not amused.

* AngelFaceDemonFace: The princess' features are sharp, angular and hard while she's still mean and nasty. Once she and Po make friends, her features become rounder and cuter.

* [[AndThenJohnWasAZombie And Then Shifu Was a Zombie]]: Naturally, the most skilled fighter at the Jade Palace is the one to get zombified in "The Po Who Cried Ghost". [[spoiler:Then Po does [[CursedWithAwesome a self-inflicted version]] so that [[StartXToStopX he can fight him.]]]]

* [[BlindWeaponmaster Blind Kung Fu Warrior]]: Po, after the [[spoiler:self-inflicted]] Golden Lotus Clap. [[HandicappedBadass He is still awesome]].

* [[GuessWhoImMarrying Guess Who I'm Dating?]]: The plot of "Love Stings", in which Mr. Ping dates a "convicted villainous evil mastermind".

* [[ImTakingHerHomeWithMe I'm Taking Him Home With Me]]: Essentially this was Po's initial reaction to Peng, before GreenEyedMonster set in.

* [[OffhandBackhand Offhand Blocking]]: Po does this while arguing with the amnesiac Furious Five.

* [[PantheraAwesome Panthera Awesomeness]]: Tigress, Peng and his girlfriend, The ladies of Shade and Jungjie's leopards.

'''Gahri''': Fung, I am tired of [[{{Jerkass}} your insults, your insensitivity]], what's up with that? And your constant [[AccidentalMisnaming mispronunciation of my name!]]\\

* [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt You Defeat Him, You Get His Mooks]]: When Po defeats Fung yet again in "Terror Cotta", and Fung insultingly dismisses his men for failing too many times, they decide they're now "Po's gang". [[HilarityEnsues With predictable results]], as he tries to train them in non-criminal activities or, well, ''[[EpicFail anything]]''.

* MoralDissonance: Po fairly often does things which he was told he shouldn't do (as well as things the viewer knows he shouldn't do even if they're not mentioned), and yet he usually ends up with a TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong aesop as he's never called out on some of his {{Jerkass}} tendencies--after all, he beat the [[MonsterOfTheWeek bad guy of the week]], didn't he? Sometimes it's bad enough that he basically learns nothing, ends up right anyhow, and becomes something bordering on a MartyStu. StatusQuoIsGod strikes again!

%%** He starts off as ReformedButRejected (by Tigress and the rest of the Five, who are understandably leery); then he reveals to his son that [[spoiler:[[HeelFaceMole the whole thing was a ruse]] so as to get revenge on Po]]...except that apparently he really ''was'' going to be a FalselyReformedVillain until Po's seeming superiority by making him his "assistant" [[SecondPlaceIsForLosers offended Taotie]]. But considering it was fairly obvious Po meant nothing insulting, was genuinely trying to help, and [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter truly believed he could change]], it seems just as likely that Taotie was just looking for an excuse to slip into ChronicVillainy again. Then when he discovers the nature of Po's gift to him ([[spoiler:replacing the magnifier he'd had stolen long ago]]), Taotie reforms for real, sabotaging his own machine to save Po. [[spoiler:But at the last, because he did still turn on the Valley and nearly wreck it with his machines again, [[MoralDissonance he still gets returned to Chorh-Gom]]...pushing him back to evil yet again out of quite justified resentment.]] [[StatusQuoIsGod Sigh]].

* TwitchyEye: Seems to be a side-effect of having the "Fluttering Finger Mindslip" performed on you.]
* UngratefulBastard: Shifu in "The Most Dangerous Po". Po has just discovered a great general is actually insane and out-of-control, kept him from meting out a FateWorseThanDeath to all the show's villains, and locked him up (after he almost suffered the same fate!) so he can't do that to anyone else...and [[MoralDissonance all Shifu cares about]] is the fact [[HonorBeforeReason Po locked up a great general]] and [[OnlyInItForTheMoney lost the Jade Palace one of its biggest financial backers]].

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When facing off against the mindwiped Furious Five, Shifu laughs and says this about Crane's assumed name, "El Storko".
** Tigress cracks a joke for once in "Chain Reaction".
** Tigress did again twice without realizing it in "Love Sting".

* MoralDilemma: {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d. Poor Bian Zao. Help his MadScientist father conquer the Jade Palace, thereby earning some true quality time with him ([[WellDoneSonGuy and make him proud of him]]), but betray his new friend Po; or help save Po, the first person to show him caring and treat him like an equal, but betray his own father. [[ArcWords Lame]]. Luckily he manages to TakeAThirdOption.

* SoProudOfYou: Bian Zao gets this twice, once from Po and once from his dad. Which causes major guilt when [[MoralDilemma he has to choose between them]].

* TakeAThirdOption: How Bian Zao solves his MoralDilemma--[[spoiler:he helps his dad...by making his machine malfunction "accidentally" and then helping him escape, so that Po will make it out unscathed.]]

* PunBasedTitle: "The Princess and the Po" is of course a pun on [[FairyTales The Princess and the Pea]].

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: One of Fung's {{Mooks}} has to keep reminding him that his name's Gah-ri, not "Gary".

* ConservationOfNinjutsu: The Furious Five themselves fall victim to this. Individually they do well in battle, but if all five of them attack the VillainOfTheWeek at once, expect to see them defeated in rapid succession.

* BugBuzz: Mantis makes a sound akin to ChirpingCrickets when he moves.

'''Gahri''': Me too!\\
'''Fung''': You're fired!\\
'''Gahri''': I quit!

