Lmk Season 5 Spoilers - Tumblr Posts

Got bored so l made a freenoodles vid :)

l have Lmk brain rot help (this is a WIP by the way)

l did this scene in my art style (this is a frame for my pmv)

Here have a doodle of Tang and MK

Monkie Kid Season 5 spoilers kinda?

There can only be one Jade Emperor

I watched the trailer and this was the first idea I got T -T I'm sorry, but I hate Li Jing's guts. Atlas may be canonically few months old, but he would be a better emperor that this pathetic excuse of a father :v

Also, technically, since Nezha made Atlas, is Li Jing his grandpa kinda? Not like that really matters, Atlas would be throwing hands anyway lol

His face after MK sacrificed himself I'm-

How did I not notice

Good lord they want me dead

THE FUCKING PAGODA AAAAAA

God fucking dammit. You just DECIDED he's not the real bad guy? Without beating his ass? So now the new villain is about chaos. That doesn't work. There needs to be an order villain or a chaos villain. Fuck the ending of this season.

Not only that, but the end of the season didn't even include Red Son, so in a way, we replaced Red Son's spot in the party for Li Jing. That's awful. Terrible. I need to go write a rewrite or something

My biggest fear about season 5 of lmk is if Li Jing is either redeemed or not a major villain. I'm a Li Jing hater til the end.

This season from the 3 episodes I've seen so far focuses a lot on the polarization between order and chaos, with Li Jing and the 10 kings being extreme figures of order, and some of the yet to be introduced antagonists being extreme figures of chaos. So it'll make sense if there's a major villain for order and a major villain for chaos, and the lesson being that they need to coexist and that coexistence is Choice. The entire central message is about choice. It's not about good versus evil, order vs chaos, it's about the power of choice. The gray area. And I really hope this season let's me be a passionate Li Jing hater by making him a villain. This is not a safe space for him lmao.

Plus I just really wanna see Nezha stand up to him and also finally get a W. This dude has lost every fight this show, and I wholeheartedly think it's because he's fighting for the Jade Emperor and not for himself. Once he actually chooses his own beliefs, he's gonna be a great fighter.

PLUS we see Pigsy really take a greater emphasis on his fatherly role towards MK, being a strict but nurturing figure in his life, and it'll show another parallel because Li Jing is a cruel and authoritarian father, favoring controlling his kids rather than guiding them. There's just so much potential to villainize the everloving hell out of this guy.

So from both a writing and a character bias standpoint, make Li Jing either the primary or the secondary villain PLEASE I'm so ready to see him get his ass kicked by the power of unconditional love.

Lmk season 5 spoilers:

I need to talk about Nezha and Li Jing right fucking now

As much as I didn't like how the show wrote Li Jing, specifically the part where he pulled a complete 180 on his entire characterization for the sake of rushing the one plot I was most excited about, I really like the way Nezha was characterized (as long as we pretend Li Jing's the tyrannical asshole he was in mythology and was introduced to be in the season). Nezha's guilty that Li Jing hurt Wukong and Macaque, and he agreed with MK that his motives were suspicious, but as always, he places his duty before his feelings, connections, and physical needs. But he draws the line when Li Jing starts trying to hurt the kids. He stops him, no hesitation, and at the end of the season he even snaps at him, using Li Jing's own controlling rhetoric against him.

They could've used this in the season, that Nezha without hesitation will violate his orders to protect the kids. This is good characterization, considering the fact he was basically a soldier as a child, himself, and he had nobody to protect him. Even in the special at the end of season 3, when Nezha barely knows MK, he's still leaping to protect him from the mind-controlled Wukong.

Nezha tends to be treated as a warrior or a soldier by his peers, when in reality, he's a guardian. A protector. And this duty will take priority even over the fear he has for his father. He's been conditioned to believe the celestials and their leaders are above all, but his protective nature breaks this programming instantly.

