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Sir Luthera/Wandering Blade

Voiced by: Rita Ora^{Foreign VAs}

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A knight from England, hunting down criminal sibling fugitives Klaus and Veruca Dumont to bring them to justice.

Action Girl: She has quite the prowess handling herself in sword fights, as well as multiple instances of using her natural Stout Strength whenever it's required. This is doubly true as the season 1 finale reveals she was never formally knighted, which means her dexterity and skills were mostly self-taught.
Braids of Action: She has a a short braid of hair on the back of her head, and she is a skilled knight.
Broken Pedestal: Her whole life, she looked up to Alfie as both a knight and a big brother. when he reveals his true intentions, she was devastated to see what he had become and turns against him in the finale.
Calling Your Attacks: She shouts "Ursa Major" as a battle cry when she uses the belly bumping technique that Po taught her.
Cool Sword: Her sword, Luthera's Shield, is made of Black Steel of the Equinox. Po and many characters lampshade how cool her sword is.
Enemy Within: She has a darker side called the "Beast" that can be unleashed in competitive situations that makes Luthera more aggressive, angry, and violent.
Foil: Luthera fills the much the same niche to Tigress in this series, being a serious woman partnered up with a goofy guy like Po. There is, however, one major difference; Po and Tigress are both genuine kung fu masters, while Luthera was not truly the knight that she presented herself as. She not only lied to Po about her status, but deceived him into thinking he had become her page and squire when she wasn't in any position to be giving out those ranks.
Friend to All Children: She has a soft spot for children, befriending and protecting Rabia from the Forbidden Company.
Furry Reminder: When she unleashes the "Beast", her competitive and violent side, she occasionally lets out actual bear roars.
Hidden Depths: "An Uphill Battle" reveals that she has an amazing singing voice (much like her voice actress).
It's All My Fault: Part of the reason she wants to capture Klaus and Veruca is because she blames herself for getting her brother killed by Veruca.
Like Brother and Sister: She considers Po as a second brother following Alfie's death.
Maybe Ever After: She develops an attraction for Colin upon finding out his feelings for her. However, Po doesn't confirm if they are together and her final scenes show her hanging out with Po rather than Colin in any official romantic capacity.
Platonic Life-Partners: With Po. Despite their closeness across the series, Luthera sees Po like another brother as she develops feelings for Colin instead.
Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: Gender Flipped. Blade wears armor, sports an implacable look which rarely betrays emotion and emphasizes her duty to arrest Klaus and Veruca above any sightseeing; her self-proclaimed "squire" Po is a goofy, energetic panda who often has to be steered into focus.
Self-Proclaimed Knight: Po is led to believe she's a knight through her word alone but it's eventually revealed through Colin that she was never really a knight in any official sense.
Shock and Awe: The third season reveals that Luthera's Shield is one of the Storm Wheels that Alfie stole from Zuma and reforged into a sword. Upon finding out, Luthera uses her sword to replicate the powers of the Storm Wheel.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: In many ways she is a pre-character development Tigress (who is conspicuously absent from the series), filling the same role as a stern woman in contrast to Po's goofiness.
Try to Fit That on a Business Card: Luthera of Landreth, the Wandering Blade, Daughter of the Saxon Guard, Knight of England. Po calls her "Blade" because he thinks saying the whole thing would take all day.

Rukhmini

Voiced by: Rahnuma Panthaky^{Foreign VAs}Valérie Siclay (EU French)

A macaque who guards the Whip of Endless Flame

All for Nothing: She intended to collect the Tianshang Weapons, losing thirty years of her life to get the Whip of Endless Flame. By the second season, she is now on a mission to destroy the same weapons she intended to collect.
Ambiguously Bi: She is Happily Married to Diya by the third season. However, she had romantic feelings for a shrub that she referred in male pronouns when she was trapped for thirty years.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Rather than being the fire whip's protector she was sealed along it, and is let loose by Po and Luthera.
But Not Too Gay: She enters into a relationship with Diya and the two of them become an Official Couple. However, the pair aren't shown getting more affectionate than just a hug with one another.
Elemental Weapon: She uses the Whip of Endless Flame as her weapon when fighting.
Enemy Mine: At the end of season 1, she switches sides and joins the group of Po, Luthera, and Ping on a quest to recover the rest of the Tianshang weapons once it becomes apparent how dangerous letting them remain in the hands of Veruca and Klaus would be.
Eyepatch of Power: She doesn't lose an eye in the adventure, but she puts an eyepatch on one of her eyes upon becoming a pirate for aesthetic purposes.
Handy Feet: Being a monkey, she can use her feet like a second pair of hands.
Happily Married: She married Diya offscreen when returning to India for a month.
Interspecies Romance: Rukhmini is a monkey who ends up in a romantic relationship with Diya, a squirrel.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Not that she’d admit to it, but despite being a proud master thief and con artist who willing played Po and Luthera and tried to squeeze half of the Emperor’s riches out of him, she does end up willingly helping and joining the heroes when Veruca and Klaus show how dangerous their plans really are. After this, we get to see a lot more of her nobler traits, such as her friendship with Diya, willingness to go back and warn her of Jayesh’s plans despite being seemingly betrayed, and willingness to keep Ping’s past a secret from Po.
King of Thieves: At the end of the series, she replaces Forouzan as the new Queen of the Pirates now that her predecessor retired.
My Greatest Failure: She considers the thirty years spent trapped in a rock to be the greatest mistake of her life as it resulted in missing half of her life for a whip that she barely got to use and that she will have to destroy by the end of the journey.
Never Mess with Granny: She was a treasure hunter in her youth and she's still got the fighting moves despite being trapped in a stone city for thirty years.
Playing with Fire: Thanks to the Whip Of Endless Flame, she is able to cast fire on her attacks.
Prehensile Tail: Like all monkeys, she can use her own tail to grab anything in its range.
Queer Establishing Moment: Post-Pangea remerging in season 3, Rukhmini is revealed to be gay following a Relationship Upgrade with her "friend" Diya, with her daughter Padma referring to her as "mother".
Refuge in Audacity: The Emperor of China is a corrupt and self-serving prick but no matter how you look at it, Rukhmini demanding no less than half of China's treasury as payment for the whip is pretty outrageous. And it's probably what made him decide to betray her rather than submit to such an outrageous demand.
Small Taxonomy Pools: Barring the remake of Disney's Jungle Book, how many times have you seen lion-tailed macaques in popular media?
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She fills in a similar niche to a certain simian member of the Furious Five, being The Trickster and a Mischief-Making Monkey. Rukhmini is basically Monkey if Monkey were an old woman from India and hadn't fully grown out of his trouble-making tendencies.

Master Mastodon

Voiced by: Martin Aistrope^{Foreign VAs}Nicolas Justamon (EU French)

The spirit of an ancient mammoth master who travels with the group after possessing Mr. Ping.

Brainwashed and Crazy: After being trapped in the Tianshang Weapons to save Po's life, he ends becoming one more of the many warriors sealed within, and thus is completely under the control of those who wield all the weapons at once, first Veruca then Alfie in the latter half of Season 3.
Comedic Sociopathy: Master Mastodon gleefully relishes a Worthy Opponent in half with his Storm Wheels, approves of Luthera's dark side in sports, and constantly puts Mr. Ping in harm's way, even returning control to him so that the goose can feel pain rather than him.
Grand Theft Me: Mastodon possesses Mr. Ping in the second season’s fourth episode and remains in there after, with the two “tagging out” for control of the body at different points. In the climax of the second season, he possesses Po since the panda's body is a more suitable vessel.
Heroic Sacrifice: After Po is defeated by a three Tiansheng weapon holding Zuma, the weapons try to drag him and Mastodon into the void prison where all others who have been bested by the weapons are trapped. Realizing only one of their souls needs to go into the void, Mastodon willingly allows himself to be thrown into the void to save Po, admitting that while his team may have destroyed the balance of the world, Po’s kindness, honor, and heroism give him and his team the power they need to fix it.
Shock and Awe: He was the original wielder of the Storm Wheels, which were meant to amplify his own lightning powers.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: He wants to protect the Tianshang Weapons to prevent them from destroying the world. As such, Mastodon didn't hesitate in killing those who sought them regardless of alignment. The only reason he spares the group was because Po told him about Klaus and Veruca planning to release the demons inside the weapons as their own army.

Akna

Voiced by: Melissa Villaseñor^{Foreign VAs}Maeva Méline (EU French)

A female quetzal that Po and his friends meet in South America.

