Xiaolin Showdown

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This mystical, high-adventure series with choked full of current comedy references is based on the ancient mythical Xiaolin martial arts inspired by Chinese monks thousands of years ago. Omi, a young, gifted monk-in-training from the Xiaolin Temple, must show his fellow trainees - J-pop hipster girl Kimiko,... more »

This mystical, high-adventure series with choked full of current comedy references is based on the ancient mythical Xiaolin martial arts inspired by Chinese monks thousands of years ago. Omi, a young, gifted monk-in-training from the Xiaolin Temple, must show his fellow trainees - J-pop hipster girl Kimiko, flashy, street smart Brazilian Raimundo and Texas Kung Fu cowboy Clay - around the world to find and protect sacred ancient artifacts. These sacred objects with supernatural powers called the Shen-Gong-Wu are keys to controlling the powers of good and evil. These can only be captured after an extreme, gravity-defying, martial art-inspired "double dare" showdown occurs. Challenging the trainees is evil boy genius Jack Spicer and his custom-built robot army, along with the ancient witch Wuya - all competing for these objects in extreme Xiaolin Showdowns. It is a tight race - for the one who gathers all of the Shen-Gong-Wu will become an unstoppable force for good ... or evil! Let's go Xiaolin Showdown!

Note: A Xiaolin Showdown starts after saying, "Gong Yi Tan Pai," which means "go" in Chinese. Character Guide

Omi - An excitable, young monk-in-training who is the leader of the Xiaolin team. Omi is an orphan and has lived at the Xiaolin Temple his whole life. He sets his heart to finding the scattered pieces of the Shen-Gong-Wu, and will have a showdown with any enemy that gets in his way of doing so. Besides teaching his new students about the Shen-Gong-Wu pieces and martial arts, Omi will always learn something from them too.
Special Technique: Tornado Strike.

Kimiko - She is a rich and sometimes snotty girl. Born and raised in Tokyo, she has a very wealthy background, and sometimes likes to show off her valuables. However, she proves herself worthy when it comes to battle. She tells the others not to pick on Omi, and immediately befriends the young monk, sticking to his side at all times. Kimiko possesses the element of fire.
Special Technique: Judallet Flip.

Raimundo - He doesn't seem all that nice when we first meet him because he picks on Omi and has a little bit of a bully in him. He is more worried about what his new room looks like than finding the sacred Shen-Gong-Wu objects. However, this Brazilian circus star is helpful in battle as he shows what he can do to kick evil's butt. Raimundo possesses the element of wind.
Special Technique: Typhoon Boom.

Clay - A cowboy from Texas that knows a thing or two about Kung Fu. He is more loyal to Omi than the rest of the team. He uses his cowboy-like skills to fight in battle and teaches Omi, little by little, how to properly beat the bad guys. He has a steady approach when fighting in battle. Never in a hurry unless he's worried about finding the next Shen-Gong-Wu. Clay possesses the element of earth.
Special Technique: Seismic Kick.

Master Fung - He is Omi's teacher. He believes Omi will turn out to be a great monk, and, therefore, gave Omi a band of new students to teach and help find the ancient Shen-Gong-Wu objects before evil gets a chance to. He is also a mentor to the students, and often guides them in their travels. When Omi and the others are having trouble in their adventures, Master Fung always provides good lessons to help them in the right direction. Dojo Kanojo Cho - He may look four feet long, but Dojo is really a fourty foot long fire-breathing dragon! He is the Xiaolin Temple guardian and has been guarding the ancient Shen-Gong-Wu scroll for thousands of years. Dojo is also used for transportation to take Omi and his friends to the locations of the Shen-Gong-Wu pieces. He feels like he's been demoted from temple guardian to baby-sitter, though. He is Omi's guardian and is somewhat of a trainer to him during showdowns. He's also the only dragon that can sniff out the Shen-Gong-Wu to their exact location even when they're many miles away.

Jack Spicer - The wannabe bad guy that dresses in goth clothing and is bent on world domination. He has a bad attitude, and will always chew out the people who don't agree with what he thinks is best. He stumbles upon the spirit of Wuya, the evil witch, who tells him that he needs to find the missing Shen-Gong-Wu objects before Omi and the rest do. If Jack can't take on Omi by himself, then he relies on his evil Jack-bot minions to help stop them. He is set on finding the missing objects so he can carry out his plans on ruling the world!

Wuya - Once an evil witch, but was defeated by Grandmaster Dashi in the very first Xiaolin Showdown. As a result, she was cast into a wooden puzzlebox to be locked away in for 1500 years. Now, she's an evil spirit that can't take physical form and must enlist Jack to help find the missing objects. Wuya tells Jack what to do when he comes face-to-face with Omi and his team, but most of the time Jack just sends the robots to do his dirty work. Wuya needs all the Shen-Gong-Wu objects to return to physical form.

