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Valmont runs into Daolon Wong, who demands the Enforcers back, but the dark wizard merely turns Valmont into a child.

Meanwhile, Uncle locates the noble horse in England, and plan to go there before Daolon Wong can. Jade is once again rebuffed from the mission, and thinking that this wouldn't happen if she was older, she creates a potion to grow up. However, rather than making her older, the potion causes her to grow in size. Meanwhile, Valmont, who overheard Jackie and Uncle, decides to go to England and use the horse's powers to return back to normal.


This episode provides examples of:

  • All for Nothing: Valmont sneaks onboard the plane to get the Chans to let him use the Horse Talisman to change back to normal. He manages to steal Royal Medicine and, after making many demands, finally gets her to use her healing magic. However, all she heals is a papercut he got from one of Uncle's books that he got on the plane. More than likely, the horse didn't undo the spell because there wasn't anything actually wrong with him, so his efforts to get the horse were pointless. Fortunately, Uncle is able to devise a potion to change him back later.
  • Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: The growth potion Jade creates causes her to grow even taller than a building.
    Jade: When I said I wanted to grow up I didn't mean this!
  • Badass Adorable: Giant Jade, even more so than regular Jade. Not only does her massive size bring her cuteness levels into Moe territory, but it also allows her to take on a giant ogre conjured up by Daolon Wong. And that's after she defeated the Enforcers in a literal Curb-Stomp Battle.
  • Behemoth Battle: Giant Jade vs Daolon Wong's giant ogre.
  • Bigger Is Better: Jade really loves being giant-sized, to the point where she's disappointed when Jackie tells her she needs an antidote to turn her back to normal.
  • Bullying a Dragon: Valmont should know better than threatening a dark wizard. Being turned into a child wasn't among the worst things Wong could have done to him.
  • Call-Back/Continuity Nod: When child Valmont is heading to Uncle's store to ask the Chans for help, he grumbles "I can't believe I have to ask Jackie Chan for help...again!". This is a reference to the season 2 episode "The New Atlantis", when Valmont asked the Chans to remove Shendu's spirit from his body.
  • Can Only Move the Eyes: Uncle and Daolon Wong each try to magically paralyze the other, and end like this - while Giant Jade fights an ogre near them.
  • Colossus Climb: Valmont and Jackie do this to Giant Jade, who was fighting Wong's ogre.
  • Comically Missing the Point: When Valmont first appears to the Chans in child form, Jackie questions what happened. Having just complained about a papercut, Valmont states he must've gotten it from one of Uncle's books. Jade clarifies for the "boy genius" that Jackie was referring to his sudden de-aging.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Giant Jade versus the Dark Chi Enforcers. Emphasis on stomp.
  • Cute Giant: Jade was already cute to begin with, but being giant makes her even cuter.
  • Forced Transformation: At the beginning of the episode, Wong turns Valmont into a kid.
  • Giant Foot of Stomping: How Giant Jade defeats the Enforcers.
  • Gone Horribly Right: The spell Jade cast on herself was intended to make her grow older. Instead, it made her grow gigantic.
  • Growing Up Sucks: Played for Laughs. At the end of the episode, Uncle restores Valmont back to normal, only to be arrested immediately afterwards by Captain Black, prompting Valmont to demand Uncle to turn him back into a child again, and then demanded to be judged as a minor.
  • Improvised Weapon: Giant Jade uses a building's fire escape as a weapon.
  • It's All About Me: Valmont, all what he cares is to get the horse to restore himself back to normal.
  • Meaningful Name: This episode's animal is the horse named Royal Medicine, which makes sense as it can use its healing powers on anyone who approaches it.
  • Large and in Charge: Valmont tries ordering Daolon Wong around with the excuse that he’s bigger than him. Daolon isn’t having any of that at turns him into a child. Valmont tries the same thing with Jade then she turns it back on him when her growth potion makes her taller than him.
  • Minor Injury Overreaction: When Wong burns some of Uncle's hair, Uncle replies with a loud "YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT!"
  • Near-Villain Victory: Daolon Wong would have absorbed the horse's healing powers if it wasn't for Giant Jade's intervention.
  • Shout-Out: The Enforcers taunt Giant Jade with "You're going down, Queen Kong!" After they are defeated, Jade claims that she would prefer to be called Jade-zilla.
  • Tiny Guy, Huge Girl: Tohru and Jade. Tohru is just as big as ever, but Jade's new size places him on this trope.
  • Too Dumb to Live: The Enforcers attack Giant Jade, running straight at her, only to get stomped on for their troubles. Valmont lampshades this, wondering why he even wanted them back if they didn't expect that to happen.
  • Unexplained Recovery: Last we saw Valmont, he was stuck in concrete up to his neck thanks to Daolon Wong. How he escaped was never revealed.
  • "You!" Squared: Valmont and Daolon Wong do this when they first run into each other.

 
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Jade is grown to giant size by her attempted "grow up" spell. Tohru is unable to deal with her at such a size.

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