Broken Base: A relatively minor example compared to others, but fans, audience and critics can't seem to agree which movie is the best of trilogy. Mostly the question comes down to personal preference, and you will rarely meet a person who likes only two movies and hates the third one.
Friendly Fandoms: With Turning Red potentially, due to the shared theme of anthropomorphic animals with prodigious strength, agility and mystical abilities. Both stories also have protagonists who pursue their dreams against all doubts. Both films also feature red pandas as major characters.
Gateway Series: With its ambitious storytelling, blazing action and the myriad of awards, including Oscar nominations, this series has introduced millions to the Furry Fandom at its big budgeted best.
Growing the Beard: Depending who you ask, either the Kung Fu Panda or Madagascar series is this for DreamWorks, when they started producing either original IPs or adaptations of other works that were much better received than their earlier movies.
Magnificent Bastard: Master Oogway is a wise old tortoise who founded the Jade Palace and current Furious Five for the purpose of protecting the Valley of Peace. Having turned from his conquering ways of the past following kindness he was shown, Oogway has trained Shifu and assembled the Furious Five from all corners of China, putting them through rigorous tests of physicality and character both to prove their worth. In the events of the first film, Oogway chooses the seemingly useless, untrainable Po to be the new Dragon Warrior, seeing a spark of potential in the panda that proves correct when Po defeats the powerful Tai Lung and becomes the new protector of the Valley of Peace. Oogway's choosing of Po is shown to be even more brilliant in the third film, in which it is revealed Oogway orchestrated Po reuniting with his supposedly dead panda tribe so he could learn Chi and stop Oogway's old rival Kai when he inevitably returned.
Tai Lung started to gain this reputation following the release of the teaser of Kung Fu Panda 4, given it was the second movie in a row where he was given The Worf Effect despite being long gone by then. This mixed with how easily Oogway defeated him and how poorly he handled his fight with Po in the first movie despite Po just starting learning Kung Fu, many fans have started to mock him as the most useless fighter ever that could even be defeated by Mr. Ping despite his reputation as The Dreaded.
The Furious Five (minus Tigress) had also become infamous for being constant victims of The Worf Effect or getting Put on a Bus every time a new character is introduced, like with Tai Lung, a lot of fans tend to joke about how their reputation as the greatest masters of Kung Fu is pure talk and that they wouldn't last five minutes without Po, somewhat supported by their portrayal in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness. It probably doesn't help that they were beaten by Tai Lung (who as pointed out above is also mocked) in what was basically a Curb-Stomp Battle once he got on solid ground.
Memetic Psychopath: For some reason, the internet seems to enjoy replacing search results for infamous leaders of brutal regimes such as Holocaust and Communist China with pictures of Mr. Ping. Depictions of him as a physically abusive father are also popular.
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Besides Breakout Character Tigress, most of the Furious Five are rarely given any focus on their own, often being relegated to minor subplots or suffering The Worf Effect and more often that not being Satellite Characters to each other. The Paws of Destiny and The Dragon Knight are even worse in this regard, as they are completely absent of those shows. Only in two of the specials and in certain episodes of Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness they get any sort of individual focus.