Kids' WB Broadcast History
November 1, 2003 - Current .... Saturdays, 9:30am

Repeats
August 16 - August 27, 2004 .... Monday - Friday, 3:00pm
April 11, 2005 - Current .... Monday - Friday, 4:00pm
September 2005 .... Monday - Friday, 3:30pm

Special Presentations
December 1-5, 2003 .... Monday - Friday, 3:00pm April 10, 2004 .... Saturday, 9:00am

Awards & Nominations
2004 Annie Award - Outstanding Character Design in an Animated Television Production
2004 Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing
2004 Golden Reel Award - Best Sound Editing in Television Animation
2005 Golden Reel Award - Best Sound Editing in Television Animation for Dreamscape
2005 Daytime Emmy - Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing

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• Xiolin Showdown the next generation

  Its 20years after the show ended and the warriors having warriors in training.This rpg would revolve around the new warrior ...more »

  Its 20years after the show ended and the warriors having warriors in training.This rpg would revolve around the new warrior and their new foes.Ill begin with my warrior. Name: James T ayler Country of Orgin :Kenya Africa Elemental power :Fire Fighting Style:Secret Family kick boxing technique James was always a gifted student but lacked his father always thought he had a lack of discipline that he needed to make him truly great and thereby fulfil his destiny.In a routine training exercise with his parents the group was suddenly attacked by a hooden figure weilding strange abilities.His father knew at once that this stranger was seeking the family necklace that they were charged with protecting.In the shadows James father fought the foe but it soon became apparent that they had no hope of stoping this mysterious figure who also had a mastery of a fighting style very similar to one used by the family.Their only hope was to have james flee with the medallion to the safety of the temple under the protection of Master Raimundo and his fellow masters. less «

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• Will The Real XS Fans Please Stand Up??

  Hey everyone! I haven't really been on this site lately(school sucks) but I have been checking in every once and a whil...more »

  Hey everyone! I haven't really been on this site lately(school sucks) but I have been checking in every once and a while and I've noticed a REALLY big decrease in the amount of replies to threads. Plus all my hommies seem to be gone! So I decided to make this thread as a disclaimer to bring all the XS fans back. There's one thing I can't deny: Xiaolin Showdown, the show we all know and love, is being forgotten. We probably can't stop this, it happens to every show eventually, but we can slow this down. I don't wanna get all corny or try to be inspirational(and just end up sounding really gay seeing as this is all for a cartoon) but I think this show definately deserves to live longer then just 3 or 5 years. So please try to help XS by posting here, going on Fanfiction.com and supporting writters(review people!), go check XS youtube videos(a lot are really kick ass!) and while your at it go sign one of those petitions(KimXS's) that just MIGHT work. You never know ;) If you are or were a XS fan post anything you want about the show here. Favorite episode, character, how you feel about it, ANYTHING! In conclusion: help XS out please, it deserves it. :) P.S I'm not always this corny everyone, honest ;) less «

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• Current Status: Life Support

  I have come to a conclusion about the current status of Xiaolin Showdown. Currently, it is on life support. If it wasn...more »

  I have come to a conclusion about the current status of Xiaolin Showdown. Currently, it is on life support. If it wasn't for a few fans here and there it would be dead. Bottom line. I don't know how Fanfiction is doing but I'm guessing its pretty similar to Tv.com, a little better but not too much better. The bright light that helps me not give up on XS is the fact that the petition currently has 3630 signatures. Not too bad for XS To all the fans who want to change this, we need to take major steps to improvingng it. I think it is possible to help XS but I think it will need its own web site, not sharring it with anyone else. I would happily make this web-site if I knew how. So if anyone knows how to do this please let me know! :) Discussion for this thread: Ideas to get XS off life support. less «

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  9.7 Superb

  Xiaolin showdown is basically another recreation of the age old good vesus evil battle that has fascinated us all. The young monks battle various evil bent on the usual world domination attempt as the grow and mature physically,emotionally and mentally. hide « show »

  Xiaolin is a great new twist on the tried and true conflict as the fate of mankind is placed on the shoulders of young warriors in training who must defend against various types of enemies. In the begining the warriors have to conden with their own natural competetive natures as they each batte to claim the battle of number one monk,however with time their
  trust grew as the learned to depend on each other and to harness the power that they each possessed.Overall this is a rather fun show to watch as the enemies can at times be quite humous and silly most notably jack spicer.

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  seto1 Added Jun 16, 2009 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  Action Packed! hide « show »

  Now this is a cool show. It has an original characters, and cool items. This show has mystical artifacts called Shen-Gong-Wu. The orphan Omi is living as a Xioalin Monk and protect the world from evil with his friends: Clay, Kimiko, and Raimundo. On the way, they meet villains who are after world domination. One of their villains is Jack Spicer, the evil mommas boy maniac, and Wuya a ghost who can sense shen-gong-wu and wants to rule the world. On the other hand, there is Chase Young an immortal man who can turn into reptillian beast. This show has awesome contests, which are called Xiaolin Showdowns, which can change the enviroment and you wager over shen-gong-wu. Great show!

