Western Animation / Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight

“Once again, hear tell of Po, the Dragon Master!”

Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight is a Netflix animated series from DreamWorks Animation. It is the third series based upon the Kung Fu Panda films, following Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness and Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny, and the first to have Jack Black reprise his role as Po from the films.^note Also, the first piece of media in the franchise to have Black serve as executive producer. Also in the cast is franchise veteran James Hong as Po’s adoptive father, Mr. Ping, and franchise newcomer Rita Ora.

When a mistake costs him his title of Dragon Master, Po must set out on a globe-trotting quest of redemption to prevent a pair of twisted English mages from obtaining a collection of ancient, powerful weapons for diabolical purposes. Along the way he finds an unexpected ally in Wandering Blade (Ora), an English knight.

The first season premiered on Netflix on July 14, 2022. The second season premiered on January 12, 2023. The third and final season premiered on September 7, 2023.

Previews: Trailer 1, Official Clip, Season 2 Trailer

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Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight provides examples of:

• Abhorrent Admirer: Po reacts with disgust every time that Veruca shows her Villainous Crush on him.
• Acid Attack: The Forbidden Company is made up of Komodo Dragons whose Signature Move is spit acid at their foes.
• And You Were There: Po's story about the first Lunar New Year celebrations features himself as a wandering monster hunter, Blade as a monster hunter trying to live up to the example of her brother, Mr Ping as a noodle shop owner, Rukhmini as an innkeeper, and Akna as a firework maker.
• Adaptation Expansion: Apart from the introduction of explicitly European characters (itself a franchise first), the series delves into the origins of the Kung Fu Panda universe with a backstory tracing its roots in Pangea and the creation of the continents via mystical weaponry. Also, after the season 1 finale the following 2 seasons are mostly set outside of China, including locales such as England, India and South America.
• Alternate Continuity: Confirmed by Writer/Producer Ben Mekler that the show is its own thing when it comes to the greater Kung Fu Panda canon.
• Ambiguously Christian: Despite the series heavily featuring knights from England, there is not a single reference to either the Catholic Church or the Church Of England that would traditionally have bestowed these ranks onto them. These characters often show an aversion to witch craft but it is unclear if this is based on religion, oddly as Chinese folk religion is demonstrated by quite a few characters.
• Anachronism Stew: Granted the KFP world was never meant to be fully in sync with real human history but in "A Teacup Filled With The Self", we see through Klaus's memories that a young Veruca was captured at one point and said to be shipped off to Australia as a captive, which is pretty notable since Luthera's England is still in its medieval phase with knights but apparently has already colonized Australia. Such a thing wouldn't happen in real human history until the late 1700s when England's medieval period was long over.
• The Archmage: Veruca used to be the archmage of the Queen of England...until she was arrested for treason.
• Aristocrats Are Evil: The Emperor of China is not portrayed favorably. He is a spiteful, vindictive, cowardly individual who goes back on his word and uses underhanded means to get his way, be it summoning a “forbidden” group of mercenaries to capture Po, or using a trap door Rukhmini instead of letting her leave with her payment for the Whip of Eternal Flame.
• Art Shift: Flashbacks are often told in 2D segments just like another Kung Fu Panda show. Taking it further, flashbacks by Chinese characters are in the same vaguely watercolour-like style, flashbacks by English characters look more like medieval woodcuts or tapestries, and flashbacks by South American characters resemble Mayincatec art.
• Artistic Licence – History: Po describes the cocoa served in Tikal as sweet. Traditional South American chocolate was actually a very bitter drink ("xocoatl" literally means "bitter water"), until Europeans started adding sugar to it.
• Ax-Crazy: Veruca loves violence and is a bit insane. Justified since she was locked in prison for fifteen years, which took a toll in her sanity.
• The Bad Guy Wins: In a first for the franchise the first season ends on a cliffhanger with Klaus and Veruca defeating Po and Blade, and escaping, directly leading to the events of the second season. Before this, previous major villains were usually defeated at the end of a movie, at the end of an episode, or at the end of a season. By the end of the second season, Veruca doesn't totally win as Zuma beats her and takes away her Tianshang weapons to become the Big Bad but she still manages to get away and escape capture, making her the longest lasting arc villain of the KFP franchise by far..