Season 5 would've been better if Li Jing hadn't stopped to listen, because we would've seen this characterization front and center. We could've gotten Nezha fighting his dad (who Wukong commented was "a little stronger than Nezh-ie") and it would've been such a powerful moment, for all of the characters, too. This destiny stuff is assigned by the Heavens, and Nezha fighting against them on MK's side will show that MK should be against these pompous fuckers.

Li Jing could've been a major villain. We can have the Nine-Headed Demon as a major villain, too. Extremists on both sides, and it's up to MK to find that balance between order and chaos. MK represents the concepts of choice and will in this conflict. Willpower is a great mixture between chaos and order, because it defies the control others give and it fights the chaos trying to shatter it.

Back to the topic of Nezha and Li Jing, we could get Nezha becoming part of the group, and he and Pigsy could have a cool dynamic because Pigsy doesn't trust the gods, and he's a very unconventional father in comparison to King Li Jing. They'll disagree, question things, and idk maybe Nezha becomes like a big brother to MK, just wishful thinking there. Either way, Nezha and Pigsy would not get along (at least at first) and it would be really funny and interesting.

All I'm saying is that Nezha has the potential for dynamics with everyone. He and Wukong could also reference the fact that Au Guang (the Great Grand Dragon of the East, he was in season 3) kinda hates both of them. Idk, again, just some fanfic-y things. Maybe the show wouldn't write these things, maybe it would just stay plot-relevant, either way, there's lots of character dynamics to explore

i can tell macaque is their favourite

Macaque spent the whole season Big-Damn-Hero-ing and was NOT happy about it xD

Lego Monkie Kid Rewatch: Season 3

Episode 1

I love rewatching media that rewards you for it. This show is good at dropping subtle hints about future plot points that you will only catch once you know the plot point. For example, the Samadhi Fire!

When Monkey King (or Tang, the enthusiastic geek that he is) is first explaining it to everyone, the show gives you an image to kind of keep your brain on track with his words.

Immediately two things pop out for those who have seen past this season: red and green fire. Obviously this represents Red Son and Mei, past and current wielder of the Samadhi Fire.

It is such a cool little detail to have that most people (like me) would just think was there to be pretty but later on realise, "Oh hey, foreshadowing!"

BUT WAIT! I'm not done!

Next image we see of the Samadhi fire has the red and green... but also something else.

Is that... blue?

Is this another hidden detail of foreshadowing? Is there going to be a third holder of the Samadhi Fire who represents the blue? Or am I just hyper focusing on every minute detail because the show's attention to detail in its story telling has made me paranoid.

Who knows?

All we know so far from season 5 is Red Son is experimenting with the Samadhi Fire and they both apparently still have a piece in their soul soooooooo- we'll see.

Lego Monkie Kid Rewatch: Special

Embrace You're Destiny Part 1/5

I like to imagine LBD didn't just put on eye shadow here. She's covered her entire face concealer, foundation, and make up. Employing every trick of the cometic trade to try and make herself look older.

Also, look at our Not-the-Mayor. He so blissfully happy. I kinda want to show it to my non-lmk-fan friends to see what vibe they pick up from these two.

I forgot how wonderfully condescending this villain was with Wukong. Usually Wukong is the one that gets under people's skins. Its kinda fun to see the tables reversed.

I need a stress toy that looks like that frog. Not so I can squeeze it.

No. Rather so I can pat it lovingly and set it calmly on a lily pad within a tranquil pod where it can gaze up into the endless sky as if questioning the meaning of life.

These faces.

I shall cherish these faces.

"You are the second most annoying person I know!"

Friendship status achieved!

"Its an inter dimensional weapon with a destructive power to burn through the very fabric of reality."

Inter dimensional? I didn't grasp the first time how outlandish and freaking scary that statement is. First, how does Red Son know this? Second, how did a little baby demon get born with a power from outside of their universe?