Anti-Hero: She did use her scorpion bots to take food from Tikal, but this was only because of Zuma stealing all of their rainwater from them and leaving them to starve, and even then she only took about just enough for all of them to survive.
Connected All Along: She actually knew Alfie from a long time ago when he was first collecting the Tiansheng weapons, and was even the one who gave him Luthera’s beloved childhood toy after he left as a parting gift.
Feather Fingers: She can use her wings to manipulate objects.
Foil: She can be seen as the opposite to Lord Shen in many ways, being an intellectual bird who uses utilizes advanced technology for a non-modern era in combat. Shen was a male albino peacock who's mostly a grounded bird ^note and utilized his weapons to destroy and conquer, refusing to change his ways to the bitter end. In contrast, Akna is a small, colorful female bird who can fly more naturally and eventually becomes Po's friend and teammate. And even when she's conducting raids on Tikal with her weapons of war, she's doing it to help villages that have been harmed by Zuma's actions rather than for personal self-aggrandizement or paranoia over a prophecy.
Friend to All Children: She used to be a toy maker fifteen years ago, and was quite popular with the kids in her town. She was even the one who made Luthera’s stuffed toy.
Gadgeteer Genius: She creates giant scorpion machines that are hard to defeat, even when Po and his friends work together.
Handy Feet: Though she prefers to use her wings, Akna can use her talons to hold objects, although this is mainly reserved when she has her wings busy when flying.
Nice Girl: Unlike Luthera who can get frustrated with Po a lot and has a hidden darker side called "The Beast" and unlike Rukhmini who's cynical and still has some Con Artist baggage, Akna is genuinely the nicest and friendliest female member of the Dragon Knights. And even at her worst when she raided Tikal villages, she was still doing it for a selfless cause in helping those who got robbed by Zuma.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: If Luthera is a stand-in for Tigress and Rukhmini is a stand-in for Monkey, Akna manages to fill in three niches at once if one were to view the Dragon Knights as a more globe-spanning version of the Furious Five. Like Mantis, she's a green colored animal who's smaller than the rest of the cast. She's also a bird and can fly just like Crane. And most notably, she's a Nice Girl and the secondary heroine of the team, much like Viper was to the Five and Po.

Lucinda

Voiced by: Toks Olagundoye^{Foreign VAs}Annie Le Youdec (EU French)

Colin

Voiced by: Ed Weeks^{Foreign VAs}Florian Wormser (EU French)

A mysterious stag, on the trail of the knight and her improvised "squire".

Artistic License – Biology: His main combat gimmick, that his lost antlers were replaced by metallic blades, doesn't make a lot of sense since deer antlers are constantly falling and regrowing. In order to achieve this effect either he has to continuously saw off his antlers - hideously impractical if not lethal - or had even the skull bases removed and replaced. At one point he tells a story that ends "...and that's how I lost my antlers", which implies that whatever happened it wasn't his choice, but we never hear the rest of it.
The Comically Serious: He is a generally dignified character and a serious menace but he is put through the wringer when the weasel siblings interact with him, particularly as Veruca reads his diary. More so in season 3, where it becomes apparent he's the Butt-Monkey of the knights.
Dual Wielding: He often uses both his antler blades in combat.
Eyepatch of Power: He wears an eyepatch over his left eye, and is an experienced and capable knight.
Inspector Javert: He's antagonistic towards Wandering Blade and to a lesser degree Po, but is only acting on royal orders from the Queen, rather than for his own self-gain.
Interspecies Romance A stag who is attracted to Blade, a bear.
No-Respect Guy: He receives little regard from his fellow knights, with Sir Drake often calling him by the wrong name. Part of the reason he ultimately joins the Dragon Knights is because they can at least be bothered to remember his name.
Principles Zealot: Although he fully hates mages and recognises Klaus and Veruca as a threat, he ultimately decides against teaming up with Luthera against them. She is, per his own words, "his only mission".
Warrior Poet: He's a knight who has a book of poetry dedicated to someone he loves. Who, in a surprising twist, turns out to be the very “knight” he was chasing after this whole time.

Tianshang Warriors

Tianshang Warriors as a whole

A group of warriors who protected Pangaea from evil. They created the Tianshang Weapons to further defend their home. Unfortunately, the warriors caused Pangaea to separate into many lands, resulting in the creation of China and other foreign lands.

Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence: Once the Tianshang Weapons are fully destroyed, their spirits move on along with those of the warriors formerly trapped in the weapons.
Elemental Powers: They each had powers over the elements, even without their trademark weapons.
Elemental Weapon: The Tianshang Weapons they created allows the users to use the respective elements of their creators.
My Greatest Failure: They all view the destruction in the past and present brought by the Tianshang Weapons as this, especially when Sir Alfred uses them to rejoin Pangea and almost destroys the world completely, with Giant Sloth remarking that their mistakes continue haunting them.
Precursor Heroes: They preceded Oogway as protectors of the weak.

Master Longtooth

The creator of the Whip of Endless Flame.

Kamehame Hadoken: A brief scene in the second season has Master Longtooth create a fireball between her palms which she intended to throw as a blast.
Playing with Fire: She had an affinity with fire, even making a fireball with her palms prior to creating her whip.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: She resembles Tigress if she had been a sabretooth tiger.

Master Giant Sloth

The creator of the Wugao Gauntlet.

Dishing Out Dirt: His elemental powers were associated with earth.
Megaton Punch: His Wugao Gauntlet punches things with the force of an earthquake.
Power Fist: He created the Wugao Gauntlet and was its first user.

Master Ostrich

The creator of the Wind Helmet.

Blow You Away: Her elemental powers were associated with the wind.
Cool Helmet: She created the Wind Helmet.
Flight: Her Wind Helmet provided her with the ability to fly.
Informed Species: Is called Master Ostrich but is actually a Cassowary or at least an Ostrich with heavy Cassowary-like traits.
Irony: She is an ostrich, a flightless bird associated with land, and yet her elemental powers were based on wind and the helmet she created gave her the ability to fly.
Mind over Matter: Her Wind Helmet allowed her to make objects fly, as demonstrated by its users in the second season.

Antagonists

Klaus & Veruca Dumont

Klaus voiced by: Chris Geere^{Foreign VAs}
Veruca voiced by: Della Saba^{Foreign VAs}

Twin mages who escaped their home country; once in China, they seek to acquire the four Tianshang weapons to restart their coven and take over the world. Po's loss at their hands and their contribution to his name being sullied lead him to chase them across the world.

Tropes applying to both of them:

Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: They are very abrasive siblings constantly annoyed with each other, but make no mistake, they do care deeply about one another and harming one is sure enough to provoke the other.
Big Bad Duumvirate:
- The primary threats to Po and Luthera: the former because their attack in Wankun village led to his deposition as Dragon Warrior, the latter because their past criminal deeds resulted in the death of her brother, and both because the culmination of their plan is to command an undead army to raze all civilization and start anew In Their Own Image.
- This is Subverted in season two, when Veruca stops treating Klaus as an equal, and starts treating him like a lackey.
Big Brother Instinct: They are very protective of each other regardless of who is older. Klaus spent 15 years trying to release Veruca from jail. For her part, Veruca recovers her magic powers to save Klaus from being eaten.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: They're very, very evil, but despite their vicious banter and Veruca regularly threatening Klaus, they genuinely care about one another. When Klaus is in danger, Veruca outright panics and a flashback shows them being extremely caring with one another.
Evil Brit: Like several previous Kung Fu Panda villains, they sport English accents. Unlike the previous ones, justified as they're explicitly from England; in another first, they're unhinged Cockneys rather than elegant RP speakers.
Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: While both are vicious and psychotic criminals, Veruca is more unhinged and impulsive, with Klaus keeping her on track and being the voice of reason.
The Remnant: They're the last members of their coven, as their peers were hunted down and killed by orders of the Queen.
Sibling Team: They are brother and sister, and yet they are an effective team.
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Their "Chop Chop Little Brother" ploy has Veruca chop Klaus in the throat and make a scene to make people tend to him while she robs them blind. Naturally, Klaus hates doing this ploy.

Tropes applying to Veruca:

