"She was able to fend off bandits, protect her village, and save her family from ruin."
- When Mei and Ming catch three delinquents who are trying to tag the walls of their shrine, they both come out swinging their brooms at them to scare them off, which works. Bonus points for Mei, being a little preteen girl who goes before Ming and doesn't hesitate to come out swinging after the delinquents, and she looks diabolically pissed off.
- The origin of the Red Panda transformation: During a period of war which left the village without any traditional form of defence and vulnerable to bandits, Sun Yee wished for the ability to defend her home, which she was granted with the first instance of the Red Panda transformation and proceeded to obliterate any threat to the village.
- Mei learns that her friends are the key in her controlling her emotions without panda-ing. She manages to pass all of her trigger tests, including the kittens, and overcome her strong emotional urges. Even her parents are impressed.
- The girls' business skills definitely deserve a mention. "Get your picture taken with the insanely cute panda" is easy enough, but within days they're also selling panda-ears headbands, T-shirts, and other merchandise. A brief scene shows that they're making at least some of the merch stuff themselves at recess... Mei and her friends did all that in less than a week!
- Mei's rooftop run from her home to the SkyDome shows off just how completely she has mastered her panda-form: changing back and forth at will, leaping enormous distances, boosting her leaps with her double-jumping ability, and then landing on the SkyDome roof and dropping from there to the stadium floor. Even more impressive is that she never hesitates to jump some three hundred feet from roof to ground, fully trusting that she can break her fall and land safely. To top it off, she finds her friends in the crowd and picks a landing spot right behind them, and this time she does stick the landing.
- For anyone who has gone to boy band concerts, 4*Town's opening performance during the final act of the movie is stunning enough to capture the sheer breathtaking atmosphere of those events. Fitting, since the five-member boy band was based off real life bands like Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC.
- Their grand entrance on stage features them breaking out of their cages while individually showcasing their personality. No wonder almost everyone fell heads over heels for them.
- After Panda Ming has Mei in her grasp and has completely trashed the concert, Ming tells Mei "This isn't you!", prompting an angry response from Mei before Mei pandas up and bites Ming's paw to release her: THIS IS ME!
- Mei finally having enough of her mother's controlling nature and calling her kaiju-sized red panda mother out for forcing her to be someone she's not, and confessing on behalf of her friends (as she failed to do last time back at Tyler's party) that everything was her choice, not theirs. Unfortunately for Mei, this only seems to fuel Ming's anger even more.Mei: (angrily to Ming) I'm not your little "Mei-Mei" anymore! I LIED, MOM!
Ming: (shocked) WHAT?!
Mei: It was my idea to hustle the panda! My idea to go to Tyler's party! It was ALL ME! I like boys, I like loud music, I like gyrating! I'M THIRTEEN! DEAL WITH IT!
(Ming is speechless with shock for a couple of seconds, then gives an earsplitting roar of rage)- When you also think about it, Jin mentions that when Grandma Wu had to deal with one of Ming's red panda tantrums, she had to agree to Ming's choice in order to appease her. Unlike Grandma Wu, Mei is not going to back down from a fight and become Ming's "perfect" daughter again, so instead, she calls her mother out with said speech above.
- It's implied, given the entire Lee family's expressions, Mei's the first Lee to actively engage Ming's red panda rather than give into her terms.
- Bonus points that Mei has to literally knock some sense into her blindly-enraged mother, whose red panda form is bigger than hers, even biting her giant mother's hand to free herself and head-butting her unconscious!
- As the confrontation between Mei and Ming reaches its fever pitch, Mei becomes enraged when Ming actually implies that she hasn't done enough to be a good daughter in her eyes, when that's all she's ever tried to do. She delivers a scathing rebuttal to her mother, before she charges ahead and knocks her out, putting an end to her rampage.Mei: All I wanted was to go to a concert!
Ming: I never went to concerts! I put my family first! I tried to be a good daughter!
Mei: Well, sorry I'm not perfect! Sorry I'm not good enough! And sorry I'll never be like you!
- When you also think about it, Jin mentions that when Grandma Wu had to deal with one of Ming's red panda tantrums, she had to agree to Ming's choice in order to appease her. Unlike Grandma Wu, Mei is not going to back down from a fight and become Ming's "perfect" daughter again, so instead, she calls her mother out with said speech above.
- Grandma and the aunties destroying their charms to unleash their red panda spirits to help Mei pull an unconscious Panda-Ming into the circle for the ritual. In particular, when the aunties destroy their charms, it looks like something out of an anime action sequence.
- Bonus points to Aunties Ping and Helen: while the other two break their charms by throwing them against the ground, Ping just punches her palm and breaks her jade ring charm with her bare hands, and Helen just snaps her hair comb charm in two.
- In order for the ritual to remove the panda spirit to work, the women have to sing from the heart to give the ring enough emotional power to complete the ritual. But the ring that holds Panda-Ming isn't strong enough, so Mei's friends get 4*Town to come out and sing, charging the ring with enough power to work on not only Panda-Ming, but all the women.
- This is even better than it sounds, as Mei and her aunties are first joined by Mei's friends (reprising their beatboxing routine from earlier in the movie, this time including Tyler on a pair of drumsticks), then 4*Town with Robaire belting out an incredible high note that fully charges the circle and creates a huge Pillar of Light, then the entire crowd joins in, making the circle so powerful that Mei's aunties are visibly surprised as they float off the ground!
- The beatboxing unto itself sounds a bit like they're saying "Pull together, pull together!"
- Mei's transformations in general. First she figures out the connection between getting excited and transforming all on her own, long before Ming explains it. That shows she's not just smart on paper — she really can think when she needs to. Then she figures out how to monetize what was described by her mother as an "inconvenience". Finally, she learns how to use transforming back and forth to move more efficiently, including performing mid-air jumps.