And does this mean it came from outside of Nuwa's order, that the Samadhi Fire is from or a part of chaos? Was it created by or snuck in like illegal contraband by the Nine-Headed Demon? What if the Samadhi Fire originally made/brought in by 9-guy to try and eat away the cycle so he could be free. But something about that plan back fired or failed and 9-Heads repurposed it in this later plan to help get the noodle gang and MK up to snuff defeating LBD for the future defeat of suped up Azure Lion. Was it them who put the fire in Red Son or was this an accident that got away from them which 9-snake-head found a way to work in their favour?

Love that Mei gives the same big glossy eyes of admiration for adorable puppies and over the top displays of power.

She has a unique sense of whats cute in her book.

I love that when Mei is opening up to Red Son and expressing her fear of losing control and hurting everyone, he has a flashback of himself losing control, not being enough, hurting others.

And then he tells her that that won't happen to her, because she and MK are protectors.

I love this so much, you don't understand. Red Son recognises that he failed. He lost control and hurt others. But Mei didn't. Not because she is more powerful than him or because he is just too weak himself. No, because when he had the fire, he laughed and reveled in the consuming destruction, even as it hurt him. But when Mei got the fire, she despaired. She screamed her anger over those who had hurt her friends, and then cried because she understood how the fire was hurting those she cared about. There was no joy, just anguish.

Mei is a protector, and that is what makes all the difference.

Red Son: 'Oh no! I was just emotionally vulnerable! Quick, act natural!'

Starts lecturing.

Wukong just brute forcing his way through her fancy protective spell work.

No finesse. Just powerhouse.

Wait…. is that?

I channeled my inner Macaque art skills for this one.

"I've known Sun Wukong a long time. He's not the loner he pretends to be."

What truth! How many centuries did he sit in his cave with that mural of his pilgrim brothers staring down at him?

"He seems important to you, so I can only assume you're equally as important to him. If there is anyone who he needs right now, its you."

How long has Nezha known this kid? And yet he is able to give the kid one of the most heartfelt and genuine pep talks I've heard all season. This is kinda what a good therapist is able to do. An outside perspective who knows just how to reach you in whatever mental state you are in from just a few interactions. They hear your fears, they see you're stress, and they equip you with the words and tools you need to keep fighting.

I know Most-Likely-Not-the-Mayor asked Wukong to dance, but it really feels like LDB and Not-Actually-Any-Kind-of-Mayor are the ones waltzing and Wukong is just the floor beneath their slippers. How expertly they move in time with one another! Probably-Jobless-and-Not-a-Mayor keeps Wukong busy then when his lady is ready, he just bats Wukong right into her waiting arms.

He ducked.

This floor is slippery.

Makeup gone! Wukong scared the eye shadow right off of her.

You can talk all you want lady. I know you're not as sure of yourself as you say.

"What about this guy! Is he in you're future!

"As a matter of fact. No."

Ouch. this is why I love her. She does not care. Also, her makeup is back. Guess she's back to being cool and collected.

I know, Ne Zha. I know. I too would have left him in the hole.

But MK is a different breed who wants to save everyone so don't you dare try and squash that kind heart of his. What a gem.

Although, knowing his original purpose was to sacrifice himself for the sake of all beings… then is this Mk being MK or is this him feeding into his ~Destiny~

I sense a lot more mental conflict in season 6 as MK wrestles with the question of what parts of his behaviour and actions is really him choosing his own path and what is him followoing the pre-writen coding Nuwa jammed in to make him the perfect sacrifice?

Another reminder that MK is not Wukong.

MK took the time out of his mission to protected Probably-Doesn't-have-an-ID-or-Birth-Certificate-So-No-Way-Could-He-have-Ever-been-the-Mayor while Wukong is willing to sacrifice the life of this innocent girl to stop Lady Bone Demon.

This scene of Wukong getting possessed shows up in so many AMVs and art that I forgot about the creepy manic laughter that was going on in the background. Suddenly, a shot I'd seen over and over with epic music and rising vocals, became different.

