Awesome / Red Panda Adventures

Season One

The Devil's Due

• The Red Panda vs Nick Diablos. Diablos is a hypnotist on par with the Panda who has convinced several figures they made a Deal with the Devil and owe him tribute. In the course of their battle, Diablos tries to hypnotize the Panda, but fails because it's near impossible to hypnotize a master hypnotist who sees it coming. He moves on to hypnotizing the Flying Squirrel multiple times, hitting her again every time the Panda snaps her out of it. The back and forth makes him seriously consider an exception to Thou Shalt Not Kill, only to instead go possibly farther, subjecting Diablos to the same fate he reserved for his victims: a catatonic state in which he'll experience his greatest fears forever.
  Diablos: You can't... hypnotize... a master-
  Red Panda: If he knows it's what you're trying to do. I did say that, didn't I? That fails to take into account one thing. No matter how good you are at something, sooner or later, you'll meet someone who is much, much, better than you!

The Shadow Hunter

• The Flying Squirrel successfully decoys a saber tooth tiger away from its prey and survives a game of cat and mouse until the Red Panda arrives to provide back up.
• Also gutsy, the Flying Squirrel for all her (understandable) complaining willingly acts as bait to draw the tiger into a trap at the end.

The Deadliest Game

• In spite of her initial capture, the Flying Squirrel soon proves herself to be every bit the Red Panda's equal when she frees herself from being bait in a trap meant for him.

Season Two

Merlin's Tomb

• At the start of the episode Doctor Chronopolis is kidnapped by Mordriel the Malevolent, who wants him to give up what he knows about the mystical artifacts he took along with the good doctor. The otherwise Absent-Minded Professor refuses to divulge anything and proves stubborn enough that Mordriel resorts to threatening the Red Panda after managing to capture him, inverting the usual form of a Hostage Situation by threatening the hero to make the hostage comply.

The Black Hand

• Kit drop kicks a Class 6 entity into a dimensional void while the Red Panda undoes the magic that brought it there in the first place. Even the Council of Mages is impressed.

The World Next Door

• Harry may be a kid, but when the guy he and a group of agents are chasing disappears, he's sharp enough to notice that there's a new face that wasn't there before. Turns out the guy they were chasing can change his face.

Season Five

Just Like Clockwork

• Anne unwittingly reforms an amnesiac humanoid bomb created by Captain Clockwork to wreak havoc and destruction simply by being a decent person. She then stands up to the local heroes when they're ready to take down John (who as far as they know is still an unthinking bomb). And because she made such a strong moral impression on John, he's ready to surrender even though at he has no reason to think it will end well for him.

A Dish Best Served Cold

• The Red Panda comes face-to-face with the Flower of Death, a death trap created by the Villain Team-Up he was warned about in "The World Next Door" that killed an Alternate Universe's Flying Squirrel. The Red Panda has studied the case file he received on this trap for over four years and never found a solution to beat it, and was faced with the possibility it might not even be the same trap due to the many differences between worlds. In Spite of a Nail, however, the trap is exactly as the Red Panda had read: A device created by the Genie, powered by the Electric Eel's Shock and Awe, that will electrocute its captive, Harry Kelly, if not stopped in time and is designed with weaknesses that are traps designed to set the trap off if the Red Panda attempts to exploit them. Between Mordriel the Malovolent's locking the area down and Professor Zombie keeping everybody from the Flying Squirrel down distracted on top of that, the Red Panda has no help to call upon and the only way to save Harry is for someone else to take the fatal electrical charge instead. It's this last that allows the Red Panda to realize a way out. He grabs the mastermind of the Red Panda Revenge Squad, the Crimson Death, and hurls him into the Flower of Death, disarming the trap and enabling the Red Panda to take out the rest of the villains, minus Professor Zombie who gets beat by the Flying Squirrel in record time. Kit later points out that the solution seems rather obvious in hindsight, but the Red Panda replies that it never occurred to the Red Panda Revenge Squad, the alternate Red Panda, nor even he himself until that moment.
• Further awesome is that, in the heat of a moment that the Red Panda has known was coming and dreaded for years, with his youngest agent's life on the line, the Red Panda manages to still adhere to Thou Shalt Not Kill. When Kit later asks why he chose the Crimson Death to throw into the death trap rather than any of the others, his reasoning was that he wasn't certain he could even grab the largely intangible Mordriel, had no idea what would happen if he used the Electric Eel, and knew that the Genie absolutely wouldn't survive, but took a chance that one of the Crimson Death's Combo Platter Powers would enable him to live through the otherwise fatal shock. He's confirmed correct, though it did result in the Crimson Death's trademark death's head mask being welded to his face.