• Big Bad Ensemble: The second season introduces multiple antagonists who all rival each other in competency and/or importance, including Klaus and Veruca as expected, Jayesh, Pirate Queen Forouzan, and Zuma. And even though Forouzan doesn't confront Po and company in this season, it can easily be surmised that she's every bit as able and competent as most other major villains in the franchise based on her reputation alone.
• Big "NO!": Po predictably gives this reaction when he learns the emperor has stripped him of his title… leading to an even more hopeless exclamation when he finds out his Dragon Master Happy Lunch toys have been recalled as a result.
• Bloodless Carnage: Unusually for the franchise, characters are wounded numerous times throughout the series, but there are still no visible injuries. Most notably, when Sir Alfred is stabbed by Veruca with his own sword, neither he or the sword itself have any blood on them.
• Blow You Away: The Helm of Winds is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, as it can control where the wind blows. It can even allow the user to fly.
• Breaking Old Trends: This is the first KFP iteration to be much more experimental and different than past movies and animated shows. Whereas past KFP stories largely took place in China, whether in the Valley of Peace or elsewhere, The Dragon Knight explores the world at large, including different cultures and locations that Po journeys to, as well as exploring the genesis of the world in the Pangaea Myth Arc. And whereas past allies and enemies all originated in China, Po meets different allies from different cultures and battles foreign enemies in different locations of the world. The series also gets a few major shakeups in a pretty big way when Mr. Ping and Forouzan stay as an Official Couple whereas past animated shows always reverted back to some kind of status quo. And while in past movies and shows, villains usually stayed pretty localized in China, we get the very first KFP villain, Sir Alfred, who operates on a planet wide scale, with the capability of rearranging continents and projecting his power all over the world.
• Breather Episode: "Epic Lunar New Year" is an example of this. After dealing with Klaus, Veruca, and Zuma, this episode focuses on Po telling his group the story about Lunar New Year during their journey to England.
• Broken Pedestal:
  • The series' events are set in motion when Po accidentally destroys a village during his first fight with Klaus and Veruca. This not only get him stripped of his title, but it also makes Po a social pariah, with very few citizens still holding him in high regards.
  • Luthera spends much of the show idolising her late brother Alfie, and is determined to destroy the Tianshang Weapons and finish the mission he died trying to complete. In Season 3, her admiration for her brother significantly plummets when Alfie returns as an undead spirit and reveals what he really planned to do with the weapons.
• The Bus Came Back: Not for any particular individual character but a species. Rhinos were fairly prominent in earlier franchise installments mainly as soldiers and guards, showing up in the first and second movie. By the third movie, no more actual rhinos appeared, though we did see a suit of armor for Master Flying Rhino. And rhinos like Hundun and other unnamed soldiers and goons showed up in Legends of Awesomeness, which was their final physical appearance before going on a hiatus and not even showing up in Paws of Destiny. In this series, the rhinos finally come back again as soldiers and guards and we additionally see other rhinos living in different continents like Africa.
• Circling Vultures: In the trailer, while he and Wandering Blade travel the desert, Po lists a group of unseen vultures among the individuals who want to kill them. The vultures call out from off screen that they’re actually waiting for them to die.
• Continuity Nod: During the initial fantasy sequence reintroducing Po, we see him handily defeating Tai Lung, Lord Shen, and Kai.
• Contrasting Sequel Antagonist:
  • Taking into consideration the entire franchise, Po has gone up against foreign villains in the past, such as Kira the clam who came from Japan and Kim the Invincible who wasn't given a country of origin but was still explicitly not from China in Legends of Awesomeness. However, all the main Big Bad villains of both the movies and the animated shows all originated from China. For this series, the Weasels as the two main villains are explicitly English and aren't Chinese at all, as is Colin while Rukmini is South Asian.
  • This is the first time multiple antagonists are recurring, whereas previous tv series had episodic villains or a single Arc Villain.
• Cool Big Bro: Alfie was the big brother of Wandering Blade, supporting her desire of being a knight and testing her to achieve her dream.
• Cool Sword: Luthera's Shield, the sword that Wandering Blade uses can easily slice through rocks and tree. Lampshaded by Po and other characters, who like to call it Black Steel of the Equinox because it sounds cooler. (And because it's not a shield.)