Thank you Victoria Grace for your chilling performance. You haunt the scene even when your not in focus.

New that bird was sus

Its weird that Macaque has such a strong connection to MK this season. Like… first season MK was just a means to an end. Macaque didn't care one way about the kid. But this season… He's constantly trying to protect MK in his own messed up way. From trying to teach him a lesson because he thinks MK is too much like Wukong to goading MK into fighting back so if he can have an excuse for why he never brought the kid to LBD.

And now hanging around to pull him back in the nick of time. What changed? Why is Macaque putting his neck out there for MK when he is so quick to throw everyone else under the bus to protect himself?

I go back to season 5, when Macaque challenges Wukong about why chose MK as his successor, and Wukong says he was just drawn to the kid, that there was something in the kid that just felt right. Does Macaque feel that too?

Lego Monkie Kid Rewatch: Specail

Embrace Your Destiny 3/5

Last Time: Mei got monkey-napped, MK yeeted Red Son into his friend group, Macaque did not beat the theater nerd allegations, and Froggie died. Rest in peace my beautiful son.

And now- On with the show!

Wait… that guy. Is just a guy.

No seriously. He’s just a dude. You don’t realise how much this is blowing my mind! I thought this whole time it was the Jade Emperor! I thought she’d managed to do what Monkey King almost did in the Journey to the West! Defeat the Jade Emperor! 

But look at him! Look at that regular dude! How did I ever think this guy was supposed to be the head honcho of all the immortals?

Things are making so much more sense now, like why the Heavenly Realm wasn’t in an absolute panic over LBD rising again. If she only tried to wipe out an earthly kingdom I can see why no one in the Heavenly Realm bothered to aid the Wukong and Noodle gang. Besides Ne Zha. Because Ne Zha is cool.

“But you and your advisors showed me how little you care for the interests of mortals.”

“M-mortals?”

What I thought this conversation meant-

LBD: Cares about the little people.

Emperor: Completely forgot that mortals exist and doesn’t get why anyone would even bring them up.

What it really meant-

LBD: Outing herself as not human by using a term only immortals and demons would use to classify humans.

Emperor: Caught off guard with her terminology because he thought she was a regular human just like him.

I’m so embarrassed. Look how far my silly assumption has led me astray.

And further still! I had no appreciation for LBD speech here about the rise and fall of centuries. How absolutely freaky her show of power would have been for this simple human leader. 

WAIT! WAit wati wait waitk! That means definitely-not-a-mayor is also definitely-once-a-human-mortal-thing. I can’t believe it! I thought he was some immortal head of guard of the heavenly realm who turned on the Jade Emperor! But he’s also just some guy! Or at least he was at one time. This makes him so much more impressive to me! This human fought against Wukong, and didn't get turned to mush!!!

“If I hear da word destiny one more time!”

Thank you Pigsy for representing us. 

Look at this dad. Look at how he tries to care for his son. He was all doom and gloom until he saw the optimism and hope start dying in his son’s face. Now he’s taking action!

Ever realise that all of the LMK main villains are driven by the same thing? Discontentment with current world order. And their answers are to take over so they could be the ones in control.

Spider Queen’s and Demon Bull King’s goals were smaller scale (thank goodness) and they were just unhappy with their own place in the world. LBD and Azure Lion had much larger ambitions and they were unhappy with injustice in the world thanks to current world order.

And the season 5 villain?... They just wanted out of the system all together. Just wants to be a hermit, ya know? 

But what does that say about the heroes? What is the message here? Because the villain's motivation boils down to “I don’t like the status quo and seek to enact change,” does that mean the heroes are just here to keep things the way they are? Ignore the injustice, pain, suffering that Lady Bone Demon and Azure Lion noticed? Punish anyone for trying to reach above their station like Demon Bull King and Spider Queen?

