Soothsayer Quotes in Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)

Soothsayer: Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you *choose* to be. So, who are you, panda?

Po: [determined] I am Po. And I'm gonna need a hat.

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.

Soothsayer: This was a thriving village. Young Shen was in line to rule Gongmen City. But he wanted more. I foretold that someone would stand in his way. A panda. But I never could have foretold what came next.

[Po has another flashback of Shen attacking the panda village]

Soothsayer: Stop fighting. Let it flow.

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.

Shen: So, one panda lives. That does not make you right.

Soothsayer: You're right. Being *right* makes me right.

Shen: Then I will kill him, and make you wrong!

Shen: Why don't you tell me my...

Soothsayer: Fortune?

Shen: [annoyed] The future. I was going to say "future."

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.

[Septimus walks towards the sea-shore]

Lackey: Your Highness, the soothsayer, as you requested.

Septimus: [to the soothsayer] South you said. South we went. Still no stone. Do you now propose we start swimming?

Soothsayer: Sire, I've merely relayed to you what the runes have told me. I can do no more.

Septimus: Well, consult them again.

[the soothsayer is about to do so when Septimus halts him]

Septimus: Wait! Before we seek the stone... I have another question: Am I the seventh son?

[the soothsayer throws the runes and reads them after they fall with three joined together and one leaning away, with the runic symbols uppermost]

Soothsayer: Yes.

Septimus: Another question. Is my favourite colour blue?

[the soothsayer throws the runes once more and reads them]

Soothsayer: Yes.

Septimus: Has excessive begging or pleading ever persuaded me to spare the life of a traitor?

[the soothsayer nervously throws the runes and is afraid when they turn over scattered away from each other, with the blank side uppermost]

Soothsayer: Um...

Septimus: What does that mean?

Soothsayer: That means "no".

Septimus: Good! Throw them again. This time throw them high.

[the soothsayer throws the runes high in the air]

Septimus: [while the runes are mid-air] Do you work for my brother?

[the runes come down. Septimus removes his dagger and kills the luckless soothsayer, implying that indeed, the runes say "yes."]

Septimus: So, do we continue west?

[He throws the runes up again]

Soothsayer: Caesar. Caesar! Beware of the ides of March.

Julius Caesar: One dates as good as another for a funeral.

[laughs]

Soothsayer: Beware!

Soothsayer: Caesar, I warned you, the ides of March.

Julius Caesar: The ides of March are here!

Soothsayer: But, not gone!

Soothsayer: I will see whether the goddess will grant us a further vision. Oh Isis, sweet Isis...

Hengist Pod: They're lovely. I'm very sorry sir, it's an old saying we have back in Britain.