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4''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11766560/1/Shen-vs-Kai-When-Evil-Collides Shen vs. Kai: When Evil Collides]]'' is a WhatIf fic for ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' created by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2516217/Berserker88 Berserker88]] and later co-authored with [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/6260989/Mind-Jack Mind Jack]]. Taking place during the events of ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'', the fic follows the events of canon, with BigBad Lord Shen creating an unstoppable new weapon, invading Gongmen City, and plotting the conquest of all of China. The heroes of the Jade Palace set out to stop him, as per usual.
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6And that's where [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3 Kai]] comes in.
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8The tides of fate have suddenly gone out of whack and the Maker of Widows has broken out of the Spirit Realm much earlier than he should have, now leaving the heroes with ''two'' villains to contend with. Luckily for them, the baddies are more interested in removing their competition so they can have China all to themselves. This quickly results in one hell of a chaotic situation and multiple levels of MindScrew.
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11!!''Shen vs. Kai: When Evil Collides'' provides examples of:
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13* AccidentalMisnaming: Kai named his second strongest Jade warrior [[{{Pun}} Taiwan]]. When Mantis tries to correct him, Kai interrupts him in favor of gushing about [[spoiler: Tai Lung's]] abilities.
14* AlternateUniverse: In this story's setting, Kai tracks down Oogway and leaves the Spirit Realm at around the same time that Shen takes over Gongmen City, causing the canon course of events to go way OffTheRails. [[spoiler:It's eventually revealed that this isn't just your standard AlternateUniverseFic: the canon-divergent timeline that this fic is set in is actually a splinter from a completely canon-adherent universe, and it was created via Shen after his canon death making a DealWithTheDevil which formed another universe around him]].
15* AscendedExtra: Two unseen Jade warriors; [[spoiler: Oogway and Tai Lung]] make an appearance in this fic as Kai's two strongest warriors with Kai expressing great displeasure at the fact that he is forced to use the former.
16%%* BatOutOfHell: Played quite literally with [[spoiler: Hei Yinying]].
17* BigBad: Kai, with Shen as more of a VillainProtagonist. [[spoiler: Or so it seems. Kai himself is just an UnwittingPawn to Hei Yinying.]]
18* BilingualBonus: Hei Yinying is Mandarin for "Dark Cloudy Shadow".
19* BlackComedy:
20** As a fic heavily involving Kai, this is a given.
21** [[spoiler:Yinying engages in a bit of this as well. Not surprising, being a death demon and all]].
22* BreakThemByTalking: Several examples over the course of the fic. Besides Shifu and the Soothsayer, [[spoiler:Hei Yinying]] is pretty good at this.
23* CastingAShadow: [[spoiler: Yinying's]] main abilities.
24* DealWithTheDevil: As it turns out, [[spoiler: the entire fic is the result of one, made by Lord Shen as a means of getting a second chance at life. Needless to say, it isn't as simple as that]].
25* DramaPreservingHandicap: When Kai summons him, Jade Oogway proves to be the strongest jombie in his arsenal, as he is able to repel every single wolf swarming him and could have flattened any opposition, including the Furious Five and Shen, but since summoning him hits one of Kai's {{Berserk Button}}s (being reminded just how inferior he is to Oogway), he never uses him unless he has no other choice.
26* EvenEvilHasStandards: As bloodthirsty and megalomaniacal as Kai is, he does have a warrior code of honor about him. He's expressly disgusted when briefly under the impression that [[spoiler:Hei Yinying]] has enslaved the souls of warriors and keeps them unfairly handicapped to limit their resistance. He also can't find it in him to beat up an old lady even when she's pestering him and instead takes his frustration out on some buildings.
27-->Had he seriously just been chased out of his own hideout by a little old lady? Talk about humiliating. The worst part was that he couldn't even do anything about it. It wasn't like he could just beat up an elderly goat. [[SarcasmMode Yeah,]] ''[[SarcasmMode that]]'' [[SarcasmMode would sure make him look macho.]]
28* EvilVersusEvil: The central premise. Po and the gang eventually concede that Shen is the lesser of two evils compared to Kai.
29* EvilVersusOblivion: This is one of the main reasons why the Furious Five end up reluctantly siding with Shen in the titular conflict. Shen wants to forcibly conquer China and bring it under his despotic heel... but at least there will still ''be'' a functioning China if he wins, whereas Kai is a Chaotic Evil who just wants to bulldoze his way through the world, sowing chaos and ruin wherever he goes looking for chi to steal.
30* FauxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler:The demon Yinying]]. He's so incredibly refined and perfect-mannered with Shen, Kai and the heroes most of the time that one can be forgiven for ''almost'' failing to see through the veil to his wicked true colors as a heartless and self-serving [[spoiler:demon]].
31* FreudianExcuse: Something Shen and Kai have in common. Kai's relationship with Oogway before and up to their falling out gets expanded on. It's also eventually revealed through flashback that Shen was treated distantly by his parents, and was regarded as a freak due to his albinism-inducing birth condition when first introduced to people[[note]]This is a detail from the ''Kung Fu Panda 2'' production notes that was absent from the final film[[/note]] which implicitly contributed heavily to both Shen's WellDoneSonGuy and his severe antisocial personality.
32%%* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Comes with Kai's Jombies.
33* GodzillaThreshold: Using Oogway is this to Kai; He is easily the strongest Jade Warrior that Kai has in his arsenal, but due to being a big BerserkButton for him, he never uses him unless he absolutely has to. [[spoiler:Which unfortunately, Boss Wolf managed to force him to and makes Kai incredibly angry]].