Yeah, actually, that is kind of what they keep doing. Think about it. The heroes are reactionary only. Demon Bull King tries to take over the city, noodle gang reacts. Lady Bone Demon starts freezing everything and takes MK’s powers, noodle gang reacts. They aren’t trying to bring about any change, to make life better for people in disadvantageous situations like demons (why was the spider queen living in the sewers? Why did she have to hide her true form when out in public if not because she knew she would be hated… and this was before she tried to take over the city) or fight to hold the heavenly realm accountable for every time they do something that affects mortals (like dropping a dumpling that will crush an entire city and doing nothing to help or compensate the people they just doomed to a ridiculous death).

Instead the heroes just wait until someone disrupts the way things are and then they attack it. Never mind that Scorpion Demoness lives in a society where she has to hide her true form when trying to make friends because the moment anyone knows what she really is they either attack her or run. Never mind that most of the Heavenly Realm seems to care nothing for the Earthly Realm despite their own kind often jeopardising it.

There is need for change in this world but only the villains seem to be the ones to want to change it.

Now of course I do not agree with the methods the villains take to enact change. Purposely hurting others to achieve your goal is never the answer. Sacrificing people and life for your end goals does not achieve the kind of peace you say you desire. But at the same time, I just keep thinking, if Martin Luther King Jr. were in this world… would he have been seen as a villain? MLKJ wanted to stop the injustice he saw happening. He wanted to make the world a better place. MLKJ wanted to reach above the station society had put him and others like him into. MLKJ believed he and others born into the same social standing deserved more.

In some ways, MLKJ is like the LMK villains. Of course there is a difference. MLKJ wasn’t trying to destroy everything so he could have a clean slate. MLKJ did not take away anyone's freedom of choice or sacrifice others for his cause. But the first 4 seasons of LMK seem to showcase this want to make a difference, enact change, fight against corrupt leaders as wrong. 

‘Hey’ I hear you say, ‘If you hate this show so much then why are you still watching.’

But I don’t hate this show! You gotta believe me! Its just… I’ve seen this problem again and again in most superhero movies and shows. The villains are the only ones allowed to try and make a change, and the heroes are stuck being the keepers of the status quo. So I’m not too surprised to see it happening in this show. Sad, but not surprised...

And then season 5 rolled in. Say what you will about season 5, whether you loved it or hated it. I know a lot of people felt disappointed, or it just didn’t hit the same way the previous ones had… but I love the way season 5 flipped the script. For those of you who haven’t seen it, I’ll try not to spoil it too much. Just know that MK and his friends end up being the ones trying to enact change. That MK sees something in the status quo of the world/universe that he doesn’t agree with, that he believes is wrong, and tries to enact change.

Finally, a kids show where the heroes are the ones trying to make a difference instead of just the villains.

And now back to our regularly scheduled goofiness, in which everyone thought a bit of rope would hold the guy that can literally disappear into shadows.

Both Sandy and Red Son fight to be the one to say the lines. My poor B Teamers. I know, you guys deserve to have more relevance.

I don’t get this part. Pigsy just got done saying they can’t trust Macaque’s word because he could be leading them into a trap and Tang responds with a speech about writing the final chapter, living up to the legends of before, and doing big scary battle together.

…

…

What? 

This so far out of left field!

Seriously, was Tang just not listening to Pigsy’s concerns at all? Was he lost in his head this whole time just trying to build the courage to fight? How does a speech about “their story becoming our story” answer Pigsy’s question? Can they trust Macaque? Is he working for LBD or not? Is this just a trap?

Maybe, if Tang directed his speech to the new guys (Red Son and Macaque) I could see the speech being about how they all have to work together. But NOOOOO. He’s just talking and looking at the OG noodle gang. Just hyping up his well-known bros to fight together.

Which, by the way, MK already said all of this ‘friendship is power’ and ‘we gotta stick together’ stuff, just not so fancy like. Tang! BE RELEVANT and don't just sweep Pigsy’s very real concern under the rug with PRETTY WORDS! 

