>>114947511Kai had a good concept but they worked it the wrong way. A Yin enlightenment character that's a warlord and continues the way of disintegration and darkness because it's necessary to inspire hope and rebirth is a totally valid play on the old trope, and considering Oogway was apparently singlehandedly capable of taking down the first movie antagonists if he'd still been alive, having the third movie antagonist be the dualistic foil to Oogway would have let the difficulty be known from the start. This guy could throw hands with the creator of Kung Fu. Look out.
But Kai isn't any of that. They very superficially make him be the guy that "takes chi" instead of "giving chi" but that's weak.
The catch is, Po is at inner peace. He knows his lot in life and accepts it. So you can't make Kai be this guy all about fighting your inner demons without making the B plot for the Furious Five just be Po's plot for KFP2. Instead, Kai should represent a more global sort of embodiment of destructive force. In the end, he isn't vanquished like a dragon. He's managed. Maybe he wins before he's defeated, and it causes some massive upheaval. Maybe an MC dies like Shifu, but Kai should've had a lasting impact on everyone involved in the film, I think, as the agent of upheaval.