'''Po'''[''after Hundun attacks him''] : I dodged the kick! I dodged the kick! Sweet! Not sure if you realize this, but I just dodged all your Swirling Lynx Round Kicks! You know what your weakness is, Hundun? You stink at friendship.

** Temutai, the Warrior King of the Qidan, since being defeated by Po in "The Princess and the Po" has quite a friendly side, attending the Peace Jubilee, and is NotSoDifferent from Po, both of them experiencing difficulty with stairs, finding their olive branch crowns fashionable, and both being frustrated at not being invited to a banquet celebrating an official's promotion. He is even glad to see his nephew Jing Mei take part in a battle with Peng at the Peace Jubilee.

* NotSoDifferent[=/=]{{Foil}}: Evil Po has a number of things in common with Tai Lung...
** Possibly deliberately [[InvokedTrope invoked]] in "Owl Be Back", when [[spoiler:FakeDefector]] Po has Shifu pinned by the Moon Pool in almost the exact same pose Tai Lung did when he was about to kill him.
** In "The Kung Fu Kid", Temutai [[RunningGag has difficulty getting up all the steps to the Jade Palace]], and joins Po in gushing over the olive branch crowns they both wear for the peace ceremony. He also apologizes just as abashedly when their fight almost ruins the Peace Festival.

* RealityEnsues: Although Taotie becomes good friends with Po in ''Bosom Enemies'', has a HeelFaceTurn after opening Po's gift and saves Po's life from the robot he sent after him, he's still arrested and sent back to prison for backstabbing him and trying to kill him.

--> '''Tigress:''' Judging by our fighting skills....we must be [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments bakers]]..."

** Really almost everyone does at some moment, except for Shifu (but that's only because Shifu's dickery in the first movie is hard to top). The worst moment is when Po demonstrates one of the Seven Impossible Moves and ''everyone in the Jade Palace'' suddenly ceases to trust him just because the master who initially invented these moves turned evil and despite everything they went through together. When all of the Five reject him and refuse to listen (as he's trying to tell them ''their master Shifu is in danger''), simply because they believe Po screwed up and thus got Shifu and all of them thrown out of the palace (instead of letting him explain Junjie said it was okay for him to watch the masters' exhibition) also takes the cake. At least this one led to [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Ping reading them]] [[WhatTheHellHero the riot act]].

--> '''Monkey''': Hey you...with the...uh...face. Do you know who I am?
--> '''Tigress''': No idea. Wait, could you be...Monkey?

** To a lesser extent Tigress who, compared to [[TookALevelInKindness her characterization in the sequel films]], still has some of her ArrogantKungFuGirl personality and standoffish treatment of Po. While Po's own aforementioned Aesop Amnesia often better justifies it, almost as many episodes' dilemmas are worsened by her and the rest of the Furious Five's quickness to distrust or turn on Po again and again, [[NotMeThisTime even in cases he isn't to blame]].

* TookALevelInKindness: Tigress is a subtle one. Since the TV series is mostly a transitional point from the first movie to the second, she still has some of her ArrogantKungFuGirl traits in tact, though is showing signs of defrosting and expressing humility (like Shifu, her nasty streak in the first film is hard to top). Within the course of the show itself, she goes from barely tolerating Po (and still resenting him for being chosen as Dragon Warrior in the earliest episodes) to having a more blatant caring side towards him in some later episodes (likely as a CharacterCheck to the second movie which had been released by that point in production).

** Both "[[NothingIsTheSameAnymore Enter the Dragon]]" and "[[TheCorruption The Master]] [[HistoryRepeats and]] [[WhatTheHellHero the Panda]]" qualify as well. Aside from the destruction of the Jade Palace, a major AttentionWhore[=/=]WhatTheHellHero moment for Po, and [[spoiler:Po's (temporary) death]], both episodes [[spoiler:confirm Tai Lung is dead]], and the latter episode reveals ([[UnreliableNarrator maybe]]) that [[spoiler: he was truly evil and irredeemable at the end]]. It also ends with Peng leaving, deciding to give up kung fu forever because he believes the darkness and thirst for power are InTheBlood for him too.

** Peng's departure from the Jade Palace in "The Master and the Panda", determined to quit kung fu forever because he believed darkness and a thirst for power were InTheBlood.

* AffablyEvil: Fenghuang. Not only does she banter playfully, act coquettish, and genuinely offer to help train Po, but she saves his life even before she knows who he is or how he can help her.

-->'''Shifu''', ''to Temutai and his men'': How ''dare'' you touch the great Master Yao! ''([[HypocriticalHumor strokes]]'' ''and'' ''[[HoYay fondles Yao's face]])''

* MaleGaze: man of the females have amazing rear ends.

* FalselyReformedVillain: hundun in the episode war of the noodles.

** Shifu gives a blistering one to Po after his failure to warn the townspeople to flee to safety (because [[ItsAllAboutMe it would make him look like a coward]] and [[SmallNameBigEgo ruin his reputation]]) results in them becoming innocent victims of Ke-Pa's [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse villainous threat]]. (And, to a certain extent, because Po had helped Ke-Pa get free by [[{{Pride}} trying to fight him instead of summoning the others]], then [[NiceJobBreakingItHero inadvertently finishing off the peach tree.]] [[spoiler:Some of this was [[ChewOutFakeout fake]] [[BatmanGambit in order to keep Po and the Hero's Qi safe and out of Ke-Pa's reach]], but...]]