I was so caught up with MK finally living up to his voice actor’s legacy that I didn’t think about how vague and unhelpful his plan really is.

Thank you Red Son for bringing me back to reality.

Love that in MK’s mind, Pigsy is being more helpful to the plan than Red Son who is just screaming flames into the air.

And then there’s Tang.

“Look, I brought you the Lady Bone Demon’s lap dog, but I’m not up for being a hero, kid.”

“We don’t need to beat him. We just gotta keep him busy.”

Anyone else find it interesting how MK answers him? At first I thought, what does defeating Wukong have to do with being a hero? Heroes don't have to be assured victory to be heroes. They just have to step up and try to do the right thing despite the difficulties.

But then I realised, MK is answering Macaque's true fears, not the words he using as a distraction to his true motivations. Macaque isn’t against being a hero. He's afraid of Wukong. 

Macaque knows his power level isn’t anywhere near the great sage. He knows he can’t win. That's why Macaque always fights underhand, in the shadow, poking at the ones around Wukong instead of ever directly facing him (and when he did try to face Wukong, it was with stolen power).

MK, our beloved little scamp, has figured this out about Macaque and is assuring him this is exactly the kind of fighting he’s used to. Underhanded and sneaky. It's not a fight where opponents have to overpower the other to win. It's not a real fight at all. It's an illusion.

“Stop! You keep playing at being this bad guy, acting like you’re just in it for you. But I know, deep deep down. You’re not that guy.” 

Look at that face. That is the face of an ancient lone wolf who has just realised the super jumpy wolf pup can read him like a deer track. MK knows Macaque beyond his facade and it surprises him. 

He shooketh.

Also, Macaque, you’ve been doing a poor job of covering your tracks. Saving MK from Blue Wukong twice, Bringing them a key puzzle to defeating Lady Bone Demon, offering advice. Did you really think he wouldn’t connect the dots? He knows what you’re portals feel like. Just because he didn’t immediately try and call you out the first time you rescued him doesn’t mean MK wasn’t aware it happened.

“What can I say, I’m dramatic.”

Love it when characters just admit to their personality quirks. Like the fandom is whisper-screaming about him being such a theater kid and then bam he casually confirms our accusations like it's no big deal.

Lego Monkie Kid Rewatch: Special

Embrace Your Destiny 4/5

Last Time: Tang yelled at a homeless dude, MK had enough of Macaque's BS, all villains could have been really stand up people if not for the wanton and murderous tentencies, and Macaque proudly came out of the closet (er- shadow) as a drama queen.

And now- ON WITH THE SHOW!!!

Only the best and the brightest for this rescue mission, am I right!

“Dragon Girl!”

YEs yes yesy eys yes yes yes yes! Go free her so you can burn your enemies into ash together!!!

They’re dead…. Definitely dead. 

Oh Huntsmen. I still grieve you.

I know what it looks like. Was Wukong really about to hit MK? My answer is no. He was not, because his fist wasn’t even aimed at MK.

‘But look!’ you say, ‘Look how close it got. How could he have not been aiming for MK! The film clearly shows his fist right up in MK’s face.’

‘Ha-ha!’ I say, ‘You have fallen right into the animator's perspective trap! A trap which I, of course, did not fall for the first time I watched this. Perish the thought, I tell you.’

First, really look at this shot.

MK does not move his head. Macaque does not push MK out of the way. Yet somehow his whole arm is able to get between MK and the fist. Not even in between! Their hands are overlapping with MK’s face, suggesting that this is happening next to the kid, not in front of him.

And further proof, look at this next scene.

Macaque caught the fist with the hand that would have been furthest from MK. Meaning he had to fit his whole body between MK and Wukong without pushing either of them back.

I’ve made a very rough and poorly done representation of a bird's eye view of the fight scene so you can see what I mean by perspective.

