wait remember shaolin showdown challenge showdown was an animated series first airing
on kids wb that ran from november 1st 2003 to may 13 2006 for a total of three seasons
this one specifically stuck out to me growing up following it from kids wb to the reruns on
cartoon network i remember specifically liking the art direction and in general
the character dynamics between the main group of shaolin warriors so on my list
of shows i wanted to re-watch shaolin showdown has always been on there but i have been pretty
worried that it wouldn't resonate with me the same way it once did but hey here we are
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focused on four shaolin warriors in training who along with their diligent studies in martial arts
are also tasked with fighting against the halen forces of evil the halen forces are a loose
organization of supernatural creatures and martial artists devoted to bringing evil to the world but
with style the four warriors train under master fung a shaolin master and guide who gifted the
students with shen gang woos which are ancient magical artifacts created by shaolin master
centuries before the first of these four warriors is omi the main protagonist of the series homie
voiced by tara strong is the shaolin dragon of water and due to being raised in the monastery
his entire life is also the first dragon in training to train under master fung ami's
isolated upbringing in the monastery made him naive and ignorant of the outside world causing
him to often get idioms mixed up or just downright not understanding anything he is also occasionally
selfish and boastful but open to learning from his mistakes and growing from them at first
the next warrior is raymundo voiced by tom kenny raymundo is the shaolin dragon of wind originally
coming from brazil raimondo is street smart and the eventual leader of the group even though he
is occasionally self-centered and overly stubborn he does have a deep commitment to his friends and
would do anything for them except for that time he betrayed them out of jealousy but hey who's taking
notes voiced by gray delisle the third dragon warrior is kimiko the shaolin dragon of fire
originally from japan kimiko is the most tech savvy member of the group her bit of
stubbornness sometimes gets the group in trouble but she also has the unique ability to focus and
filter outside distractions when she has something that needs to be done the final warrior is clay
the shaolin dragon of earth clay voiced by jeff bennett is a texas boy complete with a cowboy
hat and is as much of a gentleman as possible along with being the team's muscle clay acts as
the good natured and calm anchor of the group in their mission to protect the world by saving sheng
woos from falling into halen hands the four travel around the world on the back of dojo
a magical shape-shifting dragon who also acts as the group's advisor dojo can shapeshift in sizes
so he's not always 40 feet long when no one is riding him wayne knight brings dojo to life here
giving him that quickly annoyed wisecracking attitude that serves the sass back onto those
that sass him did i mention he's a dragon i like dragons so here's my five hour breakdown
of what happened in game of thrones season showdown coming up next right here on kids
the leader of the halen forces is wuyu a 1500 year old witch whose physical form was destroyed when
she was imprisoned in a puzzle box leaving her as just a vague purple mist with a face
woo wants the sheng gong woos in order to regain her physical form along with the access to her
magical abilities who use right-hand man and the villain the shaolin warriors battle the most often
is jack spicer no that's jacksepticeye jack spicer released wooyu years earlier from her puzzle box
and now uses his mastery of engineering to build robots to use in his attacks against the shaolin
warriors and those robots they they get beat up and destroyed all the time they're they're
not much of a threat the villain chase young was introduced in the second season as a major
antagonist with him being considered a greater threat to the shaolin warriors than jack was
i mean just look at this are you really scared of oh come on that's just jacksepticeye again
move over jack spicer make way for chase young chase commanded an army of therianthropic
warriors trapped in the form of jungle cats and had his own ability to shapeshift into a humanoid
lizard-looking creature chase was unique to the other characters in shaolin showdown because
despite his ongoing quest to collect as many shenggong woos for halen he barely used them
himself claiming that they only distracted him in battle ah a man with morals he'd love to see it
oh wait he's the bad guy i forgot plot lines are mostly episodic and mildly formulaic nearly always
beginning with a sheng wu being revealed somewhere in the world prompting the shaolin warriors and
halen members to race to it in order to claim it for themselves normally then a shaolin showdown
occurs a shaolin showdown is when a member from one of the groups challenges the other to a duel
minus the cards sorry yugi these showdowns can sometimes involve martial arts sometimes involve
things like basketball challenger gets to choose i choose chess i don't know how to play but i gotta
find a way to use this 200 pokemon chess set right the two competitors wager or sheng wu they already
have with the winner taking both don't gamble kids one thing i've always liked about the show are
