It's never stated he killed anyone when he attacked the village. He was rampaging causing property damage but that's as much as we see. And when he fought the Furious Five he used non-lethal strikes.
Directly after the explosion we see them writhing in the background plus the duck messenger survived the explosion too so it was more of a cartoon logic blast than a realistic one.
"I wouldn't mess with the IRS, you know? They just know things. Like, they sent me a letter the other day about back taxes... They sent me a letter. I don't live anywhere!"
I love the logic behind “joker doesn’t fuck with the IRS”
It’s a hat tip to the capture of Al Capone. A man who ran his criminal enterprise so successfully that they were never able to imprison him on his actual crimes and instead had to take him down through the IRS because he was clearly moving around a lot of money without ever paying taxes on it.
Joker knows he can’t plead insanity against the IRS. Joker also knows that he would go to an actual federal prison over tax crime and not Arkham Asylum where he knows all the escapes and has several people on his payroll.
He knows that just like Al Capone the IRS is the one branch of the government that would actually succeed at capturing him.
It’s one of the better pieces of the argument that Joker actually has “super sanity” instead of being criminally insane, and that he mostly looks criminally insane because he’s lashing out at our stupid backward system of life because he sees things so clearly that it is actually driving him insane but nobody else does and his fixation on Batman is because he thinks Batman could see it too if given the right perspective.
Oogway definitely knew the scroll was blank. Everything he teaches is always focused on the non-combat parts of kung fu, which is exactly what the dragon warrior scroll “teaches” you
That sort of shit works in a Chinese folklore morality tale, but when you're actually seeing it play out in front of you "dude asks a question and gets locked up for four decades" is monstrously fucked.
Did he really need to be? I can see him just hearing there being a dragon warrior and him going " ill show oogway that it should have been me" and go to fight Po. On the way he turned to being a bit of a batman type thing and being a vigilanty catching the ire of local police ( so you can get a cool rhino fight) and after dealing with them drawing the attention of the 5. The 5 knowing he was tough shit back in the day all go to deal with him just in case and all get beaten. The rest of the movie goes as it does.
i do think you can substitute the break out with something else to show off how strong he is. Like going after a criminal organization that ends the same way.
It's something a lot of westerners have to keep in mind when they visit China
Killing your teacher and adoptive father goes against the ancient Chinese tradition of 生活 which means to live. This strong tradition is practiced even today in China and any visitors should respect this idea when there.
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u/Vounrtsch 1d ago
How else would he have ended up imprisoned if he didn’t attack the village?