The Archmage: She was the Queen's archmage before her imprisonment. It shows thanks to her Lunacy powers being exclusive to her.
- Season 2 reveals that Archmage is a rank within her order of mages denoting their leader and that she's been replaced by another mage.
Ax-Crazy: She's mentally unstable and enjoys fighting. Even before her imprisonment, her bloodthirsty nature was there when she fought Sir Alfred and was very content when she killed him, only sparing Luthera out of cruel sadism.
Barefoot Poverty: She was barefoot when she was a child due to being a street urchin. Once she got a home, she was able to afford proper footwear as an adult.
Big Bad Wannabe: Despite being the most recurring villain of the series, being the one KFP Arc Villain to last more than one season, defeating Po and Luthera at the end of the first season, and gaining great power with the Tianshang weapons, she's ultimately this. She's able to threaten the heroes after gaining power but doesn't get the chance to put into practice her dream of remaking the world. And ultimately when measured up against the other major villains of the series, Veruca always ends up getting upstaged and defeated, with Zuma solidly defeating her and eventually, Sir Alfred killing Veruca and turning her into one of his undead warriors.
Big Sister Bully:
- Though she loves Klaus, Veruca is not above doing a Wounded Gazelle Gambit by chopping him in the neck and pretending he's choking.
- As of season 2, Veruca bullies Klaus a lot for her own amusement and abandons him, not caring if Luthera kills him or not. However, Season 3 has her go back on this aspect as she goes mad with grief when it seemed that Luthera truly killed her brother and upon being revived dials back on her insanity and abuse as well.
Face Death with Dignity: After he realizes that destroying the Tianshang Weapons will fully sever her link with the living world and make her spirit move on, she accepts it and shares one last hug with her brother.
Green Thumb: Her magic powers allow her to control plants as long as she's in presence of the moon.
Go Mad from the Isolation: She was locked in a jail with no moonlight for 15 years. By the time Klaus saved her, Veruca's mental health and connection to the moon have been damaged. It makes her go from simply being cruel to her foes to outright psychotic to degrees that Klaus is disturbed by, betray all her allies (even Klaus) by leaving them to die whenever they impede her progress in her quest and attempt to ravage the world with the Weapons.
In the Back: She is killed when a resurrected Alfie stabs her in the back with his sword just like she did to him fifteen years earlier.
It's All About Me: Once she discovers that the other mages are alive and have found happiness on an island, Veruca is furious that they no longer recognize her as their leader and feels that they just abandoned her, so she abandons them to starvation by stealing the Helmet of Winds, despite Klaus' attempts to dissuade her. She also bullies Klaus even more than usual and eventually leaves him to die as well and declares that the whole world doesn't care for her so she intends to take it over and remake it all for herself. She drops this aspect after reviving, giving up on her ambitions to instead help her brother destroy the weapons.
Karmic Death: Alfie stabs her in the back with Luthera's Shield the same way that she did fifteen years ago.
Laser-Guided Karma:
- While Veruca does manage to escape capture by Luthera at the end of the second season, she gets a bit more comeuppance during that time than in the first season. Previously, Veruca had attacked and left for dead Kyle and the other mages, taking away their Tianshang weapon for herself. Towards the end of the season, Zuma pulls a Eviler than Thou on Veruca, taking away her Tianshang weapons, destroying her ship, seriously injuring Veruca, and basically leaving Veruca for dead.
- In the third season she summons an undead Alfred and tries to use him to kill Luthera; Alfred eventually breaks free of her control when she drops one of the Storm Wheels in anger, kills her with the sword she once killed him with and then turns her into one of his undead servants for the rest of the season.
Logical Weakness: Veruca's powers rely on the moon, so she can't use them if the moonlight is blocked or if dawn arrives. Likewise, her magic relies on plants, so she can't use her powers even during the moon if she's in a boat with no plant life.
Lunacy: Her mage powers are strongest when she's exposed to the moon.
Moral Myopia: She has no issue with killing Luthera's brother and tormenting her about the deed nor with leaving Klaus behind, possibly for dead, yet when she thinks Luthera actually killed him, she goes mad with grief to the point of trying to achieve revenge by using an undead Alfie to kill Luthera and refusing to see the truth once Po informs her about Klaus being spared by Luthera.
More Deadly Than the Male: Between her and Klaus, Veruca is the strongest of the two, as she has the Wugao Gauntlet and has Green Thumb magic that Klaus lacks. However, it's also primarily because Klaus dedicated his life to protecting her as opposed to developing his talents, which meant Veruca is both stronger and more unhinged in battle when in truth both could be as competent as the other in magic.
Peaceful in Death: Her undead self seems to be more at peace than she was when she was alive, even helping Klaus and the others to destroy the very weapons she fought to find.
Power Fist: Out of the two, Veruca is the one who wears the Wugao Gauntlet, which allows Veruca to destroy cities in a single punch.
Take Over the World: She wants to use the Tianshang Weapons to get a personal army to rule the world.
Took a Level in Kindness: Her undead self is much kinder towards her brother than she was when she was alive, even helping the very people she antagonized all through the series save the world.
Took a Level in Jerkass: In the first season, she was already bad enough as-is but was given some minor sympathetic qualities in her relationship with Klaus. In the second season, she grows even more evil and unhinged, first trying to kill the archmage Kyle (she fails but leaves him in a Full Body Cast regardless) and then leaving her former fellow mages to die of starvation and then abandoning her brother near the end of the season when Luthera is holding him hostage.
Twitchy Eye: She tends to get a twitchy eye when she's overwhelmed with bloodlust.
Used to Be a Sweet Child: While still a thieve during her younger days, her younger self as shown in Klaus flashbacks is a far cry of her adult ax-crazy self.
We Can Rule Together: Offers Po the chance of joining her, mainly due to her Villainous Crush on him. He rejects it at every point, besides one time in the season 1 finale that he begrudgingly pretends to accept so she can release Luthera.
Verbal Tic: She tends to repeat words in her sentences.
Villainous Crush: She has a crush on Po, flirting with him every time they meet, even in the heat of battle. Po is naturally disturbed.
Villainous Breakdown: She suffers a panic attack when she realizes her brother is not dead and has abandoned her, this also proves to be her undoing as Alfie takes advantage of her dropping the Storm Wheel mid-breakdown to stab her in back and kill her.

Tropes applying to Klaus:

All for Nothing: He rescued Veruca and helped her with her plans because she was the only loved one, he had left. By the end of the second season, Klaus is no longer welcomed by the mages after Veruca stole the Wind Helmet then left them to starve, and then Veruca abandons him to his fate when Luthera is about to kill him, with him only surviving because Luthera finds him too pathetic and worthless to kill anymore. The last scene that Klaus has is him standing alone. Afterwards he makes good on never going after the weapons again and wants nothing to do with them after the quest to obtain them cost him everything.
The Atoner: He returned to the mages to make up for stealing the Wind Helmet. He started doing agriculture with various food seeds he picked up on his journey so that the Mages can have something to eat rather than wait for ships to plunder for supplies.
Blow You Away: The final season reveals that Klaus does have magic like Veruca. In his case, it's wind magic that allowed him to find Veruca subconsciously.
Demoted to Dragon: In the second he goes from being an equal ally for Veruca, to being basically her lackey.
Determinator: Spent fifteen years trying to release Veruca from jail. He succeeded but unfortunately she came out very, very unhinged from the whole ordeal.
Devious Daggers: A cunning and clever weasel, whose primary weapons are a series of knives.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: Over the course of the second season, he grows to resent how Veruca shows him no regard or gratitude for everything he's done for her. He finds some respect with the mages once he and his sister find out they're alive but tragically loses it when Veruca screws over the mages.
11th-Hour Ranger: Joins the Dragon Knights' team by the very end of the third season, intending to use his wind magic to summon the Ancient Masters so they can destroy the weapons. Ultimately despite him genuinely turning over a new leaf, he doesn't really befriends the team and once the weapons are destroyed presumably returns to the other mages.
Face Death with Dignity: In Central America, after being abandoned by his sister, who leave him to Luthera to escape, he quietly accepts his death, only calmly saying to get it over with. Subverted in the end since Luthera decides to leave him alive, considering him Not Worth Killing.
The Friend Nobody Likes: He becomes part of the Dragon Knights in the final arc, but he's hardly a friend to any of them, mostly being professional with his interactions (especially Luthera) and even the all-loving Po makes a point of singling him out in his opening narration for the finale. To boot, he's the only member who's not shown to have kept any contact with the team after the Tianshang Weapons were destroyed.
Friend-or-Idol Decision: He has to choose between living with the surviving mages or help Veruca with her vengeance by stealing the Wind Helmet. Sadly, Veruca makes the choice for him by attempting to kill Kyle, alienating him from his fellow mages. Thankfully he mends fences when he brings plants for them to grow food on the island, allowing him to find his place once more.
Healing Potion: He has a bag of healing potions. One of them was used to fix Colin's broken leg.
Heel–Face Turn: He eventually helps Po and The Dragon Knights in their mission to destroy the Tianshang weapons.
It's All My Fault: He blames himself for Veruca's death because he enabled his sister's bad habits when they discovered her powers and never once stood up to her when her selfish tendencies got the best of her.
A Lighter Shade of Black: He's definitely the less evil and unhinged of the two siblings and when they were on the island, he tried to talk Veruca out of taking away the mages' source of livelihood but to no avail, after she leaves him for dead he drops his entire quest to instead bring back crop seeds for the mages to grow on the island so they can survive.
My Friends... and Zoidberg: Treated as such once he joins the Dragon Knights since he's only recently joined and has been an antagonist to the team most of the time, Po singles him out in his narration in the finale two-parter when presenting the Dragon Knights to show how no one on the team truly sees him as a friend.
Not Worth Killing: Luthera ultimately chooses not to kill him because she doesn't want to let her life be consumed by vengeance.
Satellite Character: Deconstructed as part of his character arc in the third season. Klaus acted as Veruca's caretaker at the cost of caring about himself. This prevented him from using his wind magic, resulting in him taking fifteen years to find her and then having difficulty saving the world later on.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After his sister leaves him to die, Klaus decides to leave the search for the Tianshang weapons and leave his sister behind as he goes decides to live on the island with the other mages.
What Happened to the Mouse?: It is unknown what happened to Klaus after accepting his sister's death when the Tianshang Weapons were destroyed for good. Whereas we were shown what happened with the other Dragon Knights and he was seen being celebrated alongside them after the destruction of the Tianshang Weapons, nothing about Klaus' ultimate whereabouts was revealed, though it's likely he returned to the mages' side to continue helping them.