Look, this is what the animators want you to think is happening.

And this is what Macaque would have had to do to his arm to stop the fist from hitting MK’s face.

Broken elbow anybody?

But, if we shift Wukong over just a bit, we get a much more plausible set of action sequences.

And this is why I think Wukong was aiming for Macaque the whole time. Lady Bone Demon can make Wukong walk menacingly toward MK, she can make him throw a punch in MK’s general direction, but she cannot actually force Wukong to hurt MK.

Now Macaque on the other hand. Wukong seems totally fine with diverting her violent tendencies toward the shadow monkey. 

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.

Macaque looks his most fierce when he is most afraid. 

Why is he moving so slow?

Seriously! I know you can’t tell through just pictures, but rewatch this scene and you’ll see. Wukong just got done having a shapeshifting battle against Macaque where they were moving so fast they were having a freaking light battle.

But then Lady Bone Demon directs Wukong to attack MK and the guy is moving like an elephant doped up on anesthetics. Heavy, clanking steps. Slow, painfully so. It would seem deliberate, another scare tactic by Lady Bone Demon, except for the literal cracks in her facade of power.

Trying to force Wukong to attack MK is breaking her.

There’s that misleading perspective again. Which I love.

Just look at that confidence. This kid keeping his back to the most destructive force the world has ever known, believing with all of his heart that his lǎoshī would never hurt him.

And isn’t that tragic in a way. MK will believe in others so easily and completely, but can hardly believe in himself.

Oh how I love you, animators and writers of this show.

Wait! WAit wait wait!

She was still in him?! He was still possessed?! I thought the moment his eyes became gold and he was able to talk again that she had lost her foothold with him. 

But… if we see this ghostly projection being thrown out of him after he pulls the staff, that means she was still possessing him. So was he just ignoring her? Brute force stubbornly pretending not to hear the voice inside his head?

Wukong, you beast.

Macaque: I’m not a hero.

Also Macaque:

What's funnier to me is that he only just stood up after getting tossed around like a ragdoll by Wukong. Only in it for yourself my hair follicles. This is why I say don’t trust what he says about people and their motivations. His perspective on people is so faulty he doesn’t even read himself correctly.

I forgot about the big robot battle.

Wukong keeps Pigsy and the others from trying to stop MK when he steps forward to face LBD. 

Why? Certainly not because he knew what the kid was doing. Just look at the surprise on his face when MK holds back two mountain sized flaming swords of samadhi fire with just his Monkey Mech.

No, Wukong trusts MK. He believes in MK just as strongly as MK believed in him.

Man, I really wish I had remembered all of this. It would have made season 5 make so much more sense. 

It is so important when watching season 5 to remember that the team had knowledge and previous experience using their magic/soul to boost MK and amplify his power. It makes a certain scene in the future seem less cheesy to me, less ‘we pulled this out of nowhere with no build up or explanation’ and more ‘see how this previous battle skill is now going to become so crucial to solving the big problem we built up this season.’

“As long as I have my friends by my side, this world is perfect!”

Ah, thank you MK for spelling out exactly what you need to lose in order to want to change the world. I’m sure those words won’t haunt you later.

“Don’t use the flame, Mei-”

“-Be the Flame.”

I love that Red Son keeps talking to her, encouraging her in his own special way. Reminding her who is truly the one with the power.

But it is Mei who says the final line, not him.

Be the flame.

That guy. 

Can I be that guy? No, he’s too cool, I could never. Can I be friends with him at least? I want to be his friend.

Dragon Mech Magic Battle! Dragon Mech Magic Battle! Dragon Mech Magic Battle!

“I try not to think too hard.”

“So it would seem.”

On paper, this sounds sarcastic. Another dig at MK’s silly naive stupidity.

But the voice acting makes it clear, she’s not dismissing MK. She’s catching onto him.

What do you MEAN I can't fit anymore PICTURES onto this post!!!!! WHY DOES TUMBLRY LIMIT ME SO?!!!! ITS NOT FAIR!!!

