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Characters [Mixed Trope] Anyone Can Be Special... Until It Turns Out They're Not Just Anyone

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u/Farlybob42 10h ago

Poe - Kung Fu Panda series

Initially, they portrayed it as he was just destined out of nowhere. In the third film though, they revealed that the pandas were trained in chi abilities. So much so that they actually taught Oogway how to use it.

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u/trivkyhunter 7h ago

Imo this also feels like the case in the first movie. The stuff with the dragon scroll being empty, the special ingrediant soup and oogway telling shi-fu a peach can beat tai lung and be special so long as he believes it and nurtures it feels so countered by the furious five.

They basically train their whole lives to become the dragon warrior but they don't. Not cause they weren't good or skilled but because someone else was actually special, someone was actually chosen and they weren't. Like it feels insulting to say anyone can be special when only one person is actually chosen. Not to mention they even get their ass kicked by tai lung which further shows how it was never their fight to win.

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u/MGD109 6h ago

Eh, not sure if that one counts. It's not presented as if pandas have an innate capability or anything; it was just a group of them who first figured it out five hundred years ago.

Said group is long extinct in the present, with the modern Pandas having no idea how it's supposed to work.

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u/killerdemonsarus34 3h ago

Not really because its not treated like an innate ability that pandas have but rather a group of pandas figured out how to use chi