Gary Oldman: Shen

Kung Fu Panda 2

Shen

Shen: How did you find peace? I took away your parents! Everything! I scarred you for life!
Po: See, that's the thing, Shen. Scars heal.
Shen: No they don't. *Wounds* heal.
Po: Oh, yeah. What do scars do? They fade, I guess?
Shen: I don't *care* what scars do!
Po: You should, Shen. You gotta let go of that stuff from past, because it just doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is what you choose to be now.
Shen: You're right. Then I choose *this*!
[Shen attacks Po with his knives; they fight until Shen accidentally dislodges his destroyed cannon and is crushed by it]

Shen: The only reason you are still alive is that I find your stupidity mildly amusing.
Po: Well thank you, but I find your evilness extremely annoying!
Shen: Who do you think you are, Panda?
Po: Who do you think I am, Peacock?
[both laugh for an extended time, each taking turns]
Po: Why are we laughing?

Soothsayer: [foretelling] If you continue on your current path, you will find yourself... at the bottom of the stairs.
[Shen sees he has reached the bottom of the stairs]
Soothsayer: I see... I see... I see, pain!
[she pulls out one of Shen's feathers]
Shen: Ow!
Soothsayer: And anger!
[she takes a bite out of Shen's robe]
Shen: How dare you! This is the finest silk in the province!

Soothsayer: I see... I see... pain.
[plucks out some of Shen's feathers]
Shen: OW!
Soothsayer: And anger.
[chews on the hem of his robe]
Shen: How dare you! That is the finest silk in the province!
Soothsayer: Followed by denial.
Shen: This is not fortune-telling, you're just saying what's happening right...!
Soothsayer: Now?
[Shen glares]
Soothsayer: The most important time, is now.

Shen: Call in the wolves. All of them! I want them ready to move. The year of the peacock begins now!
Wolf Boss: Right now? Cause it's the middle of the year... so you'd only get like a half of the year of the peacock.
[Shen glares at him, raising a dagger]
Wolf Boss: And this is the year, of course, of the peacock. Happy new year, sir.
Shen: Get the wolves ready. We're loading the ships now...
[shouts]
Shen: NOW! Now, now, now, now!

Shen: [triumphantly] You were wrong, Soothsayer!
[wields sword]
Shen: We sail to victory tonight. Your magic panda is clearly a fool!
Soothsayer: [angrily] Are you certain it is the panda that is a fool? You just destroyed your ancestral home, Shen!
Shen: A trivial sacrifice... when all of China is my reward.
[pokes the burning tip to a map of China, which bursts into a spreading flame]
Soothsayer: Then will you finally be satisfied? Will the subjugation of the whole world finally make you feel better?
Shen: [Sneers] It's a start. I was also thinking of converting the basement into a dungeon.
Soothsayer: [pause] The cup you choose to fill has no bottom. It is time to stop this madness.
Shen: And why on Earth would I do that?
Soothsayer: So your parents can rest in peace.
Shen: [bitterly] My parents... hated me. Do you understand? They - they wronged me. And... I will make it right.
Soothsayer: They loved you. They loved you so much that having to send you away killed them.
Shen: [pause] The dead exist in the past. And I must attend to the future.
[to his gorilla guard]
Shen: Set the Soothsayer free. She is of no use to me.
Soothsayer: [sadly] Goodbye, Shen. I wish you happiness.
Shen: Happiness... must be taken. And I will take mine.

Po: And now, to free the Five!
[takes off his hat]
Po: Disc of Destruction!
[He throws his hat... which doesn't go far and lands on a roof right in front of him]
Shen: Okay... take aim!

Soothsayer: A peacock... is defeated by a warrior of black and white. Nothing has changed.
Shen: [enraged, then laughs] That is impossible, and you know it.
Soothsayer: It is *not* impossible, and *he* knows it.
Shen: Who?
Wolf Boss: [enters] Lord Shen, I saw a panda!
Shen: A panda?
[jumps on the wolf]
Wolf Boss: A kung fu warrior! He fought like a demon! Big and furry, soft and squishy... kind of plush and cuddly.

Master Thundering Rhino: What do you want, Shen?
Shen: What is rightfully mine: Gongmen City!
Master Thundering Rhino: Gongmen is under the stewardship of the Council of Masters, and we will protect it. Even from you.
Shen: [laughs] I'm so glad you feel that way! Otherwise I'd have dragged... that all the way here for nothing.
[He motions to his wolf soldiers dragging a heavy crate into the courtyard]
Master Storming Ox: What's in the box, Shen?
Shen: You want to see? It's a gift. It's your parting gift... in that it will part you. Part of you here, part of you there, and part of you way over there, staining the wall!
Master Storming Ox: You insolent fool!

Shen: My father's throne. He used to let me play here beside him, promising me someday this throne would be mine.
[Shen has his father's throne pitched out the window, and a heavy, ornate cannon put in its place]
Shen: A little to the left.
Gorilla Guard #1: But it's so heavy, Master.
Shen: Thirty years I've waited for this moment. Everything must be exactly as I envisioned it. And I envisioned it... a little to the left.
[the gorillas grunt and move the cannon]
Shen: Perfect. With the weapon by my si... uh, a little bit more.
[the gorillas groan and move it again]
Shen: With the weapon by my side, none can stand in my way!

[Shen enters the courtyard of his parents' palace]
Shen: Good afternoon, gentlemen... now that we've got the pleasantries out of the way, please leave my house.
Master Storming Ox: *Your* house?
Shen: Yes, didn't you see the peacock on the front door?

[as Po, the Furious Five and the Masters fight their way through Shen's wolves]
Shen: Why aren't we firing?
Wolf Boss: They're taking out our gunners, sir! They're getting close!
Shen: Fire, fire at them!
Wolf Boss: But, sir, we'll kill our own!
Shen: [screaming] I said fire at them! FIRE!
Wolf Boss: [drops his torch] ... No.
[Shen kills the Wolf Boss with his daggers, then jumps onto the cannon and lights the fuse himself]