She’d been wrong about him, it turns out. At first, she wondered how such a lazy, unbecoming young Panda like Po could be the legendary Dragon Warrior – he was clueless as to the ways of Kung Fu…and pretty much anything that didn’t involve eating.

                That was, of course, before the incident at the bridge, when the so-called “Furious Five” had gotten their butts handed to them by none other than Tai Lung.

                The Five returned battle-weary and battered, only to find Po and Shifu joking around as if Tai Lung really wasn’t on his way to extract his revenge for being enslaved for twenty years. Tigress was confused, at the time – Shifu hadn’t smiled since before Tai Lung’s rampage, yet there he was, joking around with Po about how “awesome” Po had been during their training.

                That was when she’d first started to believe in him. If he could restore some small amount of happiness to Master Shifu, then maybe…just maybe…

                …he was a hero, after all.