Temutai

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TEMUTAI! Warrior king of the Qidan!

—Temutai, The Princess and the Po

Temutai is one of the main antagonists the Nickelodeon television series Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. He is a strong and powerful warrior who serves as both the leader and king of the Qidan Clan. He made his first appearance in "The Princess and the Po", where he was challenged and defeated by Po in battle. His most noticeable trait is his tendency to speak loudly and strangely over-emphasize words.

Biography[]

Earlier years[]

Temutai's legend is renowned throughout the Valley of Peace. Temutai himself claimed in "The Princess and the Po" that he had defeated kung fu masters from across the land. Additionally, Tigress mentioned that Temutai's kung fu was said to be so strong he could tear an opponent in half without even touching them, while Mantis had commented that he thought Temutai was just a myth.

It is unknown how long he has had the position of king of the Qidan Clan, but another one of Temutai's remarks in the episode indicated that he has had at least one princess as a servant in the past. In exchange for peace, Princess Mei Li's people sent her to the Qidan Clan to become a lifelong servant to the Qidan king; but the princess was replaced every few years because none of them lasted very long.

In Legends of Awesomeness[]

QidanClan4 — Po, Tigress, Mantis and Mei Li meet Temutai

In "The Princess and the Po", Temutai was approached by Princess Mei Li and her group of escorts which included Po, Tigress, Mantis, and a few royal servants. Unbeknownst to the princess and her protectors, Mei Li had been brought to the Qidan Clan as an offering to Temutai for peace. The princess was to be his servant for life, which was assumed to be short, as no past princesses had lasted long as servants to the warrior king.

Temutai was eager to have Mei Li as his royal servant, but Po, after learning of the plan for the princess, began to stall and tried to deceive Temutai, saying that Tigress was the princess. After nonchalantly requesting her to perform the "Ceremonial Princess Dancing Song", Temutai stopped her and grew impatient, and demanded to be given the real princess. Po refused, and he and the others fought off Temutai's warriors to protect Mei Li. But Mei Li herself came to Temutai and surrendered to the buffalo, who accepted the offering. He promised peace, then ordered the young princess to be put in chains.

Before she was imprisoned, however, Po stepped in to make a deal with Temutai: that if any of his strongest warriors would defeat him in a fight, he would give up himself, the princess, and Tigress and Mantis to be his servants. Temutai was unimpressed with this offer until Po mentioned that he was the Dragon Warrior. The warrior king was excited by the prospect of beating such a powerful warrior, and agrees to take Po's challenge. As a start, he volunteers to fight Po himself, his hunched form straightening and towering in an impressive height above them all. He snapped at Mei Li when she tried to interfere, and then stood to battle Po.

Temutai attacked and charged, using his brawn and his horns, and was quickly winning the fight as Po tried to hang on. After getting some encouragement from Mei Li, the panda was struck with an idea. He jumped high in the air and landed on Temutai's shoulders, and by holding onto his ears, he drove him into walls and rocks, much like Mei Li had done to him earlier. Temutai, unable to fight back, eventually collapsed, his face crushed under a stone pillar. Temutai then admitted defeat to Po and ensured peace between Mei Li's people and the Qidan. As a last act, he had rice-balls prepared for Po and the others when they left as per their request.

In "My Favorite Yao", Temutai was hunting for Master Yao so he can teach him the secrets of kung fu. Temutai manage to capture Yao and despite, Po and Shifu's efforts to recover him result in them falling off a cliff. They track Temutai's forces to their lair, where they witness Temutai threatening Master Yao to reveal his knowledge of Kung fu or perish.

Temutai offers the trio a last request, and Shifu stuns them all by expressing the desire to dance. However, the display is merely a distraction, which Shifu uses to slip his bonds and free Po so that they can engage Temutai's warriors. Just as they are about to be overwhelmed, Yao performs the Eight-Armed Yangtze Spleen Punch with his mind to defeat the warriors.