Sins of the Father

• Colonel Fitzroy manages to deduce the Red Panda's identity from the fact that unusual inventions are being generated by Fenwick Industries for the war effort, inventions like a defense grid that could protect them from squadrons of pterodactyls, and that many key plans for these inventions seem to have appeared from nowhere. Not only that but unlike most characters who stumble onto the Panda and the Squirrel's secret identities, he evades both immediate death and memory wipe.
  • Unfortunately for him, knowing the Red Panda's identity did lead to the sequence of events precipitating his death, so it did kill him in the end.

Season Six

Stop the Presses

• The Mad Monkey gives a villainous episode's worth in "Stop The Presses". First he forces the Red Panda into an Enemy Mine by pointing out his own The Only One Allowed to Defeat You mentality while also showing that he had Taken a Level in Badass. Then he led the Red Panda into the Chronicle using his own system of backdoors that he had been using to get around, steal, and not draw the Red Panda's attention. Next he showed how effectively they worked together. Finally, after he and the Red Panda had combined their powers to defeat the threat, he revealed that his baboon army had been robbing the city blind the whole time, and that the Red Panda had to let him escape because he couldn't risk letting that many of Archangel's men get free. Yeah, the Mad Monkey can talk to and acts like a baboon, but he's also a Genre Savvy Chess Master who is the only villain to escape on screen in most of his appearances, including his first.

Season Seven

• As a whole for the Parker's Rangers arc:
  • The Red Panda, despite not remembering anything about his past and only being able to access his abilities when he doesn't think too hard about it, still being as effective and devastatingly irritating to the Nazi's as under normal circumstances.
  • For the whole Ranger outfit, taking dinosaurs, zombies and robot planes as all in a day's work and being so good at their job that they always get assigned suicide missions and always come back alive.

The Case of the Missing Muse

• Kit and John Archer figure out the Poet is behind the mysterious break-ins, lure him into a trap, and then when the Poet reveals he knew it was a trap, John manages to recruit him to the war effort by pointing out that if planning regular crimes inspired such great work by the Poet, imagine the masterpieces he could write from planning battle strategies for the Allies.

Season Eight

Thirteen at Table

• The Red Panda vs Mr. Amazing. The Red Panda is a skilled but otherwise normal human while Mr. Amazing is an "ubermensch who converts power from the sun" to become a Flying Brick. The fight is essentially the Red Panda equivalent of Batman vs Superman, and starts with the Red Panda insulting Mr. Amazing's desire for recognition to tick him off enough to enter a one-on-one fight when at least four others were there to back the Red Panda up. In the actual fight, Mr. Amazing is so Unskilled, but Strong that the Panda can easily dodge his telegraphed punches even at super-speed. The Panda even hurts him when he hits back. When Mr. Amazing breaks out the energy blasts, the Red Panda overpowers his "strong will" with hypnosis and employs the oft-used "make them shoot at a mental projection" tactic. Finally the Panda floors Mr. Amazing with beatdown that Kit later reveals utilized kinetic energy force projectors inside his red gauntlets.

The Lost Sheep

• The Flying Squirrel and the Grey Fox tracking down the top secret Unit M1 Camp 6 by following slim lead after slim lead all the way to the Prime Minister's office.
• When the Prime Minister tries to intimidate the Grey Fox, who has just broken into his office, by pointing out he signed off on her release from the Japanese-Canadian internment camps, the Grey Fox undauntedly points out that it was his own racist policy that put her and fellow Canadians in those camps in the first place.