• Cute Clumsy Girl: Padma, who doesn't make a single appearance without tripping over. Until she's revealed to be part of her mother's con, implying it was all part of the act.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Veruca has largely been the show's primary villain from the start and then she meets her end in "The Battle of Tianshang (Part 2)", it appears as if the day is saved and the weapons will be destroyed, then it turns out that Alfie is the true big bad of the show as he takes control of the weapons with the intention of using them to rule the world.
• Distress Ball: In "The Last Guardian" Po is really frightened to the point of cowering when he's faced with undead skeletal warriors, which is pretty glaring considering he's fought plenty of other supernatural/undead threats in past KFP installments in both movies and shows. However, the focus of the episode was about Po being afraid of not making it back home so it was necessary for Wandering Blade to snap him out of his fright and for Po to finally conquer his fear and to snap out of his funk to escape the hidden village.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Rukhmini reacts with annoyance when Po talks to her moss friends, telling him to not patronize her as she knows that her moss friends are not real.
• Earth Drift: A somewhat complicated example. While the various nations of earth are reinforced as a concept, the backstory of the world in this series is deeply fantastical (Pangea not only broke apart due to magical weapons abut modern organisms and cultures already existed when this happened). Nothing of the sort is ever implied in any other Kung Fu Panda spin-off, which at most allude to Chinese Mythology.
• Eldritch Location: The ancient city of Tianshang, located directly under England in an ancient well in a catacomb. The area is full of floating bits of rocks and other weirdly-shaped bits of land, with strange glowing red trees and many Tron Lines within the rocks and in the forge. Even more bizarre, gravity is very loose, with several objects leaning on its side or are even upside down.
• Elemental Weapon: One of the Shang-Chen weapons is called the Whip of Eternal Flame. Said whip can release fire when used.
• Females Are More Innocent:
  • Surprisingly Inverted with the Mage twins. Between Klaus and Veruca, Veruca is the one portrayed as the more evil of the two. She's more explicitly murderous, she's willing to attack her fellow mages just because they replaced her while she was in prison, she has a much more malevolent goal with the Weapons, she starts abusing Klaus in the second season, and she even abandons him to his presumed death to save her own skin. Klaus, meanwhile, eventually gets fed up with the quest for the weapons and walks away from it all. And while he doesn't make a Heel–Face Turn outright, he is willing to help the heroes when things get dire.
  • Zuma is also an Inverted example. While treated a bit more sympathetically than Veruca, she's still willing to steal food and resources for her own gain and admiration. She even gets a Redemption Rejection and temporarily kills Po.
  • And the final villain, Alfie completes the inversion trifecta. He starts as a Well-Intentioned Extremist who doesn't jump off the deep end right away, only gradually losing his cool as he sees that people aren't appreciating his actions. Even then, he still has a Heel Realization when our heroes help him realize he's gone too far. To the point where he surrenders his power willingly. Arguably, the only reason he even turned evil in the first place was because he Came Back Wrong.
• Foreshadowing: In Season 3, the heroes find the ancient forge where the Tianshang Weapons were originally created, and discover that Alfie's sword, which Luthera currently wields, was actually forged from the second Storm Wheel that Alfie had brought from Tikal. While it seems a heartwarming moment at the time, and gives the heroes a significant advantage against Veruca, it also serves as an early hint that Alfie wasn't actually planning to destroy the Tiangshen weapons, but to wield them himself.
• Forgot About His Powers: While it's possibly justified in that Po hasn't practiced the move in a long time (possibly for many years) and may very well have forgotten how to do it, he notably does not try to re-direct Veruca's cannonfire in "An Uphill Battle" while she's firing her cannons at Po and friends with her floating ship like he did with Shen and his cannons in the second movie.
• Green Thumb: Veruca can manipulate plants with her magic, but only in presence of the moon.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: Being locked up for fifteen years in prison did a number on Veruca's mental health. Though Klaus eventually broke her out, it's clear that the damage has made Veruca wilder and more violent than she used to be, with the resentment she feels towards her brother and fellow mages leading to them gradually falling out.
• Hand Wave: Whether it fully satisfies the audience or not is another matter altogether but in "The Lotus", we do get a very short-hand answer for why the Emperor in this series is different from the ones we've seen in previous animated shows. After Po helps the hedgehog village, Elder Huang expresses her gratitude to him by telling him that Emperors come and go but Po is still the Dragon Master in their eyes, implying China's emperors don't necessarily stay in power for their lifetime.
