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This Villainous Benchmark was Headlined on January 2025. |
ā | Guess nobody told you: you mess with the wolf.... you get the fangs. | ā |
~ Boss Wolf taunting Po. |
Boss Wolf, also known as the Wolf Boss, is the secondary antagonist of DreamWorks' 22nd full-length animated feature film Kung Fu Panda 2, and one of the overarching antagonists of its sequel Kung Fu Panda 3.
He was Lord Shen's second-in-command who served as the strategist and commander for his wolf army to assist him in his plot to conquer every part of China. As Po later finds out, Boss Wolf actually assisted Shen in massacring almost all of China's panda population, having an important involvement in Po's origins as much as his master.
He was voiced by Danny McBride.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
- He and his fellow wolves participated in Lord Shen's genocide of the pandas, which resulted in Po's mother being killed and Po being scarred for life.
- He attempted to attack and kill an infant Po with another wolf only to be whacked in the head with a hammer by Li Shan, causing him to get a blind eye.
- Under Shen's orders, he and his wolves proceeded to rob a village of nearly all their metal to help Shen create his cannons.
- While plundering a village, he was willing to take a metal item with a pig villager still inside while taking off on a flying invention, showing he was willing to endanger one of their lives too.
- When Po and the Furious Five arrived to stop him and the wolves, after they kept their ground against the wolves for some time, he whacked them with his hammer, hurting them badly before taking off with the metal he stole.
- While searching for Po as Shen commanded, he allowed his wolves to pillage and plunder from the villagers, who would be saved by Po and the Furious Five.
- Upon finding Po and the Furious Five with the help of a couple wolves, he attempted to attack them only for his two wolf minions to be knocked out by Monkey and Crane, leaving him to run off.
- While trying to escape Po and the Furious Five, he endangered the lives of multiple villagers by throwing them in front of them a cart he was riding, even throwing young children.
- When his wolf army surrounded Po and his friends, he taunted him before hitting him again, having members of his army capture them in cuffs and brought to Shen's palace.
- Along the way, he showed them Master Rhino's grave and tapped the hammer representing it, sadistically chuckling about it before moving on with them.
- Under Shen's orders, he attempted to kill Po and the Furious Five by lighting a cannon pointed at them only for Mantis to keep putting it out and eventually defeating them with the freed Five.
- He helped the wolves tie up the Furious Five in chains before continuing to sail their ship.
- He allowed one of his wolf henchmen to shoot the bridge under Shen's orders, endangering the lives of multiple villagers.
- He made another attempt to kill Po and the Furious Five with the help of his henchmen only for them to close up to them.
- While he was killed by Shen for defying an order, this doesn't make him a scapegoat as he deserved it for helping him commit genocide on the pandas.
- Him turning against Shen wasn't a genuine redemption. He was just defying an order that would've gotten his own wolves killed.
Why He Doesn't Stand Out?[]
- Despite passing the general baseline with his high kill count, he fails the high heinous standard as most of his crimes are done under Lord Shen's orders and he wasn't the only wolf who participated in Shen's genocide of the pandas, lessening his heinousness.
- He also fails the high heinous standards to Tai Lung, who with less resources likely killed various innocents in the valley of peace and killed a hefty number of the Chorh-Gom Prison wardens.
- He has a few comedic moments that detract from his villainy, such as getting into a bit of slapstick during the rickshaw chase with Po, failing to light a cannon, and being threatened by Shen into telling him that it is āThe Year of the Peacockā even though it wasnāt actually the time.
- He shows care for his wolf army, hesitating to fire on the Furious Five as Shen commanded since it would have also resulted in some of their deaths and even ended up defying that order out of disgust, causing Shen to kill him.
Trivia[]
- He used to be Near Pure Evil, but was removed and demoted to Villainous Benchmark for not being heinous enough. Coincidentally, he would have remained Near Pure Evil if the heinous standards were to be lower.
External Links[]
- Boss Wolf on the Villains Wiki
- Boss Wolf on the DreamWorks Wiki
- Boss Wolf on the Kung Fu Panda Wiki
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