Weimin

Voiced by: Parry Shen^{Foreign VAs}Vincent de Boüard (EU French)

The latest member of the Forbidden Company. He tries to prove his worth by arresting Po, but he fails repeatedly. He forms an alliance with Colin in the second season so that the two can capture Po and Luthera respectively.

Acid Attack: Like the other members of the Forbidden Company, Weimin can spit acid from his mouth.
Butt-Monkey: He suffers a lot of slapstick every time that he appears.
Determinator: Despite being the newest member of the Forbidden Company, he is the most determined to capture Po, following him to the desert after the latter escaped. He also teams up with Colin so that he can keep chasing Po once the Dragon Master escapes China.
False Friend: Exploits Po's loneliness after Luthera abandons him to get him to lower his guard. He actually does capture Po, but the panda's anger at being betrayed ends with Weimin knocked out via a noodle cart.

The Emperor

Voiced by: Todd Haberkorn^{Foreign VAs}Jérôme Berthoud (EU French)

The Emperor of China who officially took away Po's title of Dragon Master

Aristocrats Are Evil: He's the Emperor of China and a vain, scheming, and self-serving character.
The Napoleon: He's a small hamster and a megalomaniac monarch.
No Name Given: He's referred to only by his title and not by any personalized name.
Pet the Dog: Granted the main reason he's doing it is because China and the rest of the world are in danger from Sir Alfred re-arranging the world in a cataclysmic manner but he does grant Po his title of Dragon Master back in "The Pangea-ing". However, the scene is played out in a noble enough manner that any ulterior motives of his are a non-factor and Po is happy enough with the end result.
Took a Level in Kindness: In the third season, his overall personality doesn't change but he gives Po his title back and becomes more cooperative in going along with Po and Mr. Ping's plans to save the world from Sir Alfred.

Zuma

Voiced by: Sarah-Nicole Robles^{Foreign VAs}Cécile Arnaud (EU French)

The ruler of the South American kingdom of Tikal that Po and his friends visit.

Actress Allusion: Zuma establishes herself as the Arc Villain of Season 2 by acquiring three of the Tianshang weapons, which grant her magical abilities relating to control over the elements. Her voice actress's Star-Making Role was that of Luz Noceda, who also learned elemental magic that can be only be used when she has specific objects with her, although the means of using said magic is different.
All Your Powers Combined: She gets three of the Tianshang Weapons, which gives her powers over the earth, wind, and lightning. Downplayed, as her inability to capture the Whip of Endless Flame and recover the missing half of the Storm Wheel prevent her from using the full power of the Tianshang weapons.
Arc Villain: She's the main antagonist of the South America arc, especially when she gets her hands on three out of four Tianshang Weapons.
Barefoot Cartoon Animal: She's the first feline character in the franchise to be complete barefooted.
Beware the Silly Ones: She comes across as a ditzy party girl but is really the Arc Villain of the second season, upstages Klaus and Veruca, becomes one of the most powerful villains of the franchise with the Tianshang weapons, and is able to kill Po temporarily.
Big Eater: Implied, since most stories of The Protector end with her eating something before leaving.
Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Upon her introduction, Zuma seems to be a kind and friendly, if not ditzy and party-girl like ruler who took up the role of The Protector with the Storm Wheels. But as Akna reveals in her story, Zuma’s role as a “protector” is less about protection and more about stealing rain and resources from surrounding villages to boost her own kingdom and chasing off anyone who tries to reclaim their food, and she ends the season revealing her true selfish, spoiled, and entitled nature and being imprisoned for her crimes.
Bizarre Taste in Food: She eats a banana by dipping it in pozole. This is what gives away her identity as The Protector.
Broken Pedestal: The second season ends with her dethroned and locked in jail for nearly destroying her kingdom in her madness.
Character Catchphrase: Zuma tends to say "I love this for me" when she declares something she likes.
Colony Drop: After being denounced by her people, Zuma uses her powers to levitate her temple, intending to drop it on Tikal to destroy her former subjects.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist: She's different from the first season Arc Villain Veruca in a lot of ways. Veruca grew up an urchin, was a fugitive and prisoner for much of her life despite gaining some status in being the Queen's Arch-Mage and leading her own coven, and is mostly on the run as an outlaw, with most people either fearing or distrusting her. By contrast, Zuma is a Queen in a position of power and legitimacy, has led a life of relative ease, and is highly adored and respected as a hero. Additionally, Veruca is Ax-Crazy as a result of all the things she'd gone through in life and could barely hold it together, whereas Zuma's life of adoration and comfort enabled her to be able to put on a mask, be a social butterfly who enjoys dancing and singing, and control herself and her emotions much better. And finally, their species differ ecologically and geographically. Veruca comes from the "Old World" and is a weasel, a carnivorous animal that isn't at the top of the food chain either in England or the rest of Europe and Asia. But Zuma hails from the "New World" and as a jaguar, is the apex predator of her entire continent.
Cool Helmet: She steals the Wind Helmet from Veruca to increase her power. She even uses it's powers to try to destroy Tikal via Colony Drop in the climax of the second season.
Corrupted Character Copy: Zuma serves as one to her actress's most famous role Luz Noceda. Both Luz and Zuma are people who use elemental magic by means of specific objects, while possessing some very unorthodox behaviors and character traits. They will also move heaven and earth in order to help those they care about. However, where Luz is completely selfless, to the point of it being a character flaw due to taking responsibility for things outside her control, Zuma is Secretly Selfish, and almost destroys her own kingdom after they express horror at her actions.
Dual Wielding: She used to have both Storm Wheels fifteen years ago, until she lost one of them when Alfie and Akna stole it from her in a fight.
Elemental Punch: Besides the Wugao Gauntlet allowing her to give powerful punches of earth, the Storm Wheels also give Kuma the ability of throwing lightning-infused kicks, which she uses to defeat Master Mastodon.
Eviler than Thou: She completely upstages Veruca and Klaus, taking away their Tianshang weapons and becoming the Big Bad of the second season.
Fast as Lightning: Her main usage of her Storm Wheels is the ability to move with the speed of lightning.
Fatal Flaw: Selfishness. Zuma was the queen of Tikal, but she still stole the water of neighboring villages to improve the living conditions of her kingdom, ignoring the starvation she caused. She also was willing to destroy Tikal when her subjects considered her a monster.
Faux Affably Evil: A variation. She comes across as The Ditz who loves to party but Rukhmini guessed wrongly that she was only putting on a persona because being a ditzy party girl is genuinely part of her personality. Where the "faux" part really comes in is when she's acting as the Protector, pretending to be a heroic savior who helps the people when she's really secretly hoarding resources and robbing other kingdoms and villages for her own gain.
Flash Step: The Storm Wheel she wields allows her to move as quickly as lightning, making it appear as so she's doing this.
Fragile Speedster: She is nigh-untouchable when she uses the Super-Speed of the Storm Wheels. However, she is easily disarmed by Po in their first meeting when he lands a blow on her. She only escapes because the Storm Wheel refused to work for him when he attempted to use it on her. After acquiring the other two Tianshang Weapons, she graduates to a mixture of Glass Cannon and Lightning Bruiser thanks to the power-up.
Foil:
- To Po. Both act rather affable and ditzy, have a big and huge appetite, and take up the role of a hero in their homelands. But while Po’s honor, heroism and kindness is genuine, with even his weaker moments always leading to him doing the right thing and putting others’ needs before his own, Zuma’s actions as the Protector mask a selfish and entitled jerk who invented the Protector persona as a means to rob other kingdoms and villages of their resources to simply improve her already okay situation.
- Also can be considered one to Song from Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. Both are spotted female big cats but in contrast to one another, Song starts out as a villain but eventually repents of her criminal lifestyle and becomes one of the good guys, helping to save Po at the end of her only episode. Zuma on the other hand pretends to be a hero but is really a selfish narcissist who becomes the Arc Villain and ends up killing Po temporarily.
- She provides a stark contrast to Xiao from Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny. Both are female feline monarchs but Xiao is an ascending monarch who was new to the job, still has a lot to prove due to her inexperience, and matures into The Good Queen. On the other hand, Zuma is an established monarch who's been in power for some time, has already accomplished a lot as both a queen and a masked hero (as the Protector), but ultimately turns into and is shown to be a Fallen Hero due to her selfishness and evil. Xiao is the feline queen turned good while Zuma is the feline queen turned bad.
- Being the first big cat central antagonist to Po since the first movie, Zuma has many points of contrast with Tai Lung. Both are big cat antagonists to Po but Tai Lung is a male snow leopard with a grey and black color scheme while Zuma is a female jaguar with a lighter color scheme and more colorful clothing. Zuma was also royalty and ruled as a monarch for many years but Tai Lung had more humble beginnings as an abandoned Doorstep Baby. Tai Lung also had a darker personality as a result of being denied the title he wanted and being put in prison but Zuma is much more openly cheerful as a result of getting everything she wanted in life. Their battles against Po also differ; Tai Lung was defeated and killed by Po when Po was just a novice and starting on his journey of kung fu but Zuma was able to defeat and kill Po (at least temporarily) when Po was at the level of a master after many years of experience. Finally, Tai Lung reached a high level of kung fu mastery but couldn't reach his full potential due to being denied the title of Dragon Warrior and being imprisoned for a long time before Po eventually destroyed him. On the other hand, Zuma was free for many years to master her powers with the Storm Wheel and later on, the other Tianshang weapons and achieve a higher level of power, coming much closer to achieving her full potential as the World's Strongest Woman and only falling short because she didn't have all the Tianshang weapons and Sir Alfred surpassed her in a later season.
Ground Punch: Her training with the Wugao Gauntlet has her punch the ground repeatedly until she masters the weapon.
He Knows Too Much: She chooses not to save Pelpel from Klaus and Veruca's ship, as he had seen her unmasked.
Hero Killer: She is one of the few antagonists in the franchise to kill Po as she hit him with her Wugao Gauntlet. Unfortunately for Zuma, Po comes back from the death and defeats her.
How Do I Shot Web?: She needs to spend a whole day training with the Wing Helmet and the Wugao Gauntlet to master their powers.
It's All About Me: Her Fatal Flaw is her selfishness, as Zuma didn't need to steal the rain from other villages when she was already living in the prosperous kingdom of Tikal. This extends to her refusing to accept being in the wrong, which leads to her being dethroned by the end of the second season.
I've Come Too Far: Po tries to appeal to Zuma's good side by reminding her that she was a protector to her subjects, saving them when they needed help. Zuma actually considers pulling a Heel–Face Turn for a second, but she sadly laments that she's gone too far to stop.
A Lighter Shade of Black: Despite all her bad qualities, she still manages to be this in the second season as far as main female antagonists go in comparison to Veruca. While Veruca has had nothing but Kick the Dog moments in the second season, Zuma is shown to have genuinely done good for people, saved lives, and at the very least brought prosperity to her own kingdom. In their final battle, Po even treats Zuma like she's more worthy of redemption and deserving of a second chance to turn things around whereas Veruca doesn't remotely get the benefit of the doubt from him or the Dragon Knights.
Meaningful Name: Zuma's name derives from Montezuma or Moctezuma, rulers of the Aztec Empire. Like them, she's the ruler of an advanced Pre-Columbian civilization and deals with people from foreign lands entering her realm and eventually overthrowing her rule.
Megaton Punch: Starts delivering these after stealing the Wugao Gauntlet from Veruca. She punches their flying ship hard enough to send it crashing to a volcano. And she also kills Po with one of those punches.
Meteor Move: She uses two of them by using the Storm Wheels to send Po flying and then slam on Po's back with a lightning kick or a Wugao Gauntlet punch. She actually kills Po temporarily with the second one.
Never My Fault: Zuma doesn't like taking responsibility for her actions. She blames Po for forcing her to kill him since he refused to let her keep her Storm Wheel. And she tries to act like a victim when she's arrested despite trying to kill everyone in Tikal earlier.
Older Than They Look: She looks like a teenager, but a flashback shows that she used to look the same fifteen years ago, implying that she may be in her thirties.
Panthera Awesome: A jaguar queen. She is also The Protector, a powerful warrior who mastered the Storm Wheels.
Pay Evil unto Evil: She's definitely a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing and the moment she abandons Pelpel to die is what establishes her as a true villain. But in that moment, she also fights Veruca, steals her Tianshang weapons, and knocks her and her ship into the distance, leaving them for dead. By that point, Veruca had been nothing but an Ax-Crazy maniac who killed Luthera's brother and condemned her former fellow mages to die of starvation. And even though Zuma turned out to be Faux Affably Evil, she's still done more to help other people and bring peace to her own kingdom as both Queen and Protector so by that point, it's likely Veruca will have run out of sympathy points and the viewer might be more inclined to root for Zuma. And that's not even getting into how Veruca abandons her brother one episode later.
Pet the Dog: Though she became The Protector to fight off the Scorpions invading her kingdom, she also helped and saved random citizens from dying in accidents, showing that a part of her cared about her subjects. Po tries to bring up that fact to convince Zuma of having a Heel–Face Turn in the middle of their fight, but Zuma states that she can't stop after going this far.
Power Fist: Steals the Wugao Gauntlet from Veruca to increase her power. She even kills Po temporarily with it.
Redemption Rejection: Po tries to talk her down by reminding her of how she become The Protector to help her people. While she momentarily stops to consider his words, Zuma ultimately chooses to keep attacking.
Secretly Selfish: Although she presents herself as a hero whose actions were for the sake of her people and her kingdom, Akna reveals that the Storm Wheel she wields actually steals rain from other villages rather than creating it, which has put the surrounding areas through a serious drought and famine. This, along with her response to her people calling her a monster for her actions being to destroy them with her own temple, shows that all she ever really cared about was improving her own personal situation at the expense of everyone else.
Shock and Awe: Thanks to the Storm Wheels, she can attack with lightning.
Slasher Smile: Grins evilly twice when she attempts a killing blow on Po and later Luthera. She is fortunately stopped before she can do the deed.
Super-Speed: When her lightning powers are activated, everything around her is basically moving in slow motion.
Walking Spoiler: The fact that Zuma is the Arc Villain of Season 2 is a major twist, and the vast majority of her character moments come after she is outed as The Protector.