In "In With the Old", Temutai spots the Furious Five leaving the Jade Palace for a Levitation kung fu demonstration. He plans to break in to steal the Helmet of the Invincible Thunder Kick. When Temutai gets to the palace's gates and try to get Shifu to tell Temutai where the Invincible Thunder Kick helmet is. He refuses, and he fights the warriors. Though Shifu puts up great resistance, dealing his warriors and when he faces Temutai, he is trapped in a Qidan bell trap, made of iron. Temutai demands to know where the helmet is, but Shifu continues to resist so they put a huge bolder to activate the spikes inside the bell.

After Po gets inside, he runs past four doors to the dungeon and faced Temutai in a corridor. They both went for the door and reached a room full of helmets. Temutai tries on a silver helmet with a red crest but realizes it was the Monkey-Chicken-Dance Helmet. Po tries a viking helmet on which turns out to be the Your-Own-Worst-Enemy Helmet. Temutai tries on another helmet causing him to dance and speak gibberish, much to Po's confusion. After trying various helmets, each wielding different powers, Temutai thorws his helmets on the ground while Po puts them back. Po realized the helmet they were looking for was the simplest one, with barely any ornaments. While putting it on Temutai knocked him back and grabbed the helmet and wears it to test the new ability. Temutai wrecked havoc upon the room while trying to hit Po, ending with Po getting stuck when Temutai kicks a pillar on him. Temutai see his opportunity, but he flung the Your-Own-Worst-Enemy Helmet onto the Invincible Thunder Kick Helmet, which made Temutai kick himself and in a shock explosion get knocked back, going through a wall and falling out of the Jade Palace.

Kung-fu-panda-thumb-owl-be-back — Po and Temutai

In "Owl Be Back", Po found Temutai and his warriors fighting the Furious Five in the Jade Palace; Temutai denied being beaten fairly by Po, claiming to having had a "head cold". This time, Po was fast enough to evade Temutai's attacks. Po managed to use a technique called the Thundering Wind Hammer, which included creating a green source of energy. This move sent Temutai flying into the mountainside, shouting to Po that the fight was a draw.

In "The Kung Fu Kid", Temutai and his warriors came to partake in the Peace Jubilee; despite a few awkward moments between him and Po, he was honor-bound to commit no violence in the Jubilee. With Po and Shifu, he judged the children's kung fu skills until he announced his nephew, Jing Mei, whom none of the other kids wanted to fight. Before Jing Mei was announced the winner by default, a young child proposed Jing Mei fight a young snow leopard from the next valley. The leopard was hesitant, but accepted after Jing Mei pressured him and wrecked his pottery cart, and he introduced himself as Peng. When the match began, Temutai watched in disappointment as Peng easily defeated Jing Mei and therefore announced the winner. Temutai wanted Peng to train with him, but Po wanted the young leopard to train at the Jade Palace. Shifu interfered and said it was Peng's choice; he chose the latter, much to Temutai's outrage.

At nightfall, Temutai was confronted by Peng in his tent, desiring to defeat the Qidan Clan leader to prove himself worthy to Shifu, leading to a violent fight between the two where Temutai found himself forced on the defensive. Po eventually intervened, trying to get Peng to stop. But the fight escalated and continued outside in the village, causing an all-out brawl between the villagers, the Qidan Clan, the Furious Five, and Peng. Po shouted for everyone to stop and came clean to Peng about his jealousy and apologized. Peng forgave him and the Peace Jubilee ended with the closing ceremony performed by Peng, Po, and Temutai.

In "The Most Dangerous Po" Temutai was pursued and chased by General Tsin. Temutai was then subjected to stiffening Zhu Jiao Powder. He was later rescued by Po, and later escaped upon being repelled by the panda.

In "Master and the Panda", Temutai and the Qidan Clan unearthed the Gong Lu Medallion (which enhanced the wearer's abilities and the person's dark side) which granted him more power as he plotted to conquer China and the moon. Temutai then attacked the Jade Palace and took out Master Shifu and the Furious Five. Po tried to fight Temutai, only to be sent flying out of the palace. Po returned and fought Temutai in order to get the Gong Lu Medallion off him. Peng joined the fight and removed the Gong Lu Medallion from Temutai, and Temutai was again sent flying out of the Jade Palace.