Ugh... guess I have to make another post. Man, and I was so close this time.

This is kind of an apology for the delay of Lion’s Light— (LMK S5 SPOILERS BELOW THE CUT.)

This AMV is a new AU of mine called “The Serpent’s Son”! BASICALLY—

Instead of sending him away after waking him up, the Nine-Headed Demon hides MK away and plans to raise him for the day where he must make his decision to sacrifice himself to continue the Great Cycle or let this world fall into ruin.

However, as time slowly ticks by, the demon begins to genuinely start caring for the boy. Maybe a little too much. At first, he just snuck out of the Underworld more often to spend more quality time with MK. Then, suddenly, he’s teaching the boy to call him “father”. And somehow he’s not opposed to the vision.

He is the boy’s father. He raised him up in a world that just wanted to put him in a cage and force him to sacrifice himself for a realm of ungrateful beings.

The boy is his son.

And anyone who dared to oppose to such a notion would die. That simple.

…Then, as if fate itself was mocking him, the boy is taken from right under his nose just before he was to turn six years old.

Locked back into fate’s cage.

Unable to find his son and pressured into keeping up his facade as one of the Ten Kings of Diyu, the Nine-Headed Demon reluctantly returns to his act full time.

Fourteen years later, fate decides he’s had enough waiting in the dark and allows him to find out where his boy is. Only to find that now he has a new family. New friends.

That just won’t do.

MA BOY AINT A HERO BUT HE IS A WARRIOR

Macaque spent the whole season Big-Damn-Hero-ing and was NOT happy about it xD

This scene destroyed me fr I just can't T~T

These Precious Messed Up Monkeys

I will add my LMK thoughts into the aether.

Sooo…Lego Monkie Kid Season 5 establishes that MK and Wukong have bonded to the point where they are literally willing to lay down their lives for one another.  I think they’ve known each other a few months?  I haven’t seen a birthday episode or a second New Year’s episode, so I’m presuming it’s been less than 12 months and they are already fighting each other to die for each other.

That is to say, Sun “So Afraid of Death He Made Himself Immortal Multiple Times Over” Wukong was willing to die for MK specifically.  Because once it was established that saving the world required a sacrifice, the world stopped really being on the line – as far as the crew understood, the sacrifice was the only one still in peril.  Without being asked, Wukong was willing to not just risk his life but lose his life to save MK’s.

And MK!  He’d already proven he was willing to sacrifice himself to save the world, but he showed that he was also willing to sacrifice himself to save just Wukong by fighting his mentor to get to the pillar first. 

He also showed he was willing to go as far as using the fillet (the betrayal, the sheer physical and emotional damage…which a Monkey King fanboy would have all the context for) if it meant saving Wukong.  That is a can of worms so clearly about to burst and so blatantly unresolved by the end of the season that I am not even going to poke it right now.

Meanwhile, Macaque continues loving so hard that it’s a danger to his health.  More at 11:00.

(I love these messed up monkeys so much.)

LMK SEASON 5 SPOILERS

Just me screaming abt it don't mind me

OMG I'M SCREAMING!!! IDC ABOUT THE ANIMATION IT WAS SO GOOD!!!!

The battle between Wukong and MK?? All those parallels, the foreshadowing that played out and the new ones???

BUT ESPECIALLY MK vs WUKONG FIGHT????

Broooo it was SO EPIC I CAN'T

On a more serious note though, I also really like how this season added to the fourth and third seasons' meaning and messages. While it reiterated the whole "only you can choose your own destiny" spiel, it also wrapped up the previous season's message of embracing who you are, both good and bad parts. It also added a new side to the previous point: you can't protect people by sacrificing yourself (most of the time), or by controlling them and how their lives go, putting them in a "cage" to keep them safe.

I'm still mad Mac and Wu didn't get to hold hands in the end though >:c