• Hates Being Alone: Po gets depressed when left alone. He talks to a radish after being locked in a closet for three minutes, has a fear of dying because it means that he won't see Mr. Ping again, and has trouble dealing with separation, as he tricks Wandering Blade into staying one day longer in China out of fear of losing his new friend.
• Healing Potion: Klaus has glasses of potions to treat his injuries. He uses one of them on Colin to mend his broken leg.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: In the first episode, Po’s attempts to stop Klaus and Veruca from stealing the gauntlet go horribly wrong, resulting in the destruction of the village. As a result, Po loses the respect of the people and the Emperor strips him of his title as Dragon Master.
  • It gets worse in episode 3, when he is forced to free a prisoner who has knowledge of the weasels’ whereabouts, fighting off the Emperor’s men in the process. The following episode, the Emperor declares Po a criminal for this and sends a group of mercenaries after him and Blade.
  • Blade is seen as a thief and liar in England, because she took her brother's sword and claims to be a knight. Colin, at least, is largely uninterested in why.
  • In ""Hide the Lightning", the residents of Tikal are horrified to see the foreigners fighting their Protector. Po laments "How does this keep happening?"
• Hiding Behind Religion: The "cannibal" village priestess reveals that she doesn't actually believe in her goddess, apparently engaging in her murderous harvest rituals for funzies. When one of her acolytes is dragged off by Veruca she is pretty pissed to learn about this.
• Holiday Episode: Season 2 ends with "Epic Lunar New Year", in which Mr Ping realises it's the Lunar New Year, and Po tells a story about how the celebrations began.
• Ineffectual Loner: Wandering Blade initially attempts to continue her quest without Po's help but is stymied at every turn. Only when she and Po are working together do they ever make any progress.
• Loose Canon: While Dragon Knight is explicitly set after the film trilogy, their events are only vaguely alluded to, and Po and Mr. Ping are the only returning characters while the rest of the established cast are completely absent and all but outright non-existent (despite the series having episodes set in the Panda Village). Additionally, the franchise's other spin-offs are not referenced at all, and the unnamed Emperor of China shown in this series is also a completely different species and character from the Emperors shown in either of its predecessors. The only thing this series has that can even remotely be considered a Continuity Nod is Po having the title of Dragon Master, which is yanked away from him by the Emperor. The previous series Paws of Destiny was the show that stopped referring to Po as the Dragon Warrior and gave him the new title of Dragon Master.
• Lunacy: Veruca has magic powers that get stronger with the presence of the moon. During her imprisonment, she was deprived of moonlight for fifteen years, weakening her magic. She gets it back when saving Klaus from being eaten.
• MacGuffin: The Weasels are after four Shang-Chen weapons of great power as part of a plot to create their own empire. These weapons are:
  • The Wugao Gauntlet, once wielded by Master Sloth. This thing can cause a shockwave so fierce that even just its thumb is powerful.
    • This was in China, and it was the start of the plot when Veruca and Klaus came to take it.
  • The Whip of Endless Flame, once wielded by Master Long Tooth. As the name suggests this is a whip that is made entirely out of fire.
    • The whip was in the lost city, which was in a giant golem, where Rukhmini would take ownership of it.
  • The Helm of Winds, once wielded by Master Ostrich. This helmet can control the winds and can allow the user to fly.
    • The helmet was found by one of the mages, Kyle, who used it to bring in ships to stock up on food. Eventually, Klaus and Veruca took it from him.
  • The Storm Wheels, once wielded by Master Mastadon. These bad boys can not only shoot lightning, but allows the user to ride on it making the user faster.
    • Both of the wheels were formerly in the hands of Tikal, but one of them was taken by Alfie and Akna, which was melted down to make what would be Luthera's Shield, while the other was taken by the Dragon Knights to be destroyed along with the other weapons.
• Magic Knight: The weasels are referred as mages, and yet they fight proficiently with bladed weapons like the knights who try to arrest them.
• Misplaced Wildlife: Although most animals are geographically accurate for the region they appear in (and fit the National Animal Stereotypes of their country), many background extras are recycled in later episodes, meaning that there are, for example, Asian animals such as zebus and pikas in South America, and tahrs among the English mages. However, it can be justified by all the animals having access to intercontinental travel via ships.
• Namesake Gag: According to Po's story about the origin of Chinese New Year celebrations, nian gao are named after a monster called Nian.