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  ultimatekey Added May 31, 2009 All my reviews
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  8 Great

  Xiaolin Showdown is an under appreciated cartoon with a somewhat repetitive plot, but characters to stimulate the imagination, and fascinate the television viewer, no matter what the age. hide « show »

  After having seen episodes here or there throughout my high school years, I finally made an effort to find and watch each episode of this sequentially, and now that I have officially seen Xiaolin Showdown from beginning to end, I must say, I am impressed.
  
  Xiaolin Showdown revolves, essentially, around the quest of four teenagers (or however old Omi is...) trying to chase down weapons before the bad guys. And this is the basic pattern the first season and a half took.
  
  The first season and first bit of the second were a bit slow, and followed a basic pattern:
  1) First Shen-Gong-Wu Revealed
  2) First Shen-Gong-Wu Taken by Spicer (often without a showdown), main character has a flaw that causes the loss
  3) Main character learns about loss from friends/training/Master Fung/Etc.
  4) Second Shen-Gong-Wu Revealed
  5) Main character demonstrates lesson learned and wins second Xiaolin Showdown
  
  And although this pattern was a bit tedious, I believe it was necessary: it helped to identify the characters and their prime flaws, each of the four dragons, and even Jack, got their episode to reveal who they were, and what they had to offer.
  
  The show really took off with the addition of first, Chase Young, and second, Hannibal Bean. Once these new enemies were added, particularly due to the fact that Chase had no interest in Shen-Gong-Wu, the show's formula was spiced up allowing new, more-interesting plots to emerge.
  
  The fact that the storyline is not the most original ever is redeemed, however, by the amazing characters and character interactions. Each character was dynamic, and fully explained and examined by the show's close. Most every character could also fill one of many spots in an episode. For example in one episode, the main monk featured could be Omi, causing Rai's constant screw-ups and shrewd comments to be comic relief. Chase would then be the main villain, where Jack simply complicates the antagonist's side by constantly getting in the way. In the next episode, however, Rai could be the protagonist monk, Omi's consistent badgering, the comic relief, Jack, the focus antagonist, and Chase, the mysterious underlying suspense to the episode. Once all the characters were explored, a world of possibilities for new plots and episodes was opened.
  
  This show had many great elements to make up a great cartoon, but also lacked a few I would have liked to have seen. The show was chuck-full of action-adventure and comedy, a perfect blend of the two. It also found time to be serious - to put its characters through moral dilemmas and tests of character. I, personally, would have liked to see a tad more of the romance side, I think it would have been well within Raimundo's character, for instance, to passively flirt with young Kimiko. Some references were made to Jack finding her pretty in the first season, but this was never followed up. I think it would have been an interesting plot device. My other issue was an over-abundance of crude humor at times (I'm glad not all the time.) Several episodes had far too many jokes revolving around bodily fluids to suit me, and it didn't seem to fit with the seriousness of other episodes, but I suppose this, too, is a personally preference more than a true flaw.
  
  Overall, Xiaolin Showdown is a show with an interesting plot, but far more interesting characters. My list of favorite, unforgettable cartoon characters now has Raimundo locked within it, and I love the complexity of Chase and Omi. The show may have ended prematurely, but there is so much character left in this show that I'm sure fan works will be in development for years to come.

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  RMonkeys4Ever Added May 20, 2009 All my reviews
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  2 Terrible

  What a stupid idea for a show. hide « show »

  This show is stupid.The main character looks like an asian version of Charlie Brown.The idea is not even so good for this lame show.The animation stinks and it's very bad.I can say this is not better than Skunk Fu because it's very much a very bad show.I say Cartoon Network shouldn't air this show on it's channel because the animation is not good enough and the main character's eyes are very disturbing.I grade this a F because it's really a bad show at getting chinease stuff in it and it's not even like that kind of good show Skunk Fu.

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  woahwoah678 Added May 1, 2009 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  Xiaolin Showdown...
  Few But Loyal Fans hide « show »

  Xiaolin Showdown, it is one of the most classic Warner Brother Kids show. I myself is a fan of this show because of the fact that not many know of it yet has gotten fan that are loyal and woun't quit until they get what they want, which is another season. I want another season as well, yet everything can not be done just because we want it. To tell you the truth, no channel will show it due to the fact that not many people have positive feedback on this show. Even if it is one of my favorites, I can't say that I am a fan of every detail. It can actually be confusing for those who would not be patient. Thant is why there are many people who prefer watching something else.

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  lavender_heart Added Apr 24, 2009 All my reviews