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Once aware of the tournament, Po became anxious to attend it, but was swayed by his father to take a
noodle cart up the giant staircase to the Jade Palace arena. After a long struggle, he eventually
abandoned the cart and climbed the stairs himself, which exhausted him. When he arrived at the top,
the gates closed on him and the tournament had already started. Desperate to see the tournament, Po
tried several ways to get inside, all ending in disaster. In a final attempt, Po strapped fireworks to a chair
and lit them, only to be spotted by his father, who panicked seeing the stunt. After declaring that he
loved kung fu, the fireworks soon sparked and Po shot up into the sky. Po eventually fell down into the
middle of the arena in front of Oogway, who was about to point to the Dragon Warrior. The tortoise
indicated that the Dragon Warrior was, in fact, the panda who had fallen before him.

Po in the Training Hall

After failing to persuade Oogway that a "flabby panda" couldn't possibly be the true Dragon Warrior,
Shifu met Po in the Jade Palace and tried to berate and humiliate the panda, even threatening him with
the Wuxi Finger Hold. The red panda later tried to pressure Po into quitting, subjecting him to the
dangers of the Training Hall and a grueling series of matches with the Furious Five, all of whom
(especially Tigress) thought little of him and joked about his incompetence. That night, Po was dejected
after his first day of training, more so after being coldly told off by Tigress, and subjected himself to
overeating, stuffing his mouth with peaches picked from the Peach Tree of Heavenly Wisdom. When
discovered by Master Oogway, who understood his troubles, the tortoise gave him the advice to focus
on his present situation instead of worrying about the failures of the past or future.

Meanwhile, Tai Lung had escaped from his Mongolian prison, using one of the loose feathers from the
very messenger goose Shifu had sent to assure the prison's security, and was able to pick the lock of
the acupuncture restraint he was held in. After fighting and defeating the guards of the prison, the snow
leopard grasped the messenger and told him to tell those at the Jade Palace that "the real Dragon
Warrior is coming home." Anxious to have the Dragon Scroll himself, he began his return to the Valley of
Peace.

Taking Oogway's advice to heart, Po had arrived early in the courtyard to practice, surprising Shifu and
Five, who had been convinced he had quit. Soon, Po endeared himself to most of the Five (sans Tigress)
with his impressive tenacity, culinary skill, and good humor, even though he was still unable to grasp the
basics of kung fu.

Meanwhile, Oogway exacted a promise from Shifu that the latter would believe in and train Po, and
then ascended to the heavens in a swirl of flower petals, conferring his guardianship of the Valley of
Peace upon Shifu. Upon hearing that Tai Lung was coming, Po panicked and tried to flee from the
palace. Shifu refused to let him go, insisting that Oogway's advice must be followed, but Po had lost all
confidence and the red panda was at a complete loss for a solution. After witnessing this argument on
the roof of the Palace, Tigress led the Furious Five in an attempt to stop Tai Lung themselves.

The next morning, Shifu discovered that Po displayed incredible and impressive agility when he is
motivated by food. He therefore takes Po for solitary training in the mountains and, by promising food
as a reward for learning his lessons well, trained Po into a skilled and capable warrior.

Tigress and the other members of the Furious Five arrived at a long rope bridge over a misty canyon, in
which the Five confronted Tai Lung, to whom they engaged in battle. Though the Five initially seemed to
win, Tai Lung ultimately defeated them with the use of nerve attacks. Crane managed to fly back to the
Jade Palace carrying the rest of the Five, who have been paralyzed. Feeling that Po was ready to beat Tai
Lung, Shifu gave him the Dragon Scroll — which opened to reveal nothing but a blank, golden reflective

At the palace, Tai Lung confronted Shifu and demanded the scroll, letting out his anger at being rejected
from becoming the Dragon Warrior himself and blaming Shifu for not speaking up for him at the
determining moment. After fighting him off and being beaten, Shifu eventually offered an apology to Tai
Lung for his mistake in not seeing what he had turned him into. When Shifu refused to hand him the
scroll, Tai Lung attacked and nearly killed him. After a hesitant moment, Tai Lung declared he didn't
want an apology, he wanted his scroll, which he noticed was missing. Enraged, he demanded Shifu to
tell him where its whereabouts, pinning the old master to the floor by his throat. Shifu managed to
choke out that Po had already taken the scroll halfway across China and out of Tai Lung's reach. Before
Tai Lung was about to strike a blow to his former master with his claws, an exhausted Po arrived,
proclaiming to be the Dragon Warrior.

Tai Lung, taken aback, chuckled at the notion that the "big, fat panda" was the Dragon Warrior of
legend, but when Po pulled out the Dragon Scroll, he was swiftly attacked by the leopard. Soon the two
began a battle over possession of the scroll, in which Po unexpectedly proved himself an equal, which
the leopard concluded could only be possible through the scroll's power. After a frustrating struggle that
dragged down the palace steps and into a village of the Valley, Tai Lung gained the upper hand,
pummelling Po to the ground, and finally opened the scroll only to be was met with confusion, unable to
comprehend its symbolic meaning.

Po then offered an explanation, interpreting that: "There is no secret ingredient... It's just you." Furious
at this, Tai Lung attacked the panda again; however, Po's body-mass made Tai Lung's nerve attacks
useless, only managing to tickle him. Po followed this defines with counter-attacks of devastating
effectiveness, and eventually captured an exhausted Tai Lung with the Wuxi Finger Hold, claiming to
have figured out the mysterious move himself. With the bending of his pinkie and the word "skadoosh",
Po performed the hold, bringing about a golden, misty shockwave throughout the Valley and defeating
the snow leopard.Po found the old red panda barely conscious. Shifu told Po that he had brought peace
to the Valley, and to him, and thanked him, trailing off and closing his eyes. Po then pleaded for the
master not to die, only for Shifu to yell that he wasn't dying, but was simply at peace. After the two
rested in a tranquil moment, Po broke the silence by asking Shifu if he wants to get something to eat, to
which the red panda eventually answered he did.
PAGE 2: CONFLICT IN THE STORY (enumerate at least 1-2 only, and how they resolved it) – 15 PTS.

The first contender and the one I’m most inclined to call the Inciting Event is spirit warrior Kai’s return to
Earth. This is where the main conflict enters Po’s realm. It doesn’t, however, impact or even touch Po’s
own life in any way as yet, which makes his section of the story relatively plot-less.

Po’s turning point coincides with the arrival of his birth father Li. However, since Li’s arrival has, at this
point, only an incidental relation to the main conflict (i.e., “the universe”—which turns out to be Master
Oogway—sent him to find Po), it is a poor Inciting Event all on its own.

Finally, the third of our contenders is Po’s first encounter the main conflict, when Kai’s chi-enslaved jade
zombies attack the valley. However, the timing of this event is so late in the First Act that it becomes
more properly the Key Event.

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WHAT CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PROTAGONIST AMAZED YOU? – 10 PTS.

 Po -As the star of the Kung Fu Panda series, Po is automatically the most obvious choice for the
number one pick on this list. But even if he had only made a cameo appearance in either Kung
Fu Panda or Kung Fu Panda , Po would still be a strong contender for the number one pick here.

HOW WOULD YOU RATE THE COMBAT OR MARTIAL ARTS SKILLS SHOWN IN THE
MOVIE? EXPLAIN BRIEFLY. – 10 PTS.

 Kung Fu Panda are based on real-life martial arts styles. And so, the movies follow a lot of the
same tropes as classic martial arts films. The Kung Fu Panda franchise primarily tells the story of
a character, Po, whose destiny is to become a kung fu hero.