• National Animal Stereotypes:
  • The Queen of England is a corgi (which is kind of anachronistic, since the association of corgis and British royalty is very recent) and her guards are lions.
  • In India, Jayesh is an elephant, and his guards are cobras. Rukhmini the macaque is from the same city.
  • The first people Po and company meet in South America are a tribe of tree frogs. Zuma is a jaguar with giant anteater guards, the Blood Boys are armadillos, and Akna is a quetzel.
• Never Mess with Granny: Rukhmini is an old monkey woman, who found the Whip of Eternal Flame and learned how to use it.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • During Po's first fight with the weasels, he accidentally destroys the town he was protecting with the mystic gauntlet he was supposed to protect. This is what ultimately causes him to become a Broken Pedestal to most of China and lose his title of Dragon Master.
  • It turns out the weasels only learned about the Tianshang Weapons in the first place because they saw Alfie with the Storm Wheel.
• "No. Just… No" Reaction: Po reacts with horror and disgust when Veruca gives him a We Can Rule Together offer.
• Not Quite Dead: Apparently, Alfie's weapon, Luthera's Shield, was forged from one of the Storm Wheels he took from Tikal. So when Veruca stabbed him with his own sword, it didn’t kill him, it trapped him inside his sword like the army that was sealed away in the other Tian Shang Weapons.
• Oddball in the Series: By far this is the most experimental Kung Fu Panda spin-off, not only putting a lot of emphasis on non-Chinese elements but also introducing a mythic genesis to the world and not featuring nearly all of the core cast aside from Po and Mr. Ping in favor of new characters. Additionally, while previous animated shows ended in an open ended manner, leaving room for future movies to not get tied down by anything, The Dragon Knight ends with Mr. Ping and Forouzan living together as an Official Couple without Mr. Ping's love interest leaving or sailing off into the sunset, which is a first for the franchise.
• Official Couple: While this did eventually get overridden by Kung Fu Panda 4, The Dragon Knight ends with Mr. Ping and Forouzan living together as a couple, without Forouzan leaving Mr. Ping or deciding she can't be with him and sailing away.
• Opposing Sports Team: Subverted: the Blood Boys are initially presented as this, a family of arrogant pok-ta-pok players bragging that nobody can defeat them. It eventually transpires that this bravado masks how desperate they are to win, and Po suddenly realises that he, Rukhmini, and Blade (who has turned into a Competition Freak called "the Beast") are actually the bad-guy team.
• Papa Wolf: Mr. Ping is not afraid to stand up to the Emperor under threat of imprisonment if it means protecting Po. By the first season finale, he decided to travel with Po across the world to stop Klaus and Veruca.
• Playing with Fire: Anyone using the Whip of Eternal Flame can release bursts of flame from the rope when using it.
• Power Fist: The Wugao Gauntlet, the first Shang-Chen weapon. Who ever wields it can throw explosive punches that smash the ground and knock others back. It's powerful enough to destroy a village, as seen when Po accidentally uses it when fighting the weasels.
• Put on a Bus: As in Paws of Destiny, Master Shifu and the Furious Five are not present. On top of it, the panda villagers from Kung Fu Panda 3, including Po’s biological father Li Shan, are absent as well despite the series having episodes set in the Panda Village, as is Master Oogway, who at least had cameos in the previous two series. Oogway and Shifu are mentioned by Po and a Tigress figure appears inside Po's mindscape (though the other Five's figures don't), but aside from that and the films’ big bads making a brief non-speaking appearance in a fantasy sequence in the first episode, the only returning characters are Po and Mr. Ping.
• Rank Up: Po convinces Wandering Blade to make him her disciple to become a knight. He starts at the rank of page, but he gets promoted to squire later on. This plot gets quietly dropped when Po discovers she never was a knight.
• Redemption Quest: Po's journey with Wandering Blade is to redeem himself for letting the weasels escape, hoping that it will restore his honor as the Dragon Master.
• Retcon: Mr. Ping's first scene in the original film has him reiterating to Po how the noodle shop has been passed down through multiple generations of their family. In this series, it's revealed that Mr. Ping was a pirate in his younger years and set up the noodle business after faking his own death, potentially suggesting that this entire family history was just a cover story in this continuity.
• Retired Badass: As revealed in the second season, in this continuity Mr. Ping actually used to be a pirate in his younger days, even becoming acquainted with the Pirate Queen Forouzan. However, he one day faked his death and stowed away in a ship to return home to China and start up a noodle shop.