Forouzan

Voiced by: Shohreh Aghdashloo^{Foreign VAs}Vanina Pradier (EU French)

A sheep infamously known as "Pirate Queen" who is sought by Colin and Weimin in their quest to capture Po and Luthera.

Blow You Away: She gets to use the Wind Helmet to help Ping travel to England by making her ship fly there.
Connected All Along: She and Mr. Ping are connected, with the latter being her lover in the past. They eventually rekindle their relationship.
The Dreaded: Weimin, a member of the Forbidden Company, was willing to quit his quest of capturing Po the moment he realized that Forouzan was needed to find them.
New Old Flame: She and Ping were in a relationship in their youth. After the Dragon Knights earn their freedom from her, she and Ping resume their relationship.
Pirate: She's a pirate and the captain of a pirate ship.

Sir Drake

Voiced by: Mick Wingert^{Foreign VAs}Mario Bastelica (EU French)

He is an anthropomorphic lion. He was once Alfie's squire, now he’s the master of war.

Arc Villain: For the first half of Season 3, his mission to hunt down and arrest Luthera drives him to become pettier in his grudge and gradually move from simply being a knight doing his duty to an outright malicious jerk overexerting his authority at all costs.
Cool Sword: He confiscates Luthera's Shield from Luthera, claiming that it belongs to him since he's Alfie's successor as the Master of War.
Fatal Flaw: His pride causes him to take defeats very personally. This goes so far that he's willing to kill them on sight rather than subject them to a trial.
Foil: Like Colin, he's determined to bring Luthera to justice for taking the sword and impersonating a knight. Unlike Colin, who does so because he sincerely believes she's betrayed the knightly code, it becomes apparent that he's mostly doing it out of pride and because he actually hates the Landreth family for thinking they're better than him, and he's prepared to ignore orders to stop, while Colin's flaw has been obeying orders unquestioningly.
Kick the Dog: He treats Colin with disrespect despite everything he did to capture Luthera.
Malicious Misnaming: Makes a point of calling Colin any name starting with a hard C or K-sound except Colin.
Principles Zealot: He's haughtier than Colin, intending to kill the Dragon Knights simply for getting the best of him.
Took a Level in Jerkass: In the third season, he's starts out as an Inspector Javert antagonist who's disrespectful to Colin and goes after the Dragon Knights but still acts within royal law to do so. But by "The Battle of Tianshang" two parter, he outright decides to disobey the Queen when she tells him to stop his pursuit of Luthera and goes rogue to try to kill Luthera unlawfully because his pride couldn't handle Luthera getting the best of him.
Uncertain Doom: The last time he's seen, he's crushed by Veruca's vines nonfatally but is then thrown into the void of the Tianshang Weapons' forge, which would be completely collapsed and destroyed later on by Alfie with nothing indicating Drake got rescued or left the forge in time. By the end of the series, the Queen of England gives his title to Luthera and later Colin, implying that he indeed died.

The Final Villain (Unmarked Spoilers)

Sir Alfred

Voiced by: Omid Abtahi^{Foreign VAs}Alexandre Bierry (EU French)

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Undead Sir Alfred with all four Tianshang Weapons

Luthera's older brother/role model who was murdered by Veruca and Klaus in the latter's quest for the Tianshang Weapons, despite his death his shadow looms over her every action. He eventually comes back, albeit playing a much more different role than anyone could've expected.