In "Invitation Only", Po fought Temutai, but allowed him to get away upon hearing the gong for lunch. Temutai later was told by his Qidan warriors that he wasn't invited to the banquet of Upper Head District Chief Superior Superintendent Chang after being. Outraged, Temutai learned that Po also wasn't invited, and planned to crash the banquet. Temutai had his soldiers surround the building where the banquet was being held. Temutai then began his attack on the guests and immobilized the Furious Five and Shifu with the bolos thrown by the Qidan warriors. When Po snuck into the party, he ran into Temutai, and attacked the Qidan warriors using a combination of kung fu, good manners, and etiquette. Po managed to defeat Temutai, which impressed Superintendent Chang enough to invite the panda to the banquet.

In "Mouth Off", Temutai marches with the Qidan Clan after his hotheaded sons Bataar and Chulun got into a fight with Po and Mantis. Temutai demands that Po apologize, but Po, having to paralyzed his vocal cords, lost is voice was unable to. To ensure he is serious, he also brought more forces, including catapults, cannons and also a smaller horn goon. Although Mantis fixes Po, the effects will only work under a hour which Mantis comes up with a plan to act as Po's voice by hiding under a hat but it fail. As a result Temutai and the Qidan Clan attack the village. Temutai personally fights Po and blames him for causing his attack and allowing his pride to get in the way of an apology, Po tries to tell him he lost his voice but Temutai confuses it as Po mocking him. Once Temutai pins Po down he has him watch as his archers attempt to kill Shifu but Po's voice returns to warns Shifu and apologizes to Temutai but Temutai considers it too late. Temutai, his sons, and several warriors attempt to charge at Po but Po uses the Silken Moon Touch to defeat the army. Po yells that he was sorry. Temutai and the Qidan flee deciding to "accept" his apology.

In "Apocalypse Yao", Temutai appears at Taotie's auction with Hundun, Fung, and Gahri. When Po accidentally knocks over the cookie box, Temutai receives Jin Tian's Tempest. Po manages to overpower the bidders with his Wings of Light and forces Bian Zao to give the secrets back to Yao.

In "Goose Chase", Temutai finds Zeng, Shifu, and Po in Mr. Ping's Noodle Shop where he snatches Xinshi's message so he can exact his revenge on him for foiling his plans to attack China. He scolds one of his men when he punches Po who tried to comment he won't get away with it. While fighting Po, Mr. Ping orders them to take the fight outside, which Temutai agree to do. Despite tussling for the message, Temutai ties Zeng up to a water tower and punching it into falling as the message ends up in a bamboo tree.

Zeng accidentally leads Temutai to Xinshi, the pair manage to evade them but got cornered in a cliff. Po arrives and takes out Temutai's army, but was to exhausted to fight Temutai. Zeng leaves while Xinshi tries to convince Temutai to spare Po but Temutai says he hates both of them and will kill him after he kills Po. Just as Temutai takes the time to finish Po, Zeng comes back with the Furious Five as they finished off Temutai.

In "Face Full of Fear", Temutai fought Po, Tigress, and Crane over a stockpile of black powder, when the Panda Pals come to him looking for help. They were bullied by a new kid named Kong, which Temutai voices his own displeasure at the idea of a bully and stating he destroys people with respect before he and his forces are driven off by an explosion that Po inadvertently causes. Eventually when Kong's dad Pen Fang, a childhood bully of Po appears, Temutai sees this and formed an alliance with Pen Fang, whose presence once again sends Po into a fit of terror in which he disables his teammates and allows Temutai to steal the black powder. Temutai arrives with a rocket made from the black powder he stole and aims it at the Jade Palace. Realizing the danger to his home, friends, and Kong, Po finally finds the strength to overcome Pen Fang, whom he then convinces to help him by revealing the danger to Kong. The two succeed in subduing Temutai but end up riding the rocket after it is launched, and succeed in redirecting it, causing it to hit the fleeing Temutai and his minions instead.