these fun and sometimes really personal battles between the characters when they're fighting these
duels for the artifacts can be anything but more often than not they are a race to the sheng woo
with reality warping around the competitors as they fight their way towards it and it's
downright awesome the show finds a great balance of character development personality and style
that make just casual conversations in the show to be more interesting whether silly or serious the
individual arcs are for shaolin warriors take is pretty cool too homie grows from a naive innocent
and nature character who doesn't have the best social skills because of how he was brought up
which eventually leads him to turning into quite the condescending prick towards his own team with
an i'm better than you attitude while raymundo has his own struggles he eventually pushes past
everything for the greater good of his shaolin warrior duties putting himself in danger if it
means saving the world or doing something for the greater good kimiko stays pretty true to herself
often trying to prove she's more than just a girl as the others often see her as but don't
underestimate her because she'll like the floor with all of them clay while always having that
southern hospitality about him can still not be so considerate towards others but being a
walking talking contradiction is how we all know we're human sometimes right no all right then
challenge showdown a second episode is coming up next on kids wb challenge showdown aired in
the us on kids wb a kids programming brand of the wb television network kids wb ran from september
9 1995 to september 16 2006 before being moved to the cw after a network merger aren't corporations
fun on the cw kids wb ran from september 23rd 2006 to may 17 2008 after may 2008 the kids wb
saturday morning cartoon block was sold and replaced by four kids entertainment block the cw
for kids not even cubix could fix that mess after shaolin showdown stopped airing on kids
wb it aired on cartoon network as reruns in the mid-2000s and later on boomerang during
the mid-2010s so it had some nice longevity in the rerun space shaolin showdown was created by
christy way originally from guangzhou china wei is the founder of action flicks media and the chief
marketing officer of amprion inc she has written directed and produced her own film nine dragons
tea along with creating both shaolin showdown and its spin-off show shaolin chronicles which
i will get to in a moment hold your horses the first episode of shaolin showdown was developed
slowly over three years until it finally premiered on november 1st 2003. christy used the growing
popularity of anime in the west as a part of her inspiration fusing eastern and western culture for
the show a trend that we would see grow further throughout the 2000s and 2010s shaolin showdown
ended up with a very western style of humor and cast of characters but with eastern action
philosophy mythology and art worked in these were a lot of the reasons i thoroughly enjoyed shows
like jackie chan adventures the first season of the series found success with it being ranked
the number one saturday morning show at the time this success prompted the network to greenlight it
for a second and third season challenge showdown inspired a trading card game a video game and dvd
releases it truly was on a hot streak here with its success the card game was cool i guess it
was one of those hey this show is popular so let's create some sort of card game that can make some
sort of sense and at worst it could just be used for collectible reasons heck i think i even had
some of these at some point probably lying around here somewhere but i couldn't explain how to play
i don't know what you're waiting for there is no cutaway gag here the video game brought to us from
konami came out for the playstation 2 xbox and psp with a release on the nintendo ds later on it's a
last man standing brawler fighting game with the four main characters jack and chase all being
playable it had a cool mini game mechanic when a shaolin showdown was triggered reviews however
were mixed mostly negative but some were okay scores eventually shaolin showdown was cancelled
with no particular reason for this decision ever cited and that's truly unfortunate as the show
was well liked it had merchandise regardless of the reception of some of it but it was doing well
in fact it came back years later christie decided to continue the story by creating her spin-off
series shaolin chronicles which now would run on disney xd from august 26 2013 to march 6 2014
only spanning a single season with a final unaired bit of episodes that were released
alongside its debut on netflix in july of 2015. the events of shaolin chronicles follow those
of shaolin showdown the spinoff used the same characters as the original series but
slightly modified designs in an updated voice cast all the characters have now ranked up to
shoku warriors alongside reimundo and while doing the whole finding mythical shingang wu thing again
now they must deal with ping pong as a shaolin apprentice ping pong has cool glasses while no
second season would come of it christy has stated that there will be some sort of new shaolin
project continuing the original showdown format at some point and that's the type of passion we
love to see i may make a shaolin chronicles video in the future so if that's something you'd like
to see let me know in the comments as well as your thoughts on shaolin showdown itself thanks
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