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Yan Fan (as listed in the episode credits; also known as Crane's mother) is a character in the Nickelodeon television series Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. She is the mother of Crane and was featured in the episode "Mama Told Me not to Kung Fu".
Biography
Earlier years
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Yan Fan having a heart attack seeing Crane practicing Kung Fu
When Crane was a young child, she thought he was weak and fragile like his father so she was overprotective of him like making him wear a suit of armor until he was 6 year old, and tied pillows to the sharp corner of the house thinking he can't take care of himself. One day she found out Crane snuck out of the house and got injured in a kung fu class making her hate kung fu. Even the lightest hint of Crane doing kung fu give her heart pains so he had to promise her that he would never do kung fu again.
In Legends of Awesomeness
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Personality
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Yan Fan is a very over-protective mother. She is generally polite to others and means well, and tends to be nitpicky and smothering toward her son, whom she believed was weak and frail. Crane has also commented that she believes in "setting expectations low", and he feared the truth about him being a kung fu warrior would be too much of a shock for her. However, rather than being horrified, Yan Fan was amazed after seeing him in action, and easily showed acceptance of her son as a kung fu warrior.
Relationships
Crane
Believing Crane to be frail like his father, Yan Fan went to extremes to keep Crane safe by making him wear a suit of armor as a child, and covering all the sharp corners in the house with pillows. When she saw Crane hurt after he had tried a kung fu class, she nearly fainted from sudden heart pulsations. After this, Crane kept his kung fu accomplishments a secret from his mother out of fear that the shock would kill her. He even implored the help of Po, Shifu, and the rest of the Furious Five to help him stage that he was in charge of an inn, as his mother believed.
However, after forced into battle with the Lin Kuei, Yan Fan witnessed Crane defeating the bandits, and was amazed at his kung fu skill, saying her pulsing heart was due to pride, not fear. She later left, finally seeing that Crane wasn't weak after all.
The Lin Kuei
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Yan Fan thought that the Lin Kuei were employees at the Jade Palace (not knowing they were criminals) when she asked them to bring her some water.
She also thought that the Lin Kuei were the night porters of the "inn".
Clothing
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Gallery
Images
Videos
Quotes
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| Crane, you are a kung fu master! |
| —To her son |
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| Like this? This is pride! For so many years I thought you were weak and fragile! |
| —Showing how she didn't have a heart attack |
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| Goodbye, son! Come visit me! |
| —Saying goodbye to her son |
Hello, little Shyfu!
-When she first saw Shifu
References
- ↑ Revealed in "Mama Told Me not to Kung Fu" from Nickelodeon's Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. Ep. 23, Season 2. Written by Doug Langdale & directed by Lane Lueras. Originally aired June 18, 2013.
- ↑ Revealed in "Crane on a Wire" from Nickelodeon's Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. Ep. 19, Season 2. Written by Gene Grillo & directed by Lane Lueras. Originally aired January 24, 2013.