In "Emperors Rule", Po breaks Temutai, along with Fung, Gahri, Hundun, Tong Fo, and Taotie out from Chorh-Gom Prison to help him stop Pang Bing. However they formed Brotherhood of Malfeasance when they knock out Po and took him and Lu Kang to a base. Temutai agrees to help Po. In Taotie's secret hidden emergency escape blimp, Temutai express his doubts after Po reveals that Lu is the key to defeat Pang Bing. After Pang Bing revealed she trick Po into bringing Lu to the palace, she offered the villains the chance to escape, which they took, with Temutai attempting to say something before he lefts. Although Temutai and the other came back in three mechs when they realized that they would not be able to escape the range of Pang Bing's spell. After Pang Bing was defeated, the Brotherhood wanted things to go back to normal and fled on their last mech.

In Kung Fu Panda Vol 2[]

A Water Buffalo resembling Temutai-though without his red tunic-is among the threats to the Valley of Peace recalled by Po during his confrontation with Chairman Qing.

Personality[]

Temutai is shown to be tough, proud, and short-tempered. Though he's not easy to fool, he's very willing to challenge others and prove his might, especially if he thinks he can win a worthy trophy by doing so. Temutai shows no mercy, but recognizes when he has been defeated; for example, in "The Princess and the Po," he didn't have any second thoughts about making Princess Mei Li his servant for life, but when defeated, he fairly accepted his loss.

Even with his arrogance, pride, and short temper, Temutai can set aside his animosity towards Po and the Furious Five as seen in "The Kung Fu Kid" where he participates in the Peace Jubilee without showing any violence (even sharing some laughs with Po about the crown). He mentions several times he respect his enemies, as he scold one of his men for interrupting Po in "Goose Chase" and showed some sympathy to kids.

Fighting style[]

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Temutai is known widely for his kung fu skills as well as being a tough warrior. His hits and blows are quite powerful to launch a foe in the air. Some say that his kung fu is so strong that he could tear an opponent in half without even touching them. This revelation was proven in the episode, "The Princess and the Po", where Po had challenged him. Temutai was shown to be almost indestructible as Po unleashed some of his kung fu at him, with Temutai not even feeling a tickle. However, in later episodes, his indestructible skill seemingly goes and he can now receive and feel hits from his foes. Although he is a kung fu master, he is normally seen fighting like a wrestler, using his strength, horns, and size to his advantage.

Weakness[]

Temutai's slow weighty attacks give an advantage to warriors who specialize in speed and agility.

Relationships[]

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His clan[]

TemutaiQidan — Warriors of the Qidan Clan

The Qidan Clan are Temutai's loyal henchmen, who are all brutal warriors just like him.

Mei Li[]

Coming soon!

Po[]

When Temutai first met Po, he showed immediate disbelief that he was the Dragon Warrior. But upon hearing Mantis and Tigress' confirm this, as well as hearing Po's wager to battle for Princess Mei Li, he accepted it nonetheless. Since his first defeat, he has constantly been trying to attack Po and his friends. In "Invitation Only", it is implied that Temutai and Po have friendly interactsions with each other, with him having seen Po eat before and found it disgusting which he process to mock Po for it but ended up apologizing after Po defeated him. In "Mouth Off", Temutai attacked Po again due to an fight between Po and his sons. Temutai also acknowledge that Po is some what creepy when he doesn't speak. In "Goose Chase", despite vowing revenge on Xinshi, Temutai hates Po more.

Xinshi[]

At one point in his career, Xinshi sent a message that foiled a plot of Temutai. Since then Temutai had swore revenge that left Xinshi in hiding. In "Goose Chase", Temutai sent an entire army to find Xinshi when he found his location.

Shifu[]

Coming soon!

Jing Mei[]

Temutai brought his nephew to fight in the Peace Jubilee, likely hoping that Jing Mei would earn the Qidan Clan a victory in the childrens' kung fu tournament. However, when Jing Mei was beaten by Peng, Temutai was shown embarrassed, exclaiming "I knew I should've brought your sister!" Later when Temutai was battling Peng, Jing Mei ran away and left his uncle, with Temutai commenting that he had never liked him.

Chulun and Bataar[]

Nokai-bataar — Temutai's sons, Chulun and Bataar

Chulun and Bataar are Temutai's sons, and he is protective of them, shown when he threatened war unless an apology was given, and he called them "such good boys" in pride of their bravery in battle