The Lab Rats

• The Red Panda, Dr. Chronopolis and the Genie are stuck on a plane together, trying to design a defense against a Nazi superweapon about which they know nothing except that nothing has stopped it and it was designed off of some notes Dr. Von Schlitz once made on a magical artifact. The Red Panda realizes that Von Schlitz was only able to run a few tests on the artifact, and it was from these that his notes were made. The tests he did were recorded, so the Red Panda deduces that if they run the same tests, they might see the same pattern that inspired the Nazi superweapon and recreate it. In short, they go from nearly unlimited possibilities to a limited, manageable amount of data through good old logic.
  • The fact that it's the Red Panda who realizes this short-cut instead of the arrogant, super-genious Genie is just icing on the cake.

Power Struggle

• After seasons of struggling with his dual nature as the Electric Eel, Simon Radford finally triumphs over his evil counterpart and takes down the powered-up and nearly unstoppable Electric Eel through a heroic sacrifice. Made even more awesome when you consider that the agency that powered-up the Electric Eel considered Simon Radford a rather useless side effect with no value aside from his parallel health connection to the Electric Eel.

Season Eleven

Remember When

• While the Red Panda does most of the sciencey construction in this story, due to a time loop wiping his memory each time, the Flying Squirrel is responsible for planning and executing the grand strategy (which includes having to explain and convince the Panda of what's happening each time the loop resets) and despite not being science-inclined, understands the gist of what's happening well enough to come up with the solution which stopped the loop and probably saved the world from going "boom." Strength, looks and brains, all in one squirrel-shaped package.

The Mind Master

• It's established that the Red Panda financially assists most of his agents, probably partly hazard pay and partly because a lot of them are from the working class and can use the help, especially during the Depression. Andy Parker, however, as a cop, declines the assistance because as he sees it, as long as he does it for free, it's his choice. Once he accepts money, he'd be no different from a dirty cop. Not an easy principle to hold on a slim salary under hard times, but very in character for Parker.
• In the flashback, Fenwick does the hypnotic projection for the first time on instinct, making this the first chronological occurrence of this classic trick. After using it to scare off all but one stubborn soldier, he even manages to project it so strongly that the last soldier feels the projection punch him.
• Villainous but still an incredible feat, the Red Panda's fellow pupil manages to master mind control so completely he can force men to suicide.
• The Flying Squirrel beats Ajay Shah's mental control long enough to purposely electrocute herself, which since Ajay Shah is doing mental ride-along, also electrocutes him and frees her from his control.
• The Red Panda beats Ajay Shah, who's established to be his equal in mind powers, by using his own telekinetic force trick (which the Red Panda may have done once before but never specialized in) to set off a bomb.

Pyramid of Peril

• In the interview, Weston taking a moment to speak frankly with Fenwick and very logically laying out to him why he needs a butler. Being Weston, he remains ever polite about it, but he makes no bones in explaining to a billionaire why he would be making a mistake not to hire any butler, whether it be Weston or someone else.
• Weston, within a day or two of taking his new position, has to get the entire staff organized for a trans-ocean trip and manages the subsequent chaperoning of their sort-of-vacation with grace, if also a bit of frustration at the increasing antics.
• Max, unable to utilize his vast magic repertoire and more powerful spells, thinks through his dilemma and outwits his pursuers with a child's-play spell.
• The Red Panda unlocks Max's unlockable magic handcuffs that with anti-magic alloy and mad lock-picking skills.
• The Red Panda, outrunning hundreds of jackals chasing him through the city and on the rooftops until the spell controlling them wears off. One wonders what the residents made of the commotion.
• Kit fighting through excruciating pain and then laying a well-deserved thrashing on Thatcher. And she thinks to cuff him with the pair of nasty, magic-restraining hand cuffs he had used on Max earlier.