All Your Powers Combined: He uses all Tianshang Weapons, making him a much more dangerous opponent than Zuma in the previous season and one of the strongest foes Po ever faced.
Ambiguous Situation: How much of Alfie's behavior after his resurrection would've been unchanged if he hadn't died and been stuck for 15 years as a corrupt soul before getting the Tianshang Weapons? While him forging Luthera's Shield from one of the Storm Wheels and Akna's belief that Alfie was just using her to get his way point to him having been full-on extremist already, some of his other behaviors such as listening to Duncan's side of the story despite him causing conflict and his general lack of malice anywhere else, along with alluding to having had a genuine friendship with Akna (until she turned against him in the present) point to him having only turned into a true extremist after his time as a ghost warrior instead.
Anti-Villain: He's certainly very antagonistic, too caught up in his goals to realize the harm he's causing as well too obsessed with getting payback on Klaus to realize what he's become as a result of it, but unlike the majority of the major villains in the franchise he has genuinely noble and selfless intentions for his actions and just wants the world to be a safe place.
Arc Villain: Once he reveals his true nature and the extent of his extremism after his resurrection he becomes the main antagonist of the second half of the final season.
Armored Villains, Unarmored Heroes: Sir Alfred is clad in his own knight's armor in addition to the extra layers of armor and protection afforded to him by the Tianshang weapons while Po and the rest of the Dragon Knights, save for Wandering Blade, are mostly unarmored.
Back from the Dead: Veruca brings him back from the dead with the Tianshang Weapons to kill Luthera. Once she loses control of her powers, Alfie kills her by stabbing her on the back, avenging his death and becoming the Arc Villain Final Boss shortly after.
Bears Are Bad News: He's a bear who happens to be the Big Bad of the series while possessing power on par with a Shonen Anime villain who can move continents, has an undead demon army he can send anywhere in the world, and is an extremist Knight Templar whom you have no recourse against if he decides for some reason, you're part of the problem. Being an absolute powerhouse by the standards of the entire KFP franchise and a vengeful, ruthless Totalitarian Utilitarian who's willing to kill to create a better world, Sir Alfred is the kind of bear you really don't want to run into for whatever reason.
Beary Friendly: Before his descent into insanity Alfie was a hero who sought true justice, he supported his sister's dreams of being a knight, loved his mother dearly and was genuine friends with Akna, he also was the first person to ever listen to Duncan the "Bog Monster" and gained the latter's trust enough for him to be given the quest to destroy the Tianshang Weapons.
Big Bad: He is the overarching villain of the entire series and is the final antagonist that Po and his allies must face.
Big Brother Instinct: His desire to be a knight was to protect his little sister. Fittingly enough, he dies protecting her from Klaus and Veruca.
Came Back Wrong: Of the Damaged Soul variety. When he's come back to life, he returns as a ruthless Knight Templar who's willing to violently enforce his will over the entire planet and becomes the major Arc Villain of the third and final season. He ends up talked down by Po and Luthera.
Contrasting Sequel Antagonist:
- To Veruca: Both are the most skilled members of their respective factions who sought the Tianshang Weapons to rule the world with and succeeded in obtaining and wielding them all. However, Veruca was primarily defined by her selfishness and willingness to throw everyone else under the bus for her own goals without considering the consequences, ultimately dying alone until she was brought back as a spirit and ultimately atoned for her crimes once freed of Alfie's control, while Alfie died with his sister at his side and became more destructive in death once he was revived and freed from Veruca's control.
- To Zuma: Both are relatively well-intentioned wielders of the Tianshang Weapons who desire to protect those they care about, however in their pursuit of the artifacts they end up consumed by it and unwittingly bring ruin to even their own homeland reacting poorly to what they perceive as the people being ungrateful for what they've done. However, while Zuma was only concerned with Tikal's prosperity and remained a villain until her defeat, Alfie was able to be talked down from his madness once he hurt his mother and willingly gave up the weapons.
Cool Big Bro: He supported his sister's desire to be a knight and even after becoming a Knight Templar he allowed her to rule by his side.
Cool Sword: He was the original owner of Luthera's Shield. He forged it from one of the Storm Wheels
Face Death with Dignity: After he realizes that destroying the Tianshang Weapons will fully sever his link with the living world and make his spirit move on, he accepts it without protest and simply spends his last moments with his family before departing.
Fallen Hero: Was a true hero in life, then after his resurrection he became a fierce Knight Templar willing to do what it takes to enforce peace, even if it means forcefully joining the world together and killing even the smallest-time criminal in order to set an example for anyone out to cause trouble which causes him to become the series' final villain.
Final Boss: He is the last antagonist that Po and the Dragon Knights have to face by the end of the series.
Greater-Scope Paragon: While he did plan to use the Tianshang Weapons for his own use from the start, he's relatively more well-intentioned than any other user of the weapons and his heroic deeds and experiences served as the role models for his sister, Luthera, motivating her to become a knight; he was also an influence on Colin.
Greater-Scope Villain: He had been planning to use the Tianshang Weapons to reform Pangea and rule the world in an authoritative state with himself at the top from the start to ensure peace and even forged one of the Storm Wheels into a Sword for his own use which fell into the hands of Klaus and Veruca and then Luthera, however his more truly antagonistic traits only emerged after his spirit was summoned back into the living world.
In the Back: How he died. When he was chasing after Veruca and Klaus and got distracted trying to protect his sister from the duo, Veruca took the chance to steal his sword and stab him in the back with it. This also had the unintended side effect of trapping his soul in the Tianshang Weapons. Once he is summoned back to the world of the living, he returns the favor in a Karmic Death.
Knight Templar: He becomes one after his resurrection. Having grown tired of the principles of knighthood that he considered limiting in helping the innocents, Alfie uses the power of the Tianshang Weapons to fuse the continents back into Pangea to create a peaceful world order. And as Chuntao's gang and Weimin find out the hard way he won't hesitate to kill troublemakers, such as Chuntao himself, if it ensures the people will fall in line and avoid conflict.
My God, What Have I Done?: He is horrified when he accidentally hurts his mother, realizing that he's going too far.
Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: He may want the world to be united as it was before, but he goes through extreme circumstances to do so that ends up causing far more suffering to the people than any of the evils he opposed did. In fact, it’s using the Tianshang Weapon’s energy too much, that causes the world to fold in and destroy itself, Alfred doesn’t see the error of his ways till the finale.
Posthumous Character: Was murdered by Veruca about 15 years prior to the start of the series. He eventually comes back to the series as a spirit and becomes the Final Boss.
Totalitarian Utilitarian: Alfred believes that pulling the continents back together and enforcing his rule of a conflict-free world, even if it's a simple dispute from a game of chess, will make the world a better place for everyone.
Walking Spoiler: It's hard not to talk about him without revealing his role in the final season.
World's Strongest Man: A strong case could be made that he's this for the entire series and possibly even the franchise as a whole when fully Tianshang-empowered. He has the power to rearrange all the continents in the world back into Pangea and can project his shadow demons all over the world. Past cinematic villains only threatened China and not even Kai displayed the power to threaten the entire world. And even other major Arc Villain characters in the animated spinoffs never projected power on a worldwide scale and while Ke-Pa had ambitions of covering the world in darkness, he never got around to it because Po defeated him and even then, we don't know if Ke-Pa could've spread his own shadowy demons everywhere at once in the world like Alfred did. And most importantly, while Po was able to defeat his strongest past villains such as Ke-Pa, Kai, and Zuma with some Tianshang weapons (granted the former two required him receiving extremely powerful Chi from others to pull off the deed), he notably was not able to defeat Alfred in battle despite having many years of experience and major accomplishments under his belt, not even when he successfully snatched and used many of the Tianshang Weapons against Alfred himself and in the end, Alfred needed to be talked down from his insanity by Luthera during his moment of remorse to relinquish his powers and weapons willingly.

China

Pei-Pei

Voiced by: Amy Hill^{Foreign VAs}Ariane Deviègue (EU French)

A popular cook who specializes in cooking fat gobs. Po visits her village in an attempt to taste her cooking.

Get Out!: Tells Po to leave her village after the latter accidentally destroys it with the Wugao Gauntlet.
Supreme Chef: She is very popular on China for cooking fat gobs. Po personally traveled China to eat her cooking.

Chuntao

Voiced by: Tru Valentino^{Foreign VAs}Serge Biavan (EU French)

A Chinese crocodile lizard bandit with a prior history with Po. At some point Po stopped him from stealing the carriage of the former emperor.

