Po (Kung Fu Panda)

Master Po Ping
Kung Fu Panda character
Po, as he appears in Kung Fu Panda
First appearance	Kung Fu Panda
Created by	Mark Osborne John Stevenson
Voiced by	Jack Black (feature and short films) Mick Wingert (TV series and video games) Eric Loomis (Legendary Warriors)
Information
Full name	Po Ping (given name) Little Lotus Shan (birthname)
Nickname(s)	"Jack Black as a Panda"
Aliases	Dragon Warrior
Species	Giant panda
Gender	Male
Occupation	Kung Fu Master
Title	Master Po
Family	Mr. Ping (adoptive father) Li (biological father) Unnamed biological mother (deceased) Dim and Sum (cousins) unnamed adoptive grandfather unnamed adoptive great-grandfather
Nationality	Chinese
Friends	Shifu Tigress Crane Viper Monkey Mantis Oogway Mei Li Bian Zao Chao Peng Lian
Combat Style	Improvised "Panda Style"
Enemies	Tai Lung (deceased) Shen (deceased) Kai (deceased) Scorpion Fung Gah-Ri Lidong Temutai Jing Mei Taotie Bian Zao (formerly) Jong Sung Jai Kai Chow Tong Fo Fenghuang Junjie Hundun Bao Lao Tsao Wu Kong Meng Tao General Tsin Ke-Pa (deceased) Heilang Pai Mei Kira Fu-xi Kim

Master Po Ping (birth name: Lotus Shan) is a title character and the protagonist of the Kung Fu Panda franchise. He is a young anthropomorphic giant panda in his 20s, who is improbably chosen as the Dragon Warrior, champion of the Valley of Peace in the first film. He's the adoptive son of Mr. Ping, and is one of Master Shifu's students. Po is also the prophesied Dragon Warrior, as well as the warrior of black and white. In Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, Po's revealed to have the ability to be able to learn kung fu at a glance.

Po is also the team leader of the Furious Five. Although he is not properly part of as he is considered as a second master after Shifu to the Furious Five.

The character has received largely positive critical reception, reaching influence to serve as the other characters, video games and films in the media.

First revealed in Kung Fu Panda 2, Po lived in a village of pandas until the sadistic and lethal peacock Lord Shen had it destroyed as part of his campaign to exterminate the species, trying to avert the prophecy that a "warrior of black and white" would one day defeat him. On the command of Po's father, Li Shan who stayed to defend the village, Po's mother fled with her infant son in attempt to save him. Eventually, Po's mother managed to temporarily elude the wolves and found a crate of radishes in which she hid her son. She then sacrificed herself to lure Shen's forces away from her son. The crate was shipped across China to a village in the Valley of Peace, where the owner of a noodle shop, Mr. Ping, found the panda cub. With no clue as to the cub's identity or how he got there, Mr. Ping decided to raise him as his son, giving him the name Po. With no conscious memories of his past life, Po grew up under the care of Mr. Ping and became a studious apprentice in his foster dad's restaurant trade.

Po is friendly, kind, energetic, impulsive, good-natured, spunky, innocent, fun-loving, compassionate, smart, naive, loveable, and he never gives up. Though Po's real passion was for Kung Fu, he was reluctant to disappoint his father by revealing it. Despite having a mild and friendly personality, Po also developed a severe self-loathing, believing himself a failure for being both obese (but in reality he is a healthy weight for his species) and a species not known for a warrior tradition. When he gets upset, he usually gorges on food to dull the pain.