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''Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} animated series from Creator/DreamWorksAnimation. It is the third series based upon the ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' films, following ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'' and ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaThePawsOfDestiny'', and the first to have Creator/JackBlack 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.[[/note]] Also in the cast is franchise veteran Creator/JamesHong as Po's adoptive father, Mr. Ping, and franchise newcomer Music/RitaOra.

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''Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight'' is a Creator/{{Netflix}} animated fantasy action comedy series from Creator/DreamWorksAnimation. It is the third series based upon the ''Franchise/KungFuPanda'' films, following ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness'' and ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaThePawsOfDestiny'', and the first to have Creator/JackBlack 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.[[/note]] Also in the cast is franchise veteran Creator/JamesHong as Po's adoptive father, Mr. Ping, and franchise newcomer Music/RitaOra.
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* 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:

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* MacGuffin: The Weasels are after four Shang-Chen Tianshang weapons of great power as part of a plot to create their own empire. These weapons are:



* PowerFist: The Wugao Gauntlet, the first Shang-Chen weapon. Who ever wields it can throw [[KungFuSonicBoom 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.

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* PowerFist: The Wugao Gauntlet, the first Shang-Chen Tianshang weapon. Who ever wields it can throw [[KungFuSonicBoom 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.
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* KnightAndSamurai: Played with. Po, the kung-fu Dragon Warrior, joins forces with a British knight, the Wandering Blade, to defeat a pair of evil weasels from gathering magical artifacts that will help them conquer the world.
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* LooseCanon: While ''Dragon Knight'' is explicitly set after the film trilogy, their events are only [[BroadStrokes 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, with an action figure of Tigress in Po's mindscape that never gets commented on being the only acknowledgement of the Furious Five). Additionally, the franchise's [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness other]] [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaThePawsOfDestiny spin-offs]] are hardly referenced if 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 ContinuityNod is Po having the title of Dragon ''Master'', which is yanked away from him by the Emperor as well as Po and Ping residing in the Panda Village as their new home. 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 and had Po and Ping move to the Panda Village. Oogway and Shifu are mentioned but that's about it.

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* LooseCanon: While ''Dragon Knight'' is explicitly set after the film trilogy, their events are only [[BroadStrokes 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, with an action figure of Tigress in Po's room and mindscape that never gets commented on being the only acknowledgement of the Furious Five). Additionally, the franchise's [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaLegendsOfAwesomeness other]] [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaThePawsOfDestiny spin-offs]] are hardly referenced if 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 ContinuityNod is Po having the title of Dragon ''Master'', which is yanked away from him by the Emperor as well as Po and Ping residing in the Panda Village as their new home. 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 and had Po and Ping move to the Panda Village. Oogway and Shifu are mentioned but that's about it.



* PutOnABus: As in ''[[WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaThePawsOfDestiny Paws of Destiny]]'', Master Shifu and the Furious Five are not present. On top of it, the panda villagers from ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'', 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.

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* PutOnABus: As in ''[[WesternAnimation/KungFuPandaThePawsOfDestiny Paws of Destiny]]'', Master Shifu and the Furious Five are not present. On top of it, the panda villagers from ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'', 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 in Po's house and side 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.

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