Asshole Victim: He gets killed by Sir Alfred with a massive rock but spent most of his life as a murderous bandit and before Alfred killed him, he was even threatening an unarmed Weimin with the implication that he had bad intentions for the Komodo dragon.
Back for the Dead: He made one appearance in the first season while not appearing at all in the second one. However, he returns in the third season, only for Sir Alfred to crush him to death with a massive rock after deciding Chuntao isn't fit to live in the world he's remade.
Bad Butt: Given his bandit life, mannerisms, and willingness to kill you if you don't pay the toll he wants, it's implied he's a much more murderous character off-screen when he isn't going up against people with powers such as Veruca or kung fu masters like Po who can fight him off. But since The Dragon Knight was still made with kids in mind, the amount of on-screen evil he's allowed to commit isn't allowed to go too far and one can only imagine the fates of people who don't have the ability to defend themselves like Po or Veruca if they ever encountered Chuntao's gang in the past. And even if he wasn't totally in his right mind at the time, even Sir Alfred considered Chuntao to be irredeemable enough that he kills Chuntao brutally and Chuntao threatening an unarmed Weimin beforehand implies he had some serious bad intentions for the Komodo dragon.
Faux Affably Evil: He'll engage in playful banter with potential victims but it's clear he's more than willing to commit murder or do other horrible things to you if you don't give him what he wants.
Friendly Enemy: He and Po banter during their fight in spite of being enemies. Po even knows about Chuntao's love life, asking the latter how are things going with his girlfriend and showing sympathy when Chuntao mentions that she broke up with him.
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He's the leader of a group of Chinese crocodile lizard bandits, has some history with Po as a Friendly Enemy with the two of them being familiar with each other's personal lives, and even has a Californian accent similar to Fung the croc bandit from Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness despite having a different voice actor. Chuntao can basically be seen as The Dragon Knight equivalent to Fung, except Chuntao and his bandits manage to be a little more threatening than Fung and his crew, with the implication being that Chuntao legitimately kills people who don't pay up and Fung and his followers would never be able to live in rough lava wasteland conditions for long.

Zhen

Voiced by: Stephanie Hsu

A hedgehog scribe of Lotus Village. She's a bit lazy and a troublemaker, which gets her arrested when Klaus and Veruca destroy the village and everyone thinks she did it.

Brilliant, but Lazy: She is a scholar by virtue of living in a village of scribes. However, she is also very lazy, even asking Luthera to carry her in her arms because she was too lazy to walk.
Cassandra Truth: She did see Klaus and Veruca wrecking havoc in the village, but nobody believes her because she's lazy and has a penchant for fireworks.
Ms. Exposition: She is the one who explains to Po and Luthera about Pangaea and the Tianshang Warriors.

Elder Huang

Voiced by: Stephanie Sheh^{Foreign VAs}Catherine Lafond (EU French)

The leader of the Lotus Village. She welcomes Po and Luthera into her home.

Pet the Dog: She is the first character, other than Mr. Ping, who doesn't turn on Po for accidentally destroying a village with the Wugao Gauntlet. Her reasoning is that a single mistake shouldn't supersede Po's service to China over the years. Needless to say,Poi's moved to see someone in China still refer to him as Dragon Master.
Reasonable Authority Figure: She welcomes Po to Lotus Village, believing that he doesn't deserve to be a fugitive for accidentally destroying a village when he saved China multiple times. Subverted in her suspecting Zhen for causing havoc in the village without proper evidence.
What the Hell, Hero?: She is genuinely hurt when Po releases Zhen. She even cries, asking Po why he did such a thing. The scene is more hurtful because Po was hiding in the woods, feeling guilty as he hears her sorrow.

Li Gao

A pangolin who was a historian and graphic novel writer. He made Po's favorite comic, which was a biography of the Tianshang Warriors. Po and Luthera go look for him to figure out more about the Tianshang Weapons, unaware that he passed away.

Good Parents: He was a good father to his son Lao, who still grieves his death.
Posthumous Character: He died by the time Po and Luthera reach his workshop.

Lao

Voiced by: James Sie^{Foreign VAs}Emmanuel Garijo (EU French)

A pangolin who was the son of Lao Gi. He keeps his father's final comic to himself out of grief. As such, Po and Luthera need to help him come to terms with his father's death.

Nerd Glasses: His most notable trait are the huge glasses he wears on his face.
Oh, Crap!: Gets a huge one in "Pangea" when he realizes that Alfred who he just met, is not only a ghost but also wielding all four Tianshang Weapons and thus indirectly responsible for the chaos that's struck China and the world.

The Forbidden Company

The Emperor's best warriors. He sends them to capture Po after he becomes a fugitive of China.

Anti-Villain: While they're technically heroic since they're just doing their job to catch a supposed criminal, their methods to capture Po, disregard for collateral damage and civilians caught in the crossfire as well as their general rudeness makes them hardly heroic in the long run.
Acid Attack: They can spit acid, which makes them very dangerous when fighting.
The Dreaded: Even the Emperor's imperial guards are afraid of them.

Rabia

A fennec Fox who is protected by Luthera.

Free-Range Children: Her parents let her leave the desert to go to a comic convention on her own.
I Owe You My Life: Because Luthera saved her life from the Forbidden Company, Rabia intends to return the favor.

Changpu

A Chow-Chow dog from a village that helps Klaus and Veruca with the former's poisoning.

Broken Pedestal: She is disgusted when the High Priestess reveals that the goddess is fake and she made her up. Considering that trying to sacrifice Klaus made Veruca destroy their village, Changpu has all the right to be mad.
The Bus Came Back: Returns in Season 3 trying to eat people again, this time she almost gets Colin before Luthera saves him.
Death Glare: She gives the High Priestess an angry when the latter reveals that there is no goddess since she made it up.

High Priestess

The high priestess of a village made of Chow-Chow dogs. She intends to sacrifice Klaus to her goddess, which causes Veruca to destroy her village.

Sapient Eat Sapient: She has her village capture visitors, drug them, and then cook them as an offering to her goddess. Unfortunately, Klaus is her latest sacrifice, which gets her on the bad side of Veruca.
Scam Religion: She reveals that there is no goddess when Veruca destroys the village since she made her up. Changpu is not amused.

England

Queen of England

Voiced by: Barbara Goodson^{Foreign VAs}Cathy Cerdà (EU French)

The Queen of England who initially sent Colin and Sir Drake to find Luthera but ultimately becomes an ally to the Dragon Knights.

National Animal Stereotypes: She is the Queen of England who is also a corgi.
Foil: To the Emperor of China, both are diminutive rulers of their country with odd and immature behaviors for royalty who sent soldiers after a disgraced hero. But while the Emperor is a selfish, disinterested and rude person, the Queen is reasonable, selfless and ultimately on the good guys' side from the start.
Reasonable Authority Figure: She may be a bit ditzy, but she is right in that Sir Drake is letting his grudge against the Dragon Knights to get the better of him.
Smart People Play Chess: One of the greatest chess players in England, who has never been defeated. Subverted in that it turns out she can't play chess at all, it's just nobody argues with her.

Duncan

Voiced by: Nicholas Guy Smith^{Foreign VAs}Guillaume Desmarchelier (EU French)

He is an anthropomorphic beaver covered in moss. Not only did he know Alfie, but he told him about the Tianshang Weapons and sent him on his quest to destroy them.

Green Thumb: He uses plant magic like Veruca. And like her it is because he's a descendant of the Evil Masters who fought the Tianshang Warriors.
Killed Offscreen: Veruca kills him and confirms the fact after her encounter with him.
Quest Giver: He is the one who told Alfie about the Tianshang Weapons and tasked him with destroying them.
Sneeze Interruption: He has a constant head cold, and his attempts to talk to our heroes are repeatedly disrupted by sneezes.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He had faith in Alfie destroying the Tianshang Weapons after he'd grown to trust him for being the first person to ever be kind to him, yet his advice led to Alfie becoming a Knight Templar and eventually threaten the entire world.

Benny

Voiced by: Keith Ferguson^{Foreign VAs}Martial Le Minoux (EU French)

Lucinda

Voiced by: Toks Olagundoye

Luthera's mother.

Morality Pet: She is one for Alfie; when he accidentally hurts her during the final battle, it causes him to realize how far he's fallen.
My Beloved Smother: She would often force her daughter to learn how to be a "proper lady", and felt her becoming a knight like her brother was too dangerous.
Why Couldn't You Be Different?: She is not happy that Luthera chose to follow in Alfie's footsteps.

India

Diya

A giant flying squirrel who is a former friend of Rukhmini.

Action Mom: Being a mother didn't hamper Diya's fighting skills, as she can fight evenly with her former friend during the India arc.
Ambiguously Bi: When Rukhmini visits her after 30 years trapped, she's raising her daughter, Padma, which implies she married at one point, with the guy out of the picture. She also marries Rukhmini in season 3 and are shown to be happy together.
Batman Gambit: Realizing that Jayesh only wanted to marry her daughter to steal control of her restaurant away from her, Diya agreed to the marriage to turn his “what’s yours is mine” strategy against him and take back control of the city. And while Rukhmini and Team Dragon Knight’s appearance complicated matters, she effortlessly helped them plan a heist to get the Pendant of Master Mastodon from Jayesh to set them up for a trap to be captured and make herself look more trustworthy in Jayesh’s eyes. It isn’t until the wedding has gone through and the team is about to leave the city that the full extent of her true plans are revealed, with even Rukhmini being impressed and calling it “the greatest con of all time”.
Happily Married: To Rukhmini in season 3.
Queer Establishing Moment: Reacquaintances herself as bisexual in season 3, as she's in a committed marriage with Rukhmini.
Retired Badass: She was a former thief that could keep up with Rukhmini. Now she's a restaurant owner. Though she still has the brains for one last con in her.

