Mushu
Full Name: Mushu
Mushu is a Chinese dragon (a water snake, really the phase in which dragons spend
much of their time, before acquiring wings and ascending to the heavens so Ling was
technically right) who, after misguiding Fa Fang so badly that he was beheaded, was
demoted to the position of gong-ringer. After successfully assisting and guarding Mulan
(and acquiring all those great occupations), however, he was reinstated as a guardian and
has yet to get re-fired (to my knowledge).
As fits the dragon persona, Mushu is very outgoing, energetic, flamboyant,
enigmatic, and, at times, a bit arrogant. He can be excessively optimistic, especially
when coming up with new hair-brained schemes, but can just as quickly become
unusually depressed when things don’t work out the way he thinks they should. He’s
sometimes quite self-serving and a bit mean, but can also be really sweet, supportive, and
funny.
Mushus body is very thin and of a reddish-orange colour with a golden-yellow
underbelly. He has dark red crest along his back, a long tail with bristles at the end, and
short, thin arms and legs ending in dark red claws (his hands have the correct number of
claws for a non-royal Chinese family’s dragon: four). His whiskers are yellow, his horns
are rather short and go from light blue at the base to bark blue at the tips, and his nose is
dark red.
All things considered, even though Mushu did get stuck with some pretty corny
jokes, I thought he was an exceptionally likeable and well-developed character
(especially for a sidekick). I’m also impressed with how well Disney stuck to what
Chinese dragons supposedly looked and acted like; correct details really won points for
Mushu in my eyes (though I am a bit too obsessed with dragons, I must admit - I doubt anyone
else I know would have been disturbed if he didn’t have four claws). In any case, I
love the character and think that added a lot to my opinion of Mulan.
Mushu Quotes:
~ "Alright, that's it. Dishonor! Dishonor on your whole family! < to Cri-kee > Make a note of this. < back to Mulan > Dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow..."
~ "My little baby, off to destroy people."
~ “Yeah, go stand watch, Mushu, while I blow our secret with my stupid girly habits.”
~Mulan: Whew, that was close.
~Mulan: I never want to see a naked man again.
~ "Oh, sure, save the horse."
~ "You missed! How could you miss, he was three feet in front of you?!"
~Mulan: No one will listen.
~Mushu: Citizens, I need fire power.
Mushu Trivia:
~In the scene where Mushu tries to use his shadow to make him seem bigger than he is, his shadow has empty eyes where his eyes are supposed to be.
~The talking Mushu toy said two Mushu quotes: “I am the powerful, the pleasurable, the indestructible Mushu!” and “My powers are beyond your mortal imagination.” His voice box was supposed to last for 1,000 repetitions, but either this isn’t true or on each math meet I brought him on, the guys, after stealing him (Daria knows they did this every time), whacked him about a hundred times, as opposed to the 10 or so I thought they did. I wouldn’t put it past them.
~The Mushu promotional fast food toy featured a moveable arm and a metal gong (I guess it was supposed to make a ringing sound, which turned out to be more of a pathetic clanking. Kinda goes along with the movie a little more).
I’m sorry, Quackie, I kinda forgot. I’m sure it was quite a tragedy for you. ~Megs
So you make fun of me for using my alias, then you go and sign with yours? Sparky, dear, we must be consistent now...oh, I spent many a sleepless night mourning the loss of that great viewing opportunity, especially since I had only seen it about 7 times before, mainly at Kristen's parties. ~Quackie
What did you call me?! Why, I ought to... ~Megs
I forget where exactly I found the pic, but I believe it was Kevin Teter's Disney Clipart Page.
Age: Thousands of years
Occupation: Guardian of the Fa family
Resume: Guardian, gong-ringer, incense burner, impersonator, aider and
abettor in a felony, chef, forger, lighter, worst nightmare, guardian
Wake-up Method: More annoying than my dad's (I guess he's a morning person, too), and sometimes, in the case of the Great Stone Dragon, fatal.
Voice: Eddie Murphy
Mushu: (squeezing a bunch of toothpaste into his mouth) No, that was vile!
< everyone in camp runs by naked and yelling and jumps into the lake. Mulan looks startled >
Mushu: Hey, don’t look at me, I ain’t biting no more butts.
Mushu: Huh…did you say something?
Pyrotechnician #1: Who are you?
Mushu: Your worst nightmare.
PS: I’m willing to offer, um, something for one – my mother threw both of mine away and I will never forgive her. It doesn’t have to be in mint condition or anything – I haven’t lowered myself to actually collecting fast food toys.
Larissa’s e-mail address is disciple_of_daria@hotmail.com
And Larissa did write this delightful page and would like it very much if she got a tad bit of credit for it, after all she tragically missed watching "Selena" during Senorrrrr Lannnnndinnnn'sssss class due to it! So there. ~Quackie