34* HeelFaceTurn:
35** Shen starts the story as just a VillainProtagonist with an EvilVersusOblivion to Kai who is bent on conquering China. As the story progresses, he comes to genuinely learn and grow and he even grows fond of [[spoiler:Po]], and when the FinalBattle rolls around, Yinying notes that Shen has managed to change all the way to the core. [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold He's still a bit of a jerkwad in the last few chapters]].
36** [[spoiler:Even ''Kai'' makes one in the last few chapters. He allies with Shen to fight Yinying, and they genuinely bond over the battle. Kai ends up finding that he can't go back to the villainous badass he was if he tried, since having an epiphany about how chi that is actually copasetic with his wants is much more powerful than forcibly-enslaved chi has effectively depowered him of his chi-stealing ability]].
37* HiddenVillain: [[spoiler: Yinying, who (literally) stays in the shadows for most of the fic]].
38* HopeSpot: A particularly brutal one. In Chapter 20, [[spoiler: Po defeats Yinying in a battle for Shen's soul contract, which the demon is forced to hand over to him. Po is about to destroy it and release Shen from his deal, when Yinying casually mentions that it was this contract that created the AlternateUniverse the fic takes place in, and destroying it will essentially cause said universe and everyone in it ''except Shen'' to cease to exist. Yinying then explains that he knew this the entire time and only went through all of this trouble solely to break Po's spirit. [[HeroicBSOD And it works.]]]]
39* HypocriticalHumor: When Kai first hears his jade soldiers referred to as "jombies", he calls the name ridiculous. By the next chapter, he's using it himself.
40* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Shen essentially becomes this in the last few chapters once his HeelFaceTurn is complete. He's still very haughty, irritable and retains a bit of a mean streak about him, but he's found inner peace and come to genuinely care about the welfare of others around him more than his own benfit.
41* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:Yinying]] normally maintains his FauxAffablyEvil, but when Po gets in his way, he can't resist viciously breaking the panda's spirit by [[spoiler:leading him to believe that freeing Shen from his Faustian contract will essentally kill everyone else inside the universe created by Shen's deal]].
42-->"'''''Do you want to know why I even wasted my time with this? Because I'm sick of ignorant, idealistic morons trying to get in my way, and I just wanted to ''break you''.'''''"
43* LaserGuidedAmnesia: It's eventually revealed during the story why Shen [[spoiler:is having flashbacks of events from the movie canon after the fic's divergence has already fully negated those events from happening: Shen in the canon-based universe made a DealWithTheDevil which created the alternate universe around him at a point before his death, and his memories of the original world and the deal have been suppressed as part of the bargain]].
44* LaserGuidedKarma: Lord Shen, by the end of the story, is punished for his crime of attempted panda genocide [[spoiler:by being reborn [[YouAreWhatYouHate as a panda]].]]
45* OffTheRails: The fic follows the plot of the second film to a tee up until Kai gets involved, throwing the entire thing off track almost immediately.
46* OutOfFocus: The actual heroes, spending most of the first act just trying to ''get'' to Gongmen after Kai inadvertently destroys their boat. [[spoiler: They get more prominent once they finally arrive.]]
47* PleaseSelectNewCityName: Discussed Trope. Kai considered renaming Gongmen City [[spoiler: into either [[{{Egopolis}} "Great Kai City", "Kaiopolis" or "Shi Kai De"]] during his confrontation with Monkey and Viper.]]
48* SparedByTheAdaptation: At the story's end, the Wolf Boss, who spent most of the story turned into a Jombie, is alive and well for the time being. [[spoiler:Downplayed with Shen and Kai -- one of them technically dies, but both their souls get to reincarnate]].
49* TakeMyHand : Monkey and Viper have such a moment when [[spoiler:trying to escape Kai. Neither of them makes it, and Kai only refrained from grabbing them immediately [[ForTheEvulz because he was curious to see what would happen]].]]
50* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: On their way to Gongmen City, Po and the Five are inadvertently delayed by Kai, keeping them from interfering in the initial struggle between the two villains. They only reach the city just in time to [[spoiler:find the injured Shen]].
51* UngratefulBastard: [[spoiler: Shen doesn't much appreciate being rescued. The Furious Five take the time to tend to his wounds and immediately after, he insults Viper and Monkey while they are out of reach, attempts to take Mantis hostage, and later on, orders his henchmen to apprehend the surviving warriors]].
52* UnwittingPawn: It turns out that [[spoiler: Kai is merely a pawn to Hei Yinying, a mysterious demon whom he made a deal with to escape the Spirit Realm]]. The same could be said about [[spoiler: Shen, and to an even greater extent]].
53* VillainProtagonist: Lord Shen takes on this role, with Kai being the more explicit villain.
54* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler: Yinying's]] existence isn't so much as ''hinted at'' until Chapter 7. [[spoiler: And he doesn't physically appear until Chapter 16]].
55* XanatosGambit: [[spoiler:Hei Yinying]]'s EvilPlan is eventually revealed to culminate in this. [[spoiler:He's expecting Shen and Kai to fight to the death for the chance to escape the Faustian contracts on their respective souls before they come due. If Shen kills Kai, then Shen will be freed whilst Yinying reaps Kai's soul, and the souls of every last Jombie in Kai's collection. And if Kai defeats Shen, Yinying expects Kai will absorb Shen for his Jombie collection, unwittingly extending Yinying's due claim on Shen's soul to all of Kai's Jombies regardless]].
56* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Like the original, Shen always called Po by his animal name "Panda", but when he witnessed Po having a HeroicBSOD, he calls Po by his name after his attempts to call him "Panda" proved futile. And it's also what made Po finally respond to him.

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