Padma

Voiced by: Anjali Bhimani^{Foreign VAs}Lauryanne Philippe (EU French)

A giant flying squirrel and Diya’s daughter.

Arranged Marriage: Eventually revealed to be in one with Jayesh, who is only marrying her to get the rights to her mother’s restaurant, the one holdout in the city he doesn’t own, and tear it down to build a parking lot. In a rare case and example, the marriage actually goes through despite the heroes efforts, but it turns out to be a con be Diya and Padma to get the right to hand over Jayesh’s ownership of the town back to the people as his bride.
Cute Clumsy Girl: Padma doesn't make a single appearance without tripping over. Until she's revealed to be part of her mother's con, implying it was all part of the act. When she reappears in Season 3, however, she still drops something while making a speech, so maybe not entirely.
Family of Choice: After her mother and Rukhmini tie the knot in season 3, she wastes little time in referring to the latter as "another mom" to her.
Perfectly Arranged Marriage: While their marriage occured as a strategy to take away his ownership of the city thus forcing him to work in the restaurant, come season 3, Padma and Jayesh are shown to be pretty okay with each other with Padma even calling him "dear".

Jayesh

Voiced by: Sean T. Krishnan^{Foreign VAs}Jérémie Bédrune (EU French)

An elephant collector who currently resides in Rukhmini’s old city after buying most of it up and “cleaning it up”.

Arc Villain: He’s the groups main obstacle in India, due to possessing the Pendant of Master Mastodon that the group needs for their quest and his scheme to marry Padma and and take the rights to Diya’s restaurant to have full control of the city.
Big Bad Wannabe: Despite being the main antagonist of the Indian arc, his role boils down to this, when the Master Mastodon appears, Jayesh is quickly overshadowed as a threat, and in the end it turns out that Diya was manipulating him the whole time to to take possession of the city from him, so his plan was doomed from the start.
Character Tics: He has hiccups when he is nervous. It shows when dealing with his upcoming marriage.
Collector of the Strange: Jayesh has a taste for odd artifacts, with his home filled with lots of art that he bought over the years.
Disc-One Final Boss: He's the main villain of the India arc and after that, the rest of the season gives full focus back to the weasel siblings and Zuma.
Heel–Face Turn: In his reappearance, he appears to have accepted his role as Padma's henpecked husband, and genuinely cares about the family.
Henpecked Husband: His final fate, as while the plan to steal back the rights to the city from him went through, he’s still technically legally married to Padma since he already signed the paperwork. His “wife” responds by telling “her love” that he can work hard to earn back all of his riches… in her mother’s restaurant.
Non-Action Big Bad: He's the first Arc Villain of the KFP franchise proper who doesn't fight and delegates all the fighting to his servants.
Perfectly Arranged Marriage: While their marriage occured as a strategy to take away his ownership of the city thus forcing him to work in the restaurant, come season 3, Padma and Jayesh are shown to be pretty okay with each other with Jayesh even helping plan Rukhmini's birthday surprise.
Self-Made Man: He claims to Luthera that the only thing that his father gave him was his involuntary act of hiccups when nervous, implying that Jayesh made his own fortune.
Took a Level in Kindness: In season 3, he seems more at ease being married to Padme and shows no hostility toward neither her, Diya or Rukhmini. He even seems to enjoy working at the restaurant.

Polynesia

Mages

The mages are magic users from England who left the country and settled in Polynesia. Klaus and Veruca were once their leaders before the latter's arrest.

Death Glare: They glare at Klaus and Veruca for stealing the Wind Helmet, dooming them to starvation. While Veruca doesn't mind, Klaus feels guilty about it.
Evil Brit: They are from England like Klaus and Veruca. Subverted in that they don't want to conquer England like the weasels, as they'd rather steal from ships to survive.
The Exile: They fled England after Veruca's imprisonment.

Kyle

Voiced by: Richard Ayoade^{Foreign VAs}Thibaut Lacour (EU French)

The new Archmage following Veruca's arrest. He is the keeper of the Wind Helmet, which he uses to bring ships to an island where his fellow mages steal supplies to survive.

Anti-Villain: He's a ruthless user of the Wind Helmet who plunders ships and sinks them to steal their resources... All so he and his fellow mages can survive in the Polynesian Islands they were banished to. He's overjoyed to see Klaus and Veruca alive and despite being angry at them for stealing the Wind Helmet, does welcome Klaus back once he returns with means to help the mages.
The Archmage: Replaces Veruca with the position via an election. Subverted as his magical powers are not on the same league as Veruca. He more than makes up for it with his Wind Helmet.
Blow You Away: His Wind Helmet allows him to use wind to hold his own against Veruca.
Cool Helmet: His Wind Helmet allows him to manipulate wind and is one of the four Tianshang Weapons that Klaus and Veruca want to obtain.
Dragon Ascendant: After Veruca's arrest he took the role of Archmage, guiding the mages in their exile to survive.
Nerves of Steel: When Pangea is being reformed, Kyle calmly plays his ukulele despite the chaos surrounding him.
Powers Do the Fighting: He is not a fighter like Veruca, so he relies in the powers of the Wind Helmet to hold his own. Sadly, Veruca's magic and her Wugao Gauntlet allows her to win in the end.

South America

Pelpel

Voiced by: Harvey Guillén^{Foreign VAs}Thomas Sagols (EU French)

A frog with a knack for math. He and his tribe are trying to defend their crops from Scorpions, causing Po and his friends to help them.

Broken Pedestal: He admired the Protector for saving many lives and keeping Tikal prosperous as well as Tikal's leader Zuma for being a generous soul and benevolent queen, all that goes out the window once the Protector/Zuma tries to get him killed alongside Klaus and Veruca just to keep her secret identity safe.
Bystander Syndrome: Akna calls him out on not helping her tribe despite knowing that they were suffering from starvation while his tribe had more than enough crops to survive.
Good with Numbers: He is capable of making quick calculations that will help him come up with strategies, like setting up traps.
Trap Master: His talent with math makes him an expert at setting traps to capture the Scorpions, which are too powerful to defeat by Po and his friends.
You Are in Command Now: After Zuma’s imprisonment, he is unanimously elected by the people of Tikal to be the next leader.

Blood Boys

A trio of brothers who are champion players of pok-at-pok.

Cool Big Bro: They all love their little brother B'ah.
Jerk Jock: Subverted. They act like tough athletes, spitting on the ground and showing off, but they are really nice to their little brother B'ah, and they have a legitimate reason to win the game so that they can talk to Zuma.
Sibling Team: The three of them work together as a team when playing pok-ta-pok.

B'ah

The replacement player of the Blood Boys and their younger brother.

Badass Adorable: He is cute and is on the same level as his older brothers when it comes to sports.
Graceful Loser: He doesn't let his loss against the Dragon Knights personally, despite needing to talk to Zuma about the lack of food on his home.
Nice Guy: Unfailingly friendly and considerate to everyone.

Characters / Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight

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Team Dragon Knights

Voiced by: Rita OraForeign VAsIngrid Donnadieu, Lucille Boudonnat [young] (EU French), Mutsumi Tamura (Japanese)

Voiced by: Rahnuma PanthakyForeign VAsValérie Siclay (EU French)

Voiced by: Martin AistropeForeign VAsNicolas Justamon (EU French)

Voiced by: Melissa VillaseñorForeign VAsMaeva Méline (EU French)

Voiced by: Toks OlagundoyeForeign VAsAnnie Le Youdec (EU French)

Voiced by: Ed WeeksForeign VAsFlorian Wormser (EU French)

Tianshang Warriors

Antagonists

Klaus voiced by: Chris GeereForeign VAsThibaut Lacour, Sébastien Desjours (EU French), Kentaro Tone (Japanese)Veruca voiced by: Della SabaForeign VAsCharlotte Hervieux (EU French), Rie Kugimiya (Japanese)

Tropes applying to both of them:

Tropes applying to Veruca:

Tropes applying to Klaus:

Voiced by: Parry ShenForeign VAsVincent de Boüard (EU French)

Voiced by: Todd HaberkornForeign VAsJérôme Berthoud (EU French)

Voiced by: Sarah-Nicole RoblesForeign VAsCécile Arnaud (EU French)

Voiced by: Shohreh AghdashlooForeign VAsVanina Pradier (EU French)

Voiced by: Mick WingertForeign VAsMario Bastelica (EU French)

Sir Alfred

Voiced by: Omid AbtahiForeign VAsAlexandre Bierry (EU French)

China

Voiced by: Amy HillForeign VAsAriane Deviègue (EU French)

Voiced by: Tru ValentinoForeign VAsSerge Biavan (EU French)