• Running on All Fours: Klaus and Veruca run on all fours when fighting. So does Blade when she unleashes The Beast.
• Sapient Eat Sapient: A village Veruca and Klaus happen upon happen to be intent on cooking them.
• Scam Religion: When Veruca is mistaken for the chow-chows' goddess, the High Priestess is shocked enough to blurt out that she just made her up.
• Scarecrow Solution: In "Epic Lunar New Year", Nian the monster is driven off by red lanterns and fireworks, plus the two monster hunters putting on a dragon costume.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: The Tianshang Weapons contain the souls of everyone they’ve been used to defeat in battle, in this case being the Evil Masters who fought the four Ancient Masters. Klaus and Veruca plan to collect them all and use them to release their own army. And it turns out that Sir Alfred is a Knight Templar who was trapped in the weapons as well and is unleashed in the finale.
• Sequel Escalation: While the villains in the other films and series in the franchise have mostly proven to be threats to China alone, this show has Po face one of his biggest threats yet when Alfie becomes powered by the Tianshang wWeapons which he uses with the intention of recreating Pangea, but his actions could potentially lead to the destruction of the entire world.
• Sequel Goes Foreign: Zigzagged. Up until now, the franchise has mostly been contained to China. While this is true for most of the first season, there are flashbacks to the new characters’ lives in England. At the very end of the first season finale, however, Wandering Blade announces that the party will have to leave China in order to stop Klaus and Veruca. Season 2 starts out in India but moves to South/Central America with Veruca and Klaus visiting the Polynesian Islands in their quest for the weapons.. Season 3 has the group travel to England and finally, Africa, with the final two episodes taking place back in England for the final battle.
• Sibling Team: Klaus and Veruca are brother and sister, and they make a dangerous team. Until Season 2 where Veruca decides she's better off alone and leaves Klaus behind to take over the world all by herself.
• Sliding Scale of Villain Threat: As the series progresses, the threat level of the major villains increases with the amount of Tianshang weapons they gain. Klaus and Veruca remain as a Local Area Threat, gaining great power with their weapons and being able to threaten Po, Luthera, and whoever else is in their vicinity but likewise, never graduate to a higher scale. In Season 2, Zuma with her Storm Wheel and later added Tianshang weapons is a Regional Threat, menacing neighboring civilizations and villages through drought with her Elemental Powers and being a Flash Step villain who can move Fast as Lightning. And for the third and final season, Sir Alfred with all the Tianshang weapons is easily a Planetary Threat, having the power to rearrange continents back into Pangaea and being able to project undead shadow warriors all over the planet, as he's an extremist Knight Templar who believes in enforcing his version of peace over the whole world.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Wandering Blade is this for Tigress - a serious, no-nonsense female warrior to contrast with Po’s goofiness and wide-eyed innocence.
• Tom the Dark Lord: Klaus and Veruca have a good laugh when they find out that the threatening deer that antagonizes them is named Colin.
• Villainous Crush: Veruca has a crush on Po, flirting with him on their encounters. Po is naturally disturbed. She offers him to join her and Klaus and in the saeason 1 finale Po tries to exploit this to save Luthera's life when she gets held hostage by the weasels, by proposing to become Veruca's boyfriend if she lets his friend go but it fails.
• We Can Rule Together: Veruca offers Po the chance of joining her and Klaus, mainly due to her crush on him. Po refuses right away as he considers Veruca an Abhorrent Admirer due to her Ax-Crazy personality.
• Wicked Weasel: Klaus and Veruca are two weasel criminals who are the main antagonists of the show.
• World Tour: The quest for the Tianshang Weapons not only takes the Dragon Knights all over China, but all over the globe, from India, to South America, to England, Even Polynesia and Africa.
• Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Invoked when the weasels have a ploy called "Chop Chop Little Brother" where Veruca chops Klaus on the throat and uses the generosity of travelers to steal from them while they focus on helping her brother. Naturally, Klaus hates this ploy due to the physical abuse.
• You Killed My Father: Wandering Blade wants to capture the weasels because they killed her older brother, Alfie. For extra damage, she indirectly caused his death by intruding in his fight with the weasels, allowing Veruca to kill him. She ultimately gives up on it once she realizes her quest for revenge is holding her back and that Klaus is too pathetic for her to find any satisfaction in killing him when his sister abandons him.

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